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 I saw a really good production of Twelfth Night yesterday, and I have high standards for this play.

Viola and Feste were both played by nonbinary actors, and if there were ever appropriate characters for that casting choice, it's the person who finds themself in a strange world and moves between identities like water, and the fool who is a self-proclaimed corrupter of words.

Malvolio was played by a woman, which, gosh, everything about that storyline is way sadder with that choice. In this play where everyone is crossing boundaries and one of the most stunning monologues of the whole thing  involves the lines:
What will become of this? As I am a man,
My state is desperate for my master's love.
As I am woman, now, alas the day,
What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe

then to have Malvolio not only be a servant pining for a master, but also the transgressive attraction of one woman for another, is way sadder. The three main lovers are given grace for their love, but Malvolio isn't, and it's just awful! In the darkened room scene (which is uncomfortable at the best of times) she was just sobbing through the whole thing and begging Feste/Topasz to help her, and emphasized "no man was ever used thus"

I've seen productions where Feste regretted his role in this part of the charade, and kept hesitating before mocking Malvolio some more, while Toby and Maria egged him on. This Feste seemed instead to delight in the havoc and confusion they planted everywhere, and seemed more along the lines of Puck or Ariel, which was a terrific new take on it.

The man playing Sir Andrew was over seven feet tall and moved like a skinny beanpole scarecrow, and he was an absolutely perfect gull for Toby.

Any Twelfth Night worth its salt has Antonio desperately in love with Sebastian, and the really good ones have Sebastian return that love, and this one delivered both! Sebastian dressed like a sad gay poet in a 1950s boys boarding school, and when he saw Antonio in the last scene he ran (straight past Viola) into his arms and gave the purest hug ever.
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I'm seriously freaking out about this and I don't know why. I have everything packed and ready to go. I cleaned my room so it's all nice for me when I come back. I've taken care of my bank account and my computer (his name is Harold)  and my phone so I could pretty much get in the car and leave now. And yet I'm upset and lethargic at the same time. I have my narniaexchange to finish up before I go, but it won't go from my head to the computer. Today I just spent a few hours staring at the wall and pretending to sort papers. Yesterday I wrote a whole bunch of angsty resentful Dean fic, because it pretty much matched how I was feeling. Nothing I think of to do can hold my attention for very long. Maybe it's just that I'm worried about leaving my old routine for a new one, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, since this current summer routine sucks.

okay, okay *breathe*

I need a hug or something.
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I can't sleep for the life of me. I caught some kind of bug while I was working as a counselor for a whole bunch of three and four year olds, so I was spacey and tired all day. I slept for almost three hours when I got home and not I feel much better... and wide awake. I want to sleep, but I can't.

There are several things I could be doing to take advantage of my wakefulness
1) Work on my crazy-long Jadis!fic
2) Work on my Supernatural fanpoetry [personal profile] zempasuchil helped me realize what it needed, and now I just need to turn my brainstorming into verse
3) Sort books into stuff to bring to college and stuff to *sob* leave at home
4) Read Stardust so I can finally check it off my list of summer books
5) Watch Supernatural and wish that [personal profile] zempasuchil were awake so I can liveblog at her She woke up and we watched "Crossroad Blues" I cried
6) Study French
7) Play Omegle and try to find GQMFs No one was playing along, so it got boring pretty fast.
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I have half of a supernatural poem running around in my head with nothing to connect it to, and I've discovered something. Fan-poetry is so much harder to write than just regular fic. You need to have some kind of structure, or at least writing style if you're doing free form. The whole thing just needs to be more tight. So one verse about Sam and Dean dreaming is not enough to be a whole poem, but I have no idea what else to put. I want my muse to tell me how this poem goes, is that too much to ask?

Tomorrow is my last day as a counselor at Vacation Bible School and I'm really going to miss all those little kids.

Two and a half weeks till college! I'm going to need to start weaning myself off lj, so I can enjoy the place I'm in.

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Jul. 28th, 2010 09:23 am
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I've decided that I need to update my icon collection so I'm sending out a plea to my FList/RCircle. If you have any you're willing to share that would be excellent.

What I'd like:
More Supernatural
More Awesome Ladies
More Narnia
More Mexico and/or Che
More JOY

Also, the past few days have been a bit strange for me. It's nothing specific, but Monday night ended with me reading creepy Twilight fic, watching a creepy Hamlet film, and sleeping with all the lights on. I need something to restore my faith in humanity. Otherwise I'll never stop thinking about wolfish pedophiles and a really seductive Polonia (In the movie, she was Ophelia's sister, not her father).
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I hate my stupid family. We were all going to go swimming in the pool out back (Well everyone else, obviously) when my dad storms in and declares that NO ONE is going anywhere until the living room is clean. And then he decides to micro-manage every single breath that we take and tells us exactly how we're doing it wrong. And THEN he says that because he needs to direct what's going on here, he's not getting laundry done so it'll be even longer before he can vacuum the leaves off the bottom of the pool. And somehow that's our fault. But whatever, he does that kind of thing all the time so we're used to it.

So. The living room is clean, and we even got all the crap off the stairs, so it should all be great. Everyone gets sunscreen and towels and goes outside. Finally I'm alone with no one to bother me, so I grab a book (A History of Modern Latin America, if you're interested) and listen to some music in my room. Suddenly, my little sister runs into my room and yells that I need to come to the back yard RIGHT AWAY. She tends to be a bit overdramatic, but she's six, so we can forgive her for that.

So I come outside, and Rebecca and Daniel are trying to put up a tent. It seems they needed to prove how prepared they are to set up camp when we go on our road trip next week BEFORE they can get in the pool. So they got a bit tangled with the poles and started yelling at each other, so my dad sent for reinforcements. And that's fine, I understand that, I really do. But as I tried to help them figure out what was going on, he was keeping up a running commentary of what we should be doing and how it was wrong. It was the living room all over again, but worse.

And now he's yelling at us "What can I do to help"

Ugh

Jul. 14th, 2010 06:02 pm
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I'm having a really crappy day. It's hot, for starters. People keep wanting me to do stuff for them, so as soon as I'm done clearing the stairs, I need to do the dishes. And to top it all off, they want me to go swimming with them and can't get it through their thick male heads that as much as I want to - and I really do want to by now - I can't. I physically, literally can not go in the water, because I'm having my period. Idiots the lot of them.

I did get out so I could mail a letter, so that's good, I suppose. Except for the part where it's too hot to stay out for long or your skin boils off. And the fact that I had to take my six year old sister with me. But besides that, it was a nice chance to get out of the house.

I need a hug. Or chocolate. God, I hate summer with nothing to do.
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So I leave for my big trip on Sunday evening, and chances are, I won't get a chance to check my flist or rcircle that day or Saturday. So I want you to tell me everything about yourselves. What's been happening? How was your year at school? What are you planning to do this summer? Any crushes you're willing to talk about? I want to know all of your lives.

Also, this is a tad risky, since I won't be around to moderate it, but I've just now (6:24 AM) decided to host an all-fandom comment-ficathon. This will be in another post, if enough people think it's a good idea. You can post a sentence or exceed the character limit. You can click reply at any part in an established thread. If this idea is approved by the general public, I expect my inbox to be OVERFLOWING when I get back. I'm almost positive that I will not be so thrilled about that prospect once it actually happens, but I'm absolutely willing to take that risk.

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