hamlet-trash:

why are umbrellas so pleasing to watch on stage? the illusion of being outside and being under the eternal sky is created by a real object. a metaphor of limitlessness is created by the very real limit of an actual umbrella indoors. cosmology is brought low by the temporary shelter of the individual against water. the sight of an umbrella makes us want to feel both wet and dry: the presence of rain, and the dryness of shelter. the umbrella is real on stage, and the rain is a fiction. even if there are drops of water produced by the stage manager, we know that it won’t really rain on us, and therein lies the total pleasure of theater. a real thing that creates a world of illusory things.

I have an umbrella with a picture of the sky inside. my daughter anna said, when she was three and underneath it, “we have two skies, the umbrella sky and the real sky.” when I went out with her in the rain recently without an umbrella, she said, “it’s all right, mama. I will be your umbrella.” and she put her arms over my head.

sarah ruhl, “umbrellas on stage”

things i always want to know abt people

foggysuggestion:

  1. any recurring childhood dreams?
  2. if you could take a long roadtrip anywhere, where would you go?
  3. favorite type of clouds?
  4. best sing-along-dance-alone-in-your-room songs?
  5. weirdest phase you went through as a kid
  6. pro- or anti-sleeping with socks?
  7. are you still in touch with your first best friend?
  8. the moment when you realized you loved _____ (music, sports, etc)
  9. jelly or jam?
  10. have you ever learned to knit or crochet?
  11. tell the story of your first love
  12. a book you would recommend to anyone who would listen
  13. a movie you would recommend to anyone who would listen
  14. are you good at keeping plants alive?
  15. something you wish you could do but can’t
  16. something you’ll admit to the internet but not people irl
  17. what color are the walls in your room?
  18. what are you like when you are really really tired?
  19. do you prefer taking notes on paper or online
  20. are you a leg jiggler?
  21. what makes a song /good/ in your opinion?
  22. the littlest, pettiest pet peeve you have
  23. are you an old soul or young soul?
  24. frosted cupcakes or unfrosted cupcakes?
  25. what do you think your mid-like crisis will be about?

joolaweed:

thea and i were having this terrible conversation about how remus undoubtedly writes

and publishes

VERY gay poetry that he never allows anybody else to see and suddenly i… had the worst thought… i thought of harry, after the war, in remus and tonks’ house, collecting teddy’s things, looking with sadness at the little bits of their lives they’ve left behind… and going into the closet and finding, at the very back, the suitcase that remus had had that first day on the train in his third year. and he flips it open, and underneath a few threadbare sweaters (covered in tiny black dog hairs) are all these books of muggle poetry under a pen name with remus’ initials… they’re advanced reader’s copies and they’re filled with remus’ notes and rewritten lines and there, on the bedroom floor,

silently turning page after page, suitcase propped open next to him,

harry realizes for the first time that remus and sirius were in love with each other