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It’s such a big factor that makes the following moments so uncomfortable, seeing how terrible he looks. So brilliant

big fan of how insanely pale lawrence is after he saws his foot off

lowkey its one of my favorite details in the movie

bc yeah you would totally go sheet white after sawing ur fucking foot off

and i usually dont see that in movies when people lose limbs 👍🏻

#sawposting #lawrence gordon

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average soft/coquette girl canon experience is having everything in pink in childhood to going to the "i hate pink" phase in teenage to pretend like you're "different" and then back to absolutely loving, wearing, breathing pink because your inner child is finally free

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folks would a mark hoffman x oc fic be cringe??

#saw franchise #sawposting #mark big tits hoffman #mark hoffman #x oc #x reader #jigsaw

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it’s so sad 😔

every time i search up "harry potter x reader" i get some other character instead and then when i search harry james potter x reader there aren't enough results because people who DO post harry x reader don't think they need to tag that specifically

i will cry

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Ok now that the boops are gone and i can be grumpy again

"yeah the boops are fun but don't let them distract you from--" PLEASE let them distract you. Please take one goddamn day off from thinking about the world's problems. And if you can't figure out how to do that, for the love of god don't insist that everyone else be stuck in "I'm not allowed to be happy about anything ever" hell with you

If you insist that everyone be focusing on "the problems" at all times that is at best performative and at worst actively harmful to the cause you're trying to support. Taking real action uses up energy, often times a LOT of it. Insisting that no one ever takes a break means insisting that no one ever take time to rest and begin to gather more energy for another actual action. Being "on" all the time isn't your duty, it's an impossibility.

Take a fucking break. And remind everyone that they need to take breaks too.

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enough said...

#i need him #mark big tits hoffman

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I am dying to write about these two idiots, if anyone has any requests please let me know :(

#scream #slashers #stu macher #billy loomis #ghostface #stu macher x reader #stu macher fluff #billy loomis x reader #billy loomis fluff

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they dont even know how man in chair i am rn

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I know lots of underrated musicals that deserve more attention, but if I had to choose ONE to just make people magically see how amazing it is, it’d be The Drowsy Chaperone.

So many different factors play into this show that make it so unique from any other musical and it’s just hilarious and beautiful and heartwarming and all around the most fun I’ve had watching a musical. It has such a funny cast of characters, but the one that really makes the show special is the narrator, man in chair. (I would also like to note the the OG cast man in chair literally wrote the show, an absolute genius)

The man in chair starts of the show with his cute lil monologue about live theater, and he says that whenever he’s feeling blue he likes to put on his musical records. He then narrates the audience through the drowsy chaperone, the show on his record (it’s a show within a show). I think that the man in chair is a character neurodivergent people can relate to, or at least I can. Just seeing how happy he is when talking to the audience about this musical makes me so happy because it’s this rare feeling I can immensely relate to that I’ve never really seen displayed before. Like, I often find myself just going on rants in my head about my hyper fixations or special interests as if there’s an audience in my head I’m narrating too, and when others will allow me to speak about my hyper fixations that’s honestly when I’m happiest. Along with this, whenever I info dump about an interest to a friend or someone I love, it’s because I want them to feel that same happiness I’m feeling. This is also shown within the man in chair’s narration- he wants to please the audience, and he wants them to love the show as much as he does.

That also brings me to my next point- drowsy chaperone is a somewhat self aware show, but not in the way you would think. The man in the chair knows that the musical the drowsy chaperone is not the best show. It’s poorly written, parts make no sense, parts are even offensive/behind the times. And yet he loves it so much because of his own personal reasons (ima get into that later). Man in chair’s whole goal is that he just wants the audience to enjoy the record and be entertained as much as he is, even though he is fully aware that it’s not necessarily a good musical. Because of this, his commentary throughout the show goes from (to quote the show) “Yes, I know it’s flimsy, but I love it BECAUSE it’s flimsy!” To more and more defensive. Farther into the second act, he realizes maybe the audience isn’t liking the musical, or maybe their realizing how bad it is. There’s even a part where the Drowsy Chaperone (the character) gives the Janet advice- the one line that will change the whole outcome of the show. And you can’t fully hear it because a broom dropped in the recording. The man in chair can’t tell wether she’s saying “Love while you can”, or “Live while you can.” He goes on a whole tangent about how much he loves that quote that he doesn’t even know if it was she actually said or not, as if he’s trying to find an actual reason for the audience to love the show as much as he does. so he feels the need to defend it more and more until he realizes he can’t. Because the reason he loves the show so much is because of his own personal experiences and trauma he has associated with it.

“You have to understand I love this show so much- my mother gave me the record, this was just before my father left us … I know it’s not a perfect show … but none of that matters, it does what a musical is supposed to do. It takes you to another world, and it gives you a little tune to carry with you in your head, you know? A little something to help you escape from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you’re feeling blue.”

The finale of this show has got to be the most heartwarming finale to a musical I’ve seen. After the song Love is Always Lovely in the End, man in chair ends up going on a rant about his past marriage, and how it fell apart. You can tell within this monologue that he doesn’t really intend to go into detail about the process of his divorce- at first he just made a simple comment about love- but he ends up going on a tangent. And while this is a funny moment, it’s kind of one of those “am I supposed to laugh or not” things, because while what man in chair is saying is funny, you can see he’s struggling to talk about it. He’s so happy and cheerful throughout the show, besides when he’s ever angry about something within the show. But it’s the first time you see man in chair beyond the narrator for the show, and the first time you see him not so funny and energetic but uncomfortable. The show continues, until the power goes out and the record shuts off right before the very last note of the show. The mechanic comes to fix it, he leaves, (I’m gonna go more into that scene in a bit). The man in chair then gets really angry and annoyed claiming that the moment is ruined and there’s no way he can go back and relive the magic of that last note again, because of the real worlds interruptions. He sort of breaks and says what’s one of my favorite monologues ever, (part of what I quoted earlier), admitting he knows the show isn’t perfect but he just loves it SO much for no real reason- just his own feelings and experiences he has with it. After he finishes, he puts his head down and you hear him quietly crying. He starts to sing the song As We Stumble Along. No music or anything, just the man in chair silently singing the song while trying to not cry. Miss Totendail (this spelling is probably wrong) then pulls out a ukulele to accompany his singing. Robert joins in singing his own song, Accident Waiting to Happen. All the characters slowly bring him to the center of the stage and start joining in with their own songs, making a medley of the songs in the show. The show ends with the man in chair sitting on the plane (long story, it has to do with the drowsy chaperone show itself) hold the drowsy chaperone record very excitedly and smiling, while all of the characters sing.

There is something just so special about this finale and seeing the man in chair finally interacting with the characters. Seeing him with all of the characters he’s loved and the characters that have helped him throughout his life just makes me so incredibly happy, and when watching the OG cast man in chair I can literally feel the happiness coming from him. Even though he’s just some man cooped up in his apartment listening to his records, he’s a character that I relate to the most. I feel like his character is so personal to me, because I also have something fictional that I love so much and feel like it’s had a huge effect on my life, even though it’s not the best or most well written thing in the world. I can’t find any specific reasons why I favorite it so much more than anything else, I just do.

Also, to add more to my man in chair autism head cannon, I noticed the OG actor did a lot of hand stims throughout the show that are very common hand stims among ND people, although I don’t know if that was intentional or not. He’s also just very anti social, which isn’t necessarily an autistic trait but it just makes him so much more relatable lmao, since he mentions basically just staying in his apartment the majority of time and also quickly rushes the maintenance man out even when he talks to him about musicals, something he loves. We stan an anti social and possibly autistic king

Please, if you haven’t watched this show, there’s a super good quality bootleg on YouTube in four parts. I promise you won’t regret it.

TLDR; the man in the chair from The Drowsy Chaperone is one of if not the most well written narrator in musical theater, and this musical deserves more attention

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Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.

It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.

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You already know Kieran called him exactly that when he took his title & Drayton has been patiently WAITING to say it back to him 💀

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Wow. Drayton is wasting no time in rubbing my win in Kieran's face.

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also, a friendly reminder, the world we live in now consists of an active genocide.

of warcrimes being posted on twitter by the official account of israeli government.

of people looking at children, women and men being bombed, killed, starved and butchered and saying it is okay because of a single terrorist group, THAT ISRAEL CREATED.

of westerners saying to look away from the slaughter happening in gaza because your mental health is more important than thousands of lives.

of israeli politicians straight up using propaganda from nazi handbooks to dehumanise palestinians, calling them less than human, less than the rest of us, animals.

and what one palestinian man posted on his social media hit me more than anything: “if we actually were animals, people would care.”

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This is the paramedic who found his family among the dead victims. I thought it was only his mother who got killed, but I was mistaken. But his sister seems to have survived only.

They're telling him to calm down but he fell to the ground saying: My family. My family.

The man consoles him saying: We're all one family here. Each one of us has lost their family. Look, my sisters are in there. We have to get back up. You're strong.

Share this. Call israel on their crimes.

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