I do shitposts 90% of the time, serious stuff 5% of time and the other 5% is just news and random shit i find i feel like i should reblog. also, im hella annoying.
i cant believe i fell for that “look angry and upset and hope someone saves you” shit in high school! how boring! what an awful way to live! i want to be so warm that ppl are gently warmed when theyre around me
Gerard is truly beautiful in these photos taken backstage on November 12, 2006 at the Brixton Academy in London, England. The band is performing in London as part of The Black Parade World Tour.
This is the wrong season to be talking about it, but literally no adaptation of Christmas Carol will ever top this one stage adaptation I saw in 2018, and it’s 100% because of the first scene of the play
Almost every Christmas Carol starts with the same scene: Christmas Eve, the day before Scrooge is visited by the three ghosts. This is the same scene that the rest of the audience - including myself - is expecting to see
The house lights go out. The stage is dark
A boy is singing: “God rest ye merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay…”
The sound of wind whistles through the dark of the theater.
“Remember Christ our savior was born on Christmas day, to save us all from Satan’s power…”
The boy pauses. The wind picks up. Somewhere in the audience, a child sounds upset
“…When we had gone astray. Oh tidings…”
The boy’s voice fades away. The wind howls
A church bell rings
The stage lights come on. Fog is floating across the stage. A deacon, two gentlemen, and Scrooge stand in the fog like islands in a sea
Between them is a coffin
The wind howls. It makes the word, “Ebenezer,” in a voice that shakes the floor
The deacon says: “Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God to take unto himself the soul of our departed Jacob Marley…”
“Ebenezer,” says the wind
Scrooge whips around at the sound. Fog coils around his feet
Nobody else on stage hears his name
“…We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth-”
“Earth,” says the wind
“-ashes to ashes-”
“Ashes,” says the wind
“-and dust to dust”
“Dust” says the wind
“In the certain hope of eternal life through our Lord Christ; who shall change-”
“Change” says the wind
“-our vile body-”
“Change” says the wind
“-that it may be like unto His glorious body-”
“Change” says the wind
A church bell rings. Children are crying in the audience
One by one, the parishioners exit the stage. Scrooge is left alone with the coffin
He says a few words - laughs at his mishearing voices on the wind - and turns to leave
A church bell rings
Scrooge pauses - and turns to look at the coffin
Lights flash. The coffin lid slams open, and the ghost of Jacob Marley, horrible, pale, and screeching, leaps out of the coffin, hands reaching out to Scrooge and howling -
“SAVE YOURSELF!”
Lights flash and the stage goes dark. Children are screaming. Parents are screaming. I’m screaming
The rest of the production was gorgeous, but I still maintain that the first scene was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen attached to any adaptation of Christmas Carol
twilight but instead of a dramatic reveal about how edward’s a vampire bella just shows up to class one day and slides a copy of Dracula across the table to see what happens