yarrr

she/her, starry is the best thats it @meatsouuuuup is also me

[pirategauguin]

btw I think it’s clear but just to be sure: everything on here is referring to the characters in the musical starry, not the actual people

[lemonyoatmilk]

Can't believe they dug up Émile's, Jo's, and Madame Segatori's hundred year old corpses for this Musical smh

It's giving "Tom, you dug up your dead wife?!"

[pirategauguin]

Teha'amana was the native wife of Paul Gauguin during his first visit to Tahiti in 1891 to 1893. It was common at that time for French colonists to take native wives; the wives simply referred to as vahine, Tahitian for "woman". These vahines were often underage children, as was the case with Teha'amana, their marriage being arranged by their family for reasons of status or financial advantage. The marriages were generally not legally binding. All three of Gauguin's vahines, the two he took after Teha'amana eventually returned home while Teha'amana herself declined to continue their relationship when Gauguin returned to Tahiti in 1895. Teha'amana undoubtedly saw herself as conventionally married according to her local customs, but for Gauguin the marriage was clearly a temporary arrangement. Nevertheless, he did profess a tender love for Teha'amana in his journal Noa Noa. Pierre Loti's Le Mariage de Loti, a book that influenced Gauguin's decision to travel to Tahiti, was an immensely popular account of such a marriage twenty years earlier, although in that case the marriage was actually a fictional composite of many casual liaisons indulged by Loti during a two-month visit to Papeete. In Loti's account his wife was fourteen years old, while in Gauguin's account Teha'amana was just thirteen years old.

These things are true. I want to make it clear that I do not condone these actions. However, this blog is not meant to refer to the real Gauguin. There is a degree of separation between the Gauguin from history and the fictional portrayal of Gauguin in the musical Starry. I do try to make this clear, as I have pinned a post discussing this to the top of this blog.

The difference between a real person from history and a character based off of that person is an important distinction to make. A character is not a real person, they are used as tools in a story and this may involve exaggerating certain elements of their historical counterpart and eliminating others, or for the sake of the plot, it may make more sense to put a character in a position the real person was never in. Beyond the plot, another reason these things may be done is to better convey a message that the writer(s) want to share. Applying this to Gauguin, if I remember correctly, the historical Gauguin never directly stated how he felt about how he had left the Yellow House. The Gauguin in Starry, however, has a line in the last song of the show that makes his view on this very clear: "I want to live again so I can stay." The character of Gauguin regrets his actions because that was what was right for the story the writers wanted to tell.

I do think this is an important discussion to have; the bad things historical people have done is something that should be talked about and recognized to be Not Good, but if these things are not relevant to the story being told, they should not be brought up as a reason to dislike the character. Not that a character doing bad things means that you're wrong to like them, but I could make a whole other post about that.

[bestmusicalworldcup]

Best Snubbed Musical World Cup Qualifiers Round 1 - Group 3

Next to Normal

Anyone Can Whistle

Pippin

Aida

Starry

Bran Nue Dae

Voting ended onApr 11, 2023

[not-so-suddenly-seymour]

I made some starry memes!

[rosavaya]

“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

[anarchistmemedistro]

[mentalhealthmemesofficial]

[pirategauguin]

I just had a dream that the starry released the album with the new cast but the album cover was just a picture of Jaime Lyn Beatty even though she’s not in that cast

[pirategauguin]

*my art appreciation textbook mentions Vincent Van Gogh one (1) time*

me: well now I have to listen to starry, this is more important than the actual assignment

[pirategauguin]

I personally think the line in United in Distaste, "I think it's Theo's brother you can tell by the frown" is SEVERELY underrated!

Like how long has Bernard been hanging out with Theo that he can tell Theo's relatives based on FROWN alone?!

It cracks me up!

yes I love that line!!

sometimes it’s also fun to be a little silly and imagine a very cartoonish frown, something along the lines of

like yes they both have this very distinct frown and they both casually walk around like that.

[pirategauguin]

Okay but in The Road when Dylan just fucking punches that note on 'will rise' and his voice over the company and it's so fucking gorgeous and I'll never be normal about it

YES EXACTLY I love that part so much

[pirategauguin]

every so often I remember there’s more starry songs we haven’t heard yet and it physically pains me please starry I want to hear feed the fire so bad

[the-annoying-mom-friend]

thinking bout her

[pirategauguin]

hey cool that was me I did that

[meatsouuuuup]

hey I need people to fill out a form for a class and I miiiight have procrastinated with it so if you guys can help that would be really cool of you

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[meatsouuuuup]

hey I need people to fill out a form for a class and I miiiight have procrastinated with it so if you guys can help that would be really cool of you

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[pirategauguin]

This a Tumblr hug, pass it on to ten of your favorite followers and mutuals ❤❤❤

aww thank you so much!!

[pirategauguin]

Sitting in a behavioral Healthcare clinic I was checked into after going to the hospital for suicidal thoughts, crying at the thought of "if you don't have love, you remain in death. But where love springs up, life springs up again"

yeah those lines hit so hard sometimes, even just thinking about the show, they fit so perfectly

I hope you’re feeling a bit better by now