That Newsies Adrenaline Rush

the neurodivergent experience:

20% of the time: wowwieee!!! i love my passions and interests!!!!! they make me so happy i want to jump up and down!!!!! weee!!!!!!! :3333333333

80% of the time: this mind is a prison

I think this might be Enjolras

One of the killers is a any pronoun non-binary

Diversity wins

idk if people have talked about this before but one thing that's really special to me about having grown up loving Les Mis is that I used to find it extremely hard to relate to Grantaire because I was an extremely idealistic leftist that didn't understand not having any ideals - but having been forced to realize just how hard it is to actually cause any change, I have gone through phases of deep pessimism that do not improve with the way the state of the world is going.

During those phases, I find myself understanding and sympathizing with Grantaire's psyche so much that I get a lot of serenity from it. And then I sympathize even more with his obsession with Enjolras, because he to me is the personification of idealism, so yes, I do venerate that version of myself, and I do believe in it even when it's hard to believe that change is possible.

I just love Victor Hugo's writing so much and this dynamic has been so helpful for me to work through my complicated relationship with activism.

Newsies is just a bunch of neurodivergent fellas trying to make their way trought being kids by selling newspaper in the late 1800's NY and you can't tell me i'm wrong cause i'm not

When they dance they're actually stiming

Davey is the embodiment of autism and you can't tell me otherwise

jack is sooo in love with david it makes him look stupid. the first real conversation they have, jack negotiates the split of profits to be 60-40, despite knowing upfront that david had at least two mouths to feed, himself and les, whereas jack only had himself to worry about. jack goes from that — screwing david over in the prioritization of his own survival (which to be clear i dont judge him for, i think it's very human) — to scabbing for david. which is a huge personal sacrifice, i mean jack literally puts himself under the thumb of pulitzer knowing the loss of freedom and humiliation that entails, sacrifices his reputation and his relationship with david in one fell swoop, damages the strength of the strike, etc

and when david confronts him, jack says, "i aint like you. it's just me, i gotta look out for myself." and what always gets me is how there’s such a huge contrast between what comes out of jack's mouth (i'm only in it for myself, i dont care about you) vs what the reality of the situation is (i'm doing this to protect you, i'm breaking your heart because of you)

like. something about david makes jack throw away his self preservation instincts, which is what makes him so flighty, AND confront his deeply rooted belief that he isn't loved, which he copes with by telling himself that he can move to santa fe no problem because he has no real attachments here. in the end it always circles back to the fact that when jack makes the decision to stay in new york, he looks at david and grins and says. "I got family here." really good.

something that i haven't seen people talk about much is that as much as grantaire loved and venerated enjolras, it wasn't strong enough for him to look past his cynicism for most of the brick. his love for enjolras prior to OFPD was in really only in words, as evidenced by the one time enjolras entrusted him with a task and he immediately abandoned it. in other words, he romanticized the idea of enjolras but nothing that he actually stood for. only faced by the national guard moments before death did he finally proclaim himself as one of them and gave his life for the cause. also, enjolras scorned grantaire for his cynicism the whole time but the moment grantaire finally believed, he was the one who pressed his hand with a smile and welcomed him to die with him. what i'm saying is, enjolras would've immediately welcomed and loved grantaire if he had believed in the cause earlier and even gave him a chance to prove himself, but nothing (not even his love for enjolras) could move grantaire past his cynicism until the very end

no, you know what? fuck you *unmiserables your les*

The reason why RTD's first era on DW was so good is because he was a fan that got to write the show presenting it to a hole of new people

That's why now we need new writers on Doctor Who, writers that got to know the show by the 2005 series and now want to tell their stories in the show, not the people who wrote it then and are still writing now because they can't let it go of their attachment for the piece of media they created

YEAS

like wdym I can speak english and portuguese but I can't remember the word for what I'm thinking in neither of them????

God I hate being bilingual now I can't speak neither spanish nor english 😭