Broadway Bound

Musical Theater Major @KD Conservatory in Dallas. Language enthusiast, and curator of facts you don’t really need to know/ Somehow I’ll make it, Just you wait😎

[jheselbraum]

Like. I’m a firm believer that porn online shouldn’t be within kids reach (those “are you 18” checkboxes for life) but. Like. Ok first of all, just ban cp? It’s not hard? Cp is what got you into this mess just ban it. Second of all, you could increase the age of sign-up from 13 to 18. Third of all, you could do what deviantart does and just. Require birthdays at sign-up. If your blog is flagged as nsfw, you can’t interact with minors. You want to follow an nsfw blog? Prove you’re an adult. You’re an adult but don’t want to see nsfw content? Safe search (that actually works).

It’s not hard to make a functioning website, but staff doesn’t seem to want to do that.

[biasinboy-deactivated20220427]

musicals as untranslatable words

Anastasia:

hiraeth (Welsh): longing for something lost; a deep grief for a time, place, or feeling that one cannot return to.

The Band’s Visit:

mamihlapinatapei (Yagan): a wordless look two people share, both parties hoping for something to start, but neither willing to initiate it.

Dear Evan Hansen:

litost (Czech): a despairing regret at something that should not have happened or that one should not have done; defined by Milan Kundera as “a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery.”

Falsettos:

mokita (Kivila): a painful truth that is not at all a secret, but that everyone agrees not to mention out of compassion.

Hamilton:

jijivisha (Hindi): an indomitable spirit; the intense will to live.

The Last Five Years:

razbliuto (Russian): a sentimental feeling towards the person one once loved, but no longer do. A neologism from the 1960s.

Les Misérables:

hüzün (Turkish): an often communal, collective experience of spiritual anguish rooted in worldly suffering; defined by Orhan Pamuk as “a state of mind that is ultimately as life-affirming as it is negating.” 

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

yūgen (Japanese): an deep experience of the natural world defined by Benito Ortolani as "a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering.” 

Newsies:

Fernweh (German): literally “farsickness”; feeling homesick for a place you may have never been.

Next to Normal:

won (Korean): bitter reluctance to let go of an illusion or thing past.

Tuck Everlasting:

aware (Japanese): an empathy towards the bittersweetness of transcendent and transient beauty.

Waitress:

wabi-sabi (Japanese): the lonely beauty of imperfection. According to Richard Powell, wabi-sabi acknowledges the simple realities that “nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”

[transboypippin]

hold me closer [x] a playlist of love songs for a cuddle session with your significant other

somewhere (west side story) // a whole new world (aladdin) // seven wonders (catch me if you can) // marry me a little (marry me a little) // the next ten minutes (the last five years) // something good (the sound of music) // il balcone (romeo and giulietta) // a heart full of love (les miserables) // gold (once) // do i love you because you’re beautiful (cinderella) // i love you because (i love you because) // bare (bare) // touch me (spring awakening) // love song (pippin) // not a day goes by reprise (merrily we roll along) // can’t help falling in love (all shook up) // sunrise (in the heights)

[kuroii98]

[interstellar-space-cadet]

I’m every one in this

[closecaptionvevo]

MAN 1 (in a high pitched, whiny voice) Look what you’ve done to my peonies!

WOMAN (angrily) They’re marigolds!

MAN 2 God! I think she’s right! They are marigolds!

MAN 1 I may not know my flowers, but I know a (yells in her direction) bitch when I see one!

[showerponderings]

“There are thousands of struggling artists, who despite being supremely talented, will never see any substantial success; however somewhere out there some studio exec green lit 11 Air Bud movies written by some lazy team of writers.”

— http://ifttt.com/missing_link?1537671263

[wattsactingdoc]

This 👏🏼CANNOT 👏🏼Be 👏🏼Said 👏🏼Enough 👏🏼

[australiansanta]

god how fukin tight was it rearranging your room when you were younger and it feeling like a different space and you’d show your parents and they’d be like wow very nice and you’d be like FUCK yes new room new me i’m gonna put these pillows and fluffy animals back on my bed every fukin morning from now on and like that night you can barely sleep cause you’re so excited to be sleeping in ur new room layout and then the novelty wears off and you go back to your messy self idk or was that just me

[trademarkednothing]

Examples of Stockholm Syndrome in Disney

 Frollo and Quasimodo

Mother Gothel and Rapunzel

Frollo and Mother Gothel convince Quasimodo and Rapunzel that their lives are dependent on them. The two villains claim the outside world is a terrible place even though they know this is not true. They also constantly emotionally abuse their victims by implying their worthlessness and destroying their self-esteems. Quasimodo and Rapunzel sympathize with their captors and even believe their captors are protecting them and treating them with kindness. However, both captors are merely using and manipulating their victims for their own selfish purposes.

NOT:

The Beast and Belle

 Belle does not sympathize with the Beast when she is treated poorly. She becomes angry and leaves the castle, only returning by her own wish so that the Beast (who saves her) does not freeze to death. She does not respond nicely towards the Beast until he treats her with respect. In this situation, Belle has control and is not manipulated into feeling for the Beast, nor does the Beast treat her disrespectfully after the first night. While the Beast does have an underlying motive as to keeping Belle in his castle, he abandons this idea and sets her free to make her happy. If anything, this story is a case of Lima Syndrome where the captor starts to sympathize with the victim.

Check out this post which refocuses the purpose of Beauty and the Beast from merely (and wrongly) being about Stockholm Syndrome to it’s original purpose.

[onlyleigh]

FUCKING FINALLY

[spiritsonic]

I don’t usually reblog stuff like this, but Beauty and the Beast is my favorite movie and I’d like to have this on my page!

[toasterlyreasons]

this is actually a very good analysis. I take back all the times I’ve called Beauty and the Beast a ‘stockholm syndrome’ romance. 

[ineffectualdemon]

Belle is badass and had no time for the assholes

She stands up for herself against both Gaston and the Beast when they treat her badly

The reason she falls for the beast is because he learns from their confrontation and backs off and respects her

To the point where he pays attention to what she loves. He also genuinely changes because he wants to treat her as he thinks she deserves and after she tells him to control his temper he fucking DOES for the rest the movie and not just with her

That’s in contrast with Gaston who instead gets progressively more evil throughout the film. When confronted he doubles down on his awful behaviour

[willowofthehearth]

I need to remember this argument. Because I know it, I just struggle to verbalize it.

[someone-online]

Angelicaaaaaa

Elizaaaaaaaa

AND DAMIAN TOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[wattsactingdoc]

I can fucking hear this

[wattsactingdoc]

I’m finally at a point in my life where the anything From «Heathers» sickens me, and tbh I feel empowered because I thought I’d never get sick of it but thank God!🤗

[aristia]

How to pronounce Celtic words and names

Step 1: Read the word. Step 2: Wrong.

[wattsactingdoc]

My Grandparents recently found out that I’m Majoring in Musical Theater Stage/Film and now they won’t stop singing Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein and Gerschwin Bros. whenever I come to visit away from College and it is the sweetest thing to see their faces light up when I sing their generations songs with them😊😊😇.

[wattsactingdoc]

To any one of my followers who’d like to follow a Broadway Nerd like me on Snap (I swear, I’m not too weird😇)

[enthusiasticmusicalquotes]

Ari’el’s speech is so important

“your biggest obstacle may be your greatest purpose”

[wattsactingdoc]

Forever reblog💚

[mymarifae]

yall 5 seconds after you start dating someone you’ve been talking to for 2 weeks: wow i love my s/o so much!!!! i am so in love!!!!! aaaa a ahsdbsbdnsbsbdsbjdfnjdbddbdb i love them more than anything 💖💖💟💟💞💙💝💝💛💙💗💝💟💙💝💝💛🖤💛💝💙💗💚💞💛❤💕💙💖💚💗

[mymarifae]

like

a lot of you seek out romantic relationships just for the sake of being with someone romantically, rather than seeking out companionship with people you have common ground with and letting relationships form naturally. you just wanna be able to say youre in love as a bragging right. then the minute you and ur new s/o talk about more than just how in ‘love’ you are with each other, you realize youre not compatible.

[wizzard890]

the most ice-cold read on broadway I’ve ever seen in my life

[moldymilk]

crutchie: i’ve never been in a snowball fight

jack: really

crutchie: i don’t even know the rules. is there like a points system, or is it to the death

[loving-jack-kelly]

Is it gay to promise your best friend to run away with him to New Mexico to ride horses and swim?