Dune Part 2 Spoilers(?)

This amazing man was overlooked today as was the whole Elvis cast and crew. I don’t usually post just sit in the background and read your amazing stories but today I’m so angry. Austin not only perfected Elvis once….he did it three times for each decade. The 50, 60, and then the 70s.

Austin had to learn to sing, dance, talk and act like Elvis in three different time periods. The mannerism, the underlying rage, the vulnerability and most of all the humanity. If after all that work and dedication he is not worthy of an Oscar then there is something seriously wrong with the Oscar’s …..it’s broken

Elvis was with Austin thought out this journey we all saw it…. Austin breathed life back in the most iconic rock and roll artist the world had ever seen and brought his to the attention of a whole new audience. Baz brought Austin to the attention of the world and we thank him for that. Elvis was done so proud and Austin worked so hard as did the whole Elvis crew. We also know now how flawed the system in Hollywood is.

I have loved sharing this Elvis journey with all of you here and will continue to eagerly look for your amazing stories to keep Elvis in my heart.. an Elvis girl through and through

We will continue to love and appreciate both of them but knowing that Austin’s time has past and he needs to move on with his life no matter how sad that makes us. Hugs ❤️🇦🇺

Ahhh I’m dead

AUSTIN????? WHAT THE FUCK????

LET'S FUCKING GO!!!!!

austin interview clip 1/5, courtesy of ysl

I look at every picture of them and intense jealousy washes over me. I am so happy that at least someone gets to experience his love

Kaia..you’re one lucky woman 😭 (manifesting I wake up one day and I’am Kaia)

not you trying to freaky friday your way into austin’s arms…but you’re soooo real for that it’s okay!!

𝙼𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚒 𝚜𝚊𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙰𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗 𝙱𝚞𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚍𝚞𝚗𝚎 2 𝚒𝚗 2023 :

𝚅𝚜 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚒 𝚜𝚊𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚐𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢 𝚊 𝚙𝚜𝚢𝚌𝚑𝚘 𝚋𝚊𝚕𝚍 𝚖𝚊𝚗 :

....𝙰𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚒 𝚜𝚊𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚜𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚎...

(Y’all when I tell you i’m going to write for that man…)

HOLY SHIT I JUST SAW THE BIKERIDERS TRAILER. FUCK FUCK FUCK AUSTIN BUTLER YOU ARE SO INCREDIBLY FINE.

The desire to go back to summer 2022 just to be able to see it at the cinema in all its magnificence!!

Rewatching Elvis rn and OH MY GOD i forgot how deliciously fine this man is.. LIKE THE HOSPITAL SCENE WHERE HE’S IN THE MAROON/BROWN SUIT IM FUCKING DEAD, ON MY KNEES, ON THE FLOOR.

I need a therapist.

Austin Butler hand appreciation post part 1/?

Confession & Connection Time

I know many of us are shaken to the core about the sudden death of Lisa Marie.

I read the tribute from her friend who was also a grief counselor and in it, he wrote about Lisa dedicating herself to supporting other grieving parents, including their plans to do a podcast. It inspired me to go out of my comfort zone in her honor and in honor of that commitment.

I am tremendously upset by Lisa’s death and cannot stop thinking of Priscilla and bursting into tears. Because I know what it is to lose a daughter. My only child was killed in a wreck two decades ago and I have never been the same. I almost didn’t survive it and was fully incapacitated for many, many years. In the past few years I have been coming into a promising new phase of grief and life, one that is difficult to navigate but one for which I am grateful. But any time I hear of a parent losing a child — whether it’s someone I know personally or not — it affects me tremendously. School shootings and celebrity deaths can be just as upsetting for me as for someone I know, albeit shorter lived since someone I do not know is not connected to me daily. But the universality is still there. Only other parents whose children have died know the suffering when their child is gone before them, regardless of circumstances and regardless of age.

Sadly, ironically, this is why I blurred out the letter I wrote for Elvis’s birthday when I posted it. After thanking him for his life and talent, I asked Elvis to hug my little girl for me. I think we all know he of course would do that. It’s making me cry again to write this now, imagining him scooping up my precious sweetheart (she was only 8) in his fatherly arms. I also asked him to find my mom and to tell them both I feel them with me always. As sensitive and kind as everyone is in our fandom, it felt too personal and vulnerable to share these details among a cyber community.

But here we are now. Lisa is dead. Priscilla’s heart is shattered. The family is devastated. The Elvis film family is floored. And the world is in shock. And I imagine that Austin is grieving in a strange and unique way, having come to love her as a “daughter” through his character work but also by feeling a maternal bond from her as well after they met. I acknowledge my thoughts about Austin are speculation on my part and I do not want to suggest I actually know what he is feeling. I don’t want to disrespect him with a formal assumption. Only to share that these thoughts and feelings have bubbled up for me by way of concern for his tender soul, whether or not they are accurate, and I’m sad for him, too.

Personally I must and do believe Lisa is in her father’s loving and long-awaited embrace and that she is also reunited with her beloved son. I know that I long for the day I will be with my daughter again on the same energetic plane — even though I connect to her constantly across the ethers. It was, in fact, that intense pull to be with her that made my life so precarious for so long after her death. And something I deeply understood about Lisa when she referred to how hard it was for her without Benjamin, including her intense feelings of guilt.

I decided to post this in case there are any others in the fandom who have survived a child and who need the extra support & understanding that a fellow bereaved parent shares. Also, after seeing Mel make a post about caring for ourselves and each other, and the many other anguished tributes that are showing up in my blog. Amongst the many posts I have spotted a few comments, tags, and reblogs that have the resonance of someone who knows a parent’s grief. So just in case someone else here is facing that, too, and in honor of Lisa, I decided to bare my soul.

Please feel free to comment, reblog, DM, or send me an ask. In between my own self care (which includes pacing myself on social media), I am also in ongoing recovery from a recent hospitalization, which is a factor in the amount of time I’m on tumblr right now. Otherwise I am available and at your service in compassion and solidarity.

I want to acknowledge a few of my fandom anchors @karamelcoveredolicity @ash-omalley @troubleinapinksuit @burninlovebutler @succsessions and everyone else who is posting, caring, sharing, and hurting. To any other bereaved parents, we know there are no words that adequately convey our experience. We only have the recognition and companionship of one another as fellow travelers on a journey we never, ever imagined we would be forced to take.

Love,

MJ