#circle: 2012

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

[deadtiredghost]

[equius]

i think all of my fantrolls wound up on that bad fantroll blog back in the day and boy howdy did it hurt.

also for some reason i was caught up trying to endlessly please captain whatshisface for whatever fucking ungodly reason, i was just incredibly desperate to gain his approval on my fantrolls and i did some really shameless stuff in my bid to get him to give me a meager thumbs up. i don't think he ever did. there were a lot of mind games being played at that point. i feel like dogass when i think about it, especially bc for some reason, i still feel compelled to keep doing that?? like it's 13 fucking years after the fact. either i was severely manipulated by him and i cannot fucking remember any of that happening, or it was some severe bpd insanity that had me in its throes and made me all but enslave myself. or maybe it was both.

idk man the mspa forums were a lawless wasteland and most of the people on it were cruel. cannot thank kavi & friends enough for having pulled me into their friend group bc they could see that i was being dragged to fuck and they wanted better for me.

too bad i went and fucked up all that too.

[theteapotofdoom]

Wait why do I kind of want to watch Thunderbolts*?

No no no this is fucked this can’t be happening … Marvel can’t pull me back in, we’re in 2025, this is fucking embarrassing, I haven’t watched a Marvel project since Wandavision I’m supposed to be too cool for this now, what will Martin Scorsese think, Marty babygirl I’m so sorry …

[irestotles]

look at them lil babies

[ohheycallmek]

Thunderbolts* was so healing.

I love Bob.

I love them all.

Just. 🤌🏻💋

[sleepanonymous]

Information about this cover is below the cut.

Piano-flavored emotion. Huh. So that's what it's called ✌️😭

[likeabxrdinflight]

I'm absolutely deranged over this sweeney revival and so sad it's closing because I think this might be the only iteration of the show where it's like. very obvious that this version of sweeney and mrs lovett are fucking. like that's pretty clear, right? in most renditions it's played like a largely unrequited thing, with mrs lovett attempting over the course of the show to get sweeney to love her despite the fact that he's utterly uninterested.

that was...that was not the case in this version. and the place where I think that becomes most apparent is actually in "a little priest," because I think this is where the transition takes place. prior to this the 2023 show is playing out broadly the same as usual, with mrs lovett focused primarily on getting sweeney to look at her for more than five seconds while sweeney is plotting his revenge. I'm not sure how annaleigh played it live, since I didn't get to see her take and haven't found any decent (publicly available) clips of her, but sutton made some interesting choices here where she's always got her hands hovering over sweeney but rarely does she actually touch him (this was most apparent to me during "my friends" and "wait"). it was like he was something she desperately wanted to hold but couldn't bring herself to yet. like he (or the tenuous bond between them) was made of glass and she was afraid to break him (and it).

that changes after "a little priest." because for the whole show up to that point, sweeney is, as in every production, completely uninterested in her. he seems to reject her advances, doesn't initiate much if any contact with her, and at most treats her as a business partner. but the second mrs lovett suggests her whole baking-people-into-pies scheme, that seems to change. suddenly he's holding her arms, pulling her into a dance, he grabs her face at one point- it was like this little flash of genuinely visible evil from her (which she normally tries to cover more than he does) suddenly attracts him in a way nothing she'd tried up 'til then had. and sutton as mrs lovett responds to this, and that seemed to be the motive behind her iteration of the character playing up the cannibalism humor and making all these jokes about who they could bake into pies. it's like she's suddenly gotten a dash of the affection from him she's been craving and now she's going to do everything possible to keep him laughing, to keep him focused on her and not the judge.

from that point on in this version of the show, I think they're sleeping together. do I think sweeney ever truly falls in love with her? no of course not, that's entirely against the point of his character. but I do think this version of sweeney has more affection for her than other iterations have. more than any other production I've personally seen, this one presented them as a couple, a real partnership, to the point that "by the sea" reads less as another attempt at seduction and more as a legitimate proposal made from one established sexual partner to the other. (the acting choices here also make it.......................almost impossible that they're not fucking I mean she...there's this whole thing with her feet and his suspenders and it's so funny but there's no way. there's no way they weren't sleeping together, just trust me.) and all throughout that song he reacts with the usual sort of annoyance that you'd expect for the character, but there were a few times I'm sure he smiled a little, I was close enough to see it- and whether that was aaron breaking character a bit or a legitimate acting choice I have no idea- but either way it made him seem a little bit fond of her, even when he was irritated.

some people might not like this, since it does sort of go against what was the original intention in the script, but I think it adds another layer of tragedy to the ending if they were genuinely together. because they were so close. they were so close to having some kind of life together, some kind of happiness that wouldn't ever replace the life sweeney had lost, that wouldn't ever replace lucy or johanna, but it could have been a life. maybe even a nice one (minus the whole murdering-and-baking-people-into-pies thing). but it can't ever be because it was only ever happening under false pretenses. because mrs lovett lied. she almost had everything she wanted, she almost had him, but she could only get it because of that one lie, and she loses it all because of that lie too. and that's ultimately her tragedy.

[hopelessoptimisttea]

Brain: Do you remember the movie where Colin Firth plays a character named Harry. It's where he gets beaten up in a bar. Me: Sure, it's “Kingsman: The Golden Circle.” Brain: Hmmm… actually I was talking about “Gambit.”

[godofmagnets]

do you guys understand how much i need block b to make a comeback already

[whorascope]

I feel like I was summoned from an ancient sarcophagus just to make this indie sleaze ass mood board. 2010 Bridget would be living for it.

[capstellium]

you guys…

[randomnessoffiction]

@userlaylivia @jewishraypalmer

[karnalesbian]

every unclaimed kid drake got hidden away gives kendrick another permanent +500% damage buff

[boag]

Her Chanel bby era I LOVE U LANA BANANA

[beauty-proof]

If anyone wants to know what 2012 Tumblr was like, it was kind of like this