“Stop trying to “get it together.” The biggest lie we’re told when we’re growing up is that soon as we’re adults, as soon as we’re in college, finish college, get that job, have that steady income, find that someone special, “find ourselves,” find that perfect house, get that retirement fund, have those children, everything will fall into place. Here’s a secret: it won’t. Every new development in your life, good or bad, big or small, will come with its own very special set of challenges. The sooner you accept that, the better off you’ll be. But the myth is perpetuated throughout life, perhaps now more than ever with happy status updates on Facebook and blushing bride/happy multi-tasking mommy blog posts. What these success stories don’t tell you is what is going on behind closed doors. They don’t tell you that your friend who is so over the moon with her new baby had to apply for food stamps. They don’t tell you that your fantastic, involved professor struggles with depression. They don’t tell you that your happily married friend still has nightmares about her abusive ex. They don’t tell you the cousin who just got that jealousy-inducing job opportunity is thinking of breaking up with his boyfriend of 10 years. What closely interacting with people from all backgrounds on the Internet for over a decade has taught me is that no one “has it together” in the way we think they do. So stop trying to have that as your goal, because you are just setting yourself up for massive failure.” — Nanna Freeman (x)
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Change is happening. This is proof.
(Source: gay-men, via anythingtoasted)
The Dream Lives?
Well, something’s got to live, I suppose. How does that make any sense in a movie where everybody is miserable and the death count is high? Do you see a dream living, because I don’t?
They say things like that for the musical all the time, too, like LES MISERABLES: DREAM THE DREAM.
But it’s established fairly early on by Fantine, that she had a dream once, and then she realized how much life sucks, and that dream died.
Shouldn’t a more appropriate tagline be something like,
“Watch Your Dreams Die Alongside Your Friends at the Barricade?”
I mean really.
“We’re trying to schedule everything around everything. Obviously, Sherlock Holmes is off battling Captain Kirk, and Dr Watson is helping Gandalf, and I’m in the TARDIS.” — Steven Moffat, on being asked when Season 3 of Sherlock will happen. (x)
(Source: furryraree, via slight-weapons-malfunction)
so in “Extraordinary Merry Christmas” they cut:
- a scene between the gay couple where they mention they had sex, talk about getting married, confess their love for one another, and one of them pretty much does a dry run of his wedding vows PLUS multiple little overtly romantic and physical moments
- a moment between the couple where both of them are Asian
- a cheek kiss between the lesbian couple
- a conversation about the interracial couple
they kept:
- multiple repetitive scenes with the straight white couple
- a promotion of an organization known to be homophobic
I’m sensing a pattern here.
(via castlesbuiltintheair)
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So yeah, it was a pretty fun dream.
That awkward moment when Blaine remembers his Kurt’s favorite gum but Finn can’t remember that Rachel is a vegan.
(via screwthemkids)
I think it’s pretty clear at the wholesale cutting of gay affection in this episode alone (not just with Kurt and Blaine but also Santana and Brittany) that a lot of it is Fox. The stuff is being written and at least some of it is being filmed and yet…it doesn’t make the final cut. And it’s not about “time”. A quick peck on the cheek takes a fraction of a second.
I’m grateful that Heather and Teej organized this fundraiser and that we raised so much money and got the script but it also fucking breaks my heart to know that Chris and Darren (and Naya and Heather) put so much fucking work into their characters and their stories and to have so much of it just wiped away and invalidated.
What must Chris and Darren think about their scenes being cut? Kurt and Blaine’s moments of affection not making it onscreen? What must they think sitting there on their lunch break in the Paramount Theater watching their scenes and their little Kurt and Blaine moments cut from episode after episode?
I’m angry but more than anything I’m just sad that two boys who love and care for each other can’t be treated equally on television in this day and age and that their relationship has to be sidelined and hidden away like it’s something shameful or less than.
(via castlesbuiltintheair)
“Extraordinary Merry Christmas:” Act Six
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