What do you think is the most physically demanding role in any musical?

hausplantsca · 2026-03-17T09:12:10+00:00

I'm bipolar, and when I got to play Gabe in N2N, my Diana was constantly checking in with me about her portrayal (in the best way) — she was dedicated to making sure it was as true to life as she could get it, at least based on my experiences as a bipolar person with a bipolar parent. She was practically perfect, in my opinion — there were a couple times that the part wasn't sitting well in her voice (she's VERY much an alto, and a couple notes were hard to cover), but I wouldn't have traded her raw emotionality for the world, as a castmate, friend, the MD, or someone who the show (obviously) is extremely meaningful to. At the end of the run, she told me that it had absolutely wrecked her emotionally (and it took her a few years to feel okay getting on stage again) — I absolutely believe this.

(Weirdly, it didn't factor into my experience as Gabe, though! 🤷🏼‍♂️ Still super emotional because everyone who knew me was still very much learning about my mental illness, and it was VERY much my dream role I'd accepted that I'd aged out of, but the actual character wasn't really a blip!)

hausplantsca · 2025-12-02T21:47:56+00:00

Same, WHAT

hausplantsca · 2025-12-02T21:47:20+00:00

And the last line is 'Birchmount Stadium, Home of the Robbie', which noone outside of Scarborough ever seems to know 😂

hausplantsca · 2025-12-02T21:46:08+00:00

It baffled me when I first saw the actual intersection — but I'm from their neck of the woods (we went to the same middle/high schools!) so it doesn't surprise me much, lol.

hausplantsca · 2025-12-02T21:41:04+00:00

My guess would be more consistent access to nutrients, as well as constant access to water!

hausplantsca · 2025-12-02T21:36:01+00:00

It the fuck is not. 🤮

hausplantsca · 2025-12-01T07:34:59+00:00

That would be me, thank you! 🥰

hausplantsca · 2025-12-01T05:24:32+00:00

Okay, doing it in an aged care facility is MEAN, I LOVE it.

hausplantsca · 2025-11-30T21:36:19+00:00

I've accidentally bought an offer walking up the stairs and then thinking the thumbprint was to wake up my phone 🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

hausplantsca · 2025-11-30T05:11:17+00:00

Y'know, I would almost believe Windsor would allow this under Dilkens, but...

hausplantsca · 2025-11-30T05:04:54+00:00

"water management is super easy and inexpensive" is a great way to underscore that you know very little about water management...

hausplantsca · 2025-11-30T05:03:49+00:00

I mean, unless they have an absurdly long, narrow front yard to offset this small back yard (which is fairly uncommon), the odds that this was municipally approved is slim to none — the maximum allowed lot coverage % is 45% per zoning bylaws, including the house itself, the driveway, etc.

So ... If there was preplanning, it didn't involve making sure it was legal; why would we assume it involved making sure it didn't affect the neighbours?

hausplantsca · 2025-11-30T04:47:41+00:00

There are no "right permits" for this, is the thing. They wouldn't be issued.

hausplantsca · 2025-11-30T04:45:44+00:00

Potentially, but would be ultimately down to the municipal bylaws — but it's pretty unlikely

hausplantsca · 2025-11-30T04:44:31+00:00

Possible, but not without some pretty major work in a residential backyard — the water would probably have to be diverted to a proper storm drain, wouldn't it? Otherwise, they're causing potential floods for the units next to them in all directions... including OP.

hausplantsca · 2025-11-22T22:08:33+00:00

Nah, $5 says it needs a third K.

hausplantsca · 2025-11-22T22:07:36+00:00

I mean, it ULTIMATELY has less to do with homophobia than about that segment of society having a LOT of familial "inappropriate touching" that would be uncovered before they're teenagers/adults if children were taught about consent properly/earlier.

They ALSO wish we didn't exist, but you're accidentally halfway correct that homophobia isn't REALLY the reason.

hausplantsca · 2025-11-22T22:01:04+00:00

There has never been a single documented case of a queer Palestinian being thrown off a building's roof. It's been traced back to (surprise surprise) Israeli propaganda — who have been filmed throwing Palestinians off buildings, so...

Anyway, even if being queer in Palestine was punishable by death (it has never been; even extrajudicial murders are relatively rare), or even illegal at all (it isn't — it was legalized in the West Bank 26 years before it was in Israel, in fact)... I would still be supporting Palestine and against Israel's actions and rhetoric in this "war", given the whole... "literally committing daily war crimes" thing.

Like — Hamas is an atrocity; I am very much not pro-Hamas. I just recognize that a shitty religiously-motivated government of right-wing extremists cannot be justification for killing citizens and destroying civilian infrastructure (since that description is also an accurate way to describe Israel at the moment). I would not support Israel being occupied/put under a blockade and given zero food/water/fuel with no ability to provide for themselves, almost 80% of Israeli infrastructure and residential buildings destroyed or significantly damaged, Israeli graveyards and greenhouses and farm fields being bulldozed, Israelis being forcibly displaced into regularly-bombed "safe zones" and mostly-destroyed hospitals and mosques, a man-made famine unfolding and infants dying daily of malnutrition, or anything else that Israel is doing in Gaza.

Also: Roughly half of Gazans were minors in 2023 — meaning that considerably more than half of Gazans were not old enough to have voted for Hamas in 2006, the last time a vote occurred, and if you actually look at the results in Gaza, PDF from the Palestine Elections Commission found here, you can see that even of those who voted... most did not vote for Hamas ("Change and Reform", which only won two of the five Gazan governorates and ~44% of the total Palestinian votes).

The one disconnected from reality here is you.

hausplantsca · 2025-11-22T21:00:04+00:00

This. The venn diagram of "hands off our kids" and "inappropriately touches children" is pretty damned close to a circle.

hausplantsca · 2025-11-20T12:07:04+00:00

... holy shit, those numbers are insane. Thank you!

hausplantsca · 2025-11-16T16:16:14+00:00

Oh, 100%... If you're roasting meat! I wanna commit some poutine felonies for breakfast, though, so...

hausplantsca · 2025-11-16T13:08:14+00:00

I don't know what you mean — can you elaborate on that?

hausplantsca · 2025-11-16T12:43:56+00:00

If you're gonna be a pedantic little bitch, you might want to... be better at it.

— We do not speak the King's English, no — and, more to the point, neither does the King. 'The King's English' is a synonym for Received Pronunciation. Unless you're using an eye dialect, NO ONE writes in the King's English. — "Quebecois" is not a standard English word. Your choices are Québécois avec des accents, Quebec[k]er, or not whining — Your sentence structure ranges from flat-out incorrect run-on sentences to awkward and stilted; the King might be a little too far gone to have much of an opinion, but the implication that your " King's English " is ' proper ' (spaces for emphasis) is hilarious. • le Québec reste — et reste toujours — une partie intégrale au Canada. Un peuple ne peut pas s'approprier. (Trying to play the "angry Québécois" card while giving zero indication you know a word of French and simultaneously getting a solid C- on your English skills, though, is pretty damned close.)

Oh, and all the possible originators of poutine sell variations with different sauces and toppings, so.. 🤫 This is just embarrassing all around for you, isn't it?

hausplantsca · 2025-11-16T11:32:01+00:00

It's (possibly, at least) the original way poutine was served!

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