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Reusable Makeup Remover Wipes / Face Scrubbies (multiple colors available)  

$2.00 each (plus shipping), or 10 for $18 (plus shipping)

(also comes in a circular shape)

Les Miserables Crochet Cockades 

$5 each (plus shipping)

So back in January of this year I was on the tail-end of one of my worst depressive episodes of my life and a German friend of mine (that’s you @gaymelie​ this labour is all your fault) and myself got talking about what music we were listening to and I mentioned I was listening to Six the Musical and found out she also liked musicals and what with her being German and all, she recommended me a few German musicals:

And I loved them.

Getting into musicals that aren’t in a language you understand can be daunting, but the thing is other countries are actually way better at making pro-shots / officially recorded musicals then the UK or America. You can buy Blu-Rays of recent German stage musicals, DVDs of most French musicals and Japanese musicals. I myself have a DVD of a Dutch stage musical from 2003. Most official DVD releases of musicals have English subtitles, but some of my favourite musicals like Tanz Der Vampire and Rebecca have no official video recording and so the only way to be able to understand it if you don’t speak German, is to rely on dedicated fans who make English subtitles. Where possible I’m going to provide links to where to listen (Spotify or Youtube) and where to watch (Youtube). Sticking with just Spotify and Youtube because most people have access to one or both of them.

This post is going to get a little long, so the list will be under the ‘read more’. They’ll be listed alphabetically and I will try and keep my summaries of them unbiased, but will mention which ones are my personal favourites. For some musicals there are different versions in different languages, and you may think oh well that’s just the same musical again, but that’s not always the case. A lot of the times musicals get non-replica productions meaning that the costumes and sets are different, sometimes entire songs are taken out or added, sometimes minor characters are changed to more be more major characters and so on.

(Also because of linking to Youtube and Spotify, Tumblr is likely going to block this post from showing up in tags so I would appreciate all the reblogs this can get. ❤️ Also because I worked for two whole days on this, it’s over 10,000 words long and Tumblr crashed and deleted half of it and I had to write it all out again.) And of course any can add their own recommendations in their reblogs. There are a lot more I know of, but I tried not to make this list too long. In a while I can always make a part 2 if this post does well.

There’s 32 musicals on this list. I tried to make sure they weren’t all German so there’s: German, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Italian and Spanish. So, lets begin:

So back in January of this year I was on the tail-end of one of my worst depressive episodes of my life and a German friend of mine (that’s you @gaymelie​ this labour is all your fault) and myself got talking about what music we were listening to and I mentioned I was listening to Six the Musical and found out she also liked musicals and what with her being German and all, she recommended me a few German musicals:

And I loved them.

Getting into musicals that aren’t in a language you understand can be daunting, but the thing is other countries are actually way better at making pro-shots / officially recorded musicals then the UK or America. You can buy Blu-Rays of recent German stage musicals, DVDs of most French musicals and Japanese musicals. I myself have a DVD of a Dutch stage musical from 2003. Most official DVD releases of musicals have English subtitles, but some of my favourite musicals like Tanz Der Vampire and Rebecca have no official video recording and so the only way to be able to understand it if you don’t speak German, is to rely on dedicated fans who make English subtitles. Where possible I’m going to provide links to where to listen (Spotify or Youtube) and where to watch (Youtube). Sticking with just Spotify and Youtube because most people have access to one or both of them.

This post is going to get a little long, so the list will be under the ‘read more’. They’ll be listed alphabetically and I will try and keep my summaries of them unbiased, but will mention which ones are my personal favourites. For some musicals there are different versions in different languages, and you may think oh well that’s just the same musical again, but that’s not always the case. A lot of the times musicals get non-replica productions meaning that the costumes and sets are different, sometimes entire songs are taken out or added, sometimes minor characters are changed to more be more major characters and so on.

(Also because of linking to Youtube and Spotify, Tumblr is likely going to block this post from showing up in tags so I would appreciate all the reblogs this can get. ❤️ Also because I worked for two whole days on this, it’s over 10,000 words long and Tumblr crashed and deleted half of it and I had to write it all out again.) And of course any can add their own recommendations in their reblogs. There are a lot more I know of, but I tried not to make this list too long. In a while I can always make a part 2 if this post does well.

There’s 32 musicals on this list. I tried to make sure they weren’t all German so there’s: German, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Italian and Spanish. So, lets begin:

Modern Romantics

A photoset for Jehan and Bahorel

By Victor Hugo [source]

    {I., July, 1830.}

    Youth of France, sons of the bold,     Your oak-leaf victor-wreaths behold!     Our civic-laurels—honored dead!       So bright your triumphs in life’s morn,       Your maiden-standards hacked and torn,     On Austerlitz might lustre shed.

    All that your fathers did re-done—     A people’s rights all nobly won—     Ye tore them living from the shroud!       Three glorious days bright July’s gift,       The Bastiles off our hearts ye lift!     Oh! of such deeds be ever proud!

    Of patriot sires ye lineage claim,     Their souls shone in your eye of flame;     Commencing the great work was theirs;       On you the task to finish laid       Your fruitful mother, France, who bade     Flow in one day a hundred years.

    E'en chilly Albion admires,     The grand example Europe fires;     America shall clap her hands,       When swiftly o'er the Atlantic wave,       Fame sounds the news of how the brave,     In three bright days, have burst their bands!

    With tyrant dead your fathers traced     A circle wide, with battles graced;     Victorious garland, red and vast!       Which blooming out from home did go       To Cadiz, Cairo, Rome, Moscow,     From Jemappes to Montmirail passed!

    Of warlike Lyceums{1} ye are     The favored sons; there, deeds of war     Formed e'en your plays, while o'er you shook       The battle-flags in air aloft!       Passing your lines, Napoleon oft     Electrified you with a look!

    Eagle of France! whose vivid wing     Did in a hundred places fling     A bloody feather, till one night       The arrow whelmed thee ‘neath the wave!       Look up—rejoice—for now thy brave     And worthy eaglets dare the light.

    ELIZABETH COLLINS.

    {Footnote 1: The pupils of the Polytechnic Military School distinguished     themselves by their patriotic zeal and military skill, through all the     troubles.}

Original French under the cut:

“there are sustainable ways to use animal products, leather is good resource, indigenous people hunting sustainably is not an environmental problem” 

and “individuals should take some responsibility for the environment, veganism and plastic-free lifestyles should be heavily encouraged” 

and “veganism/vegetarianism/plastic-free is not an accessible lifestyle for everyone”

and “large corporations and corruption are directly responsible for the climate crisis, and dismantling them and not having a fossil fuel based economy is the most important thing in saving the environment” 

Friendly reminder that eating honey actually helps honeybees

A common misconception is that beekeepers abuse and “overwork” the bees to get a steady supply of honey and other “hive products”, but this is not true.

There is almost no evidence to suggest that human harvesting of honey, beewax, etc. is contributing to the decline of the bee population.

Supporting your local beekeepers actual helps bee populations, because if they can’t turn a profit on their goods they won’t be able to get the supplies necessary to keep their hives healthy.

Also, keep in mind that beekeepers do not starve their bees by taking honey off the comb. They take the excess that will go to waste if not harvested.

1) honeybees do not produce “extra honey.” And beekeepers don’t take some of the honey, they take all of it.

Because I am!

Beekeepers make sure hives are fed before there is pollen in the air, protected from predators and the elements, and have enough honey to sustain themselves. We don’t take all of it.

But overproduction of honey leads to stagnation in the hive. It puts stress on the queen to lay eggs, and when they inevitably fill up all their space with honey (instead of filling up the multiple empty, clean boxes of frames beekeepers might put on top of the main hive box), the queen can get so stressed she dies. If there’s a spike in the weather and the hive hasn’t prepared new queen brood, that’s it! The colony is dead. Because there wasn’t enough space for eggs and honey in the hive.

Beekeepers take excess honey. We are constantly monitoring the state of the hive, checking for parasites, analyzing the eggs for diseases, and making sure they are fed and healthy (usually with sugar water and pollen substitutes until they have made enough honey to sustain themselves in the early spring months). If a queen dies prematurely, we make every attempt to replace her to save the colony.

I know there’s an urge to patronize everyone who works in the farming industry, but try to understand the differences between small scale agriculture and industrial farming. There IS a difference. And stop spreading misinformation.

If you’re this passionate about ethical consumption, look into some of the ecofeminist research on non-hierarchal interspecies relationships (working on building animal-human relationships in a non exploitative way).

Yea Chickens are some of the most abused animals on big factory farms and I’ll be the first to admit it’s criminal and more needs to be done to regulate this.

Yes selective breeding over time has caused an increase in the ammount of eggs produced by chickens and factory farms have some messed up practices to get more eggs from them including forced moutling.

THIS IS WHY YOU SUPPORT LOCAL FARMERS AND THEIR EGGS