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Made this Romeo and Juliet meme cuz this lukewarm take pisses me off

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rei and fukiko (oniisama e)

love this series so bad… i wanna draw more fanart

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04.05.2025 🌈 today's anthy!

idk whats happening 🙂

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GOD there were so many baffling decisions in that movie. Aside from the narrative issues that came with cutting out a huge portion of the cast (which are numerous and HUGE)—why was it a half-hearted musical for the first hour/hour and a half, but not the whole thing? And why have your musical numbers not actually be sung by the characters?? Why make them into AMV-style montages that lack the emotional depth of a more typical musical number??? WHY IS ROV AFRAID OF BEING A MUSICAL IT LITERALLY WORKS SO WELL AS A MUSICAL. Adding in more musical numbers would have HELPED with the pacing because musical numbers can comfortably exposit SO MUCH MORE than typical narration without feeling clunky in the same amount of time. AND THEN THE POP MUSIC DURING THE STORMING OF THE BASTILLE???

And why not show how Oscar was politically radicalized (which is THE most important part of the story IMO since it justifies why she’s willing to literally DIE to liberate the commoners)??????? Why not show the affair of the diamond necklace, or the trial? Or the events leading up to the assembly, which IMO were some of the coolest parts of the manga???? SO many of the historical elements got cut out in favor of focusing on interpersonal drama (specificaly Girodelle—WHY DID HE HAVE SO MUCH SCREEN TIME). I understand why they wanted to focus on the romances, but it just absolutely hamstrung the emotional core of the story.

AND THEN there’s the issue of flattening the sexual and gender politics of the story, which is a big enough topic for a whole different post 🙃

Overall, they just cut out so much of what makes RoV an interesting story and turned it into a chaotically paced recap episode 😭😭😭

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KOINOBORI🎏 5.5

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11.04.2025 🌱 today's anthy!

iv been sitting here for 10 mns trying to think of a proper caption 🙂 ...

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jesus christ superstar is about leftist infighting and hating your best friend and loving people wrong and the myopia of fame and inevitability and understanding that you were the cog that might not have turned and how love will not save the world because it is not enough and how people are fickle and how leaders are cowards and how the buck has to stop somewhere and how love doesn't stop just because it's useless or bad and saying 'i told you so' and how good will can never trump The Plan and how together we are so very strong and how God is not going to save us and how the story is incomplete because we have to finish it ourselves

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Would you fall in love with me again? if you knew all I've done, the things I cannot change?

JCS and multimedia Jesus/Judas, list below:

original design

JCS 1973 film

Godspell 1973 film

JCS 2000 film

JCS 2005 Amstetten, Austria tour

JCS 2012 Broadway revival tour

JCS 2012 UK arena tour

JCS 2014 Swedish Malmö arena tour

The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, Champlayers cast 2017 production

Judas comic by Jeff Loveness & Jakub Rebelka, published 2018

JCS 2018 Catalan production, La Lírica de Sant Andreu

JCS 2022 production by Big Act Academy of Theatre Arts (RoseJCS)

JCS 2019-2022 50th Anniversary Tour

Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally, original design (no recording available)

original design

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finally started watching utena with the wife

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As people have mentioned, if the ‘Theo is the Wild Hunt’ theory ends up being true, every interaction that Annabel has had with the Wild Hunt is going to be sooo funny in hindsight. This could be such a monkey’s paw moment for her if she ever wished she had the opportunity to meet Theo

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"Jack and the Devil Herself" Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhain! This art is based on the Irish legend of Stingy Jack. Or as he's better known, Jack o' Lantern.

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SINNERS (2025) dir. by Ryan Coogler

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Annie: There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death; conjuring spirits from the past...and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they called them Fire Keepers. And in West Africa, they were called Griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities. But it also...attracts evil....

Sinners (2025)

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Sinners, or, How Ryan Coogler Tricked a Bunch of Horror Nerds Into Seeing a Musical

Sinners is horror—damn good horror, at that—and as a horror nerd I know it'll likely top my end-of-year lists for both the genre and movies as a whole, but it is also a proper MUSICAL. Perhaps it doesn't meet all of the formalistic criteria for a traditional movie musical like West Side Story, where the characters' singing and dancing occupy this liminal space between diagetic and non-diagetic and are meant to portray their subjective perspectives and feelings rather than something objective and factual, but 1. Sinners occasionally does do that, namely in the amazing and already iconic "I Lied to You" sequence, and 2. it's more or less the same kind of mostly-diagetic musical as O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and just try arguing that isn't a musical.

(related, Sinners and O Brother would make for a banger double feature; there are pretty substantial tonal and genre differences between the two, of course, but they share a time, place, and a ton of musical overlap)

I'm already seeing some "It's not actually a musical" chatter in various comments sections online, and it strikes me as the similar defensiveness from mainline critics who love a well-made horror movie (The Silence of the Lambs, Get Out) but are hesitant to call it horror because of the low attitude toward the genre and its artistic potential that has plagued a lot of discourse. The irony here is I think this particular defensiveness is coming from horror nerds themselves. There's a kind of person who dismisses musicals because people suddenly breaking out into song and dance ruins the immersion and/or is too silly for their tastes, and yeah, taste is taste, but I'm hoping the largely diagetic format of the sung and played music in Sinners gets a few people to rethink their genre prejudices.

Anyway, the "Rocky Road to Dublin" scene set my Irish(-Canadian) heart ablaze and is a hell of a villain song.

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I can't get over how Sinners is such a rich text on assimilation and whiteness and the dangers of "civility" and music as a way to look both forward and back

And it's also a phenomenal vampire movie where a lot of hot people get covered in blood and there's a B plot about eating out girls

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All the good you've done/ will soon get swept away You've begun to matter more/ than the things you say

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