Month: January 2016

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Okay, so–that happened.
That could have gone better.
(It could have gone worse.)
You made it around the sun another time, so–
that’s something.
Of course, home feels a little less like home,
and alone feels a little more like suffocating.
That’s okay. You’re gonna learn
to breath through it, someday.
Maybe next year.
But the good news is,
you cried a lot, this year.
Keep doing that.
It’s one of the most important things
you know how to do, even though
you think you’re bad at it.
You made it through this
sideways hiccup of a year,
even though it waltzed you out the door
with two left feet. You stumbled–
but you kept going.
And that’s something.
So, I’ll drink to us.
I’ll dedicate this next song to survival.
We’ve got our hearts in our teeth
instead of roses,
but if there’s time for one last dance,
by god, lets make it a tango.

THE YEAR IN REVIEW, by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)
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backstageleft:

baratheas:

phoenixflorid:

housetohalf:

did-you-kno:

Ninjas don’t wear black. They used to disguise themselves as civilians. Unlike ninjas in movies, the real guys were smart enough to know that wearing a black outfit with a face mask wasn’t the best strategy for blending in. Source

But this leaves out the really neat part! The reason we equate the above image with a ninja comes from Kabuki theatre. Within Kabuki theatre there’s a convention of having Kuroko (stage hands) dress in all black (with a full face covering) and move around among the costumed actors in full view, moving scenery, props and costumes. In a similar way, Bunraku puppeteers dress in all black, and only the lead puppeteer’s face would be uncovered. The audience knew to ignore these people and focus on the actors, and to only see that the scene was “magically” changing. So when a play called for a ninja assassin to jump out of nowhere and kill someone, the easiest way to create the surprise reveal was to disguise the ninja in the all black garb of the Kuroko and to remove the face covering and start acting at the last second. This would shock the audience, who were conditioned to not focus on them. Pretty cool, yeah?

WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT “STAGE NINJA” WAS JUST A CUTE THEATER TERM FOR CREW. THERE WERE LITERALLY GOD DAMN STAGE NINJAS

AS A FORMER STAGE NINJA I CAN CONFIRM THIS IS BOTH A THING AND AWESOME.

This is the best and most delightful piece of information.