#gonna go write the Sea Turtle West Side Story AU

[ace-and-ranty]

Like, I think if I were trying to convince people Tony and Maria are totally actually really in love, I would have given them a shared dream.

Like. Anything. Really, anything at all. Just. Have them meet and find out that actually, wow, they are both hardcore passionate about sea turtles. In half an hour of conversation, they already have a name for the NGO they are gonna open to protect sea turtles. No one else can stomach listening to them go on about fucking turtles anymore, but put them together and they can’t stop talking about it.

Tell me you wouldn’t be crushed when Tony dies. Now the NGO is never going to be. Maria got all her hopes up, she finally found someone who understood her, and now it’s all gone to shit.

That I could buy.