sarah ruhl stan

Jessica - 26 - lesbian - I don't suffer fools - nuance enjoyer

[maiarindell]

Me, on a date tonight: "yeah so daoism and buddhism both had major influence on the vernacular relgion in east asia and I wish my world religions class had covered more of the schools of philosophy in china and japan that aren't 'relgions' per se but also kind of are..."

[ferrettaur]

So like an hour ago I just lear🪨︵︵ned that— what the fuck was that. Someone just skipped a rock across my post did you see that

[maiarindell]

The coworker who was making my job difficult emotionally I have grown to grudgingly accept through the realization that we're actually pretty alike (gag) but also because I have overheard her multiple times explaining omegaverse to our other coworkers, namely one of the librarians. Like that is an objectively funny thing to be talking about at work so she's okay I guess

[distant-screaming]

there really is nothing better than getting asked an innocuous question and being like

[penelopepennington]

It's the Royal Academy of Art Young Artist's Summer Show. One of my favourite exhibitions of the year. Like. Not only are the older kids insanely talented, the younger ones' artist statements will just punch you right in the face.

Jeffrey is my cat and he feels like my heart

Click [here] for the full online exhibition

[not100bees]

Isn't it fun how it's considered poor form to comment on the fact that a conservative 50% of all world leaders are motivated by batshit insane supernatural beliefs because some decent people have slightly less extreme versions of the batshit insane supernatural beliefs.

[badassdemonsword]

You couldnt come up with a jollier name for a bird if you tried

[minmos]

this thang has one of my favorite ebird descriptions of all time

[maiarindell]

My therapist is helping me out big time by dealing with my insurance paperwork as she leaves for her own private practice, and the way she approached Maybe Possibly Considering putting down LGBTQ stuff under cultural considerations for treatment Only If I Was Okay With It was rather endearing. She prefaced it like four times being like only if you're comfortable this would be outing you up to you. Which is fair given that I've talked to her a lot about my reticence to out myself. She was like You're a Member of the LGBTQ Community. I'm a Member of the LGBTQ Community. I'm a Gay OCD Therapist. And I was like Yes for My Gay OCD Needs. We Must Emphasize to Kaiser That They Cannot Find Another You. Kaiser if you're listening please cover my visits to [my therapist's uncommon first name] with whom else would I be willing to discuss my contamination fears regarding lesbian sex just kidding I haven't even brought that up yet to her. Or my moral scrupulosity regarding my exclusive attraction to cis women just kidding I haven't brought that up yet either but like I can actually see myself bringing those things up with her when I absolutely have not met with anyone before who would know enough about the community AND ALSO OCD to be able to approach those topics

[antennafarm]

Purple-solarized vault lights from ca. 1880, Etna, California - Ian Macky via wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavement_light

[maiarindell]

Man in feels like someone is wringing me out by the uterus I forgot that pain feels really bad

[maiarindell]

and now I'm getting all the pain from the GI issues that I'm having because of the pain+ disruption. I had like half an hour of like normal period cramps and now we're back to rolling around on the bed. Like I'm speedrunning a period.

[maiarindell]

only thing that seems to help? Vibrator

[dykeselfcest]

there are a lot of female characters where you can say that lesbian sex would fix them but it's kind of even more fun when it wouldn't. like clearly she wants to be having it but it would make everything worse and ruin her life. and i would like to see it.

[adehl]

tomato cultivars cataloged by rutgers new jersey agricultural experiment station

[maiarindell]

Man in feels like someone is wringing me out by the uterus I forgot that pain feels really bad

[maiarindell]

and now I'm getting all the pain from the GI issues that I'm having because of the pain+ disruption. I had like half an hour of like normal period cramps and now we're back to rolling around on the bed. Like I'm speedrunning a period.

[playwrongs]

Hello Mr. Playwrongs I am incredibly pretentious about many things, but theatre is not yet one of them. Please give me advice and some media to consume to become as annoyingly snobby about theatre as I am about everything else. Thank you.

I've been mulling this one over for a while, because—loath as I am to admit it—there is in fact something of a geographical element to becoming a theatre snob. In most cases, you really do need a theatre town, because that's your gateway to seeing a bunch of productions and forming your taste. Nevertheless, I can offer you a few pointers aside from that:

Learn how to read plays. This can be tricky, but it's an invaluable skill for being a theatre snob. If you have a gift for visual imagination, you'll want to use it to the utmost, because the texts are meant to be seen and heard upon a stage. So you'll have to fill in the sets, the costumes, the actors, and the lighting with your mind. If you don't have a good visual imagination, reading it aloud may help, since that will draw you a little closer to the circumstances of performance.

Explore the world of theatre on video. From the 1970s onward, it became feasible to record plays for TV more or less as they were performed onstage. Obviously, there are many productions for which this didn't happen, but the ones that did make it offer invaluable records of staging, performance, and design. You can find older stuff on YouTube, and there are also now streaming platforms that specialize in this—National Theatre at Home, Marquee TV, and Digital Theatre are ones I would recommend checking out.

Theatre of the ear. Well before the advent of theatre on video, radio plays (including adaptations of theatrical hits for radio) were vastly popular in the U.K. There were even record labels like Caedmon Records that committed full plays to LP. The Internet Archive has a wealth of these, and they're well worth listening to.

Read and internalize theatre history. A theatre snob need not be an expert in every form of theatre ever done—and indeed, that would be impossible—but she ought to know a few basic things about theatre's manifestations in culture through the ages. You don't have to spend your whole life studying Noh, although some people do, but you should be able to explain the difference between Noh and Kabuki.

Above all: be curious! As with any art form, paying attention and seeking more information increases your pleasure.

[maiarindell]

Man in feels like someone is wringing me out by the uterus I forgot that pain feels really bad

[dragongirlsweetie]

do NOT let people enjoy things. hold the line

[clementine-kesh]

*producer about to make one of the worst seasons of television ever put to screen* surely writing purely in reaction to what the fans are saying on twitter will work out great for us this time