This is life, live it your way

I'm an Australian teen who's going to become a Stage Manager. I live for the theatre and feel most at peace when I'm in the theatre working on a show. I post a whole bunch of random things so I hope there's something you'll like here. Sometimes I post really personal things so I hope you won't mind when that happens. I'm struggling financially at the moment because centrelink (australia's thing where they pay you if you're struggling with money. I'm a student with no job so I kinda need it) messed up and I'm having to pay them a lot of money and it's just before christmas... so any money you can spare would be greatly appreciated thank you <3 paypal.me/Jacintawajon (this seems easier than a donation button) thank you everyone have a lovely day

[fozzie]

“the game” is a sleeper agent activation phrase for anyone who was in middle school between 2006 and 2009 and apparently ppl any younger than that are blissfully unaware of the psychological warfare of the game

[operastarr-deactivated20200924]

My entire being just flinched at those first two words

[princesssarisa]

I’m tired of hearing people say “Disney’s Cinderella is sanitized. In the original tale, the stepsisters cut off parts of their feet to make the slipper fit and get their eyes pecked out by birds in the end.”

I understand this mistake. I’m sure a lot of people buy copies of the complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, see their tale of Aschenputtel translated as “Cinderella”, and assume what they’re reading is the “original” version of the tale. Or else they see Into the Woods and make the same assumption, because Sondheim and Lapine chose to base their Cinderella plot line on the Grimms’ Aschenputtel instead of on the more familiar version. It’s an understandable mistake. But I’m still tired of seeing it.

The Brothers Grimm didn’t originate the story of Cinderella. Their version, where there is no fairy godmother, the heroine gets her elegant clothes from a tree on her mother’s grave, and where yes, the stepsisters do cut off parts of their feet and get their eyes pecked out in the end, is not the “original.” Nor did Disney create the familiar version with the fairy godmother, the pumpkin coach, and the lack of any foot-cutting or eye-pecking.

If you really want the “original” version of the story, you’d have to go back to the 1st century Greco-Egyptian legend of Rhodopis. That tale is just this: “A Greek courtesan is bathing one day, when an eagle snatches up her sandal and carries it to the Pharaoh of Egypt. The Pharaoh searches for the owner of the sandal, finds her and makes her his queen.”

Or, if you want the first version of the entire plot, with a stepdaughter reduced to servitude by her stepmother, a special event that she’s forbidden to attend, fine clothes and shoes given to her by magic so she can attend, and her royal future husband finding her shoe after she loses it while running away, then it’s the Chinese tale of Ye Xian you’re looking for. In that version, she gets her clothes from the bones of a fish that was her only friend until her stepmother caught it and ate it.

But if you want the Cinderella story that Disney’s film was directly based on, then the version you want is the version by the French author Charles Perrault. His Cendrillon is the Cinderella story that became the best known in the Western world. His version features the fairy godmother, the pumpkin turned into a coach, mice into horses, etc, and no blood or grisly punishments for anyone. It was published in 1697. The Brothers Grimm’s Aschenputtel, with the tree on the grave, the foot-cutting, etc. was first published in 1812.

The Grimms’ grisly-edged version might feel older and more primitive while Perrault’s pretty version feels like a sanitized retelling, but such isn’t the case. They’re just two different countries’ variations on the tale, French and German, and Perrault’s is older. Nor is the Disney film sanitized. It’s based on Perrault.

[arrowsbane]

Op is now my most favourite person in the world and I want their knowledge.

My favourite fairy tales were rumplestiltskin and the pied piper, and I want to know how they began.

[marzipanandminutiae]

I don’t know about Rumplestiltskin, but the Pied Piper is REALLY weird because a reference to it appears in the real town of Hamelin’s historical record (a written mention and a now lost stained-glass window, apparently) and nobody’s sure what exactly happened

[heartsaidnoibat]

Making friends with people from other countries is so crazy. I sent my group chat a Big Bird gif.

And this one girl says, “why isn’t he blue?”

I’m like, the fuck you mean??

So today I learned that in the Dutch version of Sesame Street, they do, in fact, have a blue Big Bird.

I was baffled by this so I went on Muppets Wiki and guess what.

In Mexico, Big Bird is green and his name is Abelardo.

Turkish Big Bird (aka Minik Kus) is apparently fucking orange.

This looks like a fuckin alternate universe or smth. I can’t.

[metalbatteryzone]

That's the Power Rangers

[awed-frog]

Okay but imagine you’re a tiny lizard living your humble & scaly life well hidden inside tomato leaves and then one day God starts leaving hills of brownies and avocado toasts three times the size of your head right by your front door.

[source]

[unfugbilder]

[the-words-blog]

[typography-is-cool]

[hplyrikz]

Positivity Here

[prole-log]

[typography-images]

It’s pretty sad…

[hplyrikz]

“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”

— Cornelia Funke (via hplyrikz)

Clear your mind here

(via hplyrikz)

[hplyrikz]

Clear your mind here

[lindseyhmu]

“I hate how addicted I get to anything that makes me feel anything”

—

[sugaryewscythe]

if you see me reblogging something you just reblogged from me.. mind your business i forgot

[hplyrikz]

“Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.”

— Rumi (via hplyrikz)

Clear your mind here

(via hplyrikz)

[hplyrikz]

“I remember crying over you and I don’t mean a couple of tears and I’m blue. I’m talking about collapsing and screaming at the moon.”

— The Avett Brothers, Tear Down the House (via hplyrikz)

[popsunner]

So there’s this huge dudebro in my class, who, yesterday, sat next to me. And I’m sitting there sweating because like… I’m wearing my shirt with the lesbian flag on it, and he’s the most popular jock in school, and always has this look on his face that say ‘I can and will kill you’. He looks me up and down, stares at me for a minute and then goes, “So. Girls in skirts and long socks, am I right?”

To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”

I said, “Yep.” He fistbumped me, and on went our lives.

[popsunner]

Oh! I forgot to mention! I saw him at lunch the same day, and he ran up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, pointed at this super sweet girl who comes to GSA and asked if she’s gay. I told him he should ask her because that’s not my place and he said he would.

I thought that would be the end of it.

Except ten minutes later he came back and told me he found out (she’s bi) and that both of us have a shot. I said “You more than me.” because he’s attractive and popular. 

But this wholesome dumbass looked really confused and asked, “Because I’m tall?’

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

I love him oh my God what an ally