#SICK AND TWISTED.

[suckmyarschkarte]

liverpool fans: 😭😔😢🤧

jürgen and the players: 😄😂🥰☺️

[sergle]

Hopping on the color temperature discourse train to say that I love the mental image of like— reversing the association of red and blue and having blue represent summer temps— thinking of summer blue skies and the ocean. Red for winter temps bringing to mind cheeks red with cold and holly berries and cardinal feathers. Idk I just think that’s neat!

i, too, think it's neat!!! I also just like the idea of-- specifically on the topic planning of Temperature Blanket™ palettes-- not being so literal with "cold" colors and "hot" colors. if you CAN get creative with it, I think it's boring NOT to. It's a year long project, so it needs to be interesting. as an aside, I also like the idea of leaving color palettes behind entirely, and doing a very straightforward gradient scheme as your temperature gauge. Like buying yarns like this that are already dyed into a gradient, and just being like "ok. done."

just pick which end of the spectrum is High temps and which one is Low temps, and get cracking. It doesn't have to be symbolic of the Season the temperatures would occur in at all.

[habibisagi]

i wanna bite kaiser like genuinely sink my teeth in and draw blood. but he would probably do it back to me and i fear i am not built for that </3

[carpwood]

I cant take this shit no more

[hotshotriot]

wasn't given an 'i voted' sticker. have to do everything myself

[menlove]

do you have a visceral bone deep reaction to "two birds" by regina spektor or were you not in fandom in the early 2010s

[blubeetle]

Someone post buck kissing Tommy gifs please God so I can reblog...

[orallech]

I was not a camp rock enjoyer growing up I never watched it. But the way she is standing here by all this raw meat making these patties with her hair down……..Diabolical

[hylialeia]

never gonna see Goldy Pond animated. NO justice in the world

[iveneverbeenmorestressedinmylife]

Sorry man, I can't watch the movie you recommended me rn. Yeah i have to watch the same music video on repeat for two hours straight. Sorry again.

[mazojo]

Cameron won pov

[aphroditesswan]

guys i’m being helicopter parented by my friends wtf 💔💔

[lessnearthesun]

Why are nonfiction books so much more expensive than fiction sometimes a girl just wants to buy a book about Anne Boleyn for fun without spending thirty dollars

[ideologyofone]

Do you think we’re soulmates in another universe?

[musashi]

i want more nuance to be entered into the discussion of the green girl sorority and how differently cynthia plays elphaba in comparison to those who came before her because while a lot of people are rightfully like "why was elphaba not black from the beginning" and celebrating that she is now being played by a black woman, i think we need to be careful in just writing off all the elphabas of the past as Random White Girls when the role was championed (and often followed/succeeded) by a jewish woman

the pop culture archetype of the Wicked Witch has deep roots in antisemitism stretching faaaar far back. there is a level of reclamation happening in casting idina menzel, a jewish woman, to play the Misunderstood and Maligned young girl who is branded as exactly that. and stage!Elphaba is also written and acted with jewish stereotypes in mind--she is loud, aggressive, no-nonsense, blunt. she is quick to advocate for herself and shut down the discrimination she faces. all of this is very intentional! her personality is abrasive from years of abuse, and that makes propagandizing her easy. this is literally the thesis statement of the musical--it's not about aptitude, it's the way you're viewed.

cynthia's performance of elphaba is fucking INSPIRED despite going in a completely different direction. she's much more reserved, analytical, one of her key character traits is how well she can read people (see her calling out Galinda as insecure/putting on airs in their first scene together, clocking that Fiyero is using his party guy persona as a shield for his own depression) elphaba's attempts to blend in and make herself smaller all fail simply because of her existence, if not that then because she feels empathy so strongly she often struggles to hold back from acting, protecting.

personality wise, though, cynthia's elphaba is very quiet and closed-off, not at all the bullet-to-the-face that she is in the stage show, and... she still gets propagandized and maligned. though this seems to contradict the other interpretation, it tells of the other end of the spectrum of propaganda, one that black women watching (and many, MANY other marginalized folks) are sure to identify with--it does not matter how "nice," how reserved, how small a black woman makes herself. a racist society will still scrutinize her every action for a way to parse ill intent from it, brand her as an angry black woman who is dangerous and wicked, and write off any humanity she has in the process.

these two very different interpretations tell of the lie of assimilation. the fact of the matter is, when you are marginalized, there is no way to sand down your edges enough to make the people oppressing you "accept" you. that is why wicked is a tragedy at its core. whether loud and aggressive or quiet and unimposing, there is nothing elphaba could have done to make the people of Oz see her as anything other than a scapegoat to blame all their problems on.

so while i definitely appreciate that people are excited for black girl era elphaba, i would encourage us all to still show appreciation for what came before--that was not white girl era elphaba. that was jewish girl era elphaba. two houses, both alike in dignity, two stories both worth being told.

[venomgender]

hate going through the syllabus to see if i can skip class today and the answer ends up being no 😒