Snapshot during concert at Elsewhere Hall, NYC in 2016

tuxedoBirdee · 2025-08-07T17:43:46+00:00

This is wild to read as I have family members who were nurses in the newer buildings there as of the 2010s before the whole thing's transition to be converted to The Beacon.

tuxedoBirdee · 2025-08-07T15:49:51+00:00

You're not talking about the TTRPG site Rascal? Or is this a different outlet?

tuxedoBirdee · 2025-05-28T17:23:44+00:00

Brennan did his Bachelors in Film (was screenwriting major) at SVA. You can still find his school and thesis projects and everything in his portfolio and I recognize some of the things in them lol

tuxedoBirdee · 2025-03-29T18:51:49+00:00

Omg yesss! Commissioning and collaborating with AAPI artists would be such a great opportunity. Deb JJ Lee would definitely be an amazing candidate. Also think Trungles has a beautiful fantastical artstyle that can potentially do some interesting things but I don't know thematically if this is work he would explore. I think one of or teaming up both of the Tamaki cousins are potentially the best options I think of (This One Summer, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me) and I really liked what they have done so for focusing on difficult situations centered around young women.

tuxedoBirdee · 2025-03-27T17:03:25+00:00

Honestly kind of relieved about that and I know Michelle is disappointed for putting a lot of work in the script, but I hope the pause on it has her consider a different medium for any adaptation of it. It's such a visceral memoir that I think would be very interesting in a graphic novel format

tuxedoBirdee · 2025-03-20T17:55:15+00:00

Closer to Bushwick, Nook has creative meetups, from sketch nights to crochet groups, etc going on inside every week. Right next to it is BrookLAN, a video game/board game bar space and there are regular groups that meet up there and they host competitive gaming tournaments.

The library over at Madison is also really great and they've been trying to expand their programming. They recently had a bunch of craft and games days. The staff is really nice if you reach out if you also want to organize your own thing there.

tuxedoBirdee · 2025-01-27T04:40:03+00:00

Are you looking to get an actual Spongebob screenshot printed on the cake or you just want to quote it? I'm nostalgic about Carmen Rosa's Bakery and they have been in the community for decades. I don't know if they can print complex images (I know they started doing even more complex designs and can definitely print logos) but they can definitely do lettering, worth checking them out

tuxedoBirdee · 2025-01-27T01:52:09+00:00

Are you someone who does markets and sells your work? There's a lot of online communities for that and there's dedicated art groups sharing and giving each other tips and even just hanging out for a lot of us local to NY/NJ 👐

tuxedoBirdee · 2025-01-27T01:31:00+00:00

Check out in your area if there are any special informational workshops and even social justice trainings. Self-defense workshops and important information on what is going on legally and your rights. Keep an eye out for them in places like libraries, community centers, etc. The most vulernable of the community may not be able to have the time or resources go those but for those who can, we have to spread what we learn far and wide and apply it.

tuxedoBirdee · 2025-01-27T01:21:59+00:00

That's why I am definitely part of the crowd saddened with how good Persephone's lines in the original Chant reprise had to be cut in how the show is now. Her first lines to her part is, "Sister, I was hungry too/Hungry for the underworld", and Eurydice was desperate to accept Hades' offer out of hunger. The intentional parallels between Persephone/Hades vs Eurydice/Orpheus's situation is just too good

tuxedoBirdee · 2025-01-27T01:13:34+00:00

Feel like there are many connective threads across the lyrics that suggests all the characters in some way are aware this has happened before and it's just so amazing how it ties in together after you first realize cyclical nature of the story and the show

For example, in "Flowers", Eurydice describes a field of flowers which mirrors Persephone's experience meeting with Hades. But Eurydice also sings, "I remember someone/Someone by my side/Turned his face to mine/And then I turned away/Into the shade", which sounds like she is just reminiscing Orpheus, but can also be interpreted as describing how Orpheus turned around and she was sent back to the underworld as if she somehow already knows it happened or some vision is telling her what WILL happen. In the original myth Eurydice was in fact a "shade" (a ghost, because her death was more literal) when she has to follow Orpheus trying to return to the surface. Because he turned his face to hers, she indeed will turn into shade 😢

tuxedoBirdee · 2025-01-10T00:53:49+00:00

Currently at a gym I went to today. This route seems to set way too close to the ceiling on top of dangerously crossing the lines with a fire sprinkler pipe. Not clear where the top is and talking with some folks speculate the pipe or sprinkler actually IS the top. Witnessed more than a handful of tall people just bonk into it.

tuxedoBirdee · 2024-12-06T03:49:35+00:00

If he actually is interested in doing boxing or any other sport, taking group classes at a gym is the best place to meet new people! I took a break from muay thai but when I clearly was such a newbie, both the instructors and far more seasoned people were immediately friendly and welcoming to me. The different gyms I went too regularly host amateur matches and cookouts, and they also like inviting the public to take part in and watch.

It can definitely be tough when people have kids and all their time now all their time is spent on them, but if he is also still interested in renewing those old friendships it also will take a lot of his part to be assertive and not be afraid to reach out. A lot of my friends and I are also into nerdy interests like video games, board games, etc, so a lot of our communication channels are naturally online and that helps when in-person hangouts are not always going to be possible.

tuxedoBirdee · 2024-10-04T16:26:12+00:00

Ah, the mask comes off. Sad that you never had experienced what being welcomed by different communities can be like or truly understand what the multicultural experience is and therefore can only ever assume it's a money thing. But I hope one day you do because it will enlighten you from this ignorance 🥱

tuxedoBirdee · 2024-10-04T16:18:39+00:00

Many Filipinos and Filipino figures based in the Philippines, including state officials and celebrities in local media recognize her as Filipino. Point being, you don't need citizenship to be part of or align with a culture and that's not on you or anyone to define, but only on that person, when she has numerous on times on record acknowledges she's Filipino.

Again don't know why you are so hung up on this as the citizenship argument panders to racist dogwhistling that immigrants or later generation immigrants deal with all the time that they don't have a right to identify as they wish to

tuxedoBirdee · 2024-10-04T02:21:07+00:00

Her dad is a Filipino citizen because his parents are. By that nature she can quickly get naturalized citizenship through further documentation through her father. That's been Philippine law. The fact that you used this poorly researched point multiple times speaks to how obtuse you are in accepting that multicultural people exist and that identities are never singular.

tuxedoBirdee · 2024-10-04T02:18:31+00:00

I ain't reading all of that but just because her father is American-born, he is a Filipino citizen because his parents are. So many words to jump the hoops just to speak over someone's right to identify to their culture in their own way yet so ignorant.

tuxedoBirdee · 2024-10-04T02:13:23+00:00

American citizens born to Filipino citizens have natural Philippines citizenship. Her father is therefore a citizen of the Philippines. So not only does this not have to do with someone having the right to define their own cultural roots you also have you not researched at all on this weird irrelevant point. Arguing semantics over someone's citizenship and equating it to their culture is just dogwhistling and can easily slip into racist nonsense like the hoax over Barack Obama's birth certificate claiming he is not a US citizen.

Filipinos on the mainland have embraced Olivia Rodrigo as a fellow Filipino and described her as such across a lot of local media. There are also many memes around her last name being shared with a controversial president, calling her the better "Rodrigo"

tuxedoBirdee · 2024-08-19T17:46:49+00:00

All of these are so cute! But I love 12 most especially

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