Thread by @rachelcrowl

Oh, 2021, you fucker of a year. So much loss, so many things broken. Asshole.

And yet, I still had a couple of good things happen this year and it's probably better to remember that, y'know?

So, a few good things and a few hopeful things for 2022. 🧵

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I got to play Susan B. Anthony in a scripted podcast! Radio plays are back y'all! We just call them scripted podcasts now.

(I'm in episodes 6 & 8)

asimpleherstory.com

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That was because @starpeaceac remembered me from @osfashland. Because OSF is always bad ass, y'all.

I also met this lovely lady @jennyturnerhall and that turned into something amazing that y'all will just have to wait for. Heh.

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And then, wonder of wonders, I got cast in a new play at @centerstage_md! Amazing! And it was for two weeks until COVID took out two of my castmates (they're better now) and gave my the scare of my life with a false positive. Whee!

centerstage.org/plays-and-even…

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And that's what it felt like. A roller coaster that makes you feel like you're gonna get close to "normal" and then COVID is gonna shut it down. Asshole COVID. Asshole 2021.

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Then the idiots in charge of the Wisconsin legislature decided that May was a good time to try and fuck with trans kids. Fuck that. @QuinceMountain & @helen_of_boyd & some amazing people gave me a bunch of footage and we made this. #letkidsplay

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June gave me the most delightful of gifts: a broken foot. But... the show in Baltimore was back on! And we were gonna do it in front of an actual audience! Heal fast, Rachel.

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Healed and fully vaccinated I drove back to Baltimore in August and goddamn if we didn't put on a fucking show, y'all.

mdtheatreguide.com/2021/09/theatr…

#theaterisback #maybe

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After Baltimore I got a week of needed time in NYC and I got my first audition for a Broadway show and that was all dope and good for the soul.

Came back to WI, did the amazing gig I can't talk about, and then auditioned madly and got absolutely nothing.

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But... I'm mad lucky. I have an amazing wife, @helen_of_boyd, who I can't imagine anyone else to do a pandemic with and two sweet cats. And we bought our house which still blows my mind.

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So there are only a few hours left to this godforsaken year and yet there are silver linings. I don't really see any point in belaboring the bad things that happened to me this year. They happened. I survived. Next!

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So, 2022? I have some requests, okay?

#1 - I want to actually book a television show. I keep getting SO CLOSE and I just want to finally square this circle. I've already done a movie and spent years in the theater. I want the troika!

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#2 - Planting seeds: I wanna work with @JamesGunn, @jonrog1, @rianjohnson, and other assorted amazing people telling stories about people who resemble me in attitude if not physicality. A kind of punk rock, fuck you thing, but with actual heart.

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And finally, #3 - A stretch of time where I don't worry about things (money, politics, bad news) and I get to enjoy the beauty that still exists in this ever increasing madhouse of a world.

I hope all you get the same.

2022? Bring it!

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The Billie Joe Armstrong gif just fucking made me laugh. So dumb. So me. Heh. All typos are mine plus some good weed. 😘

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