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Everyone gushing about The Idea of You and here I am checking how inconsistent Hayes' tattoos are 😂😂😂

It's like scoping out Henry's hairstyles and presence (or not) of wig in RWRB 🤣🤣🤣

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Everyone is dogging on Nick for Met Gala whatevers but I'm still on the fact that one of the songs that speaks to him is For Your Precious Love by Otis Redding. Old souls unite 🥹

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After binge watching Emily in Paris (always behind the times), my headcanon has now cast Lucas Bravo as Matthew de Clermont in A Discovery of Witches 😍

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Random thought of the day: Disney should make the Mortis trilogy of the Clone Wars series into a live-action movie.

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Finally watched In The Mood For Love, per our darling Prince Henry's recommendation. Excellent film... really lives up to the term "Cinema" 😍 It reminds me of the 1945 film Brief Encounter, which is one of my favorites. I'd love to know what other movies and books Henry enjoys (his favorite author being Jane Austen! he enjoys the V&A!) as we would have made excellent nerdy friends 😭

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I especially enjoy the *tussle noises*

the emotional version vs. not the emotional version because there isn't so much time.

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Rewatching rwrb for the millionth time and I get to the scene where Alex and Henry are conversing with the King. When the King says that anything other than the traditional royal image is out of the question, Henry's face is indignant but turns to surprise when Alex speaks up to ask why. The King verbally slaps Alex down and Henry is like OH HELL NO

Nicholas acted the hell out of this scene. I love finding little moments like these with each watch 🥰

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i originally replied this on someone else's post, but it's now my headcanon that nicholas galitzine and his blonde rwrb self (with an american accent ofc) would have made a wonderful peeta mellark.

can you imagine it?! he's so soft and gentle yet he's got a powerful build from his rugby days. and the NG phase continues...

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Just watched Cinderella with Nicholas Galitzine for the first time and

What a fun movie!!!!

Yes it's silly but so fun!

The singing is amazing, the costumes are so cool and colourful. I love it!

The bad ratings are so ridiculous. Ppl really forgot how to just enjoy a movie, how to have fun. Not every movie has to be that profound deep piece

It's fun and well done for what it's supposed to be

If you haven't watched it and need something to lighten the mood, go and watch

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plus the dopey half smile during the slo mo

Happy lil guy

ft. sad lil guy

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ever since I found out Nicholas Galitzine had to wear a wig in some scenes due to reshoots in rwrb that's all I can think about when he shows up on screen

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rwrb has really become the analog of sinking into a bubble bath for me. Relaxing, comforting, and a sweet and lovely escape from the world 🥰

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I love this ❤️

I die

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So RWRB was a movie with some discourse...

In all honesty, the discourse has bugged me more than any issues with the film itself. I get a film adaptation not living up to personal expectations set by a book is... a response that people have, but the fact some people have been trying to convince people it's not worth watching bothers me.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen all of the love for it too and I know the antis for the film are definitely in the minority. No one can control how anyone relates or who is allowed to enjoy a piece of media, but the sheer hatred I've seen from some of the people on here for the film hurts a bit to see. The arguments seem to be no deeper than "x character was removed" , "there's these plot holes" and "it's too formulaic" that last one of which I feel was kind of the point: it's a formulaic romcom so that queer people can have a fairy tale romance story like the straight ones that get shoved down our throats from a young age by companies like Disney. McQuiston, an NB writer, has gone on record stating that a huge reason why they write is to feature queer identities and make stories that people like them would have liked to read and feel represented by when they were younger.

If this was a straight Hallmark romcom (which tbf, it basically is in terms of story structure, and I low-key love it because of that) it wouldn't have made so much as a blip on most people's radars. But because it features queer characters the threshold for scrutiny seems to have been dropped to the floor (insert "Get Low" joke here). I can get having criticisms of the film, I have a few myself, but the attempt to convince people the film is bad and to disregard it as a whole because of them ignores the positive qualities, what the film means to people in the queer community, what its success can lead to in terms of representation for underrepresented people in the community (Ace, bi, NB, trans, etc.), and an understanding of intricacies that go into adaptation.

At the end of the day, this film was competently made (and in my opinion, well made) by a gay director with an inclusive team and a deep care for both the source material and an understanding of what the film would mean for millions of viewers. It featured experiences and themes that are common to many people in the community with several very poignant messages that actually have huge metatextual implications with the film (The "forced conformity of the closet" quote sticks out in particular to me: the number of op-eds speculating Nick and Taylor's sexualities and how they've been mum about them makes me think a lot of people missed that one; also looking at you, people that forced Kit Connor out of the closet 😒)

The film is a celebration of love featuring characters that people like me and others in the community can relate to. Is it formulaic? Yes. Did they remove some characters to try and create a tighter narrative focused on the main romantic pair? Yes. Is it overly cheesy and so unrealistically sweet that it will give me diabetes? Delightfully so.

So ending on a positive note, I just want to run down some things I've loved about it:

- An mlm story with an actual happy ending that features adult main leads! (Credit to youth stories, they're important, but as an adult it's hard to relate to teenage characters sometimes)

- The charisma both TZP and NG just radiate throughout the movie

- Sarah Shahi eating the absolute SHIT out of every scene she's in (Touch her and die)

- Same for Rachel Hilson

- Uma Thurman and Stephen Fry (enough said)

- The acting overall was fantastic

- The care and work put into intimate scenes and inclusion of an intimacy coordinator

- On a personal level, I loved seeing parallels between Alex and Henry's relationship and the relationship I have with my husband. For the first time in my 30 years I actually see a little of myself in an uplifting and happy piece of media and not portrayed as a dramatic tragedy, villain, or inconsequential background character.

Tl;Dr if you didn't like the movie, that's your opinion. I'm not here to try and convince you otherwise. But please stop trying to convince people it shouldn't be watched. Regardless of your opinion, this film means a lot to a lot of people, including the author of the original book! Just let us enjoy this imperfect, but tasty cheese with our w(h)ine ❤️

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I am amazed by Nick Galitzine's acting range. Obviously I first started with RWRB, but in the past few days I've now also watched Cinderella and Purple Hearts and damn. He's like a chameleon as these characters are so different yet each so full and whole. I'm so excited to see what is next for him!

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One of my favorite things about the RWRB movie is, weirdly, the beginning of the end credits. Just seeing everyone's little scenes with the song, then Taylor and Nick in the same frame at the end of the reel was just so uplifting and made me all happy and mooshy inside ❤️