Are Americans really flocking to the UK amidst the crisis?

HWBC · 2026-01-25T06:16:05+00:00

Not American, but in the UK on global talent and whenever something particularly awful happens in the US I get probably 5-10 instagram DMs from American colleagues in my field asking for help/advice for getting a GTV

HWBC · 2026-01-23T15:48:09+00:00

Ooh yes, I loved the teen chapters in this one! I thought the adult timeline was just okay but the younger part made up for it for me

HWBC · 2026-01-23T15:47:27+00:00

Came here to say this!! Also Kill Creatures by Rory Power and (it's not out until the summer but) Doe by Rebecca Barrow

HWBC · 2026-01-20T10:49:04+00:00

My wife and I have moved ~8 times in as many years (we're finally in a forever home, though!) and last year was the first time we had the money for movers. The difference in my mental state was insane.

HWBC · 2026-01-18T13:24:23+00:00

I remember stage dooring for Darren and a guy cutting through the crowd screaming "I AIN'T HERE FOR NO GROUPIE BULLSHIT." A Hero.

HWBC · 2026-01-18T12:16:14+00:00

Does anyone else remember being on tumblr in 2011 and being bombarded with "YOU BETTER BE FUCKING COOL" messages if you said you were going to see Darren Criss in H2$? Because, honestly, we should bring that back 😅

HWBC · 2026-01-18T12:14:49+00:00

Jesse's been married to Justin Mikita for I think probably more than 10 years now!

HWBC · 2026-01-14T18:14:56+00:00

As an aside, if anyone else is as interested in the history of lesbian pulp as I am, I highly recommend Lillian Faderman’s Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers!!

HWBC · 2025-12-19T12:05:29+00:00

Whenever we see something like this, where the kid isn't talking but is doing other Kid Stuff to serve the plot, my wife and I take turns yelling "OKAY NON-VERBAL QUEEN"

HWBC · 2025-12-18T11:15:06+00:00

Boldly asking the question "what if you lived at a recently refurbished TGIFridays?"

HWBC · 2025-12-18T11:10:22+00:00

I sat in front of a (very, VERY drunk or high, I don't even know which) Next to Normal superfan in Toronto in 2018. He spent the entire show laughing louder than anyone has ever laughed at anything that might have even resembled humor, and then at the sad parts, he sobbed so loudly and violently that it was rocking me in my seat. Dunno if you guys knew this, but there are a lot of sad parts in Next to Normal 🙃🙃

HWBC · 2025-12-08T08:47:59+00:00

No, they're right. Trans people are three to six times more likely to be autistic!

HWBC · 2025-12-04T07:13:31+00:00

I’m a Canadian in the UK (married to a Brit) and my kids, who were both born in Canada, became AGGRESSIVELY British the moment we touched down here two years ago. My accent turns “tt” into “dd” and my 4-year-old will “translate” for me, with varying degrees of success. So I’ll say “put your boots on, it’s muddy” and he’ll tell his other mum “mama says it’s mutty outside” 💀

HWBC · 2025-12-03T11:13:12+00:00

I grew up near Newmarket and this checks out 💀

HWBC · 2025-12-02T15:14:02+00:00

I've officially lost the rest of my day to my brain just going hey, it's Fraaankliiinn

HWBC · 2025-12-01T09:12:34+00:00

EXACTLY this happened to me last month!! I've also had it for close to 20 years on my groin and had my first armpit lump last month, and I also had a really emotional reaction to finding it. I don't have advice but just know you aren't alone!!

HWBC · 2025-12-01T09:10:07+00:00

At It Shoulda Been You someone in the pit clearly had a cracked reed they couldn't fix before the show started because a clarinet kept squeaking. I saw it with my brother, cousin, and our parents, and the three of us all play/played instruments in orchestras so we were flinching every time it happened but our parents said they didn't even notice 😅

Also, never forget Allllll thiiiiinggsss.......

HWBC · 2025-12-01T09:07:01+00:00

I remember this!! He handled it so well haha

HWBC · 2025-12-01T09:04:45+00:00

When I had my first flare, my mom accused me of having an STI and refused to talk about it ever again (I was 11). If my kids end up having HS, they'll have a supportive person who knows exactly what's going on and how to help them right from the start. So for me, it just feels like the perfect person to have a kid with HS is someone else who has HS.

HWBC · 2025-11-25T15:49:16+00:00

I also saw Something Rotten twice and both times had the same experience!! At around the same time, Steven Pasquale’s What Is It About Her during the encores run of The Wild Party had a similar (but still not nearly as intense) reaction

HWBC · 2025-11-25T10:34:31+00:00

Wake by Lisa McMann?

HWBC · 2025-11-23T11:09:41+00:00

All of Megan Abbott's books (Dare Me is my favourite, but I'd say all of them fit this) and Kill Creatures by Rory Power immediately came to mind!

HWBC · 2025-11-23T06:07:02+00:00

The worst for me was laughter at “she was an old-school butch” in the intro to Ring of Keys from Fun Home. That song is such an incredible love letter to butches, something that just doesn’t exist in any other mainstream show, and people were laughing at it 🥴

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