The new thing I do when I procrastinate is look up “school project” on youtube and set it to most recent. Many hidden gems in there

Like the genius of this. Yet only 9 views. smh

2 dislikes. the haters don’t understand

Critics complained that Indian musician Daler Mehndi’s music was only popular because his videos featured beautiful women. Mehndi’s response was to create a video featuring only copies of himself greenscreened in, leading to the creation of the “Tunak Tunak Tun” video.

Creates his most popular video just because people say he cant.

What a lad

posted the video because some people in Tumblr are too young to remember this masterpiece.

Video: Classic Backstory: *Genius*

are we not going to discuss the fact that he dabs several times in this video that was made in 1998

food, not lawns

Also: Throw in some early blooming things like snowdrops or crocus - the bees will love them! They’ll be gone mid-May, leaves and all. A lot of people only plant summer flowers and nothing for spring and autumn, so keeping pollinators fed and happy during those seasons is super important!

You can make insect hotels too! Just bundle up some reeds and twigs of varying sizes, paired with some loose straw pads and wood with holes of varying sizes drilled in. Those will help insects keep warm and snug over winter!

For those in the Mid and Eastern US, Prairie Moon is my favorite native seed supplier. Their free catalogs are beautiful, inspirational, and hold a wealth of information. Oh and their prices are very reasonable. 

Here’s a few awesome easy-to-grow native plants to consider:

Aquilegia canadensis aka Eastern Columbine. - relatively-short lived perennial but it reseeds well. This plant gives zero fucks and will grow almost anywhere - sun, shade, whatever.

Sometimes called Celandine poppy or woodland poppy. Stylophorum diphyllum. Also short lived but reseeds well. 

Phlox divaricata aka Woodland Phlox. It comes in varying shades of bluish lavender. Unlike creeping phlox, this one has tall skinny stems.

These all bloom in the spring. 

Worth reblogging!  Not true about the columbine being easy to grow, though, at least for me. I kept planting it and it kept dying until I just started growing it in containers.

Can confirm, Prairie Moon is a great nursery. 

from now on your tumblr nickname is whatever you get from this sexual identity generator  ☆

Call me ‘hurgling sex god’.

I'm an artsy cosmonaut and I'm ok with that honestly

I feel like a lot of people don’t want to ask questions they have about gender/sexuality to LGBT people because they don’t want to offend them because we talk about cishet people asking stupid or intrusive questions a lot

But actually when you’re questioning it’s really helpful to be able to ask some ‘stupid’ questions although you’re too afraid to

So can y'all LGBTQIA+ people reblog this if you’re totally fine with people asking questions about your gender/sexuality, as long as they do so respectfully

The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy

I tried to scroll past this. I really did

Reblog if you think trans women:

A. Are women

B. Can be lesbians

C. Deserve love and respect

This should have more than 19,000 notes, y’all

D. Are valid and beautiful even if they don’t “pass”

E: Deserve to be called by she/her pronouns

F: need knives

G: Can dress however they want and still identify as Trans 😉

H: should not be treated as a fetish or a “trap”

I: Are not a mistake

J: deserves to have the same respect and stuff as everyone else but should have at least 1 pass to mf punch anyone who calls her a “he”

@soft-trans-on-tumbles love ya sisss <3

Why is Cosette the face of the musical, rather than Jean Valjean?

Reasonable question! The musical, even more than the book, is very About Jean Valjean, his journey and his plotline. But the musical isn’t JUST about Valjean; it’s also about Fantine, about Marius, about an uprising, about the Thenardier Family, and so on.  And Cosette is the thread that ties it all together. 

Without Cosette, the story (of the musical) is : 

Valjean redeems himself through his behavior at M-sur-M and (possibly!) his act of sacrifice at the Champmathieu trial. 

Fantine stays in Paris; Valjean never meets her. 

Javert either never tells Valjean about Champmathieu (because he’s not pressing suspicions due to Fantine’s arrest), and Valjean stays as mayor, end of story, Javert either goes on with his life in the service of the now-exonerated (in his mind) Mayor Madeleine,

OR:  Valjean goes to jail (and stays there, without duty to Cosette driving him to find another way) and Javert goes on his way with the satisfaction of a job rightly done. Neither of them ever has to confront the choices and character growth that come their way in the existing story. 

Marius never even considers not being part of the barricade fight; and he dies with everyone else there. *Including* Eponine and Gavroche, who are there for their own reasons. 

 And all of these are complete stories! Every one of these characters serves as the hub of an entire plot, with other characters affected by them and their choices!  

But the only reason they’re part of the SAME story is because of Cosette. Because of Cosette, Fantine goes to Valjean’s factory. Because of Cosette, Valjean finds a way to keep moving ahead after the trial, and eventually goes to Paris. Javert’s suicide, Marius’ survival at the barricade–they happen because Valjean loves Cosette enough to be there (and because Marius loved Cosette enough to consider NOT being there, and send Eponine off with a note–and in the world of the musical, this may be why Eponine’s at the barricade too, but that’s a consideration for another time.) 

Valjean’s line– “It’s the story of those who always loved you”– could stand for the whole musical.   I’ve seen that post saying Marius is only there because Valjean loves Cosette, but really you can track that back–VALJEAN only connects with any of these people because Fantine  loved Cosette.  It’s the story of people who love Cosette,  and how that transforms them and the people they meet.

No, none of this is intentional on Cosette’s part, but hey, that’s part of the point of this story– no one knows what they’re doing, no one’s got a Master Plan, everyone’s just moving forward the best they know how.  What brings people together, through all the confusion, across classes and war and all kinds of social prejudice, is love, and that’s what Cosette does, and what she represents. 

And that’s why Cosette is the face of the musical. 

This! Cosette is SUCH an important, strong character and I hate that she often ends up being the least favorite among fans. I think the book does a better job than the musical does of fleshing out her character and making her importance to the story clear, but that’s likely only because the musical is trying to do so many things at one time. I think because her part seems small in the musical and because she gets her happy ending when almost no one else in the story does, people tend to be a bit bitter toward her. But…like…if that’s how you feel, then you’re missing the point! Cosette is born out of wedlock to a very poor mother, is orphaned, spends something like five years of her early life living in an abusive situation and yet…she becomes this beacon of love and hope DESPITE all of that. Cosette’s happy ending is exactly what the Amis were fighting for…not for her, specifically, but for “the people.” And Cosette is one of those people. She is Fantine’s pride and joy; Valjean’s redeeming act of love; Eponine, Azelma, and Gavroche’s “what might have been” if circumstances had been different for them. Even Javert is tangentially affected by her story because she (in addition to Valjean) is the living embodiment of proving his mindset wrong because if Valjean is a bad person, then she SHOULD be a bad person too…especially considering her origins. But she isn’t. Valjean pours all this love into her, and she becomes this sweet, wonderful, kind, generous person. When Cosette gets her happy ending, she carries everyone else’s happy endings with her. Perhaps the others die before being able to see it fulfilled, but she embodies the hope for a future where things are different… A future where people like Valjean and Fantine are not constantly condemned for their mistakes; a future where children like the Thenardiers’ kids actually have a chance of being adopted by wonderful parents like Valjean adopted her and escaping poverty; a future where the Amis’ deaths are not in vain; a future where people are no longer obligated by society to feel as though they have to make the choice Javert felt he had to make of either letting his parents’ bad choices or the law define him. Hugo didn’t want us to be bitter toward Cosette’s happiness. He wanted us to be happy FOR her…because when she gets her happy ending, they ALL do.

**applauds**

The bit about her representing a future where people don’t have to be defined by past generations is SUCH a big deal. Cosette’s life breaks the cycle of class and social stigma–but she also helps Marius find a way to reconcile political divides in his life that people were still killing each other about. She’s proof of Valjean’s redemption, like you say, (and it’s too bad Valjean doesn’t accept that more fully) and in that she’s also a challenge to Marius’ internalized prejudice, his dissonant belief in the condemnation of the law on other people.

Cosette is a living refutation of the social prejudices of her time.. And her happy future is totally a promise that the future the Amis fought for isn’t impossible or foolish, it’s right and it’s going to happen, as long as people keep loving each other.  And not in some vague way, but because love demands people challenge their prejudices and their accepted limits and categories. 

And now I am being Emotional About This Book Before noon again. ;__; 

All I need is Jeremy Jordan playing Fiyero in the Wicked movie thank you

We were in high school together. If he were offered the role, he would take it for sure

But how can he dance through life if he can't dance

since so many people are a fan of my insults, i’ve made a curse-free insult generator at the request of a very enthusiastic anon

here u go, bud

YOU REPULSIVE CELERY STICK.

YOU OBTUSE PUMPKIN SEED

You SORDID BALLPOINT PEN

You ARROGANT DESK LAMP 

Derisory jar of relish

Reblog if Black Lives Matter to you

Where are those woke white people at!?

The amount of notes this doesn’t have bothers me…

Shit if you think someones life doesn't matter because of race, then go die in a hole

Reblog this if you believe in pansexuality but still have respect for bisexuals and believe that the “drop the b” hashtag is stupid

There’s a lot of things you’ve done that Becky doesn’t know about

My stomach hurts really bad. Like someone’s stabbing me

My local shelter has a corgi pup for sale and if I book an appointment I get 50% off so guess who bout to get a puppy once I figure out how to talk to people on the phone

My url is @luv-my-fandomz

“That’s cute”

Around 8 would be nice

I’m right

And I should say it

Yes

I’m down

HHH WOW I’M GAY

THAT’S AWESOME FOR BOTH OF YOU

You’re…. special 😂

Awwwwwww

Hi!! I’m gifting some links to shows that have already closed, so here they are!

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee OBC:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4bXlORVdSS1VIdEE

Amelie:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4Q1lxeGRpSWI5SFU

Annie 2013 Revival:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7xs6yYl00rcMUo3cURtMFFkSU0

EDIT: Ugh! Forgot to put Be More Chill when I first made this post, sorry ‘bout that! Here it is:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4YWJRbjNia0p6a3M

Bring It On OBC:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4ZXh6cEM2TGZqRnc

Falsettos 2016 Revival:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4a0JtN2ktYlYwNU0

Fun Home OBC:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4Smx1cmtwb3lmSTQ

In The Heights OBC:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4QnZERjI1YVJCaVE

EDIT: I forgot to add If/Then before, here it is:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4UUhtOG5QNnJLQWM

Legally Blonde:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4bnFxSmRTbnZtSUU

Matilda:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4aWQ5NHBkQ3cyX3c

Miss Saigon (previous Broadway run):  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4N3pJYTVSTFFEMTQ

Next to Normal:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4REE4aHllTGdZaFk

Something Rotten! OBC:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4TGYyZVdHT0EyYzQ

Spring Awakening Deaf West:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4aWFOLUR1SnRsWGc

Sweeney Todd OBC:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByVd1dayJoV4WVhNWHIzWmxOdXM

Thanks to anyone who helped me get the links, and I hope everyone enjoys them! If you have any questions or are interested in any shows currently on Broadway, just message me!! :)

Reblog if you believe aromantic and asexuality is a real and valid thing to be!!!!

HECK YEAH!!!!

Found in a Goodwill near Cleveland, Ohio

I don’t even know who Randy Rainbow is and I’m too scared to ask Read the full article

Also please tell me which one because I want to buy it

Found in a Goodwill near Cleveland, Ohio

I don’t even know who Randy Rainbow is and I’m too scared to ask Read the full article

Randy rainbow is fabulous. It's his real name, and he makes parody videos mocking trump and politics on his YouTube, usually to songs from musicals

i had a moment today while watching a whiny shitlord complain about the injustice of new sci-fi media having more female leads, i suddenly felt the strangest sense of déjà vu. i couldn’t pintpoint it at first but then out of nowhere, it fucking dawned on me

This is the single greatest meme in the history of the Internet everyone can stop making memes now we don’t need any more ever again

I think I’ve already reblogged this but I don’t care it’s just pure gospel

I hate philosophy

If you think die

this is a philosophy tho

f. thot bitchgerald