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god ive been doing daily stretches bc i realise its probably a good idea for me to do some kind of exercise if i want to be able to move my body later in life and why is it MURDER??? i cant hold a fucking lunge to save my life😭

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this is absolutely nothing nobody hasn't said before but oh my holy makarel does jack wolfe have some pipes. everytime i hear him sing it's like i'm hearing the goddamn rapture but in the way where i know i will be meeting heaven.

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Every once in a while I encounter a photo of Jack Wolfe that gives off such strong Dorian Gray vibes that I get viscerally angry over the fact that they haven't played him yet.

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Gabe as a manifestation of grief also contains all his family’s longing for what he could have been. I love the idea that, when he and Natalie have their moment at the very end, it’s because she for the first time wonders what it would be like to have her older brother with her. Her family has just fallen apart, it’s just her and her father alone in the house and she’s feeling a whole mess of emotions as to what her life will look like from now on. And maybe it would have been comforting to have a sibling at that moment who had grown up with her and could perhaps understand what she was feeling. I know this is probably a bit of a reach but I love the interpretation that this is why Gabe touches Natalie’s hand here and she feels it. Because for the first time she’s missing him too.

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Pangaea was wasted on the dinosaurs. Imagine the railway network.

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ow

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I think if I had listened or seen Next To Normal, while I was still in high-school It would have gone so bad

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im so serious when i say that generative ai like ChatGPT has pissed me off so much that i have a newfound determination to learn and know things and apply myself purely for sake of dunking on people that use it

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everyone shut up im thinking abt gabe having blood on his hands during I've Been again

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i know that Next To Normal is an unbelievable musical because what do you mean these songs all come one right after the other

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Jack Wolfe the gender envy you incite in me is deeply troubling

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I cannot stop thinking about the undertones of guilt in Diana’s last interaction with Gabe, and even slightly in Dan’s. It’s a bit noticeable in the proshot, was VERY noticeable in the last show I saw. Like this is their SON, he was just a baby who wanted to be loved and remembered and in different ways they both equally failed his memory and turned him into this destructive force which he should never have been. I always saw the London staging of The Break as Diana in part realising what she helped turn Gabe into, as well as acknowledging her own pain.

And don’t even get me STARTED on how they’ve warped Gabe’s memory for Natalie and twisted their relationship which could’ve been affectionate (her brother as her guardian angel or something). And this on top of the MULTITUDE of ways they failed Natalie…and yet it’s Gabe she blames for most of the show. Something about Gabe taking the antagonist role when he’s actually the only innocent in the family because he’s not real and the only thing he did “wrong” was die.

Anyway never not thinking about all the ways this family failed each other it KILLS me.

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propaganda i’m NOT falling for:

-jamie parker sounds like kermit the frog.

-jamie parker’s voice is distracting.

-jamie parker sounds bad.

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having a Next To Normal obsession but i cannot touch the proshot again with a 6 foot pole because it made me sob so bad and reflect on my own life experiences so hard that i started dry heaving and i cannot go through that again (but i also deeply want to 😔)

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completely normal abt the fact that alice gave her statement specifically after sam asked

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been rereading the hunger games recently and my god i forgot how funny a narrator katniss is

'"if you remove it from your ear again, I'll have you fitted with this." He holds up some sort of metal headgear that I instantly name the head shackle.'

...

'Haymitch dumps the head shackle on the bed and whips out a tiny silver chip—"I'll authorize them to surgically implant this transmitter into your ear so that I may speak to you twenty-four hours a day"

Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying.'