#give me jolaurie now.

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open  to  :  anyone  !

muse  :  alfie  cho  (  21,  he/him  )  psych  major  and  boxer

plot  :  see  source  link  !

          he's  not  the  type  to  get  drunk,  really  —  he  saves  that  for  the  other  people  in  his  year,  and  the  friends  he  so  often  plays  designated  driver  to  —  but  the  night  had  passed  by  in  such  a  blur  that's  led  alfie  here,  somehow:  his  face  is  slapped  with  the  late  night  cool,  though  it's  the  presence  of  the  other  that  somehow  makes  him  both  sober  and  more  intoxicated,  all  at  the  same  time.  "listen  to  me  ——"  he  says,  leaning  in  close.  "i  love  you,  yeah  ?"  the  words  spill  from  him  far  faster  than  he  could  ever  stop,  but  at  this  point  he  wonders  if  he  actually  wants  to  be;  years  of  standing  back,  being  the  best  friend,  and  it  all  comes  down  to  this.  "i  love  you.  been  in  love  with  you  since  i've  known  you.  and  i  had  to  tell  you  now,  ‘cause  otherwise  ——”  he  swallows  thickly;  squeezes  his  eyes  shut  to  keep  from  letting  his  already  dazed  mind  prevail.  “otherwise  i’ll  go  crazy."

#˖ ࣪ . 🫧 ࿐ ♡ ˚ . 𝐚𝐥𝐟𝐢𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨 ⌗ tales ! #˖ ࣪ . 🫧 ࿐ ♡ ˚ . 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐦 ⌗ opens ! #give me jolaurie now.

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was rewatching little women (2019) yesterday and i noticed something interesting:

now i personally think that while byler parallels amylaurie perfectly, jolaurie and miIeven's parallels aren't as significant but this one line in laurie's confession to jo stood out for me:

"why does everyone expect it, then? why does your family and my grandpa expect it? why are you saying this? say yes. let's be happy together, jo!"

something something "mike is trying to be normal" and trying to do things people expect of him...

something something lucas and nancy teasing him about el

something something "i mean what did you think, really? that we were never gonna get girlfriends?"

what i'm saying is, the duffer brothers are geniuses for acknowledging the little women references because there's so much to decode too and gives me a newer perspective into the original works as well.

#byler #st movies #little women #amylaurie #jolaurie #byler x amylaurie #stranger things x little women #mike wheeler #will byers #st4 inspiration #stranger things #idk what else to tag here help but anyway i think this makes for a good discussion point! #feel free to add on/rebutt

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I want your heavy detail... give it

I'll give mine first though

Since you haven't read the book I'm not gonna like hold that against the debate because YES this is a debate now all in good fun of course and I'll just like talk about the movie.

Jo and Laurie in my opinion are WAY to similar for a romantic relationship to work and MAYBE it's just me and how weird I am about best friends to lovers like friends to lovers I adore it but when there's like platonic soulmates for some reason I can't cross that barrier like they are friends and nothing else.

But Jo and Laurie are one in the same, right? And I think they would've killed each other for one. But also I think as much as a relationship is about compromise and supporting each other I think Jo needs a relationship where she's truly pushed to be better IF she's in one at all. Of course in a perfect world she would be marrying no one BUT we're not in that world. I think she needs someone just as ambitious as her someone who will respect her and view her as an equal. And as much as a love Laurie that's not him.

He wouldn't push her to do better he would praise her and that's all. He would treat her right. But he wouldn't be perfect for her. AMY however, yes we're getting into her pushes LAURIE to be better. She argues with him and kinda influences him to be better. And I don't think Jo would do that either, I think Jo would be too busy with her own things.

I think they work on paper. But in the end I think Jo and Laurie need MORE than each other, and I think they compliment each other a bit too much to be romantically involved.

AND also since we're here I want to add that in the 2019 movie it seems like Jo regrets not saying yes to Laurie, but that's just not what happens at all. Like she's missing her best friend and she's missing Beth and her childhood. She's not in love with him, she just misses whaat used to be and wants to go back. No matter if she has to give up all her dreams and become a trophy wife.

I don't even know if you wouldn't mentioned it but I had to because I hate when that's people's argument like they're just completely viewing the movie wrong, they don't get the point. Jo and Beth's relationship is much more important to me than any romantic one so I'm VERY passionate about it.

Um lastly I am VERY sorry that I just gave you an essay to read over I didn't mean to... but this is my favorite movie and I just love talking about it... a lot apparently.

okay wait!! i have read the book !! i have totally read the book!!! please!! (dare i say the book builds a stronger case for jolaurie?? hmm) im rambly under the cut!!

please you are always welcome to come in here and talk about little women things to me !! i love the movie and the book so much !!! i'm right there with you !

i think that the similarities are good in this relationship!! i think they work and compliment each other well!! as far as pushing each other to be better, i think i disagree. when jo submits her writing for the papers (in the novel), it's laurie who encourages her and believes in her and laurie is the first person she tells!! he encourages her to write, he encourages her 'boyish' mannerisms and he accepts her for who she is!! but he's always encouraged her and supported her pursuits. n turn, when laurie is hanging out in disreputable places w boys of ill repute, it is jo who encourages him to stop and be better and laurie listens (this is also in the novel) but movie scene imagine when laurie is like 'i gave up billiards ,, i'm happy i did' i think they are both slightly indulgent to each others follies, jo with her temper and laurie with his grandiose 'castle in the clouds' temperament, but when it really counts they push each other to be better and they accept each other for who they are!!

i do agree that in a perfect world she wouldn't marry at all though!! i also agree that beth and jo's relationship is more important, or even, jo's relationship to her family is paramount and really what the novel and movie is about!

i also want to say that the letter jo writes laurie is not in the book so im gonna not consider that for the sake of the argument but marrying laurie wouldn't make jo a trophy wife!! he has done nothing but encourage her to write and publish her works, he's never asked for her to change who she is, or anything. i think that while jo was yearning for the past, for a time when beth was alive and healthy and all her sisters were under one roof and together, and she and laurie were closer than ever, i think her love and regret for tuning laurie down is real, and can't all be attributed to an attempt to recreate the past.

i think jo has told herself her entire life that being a wife meant compromising yourself and giving up your autonomy and individuality, because that's what she saw in the world around her and that's not what she wanted. so she swore off marriage because she didn't want to change. but the thing is, laurie never wanted her to change and didn't ask her to change. it took a while for jo to realise this and it took loss and loneliness which gave way to growth and maturity and the realisation that laurie and jo could work in a way where she could still be herself. but by then it was too late. bc, yk, amy. which as established before, family is more important to jo than anything, so of course that put an end to it.

idk when i think about laurie who was often described as devoted to jo, supporting her and loving her unconditionally while encouraging her to become and author,, when jo makes him feel most comfortable and most like himself when he was a shy boy just back from europe and helps him with his relationship with his grandfather and his vices,,, they help each other grow and i think they would really work together!!

#ik you said you weren't talking about the book and then all my examples are from the book oml sorry #i see them making each other better!! #here is some of my heavy detail ! i can write essays ik ik im sorry #anyway i adore discussions like this so so much <333 #totally agree with you though about jo and beth which i could also talk about 5ever i adore them the most #little women things #asks

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please give us a list of every single opinion you have about little women bc ive loved every single post u have made on the subject and would LOVE to have all the quality takes in one convenient place please and thank you

sure sure so i deep dove to find every l*ttle w*men opinion i’ve specifically expressed on this here blog for you... they are all very basic imo jo should have married laurie, they are both trans and though i acknowledge that louisa may alcott couldn’t very well have expressed that at the time she COULD have done more to let them be together in a conclusively meaningful way, amy should have remained single and gone on to be an independently & wildly successful painter which would also have been more meaningful / made more sense in an abundance of ways, meg has no rights, greta gerwig DID purposefully signal to me that j&l remained in love which was nevertheless NOT ENOUGH, in allowing herself to be pressured lma should have foregone spite narratives & made better and smarter choices, friedrich bhaer deserves no rights whatsoever and also sucks majorly......that line where he’s like But i have nothing to give you my hands are empty & then jo takes them and says Not empty now ? that BELONGED to jolaurie ... Oh yeah many times i’ve seen people complaining that everyone loves Darcy & hates Bhaer and i think that’s indicative of brain rot . Winona ryder is hot . Also if I were lma i would have used my anger as impetus to write a hilarious sequel in which Jo throws over bhaer to shack it up with laurie instead of the adventures of her grown up children which i do not want . rip to louisa but in all ways i am different and i don’t know the copyright sitch but i think i deserve the rights to do all of this :)

#Listen i like have more takes but in terms of ones expressed on this blog here they are it is already so long so i had mercy