Shrine to the Holy Family on Via Crocifero in Catania, Sicily

Photo by Charles Reeza

son. my son

*by live theatre i mean plays, musicals, operas, ballets, concert versions of musicals, staged readings, & things of that nature. EDIT: YES this includes amateur, local, kids, high school, & community theatre. almost every show i've seen has been local

if you want, list the names of the shows you've seen in the tags!

Merry Christmas!

“This day shall light shine upon us; for the Lord is born to us.” 

12/29/2023

Fun Fact: LET ME HOLD THE BABYYYYY!!!

JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. Jewish laws have a lot of stuff about impurities and uncleanliness.  After giving birth, for example, a mother becomes impure for a time (forty days after having a boy, or eighty for a girl).  During this time, the mother can't enter temples (dwelling places of God) or touch anything sacred. 2. In this cartoon, Joseph reads about the above impurity laws from a brochure.  At first, it seems like he's just informing his beloved wife of their religious duties, but in fact, he's only using it to build up an argument of why HE should be the one holding the new Baby Jesus.  After all, if Mary is legally impure, doesn't that mean she can't hold Jesus, since He's sacred?  Of course, by that logic, the manger could be considered a temple, since it's the current dwelling place of God-made-Man, but Joseph wisely avoids arguing this point.

Marian gardens are so beautiful 🌹🤍

“That’s the fun part—how much you get to externalize internal darkness in a safe way and bring in things that are from your nightmares. Such as Joel’s capacity for violence, and being good at it. I didn’t get into any physical fights growing up, and definitely not as an adult. Violence scares me tremendously. Is it the fear of violence in general? Is it the fear of your own violence?” - PEDRO PASCAL for WIRED (January 2023)

the resurrection account is full of fearful, trembling men and women. full of doubt, weak of faith. fear in the garden, fear at the cross, fear at the tomb, fear at the resurrection, fear even in the face of the greatest of news.

jesus loves well his fearful, doubting saints. he comforts them, he thinks of them, he cares for them, he cooks for them, he greets them by name.

google "how to write a character who is known within her universe for having no filter and swearing a lot (especially in the face of authority) without having it read like i graduated from vivziepop school of writing"

God I know Kendall ran the family Christmas pageant like the navy when they were kids

Shout out to my art history teacher, who's unknowingly to herself implied that Joseph and Virgin Mary were the first QPRs

Joseph best adoptive dad ever deserves better...Jesus no doubt had him STRESSING (infancy gospels of thomas ily) and he tried his best to deal with this kid and his holy strangeness

INSANE I need to read this

The Dream of Saint Joseph by Francisco Goya

there is something so blursed about jesus christ superstar. the music is unimaginably catchy. it seems like every production is fated to have one element that makes it unrecommendable to all your friends no matter how much you love the rest of it. it is almost explicitly textual that judas is in love with jesus. mary magdalene is absolutely implied to still be working as a prostitute for the entire duration of the show. every year it makes a new crop of teens crack open ao3 to read jesus/judas porn. there's one section of a song that is just jesus getting whipped on stage for two straight minutes. I once saw a production where king herod was a drag queen.