darkness will make you strong

Brenna. 27. From Florida, lives in Laos. queer/ace-spectrum. feminist. any pronouns, tbh. Dislikes: capitalism. the patriarchy. active ignorance. also cheetos. Likes: nature. magic. stories (tv/movies/books/whatever). tiny/sustainable living. rivers...all bodies of water really.

[squareallworthy]

Kids today with all their new types of guys. In my day we had only one type. That guy. And you didn't want to be him.

[squareallworthy]

Or sometimes we would call him this guy. "Get a load of this guy," we would say. But that was sarcasm. You didn't really want anyone to get a load of the guy.

[talesandfluff]

my question is, does Mamma Mia take place in

1) a universe where ABBA doesn’t exist and they’re just making up the songs as they go? 

2) a universe where ABBA DOES exist and everyone has rehearsed and memorized all of their songs just in case the situation arises where they might need one?

[newlyorange]

Okay so a production of Hamlet that ends with “Goodnight, sweet prince,” etc. and then Horatio looks up and sees the audience for the first time and is both shocked and furious, because his world is falling apart and you sat there and watched.

[devilsss-dyke-deactivated202202]

This idea would go fantastically well with my director’s idea that Hamlet knows the whole time that he’s in a play. He had me (when I played Hamlet) interact with the audience, exchange looks with people in the front row, deliver my soliloquies to people in the first few rows casually like I was just talking to them, and I even had the idea to not freeze and just walk about the stage when other characters had their little ‘asides,’ which he allowed me to keep in.

Basically, if Hamlet continuously acknowledges the audience unnoticed by all the other characters (almost Fleabag-style) and then suddenly he’s gone, and obviously he knew he’d have to be gone at the end, and then poor Horatio is left all alone to finally realize there was someone else there the entire time, now that would make it all the more devastating.

[wisteria-lodge]

There’s no difference between the Danish courtiers, who showed up because they wanted to see the Mad Prince get his butt kicked in a staged sword-fight, and us the audience (who… also showed up to watch Hamlet loose a sword fight.) 

I want to see a production where Horatio just stares at us, and screams “Now cracks a noble heart!” with the subtext “You fucking fuckers. He was better than all of you, you watched him die, and you just stood there.

Then, he just silently cries over the body. For like FIVE MINUTES. And the courtiers peel away into the wings, one by one, until Horatio is alone on stage with a lot of dead bodies. It starts getting uncomfortable. You’re thinking… is the play over? Am I supposed to go? (hamlet is just about the *only* play where the final scene is cut about 50% time, so use that uncertainty, use that ambiguity.) Maybe some people do get up to go. There’s definitely muttering. And then there’s smashing sounds coming from the direction of the box office, and Horatio looks up, with an expression like something’s gone wrong. 

But then he says, “Why do the drums come hither?” Fortinbras enters though the audience, and the play continues. 

(I *also* think it would be really cool to cut for intermission right after Claudius freaks out and breaks up the play-within-a-play. Just imagine it: king yells “Lights! Lights! Lights!” And the houselights come up.) 

[illonink]

All good. And also–

As Hamlet is dying in Horatio’s arms, he puts his hand on Horatio’s face and turns it toward us. And that’s when Horatio sees the theater.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[stitchy-queerista]

“Why should LGBT spaces cater to trans and non-binary people?”

“That’s the T, cis.”

[anonymous-leemur]

There are multiple puns and multiple social statements in those four words. It’s too powerful.

[mystery-ink]

“It is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it’s useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled up bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then next day you probably do much the same again - if to do that is human if that’s what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time.”

— Ursula K Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (via satanicangel)

[nyctosaurid]

not 2 exaggerate but the good place’s thesis of “if the modern pressures of life were removed, we would inherently seek out opportunities to learn and become better and kinder people” is a more interesting and valuable thing to say about society than anything that’s ever been said about cell phones

[kaotic-youth]

When Ursula K. Le Guin said that all the old stories tell us about hunting but really 65% of their diets were foraged, collected and gathered. And the only reason the stories persisted were because they were stories, frightening and heroic. And when Virginia Woolf tried to re-write the English language she wanted to replace the word Heroism with Botulism which is a kind of food poisoning. And heroes all started as men who almost died trying to hunt for food, food that wouldn’t be stored properly. And this idea of heroism started to infect our idea of humanity and how it started. And how Ursula K Le Guin said she wasn’t human if humanity was all about violence and hunting. And when Lillian Smith said that What Freud mistook for her lack of civilization is woman’s lack of loyalty to civilization because what history tells us is human is largely the story of men. And the story of men is pointed violent weapons, active things. And the lost history is that of the carrier, the recipient, the weaved basket used to carry grains. And the lost history is that of the women and how they too are carrier, recipients, almost passive holders of all the life they gathered. 

[oumaimas]

How I Go to the Woods, Mary Oliver

[meangirlnurse]

anyone else remember being a child and seeing the very neat handwriting of other little girls and somehow knowing that you were a different genre of person than they were

[lunarconception-deactivated2021]

literally no…i remember seeing bad handwriting & thinking “oh these other kids must be orphans or something”

[meangirlnurse]

fascinating to hear from the other genre, thanks for your contribution

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[amygdalae]

I say we stop counting years and start just fucking eyeballing that shit who's with me

[amygdalae]

in the pool as a child, id float on my back with my eyes shut tight until my head hit against a wall. doesnt it sound nice to be utterly set adrift like that, but in time? to float untethered and unfettered until the hand of some other force intervenes, not unlike the cement pool's edge? We've all earned a little break from the incessant counting of years wouldnt you say?

sit under this tree with me

[inqilabi]

All mothers I’ve ever known were effectively single mothers, even when they had a husband.

[maverick2095]

[tchaikovskaya]

a LOT of women agree with this but men like….. universally object its hilarious

[inqilabi]

case in point. And it’s actually the mom on a call and not the dad.

[addictedtocaring]

Tbh I predict a lot of post covid divorces. This is a very common story.

[crudefil]

A lot of people saying “grateful for my dad. whenever my mum couldnt make dinner, he would do it. if she was busy, he’d always chip in” are missing the point entirely. its not a woman’s job to do chores by default and whenever they cant, the man fills in the blanks. no! men and women should divide housework evenly ALWAYS! your dad should have been making dinner half the days of the week anyway.

[ip2lb]

[jasoncanty01]

[septicake]

I love how all of them carry a completely different tone than the others

[poseidont]

a concept: future jake and amy having a kid BUT amy goes into labour on halloween and jake has to figure out if amy is cheating him out of the heist or if he’s actually about to have a kid

[dizzybunnies]

bold of you to assume she didnt plan to get pregnant exactly 9 months before halloween so that its actually both

[mrgaretcarter]

bold of you to assume it wasnt jake who planned to get her pregnant exactly 9 months before so she’d be thrown off by contractions

[mrgaretcarter]

bold of all of us to assume Holt didn’t pick an exact date to compliment them both so they’d have validation horniness so that jake AND amy were in disadvantage during the heist

[disregardcanon]

Holt: your heteronormative lifestyle choices will bring about your demise

[popepauljohn]

[fuckyeahasexual]

Hello you need to see this drag performer talking about quantum physics, queer existence, and non-binary identities.

[enbees-and-aros]

[Video Description: A drag queen — who is credited as Amrou Al-Kadhi / Glamrou, a drag performer, writer, and filmmaker — stands in front of a microphone and explains,

“Quantum physics is this incredible sect of of physics, which basically…

With like, Newtonian physics — I think of it as heteronormative physics — where its basically ‘What are the fixed universal principles that govern the world? If I do A, will B happen? What are the formulas that’ll tell us anywhere in the universe, “What will happen if I input this?”’

Quantum physics is equally a “real” sect of physics that basically looks at subatomic particles — so the very smallest things in our universe, not the macro things — and they contradict basically everything that Newtonian physics shows us. So, the most famous experiment is the Double Slit Experiment, where you fire an electron and it should go through the left or right hole. And then every now and then, it goes through both at the same time. And we don’t really know why. And sometimes, the same subatomic particle is in different locations at the same times.

And quantum physics shows that actually reality itself is basically a majority approximation of what’s happening sub-atomically. So when people spew the biological essentialism argument on me. Like, particles themselves are non-binary, and do things that contradict each other all the time, we just can’t see them all the time. And that gives me a lot of comfort, that if subatomic particles defy constructs all the time, why should we believe in fixed constructs of gender, or any kind of reality?” END DESCRIPTION]

[naamahdarling]

“Newtonian physics is heteronormative” is not the take I expected to see on my dash today, but it is 100% inspirational.

[inky-dumbass]

i needed this