as daedalus said: "do a flip"

Hi! I'm Em (he/they). Living on Dharug land. I like all of the arts (a lot). Asks are welcome :)

[thatnerdyqueer]

Hi! My name's Em. I'm on Dharug land (I'm aussie). I'm a minor so don't be gross. I'm queer and trans (any pronouns), and I have ADHD.

the guy in my header is Leonard Bernstein and my life aspiration is to become just like him (minus the coke addiction 😍).

I love:

musicals (falsettos, les mis, hadestown, cabaret are my top 4)

violin/classical music (conducting, singing, playing, listening etc)

acting (film and theatre - my letterboxd: https://boxd.it/fjYgH)

writing (poetry, scripts, novels etc)

reading (classics, fantasy, scifi, poetry)

folk and jazz music (trying to play and listen to more, so recs are welcome)

also I love Queen, Hozier, Jeff Buckley, Florence + the Machine, Jacob Collier, The Beatles, The Last Dinner Party, Chappel Roan, Fleetwood Mac, Donovan, Led Zeppelin

I post about:

music, acting, writing

fandoms (books, music, tv shows and movies, musicals)

political stuff bc the world is cooked (or at least will be)

memes and shit posts ofc

being queer

please ask me abt stuff! Especially fave movies, books, plays, musicals, music, etc. I'm usually procrastinating something and could use the distraction

Fandoms: Superwholock, Hannibal, House MD, Dead Poets, Les Mis, Merlin, Hamlet, LOTR, good omens but EW NEIL GAIMAN, plenty more

[anarchistmemedistro]

[enki2]

[milflaralorvan-deactivated20231]

when you see your little kitty walking toward you at a leisurely pace and say "hi baby!" bc you're excited to see her and she starts trotting a little bit faster 'cause she's excited to see you too. that's what life is all about i think

[thedreadpiratecam]

microdosing hell by being awake and literate

[cartoonrival]

im completely addicted to Open Link in New Tab

[cartoonrival]

if Open Link in New Tab is wrong then baby i dont want to be right

[marlynnofmany]

Small joys on Tumblr:

When your notes make a perfect cat

[marlynnofmany]

Kitty has an exclamation-point tail because of all the attention

[save-system]

[i-am-the-hero-alfred-jones]

Is this the cat that boops?

[marlynnofmany]

It is now!

[golongbyjoannanewsom]

obsessed w this person in the replies

[higgsboshark]

The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.

Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.

Checkmate, nihilism.

[cheskamouse]

This is a powerful positive message..

[pluckyredhead]

I’m literally reading a book right now (Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski) that says this is scientifically sound.

There have been studies done on rats and dogs where they develop learned helplessness in the animals by giving them impossible tasks. Eventually the animals stop trying, even when the task stops being impossible. (I.e. put a rat in a maze with cheese it can’t get to until it develops learned helplessness, then put the cheese somewhere it can get to it and it won’t even try.) But once they show the animals they CAN do something - i.e. physically moving the rat to the cheese - the learned helplessness goes away.

No one can move you to your cheese for you, but the book says DOING something - which they define as “anything that isn’t nothing” can help. Make a food. Work in the garden. Clean a thing. Do a favor for a friend. Call your elected officials.

Knit a sock.

If you feel overwhelmed by existential despair, do something. It doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be anything that isn’t nothing.

[adhd-informative]

This is really good advice for ADHD people because when executive dysfunction gets bad it’s easy to fall into this pattern of thinking. Do just one thing. It doesn’t have to be your homework, or a chore. It can be something small, it can be something you enjoy. But do just one thing to remind yourself that you can.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

This is what “humans want to be productive” really means

We want to make things. We want to do something and at the end of the process see that something has changed. We want physical proof that we did something. We want to be able to point at something and say “I made this”. We want to be creators

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[pineappical]

funny idea i just got for an Eridian character. meet Hardtack

[pineappical]

like a sick victorian child

[th3l0nelie5t]

I WILL DIE ON THE COMPHET CAMERON HILL LIKE LET THAT GURL KISS GIRLS SHES BEGGING FOR IT WHY IS SHE FORCED TO KISS BOYS

[beauxjangles]

house md js crazy because a patient will have some kind of sickness and house will be like “the patient has an acute form of an infection because of a vacation 15 years ago to peru when they picked up a rare dormant bacteria that lives in the anus and has only been seen 2 times since 1790 which also happens to have an incubation rate of 14.9 years. there is no known treatment but it's okay because a flower from the highest peak in China has been shown to have positive effects” and Now foreman is scaling everest for a patient who's going to die in 2 hours if he doesn't get it

[sunnybible]

[acidicwerewolf]

I need them to do a reboot of House but I want them to just go fucking wild with it. Everyone's gay, everyone's fucking. House, Wilson, and Cuddy are in a toxic polycule, one that definitely violates work ethics, that ends when Cuddy cheats on them with Cameron. I want it to be just as homophobic, just as ableist, just as fucked up, as the original and yet have the characters all be so fucking woke. Same episodes with the same plots but modern. I want Chase to have an onlyfans.

[choco-worms]

Silly comic about the episode where they worked in their formal fits.

They slayed so hard that episode it was DISTRACTING

[shatorccio]

think the great thing about house md is that the characters really are just like that, not even exaggerated. house does not shut up about sleeping with wilson even though he claims they’re just bros, foreman complains about medical malpractice while stealing bone marrow and switching thirteens’s placebo, cameron marries a dying man and then sleeps with chase after she’s been on meth. then they sleep together again because they’re bored of watching their patients sleep patterns. chase is a blonde australian catholic, he’s one of the best surgeons in the hospital, he also kills a dictator. wilson is just some guy who’s been arrested before. he loves monster trucks, he’s had three failed marriages, he’ll give out his organs and blood at any given moment. something so wrong with them all but i love them very much.