Status Updates From Sweeney Todd. Il diabolico ...

THESE FUCK ASS ILLUSTRATIONS ARE SPOILING THE STORY OMG

108:
1) "Tell me," she said, "when did this man come, and what did he say to you?" / "Gin!" INCREDIBLE.
2) MY BABY

"A touch to the lock of the parlour door, told her at once that it was open, and from that moment she no longer could doubt but that the whole house had been subject to the scrutiny of Sweeney Todd." it's like when fosco invaded marian's journal :(

"I have a friend with me—a very dear friend, who will not forsake me. I have more of them at home—for I have a home." i'm going to cry

AWWWW I WANT TO PUT HER IN MY POCKET. LIKE A LITTLE ANGRY WET CAT.

107: so fucking incredible :') womanhood is all about performance!!! how the sight of ben is what breaks her restraint idk. it's like. animalistic and patriotic. and the fact that the performance is double-sided. like. suspecting how much the other person (who is performing) knows of your own performance. coooool

and the concept of a faked death and a resurrection wow wow so much to think about!!!!!!!!!

mrs. oakley as some kind of mediator between actor and audience hm

just skipped ahead OMG SHE'S ALIVE. yay. what is todd without lovett? we can't experience an entire third of the story with one of them missing.

casting of actors in multiple roles is. brechtian. and freudian too? smart woman!

106: like mother like daughter! fake it till u make it. the concept of women as ghosts

it's ALWAYS about doubles.. two people in a coffin!

this story is also about the surveillance state obviously

105: are they the same person. and i think mrs. oakley will be okay. we're too deep in her head to die.

104: was that a kitchen table... the concept of wrapping your wife in.. domesticity forever.. also grabbing her by the hair.. lack of control.. are we sure this isn't just. todd. like sidequesting

NO JANE NO NO NO

103: :( so so sad for all the women. i'm still thinking about the girl in the asylum. the fact that "old and ugly" is what gets mrs. oakley :( it's like mrs. lovett with major bounce. womanhood is so weird. something must be done to get your way. why must a man be needed. he is indeed needed

are they the same person. i don't think that's an outrageous idea actually. considering how much this story loves doubles and disguises.

"I tell you, woman, you will be my ruin, my absolute ruin; and then where will your supplies come from I should like to know?" INCREDIBLE. STRAIGHT OUT OF TODD'S MOUTH.

HE HAS A WIFE?
i've been thinking about the unworthy by agustina bazterrica again.
marriage......... a weird evil criminal codependent partnership.........

mention of lupin's scam and husband-wife disputes over money right after todd-lovett disputes is so perfectly placed. bc mrs. oakley and mr. lupin seem so far away from the cannibal plot but it's. really. quite. similar. actually.

102: tobias is handled so very femininely

idk something very clinical cold and professional about him WAITING for confirmation. he can't think straight he's not giving you confirmation stupid

omg you idiots you can't say he's dead. i was just thinking about that egaskell short story where they were like oh no so and so disappeared mysteriously but turns out he just cheated on his wife and ran away or smth

sarah deserved a lesbian i am so sad

"It is a world of pities you had not sense enough to be my slave, but you must try to be my equal, which in your poor vanity you thought I could permit." !!! the contrast between slovett and rde winter in how they are handled after death waahh. one bedroom preserved perfectly a year later, the other trashed that very afternoon. men.

to catch a bus you have to think like a bus