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your card declines at therapy and they bring out baby jude (you can’t save him)
your card declines at therapy and they bring jude and willem during the happy years in (you can’t save them)
Your card declines at therapy and they bring out Harold’s “in everything I see, I see him” monologue from Lispenard Street II
sam claflin u will ALWAYS be my willem
“do you think he was happy with me?”
the happy years, pg. 493
lispenard street, pg. 713
lispenard street, pg. 719
imagine being harold and losing your son in law and knowing EXACTLY like EXACTLY what’s going to happen to your actual son and doing everything you can to keep him alive but just KNOWING that it’s all futile.
JB going into the studio for the first time after jude’s death
malcom’s last architectural model remaining unfinished
willem’s last script staying unsaid
the last time jude sang
the last time a piano felt jude’s touch
the last time willem made a shopping list
so many things unsaid, unread, unfinished, unplayed, undone, so many limes never bought.
“Willem”, I ask you, “do you feel like I do? Do you think he was happy with me?” Because he deserved happiness. We aren’t guaranteed it, none of us are, but he deserved it.”
it’s just. the way to the man in rome, jude is just a good looking boy who he complemented to his father, but the man will never know everything that happened to jude. that jude thinks he’s horrifically ugly. the way jude’s story ends. it makes me so fucking ill
not going to lie a specific scene in the book that really fucking hits me sometimes and i need to double down is when someone tells harold jude is beautiful . i just can’t. there’s something so solemn about it
auuuuuGHHHH the old man in Rome. Harold being so happy that Jude is recognized as his son by others even when they don't look anything alike, but the love is so clear and so vivid that people can just tell. Like when Harold was telling Liesl about adopting Jude and she can just tell how much he loves him that she says "You love him a lot" bc Harold loves so freely and so intensely and so unconditionally and his love shines out of him like warm rays of sun
And also the old man teasing Harold for being so plain but having such a beautiful wife and handsome son,,,,,,,,,,justice for Harold Stein
literally and the way harold and jude just fit, so well so that people think they’re biologically related. :(
not going to lie a specific scene in the book that really fucking hits me sometimes and i need to double down is when someone tells harold jude is beautiful . i just can’t. there’s something so solemn about it
all of my little a little life friends you are going to LOVE all of us strangers
a little life fashion takeover ohh i’m not ok
my a little life shrine</3 from milaminart on instagram!!!
the happy years vs dear comrade
i was always me i was always me i was always me i was always me i was always me i was always me i was always me i was always me i was always me i was always me i was always me i was always me i was always
i just cried so hard i was screaming on the floor time to read lispenard street pt 2 to feel worse !
jude wanted to be ordinary more than anything but was not
jb wanted to be special like jude more than anything, this made him ordinary
willem did not care about being either, and ended up very famous
malcolm didn’t care about being either, and settled for a quiet life
thinking about jude making gougères today what if i exploded
SORRY FOR THIS
everyday i get more and more like jude (pls help)
okay seriously what music do we think jude liked/would like
i think like
the smiths
the cure (i feel like JB forced him into this one)
he’d LOVEEEEEE nirvana at uni i know it oh and the smashing pumpkins
ELLIOTT SMITH.
STOP I CAN IMAGINE HIM BEING A HUGE BOWIE FAN AND GOING AS BOWIE FOR HALLOWEEN
rip jude st francis you would’ve loved mitski
jude just got his spotify wrapped!
how i imagine willem posed for jb’s photos:
i am a BPD jude truther idc
it’s thanksgiving so i’m remembering how much jude loved it </3
thinking about how jude didn’t like having his photo taken and how after he died that meant harold and julia didn’t have many photos to remember him by
i just made this i’m sorry😭😭