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so real

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NO

PULITZER AND HEARST, THEY THINK WE'RE NOTHING. ARE WE NOTHING?

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Is now a good time to tell you guys I initially heard the chorus of Balaga as “hey hey Balaga, the famous drunken driver”

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i wanna be a boy but not in the man way in the newsies cast member way. does this make sense.

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remus would be just out of shot fact-checking and throwing quips at them

i hate to say it but in the modern day james and sirius would have a podcast.

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Only real ones get it.

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I NEED TO READ I NEED TO WRITE I NEED TO CREATE I NEED TO DRAW I NEED TO CLEAN I NEED TO WORK OUT I NEED TO LEARN *watches YouTube for 6 hours*

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give me musical recommendations pls 😝🫶

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Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

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theatre kids of tumblr. reblog this with that one role you know you’d be good for but you’ll never get

for me it’s hermes from hadestown. also maybe skimbleshanks but i think i could get that one if local theatre group did cats.

wow you guys LOVE this post i’ve gotten like 10 notes in the past ten minutes. i’d like to add that i would make an AMAZING orpheus because my range is the same and also i play guitar. unfortunately they do not love the concept of orpheus being a transmasc teenager. so

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If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

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is it casual now?

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PEOPLE WANT TO SIT NEXT TO ME

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“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.

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I could have sworn there was a playlist that Dave Malloy made somewhere of intentional Great Comet spoofs and old drafts of his songs, with lines like, "I have been snorkeling," and a bunch of stuff to the melody of "Pierre," including, "I used to wear sweaters." Does anyone know where that might be? 🤔 I'm pretty sure there was a Tumblr post that linked to a separate website that hosted the playlist, and that's how I first discovered it, but if I ever reblogged that at some point (this would be over five years ago now), I've lost track of it since 😔

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Ya know the newsies are so touchy with each other and seem so okay with someone grabbing their arm or pats on the back and I just really need that in my life