you were meant to be a side effect of the drugs

Neil: Kevin is tall and has a tattoo

Jean: pretty boy with a soft smile and beautiful green eyes

Neil: Renee is a women and has hair

Jean: a force of hope and beauty, an anomaly in a world that’s ugly and bleak. She is the sun.

Neil: Jeremy is the captain of the Trojans and he smiles a lot for some reason

Jean: his bleach blonde hair frames his tanned freckled skin, his broad shoulders and tiny waist give way to his thicc thighs and ass

But also the reverse

Neil: Andrews strong unwavering frame and honey colored eyes

He totally thought a 10% share in nutmeg would make the ladies flood their basements

he’s good at shooting people - a hobby entirely contradictory to his profession. Much better at blowing holes in things than fixing them.

The fact that he’s the unconscious third wheel to Jack and Belle’s first kiss is fucking hilarious. Maybe if he gave her a scalpel instead of nutmeg?

how infuriating must it be for him to be Oxford educated in medicine and continually bested at every turn (professionally and romantically) by a cheeky illiterate asshole

Every time he has to humour Fanny because manners

how, when it comes right down to it and his childhood friend’s life is on the line he concedes that he’s not the best person to save her. He’s so good in that scene - a real partner in surgery while simultaneously witnessing and acknowledging Jack’s improvisational brilliance as a surgeon AND his legitimate love for the woman on the table. His line to Lady Jane at the end just kills me - like it doesn’t even matter if Belle survives this, you just killed the Michelangelo of surgery!

Aimee’s journey to healing and moving forward 👏

Viv standing up to her abuser 👏

Cal learning to not go through everything alone 👏

Jackson getting through a health scare 👏

Sean trying to get clean 👏

Isaac speaking up against ableism 👏

Aisha letting her friends know how she feels 👏

Eric finding his passion in both of his communities 👏

Michael growing and improving himself 👏

Otis finally confronting his abandonment issues 👏

Joanna accepting her trauma and reaching out 👏

Jean getting help and letting her family in 👏

Ruby learning her worth and catching ‘feelings’ 👏

Abbi facing her fear of negativity and abandonment 👏

Roman speaking up 👏

O taking accountability for her actions 👏

And I'm just so tired of the "well they werent REALLY IN LOVE they were just dumb teenagers with hormones" take.

What do you mean "not really" in love? They werent real people. They are fictional characters. The story says they are in love. The omniscient chorus says they are in love. The themes of the entire play are built on the fact that they are in love.

So what does it add to undermine that except as an excuse to not engage authentically with the story? To suggest that actually it's the two teenagers fault that they died because they were being stupid and hormonal, rather than society and their families for the senseless hate that forced them to extreme measures? Does that seem like Shakespeare's intent? Does that seem like an interesting or useful reading, or as a cop out reason to role your eyes and refuse to engage with the play at all?

I shouldn’t have kept things from you, hidden my shoes, turned down jobs, charity work. Worried that it made you feel lesser than. But let’s be clear, The problem with our marriage isn’t my family’s money. It’s that you’re a coward. You gave up on us. And I just realized, it’s not my job to make you feel like a man. I can’t make you something you’re not.