{meme} maybe it's by habit, they were lovers - they used to talk all night

[aragons]

Well, even if I manage to break the pattern we can at least say I've had a good week of posting.

Or that I'm doing little else with my life. Both are valid options. I won't lie, this is entirely an excuse to post a meme but whilst I'm here, let me just say that I went to see The King's Speech in the cinema again and I honestly cannot reiterate

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[martyr4mylove4u]

Jesse and Andrew not in a shipping way. I want friendship. I want sharing of neuroses. Which is incidentally the prompt.

Also, hello.

[aragons]

action is his reward

"So I'm standing there, weeping in the lycra like an idiot when Emma walks in and just gives me this look - you know, that look that's all--"

Jesse's laughing now, a melodramatic mental image of Andrew sobbing in the Spiderman costume having taken up residence and he stutters a little as he says, "Nut up or shut up?"

"For lack of a better phrase, yeah -" Andrew pauses and Jesse breathes, laughter trailing off as the sudden weight of it all settles; his best friend is going to be Spiderman ,is Spiderman, someone nominated him for an Oscar and suddenly it's all a bit too much until Andrew sighs, "I wish you were here, man, I really do -"

[aragons]

YOU ARE TOO KIND MAY. TOO KIND.

feel free to prompt me whatever, or all I'll do is end up writing Andrew vomiting rainbows everywhere which - let's face it - he does on a regular basis anyway.

[marketchippie]

Guess who is seeing King's Speech ce nuit? THIS LADY.

And RIGHTBACKATCHA-

Isabella/Angelo - you can't spend your whole life waiting for god to kiss you back

[aragons]

YOU MUST TELL ME ALL OF YOUR FEELINGS WHEN YOU RETURN. ~SO MANY FEELINGS~

[marketchippie]

FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS

CAN I JUST SAY-this is probably really silly, but I was flailing silently in my seat-the first voice-stuff montage, the "mechanics", I recognized EVERYTHING THEY DID, not because I know anything about speech therapy, but because they were all theatrical voice-work warm-ups, and I don't know how deliberate/exclusive this was, because again I know shit about speech-therapy techniques, but Lionel was an actor first and we saw this in pieces and SHAKESPEARE FOR HIS KIDS, MY HEART WAS SINGING.

AND JENNIFER EHLE WAS THERE BONUS FACTOR TO END ALL

but oh god it gave me so many feeling about monarchic character construction, because let's look at how Elizabeth was the only person allowed, truly, to touch him (his daughters CURTSEYING oh god my heart), let's talk about what it means to stand for a country and to have no true power but that symbolism and at the same time the stunning weight of that, the way it shapes him into this mask of strength and state in a way that has nothing to do with Bertie and the naming

[aragons]

NO NO I TOTALLY NOTICED IT AS WELL AND GUH, THIS FILM IS CONSTRUCTED SO BRILLIANTLY. I loved how they played with Lionel as a failed actor and okay, so I thought it was hugely significant that the amdram society said that they needed someone "younger and more regal" because, what is this film about more than what it is to be regal and how you construct that.

SO MANY MONARCHY FEELINGS ISABEL, SO MANY OKAY. I mean, I have pockets of my monarchy that I'm interested in and they're usually several hundred years past, but I am obsessed with the abdication crisis because it was where Britain's modern monarchy was born and it was born out of crisis, war and doubt. I just adored how they dealt with it from Bertie's perspective because, he's right, never, ever before has someone succeeded someone who wasn't dead or dying. And he's aware that he's a constitutional monarch, that his power is limited but the only reason he has that power is because a) his brother failed in his duties but also b) because the people invest that power in him. Naming

[corleones]

The Dreamers, Theo/Isabelle, "wake up your saints"
RPF, Romola Garai/Diego Luna, "i didn't see it coming."

[aragons]

the sainted and the dead

After the riots and the Molotovs, they run faster than their feet can take them - through backstreets and alleys and away from the crowds; they end up leaning against the old stone inside a church, their breathing loud and gasped in the cold air and there is a moment, a moment where everything is still and quiet - just Theo and Isabelle, Isabelle and Theo.

Isabelle kisses him then, her hands on Theo's skinny hips, his hands on her face as she backs him against the wall, candles for relatives flickering in the corner of her eye.

When she bites down, he keens loud enough to wake the dead.

[corleones]

Oh, I love this because, oh, them and I know it was impossible in the narrative of the film but I so wish we'd gotten to see them on their own - this is just the perfect ending to it.

[aragons]

I LONG FOR THIS MOVIE SANS MATTHEW BECAUSE, REALLY. REALLY But I'm so glad you liked it love, I was really worried it didn't sound right :S

Also obvs I need to go on an icon spree now.

[penny_lane_42]

THE KING'S SPEECH. I VOMITED RAINBOWS. ALL THE AWARDS!

Write me Being Human fic! Because how psyched up am I about how it is RETURNING TO US!!!! IN A MATTER OF DAYS!!!

So anyways, Being Human - Annie, George, Mitchell - a night in

[aragons]

ALL THE AWARDS. Seeing it for the second time made me appreciate the direction and the score a lot more because the first time round I was all about King Firth's spectacular performance.

I AM SO EXCITE FOR IT'S RETURN LAUREN, MY KIDSSSSS

[penny_lane_42]

I will be buying that movie on DVD so that I can bask in all the detail and the prettiness and the music and EVERYTHING.

I just joined ontd_beinghuman! Which I didn't know existed! But I want there to be fun times and shenanigans as we all celebrate!

[aragons]

Me too, me too. it's just, I want to know everything, I want to just revel in it and weep for days because actually though, this film was incredible.

:D :D I'll admit it's quite a quiet community because Elyssa, Karen and I are easily distracted mods but EXCITEMENT IT'S SO SOON.

[aragons]

young hollywood detritus

Waking up blearily with what feels like the world's worst hangover, Andrew surveys the damage: Emma's shoes are somewhere under the wardrobe whereas Carey's appear to be flung on the coffee table and he appears to have lost his jacket somewhere in the sea of wine bottles and mini-bar spirits that litter every surface. Carey's passed out on the end of the bed, face down and sprawled in an incredibly un-ladylike fashion; Emma's on the rug by the fireplace (he remembers a particularly moving rendition of 'Tits and Ass' at some point in the evening, which apparently Jesse also knew the words to - which, by the way, he is never forgetting ever)and as Andrew cranes his head from his comfortable position of spread-across-the-entire-sofa, he spots Jesse curled up awkwardly in the armchair.

All in all, dinner seems to have gone pretty well.

[penny_lane_42]

OMG THESE KIDS. THESE KIDS. AND YOU WRITING THEM.

*dies*

[aragons]

THESE KIDS, THESE KIDS. WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE. I'M DYING TO WRITE FIC ABOUT ANDREW, CAREY AND KEIRA GETTING DRUNK TOGETHER AND THEN LIKE, MEETING EMMA AND JESSE AND DID I SAY RPF WAS FORTHCOMING? BECAUSE YEAH, I HAVE SO MANY IMAGINARY SCENARIOS.