#Theater of the Living Arts

[hex---grl]

It’s Never Sunny In South Philadelphia - The Wonder Years

[professionalfacesitter]

What I Didn't Tell You Tour Coco Jones ✨️

[fools-and-perverts2]

I'm joining in on the trend of making polls to capture your attention with the hope that you'll keep reading to hear about Mounir Raed Alanqar from Gaza (number 8 on the vetted gfms spreadsheet) who messaged me earlier today.

this is what they sent

they are only 19 and fundraising for themselves and their younger sister Sham, who is 4 years old and developing a skin condition.

Please donate to their GFM or at least share their account and their story like I am doing. at time of posting they gave raised €1786 / €35000 and the last donation was 7 hours ago!!!

thank you so much for donating/sharing this post and the posts on their blog, every little counts. we will see a free palestine and we will see it in all of our lifetimes, Sham and Mounir Raed included if you help them out🫶

@raed-moner <- here's the Tumblr

tagging big blogs/celebrities for reach

@genderqueerdykes @ayeforscotland @strange-aeons @writingwithcolor @what-is-my-aesthetic @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses @lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers @pukicho

thank you all

[paradiseyuri]

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[puppyeared]

hello every nyan

fan character for Laika's Comet, by @catmask (go check it out!!)

[the-woman-upstairs]

Really beholden to the idea that at least part of why Louis was fascinated with Daniel initially was because of his project of interviewing citizens of San Francisco, documenting their stories and voices, in much the same way Louis was trying to do with his photography in Paris.

[fru1tt0ast]

bitches (hosea) love (hate) my mustache

[sunshine-zenith]

I have no interest in going near the live action movies, but I will admit that I am a sucker for elaborate hair styles and waistcoats, so when I saw live action Cosmo and Wanda, my brain made mental grabby hands for a second there

[mikeywayarchive]

Fox Theater, Oakland, CA // Mar 31st 2011 // mmonicato

[sawthemusical]

We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with the artist @turnipoddity to launch our Saw The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw MERCH STORE❗We heard your blood curdling pleas for this, and we hope to have quenched your thirst. Head over sawthemusical.com/merchandise to check out what various styles, selections, and inventory we have in our store. And to learn more about the artist we have collaborated with. Thank you for supporting our show 🐷📸

[dandeyrain]

i've been rotating the "this doesn't make any sense!" response to boy and the heron in my head and i wonder how much of it comes down to like...the kind of audience that engages with ghibli movies vs the kind of audience that mostly only engages with weird art movies vs the kind of audience that only really engages with blockbusters and marvel movies, and the overlap of those groups in the theater.

because, like, the boy and the heron is far and away more straightforward, from a plot perspective, than a lot of other Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies i've seen and love, but it IS a Weird Extremely Personal Art Movie even so. usually the only people seeing Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies, especially in theaters, are people who like that and expect that and have seen those types of films before and are therefore capable of engaging with them even when things aren't as clear as they'd be in an average blockbuster flick. like, nobody who only cares about Cinema to the extent of marvel movies and MAYBE john wick is going to see beau is afraid, and if they did they wouldn't have the tools to engage with such a dream-logicy movie. it would just be a weird thing that doesnt make sense to them, at least until they worked their media engagement muscles with other weird films. there's a lot of self-selection to the kind of person who usually sees these kind of movies.

while boy and the heron is weirder and more complex than a lot of other ghibli movies, as far as weird art films go it is incredibly, INCREDIBLY straightfoward. every weird plot point is explained very clearly to the audience, very little is up for interpretation from a strictly "what was the plot" point of view. boy loses mother. father remarries and moves the family. boy struggles to contend with grief. boy is pulled into a magical world by an old man who wants to use him. time is weird and fucked up in the magical world, but the movie is going to go out of it's way to highlight who's who and make it clear how the time travel works and the characters' relations to one another. the boy refuses to take over the magical world because he wants to live in the real world with the real people he loves. boy leaves the magical world having learned an important lesson about moving on. but the boy and the heron trusts its audience, doesn't handhold, and expects the audience to engage seriously and with focus to its plot and characters and stories.

a lot of people never watch movies like that! a lot of people are used to uncomplicated superhero movies and romcoms and that's it. the difference is that those people were never going to see beau is afraid, so the discussion about that movie instead comes from people who have the tools to engage with it. but because of the aesthetic-ification of ghibli, a lot of people who don't Do art films but are really into the aesthetics of cute little guys and girls in pretty dresses went to this art film and were confused that it was weird and dream-like and dark and strange and requires more of its audience than just passively watching.

anyway there's nothing wrong with not having the muscles to engage with weird art films, though i do think everyone should challenge themselves with the kind of stuff they watch. there's nothing wrong with preferring simple straightforward uncomplicated plotlines. but it is really interesting seeing people talk about the movie like it's insanely weird and doesnt make any sense meanwhile me and the friends i've chatted with about who DO have experience with this kind of film all feel insane because the movie is SO clear and SO straightforward by the standards we're used to. its just a neat crossover re: the kinds of movie fans that exist

[irlbop]

Cinephile Terzo and Theater Kid Copia.

That’s it, that’s enough to fuel this post.

[thatgaydisneyfan]

So excited to be part of her world tonight. 🥰

This is a drawing I completed about a month after the first trailer's release for The Little Mermaid, and it's one I'm immensely proud of so I wanted to share it with Tumblr. Was fun but challenging to create because I don't draw humans very often, as I prefer to draw or paint wildlife/landscape/objects, but Halle Bailey's Ariel was something I could not pass up on. I hope you all enjoy this as much as my husband did!

pls do not repost my art.

[bruce-morrow]

All truths. All giggles. Cecilia Gentili at Rattlestick Theater, 2023

Photo: Bruce Morrow

[paradiseyuri]

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[alice-ness]

ignore the logistics of them all going to prom together but... prom!!!

im cooking up so many highschool headcanons for them rn but it's getting too long for one post so pls... ask me abt any of ur faves in hs pls