im not dead yet

“why do you rb and add to your own posts” i’m talking to myself

“Are you saying that Jesus isn’t fully man” he’s literally not. He’s half deity. Why did you word it like that?

“Jesus was fully human and fully divine” is conventionally accepted doctrine. It’s called the hypostatic union. It’s in the Athanasian creed.

#sometimes the nature of tumblr is that someone accidentally reinvents the great schism (1054) all over again

overheard in the coffee shop from a middle aged gay man to his (female) friend: “are you embarrassed? about being foolish? please manage yourself better in this situation. this man is not behaving as if he is interested in you.”

“he’s evil. like jeff bezos. Do you understand.” and she’s just nodding with eyes downcast in shame

i forgot to add this until now but after the gay guy was done scolding his friend and they left, their table was taken up by an aging european twink telling a wealthy-looking bubbe with increasing distress about how much cold cut meat he’d eaten the night before and the funnier she found it the more distraught he got about his nighttime deli frenzy

he was like [completely unidentifiable european accent] after you went to bed. i ate ze ham. and ze mortadella also… and. also the prosciutto. no stop giggling at me zis is not funny it was 500 grams each. i ate 500 grams of ze ham and 500 grams of ze mortadella and 500 grams of ze prosciutto and that is ONE POINT FIVE KILOGRAMS OF MEAT !! I ate so many meats!!! Stop giggling at me i am going to be fat!!!! I even ate ze cheeses!!!

so many people are tagging this with some variation of “that coffee shop was full of such interesting people i wish i could go somewhere like this to people watch” and as a seasoned eavesdropper i need you all to know that people are this weird wherever you go. recently my gf and i were observing a gaggle of real estate broker bros hopped up on stimulants pacing around like caged tigers and performing homoerotic rituals through the proxy of their iced lattes and it wasn’t even 10am on a tuesday. the world is a beautiful place full of intricately bizarre human animals waiting to be studied

I feel like something that has really contributed to sfth's success is that they all have different strengths in their acting. I'll use Never Give Annabelle A Gun as the example for this, since I feel they were all pretty much at their strongest in that long form. Luke is exceptional at playing characters that are nothing like him: Americans, women, nonhumans, etc.; his most compelling and interesting characters are ones he has basically nothing in common with. he's also great at multiroling, esp if it's characters that are very likely to come into contact with each other because he loves having the opportunity to do a back-and-forth with himself. He doesn't really multirole in ngaag, but he plays a lesbian, which he definitely is not, and is able to depicts her in a very convincing and relatable way. I think this is because he's the one who's done the most reading and studying about improv and acting; he has a deep intellectual understanding of taking on an alternate perspective, and has developed that skill. Tom does well with finding the motivation for a character and centering that as their main trait. some characters end up very two-dimensional, but most end up complex and fascinating. Butch is a great example of this; her main defining trait was being in love with her best friend and being afraid to tell her. he played this so that it was clear that was on her mind in every scene, and it ended up making her more distinctive and allowing her to do things to further the plot that made sense because of that motivation. I think this is because of his whole novelist thing; to write a book, you need a really good idea of what drives each character, and that sometimes has to be isolated to just one main goal or emotion or whatever. AJ does well with adapting to what the story needs, and does his best when he's going along with the others' ideas and building on them. he escalates conflict, and he's amazing at intensifying the plot and raising the stakes. we see this especially in ngaag with him playing the stalker, because he picks up on the romance between Annabelle and Butch and, rather than shoehorning it into a love triangle or forcing Butch out of the picture as nothing more than a friend, decides to take on the part of villain that cares more about possession than love. this made the plot way more interesting, and allowed a sense of urgency that it wouldn't have otherwise had. I think this is mostly because of his background as a director and filmmaker, because he's able to pick up on where they're trying to go with it and come up with a way to make it easier for the audience to get invested. Sam is best at engineering the plot from the background; his minor characters are often the ones that force the plot forward the most, and though he also does great as the mc, he almost seems to have more control over how the play goes when he's in a supporting or side role. as Annabelle's father, he's able to hint at the feelings between Annabelle and Butch before Luke and Tom had even decided they'd have feelings for each other, and was the main reason they ended up with a happy ending rather than a Clamanda-esque unrequited pining thing. I feel like this is mostly because of his experience working in comedy for a long time in the ideas-having side of things; he can pitch ideas for how he wants it to go by making suggestions to the more main characters during their sidequesty moments with side characters. In fact, another great example of these strengths is Clarissa's DIY Wedding; it's almost the same dynamics, with Luke and Tom being girl best friends and Tom's character having a crush on Luke's while AJ's character is in love with Luke's, but in that one, Luke's character ends up with AJ's rather than Tom's. In this, too, Sam sort of drives the plot forward indirectly through his supporting roles, making the whole thing tie together properly. Their individual penchants are really easy to see the more of the longforms you watch, and it's cool to see how they play to these throughout their time in this field.

Another reason why trains would be good is that most people are not good at driving

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours

Normal groceries like milk or bread or whatever running out is whatever. Just anotha day. But when stuff like salt or cooking oil or rice runs out it feels like You’re supposed to be here for me and you’re leaving. You’re just like everyone else

Why yes, as a matter of fact, I once had MANY thoughts about this, and I am fascinated and delighted that you came up with almost the exact same arrangement! Only difference is I have Parker as the queen and the pawn, because the pawn ends up becoming the queen.

THAR SHE BLOWS!! A LIFTED BLACK FORD F150 WITH TINTED WINDOWS. PASSENGER PRINCESS, GET THE HARPOONS!!!!!

@to-be-kind-takes-work @mxtr3ssquickly @notthemonthbutmarch

Somebody at work keeps adjusting one of the perimeter cameras to have this beautiful artistic angle on the museum in a historical building across the way. The sun sets just behind it and the whole sky turns golden-blue, clouds streaked across the sky above. The lush tree line beneath the museum is perfectly lined up along the rule of thirds and the building itself towers above, almost mythical in its evening glory. Like damn, take a still from this camera and send it to the museum to frame and hang on their wall. I do need the camera to be pointing at the parking lot. Tho

The setting sun bounces off the skyscrapers downtown and hits the museum's windows and every one of them turns the same golden hue as the sky behind, reflected in the trees just starting to turn golden-orange beneath. The bottoms of the clouds take on the slightest tinge of purple and birds circle above, speckling the evening sky as they call autumn's last farewell. Someone's car got broken into in the parking lot last week, Tammy, point the damn camera at the cars

you have to consciously unlearn racism and continue to watch for it because it will come out without realizing. because so much of society is structured around it. shrugging and going "i dont care" or "i dont know how else to say it" means you are okay with being racist and hurting other people with how much you dont give a shit about them.

Hey so I know we All Know This but I will NEVER be over a character being feverish and delirious and making No sense. I will never be over a glittery-eyed, shivering, distressed character weakly gripping another's arm and asking them questions they don't know the answer to, and probably don't mean anything at all. I will never be over characters calling out for people either long gone or right next to them, but unrecognizable in their delirium. I will never be over a character crying in frustration and fear over something in their head they can't explain to whoever is helping them, and all they can do in return is stroke their hair and shush them gently.