Love and other drugs

It has been literal years but every time I see Martin’s tweets posted somewhere and his word is shared as truth while her post is not shared it sort of reiterates the fact that we trust men to speak about feminism more than we believe women who experience it. 

Adding screenshots of her post. His whole post is there without needing a link. Hers should be, too.

Do I want to vote for Biden? No, but I will since no third-party candidate has a winning chance, and I don't want Trump to be president again. Unless y'all are gonna overthrow the American political system and government, we need to vote.

Taking a nap next to mom

Amazing audience energy; I believe there were seven standing ovations during the show (not counting “Woman Is” due to its placement though people tried)

Someone in front unfurled a giant rainbow flag with “LONG LIVE LEMPICKA” written on it, got the first big pre-show cheer

Standing O for the creators when they came in. Hopefully someone will have videos since mine did not turn out right.

A couple of funny moments when a fly tried to intrude on the madeleines scene and Eden had to shoo it away. The entire “Paris” sequence was so much fun.

Got chills on some unexpected moments- first during the part of “Starting Over” where Tamara and Tadeusz sing in harmony, with him on the high part and her on the low. Musically I just find it incredibly beautiful. Second was in “Perfection” when Marinetti starts chanting “beauty - speed - the machine” and so forth.

Every performance was on fire, not surprisingly

During the standing ovation at the end of “I Will Paint Her” where Tamara stands with both of her arms out on in front of her, Eden stood for a good twenty, thirty seconds or so then finally acknowledged it with a smile and gesture and the crowd was thrilled.

The lighting effect at the end of the sex scene between Tamara and Rafaela got applause (at least I assume that is what it was for; I even overheard someone talking about that lighting effect excitedly as I left the theater).

“Woman Is” was deliberate and deeply felt.

At the end of the”In the Blasted California Sun” (which was extremely emotional throughout) Eden snapped her fingers and pointed at someone, then after the song ended she very icily said, “Put the phone down.” Audience gave her another standing ovation. (People, please don’t be that person with the phone, and distracting a performer during the final show no less.)

The audience was standing before lights came back up for bows.

Writers control the story of the show, there is so much detail and fine tuning done in the scripts. Everything an actor or a director adds, is adapted from the script. There is no show without the script, but still screenwriters are horrendously underappreciated and underpaid.

Director, actors and producers usually end up with most of the credit.

Some will come back but lose their momentum and you'll wish they'd been cancelled.

This isn't the fault of writers. This is the fault of the studios.

The Writers' Guild has made a list of demands that will cost $500 million a year across the ENTIRE industry. Every studio, every streaming service, every film, every show, every writer: total cost $500 million. One streaming alone could foot the entire bill and still be in comfortable profit. Its half of what Amazon spent on Rings of Power alone. A little more than what Netflix spent on The Gray Man.

The studios can easily afford this. They're just being assholes about it.

saying the book came to you like that when clearly your dog chewed on it

trying to reshelve books on your own

yelling at us to get our attention

talking on your phone when we’re trying to assist you

yelling at non-management staff for policies they have no power over

asking for more time on the computer when the session has already logged you off, you needed to ask for that time 5 minutes ago

asking us to look something up for you by the call number. the call number tells you where it is. please just give me the title.

getting upset with us for anything COVID related

things librarians do NOT judge you for (unless they’re bad at librarianing):

reading erotica

using the copier incorrectly

not speaking english as a first language

being an adult and not reading grown up books

owing fines

liking romance novels

finding out your child’s card is blocked because they’ve been billed for books they’ve secretly been hiding behind their dresser

having books overdue

you liking graphic novels and comics

your CHILD liking graphic novels and comics. seriously. we just want them to read.

taking books off of a display

asking us to check and make sure we don’t have a book you returned (with COVID and quarantining books, more things are getting missed, so asking a librarian to do a shelf check is okay! but be nice. we are So Tired and Busy. if you say something like “if you’re busy feel free to check when you have time and get back to me” we will love you. we will probably be like “you’ve been nice so i’ll go right now”)

things librarians judge, but don’t judge YOU for: