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Anyway if nothing else matters then I hope people remember that Pope Francis used his last public address to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and call Israel a terrorist state:

"I continue to receive very serious and painful news from Gaza. Unarmed civilians are subjected to bombings and shootings. It is terrorism."

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With your help, THE GUY WHO DIDN'T LIKE MUSICALS will return to the stage this summer! Check out the Kickstarter pre-launch page and bookmark the project!

The hit horror-comedy musical returns after seven years for a bigger, longer live run. Join Paul, Emma, and the rest of Hatchetfield in a fight for survival as the world around them is transformed into a musical hell!

If funded, the live remount will run this summer (July - August 2025) at the El Portal Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Following that, a digital version of the new performance will be made available at first to rent, then it'll hit YouTube a short time later. The show's Kickstarter campaign starts Saturday, April 26th, so bookmark the project and join us for the horror and jubilation!

This long awaited remount of THE GUY WHO DIDN'T LIKE MUSICALS will be directed by Lauren Lopez. It will star:

Jon Matteson as Paul Matthews

Lauren Lopez as Emma Perkins

Joey Richter as Ted Spankoffski

Corey Dorris as Bill Woodward

Jaime Lyn Beatty as Charlotte Sweetly

Jeff Blim as Mr. Davidson & General MacNamara

Mariah Rose Faith Casillas as Zoey Chambers, Alice Woodward & The Greenpeace Girl

Will Branner as Professor Hidgens

THE GUY WHO DIDN'T LIKE MUSICALS features a book by Nick & Matt Lang, and music & lyrics by Jeff Blim. More info about the remount's creative team to come over the course of the Kickstarter campaign.

WARNING: THE GUY WHO DIDN'T LIKE MUSICALS is intended for mature audiences. It features adult language, adult humor, simulated violence, singing, dancing, and imagery that some audience members may find frightening. Viewer discretion is advised.

VIDEO CREDITS:

Kickstarter Video Director: Nick Lang

Director of Photography: Curt Mega

Production Coordinator: Kim Whalen

Camera Operator: Eric Carroll

Make-Up Artist: Gabriela Vega

Editor: Nick Lang

Promotional Photographer: Paul Gabriel

Logo Designer: Meg Lloyd

Meteor Created by: Matt Lang

KS Video Cast: Jon Matteson, Lauren Lopez, Jeff Blim, Mariah Rose Faith Casillas, Corey Dorris, Joey Richter

Music: Jeff Blim & Matt Dahan

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Full offense but your writing style is for you and nobody else. Use the words you want to use; play with language, experiment, use said, use adverbs, use “unrealistic” writing patterns, slap words you don’t even know are words on the page. Language is a sandbox and you, as the author, are at liberty to shape it however you wish. Build castles. Build a hovel. Build a mountain on a mountain or make a tiny cottage on a hill. Whatever it is you want to do. Write.

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To my uk trans people and allies out there.

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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

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I love it when you can see a brushstroke in a drawing. When you can tell what movement the artist made with their wrist to make that line. When you can see the choices they made in the colours, in the way they blended. I love an art style (be in digital or traditional) where you can SEE life in it. Where it's not perfect, where you can see the human being behind it

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when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

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i think there’s actually nothing better than being randomly told “I love you” after doing something characteristically stupid. Like what do you mean I’m a lovable person and I just did something silly and you thought “of course you would do that. I love you.”. No better feeling

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WIGGLY ILY

I wanted to refine my idea for a Lords masquerade design

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It is not enough to get into a comfy sleeping position- one must go through several and spin like a rotisserie chicken to arrive at the position you started with.

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I’ve genuinely never felt this devastated for any character but watching Buck’s screams really fucking broke me

Fuck you Tim

FUCK. YOU. TIM.

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Fuck you Tim

FUCK. YOU. TIM.

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I know that cruelty is the point and that people who say shit like "fake made-up identities" don't care about what's right, true, or fair, for as long as they're hurting people, but what the fuck is a fake identity. Made up, as opposed to what? An all-natural vaccine free Real Natural Identity picked fresh off the Identity Tree?

If you go down to the real grit and grain of things, just pure basics of natural biology, going on nothing but scientifically verified fact, what I "really" am is one of the top 5 largest species of primates on the planet. Natural ape behaviour includes but is not limited to going apeshit and biting your face off.

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Just an extremely Normal thing to say

Reminder they want to increase the budget for ICE from 3.5 to 45 billion dollars.

Reminder the majority of that will be for building new detention centers.

Reminder ICE are *currently* detaining tourists who can pay for a plane ticket home and people with visa issues that were already resolved, because they have to make quota so Trump can brag about the numbers going up.

Reminder most of these people were already in the immigration system - that's why they were easy to detain.

Reminder this is all at taxpayer expense.

Reminder these are people.

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"the best way to screw jkr over is by making her characters queer!" actually. The best way to screw jkr over is to stop engaging with the property she still profits off of and read a different fucking book