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assad & lbf [via az's insta]

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Piper Pearbo as Rachel and Lena Headey as Luce IMAGINE ME AND YOU 2005 | dir. Ol Parker

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gay people are allowed to have weird friendships it’s kind of our thing

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clicking a pen over and over again is actually fun as fuck its a shame it makes everyone in a 30 foot radius want to kill me with a rock

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whenever a linear algebra professor catches you having too much fun with math they are legally obligated to make you do gram-schmidt as a way of humbling yourself

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scrolling thru doctor who tag and seeing people go “no guys the finale is a mess on PURPOSE. RTD is going to fix it during a special. it’s insanely sexist for a reason. trust <3” and well damn, if you believe that, i’ve got some fantastic news about the secret fourth sherlock episode-

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feeling abandoned by god all by yourself handsome?

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Prove that all horses are the same colour.

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Define 0^0 to be the smallest natural number.

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Can't wait for the Pope's official stance on the smallest element of ℕ and the subsequent schism

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if 'so anyway' has 100 fans I'm one of them if it has 1 fan it's me if it has no fans I'm dead

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99% of repressors give up before they successfully don't feel anything. Don't stop shoving it down. You can get through this unscathed

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they should release a CD and have a dedication to everyone who thought it would be released last year only to be bamboozled by everyone’s least favorite marketing rebrand

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OH MY GOD??? AM I DREAMING???

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How Dance Symbolises Relationships In Next To Normal

Was going through my drafts and found this post and I feel as though with the pro-shot being released yesterday it's a nice time to post it.

Dancing is used throughout N2N to facilitate a deeper understanding of how characters view each other. Its first mention is in "My

Psychopharmacologist and I" when Diana is describing Dr. Fine and says "It's like an odd romance // Intense and very intimate // We do our dance." Here it's implied that her 'dance' with Dr. Fine is well-established, she has made little long-term progress with her issues over the course of seeing him. It is habit more than help.

After that there's "I Dreamed A Dance".

Here dancing is a platform that Diana can use to dreams of a life with Gabe. Dancing is a physical act, often one where partners will hold onto each other in some way, and this is exactly what she lacks with Gabe - physical presence to engage with. Dreaming of not just a life with him, but a dance, shows how she has idealised their relationship. Since he exists entirely in her head, she knows the ins and outs of him in a way that no parents ever truly knows their teenage child. In order to dance with someone you need to know what move they will make before they make it. It adds weight to her omniscient relationship with Gabe, which is starkly juxtaposed against her distant relationship with Natalie

The most compelling lyric in the song, and the one I'll come back to later is the only lyric which Gabe also sings, which is "The dancers may disappear // Still the dance goes on."

The dancers, the physical beings that can be touched and held and can take part in the act of dancing, fade away, but the act of dancing can remain. It doesn't require the same presence as a dancer. It's a tidy, heart wrenching summary of their entire relationship. Gabe isn't there, but Diana will take part in their life together anyway.

Dancing is brought up again when Henry invites Natalie to a dance after they don't speak for a while. She rejects him twice throughout the second act until she finally goes and meets him there after reconciling with Diana. The dance is the "prop" around which Natalie can engage or disengage herself from Henry. When she chooses to go to the dance with him she chooses that relationship, to be with him. To know and learn about each other.

The final time dancing is mentioned is in "So Anyway". 'And true, it's quite a trick to tell the dancers from the dance'

This is a callback to the "I Dreamed A Dance" lyric. Diana recognises how she's been swept up in the 'dance', these visions of a life with Gabe, and that has detached her from the physical dancers, the people in her reality.

What this does mean, is by the end of the musical, Dan is the only character who never 'enters into dance' or rather a life with somebody. Diana and Dr. Fine do, Diana and Gabe do, and Henry and Natalie do. This speaks to how he is generally detached. To enter a dance implies an agency which he lacks throughout the musical as he gives up on his life time and time again to try and get the 'girl he knew' back. Diana leaves him, Natalie finds a 'dance' outside their family, and Gabe haunts him despite his begging.

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the whiplash or seeing new people posting in the n2n tag when the last like two years its been the same ten people