listen closely to the wind, o muse

july | any pronouns | your local music nerd [most often found posting about les mis and my favorite bands] [profile pic by potatolordbutnot]

[starstruckodysseys]

call me hamlet the way people only know me for my monologuing and homosexuality

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Hi sex witch, hope your day's going well. When you finish a book, do you wait a set amount of time before starting a new one?

no. I'm usually reading 2-3 physical books at a time anyway, plus an audiobook + comics/graphics novels/manga sprinkled in to read in single sittings when I have time. like last night I finished The Last Contract of Isako and then spent the rest of my free time for the evening reading Chainsaw Man Vol. 9 beginning to end.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

my ideal setup is to have a Meaty Novel, a Nonfiction Book, a Romance for when I want to read something easy peasy, a graphic novel on standby for when I have like half an hour to kill on the porch, and a good audio book. I rarely achieve this balance due to my library habits.

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

i need to read everything ever before the end of the summer

[its-always-silly-season]

Valentino Rossi by Gigi Soldano // COTA 2019

[stitchposts]

[elphabaoftheopera]

FAVORITE MUSICALS BY DECADE

Favorite Musical* from before 1950

The Pirates of Penzance (1879)

Show Boat (1927)

Anything Goes (1934)

Porgy & Bess (1935)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Oklahoma! (1943)

Carousel (1945)

Annie Get Your Gun (1946)

Kiss Me, Kate (1948)

South Pacific (1949)

Remaining time: 4 days 13 hours

*yes some of these are technically operettas don't tell shhhh

Vote by decade!

pre-1950s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

*disclaimer under the cut*

Disclaimer: Due to the nature of musicals being workshopped for many years and having multiple openings (London, Off-Broadway, Broadway, etc.) I am in *most cases* choosing when said show opened on Broadway (if applicable).

If I left out your favorite? From the bottom of my heart...my bad. To limit lists to ten many didn't make the cut 😩 Please vote for your fave and share your missing fave in the tags!)

[elphabaoftheopera]

FAVORITE MUSICALS BY DECADE

Favorite musical of the 1970s

Company (1970)

Jesus Christ Superstar (1971)

Pippin (1972)

Chicago (1975)

A Chorus Line (1975)

The Wiz (1975)

Godspell (1976)

Annie (1977)

Evita (1979)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979)

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pre-1950s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

*disclaimer under the cut*

Disclaimer: Due to the nature of musicals being workshopped for many years and having multiple openings (London, Off-Broadway, Broadway, etc.) I am in *most cases* choosing when said show opened on Broadway (if applicable).

If I left out your favorite? From the bottom of my heart...my bad. To limit lists to ten many didn't make the cut 😩 Please vote for your fave and share your missing fave in the tags!)

[elphabaoftheopera]

FAVORITE MUSICALS BY DECADE

Favorite musical of the 1990s

Once On This Island (1990)

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993)

Beauty and the Beast (1994)

Sunset Boulevard (1994)

Songs For A New World (1995)

Floyd Collins (1996)

Rent (1996)

The Lion King (1997)

Parade (1998)

Ragtime (1998)

Remaining time: 4 days 13 hours

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pre-1950s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

*disclaimer under the cut*

Disclaimer: Due to the nature of musicals being workshopped for many years and having multiple openings (London, Off-Broadway, Broadway, etc.) I am in *most cases* choosing when said show opened on Broadway (if applicable).

If I left out your favorite? From the bottom of my heart...my bad. To limit lists to ten many didn't make the cut 😩 Please vote for your fave and share your missing fave in the tags!)

[mr-laveau]

Say whatever you want about me

BUT

You don't ever say that I haven't always made sexy black vampires

you want New Orleans baddies? Here ya go!

You want african class? Here you are!

You want it? I got it and I will keep having it!

You wanna religious imagery vampire? Here you go

You want a green vampire inspired by hindi naga mythology? Here you are!

Really don't play with me. Like I am so serious, I have been and will forever be that bitch when it comes to being on that level.

[girlnumbers]

float like a butterfly (nervously forgets end of quote) green like a pea

[solarprominence]

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

[quixoticanarchy]

I do think it's kind of funny how john green wrote a book about tuberculosis that brought a lot of renewed attention to the subject and he's since become the darling of the tb world, speaks at tb conferences, my dad and every other tb researcher I know is absolutely smitten with him, and they'll be like "we love this guy! have you heard of him??" and I have to be like well yes, I have. for other reasons

[still-july]

- just saw the hadestown proshoot

- loved it

- cried 4 separate times

- however i am filled with a renewed yearning for a non-reeve carney orpheus

- he really does just stand there like this🧍 the whole time huh

- his singing is great but man he can't really act

- bring back chibueze ihuoma pls for the love of god

- this is a man who can move his eyebrows and make more than three expressions ^

- anyways the proshoot was incredible and fantastic and i loved it to the ends of the world i'm just bitchy about white guys getting roles they probably shouldn't

[cock-holliday]

We have got to stop framing our oppression in ways that promote the idea that other people cannot relate to our struggles. Not only does it isolate comrades in the struggle, it actively diminishes recognition of other struggles--often including those even more horrific than what we are at risk of. And this happens especially between Gay and Black struggles.

"when have straight people ever had to check what states were safe for them?" Sundown towns are still a thing. Starlight tours. What states have abortion access? What states have open carry? What states have stand your ground? What states have 3-strike rules? Women, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and more have had to be abundantly cautious where they travel to. Straight trans people have much more travel risk right now than gay cis people.

It's a new iteration of the same tired question: "imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry" interracial marriage in the US is younger than my parents. We disgrace people of color by forgetting their history and contemporary struggles, and we abandon queer people of color, Black queer people, by segmenting their overlapping fights.

As lovelyshananigans says, "intersectionality, babes"

[grimeclown]

If your response to the information "an alarming number of people simply cannot read well enough to function in the society that was built around them" is "wow I'm so much better than them" i think you need to kill yourself

[grimeclown]

It's not like education will fix every problem but it is almost certainly one of the most important things to push if we want an improvement in material conditions for everybody. Writing off your auntie because she gets overwhelmed trying to decipher densely packed text and "professional" language is not going to build a better future for anyone.

[activatebutterflyshield]

Another page of Artfight attacks! Left to right, top to bottom:

Sophexarie-Hex’s Penumbra with my own Sun-Eater

Mindfall’s Outis

@rhydart’s Amora

FIXER’s Yuna

[sovietpostcards]

"The Dacha Window" by Porfiry Krylov (1943)

[pwhl-mybeloved]

EVERYBODY GET SO HYPED RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!