#i’m clemensposting

[sassmill]

Oh my god the fact that I’m going to be playing Susy Clemens in the house she died in at the age she died at with a face that looks just like hers in front of the literal actual mirror that the family owned when they lived in the house where the girls would practice their dance lessons and Susy would recite lines from her plays has me feeling absolutely unhinged tonight

#I have almost the entire house memorized so I’m drilling lines room by room #and I’m on the drawing room and DAMN it just hit me how crazy this kind of living history is #i’m clemensposting #museum musings #what do you do with a ba in theatre #time travel

[sassmill]

Yea yea YEA this guy GETS it

#papa #i’m clemensposting

[sassmill]

I will be forever haunted by 1895 quarry farm Susy clemens photos

#she looks so miserable but aunt Sue is smiling #museum musings #i’m clemensposting

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A 2 am gin martini toast to Clara Langdon Clemens Gabrilowitsch Samossoud

#museum musings #i’m clemensposting

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I had a dream last night that I got a phone call from Clara and I swear to god it’s got to mean something

#museum musings #i’m clemensposting #dream journal

[sassmill]

I’m obsessed with this Hungarian cover for the diaries of Adam and Eve. Like yeah that’s them. They’re naked and there’s not much else going on yet on earth. It’s not inaccurate.

#I think Sam would approve #he’d be like ‘fucking CLASS’ #i’m clemensposting

[sassmill]

I asked “are you okay with me introducing your queerness into the museum’s official narrative? Is that term alright with you? Does it resonate with your experience when you lived?” And these cards all came flying out of the deck. Lizzo’s “about damn time” came into my head right when the three of wands came out, too. I feel like I’m going to start crying.

#I am holding this young woman’s legacy so tenderly and so close to my heart #and the impact that I as another queer woman can have by bringing this part of her into the broader discussion #by talking about it in our tours and programming #the weight and the gift of that is not lost on me #I can’t believe that this is my job #I can’t believe that so many people spend so much of their lives trying to find some sort of calling #find something that gives their life meaning gives their life purpose #and I stumbled into her house one day and suddenly found an entire career #I could talk about fate seven ways to Sunday but I’ll let this speak for itself #ugh #i’m emotional #over Susy clemens #AGAIN #i’m clemensposting #tarot #psychic stuff #museum musings

[sassmill]

My toxic trait is that I can’t stop thinking about the table covered in hal holbrook’s prosthetic noses

#i’m clemensposting #museum musings

[sassmill]

Mark Twain is the textbook definition of a simp I am begging you to read his letters to Livy

#i’m clemensposting #museum musings #mark twain

[sassmill]

Steadily replacing all of my traumatic childhood Christmas memories with new memories of Christmas with the clemens family

#when I did the walkthrough of Christmas decorations in the house I almost started crying #i’m clemensposting #museum musings

[sassmill]

Oh my god she’s beautiful

#I’ve been here six months but NOW my name tag has arrived :) #museum musings #i’m clemensposting #what do you do with a ba in theatre

[sassmill]

Oh hm the chapter on Pompeii is gonna live in my brain forever I think. Insane that this man experienced the same awe at the scope of history in 1867 as I do in his mansion in 2022. fucking wild. The way he writes about the skeletons and the stones and all of the signs of humanity left decipherable after so much time and destruction—and how if a similar event happened in an American city, there would simply be nothing left—like yes make me quake in awe of the past and ponder my mortality at the same time! Please! I would love to have a crisis!!!!

#papa #i’m clemensposting #the innocents abroad

[sassmill]

Was just drawing cards thinking about mark twain because this is my life now and…

Yeah. Like yeah. No other two cards pulled together accidentally could probably represent his life so well.

#the vast fortune and frequent reversals of it. his widespread acclaim and his inner doubts and guilt. #like. yeah. I get it. #this man understood duality he understood the precarious position we all have #between our next best day and our worst #yeah man. yeah. #papa #i’m clemensposting

[sassmill]

Susy Clemens couldn’t spell for shit and she’s so incredibly valid

#a hundred reasons for having a cat #i’m clemensposting

[sassmill]

I’m CACKLING in my car. In my training today I got to go through my entire script twice, in the house, and the core summary of all the notes Tom gave me: you’re the eldest daughter in a famous family, be more repressed.

#like LITERALLY #that’s so funny but accurate #i’m clemensposting #what do you do with a ba in theatre #museum musings

[sassmill]

Oh this guy gets it

#papa #i’m clemensposting