Status Updates From Sweeney Todd: O Terrível Ba...

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

100: why not kill her? this whole book is about performance, it was meant for the stage from the start.

sweeney todd has no business being this funny

"water from a plug, when there's no house on fire, and it ain't wanted" is crazy

99: oh no she's really died hasn't she. lamentations and gravy. the american dream! a godmother... hm. is he going to die. the machines are going to kill him

sounds a little like rebecca

chapter whatever XCVIII is: the sensible animal, the doubles and performance, womanhood! richard makes a convincing point. associations with bugles? string of pearls as cause of death is so anti-capitalism

no did he actually kill her

i'm back baby. the momentary inability to refer to her children oo?? things and "these"s and stuff. todd's devotion to the church gets funnier. also bc st. dunstan is the code word against him. religion is powerful and can be used for any purpose!

Chuggin along