for 23 years now

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I keep remembering a run of Hamlet I saw a few years ago, where the Ghost was costumed in full plate armour which was very noisy, and instead of muffling it, they had him crash across the stage, stomping so the whole set rattled, and he said all of his lines in a bellow, like he was furious with Hamlet.

And the thing that made it absolutely terrifying was that Hamlet was the only one who reacted. He was cowering, and covering his ears with both hands, and yelling to be heard over the noise.

And no one else seemed to know why he was doing that. The other actors didn't even raise their voices.

That's scary, something so loud and painful, and REAL, and the people around you don't even notice it, and think that you're the crazy one.

I love when I hear about a choice in Shakespeare I've never thought of before. Brilliant

why did they make oreo flavored oreos. where’s brennan lee mulligan

There's some skills that you don't know exist until you want them soso bad.

OH MY GOD

Happy International Asexuality Day to all my fellow Aces out there!

Treat yourself to some ace-cream today! XD ~<3

EDIT: Some folks were asking what flavors these would be, so my personal top choices would be: dark chocolate icecream with oreo bits on top, lavender earl grey icecream, chocolate chip icecream, and ube icecream on the bottom! ^^ ~<3

It’s that time of year again! April 6th is Asexuality Day! <3

does it ever get better? has it gotten better? will it get better? when will it get better?

WILL YOU WEAR WIGS???

Please call this recession the Trump Slump.

We need to put Trump's name on this.

if ever anything I wrote were to ever go viral, let it be this. Let everyone talk about the Trump Slump. I want to hear this term in the news.

So I picked wall-climbing because I'm asexual, and it's a solid choice even if you're not, but seriously, why is a really long tongue losing so bad? It's like in 6th place. Where's all the horny people?

Yeah, a 100% straight guy wore a Brony shirt to school. I just became 20% cooler.

not to be a killjoy but it's still crazy to me that it's considered mean to be like "maybe you should read / play / watch the source material before creating fanworks and diving into the fandom" bc every time i see somebody going "i havent played disco elysium or know anything about it tbh but uwu here's harry and kim kissing" idk maybe you should engage with it. maybe you should play the anti-capitalist surrealist game where you investigate the murder of a mercenary who led the gang rape of a foreign girl and process that for a bit? and then you can do cutesy mlm or whatever idc. but like at the absolute bare minimum you should understand what the source material involves otherwise we get the phenomenon of people joining a dragon age server and wanting content warnings for like, mage racism. like it's fine to ship and transform the genre into whatever but if you arent comfortable with discussions of the actual source content itself then maybe the fandom isnt for you and a different one is. peace and love.

actual peace and love would involve letting anyone who wants to do things do them, without judgment.

I don't think there is anything unreasonable about the idea that if someone isn't comfortable with actual discussions of the source material they should probably not insert themselves into the fandom. And I struggle to see how this has anything to do with ableism as per your tags.

Well, when you demand a certain amount of effort to be input before you consider someone's creative work valid, that's ableist.

The issue at hand isn't one of the validity of transformative works (and I agree with you there that art doesn't derive meaning or validity from the amount of "effort" poured into it) but of fandom social dynamics and the very simple fact that people involved in a fandom will find people who have not engaged with the source material yet insist on inserting themselves into the fandom annoying. This user articulated it well imo and I'm tired right now:

Unfortunately it's still gatekeeping and still ableist.

I genuinely think it's neither of those things.

i show up to the Planes Enjoyer Convention to talk about how pretty planes are. to my shock i learn planes fly which is awful because i'm scared of heights.

despite me being very passionate, nobody wants to hear about my novel where i imagine planes as types of burrowing creatures. instead people tell me i don't seem very interested in planes or the Planes Enjoyer Convention. this is very mean and judgemental.

eventually i strike up a conversation with someone and they reveal that planes are sometimes used for wars, and they actually like historical "war planes". my heart sinks.

they seem surprised and suggest that i read up about planes. that's just unacceptable. i call them an ableist gatekeeper and protest as i mime being forcibly escorted out of the convention by the security guards i made up in my head.

there’s something almost perverse about the perpetual focus on censoring individual words/concepts rather than moderating actions, and anyone who was around for the height of the wolfspeak era will tell you that preventing someone from directly saying violence/sex words does jack shit to actually create a “safer environment” or stop anyone from sending death threats or participating in erp or whatever it is you’re trying to avoid. how is an environment where people tell each other to unalive themselves any safer than one where they’re telling each other to kill themselves. how is preventing people from saying “sexual assault” actually stopping anyone from committing it. why has this absolute nothingburger of a “moderation” tactic been a thing for so long.

You can never experience watching your favourite show for the first time again, but you CAN convince someone else to watch your favourite show and vicariously enjoy all their raw reactions to seeing it for the first time, which is honestly nearly as good.

pro tip if you have a baby

you have about 7-8 years max before someone tells them that darth vader is luke's father. you don't want this to happen. you want them to find out from the empire strikes back.

generally i recommend trying the summer before first grade as their star wars introduction as a result. pick a rainy day, have a movie marathon maybe.

but however you choose to do it, watch their face instead of the screen during No. I am your father.

please trust me. you want to see your kid experience it. you want to see what their face does with this information.