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pushing yourself

i’m about to go the first rehearsal for the play i wrote, i’m also directing for the first time. months of work have gone into this. i keep alternating between terror and elation re: sharing it with people but no matter how today goes i’m so proud of myself

@carolineheins

Jan 13, 2025

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DOING AMATEUR THEATRE

Just finished up a week-long run of Shakespeare's Richard the Third and feeling so proud of everyone involved. I love acting and hope it'll become a bigger part of my life, but even with that said working on this latest production has been so inspirational. I've met and gotten to know so many fantastic people putting their all into theatre as a hobby — for a few of them this was their first time onstage and it was so fun watching them grow and shine as we neared opening night. Personally, my role in the play as the Duchess of York wasn't a key character, but it was one I found massively challenging for a number of reasons — but once we got into live performances something clicked and I felt like with each show I learned something new about myself and the role. I can't recommend this enough as an opportunity to meet new people, push yourself out of your comfort zone, and also guilt your friends into spending nearly three hours in a dark cramped room 😁

@greebo

May 19, 2025

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Performing a play with friends in ur home

this was an OG newsletter rec that I tried a year and a half ago but it was sO much fun–one of those nights where the whimsy is at an all time high and everyone talks about it for years to come. been plotting a second performance

@harper

Mar 8, 2024

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HOTNESS as a virtue

My friend and I happened upon this. Meaning, strive to live your life in a way that makes you feel hot. Dress to feel hot. Talk to feel hot. Do whatever you do, but in a way that makes you feel like you're worthy of the love and adoration and crushes and desire you deserve. This does not mean "sexy" necessarily--hotness is always shifting and has many forms. But reach deep inside and you'll find that your own personal method and mode of hotness can always, and most of the time is, an excellent guide.

@daphne

Jun 8, 2024

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Being trans

tough but worth it

@daphne

Feb 25, 2025

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Side wound

Kind of a genre of medieval paintings, but confirms to me how horny people have always been and how we've always had to sublimate our desires into the dominant culture. It's so weirdly explicit and bizarre, and has so many layers in how it would have been used: a painting to look at, a page in a prayer book to speak as a script, a physical object to touch and venerate and meditate with.... like imagine people fingering this "wound" and being like, yes this is honestly totally about jesus. Crazy.

@daphne

Aug 2, 2024