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TV STAR: Good morning, residents of Polis! The temperature under the Dome is 22 degrees. The radiation background is normal.

We remind you that today the award ceremony for outstanding citizens will take place in the central square. Have a nice day!

INTRO

TOWNSPEOPLE: Our "tomorrow" has come, Our run* ( Journey?) can't be slowed down anymore, Nothing has eclipsed our sun: Look how great man is! It's a brave new world You are here, you are here and now! Paradise built by people - You are ours, you are created for us! You are made for us! You are made for us!

I have all of ACT 1 translated and have for years, but due to the whole AO3 taking down all my translations I had to go through a bunch of people to get them to agree to let me translate it.

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TV STAR: Good morning, residents of Polis! The temperature under the Dome is 22 degrees. The radiation background is normal.

We remind you that today the award ceremony for outstanding citizens will take place in the central square. Have a nice day!

INTRO

TOWNSPEOPLE: Our "tomorrow" has come, Our run* ( Journey?) can't be slowed down anymore, Nothing has eclipsed our sun: Look how great man is! It's a brave new world You are here, you are here and now! Paradise built by people - You are ours, you are created for us! You are made for us! You are made for us!

I have all of ACT 1 translated and have for years, but due to the whole AO3 taking down all my translations I had to go through a bunch of people to get them to agree to let me translate it.

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I had this idea for awhile but didn't know how to do it. Now I have z-movie technology and can finally present to you. "Raistlin plays basketball"

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Magius, Dragonlance.

✨ + time lapse ✨

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The Lord of the Rings in Australia: News

Official website and social media:

lotronstage.com

Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

State Theatre, Sydney

Dates and tickets:

7 January to 1 February 2025

previews: 7 and 8 January 2025

additional matinees on most Saturdays and Wednesdays; 12 & 23 January

no performances on Mondays and Australia Day

$69 - $189

TICKETS HERE

Additional information:

2 hours and 50 minutes including a 20-minute interval

Suitable for all audiences and best enjoyed by ages 8 and up.

Teaser Trailer & Press Footage

Virtual Tour

Seating Plan

FAQ

This performance contains strobe lighting, haze and theatrical blackouts.

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Finrod, Friend of Men

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This is Taim and Tia. I have made several posts over the last few months about their family's fundraiser. Their mother, Eman has an account on tumblr, but it is difficult for her to update it and her instagram due to spotty internet. She and I have exchanged several messages over tumblr dm so I know her family is currently safe.

Donations have been slow lately. Please donate- even a little can go a long way. This fundraiser supports Taim, Tia, their older sister, as well as Eman and Eman's two sisters and parents.

In her messages to me, Eman has told me that she and her family are deeply grateful to everyone who has donated and shared their fundraiser.

As a reminder, this fundraiser was verified by @/el-shab-hussein.

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Reblogging my own shit.

This nearly broken my computer. Enjoy my terrible edit of the "Dalamar breaks Raistlin's staff" scene. (Generic Mambo music)

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Disabled characters in fantasy and why the entire bullshit surrounding the ableistic arguments about disabilities in fantasy. Where people think that mobility devices in gaming could 'easily' be 'fixed' with magic and why it is incredibly frustrating.

OR What Raistlin Majere means to me as a disabled person. a Rant.

Why Raistlin Majere (And other disabled characters are important in fantasy). There's been a lot of discussion of accessibility devices being used in games. Talking about how it's 'lazy because magic can fix everything'. We would not have any of Dragonlance if it wasn't for Raistlin Majere. He is a canonically disabled mage, who was kinda (was) a jerk. He was very nuanced and important. Basic mage needs and 'spellslots' are an important part of fantasy. Much like our human bodies that require rest and nourishment, fantasy doesn't eliminate that. Raistlin Majere went to become a real mage and had to go through excruitating trials to prove he was capable of wearing his mage robes. During all of that he did some BAD things, and he offered his body to a even worse mage to help him. The Mage drained him regulary. Raistlin already was born disabled. His own self loathing against his able bodied brother was interesting, and while I could write tons about that too, that isn't what this is about entirely because there's more than that. He often felt left out, tired and rather useless and magic was what gave him 'strength'. Due to multiple things that happened to him he wanted to challenge the gods themselves and become the most powerful mage. (There's a lot more to this but for simplifying we are going with this). This is also not me condoning using disability as a 'punishment', but Raistlin already was disabled and was further pained when doing his mage trial. I've seen arguments about how gods/temples would help anyone disabled and therefore disabilities wouldn't work. Someone took a tiny bit of pity (ugh) on him and offered him something to help ease his pain, let's just call it medication for simplicity sake again. That was the most charity, even the most powerful clerics couldn't heal him or help him, whether in childhood or adulthood. Eventually he almost completely healed himself but was still very much dealing with various forms of pain, whether emotional etc. He is known as the most powerful wizard on krynn.

If we take all of that away we take away an incredibly interesting character whose disabilities helped elevate the games in which he was played in. When you work together you can accomplish so much more. When his friends were actual friends they accomplished so much together they seriously did. Yet due to his abbrasive personality he was rarely praised for the war of the lance until much later. Even his title of "hero of the lance" always seemed to come with talks about him being rather shitty until later. Throughout Dragonlance as a series (beyond the core novels) we have a lot of disabled characters and throughout the years as humans become more aware of how to write disabled characters differently we have gotten a lot more out of them and a lot more of them each providing such interesting parts to these beloved books. At an even simpler level we have gollum/smeagol, another canonical disabled charater who was kinda dick too. However without him, Frodo may not have been able to actually destroy the ring at all, and if we go even deeper into Tolkien's lore we can discover more disabled characters whether titled as such or not that seemed to be a reflection of what he experience during the war and coming back. Disabilities exist in fantasy and in the real world, and some of us chose to create characters with disabilites, and I'd really much like to believe that we can get along because the world is already inaccessible enough. Let your players use various modes of accessability if needed/wanted. Erasing these beautiful and nuanced characters would erase so much of what makes fantasy so incredible and accepting. It's always been such a mostly accepting genre, it's a way to fantasize and sometimes it's nice even in a regular day to fantasize what a beautifully crafted accessability device might look like. So rather than argue online for hours for "why disability makes no sense in fantasy" could we change it to " I am capable of creativity and inclusion". It's your fantasy game, so you get to be beautifully creative.

However, if you REALLY would take away disabilities in game because it's your fantasy game then say bye to

Raistlin Majere

Frodo -Gollum

Toph

John Silver

Captain Hook

Your random peg legged pirate

Your eye patch

Geordi La Forge

Vader

Luke

Furiosa

Matt Murdock

Professor X

Deadpool

Kanan Jarrus

Steven Strange

Bucky Barnes

War Machine

Elijah Price (And so so many more this is the lazy amount because I am SO FUCKING FED UP OF PEOPLE NOT BEING INCLUSIVE IN DND SPACES AND ONLINE) Brought to you by an angry disabled person. (I love you take good care of yourselves, also this is nuanced and not entirely encompassing all my thoughts nor does it have to be your view as a disabled person. I love you be good to yourself today please.)

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I also make shitposts like Billy Butcher lines over Eomer lines.

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You're allowed to make lazy things. Want to make a thing? Really tired? Do it poorly. Stop caring, you're not a product. What you make shouldn't be, either.

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Free online courses about Ukraine

Basics of the Ukrainian Language and Culture - https://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/introduction-ukrainian-language-and-culture/

Ukraine: History, Culture, and Identities; this course is available in English, French, Italian, and Norwegian on Coursera: https://ui.org.ua/en/sectors-en/the-first-online-course-about-ukraine-in-english/

The Making of Modern Ukraine with Timothy Snyder: https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-making-of-modern-ukraine

Crimea: History and People on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/course/crimea-history-and-people/

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“You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try accepting yourself and see what happens.”

— Louise Hay

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FEMA is doing an emergency alert test on all TVs, radios, and cell phones on October 4, 2023, at approximately 2:20pm ET.

If you live in the US and you have a phone you need to keep secret for any reason, make sure that it is turned off at this time.

Yes, I'm doing this months in advance, and yes, my blog has very little reach, but I figure better to post about it more than less.

Please reblog and add better tags than mine, I'm bad at tags.

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Finished this about a year ago, threads of "Threads" lol. Eh. Anyways. For the four English fans of "Orpheus" I love you. Some of the links are odd but I don't know how to edit on here so.... These tags should assist. Thank you for reading this ramble.

Full English Translation of the 'Original' Concert of the Rock Opera "Orpheus"

Threads / Нити https://t.co/L5F6oaW0wf

Immortal Love / Бессмертная любовь https://t.co/9qiqiVJM29

Glory / Слава https://t.co/uQlwzR3SGV

Fragile Paradise / Хрупкий рай https://t.co/T8RjjcCbCA

Sleep / Сон https://t.co/GX8bf4kxH7

Ball of Oblivion / Бал Забвения https://t.co/hMSJ4CWnBo

Decision / Решение https://t.co/iekVhOe1Ky

Turn Back / Поверни назад https://t.co/75wUnyXHCG

Sing, My Lyre! / Пой, моя лира https://t.co/uDacacJukw

Power / Власть https://t.co/Da3rtDCn8O

Leave / Оставь https://t.co/nem8m1aLVM

Persephone is crying / Плач Персефоны https://t.co/npyTMRC4LQ

A step into the Darkness / Шаг в темноту https://t.co/d8jTr8bQmT

Panic / Паника https://t.co/tRSLsEHZnH

Whatever Happens / Будь что будет https://t.co/O2Yy6bAJpI

The time will come / Время придёт https://t.co/qzepzd78DO

Heroes / Герои https://t.co/pebO08ExHe

Часть II: Кто ты? Act 2: Who are You?

(This includes the original song order, and includes the alternate songs in the ()'s (Which shows the soundtrack numbers).

1 Спи и забывай / Sleep and Forget https://t.co/AptuT34uYl

2 Кто ты / Who are you? https://t.co/RbP3RJaCet

3 Она мой свет / She's my light https://t.co/RTAZ2jhiN8

4 Суд / Judgement https://t.co/VLlOyoPdke

5 Капкан / Trap https://t.co/uyQIQ2E2ur

6 Будь кем захочешь / Be whoever you want https://t.co/QYXi4r8xW5

7 Наше ли дело / Is it our business https://t.co/GawwTLD3wx

8 По тонкой грани / On a thin line https://t.co/7OyF1oY1bG

*(9) Оступилас�� / Stumbled

*(10) Целый мир / The whole world

9 *(11) Ты со мной / You're with me https://t.co/UIJDRrLY9X

*(12) Нашла кого любить / Found someone to love

10 *(13) Не мой путь / Not my way https://t.co/HqAorDDzSJ

11 *(14) Как ей сказать / How to tell her https://t.co/6WG1L6LWSC

*(15) Выбирать / Choose

*(16) Бунт душ / Riot of Souls

*(17) Обернись / Turn around

*(18) Нити (Эпилог) / Threads (Epilogue)

Rock Opera "Orpheus" by Ольга Вайнер

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Full rough English translation under the thing. The translation is from my subtitles which was made from my deleted AO3 translation, but I think some of it changed from the AO3 version.

Orpheus: There is no place for weakness in our lives. Man as well as God will say:

Only the strong are honored by fate. But, as a rule, there is a catch…

And the heart is troubled by doubts. The eternal argument goes on,

Where different points of view Make up the same pattern.

We fight for the right to choose At sharp corners of days.

By laws that are, alas, disadvantageous For gods as well as men.

Hecate: And frightens the heart into oblivion. We all would like to find

To believe in a better sequel Hecate & Hermes: Of an unfinished tale.

Together: There the threads intertwine Try it, find yours!

Pulling one after another They don't recognize each other…

Between small and big Waging an endless fight

And the choice of a familiar path so often called (Orpheus and Eurydice harmonize)

Fate.

Everyone: Wah Woaaaaaah

Persephone: The threads are spining, they know who we were and will be next.

Each twist and turn The choice is ours.

Hades:There is one choice between two evils, No compromises, no middle ground:

Life or death, fire or smoke,

Everything is just a mirage.

There the threads intertwine Try it, find yours!

Pulling one after another They don't recognize each other…

Between small and big Waging an endless fight

And choosing the familiar path, In vain they call Destiny.

I know this story better than anyone

I know it like the back of my hand! But no matter how many years pass

I never cease to be amazed…

Hecate: You led him in a proven way - To the gods, the pinnacle of glory and honor!

But he saw himself at the edge. And not someone else.

There the threads intertwine Try it, find yours!

Pulling one after another They don't recognize each other…

Between small and big Waging an endless fight

And the choice of a familiar path so often called

Fate.

so often called

Fate.

Flashing lights warning: (when the time on the video is around :35 then the lights start flashing) English translation of the rock opera "Orpheus" (Act 2) Alternative Act 2.

Alternative act number : *(18) Нити (Эпилог) / Threads (Epilogue) Original video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy6ypQnMaUc *I did a little but of editing to the audio, there are a TON of performers on that stage all with handheld mics at the same time, so this is in absolute no offence to the original recorder, or the sound techs. That's a lot of mics in a tiny space, I just slightly edited the audio to sound less "concert-y". For this video the cast is: Orpheus: Орфей - Андрей Лефлер

Eurydice: Эвридика - Виктория Григорьева

Hermes: Гермес - Евгений Егоров

Hecate: Геката - Вера Зудина

Hades: Аид - Константин Барышников

Persephone: Персефона - Анна Якубенко

(This is the closing number/Bows of the Alternative Act 2)