#i hope this makes sense
home as a person in musical theatre
- “the street’s a little kinder when you’re home, can’t you see that the day seems clearer now that you are here or is it me? maybe its just me”
- “please believe that when you find your way again, you’re gonna change the world. and then we’re all gonna brag and say we knew her when this was your home”
“i’m home-”
“welcome home-”
“when you’re here with me i used to think we lived at the top of the world! i’m home.”
“you’re finally home!” - “but even if everything else turns to dirt, we’ll be the one thing in this world that won’t hurt. i can’t fix what’s fucked up. but one thing i know i can do: i can be perfect for you.”
- “i’ve been a lot of places, but i’ve learned now near and far- there’s no need to roam cause home is where you are.”
- “so long as you come home at the end of the day, that would be enough… let me be a part of the narrative, in the story they will write someday, let this moment be the first chapter, where you decide to stay.”
- “it’s a long road. it’s a long walk, back into the cold and dark. are you sure you wanna go?”
“take me home.” - “i can’t promise you fair sky above, can’t promise you kind road below. but i’ll walk beside you, love. any way the wind blows.”
in the heights/next to normal/catch me if you can/hamilton/hadestown
I’m glad people brought into awareness minor safety online and how adults need to interact appropriately w/ minors. But it’s kinda become “adults have to monitor all their followers esp those who make nsfw content” and tbh no they don’t esp big accounts. Interacting w/ minors While being a nsfw account is wrong and the adult is responsible, yes. But teenagers aren’t going to post their ages all the time, they’re going to lie about their age, and they aren’t stupid, if they want to see nsfw content they’re gonna look for it. It’s not an adult’s responsibility to make sure a minor isn’t looking at their account at all times. Back when I was a kid and when I got occasionally caught looking at stuff i probs shouldn’t have, I didn’t blame the adult who posted it. I blamed myself for searching for it and getting caught. You can’t expect people (esp those with large followings) to comb through their followers & every comment, making sure there are NO minors. That’s impossible. Teenagers aren’t stupid, they know what they’re looking at. Its kinda gone full circle bc we went from “teenagers don’t Know anything” to “teenagers will search for things and it’s your responsibility to make sure you don’t have inappropriate 1 on 1 w/ them” to “teenagers are incapable of any self awareness and it’s the adult account’s fault for even existing bc now the teenager saw it”. Adults need to respect and mind their boundaries with minors. But at the end of the day, minors are going to be going on and interacting with pages they shouldn’t and that’s nobody’s fault but the teenager and you’re lying to yourself if you think a teenager doesn’t know better than to look at adult content. It’s infantilizing
no I wanna talk about the “pound of flesh” line because what the fuck was that. I need to know bc steve doesn’t just go around making shakespeare references like it’s nothing
To be fair I doubt he knows its a Shakespeare reference. He probably just knows it as a pop culture thing.
I totally get that, and it IS a figure of speech. however. the context in which is used doesn’t make sense in that way?? a “taking a pound of flesh” insinuates that the taker is OWED something, even if it’s inhumane or ruthless to the person they’re taking it from. that’s not what’s going on in that scene, steve doesn’t owe the demobats anything.
and, moreover, the real world people who WROTE that line are masters of references, as we’ve seen throughout the show. I just feel like it can’t be a throwaway pop culture reference line, and a botched one at that. it was just a weird choice that immediately stuck out to me.
i was talking to my friends in our server earlier ab kul elna, akhenaden, thief king, and thr millennium world arc in general and like….. i think, it would’ve been interesting if they had delved into the stupid thief thing more and if it was really necessary that they dragged akhenaden into to and revealed that he was also involved in the grave robbing since often times that how it actually was. and like i feel like that even could’ve given a better drive for him picking kul elna specifically as like a messed up coverup idk. calling him out for being a hypocrite, could’ve been like, an interesting plot point. the village actually having SOME thieves could’ve been an actually purposeful plot point if it wasnt just used as an excuse for a massacre
and i feel it would’ve made mahaads character more fleshed out aswell because he’s the one who was liek “it was a village of thieves so it was fine actually” at atem. but like if mahaad learned ab akhenaden’s involvement it would’ve been the perfect opportunity for reflection and growth and realization that your mentors may not always be as they seem and blind following of the crown maybe isn’t the best thing
I think the craziest thing ab akhenaden tho is that in the end while atem and the others do see him as an enemy and evil it’s not even really because of kul elna it’s because they think he like went insane and was zorcified a bit at the end but he was literally just some dude when kul elna happened very clearly of sound mind up until the very end of mil world arc, to quote what my friend said “KUL ELNA ULTIMATELY WAS A DELIBERATE CHOICE MADE BY ONE MAN BUT AGREED UPON BY DOZENS OF PEOPLE” like when kul elna happened, unless there’s a part that im forgetting rn, it was literally a choice made before zorc was up n out and pulling strings. zorc was called upon and showed up AFTER the massacre, to quote majora once again “like cant you see zorc isnt the perpetrator of evil he just responds to it hes a catalyst he only comes when his name is called and when its called deliberately after the deed is done” like UGGHHGGGHGG when the government accidentally summons mega satan and then blames the victim of the massacre they planned out and executed
Lost in this moment
I felt someone
Touch my heart
But I’m not good with faces
I wouldnt know who you are
I’ve seen a hundred people a day
For the last year
So I’ll lose my mind
Trying to figure out
Where I know you from
And I’m not good with direction
Hand me a map
And I’ll lose myself
With no recollection
Of where I’ve been
I’m lost in myself
Stuck in my head
How could I love someone else
When my heart is broken
I am lost
And I dont know where you’ve gone
But I’ll miss you today
And I’ll miss you till dawn
Wherever have you gone
I’ve never felt as alone
As when I’ve found someone to love
I never buy ornaments
I’m not one for gold
And I’m not one to buy diamonds
But I added you to my collection
Of things I dont mind remembering
And I’ll never forget the end
- nail-in-the-wall ~ © ~ [14/9/19] (Just a thing I wrote whilst listening to a sad song.)
#EditorialCartoon by @claytoonz
I’ve seen this meme in a few different forms since the Paris attacks, but as clever as it seems, it is a false equivalent.
The KKK, in its three incarnations, is primarily about “White Supremacy”. Founded during Reconstruction out of anger over the results of the Civil War, the actions of the KKK were focused on intimidating the Black population–to prevent free Black people from enjoying the liberties granted to them. The group eventually faded only to emerge again in the early 20th century as immigration to the US swelled. This time Jews and Catholics (many from the poorer parts of Europe) were the target of their racism. As immigration slowed, so to did the influence of the KKK. They emerged for the third time in response to the Civil Rights movement. They pushed to maintain segregation; once again hoping to keep Black Americans from achieving equality.
For the KKK Christianity has always been subservient to racial ideology. They were not founded as a Christian group. They were/are a Nationalist movement focused on “preserving White rule” and protecting “the White race”. Christianity is read and understood in support of that basic premise. This is an important distinction to understand.
ISIS on the other hand, as difficult as it is to state without backlash, is primarily about Islam. Their every motivation is rooted in their theology. While the KKK’s actions were dictated by racialism, ISIS’s actions are dictated by their reading of Islam. As Graeme Woodexplains,
The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.
Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and pronouncements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationery, and coins, “the Prophetic methodology,” which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail. Muslims can reject the Islamic State; nearly all do. But pretending that it isn’t actually a religious, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combatted, has already led the United States to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it. We’ll need to get acquainted with the Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy if we are to react in a way that will not strengthen it, but instead help it self-immolate in its own excessive zeal.
Please understand, I am not saying that simply because ISIS isIslamic, that allMuslims are terrorists. I am most definitely not!
What we have is a very difficult academic query: Would ISIS exist without Islam? Some say ‘yes’–their situation is such that Islam just happens to be the ideology they are using. If Islam didn’t exist they would use a different ideology. Others argue ‘no’. Either way, they are simply not comparable to the KKK. The KKK could most definitely exist without Christianity. They wouldn’t have to use a different ideology, because they are not rooted in Christianity. This comparison obscures what the KKK is really about.
What would a fair comparison be? Perhaps the Westboro Baptist Church, perhaps Bodu Bala Sena, perhaps individuals such as Yigal AmirorShelley Shannon. Religious extremism underpins these groups and individuals. They are motivated by their deeply-held religious beliefs.
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I fucking hate game apps. I wanted to play tetris the otherday so I figured there must be a simple tetris app out there its the most basic game. But every app is like heres your daily log in bonus of 10 gold! You get 5 free plays a day. Here’s an ad. To replay a level costs 1 diamond. You can eart gold by earning points in levels. 1000 points = 1 gold. You can exchange 550 gold for one diamond but we have a sale right now that they only cost 500 gold. Heres an ad. You can buy a loot crate of diamonds for 5.99$! You leveled up! Heres 1 free diamond. Youve run out of free replays for today, would you like to buy some more diamonds? Heres your daily tasks, make sure to log in every day this month for a free reward chest. its free! Heres an ad. Would you like to sign up for this credit card to recieve 10 free diamonds? Invite a friend and you can earn points! Ding! Youve leveled up. Heres an ad. This is our special bonus play weekend, you get one free replay and a pack of diamonds only costs 4.99$. You can use your gold to purchase new skins for the tetris blocks. This ones shaped like cats! It costs 100 diamonds. You need to collect them all. Free to play, may be some in-app purchases.
I’m preparing for some serious backlash right now but I just want to say something. Please buy games / apps.
I’m an indie game designer and I HATE micro transactions, advertising and subscription models with a passion. My boss put in app purchases in our last game as an ‘experiment’ and I was absolutely heartbroken, it was something we said we’d never do. This is obviously anecdotal but as a small studio, I feel like we’re being pushed into it. With an app store flooded with free games, people don’t want to spend £2.99 on ours, they want it for free, it’s what they’ve come to expect.
The majority of this is obviously corporate greed, I’m not trying to completely blame the consumers but I just want to shed some light into what it’s like from our perspective. Some game developers are moving towards these models because it’s the only way to stay afloat. Tetris is certainly never going to struggle (I’ve bought it on more platforms than I can count) but please buy games from small studios and say nice things if you enjoy them.
I’m praying I never have to work on a game with micro transactions.
There’s been so many fantastic games that I’ve loved playing on mobile but gave up on due to the kinds of things in the original post and I honestly wish I could just buy the games outright.
