Okay so, everyone’s written love letters to how good the soundtrack of Hamilton is (and you should listen to it seriously it is fantastic)
But I need to talk for a second about the meta involved in the musical construction.
The main musical genres used in the soundtrack are rap, right? We know that already ‘cause that’s what got everyone’s attention in the first place – a MUSICAL about ALEXANDER HAMILTON casting POC ACTORS in MAIN ROLES and RAPPING????????
But lookit this, the soundtrack isn’t ONLY comprised of rap and R&B numbers.
There is one character in particular who sings a classic musical number like you’d expect from a Broadway show: King George.
So right here you have the Classic Showtune style of King George at odds with the rap/R&B style of the American revolutionaries.
The writer of the show, Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights), has gone on record saying that the reason he chose to do a rap musical is because rap and R&B have been The Music Of The People for the past thirty years.
So right at the start you have the narrative of the young, frustrated, Revolutionaries railing against the Old World Order with new visions of what a country and a government Should be, by pitting the old school idea of what a Showtune is against something that Broadway has never really heard before – at least not this successfully or this completely.
But then you keep going deeper into it, right? Rap has always traditionally been a collaborative effort – there are very few, if any, rap songs out there that don’t have the backing of a chorus, at the very least. It’s just sort of the nature of the genre, no rapper raps alone, they always have support. Likewise, while there are solos in the songs in Hamilton, no character sings entirely alone. They’re either backed up by the ensemble, or they’re joined by one or more of the other characters.
In contrast, King George only sings alone. His songs are entirely just him. There’s no backup singers or anything.
Not until, at the very end of the song and at least one of the reprises, he calls for everyone to sing with him, and even then it’s just a couple of lines of meaningless “dadada da das.” So even where there are other voices singing along, where the Revolutionaries willingly join in of their own volition (either to support or debate, it doesn’t matter), King George’s brief backup is ordered to.
So there you have the Democracy versus Monarchy comparison.
And last but not least.
All of King George’s songs are reprises of the first one. Even after the Revolution is over, you know, he changes up some of the lyrics, but it’s still the same tune.
Because a monarchy by definition is unchanging until the individual monarch’s death, and even then there’s no guarantee because of course they’re usually kept within a family. So a monarchy cannot, by its own nature, have anything new to offer.
I need to go see this showwwwwwwww, everything about it is incredible, but the tickets are sold out for three months straight.
A lot of people have reblogged this post pointing out that “Burn” is a strictly solo piece and therefore doesn’t fit into this theory.
I’ll admit, when I first wrote this, I was in the middle of only my second listen-through, so I was writing mostly off of my impressions of the first listen-through.
I have since listened to it a few more times and specifically went back to “Burn” to double-check what it did.
And, of course, I found that it really was far outside of the structure established with the rest of the soundtrack that I vaguely outlined here (and that a lot of other people have added onto).
My response to that is: Of course it is.
“Burn” exists outside of the structure of the rest of the libretto because … wait for it … she’s taking herself out of the narrative.
You know how some people, when they go through a bad breakup, cut their hair or dye it a wild color, get a piercing, grow a beard? Just something that helps them remove themselves from the person they were while they were in that relationship?
Well, what do you do in a musical where one of the most poignant things is the musical style? You drop it.
Eliza sings by herself, in a style much more reminiscent of Traditional Broadway than anything else in the show (barring King George) because she’s removing herself from the story they were telling.
“Burn” exists outside of the structure of the rest of the libretto because … wait for it … she’s taking herself out of the narrative.
On a meta level, I think the fact that both Lin Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom Jr. got nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Musical is fucking hilarious.
Aaron Burr will always have to compete with Alexander Hamilton for his accomplishments.
alexander hamilton:
my religious and moral principles are strongly opposed to the practice of dueling, and it would even give me pain to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellow creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws
(5 minutes later)
a group of republicans:
*looks at alex a lil weird*
alexander hamilton:
i will shoot every single one of you in the fucking mouth right now
Okay so I just saw Hamilton yesterday and I’m still kind of in shock of the fact that I actually saw it but I’m gonna tell you guys as much as I can about it. Alright here we go!
•Only 34 of the 46 songs on the album are listed in the Playbill
•It doesn’t include Aaron Burr, Sir, A Winter’s Ball, The Story of Tonight (Reprise), Meet Me Inside, Guns and Ships, What Comes Next?, Cabinet Battle #1, Cabinet Battle #2, I Know Him, We Know, Stay Alive (Reprise), and Best of Wives and Best of Women
•Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story is called Finale in the Playbill
•There was a buttload of applause everytime a new main character was introduced
•In Alexander Hamilton, when Christopher Jackson says “moved in with a cousin, the cousins committed suicide” ensemble member Gregory Haney (I think) stands on a chair center stage and pretends to hang himself
•In Aaron Burr, Sir, when Burr says “talk less” he does little hand movements with it
•All of the beat boxing during the rap sections for Laurens, Lafayette, and Mulligan is just Hercules banging his fist on the table. During his verse, John takes over
•In My Shot, when Hamilton says “Mr. Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot” he points at himself with a super proud face on
•When Hamilton says “I think your pants look hot” Hercules puts his foot on the bench and swipes back his coat Michael Jackson style to reveal his lovely pants
•Later in the song when they do the “woah woah wooooooooooah…” the Schuyler sisters and some other people are on the bridge and with each “woah” they do a cool mechanical arm thing
•In The Story of Tonight Hamilton says “and when our children tell our story” the person on stage left (I don’t remember if it’s Lafayette of Mulligan) just looks really shocked like he never even thought about having kids
•In The Schuyler Sisters after Burr’s introduction Peggy comes onstage first stomping around like a tiny child and it’s really cute. Throughout the song she gets dragged around by her sisters because she’s a child who cannot be trusted
•At the end of the first chorus and the beginning of when Burr talks again, the rotating stage spins slowly and the sisters all walk in the opposite direction so it looks like they’re actually going somewhere and it’s super cool
•In Farmer Refuted Mulligan says “oh my god, tear this dude apart” to Hamilton and massages his shoulders like a wrestling coach which makes him start walking over to Seabury to speak his mind
•Then Aaron says “let him be” and Hamilton backs down, still looking kind of upset
•After that, Mulligan goes over to him and pats him on the back as a silent prompt to say something to Seabury. Aaron doesn’t see it so he thinks he won’t say anything
•When Alex finally starts talking over Seabury (who’s standing on a little footstool) he just looks really shocked and offended
•Burr is also kind of shocked because he didn’t think Hamilton would do it since he talked to him
•After a little bit, Seabury moves his footstool in front of Hamilton but he steps in front of it
•Then Hamilton gets up on the footstool with Seabury and he’s just so disheveled at this point it’s great
•In You’ll Be Back, everyone has left the stage by the time his song starts and he’s decked out in the entire outfit
•Rory O’ Malley is really good so don’t by salty if you’re seeing him and not one of the other three Georges
•In Right Hand Man when Ham goes “they’re battering down the battery check the damages…etc” He’s walking downstage and Mulligan just follows him for no other reason than to go “brrrrrah”
•When Burr is trying to talk to Washington and then Hamilton comes in, he’s like “as I was saying…” to try and continue the conversation and then G. Wash is just like “close the door on your way out” and Burr’s face just drops
•During Helpless Jasmine and Anthony keep sneaking around and doing cute couple stuff and it’s adorable
•They dabbed in the show. Twice.
•The first time is in Helpless when Hamilton gets the okay from Phillip Schuyler to marry Eliza and he does a happy dance ending in a dab
•In the beginning of Satisfied, John Laurens is just super duper drunk while he’s talking and it makes me laugh but it’s also really sad because it’s kind of a reference to him also loving Hamilton
•Then when they do the whole rewind thing, they actually rewind all of the choreography and lighting cues to get back to that might and it looks SO COOL
•A lot of the stage direction in Satisfied is the same as it was in Helpless which is to be expected but it’s still so crazy to actually watch
•At the end of Satisfied when they go back to the toast, Angelica’s entire attitude is really strained like she wants to be happy but she just can’t
•The pelvic thrust that the gang does is in The Story of Tonight (Reprise) and it starts when Mulligan says “to the newly not poor of us” and he starts the thrust, then Lafayette joins in, and finally Laurens
•Laurens’ voice just completely changes when he says “on the siiiiiiide, Burr” and it’s hilarious
•Aaron goes “she’s married to a British officer” and Alex just goes “oh shit” and it’s completely there and he doesn’t fade away when he says it or anything it’s great
•The choreography in Wait for it is really simple and beautiful and there’s only ever light on Burr
•The first time Ariana DeBose is the bullet is when you hear the gunshot at the beginning of Stay Alive because a British soldier tried to shoot Hamilton but he’s hunched over a letter so the bullet (Ariana) goes right over his head
•Charles Lee is usually played by John Rua which I didn’t know
•Thayne Jasperson is the doctor in all of the duels
•In Meet Me Inside John Laurens says “I’m satisfied” but he still tries to fight Lee and Hamilton has to hold him back
•When Washington says “thank you for your service” he takes off his hat and bows super deeply
•Pippa’s annunciation in That Would Be Enough is On Point™
•At the end of Guns and Ships G. Wash sends a letter to Hamilton and as he’s singing, the letter is taken from the stage right side of the bridge all the way to the left and down the stairs to Hamilton where he reads it and journeys to Washington
•The entirety of History has its Eyes on You is Washington talking to Hamilton
•Laurens killing the British soldier in Yorktown is so great I love it
•The dance sequence in Yorktown is just sO FREAKING AMAZING
•In What Comes Next? People are still exiting the stage from Yorktown and King George keeps running into them with a disgusted look on his face
•King George only has his fun coat robe thingy on in his first song. After that, it’s gone and he becomes more distressed and disheveled with each song that he does
•The setup for Dear Theodosia starts with Burr taking a chair on ½ stage right and standing behind it while he sings in the only pool of light onstage
•When Hamilton starts singing he brings his own chair onstage and stands behind it in the same way as Burr. The light switches to him and it goes out on Burr as he sits down in the chair
•Once Burr starts singing again his light goes back on and Alex sits in his chair
•JOHN LAURENS’ DEATH KILLED ME IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I CRIED DURING THE SHOW AND IT WAS THE SADDEST THING EVER YOU GUYS I DIED
•When Hamilton and Burr are having their midnight conversation in Non-Stop Burr is stage right and the light coming from behind him looks like he opened a door it’s cool
•When Angelica says “don’t forget to write” she’s standing on the outer circle and it rotates away from Alex like she’s going across the ocean and Eliza’s on a different part of the circle so when Angelica rotates away, she rotates to him and it’s really cool
•At the very end of What’d I Miss? Jefferson does a weird flappy arm thing and prances in a wide circle which is why Hamilton does a smaller version of it in Cabinet Battle #1
•G. Wash is a quality MC
•When Hamilton says “while you were off gettin’ high with the French!” Madison gets a coughing fit and has to sit down which causes Ham to turn his debating attention towards him
•There’s an actual piano onstage for Take a Break
•ELIZA’S MATERNAL BEATBOXING OH MY GOD IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL
•Angelica and Eliza are super cute together during this song and I love them both so much because they’re super sister-y it’s great
•In Say No to This, part of the set is three lampposts spread out evenly across the outer rotating circle. At the end of the song, Maria, Alexander, and Mr. Reynolds were all standing on the outer rotating circle in roughly the same spots as the lampposts which was really cool
•James Reynolds is wearing a goddamn cowboy hat
•When Hamilton says “stop crying, goddamit, get up” Maria is actually on her knees begging
•The yes exchange between Ham and Maria near the end of the song are supposedly them having sex which makes a lot of sense but she’s literally sitting on his lap and he’s like feeling her up it’s super sexual
•At the end of Say No to This as James Reynolds is walking offstage, he claps his hands once and then Maria looks at him and starts to follow him off, then looks back one more time before exiting. It’s one of the main contributors to me that he was very controlling in the relationship
•When Hamilton says “talk less” in The Room Where it Happens he imitates Burr’s hand movements as well as his voice
•In Washington on your Side, Burr starts the song looking in the direction that Hamilton just went and Jefferson is pretty much like “who the fuck is this boy right here?”
•Madison doesn’t enter for the song until he has to talk and when he does, he’s saying “which I wrote” to some person offstage that we can’t see
•During most of the song there are just spotlights on each of the Southern Motherfuckin’ Democratic Republicans but every time they say “OH” in the song, all of the lights flash for a second and then go away so it’s just the spotlights again
•In I Know Him, Ariana DeBose whispers the name John Adams to King George from kind of far away so he goes “what.” And then she whispers it again so that he can hear it
•I Know Him ends with George sitting on a stool down stage right
•He doesn’t leave until the middle of The Adam’s Administration so in the beginning he’s trying to dance to the song from his stool but it’s in such a different style so it’s hilarious
•Leslie Odom Jr. started laughing when he looked at King George III during the song but he had to keep singing
•In We Know, Jefferson goes “my god” and the expression on his face is so great
•The lighting in Hurricane looks like an ocean and on the outer rotating circle you can see all of the things that happened to Hamilton before he came to America it’s super cool
•In The Reynolds Pamphlet, Hamilton is sitting at his desk center stage while Jefferson is reading out loud down center stage facing the audience and Philip is between them facing his father upstage
•About halfway through Jefferson’s reading, Philip backs into him and they switch places. T. Jeffs hands Lil’ Ham a pamphlet and continues to read it over his shoulder with a grin on his face (he makes sure to point out the “most of them in my own house” part). When he’s done reading, he sends Philip on his way where he looks up at his dad and walks offstage with his head hung low
•T. Jeffs is just bouncing up and down on Hamilton’s desk during the song I don’t know how he bounces so much
•Daveed Diggs as Thomas Jefferson is super bouncy
•There are a lot of happy dances in the show
•Like
•A lot of happy dances
•FUCKING BURN HOLY SHIT THAT WAS THE SECOND TIME I CRIED IN THE SHOW
•When Eliza set the letters on fire I was just bawling my eyes out I was a fucking mess during a lot of the second act
•When Philip talks to Eaker during the show there’s an actual show being performed center stage that pauses during their conversation and resumes when it’s over
•George Eaker is a piece of shit.
•George Eaker is a piece of shit.
•I want to strangle George Eaker with my bare hands
•There are sound effects during Stay Alive (Reprise) of blood gushing from a wound and it’s horrifying
•Whenever Philip tries to talk you can hear how much pain he’s in and Anthony Ramos’s acting is so amazing
•Stay Alive (Reprise) was the third time I cried
•Eliza’s scream at the end made me want to curl up into a ball and die
•It’s Quiet Uptown also made me cry
•The lighting completely blacked out center stage during the whole song which made it look like a chasm
•When Madison says “please” in The Election of 1800 he’s wiping his eyes with a handkerchief and it’s so sweet
•Burr hears what everyone is saying about each of the presidential candidates and when the guys say “like you could grab a beer with him” he’s like “yes” but he doesn’t actually say it and he’s does a little fist thingy
•The second dab is in The Election of 1800 when Hamilton promotes Jefferson instead of Burr and he does his own happy dance involving a dab
•While Hamilton’s talking, Burr and Jefferson are standing on different sides of the stage. Burr has a really excited smile and Jefferson has a smug-ass grin
•When Hamilton says “Jefferson has my vote” Burr’s smile slowly turns into a really angry face
•In Your Obedient Servant, Burr sends one paper as his letter. What he gets back from Hamilton is at least five pieces of paper and Burr just looks at them like “good lord Hamilton writes too goddamn much”
•"This man will not make an orphan of my daughter" broke me and I cried for the fourth time during the show
•Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story was just me attempting to process everything that had happened
If you guys have any questions about the show feel free to ask me! My inbox is always open!
I‘m showing my parents Hamilton (well…the soundtrack…because who has money these days) and my mom was crying by the start of Satisfied and I’m just like…can I in good conscience show her It’s Quiet Uptown? I’m gonna have guilt at the end of this.
BUT HAMILTON IS IMPORTANT SO I’M GONNA DO IT ANYWAY.
Update: my mom, like me, is a Gryffindor to the bone. My mom, like me, basically burst into tears during Yorktown (I mean, I burst into tears for me, which was…like…two tears total, but whatever). Why do Gryffindors all cry during Yorktown? is it because we’re all combative victory-loving people? Because that’s my explanation.
I’m trying not to think about the upcoming trainwreck now that we just finished Say No to This, SO. It occurs to me that, in Hamilton, basically every female character who appears except Peggy (who…doesn’t really appear) is in love with Alexander Hamilton. AND YET. They still pass the Bechdel test with the very first appearance of the Schuyler sisters.
BURN.
OW OW OW OW.
Well, we just started Blow Us All Away.
It’s been my pleasure to know y’all; I like red flowers, especially roses, so bring those to the funeral.
It’s Quiet Uptown.
In case you were curious.
You have not known guilt until you make your parents cry with a musical you talked them into watching.
YOUR OBEDIENT SERVANT.
First off, I love how passive aggressive this song is, I PASSIONATELY love this song.
But now we’re starting Best of Wives and Best of Women and all bets are right the fuck off.
The
World
Was
Wide
Enough
Okay I’m gonna get the fuck off your dash in just one second but:
All Hamilton wants, through the entirety of his life, is to be remembered. After his death, Eliza does years of work to try to get him remembered. And yet he wasn’t. He vanished. Until recently I couldn’t say word one about Hamilton other than, A, he was on the ten, and, B, he was George Washington’s Secretary of the Treasury. If pressed, I might have been able to remember something about him having had an affair. Out of everything that could have happened to him, that is doubtless the worst, in his opinion. It is, indubitably, a tragedy.
But. Having said that. We remember him now. Someone cared enough to go and dredge up Hamilton’s history and give it to us and say “Look, look, this is someone worth remembering, this is someone who should be in our history, in our culture, in our memory.”
And you know what, fuck me, that’s beautiful. I love humanity.
I‘m showing my parents Hamilton (well…the soundtrack…because who has money these days) and my mom was crying by the start of Satisfied and I’m just like…can I in good conscience show her It’s Quiet Uptown? I’m gonna have guilt at the end of this.
BUT HAMILTON IS IMPORTANT SO I’M GONNA DO IT ANYWAY.
Update: my mom, like me, is a Gryffindor to the bone. My mom, like me, basically burst into tears during Yorktown (I mean, I burst into tears for me, which was…like…two tears total, but whatever). Why do Gryffindors all cry during Yorktown? is it because we’re all combative victory-loving people? Because that’s my explanation.
I’m trying not to think about the upcoming trainwreck now that we just finished Say No to This, SO. It occurs to me that, in Hamilton, basically every female character who appears except Peggy (who…doesn’t really appear) is in love with Alexander Hamilton. AND YET. They still pass the Bechdel test with the very first appearance of the Schuyler sisters.
BURN.
OW OW OW OW.
Well, we just started Blow Us All Away.
It’s been my pleasure to know y’all; I like red flowers, especially roses, so bring those to the funeral.
It’s Quiet Uptown.
In case you were curious.
You have not known guilt until you make your parents cry with a musical you talked them into watching.
YOUR OBEDIENT SERVANT.
First off, I love how passive aggressive this song is, I PASSIONATELY love this song.
But now we’re starting Best of Wives and Best of Women and all bets are right the fuck off.
I‘m showing my parents Hamilton (well…the soundtrack…because who has money these days) and my mom was crying by the start of Satisfied and I’m just like…can I in good conscience show her It’s Quiet Uptown? I’m gonna have guilt at the end of this.
BUT HAMILTON IS IMPORTANT SO I’M GONNA DO IT ANYWAY.
Update: my mom, like me, is a Gryffindor to the bone. My mom, like me, basically burst into tears during Yorktown (I mean, I burst into tears for me, which was…like…two tears total, but whatever). Why do Gryffindors all cry during Yorktown? is it because we’re all combative victory-loving people? Because that’s my explanation.
I’m trying not to think about the upcoming trainwreck now that we just finished Say No to This, SO. It occurs to me that, in Hamilton, basically every female character who appears except Peggy (who…doesn’t really appear) is in love with Alexander Hamilton. AND YET. They still pass the Bechdel test with the very first appearance of the Schuyler sisters.
BURN.
OW OW OW OW.
Well, we just started Blow Us All Away.
It’s been my pleasure to know y’all; I like red flowers, especially roses, so bring those to the funeral.
It’s Quiet Uptown.
In case you were curious.
You have not known guilt until you make your parents cry with a musical you talked them into watching.
YOUR OBEDIENT SERVANT.
First off, I love how passive aggressive this song is, I PASSIONATELY love this song.
But now we’re starting Best of Wives and Best of Women and all bets are right the fuck off.
I‘m showing my parents Hamilton (well…the soundtrack…because who has money these days) and my mom was crying by the start of Satisfied and I’m just like…can I in good conscience show her It’s Quiet Uptown? I’m gonna have guilt at the end of this.
BUT HAMILTON IS IMPORTANT SO I’M GONNA DO IT ANYWAY.
Update: my mom, like me, is a Gryffindor to the bone. My mom, like me, basically burst into tears during Yorktown (I mean, I burst into tears for me, which was…like…two tears total, but whatever). Why do Gryffindors all cry during Yorktown? is it because we’re all combative victory-loving people? Because that’s my explanation.
I’m trying not to think about the upcoming trainwreck now that we just finished Say No to This, SO. It occurs to me that, in Hamilton, basically every female character who appears except Peggy (who…doesn’t really appear) is in love with Alexander Hamilton. AND YET. They still pass the Bechdel test with the very first appearance of the Schuyler sisters.
BURN.
OW OW OW OW.
Well, we just started Blow Us All Away.
It’s been my pleasure to know y’all; I like red flowers, especially roses, so bring those to the funeral.
It’s Quiet Uptown.
In case you were curious.
You have not known guilt until you make your parents cry with a musical you talked them into watching.
I‘m showing my parents Hamilton (well…the soundtrack…because who has money these days) and my mom was crying by the start of Satisfied and I’m just like…can I in good conscience show her It’s Quiet Uptown? I’m gonna have guilt at the end of this.
BUT HAMILTON IS IMPORTANT SO I’M GONNA DO IT ANYWAY.
Update: my mom, like me, is a Gryffindor to the bone. My mom, like me, basically burst into tears during Yorktown (I mean, I burst into tears for me, which was…like…two tears total, but whatever). Why do Gryffindors all cry during Yorktown? is it because we’re all combative victory-loving people? Because that’s my explanation.
I’m trying not to think about the upcoming trainwreck now that we just finished Say No to This, SO. It occurs to me that, in Hamilton, basically every female character who appears except Peggy (who…doesn’t really appear) is in love with Alexander Hamilton. AND YET. They still pass the Bechdel test with the very first appearance of the Schuyler sisters.
BURN.
OW OW OW OW.
Well, we just started Blow Us All Away.
It’s been my pleasure to know y’all; I like red flowers, especially roses, so bring those to the funeral.
OMG AND CABINET BATTLE #1 like damnnn. I want to see this musical so bad but I'm not willing to sell my vital organs lol
YO ME TOO. Okay, like, I hate Jefferson and have done for years (I am committed to my emotions about historical figures, I’ve hated TJeff for almost as long as I’ve been in love with the Marquis de Lafayette, and I have no regrets). BUT, that said, I love his part in Cabinet Battle #1. And Hamilton’s. But I particularly like the line “Look, when the British taxed our tea, we got frisky; imagine what gon’ happen when you try to tax our whiskey.”
And you know, I don’t feel like selling my vital organs, but if someone’s willing to pay a few grand for an assassin, they could hit me up and I’d be prepared to get the money with someone else’s vital organs, if you feel me.
(In other news, The Reynolds Pamphlet just started and…WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS, HAMILTON. Also, slay him, Angelica, SLAY HIM.)
FAM Yorktown gets me hype. Especially when Hercules comes is. I die every time but i cry literally every time i hear the stay alive reprise, it's quiet uptown, the world was wide enough and who lives who dies who tells your story
OH MY GOD FOR REAL. Yorktown, like, that is my JAM. Also Stay Alive (I like all the…fighty songs, basically, Yorktown, Stay Alive, Guns and Ships, yeah; I am a little too Hamilton for my own health because I am also the sort of person who meets strangers and goes “I punched this person you know, therefore we’re going to be friends.”).
And oh God, the Stay Alive reprise. Do not touch me, I will never be okay, this musical has destroyed my life.
AND. For emotions in the most compact form I’ve ever encountered, Best of Wives and Best of Women might kind of take the cake. It’s so fucking short and yet??? By the end of it, I’m DEAD, I am SLAIN. (Actually, go read the actual letter, it is fucking tragic.) And oh my God, The World Was Wide Enough is just like. NO. I mean, yes, but ALSO NO. This musical, man, this is so fucking distressing.
Like, we’re listening to I Know Him and my parents are cracking up (and so am I, I love King George’s songs) and I’m just like “It goes SO BAD from here, guys, enjoy it while you got it.”
I‘m showing my parents Hamilton (well…the soundtrack…because who has money these days) and my mom was crying by the start of Satisfied and I’m just like…can I in good conscience show her It’s Quiet Uptown? I’m gonna have guilt at the end of this.
BUT HAMILTON IS IMPORTANT SO I’M GONNA DO IT ANYWAY.
Update: my mom, like me, is a Gryffindor to the bone. My mom, like me, basically burst into tears during Yorktown (I mean, I burst into tears for me, which was…like…two tears total, but whatever). Why do Gryffindors all cry during Yorktown? is it because we’re all combative victory-loving people? Because that’s my explanation.
I’m trying not to think about the upcoming trainwreck now that we just finished Say No to This, SO. It occurs to me that, in Hamilton, basically every female character who appears except Peggy (who…doesn’t really appear) is in love with Alexander Hamilton. AND YET. They still pass the Bechdel test with the very first appearance of the Schuyler sisters.
I‘m showing my parents Hamilton (well…the soundtrack…because who has money these days) and my mom was crying by the start of Satisfied and I’m just like…can I in good conscience show her It’s Quiet Uptown? I’m gonna have guilt at the end of this.
BUT HAMILTON IS IMPORTANT SO I’M GONNA DO IT ANYWAY.
Update: my mom, like me, is a Gryffindor to the bone. My mom, like me, basically burst into tears during Yorktown (I mean, I burst into tears for me, which was…like…two tears total, but whatever). Why do Gryffindors all cry during Yorktown? is it because we’re all combative victory-loving people? Because that’s my explanation.
I‘m showing my parents Hamilton (well…the soundtrack…because who has money these days) and my mom was crying by the start of Satisfied and I’m just like…can I in good conscience show her It’s Quiet Uptown? I’m gonna have guilt at the end of this.
BUT HAMILTON IS IMPORTANT SO I’M GONNA DO IT ANYWAY.
Humans quickly get a reputation among the interplanetry alliance and the reputation is this: when going somewhere dangerous, take a human.
Humans are tough. Humans can last days without food. Humans heal so fast they pierce holes in themselves or inject ink for fun. Humans will walk for days on broken bones in order to make it to safety. Humans will literally cut off bits of themselves if trapped by a disaster.
You would be amazed what humans will do to survive. Or to ensure the survival of others they feel responsible for.
That’s the other thing. Humans pack-bond, and they spill their pack-bonding instincts everywhere. Sure it’s weird when they talk sympathetically to broken spaceships or try to pet every lifeform that scans as non-toxic. It’s even a little weird that just existing in the same place as them for long enough seems to make them care about you. But if you’re hurt, if you’re trapped, if you need someone to fetch help?
do actors get boners while making sex scenes this is one of the things i’ve wondered my whole life
Idk if you actually care for the answer, but they have to put their dicks in little sleeves that attach to the leg so if they get a boner it just get held down.
that sounds like a garment that should be sold everywhere and considered polite if not mandatory to wear, like bras
Omg I can’t
As a guy I second this.
If I have to wear a titty sling because there might be an event where it becomes chilly and my nip noops become visible through my shirt, people who have a peenor should be expected to wear a peenor sling in case there is an event where a gentle breeze occurs and their peenor becomes erect.
I kind of feel like if we’re gonna do that we should go all-out and they should be IMPOSSIBLE to size, VERY expensive, flimsy, and made of uncomfortable, itchy materials.
And the little ones should have cute designs but the big ones only come in white,black, and tan
my favorite thing Matt Murdock does is turn off the lights when he goes and fights people like “lmao who’s blind now motherfuckers, taste my sticks of justice”
An AU with Rey as part of the First Order, based on this photoset by the immensely talented @greyjoyss. Â In case you were curious, this is why I ask for short prompts, because this is SUPER LONG and got WILDLY OUT OF HAND. Â Crossposted to my AO3 here.
She
isn’t a Skywalker—or maybe she is.  She
can’t remember, so does it matter?  She
is herself.
Her
mothers scream when she’s born.  Her
human mother screams in effort and pain.
The other screams in ecstasy, and somewhere in the galaxy the last
Jedi’s flesh-and-blood hand shakes as the Force writhes with the birth of a new
sun. Â To the eyes of the minimally
Force-sensitive nurse, the baby girl is wreathed in starlight, her wide and
tearless eyes wandering over things unseen.
Me: *gets anxiety making a phone call*
Also me: *feels completely at ease and downright cheerful wandering around unfamiliar city with only vague knowledge of how to get to where I’m going*
let me tell you guys something that ACTUALLY happened in my screenwriting class last week
one of the female writers in our class is writing a feature about this gang of teenage girls who sort of become vigilantes and murder men who harass women (that’s a shitty logline of it but it’s actually fucking awesome and highly stylized and over-exaggerated like tarantino in a good way bc i fucking hate tarantino). ANYWAY their first kill is this guy named taylor. taylor is one of the girl’s boyfriends. it is heavily implied and the writer confirmed that he abuses and rapes her. not explicitly seen, but she has bruises, there are scenes implying it etc.
so. she wrote the part where they kill taylor. and one of my professor’s comments was about how he felt like he didn’t hate taylor enough.
to which me and my female friend were like um what?? we hate him. he fucking raped and abused her. wE HATE HIM. HE IS A HORRIBLE PERSON.
and my prof was like well yeah i hate him but i don’t HATE hate him. and we argued about it. so he took a poll of who hated taylor. ALL of the girls in the class raised their hands. none of the boys did. when he asked who didn’t hate taylor all of the men raised their hands. and me and my friend started laughing because of COURSE they did.
and my prof was like why are you laughing and the writer was like “i think they’re laughing at the gender difference in that answer” and my prof was like “well, from my male perspective, i don’t think i’m being sexist”
WHAT.
first of all did you hear that sentence at ALL do you understand how paradoxical it is?????
second of all, no. just no.
and then my prof went on to say “i feel like we need to see taylor be horrible. like bad solution, he kicks a dog”
evidently a man can abuse and rape a girl and not be hated, but if he kicks a dog then he’s PURE EVIL
My kid cousin, all of 11 years old, called me up sobbing today. I had about 50 horrifying reasons popping up in my head when he stopped crying enough to ask one question
“Cap’s not Hydra, right?”
A bit of background on why this made sense to me: My cousin was 3 when me and my brother bought him a cute Captain America hoodie. He was 5 when he first caught sight of his dad’s comic collection. He was 8 when he insisted on dressing up as Captain America for a contest at school. He was 9 when he first got bullied and his mom used Captain America as a symbol to tell him to always be kind in strength, to know that he was a better person. He got his Marvel encyclopedia last year for his birthday and every time we meet, me and him have hours long discussions on the characters. His favorite Avenger is Iron Man but he has always been and will always be a Cap’s boy. Steve Rogers has helped him appreciate his own strengths, has helped him understand that being a good person is much more important than being perfect. He got strength from Cap’s stand against bullying, inspiration from Steve’s ability to be kind and caring about the world even in the worst of situations, and most of all motivation to appreciate his own goodness. To him, he was just like Steve Rogers and I’ve seen that kid be so proud of that.
And today he calls me up, shattered and heartbroken, because his ideals, his dreams and convictions of years have been ripped apart. He felt betrayed and lost, because if Cap, his Cap, could be Hydra, a Nazi organization, then did it mean that he was drawing strength from evil all these years?
An eleven year old is questioning his life choices. Nick, still think you’re funny?
My six year old godson is crying in his bedroom right now - his Marvel plastered, Captain America bedsheets and poster covered bedroom - because his hero is a bad-guy and apparently has been all along.
Nick Spencer is such a bad writer that the only way he could think of make his mark on a character like Steve Rogers is to steal the hero from thousands of children.
And if I thought I could find them without having to break out a microscope, I’d gladly do the jail time for punching him in the balls.
Tell kids everyone that Nick Spencer is Hydra and he’s trying to convince them to lose faith in Cap. This is what I told my nephew and he accepted that and decided he was going to keep wearing his Cap shirt because otherwise he was letting Hydra win.
This is a good plan. And excellent plan. Everyone do this!
Something that a lot of people don’t realize is that abusers are capable of being nice. Yes, abusers can do acts of kindness. These acts of kindness do not mean that they aren’t abusive. They’re still abusers.
If your parents constantly tell you that you’re worthless, but provide you with everything you want, they’re still abusive.
If your boyfriend screams at you whenever you do something he doesn’t like, but cuddles you and calls you beautiful, he’s still abusive.
If your friend threatens to never talk to you again when you try to talk to other people, but is always there for you when you need them, they’re still abusive.
Acts of kindness do not make up for their abuse. This is a method that abusers use to keep you attached to them and make you less likely to leave them. You are not a bad person for leaving someone if they cause constant harm to you. Their kindness does not outweigh the harm and pain they caused you. Their kindness does not justify their abuse. Abusers can do good things for their victims and still be abusers.
Abuse is *never* justifiable.
The idea that abusers are cartoon bad guys who are constantly terrible needs to die. Nobody would form an attachment to an abuser or find it difficult to leave one if they behaved badly all the time.
Follow your gut instincts with this type of thing, even if it’s hard. Even if you doubt yourself and others around you do to. Because there will come a day when you look back and realize that getting yourself far away from that situation was the smartest thing you’ve ever done.
So last week an email got sent round my college asking if
anyone wanted to read some poetry to primary school kids and I was the only one
who responded and I asked if I could do some Shakespeare, since I have quite a
lot of experience with it, and the teacher said that would be fine.
So I was discussing with friends what I should do and they
said ‘er yeah, don’t do Shakespeare.’ And I was like ‘what why’ and they went ’well,
maybe if they’re over 10 but otherwise you’ll just get blank looks’ and I went ‘well
I don’t want to insult their intelligence’ and then another friend was like ‘hey
you should do that kid’s song ‘When I Was One’, they’ll like that!!’ (it’s a really
babyish song for toddlers with silly actions) and I thought about it and was ‘like
nah actually, I’ll do the ‘Once more unto the breach’ speech’
So I learned that over the week, and I was walking up to the
school, and the whole way I was thinking ‘Oh god this was a terrible idea they’re
going to hate it, they’re going to look at me blankly like those kids in The
Polar Express, my friends were right it’s going to be a disaster’, and I was
there early, so I sat in the classroom for the first half an hour, got given a
cupcake by some kids from a different class, said hello to some of the kids in
my class, they got a look at me.
At half 2 the teacher mentioned I would be reading some
poetry, and I asked if we could go outside, which she was more than happy to
allow, and the kids were all so confused (‘where are we going? Isn’t it only
poetry?’) and we got onto the field, the teacher got them all to stand an arm’s
length apart from each other, so I could walk around them, and I did a brief
overview of where the scene came in the play, how the king is on the
battlefield, talking to his soldiers (“Could all you be the soldiers?” “Yes!!”)
and they’re attacking the French, who are all in a castle (forgot it’s really a
castle town), and they’re attacking them through a gap in the wall, the breach.
Me and the teacher emphasised that if there was anything they didn’t
understand, that was completely fine and they could ask me at the end. I asked
the kids to watch for when I held my fist in the air, which is when they had to
cheer loudly, we had a practise at that, and then I did the speech.
Everything I had been scared about evaporated. All the kids
were totally engaged, they were all watching me, they all listened right the
way through, I saw lots of excited faces, and they all cheered really well at
the end.
Afterwards, there was a lot of chatter, several of them
asked me questions (”how do you remember all those words?”, “what did you mean when you talked about nostrils?”), one boy asked me to do it again, they were all really
lovely and had genuinely enjoyed it. It was so much fun, and they especially
loved it when I told them how my big college friends had told me not to do
Shakespeare because they wouldn’t like it. Those kids 100% proved them wrong
Bless this post.
YES. THIS.
I once took excerpts of Midsummer to do with a group of 8-12 year olds for a week-long summer camp. My TA went “You can’t be serious.” But once the kids had their translations and knew what we were talking about, they took it and freaking RAN. They knew everything they were saying and what’s more, they enjoyed doing it. Kids NEED to be exposed to it before they’re old enough to form the mental block that it is too difficult.
When I see folks didn’t like Deadpool, I’m like whatever. People like different things. I don’t even like Deadpool as a character but the movie was dope. Anyway, if you didn’t like it because it was short or it felt cheap and underdeveloped, that’s because it was. It was kinda set up to fail.
They were given the greenlight the way an impatient parent says ‘fine you can have a dog but if it pisses on the rug, I’m gonna shoot it.’ They had less than a year to complete the movie and were given a budget of 58 million when the average superhero movie budget is between $150-250 million. AND Fox had the nerve to take money out of the budget so they had to write around the money. So Deadpool only having a few bullets? Budget. Forgetting his guns in the car so he can’t use them in the final fight? Budget. Only 2 low profile X-men around, one of which had never been seen before? Budget.
And they still managed to make crazy amounts of money and break all kinds of records. I just feel like it’s worth knowing whether you like it or not because I ended up liking the movie a lot more after knowing what they were working against. Deadpool is like the indie movie of this superhero shit
Hey guys look at this damn film nerd
Look at this film nerd pointing out this massive SUCCESS STORY.
Bonus points for Deadpool making massive amounts of money despite being released in a fucking DEADZONE and being rated R.
An R rating automatically limits the audience, so it was basically kneecapped from the get-go because fewer people would even be able to see it. Releasing the movie in fucking February was a damn near deliberate attempt on its life. February is where movies go to die, ok, even the cheesy date movies don’t always make it out alive.
They didn’t want this movie made in the first place, greenlit it to stop the nagging, gave it a ridiculously tiny budget and then CUT IT DOWN EVEN MORE later on forcing several very hurried bits of rewriting (this is where a few extra digs at the studio were added, because they fucking deserved it), tried to argue against an R rating and when that failed, they tried to kill it by dumping it in the fucking release date graveyard.
And it still made ridiculous amounts of money. That’s like winning the Kentucky Derby on a 3-legged donkey; “Massive success” is a bit of an understatement.
That’s like winning the Kentucky Derby on a 3-legged donkey–how I think Deadpool would want it, tbqh.
I’m so proud of this movie that I had absolutely nothing to do with other than going to see it…a lot.
I’ve acquired like twenty followers in a week. And, y’know, I’m glad to see you and all, grab a party hat, etc, etc, but I just…what the hell kind of woodwork are y’all popping out of?
Okay for real, now, kids, seven followers in a day, you’re too sweet but also freaking my used-to-being-ignored ass right out.
Won’t this, ya know, be a bad idea and give Trump an advantage over the Democratic Party altogether?
How so?
It splits a the democratic votes apart and that way, neither Dem candidate will get enough to win. If Bernie can’t even get the nom in the primary, why would he get enough write ins to stand a chance to win the Gen Election? Plus, there are some states where you can’t even write in. This is a Bad Idea. It’s unfortunate, but you can tell there’s a ton of Bernie supporters who are young/haven’t been taught enough about the full election process to make decisions accordingly.
ATTENTION! THIS IS A PSA! DO NOT WRITE BERNIE INTO THE BALLOT!
BERNIE DOES NOT WANT YOU TO WRITE HIM INTO THE BALLET! THAT’S WHY HE SAID HE’S NOT GOING TO RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT, BECAUSE HE “DOES NOT WANT TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ELECTING SOME RIGHT-WING REPUBLICAN TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” HIS. EXACT. WORDS.
(if you don’t want to watch the full video, the quote is at 1:41).
Listen, the last time something like this happened, Ralph Nader run in the Green party and split the Democratic votes between Nader and Gore. Which allowed for George W. Bush to become president.
DO YOU WANT THE SAME THING TO HAPPEN TO TRUMP?
The two-party system sucks, but pretty much the way our system is set up, any vote that is not for the Democratic nominee will be for Trump. The only votes that count against Trump are for the Democratic nominee, whoever that may be.
So don’t write anybody in. It’s throwing away your vote. You might think it’s a political statement and in another election I might advocate for it, but THERE IS THE LEGITIMATE CHANCE THAT DONALD TRUMP COULD BE ELECTED INTO OFFICE. And nobody, particularly not Hillary Clinton, is a bad enough alternative that it is worth running the risk. Remember what it was like when Bush was in office? Trump will be that times 1000x, with extra blatant xenophobia, racism, homophobia, and misandry thrown on top.
I’m pro-Bernie, but I’m much more anti-Trump. Whoever runs against Trump in the Democratic party has my vote. I hope he or she has yours too.
#anything-but-trump
If Trump gets in everyone has a problem, we act like this is just an American issue, but you are a superpower on the world scale who many countries depend on economically, politically etc, don’t let a racist idiot run your country, for all our sakes.
If Trump is elected the whole world is fucked. Just thinking about America’s geopolitical role being headed by this guy is scary. If Bernie is not nominated, please for vote for the Democratic nominee. Splitting the democratic vote would only ensure Trump a win.
THIS. FUCKING THIS. I’M SO SICK OF HAVING TO EXPLAIN THIS TO PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK.
I GET IT, HILLARY ISN’T THE BEST OPTION, BUT IF IT’S HILLARY VS TRUMP, PLEASE GOD, VOTE FOR THE LESSER OF THE TWO EVILS. IF YOU WRITE IN BERNIE, YOU ARE GIVING YOUR VOTE TO TRUMP.
listen, trying to describe Soul Eater to anyone who isn’t very familiar with certain types of tropes and storylines - especially ones commonly found in anime and manga - is a fucking trip.
“he turns into a scythe, but he can also play the piano during battle. like, FROM the scythe. sometimes the scythe turns into a piano. but it’s all him. also, his partner has wings on her soul and they can make the wings come out of the scythe.”
“so there’s a dangerous magic book that the characters go inside and experience the seven deadly sins. no, it’s not dante’s inferno, but it is a reference”
“the sexy lady is their cat/their cat is a sexy lady”
“the grim reaper is a school headmaster in nevada”
All right, story time.
All you need to know is that, A, it’s the first week of freshman year of college–you know, orientation week where no one has anything to do because they’re too worried about the freshman class wandering off and getting eaten by bears or whatever–and B, there are about a dozen people (all in various stages of heat-induced exhaustion on our un-air-conditioned campus) draped over couches and chairs in the informal lounge in the student union.
The dude with the computer wired up to the TV says, “Here, I’ll show you guys the first episode of an anime.”
My ass, having never seen an anime before in literally my entire life, sits there and goes “sure” along with every other semi-functional person in the room.
The first episode of Soul Eater happens on the screen. Over the course of the twenty-two minutes, about half the people in the room have wandered off because they lost the plot, and those of us who are left are all sitting there slightly slack-jawed and baffled. It ends, the dude pauses it and goes “Okay, do you all want to watch another.”
There are a couple beats of dead. Freaking. Silence.
Finally I sit up from where I’d been watching it and go “What the fuck did I just witness.”
The dude smirks and goes “Soul Eater. Do you want to watch another episode?”
Fast forward to the end of the week (about five days) and everyone who made it through the first episode has seen two complete seasons of Soul Eater.
It’s now been three years and I’m pretty well versed in the anime thing at this point. I honestly don’t think I’ve been really STUNNED by an anime since Soul Eater.
Do I necessarily recommend starting with SE? No, no I do not, it’s like saying “Yeah man, gateway drugs are for the weak, hit me up with some of that hallucinogenic mushroom and come back for me next month.”
On the other hand, it’ll make everything else seem downright freaking NORMAL in comparison.
France’s politicians and community leaders have criticised the “intolerable” violence against Paris’ Jewish community, after a pro-Palestinian rally led to the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses and the burning of cars.
please please please spread this around, please speak up about this, please let everyone know that this is not okay, please please please protect my people from a second kristallnacht, please
Listen. I love my followers and my mutuals dearly. You know how occasionally I post something like ‘every Jew on this site has a list in their head of who reblogs what and who ignores posts about Jews’? I’m talking about this shit. I have been seeing things on my dash about the situation of Jews in France for over a year, but it’s coming from other Jews 99% of the time. Please stop ignoring this. This is literally history repeating itself and we can’t be the only ones calling it out again.
This is the first I’ve heard of this, and I’m flabbergasted! If you go and read the article it’s even worse; “anti-Jewish violence is seven times higher than in the 1990s, and 40% of racist violence is against Jews, despite them making up just 1% of the population.” I mean, holy crap! I know Tumblr is very US-centric but this definitely needs to be heard about!!
sleepover saturday! so a story about my day is the guy i have a crush on is really nice and validating because i'm a trans demiboy and he makes me feel really cute and handsome!! he's so amazing and nice and i'm !! very happy rn! and my queer platonic partner is being really adorably overprotective and making sure he'll be good for me and i just feel really happy and content. how was your day?? anything interesting happen??? also, another question! are you a spoonie???
OH MY GOD SWEETIE I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU. *wraps in blankets, feeds cookie* WAY TO GO YOU.
Let’s see, for me, today I got to spend three hours with my closest friend from high school, which was awesome because I ended up two years ahead of her in college and like hours and hours away (so even though we’re the same age, I’ll be graduating with my bachelors while she finishes sophomore year), so we NEVER get to see each other. And she is a fucking delight to be around, let me tell you a thing, she bought me a Blizzard and we talked Marvel for an hour of that time.
My best friend-cum-platonic life partner had a good day at work today, which is awesome because yesterday was literal hell on Earth from the sounds of it.
My mom helped me dye my hair to get rid of the streaks I had until recently, and it’s brown with red undertones now (my usual color, give or take), and the dye is VERY red and I almost had a heart attack when I got in the shower to rinse it off and looked down because I did not expect to look like I committed a bloody, bloody murder.
OH, and this technically didn’t happen today but I can’t fucking shut up about it: I got to go see X-Men Apocalypse last night with my parents and it was GLORIOUS and my mom was a real champ about the fact that I generally cannot stop myself from bursting out with informative factoids during X-Men movies and therefore sitting next to me is probably a struggle. I’ve been almost pathetically devoted to the X-Men since I was a wee little seven year old and this is definitely my favorite movie yet.
And as for whether or not I’m a spoonie: um, I’m not entirely sure? I don’t think I’m familiar enough with the criteria (are there criteria?). I’m not disabled, nor am I autistic, although I am fairly ADHD with a splash of a few other acronyms in there (*sarcasm* PTSD yay). I’m intensely introverted (my best friend is basically my only friend at college, my friend from high school is the only one I’m really still in touch with), so I at least appreciate the mental image of spoons based on “Okay but if I deal with this person for three hours today I’m going to want to crawl under a rock tomorrow,” but I’m fairly certain the answer is no, I’m not. I could be wrong. It’s way too 1:14 in the morning to do a lot of research though.
OKAY that is everything interesting that has happened to me lately, I get real rambly past about midnight, sorry. I hope your crush works out, sweetie, and I applaud your partner because you seem like you deserve ONLY THE BEST.
When I was 17 my appendix ruptured because I thought I was just having period cramps and didn’t go to the hospital so don’t tell me PMS symptoms are no big deal
this actually happened to me during my math final and i didn’t think anything of it and when i was later admitted to the hospital my math prof was asking me ‘you didn’t have to take the final! why didn’t you tell me it hurt?!?!’ and i told him i’ve had cramps worse.
he gave me 100
This is actually an extremely common occurrence simply because in sex ed they don’t teach you how to tell the difference between menstrual cramps and other more serious pains. The way to tell the difference between cramps and appendicitis is that while menstrual cramps are generalized toward the middle of the stomach below the belly button, pain from a swollen or burst appendix will start in the middle of the stomach and relocate to only the lower right side, even lower than menstrual cramps, and is a very localized pain. It also comes on extremely suddenly and will worsen over time or when you make a sudden movement, like a cough or a sneeze.
Basically, if you’re feeling any sort of pain, even if it’s menstrual cramps, don’t hesitate to tell the school nurse or a parent, or if you’re out of school and home even make a doctor’s appointment. Chances are if your cramps are that bad there’s something they can do to improve that as well.
I am boosting the shit out of that reply, because I am twenty-fucking-five years old and did not know how to tell the two pains apart
Adding another diagnostic tool! This is something we use in the ER called the rebound test. Basically, appendicitis and cramps react differently to certain things. If you’re still not sure if you have cramps or appendicitis, take two fingers and press them into your abdomen where the pain is (try repeating this on the lower right quadrant of the abdomen just to be sure.)
When you press in firmly, it will probably hurt. Here’s the test: LET GO. Does it get better or get worse? Appendicitis will immediately hurt worse when you let go. Cramps will not. Go to the ER if the rebound test makes it worse!
THE REBOUND TEST IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
My husband got sent home from the ER with a rupturing appendix. When he came back and was rushed into surgery, the surgeon was super angry – “Why didn’t anyone do the rebound test?!”
Wait but the rebound test has always, always made my cramps worse
Hey, buddy, don’t panic. Other things can make the rebound test cause pain, and if that’s your ‘normal’ experience of cramps, it probably isn’t indicating anything life-threatening as above. NONETHELESS, you may want to talk to a doctor (if you have that option/are willing to do so/think that they will listen to you) because, A, that sounds like a hellish experience and you might be able to get something to help; B, that might lead to a false negative if something serious DOES happen; and C, that’s slightly unusual for menstrual cramps and it might give you some peace of mind/answers to have a medical opinion on it.
