[urfem]

fiona + 25. s/he bigender lesbian. femme w a double mastectomy. orange cat. career harm reductionist & sex educator. tree hugging dirt worshipper, amung other things. tags & interests: whales, waterbodies , trees and forests, angels, artwork, lesbianism, the color green, cats, and much more. feel free to tag me in posts ab these topics, or thinks u think i would like- emphasis on bolded.

have many sideblogs. feel free 2 ask privately for our personal "main" or others. i love you

[jxkill]

[junglejim4322]

Good things will happen in September

[sandersstudies]

I had this freshman tell me she “couldn’t” audition because she was too scared of the stage, and might have a panic attack. I asked how she felt about walking around onstage in costume and not saying any lines. That was fine. I was like okay awesome let’s lay some groundwork now and maybe senior year you can have like three lines!

[sandersstudies]

I remember this kid who came into an audition and froze up, just couldn’t speak. Competent reader and speaker but when people were watching she couldn’t do a thing.

We cast her anyway, in a chorus role. Offered her lots of support and encouragement and kindness and grace.

At the next audition she whispered. Anyone who had never seen her before would have thought she was the most nervous kid there. But the directing team was abuzz afterward. Did you see? She did it! Once or twice I could actually almost hear her! Amazing.

Got cast again, in a chorus role. She’d been making friends with the other kids, and they offered her encouragement too.

And the next audition we said wow I can hear her! She’s speaking! Let’s give her a handful of lines! She can do it!

Anyway as a mentor in the performing arts these things are huge wins for me. Some kids are competent and confident performers at 7 or 8 almost by nature. Others, even much older kids and adults, have to make progress by inches. But progress is exciting! The only place to go is up!

[sandersstudies]

If a student is encouraged properly, theatre is one of the best sources of self-esteem, self-reflection, and both spontaneous and rehearsed eloquence/comprehensibility that there is. It truly could be considered a cornerstone for communication disciplines of all kinds if it just attracted the right people to teach it. (Unfortunately a lot of people are attracted to directing for a sense of power over others, and not an interest in mentoring and coaching.)

[scribefindegil]

everyone who is not currently in the process of moving please pause and take a moment to be grateful that you're not currently in the process of moving

[blorbo-posting]

[maemaybe]

I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.

Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.

You are being rude. Yes, even if you are neurodivergent. You can be both autistic and rude.

[zoesupreme]

smoking that shit that made the Miocene epic

[inniave]

patterns repeated

[boobookittenartblog]

Underwater forest with tadpoles, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

photograph by Eiko Jones

[haveyouever-polls]

Have you ever smoked a cigarette?

Yes

No

Voting ended on4h

[urie]

stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household

[queer-reader-07]

[ivy-michaels]

if you've never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it requires concerted effort to get into "the groove" to make something and every second that it takes to get into that groove causes physical pain, but the only thing worse than doing it is not doing it.

[purlty23]

[dr-gaytorius]

1st base: raw ethically dubious fucking

2nd base: exist in a public space together

3rd base: you witness me have a real, candid emotion

4th base: I reveal an aspect of my tragic backstory to you

[hitmyvape]

Actually embarrassing I have to send this text to the work gc

[hitmyvape]

guess what bitch

[gatheringbones]

anyways you have to develop a ton of hyperspecific emotional tools to survive being abused for any length of time and it’s the equivalent of evolving into an insanely specialized Galapagos finch.

just because your finch beak doesn’t fit the fruits from different islands doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you. You evolved to survive a different environment.

[gatheringbones]

somebody might be “stunted” (don’t say that in arm’s reach of me if you can help it and if you do don’t say I didn’t warn you) in one area but incredibly proficient in another. I want callous, suspicious, reactive, prickly bitches in charge of lots of things actually.

[wheatiewintry]

women deserve to be ugly. and by that i mean they should be allowed to have conventionally "unattractive" features and not be treated as lesser for it. women should be allowed to be fat and lanky and tall and short and have scars and physical differences and stretch marks and cellulite and acne and wrinkles and hair on their faces and arms and legs and armpits and maybe even be a little stinky and gross sometimes. and this should be normal