Hamilton an American Musical

• Improvement from the book: I can tell people apart! Yay!



• Didn't recall that Pin-Lee is the lawyer until I went to go check who played the character. But I can tell them apart!



• Pin-Lee is so fucking hot.



• Gurathin's my fave. IIRC from the first book, he was the only one to distinguish himself as an individual character and I didn't like him. But he's so good here. Definitely favorite character.



• There is something about Skarsgard that is driving me bonkers, and I think it's his voice/accent. Everyone else is so individual and he sounds so... like, it would be one thing if he sounded robotic but he doesn't. It sounds better when it has the helmet-voice-modifier thing going, but in general... IDK still feeling the whole "completely miscast" vibes.



• Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon: every single person involved in this -- from the writers, to the set people, the props people, the hair and makeup people, the special effects people, the actors, the editors, everyone who had anything at all to do with it -- are having the time of their life doing this and it shows.

byjove:

countries will be like “nooooo our birth rate is falling exponentially and it’s effecting our economy” and immigrants will be like “hey can you let us in so we can boost your economy and fill your empty jobs and raise our children here” and inevitably the country is like “the only thing worse than a large scale collapse of our population is letting foreigners live here”


byjove:
America’s immigration policies are difficult enough but I read the immigration policies for some countries and it is batshit insane. they’re straight up like “we hate disabled people, we hate people who don’t speak our language, if you don’t have a $85k a year salary lined up for you, we don’t want you to move here. if by some miracle you jump through all the hoops and move here, it will take you 20 years to obtain citizenship and during that time we will not rent to you because you’re a foreigner.” damn bitch. fuck you.

lannamichaels:

I read foreign policy stuff and every few months, like clockwork, there’s an article about [insert country here] having demographic problems caused by not enough young people and What That Means.

And every single time, I have only two questions:

1. What is your immigration policy?
2. How much does it cost to have and raise a baby, both direct monetary and intangibles, such as does a woman destroy her entire professional career to do so?


Fixing both of those will fix every single falling population problem I have ever read about in those places. Because the answer is generally “both. both are bad.” And places where the second one is considered to be fine, the first one absolutely isn’t.

(I state these are the constant issues at play in foreign policy writings to contrast that with the stuff I’ve heard about from rural demographic problems where the issue is “we have young people, but they leave because there aren’t any jobs.” That is internal population shifting within a country and comes with other problems, ex: rent.)