literally
absolutely no patience for the jury bullshit i want the REAL votes I WANT THE QUEER FREAK OPINIONS
What We Do In The Shadows (2014), directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
top gun maverick but everytime Mav says “Talk to me, Goose” Goose appears in the sky like Mufasa
Theatre list 2022
Best of Enemies (Young Vic)* Nutcracker (St Petersburg ballet) Street Scene (Kurt Weill) (Teatro Real Madrid) Private Lives (Hall for Cornwall) Verdi's Rigoletto: On the Lake (Bregenz Festival) Carmen (Sydney Harbour) The Dante Project (Royal Ballet) Madame Butterfly (Sydney Harbour) Groan-ups (Hall for Cornwall) Kiss Me Kate (BBC Proms) Aida (Sydney Harbour) Ludovico Einaudi : The Elements Around the World in 80 Days (Rain or Shine) The Collaboration (Young Vic)* Cyrano de Bergerac (Harold Pinter)* Bill Bailey Larks in Transit (ROH) Everybody's Talking About Jamie (Hall for Cornwall) The Play What I Wrote (Birmingham Rep) Rumplestiltskin (Ballet Lorent) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre henry iv part 1 (rsc 2014) Macbeth (Globe) Bonnie and Clyde (Arts Theatre)* Much Ado About Nothing (globe)* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Hall for Cornwall) (2nd half) Wine Night (Lona Theatre, AMATA) HMS Pinafore (ENO) Oklahoma (Young Vic) Magic Goes Wrong (Hall for Cornwall)* Kate Rusby (Hall for Cornwall) La Bayadere (Royal Balllet) Ladies of Letters (Hall for Cornwall)* Rough Girls (Lyric Belfast) The Recruiting Officer (Rain or Shine) Much Ado (National Theatre)* Much Ado (Blewbury) The Tempest (Globe)* Prisoner C33 Jack Absolute Flies Again (National Theatre)* I, Joan (Globe) The Tempest (Globe) Much Ado About Nothing (globe)* Six (Hall for Cornwall)* Richard iii (rsc) Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (Hall for Cornwall)* The Seagull (Harold Pinter) Wuthering Heights (Bristol Old Vic) Nutcracker! (Bourne) White Christmas (Hall for Cornwall) Sleeping Beauty (Bourne) (Theatre Royal Plymouth) Gods of the Game (Grange Park Opera) Treasure Island (Hall for Cornwall) Henry V (Globe)* Hex (National Theatre) A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (Nottingham Playhouse) As You Like It (sohoplace)*
Best 12
Best of Enemies (Young Vic)* The Collaboration (Young Vic)* Cyrano de Bergerac (Harold Pinter)* Bonnie and Clyde (Arts Theatre)* Much Ado About Nothing (globe)* Much Ado (National Theatre)* The Tempest (Globe)* Jack Absolute Flies Again (National Theatre)* Six (Hall for Cornwall)* Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (Hall for Cornwall)* Henry V (Globe)* As You Like It (sohoplace)*
Best of Enemies : Hi we're going to examine ego and the birth of modern media and political commentary and identity and ... yes that is Andy Warhol, everyone else at the party is trying to ignore him too.
The Collaboration: Art! Reawakening artistic impulses! Connection with the world! Tunes! Paul Bettany!
Cyrano de Bergerac: Words, desire, the power of words, rap battles, being a dick because you can, falling for people, depth of emotion, James McAvoy's thighs (my view for the first ten minutes) and Christian and Cyrano falling for each other as well and MY HEART.
Bonnie and Clyde: We're gonna heist and we're going for fame and tomorrow doesn't exist.
Much Ado (Globe): It's Italy post-war. We're all horny as hell, everyone is beautiful, the coppers are trying to kill us laughing via shenanigans, will you please get out of my shrubbery, and ladsladslads is it gay to wrestle your mates this much?
Much Ado (NT) : Setting: Grand Budapest Hotel. Challenge: ice cream toppings and pec popping. Glam as fuck. *mwah*. (not as good as Globe, Beatrice and Benedick were more weirdos who band together than banter, but achingly glam)
The Tempest (Globe): The Island is the spanish riviera, everyone is Brits who think they're better than the natives, Prospero's in a yellow budgie smuggler and it turns out this is actually a comedy, Lionesses win so they have to re-jig the Three Lions lyrics mid-run in glorious fashion and Prospero is absolutely a fuckhead slavemaster.
Jack Absolute Flies Again: WW2 farce! malapropisms delivered so perfectly you nearly kill the audience! ukeleles!
Six: The ushers will dance and you can't stop us. And yes everyone's favourites are the Annes. Sorry not Sorry.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: The boys are back, they're en pointe and they're glorious.
Henry V (Globe): Henry goes full psychopath to the point that Jude Law's been left in the dust in scary Hals and I didn't think I'd ever say *that*. When the usual comedic bits leave a hole in your soul.
As You Like It (sohoplace): Sorry, hearing actors. Rose Ayling-Ellis has put a cherry on top of why Celia should be played by a deaf actor. (see Globe and Nadia Nadarajah) Entire cast flirting with the pianist should be encouraged. Also: Alfie Enoch needs to go full ham more often. New best stage direction as provided by the subtitles; *pianist improvises frantically*
'Fuck off, keep fucking off, and fuck off again, you’re boring and tiresome and self-involved and why the fuck should I care about you?’ Award:
Aside from all the classical opera (I keep trying. I fail. This is just not a genre I can handle. Decent tunes on occasion, lots of plodding pageantry and singing at people rather than advancing the plot. Though Gods of the Game was pretty decent by virtue of the fact that it kept employing opera tunes footie fans use but for adverts and the chorus of fans. Toreador as the jingle tune for a burger advert the lead is doing? NICE.) Wuthering Heights. Quite brilliant staging, and I thought it would be the Emma Rice-ness turning me off in this but no, it was the Bronte. I literally just want to yell 'fucking leave, don't come back' at everyone. The Emma Rice twiddly dance and music numbers were actually pretty good.
At the time of this posting, there are over 100 fics on AO3 with "Goncharov (1973)" tagged as their primary fandom.
(helpless laughter)
country boys wear the tightest pair of blue jeans you’ve ever seen and unbutton their flannel to the nipple like.. who at this rodeo needs to know you’re a slut. the clown?
Every time this post crosses my dash it’s tagged with a different Timothy olyphant character and you’re all correct
Police in Glasgow tried to seize “evidence” from a queer, Yiddish, anarchist vegan cafe. The high crime? Displaying a “fuck the police” tote bag in their window.
The police forced the cafe to removed the bag for “breach of peace” but staff put up an identical bag right after the seizure. Officers challenged co-founder Morgan Holleb when the bag was back up. So, he flipped it around to the Yiddish side, which also reads “fuck the police.” He then wrote “fuck the police” in permanent marker on the front door. The bag and marker remain on the door to this day.
Since the incident, the store has received over $4,400, in donations and purchases of the bag. They sold out within a week but are not available online again at pinkpeacock.gay/product/tote/.
The cafe is now open to everyone, “except cops and TERFs.”
The bag in question:
Anonymous asked:
What's your favourite ridiculous piece of 90s technology?
Thank you so much for the excellent question!! I’ve been meaning to answer this one for a while, so here goes.
My favourite ridiculous piece of 90s technology is PocketMail! It wasn’t that ridiculous at the time, but it’s definitely something that could have only existed in the late 1990s / early 2000s. I actually have a PocketMail device, an Oregon Scientific PM-32 that I found on the side of the road in a box full of broken landline telephones!
PocketMail devices were essentially very basic Personal Digital Assistants that allowed you to access your emails without having to use a computer with an internet connection! Here you can see the basic screen and buttons for composing, sending and receiving emails.
But remember, this thing doesn’t have Wi-Fi - so how exactly can it access your emails? If you flip the device over, you’ll see a strange little speaker thing that flips out…
That’s an acoustic coupler! You had to hold the device up to the handset of a landline telephone! So if you had a PocketMail account (with a special email address ending in @pocketmail.com) and were away from your computer/office, you could simply dial the phone number for the PocketMail service on the nearest landline telephone, then hold the device up to the handset so that it can send and receive email data with the email server in the form of audio - and presto! You have just sent an angry last-minute email to your intern for neglecting to look after your Tamagotchi while you were on a business trip to sell Y2K survival kits.
But… what did it sound like? The phone service has long since been shut down after the rise of more capable and portable internet-connected devices, but if you press the little ‘Mail’ button on the top of the device, you can still hear the sounds of this poor, obsolete little thing trying to reach out and communicate in the only way it knows how to:
AUDIO WARNING: LOUD
Kind of creepy, isn’t it?
Blast from the past. DD loaned me an acoustic coupler back in 1986 when she was in the US and I was still in NI; it sounded just like that (and looked like this).
I think the original intention was to save money on phonecalls, which it may have done at her end. Not however at mine; to British Telecom a transatlantic call was a transatlantic CALL whether voice or not, and got charged accordingly.
The bills from December ‘85 to May ‘86 were astonishing, and the bills from June to December ‘86 were even worse because of that misinformation about charges. (Not that I stopped, because Reasons.) ;->
By December 28th and one transatlantic FLIGHT later, it was no longer a problem. :-)
David and Saul, oil on canvas, 1885
by Julius Kronberg (Swedish, 1850-1921)
“The past is another country, they do things differently there.”
But can they really have done things so differently that people looking at this painting didn’t think “Whoa, cool it a bit lads, or get yourselves a room…”
I mean, obvious or what?
*****
And now I’m remembering the 1986 UFP-Con where @dduane and I thought we were being so subtle and understated.
Except that when we announced on the Sunday evening of the con that we’d got engaged, the concom not only had champagne already hidden under the table, it and its ice-bucket had preceded us from panel to panel while everyone waited to finally hear what they’d put together for themselves since about Friday afternoon.
A perceptive lot. And sneaky with it. :->
torchwood was like one third tacky camera zooms and one third homosexuality and one third the most terrifying and fucked up implications ive ever seen in sci-fi
what if there was a pterodactyl in the secret underground base? what if tosh had gay sex with an alien? what if owen died and came back wrong and now he's fully conscious but his body cant heal so he has to feel himself decay while his friends grieve his death?
Reblogging again. Firefox is an excellent, safe and fast browser and everyone should consider using it.
Don’t just consider it. If you have the ability to switch to Firefox, this is your official notice to do it.
If you’re saying, “well, I need Chrome because I need such-and-such extension for my job”, the computer will not explode if you install another browser. Use Chrome ONLY for work tasks and use Firefox for everything else. If you’re concerned about losing your bookmarks, Firefox can import your Chrome bookmarks.
[ID: Firefox Library window. The “Import and Backup” panel is expanded, displaying the option, “Import Data from Another Browser”, which is also circled with a red MS Paint ellipse. ID end.]
Forgot a thing. Subscribe to Mozilla VPN for bonus points. It’s basically the only truly secure VPN service in the world right now.
For $5 a month, you can completely conceal your online activities from your ISP in a manner that isn’t just immediately monetised or turned over to the cops. No, it’s not free, it does cost money, but the money doesn’t go to line a billionaire’s pockets.
I wonder how much of this is because of work/school from home forcing people to use Chrome so all their stupid monitoring softwares and platforms can work.
This is also your reminder that you don't have to use just one browser. You can use chrome for all the monitoring bullshit your office wants you to run and use firefox for everything else.
Be sure to add the multi account containers extension to your firefox, which allows you to be logged in to multiple accounts on the same website at the same time in the same window but in different tabs.
look on my five open tumblr accounts (not sideblogs, accounts!) ye mighty and despair.
Firefox is super good, folks. It's good in a general "google shouldn't own everything in the entire fucking world" sense AND in a "this is an actual good product that does lots of cool shit" sense.
ALSO make sure to add the Ublock origin extension on Firefox - I haven't seen a youtube ad in five years and you don't have to either.
While you're at it, why not add the Wayback Machine extension so that if you go looking for a page that has been taken down the wayback machine will automatically offer you an archived version instead; also handy for documenting people's shitty takes and winning arguments after they delete the original post!
Worried that Firefox is going to slow down your computer? In benchmarks, modern versions of chrome and firefox are pretty much the same speed but you can still install the auto tab discard extension ANYWAY so that it will snooze unused tabs in order to keep your computer running faster. Set it to sleep, discard, close, and store tags at your discretion!
And while you're at it: install Firefox as your mobile browser for android and add those extensions to your mobile browser! Mobile adblock is here, baybee, save your data and enjoy a better mobile experience! And install it on iOS! iOS can't add extensions, but at least it's better than safari, and if you want a somewhat more private iOS browsing experience try firefox focus for iOS (which is also available on android but you can accomplish the same thing with extensions).
Anyway, firefox is good.
Also: in January 2023, Chrome is making some changes to plugin architecture that effectively neutering adblockers. If you want good adblocking, you won’t have it in Chrome. Use Firefox
(In fairness, some Chrome-derived browsers like Vivaldi and Opera have openly parted ways with Chrome about this, and more power to them, but Firefox is the way to go.)
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This is one of the most adorable Pride posts I’ve ever seen
What I love about the imagery of the turtle is that it’s sending the message that they are protecting themselves by being in their shell. It’s not about deceiving straight people (like we are often told), but about the turtle’s own safety. They’ll come out when the time is right and they feel comfortable. 💕🏳️🌈
Imagine if you will a complete inversion of a boorish American on St. Patrick’s Day. Imagine an Irishman who aggressively celebrates the Fourth of July with unabashed gusto, who desperately tries to claim the significance of some alleged 1/32 American heritage, who wears a shirt with an eagle turning into an American flag and who drinks a specialty red, white, and blue novelty beverage until he collapses in a pool of tricolor vomit. Imagine some guy so invested in a superficial, touristy version of Americaness that he will nervously call the side with his $20 “authentic” hamburger “freedom fries” out of fear of offending. Imagine a guy who upon meeting any American will try to strike up a friendly conversation by asking them what their favorite gun is and talking about how personally inspiring he finds Abraham Lincoln.
You must understand, as you prepare to read the May 24th entry of this novel, that this Irishman is Bram Stoker.
David Jenkins should hire me is all I'm saying
y'all I just realised
tumblr is a website that wasn't designed to produce any specific kind of content, and in the end it mostly boils down to shitposts that mean absolutely nothing, and american political discorse where all sorts of liberals and communists duke out about which way is the best to oppose the political right
this is a None Website With Left Beef
Come back, I have to tell you the plot of a fic I’ll never write and get you excited about it so we can all be disappointed with me later
what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.