tbh i think its crazy that i went from having everyday adult supervision to like none at all my parents just went damn your going to college. bye see you in year
I'm in my mid-30s and I still can't get over how I bought a chainsaw from the hardware store and have been using it to chop down tree branches and nobody stopped me.
Okay so a production of Hamlet that ends with “Goodnight, sweet prince,” etc. and then Horatio looks up and sees the audience for the first time and is both shocked and furious, because his world is falling apart and you sat there and watched.
This idea would go fantastically well with my director’s idea that Hamlet knows the whole time that he’s in a play. He had me (when I played Hamlet) interact with the audience, exchange looks with people in the front row, deliver my soliloquies to people in the first few rows casually like I was just talking to them, and I even had the idea to not freeze and just walk about the stage when other characters had their little ‘asides,’ which he allowed me to keep in.
Basically, if Hamlet continuously acknowledges the audience unnoticed by all the other characters (almost Fleabag-style) and then suddenly he’s gone, and obviously he knew he’d have to be gone at the end, and then poor Horatio is left all alone to finally realize there was someone else there the entire time, now that would make it all the more devastating.
There’s no difference between the Danish courtiers, who showed up because they wanted to see the Mad Prince get his butt kicked in a staged sword-fight, and us the audience (who… also showed up to watch Hamlet loose a sword fight.)
I want to see a production where Horatio just stares at us, and screams “Now cracks a noble heart!” with the subtext “You fucking fuckers. He was better than all of you, you watched him die, and you just stood there.
Then, he just silently cries over the body. For like FIVE MINUTES. And the courtiers peel away into the wings, one by one, until Horatio is alone on stage with a lot of dead bodies. It starts getting uncomfortable. You’re thinking… is the play over? Am I supposed to go? (hamlet is just about the *only* play where the final scene is cut about 50% time, so use that uncertainty, use that ambiguity.) Maybe some people do get up to go. There’s definitely muttering. And then there’s smashing sounds coming from the direction of the box office, and Horatio looks up, with an expression like something’s gone wrong.
But then he says, “Why do the drums come hither?” Fortinbras enters though the audience, and the play continues.
(I *also* think it would be really cool to cut for intermission right after Claudius freaks out and breaks up the play-within-a-play. Just imagine it: king yells “Lights! Lights! Lights!” And the houselights come up.)
I probably shouldn't be surprised about this, but a lot of people missing the point here. the joke isn't "terfs calling Sigourney weaver, a hot woman, unattractive" and tbh I think seeing this post and going "terfs are so stupid because Sigourney weaver is obviously gorgeous" is even potentially harmful or at least hurtful
the joke here is terfs seeing a picture of Sigourney Weaver, famous actress and cis woman, but because they were told its a picture of a trans woman they're immediately yakking about how 'clockable' she is
Reminds me of when me and a friend were tabling for Mermaids and some TERF came over and told us, in great detail, why we, two cis women, would never "pass". Because its incomprehensible to them that any actual cis people would just support trans rights. I'm obviously taller than any real woman and my tits are obviously fake, and her man hands and "beer belly" gave her away.
So, let me get this straight: NOT ONLY do you run a widely recognized and loved Tumblr account with ~500,000 followers, but you ALSO make some of the best goddamn music I’ve ever heard?
What are you? Some kind of escaped experiment? Genetically engineered to be the coolest fucker on the planet?
What are u trying to do, make my head big?? Make me think I'm some sorta big special guy? I'm just a little earthworm, like you and everyone else, all worms. The moment you recognize that we're all eating the same dirt is the moment you'll recognize your own untapped potential.
Hello! A BIG hello to people who have followed me all along, etc.
Yes, yes, Twitter exodus, etc. But something I do wanna briefly touch on is one of the reasons I left and one of the reasons I’m a bit anxious to use things here, so if you’re wondering tonally why things feel different, three things:
One:
Yeah! this isn’t a HS blog anymore. All of that content became @saccharinesylpharchive because I know it’s very important to folks and I never would want to erase a part of my life that brought me so much joy. Fandoms I’m into now are Fire Emblem: Three Houses (it’s got me so badly, it’s been two and a half years, never free me.) Genshin (as mostly a watcher/lore person. I’ve also been ass deep in SVSS recently. It’s fun! Reblogs/etc you’ll see from me are mostly FE3H.
Two:
One of the reasons I left was... honestly, the HS fandom was getting so big and unwieldy, and while I don’t regret that time, it definitely was in a time period in my life where I was so, so desperate to please and so desperate to comfort and etc that I let some really wild parasocial things slide that I just tried to muscle through and it honestly messed me up for a long time. I didn’t know how to express boundaries because it felt “mean” to do so, and I was scared to do literally anything without getting called out or hauled for bad takes.
Three:
While I’m not intending to be like. A spicy tumblr here, but with all of that in mind. I’m gonna beg people under 18 to not follow me. I’m a teacher, among a bunch of things, but I’ve learned that associating with kids online isn’t usually fun for either involved. Please understand!
So what this means is... you won’t really see much HS. Like at all. If I come across a cute Fef she will always be my fish princess and I will probably smash that reblog, but otherwise, this won’t be a HS content blog. If anything it’ll probably convert to 3H if I let it, my Twitter is definitely like that, lmao.
I’m also going to be answering asks as they come IF people can be chill. The moment it stops being chill, I no longer am anxious about using block buttons and mutes. I am here to be a fucking adult in my 30s and curate my little social media hole, and I’m not afraid.
If you are bummed and don’t want this, that’s fine!! I am FUB Free as the kiddos say these days.
The wild shit to me is, I come on here going "oh god I won't know anyone anymore," and trying to glean urls from my twt follow list and then realizing... I already follow a bunch of you, wild how that is
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