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Reblog to put one of these in your mutuals’ pocket when they’re not looking

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This is terrible but today when I was playing volleyball outside with some friends one of their children (18 months) was sort of ambling around on his stumpy little toddler legs and so we were all trying to be careful and like not spike the ball onto the baby but then he wandered over to his father, who picked him up bc dad reflexes, and then the ball got passed over to the dad and he sort of had a no thoughts moment and instinctively used his child to smack the volleyball over to the next person. Like he just swung the kid and used his legs like a baseball bat. I'm never going to forget his face of premature regret mid baby-manuever right when he realized what he was doing AND the instant he realized his wife saw it happen. Anyway the baby was fine he didn't make contact with the ball all that hard and he was just mad his dad wouldn't use him as a club again but I had to sit down because I laughed so hard I cried.

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children outside screaming: annoying but ultimately for the greater good. children need Going Outside and Screaming Time for proper emotional development. an auditory burden I am willing to bear

neighbor with his car he made louder on purpose: jail for neighbor. jail for ten thousand years

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if i tell yall what i did on the tram today yall would call it a fake tumblr story i think

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Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of me saying "sure, no problem" several weeks ago and forgetting about it in the intervening time.

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hi guys. woke up to this on my phone today. zero fucking recollection of writing this down

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I always get a little annoyed at posts saying “btw did you know conservatives don’t know what they’re talking about? did you know that they’re incorrect about x?”. And it’s not because that’s wrong per se (conservatives don’t know what they’re talking about and they’re almost always factually incorrect, which is a significant part of why their politics are awful), but focusing on the factual substance of their claims tends to obscure the reason why they’re being incorrect in the first place. like yes they sound ridiculous when they say “I don’t believe in pronouns” but its not because they don’t understand how grammar works. The purpose of that statement is to argue that gender should not be negotiable through language, that to use “pronouns” is to attempt to alter someone’s god-given ontological gender and is therefore morally wrong. And because this discussion is dominated by English-speakers (gendered pronouns are not universal) living in imperial countries, a deeper claim is being made, that trans people are perverting the most enlightened language, the language of the West, the language that dominates all others. This also very neatly fits into right wing antisemitic conspiracies about the oncoming death of western civilisation, which is not an accident!

So conservatives are latching onto a word that has been recently infused with fresh political meaning in public discourse and using it as a rhetorical platform to be disgusting. They know how language works - language is contestable, it is both subject to constant change and a medium through which that change is negotiated. Trans people are making a claim (gender is partially mediated through language and therefore gender is reinforced and expressed linguistically) and conservatives are making a counter claim (no it isn’t). “I don’t believe in pronouns” is not an argument about the technical structure of language, it is an argument that trans people are so perverse that we infect and degrade the base components of language itself.

So yes, point out that they’re incorrect, but they aren’t incorrect because they’re stupid or ignorant, and being incorrect is not the primary problem with their rhetoric. That is a strategic statement which is deliberately inflammatory, can fit neatly inside both tweets and headlines, and makes a very grand conspiratorial claim about reality (any mention of pronouns is evidence of a transgender plot to destroy western civilisation and indoctrinate children), and this is all accomplished with a 5-word sentence that can be repeated ad nauseum. So the issue at hand isn’t a failure to observe the basic components of language, it’s a violent call to action to remove trans people from public discourse, and eventually public life entirely.

Conservatives are incorrect for a reason. They are incorrect on purpose because they don’t care what the truth is. They are politically savvy and incredibly successful at gaining and maintaining power. They know what they’re doing, and if your only critique of them is that they don’t have their facts straight, I think that’s just a really weak position to hold. What happens when they saying something factually correct? What happens when they know more than you? What happens when they’re well-spoken, well-read, and reasonable? What will you object to then?

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I AM SEEING THE SWEENEY TODD REVIVAL ON BROADWAY TODAY

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all around the world there are cats sleeping so happily with their owners

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Name: Tunnel of Love

Fandom: Wicked

Individual Challenge(s): Picture This; Comic Con

Ship: Elphaba/Glinda

Team: Watermelon

Space Address (Prompt): Ship B3 (Tunnel of Love); SpB B5 (Diverse); TrB B5 - Character Confusion

Warnings: None

Inspired by this Comic:

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ok, let's talk about this one utterly Tugger mannerism: the mane-pop.

The Munkustance is a Munkustrap mannerism, and it's scripted and deliberate and passed on in staging tradition. The Tugger mane-pop is not, or not exactly: it originates not in 'ok, your character stands like this at these moments' but in a practical necessity of the costume.

Alex Snova, Vienna revival, March 2022.

Look at this great big heavy thing (which nevertheless moves so lightly and freely, thank you yak hair)! But when he spins around like that to talk to Jemima, it rides up and back a bit. When he hears Bomba's voice and turns around, he pops the mane to get it back into position and tugs at the bottom centre of the vest it's attached to, re-settling it into position.

But it's not just a practical 'oh, gotta fix a costume malfunction' (like an actor discreetly re-adjusting a legwarmer that's falling down). For Tugger it's a mannerism, it's part of his swagger—or he can use it for aggression if it's combined with a hiss. Here, it's "oh, you wanna go? ok, challenge accepted, let me get my sexy saunter on!"

It comes out of the practicalities of an awkward but highly iconic costume piece and evolves into a very Tugger-specific set of gestures and expressions which can be used to characterise him in a lot of different moments and moods, and I think that's wonderful. 😌

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Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

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We would be in a significantly better place as a people if “old” and “fat” could be neutral descriptions of fact and not seen as insults by default.

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Know your puppies!