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[evil-bisexual]

logged in for the first time in four years to delete all the spam. sorry about the hacking. still won’t be active here. take care y’all 

[evil-bisexual]

Made a new tumblr that I’m migrating to. Feel free to message me if you want the url. I already started following folks, but I’m forgetful so pls don’t feel bad if I haven’t followed you yet. Like I said, feel free to shoot me a message for the new blog. 

[evil-bisexual]

Admittedly, I’m not looking forward to blocking everyone again

[evil-bisexual]

Made a new tumblr that I’m migrating to. Feel free to message me if you want the url. I already started following folks, but I’m forgetful so pls don’t feel bad if I haven’t followed you yet. Like I said, feel free to shoot me a message for the new blog. 

[overdressednudist-archive-blog]

this is the greatest thing i’ve ever heard

[coffeemages]

Google “how to best support someone with [fill in mental illness/disorder here”

All results: DO THEY HAVE AN OFFICIAL DIAGNOSIS HAVE THEY GONE TO A PSYCHOLOGIST HAVE THEY AKDHJSJHDJDJHRGHDJFN

I don’t care??? Just help me understand this stuff so I can be a better supportive friend

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[idrovethedownwithcisbus]

if cis people don’t want trans people to make down with cis jokes then a cis person shouldn’t have manifested a false story to demonize trans people js.

[npbud]

cis people shouldn’t have reblogged it, frothing at the mouth that “NOW we have something to link when trying to prove Transgenders are Evil”.

[princess-chrysalis29-deactivate]

The people who say ‘people these days are too easily offended’ are the ones who get offended by LGBT flags and the Red Starbucks cup and people using singular ‘they’.

[libraford]

Even the First Order needs Self-Care days. 

[tigerine]

if you say ‘but I am just a potato’ as an excuse let me remind you that potatoes can become anything they want: vodka, hash browns, mashed potatoes, fries, pancakes, chips, bread

so all you’re saying to me is that you have a lot of potential to be something I love

[boredpanda]

Sea Slugs That Prove Aliens Already Live On Planet Earth

[i-am-america-deactivated2016121]

This is totally what aliens look like.

[arquus-malvaceae-deactivated202]

No but seriously.

This all goes hand-in-hand with the whole “NO ONE CARES ABOUT BROADWAY ANYMORE~~~ /SADFACE” BS spewed by Broadway industry/NYC tourism board people.

Like, they’ve got this narrative in their head that people just suddenly lost all interest in theater one day and are trying to paint themselves as the victims of an uncaring public completely oblivious to the fact that attendance went down around the same time that ticket prices started inflating into the hundreds for seemingly no other reason than “they felt like it.”

Back in the ‘90s you could get orchestra seating tickets for a popular new Tony Award winning show for somewhere between $80-$100.

Now?  Theaters are charging the same amount for seats in the nosebleed section with an obstructed view.  It’s ridiculous.  Orchestra seat tickets these days are going for as high as $500.  That’s a 400% increase over the course of twenty fucking years.

Imagine spending ~$1000 on a night out with your partner and that doesn’t even cover the cost of dinner.

Outside of lotteries – which not every theater does, aren’t highly advertised, are not easily accessible to people who work/are visiting –  it’s literally impossible to buy a pair of tickets without ending up spending somewhere between $200-$400 unless you’re seeing a show that’s been running for over ten years.

People can’t afford to go to Broadway anymore.  

Or if they do, they have to save up or wait for a sudden influx of money and then choose one show that they really want to see that year and hope anything else will still be open by the time they get the money to see that.

You cannot continue to price more and more people out of Broadway theaters and then 1) complain that no one’s coming anymore so they must not care, and 2) complain that people are finding other ways to try to experience these unnecessarily exclusive shows.

The film industry was partially founded on the idea of making theater more accessible to people who couldn’t patronize Broadway.  When did the theater industry decide that film was its enemy?

[arquus-malvaceae-deactivated202]

No wait, I’m not done.

People want to see the shows.

That’s why bootlegs exist!  Not because people are selfish, but because they can’t afford the only means of actually seeing them.

You really think that people who pay for bootlegs wouldn’t happily pay for a legitimate professional recording?

Why do you think Andrew Lloyd Webber is slowly working his way through his entire catalogue and putting out DVD’s?  Of even the FAILED projects!  And people are watching them!  They’re watching them so enthusiastically that he’s in the process of reviving at least one of those epic failures!

For fuck’s sake even the Metropolitan Opera has a partnership with one movie theater chain to livestream their productions because they understand this very basic concept that people will pay to experience something they really want to but not if they can’t afford it.

[frozenfoxtails]

Also, What does it say that every time a musical is filmed and released, it always has big named stars attached to it, it’s always labeled with ‘movie of the year’ and always tops the box office for the weekend it’s released? 

The fact that Phantom of the Opera with gerard butler earned back more than twice it’s budget despite heavy criticism. Hairspray from 2007 earned almost 3 times. Mama Mia earned back 12 times its budget. 

Because i can afford ten dollars to see a movie, i might even be inclined to see a movie twice or three times in theatres, and still buy it on DVD for 25$ when it comes out. which, all in all is less than 60$. 

Clearly the point ins’t that musicals aren’t popular, despite what pop culture would like to tell you about theatre kids.  Musicals are always popular, and movie musicals almost always do well financially, and id bet money its because it’s a lot easier to take a chance on seeing a new movie for less than the cost of a dinner than to see a broadway show for the cost of a mortgage payment.

I can think of three live shows filmed, off the top of my head (Rent, Shrek and Cats) and they’re all very well done, (i mean, cats as a show is kind of generic) I own a copy of all three, and to be honest I’d rather have copies of these shows as filmed on stage then the ones i have that are actual movies. Stage performance is an entirely different medium than film performance and you can’t really encourage people to embrace a new art form if youc ant expose them to it.

[other-bronte-deactivated2018120]

The Met opera, the RSC and other high-profile theater groups have been doing filmed simulcasts for years now, where the show gets broadcast to movie theaters live, and occasinally replayed. That’s how I saw Frankenstein with Cumberbatch. Why Broadway has not hopped on this train is baffling.

If Broadway shows came out on DVD, I would buy those by the hundreds. *And* I would still see them live if I had a chance.

The musical is supposed to be the entertainment of the populace, not just the ridiculously wealthy.

[jumpingjacktrash]

new yorkers think new york is the entire world, apparently.

i am not going to fly to new york, pay for hotels and food and transportation around the city, as well as absurdly overpriced tickets, just for two hours of entertainment. even if i was passionate about musicals i wouldn’t do that more than once in my entire life, and i’m not passionate about them, i merely like some of them.

i like some of them enough that i would buy a dvd, or pay 5 bucks to stream it on itunes. millions of people feel the same. you wanna sell millions of dvds? you wanna sell millions of $5 streams? i dunno, apparently not.

[anonymousnerdgirl]

ALL OF THIS!

[whreflections]

This, so much. 

Like, I would love to be able to go see Hamilton and hell maybe someday I can, but do you have any idea how much it’d cost me?  And the huge investment of time it would take?

I’d have to first be able to get super expensive tickets, take off work, drive up to New York from Tennessee(a long ass drive), get a hotel, have money for food, etc. and I mean if I’m going that far I can’t do it for just one or two days because that’s literally insane; I’d have to have enough time to spend several days which is more money and more time off work, etc. 

I mean in a perfect world it’d be great but I’m not rich and that would be a HUGE investment.  I want to do it, badly, but you know what, Dragon*con is more important to me, and that’s already an investment of time off, money, travel, etc.  I have other things in my life, but I’m also a huge Hamilton fan- I just can’t make it my number one priority like they basically insist you do if you want to be able to go to a show.  

I would happily pay to say it in a movie theater or buy a DVD…I mean fuck let’s be honest; I’d do both!  I have no problem spending money on my fandoms and in fact I do so gladly and frequently and I don’t regret those purchases, but I’m not rich enough/in a position where I can drop hundreds if not thousands of dollars on a fandom at once.  I just can’t, and it’s really unfair to demand that of people and then act all huffy and suggest that people aren’t interested in musical theater.  There is literally no reason not to film these things- and don’t start with the “but live theater is a different experience!” thing with me because of course it is; I don’t honestly think there is anyone out there who doesn’t realize that.  

Of course live theater is different, and if we could afford it and had access to it I’m sure 95% of fans would chose the live experience over anything else, but it’s fucked up to essentially punish people for liking something just because you think they should have the “full experience.”  It’s like…it’s like the way my dad is super picky about the quality of the music he listens to.  If it’s a badly ripped file or bad speakers or something like that, he just won’t listen to it at all, and okay sure, that’s his choice.  To me, that’s crazy.  If I want to enjoy something, I’ll enjoy it however I can get it, even knowing I could have theoretically had better, because if that ‘better’ isn’t within my reach, I can make do and still have fun.  

And this, this is why I’m all for bootlegs, because if they aren’t going to be decent and sane, I don’t think they get to complain when fans try to help each other out.  You want people to stop making bootlegs?  Fan-fucking-tastic, provide us with a better option.  We’ll gladly take it.  

[reichenfeels]

*slams fists on table* more explicitly bisexual characters

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Oregon domestic terrorists now destroying public property in earnest

The domestic terrorists who seized the Malheur national wildlife refuge near Bend, OR, are operating with incredible impunity, destroying public property, breaking into federal databases and disrupting sites of archaeological and sacred indigenous interest.

Though the terrorists sometimes face criminal sanctions for theft of public property when they venture out of their armed compound, their ideological leader, Ammon Bundy, has been able to come and go freely from the site, even after reports of the destruction surfaced.

The terrorists have paved a new road through the refuge, over territory that is considered archaeologically significant; the reserve itself encompasses many Paiute burial sites that the band holds sacred.

The terrorists claim to be there on the Paiute’s behalf. Paiute band leaders do not want their help, and are outraged at the disruption of their traditional lands by a racist terror-cell.

http://boingboing.net/2016/01/17/oregon-domestic-terrorists-now.html

[wilwheaton]

Just remember that, with a single exception, the authorities are letting them come and go as they please, making no efforts to arrest or stop them, even when they leave the property that they are illegally occupying.

[infiniteprobabilities]

Okay so imagine one of those Japanese dating games where every single waifu/boyfriend is an eldritch abomination

Not, like, humanized or in disguise, but you are literally flirting and falling in love with Thr’akloaghalr, The Ten-Dimensional Wind, who lies dreaming on N’krgh’th the Iron Star in his multiple-limbed eldritch glory

Who is also fully voiced and it’s a terrible mishmash of voice acting, autotune and spliced in sound effects

You have to remember facts like I POSSESS FORTY-TWO SEPARATE GENDERS WHICH ALL SOUND LIKE A DYING LOON’S CRY and MY FAVORITE COLOR IS THAT WHICH BLEEDS THROUGH THE REALMS BUT PINK IS A CLOSE SECOND

But like an otome game with some sort of story where you must SACRIFICE YOUR DREAMS TO THE GOLDEN WORM to go on dates and shit and graduate with a degree in Liberal Arts

[infiniteprobabilities]

i already started thinking of mechanics god help me

[exvind]

“YOU WERE BORN UNDER THE ELDER SIGN OF

“THE LOVER”

SO IT IS WRITTEN THAT YOU WILL BE THE CHOSEN PARTNER OF EITHER ONE OF THE ELDER GODS

OR

ONE OF THE OUTER LORDS

THERE ARE RIVALRIES BETWEEN THEM ALL. 

LAYERS UPON LAYERS OF INTRIGUE AND INTERDIMENSIONAL MADNESS. WILL YOU WIN THE (MULTIPLE) HEARTS OF YOUR CHOSEN BELOVED?

OR WILL YOU FALL PREY TO THE EXISTENTIAL DREAD, MADNESS AND TERROR THAT BEFITS YOUR FRAIL, MORTAL EXISTENCE?

[infiniteprobabilities]

We talked about this last night. It got better.

[tipsycnvvj]

@vergess

[liliturra]

@tacticalnymphomania

[warunyans-deactivated20170704]

American School System: We have given knowledge to the youth.

The doctors: You fucked up perfectly good children is what you did. look at them. they have anxiety.