#tuck everlasting

So last night I tumblr’d wrong. Someone had asked me about recommendations for teen romances. This is my answer..

I haven’t read too many young adult books lately. Usually if I am looking for a romance, I pick adult romance. When I pick a ya up, I am looking for an adventure, supernatural, which usually has romance but is not the whole of the book. I did look back on past ya books that I loved that had romance and this is what I came up with:

° Starcrossed trilogy by Josephine Angelini.
3.5 books in series.

° Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

° The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot
6 + sequeal

° The Arcana Chronicles by Kresley Cole
4.5 and still going

° Precious Stone trilogy by Kerstin Gier

° The Tiger Saga by Colleen Houck
4 books

° Splintered by A.G. Howard
3.5 books

° Shadow Falls by CC Hunter
5 + sequeals

° Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

° The Remnant Chronicles by Mary E. Pearson

° An Ember In The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
2 + on going

° Song Of The Lioness by Tamora Pierce
4 + sequeal with daughter

If anyone else has any suggestions please share

If anyone has a signed Tuck Everlasting playbill they are looking to trade or sell, please message me ASAP!

the-world-has-buttery-smiles:

thatonemusicalkidnamedjared:

musical-nerd18:

trees-and-sky:

cowboymurphy:

Rules: we’re snooping your playlist. Put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then choose 10 victims. I was tagged by @imstupidhowyadoing

1.Heaven is a Place on Earth // Belinda Carlisle

2.Still Into You // Patty Walters (Paramore Cover)

3.Dead Girl Walking (Reprise) // Heathers the Musical

4.Wake Me Up // Madison Harris (Avicii Cover)

5.Ghost// Ella Henderson

6.The Plagues // The Prince of Egypt

7.Bring On The Men // Jekyll & Hyde: the musical

8.Bad Blood // Silence the City (Taylor Swift Cover)

9.Perfect // Ed Sheeran

10.Tainted Love // Soft Cell

@romeonohomeo@thatdumbevanhansenkid@floraldrizzle@trees-and-sky

@super-lovely-collection@pigwenn@sincerelymlb@fouradorkableboys@faistyboyconnor@sincerely-nerdeh

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I don’t have a playlist but I can just say what the 10 songs I have just finished listening to are

1. Perfect

2. Adore You

3. Don’t Let Me Know

4. Goodbye Road

5. Just For You

6. Cocktail

7. Only You

8. Freedom

9. Killing Me

10. Rubber Band

and if y’all have been paying attention for the past week, I’ve been rambling about the same goddamn KPOP Boy Group. Yup, all of those songs are by iKON…. (send help pls I can’t get out of the fandom)

tags:@connormurphyfangirl@awesomelittleweirdo@ashing-though-the-snowo@haleym1135@strange-the-tulip-trimmer@therealevierae@musical-nerd18@miserykillme@outrageouslyfandom

Oof ok I guess don’t blame me 4 whatever shows up I swear (I have a playlist but I use 90% YouTube the majority of my playlist is be more chill)

1. Be More Chill (part 1)
2. Two-Player Game
3. Voices In My Head
4. Halloween
5. I Love Play Rehearsal
6. The Dear Evan Hansen soundtrack. The full thing. I have just one song with all of them cause I didn’t want 2 download them separately lol
7. The Ballad Of Sara Berry
8. More Than Survive
9. Upgrade
10. Jeremy’s Theme (instrumental)

Like I said 90% bmc, entirely musical

Tagging:@awesomelittleweirdo@haleym1135@kitkat-player3@freckled-hansen@some-blue-loser@no-1481@the-average-loner@bisexual-distresss@iliketreestoo@thatonemusicalkidnamedjared

Ok, I have no idea what’s gonna pop up

1. Do this thing// Mean girls

2. Get over it// Ok Go

3. Creep// Radiohead

4. Pretending// Anthony Amorim

5. Formidable// Stromae

6. Bâtard// Stromae

7.Turning// Les mis London cast

8. Le même train// Eiffel

9. Here comes the anxiety// The Wombats

10. Chamade// Eiffel

So french music, edgy music, and musicals. Sounds about right.

Idk 10 tumbles rip me man

@jerbearishere@hey-hamlet-bmc@magentapint@thatsthat24@the-world-has-buttery-smiles

Time to YEET the wheat. I was tagged by @thatonemusicalkidnamedjared

1.)Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie (One of my all time favorite songs.)

2.)Only a Northern Song by The Beatles (The epitome of chaos.)

3.)If You Can See Me by David Bowie (It has a very big sense of apprehension with a sort of chase/paranoia vibe.)

4.)My Shot by Lin-Manuel Miranda from Hamilton(ENTER ME) He says in parentheses.

5.)You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away by The Beatles (Slow, sad, and drunk type of song.)

6.)Carousel by Melanie Martinez (Yah, this is song be a B-O-P.)

7.)Rockstar by Post Malone (It be like that sometimes.)

8.)The Story of Winne FosterfromTuck Everlasting (It’s just such a nice tune.)

9.)Wait by The Beatles (I almost always get so hype to it.)

10.)Run and Tell ThatfromHairspray! (I COULD SAY IT AIN’T SO BUT, BABY, WHAT’S THE USE?)

As someone who is obsessed with The Beatles, Queen, and David Bowie, I am proud that this is reflected with this shuffle. As for the musicals sprinkled throughout, I’m an actor pursuing a career in Musical Theatre. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?

@jd-sammy@tea-and-theater@newsies-erster@the-world-is-lonely

Alrighty then!!! I was tagged by @the-world-has-buttery-smiles

1.)Everlasting:Tuck Everlasting/Sarah Charles Lewis

2.) Final B:Rent/Cast of The Motion Picture Rent

3.)Changing Lives:The Prom/Beth Leavel

4.)La Vie Boheme B:Rent/Cast of The Motion Picture Rent

5.)Hugo’s First Case- Pt. 1:Tuck Everlasting/Sarah Charles Lewis

6.)Everything Happens:Bandstand/Beth Leavel

7.)Picture Show:Bonnie and Clyde/Original Broadway Cast Recording

8.)Everything Changes:Waitress/Jessie Mueller

9.)Too Late to Turn Back Now:Bonnie and Clyde/Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan

10.)It’s Time to Dance:The Prom/Company of The Prom: A New Musical

This is alllllll just musicals and I love it!!!

Victims:@ben-cook-can-cook@races-erster@woildismyerster@jordmac@daveyjacobss@newsiesquare@wtfrace@gayveyjacobs@the-story-of-the-tucks@meh-for-forever

— Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“the wheel - finale” from tuck everlasting:

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me, watching it in bed at 3 in the morning:

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Listening to the soundtrack of the musical version of Tuck Everlasting and I suddenly realized the perfect fandom to make a Tuck Everlasting AU for; Steven Universe. Just, think about it…

In honor of the 1st day of August, 2020, here is a list of the posts I have made so far on this blog about Tuck Everlasting (incidentally, this post is also the 100th post I have made on this blog, which is a bit of a milestone!)

How the Tucks Would Have Dressed in 1808 (With A Note About Winnie Foster’s Clothes in 1893)

Where Did the Tucks Come From?

What Miles and Jesse Would Have Worn as Children

What Winnie Would Have Worn as a Young Adult

What Mae and Angus Would Have Worn When They Got Engaged

Europe in 1808 vs. Europe in 1893- A Comparison Between the Time of the Tucks and the Time of Winnie Foster

What Miles’ Son Thomas Would Have Worn as a Child

What Winnie Might Have Worn as an Older Woman

A little while ago, @luluthecatprincess requested that I explore the differences between the social, political, and cultural situations in Europe in 1808 (the Tuck’s original time) and in 1893 (Winnie Foster’s original time). Thank you so much for being patient with me as I collected and organized my sources to write this frankly massive post, and thank you so much for your help in providing me with some of those sources! I hope you (and everyone else) enjoys this.

In 1808, Europe was in the midst of what is now commonly known as the Regency period (often called the Federalist period in the US). In England this particular period is also often called the Georgian period, due to the fact that King George III was on the throne (although not for much longer- his son George IV became regent in 1811 due to his suffering from mental illness and he eventually died in 1820).

This period was characterized by relative simplicity in terms of fashion, as well as a desire for the natural among affluent members of society. It was also a time of great artistic achievements, however, as several famous composers, artists, and authors were in their heyday. Beethoven was probably the most famous composer of the time, but many others including Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s son) were prolific in their writing and publishing of music. As for painters, Joseph Mallord William Turner and Marguerite Gérard were two who had met with great success by 1808. Famous authors included Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth, and Samuel Richardson. Jane Austen would come along a few years later, publishing her first book (Sense and Sensibility) in 1811.

Despite all this, however, much of Europe was in the midst of turmoil. The Napoleonic wars were raging, and England had only just outlawed the slave trade in 1807. Meanwhile, in Russia Tsar Paul I (son of Catherine the Great) had been assassinated in 1801 (as an interesting side note, the capital of Russia in the early 19th century was St. Petersburg and not Moscow).

The Regency/Georgian/Federalist period was a time of great political upheaval in Europe, and much of that bled over into the new United States and would have directly affected the Tucks. The War of 1812 was a direct result of both the Napoleonic wars as well as England’s kidnapping of American sailors and forcing them to work on British ships, and it eventually led to British troops storming Washington DC in August of 1814 and burning most of it (including the White House) to the ground. Miles, Jesse, or Angus might have indeed fought in the war, and it certainly would have been a defining moment of this period for them regardless.

In the decades following the Tucks becoming immortal many, many things happened in both Europe and the United States. Most prominently, the industrial revolution swept across both Europe and the United States, turning what had been primarily agrarian (farming) communities into more urban, industrial societies. This is clearly visible when looking at the populations of the largest cities in Europe in 1808 and comparing them with the populations of the largest cities in Europe in 1893.

Factories were a major contributing factor to the rapid industrialization taking place all over the world (but particularly in Europe and the United States), and Jesse or Miles probably would have likely worked in one for at least a little while in order to make money while traveling the world.

The 1890s marked the end of both the Victorian era (Queen Victoria became queen in 1837 and died in 1901) as well as the end of the “Gilded Age”. The decadence and opulence favored by the upper classes during this time stands in stark contrast to the relative simplicity of the Regency era, although the two periods did have similarities in that major social reforms and political upheaval occurred during both. Striking workers pushed for labor reforms not only in the United States but also in much of Europe, growing resentment among the people of Russia (who in 1893 were under the rule of Tsar Alexander III, although he would die in 1894 leaving the throne to his son, the now-infamous Tsar Nicholas II) would eventually lead to revolution in 1917, and the first entrance of the US onto the world stage caused tension which would eventually lead to the Spanish-American War in 1898.

Despite this (or perhaps because of it) much like in the early 19th century the fine arts were alive and well in the late 19th century. Composers like Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (who died in 1893) produced famous songs still well-known today, artists like Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Vincent Van Gogh (just to name a few) created many of their most famous paintings, and authors like Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, and Louisa May Alcott (who died in 1888) wrote classics which are still widely read and enjoyed today.

We can only imagine what it must feel like to live through all that the Tucks had lived through by the time they met Winnie Foster, and what it must have felt like to live on after her. Certainly, their immortality was a curse, but they lived through one of the most interesting periods in history and I, for one, find that to be extremely compelling to think about.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJi5LcWpznw&t=735s

https://www.artsy.net/gene/late-19th-century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_in_literature

https://www.britannica.com/event/War-of-1812