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For me at least, the players aren't really characters as much as personifications of the "Happiness treadmill effect" (“If I could just earn X, or achieve Y, I’ll be happy,”) and how that mindset is self defeating at best, and self destructive at worst. Pippin spends all of his time trying to find the single thing that will make him happy and fulfilled, but finds himself unsatisfied. All of the exciting, and novel experiences he goes through do give him pleasure in the short term, but eventually, the novelty wears off, leaving him no more happy or fulfilled than he was in the beginning.

The only way to escape the cycle is to realize that lasting happiness and fulfillment doesn't come from the outside, but comes from what we do and the relationships we make.

okay but. pippin the musical is horrifying. the implication is that this trope of actors periodically chooses a new pippin that they manipulate into dying by fire at the end of the show. we know that this is the actor’s first time in the role of pippin. we know that widow catherine has played this role over and over again and is getting frustrated by it, and her improvised number is about how much she actually liked “this one” compared to the others. you know, all the other pippins. who did die in the finale fires, with or without their consent.

and then the show ends with a kid going “you know what, I wanna be pippin next time. give ME the show. let ME have this corner of the sky”

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I'm starting a riot

BRING BACK MUPPETS MAYHEM

BRING BACK MUPPETS MAYHEM

BRING BACK MUPPETS MAYHEM

They won the award now bring it back

STOP CANCELING A GOOD SERIES

Reblog if you think they should bring back the MUPPETS AGAIN!

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The Magic Trick You Didn’t See: Being An Analysis of Good Omens Season 2

(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code And Have You Dead To Rights*) (*Maybe)

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Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off. 

Yes, it’s long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatron’s deal is (I’m like 99% sure of this and it’s EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekov’s Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse? 

Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me I’m an insane crackpot, and u know what, i won’t even be offended

In case you don’t know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, I’ve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOB–

Keep reading

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Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

#New Year

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The Sphere, England, December 24, 1921

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Same. I feel that so much.

Muppets Haunted Mansion was made for the autistic girlies (I’m literally the target audience)

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Why am I reading this in Crowley's voice?

95% of NFTs are worthless, and most of the most expensive ones are priced between $5-100 where they were once drawing millions US$ apiece

Not a moment too soon, and fully deserved 😎

In conclusion-

#Good Omens

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Health is wealth, even for our puffin friends. Watch as the vet gives this precious puffin chick a clean bill of health!

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NO

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I do think it's worth noting that the study specifically excluded people with severe mental health issues and substance abuse problems, among other things.

Source

Source

#I'm not saying it's bad #or that the conclusions they reached are wrong #It's just worth noting that they only looked at a very specific part of the population of unhoused people

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Hello Mr Gaiman,

In episode 3 season 2 of Good Omens, Crowley drinks poison and isn't discorporated. Which had me wondering if it was normal or not. From what I understood, when on Earth, demons and angel can be discorporated by stuff that would kill humans (car accidents, fire, being shot...). Does it apply to intoxication as well, or it takes external damage to be discorporated? If not, then why did Crowley survive? Is it because he was a snake, or because he can eliminate intoxicating subtances from his body (like alcohol, but then again he can still have hangovers so idk) - or am I just wrong to assume that it should have damaged him?

Thank you if you answer (and even if you don't)!

Angelic systems are definitely more robust than human ones, even when inside a human-style body. We've seen Crowley drink quantities of whisky and wine that would kill a human or render one unconscious. He gets drunk, but his system seems to cope.

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I have this silly headcanon that Zoot is, ironically, the one member of the Mayhem who isn't a total stoner, and that's just how he is, no mind altering substances needed.

The Electric Mayhem from The Muppets Abc:

Lucky eyes 👀

#muppets mayhem #the electric mayhem #muppets #zoot

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bored border collie: im going to perform psychological experiments on every human member of my household

bored pit bull: i bet i could eat a rock if i tried hard enough

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#the muppets #zoot #That shoe is Jim #dave goelz #The Muppets mayhem #muppets mayhem #Jimmy Shoe

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muppets mayhem is literally so good everyone watch it right now

#Muppets mayhem #The Muppets Mayhem #Watch this show guys! #It's so good!

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Redraw of my favorite Sesame Street BTS photo

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What's the chances that it will be even half as good as the Muppets one?

i come bearing GOOD haunted mansion movie news this time listen up yall

Disney’s ‘Haunted Mansion’ to Hit Theaters March 2023

yall. what do we think. (i sincerely hope they actually gIVE THE GHOSTS FUCKING IMPORTANT MAJOR ROLES THIS TIME THEYRE THE WHOLE POINT ITS CALLED THE HAUNTED MANSION NOT THE FREE REAL ESTATE MANSION GOD DAMMIT)

ahem. anyways can march 2023 be here already i dont wanna wait please………

#Muppets haunted mansion #the haunted mansion