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what people need to understand is that ariana grande is able to pull off every single one of galinda's physical gags because that woman was in the comedy trenches of nickelodeon's victorious and anyone who was forced to show feet in front of dan schneider is walking away with a level of commitment to the bit that human beings were not built to perceive
He Who Laughs Last - Laughs Best
By Toby Rosenthal circa 1876
Old paintings don't have to always be serious, you know
WICKED (2024) — dir. Jon M. Chu insp.
"The best actors show us everything while trying to hide it."
Just give Ariana the Oscar already.
I CRYUNG I NEED SOMEONE TO SUM UP ALL ETM SONGS MY. MEMORY + ATTENTION SPAN IS SO BAD
Let’s speed run epic the musical so far!! (It’s under the cut cause even a summary is gonna take a bit for 35 songs-)
"That was beneath me" is such a delightfully funny way to apologise. Like yeah I did something shitty that I regret doing, and I'm ready to admit to both of those points, but you're shitting squirrels if you think I'm going to get off my moral high horse to do that.
i think a big part of expanding your intellectual curiosity and trying to learn new things about the world is to abandon the shame of not knowing things. don't blame "the US school system" (which US school system????), don't blame your teachers, don't blame society, but embrace the fact that you are going to be learning new things constantly, throughout your life. practice saying "i really need to read about that" or "does anyone know of any good sources to learn about xyz?" or "hold on i gotta go check wikipedia/a world map/the dictionary/the news." every single day, there will be something you don't know already. that something doesn't have to be embarrassing. instead it can be an opportunity to learn something new
shame makes you shut down, and dig in your heels, and refuse to engage. curiosity takes practice, it takes conscious effort, and it takes patience. including patience with yourself
My students are routinely surprised when they ask "Do you know {thing}?" and I cheerfully say "No, tell me about it!"
But it's an incredibly important thing for me to model. Plus I learn stuff and that's cool.
I think about this a lot.
Oh Eurylochus, you would have loved being a girl dad
AHHHHHH THIS IS SO ADORABLE
reading gomens for the first time, something something, Crowley gave humans freedom and Aziraphale gave humans the ability to fight for freedom. ik we know this but im thinking about it again and im ill
Yes, and without meaning to do either, because--it cannot be emphasized enough--they are ridiculous.
Did you know Vergil signed his name in the first lines of The Aeneid and it was just discovered within the past ten years?
Read more: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44081062
Can we talk more about how powerful these musicals are together? pleaseeee
There was an earthquake, There was an avalanche of change, We were so afraid, We cried ourselves a hurricane
Earth by Sleeping at Last stimboard!
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Every other post on my dash is FINE, but the library ghost post is also haunted apparently??? Just thought you'd appreciate the irony.
Certified GHOST POST! 👻 I love this thank you!
could you draw Leto in your style?
Best mom :D
(Have baby Artemis and baby Apollo too)
Baby Artemis and baby Apollo in this picture are the cutest EVER
Look, I know it's silly, but seeing the Good Omens tag trending for seemingly no real reason always makes me smile.
So many of us love this story so much and share our love so often that, when nothing big is happening, we're just...here. Being silly loving nerds together. Talking about angels and demons and Bentleys and bookshops and cottages by the shore. Breaking each other's hearts and patching them back up again.
I'm glad to be here with you.
So... Wicked is coming back in style. And as such I need to make a little informative post.
Because since as early as my arrival onto the Internet, in the distant years of the late 2000s, a lot of people have been treating Wicked as some sort of "official" part of the Oz series. As part of the Oz canon or as THE "original" work everything else derives from (literaly, some people, probably kids, but did believe the MGM movie was made BASED on Wicked...) And as an Oz fan, that bothers me.
[Damn, ever since I watched Coco Peru's videos her voice echoes in my brain each time I say this line.]
So here's a few FACTS for you facts lovers.
The Wicked movie that is coming out right now (I was sold this as a series, turns out it is a movie duology?) is a cinematic adaptation of the stage musical Wicked created by Schwartz and Holzman, the Broadway classic and success of the 2000s (it was created in 2003).
Now, the Wicked musical everybody knows is itself an adaptation - and this fact is not as notorios, somehow? The Wicked musical is the adaptation of a novel released in 1995 by Gregory Maguire, called Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. A very loose and condensed adaptation to say the least - as the Wicked musical is basically a lighter and simplified take on a much darker, brooding and mature tale. Basically fans of the novel have accused the musical of being some sort of honeyed, sugary-sweet, highschool-romance-fanfic-AU, while those who enjoyed the musical and went to see the novel are often shocked at discovering their favorite musical is based on what is basically a "dark and edgy - let's shock them all" take on the Oz lore. (Some do like both however, apparently? But I rarely met them.)
A side-fact which will be relevant later, is that this novel was but the first of a full series of novel Oz wrote about a dark-and-adult fantasy reimagining of the land of Oz - there's Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, Out of Oz, and more.
However the real fact I want to point out is that Maguire's novel, from which the musical itself derives, is a "grimmification" (to take back TV Tropes terminology) of the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard of Oz. The movie everybody knows when it comes to Oz, but that everybody forgets is itself the adaptation of a book - the same way people forget the Wicked musical is adapted from a novel. The MGM movie is adapted from L. Frank Baum's famous 1900 classic for children The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - and a quite loose adaptation that reimagines a lot of elements and details.
Now, a lot of people present Maguire's novel as being based/inspired/a revisionist take on Baum's novel... And that's false. Maguire's Wicked novel is clearly dominated by and mainly influenced by the MGM movie, with only a few book elements and details sprinkled on top. Mind you, the sequels Maguire wrote do take more elements, characters and plot points from the various Oz books of Baum... But they stay mostly Maguire's personal fantasy world. Yes, Oz "books" in plural - because that's a fact people tend to not know either... L. Frank Baum didn't just write one book about the Land of Oz. He wrote FOURTEEN of them, an entire series, because it was his most popular sales, and his audience like his editor pressured him to produce more (in fact he got sick of Oz and tried to write other books, but since they failed he was forced to continue Oz novels to survive). Everybody forgot about the Oz series due to the massive success of the starter novel - but it has a lot of very famous sequels, such as The Marvelous Land of Oz or Ozma of Oz (the later was loosely adapted by Disney as the famous 80s nostalgic-cursed movie Return to Oz).
So... To return to my original point. The current Wicked movies are not directly linked in any way to Baum's novel. The Wicked musical was already as "canon" and as "linked" to the MGM movie as 2013's Oz The Great and Powerful by Disney was. As for Maguire's novel, due to its dark, mature, brooding and more complex worldbuilding nature, I can only compare it to the recent attempt at making a "Game of Thrones Oz" through the television series Emerald City.
The Wicked movies coming out are separated from Baum's novel at the fourth degree. Because they are the movie adaptation of a musical adaptation of a novel reinventing a movie adaptation of the original children book.
And I could go even FURTHER if you dare me to and claim the Wicked movies are at the 5TH DEGREE! Because a little-known-fact is that the MGM movie was not a direct adaptation of Baum's novel... But rather took a lot of cues and influence from the massively famous stage-extravaganza of 1902 The Wizard of Oz... A musical adaptation of Baum's novel, created and written by Baum himself, and that was actually more popular than the novel in the pre-World War II America. It was from this enormous Broadway success (my my, how the snake bites its tail - the 1902 Wizard of Oz was the musical Wicked of its time) that, for example, the movie took the idea of the Good Witch of the North killing the sleeping-poppies with snow.
This is why comparative literature is objectively the coolest major ever. (Yeah, yeah, it was mine back in the day.)
Tracing works through genres and adaptations and revamps, looking at the decisions made, is just FUN. (My other major was Spanish; the classic comp-lit examples are the sprawling Don Juan Tenorio-verse, the bazillion allusions and piss-takes in Don Quixote -- there is literally nothing Cervantes hadn't read -- and the entire picaresque genre. Do not, however, talk to me about pastorals; they're awful.)
I am personally SO HAPPY about Good Omens 3 not being cancelled. I hate that everyone is writing it off before they see it. I trust Micheal Sheen and David Tennant to play their characters wonderfully as they always do. 90 minutes is a lot more than you think.
If you think it can’t be done? Let’s put it into perspective:
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (75 minutes)
- Toy Story (81 minutes)
- Stand By Me (89 minutes)
- My Neighbor Totoro (86 minutes)
HAVE FAITH GOOD OMENS FANS. HAVE FAITH. WE CAN DO THIS.
