skipping gemstones

“I didn’t know your hair was IN there!!” he cried.

Fairytale pendants. Handmade from scratch.

Iridescent shell snow globe dice with blue and green glitter and copper numbers!

The centers are liquid glitter!

Blue & gold night sky stimboard for anon

I feel like people how genuine think Jo loved Laurie romantically because she changed her mind on the proposal truly doesn´t understand the complexity of her character and the feelings she was going thought at that moment. I do feel like for people that do not read the books might have interpreted the scene where she drops the letter into the river as something more, or her reaction to Amy marrying him as jealousy, which is not.

The core or drive of her character is not only her dream of being a writer - it´s her family. 

We constantly see instants of Jo not wanting her family to change and remain in her childhood. Not wanting Meg to get married for example. That is because she knows marriage means drifting apart in a way. Jo feels so connected to her family and protecting that space is vital for her. Laurie is part of that childhood.

I see the proposal scene as the climax for the whole thing. That is the last time they were together. That was the separation of the sisters. Meg got married. Amy got the trip to Paris. Laurie proposed to her and she did not loved him – something stated multiple times in the books. Therefore, she ran away to New York, and left Beth and Marmee at home where Beth’s heath took a worsening turn.

We know she loved all her sisters but she was closer to Beth.

When Beth died, she felt alone all over again. No one to talk to or express herself. It is natural that in that moment – she longed her childhood. Her sisters. Laurie. “If he asked me again I think I would’ve said yes”. Because it was that day that things changed. She wants to feel loved by someone. She does not love Laurie. She felt lonely. Therefore, in a way, for those who love to paint Amy as being a second option to him, Jo was the one settling for Laurie.

I hated Amy/Laurie in the 1994 movie because I couldn’t believe that the boy who was so in love with Jo that he’d flee to Europe to sulk would just “replace” her with her sister and everything would be fine. In the 2019 adaptation, it’s much, much clearer that Laurie loves the March family and what they represent, and Jo is part of that. It’s also obvious that his love for Amy is something else entirely, compared to his love for the family and for Jo too. I also really liked that Amy’s always loved Laurie, and that she brings up being second to Jo. They successfully addressed all the reasons the canon relationships didn’t work for me in other adaptations.

It is such a real thing in my life and those of countless women. To think, I do not need a man (or a woman). To think, I am my own person and I am valuable in my own right. But I long to be valued. Not because I have no value inherently, but because I want someone to recognize who I am and what I have to offer. I want to love and be loved and have companionship and warmth and care and family (maybe even one of my own) and just goddamn love in my life because I deserve it and we all deserve it. Yes I’m strong. Yes I am more than love. But that doesn’t mean I should live without love. I just want to be appreciated outside the merits of marriage. I want to be who I am and do what I do and be a whole complex human person who earns and gives love every day because that IS humanity.

It meant so much to me to hear it and it was so close to home. It echoes back to when meg says “just because my dreams are different than yours doesn’t mean they’re unimportant”. Jo says it differently, but it is a call back tot his idea that there are many dreams to have in life, and while career and independence are allowed and encouraged to be high on the list, that doesn’t mean love can’t be high up too. We all want to be loved, and we shouldn’t have to choose.