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I’ve watched this video so many times I swear I’ve memorized it.

“DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THE FUCKING NAVY-“

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my liege we your council would not advise this course of action but we all agree it would be pretty funny regardless

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(6/25/2025) i went to get taco bell after rehearsal and i ordered on the app and got a diet pepsi with my meal and when i pulled up to the window i could SEE that he was filling it up with pepsi zero sugar which is a TRAVESTY like diet pepsi isn't my favorite but i do like it whereas pepsi zero sugar is UNDRINKABLE but i didn't want to IMMEDIATELY say to him when he opened the window that he got my drink wrong because when stuff like this has happened in the past workers don't respond well so i was just planning on taking it and taking a sip and then telling him it was wrong (which would not have been holding up the line because 1. there was no one behind me and 2. literally not a single time have i not had to wait at least two minutes for my food at this taco bell location) but when he opened the window and after he greeted me and i gave my name he was like "hey so we're out of diet pepsi is pepsi zero sugar okay" and i put my head on the steering wheel and groaned in despair and assured him i knew it wasn't his fault but yeah no i don't want pepsi zero sugar and he was like "yeah i was just gonna try to slide it out to you without saying anything but you seem like a nice person so i didn't want to do that to you" and i was like "i appreciate that because i would have taken one sip and " and he interrupted me to be like "and pitched a fit?" and i was like "NO but i would have immediately known it was wrong" and he apologized again and offered me a freezy. i got baja blast

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not to sound sappy, but i personally think that a happy ending that the characters bled, suffered and fought for is a thousand times more interesting than a bland tragic ending that the author clearly thought would be “subversive”

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Charles Musgrove: Anne said no, so then I-

Mr. Collins: Proposed to her best friend two days later?

Charles Musgrove: What! No! Who would do that? After a respectable amount of time, I proposed to and married her younger sister.

Mr. Collins: Oh... but have you ever invited Miss Elliot over so she can see what she missed out on by not marrying you?

Charles Musgrove:....

Mr. Collins: Well?

Charles Musgrove: Um, we do have her over, but because we both like her? And she's great with the kids too.

Mr. Collins: Huh. So, Lady Catherine de Bourgh-

Charles Musgrove: Sorry, I think I hear my wife calling me. Mary!

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I'm really tired of the "woman sad about her arranged marriage" trope, especially if that woman is royalty.

I am sure that many women across time were sad about their arranged marriages, but I'm sure a lot of others were excited, ambivalent, or resigned. Again, especially if you were royalty! I am sure if you were born a princess, you were trained from birth that your whole purpose in life was to marry someone important to solidify the power of the person on the throne. And honestly, it's an important job, if it wasn't, they wouldn't have tried so hard to do it.

That woman isn't just marrying another king or prince, she's going to be an ambassador of her country. She's supposed to be there promoting good relations. She isn't just a woman being sold off, she has a job! Also, if she is marrying the reigning monarch (or the heir), she may well end up running the country if the king is off at war or he dies when the heir is really young. That happened a lot throughout history! (or maybe she marries the third son and helps him find his way to the throne. Good for her)

It just feels like a modern sentiment being projected back. In Romeo and Juliet, when Juliet's mother first brings up marrying her to Paris, Juliet's basically cool with it and says she'll try to like him. She would have known this was going to happen because that is what rich women do, they marry into another family so their two families can be buddies. What else would she even be expecting?

It wouldn't bother me so much except that it's all we see! Give me a story about a woman who is like, "Cool, I shall give it my all!" Or she's like rolling up her sleeves and planning how she's going to get the court on her side and rule France, power behind the throne style (these women are mostly portrayed as villains, but who is to say the king would do a better job?). And also, have a little faith in women's fathers? You think men in the past didn't occasionally consider the happiness of their daughters? Not even a little bit?

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"depiction is not automatically glorification" can and should coexist with "some depiction is glorification and you need to be able to tell the difference"

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) + Joe Wright’s DVD Commentary

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Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller in EMMA (2009)

Emma had no opportunity of speaking to Mr. Knightley till after supper; but, when they were all in the ballroom again, her eyes invited him irresistibly to come to her and be thanked.

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(6/24/2025) there's not a ton of reasons i'd willingly venture out into 97 degree weather (at 7 pm!!!) but a going-away party is one of them. my lovely friend is moving and i realized while driving to the party that she was:

the lead in my first EVER musical ten years ago

the music director for the first musical i ever choreographed (and the first person to tell me i could and should be choreographer)

in my directorial debut (the charlotte bronte to my lenore in poe party)

she has such a joy for theater and i hope she finds good community in her new state. plus i got to catch up with some other friends i hadn't seen in a while and had some good laughs. while sweating buckets

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If you are like me and you love to read classic literature but you also love holding books in your hands, watch out for Amazon public domain scams. That is, people dump the text of a public domain novel into Amazon's self-publishing platform and then sell it without any editing. Often these copies are horribly formatted and occasionally incomplete or inaccurate and they aren't even cheap! One Shakespeare play I bought accidentally was literally a PDF of a scanned script.

Let me show you how to identify them. On the left, a scam edition, on the right, a proper copy of Pride & Prejudice:

The biggest tip offs that this is a scam is "Independently published" in the product details and no preview of the actual text of the novel:

This isn't a huge problem with popular novels like Pride & Prejudice, there are a lot of real copies from real publishers, but it was a problem when I was trying to buy the works of Elizabeth Gaskell or even the lesser known Shakespeare plays. And don't think Barnes & Nobles or other online booksellers are safe! I found these scam Amazon copies on Indigo as well, they pull them right from Amazon. Also, they are often promoted so they'll be near the top of results.

This is me trying to find a copy of Ruth on Indigo's website. The three top results were all scam copies:

My advice is 1. Go for used if possible (as Gaskell is less popular, I had trouble doing this), 2. Check for publisher names that you know (Penguin, Harper Collins etc.) or 3. Go to a physical bookstore so you can look at the pages yourself

And yes, I know I can read these for free online, I have every Jane Austen novel open at all times on my desktop, but I like having my own paper copies.

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With severance season 2 around the corner it’s time for me to share the time I accidentally watched 4 minutes of an episode on mute and thought it was a brilliant way to show the sensory deprivation experienced by the innies

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(6/23/2025) legit went to the gym at 9 pm because it was way too hot to go while the sun was still out and it was BUSY

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what the hell

named mcdilda??

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(6/22/2025) the ac was broken at our rehearsal venue and i was SWEATING but powered through and still stayed an extra 45 minutes to film choreo videos for the cast

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Sometimes it blows my mind that there are people that don’t wear glasses/contacts. Like they can literally see with no aid. Like they wake up and just be out here seeing. What a wild concept.