A little breath of air

So many things to be geeky about, so little time. (OurFlagMeansDeath LordoftheRings TheMCU TheMiddleman Galavant TheAdventureZone Firefly VeronicaMars Sherlock QI StevenUniverse AvatartheLastAirbender Futurama TheMuppets Pixar PhineasandFerb Freakazoid Animaniacs BatmantheAnimatedSeries BatmanBeyond JemandtheHolograms Discworld RobinMcKinley TamoraPierce JenniferCrusie MusicalTheatre GilbertandSullivan

[danixlo]

I think I found out the cast for the US tour

Hopefully I'm not wrong

[stitchposts]

Hey if you're coming to Washington DC for the Fourth of July: don't

We're having our turn in the heat wave and reports from the National Mall are brutal already this week. That screenshot is today's forecast (courtesy of the Capital Weather Gang) and tomorrow and Saturday are confidently going to be worse than this is.

The national Mall has no shade on the grass and you will be exposed to the sun constantly while also experiencing extremely high humidity. You will not be allowed a bag over a certain size to enter the mall and it has to be clear. You cannot have an insulated water bottle, it has to be clear. Reports are that there are two entrances to the area so you'll have to wait in line to even get in. I cannot find a number on how many cooling stations there are, except that it's "few" to "none" depending on what accounts I read online. Vendors are allegedly charging more than the posted prices and seem to be unprepared for actual crowds - these are the official vendors not the scam food trucks that park all around the edges of the mall. And that's the extent of the planning done because it was not a priority to make sure attendees don't pass out.

My local friends and I have reached a consensus that tourists are going to get extremely sick and none of us know what the EMT response or planning is on the mall this year. People are going to die.

Please stay out of this. It's not worth your health. Get your relatives and family to stop. I can give you recs for so many DC museums and things to do if you want to make the most of your trip. Any other local can too.

[sztupy]

A good day for Trump supporters to get a heat stroke

[stitchposts]

I cannot convey to you how much I do not want literal goddamn children to die. Also frankly, how I do not our local emts to have to watch any tourists die on their watch.

There is historically an assumption that attendees will have access to planned amenities. It's not in place this year of all years. There is a very real risk here and I'm trying to warn people, because people simply don't know how awful this is about to be.

Get fucked. This is very clearly a post trying to help people instead of rubbing my hands in glee.

[brawlite]

i have lived in the dc area for over 30 years, and the july 4 fireworks are simply just a huge event for tourists and locals, regardless of who is in office—it's a yearly tradition for so, so many families. the city gets absolutely jam packed with people, especially with children and older adults.

and dc is a swamp, literally. when we hit a heat wave like this, the heat just settles; it doesn't break at night and there's just zero relief, especially without shade in places like the mall. and without cooling stations or literally any other planning or precautions, people will get sick. they will get hurt. they will die.

if you know anyone planning on going, please tell them to stay home or find something else to do. watch the fireworks from somewhere else.

hoping everyone stays cool and safe.

[ella-ventic]

Adding to the "this is a bad idea, don't do it" warnings:

The entrances to the Mall will stop letting people in at 6:00 PM. The fireworks aren't scheduled to start until 10:30 PM, and might not start until 11:00. If you want to see the fireworks, you are stuck on the Mall for a MINIMUM of four and a half hours.

At 6 PM that day, it is forecast to be 100ºF. At 11 PM, it will still be 90ºF.

People are already complaining about the lack of places to cool down, and it's just going to get worse in the coming days.

ALSO. The official statement is that they are planning to set off 850,000 fireworks for the show. That is MANY TIMES more than the maximum has ever been before. The smoke is expected to hang around and make BREATHING a misery--the amount of pollutants they'll release will be off the charts. WaPo is reporting that the National Park Service recommends wearing an N95 outdoors and if at all possible staying indoors during the show.

And that's not just a recommendation for people with asthma or other respiratory issues! That's for EVERYONE.

...And I haven't mentioned something that could throw a further wrench into everything: there's also a thunderstorm forecast for that evening. Who knows what will end up actually happening.

So yeah, don't go to this. BE SAFE. DON'T DIE.

[goshyesthemiddleman]

the fanblog memory-jog stratagem

oh my god it's been a full 10 years since my last post on this blog. uh, hi everyone.

sorry to say that this website completely changing up (ruining) its tag system really threw a wrench into my ability to find things to post here. there was also the simple passage of time, to be fair. but lately i've been thinking of saying hi again, at least once.

not sure who all is still around but if you're still following this blog, thank you — it means a lot to me and so does this show, still. i recently moved across the country and brought my DVDs, comics, scripts, and no less than 3 framed posters/prints with me.

it is, still, hard for me to explain what this show was and meant/means to me without launching into a long, impassioned speech about it that may alarm passersby with its volume.

it's even harder to show it to anyone without physically sitting down on a couch with them and popping in the DVDs because it is not on traditional streaming and it's hard to find decent copies available online through other means.

but i did remember that about six months ago, javi posted this link on bluesky, which might be worth checking out, winks and nudges and all that.

i hope you're all well, wherever you are, and doing your best to keep hoping and fighting in the face of so much turmoil and injustice in the world.

and if this post from a blog you forgot you followed back in 2013 reminds you of a show you once loved and even inspires you to click the above link to perhaps revisit it, well then... my plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity.

art crawl forever,

jd (the only mod this blog's ever had)

[lilmissharridan]

They are the theatre-est theatre kids to ever theatre kid and I adore them.

[montlie]

New Mincemeat Broadway tiktok 👀

[dandelionjack]

DOCTOR WHO FAN HUSBANDRY TIP — it’s Squabble About The Show Saturday. make sure to give your pet whovian plenty of space to engage in discourse, they will likely be belligerent and on edge, and may resort to name-calling and/or accusations of disrespect. tread carefully and avoid loud noises, they are deep in thought. luckily for you all, tomorrow is Shitpost About The Show Sunday, by which most of the tension would have been defused into humour

[astrayan]

Reblog if your blog is boopable-safe so you can get all the (probably new) achievements. I don’t care about notes I just want boops

[fruitviking]

It's Little Shop of Horrors Day!

On the 23rd day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence...

[ella-ventic]

(only in the film, of course! The narration of the stage version starts on the twenty-FIRST. I wonder why they changed it!)

[vampirlor]

the sutekh was literally the only one around to know that ruby's mom wanted her to be named ruby so did he fill out those social services forms like whats going on

[animezinglife]

"What do you want to do for a living?"

[ella-ventic]

(Doctor Who spoilers)

Okay, but, all that wistful sighing that you don't even know his real name, while sending his ship into orbit.

...You don't think that maybe the second one of those things could help you with the first one of those things?

[ella-ventic]

Dot and Bubble question

(Spoilers, sweetie!)

So at the end, the idiot entitled racist guy who was like "I'm the leader!" (to differentiate him from all the other idiot entitled racist guys) was named Brewster Cavendish.

But, like, Cavendish, though!

How the hell did he survive that long?

(Second question: it looked like the Doctor realized something right at the end there, right? Figured something out as he was stepping back into the TARDIS. Hmmmmmm.)

[solomonara]

Today is May 25

Truth

Justice

Freedom

Reasonably priced love

A hard boiled egg

Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never FORGOT. He just put the memori...

Voting ended onMay 26, 2024

[ella-ventic]

Spaceship screen: PACIFICO DEL RIO

Ruby Sunday: It's in English!

[that-fruitier-emo-deactivated20]

What was everyone's first musical?

Heathers

Mean Girls

Newsies

Les Miserables

Little shop of horrors

Beetlejuice

Kinky boots

Rent/Tick tick boom

The lightning theif

Six

Mamma Mia

Other (sorry I ran out of room)

Voting ended onApr 8, 2024

Say in the tags!

[theprofessional-amateur]

Oh hey, do you know what time it is? It is highly specific resource time!

Today we have the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank! There are HUNDREDS of stitch types in the RSN Stitch Bank.

And more added regularly, let’s look at a recent addition

I picked the first one in the 25 recently added Elizabethan stitches, the Elizabethan French Stitch

The stitch bank provides written and photo tutorials as well as a video option to learn to do it yourself. There are examples of the stitch in use, resources, references, everything but a needle and thread!

RSN Stitchbank

rsnstitchbank.org

[vincentbriggs]

I looked at some of the tutorials last night and holy shit I'm so impressed! They're SO thorough! Not only do they have written and video instructions, but there are photo and illustration options for each image AND a "flip view" button so that left handed people can see all the images in reverse!

[ella-ventic]

Five minutes ago I didn't know this existed, and now it's the only site I ever want to go to ever again

[janjan-the-ninth]

For Boop-Badges Collectors

Rough estimate: It's possible to reach 1000 boops in less than 2 hours (took me 1:30h), if you got some people to spam it to.

If you are a blog where people can spam boop's to, reblog this.