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but also “this character would be much more interesting if she was a woman” is just often the way of the world !

the problem is i think a lot of the verdi baritone archetype opera characters who are obsessed with family legacy and the way they perform their own genders immediately become way way more interesting if they’re women. the trovatore where she’s the countess di luna and she is desperately trying as a masc-leaning lesbian to fit into a world that hates her in the deluded hopes she can prove herself and become the #Exception (while also being bent over backwards about the soprano going ‘i want the choice in this love triangle that signifies reckless freedom and going against societal grain!… i’m picking the man!’) would not SOLVE the essential dramaturgical problems of trovatore but it would at least make characters who aren’t azucena considerably more interesting.

please god i would like to be able to work on my creative projects and feel some level of fulfillment again instead of blankly staring at the screen and feeling nothing even when i type something out or draw lines down

yaaaaay new york knicks