Jesster

I need more big handsome tough guys with inhalers. Motormaster asthmatic king!

I had a very interesting discussion about theater and film the other day. My parents and I were talking about Little Shop of Horrors and, specifically, about the ending of the musical versus the ending of the (1986) movie. In the musical, the story ends with the main characters getting eaten by the plant and everybody dying. The movie was originally going to end the same way, but audience reactions were so negative that they were forced to shoot a happy ending where the plant is destroyed and the main characters survive. Frank Oz, who directed the movie, later said something I think is very interesting:

That’s a real gem of a thought in and of itself, a really interesting consequence of the fact that theater is alive in a way that film isn’t. A stage play always ends with a tangible reminder that it’s all just fiction, just a performance, and this serves to gently return the audience to the real world. Movies don’t have that, which really changes the way you’re affected by the story’s conclusion. Neat!

But here’s what’s really cool: I asked my dad (who is a dramaturge) what he had to say about it, and he pointed out that there is actually an equivalent technique in film: the blooper reel. When a movie plays bloopers while the credits are rolling, it’s accomplishing the exact same thing: it reminds you that the characters are actually just played by actors, who are alive and well and probably having a lot of fun, even if the fictional characters suffered. How cool is that!?

Now I’m really fascinated by the possibility of using bloopers to lessen the impact of a tragic ending in a tragicomedy…

If we shadows have offended

Think but this and all is mended

As a lesbian i will always relate more to trans women than cishet women. Made to feel disgusting and predatory in women’s spaces? Check. Berated and mocked for our relation to sexuality and womanhood? Check. Hated for our “deviancy from the norm”? Check. Every single essay about womanhood by a trans woman–and especially, especially by trans wlw–has spoken more to me than anything written by a cis straight woman ever could. T*rfs can take that to the bank.

also, may I add because it’s not just the negative stuff. there’s so much positive connection:

gender euphoria experiences with a self determined approach to womanhood, attraction and sexuality

celebration of bodies beyond the norm

creating our own culture of appreciating complex and intertwined expressions of gender and sexuality

destigmatization and newfound respect of and for our bodies

true sisterhood based on choice not force

the inherent revolutionary nature of our existence and our love and community

creating space for exploration of pleasure and identity

These posts were fundamental in my coming out as a woman and hopefully someone else will see them and see the overflowing love and acceptance that is waiting for them too.

do with this what you will but as a transmasc person this post made me stare at a wall for, a long time. We’re all so interconnected through fear and joy and pain and love and we just want to be seen as ourselves and still be seen as human and we all have felt out of place in a way that induces an unmatched sense of fear and yearning that we were probably too young to understand. Ugh

The Ballad of Peter Spankoffski

Song - The Ballad of Jane Doe from Ride The Cyclone: The Musical.

(Original comic in a separate post- Tumblr doesn’t let you add videos onto reblogs apparently so I had to make a separate post for the animated version)

I love bonding w my mutuals (watching my inbox like :] while they like a bunch of my posts, and then going and liking a bunch of their posts)

@heartandsol-0 real, we’re tight as hell, we’re like this 🤞

The Doctor of Dental Surgery

for anyone who isn't on sktwt, theres fully a petition (i cant tell if its a joke or not im too autistic for this shit) for mariah to be ethan in NMT3

and like if its a joke then thats cool but if it isnt, that feels kind of disrespectful? like yeah casting changes a lot, but joey fully ATE up playing ethan and it feels like sktwt is taking it a little far

or im going crazy

maybe im just too autistic

Yeah definitely do think it’s disrespectful like. Keep your headcanons and all but even Mariah has come out and said that it is JOEYS ROLE. People need to Calm Down

Spies, it never die

@luckiestnumber I think we should watch Spies Are Forever together