You go into a creepy mansion and there's a cloaked figure learning how to play the organ from a YouTube tutorial on their phone. You leave them to it.
DESPERATELY need this to be a remix/feature on better than revenge (taylor’s version) it’s just the funniest possible move. misogyny banger feat. the queen of misogyny bangers
real life: sorry im just not a social media kind of guy… i wanna live in the moment y’know…. im like really private i like having secrets
on tumblr at 11:41 pm : guess whose period just started while watching fraggle rock season 1 episode 17
Behind a Little House, by Manuel Cosentino
a decorated general wearing dozens of medals and ribbons but when you go closer you realise that every single one is a pronoun pin
pride flags lined up like those tour of duty rectangles
got to admit though there is something objectively hilarious about accidentally being like ridiculously good at a job you despise. spent all day posting near suicidal rants on here about how i need to quit this job immediately for my own health, desperately reposting self promo shit on twitter, and then five mins later my manager pulls me into the stockroom and goes have you ever thought about doing our retail diploma programme
I feel so bad for jamietartt. what if you were made in the lab that creates bisexual people who get mad bitches and then while on the way to sucking and fucking island you fell off the transport truck and got taken in by Ted Lasso’s Feel Good Lesson Teaching Institute where they don’t even let you check grindr ONCE. it makes me sick. Ted lasso taught me that the real villain is Ted lasso for keeping a smooth talking limp wrist twunk like jamietartt single when he was born to cruise literally designed to slut it up
hey, a while back I sent you an ask abt what seats I should get for Oklahoma!, and just wanted to say thanks bc I went to see it last night and the seats were fucking perfect. Happy to say that I don't need top surgery anymore bc Patrick vaill blew my tits off & I'll never be the same ever again probably.
As a sexy Oklahoma conessieur I was curious on your opinion on the venue change from the super immersive Young Vic type staging to the more conventional staging at wyndham's? There were definitely points where I could tell a scene/performance would have hit even harder in the original staging.
I'm also wondering what your experiences have been like with audiences, because during Pore jud is Daid there were like 2 people looking at their phones during the completely dark moments, and somebody's phone started playing football commentary and it went on so long Arthur darvill had to stop his performance completely for like a minute. I'd been waiting to see this production since 2019 so I was fuming but that's genuinely by far the worst theatre audience I've ever been a part of in my entire life, and probably the worst possible piece of theatre to see with a shitty audience. I know west end audiences have gone a bit crazy lately but now I'm wondering how usual this kind of shit is.
YESSSS so glad the seats were good and patrick vaill blew your tits off!!!!
also yeah there are definitely moments that hit harder at the young vic - a lot of the more “fun” moments (like i cain’t say no/the farmer and the cowman) were even better when you’re actually in the space with the actors (or in one case when i saw it, in the arthur darvill bud light splash zone). similarly a lot of the intense lighting changes/the haze coming out at the start of the dream ballet/etc were a lot more… involving? i guess? in the young vic. plus i think it’s just a show with directing/acting style that benefits from you being right up close and being able to see every single microexpression
but omg i have ALSO had horrific audience experiences at oklahoma - once at the young vic so many people were talking/laughing etc during the smokehouse scene & arthur darvill actually had to tell someone off mid scene for turning their phone torch on halfway through. then last time i saw it at the wyndham’s the people behind me were talking CONSTANTLY. idk what it is about this show in particular but i think the combo of beloved show plus unexpected staging plus unconventional lighting just… makes people completely forget how to act
you're not stuck. your roots have grown too big for your pot & you're just waiting to be repotted
what's really fucked up about society is that no one has ever once written a book or made a movie about close male relationships of any kind. men in media with other men have ONLY EVER historically fucked each other silly after saying "I'm in love with this man in a gay way" to the camera. and that's great! I loved the scene in the two towers when gimli blew legolas's back out. but I must defend the sacred rarity of platonic male relationships online.
Got any summer plans? 🥰
Of course, being more sloppy
i think the main reason that it rubs me the wrong way when people dismiss the terror novel as unsalvageable is that obviously the tv show does a lot better narratively and sucks a lot less from a bigotry perspective, but the novel DOES do some things better and some things differently in an interesting way!
particularly I think the novel does a better job portraying desperation. i look at the tv show after reading page upon page of frostbite amputations and the dying drawn in sledges and I go these men should be grosser! their tents should have holes in them! show me how they can never get fully dry! show me them five to a sleeping bag because that’s the only way they don’t freeze in their sleep! the tension doesn’t work as well if you don’t depict the misery, and the contrast with silna staying warm and fed doesn’t work as well if the camp stays neat and the men are warm and dry enough to strip down to their uniforms.
the OTHER thing the book does better, for me, is holding tension. i believe less in the way the tv terrors are always inches from being able to arrive safely at back’s fish river. and I believe in it less because the book holds tension by constantly throwing numbers at you: we have this many cans left. we have this many days of supplies. we have this many men left who are healthy enough to pull the sledges. we have this many dead officers, warrant officers, petty officers, seamen. you see the numbers dwindling from the 9,000 pounds of chocolate alone they had at the start of the novel (which is another thing I love—it’s a novel of things and how those things get stripped away when they’re put in a context that makes them ridiculous), but the numbers make you feel like the quartermaster doling out supplies or the captain assigning men to haul. you cling to the numbers and always believe they could just barely make it to safety.
also going along with holding tension is the way they show the discovery of the Passage in the book. i like what the show does with blanky and the passage but I do think the book’s interpretation, in which the men all together come upon the passage RIGHT before hickey’s group mutinies and puts the final nail in everyone’s coffin, makes it interesting. in the book’s version, they’ve even succeeded! if they can just hold themselves together a little longer they can make it home having completed their mission! it’s another way of getting you invested in them all holding on just a little longer, and another thing that makes it hard for crozier to decide to “die” by giving up his old life entirely. whereas the show lets you kind of forget about the passage. poor ned’s “close?” is the last reference to their mission
female characters in les miserables are actually soo nuanced and interesting and yet victor hugo consistently gets labelled as a misogynist who Can't Write Women because none of the women in the play manage to girlboss their way out of the Big Book of Misery because people think that feminism in historical fiction is when a female character chooses to simply sidestep the oppressive patriarchal framework of society
ops tags are so fucking important
it’s so funny how every so often i go through like a 48 hour period at work where i’m like okay maybe i was just being dramatic i can ride this out until i get a theatre job it’s chill ☺️ and then the very next day i’m going up the escalator and my heart is pounding like i’m a wounded prey animal