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gogandmagog · 1 year

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thus further confirming my opinion of you as the person with the Most Correct TM Montgomery opinions, I saw your ff.net bio that the superior AoGG tv show is the PBS one and that you have everlasting beef with Kevin Sullivan---SAME. When he nails it, he really nails it (I think all of his stories have more charm than any of the new shows) but also some of the choices he made...sir....I simultaneously want to shake that man's hand and also make him answer for his crimes. On that note, if you could have a faithful adaptation of any of other Anne books like the PBS show, which would you choose? (we don't talk about the continuing story in this household)

Are you me????

KEVIN SULLIVAN is basically a full-on level-nine cuss word in this household. And I’m pretty sure it’s a cuss in Megan Follows’ household too. If Kevin Sullivan has a million haters, I’m one of them. If he has 1,000 haters, I’m still one of them. If he has 1 hater, it’s me. If he has 0 haters, it’s because I’m dead. ‘An iron has entered my heart.’ You surely never asked, but you have to let me tell you... when I say it’s on sight with this man!

Certainly, the first mini-series he did was a film masterpiece! Casting was on point (I used to google ‘Jonathan Crombie wife’ when I was eight, and get this rush of relief when it said he was unmarried and just be all like YES HE’S STILL SINGLE, and be all YEAH BUDDY I know why too, it’s so obviously because he hasn’t met me yet! Haaaa, fast forward to growing up, and catching on to all the musical theatre and then being like oooooh), the scenery was so lush and gorgeous, and there was hardly a single line that strayed from the books. 10/10, chef’s kiss, all the heart eye emojis imaginable.

The Sequel? Like... okay, we’re sliding downward, because we’re missing out on some wonderful, imaginative, sometimes hilarious Montgomery characters. Ginger the Parrot, Mr. Harrison overall, the AVIS, Paul Irving and Miss Lavendar. Charlotta the Fourth. We miss out on Phil Gordon, and Stella, and Pris! And maybe worse, now Gilbert is given actual Theodore Laurence lines. Literally word for word from the original Little Women film (Sullivan didn’t even try to change it), same proposal, and I could almost stomach it if I hadn’t been a book reader, knowing that the real, shining, sweet Gilbert only met with rejection with grace and kindness, instead of a cold “I hope he breaks your heart.” Those suit Laurie just fine, because Little Women readers know that Laurie is a spoilt trust-fund baby with some super not-cute anger issues (issues totally downplayed in every production, to make him more likeable). And the cherry on TOP, man, was this absent-father (tbh, it’s giving weird 19th century sugar daddy), one old enough to be Anne’s own father, being cast as a Roy Gardner replacement. But in the end, we get some beauty, too. I loved seeing John Blythe and Marilla’s interactions, I loved how Rollings Reliable was done, and even the matter of Dolly the jersey-cow, even I loved that Anne went to Gilbert in the height of his illness. So I could forgive much, on account of that! 8 out of 10.

UNTIL two things happened

First, of course, is the Continuing Story. I have never been so affronted by a movie in my liiiiife, lol. Total L. It quite sincerely achieved something that I did not think was possible in that it made me not like Anne. Utter character assassination. (I realize that by this point, LMM’s family was disinterested in working with Sullivan after the mess he made of the Sequel. Which was fair, for them. I get that, and support that for them.) Jack was a goofy, philandering dudebro, and his whole ‘international spy’ arch was so contrived and cheesy. It fell so flat. And the sheer notion that Sullivan sat there and thought, “Yeah, Anne could fall for this guy” is laughable, betraying instantly that he doesn’t understand her as a character. BUT OH WAIT, we can’t forget that Anne, whose kind doctor husband is out there risking his life while saving the lives of others in the middle of a world war... ACTUALLY engages in an emotional affair with this man. She slapped him when he published their book without her name. But what does Jack get, when he says, “Your husband is probably, most likely dead... but on the flip side, now WE can be together”? NOTHING. Anne hugs him. Pfft. PFFFFT. BE SO FASTIDIOUSLY FOR REAL. I get so mad when I think about it, lol. The whole movie just screams “male gaze” to me, because Kevin Sullivan is so incapable of seeing and realizing or transmuting the Montgomery magic. Best part of the whole thing was when Jack was shot. I felt nothing. I give this whole production .5 stars, because we did get a couple cute deleted scenes, lol.

The second thing that happened that took back all my Sullivan forgiveness was watching lengthy and/or recent (within the last five years) Megan Follows interviews. I learned so much! She doesn’t speak to Sullivan anymore, but she mentions the Continuing Story often enough, and that she had to fight Sullivan, because he wanted Anne to kiss Jack. THANK GOD she was successful. Megan’s also noted for saying that the reason the first series was such a success was because Sullivan had ‘help’ and basically nothing to do with the script. (Bonus reason to despise this man, in case we needed more: Megan mentioned that they filmed three separate endings to the first series, because Sullivan wanted Anne to hit Gilbert for giving up the Avonlea school for her. I… I can’t.) When Sullivan was approached about making a sequel, he said he read all the remaining books and thought, keep in mind this is REAL quote, “Gee, no thanks!” He goes further and says that the thought basically they were dull, and that he wanted to do his own version. Could you be more short sighted??? Again, to me, this just proves that this man places no value on quiet, lovely, non-noisy (if that makes sense) stories that are centered in the home, and around women. I think it’s that same interview where we learn also that Kevin based Morgan Harris on his own father, who was something like apparently 25 to 30 years senior to Sullivan’s mother. And that? Was the sound of my last Sullivan-tolerant--nerve breaking into a million pieces, lol. HOW DARE YOUUUU, Sir.

I AM SO SORRY THIS IS LONG. 😭

All this to say, lol, that Kevin Sullivan does not deserve your hand shake! You are too wonderful, and thoughtful, and so insightful, and that man doesn’t get up to your ankle! He deserves no less than a life sentence in literary jail.

BUT BUT BUT, to answer the question… I struggle. I would be happy with any, to be fully honest. But if I got to pick, and they said “you can only have one” I’d be flipping a three-sided coin between Anne of the Island, House of Dreams, and Rilla. 🥺 We could skip Windy Poplars easily (sorry Rebecca Dew, and Katherine-with-a-K), even though if I won the lottery, I’d personally pay for start-to-finish-by-the-book production. HOW ABOUT YOU?

#curious about your ‘Anne with an E’ thoughts #I suspect they might be similar to mine #SORRY that was so much to read #Kevin Sullivan non-fan club #roy gardner > morgan harris #when did gardner become gardiner anyway #I’ve seen it canonly both ways #probably going to dream about walter tonight #that cherub #fave Blythe baby tbh #RANK THE BLYTHE KIDS #lol

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musette22 · 2 years

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I just need to know Chris is getting smooched real good. At this point I don't even particularly care who it is, I just think it'd be criminal for someone's mouth to be THAT plush and for someone's vibe to be THAT slutty and him going unsmooched

Goddamn, nonnie, you're so right. That mouth should never go unsmooched, it would be a freakin' travesty if it were. With the exception of maybe Sebastian I have genuinely never seen a more kissable mouth in my liiiiife 😩 I know his lips were even fuller when he was younger but even now they're so plush, god (the things I imagine those lips doing... I have been having many, maaaany thoughts about that lately.... but I guess that's a story for another time)

I personally do still very much care who's doing the smooching and we all know who I want it to be lol, but yeah, I do agree that it would be criminal if that mouth isn't seeing action every day of its existence ✋🏻 Especially since Chris has clearly been feeling himself a LOT lately and I think that is very sexy of him and deserves to be rewarded with smooches

#oh god these two gifs are killing me #the lashes toooooooooo oh noooooooooooo #help help HELP #chris evans #minnie answers

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sohotthateveryonedied · 2 years

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While we're already talking about broadway what is ur favorite musical song? Or top 10 if you can't decide lol (mine is 'bring him home' from les miserables)

okay so a top 10 is impossible but i managed to narrow it down to 36! (yes that's as low as i could get it, my Favorite Broadway Songs playlist alone is 106 songs okay you don't understand how insane i am about this every single one of these songs is on equal footing in my mind) so here's the list of my favorite songs alphabetically by album, plus my favorite part/lyrics from each to justify the ranking:

1. It's My Life — & Juliet (That part after the bridge where it's like "It's my liiiife— IIIIIT'S MYYYY LIIIIIFE— It's now or neverrr / And I ain't gonna live forEVERRRRR" it's so good)

2. That's the Way It Is — & Juliet (After the bridge when she starts fucking BELTING the lyrics and then she's like "Don't give uUP ON YOUR FAIIIIIIIIIITH (pause for a breath and the music stops so it's just her voice and nothing else) LOOOOOOVE COOOOOMES—" it's incredible okay especially when the bootleg was up and she Did That on stage!!!!! she did that!!!! her vocal range!!!!)

3. Dead Mom — Beetlejuice (Daddy's moving forward / Daddy didn't lose a mom / Mama won't you send a sign? / I'm running out of hope and time / A plague of mice, a lightning strike / Or drop a nuclear bomb)

4. Barbara 2.0 — Beetlejuice ('Cause the new upgraded Maitlands / Are charging out the gates, and / They're gonna unload / Say hello / To Maitlands 2.0)

5. More Than Survive — Be More Chill (Of all the characters at school / I am not the one who the story's about / Why can't someone just help me out? / And teach me how to thrive / Help me do more than survive)

6. Michael in the Bathroom — Be More Chill (OG cast) (Michael in the bathroom at a party / This is a heinous night / I wish I'd stayed at home in bed / Watching cable porn / Or wish I offed myself instead / Wish I was never born)

7. Upgrade — Be More Chill (OG cast) (And I wasn't sure before / But now I wanna go all the way and more / So give me that upgrade / Give me that upgrade / Tried to be genuine and true / But now it's time for something new)

8. Voices in My Head — Be More Chill (OG cast AND Broadway cast) (And there are voices in my head / So many voices in my head / And they can yell and hurt like hell / But I know I'll be fine) (And then in the broadway version?? His little woohoo when Christine says she wants to go out with him?? The way he jumps around in the bootleg after they kiss???? I'm??????)

9. Dyin' Ain't So Bad — Bonnie and Clyde (Seems you get to live your life just once / If that's how it's gotta be / Then I'd rather breathe in life than dusty air)

10. Requiem — Dear Evan Hansen (So don't tell me that I didn't have it right / Don't tell me that it wasn't black and white / After all you put me through / Don't say it wasn't true / That you were not the monster that I knew) (Also oh my god if you listen to Antonio Cipriano's version in Pronoun Showdown where it's Connor singing to Zoe you WILL cry)

11. Good For You — Dear Evan Hansen (All I need is some time to think / But the boat is about to sink / Can't erase what I wrote in ink / Tell me, how can I change this story?) (especially when evan's surrounded on all sides by his mom and jared and alana and they're all yelling at him and he can't escape GET HIM FOLKS GET HIM i love it when characters yell at each other in song i love it i love it)

12. Words Fail — Dear Evan Hansen (No, I'd rather pretend I'm something better than these broken parts / Pretend I'm something other than this mess that I am / 'Cause then I don't have to look at it / And no one gets to look at it)

13. And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going — Dreamgirls (THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING VOCAL PIECE IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC AND YOU NEED TO SELL YOUR SOUL IN ORDER TO SING IT IT'S INCREDIBLE PHENOMENAL AMAZING FANTASTIC SPECTACULAR GODLY. GENUINELY DON'T KNOW HOW A PERSON CAN SING IT EIGHT SHOWS A WEEK I REALLY DON'T)

14. From Now On — The Greatest Showman (I drank champagne with kings and queens / The politicians praised my name / But those were someone else's dreams / Pitfalls of the man I became) (okay seriously i can't watch this scene without being amazed by the energy and the choreography and just!!! ahhh!!!!)

15. Chant (Reprise) — Hadestown (If it's not too late / If I still have time / Can I change my fate? / If it's not too late, can I... / Can I change this fate of mine?) (these lyrics aren't in the studio album but they are in the bootlegs i've watched and god the determination in eurydice's eyes is so GOOD i love it i love it i love it. even in the album i love this part where it's like "if i raise my voice (IF I RAISE MY VOICE IF I RAISE MY VOICE KEEP YOUR HEAD LOWWWW) if i raise my head (IF I RAISE MY HEAD IF I RAISE MY HEAD KEEP YOUR HEAD LOWWWW)" i LOVE ITTTT)

16. Wait For Me (original AND reprise) — Hadestown (I'm coming, wait for me / I hear the walls repeating / The falling of our feet, and / It sounds like drumming / And we are not alone / I hear the rocks and stones / Echoing our song / I'm coming) (there's something so OOMPH about how the first version is orpheus calling out to eurydice that he's coming for her, he won't stop until he finds her, he'll go to hell and back for her, and then the REPRISE when it's BOTH of them and eurydice is filled with so much hope that they'll make it through this together, nothing can stop them 😢)

17. Wait For It — Hamilton (Hamilton faces an uphill climb / He has something to prove / He has nothing to lose / Hamilton's pace is relentless, he wastes no time / What is it like in his shoes?)

18. Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) — Hamilton (DOWN, DOWN, DOWN / Freedom for America, freedom for France! / DOWN, DOWN, DOWN / Gotta start a new nation, gotta meet my son! / DOWN, DOWN, DOWN / We won, we won, we won, WE WON!) (literally cried when they stood on the chairs so triumphant and happy and victorious it's so GOOOOOD)

19. One Last Time — Hamilton (WATCH THE FUCKING DISNEY+ RECORDING OKAY CHRISTOPHER JACKSON FUCKING BELTED THIS SONG HE PUT HIS SOUL INTO IT AND IT MAKES ME SOB, YOU HAVE NOT LIVED UNLESS YOU'VE WATCHED THAT SCENE OKAY GO DO THAT RIGHT NOW OR I WILL BLOW THIS PLACE TO SMITHEREENS)

20. First Burn — Hamilton (And when the time comes / Explain to the children / The pain and embarrassment / You put their mother through / When will you learn / That they are your legacy / WE ARE YOUR LEGACY)

21. Dead Girl Walking — Heathers (No sleep tonight for you / Better chug that Mountain Dew / Get your ass in gear / Make this whole town disappear)

22. Our Love Is God — Heathers (We can start and finish wars / We're what killed the dinosaurs / We're the asteroid that's overdue / The dinosaurs choked on the dust / They died because God said they must / The new world needed room for me and you)

23. Your Fault — Into the Woods (I'd have kept those beans / But our house was cursed / She made us get the cow to get the curse reversed / It's his father's fault / That the curse got placed / And the place got cursed in the first place) (yes i just like being able to brag that i can sing this entire song while jumping between the different characters' parts it's great)

24. Bring On the Monsters — The Lightning Thief (the part at the end when they're all singing their own parts over each other and it layers together so WELL and it sounds so GOOD and so HOPEFUL and DETERMINED and AHHHHH)

25. Santa Fe — Newsies (Broadway) (Where does it say you gotta live and die here? / Where does it say a guy can't catch a break? / Why should you only take what you're given? / Why should you spend your whole life living / Trapped where there ain't no future / Even at seventeen)

26. Once And For All — Newsies (Broadway) (the part when they build up and build up and build up and then it's BOOM "THERE'S CHANGE COMING ONCE AND FOR ALLLLLLL" it gives me goosebumps every time)

27. Another Day — Rent (No day but today / The fire's out anyway / No day but today / Take your powder, take your candle / No day but today / Take your brown eyes, your pretty smile, your silhouette / No day but today / Another time, another place, another rhyme, a warm embrace)

28. La Vie Boheme — Rent (all of it. literally all of it. if you don't like this song then i don't trust you as a person)

29. I'll Cover You (Reprise) — Rent (everything?? everything?? the way it makes one of the happiest songs in the musical irreversibly sad and when he belts out "i'll cover youuuuuu" at the end and he's crying and everyone's harmonizing seasons of love in the background and it's just. god this song makes me cry like a baby every time)

30. Goodbye Love — Rent (Yes, you live a lie / Tell you why / You're always preaching not to be numb / When it's how you thrive / You pretend to create and observe / When you really detach from feeling alive / Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survive!) (people in musicals yelling at each other will always be my favorite music genre <3)

31. Six — SIX (Heard all about / These rockin' chicks / Loved every song / And each remix / So I went out and found them / And we laid down an album / Now I don't need your love / All I need is SIX)

32. Louder Than Words — Tick, Tick...BOOM! (THE ENTIRE SONG. ALL OF IT. EVERY SECOND OF IT. BUT MORE SPECIFICALLY: "What does it take to wake up a generation? / How can you make someone take off and fly? / If we don't wake up / And shake up the nation / We'll eat the dust of the world wondering why")

33. What Baking Can Do — Waitress (Even as the walls come crumbling down / Even as I can't stop remembering how / Every door we ever made / We never once walked out / Something I never got the chance to ask her about / So with flour on my hands / I'll show them all how goddamn happy I am)

34. Bad Idea — Waitress (WHEN THEY'RE HARMONIZING LIKE "aaahAAAAHAHHHHIIIIII KNOW WHAT'S RIIIIIIIGHT FORRRRR MEEEEEEE" chills literal chills) (also watching the bootleg when they're slamming their hands on the table like "I need a bad idea (SLAM) I need a bad idea" god they're so hot)

35. She Used to Be Mine — Waitress (And then she'll get stuck / And be scared of the life that's inside her / Growing stronger each day / 'Til it finally reminds her to fight just a little / To bring back the fire in her eyes)

36. Defying Gravity — Wicked (So if you care to find me / Look to the western sky / As someone told me lately / Everyone deserves the chance to fly / And if I'm flying solo / At least I'm flying free / To those who ground me / Take a message back from me) (idina menzel my love my beloved my darling i can't get over her VOCALS AHHHHH)

EDIT: OH MY GOD I FORGOT DEATH NOTE BECAUSE IT’S NOT ON SPOTIFY HOW DARE I FORGET DEATH NOTE I’VE ABANDONED MY MUSICAL

37. Hurricane — Death Note (I am the god of a brave new world / Much better than the last / The time for talking is in the past) (there is something so psychological in a song that is heroic and triumphant even when you know this guy is fucking insane and the real villain of this story but he thinks he’s this savior of humanity i just. god i love this song)

38. The Way It Ends — Death Note (Is this the way it ends now? / How could I not see this coming? / The message that it sends now / Sounds exactly like a closing door) (I WAS OBSESSED WITH THIS SONG FOR MONTHS OKAY IT’S WHAT GOT ME INTO THE MUSICAL AND THEN INTO THE SHOW I LITERALLY JUST FOUND THE SONG IN SOME YOUTUBE PLAYLIST OF JEREMY JORDAN SONGS AND TEN SECONDS IN I WAS HOOKED IT’S SO GOOD)

#sorry for the essay lads but anon asked for it #this is not my fault #lay it on me papa bob #soho speaks

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sheikah · 4 years

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Why is My Anxiety Suddenly Debilitatingly Heightened with No Apparent Cause: A Memoir

#the sacred texts!#story of my liiiiife #i'm ok just On Edge today

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nerice · 3 years

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wrist owwie from linearting too much hair

#story of my liiiiife #linn/faye/reina all have designated short hair designs at certain points but do i ever draw those?? NO.#we r dying over fifty miles of hair in this household like men #elia txts #i miss the times when avery+leah were my brainrot ocs n i cld actually finish pieces ajskdjkf

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moodypixels · 6 years

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stayed up until 2am...still not satisfied with build...

#story of my liiiiife #but look how cute alchemy is #@naturalmumma

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hellagoodhair · 6 years

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*goes back to studying for five mins and taylor comes online*

#tp #lmaoooo #story of my liiiiife

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savvyinpink · 7 years

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#story of my life #STORY OF MY LIIIIIFE #story of the day #there was homework?#we had homework #dank memes #memes #funny message

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beautifullyunspoken · 2 years

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Broken

I always dreamed about who id be when I grew up, I imagined id still have my bestfriend and be married to the love of my life and have a job I loved and maybe kids I didn't think that far ahead I just thought I would have a normal life with a husband, I remember being a teen staring out my window imagining escaping from my mentally ill mother and all the abuse & neglect I just pictured running away would be better! and I did run away and things where better for a while, apart from all the people who kept betraying me and making me lose trust in everyone & the 4 year abusive narcissistic relationship I ended up in, not to mention the toxic abusive family that come with it! I still hoped that id get the future I dreamed of, that was until I turned 25, I hit my first depressive episode I figured it was just a random faze and it wouldn't happen again, until it kept happening over and over, it got to a point I knew I needed help! I went to the doctors they gave me a depression test, it was the first test I ever scored high in!!, Lol.... I went on antidepressants, nothing worked all they did was make me gain weight & I wasn't able to orgasm, I thought to myself it was funner in hell!! so after many antidepressant treatments and nothing working I went to therapy, they had told me I was Bipolar, I thought to myself but I was nothing like my mother!! I could sleep infact! thats all I wanted to do for weeks, I wasn't aggressive or apathetic like she was, until I learned I have type 2, I thought I could defeat this if I could overcome my horrible childhood, the bad people I come across all the sexual assault ect.. I could overcome this, boy was I wrong!! so here I am 28 years old way behind in life fighting my mind nearly all the time! its exhausting!! I have n dreams of it getting better anymore they're all ripped away from me.. I think back to the times when I was young where I would stare out my bedroom window wanting my future to hurry up so I could go out and live it & now im here fighting a stupid hereditary mental illness thats never going to go away or get better, I wish I could go back to the times of dreaming and feeling like I wanted to live, even if it was fake it is better then this hell im in....

#depression #bipolar depression #bipolar 2 #bipolar disorder #sadgirl #blog #My Story #My writing #mental illness #alone with my thoughts #sad life #rant #fighting #i hate my liiiiife #trauma #emotional abuse #neglected #covert narcissism

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