Lucy

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[a-monster-plain-and-simple]

unfortunately along with wanting to become a pro wrestler and a professional dancer, rehearsing this play is also making me want to get extremely good at the piano, something that would be a lot easier if I was not deeply and unshakably averse to a) the bass clef and b) literally every sharp/flat note on the keyboard

[cosmicretreat]

[valtsv]

i just think it's important to understand that love is not the antithesis of horror in fact it's often the catalyst

[valtsv]

"but if it's horrifying then it's not really love it's corruption it's lust it's obsession" you are not only wrong but you are also boring. go away.

[beeezah]

how could you leave this in the tags!!!

[laterkiss]

i have [gestures vaguely] my tendencies

[hiveswap]

Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space

[hiveswap]

Don't forget to play it loud as fuck

[kowai-kabuki-tanuki]

please….listen to the whole thing. And imagine that you are IN SPACE in 1973 and you JUST woke up. Every time you adjust…it escalates somehow.

This song had to be designed in a lab for the sole purpose of fucking with astronauts. whoever added it to the NASA playlist was a genius.

[a-monster-plain-and-simple]

other body stories (i'm falling apart this is how I cope I guess): we started using kneepads this week because our director is sensible and clever and obtained kneepads for us. i have never used kneepads and it is incredibly (dangerously) freeing to be able to dramatically fall to my knees at a moment's notice. anyway my neck was sore the last couple of nights and I assumed it was just the standard horrors of stress etcetera until I was recreationally throwing myself around today and realized that the kneepads have in fact enabled me to hit the ground hard enough to jar my neck. cool. cool that that's an option. another thing to add to the never-ending list of things to touch on in warmup so I don't fucking die.

[a-monster-plain-and-simple]

okay listen: my human body is nearly 35 years old. there are only so many shocks and impacts it is capable of absorbing. that being said, my human brain is also nearly 35 years old, and has developed a level of knowledge and expertise re: protecting and caring for the body (and maximizing its recovery) that, some would argue, outstrips (ie) the benefits of the human body being maybe 10 or even 15 years younger. all of this is to say: what if I got extremely into pro wrestling for the specific purpose of using pro wrestling in more of my theatre work. what then. what if i simply did that. so long as I don't find out anything about common wrestling injuries this is a genuine potential pathway for me.

[probuccalfat]

nobody else doing it like me. particularly because the way i’m doing it is needlessly difficult

[drops-of-universe]

don’t play it cool, be passionate and insane

[cognitohazardous]

no one says big mood anymore. no one even says mood. no one says anything. all thats left is a dry wind, that scours my face until i bleed

[eyemold]

stay sick

[lizardsfromspace]

Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending

[julianova44]

You probably know this but shitpost ruining fun fact for anybody who doesn’t:

When the play first was performed, JM Barrie et al were so concerned this might happen that they instructed the orchestra to drop their instruments and clap at this point, just in case

[lizardsfromspace]

I did not know this and I'm grateful for being informed

[sisaloofafump]

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

(Tink was revived each time anyway)

[notecardpasta]

I think when you correctly identify a trauma that is the base of a woe of yours it should just disappear. It should be like "aaahh. you got me" and vanish and leave 100 dollars behind

[a-monster-plain-and-simple]

doing a company run of our insane play for important people tomorrow. i hope they like it or at the very least are impressed by the absolute Scope of the thing. i am stressed about not knowing some of my lines so well (this guy never shuts UP) and also about the fact that we are not allowed to get on the table at the moment so we have to skip my favourite stunt. it is not a full costume run so I only have to wear three pairs of pants instead of five. i love my stupid job with everything in me. can't believe i get to do this with my life.

[kira-7]

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official link

[arctic-hands]

[Video Description: An ad with piano music over it all, showing an elderly woman in her home, knitting, when two younger men walk by her window, which catches her attention. She stares out her window at them as they kiss each other while walking, the old lady staring in disbelief. Cut to the old woman approaching a residence with a broom in hand, staring up at the second floor window where a small rainbow Pride flag is hanging. The old woman stares up at it and mutters "Ridiculo", before getting up on a ladder with her broom to remove the flag. Focus on the flag fluttering to the ground as church bells chime. The scene then cuts to the couple from before, approaching their home with grocery bags in hand before one stops and stares at the second floor, stopping his partner who then drops the groceries as he too stares up. It's then revealed that the small pride flag had been replaced with a gigantic, hand-knit pride flag. It then cuts back to the old woman's home, where a tin of rainbow-colored yarn sits on her table. The hands of the old woman are holding and fondly touching an old black and white photo of two young smiling women, leaning against each other. Cut to the old woman's face as she stares out with a look of happy pride on her face. At the end of the video, the name "Idealista" appears on screen, followed by "buon pride" along with a rainbow. End VD.]

[spaceofentropy]

One correction:

The old lady is not in her home. She is at work. She's meant to be what in Italian is called "la portinaia", aka a cross between a doorwoman and cleaner of a residential building. She's in her small "office" space, at the entrance of the building, from where she can survey the coming and goings of the inhabitants. It's a job that has mostly disappeared, but is culturally very clear to us as having the connotation of "potentially gossipy, one-million-percent judgmental woman who sees everything that goes on in the apartment complex, knows everyone and their secrets, and has Strong Opinions™️".

In this case, thankfully, the Strong Opinion™️ is that those two men are ridiculous with their teeny tiny flag for ants.

[phantomofthehoepera]

I want the record to state I have never been this hard in my entire life

[whyenn-reader]

ADHD advice from non-ADHD people: start blocking out your day and put things in your google calendar

ADHD advice from ADHD people: any time you're waiting for your food to microwave YOU HAVE TO WASH DISHES WASH AS MANY AS YOU CAN THIS IS A RACE AGAINST TIME THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THIS COULD HAPPEN