#theodore laurence edit

[riordanness]

i make edits sometimes

[fauxunraveling]

what if my true love is a fictional character played by timothée chalamet

[christianbalefanatic]

Christian Bale as Theodore Laurence in Little Women (1994) dir. Gillian Armstrong 

[isaacsdevil4108]

Little Women (2017) dir. Vanessa Caswill

Jonah Hauer-King as Theodore Lawrence & Kathryn Newton as Amy March

[snow-licity]

Laurie and Amy are the PRIME EXAMPLE of (Amy) falling first, but (Laurie) falling HARDER! IM SO IN LOVE WITH THEM ITS INSANE!!

Anyway, I'll probably make my first edit next month Laurie and Amy bc I JUST CAN'T😭😭 So look for that!!

[maivewaely]

with every chance of being good, happy and useful, you are lazy, faulty and miserable.

"ooh, interesting." well, selfish people like to talk about themselves.

[twinklingwatermellon]

My thoughts on Jo x Laurie over the years have gone from "they deserved to be together who is this old man she marries what is this I am suing" to "well I guess the people they ended up marrying aren't bad" to "I guess I do ship Laurie & Amy and Jo & Friedrich but Jo & Laurie would've still been good" to "I don't ship them but sometimes I'll watch the edits because they're good" to "they were def platonic soulmates even if nothing else" to "actually they weren't even platonic soulmates just partners in crime" to "I don't think I enjoy the JoLaurie edits anymore, I'll unsave them" to "hey I'm gonna make a Laurie x Amy edit" to "the JoLaurie shippers need to stop" to "I will go down fighting for Jodrich and if I see any JoLaurie content on my dash I will throw my phone across the room"

[jhermes]

Laurie edit cause yes

[yellowdressesandyearning]

Tolerate It~ Little Women/Bridgerton Parralel

[bucksprettygirl]

hiiii guys!!! :33 i wanted to edit but im sick and rlly lazy so this is all yall get ummm.. yahhh

[justmeandmyships]

Y'all really thougth I lost my obssesion with Amy and Laurie?!! Jokes on you!!! I rather die first

I really don't know which part is this but here we go:

Every single moment from Amy and Laurie (Book edition) part whatever:

Laurie bringing ALL his mates to help Amy:

"A flock of our fellows are going to drive over by and by, and I'll be hanged if I don't make them buy every flower she's got, and camp down before her table afterward," said Laurie, espousing her cause with warmth.

Let me tell you something... THIS MOMENT RIGTH HERE!!!!

Amy needed help bc some envious girl took away HER TABLE and gave amy the worst spot in return (how dare she?!!!) Amy being the amazing human being she is took things with calm but my BOY THEODORE LAURENCE?!!!

Please he lit said "I'LL BE HANGED if I don't make them buy every flower she's got, and camp down before her table afterward"... Did you heard him? HANGED. H.A.N.G.E.D. my boy rather die than allowing the DISRESPECT TOWARDS AMY going any further. My boy wanted BLOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDD. And he absolutely got it lol

Amy March WILL NEVER be DISRESPECTED IN LAURIE'S PRESENCE. Did you hear me out? AMY MARCH WILL NEVER BE DISRESPECTED IN THEODORE LAURENCE'S PRESENCE. AND Y'all need to learn how to deal with that.

[inkblotgalaxies]

*cut to me SLAMMING open the door*

Theodore Laurence goes by “Laurie” in Little Women because his male classmates would call him “Dory” when they heard his first name.

But Theodore is a relatively common first name, no? Hell, there was a Senator for New Jersey named Theodore not even twenty years prior to when the book takes place. Also “Dory” seems like a bit of a stretch since the Anglo pronunciation is “Thee-oh-door”…

And then it hit me.

Laurie is half Italian, canonically.

And since he has a pretty darn English surname (though it’s technically also French in origin as well as Old English and yes, I had to check), I can only assume that his mother at the time probably wanted to have a little Italian weaved into his name somewhere, and compromised to a degree knowing that her husband was American.

So, take Theodore, and then Italian-ize it. Teadoro. Great, now make it American. Theodore, but with an Italian pronunciation that, say, a very young child would pick up from his mother calling him that over and over again. Tee-oh-doh-re. Do-re. Dory.

… If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go press my head against the wall and scream for a few millennia.

Gahh I love this book!!!

EDIT VIA AN UPDATE: A lovely individual has pointed out that the nickname was Dora not Dory and that he was, in fact, in Europe when given that nickname, ergo it’s more a misogynistic joke (though I have also seen that it was a common shortening at the time? More research must be done) and that Laurie just hated the nickname. So take this more so as a headcanon than anything else considering I misremembered but hey! Still a neat thought!

[snow-licity]

It is so frustrating to have an idea of what edit videos you're making and then hear a song and IMEDIATLY think of idea for that video ALSO FOR THE SHIP YOU ALREADY HAVE 10 VIDEOS PLANNED OR MADE FOR SAID SHIP😭😭

I have too many ideas and songs I want to make for Olicity, but then I also have to make vids for other couples, and it's to the point where I might do three vids a month bc I have SO MANY olicity vids it's going to take a year to put them all out😭

(I have a Laurie and Amy vid going up next month, and I have enough vids for Olicity to get me through JUNE!!) But EVERY SONG I hear reminds me of them so now I have litterally enough IDEAS to get me through at least next February!!

[deadpresidents]

2023's Best Books

I meant to do this a few days ago so there was more time before the holidays, but here's a quick list of the best books that I read that were released in 2023. Obviously, I didn't read every book that came out this year, and I'm only listing the best books I read that were actually released in the 2023 calendar year.

In my opinion, the two very best books released in 2023 were An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Richard Norton Smith (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), and True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times by Robert Greenfield (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO).

(The rest of this list is in no particular order)

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier C.W. Goodyear (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

The World: A Family History of Humanity Simon Sebag Montefiore (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

France On Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain Julian Jackson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth Adam Goodheart (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World Mary Beard (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, Its Popes, and Its People Jessica Wärnberg (BOOK | KINDLE)

We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World Alex Rowell (BOOK | KINDLE)

Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses Katie Spalding (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias Kevin Cook (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West Chris Wimmer (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

King: A Life Jonathan Eig (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson Edited by Mark Atwood Lawrence and Mark K. Updegrove (BOOK | KINDLE)

Who Believes Is Not Alone: My Life Beside Benedict XVI Georg Gänswein with Saverio Gaeta (BOOK | KINDLE)

Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East Uri Kaufman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship That Changed American History Laurence Jurdem (BOOK | KINDLE)

White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America Shelley Fraser Mickle (BOOK | KINDLE)

Romney: A Reckoning McKay Coppins (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics H.W. Brands (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History Peter Frankopan (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

LeBron Jeff Benedict (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America Abraham Riesman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House Chris Whipple (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

[orthodoxydaily]

Saints&Reading; Tuesday, July 9, 2024

june 26_ july 9

VENERABLE DAVID, MONK OF THESSALONICA (540)

Saint David of Thessalonica pursued asceticism at the monastery of the holy Martyrs Theodore and Mercurius. Inspired by the example of the holy stylites, he lived in an almond tree in constant prayer, keeping strict fast, and enduring heat and cold. He remained there for three years until an angel told him to come down.

Saint David received from God the gift of wonderworking, and he healed many from sickness. The holy ascetic gave spiritual counsel to all who came to him. Having attained to passionlessness, he was like an angel in the flesh, and he was able to take hot coals into his hands without harm. He died the year 540.

SAINT DIONYSIUS, ARCHBISHOP OF SUZDAL (1385)

Dionysius, Archbishop of Suzdal, in the world David, was tonsured at the Kiev Caves monastery. He arrived at the Volga with an icon of the Mother of God that he had received as a blessing from Saints Anthony and Theodosius. Saint Dionysius dug out a cave not far from Nizhni-Novgorod and struggled in total solitude. Brethren constantly thronged to the holy ascetic and in the year 1335 he founded a monastery in honor of the Ascension of the Lord. Among the students of Saint Dionysius were Saints Euthymius of Suzdal (April 1) and Macarius of Zheltovod and Unzha (July 25). In the year 1352 the holy Elder sent twelve of his brethren to “the upper cities and countryside, whom God would bless” for the spiritual enlightenment of the people and the organizing of new monasteries. The monastery of Saint Dionysius exerted a deep charitable influence on the inhabitants of Nizhni-Novgorod. In the year 1371 the saint tonsured into monasticism the forty-year-old widow of Prince Andrew Constantinovich, an example of how he accepted into monasticism “various dignitaries: women, widowers, and virgins.”

In the year 1374 Saint Dionysius was deemed worthy of the office of bishop. His years of service as bishop occurred during a remarkable period, for Russia was rising to cast off the Mongol-Tatar Yoke. On March 31, 1375 the Tatar military-chief, having been shown to the bishop’s court by the enslaved inhabitants of Nizhni-Novgorod, shot an arrow at Saint Dionysius, but the Lord preserved his chosen one, and the arrow struck only the bishop’s mantle. In 1377, through the blessing of Saint Dionysius (who may have edited the document), the Lavrentian Chronicle was compiled by Saint Laurence, inspiring Russia in its struggle for freedom.

In 1379, preserving the integrity of the first hierarch’s cathedra, Saint Dionysius was one of the bishops gathered in Moscow by order of the prince, and he came out against the election of the prince’s protegee, the ill-reputed archimandrite Mityaya as Metropolitan.

In the same year of 1379 Saint Dionysius journeyed to Constantinople with a protest against the choice of Mityaya on grounds of his complicity with the heretical Strigolniki. The saint made a strong impression upon the Greeks by his sublime spiritual frame of mind and his profound knowledge of Holy Scripture. Patriarch Nilus, having termed the saint “a warrior of God and a spiritual man,” wrote that he himself saw him “at fasting and charity, and vigil, and prayers, and tears, and every other virtue.” From Constantinople Saint Dionysius sent two copies of the Hodēgḗtria Icon of the Mother of God to a Council at Suzdal. In 1382 the bishop received the title of archbishop from the patriarch. Returning to Russia, the saint travelled to Pskov and Novgorod to struggle against the heresy of the Strigolniki.

He visited Constantinople a second time in 1383 for discussion with the patriarch on questions about the governance of the Russian metropolitanate. In the year 1384 Saint Dionysius was made “metropolitan for Russia” by Patriarch Nilus. But upon his return to Kiev the saint was arrested on orders of the Kiev prince Vladimir Olgerdovich and subjected to imprisonment, where he died on October 15, 1385. The burial of the saint was in “the Kiev Cave of the Great Anthony.” Saint Dionysius is commemorated on June 26 because it is the Feast of his patron saint, Saint David of Thessalonica, whose name he was given in Baptism. In the Synodikon of the 1552 Nizhni-Novgorod Caves monastery, Saint Dionysius is called a “wonderworking monk”.

ROMANS 7:14-8:2

14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God-through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

MATTHEW 10:9-15

9 Provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your money belts, 10 nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for a worker is worthy of his food. 11 Now whatever city or town you enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and stay there till you go out. 12 And when you go into a household, greet it. 13 If the household is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. 14 And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. 15 Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!