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i was already sobbing 30 seconds in and then they hit me with this shot i'm going to be sick

if you know how i feel why would you show me that 💔

this is so intriguing to me. it seems like david(if we’re correct in assuming that)/the balladeer takes out napkins at the same time harold does, either leading or copying him.

and he also seems to be leading the ensemble in one of the numbers.

idk what to do with these observations but it’s such an interesting role to me, and seems so different from david’s presence in the book and film

callie sadecki playlist. it's just "superboy and the invisible girl" twenty times

abed was the realest jesus depiction ive seen in fiction . bisexual . palestinian . somewhat insane . unbelievably goodlooking . serving disastrous levels of cunt .

“mine is just a slower suicide” is lowkey the craziest line of all time like whenever i hear it I go a little crazy.

some people are dodging the point so hard. like yes shaunas the "bad guy", shes the one who wants people dead (and maybe lottie too ig) but this story has always been about why its even possible for that to matter. shes literally just one person so why dont they all just refuse to participate? nat does, repeatedly, but no one stands with her so lottie and shauna get what they want. we saw that shauna literally backed down when tai stood up to her, she isnt some unstoppable force.

this is and has always been about passive violence. how being silent in the face of violence, not actively standing up and saying "No" is complicity. tai and van rigging the cards so it will be the "outsider" who gets hunted is complicity. it is commentary on how we allow "fringe" members of our communities to be cast out, othered, hunted, because we're too afraid for ourselves to stand in solidarity with them. but then in the end when the violence comes for you or your friend or your family theres no one left to stand with you because you abandoned those "others" who could have stood with you. shauna and lottie only have the power that the girls give them by being passively complicit in a similar way to how shauna was complicit in tai's plan for allie in the pilot. and so it goes again and again. they all ostracised jackie, watched javi drown, let shauna intimidate and lottie lead them to vote against ben. this show is literally inspired by twin peaks, a story in which an entire town is found to be complict in the murder of a girl they all snubbed every possible opportunity to save. the point is not that shauna is the villian but rather that she is only able to hurt people because the others have created an environment that indulges her worst impulses.

i understand the disappointment that this episode had such a different vibe to the scenes we got in the pilot of these events (and we can debate the execution of it) but do think its deliberate in some ways. like mari having that moment earlier in the season where shes talking about there being two versions of reality feels relevant here. all the information we get "softens" the truth: the pit wasnt built for the hunt, half the girls werent even rly hunting mari, it was used to let nat get away and to isolate/kill shauna, all so they could go home. but does it really soften it? maris still dead, she still dies horribly, they still eat her. like that is the bad reality that lies under all the rest of it. perhaps we've experienced now both shaunas and/or lotties version and the other girls version. and they're both real. they both happen exactly the same way, but for the others there is hope and friendship and the thought of home, whereas for lottie and shauna that doesnt exist anymore they are totally isolated. they've been left only with the animalistic, hunger, purpose, desire, control, as their motivation and that "bad" version they exist in is what we saw first.

the kind of beauty ppl used to go to war over

I feel like I'm goin' nuts every time I see a post that says "oh they were all supposed to be insane cannibals but now only Shauna is like that and everyone else is just scared of her." No, they literally just condemned Coach Scott to death, tortured him because of a gas-huffing prophecy, ate him, and danced around his severed head like 3 episodes ago. Only Natalie objected to this on any meaningful level, and she was ostracized and punished for it.

The reason they're freaked out about Mari is because she's one of them, instead of an outsider. Literally, in the finale, they make a distinction between killing "enemies" and spilling their own blood- this is the line that some of the girls aren't willing to cross. That doesn't make them not villainous, or violent, or cannibalistic! It's actually not "better" to display some guy's head on a spike just because he's Not One Of Us. Shauna is terrifying because she's unwilling to make that distinction- she literally interrupts Van and Tai's plot to give Hannah the queen! Which they rationalized because she wasn't one of "them." And, in the adult timeline, Taissa decides that Shauna is the problem because Van dies, when approximately 1 day ago she was considering hunting down random people to murder on Van's behalf. It's easy to rationalize violence when it's not happening to people you care about, which is the brutal philosophical bedrock of civilization. The one taboo that most of the Yellowjackets are unwilling to break is killing the people you love, and Shauna has had her ability to love stripped away to nothing.

i still regularly think about the production of n2n i saw in Odense (Denmark) and how great some of the translations were.

when diana and gabe are talking about natalie and henry before i miss the mountains diana says; hvorfor har jeg ikke lagt mærke til det? meaning why didn’t i notice that, similar to the original line; how did i miss this

and then gabe answers: du mærker ikke så meget for tiden. and ‘mærker’ has two meanings one of them being notice as for diana’s line, and the other being feel as for gabe’s line that translates to you don’t feel much at the moment.

i love the gabe’s original line with well you kinda miss a lot, which also holds a devastating double meaning, but you don’t feel much at the moment hits so hard.

just thought i would share:)

thank you caissie for this shitty recording of part of the proshot, i’m going to be unwell for the next month

Natalie Goodman + avoiding touch

video: @mttztrading & @callmelasagna

i really hope someone captures Harold Fry at The Chichester. mainly bcs i wanna see Jenna Russell and Jack Wolfe shine, but also bcs i’m so intrigued how they utilize David

Minor detail in six of crows i liked is that both kaz and wylan have a similar thirst for knowledge although they are generally in different fields. And it is shown by two moments. First is a conversation between wylan and jesper where wylan says he is curious about how the moat in the ice court is sustained so high up. Where does the water come from? He wants to know. Jesper makes it clear that he isn't really interested in the whys that much. And the second comes much later one where we see that kaz was wondering the same thing AND he had a theory that the sacred ash actually hid a spring which is the thing that gets him, nina, matthias and kuwei out of the ice court and ends up being the key to their escape.

Kaz and Wylan actually have a really similar curiosity and ingenuity

our bodies are the guilty ones and you're laughing

Shauna making Natalie butcher Ben because she wants so badly for someone to understand the burden she has had to shoulder since the very beginning, the burden of being the butcher, of experiencing loss, but being too blind to see that Nat already understands her better than anyone else ever could. For every animal Shauna butchered, Natalie pulled the trigger, for every life she had spread out on her table, Natalie was the spearhead, ending things. Shauna bore the guilt for Jackie’s death, and Nat put her bones to rest. Nat bore the guilt for Javi’s death, and Shauna prepared him for consumption. Neither of them have ever been afforded the luxury of not doing what needed to be done, or of looking away. Natalie now knows what it’s like to be the butcher. And Shauna will now know Natalie’s burden of being the leader

sometimes i think about this gif from n2n and get lightheaded because it’s so cunty

the n2n pro shot is about to change my life. i am soooo excited to see how they’ve filmed everything i am so excited this beautiful production is gonna me immortalized forever. and we’re getting it in LESS THAN TWO MONTHS ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH YIPPIEEEEEE

one of the best decisions yellowjackets has ever made is reverting the women back into girls at their most vulnerable moments. shauna when she kills adam, nat laying her head in lottie's lap, misty seeing young natalie in the mirror, misty in the morgue seeing lottie because this truly hammers home that their lives stopped the moment that plane went down and that no matter how much time has passed by, they're still those teenagers girls who were on their way to their football game and lost 19 months of their lives trying to survive.

michael longhurst, nick barstow and eleanor worthington cox working together at the rsc🙏🙏🙏

So IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes both think the N2N pro-shot is airing as part of PBS Great Performances on May 9th...

I often think about how loneliness is a more powerful emotion in theatre because you’re in a room full of people who all powerless to do anything but watch and I saw Eva Noblaza as Eurydice in Hadestown the other day and I cannot get her guttural “is anybody listening” out of my mind, she was screaming for someone to listen and you’re sat there mere metres away unable to let her know that you are, that her story is being told and she matters, so many people are listening but she doesn’t know that

"and maybe you feel that way too I see me in you a girl full of anger and hope a girl with a mother who just couldn't cope a girl who felt caught and thought no one could see but maybe one day she'll be free"

DIANA and NATALIE GOODMAN + parallels Next to Normal | Wyndham's Theatre (2024) 📹: @mttztrading

THEIR DAY

cause crazy is perfect and fucked up is perfect so i will be perfect...

“Ilse and Moritz don’t actually connect. That’s the point of the scene. Ilse has fled this hideous situation where she’s been continually raped, basically, by these older artists. And she’s coming back home, in shame, terrified. And of all the people she should run into, my God, it’s Moritz Stiefel, with whom she had this connection when they were children. And of all the people for him to see: at the last possible moment comes this girl who might actually be able to give him the one thing he hasn’t had, and it’s so tempting. But they don’t connect. So the scene is all about disconnection. That’s why I staged them speaking into microphones, facing the audience and not each other.”

— Dir. Michael Mayer, Spring Awakening: In The Flesh (via isthisapiano)

i love natalie because even as she suffers she has nothing but compassion and understanding for her parents. she’s desperate to escape them but she is their number one defender, their number one advocate, always. she does it with diana a lot, especially after the ect-

“she trusts you” natalie’s drug addiction in act ii, in my opinion, is really exacerbated by the ect. the idea that her father might have done something irreversible to break diana’s brain weighs heavy on her and the loss of her mother’s memories - of her mother, because the memories diana lose are all diana knows about her! - is horrifying to her. of course when diana asks natalie to drive her to the doctor, natalie says yes without hesitation. she can’t do much to help, but she can do this. but it’s not just diana! our very last glimpse into the goodman family has natalie comforting her father, even after everything. of course she does; she loves him too, and she knows he suffers just like diana.

Orpheus + Hands movements

🎥: @callmelasagna

i’m gonna throw up out of pure joy

Ngl the potential Next to Normal transfer to broadway was one of the few positive/hopeful threads holding me together and now reading that it’s dead has me feeling some type of way