I am neutral to positive on musicals myself but i absolutely adore when people who Hate Musicals try to explain/describe why they hate musicals. It is never not totally hilarious because musicals as a concept are hilarious and its always just... Really frustrated people being like "it just doesnt make SENSE how they all start DANCING" and i just love it.

Plus then you always get this interaction

Musical Enjoyer: theyre just supposed to be fun :) its not that deep

Musical Hater, wild eyed and gripping the Musical Enjoyer by the lapels presumably: I DO NOT FIND THEM TO BE FUN

We are all Kathryn

are we gonna talk about how eponine, the daughter of two criminals, poor and filthy, lives on the streets, is the one that's most frequently played by a black woman?

“it's just easier to picture her as a black than cosette” of course it is and i think we all know why.

There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

pls do not celebrate barricade day this year by making the protests about les mis. pls dont make real life protests against the murders of black people at the hands of police a backdrop for e/r fanfiction. i love yall but ive seen too much in my time here and i implore you to think about it critically

Pride month starts tomorrow so I just want to remind you that if you don't support BLM and are complaining about 'riots' you are not allowed to celebrate pride month! The birth of pride was the Stonewall RIOTS, rebellion against police violence by black and brown women. There is no gay liberation without black lives. There is no trans liberation without black lives.

We love our neighborhood Rock/ gossip/ mom friend. 

okay I’m back on my tuck everlasting bullshit because. it’s so good it’s just SO good how this show uses dance

like, first of all, it was a really cool choice to make dance as prominent in the show as they did—as pop musicals become more popular, shows have kind of been leaning away from dance as storytelling, but tuck. tuck fully embraced it for all its power

because here’s the thing. dance in this show tied inexorably to life, in a beautiful way that allows dance, such a bright and brilliant art form, to shine not only in supporting the narrative or being a cool spectacle but being a major element of the characterization.

for instance, both mae and angus only really dance once, in my most beautiful day, and specifically as a recreation of the past, before they became immortal. jesse, who is so in denial about the truth of his immortality and determined to continue living, dances a lot in the first act, but as reality hits, dances less and less. miles never dances. the closest he, who is the most alone and hit the hardest by his immortality, ever comes to dancing is the dancers behind him in time, which only further reinforces dance as a living, joyful thing that the tucks are cut off from by the nature of their curse.

but winnie. from beginning to end, winnie dances more than anyone else. she is so full of joy and light and life that it cannot be contained to words or song, and that is what separates her so much from the tucks, why those who do not dance anymore urge her to avoid immortality, to keep dancing. and then, at the end of it all, there’s the story of winnie foster. to completely adobden words for a seven minute ballet sequence telling the full story of her life is an insanely bold choice, but it works perfectly for the show and for winnie. there is no other medium that could convincing tell a full life,the joy and the grief and the love of it, in so little time. and it proves, perfectly, that she made the right choice. a life is the greatest wonder on earth after all.

hdkshsj sorry this got so long and ramble I’m just word vomiting but. the way this show handles immortality and life and dance as a medium is unparalleled

"Who is Bahorel?" moodboard

Bonus:

Sorry if you hear cowboy noises coming from my room I’m practicing being a cowboy

I could not sleep until I drew this

the part in “i believe” where the girls come in with “peace and joy be with them/harmony and wisdom” and then everyone joins in is so chilling because it displays the true naïveté of all the kids. even those who put on airs (like hanschen, who hides behind his bravado, or ilse, who everyone believes has seen the real world in its entirety) are genuinely wishing that “peace and joy” be with wendla and melchior because they, at heart, don’t know what’s happening or going to happen. the fact that the girls start singing that particular line is expected, but when the boys come in, it catches the audience off guard, as they haven’t heard anything as innocent as that coming out of their mouths since the show started. it hammers home the fact that, although they talk about sex and pretend to know what they’re doing, all of the kids are ignorant about the dangers of what melchior is doing with wendla, and wish them “peace” and “harmony” because they truly believe that that is what will come to them in the future.