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In order my inspirations were things I’ve seen that Catholics, Buddhists, Jews, Scientologists, and many traditional local religions do that are referenced in research that I’ve done or people who practice those religions in the modern day have actually told me about something that they or their families do personally.

In fact I have Hmong friends whose families still do animal sacrifice for their own personal traditions. They sacrifice chickens, spill the blood in a specific way, and eat the animal afterwards.

It’s almost always queer spaces that take “ambulatory wheelchair users exist!” to mean that a venue with a step (or even multiple steps) is wheelchair accessible because the wheelchair user can just get up while someone lifts their (small, manual) wheelchair up the step.

Or, even worse (like the “inclusive” salon my friend wanted to go to) they call a space with absolutely no wheelchair access “accessible” because they have fidget toys.

I’ve had people tell me they have an “inclusive and accessible space” because they don’t stop people from stimming visibly (Good! Let people stim!) but then arrived to find they had no ramp and eight steps between every level of their building. That’s not accessible.

I’ve had a church or two call themselves “accessible and inclusive” because they respect pronouns and treat trans people like humans (Good! We are humans!) but then I showed up to find they had a ramp with a slope so steep my wheelchair actually flipped and the access point to said ramp had a four-inch tall slab of concrete keeping me from getting to the ramp in the first place without someone having to lift me and my chair. That’s not accessible.

Uhhhhhhhh

Is.... Is anyone gonna tell him or....?

This is the YouTuber trying to explain how casting Snape as black in the new Harry Potter adaptation will change the kids and audience from suspecting a character based on 'neutral, classic visual shorthand of villany' to them being racist agaisnt the only black teacher in school.

Honey, there are NO 'morally netrual' physical features of villainy

Wether it's ablelist or racist or homophobic or misogynist of transphobic

REAL HUMAN PHYSICAL FEATURES BEING USED TO SIGNIFY THAT SOMEONE IS EVIL WILL ALWAYS COME FROM ONE FORM OF BIGOTRY OR ANOTHER

Love, grief, and magic in the mundane

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

Happy Opera Pride! 🌈🌈🌈 Der Rosenkavalier (Robert Carsen, 2017) Don Carlo (Emilio Sagi, 2016) L'incoronazione di Poppea (Jan Lauwers, 2018) Adelaide di Borgogna (Arnaud Bernard, 2023) Platée (Jetske Mijnssen, 2023) Benamor (Christof Loy, 2026) Alcina (Robert Carsen, 2021) Champion (James Robinson, 2023) Ariodante (Robert Carsen, 2023) Les Pêcheurs de perles (Timothy Nelson, 2015) Der Rosenkavalier (Josef Ernst Köpplinger, 2021) Arabella (Tobias Kratzer, 2021)

+ bonus Les Brigands (Barrie Kosky, 2024):