Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz// Andor 1x07, Dir. Benjamin Caron // @starpeace // Dancing With Our Hands Tied, Taylor Swift // Free, Florence + The Machine // Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe // Wandavision 1x08, Dir. Matt Shakman
" I should have chased her down the street the day she left me. I should have begged her to stay. I should have apologized and sent roses and stood on top of the Hollywood sign and shouted, 'I'm in love with Celia St. James!' and let them crucify me for it. That's what I should have done. And now that I don't have her, and I have more money than I could ever use in this lifetime, and my name is cemented in Hollywood history, and I know how hollow it is, I am kicking myself for every single second I chose it over loving her proudly."
and
“And why would you go and beat the holy crap out of a guy who hurt him? Why would you do that? All of your instincts, Ari, all of them, tell me something. You love that boy.”
I kept staring down at the table.
“I think you love him more than you can bear."
...“What am I going to do? I’m so ashamed.” “Ashamed of what?” my mother said. “Of loving Dante?”
“I’m a guy. He’s a guy. It’s not the way things are supposed to be. Mom—”
...
"How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?"
and
"I am not ashamed to stand here today where presidents
have stood and say that I love him, the same as Jack loved Jackie, the same as
Lyndon loved Lady Bird. Every person who bears a legacy makes the choice of a
partner with whom they will share it, whom the American people will hold beside
them in hearts and memories and history books. America: He is my choice."
Between the Red White and Royal Blue movie and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe movie I can now conclude that filmmakers shouldn't underestimate the power of a montage. Especially when adapting book to film.
RWRB needed an emails montage and A2D2TSOTU needed just a bit more of them being besties.
A good montage takes less than a minute of screentime but can convey so much
Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.
So i just finished the Ari and Dante sequel and here are my thoughts
SPOILERS DUH
Things I loved
susie Byrd love her character
Ari’s growth , I love him so much I’m so proud
Ari’s father, 🥲
Ari coming out to Gina and susie
Ari facing his brother ( I was so nervous reading this )
Ari and Dante camping trip
The kiss in the rain
Cassandra and Ari’s friendship
Sophocles 🥺
Ari writing Dante’s name in uit journal every time
Dantes painting for Ari
The museum kiss parallel
Ari’s mom becoming teacher of the year
The relationship between Ari and Dante’s parents
Cassandras speech at the graduation
Quotes: the kitten had fucking opened his eyes. I can see, Dante i can see.
You’re every street I’ve ever walked. You’re the tree outside my window. You’re a sparrow as he flies you’re the book that I am reading. You’re every poem I’ve ever loved. - Dante
Too young ? Tell that too my fucking heart.
Sometimes I just want to be. Just to be. You know?
How strange and how beautiful, to be sitting in a car and singing with your father
A father and a boy who had lived in different countries in the same house
You know life isn’t easy for everybody. Life isn’t easy for anybody
I hate my life, been there done that
Things i missed
a healthy talk between Ari and Dante at the end, the didn’t acknowledge what happened and they didn’t actually talk it out
More Ari Dante happiness most of their scenes reminded us why they couldn’t be together or that the world didn’t accept them
I missed Dante, I feel like we didn’t see much of him and when we did it wasn’t often in a positive light
I missed Dante growing, Ari grew so much as a person where I feel like Dante kind of stayed the same and slowly faded into the background
Things i didn’t like
the way the ending came to be
So much sadness, the sad things that happened really overshadowed the good stuff for me personally
The balance between happy things and sad things. I understand that life isn’t perfect and not always happy but so much sadness was in this book and feel like there wasn’t much room left for joy. Like it would be nice to have a 60/40 ratio of happyvs sad but it just didn’t feel like that for me
Overal i rate this book 3,6/5
and Ari and Dante will always have a very special place in my heart
The Inkvent Originals are all up for sale in my shop this morning. If you had your eyeballs on one go and have a look as five have already been snagged!
They’re created around words I love from people we admire - Andrea Gibson, Buddy Wakefield, Clark Griswold, Ben Myers, Maya Angelou, Kid Acne, MR James and more.
Originals or prints, all embossed with the Inkymole stamp so you know you’re getting the Real Deal. And as is tradition now, a portion of all proceeds goes to @trusselltrust food banks
So was someone gonna TELL me that Lin-Manuel Miranda is a producer of an adaptation of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets Of The Universe or was I just supposed to FIND THAT OUT on Wikipedia?
i'm not even done with Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe and i'm ALREADY crying. nobody touch me. i need some space to think about.... them. oh fuck now i'm sobbing uncontrollably.