“That keeps on coming back to me, that sentiment and that idea and how strangely hard it is to be oneself. It feels like it is a lifelong pursuit to dig down and bring whatever is the true self—that mysterious thing of the true self—up to the surface, offering it and giving it because it wants to be given. There are so many opportunities to run away from it. It’s so easy to say: ‘No, not safe, not safe, not safe—I’m going to be rejected or I’m going to fail or I’m going to be disliked or someone won’t understand.’ What I’ve discovered is that if people are not understanding you or you are failing, that often tends to be a good sign.”

“It makes me weep to even think about,” gushes Miranda. “Because he was such a mentor to Jon and generations of songwriters. But yes, he rewrote that message and recorded it himself and just sent it to me." (x)

Tick, Tick...Boom! + RENT References

ANDREW GARFIELD as JONATHAN LARSON tick, tick… BOOM! (2021) dir. Lin-Manuel Miranda

troye sivan’s house in melbourne via architectural digest :( 

It’s that time again guys

gaymer of the year

Michael Schur’s speech at The Good Place series finale table read

next to normal + name etymology (insp.)

POSE 2.09 | Life’s a Beach

“By implicitly equating Eliza’s acts of narration with [Hamilton’s, Lin Manuel Miranda is] acknowledging the women who built the country alongside the men. You’re left wondering whether the “Hamilton” of the title isn’t just Alexander, but Eliza, too.” – Michael Schulman (The New Yorker)

— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.