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Til I Hear You Sing parody (co-author @from-aldebaran)
Gummy Bears Phantom parody (co-author @from-aldebaran)
Phantom Wine List (multiple co-authors)
my ultimate Phantoms/Christines/Raouls list part 1 part 2
My reviews of mostly POTO boots
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it is truly amazing just how many cheaters my brother seems to encounter in his MW/COD/Battlefield games. if anyone kills him, they're cheating. all the guns are overpowered, there's no way anyone else could have killed him! they shouldn't use those guns! they shouldn't be camping! there's no way they could have seen him! they're not following the rules that my brother decided on!
Reminder that "transwoman" without the space is a transmisogynistic dogwhistle as it's used almost exclusively by hate groups like the "gender critical" movement.
The implication of removing the space is that being trans isn't just one way a woman can be, like being tall or being brunette, but that women who are trans require a whole other noun.
Trans women, tall women, brunette women. Leave the space in; trans is an adjective and trans women are women.
I find that framing extremely narrow and reductive.
No, not everyone who doesn't use the space is your enemy. Some might not speak English as their first language, and their native tongue might write words together. And that's all.
there are a thousand comments like this on this post, including a surprising number that (like this one does) go on to scold me further in the tags that i could just tell someone nicely bc they might not know.
and i just want to know what you all think the point of this post is, if not to warn you not to use this dogwhistle, nicely, because you might not know.
I'm aware not everyone knows. that's why it works as a dogwhistle. and why I wrote a post. to let ppl know.
and it was written politely!
I learned about this dogwhistle from a similar tumblr post 12 years ago and since I've noticed this convention popping up weirdly frequently recently, I wanted to give people a heads up like what I got.
so you would know.
because I'm not assuming malice, because this post is addressed to my own political allies, people I'm assuming will WANT to know the dogwhistle is there.
people who will WANT to stop unknowingly using this convention yourselves, and notice it from others, so that it loses some of its ability to function as a dogwhistle.
because this post was written in the assumption most of its readers would be interested in countering the rhetorical toolkit used to advance the political project of transmisogyny.
Saturday, June 13, 2026 • 9 p.m. EST: David Shannon, Gina Beck & Simon Bailey (London 2010)
You've most likely heard the phrase "Here goes nothing..." usually spoken before someone tries something that is seemingly impossible, something they are not at all sure is going to succeed, but hoping so very much that it will.
Well, that is certainly applicable as I prepare to step into the role long filled by a person who has demonstrated a dedicated commitment to building community. A person who changed my life with just a few words, and, as I have learned especially these past few weeks, changed so many people's lives for the better over the years.
That person is @wheel-of-fish, and this past Saturday was her 300th Saturday Stream of so many versions and visions of The Phantom of the Opera.
Fish has built an amazing and enduring community in the Saturday Streams. She brought us all together weekly, gathering amid the highs and lows of our internal lives, the highs and lows of the real world swirling around us, often shadowed and dark and incomprehensible these last several years.
Fish's Saturday Streams are a refuge, a source of companionship and wit, of shared heartbreak and sadness, as we long each week for a different ending for our trio despite knowing it is not meant to be. And amidst the tragedy on stage, there is always that glint of compassion and redemption, sparked by a kiss--and the specter of hope for the future held in an empty chair.
One of the truest things I know is that shared pain is lessened and shared joy increased. Thank you so much, Fish, for what you have made here in this place you have built, and thank you for entrusting it to me so that it can continue to be a place for us to gather and share joy.
This week we will be watching a performance that has significance in Streams history and personal significance for me.
The Streams had been a bit intermittent in the fall of 2019, with two Streams in October, two in November, one in December and then...had gone quiet.
Meanwhile, the Fourth American Phantom Tour was nearing its end and came through my home city in November 2019. It was then I saw Phantom for the first time, with Derrick Davis as the Phantom, and I was thunderstruck. I saw it twice, in November and December, followed it to a neighboring state for a third show and then to Chicago for a fourth and last performance. The show was closing at its next stop in Toronto January and February 2020 and the pieces almost came together for me to get to the closing show, February 2nd...but work had other plans and I was not able to go.
What was I going to do now?
I was not yet on social media at all, but had been poking around as a visitor to tumblr and fate smiled when I saw an announcement for something called Saturday Streams:
"Special reappearance of Saturday Streams!
Saturday, Feb. 15 • 9 p.m. EST: David Shannon, Gina Beck & Will Barratt (London 2010)"
And written in that announcement, the words that would change my life in such a profound fashion: "shy anons are welcome."
This stream that we are playing again this coming Saturday was the first time I saw the brilliant original, and not the restaged version which contained enough of the heart and soul of the show to already hook me completely. To say the stream was a profound experience is a profound understatement.
I was not yet a tumblr member and so I missed the announcement a month later--as we all became aware that the world was heading into a crisis and we had no notion of how it would all turn out--that Fish was bringing back the Streams on March 14, 2020 with stream number 34...and well, we all just experienced number 300 this past Saturday. I missed 34 and 35 but then saw the announcement for 36 and here I have been ever since.
This performance is a Streams favorite and has been played five times since that first showing in 2020--once for Fish's 100th stream! The last showing was in a colossal marathon of eleven productions of London Phantom that began on August 2nd, 2025. Both Fish and @glassprism -- keeper of Phantom knowledge-- agree that "this is a much-requested pairing with great chemistry and acting and a classic", and that Gina Beck is widely regarded as one of the best Christines of all time.
And so, after all that being said, I get to post for the first time the words that brought me into Phantom fandom, onto tumblr, into POTO fanfic writing, and led to more friendships and experiences than I could ever have possibly imagined:
As always, the stream will be on cy.tube and
shy anons are welcome.
Thanks for all of it, Fish.
Here goes...everything.
⭐PFPs featured on the Saturday Streams banner are left to right Streams Founder @operaofthephantom, 300 Club Streams Host @wheel-of-fish, new host @from-aldebaran, and our Phantom Founder, Gaston Leroux. Massive thanks to @opera-ghost for the PFP additions to Fish's original banner.
⭐For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ
⭐Remember to follow @from-aldebaran for stream posts going forward.
⭐Streams announcement posting schedule after this outlier on Wednesday will go back to the usual Tuesday and Thursday posts, a post noonish on Saturday and then the showtime post Saturday evening.
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Your post about domesticated coyotes and the problems that arise with the idea includes a specific phrase that I *could* look up myself, but I feel like you could phrase it very interestingly.
"Re"-domestication of cheetahs?
With reference to This Post
In ancient Egypt, Cheetahs were sometimes used as hunting animals like greyhounds, and kept as housepets by the royal family and later, many wealthy households.
Now, there's an argument about how "domesticated" these cheetahs were- the majority of them were captured from the wild as adults and tamed/trained to tolerate humans and obey hunting commands, mostly because back then and still today, cheetahs are extremely hard to breed in captivity. Some were bred and raised from cubs, and there was not a shortage of cheetahs living in and around human habitation for them to replace stock with.
Even today, cheetahs are... weirdly comfortable around humans, if those humans know how to mind their manners. Game wardens in Kruger National Park sometimes sleep next to young cheetahs they are re-introducing into the wild, or have had female cheetahs who are familiar with them drop their cubs off on their feet to 'babysit' while she goes hunting.
Here's a pair of San hunters from the Naankuse Wildlife Reserve in Namibia bow-hunting while a wild local male cheetah hangs out with them (the angle makes him look much bigger and closer to the men than he is, but he's still VERY close). The male's name is Aiko, and is well-known to these men- they're not worried about his presence because they know how to respect his space and he knows not to go after game they've downed. Game they miss is free for him to run down, and game he flushes from the bushes are much easier to shoot- a mutually beneficial partnership. It's extremely similar to how the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea hunt with their dogs, some of the most recently domesticated and most similar to ancient 'proto-dogs' alive today.
So, cheetahs aren't domesticated the way dogs and housecats are- they haven't been selectively bred for generations, they're not dependent on humans, and they can and will attack people that bother them.
But like Coyotes, the remaining cheetahs we have are VERY habituated to humans, arguably even moreso than coyotes are, and we've made a lot of progress in getting them to breed in captivity- Ironically by pairing them up with highly domesticated dogs, who teach them domesticated animal behaviors like "not worrying about everything".
With Coyotes, the obstacle to domestication are mostly practical matters like "getting a coyote farm funded, zoned, built and insured.", whereas with cheetahs the problem is "there are almost no cheetahs left to practice domestication on and the ones we do have are already inbred". There IS a lot of commercial interest in domesticated cheetahs, so I think a good way to get the funding for species conservation and genetic re-diversification of cheetahs would be to frame it as a prerequisite to "Re-Domestication" and pet cheetahs.
We've done much larger and more complicated things before.
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I got my first pokemon game (Blue) in 2009. (I also got Gold and Crystal but they were unplayable due to a dying battery.) Fast forward to three days ago when I started playing Sword and it's so different! And occasionally confusing. My first wild encounter was at night, but there was a popup that said the sunlight was harsh.
Also, why do so many of these pokemon look like squishmellos or are weirdly disproportionate? Looking at you, hot dog bun electric puppy and buck-toothed giant-headed turtle and you too, you fleshlight floating eel. And you, foetus with a placenta in a bubble.
Justice for the girl pikachus. Why do they have a blunt tail? I want to know why they evolved that way.
1- @Bluewmist on Twitter / 2- Roly Poly is Taken on Twitter / 3- About Time (2012) by Richard Curtis, image from Mita Park on Unsplash / 4- Sherri Turner on Twitter / 5- Cold Solace by Anna Belle Kaufman / 6- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
wtf happened to that poto post that was a straight-up parody of the old spice commercial? istg I had it somewhere on my blog but now I can't find it anywhere
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alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?