#i: rosy oconnor

[magdaoconnor]

text || Jane Bond

Magda: I see it worked out.

[chaoticdrcolleen]

Text || Rose & Pep

Colleen: [image]

Colleen: There is no such thing as a lazy Saturday around here, but I guess I can skip on some things, yeah?

[technobabbleash]

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That really is a cute l'il dragon!

Thanks!

@rosykennedy

[snapshotadeline]

Happy reset day, Adeline. I hope this year is kinder to you than the last.

Thanks, Rosy.

[marthanielsn]

hello hello i have been tagged by some lovely people to do some ask/tag games so here we go. uwu

tagged by @jamesmcardle thank you dear ♥

ask game: tag nine people you want to get to know better

fave colour: i... love them all... and my fave one changes depending on my mood, i think? today i would say blue.

currently reading: a comprehensive collection of poems by louise glück; everything i know about love by dolly alderton; people we meet on vacation by emily henry.

last song: i been born again by brockhampton.

last series: completed? stranger things 4; ongoing? bhdksf kenobi....... i am weak................. 

last movie: love, rosie.

sweet/spicy/savoury: all of them. i am picky but also not.

currently working on: um... does surviving count? i hope so. :-D

thank you @ruairi-oconnor ♥

you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your favorite playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs then tag ten people. no skipping!

goodbye, apparat + soap&skin

i know the end, phoebe bridgers

what the water gave me, florence + the machine

heat lightning, mitski

living, tender

afterglow, taylor swift

this is me trying, taylor swift

your loves whore, wolf alice

thursday girl, mitski

self portrait, keaton henson

as you can see......... i am Okay......

last but not least (just bec the quiz took some time), thanks @clairefishers ♥

take this personality quiz and list ten of the characters they present you with.

oh my god.... lmao.... well, in order:

anastasia steele (fifty shades of grey)

rita bennett (dexter)

penny (dr. horrible’s sing along)

beth march (little women)

jane bennet (pride and prejudice)

rosalind walker (chilling adventures of sabrina)

kevin keller (riverdale)

eliza hamilton (hamilton)

tracy mills (se7en)

aimee finecky (the spectacular now)

idk a few of the characters above but there also are esme cullen, BOTH frodo and sam, jane eyre and cosette on the list and none of them below 80% so... i guess it’s cool?

[bbclesmis]

Andrew Davies on Les Miserables: ‘I’m rescuing it from that awful musical’

Give Andrew Davies a piece of classic literature and he will show you the erotic desires and deep-rooted anxieties that lurk beneath. Think of the passions he unleashed in the nation’s living rooms when he sent Mr Darcy for a dip in his full-blooded 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, or the consternation he provoked when he inserted a spot of incest into War and Peace in 2016.

Yet even to Davies, a new adaptation of Les Misérables – which he claims “will rescue Victor Hugo’s novel from the clutches of that awful musical with its doggerel lyrics” – posed a challenge. Perhaps the biggest question was how to represent the sexuality of its two principal characters: Jean Valjean, the prisoner who breaks his parole (played by Dominic West); and his nemesis, Javert (David Oyelowo) the policeman who hounds him until the end of his days.

Over tea in central London, Davies tells me that he was surprised to discover that, in Hugo’s 1862 novel, neither character mentions any sort of sexual experience, leaving the 82-year-old screenwriter wondering, at least in the case of Javert, whether it was indicative of a latent homosexuality.

“His obsession with Jean Valjean represents a kind of perverse, erotic love,” Davies says. He doesn’t stop there. In capturing the febrile atmosphere of post-Napoleonic France, he also shows how the innkeeper’s daughter Eponine (Erin Kellyman) expresses her desire for the earnest student Marius (Josh O’Connor).

“One of the best things Hugo does is to have Eponine tease Marius with her sexiness because he is a bit of a prig,” says Davies. “So I have introduced a scene where Marius, even though he is in love with Cosette [Valjean’s adopted daughter], has a wet dream about Eponine and feels rather guilty about it. I think it fits into the psychology of the book.”

Another problem that needed solving was Cosette, “a pretty nauseating character in the book”, whom Davies has made “strong and optimistic, rather than just an idealised figure who doesn’t add anything at all.” In the past, he has spoken about how he has turned the more saccharine depictions of 19th-century womanhood he has found on the page into women with the power “to disconcert men”, by injecting into them a little of his own mother’s character. I ask if she also makes her presence felt in Les Misérables. “I don’t think so. Was she like Madame Thénardier?” he wonders, referring to the sometimes violent innkeeper’s wife, here played by Olivia Colman. “No, that would be awful. Although she was quite keen on smacking people. The women in this book are not terribly complicated.”

I suggest that this might not sit well with modern viewers. “Well, I suppose Fantine goes on one hell of a journey,” says Davies, effecting a cod-American accent. “She develops a sort of animal ferocity and that is all because of how she has been treated.”

Davies’ childhood sounds rosy by comparison. No sooner had he started at his Cardiff grammar than he wrote a naughty poem about two of the modern language teachers, which went around the whole school in samizdat. He recites it for me:

He kissed her, she kissed him      

back.  

He took her knickers off and put    

them in a sack.

She took his underpants and put    

them in her bag.

He said: “Excusez-moi, but may I    

have a shag?”

After that, his writing career settled into a slow burn. He studied English at University College London, then moved to Kenilworth, where he met his future wife, Diana Huntley (they have been married since 1960 and have two children) and began teaching literature at the Coventry College of Further Education. He wrote the odd TV play and a whole host of radio scripts – sadly, now all deleted. One 1972 play about wife swapping, Steph and the Single Life, received complaints from those who denounced it as “obscene, disgusting rubbish”.

More solid success came to Davies in the Eighties, most notably with his greatest original work, A Very Peculiar Practice, based on his experiences at Warwick. Heavy on existential gloom, it concluded with the campus being sold to a private American company, which turned it into a defence research base. Never has a series ended to quite such a peal of mirthless laughter and its extraordinary scheduling (9pm on BBC One) was, thinks Davies, a mistake.

At that point, it was hard to imagine that Davies would, a few years later, be the person to turn costume drama into sportive heritage TV. His Middlemarch came first, in 1994, and was followed 18 months later by Pride and Prejudice, one of the most popular TV series of all time. I wonder how he feels about Nina Raine’s forthcoming small-screen adaptation.

“I am very excited about it,” he says. Then he adds, “even though I wish her all the best, I hope it’s not as popular as my one. It gives me so much pleasure when people say, ‘I was feeling rotten and so I just went to bed and put on Pride and Prejudice’. People use it to get over bereavements – I’m better than a priest!”

This is not arrogance. Davies may be sharp, naughty and ironic, but he is embarrassed by anyone who makes a fuss over him. He worries that this month’s documentary about his work, Rewriting the Classics, is “a bit effusive”, and he seems too pragmatic to be affected by writerly insecurity. Is he sensitive?

“I am much less sensitive than I used to be. I remember being cast down when I had a play that went to Broadway,” he says, referring to 1980’s Rose, which starred Glenda Jackson as a schoolteacher and closed after only 68 performances. “Column after column was spent saying how terrible it was. I couldn’t eat solid food for a week.”

He had a similarly bruising experience with the film industry. A decade ago, Davies admitted that he was disappointed that his movie career had not been more buoyant (Bridget Jones’s Diary was a rare success). Talking to me now, however, he is more sanguine.

“And that’s because the writer is king in TV. In film, all the stories that people say, that they pay you a lot of money and treat you like s---, are true in my experience. I have been sacked from several movies without being told. You meet someone at a party and you say you are working on a picture and they’ll laugh and say, ‘No, you’re not.’ It’s not terribly nice.”

Two more Davies adaptations will be shown next year – of Austen’s fragment, Sanditon, and of Vikram Seth’s epic A Suitable Boy. He would love to adapt more 19th-century classics (Dickens’s Dombey and Son and Trollope’s The Barchester Chronicles are top of his list) but before that, we can look forward to his version of the Rabbit Angstrom novels by John Updike, an author whose perceived misogyny might not seem an obvious fit in today’s cultural climate.

“There are a lot of grim things said about Updike at the moment, but he is a wonderful observer of how we all behave,” says Davies. “I don’t think writers are there to be role models, they are there to say what the world is like from their point of view.”

If the number of irons he has  in the fire makes it sound as though Davies is spreading himself too thinly, he displays an air of toughness despite his advancing years and a recent double hip replacement. “I don’t feel old. I had my one-year check-up yesterday and my surgeon pronounced that he was pleased with his work. My hips are good for another 10 years.”

As well as his prolific adapting, I wonder whether Davies has the desire to tell the story of his own life. “I really ought to,” he says. “I would like to start with my parents’ lives, in the early days of their marriage, because something went wrong there.” I ask why and Davies lowers his voice almost to a whisper.  “I think it’s probably something to do with sex.”

Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 22 December 2018 (x)

[chaoticdrcolleen]

@rosyoconnor​ replied to your post: ↳ INSTAGRAM: @CHAOTICPEPPERMINTSCOLLY​ UPLOADED A...

Maybe you should take up photography professionally, baby. You certainly have an eye for it.

Ziv would disagree. It took us entirely too long to get this shot and they couldn’t see for like... 5 minutes after.

[magdaoconnor]

text || Jane Bond

Magda: I was going to let you come to me, but since you two are being fucking adorable all over the internet, is it safe to say you had that conversation and she deemed you worthy?

[chaoticdrcolleen]

text || Rose

Colleen: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chaoticdrcolleen]

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11:30 am on November 6th 2019  Cairán Timothy O’Connor-Wayne was born. followed by his brother, Colman Peter O’Connor-Wayne, at 11:46 am. @rosyoconnor​ is fine, exhausted, but fine.

special thanks to @magdaoconnor​ for calling my mother-in-law so I didn’t have to. and for being there for Rosy until I could get there.

[chaoticdrcolleen]

text || Rose & Pep

Colleen: Hey you

Colleen: This time tomorrow I'll be on my way to you

Colleen: Also, I don't like lemons and that cake looks fucking delicious

[chaoticdrcolleen]

@rosykennedy replied to your post “@rosykennedy”

What do I have to do to convince you otherwise?

I don’t know... I just don’t see myself that way...

[magdaoconnor]

text || Jane Bond

Magda: We're going on a family outing to the movies tomorrow. Not sure what time, but we are not afraid to use force and by force we mean sending Conall in.

[chaoticdrcolleen]

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i got to see the O’Connor-Wayne boys for the first time yesterday. 

@rosyoconnor informs me that this is the first time Cairán Timothy has shown his face. apparently his mummy was right, he only shows off for his mama. can’t say i’m surprised.

and then poor Colman Peter has his brother’s feet in his face. i’m sorry baby boy but as the #AnnoyingTwin myself i can verify it’s only gonna get worse from here.

i honestly can’t wait to meet my boys and complete our family.

[chaoticdrcolleen]

Because I can

I love you, Pep.  Always, your Rose xXx

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[chaoticdrcolleen]

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can i go back to where clothes are overrated? @rosykennedy

#IMissMyGirlfriend #ClothesSuck #SoDoesWork #LDR