Whether you're an experienced Bunburyist, a Whovian, or any kind of comedy fan, I highly recommend catching the new National Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest in the cinema while you can or when it goes to NT at Home. It's side-splitting funny, joyously queer, and a new definitive performance of the play.

The whole cast ate, especially Ncuti Gatwa, Sharon D. Clarke and Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo. As a further treat for Whovians, Davros is the Doctor's disgruntled sot of a butler.

Just going to put out there that if anyone ever needs a Bunbury, my health is dreadful and I'm always happy to be part of schemes and plots to avoid annoying family members. Just please don't kill me off because you met a girl!

some of you were born, or at any rate, bred in a handbag and it shows

And I’ve lost both my parents, which definitely looks like carelessness.

The fact this doesn’t have thousands of reactions is clearly a sign that education produces no effect whatsoever on natural ignorance.

when people pop off with some ass take like "why should I have to put my pronouns in my profile or signature or whatever, my name is Tom and I have short hair and am wearing an oxford shirt in my profile pic, figure it out" I always think

so do you just not talk to people from other countries for your job, ever?

like, some people don't, and you can follow the flowchart to a different part of the argument about why pushing back about pronouns is stupid, but I e-mail people in Singapore and Dubai and Japan and India every day. A lot of those people have names that are probably their local equivalent of "Tom," but I have never seen them before and I have no idea if that's a girl's name or a boy's name. They usually have profile pics too. I don't know how common short hair is for women or long hair is for men in their country. I don't know if that style of shirt is more common for men or more common for women. I'm not writing this from some homogenous whitebread oasis, either, I live in New York City, it's just simply not possible for me to know the common names in every language of every country where the people I need to work with, live.

just put your stupid pronouns in your signature, some exasperated project manager in Mumbai will one day appreciate it

I'm always teeth grit rolling the fucking dice on some Tsumugi on the Tokyo team rocking a pixie cut and a blue shirt, help me

you are that Tsumugi to somebody

I had an older, white, male coworker ask me over message:

"Hi, the Team Lead for our sister team... I need to ask them a favour. I've never met them in person, and their name is Chinese. Are they a man or a woman?"

And I was like "<Name's> pronouns are she/her"

This guy had never seen pronouns used in the wild before. He honestly thought they only mattered to people who flew the rainbow flag in their office. The look of dawning comprehension in his eyes warmed my heart for a solid week.

It is vital for kids shows to have the horrors in them. The children YEARN for the horrors. They CRAVE the horrors. I craved the horrors and so will the next generation. And so will the next. Years and years and years of craving the horrors. Which is why you gotta put scaries into the kids stories.

repeat after me:

my experiences are universal and provide an undeniable framework for understanding all of reality

nobody else is capable of understanding my experiences and i am, nobly, alone in this world

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