#Performance Platform

[chesedelhim]

new discord update is like literally the worst update of an app ive ever experienced and im putting that over tumblr fucking live

[larrylimericks]

12Jul24

Three hundred and fifty-six days Since last we saw Harry on stage, But tonight a duet! For Ms. Nicks’ Hyde Park set, And a Songbird who’s now flown away.

[crustyfloor]

The idea of Till having a certain sentiment of regret, hate? towards Ivan for what he did in round 6 jumbled up with his already mixed feelings about Ivan because of the person he is and how he treated Till when they were kids up until now, it's a lot. It breaks my heart but feels a little too real.

[transmechanicus]

Tiktok is widely understood to be a type of neurologically infectious fungus, breeding new and exotic forms of cringe and idiocy with every cycle, but i’m gonna bite clean through my mouthguard if i have to see the word “PolyJAMorous” again

[thresholdbb]

Can we talk about The Dying Swan moment in Coda? As someone who was once a very serious ballerina, I need to talk about the Dying Swan. Here's your context --

CHAKOTAY: Harry's clarinet solo was okay. I could have done without Tuvok's reading of Vulcan poetry. But the highlight of the evening was definitely Kathryn Janeway portraying the Dying Swan. JANEWAY: I learned that dance when I was six years old. I assure you, it was the hit of the Beginning Ballet class.

Have you seen The Dying Swan? It is dramatic.

Here, take a minute:

First of all, this dance is much too advanced for a six-year-old, even if they’re doing it in demi pointe. (Six-year-olds emphatically should not be in pointe shoes btw.) The dance is almost entirely bourees and arm movements done to very subtle musical cues, not the foundational ballet moves typically taught in Beginning Ballet.

This is a very vulnerable, dramatic dance that is effective because of its subtleties. The performer would need to embody that vulnerability in some way for a convincing performance. It's short, but it's a solo piece -- all eyes on you. I mean, it was choreographed for a prima ballerina, BUT THAT'S NOT MY POINT

Can you imagine our unflappable Captain Janeway willingly getting in front of her crew to do this ballet? I get that it’s thematically relevant to the plot of Coda, but since Janeway is only vulnerable in front of her crew when it means putting herself in harm’s way, it seems like a wild decision. She tends to hold herself apart from her crew, maintaining the professional distance of the captain. Further, when she does any creative pursuit, it is almost always in private, since her sister was the artist in the family and she was the scientist. As a captain, she commands Voyager in a much different way than she would as a dancer with this piece. I'm not saying she never shows vulnerability because she definitely does, but not necessarily in this way. Then when she talks about it with Chakotay, she just casually brushes it off with a laugh like no big deal.

There’s also the question of costume – would she have gone full tutu? Done it in her Starfleet uniform? An impeccable yet flow-y white suit? She does get into costume and command a performance in Bride of Chaotica!, but Coda is still kind of early days for our captain. Arachnia aligns more with what we know about Janeway's character.

Granted, it is Chakotay laying down these complements about her dancing ability and he is clearly biased. To be fair, Neelix does too before they leave in the shuttle. If she did this dance and performed it poorly or amazingly, I feel like the crew would look at her a bit differently afterwards.

Canonically she did The Dying Swan, but I certainly have trouble picturing it happening.

[dreamteamemojis]

I think that fans/stans nowadays need to realize that they don't get to dictate literally anything that a content creator does just because they watch their content. you don't get to bully people into changing their opinions or friends or relationships or any actions just because you don't like them.

it comes from a really selfish place which is, trying to force CC's into being your idea of what a "good person" is, so that you don't have to feel like a "bad person" for watching their content. trying to force someone to change so that YOU never have to take accountability for your own actions.

if you don't like what a CC is doing then it is your choice to stop supporting them or not. you are the only thing you get to control in that situation, not some random celebrity. you don't get to dictate someone else's life just because you bought their merch. literally just hit that unfollow button and let their numbers go down.

maybe you'll get lucky and they'll be so disingenuous about their positions that they'll switch up once they see their support going down. hope you realize they most likely didn't actually change their minds on whatever the issue was though. but at least you'll get to feel good about yourself while watching their content again. which is what you cared about the most in the first place anyways.

[alectoperdita]

admittedly this is "old man yells at clouds" energy, but I think it sucks that modern fandom often only conceives of community in the form of discord servers

[quarterprioritymidnight]

Bastille performing 'Pompeii MMXXIII' on Strictly Come Dancing (22.10.2023)

[skaldish]

hey just an fyi, not sure if they're a follower of yours or not, but the vis/torille person that replied to your atheistic paganism post is a terf. like thats all their blog is. its just terf stuff. wanted to let u know just in case

A friendly reminder to all of my followers:

I am a man of trans experience.

Of sound mind, I traded my breasts and periods for my beard and ass-hair. I did this because my greatest core value is this:

"All things have the inherent right to Self Sovereignty and all the trappings therein, including, but not limited to: Bodily autonomy, cognitive freedom, a fulfilling somatic experience, personal agency, the right to genuine self-expression, the right to change however they please, and the right to recognize their worth and wellbeing as inherent."

Radical Feminism is fundamentally opposed to this, by virtue of two things. One, it views people like myself as either the mouthpiece of the trans Devil or "lost sheep" of the fold of womanhood, which is weird and culty, and two, it treats biology as a high-demand doctrine to follow in a manner not dissimilar to Evangelism.

But biology isn't a doctrine because fields of science aren't ideologies.

I was raised with science AND with Scientism, the psudo-religion that emerges when people try to use science as their basis for what to believe and do in order to be a good person. The difference is potent.

I also know, from personal experience and for cognitive science reasons, that telling others who they should be and how they should act is something people do to cope with a sense of profound internal dysregulation and self-loathing.

I'm very tired and irritated, so this is all to say that if you're a TERF, and if you're here interacting with my posts, no you're not. Not until you actually muster the self-dignity to look inward and answer the call coming from inside the house.

Frankly, I've already tried the kind of mental gymnastics TERFs do to derive a sense of self-meaning in the face of disenfranchisement.

You hide the pain by putting on a show for the world, not realizing that the show is a circus and you are its clown.

...

Anyway, thanks nonny.

[chiimeramanticore]

[cryscendo]

kurt hummel in every performance

3x16 - Saturday Night Glee-ver

Stayin’ Alive - Finn Hudson, Mercedes Jones, and Santana Lopez + New Directions and Sue Sylvester

[zombieunicornjewelry]

I just wish my inherent self worth wasn't so closely knitted with how well financially I do as an artist. It's a constant see-saw of high and low moods, depending on how well my store performs. I'm trying to work on it but it's really hard sometimes. I miss the times when I had to close the store regularly as I had too many orders.

[goldenpinof]

Are you talking about phannie twitter? Because WHAT THE FUCK????? this things makes me insane how stupid it is like WHAT THE FUCK if it wasn't soooo stupid i'd just laugh but how my godddddddd these people.... i always heard phannie twitter was delulu zone but i didn't know it was THIS BAD

it was about the situation irl with one of my flatmates, not twitter phannies. but i guess it applies to everything.

your rant brought me so much joy though 😂

[atlas-dr0wned]

rip vash the stampede you would've loved the promise by girls aloud

[doyouknowthisdragartist]

I take a liberal approach to what qualifies as drag, but the tl;dr of it is that my criteria for whether a performance is drag are: queerness (the essential ingredient!), performativity, emphasis on visual cohesion, a strong sense of irony/affinity for the deviant (from queer to queer y'know) and last but not least if it would be really funny to categorize them as a drag artist

[vaxxildamn]

very happy Matt decided to clarify his stance on the genocide of the Palestinian people rn. Pretty unhappy with the way he worded it, who he centered in his video, and disappointed to see the responses to it on Twitter.

kinda scared to even post about it bc CR fans can get so defensive about their favorite white people that they can often leave little room for criticism or nuance. but man I have thoughts.