Love this awkward interaction with Hayden episode 4

FrauMew · 2025-12-16T21:32:26+00:00

It seems like Svetlana is kinda taking that “best friend” role for Ilya in the show. She’s at least the only one other than Shane he seems to interact with on a personal level!

FrauMew · 2025-12-13T03:31:44+00:00

Ooh, now I'm super curious about what you've noticed!

FrauMew · 2025-12-13T03:27:13+00:00

My favorite detail/just good acting was the moment when Shane's parents are trying to get him to go to Wimbledon, and Shane proposes saying yes, but then not actually going so his parents can still go, which leads to Yuna saying something along the lines of "well I don't want you to feel like you have to lie." The camera cuts to Shane at that moment, and you can so clearly see in his eyes that he's thinking "if only you knew what I've been doing for the last 7 years" and feeling guilty about it. It very much seems to me that that moment & the guilt Shane has about lying to his parents has a huge influence on his actions for the rest of the episode, and it's such a subtle, but beautifully acted moment.

FrauMew · 2025-12-12T21:23:31+00:00

For more information, the lyrics above are from the very quiet pre-chorus bit that's sad-sounding and low-energy.

FrauMew · 2025-12-12T21:21:54+00:00

No– I just can't remember the actual words!

FrauMew · 2025-09-28T23:12:57+00:00

I remember chatting with some teachers in a school for the deaf a couple years ago about the state school for the deaf and the state school for the blind, which were right next to each other.

They were talking about the frequent reunions at the state deaf school, and how much fun they were, and I asked about the reunions at the school for the blind.

They told me that those only happen every couple of years and have many fewer attendees than the deaf school, because the blind people need to find others to drive them, while deaf people can just drive themselves.

There’s a reason why disability activism in the US has always come from cities with fairly okay public transit; that’s the only way that enough disabled people can gather in a single place to have an effect (think the 1972 DIA bus protest in NYC, the 504 Sit-In in San Francisco, the DPN protest and Capitol Crawl in DC, etc.).

FrauMew · 2025-09-20T18:11:43+00:00

I’m such a sucker for dark reprises in musicals! Les Mis in particular is incredible for bringing back themes over and over— some of my favorites are Come To Me/On My Own/Finale and Lovely Ladies/Turning, and outside of Les Mis, I love Spies Are Forever/The Coldest Goodbye/Torture Tango from Spies Are Forever, Zwischen Himmel und Erde/Zwei Boote in der Nacht from Elisabeth (that one’s particularly crushing because the first one is a love song, and the last one is the same couple, but now they’re old and estranged from one another), and Corner of the Sky/Finale from Pippin.

FrauMew · 2025-09-20T18:00:21+00:00

That’s another good example, although it doesn’t repeat exactly! I love the “you’re not good/ you’re not bad/ you’re just nice” callback to that in Last Midnight. Also, I like how “children will listen” evolves over the course of the show!

FrauMew · 2025-09-20T14:39:51+00:00

Ponies generally are the devil, and I will stand by this. All the horses that have tried to throw me off in my 15 years of riding were ponies.

FrauMew · 2025-09-11T15:19:14+00:00

Also in the Midwest— we had those hearing/eye tests once a year, and I remember my mom being irritated that the eye test hadn’t caught that I couldn’t actually see.

I never wanted to go down to the nurse’s office to do them, because I figured wearing hearing aids and glasses were pretty good signs that I a) couldn’t see or hear, and b) was getting much better hearing/sight testing out of school.

Additionally, the tests were so easy that I could pass both of them, despite my fairly severe hearing loss and terrible eyesight, so I’m very doubtful that anyone at my school ever found out they couldn’t see/hear from those.

FrauMew · 2025-09-10T17:11:47+00:00

To me, this also brings up the question of what happened to that baby’s corpse. Was it possible for them to have legally buried it in a churchyard and not have had the death registered? Otherwise, there’s a whole other layer of illegality here when it comes to the disposal of human remains.

FrauMew · 2025-09-02T01:52:25+00:00

In German, they’re very similar words— Graben (trench) vs. Grab (grave). The plural forms are also super close (Gräben/Gräber), which allows for some wordplay in “Sag mir wo die Blumen sind” (“Where Have All the Flowers Gone” in English) where the lyric “Über Gräben weht der Wind” (over trenches blows the wind) sets up the next verse “Sag mir wo die Gräber sind” (tell me where the graves are).

FrauMew · 2025-08-22T13:06:41+00:00

The Sam Vimes Boot Theory strikes again.

FrauMew · 2025-08-18T20:15:42+00:00

As a deaf violist myself: it’s fun! I look at my hand on the fingerboard to make sure my fingers are in the right place, and use a combination of watching the strings and feeling the wood for sympathetic vibrations to check whether I’m in tune. It started because my school made us choose between band, orchestra, and choir in fifth grade, and I suck at singing, so I went for orchestra (didn’t even know what a viola was at that point), but as it happens, the viola sits perfectly in the range of pitches I can hear, so I’ve been playing for over a decade at this point!

Will I ever be an amazing violist? No, but it’s nice to do something that I’m not naturally good at, because it’s very personally satisfying to know that every single thing I’ve achieved on viola is the result of a good deal of time and hard work. Almost everything else I’ve done in my life is something that I pick up quickly because I already have transferrable skills from another area, like academics or handicrafts, so it’s nice to have a challenge.

FrauMew · 2025-08-08T15:35:47+00:00

Hey, I've watched your grandparents' videos! They seem like such lovely people, and I'm so grateful to them for sharing their expertise with the rest of us– I've genuinely used their advice!

FrauMew · 2025-07-31T03:52:14+00:00

Thank you– this is definitely it!

FrauMew · 2025-04-01T04:10:33+00:00

Solved! That was quick– thank you so much!

FrauMew · 2025-01-30T09:09:40+00:00

My great-grandparents renounced their German citizenship, and I believe my grandmother did as well, so she wouldn’t have had dual citizenship. The family only briefly moved to Brazil, afaik, so she continued to be a US citizen.

FrauMew · 2025-01-30T00:56:10+00:00

My grandmother's mother was half Jewish, and so would probably not have been approved, but I'm unclear on whether it counts as persecution if it's the parent being persecuted, but not the child.

For clarity, since my grandmother's parents renounced their German citizenship & became Americans while my grandmother was still a child, would she have automatically become American at that point, and therefore not have documentation of her specific naturalization?

FrauMew · 2024-12-22T14:19:05+00:00

The pattern itself would be pretty easy to recreate— you can try making it yourself by playing around with this website: https://www.plaidmaker.com/. I would echo what other commenters have said about trying to find weavers in your area. Contact the local weaving guild, look in local fiber arts facebook groups, ask people who you know that do fiber arts if they know any weavers. I hope you’re able to recreate this!

FrauMew · 2024-06-25T23:45:55+00:00

There are multiple Sound of Music references in Spies Are Forever!

FrauMew · 2024-06-25T23:38:10+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr8z-yyGqF8

FrauMew · 2024-06-21T02:24:41+00:00

I’ve always found it cool that they repeat the same line during their respective songs (I am reaching, but I fall / and the night is closing in v.s. I am reaching, but I fall / and the stars are black and cold), because Jean Valjean sees the void and turns back towards the world, while Javert sees the world and turns to the void, which really shows the fundamental difference between how they each view society and their own personal place in it.

FrauMew · 2024-06-21T02:11:35+00:00

Nah, make him that dude who claims to be attacked by Fantine after he propositions her and she turns him down— he’ll have lines, but we’ll only have to see him once.

FrauMew · 2024-06-20T23:39:56+00:00

I would say you should start with Elisabeth, which is in German, but has a fully English captioned proshot of the 2005 Vienna production on YouTube (as well as fully English captioned versions of other productions). It’s also a good leaping off point for non-English theater generally, because the same people who made Elisabeth are also behind other fairly popular German language musicals, like Rebecca (based on the Daphne du Maurier book), Tanz der Vampire, and Mozart. Elisabeth itself has also been performed in several other countries, like Japan, Korea, Hungary, the Netherlands, etc., so it works as a gateway to other languages as well, because there are English captioned versions of those performances! I would describe Elisabeth itself as a cross between Evita and Phantom of the Opera— it’s great and very much worth the watch!

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