i’m working on a play about 65-year-old lesbians, and my dramaturg is an older gay man who has been helping me with historical context and research, and also just in general giving me advice based on his own personal experiences.

fav thing he told me so far, said with a lot of love: “dyke drama was specific. it was always so specific. it was precise and narrowed and pointed. and also so dumb.”

also spoke to an older lesbian professor. i was asking her all these questions about marches and protests and summits and infighting and rallies and “what was it like what did this mean to you what was it like to experience that?”

and she kinda stared at me for a bit and said, “you know, it was a lot. and it was big and it did feel revolutionary. but also at that time i was mainly focused on getting my heart broken in a bar.”

and like. yeah.

another thing my dramaturg told me, from the perspective of a gay man who lived through the 80’s, was that whenever a young gay person asks him what the dating and play scene used to be like, he answers:

“we went to rallies and funerals.”

our persistence in our continued existence is big and scary and revolutionary, and the grief stretches on and the losses hit hard.

and because of that, i think it’s important to remember the dumb drama, and the first loves, and the first heartbreaks over beer. i think it’s important to go to rallies and vigils, and also dive bars and game nights.

it’s all so big and so small.

I am very disappointed in the people praising the censoring / editing of Roald Dahl’s books.   Let me tell you a little story.   About five years ago I decided to re-visit Treasure Island.  I found an unabridged version.   I was surprised to discover that Long John Silver had a black lover.   Because the book used the term “n–ress” the mention of her was removed from many American editions of the book when I grew up.

Note: I am not saying they removed the N word.  I am saying they removed her *all together.* I didn’t know Long John Silver had a love interest until I was in my thirties and read an unabridged version of the novel. It revealed so much about the story that I hadn’t noticed before. 1.  That Long John Silver believed in love despite what was considered a cultural norm of the time.  He didn’t care about what others considered proper and he was in love. 2.   It shows that even Robert Louis Stevenson acknowledged the existence of interracial couples and yet no movie version I can think of addressed this until the TV series Black Sails. 3. It helped remind me of the culture of the era in which Treasure Island takes place and when it was written, the stigma against interracial relationships that existed in America right into the twentieth century and in some places is still a thing. Sometimes books tell us more than just a story.   They show us how a world was once viewed.   I felt like this was an important discovery, that Long John Silver had a black lover (or wife).   And I was even a little angry that I had been robbed of this in previous readings of the book.   I think the removal of words like “Fat” and “ugly” from Roald Dahl’s books does us a disservice.   It “cleans up” the past and denies a chance for us to learn some of the less pleasant aspects of the past and how and why language has changed since then.    What should be a teaching point and experience is lost in the name of sensitivity.   I felt cheated and it even felt a little racist that Long John Silver’s love interest isn’t mentioned in many editions of Treasure Island.  And I feel that one day there may be similar feelings if people discover they aren’t reading the original versions of Dahl’s books. Try to remember the original reason Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit  451.  It wasn’t about an evil government taking away people’s blooks. It was about this group and that group getting offended at various titles until they just banned everything to try to make everyone happy.    

my sense of humor: getting birthday cards with the wildly incorrect age on it for people

I see this and raise you: getting cards for a wildly different occasion and customizing them to fit the holiday you need

throwback to the time my partner put in his 2 week notice with a birthday card for a 2 year old

King

Once I got a card that said “BEST GREAT GRANPA EVER!!”

I’m a teenager

Right now on Twitter— oops, sorry. Right now on X— there are Greek-statue-avatar "modern women are degenerates; retvrn" accounts which are partnering with OnlyFans to signal-boost OF models and promote their streams. The models pay the accounts to RT them with "dunks" like "look how fatherless and decadent this is", and the models see increased signups as a result.

And like... I'm in awe. This is it, this is the entire 21st century neatly encapsulated.

HOOOOOOLY SHIT I FOUND IT

take some time to notice your vision. see how easily you detect motion. focus on something in your peripheral (without moving your eyes to it). see how it works. look at your hands. pick something up with your fingers. appreciate how ridiculously specialized they are in fine motor skills (even if your personal motor skills are lackluster). think about how you have a body built to be an apex predator through use of tools. think about how the brain of your kind has created a digital hivemind uniting the whole world. now look back at the screen.  look at the tab where you are in an argument about cartoons on tumblr. close the tab. open a new tab. google “tribute to anomalocaris”. watch the video that comes up. leave a like. subscribe even though the channel has been inactive for 8 years. you will need it in the coming times

Absolute fire

(Wiggles & waggles with joyous abandon)

Post is a hit with the local porygon community

I love seeing list memes where someone makes a "le cool people vs le cringe" and they obviously skew it so they barely scrape by into the cool kids club

You just KNOW this dudes 5'11"

You really have to give the architect a 5 star thumbs up for his vision in building this place …

the town’s name is dixon

the longer you look at it the funnier it gets

Dude, this is the city I was born in. I know exactly which building that is, I HAVE BEEN TO THIS BUILDING, I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE FROM ABOVE

Praise the architect’s post design clarity.

not gonna become a repost account but i think about “4” “dumb fuck” every day

i was this close to turning off reblogs but someone here actually gets it

Feel uncomfortable going to Cheesecake Factory when it’s so under the watch of the eye of Sauron

I made this post in 2016 and it got 3 notes, suddenly people are interacting with it. What is happening how did you even find it

That’s tumblr babey

tumblr users be like

mods are asleep post RE4 skybox phantom dog cloud

some bitch is scared for her life

First computer animated cat ever - “Koshechka” (”A kitty”), 1968

dont play defense

Terfs want my gender-affirming lasers so bad that they stole my art

Your moral ocd is lying to you and tumblr is lying to you. you do NOT have to reblog any post you dont want to and you dont need to justify it and youre not prejudiced against a certain marginalized group if you dont reblog an Upsetting Post about a Current Issue said group is facing

rudy time

I wish it was rudy time all the time

yo

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stolen from the notes- the stl file is https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5213822

This is so fucking metal