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[ivcath]

polar beverages is the only company i would sell out to. only good thing to come out of worcester

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[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.)

[azephirin]

One of the best criminal defense attorneys I’ve ever met was an undergraduate theatre major.

[fatartappreciation]

In My Bed by artist Craig Hayward

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[avhira]

I could use some luck

[azephirin]

I’ve wanted to cry at work 2/4 days this week, so what the helix, let’s have some magical thinking.

[azephirin]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85117676?view_full_work=true

Two outtakes to the Sid/girl!Geno posted here! 2500 words total.

Outtake #1: “Long, Lovely, Liquid, Glorious.” Tags: Sexual Harassment, Backstory, Long Hair, Jewelry. (The sexual harassment is not by Sid or Geno.)

Outtake #2: “Ese Culo Se Merece To'.” Summary: It sort of resembles a thong, but the visual won’t resolve: there are too many fabric pieces, and they’re in the wrong places. Or: Sid’s horizons get broadened.

[azephirin]

Outtake #3 posted: "All I Ever Needed Was an Infinite Universe." Zhenya and things that might be different, and maybe simpler.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85117676/chapters/226378091

[azephirin]

Outtake #4 posted: "Today You Closed the Door." Only for Pittsburgh, always with Sid. Beginnings and endings.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85117676/chapters/227623141

[azephirin]

A very short, very silly addition: Thirteen Reasons Evgeniya Malkin Will Never Be Mic’d Up, Ever

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85117676/chapters/227805281

[enjoloras-deactivated20220821]

Okay so Victorian erotica is literally the most heinous, morally bankrupt, horrific shit I've ever read - but I've read a fair bit, partly from historical interest but also because a while back I helped a friend with a university project she was doing about censorship and pornography in 19th century England.

Anyway I need to share with you all the most hilarious line that has ever been written, circa 1887:

[prokopetz]

I feel like this excerpt is significantly enhanced by knowing that the novel in question is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an inexplicably sapient flea who lives on Bella's body, and that's why the third priest's penis is described in this way: from the narrator's perspective it literally blots out the sky.

[kingarniestar-deactivated202509]

me when im a flea

[systlin]

I looked up and read the Flea after this and it is in fact enough to kill a modern person who complains about 'problematic' smut on AO3 instantly.

It is making a political point but also Sweet mother of fuck

[msprayforever]

[flavinbagel]

Unrestrained winter fun

[azephirin]

Geno&Ovi-core, because they often share a single overtaxed brain cell.

(Miss you, @rubynye.)

[dailycatsblog]

[marshmallow-dust]

reblog to tell prev its gonna be okay

[azephirin]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85117676?view_full_work=true

Two outtakes to the Sid/girl!Geno posted here! 2500 words total.

Outtake #1: “Long, Lovely, Liquid, Glorious.” Tags: Sexual Harassment, Backstory, Long Hair, Jewelry. (The sexual harassment is not by Sid or Geno.)

Outtake #2: “Ese Culo Se Merece To'.” Summary: It sort of resembles a thong, but the visual won’t resolve: there are too many fabric pieces, and they’re in the wrong places. Or: Sid’s horizons get broadened.

[azephirin]

Outtake #3 posted: "All I Ever Needed Was an Infinite Universe." Zhenya and things that might be different, and maybe simpler.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85117676/chapters/226378091

[azephirin]

Outtake #4 posted: "Today You Closed the Door." Only for Pittsburgh, always with Sid. Beginnings and endings.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85117676/chapters/227623141

[lavenderprose]

To be clear. Shane's whole thing about Ilya being a Sex God is because of the limerence. Ilya is nineteen and he can get a rhythm going and that's about it. He was throwing shit at the wall when he hit that 'Get on your knees' in Nashville but only he knows that because Shane's brain turned OFF. Ilya said "Let's do a little experiment here" and the results were "Oh my god oh my god oh my god." Shane came hands free because he was that obsessed with the idea of Ilya Rozanov being inside him. Ilya said "Do you like that do you like that" because he's nineteen and he needs the validation and Shane was like "YES YES YES I LIKE IT OH MY GOD YOU'RE SO DEEP YOU'RE SO GOOD" and objectively. It was okay. Ilya fully did not know where to put his hands a couple of times. He forgot about Shane's dick. Luckily, Shane is God's special angel who can come from the idea of Ilya's cockhead being in proximity to his prostate a few times. Mind over matter, says Shane Hollander's dick. And then Ilya said "Oh God Hollander" because it was also, objectively, one of the hottest things that had ever happened to HIM, Ilya Rozanov. Shane sits on that step afterwards plotting about how he's gonna get this over and over and over again for the rest of his life and he has no idea that there are women in Boston who have Ilya listed in their contacts as "Hockey Guy 6/10". Shane Hollander cannot fathom a world in which Ilya Rozanov doesn't lay the maddest pipe this side of Lake Michigan. "Ilya Rozanov is a some kind of nineteen year old sex God" No Shane honey he was just designed in a lab to score goals and make you cum and he's done scoring goals for the night.

[lavenderprose]

Things that are ACTUALLY in the Shane Hollander Mic'd Up compilation that we all wish we could watch through the portal:

- "Hey, how was your summer? Good, good."

- "Mic'd up. I'm mic'd up. Don't."

- "Have you ever been to Greece? Told Ilya I would ask you."

- "What? No, man, he didn't say that. He said he was gonna get your ass. Yeah, man, he only fucks one ass. Yeah, I mean, I would say fuck you too but--"

- "Heeeey, davai, davai. Great assist. Hah, no, don't come closer, I'm mic'd and you know I don't trust you."

- "The Royal Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play. The Royal Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play. The Royal--"

- "HEY MATHESON. You ever been to Vegas? I said, you ever been to VEGAS? I hear they let the good hockey players go there in the summer but I feel like you wouldn't know that."

- "FUCK. Hey, ref, what the fuck was that? Oh, you didn't see that? Fuck you. No, you stay there, my husband's gonna talk to you--fuck you, put me in the bin then, this is bullshit--"

- "You have the smelling salts? Yeah. FUCK--"

- "I am mic'd. Remember I am mic'd. Nope, not even in Russian."

- "Oh, yeah, the pickle video was funny. Harris said it got a lot of views, so. Yeah, no, he actually really does love pickles that much."

- "Sinclair, you got something to say? Yeah, I'm better at hide the pickle than you are at hockey. You want to ask another stupid question?"

- "You know, I run a charity too. Oh, I just assumed that you were doing some kind of Make-A-Wish thing out here with your wingers, since it looks like this is your first day on the ice."

- "Oh, hey, look. Jackie and the kids are waving at us. Okay. Okay, Rozanov, that's enough."

- "Mic'd. Mic'd. Mic'd."

- "Hello Hockey Night, welcome to my husband's shoulder pads--" "Fuck OFF, Rozanov."

- "Great goal. Great goal. Lyublyu tebya. Yes, baby, you did that."

[naturalmanishot]

Le tre Grazie 😍 natural men are hot

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

My mom went to four different bodegas before finding two copies of the absolutely iconic “The Red Apple” new york post for me and my best friend. This is my new favorite historical artefact that I own.

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Apparently everyone else in manhattan also woke up and immediately went to their local bodega to buy this HUAC-ass paper for their friends and family to frame.

[azephirin]

This is obviously from a minute ago, but it still pleases me so much.

[televisionenjoyer]

NOOOO THE SIX ORGASMS PERIOD HACK GOT REBLOGS DISABLED JUST AS I TRIED TO REBLOG IT whatever. I'm trying that next period.

[televisionenjoyer]

Rescued media. Fuck it.

[eemolu]

the idea that hollander "tamed" rozanov is really funny to shane because like. ilya finds it hot and is always going along with it, yes of course my husband is so sexy why do you think i moved to this boring fucking city. for dick. meanwhile shane knows the truth which is that ilya tamed himself. he herded shane like a sheepdog until he was exactly in the right position for ilya to flop down at his feet and say i love you, i am a one man guy, sleep with other people if you want but you are it for me, so shane is always there like ??? ilya. what are you talking about. i was literally prepared to be a secret slot on your roster for the rest of time without even admitting that i was gay until you decided to have me over make me lunch and say my name while you come like a love confession and ilya goes lyubmiyy. shut up. i was untamable you tamed the untamable and so shane has to be like yes, baby, i worked so hard, i used all my tricks but he's rolling his eyes because ilya wants to be a wolf shane coaxed inside to sleep on the hearth but instead he's a cat who snuck through the window and fell in love with his prey. self domesticated. and this is just one of the many perfect games they play

[classic-hollywood-glam]

Hedy Lamarr