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Janaina Medeiros
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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we're not kids anymore.
Show & Tell
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#extradirty
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Claire Keane
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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@herculesmulliqan
Hilary Clinton doesn't need to be running so little girls look up to her and say "that could be me one day". She's running so she can be the president of the United States. Her job is not to be a role model. Her job is to be a powerful politician and being a role model is a side effect of that
This is truly a historic year. We’re either going to elect a woman, a Jew, the Zodiac Killer, or the start of the Fourth Reich.
a lin-penned disney villain song. it’s been real, y'all. ☠⚰
To My Followers
If you are ever feeling suicidal or worthless or unwanted please please message me. I will try my best to help, I don’t want anyone to feel like that. I will listen and you can vent to me but I just want you all to be okay. I’m sorry, this was just on my mind and I needed you guys to know. My message and ask boxes are always open! :) And now back to your regularly scheduled Hamilton programming!
How do you deal with your anxiety?
Poorly
A list of all of the wonderful things Lin-Manuel Miranda has done for Hamilton fans since writing Hamilton (which was really the only thing he had to do)
Made sure Hamilton – a show that is sold out until April 2017, with tickets being resold for over US$ 1000 – had a lottery with 21 first row tickets for US$ 10 in every single performance.
Made sure the Hamilton cast album was recorded in the most powerful way possible, in a way that is not standard or cheap for theater cast albums, because he grew up listening to cast albums – not seeing every show! – and he wanted listeners to have the best experience possible.
Made the Hamilton cast album available for streaming for free at NPR a week before its release.
Made the album available on Spotify, a relatively easy access platform (you can listen for free with ads), and not only in the US (I can’t confirm whether it’s available worldwide, I do know for sure it’s available in Brazil when a lot of other cast albums aren’t).
Created a partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation and others that will allow 20,000 New York high school students to see Hamilton and have the history integrated with their class curriculum.
Organizes #Ham4Ham shows twice a week since the previews on Broadway, with wonderful performances from the show’s cast, the cast of other shows, guests and celebrities.
Let’s just pause for a second. He cowrote a number about the 8 Hamilton kids, guys. For #Ham4Ham. Dude won an actual genius grant for his writing and he took the time to write about Alexander and Eliza’s other 7 children and put it up on Youtube for us.
Continues to organize digital #Ham4Ham shows, making them even more interesting and getting even more high-profile guests.
Seriously, just think about it: Hamilton literally has all of the publicity it could get. Tickets couldn’t be sold at a faster rate if they wanted to. And yet Lin-Manuel Miranda – who performs a show a day most days, just finished cowriting a book, is writing songs for a Disney movie, has a one-year-old son – takes the time to come up with 2 videos and record them every week because he appreciates us.
Is making sure Hamilton will tour nationally in the US and open on the West End in London.
Allowed the Grammys to air the opening number live. Again, Hamilton does not need this kind of publicity to sell tickets. He also made a wonderful heart-felt speech and that wasn’t even his first Grammy.
Has expressed the desire to film Hamilton (But please be realistic and realize that even if they do intend to film it, it would never happen within the first year of the show opening on Broadway).
Cowrote #Hamiltome, a book about the making of Hamilton, that aims to enrich our experience with the play even if we don’t get the opportunity to see it live.
Collaborated with RadicalMedia to make a documentary about the making of Hamilton that will air on PBS.
Tweets constantly and is on tumblr. He checks out our posts and our fanarts. He comments on them. He BAHAHHAHHAs our jokes. He answers questions on Twitter whenever he has the time.
Basically, he does many things that I am sure are out of enjoyment but that again: he really doesn’t have to do. He does it mainly to make sure we feel included – we the fans, whether we’ll be able to see Hamilton on Broadway or not, whether we’re musical theater kids or hip hop kids or just people who just found this album on Spotify and loved it. He does it because he wants us to feel included in his life’s work even when that means more work for him and basically no return other than fan appreciation.
Just a daily reminder so we can celebrate and thank him always.
AND he answers his fanmail. All of his fanmail. I wrote a letter at the end of December. He took the time to read all four pages of it, handwrite me a thoughtful response, address the envelope, and mail it to my house. It arrived a few days ago and basically made my life. I am so thankful that even with all of the previously mentioned things he does every day, he took the time to make sure I felt that I was acknowledged and appreciated. And that, my friends, is why I love him so dearly. @linmanuel
heRE WE FUCKING GOOOOOOO
*rubs my little gay hands together*
alright new sideblog so reblog this if
you post hamilton (duh lmao)
post things about the hamilton cast
post things about In the Heights (i just listened to of it and where are you guys i need more Heights-lovers)
post musicals in general
dont mind me coming into your ask box and screaming about musicals
post any pairings (leave me alone i am a lowly trash can)
dont post hate/anti shit i dont want drama (bootleg discourse is fine)
post about
daveed diggs
chris jackson
lin manuel miranda
philipa soo
literally anything about the cast
want to be mutuals (i just want friends)
i follow back from @grunklebutts
Hi, would you mind explaining how using the Hamilton lyrics is whitewashing? I ask this 100% from a standpoint of wanting to know more (like I mean no disrespect; I genuinely just don't understand). I understand the importance of the casting and the symbolism of the story, but don't you think to an extent, words are what you make of them and they can have multiple contexts? I apologize if this seems really ignorant, which is why I guess I wanna understand better. Thanks.
When lyrics that are describing the experiences of people of color are used over white people, that’s an act of erasure.
Example: when lyrics from Flawless is used over white women, it erases the fact that it’s a song about the experience of a black woman that uses a definition of feminism coined by another black woman. It doesn’t matter if white people can relate to it - the experiences black women (and generally women of color) have under the patriarchy are different than what white women experience because black women also have to deal with racism that is enacted on us by white people of all genders. It’s a song that’s explicitly disconnected from white identity. I’d argue that not all Beyonce songs fit in that category (such as Pretty Hurts from the same album) but there are songs that black women sing that aren’t for white people and, at times, not for any non-black people.
So. Hamilton. Hamilton uses hip-hop, rap, and r&b, art forms created by black people, to tell a story about America now. What Lin managed to do was respectfully use this language and have it delivered by people of color to tell a story that is general to America but also specific to people of color. The casting and music choices make it clear who these lyrics should be delivered by - and that includes when you take them out of the context of the show. I’d argue that not all lyrics/quotes can be completely removed from their original context, especially when they’re impacting a marginalized group, whether that’s in a positive way or a negative way.
If you took She Keeps Me Warm and put the lyrics over a straight couple, that’d be lesbophobia by default because it’s a song about being a woman in love with another woman. Sure, the context of that song can change depending on what couple it is, but it’s not about straightness. It’s also not about gay men, so if the lyrics were genderswapped and put over guys it’d also be lesbophobia.
(EDIT some lgb+ individuals have taken issue with me not wanting this song on photosets of guys, and ymmv but I’m speaking as a wlw and talking abt the lyrics that are specific to SKMW and aren’t present in SL. if you disagree that’s fine but only if you’re also lgb+. not here for straight people to tell me what I’m allowed to find lesbophobic or not.)
When Hamilton lyrics are used over a white fave or a group of white characters that doesn’t involve characters of color, it’s whitewashing because it’s taking specific language and ignoring the racial aspect of it.
There’s too much painful history for words to just be words, especially when marginalized groups have to fight for each word we get.
@linmanuel
please don’t think less of your fans because of some people’s bad choices. some of us tried so so so hard to get the bootlegs taken down, to explain to those people why they shouldn’t be bootlegging, to get all of this taken care of before you could find it and be disappointed.
I want to apologize, on behalf of all of us, for the small number of people who let you down. but I do hope you know that those people are not reflective of all of your fans. the vast majority of us respect you, respect the art, and tried incredibly hard to make sure bootlegging didn’t happen. I hope this doesn’t make you look at us in a negative light.
we love you very much, Lin. we appreciate all that you do for us. thank you so so much for being so good to us.
i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because:
i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live
most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person
im not a pissbaby
my white friends that have reblogged this give me life
4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP
If ur white and like this post I fux with u
^absolutely
5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.
i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this
6. They’re usually really fucking funny and don’t perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that “justify” my murder and/or death
I will never stop reblogging this
7. Even though I’m from the UK I still don’t get pissed off because white people here are far from innocent when it comes to racism. We can cope.
Hamilton: Oh, and Jefferson, sorry I called you a jackass
Jefferson: But you didn't
Hamilton: I did. Twice
baby: d...d....
father: say it son!
baby: d....dAMN DANIEL!!! BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH THE WHITE VANS
Alexander Hamilton is the type of person who would be accused of theft, and then say there was no way he could have done it because he has proof that he was committing murder at the time instead.
I need a friend that’ll hype me up just like Damn Daniel’s friend does
the whole idea of “stay in school!!!!” is great and all but hard to hear when you’re someone who couldn’t stay in school
so here’s a post for every person who’s had to drop out of school. whether it was do to illness or money or just because you didn’t want to be there, you’re no less of a person for dropping out. you own your own life, and you’re just as important as people who were able to graduate
Reactions To Hamilton Winning A Grammy
Theatre Fans: Bright young man
Everyone Else: Yo who the eff is this
