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[annemariewoods]

Rigoletto for WNO

Directed by Adele Thomas, Lighting Guy Hoare, Choreography Emma Woods

Photos Richard Hubert Smith

[willstafford]

Game On!

THE MAGIC FLUTE Birmingham Hippodrome, Wednesday 3rd May 2023 Welsh National Opera is back in town with a brand new production of one of Mozart’s greatest works.  The text, translated into English by Daisy Evans (who also directs) gives the Emanuel Schikaneder libretto a complete overhaul, removing the more direct Masonic aspects and the more problematic elements of the story to give us a fresh…

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[makorragal-312]

Yeah ..Todd in the Shadows (a strictly music reviewer) making an hour long video exposing James Somerton (a former video essayist) for misinformation and plagiarism DEFINITELY wasn't on my bingo card for 2023.

[supercantaloupe]

ive never gone to see an opera live in europe let alone one outside of a major theater that regularly records and broadcasts their productions so grain of salt etc but i think there's some kind of distinct cultural difference between how european companies do "reimagined" productions of operas vs how american companies do it

[spaciebabie]

If I drew my fictional crush like Springtrap right now, I would have exploded long ago.

I should definitely reduce the drawing a bit. back to the old version!

i think you should draw your fictional crush exactly the way you drew springtrap :] i think you would really like it if you did that :]]]

[weather-phenomenon]

both these characters are so utterly despicable

[lovelessbachelor]

finally the theatre play prompt.

ugh girl...i had WAY too much fun with this prompt...like my head went

Theatre -> Opera -> La Traviata

its so unhinged....

and of course i got ErrorInk in here too....Error is Alberto RIP lol.

these pictures are ass i hate my camera and also my dads monitor that i used to prop up the thingy!!!

i had like sooo much fun with the blood....i need to paint more blood...mphjhgjhh....

The inspiration for this pose/background/EVERYTHING actually comes from the La Traviata production at WNO!! i saw the dress rehearsal and ugh...it ended so beautifully and tragically...the acting and the singing ughh....so good. made the ending SO much more impactful....

oh. i also did this one in particular because i keep on getting struck with visions of courtesan Ink and client Error. please help i kind of love the idea.

anyway.

Prompt 5 Theatre Play!!!!

Ink by Comyet

Error by Loverofpiggies

...La Traviata by Verdi...ugh....

[levitheeldritch]

About me!

ATTENTION DONATION ASKERS! I cannot give you money as I am a minor with a somewhat unstable job, nor do I have a large following to share your donation asks with. Asking me will Garner nothing, I apologize. This goes for everyone. Please do not waste your time on me.

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Be not afraid!, because the stories I make are somewhat Gorey and have mature themes. I'll make a separate mature blog when I'm older, however. Also, I tend to draw (sfw) self indulgent art with fictional characters I like. If my parents find my account, respectfully step away. There's nothing bad, I'm just self conscious. (Not that you don't already tease me about "bone Daddy".) There will be occasional (very occasional) suggestive content (nothing explicit) or artistic/nonsexual nudity.

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Names: Leviathan (Levi for short), Rorschach, Camo, Omen, Lucid, Leri (or Riri)

Pronouns: He/they/it. I also use neopronouns xey/xem, pup/pupself and void/voidself, but you don't have to use them. Almost any neo pronouns are cool with me, honestly. I also use we/our for myself occasionally. I am a singlet, we just like the way it sounds.

We're somehow simultaneously aroacespec and pansexual. No, I don't know how this works.

We feel like a fungal hivemind generally, so we'll refer to ourselves as such. Fungi is an infinitely interesting subject, especially how similar it is to the human brain. I love fungi.

Interest list (link to another Tumblr post)

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Also, please don't repost or use our art without our permission! Ask first, my Dms are open! (Reblogs don't count, obviously.) If you use our art for something simple like a discord pfp, you don't have to ask, but credit is required.

Doodles/sketches: #Goopydoodles

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Reposting it? Unless I did the art for you, and I say you can, nogo. Absolutely not.

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(I yap a lot less on Bluesky, so you'll mostly just get my art there)

(We also have Twitter and tiktok under the same names, but they are both mostly unused and are there for anti impersonation purposes, and to look at people I like who don't have Tumblrs) (I might use tiktok to post. Idk yet.)

(Also reddit. I mostly have it for nms and synesthesia lol)

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I like art, music, reading, mushrooms, writing (even though I can't finish a book for the life of me), creating stories of all sorts in my head, gaming, and other creative stuff that my adhd brain is ironically too uncreative to think of atm.

Favorite animals? Snakes and jellyfish.

Favorite colors? Pink and black.

Movies? Nightmare before christmas and 9.

Object of my romantic hyperfixation: Fell Sans and Standford pines (and gaster, but he's not exactly romantic. Or sexual. I just think he's neat)

Current self made series in my hyperfocus range: EdenIsBurning and Animalistic

We have depression, ADHD, and a pretty severe anxiety disorder. Luckily it makes me funny. Very slight dyslexia too, so I shut down when reading big blocks of text. I also have Associative Synesthesia (Sound to color, emotion to color, and pain to color)

Anyways, hope you enjoy the stuff we post! Stay sparkly, and stay safe.

(This account is system friendly! And xenogender friendly. And other human/therian otherkin friendly. And a kink safe space (although, we will not talk about things like that very often)).

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[assorted-things]

If I had a nickel for every time I've seen a production of The Magic Flute that tried to make it less sexist but in doing so accidentally made it more sexist, I'd have two nickels, but it's kind of weird that it happened twice

[haec-an]

6`

he's just a little teddy bear

[heather-chandlers-weirder-cousin]

hmuslf

stmchak n bdy fls bd ;;(

[paganimagevault]

Tocharian B Love Poem, manuscript B496, 6th-7th C. CE

"…a thousand years, [you will] tell [our] story. [I thus announce, [here]tofore there was no human being dearer to me than [you]; likewise hereafter there will be no one dearer to [you] than [me]. [Your] love, [your] affection, [my] jubilant song rises up! Along with life [itself], this should not come to an end for [my] whole life. I was thinking: “I will live with one love well [for the whole of my] life, without any deceit, without…” The God [of Karma] alone recognized this, my thought. Thus he provoked a quarrel; it ripped out my heart [that belonged] to [you. I]t led [you] afar, it tore me apart, it turned me into a partaker of all sorrows; he took away the consolation [I had] in thee… my life, spirit, and heart, day-by-day…"

"Tocharian B: …(ya)ltse pikala watäṃ ·e – ci(ṣṣ)e /// /// – – ·nts· p(o) ask(a)sk(au) (mā) ñ(i) (ci)sa noṣ śomo ñ(e)m(wno)lme (l)āre tāka mā ra postaṃ cisa lāre mäsketär-ñ : ciṣṣe laraumñe ciṣṣe ārtañye pelke kaltta-(r)r«†ä» śolämpa ṣṣe mā t(e) stālle śol wärñai : 2 taiysu pälskanoym sanai ṣaryompa śāyau karttse(ś) śaulu-wärñai snai tserekwa snai tā – : yāmor-ñīkte ṣe cau ñī palskañe śarsa tusa ysaly= ersate ciṣy= araś ñi sälkāte : wāya ci lauke tsyāra ñiśwetke «k»ly«†k»autka-ñ pāke po läklenta«nt»s ciṣe tsārwo sampā(te-ñ) – – – – – – ·e śol pals(k)= araś ñī kom-kom mī-"

-Cf. the transcription and translation in J. P. Mallory and Victor H.Mair, The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West (London: Thames & Hudson, 2000), p. 273.

[supercantaloupe]

okay i can't find an actual full season announcement anywhere yet But the calendar on the washington nat'l opera's website updated today to include performances through december and. girl it is not looking good for me this year

[fynnlink]

Arcane doesn't need a THIRD season...

It needed THREE seasons

Arcane discussion / slight critique (obvi SPOILERS)

Alt title: "Arcane's character arcs: Tell not Show"

It's quite long.

I'II preface this by saying:

1) Arcane, especially from a creative standpoint, is a masterpiece and testament to what animation and showcraft can be/achieve. The three year hiatus was more than worth it. Hats off to everyone involved.

2) I thoroughly enjoyed the second season and the finale. It hit all the right emotions and I cried laughed and loved throughout my viewing(s).

But 3) Despite my enjoyment of the entire series, there are a few issues I had with Season 2 and the ending of the series.

Now to the title: In my opinion (and despite my wanting one) Arcane does not need another season after the finale and the story can instead be carried on better/just as well in subsequent spin-offs (like the likely Noxian one). Instead Arcane could've/would've benefited from a runtime of three seasons with the story of Season 2 being split up into two seperate seasons.

Without further ado

Arcane Season 2 started off great, from the season opening with the direct and immediate aftermath of Jinx's attack using Fishbones (the rocket launcher), Cassandra Kirammin's gorgeous HAND-DRAWN funeral, to all the emotional and high intensity scenes with the Zaunites from Silco's funeral and the Jinx-Sevika-Isha found family/team-up, all the way to the first act's incredible conclusion with the Temple of Janna Showdown and the Discovery of the Wild Rune below the Hexgate. It had and was everything I wanted and wno et of all the writing I wanted and more, the animation, the acting, the soundtrack and most of all the writing.

There were certain issues which I'll get to in a second but Season 2 Act 1 was mostly solid writing and followed through on Season 1's excellently written explorations of oppression, police brutality, ableism, class divides and classism, racism and prejudiced bigotry and many other complex and importand real themes/matters. After Act 1 followed Act 2 and my first big issue and the entire premise of this post: another (albeit much shorter compared to S1 A1 to S1 A2) timejump. While this usually doesn't necessarily pose an issue especially since Arcane has successfully handled timejumps/skips in the past without too much "Tell not Show" (an inverse of the "Show don't Tell" trope https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowDontTell#:~:text=This%20is%20a%20writing%20or,book%20doing%20indisputably%20badass%20things.) which can lead to characters and storybeats feeling disconnected or the changes feeling jarring.

The multiple timejumps and montages rush a story that would've benefited from time and patience. I understand why these choices were made and the montages were creative and gorgeous, however there were too many in too few episodes.

The time between Act 1 and Act 2 of Season 2 should have been shown and not summarised into a montage.

Vi's arc and development into her in-game self (i.e an Enforcer) was incredibly rushed and underdeveloped ("Are we still Sisters?"-Jinx "Nothing is ever going to change that" S1 E9 | "My sister is gone. There's only Jinx now."-Vi S2 E3) and in many ways actually devolves/regresses upon her established character ("I grew up knowing I'm less than them. That my place is down there. I want Powder to have more than that and I'm willing to fight for it." S1 A1 "I'm the dirt under your fingernails, Cupcake." S2 E9) compared to season 1 Vi's character is or at least feels very reduced to simply one half of CaitVi, there's also no real follow through / no real consequences to Caitlyn's actions both as a Dictator General of Piltover and especially towards Vi. There was no actual apology from Cait (no, micro-expressions and withdrawing Jinx's guard does not make up for physical abuse) and the entire "Prison Cell - steamy edition" felt out of nowhere/weird (I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT CAITVI'S FEELINGS, THOSE WERE THERE AND ARE VALID AND DESERVE TO BE EXPLORED.) considering Vi and Jinx's interaction just before, Jinx's obvious suicidal ideation and Vi's unexplored trauma from her childhood spent in prison.

Same with Caitlyn being build up as a representation of someone who grew up privileged turning to generalised hatred and dehumanisation of others/"the other" when experiencing trauma (my phrasing is terrible but I'm referring to Caitlyn's turn towards oppression/fascism in response to her mother's death.) Caitlyn falls back into the exact same way of thinking that she denied/judged for example collectively referring to Zaunites as "Animals" despite rebutting these same words when Ekko said the people of Piltover look down upon those of Zaun, as well as Caitlyn calling Vi's blood dirty/tainted saying Vi has the "same blood in [her] veins" as Jinx after Vi stopped Caitlyn from endangering a Child's life as well as hitting Vi first with a stray bullet and then with the back of her rifle during an exclusively verbal argument. All before ascending to the position of General of Piltover during Martial Law and enacting collective punishment, restriction in movement and expression via military checkpoints and guard patrols, revoking Zaunites' right of assembly and peaceful protest and imprisoning most ("half") of Zaun in Stillwater without trial. Piltover even had to built a railcar system to keep up with prisoner transports to Stillwater opposed to S1's boats.

All this was built up only to have Caitlyn turn back after only one interaction with Vi. Supposedly Caitlyn had begun to doubt/regret the excessive and oppressive Noxian measures but apart from one scene of her disagreeing with Rictus' (Ambessa's second in command) "incitement of violence" at the checkpoint but still supported and expanded upon Stillwater (the exact prison Vi was kept in, even keeping the guard who all but confessed to regularly beating Vi during her seven year imprisonment, he even says he does it so often he "never thought to keep count") and even threatened to use cells and methods she knows and agrees are morally reprehensible.

Caitlyn's deeds as General should have been shown to the audience not just summarised into a short montage only to be glossed over. Instead of a complex and very difficult but incredibly necessary and in the end beneficial look inward for Caitlyn, Caitlyn's time and actions as a semi-dictator were glossed over because Ambessa was simplified into a pure warmonger going so far as to attack her own daughter and even Caitlyn cheating on Maddie with Vi in the cell is portrayed as less morally complex since Maddie completely betrays Caitlyn going so far as to try to shoot her to side with/support Ambessa's war (despite Maddie talking about reestablishing the Council in S2 E4).

If we had been given time with Caitlyn during her "#lowkey-Fascist-Era" especially if we had seen her temper cool and see her kinder side shine in more scenes in which she opposes Ambessa as opposed to one scene expressing disagreement with Rictus and later Caitlyn agreeing to Vi's comments regarding Caitlyn "sidling up with [Ambessa]", then this development and CaitVi becoming a couple again would have felt earned and well-written.

Instead of a comprehensive follow-up to Season 1's themes we got a "But TeAmWOrk GuYs!?" the Oppressed and Oppressors put aside their differences because of the greater / "real enemy all along"ᵀᴹ without Zaun seeing any reparations/improvements apart from one single seat at the same council that has oppressed them for decades/centuries. (Sidenote Sevika was immediately side-eyed and judged and can just get overruled by the remaining Council. États généraux, yes you get a vote but only one)

Yet we end the season with Caitlyn and Vi having sped past their issues and (Vi's) trauma to have a final scene in front of Caitlyn's fireplace with Ekko being shown to grieve Jinx more and Vi proclaim being the "Dirt" under Caitlyn's fingernails (they supposedly worked on that line for 27 hours).

Just to clarify I'm not saying Vi doesn't grieve but it's about what's shown and especially what is given time and here a CaitVi scene was more important than a scene dictated to Vi and Jinx's bond as sisters which was/should be the focus of the series. I'll probably make another post at some point about the Sister's bond taking a backseat compared to the relationships in Season 2.

In the end we were told more than shown why characters acted the way they did. With many interactions and moments of growth only implied.

Arcane would've benefitted from more time, maybe even a seperate Season, spent developing the characters to their final state and to give the series the time to deal with both it's arcane (*wink*) and human themes. And the ideal timeframe for this was in-between S2 A1 and S2 A2.

Many characters feels as if the audience had read the first and third book of a series without the in-between. And entire plot-lines and core themes were dropped/abandoned.

If you're still reading, thank you and sorry I went off on a ramble in the middle there. Again I'm not saying the season was bad and definitely not that you can't enjoy it (I liked it) just that it had a few missed opportunities.