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He’s home 🥹

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i have prayed for times like these

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Omg listen to the crowd, that’s their hometown boy 😭

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In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio called Tybalt "Prince of Cats" because there was a book, popular at the time, with a cat prince named Tybalt in it. He was making a pop culture reference. Therefore, I move, that in a modern Romeo and Juliet retelling, Tybalt should be named Garfield.

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one of my favourite parts in Twelfth Night is when Olivia accidentally reveals she's got a very toxic idea of love and Viola is like "girl what the fuck are you talking about"

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the curse of local theatre is that a show can change you forever and there is no recording of it anywhere at all and after a few years all you have are scattered memories and the knowledge that you were different before.

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the curse of local theatre is that a show can change you forever and there is no recording of it anywhere at all and after a few years all you have are scattered memories and the knowledge that you were different before.

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34. Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgement. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art (and life) a different -- a supplementary -- set of standards.

41. The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious". One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

56. Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of "character". ...Camp taste identifies with what it is enjoying. People who share this sensibility are not laughing at the thing they label as "a camp", they're enjoying it. Camp is a tender feeling.

(excerpts from "notes on camp" by susan sontag, 1964)

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It seems as though my book collection is outgrowing my bookshelf

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realizing you can read the books you bought whenever you want, on your own time and that even if you only read one book a year or just rand fanfic, you can in fact say your hobby is reading, is very freeing

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realizing you can read the books you bought whenever you want, on your own time and that even if you only read one book a year or just rand fanfic, you can in fact say your hobby is reading, is very freeing

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If I was in neverending story

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How often is “cringe” just used to articulate the somewhat visceral reaction that camp induces? I feel like many if not most people using that word just don’t understand camp. When I first watched the my chem music videos, they made me uncomfortable because I had never personally conceptualized camp and therefore found those certain artistic choices overwhelming and unfamiliar. Once I discovered camp as a concept, I went back to the mv’s and not only tolerated but actively obsessed over them. Similarly, the amount of people I’ve met who attempt to articulate the discomfort that camp brings them in queer contexts by calling such extravagant displays of queerness over the top and cringe?? A more active understanding of camp is absolutely beneficial to a general acceptance of queer behavior as well as art in general. Those kids calling you cringe in high school actually should just read some Susan Sontag, watch the wttbp music video or maybe velvet goldmine and chill the fuck out. If more people sought to understand theatricality and campiness instead of just dismissing it as cringe, everyone would be happy and I could wear my eyeliner in peace geesus