Log in
Avatar

@peregrineggsandham / peregrineggsandham.tumblr.com

Posts
peregrineggsandham
andhumanslovedstories
Avatar
andhumanslovedstories

in terms of word economy for slogans that both get to the heart of a movement and are actionable reminders for me to say to myself when I'm working through a conflict between patients and staff, I've always been impressed by the disability rights community's "Nothing about us without us." What a good phrase. Promoting autonomy and collaboration in five words. Such a perfect north star to ask myself if I'm following. And it even rhymes. Gold star slogan

peregrineggsandham
guiltiest-gear
Avatar
butterflyinthewell

From a queer elder…

Being queer isn’t supposed to be palatable to non-queers.

We don’t tick little squares on a checklist of “queer enough”, we obliterate the checklist.

We defy societal norms that say our bodies, families or relationships have to look a certain way.

Queer is the insult we took away from oppressors. We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.

The people who hate us will hate us regardless of how palatable we make ourselves.

Stop licking fascist boots by policing queers who are queer in different ways than you.

Oh, someone is bi/pan trans lesbian with he/him pronouns? So what! They’re welcome on the rainbow. Their identity doesn’t have to make sense to you, it has to make sense to them.

Our identities don’t make sense to non-queers. They see us as unnatural and disgusting, so why are you turning around and crapping that same garbage out at your own community??

Once you drive the visible queers underground, the same people who hate us all will target you next. Nobody will defend you because you drove away everybody who would have.

Enough already!

— sincerely, an old queer.

peregrineggsandham
akindplace
Avatar
akindplace

You can't possibly ignore everything in the world of the sake of your peace of mind because humans tend to be affected by what happens around them. In a world that moves so fast and constantly feeds you information, it is perfectly fine to turn off the news and watch some wholesome instead.

It is possible though, to care less about things you cannot control. There will always be people you can't agree with, people who won't change their minds, and certain events will happen even when you don't want them to. That's when it becomes important to know what you can and cannot control, how you can change things around you and which things you should leave behind and try not to fixate on.

You can't save everyone. But you can start by saving yourself, helping those around you, caring for the small environment you live in, making life more bearable for yourself and others by knowing what is within your reach to change and what you need to let go of. It is okay not to control everything, to not be able to save everyone, to save the whole world. You can still act upon what is closest to you and make a positive change and find some peace of mind.

Avatar
akindplace
peregrineggsandham
aceiestartist
Avatar
corviiids

so for nanowrimo this year i decided to not write a novel but instead write a screenplay for my dream project, A MUPPET ODYSSEY, which is homer’s odyssey but it’s muppets, a la muppet christmas carol. i didn’t finish it :( but here’s some of it.

that’s from the teaser. this is the first scene:

odysseus makes it to the castle in phaeacia:

thanks for reading a muppet odyssey. if you enjoyed please hit that subscribe button and petition disney to let me write a muppet odyssey

Avatar
corviiids

thank you everyone for your kind response to a muppet odyssey. if i can muster the energy i’d love to finish it and pop a full script online for your viewing pleasure. alternatively, if anyone on tumblr works for the muppets studio please reach out to my agent (it’s just me in a hat).

some choice tags:

@yourfaveisamuppet​ you are a fucking genius.

@pyrite​ i did ultimately end up casting miss piggy as circe! i and some folks on twitter toyed with the idea of all the men on circe’s island being muppet pigs originally who she then turned into human people as punishment.

Avatar
corviiids

 some more choice tags

@jmbeaubier​ seeing my muppetry analysed in this way has filled me with a joy beyond human comprehension. thank you.

@whydocowsfall​ (late response im sorry) so fun fact the 1997 odyssey miniseries actually featured special effects by the jim henson creature shop, and they created polyphemus! so i’m thinking major monsters like polyphemus will be special muppets, like the ghosts in muppet christmas carol, new designs just for the film. as funny as it would be to have polyphemus be like fozzie or something i think it would be genuinely epic to utilise the full hypothetical power of the jim henson company in this hypothetical universe where disney doesn’t snipe me into a little grease spot immediately for even considering touching their property.

to everybody who said they would love to read this / watch it / would pay money to read or watch it: i love you and stay tuned because i would love to finish this script and make it available to read. to everyone who said they wanted to show this to their classics professors please tell me what they think i would love to know.

more casting thoughts

  • the sirens are camilla and the chickens
  • i think penelope is janelle monáe and telemachus might be justice smith. muppet movies have mostly a precedent of casting major characters as humans and supporting characters as muppets, so as tempted as i was to cast miss piggy as penelope, i decided to keep with tradition. breaking up piggy and kermit is also possibly an offence punishable by damnation
  • @theodysseyofhomer​‘s absolutely inspired ideas of sam the eagle as tiresias and statler and waldorf as scylla and charybdis will stick with me forever
  • the gods are all muppets. i believe hermes is rowlf. i had absolutely no reasoning for this i just liked the vibe. fozzie is zeus, because i like the idea of fozzie delivering doom but sounding like fozzie.
  • based on everyone’s encouragement animal has now been double cast as both himself (musician) and achilles in the underworld. but patroclus is a human man. that’s just for me.

more other thoughts

  • the tag line is “how many war crimes can one man kermit?”