#jcs rewatch

[disregardcanon]

there are so many moments in jesus christ superstar that i LOVE, but one of my absolute favorites is the way that jesus backtracks in gethsemane

"why, then, am i scared to finish what i started? what YOU started. i didn't start it." jesus in jesus christ superstar is bearing the weight of everyone's expectations and just. doing his best to try to manage them. judas wants him to stay grounded in his humanity and the opinions and thoughts of people on the ground. respectability politics is how you stay under the radar long enough to make lasting change. make the money to give to the poor, keep our reputations up strongly, we can make a real impact here and now if we don't get too loud.

simon wants him to rise up and lead a revolution. the people in need want him to heal all of them right now immediately even though he's just one guy with only so much ability and time and focus.

mary magdalene wants him to chill out and let her take care of him. peter and the background apostle gang want to be his posse as he gets big and use him to get big and famous. "then when we retire we can write the gospels and they'll still talk about us when we've died"

herod wants him to do his magic as a party trick to gain his salvation, as though that could save him

pilate wants him to deny what he's being accused of so that pilate "can save him", as though that was an option.

and then, of course, we have the absent god the father wanting him to die "far too keen on where and how, not so hot on why". and in the 1973 movie version we get this montage of different images of the crucifixion that implies god sent him this vision of how impactful his death will be, but he still doesn't necessarily tell him WHY, and in other versions there's no evidence that jesus gets... any answers. whatsoever.

different characters TRY to be attentive to his needs and thoughts during the musical, but even those who try very hard (mm, judas, pilate) just.. can't get through. because even if jesus told them.... there isn't anything any of them can do. the story was written long before any of them got here. and there are no answers left in its wake

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS x Firefly AU: A ragtag crew.

[wormstowarts]

This post is for the girlies (gender neutral btw) who get it

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek Voyager "Parallax"

[nohtora]

the piemaker & his childhood sweetheart 🤎

directly inspired, of course, by j.c. leyendecker's magnificent june 3rd, 1905 cover for the saturday evening post !

[peekaboo6293]

I guess the way I read it, he was looking for an excuse why his heart was beating so fast…

[normasshearer]

I'm not being sorry for myself. I knew it would be like this. It's just that I'm tired. That's all. Tired and through.

JOAN CRAWFORD as Daisy Kenyon in DAISY KENYON (1947) dir. Otto Preminger

[jtownraindancer]

Sports Night: Season 1 Episode 16: Sally

[tiny-pun]

My favourite tragedy

Character A, who is very aware of always causing trouble and burning bridges, decides to finally gift character B the peace of their absence because “B is better without them (A) anyway”

VS

Character B, who just wants them there, even if they burn it all to the ground… but “B doesn’t want to force them (A) to stay and certainly not tie them down, keeping them from living their dream.”

Nobody is inherently wrong for their wants or coming to these conclusions and you can’t really blame either of them for not wanting to hurt the other by pressuring them into an unpleasant conversation … or worse they DO have one but they talk past each other so bad that their conclusions about the other is just supported and but both are just so miserable without one another.

Like … it’s SO realistic: not talking about something you believe both of you already know for a fact; so why hurt each other or yourself more by saying it out loud? Just to make it more real and painful? When you can just let the other live? When you can just pretend you’re both fine and don’t miss each other as much as you do? You lived without them before ! You can do it again! Right?

[coquelicoq]

adsfkj i have dusted off the cql folder on my computer for the first time since 2021 and i just found a bunch of fic snippets so short i can't even tell what they were supposed to be about. except this one in which i apparently had the lan sect invent hash functions, all so that there could be a dramatic reveal that jiang cheng had never removed wei wuxian from the yunmeng jiang sect records??

Wei Wuxian sighed and slumped back on his heels. It wasn't that he was incapable of being patient, he just didn't want to. Here was an array that could tell a sect if a prospective initiate was currently on another sect's rolls, without actually giving any sect access to the records of another sect. How was it doing that? The applications for this technology were potentially enormous. Wei Wuxian couldn't wait to get his grubby little hands all over the design.

there's also a more extended passage from a different "wei wuxian finds out he's still a member of ymj" concept (feat. jin ling!) which includes the paragraph

"He can't join the Lan sect!" Jin Ling was exclaiming. "He's already in a sect, technically, and you can only be on the official roster for one sect at a time. I should know, my elders have only been hounding me about it since before I could even say the words 'conflict of interest.'"

but the rest of them are just single sentence one-offs like

'Hey‚' Wei Wuxian protests weakly. 'It’s not my fault. I’ve been dead for quite some time.'

and

After customer service‚ there isn’t much an unearthly shriek can do to phase a person.

and then there's this sentence fragment:

The leader of the Jiang Sect‚ who looks like a Sect Leader‚ is dressed like a Sect Leader‚ and‚ most importantly‚ is not stuck in a hole like an idiot‚ therefore behaving with the dignity of a Sect Leader‚

dying to know where i was going with this. and who was the narrator? whoever it is, they are definitely comparing someone unfavorably to jiang cheng. some idiot has fallen in a hole and jiang cheng comes along and the narrator is like now that's what i'm talking about. maybe the narrator is the idiot in question? maybe wei wuxian is the idiot. but then i don't know why i would have been leaning on the sect leader thing since wei wuxian is not a sect leader. 2021 was a long time ago apparently because i have no memory of this.

[disregardcanon]

for this year's jesus christ superstar rewatch, i had the pleasure of @leiaorganicsolocup and a few other friends accompanying me, one of which had never seen jcs in any form! they sang and made jokes and drank red wine and waved palms and made very good jokes with me :) 10/10 would do my annual tradition with company again

[waitineedaname]

I love that the best emotional acting when it comes to facial expressions comes from Lan Wangji (microexpressions) and Jiang Cheng (macroexpressions). Lan Wangji doesn't emote much but when you're keyed in, the tiny little changes in his facial expression are Devastating. Meanwhile Jiang Cheng is feeling Every Emotion, All The Time, and you are going to see it on every inch of his face. He'll go through twenty different expressions in the same amount of seconds and that face journey will be but a brief glimpse into the awful emotional rollercoaster that is Jiang Cheng's life

[theborgqueen2]

Another one of my jc moments videos because you can never have enough of these

[alightbuthappypen]

The reunion conversation between wei wuxian and jiang cheng in episode 34 is SO TASTY for so many reasons but today I'm really feeling "someone with SUCH INTEGRITY as lan wangji would never willingly associate with the likes of the YILING LAOZU", which we know for a fact he's saying purely to upset wei wuxian because

a) he doesn't think a single positive thing about lan wangji generally, including, one can assume, that he has integrity

b) WE KNOW he thinks lan wangji has been searching for wei wuxian for years (and not for the totally acceptable "to make sure he's dead" reason jiang cheng has)

c) he certainly remembers wei wuxian's completely transparent desire for lan wangji's attention and friendship (and absolutely doesn't burn up with jealousy about it even sixteen years later) and this feels like a weak spot he can ruthlessly stab at because that's how he processes his emotions

[mcaelius]

tongues in wounds wednesday saturday

[feerz]

How have I gotten to the point that in JCS I relate more to Judas than to Jesus...