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I like pretending this sideblog is for musical theatre/ plz lmk if I screw up an image/video description! I try my best

[barricade-blondes]

Harry Potter stans i hate you on a fundamental and personal level. Get gone or get blocked.

[doriangraysrockcollection]

i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while

[blueisconfused]

piggybacking off the “orphydice = black and orange cat” thing. i feel like they’re the type to look up in a silent room and just. meow once at each other. maybe they don’t like the silence or maybe they have nothing else to say but orpheus sits up and goes “mrrow” and eurydice, laying down on their bed, automatically goes “maow” back. and then they just continue on with their day

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

the fact that on my way out of seeing the hadestown proshot with my sibling i was walking to the theater exit and without even thinking about it i turned around to see where they were... yeah. yeah.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

like. you can be frustrated at orpheus. you can be heartbroken for orpheus and eurydice. you should be. but when you're walking together and your loved one isn't right next to you that instinct to turn around and check on them is as natural as breathing

[robertjosephmaccready-moved]

remember when cosette said she was leaving to england and marius was like “what. what the. no. no you’re not.” and cosette was like “well!!! just come with us” and marius just “what is wrong with you. what are you talking about. i’ve been wearing the same pair of pants every day for two months. do you really expect me to be able to go to england.” and then he slammed his head against a tree and stood that way for two hours while cosette cried

[thebesturl]

that… was not in the movie?

[robertjosephmaccready-moved]

no but it should have been

[dorodraws]

truly a scene that merits illustration

[timetravelcreature]

i find it so cool how each hadestown character represents a different way of coping with and existing in late stage capitalism

orpheus: the artist/the activist, he wants to make things better and feels a sense of urgency, causing him to pour everything he has into it at the expense of his personal relationships

eurydice: the impoverished/the working class, to busy worrying about where her next meal is coming from to be able to devote time into organizing for a better world, the only way for her to survive is to become a pawn of the system

persephone: coping through substance use/escapism, she sees how fucked up the world is and the only way she can cope with it is through drowning her feelings in substances and partying just to feel some sense of joy and release

and of course hades, the 1%, the only one who benefits from all of this taking and taking, the nonstop extraction of labor and resources. he will never be satisfied, he will always want more power and more wealth.

anyways the proshot was so good everyone go get involved in ur community us organizers are tired and burnt out we could use the extra hands <3

[sophie-frm-mars]

Today (Wednesday 5th Aug 2026) the UK has brought into force a trans segregationist policy stating that single sex spaces must be defined by sex assigned at birth, effectively a trans bathroom ban the same as many of the most right wing states of the US. On top of this, the guidance now in force mandates that trans people be outed non-consensually at their workplace and asked to use the incorrect bathroom by their employers, which will drive higher unemployment in an already disproportionately unemployed and unemployable population.

Today is a deeply horrible and dark day in British democracy as a policy pushed by a select few fascists engaging in a campaign of bullying, sexual harassment, lawfare and institutional capture have pushed through a policy that the vast majority disagree with oriented around harming a tiny minority of the population.

The only solution that will create change is that trans people need to organise. When this guidance was first proposed I wrote the following essay, outlining the specifics of how someone can set up a trans assembly from which harm reduction structures can be formed and clear directions from the trans community can be given to our cis allies, strengthening our political position and creating a pathway back towards being recognised as human beings while protecting the most vulnerable amongst us in the meantime.

I am aware of half a dozen locations where people have started organising towards a trans assembly since I made this, although none of them are in the UK. We desperately need this kind of organising here. We need trans assemblies and we need community formed and focused harm reduction structures.

I have made myself available to people who have started holding regular assemblies in other places to review their constitutions and organising structures and consult with them to get them off the ground, and I may at some point write a followup comparing the results. I am more than happy to help anyone who is putting together a project like this.

Please share this and organise like our lives depend on it.

[im-mender]

post: I noticed that in act 1 there's a loaded gun mounted on the wall there. I bet by the end of act 2 it will have been fired

all the replies: you're a fucking idiot

*after act 2*

all the replies: how the fuck did you know that

[im-mender]

okay but we can't know for sure that the loud noise and bright flash offstage—which occurred after the character who was holding the gun exited the stage with it—was a gunshot, because we didn't get to directly see it

[doriangraysrockcollection]

i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while

[phallicthimble]

I'll happily take this over a fifty five page detour about the Battle of Waterloo.

[paupers-minor-chord]

i'm a fan of marius pontmercy from hit 1985 musical les misérables in the sense that he's sweet and has excellent angst potential and i want to give him a hug. i'm a fan of marius pontmercy from hit 1862 novel les misérables in the sense that i want to study him under a microscope like a bug.

[elphabaoftheopera]

FAVORITE MUSICALS BY DECADE

Favorite musical of the 2000s

Seussical (2000)

Mamma Mia! (2001)

Hairspray (2002)

The Last Five Years (2002)

Wicked (2003)

The Light in the Piazza (2005)

The Drowsy Chaperone (2006)

Spring Awakening (2006)

Shrek the Musical (2008)

Next to Normal (2009)

Voting ended onAug 2

Vote by decade!

pre-1950s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

*disclaimer under the cut*

Disclaimer: Due to the nature of musicals being workshopped for many years and having multiple openings (London, Off-Broadway, Broadway, etc.) I am in *most cases* choosing when said show opened on Broadway (if applicable).

If I left out your favorite? From the bottom of my heart...my bad. To limit lists to ten many didn't make the cut 😩 Please vote for your fave and share your missing fave in the tags!)

[energyprison]

day 1 of not jerking off anymore

[energyprison]

starting day one of nofap today

[energyprison]

starting today im not gonna be jerking off

[energyprison]

day one no more masturbating

[energyprison]

nofap day one

[energyprison]

day one no more jerking off

[energyprison]

starting nofap today

[energyprison]

no more masturbating starting today

[dilfhamlet]

[dilfhamlet]

the literal only funny tags on this entire post

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[untimelytophat]

@crabussy

[crabussy]

as someone in the field of ecological conservation, I can promise without a shadow of a doubt that people DO care. SO MANY people care.

I have to race to sign up to volunteer trips because even with dozens of spots available, people rush to devote their unpaid free time to helping the environment. these trips often fill up within hours. people care.

you will see a lot of bad news because that is the kind of news that people pay the most attention to. I know this more than you'd think from my optimism- not only do I live somewhere facing some of the most extreme ecological issues on the planet, I also spend my time studying the Bad Stuff every single day.

to see all of this firsthand and stay hopeful is proof enough that there IS hope. I promise there is good news, brilliant news, all the time. it's just less visible. but it's no less important or impactful.

[psychic-waffles]

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.

[jayalaw]

This is Dolores Umbridge-level bullshit

[crazysodomite]

The popularity of the "incompetent stupid piece of shit husband and competent wife who loves him anyways" trope in media is a psyop to make women believe its normal to settle for an incompetent stupid piece of shit husband

[crazysodomite]

But if a woman acted incompetent once then she will be literally crucified in the street and she's evil for manipulating her husband into settling for less and suddenly it's not a silly endearing sitcom trope 🤔

[incorrectheathers]

Veronica: …Sunglasses?

Heather Chandler: Did you think I didn’t own an accessory for the specific purpose of sassily telling people to deal with it?

Veronica: Fair.