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i swear my stepdad is so illogical AND stubborn it hurts
#okay so strap in coz this is a wild ride#tl;dr we have been without heat and warm water for years and i mean literal years#because he refuses to pay off some debt he built up with the company#because he feels unfairly treated (let's not get into this. it absolutely makes no sense) by the company#so instead of doing the logical step of growing some balls and admitting he made a mistake and paying off his shit#he's been looking for a new supplier all over but the deal IS#that he's been doing this with a couple of places before and people are hesitant to even make him any offers#and you'd think that learning about THAT at least now he'd be like. idk willing to just pay off his debt and be done with it#but you'd be WRONG#now he's looking to just have our entire heating system replaced for the teeny tiny price of 25000 bucks#mind you his debt isn't even a THIRD of that#and obviously he can't afford those 25000 bucks#so what's his next step now you might wonder?#well good thing you asked. his next step is going off on ME for not paying towards the new heating he wants#and now that that's not working for him guess what he did next?#that's right. he bought shit expensive 'space heaters' that are pretty much just small little boxes that you plug into an outlet#and he swears up and down that they're going to heat up our house (it's negative degrees outside)#(it's obviously not working)#and genuinely. all i can think of is how much money he shoved into trying to macgyver this house into a house with warm water and heating#and how he blew off ten thousands of bucks he got paid when he retired within the span of two weeks#when this debt could have been paid off ten times over by now#so now you might be thinking. okay tiago. why don't you move out#good question you see. my mom is disabled and reliant on someone who cares for her#something that he can't won't and shouldn't do because the last time he sorta kinda tried she almost died and we had to call an ambulance#she wouldn't eat a thing if i weren't there to cook. the house would fall into disrepair if i wouldn't do maintenance all around#i've set up (functioning) heat in some areas she occupies and i've gotten a boiler going so she at least has warm water#i'm paying off their bills to make sure he doesn't skip on paying any others. i'm buying groceries for them because again they wouldn't get#any for themselves#and finally. i've offered to pay off his debt so that we can finally live like normal fucking people do#and guess what. guess WHAT. he just got mad at me for not adding money to that 25000 bucks pool for that new fancy heating he wants
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I figured out why Tristan got the “I can’t share you” from Massey’s brother’s speech. He said “I used to live a life that was a special kind of hellish existence, you know people assume that you get sober because you don’t want that life anymore. But to tell you the truth, it finally dawned on me that I want that life too much. And part of me will always want it. And I love that I had some fun. But a bigger part of me wants this life (and then Tristan looks over) and then Avery comes up to talk to him about the three of them right afterwards. And then the whole Chicken Tikka Masala convo happened and he did the whole “My mind was blown because they were so good” and he said he would buy a bag of chips every day and say he would just have a taste but he would make himself sick” “Some things in life are so good you can’t just have a taste” “I thought I could share you I thought I could but I can’t it’s making me sick” he still loses me on the share you bit cause clearly that’s him not realizing that he wouldn’t be sharing he would be getting twice the love but the whole “I’m glad I had some fun” and the “A bigger part of me wants this life” I feel connects. Like the threesome was fun and the idea of the three of them doing it together is so good, but I think he’s built up this whole idea of him and Avery together he can’t picture another reality another idea. Right he wants Avery more than Avery and Max together. Right now he just wants the chips he can’t imagine putting the chicken tikka masala on top at the same time. He only ever imagined the chips
#doctor odyssey#and then Max is just repressed and traditional and has a hard time stepping outside of his box#ody3#avery morgan#tristan silva#max bankman
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I’ll be real, I think Crowley is more twisted from the Evil Queen’s raven
Y’know with his apple tree metaphor in his recent SSR vignette, his relationship with the dark mirror (literally evil queen’s mirror), the fact that disney has more than one evil raven character he could be twisted from, etc.
#and a lot more pomefiore symbolism in the game opening#I could go more into it but i’m at work#again NOT ALL FAE ARE RELATED TO EACH OTHER#and fae come in different regions besides Briar Valley#twst#twst spoilers#twst theory#uh oh stepping outside the box here hope no one comes up to ‘school me’ for a character that has no distinctive foreshadowing yet
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I am literally begging you to get to know songs that are, at the very least, ten years older than you. Feed on them. Sweat them out of your pores. Trust me on this. When I listen to songs from the [redacted]'s, it just feels right.
#music is love#soul music is love#but whatever your flavor#step outside of that box and go back in time#thank me later
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金吒领师命
#jinzha#nezha#investiture of the gods#fengshen yanyi#fsyy#art tag#li sibling violence.. part 2!!#srry idk why he's smiling#li jinzha is interesting 2 me i feel like i always picture him as the literal golden child#childhood prodigy with the will and the capability but no real will to step out of the box#like u know people who are good at everything but seem to lack personal motivation outside of what's expected of them..#not that he's not content..
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so. circus rigoletto!
this production was by an indie opera company based in dc called inseries opera, who apparently focus on performing both new works and old works with creative, "irreverent" (their word) takes on them. this is my first production of theirs i've seen. it was the second show in their 24-25 series, which is based around the theme of shows which were censored and/or banned when they were written. this production took verdi's classic and gave it a new english translation, new chamber orchestra arrangements, and slapped some greasepaint and glitter all over everything.
it was a small production -- cast of seven, very reduced orchestra, small theater and smaller set, but i have long thought that verdi would be suited for more intimate, pared-down settings. and i would say tonight proved my theory correct. while there were a couple of times i wished the orchestra could have had a bit more oomph behind it (though i really liked the organ accompagnato), in general i think it suited the production well and the intimacy invited between the physical closeness between the audience and performers really added to the experience. it's like an oklahoma 2019 thing for me i guess. story's about social ostracization and complacency with oppression, the actors should be able to look you in the damn eye right back lol
i thought the circus setting was used remarkably effectively. there is a heightening and ridiculousness to the clowning that, besides just being funny, works to stand in for the cruelty and carelessness of the courtiers and lend kind of a morbid irony to the whole story by the end. and they use the visual language of the circus to its fullest, thematic/symbolic effect.
for example, the use of balloons: gilda is introduced with a red balloon, tied to her wrist. it's a symbol of her innocence and youth. after her encounter with "gualtier malde," she uses a cup of greasepaint (see more below) to draw a smiley face on the balloon, and then caresses it and dances with it in dreamy bliss. then, at the end of act i when she's captured, the last we see of her after she's taken behind the curtain (and her shadow is cast from the other side -- shadowplay is used a lot in this production), the balloon is loosed, deflates, and falls to the ground. then in act ii when rigoletto is trying to find her, the courtiers all hold white balloons to mock him, and release them to deflate when he discovers what's happened.
another example: everyone in act i except for rigoletto is dressed for the circus. there's a female ringleader (later maddalena, also fills the role of countess ceprano, but mostly she's an unnamed accomplice to the courtiers), a couple clowns (marullo/ceprano (they two rolls are basically combined here) and borsa), a strongman in goofy bodysuit and leotard (monterone), and a mime/clown (duke). everyone (except the ringleader...i'll get to it) is in a goofy costume and greasepaint except for rigoletto. even though he participates fully in the mischief of the court in scene i, visually he's othered from everyone else, with his unpainted face and plain overalls. (also, while the actor does not feign disability through physical mannerism or through any kind of costume prosthesis, throughout the show he's referred to as "hunchback" "hunched" and "crippled" so they definitely aren't overlooking WHY he's so hated here lol). anyway, act i scene ii comes along, and sparafucile arrives -- he's not in a clown suit, but he IS greasepainted, because he's actually doublecast with monterone and the costume change here happens onstage. he's othered too, but still participates in the system of violence his own way. after that, when rigoletto arrives at home, we see gilda, and she is similarly non-circus -- just a normal dress and no face paint. (also, the gilda they cast is TINY. i think their rigoletto was a little on the tall side, but even still, in heels gilda only came up to his shoulder. barefoot in act ii she only reaches his chest. with the balloon and the way she was costumed and acted, this is easily the youngest-seeming gilda i've yet watched, which suits the story.) fast forward to act ii, and rigoletto is frantically searching for gilda while the courtiers watch in silent amusement -- their faces are painted in exaggerated expressions of joy and sadness, both mocking rigoletto and refusing to reveal anything sincere from the people underneath the paint. then, at the end of act ii, when rigoletto swears vengeance on the duke, what does he do? he grabs a cup of greasepaint and smears it onto his face, where it stays through act iii and the end of the show. effectively he became what he hated, tried to join the society that rejects and mocks him -- embodied by the circus makeup -- and it leads to his doom.
now, a word on that ringleader, as i had promised above...she never appears in greasepaint, which i think is something of an oversight, personally. i think by having her and gilda both never appear with their faces painted, it sets them apart from the sins of the courtiers, and is trying to make a point about how all women in the opera are made victims of the duke and the courtiers' behavior. which is fair enough, i suppose, but it only really works if that actress ONLY shows up as countess ceprano and maddalena. but in fact she goes right along with the courtiers as a willing participant at the end of act i and through act ii. this is why i've chosen to call her a "ringleader" here, even though in the program she's only credited as maddalena. sure, i can understand her doublecasting as countess ceprano in act i scene i, and obviously she's maddalena in act iii. but in act i scene ii and act ii, neither of those characters are present, but the actress certainly is, and is just as involved as borsa and marullo (and...monterone? he's also there. he might be intended to be Unnamed Courtier #3 here or something but it's the same costume as monterone so it really reads as monterone. which doesn't make a ton of sense if he's supposed to be in jail awaiting execution but. moving on). at any rate, she also closes the opera by setting off a confetti canon over rigoletto cradling his dead daughter's body and sobbing, so i think she's kind of serving as a leading player from pippin or a cabaret emcee kind of role when she's not specifically being the countess or maddalena. hell, maybe the countess IS the ringleader. not really sure. anyway -- i think she should have also been in greasepaint. even if maddalena is also meant to be a victim the way gilda is, she does also, like, participate in murder and stuff. and if sparafucile is guilty enough of that that he remains greasepainted as monterone was, then i think maddalena should be greasepainted too. it would make gilda's innocence and tragic death stand out even more in the end as the only person left onstage without any makeup or clown costume on whatsoever.
now that's a very longwinded nit i've picked there. but really, i am nitpicking -- i don't have a lot to complain about with this production. my only other big complaint is that the surtitles weren't totally accurate to what was sung, which is weird considering that it's a newly written english libretto, so it's not like we're dealing with translational liberties in the titles. it reads to me like they programmed the titles with the version of the libretto they were using before rehearsals started, and then the libretto got altered here and there during the rehearsal process as things needed to be adjusted to fit the music and facilitate ease of singing/intelligibility, but the titles were never updated to match? which is strange. definitely felt like an oversight. but that's another nit i'm picking. the differences between what was sung and what was written in the titles were all minor wording differences, nothing that changed the actual plot or meaning of the scene.
overall: a great experience, as long as you aren't completely put off by clowns LOL. but i do think the circus design suited the material; they were quite clever to make that connection and draw it out so well. there's more i haven't mentioned here for brevity's (lol) sake, and because some stuff is harder to describe in words than others. the performances were great, with particular kudos to the duke for really nailing the physicality of everything, for doing a great job with the vocals, and for the remarkable talent of being able to juggle while singing "women are featherbrained" (la donna è mobile). he was really entertaining, both funny and sinister/hateable. bravo. but the whole cast did a great job.
i don't know if i'll get to their other shows this season, but i definitely see myself coming back to see what else inseries opera has in store. i might also check out their video archive, since they seem to have videos of past productions available to stream online -- which is an amazing surprise treat from such a small company! i suspect, then, that rigoletto will find its way online at some point to watch -- there were cameras set up to film tonight's performance, so i'll definitely keep my ear to the ground about that. if it goes up online, it'd be good to check out if you're at all interested.
anyway, the show was great. i really enjoyed it. but i could also be swayed by a lot of shows if they sold me movie theater popcorn at the concessions stand.
#sasha speaks#sasha reviews#rigoletto#this was a fun one! i love to see productions step outside the box and make it work#opera tag#giuseppe verdi#every opera house should sell you fresh popcorn actually. with the peanut m&ms and the sippy cups of wine.
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Hey just wondering, what do you think about James Cobb and is he in your au?
james cobb is a very funny character to me, and i'm not sure where i'm going to slot him in in OFH but he's probably going to make an indirect cameo in conversation at some point
i haven't the opportunity to sketch him up at the moment, but for now i'll say that he is in the AU; he was one of magnificus's students when mag was still teaching art at a university, and one of his most obsessive fans. he eventually was expelled from the university, probably due to some kind of extremely indecent performance art or smth, and went on to switch careers...to an engineer at botopia labs! probably somewhere towards the end of poe's career, like uhhh early 2000's or something. because he was still no less of a weird guy poe had a hard time figuring out what to really do with him, but he has his place in the factory now, and still works there after poe's retirement
if he's going to come up at all in the fic it'll either be one of the students mentioning him, or poe and mag having a convo about the weirdest people they've come upon in their careers and realizing that they're both talking about the same weird guy lmao
#inscryption#retyrement au#doot answers#he's one of those characters i haven't doodled yet#mostly because there's definitely a Fanon for james cobb designs#and i haven't thought of a good way to step outside the box yet lmao
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People wonder why I don't collab with other creators and yes the main reason is I'm not comfortable fucking someone I hardly know but also every single time without fail that I have tried to connect with another creator in just a friendly way I'm met with hostility
#im not expecting them to instantly be my friend because thats weird#i just clearly have no fucking clue how to talk to people so i get straight to the point reasponses#this is why i dont bother even attempting to join the online community#i feel like an outsider in a space that is already so difficult to navigate#i dont even give a shit but im reminded of it any time i try to step out of the box i seem to have been put in#im rambling because im upset but yeah collab will never be my thing
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how it started vs how it's going!! seeing them grow makes it worth it!! plus, little kitten belly kisses 🥹
#ooc#tbd#eating on the own is the best stage#altho the litter box is a bit of fright#last night there was a bad liquid poopy#got it cleaned up#ten minutes later#a better poopy outside the litter box#and stepped in
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my vriska complex is still kicking and screaming at age 22 girl we are not going to make it to be honest if you feel like you have to be the best always or die. it isnt sustainable. those are not your only two options.
#txtpst#guy who loves to set an unattainable standard and implodes when they cant hit and exceed it#guy who has an arbitrary insane ruleset for themself and if they step one foot outside of their box they have to be put down like a dog#yknow.
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Guide to PBS Kids writers:
This is an early episode of a quality animated show and is one of the most hysterical things I've ever seen on children's television = Joe Fallon
This is an early episode of a quality animated show and is very funny = Ken Scarborough
This episode has strong, vivid and realistic female characters = Kathy Waugh
This is an episode of an animated show that has undergone a notable quality drop where the characters get lessons preached at them and seem to exist only in a very narrow urban upper-middle-class worldview = Peter K. Hirsch
This is an episode of that show that has undergone a notable quality drop but the characters are believable and I'm actually laughing at several really good jokes = Ken Scarborough
#arthur#curious george#adventures in babysitting#curious george came on and the niece was living for it#and i think i was having more fun than she was#it was the donut episode#which i'd seen snippets of before but apparently not the whole thing#it was a riot!#george accidentally orders a thousand donuts and solves the problem by just eating the last zero#he wonders how he's gonna solve the problem of the hundred boxes and he just#takes one box of donuts and books it!#and gets chased down the street by a crowd of cheerful donut-bearing bakers#and then i see the next ep is credited to joe fallon so i look up who could have written the donut one#sure enough it was joe!#it's amazing how reliable this is#and this came after experiencing several surprisingly funny late episodes with ken's name attached#and as for pete#i've got rants about that man's worldview#i don't think he's stepped outside a city in his life#under his reign we get an episode about a little free library#on the renkins farm#i repeat#a little free library posted ON A DIRT ROAD!#you could not have made a DUMBER choice for such an episode#half of the show is set in a city!#it would have made sense there!#you've even established there's a largish country town nearby at this point in the show#that would at least make more sense#but this is downright boneheaded
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Saw a bird in my dream and I called it a cassowary but it was NOT one of those. I'll give myself a slide though because I was running up a mountain to save my computer from a burning building but it was SO off.
#luly talks#they were so cute tho one had a mohawk and it was wet and messy and was w a hyena i guess???#maybe just a dog#and there was also a sheep w a weird ambiguous dog headbutting it#a d another bird w an ambiguous long necked animal w curls#the scene where i was carried outside was wild btw everything went dark and they grabbed me and i kept trying to grab my pc#and i tugged on a cord and i might have ripped the keyboard or mouse but that's it#i was so upset too not only bc my puter but bc i was watching a movie they were making an evil guy in this big flamey oven w big screws and#levers before the movie had the plan go wrong and it sent fire into OUR cinema#my computer was the one from highschool btw and my mom and maybe step dad and younger sibling (in mention) were around#my grandpa was also there in the building firming letters and putting them in transparent envelopes w a $25 tag#which is so cute bc time accurate prizing. you used to see things for twenty pesos. it's true.#some guy was behind me showing another man too like this drawing he was gonna embroider for my little brother (hills and a house very dramat#ic composition) and these questions to answer (boxes y/n) and some other shit#there also was a cappuccino family i lied about being bc i needed in the place#they eventually got out normally
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It is actually so funny to get back online to learn that someone's been block evading, discover on desktop that I have 7 asks that have since been erased from my inbox because the person's account was nuked for it, and find out it's because a mutual is not changing their mind about a ship that I have literally never mentioned publicly because it's that boring to me. Like, bruh, sorry, get better taste, idk what else to tell you
#like lmfao. sorry. your ship is boring and bad and you should feel bad.#anyway I am on vacation (again) and I am not paying attention to whatever bullshit is being peddled in my ask box.#I am not here. go take a fucking lap or something idk. not even gonna say touch grass just like. step outside.#breathe some fresh air. listen to some birds idk man there are better uses of your time.#download the merlin birdwatching app from cornell and go watch some birds.#yesterday I logged a grackle and a cactus wren just in the in n out parking lot! it was great. grackles have delightful calls.#the world is full of wonders that doesn't entail getting your tumblr account nuked because you're a fucking jackass with bad taste :)))
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Felice: *discussing the differences she has to go through as a black girl attending a predominantly white school*
“Felice you are really really beautiful”
black people everywhere:
#young royals#young royals spoilers#like sweetheart please step outside of your white privileged box and smell the racism
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Scene: Wirt's going on a business trip leaving dipper and kids at home.
Wirt: Are you sure you'll be Ok?
Dipper: Hon, you worry too much, it's not like we're gonna set the house on fire or something.
Wirt: But you have...more than once.
Dipper: Which won't happen, like those were a really specific set of circumstances, not gonna happen again.
Wirt: Ok, I've written everything on a-
Dipper: -list a top the fridge. You've told us ten times, it'll be fine worry-Wirt. We'll miss you too.
Wirt: Yeah me too, see you soon love. Oh and-
Dipper: BYEEEE!!! ...ok he's gone, ok kids we're gonna have something nutritious, don't wanna disappoint your dad, Ok?
Kid: we're still having ice cream for breakfast, right?
Dipper: Oh, definitely...by the way, where's your sister?
Kid: In the kitchen.
Dipper:What is she-*looks in the kitchen* ...Wirt's gonna kill me.
#incorrect quotes#dipper pines#gravity falls#gf dipper#otgw#over the garden wall#otgw wirt#pinescone#FNGNTMSMSKGRB OH NOOOOOO#wirt takes ONE step outside and suddenly there’s a fire#yeah that tracks#his disaster of a husband causing chaos with the kids#oh I LOVE that#wirt has just made it to the car when he smells smoke#wirt: oh fuck my entire life#mans can’t catch a BREAK#thanks for the quote anon this is hilarious fbgnskmfn#I keep forgetting to post the quotes in the ask box I’m so sorry snfngne I’ll do better
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I spent a lot of time today cleaning up after my messy messy cats...bless them for keeping me off my phone for at least part of the day
#they were so messy today!!#one of them got some poop outside the litter box and then stepped in it and got it everywhere#i let them outside on the patio while i was cleaning that up and a cockroach 🪳 came in through the open door 💀#then they got the zoomies and knocked over the big box of paper i keep in the living room for them#and proceeded to have a wrestling showdown in the paper thereby tearing it to shreds and getting it everywhere#then the crazy psycho one kept tipping over the storage box where i keep the toys#i am in bed now and the psycho is brining toys up to bed and playing with them on top of my body#and i wonder why i always wake up covered in weird bruises...#they sure are cute though...and i spend so much time caring for them i have less time to be depressed
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