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might fuck around and drink the daily recommended amount of water

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Sza just gets it :/

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#me

i'm sorry she's so funny

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My gender is collecting dust bunnies under the bed because I keep forgetting it exists.

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When do international fans get to see it😭😭😭

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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You know those fanfictions hit different when you have school the next day and it's already 3:45 am

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on tragedy, fate, and inevitability.

oresteia, robert icke // theatre of the oppressed, augusto boal // song of achilles, madeline miller // the book thief, markus zusak // antigone, jean anouilh // revisiting mockingjay ahead of the hunger games prequel, entertainment weekly // romeo and juliet, shakespeare // h of h playbook, anne carson // war of the foxes, richard siken // the road to hell (reprise), hadestown // planet of love, richard siken // they both die at the end, adam silvera

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Pls u cannot compare...

who the hell posted this i want to talk

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My gender is whatever makes you gay

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JUST FINISHED GOOD OMENS S2 AT 1 AM WTF I'M A MESS AND I HAVE FUCKING CLASS TOMORROW THIS IS NOT FAIR PLS GET BACK TOGETHER I CANNOT LIKE WTF THE AUDACITY

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They just sort of oversimplified the villain and then missed the whole point of it.

I’ve seen someone else mention this, but I also wanted to talk about this

The erasure of queerness in the movie is something I definitely did not expect.

Sure, it’s a love story between two men, but grab Alex and Henry and make them a man and a woman, the movie doesn’t change much. Maybe monarchy instead of being homophobic and racist now it’s only racist, and they hate Alex not because he’s a man but because he’s brown. They kept it a secret because of monarchy’s racism, but love triumphs at the end. That’s why the movie didn’t hit as hard as the book. The movie is just some forbidden love movie, rwrb is a book where the main characters are in a forbidden relationship, but it’s not the whole point of the book.

Alex discovering his sexuality, Nora being bisexual, whatever Pez had going on, whatever June and Nora had going on, Alex learning about queer history, the historical lgbt love letters at the ends of their e-mails, all the references to queer history and literature, THE SHELTERS, monarchy’s homophobia (yes, it appears on the movie but it’s really glossed over. It doesn’t show just how homophobic they actually are in the book), Alex stating how he knows more about himself the more intimate (both in the sexual and non sexual sense) he is with Henry, Luna being gay and unapologetic about it and being exactly Alex’s queer role model, even before Alex knew he was queer himself, THE FUCKING SHELTERS

I’m so so mad about the shelters being missing.

Henry and Pez made shelters for lgbt youth, so they can never feel as alone as Henry once felt, so they can always have a safe space so they know there’s nothing wrong with them no matter what the adults in their life might say, no matter what the preacher or their classmates or the right wing politicians in their tv might say, where they can find hope, and friends, and a home if they never had one before, or at least, one where they could truly be themselves. The shelters is, I would say, crucial to Henry’s character development. He went from hiding, believing being gay was “the most unforgivable part of him”, not even trying to come out because he just succumbed to live an unhappy life in the closet, to someone who’s out, living with his boyfriend and running lgbt shelters with his best friend so young queer people can move past all the things he felt and believed time ago, so they know they are perfectly normal and loved and safe in there, as long as Henry and Pez are there they’re safe, they don’t have to hide anymore.

Henry became the queer elder he needed in his life when he was younger. The lgbt adult who could tell him than it would get better, no matter how bad it was at the moment, no matter if he couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, because it was there, he just had to hold on a bit more. Than there was absolutely nothing wrong with him.

Another thing than I seen changed than a normal person might not notice, but I did, because im obsessed, is the karaoke scene.

In the book, it takes place in something resembling a gay bar (maybe not exactly, but it’s full of queer people), and look at this

Three rounds of shots appear —one from a drunk bachelorette party, one from a herd of surly butch chicks at the bar, and one from a table of drag queens. They raise a toast, and Alex feels more welcomed than he ever has before, even at his family’s victory rallies.

Look again

and Alex feels more welcomed than he ever has before, even at his family’s victory rallies.

This book is about about finding community, finding yourself, finding love and letting yourself accept that love.

Do you think Alex in the movie has felt “more welcomed than he ever has before, even at his family’s victory rallies” at any point? Has he been with another queer person in the whole movie, except Henry, and meanwhile I would say Nora except her sexuality was not mentioned at all

Henry and Alex in the movie are kind of without community, alienated from it, they are, in my personal opinion, the king of gay people republicans would consider “good gay people” who “don’t shove it on everyone’s faces and just wanna be left alone” (in the rwrb universe where they exist and are real not actual republican people watching the movie). They don’t really take a role on the community, in the book, Alex and Henry being queer is an important part of themselves, again, Alex feeling like he knows himself better, Henry whole internalized homophobia, their shared interest for lgbt history and literature, Henry and Pez making the shelters, etc etc meanwhile in the movie Alex and Henry just happen to be gay and bisexual, but it’s no deeper than that.

And don’t get me start on creating Miguel, a queer character, and making him the one to leak the e-mails or smth instead of a republican candidate

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I was literally ready to recite the whole obtuse- fucking-asshole scene dialogue when they decided to change the whole fucking thing UGHHHH and then they DIDN'Tmake up all crying in each other's face ????!!?!? And the Elton John song on the piano scene???! And the oversimplified conflicts?!?!

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Hey gang, I just snapped my tibia and fibula in my left leg, and I'm going to be out of work for a little while. Going into surgery in the morning. No idea how much it's going to cost. I am in great pain.

Please consider becoming a patron for my musical theatre stuff, link below. Looks like I'm going to be leaning heavily on my writing as a source of income for at least 4 months. Fingers crossed recovery is fast.

If you don't care about Patreon but want to do like a one time thing, here's my PayPal.

If you can't help me out please reblog. I'm in a lot of pain and need help. Please. Thanks.

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(i feel the need to say this: English is not my first lenguage, so forgive me - and correct me - any mistakes)

*THE SONG OF ACHILLES SPOILERS*

TSOA is my favorite book ever, i love discovering new things about it and a comment on pinterest ("why is there only one quotation mark, i'm confused") made me realize something new:

it's all just my theory, maybe i'm delusional but i do think it might be interesting...

fact #1: most of the book is narrated by Patroclus AFTER his death, that is made clear with the "i am made of memories" and the use of the past to describe things that are supposed to be happening in the moment.

with this in mind:

1. Single quotation marks are used for a quote within a quote.

2. Double quotation marks are used for direct quotes.

And throughout the book there's certain moments where the double quote is used and others where the single quote is used.

meaning (' '): the majority of the book is a single quote. The dialogue is by Patroclus, something someone else said but in Pat's words.

That's why, later in the book when he dies and his dialogue ends, the narrative style changes and for a moment there we're not reading Patroclus anymore. Achilles' words are with double quotation marks, because they are exclusively HIS.

meaning (" "): before Patroclus' death, when the double quotation marks are used, is because he remembers EXACTLY what was said.

I admit it can be a little confusing (specially for non-native english speakers like myself), but this whole theory makes sense to me. It's part of the beauty of interpreting books. Lol.

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Rewatched Hercules and they were mentioning Achilles so often I got curious how tsoa would look like in D*sney style

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I've decided to stop giving a fuck.(unless it's harming someone else)

If I someone tells you they can hear u sing defying gravity in the shower, own it. Fuck it. Live life completely unapologetically. If u wanna be cringy, please be cringy and own it. It's very brave of u

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Ok but imagine achilles on drag race