Little Women Relationships As Taylor Swift Songs:

Little Women relationships as Taylor Swift songs:

The March sisters: Long Live

“Long live the walls we crashed through

All the kingdom lights shined just for me and you

I was screaming, “Long live all the magic we made”

And bring on all the pretenders, I’m not afraid

Long love all the mountains we moved

I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you

I was screaming “Long live that look on your face”

And bring on all the pretenders

One day we will be remembered”

Jo and Beth: Soon You’ll Get Better

“Soon you’ll get better

Ooh-ah soon you’ll get better

Ooh-ah you’ll get better soon

‘Cause you have to

And I hate to make this about me

But who am I supposed to talk to?

What am I supposed to do

If there’s no you?”

Jo and Amy: Never Grow Up

“To you, everything’s funny

You got nothing to regret

I’d give all I have honey

If you could stay like that

Oh, darlin’ don’t you ever grow up

Don’t you ever grow up

Just stay this little

Oh, darlin’ don’t you ever grow up

Don’t you ever grow up

It could stay this simple”

Amy and Meg: The Best Day

“I’m thirteen now and don’t know how

My friends could be so mean

I come home crying 

and you hold me tight

And grab the keys

I don’t know who I’m gonna talk to a school

But I know I’m laughing

On the car ride home with you

Don’t know how long it’s gonna take to feel okay

But I know I had the best day with you today”

Beth and Meg: I’m Only Me When I’m With You

“I’m only up when you’re not down

Don’t wanna fly if you’re still on the ground

It’s like no matter what I do

Well, you drive me crazy half the time

The other half I’m only trying

To let you know what I feel is true

And I’m only me when I’m with you”

Amy and Beth: Marjorie

“Never be so kind, you forget to be clever

Never be so clever, you forget to be kind

And if I didn’t know better

I’d think you were talking to me now

If I didn’t know better

I’d think you were still around

What died didn’t stay dead

What died didn’t stay dead

You’re alive, you’re alive in my head”

Meg and Jo: Come Back...Be Here

“And this is when the feeling sinks in

I don’t wanna miss you like this

Come back, be here

Come back, be here

I guess you’re in New York today

I don’t wanna need you this way

Come back, be here

Come back, be here”

oh gods im not gonna survive the mutual pining era

Ok I knew I would cry when I saw Luke and Percy fighting BUT I DID NOT EXPECT TO SOB WHEN I SAW THE LOOK IN LUKE’S EYES ONCE HE REALIZED ANNABETH WASN’T ON HIS SIDE, THAT SHE SAW HIM AS THE BAD GUY, THAT SHE WAS READY TO FIGHT HIM TO SAVE PERCY.

reblog to give somebody a fucking hug because we are all struggling to get through it. solidarity in this tough ass world.

And also the way Barbie and Ken are role playing heterosexuality without any inherent sexuality of their own, without any understanding of what it means, or even any genitals at all! Just pretty-girl + handsome-guy = obviously a couple. And the way it fucks them both up! Because they’re both stereotypes, neither of them is a specialist version, no brain surgery or pilots license or Nobel prize for either of them. They’re just assigned the roles of Every Man and Every Woman. And Ken ends up doing Way Too Much because he’s hanging his entire self-worth on being important to Barbie. And Barbie just isn’t interested in him, she was assigned a boyfriend she didn’t ask for and doesn’t want and doesn’t know what to do with, just because that’s what society expects of men and women, that they will necessarily couple up and fall in love because… that’s what they do. Regardless of any personal quality of either party.

It’s about heteronormativity and amatonormativity and the unrealistic expectations society sets boys and girls up for from infancy. Barbie and Ken are every pair of toddlers sharing a sandbox while the adults around them call them each other’s little “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” even though neither party understands or is capable of understanding the implied meaning of that. Or wants to.

It’s a literal funhouse mirror of that weird pressure put on kids to perform heterosexuality from an early age. It examines how that leaves us unprepared for the complicated reality of actual relationships even if it turns out that you are heterosexual and do want sex and romance. Boys and girls aren’t really allowed to be just kids on the same team, so they grow up into men and women who generally want very different things from each other and are trained to look for it in everybody because anybody is better than nobody, and try to force it to work.

Barbie and Ken letting each other go in the end was perfect. Barbie the Every Woman realizing that she doesn’t have to be special, she just has to be, and Ken the Every Man realizing he has to seek validation elsewhere and lean on his fellow Kens for emotional support, WHICH THEY GIVE.

Truly a movie of all time.

Listen, let’s make a pact. Right now. No matter what happens. We meet back here next year. All of us. Right here. Deal?