#its a no win situation for them

[massiveobservabletidalwave]

Should I ever become wealthy, I plan to be an old school eccentric weirdo. Meaning: do the fun drugs, pour all my money into art, die in a strange way (human combustion?), leave my money to some random theater.

That's my solution. Get billionaires out of politics and back in debaucherous theater patronage! That will lower the prices and we can laugh at Elon Musks inevitable death via heart attack on the toilet.

A common refrain when people bemoan the ever increasing prices on Broadway is to go support regional and community theater, and I do agree, both because these types of theater are artistically worthy experiences and because they are generally cheaper than Broadway or national tours.

However, I will note that for some of next season's shows, the major regional theater near me has a top ticket price of nearly $300, with over half of the seats costing upwards of $100 dollars. Of course there are other theater companies in my area with cheaper pricing, and even other dates and shows in that theater with cheaper pricing, but even then finding prices lower than $30 is tricky.

And to be clear, I do understand that mounting theater on all levels is expensive and many local theater companies have been on the brink of financial ruin since 2020. The money needs to come from somewhere, and charging $5 or $10 for every ticket would throttle most theaters into bankruptcy.

I don't have any real solution to this conundrum, as lowering the costs to produce theater is not a simple task, and attempting to lower ticket prices without lowering costs is not financially realistic for most theaters. But that doesn't make going to the theater any cheaper.

[snekdood]

"if we make america worse and more of a dictatorship that will be even harder to unravel and make it the way we want the country to be, maybe then everyone will join our Glorious Revolution!" bb girl you cant even be in the same room with someone who thinks you should vote, how in tf do you think you're gonna unite people to fight in The Revolution with you? it's gonna be you and your 5 friends, i hate to break it to you.

[letnirvanarain]

imagining if the main detectives met & Karl started making fun of Alfred's tiny glasses and Alfred deduced that from Karl's drinking and smoking habits he must be very lonely & then Karl tells him there's about to be another Longharvest murder and Hasan has to make them say sorry lmao

[ssaltlicker]

Caitlyn and vi being overshadowed by the hypothetical het ship and the nonexistent white man ship is. As unfortunate as it is predictable

[ratatatastic]

"I gotta have you talk about Barkov a little bit... 'cuz, you know, he's your Captain but like... What should we know that we don't know about this guy? He's so quiet, he keeps a low profile—I'm sure that's by design—but he's the quietest, incredible superstar that...When Chris Pronger was working there (VP of Hockey OPs/Senior Advisor from 2017-2020), I remember he used to say to me, 'Hey, this guy is a Top 5 player in the game.' Even when nobody was even putting him in the Top 10 at that time, you know? But what makes him so great? What do you know about him now that you thought you knew before you got there?" "You know, well, everything—because I'm with you! I knew he was in the league, I knew he was a great player but playing on the other side—I'd see him play twice a year and I wouldn't watch that much and I had no appreciation for how good he was. But the answer—I'm gonna give you an answer about Barkov and it's not gonna be good enough... 'cuz I can't answer that question about him yet, I still haven't gotten to figure it out. I don't know to do it justice but he's this extreme perfect blend of absolutely no ego and an incredible drive to be better at the same time. So usually the guys that are really driven have a bit of an ego. Ego's not bad always, right? Maybe I'm using the wrong word to describe it but he will put his teammates and his—everything—first, and it won't bother him one bit! That's exactly the way he wants it! He doesn't want to be the first guy out, he doesn't want to—it's not that he doesn't want to do interviews because of the media! Talk to this guy! You walk in our room—you don't know hockey and you don't know names—you can't tell if he's the 1st forward or the 13th forward by the way he treats people. That's absolutely the truth! And the reason he's not appreciated as much as a player is: I have never, ever once seen him even remotely cheat to the offensive side of the game to score a point. He just won't do it. That doesn't mean he's sitting back defensively! He doesn't give a rat's ass about his point totals, he just wants to win. So he's never gonna put the numbers up that he could. If Barky decided he was gonna generate points—if somebody'd convince him, 'Hey, Barky! If you just cheat the game and score—we'd got a better chance of winning!' I don't know, [he'd put up] 120, 130 points? Like he is brilliant but he will never, ever put the game—you know, what? He wouldn't put himself in front of the game. The game demands certain things and you can't get past that no matter how good you are. There are certain things you got to do in this game and usually those are hard things... he'd never once put himself in front of the game." "You can't score 120 or 130 without cheating a little bit, right? It's just a real—" "Yeah, except those guys don't call it cheating! They call it anticipating. Bad players cheat, good players anticipate." "They see things before they happen, Paul! That's what happens!" "Exactly, exactly!"

The Cam & Strick Podcast | 9.24.24 (x)

[cuteiemonster]

MY THIRD PIECE(s) FOR @mcytblraufest !! o7

LETS DO THIS ONE LAST TIME, these are for @allusiontomemes 's fic, [ DREAMS FROM WITHIN THE CAGE ] !! we got horrors beyond comprehension, we got multiple universes, we got accidentally destroying said universes, we got desert duo- come on down and see what else is up with these guys!!

thank you allusion and @riceofthepuffedvariety you made me go insane o7

[sapphorror]

You know, Zim is actually pretty smart (relatively speaking, anyway) when it comes to holding back around his classmates and playing the helpless victim in public, even when it means taking shit from them until he can serve karmic justice indirectly. And that's a very fun character trait/surprising point of patience and competency on his part, but I do think it'd be REALLY fun if some random kid actually pissed him off enough for him to just like, snap their fucking arm in broad daylight. He wasn't even trying to severely hurt them, he just wanted to get them off of him. It's not his fault that humans are too fragile to take the most basic disarm maneuver taught to Irken smeets—and by the way, Dib did not cry NEARLY as much when Zim did the same thing to him, so it seems like this is mostly just a 'you' problem.

Naturally this line of argument does not persuade the faculty out of suspending him, but it was worth it. Dib is trying really hard not to find the situation funny lest he come off as endorsing Zim's evil, but like. The alien who physically and psychologically tortures him on a weekendly basis just hospitalized one of the assholes who'd been so convinced of his obvious harmlessness and that is, in fact, very funny. Maybe there's an upside to having a totally amoral genocide-happy Z-list supervillain at your school if Dib can watch these people suffer AND maintain his perfectly faultless moral purity.

[ourtalechara]

Failbetter Games, I am telling you. You have got to make a Mask of the Rose spinoff that's just a dating sim where you can romance all the Neath! characters, you would make SO MUCH MONEY.

[sonknuxadow]

crazy to me that sonic has so many votes in the current sonic channel poll when hes objectively the least deserving of a win here. and i say that as someone whos favorite character is sonic and has voted for him in these polls before. literally what are you people thinking those other options rarely ever get official art and youre just blacking out and clicking sonic because you cant turn your shipping brain off !?!??!?!!??!?!?! come on man

[aroacettorney]

moriarty's suggestion of having hand-to-hand combat with casey evokes such a funny mental image to me.

[slamrink]

lmao this game was so fuckin scripted bro (by me) (for rpf purposes)

[autisticlee]

sometimes people who struggle like to make jokes or find positives about their condition that causes them to struggle so they can escape the constant negative and struggle. sometimes autistic people will say things like "the 'tism" or use the "autism creature" or say their autism helped them have a *positive trait* to feel better about their struggles. because living your life only focusing on the struggles and negatives is depressing and makes it hard to want to live, even if those struggle take up 100% of your life and you can't actually escape them. sometimes any little seemingly positive thing can help a lot.

but there's so many other autistic people that hate when we do that and call it "reducing autism to a cute trendy thing" and say it takes away from *their* struggles and is bad and shouldn't be used. maybe *you* want to only focus on your struggles, but some people can't live in constant negative and need some positive or to find ways to make their condition more positive so they can feel better about living with their struggles. life is hard. I take anything I can get.

I cant get jobs. I can't make and keep friends. I can't get help and support for doing "normal" things so sometimes I go weeks without being able to shower and without eating more than a bowl of cereal a day. most times can't even do things I like. struggle to communicate. have meltdowns. i'll never be able to live independently. I struggle a lot. but instead of sitting here always depressed and having no motivation to live, i'd rather try to joke about "my 'tism is acting up again" when i'm struggling (just an example. don't think I ever actually used the 'tism thing but i saw others use it) or say "i'm just being a creature" when I need to stay in my dark room because everything is too much and I personally find it cute to be a little creature meant in a positive way. i'm not actually downplaying mine or anyone else's struggles. I still acknowledge them and that silly jokes dont make them go away. i'm not trying to be trendy. i'm not doing any of the things people say we do by making silly little jokes. i'm using the silly little jokes to convince myself life can be a little more than pointless, painful garbage all the time.

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[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

Imagine reading a new manga and joking about it being homoerotic and then it gets explicitly stated that one of the protags is gay

If I don't see any weird romance blossom between those two istg-

[gophergal]

the solution to the "are you normal about X people who turn out to be Y" debate is stop fucking assuming things about people

You wanna know what pronouns to use for an individual? Ask them.

As a general rule, don't make jokes about the identity you perceive of someone. Know your audience

How is that hard? Why do we all think ourselves such experts on the lives of other people??????

[russianprotesters]

If the russian opposition would use the energy they expend sniping at each other to unite against their common enemy, maybe they could accomplish something.

[thebyter]

i read this one uu fic where ash knows tht spoke is spoke inthe mafia episode and its lkke him giving spoke a ceremony outfit and its kinda gay with all of the caressing and shit but idk if i like them that way Id prefer to see them in a toxic platonic way but the author might make them kiss if they make a sequel but ill pretend that its a cheek kiss instead if they do