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No one:
Absolutely no one:
Literally not a single soul on this Earth:
Me: December 24th. 9 PM. Eastern Standard Time. From here on in I shoot without a script. See if anything comes of it, instead of my old shit. First shot, Roger. Tuning the Fender guitar he hasn’t played in a year. This won’t tune. So we hear. He’s just coming back from half a year of withdrawal. Are you talking to me? Not at all! Are you ready? Hold that focus, steady. Tell the folks at home, what you’re doing Roger. . .
#rent#rent the musical#renthead#yes i scheduled this#christmas#christmas eve#you can only post this today#December 24th#eastern standard time#meme#rent fandom#rent fandom rises from the ashes#everything is rent#what would i queue?#musical#broadway#theatre#Jonathan larson
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but getting older means more awkward situations
Turned 37 yesterday. The 34 guilty convictions were a very nice present. Probably the best present I've ever received, including last year, when my present was a literal Broadway contract (ok, technically we found out on June 22, but tomato/tomahto).
A less nice present was the letter from my building management informing me that if I renew my lease (which I won't), my rent will be raised to what would have been 33% of my net income if HTDIO was still running. It was about 29% before, which is still a lot, but worth it for the ability to have no roommates in a decent apartment.
And when I say "decent," I mean decent in that it checks most of the basic boxes amenable to a reasonable quality of life. That is, if you don't mind having a walkup with a perpetually dysfunctional kitchen ceiling light, a radiator that you can't turn on, water damage on the ceiling due to other people's radiator dysfunction, construction outside your window during the day, aggressively loud pedicabs in the evening, and squeaky garbage trucks at 1am. So basically, a decent quality of life for heavy sleepers (which I am not) with fully functional body temperature regulation (again, not me) and no mobility issues whatsoever (I do check that box, at least for now).
The plus sides are: it's right in Hell's Kitchen, and within walking distance to most of the places I regularly go, it's a reasonably sturdy and non-fire-hazardy building for its age (which means I feel comfortable leaving my cats there) with functional plumbing and electricity (except the kitchen ceiling light), never had a pest problem, the refrigerator and microwave are brand new and excellent quality, the oven is younger than me, although it's small, and only one of the burners doesn't work.
I'm no stranger to the horror stories of NYC apartment living. I know I'm still more privileged than most to live in a place that's decent.
But it's not "you need a six-figure income and perfect credit just to APPLY to live here" decent.
It's not "you owe $9K in deposits and broker fees before you even move in" decent.
It's not "you must have either consistent exorbitant wealth or significant supplementary generational wealth in order to stay here" decent.
"So just get a job. Just get a roommate. Just put up with more problems. Suck it up. Or move back in with one of your parents again."
Sure. Okay. I'd love to. But.
When the minimum wage is $16 an hour, this isn't a "just get a job" problem.
When you're a highly trained professional at the highest level of your field and you're unemployed because corporate landlords were mad that your show wasn't selling $800 tickets in the middle of January like your neighbors at Merrily, this isn't a "just leave the industry" problem.
When finding a new career that would pay anything near what you need to live in this city would require taking out a small fortune in student loans to get another degree just to qualify for entry-level jobs that still won't pay your bills until you significantly advance, this isn't a "you majored in theatre, what did you expect" problem.
When you're autistic and chronically fatigued, fastidious about cleanliness and clutter, and religiously adhere to schedules and routines and predictability in your own space, this isn't a "just get a roommate" problem.
When you are a more-famous-than-average individual whose autism is directly tied to the things you're best known for, and Reddit is full of nightmare stories about what it means to have an autistic roommate, and Reddit is also rife with lies and rumors about you specifically, this isn't a "just get a roommate" problem.
And while I love my parents and have great relationships with both of them and they are doing everything they can to support me...for complicated logistical and personal reasons that are none of the Internet's business, "just move back in with your parents" is not a super helpful solution either.
But if I don't find a miracle between now and the end of August, that's probably what I'll end up doing.
And the crazy thing is, the fact that that's even an option for me STILL makes me more privileged than MOST people.
Nobody should have to face the situation I'm facing, and yet millions of people--especially disabled people--face this and worse, with far less support than I have. A cornerstone of my advocacy has been pointing out this inequity as often as I can, and trying to use my privilege and platform to help and amplify people who don't have those resources.
At this point in my career, I am supposed to be throwing down the ladder. Instead, and in spite of everything, I'm clinging to the ladder for dear life while the rungs crack beneath my feet.
And it all comes down to the landlords.
Legislation that limits the acquisition power and earning power of property owners, and enacts strict rent caps for residential AND business buildings, would solve 98% of my problems and approximately 75% of everyone else's problems in this city. (Please don't quote me on these statistics, they are sourced directly from my ass and are for idealistic illustrative purposes only.)
Anyway. Um.
34 felony convictions is still a beautiful thing.
#everything is rent#jonathan larson tried to warn us#starving artist#actually autistic#cost of living
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via @daltonweaver15: Alright friends! Rent is reopening for 6 more shows (potentially more!) visit @theatresourcela for ticket information. Thank you to @braydenhade @practicalpeculiarities @kyraawaters and everyone else in the cast for working so hard to keep this show alive (we just had to pay rent 😂). If you wanna see more of @jeffblim4ever and I rocking out you better get tickets soon!
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Shout(ish)out to that one kind of too much Rent BNF who came into my former Hot Topic in like 2007 and was like, "Oh, 'Just Here To The Left Of You' is about a blowjob!", revealing a layer of the song I - a person who immediately took it all as an emotional reaction to a weird relationship between Roger & Mark - had never considered but now can't unhear, lmao.
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the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.
three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.
two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.
their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.
one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.
i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.
i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.
and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?
you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.
a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.
someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.
#writeblr#warm up#this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru#but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist#ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school.#like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it.#was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes.#but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create''#when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work#part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just#like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent.#speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r#ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week#this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice.#''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism#imagine if we said that about literally any other profession.#''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt?#u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky''#we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY#''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''
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Kazuscara | A Ghost of a Memory
Part 1/?
Also hbday to scara ♡
#genshin impact#kazuha#kaedehara kazuha#scaramouche#wanderer#kazuscara#my art#first art of the year!!#i have an entire 20+ page comic planned for this sooo#u can expect more of them#and every time i think about how to panel everything more pages get added akdfh#they are living rent free in my head rn#hoping that I can get the next parts up next week! but it's currently the part that i'm having trouble#sketching out#so im doing more research :'D#fight scenes and bgs are not my forte but that can change for 2023 lmao
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"oh i'm excited for titans curse so we can see nico!!" NO I'm excited for s5 the last olympian so we can see the curse of achilles, our first instance(s!) of dark percy, the nonstop battles, silenas death, percy saying pay your fuckin child support, 'family, luke. you promised.' the underwater kiss
#yes yes dw im very excited for so many other things throughout the series but tlo lives rent free in my head#i probably havent even listed everything#percy jackson#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson and the olympians#the last olympian#luke castellan#annabeth chase#blue rambles
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#hi sorry for the lack of art my fucking landlord wanted to increase my rent by an arm and a leg#and i've genuinely been So Angry i can't focus on drawing#anyway i'll get over it and back into it so#canine kin#wolf kin#therian art#wolf art#vent art#digital art#nonhuman art#dog art#pixel art#i never know what to fucking type in here like everyone else does#how tf do i cover everything
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Mr. Perseus “I talk about the love of my life in my sleep” Jackson is something that is so personal to me
Also: “Oh, uh. A friend.”
FRIENDS MY ASS
#this scene is everything#he is down bad#she lives in his head rent free#sorry calypso#percy jackson#pjo#percy jackson and the olympians#percy jackon and the olympians#annabeth chase#percabeth#percy x annabeth#annabeth and percy#otp#soulmates#pjo botl#botl#the battle of the labyrinth#rrverse#riordanverse#riordan universe#pjo fandom#pjo books#book#book quote#pjo hoo toa#calypso’s island#percababies#percabeth is percabething#i miss them#<333
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I'm sorry for asking help once again but I've been finding it hard to keep up w/ my expenses lately and it's taking a toll on me. I can't accept new commissions rn since I'm still going through my backlog so I don't have any source of income atm.
If you'd like to help out, I still have a couple of adoptables and a couple of pokemon doodle compilations in my ko-fi shop for sale. If those are too much, you can also just leave tips on my ko-fi page!
After losing my mom last March, things have been way more difficult for me so I couldn't finish the work I've accumulated right away. I'm very thankful tho bc everyone's been kind & patient w/ me so far ;; Thank you sm for the support even thru the difficult times, I really appreciate it ;_; 🙏🙏🙏
#been really stressed bc i keep worrying abt funds#I still actually have to pay 2 months worth of rent too so ;_; everything's taking a toll on me#any kind of help & support will be much appreciated ;_; tysm!!#bam blabs
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If it’s all the same to you… I’ll have that drink now.
#mobius#loki#lokius#mcuedit#lokiedit#marveledit#listen... walk with me...#no idea if this is anything but what i do know is it's lived rent free in my mind long enough to need to gif like i need oxygen lmao#the flat 'no' turning into everything they've ever wanted one josta at lunch becoming matching color coordinated mugs#it's mobius turning down the life he knew in favor of one he built then loki reaching for what they want only after it's too late to keep#might be left waiting but at least they've got that drink to look forward to someday :')))#owen wilson#tom hiddleston#marvel#owenwilsonedit#dianagifs
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hi darlings i hate asking for help but i’m in a pickle this month trying to balance paying rent and prepping for a hurricane, all while going out of town next week. if you could share this i would really appreciate it 😭
i had a check coming in from a publisher that fell through, and now i have to come up with that $500 before next thursday, all while i will be in wyoming. stress
anyway thank you for your time, i appreciate you so much
thank you!! here is da link
#signal boost#i got that email abt the payment and they were like#‘idk it’ll get to you when it gets to you’#and i was like. what if i died actually#anyway#hurricane prep isn’t that expensive it’s mostly just stocking up on groceries and making sure i have batteries and everything#but i just don’t have enough to even. cover rent rn#it’s tough#personal
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hi Sorry haven’t updated in so long lol life has been busy and a load of big changes took place
here’s low effort scribbles n doodles (in order from oldest to newest) all from the past several months
#the walten files#twf#susan woodings#the walten files susan#art#digital art#procreate#twf brian#twf fanart#twf sophie#twf Kevin#twf Linda#twf bon#the walten files fanart#sketch#nothing too detailed cuz busy and had to rebuild my skills over time and I was drained asf#guess who stopped being homeless and got a job and has money and stability now#ya literally 4 days after the last post I made here I got insanely lucky and got a chance to move into a large and lovely rented room#across a shopping center and everything#life is good#it’s been rocky getting used to the new environment#but I’m doing good overall#I’m fed and have exercise and the means to exercise my brain and social battery#yeah#blessed
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"Gangle's too shy to speak up."
We're winning with this episode abstragedy shippers!!!
#they're everything to me guys#when that character talks about that other character for a split second#honestly tho zooble definitely cares about gangle#even just as a friend#god I'd love to see them interact with each other#I really hope the fandom was also right about zooble and gangle being besties cause that idea just lives rent free in my head#I NEED MORE OF THEM#so glad we got to see more of zooble's character in this episode#I love this messy jumble of shapes <3#the amazing digital circus#tadc#tadc zooble#tadc gangle#zooble#gangle#zooble x gangle#abstragedy
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some kinda rough (ford)^2/fiddauthor doodles for drawing practice!! trying to relearn a more cartoony and lose style :3
(also in case it’s not obvious, ford is supposed to be sloshed in the second pic, i was gonna have em holding solo cups but it was looking kinda terrible….)
also also if you’re reading this, lemme know which ship name you prefer for them. low stakes question, i’m just genuinely curious what the fandom thinks. i personally love (ford)^2 because like..cmon…they’re both nerds…it’s so perfect (im also a math nerd to maybe im biased….)
wow that description overstayed its welcome i’ll never do that again my apologies
#gravity falls#stanford pines#fiddleford mcgucket#fiddauthor#ford squared#gravity falls fanart#digital art#doodles#they’re currently living in my head rent free#like i will scroll through the fiddauthor tag to go to sleep#can someone tell me if this is normal#everything is probably okay#also one of the only fandoms where i love two ships simultaneously that both involve one of the same characters!!
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scusi?? 😳🥵 x
#how eh.. i lost my train of thought what?#if anyone ever asks me why i am feral for this man#show em that#everything about this#sorry this lives in my mind rent free#am i unhinged again today?? does this have anything to do with it?? take a guess#thanks leah for sending me this#long ass post i know but i'm not sorry you need this is full size#tobias forge#ghost#ghost band#copia#papa emeritus#ghesties#ghost sweden#the band ghost#myedit#papa emeritus iv
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