{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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[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 convention! Always reminds me of confirmation names and I'm not sure why but yes. THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY SCENE OH MY GOD I CAN'T, I CAN'T. Because yes! Wallis parallels! The old guard being usurped, protocol abandoned! But also in their confrontation, it brings the war to the fore again and I am somewhat fascinated by this film as a war film. Because it is all about war. It is cast in the shadow of the first and the looming of another. (As for Wallis and David that is so difficult to unpack because people tend to either come down on the side of duty or romance? And David was more of a sympathiser than Bertie but, though the film didn't show it, Bertie and Elizabeth leaned very much toward appeasement back in the day. And I think the correlation between hedonism and fascism, at least in David's case, is that his hedonism would have left him appeasing the Nazis because it would be an interruption otherwise?) YES YES MAKE THAT POST I WILL READ AND FLAIL FOR ALWAYS.

Hahaha I had the exact same reaction.