sisters are standing on their own two feet and ringing their own bells

[two_if_by_sea]

...what a lot of people don’t realize - what I didn’t realize, until I read up on it - is that they didn’t actually kill her for heresy. Her answers, when they tried to trip her up and make her say or confess something heretical, were typically-yet-shockingly smart and charismatic and convincing; she did so well, and won so many people over, that

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[arboretum]

i read this post yesterday at work and practically started crying right then and there; then i went and read sady's post and felt even more like crying.

it's been too long since i watched farewell, my concubine, but it's one of those movies you really have to steel yourself up to. i own a copy; it's hidden under the inside the flap of my cd binder, the case thrown out and the insert tucked away somewhere i don't remember. i don't remember very much about the movie but it must have spoken to me as a 17 year-old for me to have risked owning it, ahaha. :)

ps i like your poem a lot. i like that sense of simmering strength and defiance underneath the words, the sense of being trapped. srsly don't be so hard on yourself, you are fabulous writer.

[two_if_by_sea]

NO TEARS ALLOWED. Only hugs. :*

I'm pretty sure the first time I saw Farewell My Concubine I was in junior high and could not understand any of it, haha. And certainly didn't know the opera it was based off of. And now it's the most tragic thing ever and I sort of resent my parents being such huge fans of such tragic things.

Thank you bb. ♥ THANK YOU FOR READING and being so sweet all the time. ONE DAY WE WILL HAVE A HIVEFIVE MEETING FOR REALS.

[bookshop]

i haven't read all of this yet because i wanted a chance to really sit down and read it, but i wanted to say that i watched the Passion of Joan of Arc (bfi list!) on Sunday night, and on Monday night i burned Farewell my Concubine (along with Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love) to watch this week, so when i saw this post, i gaped a little. :)

[two_if_by_sea]

god i want to watch itmfl again :(

[quigonejinn]

Jesus, how are you so good at poetry? HOW ARE YOU SO GOOD AT POETRY? MY BRAIN. YOUR BRAIN. (Catching up. I am trying to find the link to your tumblr and failing.)

[two_if_by_sea]

seasquared.tumblr.com!

also rhod your praise still makes me go red. ♥