War & Peace & Crippling Depression

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[hall-of-benevolence]

OOC: Donation for Rahaf and Ahmed, and their father Ibrahim in Gaza

This is a recent message I have received from my friend Ibrahim in Gaza, whose situation I have personally verified via video call all the way back in 2024 and remained in contact with. As a full time student, I do what I can to financially support him and his family, but what I can do is limited. If you have any means, we would be immensely grateful if you can donate via the links below. Otherwise, we would also appreciate if you can reblog this so it can reach more people.

His Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/ibrahimgaza97?igsh=MW9qczVkaDR1amdpcg==

Donation link

My Story… From Repeated Displacement to the Dream of Stability

My Story… From Repeated Displacement to the Dream of Stability

Go to paypal.me/vivanti and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

[timecomets]

Oh Pierre…

[cat-astro-phi]

I just don't knwo what to post

inspired by this drawing that's achilles with knuckle tattoos that say THE ILIAD which I can't find for the life of me if anyone has it please lmk I want to give credit 😭😭

[midmodmar]

so war and peace is that good huh. ok.

[pureanonofficial]

Tveit breaks down the show's new approach for Entertainment Weekly. "It's being presented as almost a concert evening," he says. "There's real book scenes and everything, but it's in the sense that we are all players putting forward this piece and everyone can come and go out of scenes. A lot of people are going to be on stage at the same time.

It's so over.

[pureanonofficial]

Chess the musical fans watching the Broadway revival with potentially the worst libretto in Chess history be announced.

[godlessondheimite]

this is the funniest thing anyone has ever said about chess the musical

[alwaysbeyondhope]

I need to not be the only Chess fan that just CANNOT get behind whatever monstrosity is currently living in the Imperial right now. Because I feel like I’m losing my mind.

I just…can’t. I’ve tried. I’ve tried listening to pieces of it, I’ve tried coming in with an open mind, I’ve tried putting aside all the ICK that I feel because this is Chess, it’s my favorite musical, the music and the lyrics are still there. But I JUST.CAN’T.DO.IT

It’s not that I need it to be a “definitive” Chess. It’s not that it doesn’t include things from other productions. I don’t need the show to be the same as others, or to be “fixed.” But fucking hell this isn’t Chess. I refuse to believe that the bastardization of all of these characters, the (poorly-written) Whedon-inspired dialogue, the overplaying of The Cold War, comes together as a legitimate representation of the musical Chess.

I’ve never felt more like Dark!Willow than right now, because if I had the power to inflict some sort of harm on Danny Strong’s character I would do it. He wasn’t even a footnote in my thoughts and I now want to watch his world burn (maybe not that extreme but FUCK YOU DANNY STRONG FUCK YOU ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE COLD WAR YOU’RE SO OBSESSED WITH).

I tried. I did. But it’s ruined and it’s tainted and I hate it I hate it now I hate seeing any news about Chess and that might be the saddest thing of all.

Nothing can redeem this show for me. Not Nicholas Christopher - which would probably be the closest thing to do it. Nothing can redeem it. And I’m just drowning in the Chess tag with everyone loving it - having their opinions, having their critiques - but overall loving it.

And I feel insane as everyone talks it up despite its flaws and all I can do is seethe in a corner by myself wondering where all the other Chess fans are that hate this production.

It can’t just be me.

[the-grollican]

i love you ishmael “god wont let me die” mobydick

[theres-no-deal]

The Imperial Theater, my beloved

[meringuehearts]

19th century yaoi >>>

[offarawaysnfuturedays-inmydreams]

productions of Chess that give Anatoly children should specify at least one of them is a daughter for the extra angst of Florence realising he chose to leave his daughter behind when he defected

[officecyborg]

I don’t think you need to read War & Peace to follow Great Comet but reading it after adds a delightful amount of context to certain character dynamics and lines. For example, when Hélène says “Your fiancé would want you to have fun / Rather than be bored to death”, you’re like “No! Natasha, she’s manipulating you! Andrey wouldn’t want you to ‘have fun’ if it means cheating on him!” But with the additional context of the book you realize that Andrey would also not want her to have fun, because he hates fun.

[lesmiserabelles]

Look, Dolokhov's coming around And we're off to the club Will you come, old man?

jamie muscato as anatole and declan bennett as pierre / donmar warehouse, 2025

master: hitmewithyourbethshot

[lumpatronics]

SERVICE DOG PSA

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him

[thetenderpassion]

[otrtbs]

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[comradebezukhov]

[can-of-w0rmz]

Just started War And Peace. My contribution: