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Nooo

If you want to can always talk to me, I'm here and not going anywhere

Morning girl!

I'm chill with my ciga rn how u doing?

terror

anguish

suffering

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Night chat

Tmr boxing with Lost then to follow-up psychiatric consultation to get my meds.

Gonna have a surgery on the 22nd.

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Today's progress

The sketch

Painting now

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Painting now

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Yes I do dad, I care about you so much.

Im here to talk, not going anywhere.

Please God let this be a heart attack and take me out quickly

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Grouper

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NOOOO dad :((

I'll lay down with you together

Please God let this be a heart attack and take me out quickly

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Got the colour in on my phone

Going to start a big project

Hugeeee painting

Going to record a time lapse and post it here so you all can see the process!!!

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Undate

Sketch done

Going to start a big project

Hugeeee painting

Going to record a time lapse and post it here so you all can see the process!!!

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Please God give me the motivation to finish this big ass painting

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Going to have surgery next week

Morning

Going to the doctors

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YAYAYAY CANTONESE MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥

Further reading below the cut!

Takarazuka:

See here for my beginner's guide to Takarazuka

The official Takarazuka channel on Youtube has lots of well-shot performance clips to check out, and there are even more if you know where to search

Cantonese opera:

For a taste of how deliciously dramatic Cantonese opera can get, check out this short clip of a scene from The Butterfly Lovers, in which the two main characters (played by Joyce Koi/ 蓋鳴暉 and Ng Mei Ying/ 吳美英) struggle to come to terms with the female lead being forced into an arranged marriage

See here for my post on Yam Kim Fai (任劍輝) and Pak Suet Sin (白雪仙), the aforementioned "iconic pair" who dominated the Cantonese opera world

Many Cantonese opera films can be watched in full, in pretty decent quality, on Youtube, and English translations for much of the core repertory for Cantonese opera can be found with a quick Googling. For example, Yam-Pak's Legend of the Purple Hairpin (紫釵記) can be watched here, together with the English translation of the script here.

You can also take a look at my other posts on Cantonese opera here!

Yue opera:

Click here for a clip of Chen Lijun performing a modernised arrangement of a song from the hit Yue opera adaptation New Dragon Gate Inn (新龍門客棧). Basically can be described as "Yue opera and wuxia meet idol aesthetics"

For something more substantial, watch this pro-shot excerpt of the ending of Dream of the Red Chambers, which fuses traditional singing with modern staging. Alternatively, there are plenty of bootlegs of full shows on Youtube, so take your pick!

Trousers roles in Western opera:

I highly recommend the queer opera blog Queer Lorgnette, which reviews opera productions with humour, wit, and a distinctly queer and feminist eye

Please also check out the "mezzosexual" tag :)

Korean musicals:

See here for my video on Korean musicals, which includes clips from several shows with genderblind casting

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Morning

Going to the doctors

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Do I still smoke? Yes

Do I still drink? Yes

Do I still substance abuse? No not really

I don't rely on these as a coping mechanism anymore. It's still shit but whatever, at least I'm not dead on the streets from alcohol poisoning again.