[mousidy]

"afab only housing" is honestly beautiful. it's #progress to use inclusive language when discrimating against trans women

[mousidy]

you might as well just say "no men, and yeah I think men includes you trannies (but trans men aren't men you ladies are welcome 🥰)"

[butchnandos]

^^^

[rokosourobouros]

It really is one of the best examples of them compounding. Cause when I was in a really bad spot housing wise, a few times I applied to those anyway and made a point about being like "oh I'm afab" and it felt so fucking gross. But I didn't wanna be homeless. So I made myself uncomfortable (and for nothing as it turned out, I would not do the same thing again if I went back in time)

But even then, and even more now, I was so conscious of the fact that, as uncomfortable and gross as it felt.... It was an option. And if I was a trans woman, no matter how desperate I was, it would not BE an option. It's a way of understanding privilege more people need to take on IMO, cause it's not about whether or not I think of it as a privilege. Course I dont. That's not the point.

[signawyvern]

Here's a list of non-English musicals I've seen submitted to @dyk-this-musical-song and links for how to watch/listen to them with English subtitles or the best equivalent. There are a bunch of non-English shows that have been submitted and seemingly some interest in checking them out, but I think a lot of people just have no idea how to go about that, or if it's possible. Disclaimer: I haven't watched these links, or if I have, it's been years, so possibly songs are out of order in playlists or shows are just linking to the first act. If that's the case, let me know and I'll make a note. A lot of these are pro-shots, which is fun. I listed shows here that have been submitted to the dye-tms blog, because that's a good way to gauge which have a decent amount of interest, but please let me know any you'd like added to the list.

Of all the ones I've checked out already on here (Tanz, Elizabeth, Marie Antoinette, Rebecca, Mozart l'Opera Rock, Kristina), Elisabeth is by far my favourite and probably the most popular internationally. It's historical but with heavy Phantom of the Opera vibes, if you're into that. But it's a good place to start, maybe.

Also there are a decent number of musical movies in non-English languages, often with English subtitles. I haven't included anything that exists more as a movie than as a stage show; this is more about stage shows, but a musical is a musical. To list the two I can think of, there's Les Paraplouies Des Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Women of Rochefort), both in French.

Friedrich: Mythos und Tragödie (Friedrich: Myth and Tragedies) (German) there’s just the German album and you can follow along with the Wikipedia summary if you want , but this lovely person made a post about subtitles they made

Tanz der Vampire (Dance of the Vampires) (German) Here

Elisabeth das Musical (German) Here; there are actually multiple German-language productions with English subtitles, since this show is so popular. If you want, you can also find English subtitles on productions in several other languages (mostly, Japanese and Korean). I picked this one randomly, hopefully it's a decent enough video and isn't missing any critical scenes, if it's an early version.

Rebecca (German) Here; there might also be English-language videos/audios out there, this did get a few performances in English, but it's been a whole Thing and is mostly put on outside of English-speaking regions.

Mozart! Das Musical (German) Here

Marie Antoinette (German) This is just act 1, not act 2. I can’t remember if it’s sung-through or not. I can't find any translations of act 2.

Artur--Excalibur (German) Here So this premiered in Switzerland but it's written by Wildhorn, so originally was more an English show, but I don't believe has ever been performed in English. There are a few shows like this, Wildhorn is weirdly popular abroad as compared to in the English-speaking world.

Starmania (French) Here

Robin Des Bois (Robin Hood) (French) This has Russian open captions and closed captions, so you could use auto-translate on the closed captions, but it would be hard to read them with the open captions behind that so maybe set the subtitle background to opaque.

Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (French) Here

Notre Dame de Paris (French) This is actually an English version; here is a French-language one with English subtitles

Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour (Romeo and Juliet: from Hate to Love) (French) Here

Le Roi Soleil (The Sun King) (French) Here

Mozart l'Opera Rock (Mozart: the Rock Opera) (French) Here

Anne de Bretagne (Anne of Brittany) (French) I couldn't find any translations but here's a proshot

1789: Les Amants de la Bastille (1789: the Lovers of the Bastille) (French) Here

Adam et Ève: La Seconde Chance (Adam and Eve: the Second Chance) (French) Here

Dracula: Entre L'amour et la Mort (Dracula: Between Love and Death) (French) Here is a version with Russian and Serbian subtitles that you can auto-translate to English; here is the same video but with fan-translated English subtitles

Dracula: L'Amour Plus Fort Que la Mort (Dracula: A Love Stronger than Death) (French) Here is a version with Spanish subtitles you can auto-translate to English

La Légende du Roi Arthur (The Legend of King Arthur) (French) Here

A Dzsungel Könyve (The Jungle Book) (Hungarian) I don’t think there’s anything besides the Hungarian-language album, so try that and the wikipedia summary and maybe that’ll work.

István, a király (Steven the King) (Hungarian) Here, also here

A padlás (The Attic) (Hungarian) Here

Jónás Könyve (Book of Jonah) (Hungarian) Here

Valahol Európában (Somewhere in Europe) (Hungarian) translations of lyrics are here; I'm not sure if those are of all the songs. Here is the show in Hungarian.

A Pál utcai fiúk (Paul St. Boys) (Hungarian) Here is a playlist with some videos of songs and those are translated, the rest are from the cast recording and are not. I'm not sure if the playlist is in the proper order or not.

1989 (Polish) Google drive link to a video with subtitles; made by @perplexingly; thank you so so much!!!

Mieszko Pierwszy (Mieszko the First) (Polish) Here

Kristina från Duvemåla (Kristina from Duvemåla) (Swedish) Supposedly there is a movie but idk if it’s subtitled; there is an English-language translated version of the album and it’s sung-through; that’s available on YouTube

데스노트 (Death Note) (Korean) (there is an English version of this show; I’m not sure if it’s significantly changed or if it’s just a direct translation, but you can watch that) japanese production from 2017 korean production from 2015

프랑켄슈타인 (Frankenstein) (Korean) on Disney Plus, if you use a VPN to claim you're in Korea, but English subtitles probably aren't available.

Xcalibur (Korean) on Disney Plus, if you use a VPN to claim you're in Korea, but English subtitles probably aren't available.

Doornroosje (Sleeping Beauty) (Dutch) no translations filmed show, no subtitles, Dutch album, no subtitles

Tarzan (Dutch) Dutch album,  English version of the album Scenes are missing from both; the English Broadway production can fill in those gaps

Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) (Dutch) no translations I could find; here’s the album

3 Musketiers (3 Muskiteers) (Dutch) Here

Демон Онегина (Demon Onegin) (Russian) Here

Последнее испытание/ПредПоследнее Испытание (The Last Trial) (Russian) Here is the movie; here is a proshot

Мастер и Маргарита (The Master and Margarita) (Russian) Here is a version with Russian subtitles that you can auto-translate to English

[dyk-this-musical-song]

An updated version of the post with more musicals for you to check out! Including some Russian ones, which I'm surprised have yet to show up on this blog.

[pmamtraveller]

Season by Christina Bothwell (American, b.1960 ) Medium: cast glass and ceramic.

[thatlavendergremlin]

My brain is frying in the heat and yuri juice

[sillyppi]

happy coco day ;__; 💚💚💚

that's my daughter fr i love her so badd

[himejoshevik]

Interesting analysis but Im stuck on "But I was breathing, you couldve taken me to a hospital" & "Is this true?" after Lestat's version of how she was turned. The betrayal there ..

ok yes let's get into it.

"but i was still breathing!": this is the fight when claudia runs away from home. she's desperately hurt; she's throwing everything she's got at louis to inflict as much damage as possible, saying the worst things she could think of to say. in this same speech she says i could have been sweeping floors and carrying babies! going to church! you think on that some, louis! this picture of mortal normalcy is not claudia's personal deepest desires. it's some shade of what louis wishes they both could have had, but that normalcy is constructed, not natural. the desire for it is an unfulfillable desire for safety. even as humans their options were severely curtailed, by patriarchy and by a virulent racist society. sorry bit of a tangent but to return: i do not think the audience is meant to entertain this like oh my god claudia totally could have survived her wounds. maybe a different kind of miracle would have happened and she would have survived some other way, but probably not.

lestat's version of the turning: lestat doesn't even suggest that claudia wasn't actually going to die. the trial's version of events is that louis was hysterical and ignored lestat's warning that claudia would be doomed. here we once again have the argument that claudia is fundamentally broken and should never have been made, weaponized to its full extreme. the goal with this entire narrative is to lynch her and louis. to portray louis as dangerous and unstable and claudia as a tragic mistake. the audience is not meant to trust lestat's account, but even more than that--even if we suppose this lynch trial retelling is accurate--we're not meant to come to the same conclusion that the trial does. it does get to claudia in the moment, but her subsequent defense of louis during the show trial, her clutching for him when he's ripped away, and her defiance up to her last moment show the consistency of her love for louis and her fundamental regard for her own existence. and what makes the tragedy of the whole show effective AND brings louis the most closure is that claudia's death was NOT inevitable. claudia loved and was loved! she was victimized over and over, she was sick of enduring and she felt like something was going to explode inside her, but she could keep going and most days she wanted to keep going. she went bang! and kept going after that! the people she'd thought would be her community had her enacting her suicide in a baby doll costume every night for years and it did not break her. she DID dream. when louis is allowed to remember this, to remember how fiercely she loved, how she brilliantly she lived, it gives him regard for his own existence. it drives him out of the coffin he'd almost resigned himself to. are we the sum of our worst moments? i didn't know it was a gift!

[helvarcult]

for @ldpdlweek2026 day one, family | parenthood/siblinghood: louis and paul de pointe du lac

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[your-cosmic-creature]

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

[shamebats]

The OP uses he/him pronouns.

[blueteainfusion]

"The Louis Triptych (Burnt, Broken, Buried)"

LDPDL Week 2026 Day Six: Mental Illness & Angst | Childhood

[miraculan-draws]

"Sketch of Daniel Molloy on paper, 1976," signed "A"

"Portrait of Daniel Molloy, ProCreate, 2022,*" signed "A"

[TVA>Folders>Known Works]

[TVA>Folders>Paramours]

*see File [TVDM]

[lykoiii]

it's my birthday and coincidentally i might just actually start testosterone fucking finally #hopecore

[alright-fuckhead]

Bilal Hasna as Young Alby Safadi Half Man 1.02

[skelacute]

Not 100% in love with this one alas I shall post

The family ever </3

Luke, you promised.

[docholligay]

I think fandom analysis on the whole would be a lot more fun and interesting if it took the sort of attitude a great many of my lit professors did, and the idea was to look at the text, see what you think it's saying, or even COULD be saying, and let's fuck around with that idea. I got four years of hearing insane takes on stuff and I was extremely fortunate to go a school with small enough class sizes and a dedicated enough faculty that in many respects, wild theorizing was encouraged.

One of my professors was straight up like "I don't want you reading papers about this book until we finish it!" and we had writing things for the first 20 minutes of every class because he wanted to know what WE thought, not what we had become convinced was THE thing to think.

When I was in my second year of college, I spiraled out into this whole "Jane Eyre is a lesbian!" thing, and my professor (not the same guy as above but delightfully insane in her own right) was like, "Wow, I've never heard this from anyone," and instead of being like, "um this is not what has been agreed upon by everyone else" went "Tell me more." Now, as a forty year old woman who has never stopped engaging with stories on both an enjoyment and academic level, the paper I would write with age and distance would be more "Homosociality, desire, and the domesticated male in Jane Eyre" or something like that, nineteen year old me was a little reductive and simple, but same vibes.

But my professor did not think I was right, she thought I was being INTERESTING, and so she encouraged me and championed me to write that paper and I actually presented it at the student division of a conference! The cool thing about that was, that when I was defending it, I was having to think about it, but it was in the spirit of collaboration, it felt like. No one was trying to 'win' the conversation.

Doc, what the fuck are you--I saw a really interesting thing this morning, someone talking about Shrek, of all things, and how they thought it was about how you cannot turn an ogre into a man, but he can make you become an ogre. And I immediately went, "Wow! Okay, interesting, not how I read that at all, TELL ME MORE." It was really jarring for me, then, to see pretty much every comment be like, 'uh you are wrong and also stupid." Sure, maybe that's not the intention of the work, but I don't for one goddamn motherfucking second think Charlie Bronte was sitting down going "I am going to write a woman so gay..." nor do I think the read of her as same sex-attracted is the end all be all of interpretations. It's mine, for sure! But like...talking about stories is supposed to be fun and it's supposed to be about possibility.

That one post got me thinking about how we are, in fandom often all looking at this same text, and there's immense pressure to have a 'right' interpretation--I was at the nexus of so many Sailor Moon fandom wars, and while I got into a few tussles, I was also stupid to do that. This characters are not real, and I was shutting down POSSIBILITY. And even after I was like, 'Wow, I don't think this is actually a very fun way to do stuff" it turns out you can't magically give everyone the same revelation you have simultaneously. Which is upsetting. And I see these same patterns repeat over and over and over again.

In my old age, I'm less interested in he "He would not say that" and more interested in "Cool, tell me why he would say that?"

Don't misunderstand me, there are points of view and ideas on different texts where I'm like, "Hm. I don't care to engage with that." Remember that the window we're looking out of is as important as what we're looking at, and will DOUBTLESS change the appearance. But the whole reason we have each other is to try and find other windows! It's not actually to find someone who is the next pane of glass in your same window. I miss that environment, where you could trust that everyone coming to the table was engaging with the same ground rules and that there was an expectation of, detachment doesn't quite get to the heart of what I'm talking about, but we were expected not to take the text or the analysis of it personally, even when it was hard. And sometimes it was. But I think it led to me having--for example it's crazy to me to have one 'right read' on any given text. I had a SUPER FUCKING ANIMATED conversation with a fellow lit nerd about whether or not GdT's Frankenstein was emotionally faithful to the text (which is not the same as being literally faithful nor the same as being good)and it was so fun, EVEN THOUGH we were coming at it completely opposed. But it was so fucking fun.

I wish I could do that with anime and cartoons, but you can't. People take Shrek personally. So I'll never have that same fun.

ANYWAY SORRY I AM DRINKING COFFEE AND MY DAUGHTER ISN'T HERE I HAVE TOO MUCH FREE TIME.

[lykoiii]

sometimes you really should be at the club (even if ur autistic)

[blacberries]

crochet colorwork ive done lately