Did anyone else automatically think of the quote ‘History, Huh?’ from Red, White, and Royal Blue when Simon sang Remember in Young Royals? Or was that just me?
i was re reading red white and royal blue and literally as i finished the lake scenes august by taylor swift starts playing… the similarities between the two at this point in the book are making me ACHE
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I thought, this isthe most incrediblething I haveeverseen,and I had better keep ita safedistanceaway fromme. Ithought,ifsomeone likethateverloved me, it would set meon fire. Andthen Iwasacareless fool,andIfell in lovewith youanyway.Whenyou rang meattruly shockinghoursof thenight, I loved you.Whenyou kissedme in disgustingpublic toiletsand poutedin hotelbarsandmademehappy inwaysinwhich ithad never even occurredto me thatamangled-up,locked-upperson like me couldbehappy, I loved you. And then, inexplicably,youhad the absoluteaudacity to lovemeback.Canyoubelieve it? Sometimes,even now, I stillcan’t.
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Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.
alex claremont-diaz went through a weird phase where he would carry around a fountain pen and obnoxiously sign things with it
he would be at a coffee shop and the barista would be like “please sign this receipt” and offer him a pen
but he would whip out a fountain pen from god knows where, and then sign the receipt with the ink smudging everywhere because it’s not meant to be used on receipt paper
some of you need to read this once and then read it again
PEOPLE DON’T OWE YOU AN EXPLANATION OF THEIR SEXUALITY, EVEN IF THEY ARE FAMOUS OR WILL PORTRAY A CHARACTER YOU LIKE. NOBODY SHOULD BE FORCED TO BE OUT!!
genuinely kills me how many people are so disappointed about taylor being cast as alex specifically because the most common fancast wasn’t the actual person who was cast, and i just want to say that of course so many people simply wanted a Latino™ without caring about the actual heritage of the actor, but personally the joy i feel about having an actual mexican person playing alex as opposed to Literally Anyone From Mexico And Down™ because white people don’t see the difference between all types of Latinos and think accents and behaviors are interchangeable, is simply unmatched
turns out not every latin person is the same! turns out if i had to watch a puerto rican guy play a mexican character i would have refused to watch because it would be impossible to suspend by disbelief! yeah the guy is pretty and he might be very alex, but he isn’t mexican, and it might not matter to y'all because you only care about appearance but it matters to me and to mexican/mexican-american people who will be watching!
listen, taylor night not be the alex you pictured, that is 100% valid, it is a shock to see the cast and not see the person you pictured, that is not the issue here. but the complaining about it not being the person most of you fancast when, again, the person most of you fancast was never even mexican, then it realllllllly rubs me the wrong way
Thank you!!!!
I saw so many people saying that the role should had been for Michael Cimino, and I was like “He’s not even Mexican!!”. And another one’s with Rafael Silva, who is Brazilian.
Like OP said, I hate when people complain that their fancast wasn’t respected, when they didn’t even respected the heritage of the character.
If I had a nickel for every time an Oscar nominee/winner actress played the mom of a character that is discovering his bisexuality in a story based on a popular novel, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice. Right?
LITERALLY FELT THE SAME FEELING; ANXIOUS. I stopped reading/watching both at the exact position bcs i get so anxious and continue like about 3 days-a week later. It’s hard to deal with my anxiety:/
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