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Bonus:

poor Happy lol

2 .but chewing with your mouth open is still gross and bad. keep that locked up

Favourite narrative tropes:

to add to this:

anyway no matter what the actual plot is of Falcon and Winter Soldier there simply must be a scene where Sam and Buck go to some important event, possibly in an undercover situation, and that trope happens. checking weapons at the door.

Sam maybe leaves a couple things, then waits while Bucky produces weapon after weapon until Sam just eyerolls, shakes his head, and walks off to do whatever. The rest of the scene has Sam carrying on whatever mission and occasionally it cuts back to Bucky still discarding weapons, or you’ll get a glimpse of him in the background still at it. It gets absurd. There’s just an ungodly amount of weapons and it’s to the point where the audience has to wonder where he’s even taking them from.

Sam gets almost finished with whatever he’s doing and is about to have to go tell Bucky to pick everything back up so they can leave but then a (possibly even unrelated to either of them) fight breaks out and Bucky looks vaguely annoyed, glancing over the massive pile of weapons and deliberately selecting something before jumping into the fray. the ensuing scuffle is ridiculous and beautifully choreographed and is amazing and tense and just. fantastic.

Fight ends, they’re both very much ready to go home (or move on whatever plot-important thing has developed because of the fight) and then there’s a moment where they’re both left standing in silence just kind of staring at the weapon pile before Sam goes “man we’ve talked about this”

When a character doesn’t realize they’ve been, like, shot or whatever and they hand brushes against their side and comes away wet with blood, and they’re just staring at it like wtf is this and then their knees just totally give out on them and they sink down, maybe gasping a little as the reality finally hits them. That’s good stuff.

I see that, and raise you a character who knows they’ve been shot, but waits until the rest of their crew is out of sight to put their hand against the slowly spreading stain of blood on their shirt, then trying to steady their breathing so they can follow without letting on how injured they are.

Okay but like the character who doesn’t realize they’ve been hurt trying to see if everyone else is okay only to slowly realize that everyone is looking at them with mounting horror. Then they touch their side to find it’s wet and oh no

all 3 of you are evil but i admire, respect, and fear you

Michelle Yeoh as Agent K | Men in Black

Lin-Manuel Miranda as Christian | Moulin Rouge!

Is no one gonna talk about this?

oh my fucking god. ohhhhhhhhhhh my god. 

I cannot believe that I have officially seen people, WITH MY EYES, who are now actually saying it’s ABLEIST that they didn’t just go on with the full-on show, with all the original Plan A blocking, WITH Brennin IN his wheelchair.

NORMALLY that would actually be a pretty good point. NORMALLY I’d have to give them that one. “yeah, FOX,” I would have to say. “why WOULD you rather show us the full dress than a character in a wheelchair?”

FUCKING EXCEPT ONE THING THOUGH

IT’S RENT, YOU SOILED DISHRAGS. THINK ABOUT WHAT THE SET OF RENT LOOKS LIKE FOR A SECOND.

MORE THAN HALF OF THE GODDAMN THING IS VERTICAL. 90% OF THE MAJOR BACKDROPS ARE SEPARATED BY SCAFFOLDING AND STAIRS, YOU BLOODY STUPID LOPSIDED COAT RACKS.

they weren’t really thinking about making a two-night set wheelchair accessible, mostly because it’s not a permanent or public fixture, and the entire cast was walking on two legs when they went in there

there was ONE elevator, and it only went to ONE place. the neon “moon.” that’s it. nowhere else. and you cannot just BUILD multiple safe elevators overnight. or a bunch of really long, really steep, obtrusive fucking ramps that’d come down right into the middle of other sets.

what were they supposed to do? keep him on the main level and just never have Roger in his own apartment, even though it’s kind of a major point that he never leaves it? or just stick him up there, then tip the chair and dump him over the side when necessary? “TIME TO GO TO THE LIFE CAFE! INCOMING! HEY COLLINS, CATCH!” *PLOP*

I can MAYBE understand people’s position that they should’ve aired the stripped-down concert performance (although IMHO we all DESERVED to see the blocking and choreo they worked so hard on, and I’D have been disappointed not to see it)—but jesus salted caramel CHRIST, some people are dipshits

NO, it was not ABLEIST to nix the complete Plan A staging in this case. it would not have been progressive or “letting a wheelchaired actor play a major role for once.” it would have been making a wheelchaired actor get ditched and/or fall down the stairs a lot. LADDERS AND STAIRS, PEOPLE. LADDERS AND STAIRS.

a wheelchaired Roger is a very possible thing—a wheelchaired ANY character is a very possible thing—but NOT with less than one day’s notice. ablebending (?) the cast is the kind of thing that needs to be done in advance. that’s the kind of shit they could’ve pulled off if it’d happened WEEKS ago. NOT when it did.

they made the exact right call. and the greedy, ungrateful fandumb™ is real strong with some people.

I have to stop reading the internet now and drink something.

Also - there’s a difference between being someone who uses a wheelchair, and HAVING BROKEN YOUR FOOT THE NIGHT BEFORE. Uhm. Sure cast actors who use wheelchairs on Broadway I guess? (Not a theater expert, but I see no reason not to?)

But let me tell you. I broke my foot in five places on a Thursday. Finally got x-rays on Sunday after being too tough to acknowledge the pain. Was almost crying by the time someone told me the foot was broken. (people kept looking at my ankle in those three days, which was fine. The foot wasn’t swollen, it just had exact purple lines to mark each of the breaks.) Had a midterm that Monday WHICH I TOOK in exhausted pain at nine in the morning. Knew the material cold, got a C anyway because I was exhausted, in pain, and couldn’t really concentrate on more then one word in a sentence at the time. My teacher was appalled I showed up and said that he would have (resident hardass of the faculty though he was) allowed me to take it the next week after I recovered a bit.

Because I needed to recover. BECAUSE I HAD BROKEN MY FOOT. There is a difference between not casting disabled actors, or finding ways to work out the logistics of casting disabled actors, and not allowing someone to perform with a broken foot. He’s not disabled, he’s injured. Someone gushing from a head wound should not go perform fine surgery. Someone who broke their wrist should not play the piano at Carnegie Hall twelve hours later. Injuries are (hopefully!) temporary situations you need to recover from to prevent further injury. 

Casting a disabled actor and then taking the role from them because of their disability is ableist. Taking a concussed football player out of the game is preventing further injury and doing the right thing. These are literally two different situations we’re talking about, and it’s not ableist in the slightest to have a man who broke his foot not perform Rent live. 

i need to sleep but watching rent live it just struck me in a special way what a deep friendship (relationship? connection? whatever?) mark and roger have. not only the very covering-the-bases friendship stuff like living together or reminding each other of things the other forgets or being annoyed by the other’s little habits. but also that when mark doesn’t know what to document, he films roger instead of doing scenery shots or whatever and he films several takes of roger just doing the same thing and roger just lets him, engages in it. mark mercilessly teases him for his obsession with writing his “one great song” but also tells others to leave roger alone so he can write, and while still bothering him to go out just leaves him alone because mark knows that’s what roger wants. he reminds roger of his azt breaks. they’re a combined union in the fight against benny. they literally burn half of the stuff in their flat to stay warm and have been doing so in the past too. mark being at life support is one thing, but it’s another when we think about that he hears a guy sing something that is literally roger’s life story of the past years, whick mark knows better than anyone. and later on he leaves angel and collins to check on roger. he tries to convince roger to stay in new york. when all else fails them, it’s also because they’ve gotten estranged and only once they find their way back to each other do they have the strength and vision to move on with their life and produce something they’re proud of. they’re comfortable with being physical with each other while especially roger and especially in the proshot is not afraid to shrug people off and push them away, they are openly affectionate towards each other. it’s tangible they have a very deep and strong bond and while mark is the one to show it in actions, it is also clear that roger is a steady rock for mark and has been for a long time. their friendship is honestly so poignant and important and brennin and jordan portrayed it beautifully. they’re family to each other and it shows.

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one of the FEW criticisms I would agree with that’s come out about rent over the years is the idea that mark’s refusal to take a job when he and his friends are starving and dying as pretentious

and. they. fixed. it.

rather than buzzline just being stupid and cheesy, it’s directly harmful, using the kind of rhetoric a lot of news uses NOW to make us hate “the other”.

THIS is why I will always love them trying something different with these shows.

theatre is MEANT to evolve and change with each director, cast, and yes, with the times, and this is proof of why it’s GOOD that it does.

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HAN SOLO: WAS THE ‘STAR WARS’ HERO A NOT-SO-SECRET FEMINIST? (via laurenbacal)

#the time he’s moved to breathily declare that he loves her on screen?  #she’s about to shoot some dudes and wearing a huge Skywalker Poncho™

(via zombeesknees)

I mean, the first time he says he’s starting to like her, she’s wearing a dress that covers her from chin to ankles and has spent the entire time he’s known her stealing guns, yelling at him about how sucky of a rescuer he is, and trash-talking his ship.

I just realized that Han never knew that Luke got his hand chopped off while he was in carbonite and I don’t know which path I want to follow with this information:

1. Han seeing Luke’s injured hand after the sail barge battle and thinking that Luke has been a robot the whole time

2. Luke shaking his hand with a super-firm grip and Han just thinking “Wow this kid has gotten…absurdly strong.”

3. Luke just pulls off his hand one day and throws it at Han.

4. Luke picks up a spacechicken carcass and crushes it with his bare hand and Han is intimidated

5. Han says “It’s good to see you’re all right” and then Luke says “well, actually…” and pulls off his hand and Han falls over the back of his chair

6. Han says “It’s good to see you’re all right” and everyone gasps and Leia says “Too soon!” and Han is confused and they all just rag on him

7. Han needs a battery and Luke just opens up his hand and pulls out a battery and gives it to him and Han just stares

8. Luke reappears after a mission with all the synthflesh off and Han says “I thought it was easy but you LOST YOUR HAND?” and Luke just says “Oh, no, I lost this before Endor” and Han is hurt and betrayed.

9. Luke keeps making hand puns and limb puns and raising his right hand to high-five Han and Han just never gets it

10. Luke excitedly tells Han as they’re waiting to be taken to the Sarlacc because it’s been a whole year that he’s wanted to tell the guy. 

Luke and Chewy are playing a game it doesn’t matter what.  Han comes over and does the whole Wookies tear the arms off the people who beat them thing to try and tease Luke.  He doesn’t know that Chewy and Luke have been preparing for this though and after Luke ‘wins’ Chewy pretends to be mad and rips off Luke’s hand

Deadpool could replace Stan lee with the cameos now that he’s gone. Complete with a grey wig, a mustache, and aviators sunglasses

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hercules on broadway dreamcast:

aaron tveit as hercules

sierra boggess as megara