#Forum-Theater

[taunuswolf]

Bis weit in die 70ziger Jahre hinein gab es in Wiesbaden nur zwei Theater: Das Staatstheater und das „Intime Theater“, eine kleine Bühne in der Saalgasse, untergebracht in einem spätklassizistischen Gebäude, das wohl in den 80zigern der Abrissbirne zum Opfer fiel. Es wurde 1966 gegründet, so der einzige winzige Hinweis im Netz. Hier wurden von Profischauspielern hauptsächlich Komödien gespielt, ähnlich wie beim Ohnesorg-Theater in Hamburg. Jedoch ohne den medialen Erfolg. Wer damals anspruchsvollere Kleinkunst suchte, der fuhr nach Mainz, wo es schon seit 1971 das UNTERHAUS in seiner jetzigen Form gab oder nach Frankfurt. Dies wollte der Bühnenbildner James Chladek ändern. Pioniere zögern nicht lange. Sie fangen einfach an. Wie ein einsamer Rufer fragte James zur Jahreswende 1973/74 im Jazzhaus in die Runde: „Wer von euch hat Lust ein Theater zu gründen?“

VORBILD: DAS UNTERHAUS FORUM IN MAINZ

Wie immer, wenn in Wiesbaden jemand eine tolle Idee hat, kommen gleich viele Leute angerannt und wollen mitmachen. Zunächst entstand so etwas wie ein lockerer Kultur-Gesprächs-Kreis, der erst mal „ausdiskutieren“ wollte, was man überhaupt will. Die einen wollten lieber Musik machen, freie Session-Musik, die anderen Improvisationstheater wieder andere suchten eine „Selbsterfahrungsgruppe“. Mann und Frau traf sich – am Anfang fast ein duzend Leute - in der großen Altbau-Wohnung eines Mainzer Grafik-Professors in der Oranienstraße und parlierte ergebnislos bis tief in die Nacht. James ging das alles nicht schnell genug. Er hatte schon sein Konzept im Kopf: Ein Kleinkunst-Kellertheater nach dem Vorbild des Mainzer Unterhauses. Deren Betreiber kannte er persönlich. Zeitgleich schaute er sich bereits nach geeigneten Räumlichkeiten um und stieß dabei auf einen großen, tiefen Keller in der Blücherstraße. Eine Lokalität, die jedoch bald verworfen wurde. Der Ausbau, sprich Renovierung hätte viel zu lange gedauert. Außerdem fehlten Sanitäre Anlagen.      

FREILICHTBÜHNE IM HINTERHOF VOM DOMIZIL

Einen geeigneten Ort für die Kleinkunstbühne fand James schon bald in dem erst kürzlich eröffneten Musik-Szenelokal „Domizil“ in der Moritzstraße, nach dem Jazzhaus und dem legendären Bumerang Mitte der 70ziger die wichtigste Lokalität des intellektuellen Nachtlebens. An der Stirnwand über dem Eingang prangten stilisierte Eulen. Ein Zeichen, dass hier kluge Köpfe ein und ausgingen.  Hier gaben sich vor allem Folkmusiker, Liedermacher und Bluesmusiker die Klinke in die Hand. Der im Herbst 2023 verstorbene Frontman der Crackers Loti Pohl, nahm hier 1974 sein Debüt-Album auf. Auch der früh verstorbene Fernsehsprecher Martin Schäfer, der mit Loti in einer A-Cappella-Band sang, war ein häufiger Gast in der Moritzstraße. Musik-Kleinkunst und Theater-Kleinkunst im Szenekneipen-Umfeld. Ein Konzept, dass aufgehen könnte, dachte sich James. Als dieser kühne, aber durchaus zu realisierende Plan feststand, war von den Theaterunterstützern der ersten Stunde nur noch einer übrig geblieben, die anderen hatten sich längst anderen Projekten zugewendet. Dieser eine war jedoch bereit bei konkreten Bühnenstücken eine tragende Rolle zu übernehmen. Zum Beispiel den „Lehrer“ im JA UND NEINSAGER von Bertold Brecht.

Inzwischen hatten sich auch drei weitere Akteure gefunden – darunter eine ehemalige Profischauspielerin – die sich auf die Bretter wagten, von denen man sagt, dass sie für manche die Welt bedeuten. Doch diese „Bretter“ mussten buchstäblich erst mal gezimmert werden. In diesem Punkt konnte James auf seine Bühnenbildner-Erfahrung vertrauen. Es klingt unglaublich. Im Handumdrehen baute James teilweise aus dem Holzgerümpel, das überall herumstand, mit tatkräftiger Unterstützung seiner Akteure im Hinterhof des Domizils eine richtige Freilichtbühne und errichtete anschließend in einem Nebenraum des Lokals noch ein Zimmertheater, verlegte Teppichboden usw. Parallel büffelten die Allround-Akteure fleißig ihren Bertold-Brecht-Text. Das Wiesbadener „Forum-Theater“ war geboren. Eine Sturzgeburt…         

MIT PINK FLOYD IN THE DARK SIDE OF DOMIZIL

An einem lauen Mai oder Juni-Abend war es dann bereits so weit. Unter den sphärisch-psychodelischen Klängen von Pink Floyds „Dark Side oft he Moon“ erhob sich im Scheinwerferkegel der Lehrer, bekleidet mit einem völlig aus der Zeit gefallenen DDR-Straßenanzug und sprach langsam jede Silbe betonend in den dunklen gut besuchten Zuschauer-Hinterhof: „Ich bin der Lehrer. Ich habe eine Schule in der Stadt und eine Schülerin deren Vater tot ist.“ Auch die anderen Schauspieler gaben diesem eher eintönigen Brechtlehrstück, besser gesagt „Brechtbelehrungsstück“ eine düstere, dichte Atmosphäre, die mit der Enge des Hinterhofes gut korrespondierte. Die Botschaft - nicht alles, was man von oben verordnet bekommt, in Untertanenmanier auszuführen - bekommt heute, 50 Jahre später, angesichts von Denunziations-Plattformen, selbsternannten Anzeigenmeistern und Blockwarten einen bitteren Beigeschmack. Dokumentarisch festgehalten wurden die Aufführungen von Klaus Koschwitz, deren meisterhafte Schwarzweiß-Fotografien schon vor 50 Jahren wie edle Daguerreotypien aussahen. Unter den Zuschauern befand sich übrigens ein angehender österreichischer Schauspieler, der später durch etliche Fernsehrollen sehr bekannt wurde.                    

BELEHRUNGS-FILM UND RAUSWURF

Der Anfangserfolg war groß. Die Aufführungen waren ausverkauft. Auch das Zimmertheater wurde angenommen. Schließlich ging man sogar auf Tournee. Eine Aufführung fand in der Aula einer Schule in Idar-Oberstein statt. Das Ende kam schnell, aber nicht unerwartet. James hatte einen jungen Mann in sein Team aufgenommen und ihm die Rolle des „Regieassistenten“ zuerkannt, obwohl er überhaupt keine Ahnung vom Theater hatte. Der mischte sich immer mehr ein, was die Atmosphäre zunehmend vergiftete. Das endgültige Ende kam, als James ohne Absprache die Einnahmen der Aufführungen für die Veranstaltung eines Filmabends verwendete. Auf dem Programm stand „Die Brücke“, ein Streifen, den jeder Schüler der damaligen Zeit als Pflichtbesuch aufs Auge gedrückt bekam und daher schon kannte. Für die meisten war das Thema nach unzähligen Diskussionen mit den Vätern der 3. Reich-Generation ziemlich durch. Niemand brauchte eine Belehrung. Die Zuschauerbänke blieben leer.  Da riss auch beim letzten der Geduldsfaden. Hinzu kam, ein Vorfall, der dazu führte, dass der Wirt des Domizils nicht mehr bereit war die Räumlichkeiten dem Forum-Theater zur Verfügung zu stellen.  

Hier trennten sich die Wege. James hat noch länger als ein Jahrzehnt unter dem gleichen Namen „Forum-Theater“ in einer städtischen Einrichtung am Platz der deutschen Einheit eine Art Jugendtheater betrieben. Die schönen Koschwitz-Bilder, die wie durch ein Wunder nicht vergilbten oder verblasten hingen noch Jahrzehnte in den großen Schaufenstern des bereits ungenutzten Gebäudekomplexes am Platz der Deutschen Einheit. Da war James längst verstorben.     

EPILOG

Hier ist meine Zeitreise mal wieder zu Ende. 50 Jahre später frage ich mich: Warum habe ich James damals bis zuletzt unterstützt? Eine Antwort könnte sein, dass ich James, den konsequenten vom Leben gebeutelten Bohemien und Pionier unbewusst mit meinem nicht wesentlich älteren sehr kleinbürgerlichen erfolgreichen Vater verglich. Ein Kontrast, der schärfer nicht sein konnte: James gehörte zu den ersten, die sich offen zu ihrer Bisexualität bekannten und hatte sich deswegen noch Anfang der 70ziger eine Menge Ärger eingehandelt. Mein Vater war durchweg homophob. James hatte als Leutnant einer berittenen Maschinengewehrschützen- Einheit an der Ostfront im Dauerfeuer den zweiten Weltkrieg in seiner ganzen Brutalität kennengelernt und nach 1945 dem ganzen unseligen Spuk der NS-Ideologie aus seinem Leben verbannt und gegen Werte wie Freiheit und Selbstbestimmungsrecht eingetauscht. Für meinen Vater waren sogar Bärte und lange Haare ein Greul. Wie er sogar in einem Büchlein der Öffentlichkeit mitteilte. Über seine Kinder-Erziehungsmethoden schweige ich mich Höflichkeitshalber aus.  

Warum ich in James vorübergehend einen väterlichen Freund fand, ist damit hinreichend beantwortet. Es gibt Menschen, den werden alle Türen geöffnet. James blieben viele Türen verschlossen. Pioniere haben selten das Glück, das ihr Idealismus belohnt wird. In den 80zigern und 90zigern schossen Kleinkunsttheater und Bühnen wie Pilze aus dem Boden. Da war James Chladek bereits vergessen.           

#Forum-Theater #James Chladek #Wiesbaden #Hommage #Pionier #Kleinkunst-Theater #Domizil #Moritzstraße #Wiesbaden 1974 #Der jasager und der neinsager #bertold brecht #Lehrer #Idealismus

[bestmusicalworldcup]

#best musical world cup #best musical #broadway #musical theater #musical theatre #musicals #theatre #theater #tony awards #hamilton musical #hamilton #fiddler on the roof #a funny thing happened on the way to the forum #nine musical #lin manuel miranda #stephen sondheim #sondheim #polls

[drchipmunk]

Thinking about how A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum begins “Tragedy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight!” and Hadestown begins “It’s a Sad Song, it’s a Tragedy.”

Would be funny to do a run of both shows on alternate nights. Hermes one night, Pseudolus the next.

#hadestown #a funny thing happened on the way to the forum #musicals #musical theater

[sunnunderthesun]

"We organized the very last show in 2023..."

Whether to address societal issues or personal traumas of people, forum theatre coupled with psychodrama have been used by NGOs in a number of tormented African nations.

The Brazilian theatre practitioner, Augusto Boal, is known as the creator of forum theatre – an interactive form of theatre in which the audience becomes “spect-actors” when they intervene and change the course of the play. Psychodrama occurs as the actors portray their real-life struggles and explore their anguishes. Spreading messages of awareness and resilience through masquerade and embryonic dramas has been around in Africa since times immemorial. But Boal’s method of forum theatre is now being applied in an effort to unite Africans in regions of tension.

In the book Art and Conscientization (2015), Claus Schrowange writes about his experiences of developing and organising plays with groups in Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo “for the promotion of peace, human rights, and sustainable development”.

According to him, “The ideal Forum Theatre performance is indoor with 20 to 100 spectators, in a hall of the size of one to three classrooms. The larger the audience, the less intense the program. ... Actors should not use microphones, not even during open air performances. Microphones destroy the natural voice which is necessary to project emotions to the audience. ... Our actors only wear uniform T-shirts, most of the time in black and white, with black trousers or skirt. They remove wristwatches, necklaces, earrings and any other item that attracts unnecessary attention. In order to open the senses and energy flow and make better use of their body, they always perform barefoot. ... The play is the heart of the activity. Our goal is to leave the audience astonished, inspired, confused, and enlightened at the same time. We motivate them to become active in their daily lives and within their limited means and powers, to act against all kinds of injustice, violence and Human Rights abuses. ... The actors don’t need to be experts in theatre, but they have to be open to discover themselves and share their real emotions on stage. Actors should act in the language they are using in their own daily life. When it is not possible, more emphasis should be given on the non-verbal expression and the verbal part should be reduced to a minimum.”

However, theatrical attempts to unite different African communities, especially those engaged in decades-long violence against each other, aren't easily welcomed. In areas prone to violence between militant groups and government forces, many adults and children end up becoming soldiers to survive in the absence of employment or education opportunities. The children get drugged and the women and girls are raped by armed men. The forcibly-displaced surviving civilians have deep emotional scars and distrust for NGOs.

“Africa independence was a masquerade, and most of the scourges that devastate this region are consequences of government irresponsibility, and the lack of some politicians’ awareness. They promulgate laws and change them, but they don’t ensure that the entire population has understood them: the first victims of this situation are not enlightened. This is the environment in which our Theatre of the Oppressed group is working,” writes Eliezer Kasereka who, along with his friend, once violently protested against plays organised by Schrowange in Kiwanja because his Theatre of the Oppressed mixed Rwandans and Congolese when there were allegations that Rwanda supported the rebel groups operating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. But Schrowange and his group were able to influence Kasereka into experiencing “the power that Theatre of the Oppressed has to change minds and heal hearts”.

Since the beginning of 2016, Joseph Tsongo, the founder and CEO of Amani-Institute ASBL, and his friend Eliezer Kasereka, supported by the NGO APRED-RGL, began to use “participatory forum theater in psychodrama style” to help the child soldiers, who had managed to escape from the deadly clutches of armed groups, reintegrate into the society that feared them. They used to host theatre workshops at least once a week in the north-eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Last month, we contacted Mr. Tsongo to learn when the last forum theater was held by him, considering the present crisis in the country. On April 2nd, 2024, he said, ...we organized the very last show in 2023 due to the deteriorating security situation in the region, as well as due to a lack of necessary resources. (His original reply in French: En effet, nous avions organisé le tout dernier spectacle en 2023 et cela en raison de la détérioration de la situation sécuritaire dans la région mais aussi par manque de moyens nécessaires.)

In this regard, worthy of mention is Milo Rau’s solution-driven political theatre, The Congo Tribunal, involving the “victims, perpetrators, witnesses and analysts of the Congo War in Bukavu/Eastern Congo”. It explores the war in Congo – triggered by the West-sponsored Rwandan Genocide (1994) and fuelled by the powerful capitalists’ greed for the country’s natural resources necessary to run the technology of the 21st century – that has claimed the lives of over six million Congolese people. Based on The Congo Tribunal, Rau’s opera called Justice is “the first lyric work on the crimes of transnational companies ever” developed with the victims of the Glencore copper mine accident at Kabwe, aiming to raise funds for them. Justice will be taking the audience "to the heart of the Congolese mining industry", at Tangente St. Pölten Festival in Austria on 30th April, 2024.

However, the Congolese people, struggling with the harsh realities of civil wars and continuous exploitations by the economically powerful nations, need much more international attention than they are receiving now.

#talk #finds #free congo #free drc #dr congo #eyes on congo #congo genocide #save congo #democratic republic of the congo #drc #theatre #musical theater #forum roleplay #Forum theatre

[cashthecomposer]

Don't forget to reblog so that we can get a decent sample size!

I'll be posting one day polls every day, such that each bracket begins when the last one ends. Follow the tag #Sondheim Showdown to stay up to date with each poll.

The seed order has been completely randomized. The brackets are as follows:

Link to the previous results

#musical theatre #musical theater #musical #musicals #poll #polls #stephen sondheim #sondheim #Sondheim Showdown #a funny thing happened on the way to the forum #afthotwttf #Saturday night #Saturday night musical #Broadway #theatre #theater

[solsthiems]

i feel like anakin skywalker/darth vader was a tumblr sexyman before tumblr sexymen were really a Thing

#idk where i read it but i remember seeing a super early internet forum screenshot or something where a some women [assuming] were talking #about how theyd seen the original movies in theaters as teenagers and found vader really attractive despite being like. in a robot suit #so #star wars #darth vader #anakin skywalker #dean speaks

[ghoul-haunted]

me: huh. maybe using the 'I want to die of the same fever as you,' line with drusus and germanicus is a bit much considering the romantic context of the text

caliugla: actually augustus and julia had an affair and I'm not related to agrippa at all

me: I See I Was Concerned About Nothing

#can't believe none of the julio-claudians did cannibalism. theyre already so claustrophobic with their family tree #how did they not literally eat someone at some point. you know?? like. they're a bunch of fucking theater kids COME ON #cut off someone's leg and eat it in the forum while dressed up as venus #what is the POINT of the EXCESS if you arent going to do the top shelf transgressions of the ancient world

[mercuryal]

One of Milwaukee’s best music venues, Cactus Club, was contacted by Live Nation, and as club owner Kelsey Kaufmann explains in this tiktok- harassed her about Milwaukee’s Deer District double venue complex planned to begin building in 2023, a project that she vocally does not support.

A rep from Live Nation, the $18+BIL company who also bought up a large portion of Madison’s music venues in 2018, and is, as you should remember, also the same company at the center of the Astroworld tragedy that killed 10- called Kelsey and became antagonistic when she was critical of the proposed double venue project across from one of Milwaukee’s other historic venues, Turner Hall.

Despite a growing movement against the project other venues formed a group called Save MKE’s Music Scene, which made a petition from Concerned Downtown Neighbors, and has nearly 10k signatures, the Milwaukee Common Council last week on October 25 voted to recommend zoning, so this project is all but inevitable- and is slated to open in early 2024. The Council will likely go forward with full approval tomorrow, November 1.

Besides building a new complex FPC Live/Live Nation/Ticketmaster are attempting to attain through hostile tactics a monopoly of Milwaukee’s music scene, as it did in Madison, and will continue here the company’s long history of labor violations, wage theft, and sheer incompetence culminating is dangerously unsafe environments that put their workers and audience lives at risk.

#Milwaukee #MKE #Cactus Club #Live Nation #FPC Live #Frank Productions #Deer District #414 #music venue #Fiserv Forum #labor rights #worker’s rights #union labor #union strong #Turner Hall #Pabst Theater Group #Downtown Milwaukee #The Rave #Eagle’s Club #Riverside Theater #Pabst Theater #Miller High Life Theatre #BMO Harris Pavillion #Shank Hall #live music #service industry #hospitality industry #Turner Hall Ballroom #The Backroom @ Colectivo #Ticket Master

[bspoquemagazine]

Diese woche im Hau: Love is a Verb.

Liebes Publikum, was wäre, wenn das Lieben ein allgemeines Wohlwollen gegenüber anderen Menschen, Lebewesen, dem Planeten und sich selbst beschreiben würde, sowie die Bereitschaft, gemeinsam mit ihnen zu wachsen? Mit dem Festival “Love is a Verb”, das noch bis Sonntag läuft, denken wir das Lieben durchlässig und in der Dynamik des Tuns. Denn dem Lieben als Handlung wohnt politische Kraft…

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#Ali Chahrours #Alpha Ball #Being Able to Act for Yourself #Berit Stumpf #Daniel Cremer #Diane Esnault #Elisabeth von Samsonow #Emilia Roig #Erica Fischer #Eva von Redecker #Film #Hannah Schurian #Hau Hebbel am Ufer #Hau1 Theater Hebbel am Ufer #hau2 #i saw you called? #Isabel Lewis #Ivo Dimchev #Jamila Juicy couture #Kiki Lounge Alliance Forum #Lia Becker #Liebesbriefarchiv Koblenz #magazine #Mami Magia Marciano #melanie bonajo #Melissa Ianniello #Movie #Naya de Souza aka Lux Venérea #Sarah Thom #Sarah Vanhee

[bauerntanz]

für Buntes, gegen Rechts

Nach der #NieWiederIstJetzt-Großdemonstration am letzten Samstag in #Lingen engagiert sich die Rehion weiter für Buntes und gegen rechts. Nach #Meppen gestern Abend, folgen #Nordhorn, erneut #Lingen und #Rheine.

Nach der beeindruckenden “Nie wieder ist jetzt!”-Großdemonstration am vergangenen Samstag in Lingen engagiert sich die Region weiter für Buntes und gegen Rechts und damit gegen die bekannt gewordenen Vertreibungs- und Deportationspläne der deutschen Rechten. Knapp 5.000 Menschen auf dem Marktplatz in Meppen demonstrierten gestern Abend gegen Rechts (Foto); die Polizei zählte 4.000…

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#Angelika Kordfelder #Auschwitz-Birkenau #Demokratie #Forum Juden Christen Altkreis Lingen eV #KiJuPa #Massendeportation #Meppen #Nordhorn #Ralf Krüger #Recherchenetzwerk Correctiv #Rechtsextremismus #Rheine #Shoah #Stadtjugendring #Theater an der Willhelmshöhe

[penguicorns-are-cool]

I have a theater appreciation elective and the teacher just finished showing us his high school production of "something funny happened on the way to the forum" where he played Hysterium. It was great and also hilarious.

#something funny happened on the way to the forum #hysterium #school play #theater kid #theater appreciation

[bestmusicalworldcup]

#best musical world cup #2024 best musical world cup #musicals #broadway #musical theater #musical theatre #theater #theatre #polls #you're a good man charlie brown #a funny thing happened on the way to the forum

[cleolinda]

Since “wildly vehement disagreements” are on my mind, here is the most brutal forum fight I ever witnessed, and I will try to present it with as little judgment as possible:

It was Fametracker, maybe 2003 or so. A discussion came up somehow: what do you do with your trash after seeing a movie in the theater? You know, popcorn buckets, candy boxes, soda cups, used napkins?

Two sides emerged, and each side felt that they were obviously, unquestionably, self-evidently right:

1) You leave your trash in your seat because they pay employees to pick it up for you

2) You throw away your own trash because you are capable of doing so (if you are)

That was it. I have NEVER seen such vitriol. The entire userbase got involved and people probably got banned over it. There seemed to be some kind of regional breakdown; whichever side you argued for, it was something that EVERYONE around you did, you had grown up in the obvious rightness of doing it, and it was OFFENSIVE to suggest doing otherwise. I am sure you are staring at this going, “You… you obviously [XYZ]?” However certain you feel about that, there were people on that forum (and maybe even here!) who were exactly as certain of the opposite.

#polls

[murdrdocs]

FORMIDABLE COOL. ethan landry

about. blinded by your attraction and romanticization of college, you don't realize that ethan landry isn't who he says he is until it's too late

includes. DARK CONTENT 18+ fem! reader, mean!ethan, ghostface!ethan, p n v, manipulation (!!),, choking/breath play

wc: 1.4k+

→ kinktober masterlist

Out of everyone else in the friend group, it’s easiest for Ethan to get close to you. 

Unsuspecting you, wide eyes and hopeful glances at anyone who looks your way, the desperation to live out your ‘college fantasy’ leaking from every single pore in your body. The stench of your sheer desire pulls him in, it urges Ethan to switch from that shy and dorky facade he’s put up around Chad and his friends to a more confident flair, the ego he uses while he’s behind screens on forums online. 

It’s frighteningly easy to get you to give in. All he has to do is smile and look at you twice, and suddenly you’re spreading your legs for him in a movie theater, some new film you originally seemed thrilled to see entering the third act without either of you knowing any of the key plot points. 

It’s after the first time that you cum on his fingers that you’re infected. His own personal love fool. 

Truthfully, after you meet him for the first time, taking part in an insufferable ice breaker in a group of five other people, your name has inched its way up the Bailey dead pool, sitting pretty right below the other five of the friend group Ethan is steadily infiltrating. 

You have the urge to eat, breathe and sleep Ethan Landry, your awe filled eyes glazing over any possible red flags in his behavior. You’re too busy forcing yourself into his lap and curling your hands into his hair to realize that he’s been blowing you off more often recently. You’re too busy bouncing yourself on his cock to notice the bruises he has along his back and shoulders, inflicted from someone other than you. You’re too busy grinding your face up into his mouth to take in his constant lies, times, dates, and actions that don’t line up well enough. 

It takes you impossibly long to even start to notice his act, to start to take in the inconsistencies of his character depending on who you’re around. It’s Mindy who brings it to your attention first, coming to you as a caring friend, voice softer and rash opinions heavily watered down as she approaches you like she would a wounded animal. And when you flip out on her, denial heavy on your tongue which seems drier than usual, she only smiles at you sadly and watches as you run back to Ethan, another lie inevitably fed into your welcoming ears. 

It all comes to a head on your floor. 

Worn down hardwood creaks with each shuffle. The material is rough against your bare legs. The playlist you had going has ended, leaving nothing but the soft breaths from you and Ethan to fill the silence of the bedroom. 

Your questions are spoken into the air, answered by Ethan like he’s your savior. Like he can control you. And he can. 

He has. 

His hand around your neck, his cock entering your walls over and over, the pace steady and slow, each thrust harder than the last, sending you up the wood, the rough scratch of it against your back. The words he has spoken to you – his confession – reverberate through your body, bouncing around your mind all the way down to your lungs which scream for the need of constant airflow. 

Sensing your state, his hand loosens just enough to allow air in, the rough palm still circling around your neck as he refuses to let you go completely. You fear he’ll never let you go. But even more, you fear that you don’t want him to.

You don’t realize it, but hot tears are sliding down your cheeks at this point. It’s not until he points them out that you start feeling the emotions connected to them, shame and embarrassment and guilt planting itself in your brain, manifesting throughout your body. 

“Why’re you crying, sweetheart?” His voice wobbles just enough to show you that he’s affected, too, but definitely not in the same way. He has a smile on his face, borderline villainous, opposite from the sweet and charming smile you’re used to seeing from him. Sweat beads above his eyebrow, a testament to the chase he’d led you on, followed by the slow fucking he’s been giving you for God knows how long. 

Your eyes pinch shut, a pitiful attempt to dry your tears up without the use of your hands, rendered useless and bound between your bodies. It doesn't work well, and you flinch when you feel a drop of Ethan’s sweat land on your cheek, mixing with your self-created fluid. 

You’d assumed the question was rhetorical, a taunt to remind you of your inferior status in this fucked up relationship. It’s not until he hums questioningly that you realize you’re expected to respond. 

Your eyes pinch together tighter and you shake your head, only making Ethan chuckle. 

“No? You don’t know why you’re crying?” Nothing from you. You refuse to give him more, especially when you’re already letting him abuse your cunt. Because that’s what you’re doing. 

You let him lay you back. You let him peel your legs open. You lifted your hips and moaned approvingly when he slid your panties off and inserted two fingers into your entrance. 

“Open your eyes. Look at me.” The authoritative tone is more attractive than it should’ve been, and it has you instantly doing as told, eyes opening to look into those same dark brown ones you used to love so much. 

“Why’re you crying, baby?” he asks you again. “You knew it – this – was all an act, didn’t you?” 

And when you think back, you think you did know. You deluded yourself enough to think that this was sincere, genuine, your college dream. The thought heats up your neck, it stirs something unpleasant in your chest, it has you letting out a desperate cry that quickly slips into a pleading moan. 

His hand squeezes at the sides of your throat, thumb sticking under your jaw to lift your head. “Answer me.” 

Your nod suffices as an answer, especially when more tears slide down your already blotchy cheeks. His grin grows, spreading to either side of his face, reminiscent of a cheshire cat. 

Satisfied with what you’ve given him, he plants a kiss at the center of your forehead, and you curse yourself for melting into it. It’s the last act of physical kindness he gives it, because he’s instantly gripping your hips, hiking your legs up around his waist, and fucking you with no mercy. 

You cum with the sound of Ethan’s balls slapping against your skin, mixed in an almost beautiful harmony with your quiet sobs and the unabashed squelching of your cunt around his cock, a cacophonous edge to the sounds that perfectly represents your relationship with Ethan himself.

#🕸️ 𝐌𝐔𝐑𝐃𝐑𝐓𝐎𝐁𝐑 #ethantobr! #ethan landry x reader #ethan landry x you #ethan landry smut

[akm87]

A Teaser/Trailer for my short "Mon Papi à Moi" selected for a few festivals and the Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, that I'm so happy to attend for the first time soon (27-30 Jan)

SCREENINGS AND OFFICIAL SELECTIONS/// PROJECTIONS ET SELECTIONS OFFICIELLES

TAAFI - Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (Live & Online Tickets) Fri, Feb 17th ///9:00PM - 10:22PM

Festival Côté Courts de Cormeilles en Parisis (14ème édition ) vendredi 17 février 2023 à 20h30 théâtre du Cormier à Cormeilles en Parisis Séance suivie d'un échange avec les réalisateurs

FESPACO - Le Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Salle du Conseil Burkinabè des Chargeurs (CBC) Mardi 28 février /18h30 - 20h30

DCIFF -The DC Independent Film Forum (Washington DC, USA) Location: Landmark's E Street Cinema Times: Saturday, March 4th - 3:15pm

Mammoth Film Festival™ (Mammoth Lakes, CA) MC- Theater #2 437 Old Mammoth Rd, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 March 3, 2023, 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST

Corti da Sogni-International Short Film Festival (Ravenna, Italy) from 18th April to 22th April 2023

AniMate 2023 - World Shorts Films Collection (Australia)

Sat., 6 May 2023, 5:15 pm – 7:15 pm AEST Location: Pulse Life Club 9 The Crescent Wentworth Point, NSW 2127 Australia

[grindsta]

GAME FEATURES

THIS IS A REALLY LONG POST

There are SO MANY features in The Sims 3 that I keep learning more and more each day, so I decided to start keeping track of all of them. Some of these I've known myself, but most of them come from Reddit and TS Forum.

I'll keep on updating everytime I find new things.

Features are under the cut!

Gameplay

Careers/University/Skills

You can sign autographs as a rock star by clicking on a random building (bookstore, theater, stadium, etc.) and make cash. You can only do it once a week and have them perform the action yourself (similar to the vaccination event you do as a doctor).

If you send a Sim to college, you can get a financial aid grant every 24 hours. Just click on the administration building and select “apply for financial aid”. The better your grades, the more money you’ll get.

Traveling to the past with ambition’s time machine, random events will change your household’s present. (Change careers or add family members).

Sims who reach the highest criminal career level glow red. This is bad for relationships with Sims with Good, Friendly, and Family Oriented traits.  Having maxed out the Charisma skill will mostly prevent it, or even throw “Jar of Friendship” potion at them. Although it is good for relationships with Sims with Evil and Insane traits.

When some rectangles of one (or more) skill is highlighted, it’s because it’s the requirement for the Sim job.

If you protest about low wages, you have the possibility of increasing the wages of everyone.

Parent Sims can have a wish for their kids to have specific careers.

You will get gifts for working on your job for 5 years.

 Singer Sims could sell their albums to other Sims.

 If you click on your Sim work building when they’re at work, you can demand a raise. but if their mood is bad or their relationship with their boss is bad, this can get them fired. You can also go out with your boss and ask for a promotion.

Sims can die while you’re lifeguarding.

Your Sim can get caught if they call in fake sick.

Sims in the medical career can follow up with patients by calling them.

You can fry beetles if you are an evil private investigator (if you have a magnifying glass).

Your Sim can be an evil politician.

Ghost hunters can “appease ghosts” at the graveyard.

Lifeguard and firefighter sims can “demonstrate CPR” on another Sim as a romantic action.

You can select what type of sandcastle to build if you have a high enough skill.

Your Sim can get tattooed and tattoo other Sims. It’s a hidden skill that, if low, tattoos will look like child drawings. You can also get the tattoo removed.

Maids

Some maids actually don’t do their work, you have to fire them so a new one comes up, and is, hopefully, better.

Most Maids will have at least neat and/or perfectionists, brave and flirty, or charismatic traits. Some Maids are also Kleptomaniacs. Exceptions to this are: Delicia Hoover from Bridgeport and Simon Swift from Barnacle Bay, they are Slobs, which means they will never actually clean your House.

Maids will quit if they see Bonehilda in your house.

Toddler/Child/Teen

Kids will gain skills if someone reads them skill books to sleep.

When a witch sim does their homework they accidentally get it done all at once by magic. They grab the blue notebook, but the green bar completes itself immediately and they look confused for a second. In case they fail to do homework by magic, their whole body gets burnt. 

When children and teens are asleep, you can click on them to select a dream, and then they’ll wake up with a moodlet related to it. While the moodlet is active, you can get a special moodlet if their dream comes true. While still sleeping, the game will notify if the dream turned into a nightmare and they will get a negative moodlet.

Toddlers and Kids can build hidden skills with certain toys.

You can put kids in time out and they will stand in a corner crying.

Toys can go on the crib.

Babies can get diaper rash if using the changing station from The Sims 3 Store.

If you take a child of the bouncer, they get bratty and mad.

Children can hold a bear while talking to an adult.

Kids can read the newspapers to see what baked goods sell better.

When you get robbed children can get the lifetime wish to become a cop or a thief. They can also want to become a doctor after seeing someone dying or getting a new sibling, become a musician after seeing someone jam, become a creature robot cross-breeder after seeing a ghost. become a firefighter after a house fire, become a magician after seeing a sim use their magic, become a singer while singing with their imaginary friend.

Child witch Sims have stabilizers on their brooms.

Kids can get sick from prison food.

Your Sim can chat with toddlers through their Teddy Bears.

Parents can play with their toddlers in the ocean.

Children inherit the effects of some Genie Wishes.

Your Sim can get detention if they slack off in school.

You can create custom and random baby DNA at the hospital.

Children can fight teens. 

Parents will have a higher friendship level with their baby with an at home birth than a hospital birth.

Traits

Inappropriate sims can take sponge baths from a sink.

Your Sim can have a hidden trait called “advanced art training” earned by completing the “Skilled Painting” opportunity acquired through working in the art appraiser career. Sims with this trait can paint paintings of any skill level (0 to 9), instead of paintings appropriate only to their painting skill level.

Bookworm sims can join the book club by computer and get mailed books.

Unlucky Sims can’t die. But they can die of transmutation and leave a golden statue.

Party Animals Sims can dance on top of the counter.

Mermaids with the Evil trait can spawn sharks.

Sims with the Green Thumb Trait can Revive Dead Plants.

Brave Sims can ask for a raise.

Frugal Sims will cut coupons from the newspaper.

Daredevil Sims can “play with fire”, and will stick their hands in the fire and pull them back out until their fun motive is full.

If your Sim has the hydrophobic trait they cannot Woohoo or Try for Baby in the shower.

Being in Bot mode (Bot fan trait) will keep your sim from aging.

Sims with the daredevil trait can eat bugs.

Sims who have the childish trait have the option to read a toddler’s book like any other. Others will get the message “Sim can only read this book to a toddler.”

The Good trait Sims could accuse of being meanspirited.

Sims with the Good trait can donate to charity.

Sims with the “Never Nude” trait shower in their bathing clothes.

Moodlets

If you click on a negative need moodlet, the game will have the sim do the activity to fill that need.

If you gift your child Sims too many times in a row, they get a “spoiled” moodlet.

The creepy magical gnome (the one that kinda looks like a devil) will sometimes spawn next to your Sims bed at night with glowing red eyes. Your Sims can get a creeped out moodlet.

Buy a baby, toddler, or child a teddy bear because it gives them a special moodlet when they sleep while having it in their inventory.

You get a moodlet when you have a blog and something from the blog’s theme happens in your Sims real life.

The “rejuvenated” and “completely at ease” moodlet prevents the horrified noodlet from exploring the catacombs.

Sims can make snow angels face down, and when they do, they get the frosty face moodlet.

Mourning over the dead Sim’s gravestone would reduce the negative effect of “Mourning” moodlet.

If you send too many secret admirers texts to the wrong Sim, they will receive a negative “being stalked” moodlet.

You get a moodlet saying “Brrrr! This is cold!” when your Sim sits on ice furniture.

When swimming in the snow you will get a moodlet saying “Polar Bear Club”.

Romance/Woohoo

You can woohoo or make out behind the scenes at the theater hall if you have two romantically involved Sims visit at the same time. It works for any rabbit hole you can visit (town hall, military base, science lab…).

Using the Time Machine to Try for a Baby in the past will result in a biological teen showing up later that day.

Try Online Dating on the computer.

If your Sim is dating someone and that someone is dating someone else, you can tell them they are cheating.

Sims gets a fertility boost after getting a romantic massage.

Sims can get kicked out of theaters for woohooing.

You can give a cinnamon kiss when you flavored your food with it.

If a Sim marries a plumbot the creator of said plumbot officially becomes their parent-in-law.

If your Sim feels betrayed from an unfaithful marriage they can rebound kiss.

Money

To make money, go to the science skill tree until you have enough skill to take samples from gems, and then clone them using the science station.

Adopt a bunch of dogs or have a werewolf Sim and make them hunt.

Go through the trash of wealthy households.

Experiment on bugs until you get a plasma bug then sample and clone it. A cat with high-level Hunting skills will also catch them occasionally.

Master the Martial Arts skill and break space rocks on the board breaker and get lots of valuable gems.

Paintings appreciate in value over time and are the best sold when the Sim dies.

Miner holes are treasure chests. You can also make several holes into a cave system. 

If you have a philosopher’s stone, you can turn pretty much anything into gold. You run the risk of your sim turning into gold and therefore dying. However, if you have a death flower in your inventory you don’t die and you get to keep the gold statue of your sim - making tones of money because of it.

Pets

If you’re cooking food and have a pet, you can throw scraps to them that they will eat.

You can have a rock as a pet.

You can breed fish.

If a pet bowl is outside, any other animal can eat from it.

Gnomes can encourage and discourage cats and dogs on your lot.

Your Sim can pet their dog while they are lying on the couch.

Horses will eat and destroy the newspaper.

When pet birds die, their bodies don’t disappear, they lay there until cleaned up.

Two small dogs can eat from the automatic feeder at once.

Pets can eat garden plants.

Dogs can howl and cats can meow along with instruments.

Your Sim can drop a fish from your inventory onto the ground and their cat can eat it.

If your Sim dog uses the guard-the-house interaction, it will actually bark at any strays that happen to come by your door.

Foals will get a negative moodlet if their mother isn’t around. However, if a Sim gives lots of love and feeds it when it’s hungry, in a couple of days the moodlet changes to a positive one saying that it’s not missing the mother anymore because of all the care you provided

Death

There are only two graveyards in the game with fully unique and custom graves, and no generic ones. They are the graveyards of Sunset Valley and Riverview. Appaloosa Plains is unique in that it has a pet graveyard.

Burning, electrocution, and starvation are by far the most common causes of death among the preexisting graves, with old age being surprisingly common. 

If you make a ghost Sim as a playable Sim and have them paint, all their paintings will get the Simoleon bonus to value from the painter being dead.

Your pets can save your Sim from death.

You can have funerals when a Sim from your household dies.

Small tombstone: Dies before 75,000 lifetime happiness points. Medium tombstone: Dies between 75,000 and 149,000 lifetime happiness points. Large tombstone: Dies at 150,000 and above lifetime happiness points.

Sims Graves have different emblems on them depicting how they died; flames, hands reaching out of water, shark jaws, etc. 

Expansions

You can discover islands on Island Paradiso.

Isla Paradiso is full of hidden chests on secret islands.

Sunlight charm spell changes a wolf to their human form.

Some Supernatural portraits & paintings (marked with purple border in Build Buy) change during a Full Moon.

Vampires can raid the hospital and the grocery store. 

Misc

When out in the ocean, the Kraken can appear. It can attack and sink your Sims small houseboat. It can spawn into Sunset Valley & Lucky Palms if you go out to the furthest point of the water.

If you have a microphone from university life in your inventory, your Sim can greet other Sims by shouting in their face.

You can plant cheese and eggs.

You can upgrade umbrellas.

You can store elixirs in the fridge.

You can waterski.

Sims can mess up an alchemy spell and become a toad.

Birthday cakes can catch on fire.

There are types of objects that aren’t in the catalog that you can make in the toy machine.

If your sims mess up the weather stone, it can rain flowers.

You can open a tab at a bar and if you can’t pay it, they will add it to your bills.

Aliens can steal space rocks from the science lab.

If you steal someone’s clothes after skinny dipping, they’re too mortified to go again.

If your sims are on fire, they can put themselves out in a shower or bathtub. They also put themselves out in dive wells from World Adventures and if you have a shower in a can.

You can upload your Sim sketches and paintings to the digital frames.

Sims can send thank you notes after receiving wedding gifts.

You can place snack bowls on island countertops.

You can announce aptitude test results to other sims.

Not all adult sims get a Midlife Crisis and there are variables involved.

You can go to therapy during a midlife crisis.

Sims who have body hair can get it waxed.

If you place a professional bar at a gym, with a mixologist, they can make protein shakes for your sims and a weird wheat grass-type drinks, graveyards have the tombstone topper and others. The library has basic drinks but one is “alien brain” and is a skill drink and stacks on the library moodlet and the supernatural bonus, so reading skill books takes way less time. 

Sim can free criminals from jail with the mining tool.

Celebrities can’t be abducted by aliens.

You can throw herbs at the fireplace, and it will give you a moodlet that varies depending on what herb you have.

Selling objects in the Consignment store is something you can improve over time.

Your Sim can sue people for slander at City Hall when you’re a celebrity and they spread rumors about you.

You can get arrested for harvesting someone else's plants.

Details

The stones at the bottom of the fishbowl change depending on what you put in it.

Artistic, Can’t Stand Art, Computer Whiz, Evil, Genius, Gloomy, Insane, Neurotic, and Virtuoso Sims all have different and unique painting styles.

Fish can spontaneously breed if you put them in fish tanks.

If you are being robbed, and the police come to put the burglar in handcuffs by their car, while they search your house, you can click on the burglar to set them free. They will even thank you for doing so, promising to make it up to you, although they never do.

Cats can jump onto Sim’s lap and they can pet them.

You can drag the greeting card into a big digital frame.

You can get a “wrong number” call.

Clones will be attracted to the cloned Sim.

Cats can sleep on newspapers.

Sims can get a dirtbag reputation if caught cheating. If caught a lot of times, they get a slimeball reputation.

You can “Play in Sand” in the spots where you painted the terrain with sand.

If you have a big dog and a puppy or a cat and a kitten, they can cuddle together in a big pet bed.

Different bars will serve different food depending on the lot type. You can get onion rings, nachos, and hot wings at the normal lower-tier bars but olive platters and shrimp cocktails are reserved for fancy places like exclusive lounges, vampire lounges, and art galleries. 

Sims can get sick eating bar food at the lower-end bars.

You can preview a house before you buy it by clicking on the magnifying glass.

Sims can chat on the bunkbed and interact on the playpen.

Try using “Disco tags” in the cheats menu (Ctrl+Shift+C) and go to the map view.

Sims can read lying on the beach towel.

You can style the time machine.

Bonehilda will fight robbers.

Hydrophobic sims won’t accept a fishbowl as a gift.

Simbots have 0’s and 1’s instead of zzz’s.

Male Sims can leave the toilet sit up.

Sunglasses have the reflex of the world.

There are 6 types of snowman - classic, evil, tragic clown, hockey, Grim Reaper, and alien.

With no couch, sims will play video games sitting on the ground.

There’s a city in the background of the university world.

Sims can have different sitting positions.

When your Sim spouse dies and comes back to life, they come back divorced.

Horses can ride boats.

When Plumbots pee themselves, oil is what gets on the floor.

If you place a rubber duck on the bathtub, Sims play with it while they bathe. If you place “World’s Brew Bubble Bath”, they will have a bubble bath.

You can change the colors of the street lights.

You get a popup when a pregnant Sim enters a costume party (it reveals the number of hours left for the pregnancy to end).

Store items come with new skills.

You can expand the inventory and relationship tab by dragging it.

Your Sim only earns LHP when your Sims mood is in the “bubble” on the Mood Meter,

If a Sim’s mood drops all the way to the bottom (-100), the Sim may simply refuse to do anything, even if directed to by the player. You can send them on vacation but if they become depressed on their vacation, it will be necessary to send them home.

The volcano in Sunlit Tides can erupt.

Ants crawl in and out of a public picnic basket carrying food.

Every time a Sims learning the Painting skill sells a painting directly from the easel there is a 20% chance that the painting will replace a wall decoration item in the local art gallery.

You can spy on neighbors with tab mode.

Your Sims can get bitten by mosquitos.

Sims can chat with other sims while cooking.

Friends can bring their kids over to play with yours.

Resort Staff NPCs sweep the floors of the resort.

Sims can get nauseous from foods with herbs.

Sims with the Asian Culture trait use chopsticks to eat rather than knives and forks.

Ghosts can swim in swimming pools but you can’t see their body under the surface of the water.

You can double-click on the save file you want to play on the main menu screen and it will start the game.

When you have the cheapest washing machine and your Sim tries to stop it from shaking, you will get a “Victory Over Washer” moodlet.

Magic gnomes spawn at random when you do related activities.

The trash bed in buydebug makes you stinky.

If you put your bird cage outside it might fly away.

The doors on cars matter, if a car has 2 doors, 2 Sims will get in, if a car has 4 doors, 4 (or 5) Sims get in. Also, babies and toddlers will be held by their parents inside the car.

You can wax your Sims, and when you do, their body hair will appear again after a while.

If lightning strikes vehicles during a storm, it will completely destroyed them.

If a Sim is performing an interaction related to a trait, the trait will be highlighted.

You can get a graduation gnome that “hides in your books” during university classes.

Create-a-style

You can drag the whole palette to other objects so they get the same style.

You can swap patterns by dragging one of them onto the dividing line next to the other.

You can randomize patterns + colors by right-clicking on the swatches.

Right-clicking on the color above the color wheel, the game will give you a more appealing color (a different shade) than the one you have selected.

CAS

Right-clicking the icons at the top of CAS randomizes that part of clothing you are on.

You can have hairstyles in different outfits.

Build-Buy

Plants change in size as you place them.

You can make custom object collections.

If you typed in the cheat moveobjects on you can move sims by just clicking on them (on Build Buy mode).

You can set seasonal decor on your home lot to auto-change if you place the debug marker and then decorate accordingly.

 If you press alt when building a foundation, you can change the height of it.

You can paint ceilings.

Mods

If you play with NRAAS Story Progression, no vampires or celebs will be in your town unless you specifically say you want them.

#ts3 #the sims 3 #the sims #sims 3 #s3 #til