#topic: performance

[tayfabe75]

"Everybody feels like they have to be on for certain people. You have to be different version of yourself for different people. Different versions at work, different versions around friends, different versions of yourself around different friends, um, different version of yourself around family, you know? Everybody has to be duplicitous, or feels that they have to, in some ways, be duplicitous, and that's part of the human experience but it's also exhausting. And you kind of learn that every one of us has the ability to become a shapeshifter. Well, what does that do to us?"

November 25, 2020: Taylor describes having different versions of oneself as "duplicitous". (source)

[bread-blogs]

It is absolutely insane how in this year we can have one of the most famous men up on stage talking to fans about his favourite new project and he still can’t express himself fully because of homophobia. AND HE’S NOT EVEN GAY HIMSELF. I am actually so baffled and upset about this because how can we have this in this year? How can this still be a thing?

[disco-troy]

What if I said Rose Wilson Flamebird protector of Bludhaven... what if...

[joshuamj]

In Time and Stars

[melkittie]

talenas backing vocals on brackish, i love her so much she ate 🕸️ (2002)

[vaguely-concerned]

'strong poison' is high up there in the wimsey book rankings so far. most crucially for me: so much love for bunter, so richly deserved (the scene where he and peter are tiptoeing around each other like 'so uh... are you breaking up with me to get married then?🥺'/'of course not, that's -- wait what are -- are you breaking up with me if I'm getting married?? 😟😢😭'/'of course not my lord don't be silly'/'then don't scare me like that bunter oh my god!!!!'). also more bunter as pseudo-mother (/wife and very overtly so lmao the duchess directly comparing him to helen as gerald's wife... immensely favourably so.) figure, yes-tumblr-user-vaguely-concerned-you-are-so-valid textual underlining. peter literally wanting to smash his own reflection in a wild and unguarded moment. not doing it, because it would change nothing and bunter would just have to deal with a lot of broken shards before a new one got ordered. him recounting going to his mother in a State because uh-oh he's gone and love-at-first-sighted himself and if he can get her off death row and also maybe introduce himself to her the wedding is back on!! parker being a useless lesbian except he's a very well brought up boy with victorian values. mary noticing that peter's feeling low because he's class clowning it up at christmas and giving him a hugggg 🥹. harriet with the 'life is already so fucking weird. this might as well happen' vibe throughout quietly editing a novel from prison in the background because what else is there to do. ms. climpson who could set the murderous machiavel to school if she wanted to actually richard iii go home. in another world she's the moriarity of the wimsey 'verse. an honest soul with a fine criminal mind indeed. the hilarity of looking back through the ages and seeing with all the tiredness of living in the age that before there were astrology girlies there were ectoplasm girlies. peter having a pet safe cracker on speed dial who's seen the light ('allelujah) but y'know a man still has the pride of his craft. impey biggs is there. delicious. characterful. brimming with flavour and also arsenic of course

[mlmarcmarquez]

Ok just hear me out.

Marc and Alex basically adopting Fermin as their new younger brother and Alex gets the middle child treatment 😭🙏

LMFAO no literally. i'm not a middle child so i literally cannot relate to poor alex's plight (i am the youngest) but my god, i can see it already LMFAO

[holyshit]

.

[sleepanonymous]

This may be a silly question with an easy to find answer but I'm not sure how to find what I'm looking for. On Genius there are quotes supposedly from Spinefarms website about the official descriptions for the songs on Sundowning, but not all the songs have these quoted and I'm not sure how to find the quotes that are missing. Do you know where they can be found?

Anon I’m so sorry 😭 You asked this back in August and I kept meaning to ask some of my friends and then September and October happened and now it’s November and I am super late, I’m sorry.

So the descriptions you’re looking for were removed from Spinefarm’s website a while back. I had an internet wizard check and Spinefarm's website didn't have descriptions for each song; for example The Night Does Not Belong to God had a definition for the term Sundowning instead (literally taken from the Wikipedia page in 2019 lol).

The descriptions, for anyone wondering, are the following:

The Night Does Not Belong to God: "Sundowning, or sundown syndrome, is a neurological phenomenon associated with increased confusion and restlessness in patients with delirium or some form of dementia. Most commonly associated with Alzheimer's disease, but also found in those with other forms of dementia, the term "sundowning" was coined due to the timing of the patient's confusion. For patients with sundowning syndrome, a multitude of behavioral problems begin to occur in the evening or while the sun is setting..."

The Offering: “An exploration of intimacy… ritual… worship… how connecting with someone on a certain level inspires a sense of deeper, spiritual significance.”

Levitate: “You were the bad guy in their story, but that part of their story is now over. The intense pain of realising someone you love does not need you anymore.”

Dark Signs: “Arrogant and bitterly alone. Acknowledging that you have become a poisonous influence in the lives of others.”

Take Aim: “The inherent risk that comes with love. Choosing it over loneliness. To have faith in another human being…”

Sugar: “The darker, intoxicating aspects of intimacy, a decline into obsession and impulse. A cherry between teeth.”

[tayfabe75]

"My first memories of performance go back to when I was in Pennsylvania growing up. My favorite thing was getting to be theatrical, to tell a story. And I've always brought that narrative element to my live shows."

July 17, 2019: While discussing her role in 'Cats', Taylor mentions her background in theater. (source)

[ingravinoveritas]

So...does anyone else just not have any interest in Wicked at all? I absolutely don't hate it and hold no ill will toward anyone who is into it and enjoys the whole thing, but I've seen the trailers, the teasers, the endless interview clips with Ariana and Cynthia, and I'm just...meh. None of it has ever piqued my curiosity, for some reason...

[exactly10meowingkittens]

Not feferi related but how do you explain that your oc is litesrlly a revamp of one of the ufo dancers from popee the preformer 💔💔

I SAW LIKE ART SIMILAR TO IT AND WAS LIKE ,,"SHIT IS THIS A CHARCTER IN A MEDIA ALREADY" then I forgot I based her off the dancers from popee the preformer,, I've had her since liek,,, 2022??

[invinciblerodent]

wild that it takes starting to watch Stargate, a show almost as old as I am, to drag my sorry carcass back to social media after a month of a Desperate Digital Detox and a self-imposed gag order

...... anyway hi, hello, how are you all doing, do we all think it's kind of weird that in the beginning, they just automatically landed on assuming he/him pronouns and a masculine identity for Teal'c? like yeah, it was the late 90's so it's understandable, and I may only be 4-ish episodes in so anything and more could still happen, but the Jaffa are not only actual, literal aliens (Teal'c just kind of happens to have a frame that we humans view as being conventionally masculine), but they also act as "incubators", almost surrogate mothers to the infant Goa'ulds they live in symbiosis with, so....????

I hope we'll have a fascinating discussion about their apparent gender, because at this point, if we're talking about which pronouns we should default to when talking about them, I could make a case for quite literally any of them

is that hole in their stomach considered a pouch, like they're some sort of a marsupial? is it more analogous to a womb that just happens to be able to open from the outside? how do Jaffa themselves view it and their role with regards to their gender and gender expression? did the showrunners consciously have Teal'c wear a conventionally feminine style of makeup as commentary on that? how many absolutely nasty, filthy fics have been written about fucking the pouch? so many questions

[telugxrl13]

hey guess what my friend called my name in class and my spanish teacher figured out she's been pronouncing it wrong 'the entire time [she's] known [me]' 😃

[dead-inside-demiboy]

Okay, in kinda a reference to my last post on the topic, I am curious about the experience of other aces, since I dont know many sex positive ace-specs irl.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

thinkin bout magneto's lil list of aliases from that One Shot of his government file or w/e in 97 and how it lists the three main men who've played him (David Hemblen, Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender) and kinda cackling at the idea 1.) if they included All his names 2.) having 'michael' on that list twice