It must just be the song...I don't get it personally and that's okay.
edited 23rd Oct '16 7:42:56 PM by randomness4
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.I don't think the visual context would add much anyway.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.It's a wildly successful Broadway musical so 1. it would probably cost a lot and 2. any given show will be booked out really quickly. Also, there is literally no dialogue that isn't included in one of the songs, so listening to the soundtrack gives you the audio of the whole thing. The visual context isn't necessary to enjoy it; like, you could probably look up pictures to give you an idea of what's happening. Hell, someone on Tumblr probably has the whole play as a gifset if you really want.
edited 23rd Oct '16 8:44:08 PM by SmartGirl333
That was beautiful, and strangly appropriate. And yeah, Hamilton is fantastic. I've listened to the entire soundtrack so many times that I can sing the first 7 or 8 songs from memory. It more than deserves all the hype. I'm not even a fan of rap as a genre, but I can acknowledge when it's good, and every single song in Hamilton can stand proudly alongside the best rap songs ever.
I get why some might be averse to the hype, though yeah it is very good. For those that don't know, most of that section is comprised of Arc Words that have been built up several times throughout the story and fuses a lot of the character-specific motifs together.
I also like this one.
She'd make a great Eliza or a good Angelica.
Soon enough it will be available for schools and maybe smaller troops to perform. Miranda's been thinking of writing a gender-blind libretto, so expect to see a lot of lady Hamiltons.
Miranda used to want to work into animation. Maybe he can be coaxed to do something in SU? Wouldn't that be great? We could be the trash of both of the things.
I'm disappointed that I couldn't get to see Hamilton before it became impossible to see. I've heard nothing but praise about it.
The whole idea of "deliberately casting a white historical figure with a non-white actor" just sounded like a novelty to get the play talked about when I first heard about it, but apparently the play is really good.
The last Broadway play I saw was ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder". It was amazing, but I wish I could see more plays without it being so expensive.
"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" CroshawPay No Mind
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It just occurred to me that there's huge grounds for a Psychonauts/Steven Universe mashup.
Mostly unrelated to this link though.
Garnet, except with 80s cyberpunk neon
x4 You could just do what I do; get a parttime job working as an usher so you can see the shows for free. The schedules are very flexible, so there's no worrying about it conflicting with your regular job, and while you're still on duty (and standing up,) while seeing the show, you still get to at least see it. It's a pretty cool gig and, if you want to see more Broadway, one to look into if you get a chance.
edited 24th Oct '16 2:40:59 PM by kkhohoho
Crewniverse update: Lauren Zuke came out as nonbinary.
Zuke hasn't decided on pronouns yet, but doesn't wish to be referred to as a man or woman. They said any pronouns are fine for the time being though.
Personally, I'm happy to have learned this. It feels nice knowing trans people are represented on the show's staff.
Yeah. The singular they might not be the most natural thing but it's better than the Romance languages where every word has to gender itself.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.The idea of "they" as a plural-only is Newer Than They Think and only dates back to the 19th century or so. Us going back a singular "they" would not be that dramatic of a shift.
I've made the comparison before in a discussion that sexuality is less of a switch (straight/gay) and more of a slider (Straight ————Bi————- Gay). Is non-binary basically that, but with gender? If so, I can understand that. But I tried looking up the term on Wikipedia, and I just left more confused than when I went in.
That aside, I don't know why somebody wouldn't be okay with "they/them". It's the most neutral pronoun in the English language.
I apologize for any unintentional offense, but all of this just feels so...needlessly convoluted, especially compared to the sexuality terminology.
edited 24th Oct '16 5:36:35 PM by BlueBlaze64
"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" CroshawI know the actor unions resist video releases for more than just for money or elitism (they want people to see them in person or support local theaters), but musical theater seems like the most unobtainable medium around today.
Gender is difficult to understand because it's entirely a self phenomenon, like any other problem of other minds. At least with most forms sexuality it's a very external thing. You're a guy who enjoys having sex with other men? Yeah you're indisputably some degree of homosexual, no matter how hard you might argue otherwise. But you wear your hair in a pixie cut, dress in loose jeans, t-shirts, and sneakers all the time, love action films, and hate romcoms? Well if you identify as a cis female, then nobody else can logically deny you that no matter how "mannish" you come off as.
Different people experience gender differently. That's not to say one can't be wrong in their own self-assessment of their gender. There are many accounts of people who have openly talked about considering transitioning at some point, only to decide they weren't trans after all and merely rationalizing something else as gender issues. But as an individualistic phenomenon, it's by nature hard to box in. Like qualia.
Personally I experience my gender passively. I don't feel a particularly strong attachment to being female, but it's the absence of desire to identify as any other gender, plus my dislike when people deny my femaleness on the times when it is challenged, that helps me acknowledge that I'm cis. Others experience gender with certainty, like something buzzing in the back of their heads, or the sudden moodswings one gets right before a period. Those others with their different gender paradigms, were they to experience my sensations of gender, might identify it as being feminine-leaning agender, though they'd be wrong and out of their right to apply it to anyone other than themselves.
As for problems with "they/them" pronouns, I hate to sound like I'm pulling the "special snowflake" argument, but it's often borne out of a desire to seem important. Some of them are part of the former Grammar Nazi group who believe "they" should be exclusively plural, but most of the time it's because they consider it left-me-downs to use a catchall pronoun. Whereas neopronouns like zhe or xe send a more affirmative message of "this person is nonbinary", in the same way that someone who aggressively identifies as female might despise ever being referred to as "they". I get that, considering the history of denying the existence of nonbinary identities. But linguistically, exclusive nonbinary neopronouns are unlikely to ever become mainstream. The restoration of the singular "they" is simply more pragmatic.
edited 24th Oct '16 6:19:34 PM by AlleyOop

Also, I just found a thing:
Holy shit.
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