rockythewizard

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Bahorel/Granatire nation, y'all need to lock in.

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Firstly, when you get this, you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)

BAHHHH ‼️‼️‼️‼️ THANK YOU 🫵🫵

uhhhh taps my chin

I like my sense of style (my clothes, piercings, general aesthetic, ect :33)

My unique features and the stories behind them

My ability to love and understand

my growth as a person !!!!!!!! I'm changing I'm learning!!!! Throws confetti into the air

Uhhhh me !!!!! Everything that's made me an individual that's a vital part of who I am :)) shoutout to my friends and family for being a part of that

THANK YOU AGAIN :DD i'd send this right back at you

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getting one (1) note from the Rare Mutual is like

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@prouvairesverse you core imo

FLORAL PNGPACK . no credit required .

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"Friends dont look at friends that way" COWARD. I look at my friends with awe in my eyes, my chest is filled with love, im glowing because i get to be near my friends. I look at my friends and i would give them my everything. SO SKILL ISSUE, look at your friends with all the love that you have

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This is how it feels drawing new refs for ocs that I willingly created

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dont tell any of my friends or mutuals but....their ocs are really cool.................

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call me a he the way i

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"there is no platonic explanation for this--"

I fell asleep in my friends' arms. It was eleven at night, we were tired, curled up in a small pile on my tiny bed. I had my head buried in my roommate's side, and one of my closest friend's hand on my shoulder, steadying me. It was quiet and nothingness and peace and their heartbeats in my ears, my hands in their hair.

"there is no platonic explanation for this--"

We pack four people to that little bed, you know. Laps used as footrests, collarbones as pillows, little lights like moonlight in rustic yellow bathed on their faces. The TV plays an anime. The words are repeated by my dear friend on my shoulder, curled close. My legs are asleep; my roommate may be, too.

"there is no platonic explanation for this--"

The cat curls on top of our criss cross mess of legs and arms and heads on chests to absorb the warmth of us all. She purrs in contented peace. When my roommate and I are left alone in the quiet, she cries, and watches the door for our friends' return.

"there is no platonic explanation for this--"

I will never kiss them but the top of their heads. I will never touch but the warmth of their arms. I will never take more than what's freely given, and in return I put my glasses on the bedside table fashioned from a guitar amp, and when I lean into their sides, I pick up my vulnerability and place it in their capable, tender hands.

"there is no platonic explanation for this--"

I sing for them. I cry for them. I work and I run and I withstand the worst of the world for them, because some days I get to cradle their forehead on my shoulder and some days I get to see their shining eyes.

"there is no platonic explanation for this--"

Maybe to you. But look beyond explanation. I love them. With my heart in my unsteady hands, with my nose pressed to the side of their head, with the buzzing in my feet and the warmth all around Iike the sunset pushing into the window.

"there is no platonic explanation for this--"

Is it enough to say I love them? With no strings attached? With reckless abandon and utter devotion and freedom and kindness and fear?

"there is no platonic explanation for this--"

I cannot explain it any clearer. I love my friends. There is no more to say.

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making this on my phone with very little sleep or consideration, but i think the point stands

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WEBCORE FRAMES DUMP　 .　 sourced from picsart 　. 　f2u w/o credit

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thinking fondly of this meme I made for a coworker years and years ago

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"Kill them with kindness "WRONG! BIRD ATTACK 🕊️🕊️🦅🦅🦆🦆🦜🦜🐥🐥🐣🐣🐣🐥🐥🦢🦢🦢🦢🐓🐓🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿

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i think it's extremely unfair for you to say the actors are spineless. the producers and directors, yes. but the actors were literally having their livelihoods and future career prospects threatened if they spoke out or refused to perform.

grennell, the president of the kennedy center said, “Any performer who isn’t professional enough to perform for patrons of all backgrounds, regardless of political affiliation, won’t be welcomed. In fact, we think it would be important to out those vapid and intolerant artists to ensure producers know who they shouldn’t hire - and that the public knows which shows have political litmus tests to sit in the audience. The Kennedy Center wants to be a place where people of all political stripes sit next to each other and never ask who someone voted for but instead enjoys a performance together.”

and, i want to point out, that acting in Les Miserables is a job, not a life commitment or a political statement.

I stand by what I said: every single person involved in putting on the Les Miserables Kennedy center performance was either a spineless coward or a Trump supporter, and they should ALL be utterly ashamed of themselves. They're an insult to the novel's legacy. I'm shocked people are defending it. I used to sometimes wonder whether Victor Hugo's actions-- speaking up against Napoleon III's attacks on democracy-- were genuinely that important. After all, it's not like Hugo literally shot Napoleon III in battle or raised barricades against him with his own two hands-- he just used his platform to publicly criticize Napoleon III's attacks on democracy, knowing that he was doing it at a great personal risk. And he was right about the risks-- publicly speaking against Napoleon III did radically change Hugo's life, it did radically alter the course of his career, he did lose a lot of the power he used to have, and he was forced into exile away from everything he knew.

And Les Miserables was the product of that sacrifice. it is the novel he wrote from exile, and it is thematically about his exile. It is a novel that was written as a defense of the principles of a democratic republic, and as an encouragement for people to speak truth to power and stand against tyrants even when it came at great personal risk. But like... I'm honestly starting to respect Hugo's sacrifice a lot more now that multiple people have reached out to me claiming that it's ridiculous to ask that people starring in a musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel accept any level of personal discomfort to stand up to a modern dictator. I'm obsessed with the idea that Les Miserables shouldn't have to mean anything-- that these performers can cosplay as revolutionaries Risking it All to stand Up to Powerful People, while also being spineless cowards claiming they can't accept any personal discomfort/risk whatsoever to stand up to an actual modern dictator. Even when- again!-- they are starring in a story that is literally the product of Hugo's personal sacrifice standing up against Napoleon III! No, I wouldn't care as much if it were some piece of hollow corporate trash like "Back to the Future the musical" or some other garbage. I wouldn't' even care as much if it were another hollow "stick it to the man musical" like Wicked, where all the revolution theming is just hollow window dressing. I do care when it's Les Miserables, because the original novel was written by a man who WAS willing to make that personal sacrifice, and wrote the novel ABOUT that sacrifice. I care that now these people are making their living off of Victor Hugo's legacy-- but start crying about how "they're just poor smol beans who can't do anything uwu" when asked to make even a fraction of the sacrifice that he did, the sacrifice that Les Miserables is about, the sacrifice it exists to encourage. Thousands of people were out on the street demonstrating this weekend to send a message to Donald Trump-- and when this group of artists had a direct line to make a statement to him, the thing thousands of people are out on the streets trying to get, they cowered in fear and refused. Instead they sang to make him feel good, like he was the Hero of the musical--something he already believes-- all while playing pretend as brave revolutionaries making big risks. A democratic lawmaker was shot to death this weekend, but asking a performer to care about the meaning of the art they're profiting off of is "too big of a sacrifice." give me a break. Despite everything, I do think art means something. I think art is more than "a job," I think art is more than a hollow corporate product and vehicle for profit. Les Miserables means something, and it's important that it means something.

But that means it's also important to call out the shocking hypocrisy of what the story has been warped into. The novel does have meaning and even the musical does have meaning-- and that's why I am so outraged that people are dismissing that meaning as irrelevant. It's like Orwell's description of art in dystopia as being a simply "a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces."

Honestly, if the actors wanted to sing songs about how it's ridiculous to ask them to take any personal risks or sacrifices to speak truth to power.... they shouldn't be in Les Miserables. Instead they should just get onstage and sing this song from The Sound of Music about compromising with Nazis for three hours:

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thank you for tag !!! :DD

Witches || Alice Phoebe Lou

2. Rock the casbah || The Clash

3. Scott Pilgrim vs my GPA || mom jeans.

4. (s)mother || jordaan mason

5. Wishing (I had a photograph of you) || a flock of seagulls

6. nikas got it wrong || prince daddy and the hyena

7. im going to go back there someday || gonzo

8. trees and flowers || strawberry switchblade

9. revenge of the spiderbees || prince daddy and the hyena

10. Gone daddy gone || violent femmes

Uhmmm not 10 people but :33 @and-immmmjavert @prouvairesverse @tablestars @sodaroniii /nf !!!

Have fun :DD

nearly 2 weeks ago @stormsouls tagged me and i literally made a list that day but then forgot to move it from my notes to an actual tumblr post. my bad 😅. thank you for the tag!! this was fun ☺️

Rules: Shuffle your repeat playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people

love direction - the dip

i want a little sugar in my bowl - nina simone (a friend sent me the album nina simone sings the blues after we were talking about the music in Sinners)

This Year - Emily King (this song is SOOOOOO good, the percussion, the lyrics, the vocals, the viiiiibe. i want to eat this song)

Loving the Questions - Chastity Brown 😩😩😩😩😩 this song is so good

Higher - Lalah Hathaway

brokenhearted (together) - joan and BEKA

Sometimes (from the "Fire Island" soundtrack) - MUNA

Don't Call Me a Friend - BEKA

Any Day Now - Trousdale

Blue - Galdive

I tag @redstar-winterorbit, @red-will, @cerebralsilhouettes, @knight-aflame, @greens-your-color, @spicy-virgo, @whobee7, @actuallyabogbody, @lionrabbit, @kaoru---stuff, and anyone who sees this and would like to participate <3

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Jean ‘Jehan’ Prouvaire <3 mood board edit