Can you give a kind of summary of what In The Heights is actually about 😭 this is coming from a girl who only knows it as 🎵 Usnavi all night, you barely even danced with meeee🎵
please somebody stop me from writing another essay
ok so basically it's the story of a few characters living in the new york city latino neighbourhood of washington heights. so we have:
usnavi: a bastard, orphan the owner of the store, who is trying to save money to pursue his dream of leaving nyc and moving to dominican republic where his parents come from
nina: a girlie who dropped out of college and now that she's back home she is afraid of telling her parents (and basically everyone) how big of a disappointment she is
vanessa: she works at the hair salon where she doesn't make much money, she's dreaming about moving downtown (usnavi is in love with her)
benny: he works for nina's dad and is also in love with nina
and there are more, but i don't want to spoil anything for you, if you're planning to watch it. also, it was supposed to be short haha.
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Dance You Off My Mind
Civilian AU where Soap got broken up with by his long-term boyfriend and his best friend Gaz tells him to come visit in London for a week or two (both as distraction and to make sure that Soap isn't alone). Soap mopes for the first few days, and Gaz understands, but by the fourth day, he's over it and he drags Soap out to the nightclub around the corner to get smashed (hopefully in several ways).
Soap is hesitant at first. He hasn't been dancing in a long time; his boyfriend (ex-boyfriend, he has to remind himself) never enjoyed the club scene, so he had stopped going out. For a while, he sticks to the wall, nursing his drink, watched Gaz on the dance floor. When he finishes his first drink, though, Gaz presses another into his hand, and that's how he finds himself three drinks deep and in the middle of the crowd, whirling like he owns the dance floor, not a care in the world.
Simon is ex-military and picked up a job as a security guard/bouncer at the nearest gay club just to keep himself sane. He has a strict, self-imposed (and possibly club-imposed, he's not really sure but it's never mattered) rule not to even flirt with customers. He's gotten more propositions than he can count in the years he's been here, and he's turned them all down. He might look good (he makes sure to keep himself in shape because it helps to both look like he could throw London's largest bear out and also have the actual strength to back it up), but he's working, and his job is to keep an eye out, to keep everyone safe.
The man with the mohawk, however, has caught Simon's eye several times. He's there with someone, but that hasn't stopped him from giving Simon a once-over so salacious that it should be illegal. He has to stop himself from falling into the man's magnetic allure, crossing his arms over his chest and setting his jaw against the temptation. The pair leave just before the club closes, stumbling against each other as they exit, and Simon tries his best to push them from his mind as he helps clean and close.
When he steps out into the chilled night air, he's shocked to find a mohawk waiting for him, the man leaning against the brick wall nonchalantly, and this time, he doesn't resist the pull. He pulls out a fag and offers one to the other man, exchanging names over twin glowing tips and exhales of smoke. As the other man, Soap (weird fuckin' name, but who is he to judge? He went by Ghost for almost his entire adult life), is obviously less drunk than he had been when he had left the club the first time; either time and cold air have sobered him, or he's a damn good actor. Either way, Simon has absolutely no qualms about tilting his head up to press a soft kiss to his lips, especially when Soap whines and presses impossibly closer, his mouth tasting of smoke and ash instead of liquor. His eyes are bright, clear, and eager when they part, and Simon can't wait to get this beautifully responsive man into his bed.
He ends up putting a ring on his finger, in the end, and all of their friends graciously pretend to be shocked by the news (though Gaz does roll his eyes and mutter "it's about damn time" when he thinks that Soap can't hear him)
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Did you know, that there’s a total of six songs in The Hobbit?
“That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates”
“Misty mountains”
“There is an Inn, A merry old inn”
“Down in goblin town”
Gollum’s unnamed lil jig
“Down in the deep of Goblin Town”
Did you also know, that for a movie to qualify as a musical, it needs at least five songs?
Kind of an insane move, make the first movie of a trilogy a musical and then just drop the ball for the other movies
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are you planning on making and "all eyes are on you" anamatic (that sound bit from "join us for a bite") for that au where Dale shot Dev? I'm only asking because I saw that last frame you showed one hr ago and it made me think of that.
GOD I wish I picked something that brief, the songs like 3 minutes 😭
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All I'm saying is if you have a blorbo or perhaps an OC whose whole thing is daddy issues and subsequently unlearning to keep their emotions buried and learning to once again accept tenderness then maybe you should add Shannon and The Clam's song The Boy to your character playlist :^)
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