Theatre kids putting out hot tea and playbills on December 24th 9pm EST (Broadwaymas Eve) waiting for Lin Manuel Mirandaclaus to compose down the chimney
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Theatre kids putting out hot tea and playbills on December 24th 9pm EST (Broadwaymas Eve) waiting for Lin Manuel Mirandaclaus to compose down the chimney

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i love you wasps i love you flies i love you beetles i love you moths i love you non-bee pollinators i love you "uncharismatic" organisms who nonetheless carry our ecosystem on your backs
It's genuinely telling that any animal that's even slightly inconvenient to people inspires this kind of extreme irrational rage and even more telling that people are somehow proud of this reaction instead of rightly ashamed. I've been stung by wasps before. The most recent time I remember is when one flew down my shirt one summer and, I presume, panicked at the prospect of getting crushed to death by an animal a thousand times its size. Do you know what happened? It hurt a bit for an hour or two, then went away. I've been hurt worse stubbing my toe.
Wasps are willing to defend themselves, and not even particularly effectively. But they're willing to hurt humans, and our measured response to an animal being willing to hurt us is condemning their entire species to death on sight and fucking revelling in every kill. Pure anthropocentrism brain in action. A lot of people claim to like nature, but only like the fucking terrarium version of it which has every thorn plucked off, every tooth pulled and claw filed down and everything that stings or sucks drowned in DDT.
God, I was just gonna write a sentence or two to get my thoughts out but I'm fucking incensed now. We love wasps here! We love wasps!!!
To top it all off, we made wasps the way they are in the first place. By "we" I mean land vertebrates as a whole, since it was somewhere around the Jurassic that the first social bees and wasps emerged as we know them today, but land vertebrates are a pretty small insular group we belong to and our own five-fingered hands aren't clean here either. Anything capable of obtaining bee or wasp larvae will eat them, including the majority of birds, raccoons, weasels, arboreal marsupials, bears, squirrels, and ALL primates including all our hominid ancestors and our very own species have eaten wasp grubs for their entire evolutionary history. Many human cultures fell out of the practice of eating insects in general, but wasp larvae are such a perfect food that there are even still places where humans grow and harvest them on purpose! These are wasp boxes in Kushihara, Japan, where a lot of people keep them in their backyards and collect all the grubs at the end of the season:
This is because wasp larvae are just about the fattest, juiciest, softest nuggets of pure fat and protein in the entire animal kingdom. here's a photo where you can see their dopey little faces up close, and guess what?? That's all they have! Their faces are their only "armored" part, and only barely! They are plump, legless, unprotected blobs of food who own nothing to their name but one slightly crispy face! They're the little guys with only a face!!! In all the world! Every danger to an organism puts the pressure of natural selection on it. All the organisms sharing an ecosystem are selectively breeding one another's characteristics just by existing together. So now here's a kind of animal who has the MOST EDIBLE BABIES IN THE WORLD, and you and your ancestors all the way back to tiny proto-rodents knew that. The wasps who survived this constant assault were the wasps who were the best at defending those super delicious babies, and now that's why you (the general you, not any one particular person here) think they're "mean" and "aggressive." Your entire family spent hundreds of millions of years slorping down their babies like free popcorn, forcing their gene pool to give them ever more painful stingers and more territorial behavior and then some of us walked in and said "wow, why are those things being assholes"
sometimes plushies make me cry because it’s like. they’re little guys made to be loved. their only purpose is to be held and hugged and loved. we made them because we love making things and we love loving things. and they’re so cute
Years back, I was working at a specialty store, and we got this HUGE crate of plushy toys. They were all insanely cute and squishy. I knew kids would go nuts for them, as it was the first week of December, so parents and grandparents often had kids with them while shopping for furniture, lamps, cooking equipment, lights, etc.
One night, I was working my last hour of my shift covering the Customer Service desk, which meant when I wasn't busy, I was supposed to help clean up around the cash registers, including taking back items people changed their minds about at the checkout. Earlier, I had witnessed a kid carrying thos cute plushy toy. It was a brown and white hedgehog. The kid, at the checkout, saw a remote control car and he told his dad he qanted it. The dad told him, "The plushy or the car- you can't have both" (by the way, I respect boundaries with kids and parents sticking to their guns about it), and the kid picked the car.
So, I'm cleaning up, have less than an hour left of my shift, and I see the little plushy hedgehog. Somehow, he never got put back nor had anyone else seen him and decided to buy him. He was just sitting there, slumped to the side, unattended.
It's Christmas and I'm a sentimental old sap at heart. My brain starts replaying the scene from RUDOLPH where he's on the Island of Misfot Toys, and is told a toy is never truly happy until it is loved. I picked him up and quickly took him back to the bin with the plushies but... It was empty. He was literally the last plushy toy and my boss was about to wheel the bin out. We weren't getting any more toys till November, so that meant any toys left at this point needed to sell or they'd be sent to the dump.
I brought the little hedgehog to the front, figuring someone would see him with the candy, candles, & Christmas brick-a-brack, and fall in love with him. When I finished my shift, I went to ask my manager a question and as I passed the Christmas candle display - there he sat, the sad little slumped over hedgehog plushy. No one had bought him, or even moved him.
My manager, Phillip, saw me and the hedgehog. He asked how the hedgehog got there. I told him how I'd put him there when the bin got sent back, and he was the only plushy left. Philip had kids, I figured he'd probably get sentimental and buy it for his kids. Nope. He shrugged and said he'd send it back to be disposed of.
That night, I came home with a plushy hedgehog in my passenger seat. My mom saw him and just thought he was the cutest little hedgehog and asked what I wanted to do with him. I told her the story, then added I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do with him.
My mom is a child psychiatrist, specializing in children with PTSD and brain damage that results in learning problems/issues with processing their emotions. She asked if she could have the plushy hedgehog (even offered to pay me for him, she didn't expect me to just give him over), so kids could hug him when they were upset in session.
Murphy, the plushy hedgehog that still slumps a little to the left when seated, has been hugged by hundreds of kids. Little girls have held him tight while explaining about bullies, little boys have held him tight while crying over their panic attacks, younger siblings have held him to whisper secrets while elder siblings and parents talk about self-soothing techniques, teenagers have hugged Murphy while talking about the worst day of their lives. Murphy has also been hugged by kids excitedly chatting about a new friend at school, a teen girl excited to be called by her name instead of her dead-name, little kids proudly saying they've mastered their ABCs, and even staff members who just need to come chat over a case they are having trouble with.
Every now and then, my mom brings Murphy home for a weekend. He gets washed (she calls it a Spa Weekend, to her coworkers, all of them laughing), dried, and sits outside with my mom in the sunshine to get aired out, then on Monday, they are back to work. Some kids even just ask to hold Murphy while they talk, no matter their mood or what they want to talk about. They just want to hug Murphy.
So yes. Plushies are made for one purpose. To be hugged and loved. To be a comfort.

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Two decades today
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Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.
Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version
As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version
Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston
Hamlet: The Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. THe 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. And the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation. Have the 2018 Almeida version here.
Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.
Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one.
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here.
Macbeth: here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery. Here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. Here's the 1948 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZrf_0_CcQ">here. The 1988 BBC onee with portugese subtitles and here the 2001 one). The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here and the 1966 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here.
Measure for Measure: BBC version here.
The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version.
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.
Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.
Richard II: here is the BBC version
Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier, and here's the 1995 one with Ian McKellen. (the 1995 one is in english subtitled in spanish. the 1955 one has no subtitles and might have ads since it's on youtube)
Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version.
The Taming of the Shrew: the 1988 BBC version here, the 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one.
Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,
Troilus and Cressida can be found here
Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here
Twelfth night: here for the BBC, herefor the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.
The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)
Oh, I have additions!
A Misdummer Night Dream: Here’s the 2013 globe production (the one with The Kiss, you know it)
Romeo and Juliet: Here’s the one that was going to be a stage show and then lockdown happened so they filmed it! Stars Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley
Okay, I'm collating everything from the comments because I love this so much!
From vivienlacroix:
Much Ado about Nothing: Here is the Free Shakespeare in the Park version with Danielle Brooks as Beatrice (From 2019)
Hamlet: Here is the 1921 silent film in which Hamlet is a woman (don’t get your hopes up though it’s extremely sexist and heteronormative)
A Midsummer Night‘s Dream: here is the 2019 National Theatre version (With Gwendoline Christie)
From partywithponies:
Here is the Shakespeare's Globe/Roger Allam/Colin Morgan version of The Tempest! (From 2013)
From ryfkah
"Двенадцатая ночь" (Twelfth Night), a Russian film from 1955 (with subtitles)
Twelfth Night (1986), a filmed version of an Australian stage production with baby Geoffrey Rush as Andrew Aguecheek
From chekovsphaser:
This drive has 4 Globe productions Midsummer 2013 and Tempest 2013 (Both above), and then As You Like It 2009, and Love's Labour's Lost 2010
From maa-pix:
Twelfth Night: the 1998 version, "Live From Lincoln Center" on PBS, directed by Nicholas Hytner, with Helen Hunt, Paul Rudd, and Kyra Sedgwick. Part One, Intermission interview with Nicholas Hytner, and Part Two. Also here. (Absolutely fantastic version, best I've ever seen.)
From everybody-dies-at-least-once:
Andrew Scott's Hamlet: Almeida (2018)
King Lear at Shakespeare Festival NYC (1974) w/ James Earl Jones, Paul Sorvino, and a young (very sexy) Raul Julia here
Then I made a Google Drive for the ones that I have that I haven't seen elsewhere on the list:
They are also all Globe productions: MacBeth 2020, Romeo and Juliet 2009, Romeo and Juliet 2019, The Merry Wives of Windsor 2019, and The Winter's Tale 2018.
And then finally MIT has this super cool repository of performances from around the world and some of them have videos https://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/
In my (unsuccessful) quest to find The Hollow Crown, I also found a few other of the histories, so here's Richard II with Sean Connery, Richard II with Ian McKellan, and a stage play of Richard III
Also, if anyone has a version of the lockdown Romeo and Juliet mentioned above or the Olivier or McKellan Richard IIIs, the current links are broken and the productions sound very cool!
I might kiss you my friend for that work. I awoke from my slumber to find that the post had become popular again and there was way too much notes attached to it for me to read them all.
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I would like to apply a Dolly Parton quote to this most excellent graph.
I've stopped giving a shit and now I've been blowing all my adult money on anime shit and I think this is what everyone means when they say "it gets better"

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one day i'll make a video essay about how the disney live action remakes undermine both animation and musical theater as art forms and storytelling mediums
there is nothing that the live action remakes do that the stage adaptations of the musicals that already exist don't do better, and it's an alternate medium to film so you're not replacing or undermining animation as a medium for storytelling in movies.
you cannot tell me the bottom one is better you simply cannot.
Someone finally put this into words for me.
girl seize the means of production!