Cats And Books

Broadway too.

[austinmckenziesource]

@hannahjeanrose: Austin Mckenzie performing “Thinking of You”. Everyone on stage was very moved by the performance - Ivory cried.

[mientus-andrew]

andymientus: Oh-oh-oh-oh my God @evantattoo x @got.legs x @kathryngallagher

kathryngallagher: Oh-oh-oh-oh yeah yeah yeah @evantattoo x @got.legs x @andymientus

michaelarden: Speaking of Pride… my husband and lover/mom, Kathryn, just got matching tattoos of the chalk circles they drew in @springbway I’m so proud that an artistic experience bloomed into this friendship and this permanent ink.

[gallaghersam-deactivated2015050]

shakespeare’s character descriptions/stage directions/contexts are so vague it makes me so happy. wanna make Laertes hamlet’s ex boyfriend? doesn’t say HE’S NOT. wanna make juliet a trans girl? WHERE IN THE SCIRPT DOES IT SAY SHE ISN’T??? fucking put King Lear in SPACE set that shit on the enterprise THERE ARE NO RULES IN SHAKESPEARE 

[dzamie]

The best part is that pretty much all of the fights are “they fight” with no mention of whether it’s with swords or throwing knives or kung-fu or if they just do the slappy-hands thing at each other.

[ygrittebardots]

the only rule in shakespeare is that a bear must show up in the winter’s tale. could be a grizzly. polar. panda. hell, antigonus could’ve wandered into a gay club.

[grizzlythresher]

@exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear

[exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear]

yiss

[hedgehogian]

In Defense of Holden Caulfield

I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever understand why exactly people hate Holden Caulfield from “The Catcher in the Rye”.

I mean, sure, you could defend your dislike with a classic gem such as, “Oh, he’s just a whiny, pretentious f***boy! He’s so boring, all he does is complain!”

But at that I’m just like

okay, wow, I’m sorry the incredibly depressed mentally ill teenager who has no true friends and is constantly being ignored by the people he tries to reach out to and is constantly being told he’s useless and a bad influence by his peers and has alluded to being sexually molested by multiple people as a little kid and has to deal with the pain and hardship of growing up in a world he can’t help but see as superficial and hypocritical and WHOSE CLASSMATE FRICKIN’ COMMITTED SUICIDE IN FRONT OF HIM isn’t a conventionally cheerful or likeable protagonist????

I don’t understand why that’s so hard for people to grasp; it just straight up BAFFLES me. I mean, people eke out all sorts of ways to like downright villains like Alex (DeLarge) or Loki or Ramsay Snow/Bolton, or antiheros like Jaime/Cersei Lannister, Sherlock Holmes, etc.

Why is it so hard to dole out a little sympathy for Holden, who, ultimately, just wants to protect children from the evils of the world—arguably one of the noblest and most heartbreakingly tender aspirations of all?

[odaatgifs]

@onedayatatime accepts @Lin_Manuel’s dare 2 sing @HamiltonMusical 2 raise $ http://prizeo.com/hamilton #HamForAll We dare @CWJaneTheVirgin !

[iameverysparklywoman]

I think the most iconic thing about Wonder Woman is that she never has to prove herself as a woman, only as a warrior. Like this is a movie set during a point in time where (most, if not all) women couldn’t even vote and yet whenever she’s fighting there are no comments on her gender. She doesn’t have to seduce men and they don’t underestimate her-they just see her as something to shoot at. The fact that she’s a better fighter than Chris Pine doesn’t emasculate him like it would in any other movie, it’s a logical fact. Wonder Woman (2017) worked because it wasn’t trying so goddamn hard to convince you that a girl was worthy of fighting with the guys-it took that as fact and worked from there. And as a result, Diana got to experience such a complex and moving character evolution-optimism, doubt, a crisis of morality, and the development of a new, evolved worldview-that is incredibly rare if not unheard of in any movie with a female protagonist, let alone one in an action movie. Wonder Woman is this iconic feminist figure but the movie wasn’t selling store brand pseudo empowering “girl power,” it was a hero’s journey, a film about loss and doubt and growth whose hero just happened to be female, and as a result it was one of the most complex, resonant arguments for female personhood that I’ve ever seen on screen.

[hannibalism]

[ikenitycrisis]

I love how in Kaz and Inej’s relationship, it’s the subtle things that shows how much they care. Like how Kaz finds the guy that stabbed Inej and tortures him for information before throwing him over the side of a boat. 

what a charmer

[dirtyhandsandhiswraith-deactiva]

Kaz Brekker’s feelings for Inej Ghafa are so subtle! I wonder how anyone could even tell they’re there. His actions and words are so casual:

> i would physically drag my body to yours so i could save you

>i used the 4 million kruge that i’ve been saying is my sole motivation the last 1,000 pages to buy you a boat to kill slavers oh and also here is your long lost family so you don’t leave me to go to Ravka 

>i made sure the business that enslaved you was conveniently destroyed

>oh also i paid off the rest of your debt that binds you to the dregs, even though i’m so full of self-loathing that i believe you wouldn’t stay with me for any other reason 

>i will attempt to overcome my soul-crushing post-traumatic stress to kind of nuzzle your neck in this bathroom

A man of mystery, that brekker 

[dealbrekker]

I just. Like really love kanej???

[dftreadbooks]

a li'l Dear Evan Hansen painting

[your-theories-have-flaws]

Austin Mckenzie with the When We Rise cast at San Francisco pride via Instagram

@austinmckenziesource

[kevinmchalenews]

June 25, 2017

[dustbats-deactivated20170918]

I’m on medication that can make me spacey af, which can be a problem when I’m driving–like yesterday, for example, when my best friend was trying to help me avoid a pothole he said “to the left,” and I just mumbled “take it back now y'all” and hit the pothole straight on

[ten-and-donna]

Literally crying

[pursuitofhappinessss]

this is my favorite post on this website

[916gawd-deactivated20190411]

Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

[bryantsupreme]

Bury me with an mp3 of this on a USB drive. 🔥🔥🙌🏾

[imsoshive]

[farareusis]

alexander. i have to leave. ALEXANDER. look AROUND look aROUND, at how lucky we are to be alive right nowHELPLEEESSS they are ASKING me to lead look AROUND - isn’t THIS enough he will never be SATISwould it BE ENOUGH he will nevTO BE SATISFIIIIED SATISFIIIED sISTORY HAS ITS EEEEEEYES OOOOONNN YOU ASSUME YOU’RE THE SMARTEST IN THE NOOOOONNNN-STOP YOU WILL NEVER BE SATISWOULD IT BE ENOUGH SATISFIED BE ENOUGH FII-IIII-I-IIIIIEEED RUNNING OUT OF TIME WHY DO YOU WRITE LIKE HISTORY HAS ITS EEEEEYYYYYYYEEEESSSS OOOOOOONNNN YOU i am NOT throwing away my JUST YOU WAAAIT i am NOT THROWING AWAY MY JUST YOU WAAAIT I AM ALEXANDER HAMILTON!!! HAMILTON !!!! JUST you WAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT

I AM NOT THROWING AWAY! MY! SHOT!!!!!!!!

[dftreadbooks]

Why does this make sense

[johnny-3-tears]

This is the best thing I’ve ever seen in my life

[sasha-whos-askin-racket]

self-care is listening to the Spring Awakening soundtrack with headphones at full volume.