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list of things Henry Winter wouldn’t believe in after the moon landing (Yk, if he lived long enough), but only some of them get context!

-AIDS

-AI (“Your telling me artificial intelligence is more intelligent than me? That is unheard of.” “Don’t worry Henry, it still can’t spell ‘strawberry’ correctly.”)

-Australia

-The mobile phone (“How does this work?” “Well with this particular model you swipe up to unlock…” “Yes, but what does it do?” “So many things! It’s like a portable laptop!” “A portable WHAT.”)

-The laptop ( “it’s a computer but… it fits on your lap I guess?” “Please never show me one.”)

-The kindle.

-Solar panels/hydroelectricity farms.

-Climate change ( “So why is the earth warming up…?” “It’s because of like greenhouse gasses and being unsustainable?” “And you’re just LETTING the scientist tell you this? How do we know it isn’t a lie to improve the economy!”)

-Video games

-Lazer tag/nerf guns (“Are you certain they can’t kill me?” “Certain.” “They sure look like they can… never let me see one again.”

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William Finn’s Falsettos gave me hope that being gay actually isn’t so bad. It was all I listened to for about half a year. It made me laugh when I was sad and cry when I was sad but I was crying bc of Falsettos and not the thing I was sad at tho it’s okay. In all seriousness this musical is the reason I got so invested in musical theatre and the reason it’s become my life’s focus. It taught me that humans make mistakes. It taught me that people who care will forgive. It taught me that death isn’t something to fear, that it’s okay to depend on people, that to love is to lose. Rest in peace, William Finn. The stories and lessons you’ve left behind will continue to impact people for the better.

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Analysing some of my favourite lines in The Chess Game bc fuck you.

“Thats the king. Treat him nice, use some brains, now protect him.” Marvin is referring to himself as the king and asking Whizzer to care for and protect him.

“Start again, we’ve seen the worst.” They began the relationship again after a really toxic first year in which they ‘saw the worst’ of each other.

Followed by Whizzer’s “I’ll go first.” Whizzer dies first out of the two of them, and also dies before they have a fulfilling life together with this new decently healthy relationship.

Whizzer’s repeated soft request for Marvin to “Move the pawn” is a request for him to be more active in the relationship, pretty much saying it’s his turn.

“More’s the pity, since you need a man who’s brainy.” Whizzer’s callback to Marvin’s first line, he’s been led to believe that all he’s good for in the relationship is playing the stereotypical ‘wife’ role that Marvin forced him into. He doesn’t understand why Marvin suddenly wants someone who’s ‘smart’. The “What should I do now, how should I behave myself?” afterwards confirms his confusion.

So the moral of The Chess Game is: WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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some teenager visiting the bookshop who only walked in for the aesthetic would introduce Crowley to video games, and then Crowley would buy a Nintendo switch to rope Aziraphale into it too. Aziraphale would absolutely suck ass at it, but he’d always make sure Crowley is having fun (Crowley would not sound like he was having fun, he would be quite the rager when he lost, but he would enjoy it immensely.)

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March 27th (also known as World Theatre Day) celebrates the art of theatre in all its forms, including musical theatre, plays, performance art, monologue performance, performance poetry, and many more. It proves that while the invention of film revolutionised the acting career, live theatre is an art that refuses to die. Today, let’s show appreciation for actors, production teams, theatre companies, scriptwriters, stagehands, orchestras, and many more groups that work together to help the art of live theatre truly shine. Enjoy today, theatre kids!!!

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your honour, the neurodivergent hyperfixation anthem is actually I Love The Way from Something Rotten the musical.

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I do believe that The Secret History and If We Were Villains have a very similar storyline. However, I also believe that they have enough differences to be considered seperate books. The idea of a book being a ‘copy’ or ‘ripoff’ of another is childish, especially when we’re dealing with a contemporary classic and a modern tragedy, one of which is heavily based on the work of Shakespeare (who’s writing spans so many genres and tropes that it can be seen as an influence in almost every story, even if it was not the author’s intention). I believe that people are allowed to like both books an equal amount if they, as I have, choose to do so.

So, since all I ever hear about is the similarities between IWWV and TSH, here are some of my favourite differences.

The murders occurred for very different reasons. In TSH, Bunny was murdered because Henry believed he might go to the police about the murder they’d already committed, among other reasons like his newfound abusive behaviour towards some members of the group. In IWWV, the murder of Richard was a partial accident, and done completely in self defence. While both Bunny and Richard were murdered in part because of their abuse towards their respective groups, there was an actual plan in place for Bunny’s murder, while Richard’s was purely because James had no other choice.

The approach to the genre of the story. In TSH, the story is told as a snowball of events, leading to the demise of the group’s dynamic and the eventual end to Henry’s life. The story, in my opinion, defies genre. In IWWV, the story reads as more of a mystery, though the switching from present day to past tense prevents it from being a true murder mystery. It isn’t obvious who actually killed Richard until the end of the story, even if we find out that all of the characters choose to leave him to die when they find out he is still alive.

The narrator’s perspective on the story. In TSH, Richard is a very unreliable narrator, telling the story as an outsider coming into this world and romanticising a lot of the events. This serves the purpose of the story well, as the general lesson learned is to be careful falling in love with an aesthetic. In IWWV, Oliver tells the story as someone who knows the dynamic of the group and has been a part of it for years. He is much more reliable, which serves the mystery element of the story well.

The portrayal of the characters. In TSH, the author has created characters that we are supposed to dislike, characters that are genuinely terrible people. This was done on purpose, meant to be uncovered with the narrator as he realises that this great group he joined isn’t all that great. Despite this, I do believe that a lot of the characters were influenced by Henry and Julian (who both show symptoms of narcissism and other personality disorders). In IWWV, the author portrayed characters who are more akin to typical college age people. They’re social with other students, go to parties, and engage in banter and friendly arguments. While they are more outcast than their peers, they aren’t living as outright recluses as the characters in TSH are. This is why people generally prefer the characters in IWWV over TSH, and consider them to be ‘nicer’.

Yes, both stories have very similar plots, but there are many differences that make each of them their own amazing story. On paper they seem like almost identical stories, but anyone who has read both knows that this just isn’t the case. The two books make you feel very different emotions as you read, and isn’t that what’s the most important? Any book can be similar to another if you think hard enough about it, but we have to try to understand that it’s almost impossible to come up with original ideas as so many new creative works are born. Even Shakespeare struggled to write plays with tropes he hadn’t already written about by the end of his career. Calling a book a ‘rip-off’ of another is insulting an author’s hard work and dedication. Both books are astoundingly authentic and beautifully written, and should be loved as seperate stories.

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the dark academia urge to learn Latin by spending hours translating ancient works is strong, but Duolingo’s threats have always been stronger.

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Way Down Hadestown reprise but the workers are using diamond minecraft pickaxes.

‘Why won’t anybody upgrade?’

‘They can upgrade…’

‘But they don’t care.’

‘NO ONE USES NETHERITE DOWN HERE.’

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Orpheus fr said ‘la la la la, I can’t hear youuuu’

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No fucking way this is actual dialogue from the second fucking chapter.

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the whole theatre be laughing at

‘don’t come on too strong’

‘…COME HOME WITH ME.’

but I’m worried, if Orpheus believes that asking a girl he hasn’t even spoken to yet to come home with him is not coming on too strong, I’m concerned about what would have happened if Hermes didn't say anything

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Babe, what’s wrong? You haven’t even touched your Falsettios

since this gained absolutely no traction on Pinterest I shall bombard what is left of our tiny fandom over here on tumblr with this absolute beauty.

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watching Hadestown for the first time today, haven’t even listened to the cast recording like a good little theatre kid, how concerned should I be for my mental health?

edit: ok what the actual fuck.

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the most underrated part of The Secret History is Richard describing in detail how awful Bunny is at writing essays using a specific example where he mixes up two historical figures and writes an essay barely relating to either of them. my boy Richard tells this story for TWO AND A HALF PAGES. keep in mind Bunny is long dead by the time Richard is narrating the events so he’s just academically roasting his dead friend without a care in the world.

also we never find out what score the essay got and that pisses me off.

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rip Bunny Corcoran, you would have loved chatgpt

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while I’m sure we’d all love a tsh movie or series, I’m concerned that a visual image of Henry Winter on a screen may attract more simps at a faster rate than we’ve ever seen. it may also cause the current simps to simp harder, therefore destroying the world as we know it.