“I think by now, February, we’ve, as they say, ‘lost touch’. Not that we’ve ever touched in the first place. In the end I’m still only ever looking where you’ve looked, I’m only ever walking where you’ve walked, I’m in your dark blue shadow and you never seem to turn around to find me there.” - Radio Silence, Alice Oseman
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me, happy cuz i finally got radio silence from the library and i can start reading: 😌
me reading frances talking about fandom, specifically the line “it didn’t feel like a hobby. it felt like a dirty secret”:
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Super League Triathlon, Toulouse
My second SLT was a marked improvement on last week, though the show itself is still a chaotic affair! I was able to contribute a lot more than I did in London - I had ample time to acclimatise to the software, plus I had a clearer picture of what to expect.
It was another altered format of three mini-'athlons but with the three disciplines in a different order each time; each stage was roughly 15 minutes long, and athletes only had 3 minutes in between to rest/reset. I think it was debatable who felt the stress more - the athletes or team GFX! Victor and I were swamped the entire time, and even with our dedicated GFX producer Kate beside us, it was a huge relief to reach the end virtually unscathed.
Not that the trip was flat-out in its entirety; I was able to socialise a bit with Victor and the rest of the team a couple of times, and ended up not only eating at the same restaurant twice (Meet the Meat) but having the exact same meal - duck & dauphinoise washed down with a complimentary Baileys/cream shot!
Thus ends my involvement in SLT for the foreseeable future, but it was cool to add yet another sport to my repertoire, and meet another AE cousin (Victor is a lovely chap) on my travels. As difficult as the shows can be, I think I could put up with it for a few helpings of magrets des canard...
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favorite trent moment so far this season ?
( i love your account it’s * chefs kiss * )
OMG GOOD QUESTION!!! and thank you baby thats so sweet of youuu 🫶🫶
okay for me the save that he made against toulose when he turned into the goalie for a sec WAS SO HOT FOR SOME REASON 😭 the fact that he knew what needed to be done and execute it well ITS JUST WNDBSKBSJKLAJWJ got me feeling some typa way 🫠🫠
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Okay, oKay
I just rewatched MR Broadway version and I´m here to ramble and scream
1st of all: I love the film, it has a special place in my heart and all that but I´ve never been into love plots (romantic ones) that much so I like it and that´s all, the special place comes from something else unrelated to what I´m trying to say
The thing is that, I don´t care about romantic plot but do you know what I care about? Platonic and familiar love and oh babe, Broadway MR hits so hard there
So, we have Satine backstory, we know a little more about her and about why the Moulin is so, so important for her. We see this family, diverse and alone and afraid of going back to the street because, even if they´re in a bad place, at least they have food, a bed and a roof over their heads.
There´s no war inside the Moulin, no that Mimi being a bitch plot, she´s a little annoying but she cares, we see her being one of the people holding Satine when she´s sick.
AND SATINE BEING SICK PLOT GOD.
She knows, she always knew. It´s not a secret kept away from her to use latter, there´s no a: Oh Satine you´re sick so sell yourself instead of running away with your lover because you´re going to die
No, she knows it and she'll rather die keeping her home together than going to the hospital. Satine is stronger, more mature.
She doesn´t want just to fly away and be an actress and leave everything behind, she wants her family to be safe. She does everything for them, not just her, them.
Her family.
A family she found in a terrible place but who loves her.
In the last song, when all the voices join her? They SING WITH HER, they support her in her choice. Satine wants love in her final moments (romantic one, we´re putting romance and platonic love in two separate trays here), she wants to die felling loved and instead of being loved just by Christian she also dies loved by her family.
They support her even if that means losing the Moulin, everything Satine did in life was for them and now, as she dies, they allow her to do something for herself. They allow Satine to put herself first, not allow, support her in the decision
I don´t cry with films or books or whatever most of the time, but when the chorus joins in Your song? It hits me every time because SHE LOOKS BACK, SHE´S SURPRISED. She didn´t expected that they supported this and they do. They want her to be happy.
This Satine is mature.
It´s always been about that, Satine matures and with a lot of weight on her shoulder's vs Christian naïve and happy and innocent getting hit by reality, going almost mad when he´s hit by it.
I see this difference pretty clearly in one of the scenes that change the most: Satine getting ready for her meeting with the Duke.
Film! Satine sings Fly away, a song about dreams and hope and get far from this place. It´s naïve, she has hope and she still wants to try.
Broadway! Satine? She sings Firework. Pressure and being tired and hopes almost dead. She´s older, she´s been doing this for so long and she´s at her limit.
And it´s always so sad, even when we already know the ending from the biggening.
When you see MR a few times you catch the foreshadowing. Not just the oh she´s going to die, you can see the clues to what is going to happen and how and it hurts.
In a way it´s a little like Orpheus and Eurydice, you know it, you see it coming and when it happens it breaks your heart.
I don´t know if someone is going to read this but well, it just hits so different from the film and wanted to share it somewhere.
PD: the final moment, when the only people in the stage are Toulose, the Duke (giving their backs to the public and in the darkness) and Christian (facing us, telling us a story and surrounded by light). The 3 men who loved Satine, but the only one in the light is the one she loved back?
Incredible.
And I could talk about the colors like, Satine wears white when she meets Christian and black when she meets the Duke but, I think I talked enough.
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back, sender gives receiver a back hug.
❄ the moon told me, you a lil’ bitch!! ❄
Frost observou Toulouse, com seus olhos de brilho gélido, enquanto ele estava distraído pela beleza do cenário nevado que o próprio criara só para o outro homem. O vento brincava com os flocos de neve, criando uma dança etérea ao seu redor. Jack sentiu um calor único em seu peito, uma mistura de afeto e desejo de compartilhar esse momento mágico com seu amigo. Com um sorriso travesso brincando em seus lábios gelados, Jack se aproximou silenciosamente de Toulouse, seus passos leves quase se misturando com o sussurro do vento. Ele estendeu os braços, deixando-os envolver gentilmente o corpo de Toulouse. Sua respiração fria se misturou com o ar à medida que ele se aproximava, criando um contraste arrepiante com o calor que irradiava de Toulose. " É uma vista incrível, não é? " sussurrou, sua voz carregada com um toque de encantamento e algo a mais, e não extava referindo-se a vista, na verdade, mas sim ao semblante de Toulose.
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yes, you guessed it lol
so for the past two years on Tumblr you've known me as Toulouse or touloser, which I'm sure you guessed was a fake name. i kept myself anonymous because no one irl knew that did these drawings or was so embarrassingly obsessed with this beautiful YouTube channel. I guess i underestimated people's ability to put voices to faces, and there've been a lot of rumors flying around about me over the past couple of weeks. so, yes. my real name is Frances Javier, and i'm the artist for universe city and the voice of Toulouse. I used to be just a masive fan of the show, and now suddenly i'm helping make the show, which is weird, but here we are. no, I’m not going to tell you who radio is. please stop asking itd also be cool if you could not stalk me. ok. bye.
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Toulouse by Billie Marten & Ode to a conversation stuck in your throat by Del Water Gap
toulose: couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library
i. i have feelings for this song
ode to a conversation stuck in your throat: couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library
i like the title & the lyrics more than the song itself but its rly good nonetheless !!
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