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a falcon, or a storm, or a great song

@fanchonmoreau / fanchonmoreau.tumblr.com

Laura. abuser of the oxford comma. compulsive scribbler. opera cognoscente.
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"you shouldn't be antisemetic because you're legitimising Israel when you do" no you shouldn't be antisemetic because it hurts Jews who deserve to not be hurt, like any other human being. you should care about not being antisemetic because it hurts people, and that should be enough for you. why isn't it enough for you?

#you shouldn't be antisemitic bc bigotry is bad#thought we were all aligned on bigotry is bad#hm#antisemitism for ts#jewish things#jumblr
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offarawaysnfuturedays-inmydreams

Marin Mazzie + theatre roles

Clara: Passion [1994] Mother: Ragtime [1998] Lilli Vanessi/Katharine: Kiss Me, Kate [1999] Lily Garland/Mildred Plotka: On the Twentieth Century [2005] Guenevere: Camelot [2008] Diana Goodman: Next to Normal [2010] Margaret White: Carrie [2012] Anna Leonowens: The King and I [2016]

“The whole thing has just been so extraordinary for me and it just continues to be full of joy…getting back to work was just so, so very, very important.” –2016 MetroFocus interview

#marin mazzie#god she's so beautiful#she gave us so much#and the worst part is she had even more to give#missing her hours
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In honor of Cabaret starting performances on Broadway tomorrow, here's Marin Mazzie singing the reinstated song 'I Don't Care Much' which is sung by the Emcee in Act 2.

#cabaret#marin mazzie#I love how fast she takes it#it makes it extremely matter-of-fact#that gives it a kind of finality which is actually perfect for the moment it comes in the show#Marin would have aged into Schneider by now which is not something I want to think about#also how we travel from 'who cares? so what?' and 'though I used to care'#to 'warning's fair I don't care very much'#knowing that great care has happened in the interim#this song is so necessary and so beautiful#how the beauty of the melody makes the cynicism of the lyrics land#KANDER!!! AND EBB!!!#Youtube
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droughtofapathy
#THERE THEY ARE#less than one week until performances start and I have tickets for May#Herr Schultz my great-grandad (literally real)#pretty sure this is during Married#Fraulein schneider’s two minute journey from ‘what on earth are you talking about’#to ‘if we don’t get married immediately I’ll kill everyone here and then myself’#Fraulein schnedier in So What: WHO CARES#Narrator/Emcee: actually she cares very much#cabaret#broadway#bebe neuwirth#Steven skybell
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my grandfather died yesterday. he was 94, a long life well lived.

two years ago at Kol Nidre, in those few hours at the beginning of Yom Kippur when you're not hungry, I had a thought not about god but about the earth and the universe. the universe seems cold and indifferent, and the earth is dying at our hand. they are not sentient, but they hold the remains of every single person who has come before us. so how can they be indifferent, really? the people we love go back to the earth, so the earth loves us back. maybe, a little. or at least it remembers us. however it is that the earth or the universe remembers anything.

omnia mutantur, nihil interit. everything changes, nothing perishes. every memory a blessing to us all.

#unrelenting narcissism#this will disappear#grief blogging
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A lot of this is really exemplifying what I'm talking about when I say that the way a lot of people talk and think about Israel and Israelis is fucking deranged to an alarming degree.

The idea behind comments like those made by Judith Butler and those like her seems to be that the claims and motives of individual Israelis are inherently suspect. They seem to think Israeli citizens cannot be separated from their government to any degree, tainted as they are by being born in The Bad Place, where only monstrous colonizers dwell.

They act as if any bad thing that happens to an Israeli is first and foremost fuel for their terrible government, if it happened at all, and any distress an Israeli expresses over the bad thing that probably didn't even happen exists only to provide cover for the cruel machinations of their dark overlords.

This is absolutely fucking grotesque, blatant hatred, a specialized and specific flavor of centuries-old antisemitic hate updated for the 21st century, and I am continuously overcome with despair and confusion at seeing people I once believed to have at least one decent bone in their body continue to eagerly spew forth this kind of hatred.

There are real discussions to be had about the way extremists weaponize the violence visited upon Israeli civilians to further justify their own violent extremism. Of course there are! People are having them every day. Israelis are having them every day!

This? This isn't that!

This is pure dehumanization. It is repulsive and shameful, and I don't know how to fix it. How do you come back from this? How can we trust anyone when the very people who claim themselves to be compassionate champions of human rights can so easily, eagerly, gleefully abandon those self-professed values when asked to care even the tiniest bit for someone they think doesn't deserve it?

Have any of these people ever cared for humanity in the way they claim to? Is it only those humans they feel are deserving of care?

Or is it only those they feel are deserving of being called human?

#I am done begging people to treat Israelis like actual human beings#when in fact there will be no meaningful progress toward peace WITHOUT Israelis#just as there will be no meaningful progress towards peace without Palestinians#idk there's a cute Israeli place five or six blocks from me#where you can get Moroccan iced tea and shakshuka and Jerusalem bagels#they play Hebrew music and the Israeli guy behind the counter was singing along really loudly#ani ohev otach! I love you!#all these people want to do is live safely and freely without burying their loved ones and children#running their businesses and singing along to their music#rich full lives that both Israelis and Palestinians deserve#because that is what all people deserve#i/p#i/p for ts
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