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English Translation under the divider.

THE PERFECT WORLD

Lea: Icarus, I don't want to interrupt you, but in an hour the award ceremony begins.

ICARUS: Lia, you know how much I don't like these events…

Lea: Of course, I know. But this time they're rewarding you, dear!

ICARUS: Me? Sounds intriguing! So we have to go?

Lea: Absolutely! Come on, I've already chosen a suit for you and ordered a car. We have five minutes!

IDEAL WORLD Lea: I came up with as a child Your ideal world A world full of love Our love with you… There the purest diamond I shine in the crown - give me My ideal world! I'll be a shy kitten Clinging to your feet… I will be irresistible Jealous, obstinate, submissive - As you wish yourself! Let this world I forgot how to pray to the gods - I believe He will fall at your feet!

CHORUS: Let's create Our ideal world Let's take the main roles, After all, we deserve a happy ending! Like in an old movie Where there is only one double We are the directors of our destiny, We go into the sunset together - To an ideal world.

Or rather shadows

I'll follow you,

I'm the best portrait on your canvas… In all eras

The world of the strong calls for battle:

Go and come back -

With a shield or on a shield!

I'll be a beautiful rose

In the lapel of a jacket,

I'll be in love and passionate, playful, dangerous -

A tigress a moment before the jump!

It doesn't matter who I am,

What matters is who you become - a Hero? Or burn bridges?

CHORUS:

Let's create

Our ideal world,

Let's take the main roles, because we deserve a happy end… Let's play the final

One of the forgotten paintings,

Where, holding hands, the heroes go into the sunset -

To the ideal world!

To an ideal world! To an ideal world! Perfect world… In an ideal, in an ideal world…

( I stuck with the original translation of “ Ideal” instead of “ Perfect”. Given the source it feels more correct to use “ Ideal” but PLEASE correct if wrong. ) I also called her Lea here, it can also be Lyra.

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English translation 2.

Недостающий элемент

MISSING ELEMENT

ICARUS:

Happiness - Happiness

What a strange word… Any philosopher of any century

Tried to find

It over and over again, I'll try it too

Enter this river.

Happiness - Happiness

Blurred definition, Feeds Fools and poets for centuries, See it -

It means to get out of the shadows and immediately go blind

From the bright light.

CHORUS: Crazy Thought, Double Calculation, Dangerous Step On thin ice Compressing eternity In a brief moment Exponentially straight, From darkness to light - The missing element…

Happiness Cannot be caught and hobbled* ( Cut down) by Willpower And the power of thought. You can't delay him You won't break it down As a complex example For prime numbers.

Let no one answer the question, centuries of progress Gone through your fingers - But I'm away from him in one element, And I never Didn't know how to give up!* ( * He’s never known how to quit? Is what I’m getting from this)

CHORUS: Outside all coordinate systems, Vice versa And at random To minus infinity, And now, already at the end of the road - I took your trail, The missing element! Missing, missing element… Missing, missing element…

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English translation 2.

Недостающий элемент

MISSING ELEMENT

ICARUS:

Happiness - Happiness

What a strange word… Any philosopher of any century

Tried to find

It over and over again, I'll try it too

Enter this river.

Happiness - Happiness

Blurred definition, Feeds Fools and poets for centuries, See it -

It means to get out of the shadows and immediately go blind

From the bright light.

CHORUS: Crazy Thought, Double Calculation, Dangerous Step On thin ice Compressing eternity In a brief moment Exponentially straight, From darkness to light - The missing element…

Happiness Cannot be caught and hobbled* ( Cut down) by Willpower And the power of thought. You can't delay him You won't break it down As a complex example For prime numbers.

Let no one answer the question, centuries of progress Gone through your fingers - But I'm away from him in one element, And I never Didn't know how to give up!* ( * He’s never known how to quit? Is what I’m getting from this)

CHORUS: Outside all coordinate systems, Vice versa And at random To minus infinity, And now, already at the end of the road - I took your trail, The missing element! Missing, missing element… Missing, missing element…

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You have been visited by the twocumber. May you receive twofold luck in the coming days

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help me manifest blue pennsylvania

like to charge reblog to cast

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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.