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[leonardcohenofficial]

Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91

He was the theater’s most revered and influential composer-lyricist of the last half of the 20th century and the driving force behind some o

may his memory be a blessing

[oatmilkovich]

i don’t even know how to explain to non musical theatre people that we genuinely just lost shakespeare — i can’t even think of another comparison that may even remotely come close. there was no one like him and there never will be. a league of his own, the greatest of the greats.

[goldenagc]

Favorite Sondheim Songs- {4/25} 

Sunday from Sunday in the Park with George

As we pass through arrangements of shadow.

Toward the verticals of trees.

Forever.

[gentlemanhoneyfarmer]

[carlaconnors]

Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel hugging after singing ‘For Good’ from Wicked, 2003 and 2021. 

[psycho-mocha]

we are more than halfway through 2021 and I have no fucking idea what I did all year

[zimjaeyun-deactivated20220116]

fuck it’s august??? what’s next? 2022???? can’t do this anymore

[whisperwhisk]

at family dinners

[unescapable]

me: talk less, smile more

me: don’t let them know what you’re against or what you’re for

[tenya]

jokes aside, and i can’t believe i even have to say this, but don’t give this website your card credentials. it’s not secure. it’s proved time and time again that your information isn’t as safe as it claims to be, and if the neverending sunglasses plague is anything to go by, then it’s only a matter of time before more than just your blog gets taken from you. 

[dontcallmenymphadorra]

do you ever pick up a book, read the first page and realise that you are about to fall in love with it, and you know that it will stick with you yet haunt you for many years ?? like no matter how hard you try it will be a piece of you now, dictating your perspectives and views ? apart of you feels so much anticipation, joy and excitement, but apart of you is like what the fuck have you done you silly sausage 

[cesaray]

[bryansomething]

I had this scheduled because it’s May 18th but it has an entirely new meaning this year

[buckyegans]

i wish john mulaney and anna marie nothing but the best. respect their privacy and continue to support john tonight, but respect them, there are things we don’t know.

[fandom-oracle]

queer as in gay but also queer as in unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

[disconnection-notice-deactivate]

Don't talk about weight loss and diets to your daughter, don't talk about weight loss and diets around your daughter, don't comment on your daughter's weight, don't tell her she has to weigh herself every once in a while, don't ruin your daughter's relationship with food, don't make her feel bad about the way she looks. I'm sorry if diet culture fucked you up but please try to break the cycle instead of perpetuating it. Thanks.

[lovingloudly-archived]

it’s a new month !!!!!!! and i hope something wonderful happens in it for you !!!!!

[fuckyeahjuliankeller]

it’s anthony mackie o’clock, please bear with me. (long post).

(again, i mean no disrespect or hate towards any of the white actors and actresses in tfatws, including sebastian stan!!)

but i was reading through the interview that anthony mackie gave for variety magazine (2021) and there was one thing he said that, in light of recent comments and takes i have seen regarding the unequal consideration of sebastian stan and anthony mackie’s acting and characters in tfatws, really resonated with me.

this? this is awful. this quote shows that not only does anthony mackie know that he is viewed in this light by critics and fans of the white actors whose fame he watched from the sidelines, it shows that this is normal for him. 

anthony mackie is so used to being sidelined and looked over that it is normal for him to feel like that.

anthony mackie went to juilliard. juilliard. the legendary performing arts school. he worked his way through project after project, was forced to watch his white costars’ celebrity rise from the sidelines of many of them, but kept acting and taking projects that were important to him (ie. the banker, shelter, detroit, the hate u give). he is a very talented actor with excellent range, an actor who tries to understand every character he portrays and works to the peak of his ability to play them accurately.

and it is evident that in the mcu, in the case of sam wilson, he has done a fantastic job. 

he took mcu sam wilson from a potentially two-dimensional cap sidekick to having a personality highly suggestive of the fleshed out, opinionated, reckless hero that he is in the comics, and that portrayal likely would not have come through in ca:tws and beyond from a lesser actor. 

mackie has also mentioned in interviews that one of his greatest concerns is that of the success of tfatws, because he has felt that if the show flops greatly the marvel executives are going to see his casting as nothing more than a mistake. 

that is also heartbreaking. he has done nothing to deserve feeling like that, yet he is so used to being kept in the shadows that that is honestly how he feels about his first lead in a major franchise. 

so i hope i don’t see everyone talking solely about sebastian stan’s acting. and completely glossing over the fact that even from the trailers and clips, anthony mackie has had a magnanimous presence in the show and in the story.

because that is already, unfortunately, happening.

this goes back to what some people had mentioned on my previous post that i had noticed as well, where. it was sebastian stan’s tag trending after the big tfatws content day, while mackie’s was not.

that’s absurd. mackie is the other lead of this show, not even cast in a side role this time, and he is still being sidelined by fans in favour of yet another white man. and sebastian is an excellent actor in his own right, yes, but nothing warrants ignoring anthony mackie’s presence in the show, as he is the other lead.

as fans, we have the ability and therefore the responsibility to make this the show where mackie can have faith that he truly is a main character and the lead in what is going to be a very successful tv show, not just a prop for yet another white man. 

we have the power to do that.

and mackie damn well deserves it.

i yield my time once more. <3

[zeebraless-deactivated20220409]

Nia Dennis, from UCLA, 2021 Floor Exercise

We love to see it.😎

[blackexcellence]

“Black culture is not really recognized or known in the sport of gymnastics, so it was really important to me to bring that into the light of gymnastics”

-Nia Dennis, Collegiate Gymnast