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I’m still here btw

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guys why is he so gender im gonna cry

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hey, yeah i’m filled with all consuming crushing despair, you? oh you got a dog cool

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really enjoying the idea of stealth-trans!Wilson trying to be supportive of a trans duckling without explicitly outing himself, but fumbling and doing such a bad job that he comes across as mildly transphobic

everything he says is digging himself a deeper hole, to the point where he has to come out as trans, but at that point, the duckling low-key thinks he's lying so he doesn't sound as bad

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"you're so strong" "you're so resilient" "you're so brave" what if I don't want to be? what if I want to break down and cry? why do I have to be strong?

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He hasn't changed - (RSL appreciation post)

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In case anyone is having a bad night:

Here is the fudgiest brownie in a mug recipe I’ve found

Here are some fun sites

Here is a master post of Adventure Time episodes and comics

Here is a master post of movies including Disney and Studio Ghibli

Here is a master post of other master posts to TV shows and movies

*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*

You’ll be okay, friend <3

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Hey!

Pls can you give us the context of them warning the radio interviewer? Is that from the pre-show?

Thanks so much

hellooooo

it’s from the radio interview they did for Adelaide

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https://www.tumblr.com/somebody0ncetoldme/769491167388844032/hey-pls-can-you-give-us-the-context-of-them Looks like someone captioned it!

THANK YOU SO MUCH ANON AND CAPTIONER <3 <3

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summary of the australian radio interview for anyone who hasn't listened yet

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if house was transgender he’d bring it up all the time.

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they call me "mr lack of understanding" for reasons that are somewhat unclear to me

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Come here, i have a secret to tell you… House unconditionally wants Wilson but will never pursue that relationship because he feels like he doesn’t deserve it and cant risk losing the one thing thats good in his life, so instead he’ll undermine any care Wilson shows him…Wilson is unaware of just how much he craves and needs House’s presence and will continue to choose other people over him because he can’t understand the concept of breaking societal norms for his own happiness… both of them live and continue to live in this doomed state of unrequited and unfulfilling love because each of their insecurities keeps them from loving each other….yeah that hurt? Good now you get it.

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Wish there was more music about being physically disabled. I don't even know any songs that are about being physically disabled

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I wanted to share this before the pride month ends! They’re not written by me, this is the original post

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Robert Sean Leonard and LGBTQ+

On Stage

The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard. Broadway, 2001.

RSL won a Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award for his portrayal of gay poet and scholar A.E. Housman, who struggles with his feelings towards his best friend and the love of his life, Moses Jackson.

The Violet Hour by Richard Greenberg. Broadway, 2004.

RSL played John Pace Seavering, an ostensibly straight character who nonetheless shares kisses with another man (played by future House guest star Scott Foley).

Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson. Broadway, 2003 (also Los Angeles).

RSL played a gay disabled Vietnam veteran, Ken Talley, living with his boyfriend in his childhood home and dealing with visiting relatives and friends over a summer weekend.

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Baltimore (Center Stage), 1997.

RSL played Tom, the fictional alter-ego of Williams (who was gay) in this autobiographical play about his family. Read an interview with RSL about Tennessee Williams.

The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer. Benefit reading, 1994.

RSL played Mark, the young lover and caretaker of Brian (Christopher Reeve), a gay man dying from an unnamed disease assumed to be cancer. The performance of this 1977 Pulitzer Prize winning play was held to benefit a high school drama teacher in Tuscon, Arizona, who was fired for attempting to stage it due to its homosexual themes.

Into the Woods by James Lavine and Stephen Sondheim. Broadway workshop, 1987.

RSL played Jack (of Jack & the Beanstalk fame) in this musical about fairy tales. No expressly gay themes, but composed by openly gay LGBT icon Stephen Sondheim.

Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore. Broadway, 1987-1988.

A biographical play based on the life of Alan Turing (played by Sir Derek Jacobi), so-called father of the computer - a brilliant young man who, during WWII, helped to break the German submarine Enigma code. The play deals with his personality, his love of mathematics and also his homosexuality, for which he spent some time in prison. RSL played Christopher Morcom, a schoolmate who was Turing’s first love and whose death, at the age of 17, was to leave a permanent mark on Turing’s character. Description from this site. Read the thoughts of Andrew Hodges, on whose book the play was based.

Coming of Age in Soho by Albert Innaurato. The Public Theater, circa 1985.

The play concerns a writer named Bartholomew “Beatrice” Dante, who has fled to Soho to escape his wife of fourteen years and to come to terms with his art and his homosexuality. RSL understudied the role of Puer, an “astonishingly precocious teenager” who informs Beatrice that he is his son by a German terrorist with whom Beatrice had a brief but intense fling.

On Film

A Glimpse of Hell, directed by Mikael Salomon.

A 2001 cable movie which originally aired on FX, based on a 1989 incident that occurred aboard the USS Iowa when an explosion killed 47 sailors. RSL plays Dan Meyer, a Naval lieutenant who questions the Navy’s official findings, which blamed the event on a homosexual relationship between two of the sailors.

In the Gloaming, directed by Christopher Reeve.

A 1997 cable movie which originally aired on HBO. RSL plays Danny, a young gay man dying of AIDS who returns home to be in his mother’s care (played by Glenn Close). The DVD release date is unknown, but VHS copies are still available.

Books

The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton, 1999.

RSL narrates this novel about the family struggles and coming of age of Walter McCloud, a gay teenager in the Midwest. The audiobook is out of print but you can still buy the novel.

Other

Auditioned for a role in “To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar”

“Douglas Carter Beane wrote the screenplay for “To Wong Foo,” and recalled all the actors’ auditions for the film. “John Cusack looked just like his sister Joan. Robert Sean Leonard was stunningly beautiful, Audrey Hepburn. James Spader—also beautiful. Willem Dafoe looked the way Mary Tyler Moore does now—the Joker’s sister, with that mouth. John Turturro—not pretty.”“

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+I want to add, to my knowledge he’s listed as one of the actors funding broadway support organisation including AIDS/HIV

You can see he’s listed in this link