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leebrontide · 8 hours
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Whenever AO3 goes down I get an urge to be like
You know who ELSE has a posted a complete, queer, 22 chapter superhero story with complicated found family dynamics and lots of angst and crying, for free on the internet?
But then it sounds like a Youth Pastor in my head so I don't end up posting it.
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leebrontide · 14 hours
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leebrontide · 14 hours
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any time i hear the insufferable transphobic athlete arguments i think of that one time in middle school when my boys lacrosse team did a full-contact scrimmage against the girls team (who typically play with limited contact) and i, a six-foot, 180lb defender, got utterly laid-out by this 5-foot-nothing girl experiencing the newly-unleashed animosity accompanied by violent sport and as i looked up at my assailant from flat on my back i experienced a brief bout of heterosexuality and fell wildly in love and then had to be taken to the ER because i had a concussion
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leebrontide · 14 hours
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As a disabled person who's loved LEVERAGE and LEVERAGE REDEMPTION since the beginning - for the characters but also the whole ethos of performing acts that help people against crap systems, it's wonderful to be reminded that it springs from reality.
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leebrontide · 14 hours
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there is a huge difference between criticizing an institution and criticizing individual behavior. i can criticize the makeup industry without criticizing the 14 year old girl who uses concealer because she’s self-conscious about her acne; i can criticize the plastic surgery industry without vilifying the woman who decided to get a nose job after two decades of pointed comments and bullying. it is intellectually dishonest to respond to an institutional criticism as if it were a personal attack; on the flip side, it is cruel and unnecessary to leverage personal attacks in the name of institutional criticism
if i see one (1) more person respond to a perfectly reasonable beauty-industry-critical sentiment with “but i personally enjoy eyeshadow. why are you attacking people who like eyeshadow :(” or “exactly, all women who wear makeup are miserable and brainwashed” i am going to climb a tree and bite the top of it
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leebrontide · 16 hours
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When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...
call that the Ship of Thesaurus
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leebrontide · 17 hours
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Has Scrivner's spellcheck gotten worse? Like, honestly. Has it? I know some programs are now using AI bullshit in their AI and getting worse, but I wouldn't expect that from Scrivner?
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leebrontide · 17 hours
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Neat!
I love you all, you’ve done nothing wrong. But I’m begging you. The “kiri” in Kiriona is not pronounced like Siri on your phone. Kiriona is legit just how someone speaking te reo Māori would pronounce “Gideon”. You roll the R a little bit and it should sound a lot more like “Kee-dee-oh-nah” sorry idk how to properly write out phonetics but you get it
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leebrontide · 17 hours
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Honesty it’s delightful.
You know when someone goes through your blog on a mass like-spree for a fandom? I love those like, 19 notifications in a row. it’s like “Ah, I see you’re well into a fixation. God bless.”
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leebrontide · 1 day
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One thing I've unfortunately learned from gardening, hiking and wildlife ID groups on Facebook is that the average person has no idea that "invasive" specifically means when something non-native is ecologically harmful. A whole whole lot of people think it literally just means a "pest" in any context at all, so I catch people in the USA describing our own hornworms, poison oak, even raccoons as "invasive." They just hear news stories about "invasive wildlife" and that it's damaging something and all they think is "oh, this term means when an animal or plant inconveniences me and is hard to get rid of."
I can fully see how that mental connection works and it's really not all their fault. The word does not on its own really tell you how it's meant to be used. That, and a lot of people just don't understand the difference between what matters for the ecosystem and what digs up their store bought unnatural flower cultivars.
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leebrontide · 1 day
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Like 20 years ago a friend of mine rescued a traumatized chinchilla in a tiny cage from I think some family member who has no idea what these animals required before getting one. And they set about taking care of that adorable little grump until a crooked landlord made their apartment unsafe for the chinchilla.
So they rehomed the little guy with me, and my wife. And we got him a great big aviary that we fixed up special that ate up half our rented kitchen, and let him run around outside it, and jump 5 feet in the air, and do the things he’d wanted to do.
Eventually he died, and after a while we got one chinchilla, and then another to keep the first one company. We had them for years, as my wife’s health declined and declined- mostly respiratory symptoms that wouldn’t go away.
Eventually, we realized she’d developed a severe allergy to their one and only evolution-approved food source. She was maxed out on allergy meds and there was just nothing we could do.
Our friend who had rehomed a chinchilla with us before now had health, money and stability they hadn’t had back then, and still loved chinchillas, and so with a heavy heart, we rehomed our little guys with him.
This week we happen to be petsitting, and I’m laying on the floor of my friends house with my former pets, being happy that they are clearly spoiled absolutely rotten and living their best little lagomorph lives.
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leebrontide · 1 day
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I ever tell you all about the time, back when I was considering traditional publication, when I had a full manuscript request from an agent and then accidentally deleted the entire third act of my manuscript?
Anyways- back up your shit!
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i tripped and fell down and a new product happened! these signs and stickers have a re-writable surface. you can write on them in dry erase marker and terrorize yourself into doing more frequent file backups! there's a sticker version, and a little card version that just so happens to hang perfectly off a standard-size tack. great for digital artists, programmers, photographers, writers, and other creatives who should REALLY BE BACKING UP THEIR STUFF. SERIOUSLY. MULTIPLE BACKUPS. AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN PRACTICALLY DO IT.
get 'em here!
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leebrontide · 1 day
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Hello!
I saw this show back at Fringe and it haunts me to this day.
I cried over a show where everybody was wearing wheelies. Amazing.
If you wanted to do a revival (I want you to do a revival) would you consider doing at at a show at a local geek convention, like CONvergance? I think it would go over really well there, and I would love to see it again.
Hi @leebrontide! I'm grateful/sorry KamehameHamlet has been haunting you for nearly a decade. But genuinely, thank you. I shared your review/reblog with the director, Shalee, and it meant a lot. I have a bit more to say about that, but I'll save it for the very end because it has mild thematic spoilers and well, this blog only exists because most people haven't seen KamehameHamlet... yet. As for your question, I've been planning to share my thoughts about a full production revival at some point, so I hope you don't mind me diving in.
To respond to your question about a proper revival:
In the grand scheme of possibilities, I haven't written off a revival production. However, we would want to make sure it is accessible via recording, and if we're putting recorded staged theatre into the world, we want to make sure the recording is professionally captured and edited. I haven't done the research, but my gut estimate is that it would be a pretty penny. Additionally, a goal across the revival project is to make sure we are ethically supporting any artists involved. Put together, this means a revival production would require significant funding on top of other logistical elements. This isn't to say it isn't a goal, but I don't see it as something we would be able to achieve this year. that said I believe one of the magic things about theatre is the nature of works to be produced by different people who each bring their own passion and points of view. This is why I'm exploring options for making the script available for others to put on their own productions. I've had at least one person reach out about possibly submitting KHH to a Shakespeare festival, and I read a handful of reblog tags where folks mentioned wanting to perform it at the schools, etc. and that really excites me. It would be my dream to see this performed across the world so everyone would have a chance to support live and local theatre. Some runs will be great, some will be bad, and some will haunt you for a decade, but that's theatre! To bring this back to the topic of a revival, I'm working on a post to share tomorrow. But I'll tease it here. While a full production isn't likely anytime soon, we are working on a staged reading with the original cast and director for this year. This will be available to watch online! Finally, (or well, finally before we talk mild spoilers) since you brought up Convergence I'm really really curious if you learned about our play because of the flyers we put up at Convergence the week or so before our show. We made a handful of different flyer designs, printed maybe 100 copies and plastered the double tree. I'll share the others in an upcoming archival post but here's my favorite!
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Mild thematic spoilers for KHH below!
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^Lee's reblog/review for context!
Once again, thank you for the kind words and I really want to shout out Shalee here. Her direction excavated the themes of pretend/play violence that I'm really glad resonated so well with you. And speaking with her, I know it's inspired by playing DBZ with her friends outside as a kid. While this POV might not always be present in my dream of endless productions, I'm certain if she gets a chance to direct it again, it will be at the heart of that production. And if we get a chance, we'll be sure to save you a seat.
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leebrontide · 2 days
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Filipino artist, Gregory Halili, carves intricate skulls into mother of pearl shells.
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leebrontide · 2 days
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leebrontide · 2 days
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it must be said that i enjoy a good metaphor that evokes the body. atrophied, dislocated, sutured, fractured, gashed, bruised, feverish, sweaty, bleeding, salivating, chewing, digesting... so many beautiful ways of describing the world.
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leebrontide · 2 days
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I love videos of people performing religious ceremonies for small animals. Especially if it’s not something a small animal could participate in theologically.
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