#marmie

[sea-shelly]

she has been immortalised in christmas decoration form

#marmie

[palaceoftherakes]

"i suppose marriage has always been a financial proposition, even in fiction."

Little Women (2019), dir. Greta Gerwig

the idea of marriage has always been strange.

for me, well i'm bisexual, and i never thought that marriage would be a prospect to me because i didn't think i'd ever be capable of loving one person for the rest of my life. then, i watched Little Women (2019). it wasn't this epiphany, but a slow realisation about how i'd been brainwashed to believe that marriage was the way to fulfilment. while there are many things about Greta Gerwig's adaptation that i'd like to discuss, sisterhood, womanhood and youth being few to mention, i would like to focus on this concept of marriage as it is represented through the eyes of Jo, who up until my tenth watch, i identified with the most.

Jo March, as self-described, is frumpy, homely and unlike any woman, Theodore Laurance would ever want to marry. i too have always felt like that. never be the one to be asked out, or even noticed by boys in school, and when i realised i liked girls too, it became a taboo subject that left me with slurs and various degrees of internalised homophobia. growing older, I've realised that perhaps it is me being a poc in a majority-white setting that has made it so difficult to feel the right to be loved by others romantically. or maybe it's because i've been stagnant in my approach to sexuality that it's scared others away. enough self-evaluation: Jo sees marriage like a prison, and that makes sense. or does it?

a perfect home life, yes. a nuclear family, the husband, the wife, the children, the white picket fence and a warm hearth to surround when it gets cold outside. even though the love between marmie and father is one to be idolised, it is caring and unconditional love that surrounds Jo, and yet she finds herself opposed to the very notion of marriage.

the setting that the march family sit in is quiet, a cottage core aesthetic (to use contemporary reference) where the only people they interact with are the Laurences, the Hummels and one Mr. John Brooke. when Teddy and Jo pair off and become quick and steadfast friends the natural conclusion is that they'll get married and have a hoard of children while living a mildly happy life. it works for Meg and Mr. Brooke, so why wouldn't it work for Teddy and Jo?

to me, it's very clear. it's clear for the moment Jo leaves her family home and moves to New York to work in a boarding house. meeting the foreign professor is this sign shouting "THERE'S MORE TO LIFE THAN WHAT YOU KNOW!" he applies a different school of thought and challenges her in a way that Laurie and her family never did. the challenges she faces, the rejection from the publishing house, not being chosen to go to France with Aunt March, and most significantly the death of Beth, all push her to the conclusion of finishing her book and getting it published.

but the question becomes, why was i more satisfied with the ending of Jo and Friedrich (the professor) than with her getting her book published? i guess it becomes the conversation of what romantic films have periodically presented us with the 'happy ending', which has been, falling in love, getting married, having oodles of children and then dying. to be honest, it's not just romantic films, it's the disney princesses that surrounded me in childhood. its stereotypes that are perpetuated even further into media, and are ingrained into young girls from a young age. even now, as I'm meeting adulthood for the first time, the questions of marriage, kids and the future keep on cropping up in conversations. i don't think i was ever conscious of my own bias when watching films, but watching Little Women for what seems to be the 100th time makes me wonder what it really means to be married, what that commitment really means. Is it like Jo says, an 'economic proposition' or is it something much more than that?

author note:

amy and laurie >>>> jo and laurie

#little women #little women 2019 #greta gerwig #saiorse ronan #timothee chalamet #jo march #laurie laurence #amy march #meg march #beth march #marmie

[greengableknits]

Definitely thinking of knitting an infinity scarf (as shown below) but each row would be the color associated with each of the March Sisters and Marmie, picking from the color scheme I have.

Red for Jo, Pale Orange for Amy, Light Robin’s Egg Blue for Meg, Wreath Green for Marmie, and Grey Green for Beth.

#greengableknits #knitting #knitting projects #knit #knitting journey #rillaofgreengables (theknottyknitter) knits #get knitty with it #knitting journal #knittersgonnaknit #knittersoftheworld #knitters of tumblr #little women Louisa May Alcott #little women book knitting projects #little women #meg march #jo march #beth march #amy march #marmie

[wellingtonwellsministryofjoy]

Omg haven’t drawn this little sweetie pie in a hot minute!!

If you’ve never met her before this is Marmie. She’s a robot Dr. Faraday built and was intended to be a prototype for a child surrogate. She ended up being adopted by James and Roger. 

I wanted her to look more robot-like compared to her original design. (Which can be found in the link below)

https://at.tumblr.com/wellingtonwellsministryofjoy/happy-lil-robot-with-her-sailor-dads/ms5zm5mrcynr

#whf oc #We Happy Few OC #we happy few #marmie #compulsion games

[cgclarkphoto]

Marmie the mouse -  cg photography

#street photography #window #statue #mini statue #mouse #Marmie #Broken Arrow #Broken Arrow downtown mascot

[femmenoir-red]

Questa notte ti cercherò tra emozioni e briciole d'amore.. seguirò le stelle e i sussurri del cuore. ..fino a che non troverò un sogno in cui respirare il tuo profumo....❤

@femmenoir-red

-emozioni red 29/01/2024

#io e le mie emozioni #photography #life #love #frasi #luna #mare #forte dei marmi sea #poesia #lovely

[nicholask-la]

From June, 2023

#car #Fiat #fiat 500 #Fiat five hundred #leica m11 #forte dei marmi #italians do it better #original photography on tumblr #july 2023

[lea-andres]

Let's see if this causes chaos, because I knew one person that would've hated this one for... absurd reasons. I'm having a bad night, let's have some fun.

I ship Charmy and Marine.

Not like, super hardcore while they're 6, because they'd team up to fight the cooties and shenanigans would definitely ensue and I acknowledge little kid relationships are just playing house and playing wedding (did anyone actually do that with their peers, or was that a fiction lie? I never fucking did that lmao) and meaningless shit like that, but like, when they're older.

Because the little kids aren't staying little in my lore, I'd say sorry but that would be a lie because I'm not sorry lmao.

#lea's starting shit again whee #charmy bee #marine the raccoon #...charine? marmy? IDK #cream's aroace to me so she's being left alone #idk about ray yet... #saffron and mello will be around in a hilarious way in one of the pre-wtdmtn fics

[toxapex-zone]

@theshadowrai’s gift art from my 20 follower raffle! She requested her OC, Marmie!

#I love Marmie she’s so cute!! #pokemon #pokemon oc #others ocs #sprigatito #marmie (oc) #art

[sea-shelly]

no paparazzi pls!

#marmie

[fidjiefidjie]

Bonjour, bonne journée ☕️ ⛱️

Forte dei Marmi 🇮🇹 1959 Toscane

Photo © Archivio Fotografico Paolo Di Paolo

#photooftheday #black and white #vintage #photografy #paolo di paolo #toscane #forte dei marmi #italie #plage #carabinieri #bonjour #bonnejournée #fidjie fidjie

[medyya]

#forte dei marmi #cu35

[mimiminimal]

Carlo Carrà (1881-1966) - Forte dei Marmi, 1960.  Oil on canvas / 40 x 60 cm.

#Carlo Carrà #Carlo Carra #Forte dei Marmi

[cgclarkphoto]

Broken Arrow's Marmie the mouse -  cg photography

#mouse #bronze #Marmie #flowers

[devilfic]

Hello! I love everything Peter you do, could I please be added to the taglist when you have a spare moment? also, ranting moment but Small Favors literally is so good and I reread it at least once a month and JUST read the Christmas chapter and AM SCREAMING ❤️❤️❤️❤️

sure thing babes! just to be clear, you wanna be added to a taglist for all mcu!peter and tasm!peter? or just mcu!peter?

also once a MONTH!!! oh my gosh thank you!! so happy you enjoy it so much ;-;;;

#mjanswers #marmie-noir

[femmenoir-red]

Il canto del mare termina sulla riva o nei cuori di chi l'ascolta?❤️

@femmenoir-red

-emozioni 04*10*23

-photo personale©

#io e le mie emozioni #forte dei marmi sea #love #photography #life #me #mare da amare #poesia