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Happy birthday to Alan Alda today, a timeless inspiration to many, and a fantastic human being.

Most famous, of course, for his role as Hawkeye Pierce from the hit 70’s t.v. show M*A*S*H, Alan also acted in theatres, even on Broadway, and recieved many accolades for his performances. His father, Robert Alda, a famous actor in his own right, inspired first a love of acting.

Alan’s life wasn’t by far an easy one, as he grew up moving around the country with few friends and even suffered polio as a child. All he had was his dog, who soon died. Despite this, he kept up his spirits and love of acting.

The first day of shooting the very first episode of M*A*S*H, they shot first the scene where the doctors file, exhausted, out of the O.R., and Hawkeye and Frank have a major altercation. (Did you get my joke did you get it it was good) Alan said that he stood behind those doors in a panic before the cameras rolled. He suddenly thought–he was nothing like this character. How could he act a character if he was nothing like them? How could he do this?

But he realised, you don’t have to be the same as another person to step in their shoes and empathise. And the next steps out of those wooden doors launched an even more successful career than he had dreamed.

Alan Alda has inspired me to try. Try even if you think you’ll fail, and chances are, something even better might come out of failing. To learn everything you can, and be as smart as you WANT to be, not how people expect you or want you to be. He’s a very smart man, who, as he says, “is still learning to this day”. Hawkeye has inspired me to be witty, to persevere, to be compassionate and kind, and fight for what you believe in. They both inspired me to be a better person.

Today Alan Alda celebrates his 80th birthday, a milestone I’m sure he’s happy to see.

Happy birthday to a true hero.

I’d go on more about his full life story, but that would be too long-winded, and maybe a little creepy, so I’ll leave that part out.

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At a certain point I never had to think about it. I just felt I was him as soon as I put the clothes on. I loved those boots. I think Laurence Olivier said something about a character starting with the shoes. And they gave me a pair of boots that had been worn in the army by somebody. They just felt perfect. And I wore them no matter how shredded they got. I wore them all the way through for eleven years ’cause without those boots I didn’t feel like the guy. And I took them home with me. That was I think the only thing I took home with me. That and the dog tags which I wore every day. They were real dog tags from two real guys. Hercey Davenport and Morris D. Levine.

http://www.mash4077tv.com/2008/11/04/alda-auctioning-off-dog-tags-boots-from-mash/ “Memories of M*A*S*H,” a retrospective originally broadcast in November of 1991 [x]

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Happy Birthday, Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo. (Jan. 28, 1936)

“There’s an ecstasy to acting, and that ecstasy is a glorious experience, but acting is something else, too. It’s a service to the people who come to the theater. Acting may look like the parade of the vanities, but in fact is can be a noble calling. To be able to be another person on the stage, to let an audience feel that person’s vulnerability, that person’s follies, that person’s courage, fear, strength, lunacy, as their own is to give them a chance to understand better what it means to be human.”

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The 123rd icon is your character while making a snow angel.

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That moment when you can feel your muse is really in love with another one.

It’s not you loving the other mun.

It’s not even you loving the other muse.

It’s the character you portray, who screams inside your head that yes, that is the person they love and want to be with.

And you get all the feelings, good and bad ones… and it’s amazing.

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Spare a thought today for everyone spending Christmas in a war zone, be they military or civilian. Let’s pray no one dies today.

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send me a symbol for a drabble

🎭: Our muses rehearsing a script together

❅: Our muses playing in the snow

☕: Your muse bringing mine a coffee

✿: My muse patching up a wound your muse has gotten

🕷: Your muse scaring my muse

✉: My muses reaction to a note yours left behind

🍬: Our muses eating sweets together

🌠: Our muses looking at the stars together

🔥: Our muses sitting together by a fireplace

☔: Our muses getting caught in a rainstorm together

☏: My muse drunk calling yours at night

✄: My muse fixing a stitch in your muse's clothes

ϟ: Your muse eating my muse's food

▲: Our muses getting trapped in a room together

🎧: My muse sharing their earphones with yours

✌: Our muses taking a selca together

♫: My muse makes yours a holiday playlist

🛍: Our muses going shopping together

🎁: Your muse giving mine a present

🎄: Our muses putting holiday decorations up

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// THE SIGNS AS ERAS // ARIES // 1910s //

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Unlike formally recognized PTSD diagnoses, C-PTSD doesn’t stem from a singular event, but is instead the result of sustained abuse and powerlessness, from which the victim has little hope of escape.

The Living Nightmare of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | VICE | United States (via brutereason)

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Reblog if Alan Alda because Alan Alda.

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Dear Mike, Don’t you think this is carrying things too far? - Harry.

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Check out @TahmohPenikett’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/TahmohPenikett/status/730623295192715265?s=09

Please, let this happen!!!!

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; out of chinook

|| : I'm in the middle of a week long prep and launch of a space LARP. The live event starts tomorrow and I still have no idea what to expect because they won't give us any clues beyond simple game mechanics. Send me things for Sunday night? I have to be up in four hours. I'm an excited wreck. : ||

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@illusionofwill Remember that time all the angels learned to dance?

Okay, here’s a change. Search your muse’s faceclaim in tumblr’s new gif function and post the first gif that comes up.

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I literally cannot go a day without quoting M*A*S*H.