everytime I remember that lesbian couple that have a marble statue of the two of them embracing and sleeping on a bed together over where their graves will be because the artists didn’t believe they would be able to be married before they died, so what they couldn’t have in life they could have in death, I fucking breakdown
“showing up for yourself consistently is a brave thing, a powerful thing, a vulnerable thing. but you are allowed days to recluse, days to be vulnerable, days to feel weak. you are allowed to let things fall apart temporarily so you can rise beautifully tomorrow.”
“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.”
GENTLEMAN JACK SEASON 2 TRAILER
«If I were a man, and thank heaven and providence that I’m not, would you even think to question my ambition? I fear you have built me up in your mind to be all manner of things I am not…and some that I am.»
My wife just gave me an early wedding anniversary present. She had commissioned a friend to make it for me before she knew of @hbo ‘s decision to cancel the series. It took so much out of me to not break down into sobs when I unwrapped it. The power of words. Between Anne’s diaries and Sally’s scripts, the melding of 2 minds… Anne seeking solace in her diaries by living her truest life, and Sally realising her dream by making @gentlemanjackofficial after all these years since she learnt of Anne’s existence and knowing in her bones what an impact it will have. It has certainly changed my life with my new found confidence in living more authentically!
I asked the wife what made her choose this quote and she said “these are fighting words”, and that blew me away. I mean she knows me, obviously, having been with me for coming to 20 yrs and married for almost 4, but this sums it up perfectly. Anne loving and living the way she did, true to herself, her nature, the way God intended, reconciling her faith with her sexuality in a time where there wasn’t even a term for lesbians.
I get @bbc ‘s reluctance to go it alone and risk making a sub-par product after such a high production standard all round. We have to keep pushing and marshal the troops in seeking help to resurrect the series. Come on! Let’s crack on with it!