dbarthe.bsky.social
Socialist Episcopalian, poli-sci grad student (#GoNova), ace-gay 🏳️🌈. Average Weil enjoyer. Sondheim-pilled. For friends hold all things in common.
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If you get into a good college? Adults in TV will chin stroke about how you probably took your place from a student who deserves it more by virtue of being male.
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...I thought we agreed re the content of standard ideals of masculinity, that was common ground. We just then disagreed about whether all and only men should be stoic, rational, commanding figures, self-appointed warrior protector providers. But I did think we agreed that was the masculine ideal...
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Praying for you: your ministry and presence are a blessing!
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And if you're still coming up with one and/or are unhappy with the vote/call your congresscritter/protest options, *strongly* advise you to read this guide from @prisonculture.bsky.social on what else you can do - there are plenty of options, one of them should fit your skills/needs/availability.
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Trust the Oscars to flounder the easiest layup of the year (and I'm not even that mad Emma Stone won!)
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The Catechism enumerates seven corporal works of mercy; seven acts in which the Church draws closest in matter to the grace of the Second Coming. The seventh is the burial of the dead.
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but what if you, like me, were an effete thirteen year old too congenitally closeted for sportsball? why are we trying to bring back Temperance without all the fun bits, like the songs and the hairpins and the Christianity?
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Absolutely vile. Nothing but kindness and solidarity for you comrade
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With the work as it exists in the other medium, which is how you get basically every Disney production on Broadway just being the movie blown up to a budget of a gazillion with practical effects. Sometimes this works, but only when the need for translation is realized, eg Julie Taymor's Lion King.
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in doing the hard work of making a piece of art attuned to the possibilities of an intermission or an orchestra or dramatic exposition. There's something new here. What most jukebox shows (and musical adaptations of blockbusters too!) rely on, however, is an audience's familiarity.../2