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please watch my favorite game changer clip ever

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yeah we accidentally turned your boyfriend into a frog and then a prince and then back to a frog again. no there’s nothing you can do about it he has to forgive himself before he can seek the forgiveness of others and reckon with his past mistakes on his own. but if you can find a folkloric russian witch and make a deal with her you might be able to turn him into a hotter frog

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what do you fear, riz gukgak?

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Ayda: Fig told me that instead of being sad, I should “go get it, girl.” So I’m going to go get it, girl.

Adaine: Get what?

Ayda: Unclear. I’ll get everything, just to be safe

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I miss the unhinged Sophomore Year energy 👑

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Apparently it’s national pickle day! Sounds like kind of a pig dill… I know it was a bad pun, you can Dill With It. 🤣 . . . . . #OinkPigments #Knitter #Knitting #Knit #KnittersOfInstagram #Crochet #Crocheted #Crocheter #CrocheterOfInstagram #Crochetstagram #Knitstagram #Yarn #IndieDyer #Inspiration #ColorTheory #ColorInspiration #SmallBatch #USAMade #HandDyed #HandDyedYarn #IndieDyed #IndieDyedYarn #Fiber #ForatheGram #SlowFashion #NationalPickleDay https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck9GX6nJ_iI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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extremely excited to see the "brennan bullying side of the table" in action

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Say hi pack of pixies!! Some D20 designs based on what is one of my FAVORITE D20 seasons!

{available on my redbubble <3 !!!)

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commission from @wow_i_changed_my_name on Instagram!

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[start i.d.: a drawing of fig and ayda from fantasy high. they kiss, ayda in flight, leaning down to fig, who holds onto her arm. end i.d.]

realized i never posted this here. hi

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I’ve been rewatching RENT, specifically the 2008 version (imo the best version, also free on YouTube). Since it’s the first musical I ever really got into, it brings back fond memories. It’s been eye opening to catch all the little things I had no appreciation for as a high school freshman, for instance: the song Contact.

I didn’t like the song when I first saw the show because I found it kind of discordant. It felt like a random sexual interlude in between two heart-wrenching songs that felt like it had no purpose other than to be a tonal palette cleanser. But now, knowing more context for the history of AIDS activism at the time, I think I have more insight. When RENT first came out in the mid 90s, there had been a shift in the narrative about HIV/AIDS from a “gay plague” to an illness that could impact anyone and a multitude of reasons beyond sexual (e.g. Ryan White, a teenager and hemophiliac who contracted the disease from a blood transfusion). This marked a valuable shift because it opened the general public to being receptive to funding research, humanitarian aid, etc. as it because more of a public health concern than something that could be banished to a “shameful” region of society and ignored.

However beneficial this increased awareness was, it does sideline the more “unpalatable” people who did contract HIV from explicit, “devious” sexual encounters. So, Angel’s refrain in Contact “Take me” can mean not just “take me [sexually]” and “take me [up to heaven]”, but also “take me [in my entirety]”. Take me as a queer, cross-dressing person who got this disease from unprotected gay sex and realize that your activism includes all of me. Not just the flattering parts of me (generosity and creativity) but my sexual identity and all of its taboo rituals and “distasteful” debauchery that the people don’t want to have to acknowledge to fully support the people living with this illness. HIV and AIDS activism isn’t complete until the conversation includes everyone; even society’s unsavory underbelly. I think the repetition of the word “lover” in Contact as well as I’ll Cover You and the reprise serves a similar purpose. I’ll Cover You is very sweet, romantic, probably easier to digest for the general public of the time. But, “lover” is used in both songs to signify that the palatable and unpalatable are inextricable; Collins and Angel’s relationship being accepted can’t be conditional on just the cute, mild aspects of their relationship, they’re also queer men who have (probably non-vanilla) sex and that’s a fact that has to be part of the conversation around a sexually transmitted disease.

Also, side note: the depth of Angel and Collins’ relationship feels a lot more apparent to me this go-around. Like, I think they kind of felt like a loving foil to all the turbulent relationships we see throughout, that didn’t have drama because it wasn’t plot relevant, but in retrospect, they didn’t have drama because in the shadow of such a finite time limit, the little quarrels were probably insignificant. Collins and Angel never had that full 526,000 minutes together, and they spent what little time they had in full, head-over-heels love for each other. Similarly, I used to think Angel, say, providing groceries for Mark and Roger or buying Collins a new coat was just, like “Oh here’s this great character who’s just an infallibly good person to balance out these other assholes.” But, Angel must have known she didn’t have much time left, and in as much as she was generous by her nature, I’m sure she was also generous because she knew her time was coming to a close. Which absolutely breaks my heart.

#rent2008 #rent musical #rent #musicals #broadway #angel and collins

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i present: the bad kids and their pokémon teams. i have a more in depth 50 slide presentation on this but here is the summarized version

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Spooky spirits and a pair of ferrets. 

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Traveling mushroom and his trusted cat

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there’s something so heartbreaking about the way that d20, especially fantasy high and the seven, talks about fatherhood.

ostentatia and her dad and how he would give anything for her no matter how much it hurts him and her and how he refuses to let anyone do anything for him bc he’s the dad and the one who should be taking care of her.

katja and her dad and how he thought he was doing what was best for her by working all the time, thinking that was better than him being around when really all she wanted was to spend time with him.

riz and his dad and how he idolises him and works through that moment of doubting his father and gets that time with him and it’s so sweet despite how much it hurts them both because seeing him can only be temporary.

liam and his dad and being an afterthought to a father who has so much more to consider than a kid who wasn’t anything like what he thought he would be.

jet and ruby with amethar being a king who has even more to consider but never stopped loving and caring for them for a second and always wanted them to have the carefree and happy childhood he had as someone who never should have gotten the throne.

saccharina and amethar being a father who has so much regret piled on his shoulders but can’t do anything to heal the pain he brought to his daughter except by trying to show how much he loves her and is proud of her.

adaine and a father who didn’t care and jawbone, a father who does, who recognises the rage and pain and anxiety in adaine and never for a second shames her for any of it.

kristen and a father who loves what he wants her to be and can’t accept what she is.

kugrash trying to redeem himself for gabriella but more for his sons and the joy he feels when wally forgives him and the sorrow he feels when he reads davids letters and confronts even further the pain he caused.

kingston and the absolute dream of having langston after years of denying himself in the name of the rest of new york only to understand that happiness for him doesn’t mean no happiness for everyone else.

fathers and all the pain they can bring and all the care they can have and all that they experience too.

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It feels like I did this a million years ago