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dorm building loves randomly shutting off my heat and lights for prolonged periods of time in the middle of winter. so excited to be rent the musical live action roleplaying

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OG workshop Mark was like so comically over-the-top mentally ill compared to the later released version like. Who gave this man antidepressants. Make mark cohen emo and dramatic again 2025 it’s iconic

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If you are of a certain age -- if you were of a certain age in the late 1990s -- there is honestly nothing quite like the hold that "Rent" has over a certain segment of the musical-loving population. Like, if you encounter "Rent" for the first time as a jaded adult who's already grown up and gotten a job, then "Rent" is whatever. But if you encounter "Rent" for the first time as a teenager, it sinks its teeth into you and you spend your entire life with this helpless reaction to just the mention of it, like, for all its flaws, it's Rent. It was this revolutionary burst of musical theater from someone who never got the chance to say anything else to the world, but what he left us with was this, and those first few notes of "One Song Glory," and the round-robin of "Will I?," and the joy of "La Vie Boheme," and that reprise of "I'll Cover You" that tears your heart out, and THAT NOTE in "Seasons of Love," like, omg, tear my heart out every time this musical, I can't with any of it. Every time I listen I hope there's a heaven entirely because I hope Jonathan Larsen knows somewhere what he did.

Is it like this for all new generations? Like, do the youths of today hear "Rent" for the first time and it knocks them over the head and never lets them go? I feel like probably not. I feel like this is probably how they feel about "Hamilton" (which, to be clear, I also love "Hamilton," but it doesn't make me feel like this). I suspect it's just a phenomenon particular to coming of age in the late 90s when "Rent" just crashed into all of us and we've just never recovered. Or at least I haven't. I have no idea. All I know is yes, they should all get jobs in "Rent," but I don't care, my love for this musical is pure and true, every time I hear it I am 16 again with the top of my head being taken off and I weep copious tears lol

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trope i really like is self-loathing characters desperate for the catharsis of punishment for frankly rather selfish reasons who r also obsessed with repeatedly pressing others into hating them and hurting them as essentially a method of self harm. yes baby continue making it worse for urself and everybody around u instead of doing an actually productive and effective journey of improvement and redemption

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Learning to drive so that i may have a more complex and nuanced understanding of the themes within bruce springsteens music

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do you think Mimi intentionally crossed Roger's boundaries because she wanted him to lash out at her because that's what she's used to? and Roger pushing her away instead confused her because she expected him to just get violent instead? have i just listened to valentine's day too many times?

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Do you guys ever think abt (goodbye love demo) “I’m afraid I’ll crack” “Like April? I wouldn’t let you, I’ll come back.”

Bc I do. All the time.

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tiktok stunt haha funny. please talk about the ice raids

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What's a book written by a woman that changed your life or that you consider a classic? Any genre, any language.

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this is probably a moot point by now but do yall ever think abt how he was Just a Kid. like jack and davey and everybody else were at least 17 (which is still awful) but crutchie was literally fifteen if you go by the script, and potentially as young as thirteen if you go by the official casting breakdown. like your honor that’s a middle schooler. that’s a little kid who almost died of polio and then almost died in prison and then thought all of his friends left him for dead and then was starved and beaten so badly for weeks that he couldn’t walk. and then put on a brave face and lied to his best friend that he was okay even though he knew he was probably gonna die and always kind of assumed he’d end up that way. that’s just a kid he should’ve been playing roblox. man.

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when i was like 11 i didn’t know who spike lee was so i thought roger’s line about “spike lee shooting down the street” was referring to just some like. guy that lived on their block and was shooting a gun into the sky for fun. and then I spent the rest of the musical wondering why they never again mentioned their crazy neighbor spike that liked to shoot guns in the middle of the night for fun

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I've been keeping it off my face as much as I can on video, but I'm livid about the TikTok ban.

I have about 100,000 followers on that app. I joined during the pandemic. I was lucky to find a community full of incredible people, many of whom I now consider lifelong friends. Because of the community I found on that app, I found space to experiment with my gender presentation. I was able to come out as nonbinary (to feel SAFE ENOUGH to come out as nonbinary) because of that app.

I've seen a few Tumblr posts in which people gloat they never got into TikTok. Good for you. You won't suffer emotionally, and that makes you feel superior. But if you have no concept of what that app has meant for more than 170,000,000 Americans (that's half of all Americans!), many of whom do not have access to community in physical spaces, kindly sit down.

The ban constitutes the largest mass layoff in American history. We will lose billions of dollars in our domestic economy. Over 7 million small businesses are shuttering because of the ban. You will feel the effect of that whether or not you were on the app. If you can't grasp the significance of that, again: kindly sit down.

The language of the TikTok ban has set a dangerous precedent for the American government to shutter any tech platforms they deem "dangerous" for arbitrary, undisclosed, nebulous reasons. This will affect Americans' ability to organize, spread information, and protest. They have effectively banned our right to assembly in digital spaces. This is the greatest infringement of free speech that has ever occurred in the United States. If you can't grasp the significance of that, either: kindly sit down.

This is bigger than "never falling for the TikTok craze." This is an enormous governmental overreach sanctioned by our own Supreme Court. It's bigger than teens doing silly dances you can sneer at from your smug high horse.

And if you can't grasp that: Kindly. Sit. Down.

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Do you guys ever think abt (goodbye love demo) “I’m afraid I’ll crack” “Like April? I wouldn’t let you, I’ll come back.”

Bc I do. All the time.

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can’t believe tiktok is actually getting banned, twitter is infested with bots and brainworm-infested musk bots, facebook is king of QAnon, instagram caught the plague from facebook and is dying a slow death in real time… and as the dust settles… only Miss Tumblr is left standing… failing upwards once again

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Sometimes your blorbo is a cameraman from a musical with an absolutely microscopic fandom

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Wes Bentley as Jamie Dutton YELLOWSTONE ; 01x01 "Daybreak"

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okay i guess a compilation for old time's sake what can i say i got nostalgic

yt: 1:01:37 twitch: 1h29m

Dream: "But Tom— I mean, Tubbo."

yt: 1:30:49 twitch: 1h59m

Dream: "I don't even know that this happened." Tubbo: "How do you not know if you called a woman a whore or not, man?" Dream: "Okay—" Tubbo: "What do you mean you have no idea if this happened. 'I have no idea if this happened.' What do you mean?" Dream: "Okay, Tommy— I mean, fucking..." Tubbo: "WHAT THE HELL, MAN?"

yt: 1:43:03 twitch: 2h10m

Dream: "...that company used child labor." Tubbo: "Then where's the proof? Because—" Dream: "Tommy..."

yt: 2:13:56 twitch: 2h41m

Dream: "It's the same thing. It's like— It's a response— It's like a critique of his critique, Tommy." Tubbo: "Yeah, but it's—" [sigh] Dream: "Tubbo. Oh my god."

yt: 2:38:07 twitch: 3h6m

Dream: "Yeah, exactly! I'm critiquing, To— Tubbo, I'm critiquing his critique."

yt: 3:18:38 twitch: 3h47m

Tubbo: "Oh, come on, man. Oh, come on, man!" Dream: "Yeah, well— I still— I still— I left that— I left that call, okay, Tommy, well— well, the difference is..."