One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy

He/Him 🏳️‍⚧️ Adult Faggot, Absurdist, Theatre Enjoyer. Pretentious and Proud

[morphean42]

“There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow”

—Hamlet

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

My Interests (favourites are highlighted)

Movies: Back to the Future, Asteroid City (and all Wes Anderson, Brokeback Mountain, Donnie Darko, Project Hail Mary, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alien, Blades of Glory, Spider-Man (all media), Clue, the Danish Girl, Hocus Pocus, Jurassic Park, Megamind, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Princess Bride, Rat Race, Spirited, Velocipastor

Television: Psych, Scrubs, Dead Boy Detectives, BBC Ghosts, Doctor Who, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Dispatches From Elsewhere, Malcolm in the Middle, House M.D., Black Monday, Heated Rivalry, Umbrella Academy, Heartstopper, New Girl, Our Flag Means Death, Parks and Recreation, NewsRadio, The Good Place, Veronica Mars, Schitts Creek, Third Rock From the Sun, Ex-BBC Sherlock lover, but we’re like divorced and bitter about it and sometimes we have sex in the bathroom of a bar and argue the whole time

Books: Good Omens, The Book Thief, Fahrenheit 451, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein, Into the Wild, The Chronicles of Narnia, Sherlock Holmes, The Great Gatsby, If We Were Villains, The Secret History, This Is How You Lose the Time War, City Beautiful, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Princess Bride

Theatre: Newsies*, Little Shop of Horrors*, Alice by Heart*, The Marvin Trilogy, The Notebook*, The Outsiders*, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Hamlet, Fat Ham*, Macbeth, Cymbeline^, The Tempest^, A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, Art, La Bête^, The Trial of G-d, Arsenic and Old Lace*, As Is, Heathers*, The Notebook*, The Outsiders*, Cabaret*, the Book of Mormon*, Boys in the Band, Operation Mincemeat*, Merrily We Roll Along, Kimberly Akimbo*, Anastasia*, Tick… Tick… Boom!, Hadestown^, Evita^, Cinderella^, West Side Story, Ride the Cyclone, Unicorns Almost, Clue: On Stage^, The Normal Heart, Les Mis*, Phantom of the Opera*

* I’ve seen it live

^ I’ve been in it

Music: Marina, Elliot Smith, Miracle Musical, the Beatles, the Front Bottoms

Video Games: Stardew Valley, Detroit: Become Human, Red Dead Redemption 2, Uncharted, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Hollow Knight, The Stanley Parable, Sly Cooper

Other Fun Facts

- As seen by my Ao3 account, I’m a writer first and foremost

- I’m an aspiring actor and am pursing a degree in theatre

- I really enjoy history, so if you want to talk about your favourite time period, ask me something, or recommend books about history, please do so!

- Two days ago I learned a bunch of the younger people I work with are terrified of me. Apparently I’m intimidating, but I promise I’m nice and cuddly

- I drink roughly three cups of tea a day

- I am a very old man at heart. Technology and I do not get along, I have never used a texting abbreviation in my life, I’m not entirely sure what any modern slang means even though I hear it nigh constantly, and I exclusively wear button up shirts (when the weather is warm enough, of course. I don’t have quite the collection of sweaters I desire so the winter months are considerably less fashionable for me)

- I enjoy tennis and skiing

- I need more friends to have intense homoerotic relationships with that neither of us will ever fully understand, so, come talk to me if you so desire!

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[morphean42]

I don’t like the finale for a lot of reasons, mostly because it feels thematically at odds with the book and season 1. It was missing Pratchett and it was confused and rushed. However. I am really getting pissed at all the people claiming ‘queerbait’ or that it’s a tragic, barely even queer story ending, or anything along those lines. They’re confirmed to be in love and we saw a MARRIAGE. A happily ever after. If your ‘queer rep’ begins and ends with a sex scene or a kiss, I’m sorry, but grow up. I have my opinions about the finale but I have no issue with the queerness of the story.

[avatarmerida]

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

[futurakid]

[leg-stealing-bee]

[closetedguyy]

[knitordeath]

This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.

[song-of-sea-and-sky]

happy pride month 2021 I ain’t quittin’ you…

[msue0027]

[maxstarfall]

[gengaritez]

[pumpkin--rabbit]

[minyicho]

[hecateisalesbian]

happy pride everybody

[sackboys-moved]

Me instantly blocking people that have their hogwarts house in their bio

[sandmandaddy69]

[harzilla]

Reblog to cast healing for your homies.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

I cast lore healing on 968 days left

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[viralfrog]

[frogosaurus]

Happy Pride month to all the gay folks who should still be with us but were lost to AIDS. So many of them had (and continue to have) huge impacts on the world, despite their lives being tragically cut short.

Since this is primarily a Muppet blog, I wanted to take a moment to talk about Richard Hunt.

Richard Hunt was a gay man and a fantastic puppeteer who started working with Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, and company in 1970 at age eighteen and joined the cast of Sesame Street two years later. While working with the Muppets, he originated the characters of Scooter, Beaker, Statler, Sweetums, and Wayne, but also became the primary performer of Janice and is responsible for the flower child personality she is now known for. He was also known to be a fantastic singer.

But maybe most importantly, he made so many people happy. According the book "Of Muppets and Men" by Christopher Finch, Hunt "seems to get more unadulterated pleasure from performing than anyone else in the organization. When he is not working on camera, he is apt to have Scooter or Beaker or Janice -- anyone -- on his arm for the purpose of entertaining... He makes the crew laugh, jokes with the guest star, clowns for the shop personnel. He is one of the chief reasons for the loose atmosphere that exists around Studio D despite the pressure and the slow pace that are endemic to television production."

Hunt died at age 41 due to AIDS complications. The Muppet Workshop made a panel for the NAMES Project AIDS quilt in his honor. The Richard Hunt Spirit Award is presented every year at the Sesame Street wrap party to the cast member that best honors Hunt's generosity and dedication on set.

Rest in peace Richard. Thank you for the laughs and the smiles, and happy Pride 💛

[just0liveoil]

HAPPY PRIDEEE MONTHHHH🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

I then shoot you 57 times

[maidenvault]

[irishshauna]

[marmotini-of-the-world-unite]

Learning this was an intentional genocide changed me.

[fighterkimburgess]

I know most of those following me know this, but just to make it super clear. An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger/the Great Famine) was a deliberate genocide of the Irish people. There was enough food grown in Ireland to make sure everyone was alive and healthy and survived. Instead it was exported, sent to England and elsewhere for profit while men, women, and children starved in the streets. While the English landlords fucked off and evicted starving families who couldn’t afford rent. While babies were too weak to cry and died at the side of the road.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. And we owe so much thanks to the other oppressed peoples, in particular the Choctaw Nation and the Masai, who sent money and grain to us.

Let me repeat that. The Choctaw Nation who had just gone through the Trail of Tears sent us money to try save Irish lives. It’s led to an understanding between Irish people and Native American tribes, most recently when we donated to the Navajo and Hopi fundraisers for COVID-19 relief, because while it may be a different tribe, Irish people will never forget those who helped us and we’ll help back.

The entire population of the island is less than seven million people. We’re still a million less on this island than pre famine. And it’s not that long ago. My grandmother’s grandparents lived through it. We’ve told the stories, it literally changed the DNA of the country. We have a national fear of renting, because so many people were evicted. People joke about Irish people always offering loads of food, but it’s because there’s that cultural memory of not being able to.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. We will not let them take our lives, we will not let them take our language. We lost so much, but we will not lose it all.

[saltedweather]

This is why I get so angry when people say “it was the potato famine, it was because of monoculture/microbes.”

Nope. The potatoes were the only thing Irish people were allowed to fucking eat, because as pointed out, the rest of the crops they were growing were for their landlords to ship to England. So when the one “worthless” crop they were allowed to eat rotted in the field, the English crown, empire, landlords, all shrugged and carried on. People starved to death lying next to productive fields.

[famylee83]

This man needs to be hunted for sport.

[gremlinzeeeeeero]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE MADE HIMSELF ONE TOO

[yurimom]

this is really just my favorite tiktok

[unclefather]

there’s so many things going on here that we can’t talk about right now

[chaosthedemon]

how dare you hide this in the notes

[lochness-png]

op turned off reblogs but i needed this

[morphean42]

The most embarrssing thing ever is to be stressed out and depressed over school and big life decisions and losing everything that makes you happy but the last straw is the fucking unrequited crush you have. Sure yeah there’s a bunch of other things going on here but the core reason I want to die is because of The Guy that’s haunting the narrative. How disappointing.