Thriving on Caffeine and Suntheanine

Alooxis // she/her //♑// enjoyer of all things silly

[dyingvictoriangirl]

You have his eyes

[anna-scribbles]

nobody tells you this but you’re actually allowed to just make a feature length animatic about you and your friends in the zombie apocalypse

[anna-scribbles]

it’s going awesome. btw

[birdssong]

dogdog

[pjotwitter]

[alooxis]

They both got to see Prime in themselves this season...

[cocteautwinsgirl]

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

that should be me in there!

[punkjabi]

[probuccalfat]

so it has

[probuccalfat]

i rehearse this like a monologue for an audition that’ll change my life

[tiktaali]

[shoe109]

The realization that maybe it’s not just your grandpa who destroys everything and everyone around you

[birdssong]

like clockwork

[utamaomao7]

Lesson learnt

[bricknmortar]

i honestly think that the whole “i’m your dad” bit was about both rick and morty kind of acknowledging that morty’s main caregiver is rick, and even with how fucked up it is, rick is kind of the only one in the family to regularly seek out spending time with him and give him guidance. i don’t think morty reminding us that his entire “original” family is dead was unintentional - even though they all love each other on the “doesn’t matter where we came from, this is all our original timeline now” basis, there are still hierarchies. for example, the beths and summer are from the same dimension - i think it’s true without this scenario that beth’s favorite is summer, but i think this elevates that when it’s literally still her original summer, and morty isn’t technically her original son.

morty was one of the first people rick formed a strong bond with post-diane, and one of the only consistent people in his life. i think if rick had to pick one person who he considered family, he would absolutely pick morty prime. we don’t know just how long rick has known this morty but he’s clearly very attached to him, and has been adventuring with morty prime for a long time. morty is the same - out of everyone in the family, he’s known rick the longest and he seems to always seek him out first whenever he needs anything. i think the choice of having morty bond with another version of jerry in the first half was very intentional, and meant to create a parallel. that jerry wasn’t meant to be a replacement for his jerry - he was a replacement for his rick. rick views morty as his child, and morty views rick as his main father figure.

[socialistexan]

[omtai]

this summer we WALK IN A RANDOM DIRECTION and NEVER STOP

[sandersstudies]

I had this freshman tell me she “couldn’t” audition because she was too scared of the stage, and might have a panic attack. I asked how she felt about walking around onstage in costume and not saying any lines. That was fine. I was like okay awesome let’s lay some groundwork now and maybe senior year you can have like three lines!

[sandersstudies]

I remember this kid who came into an audition and froze up, just couldn’t speak. Competent reader and speaker but when people were watching she couldn’t do a thing.

We cast her anyway, in a chorus role. Offered her lots of support and encouragement and kindness and grace.

At the next audition she whispered. Anyone who had never seen her before would have thought she was the most nervous kid there. But the directing team was abuzz afterward. Did you see? She did it! Once or twice I could actually almost hear her! Amazing.

Got cast again, in a chorus role. She’d been making friends with the other kids, and they offered her encouragement too.

And the next audition we said wow I can hear her! She’s speaking! Let’s give her a handful of lines! She can do it!

Anyway as a mentor in the performing arts these things are huge wins for me. Some kids are competent and confident performers at 7 or 8 almost by nature. Others, even much older kids and adults, have to make progress by inches. But progress is exciting! The only place to go is up!

[sandersstudies]

If a student is encouraged properly, theatre is one of the best sources of self-esteem, self-reflection, and both spontaneous and rehearsed eloquence/comprehensibility that there is. It truly could be considered a cornerstone for communication disciplines of all kinds if it just attracted the right people to teach it. (Unfortunately a lot of people are attracted to directing for a sense of power over others, and not an interest in mentoring and coaching.)