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heres my advice to any followers i have who are young. Don't delete things when you think you've outgrown them or they're cringy. If you make youtube videos just private them don't delete them. Save your files, you can bury them in multiple sub-folders if you think they're cringe now but DON'T DELETE THEM! It doesn't feel like it now but years in the future you will look back fondly at who you were and wish you still had those things.

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Hey, treason is a serious crime and and punishable by death, but WHAT ABOUT THE QUALITY OF MY VIDEO GAME?!?

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You think breakups are bad?! Try being betrayed by one of your only remaining safe foods.

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he'd be on here with a lana del rey profile pic and if it didnt say like 48 in his bio he'd just be instinguishable from any other type of tumblr mutual and he'd come on here every day posting like "still havent fucked that old man" and we'd be like nooo 😭 dont give up king 🥺

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we were talking about the criminalization of homosexuality in class and my professor (who as far as i know isn't in any way queer) said something i quite enjoyed in that. well the exchange was more or less this: a student asked a question (doesn't really matter what exactly just know that i was rolling my eyes So hard internally) and the prof looked at the student and was like (i'm paraphrasing here this conversation was not in english) Do you have any queer friends? and the student went Uhhhh in a manner that made it clear the answer was probably no and the prof said Actually statistically speaking you most likely do. If I had to divide this room into two groups the way to do it would not be "people with queer friends" and "people without queer friends" it would be "people whose queer friends are out to them" and "people whose queer friends aren't". And if you're in the latter category you should consider why that is--if maybe your behavior is indicating to the queer people around you that you're not safe to come out to. to come back to your question if you really want to know about queerness there's a very simple way of doing that: you make yourself a person queer people feel comfortable talking to about their experiences and then you fucking listen to them when they do (the fuck is not paraphrased) (there was a fuck involved) (frankly king shit)

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they're called human rights because you get them by being human. No ifs no buts. Everyone gets them. Yes even those people

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guy who does unboxing videos but he only talks about the boxes

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i think i'll fag out even though it's only monday

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i am going to reach enlightenment through attention on the internet

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give me 10 years and maybe I'll finish a thing or two

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Does anyone remember the original trollface comic?

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I just found out VLC media player lets you do this????

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the ghost of my dead brother: it would be my turn on computer... if I wasn't aborted... me: fuck off dude you died in a car crash everyone saw it

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If I may ask a moderately insane question in good faith:

What makes an opera an opera and not say, a stage musical? Like what's the defining features of the genre or is it a no-firm-borders "CATS is an opera in the same way a hotdog is a sandwich" situation?

absolutely not a moderately insane question because it is a genuine question! and i would honestly say that yeah, CATS is an opera in the same way a hotdog is a sandwich, because they're all related ideas and exist in context with each other.

the short answer is: it depends!

the slightly longer answer is: everything is made up and the points dont matter!

the real answer is this: it's kind of entirely arbitrary and comes down to a lot of ideas about high and low art, as well as historical precedence.

one of the first metrics people usually cite for "is it an opera or a musical" is whether or not there's spoken dialogue (separate from recitative, which is melodic dialogue accompanied by light music) but that falls apart in the face of operetta (gilbert&sullivan) and singspiel (zauberflöte, or famously die entführung aus dem serail, which has completely straight spoken dialogue without any melody at all and literally does not make sense without it. saw a production once where they cut the pasha's dialogue and that aint die entführung, baystaats) and then, the inverse with musicals with little spoken dialogue (les mis).

some people categorize it based on amplification (so, opera is done without mics/musicals are done with mics) but i've seen opera done with mics (again, baystaats, what the fuck was up with that die entführung?) and musicals done without (jesus christ superstar at the lyric was WILD)

i think the best differentiation to make is based on 1) the musical balance and 2) creator intention.

i'm not a person who understands music very well, but for me as a viewer/listener, i think of operatic music as being more about the relationship between orchestra and singers, and the support of the orchestra to give the fuller context to the emotions and thoughts by the singers. in musicals more often the vocals are supporting the orchestra, although this is still also not always true.

one thing that is usually true is that operatic voice is a very different beast from musical voice. some performers can cross over and do so very successfully, but many cannot, because the operatic voice is really designed for a very particular kind of singing, and many musical singers can't do what operatic singers do, even on mics. it's a different set of muscles and skills.

the other aspect is creator intention. there are some musicals that are verging on opera (phantom and hadestown are big ones) and some operas that are verging on musicals (again, gilbert and sullivan), but the intention behind the music. you could, very easily, put on zauberflöte like a musical—and people have done productions like this for kids all the time!—but at the end of a day, the intended nature of the art was as an opera, and it maintains operatic traditions that don't match musical traditions. you could, vice versa, easily do JCS as an opera, but it would still maintain musical traditions and not operatic ones.

there are a lot more detailed posts about this on the internet by people who understand music better than i do but at the end of the day i kind of still default to "i know an opera if i hear it" and a huge part of that does kind of boil down to how the voice is used. it's part of what makes phantom of the opera so cool to me—it's got fully operatic voice pieces (christine) next to fully musical ones (basically every ensemble number).

but at the end of the day: it's arbitrary. it depends. it's kind of up to the individual. sometimes people use "opera" to mean "high art" and "musical" to mean "low art" and sometimes they use "opera" to mean "a particular genre of vocal and orchestral music that developed in the 17th century and has continued to be refined and is an essential part of modern musical theatre tradition" but like. yeah essentially i'll know it if i hear it.

that said.

oh my god i want to see someone do don giovanni in a musical theatre style. just the whole damn opera but staged like a musical. im begging someone. i mean this is basically what the lyric 2015 production is they do have don giovanni on a table and elvira with a motorcycle but GO FURTHER.