ain’t that just the way

Mel, they/them A strange crows nest of things I think are neat Subject to change on a whim and horribly untagged

[weird-goodbyes]

The thing about Hadestown is the line “To know how it ends. And still begin to sing it again. As if it might turn out this time” is an incredible way to describe most of life. We try because we have to believe that even when the ending is set in stone, it’s still worth trying. It’s still better to be a person who tried.

[future-crab]

Imagine being Anais Mitchell and writing a song about the rhetoric of fascism so incisive and prescient that 10 years later an actual fascist would use that exact rhetoric down to the highly-specific phrasing in his presidential campaign. But also it took 10 years for the project you wrote that song for to move from living room shows to concept album to theater workshop to off-Broadway to Broadway, and its Broadway debut ended up coinciding with said fascist's successful bid for the presidency, and now it looks like your song that you wrote in 2005 is a super unsubtle reference to that one particular and highly-topical politician.

Frankly if I were her I would have started killing.

[akajustmerry]

truly one of the most demoralising things about being in the job market atm is "only successful applicants will be notified" is practically a universal standard. so you spend hours, sometimes days filling out applications, writing CVs and cover letters only to be ghosted as the only form of communication. Not even a "thank you but this time you've been unsuccessful" email. You're in a constant state of "did I not get it or have they not contacted me?" and you just have to eventually conclude you were unsuccessful without so much as courtesy, "sorry, but thank you for your application." A literal thankless cycle for months and months and months. You'd think with all the ways to automate these processes they would at least have the time, means and decency to acknowledge your submission and let you off the hook, but no. You're just in limbo in every possible way in the name of "efficiency". Solidarity with everyone going through this because it is truly dehumanising and demoralising to work so hard on putting yourself forward constantly without acknowledgement or useful communication of any sort for long periods of time, and most ppl simply will not have any compassion for what that's like.

[bycanela]

I went to see Hadestown in the west end last weekend, and it’s all I can think about right now 🫠

And also the cast was AMAZING AAA 😭😭😭😭

[draizetrain]

i think when u clean your house it should stay clean forever. what do u mean i have to do it again

[chungledown-bimothy]

i genuinely don't think there's much, if anything, hotter than someone clearly having a blast doing something they're really good at. doesn't really matter what it is. the combo of competence and joy is absolutely lethal to me

[s1ck0]

Juliette Brocal

[kiddmandu1]

"Hello... My name is Jay... And I am a Masshole"

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[finefeatheredfabler]

I believe in the separation of church (fandom) and state (media creators)

[phantomoftheshoppera]

oh boy oh boy I sure hope it has opinions about american football

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

(2012 minecraft parody voice) I am mining... there are no blocks of sand.... you are digging down with me.... hand in unbreakable hand... and I hope we mine.... I hope we both mine.......

[sclappin]

How convenient it is to attach small, useful objects to your clothes at waist level

[tr-shb-g]

*this meeting could have been an email voice* this cgi could have been a puppet

[cyber-corp]

Had a dream where Johnny from “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” came out as a trans woman and the response was so unanimously positive it reversed nearly all of the transphobic bills in the South. She played live in Georgia to an audience of about a third of the US.

[cyber-corp]

Happy late pride month to Joanie, the best that’s ever been 🏳️‍⚧️

[cyber-corp]

Joanie recently changed her name to Jolene because “it’s funnier”, she says

[shouldntbeaskingmyselfwhy]

i love intentionally ordered playlists i love albums with strong openers and closers and those told in two clear acts and albums with songs that flow into each other so you have to listen to them together i love interludes i love having an Experience with a whole body of work

[sailing-ever-west-deactivated20]

graph of what being hungry is like with adhd

[sailing-ever-west-deactivated20]

it occurs to me that being hungry with adhd is basically like being hungry in minecraft

[paparoach]

let's hear it for rice with some bullshittttttttt