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it's kinda funny to think about how daniel molloy is technically the anne rice of that universe. like he IS the gay vampire author.

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say what you will about jensen ackles but in 2005 he made the active decision to pitch dean’s voice lower not because he felt like dean’s voice was naturally low but because JDM’s voice was low and he thought dean would try to talk like his dad

he’s the ultimate dean studies enthusiast. he said dean is a performer from day One.

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Not telling your kid they have a learning disability, chronic illness, mental illness etc. so they can “feel normal” actually does the opposite. They will not feel normal if they do not have the context to understand that their normal will be different from that of their peers.

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In Prince's funky name, amen.

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Future dressup hair thoughts

Best update ever, slight changes, new things, flat colors are weird, screen colors are weirder.

So. Anyone remember how many times I've said that I can't do a ton of hair colors because of the photoshop (and meiker by extension) layer limit? Well. NOT ANYMORE. But also not for a while, this needs work to happen.

Meiker just released an update that allows me (with a few edits to the colors) to have up to 64 colors for something without adding a million layers. And while I am not doing 64 hair colors and expansion is definitely happening.

It won't be soon ftr. I need to restructure basically all the hair things in the game but trust me it will come. Current plan is go up to 24 colors. I wanted 25 but can't figure out another shade that is different enough (very open to suggestions for more). Because irl hair is not a flat color. But game art is. So I can't create the small variations that create some hair colors.

The other thing is that while I have a fancy HD computer screen calibrated to true color most screens don't do that and shades vary a little (thats not even considering things like blue light filter). But current plan looks like this. Current colors+the two I retired last update+the dark brown that almost made the cut+10 full new shades. Focusing heavily on darker shades and cooler browns but also introducing grey, bleached blonde, more on the ginger range and golden blonde (seriously all suggestions are welcomed but I can't promise I'll do everything). Also feat the game blue background shade because the dark colors are way more visible on that one.

Aside from that the other very cool thing that comes with the meiker update is the possibility of doing two color pickers on the same item with very few layers. Which means the power to choose highlight color instead of having a default blonde or brown shade. Same with the howard ponytails getting all the alt colors conveniently sorted into one color picker, and I am adding sixsona shades. And I am introducing both alt colors and sixsona colors to the cleves red hairstyles.

I'm thriving.

Also exploring eye color possibilities next so any requests for that one?

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Everyone gives Sherlock Holmes a hard time about being mean about Watson's writing, but honestly imagine you told your roommate "sure, you can write up an account of my work for the newspaper," thinking it would be like, about the murder, but then he publishes it and it's 90% about you, as a person, and it's a huge hit and now everyone in London knows that you hoard newspapers and do cocoaine when you're depressed. Because I think you'd be little miffed too.

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Did Esme have her new variation for her Boleyn Debut for the West End 22-23 Production? (I’m still hoping that Meg gets variations for her costume and that maybe they’re still making them?) Also love your work always 🩶🩶

She did. Costume team was teasing it before the show even started and everything. I am also hoping for Meg pants, but recently I don't understand a lot of the costume decisions being made so who knows.

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CLAWING AT THE WALLS

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BLACK ALT COSTUME MAKES IT'S RETURN AGAIN TONIGHT!!!

on a more serious note i thought having three swings (with two who have already hit swingo) was suppose to stop this from happening?

I say this is karma caused by officially retiring black alt. Yes I know Rachel has been on standby since cast change. They always have a swing thats not staying on standby for a month (ish) after cast change so in theory this is not unexpected. But tbh its karma.

Also if she is playing Seymour despite Laura doing that put in literally hours before does this mean that Laura is not debuting yet? Because that could totally mean that the pink nails don't equal pink costume.

Tinfoil hat is back on people.

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lost in the moment

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I keep seeing the leather/pleather vs denim jacket poll over and over again with all different sorts of discourse about how there is no plastic-free pleather and like, that's TRUE, there isn't, but honestly I DO think people who don't want to use animal products* also deserve to look cool

and so my suggestion is that y'all google "waxed cotton jacket" or "waxed canvas jacket" plus like, "motorcycle" or whatever style you think is cool, because there's a plastic free leather-look material that is strong and durable and waterproof and doesn't use animal products** AND is plastic free already out there and some of the clothes that you can get made out of it look sick as hell.

*ignoring the fact that most leather is meat by-product that would be going to waste anyway

**except beeswax but if you're going to object to that then honestly there's no helping you

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i could be completely reading too much into this

but normally swings have to get neutral colours on their nails OR get the colour of their costume …

so i think this might be confirmation that laura, for some reason, has pink OR that she won’t be debuting for a while😭

Love how everyone knows my priorities.

But yes. Pink nail polish pretty much confirms pink costume. Unless they made something new in the pink color range.

Idk. Honestly I dont think pink is the best choice for a swing or for Laura color wise but here we are. Tbh I don't understand most of the costume choices that have happened in the past few years for WE.

Genuinely hoping that she gets pants but considering meg still has only the skirt I dont have high hopes for it. Summoning circle is on though.

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Soooo Meg still has her Silver skirt for parr?? I get why they'd keep it, it's not like it's emergency situation, but i would've loved to see some variations on her, even just a Cleves variant with rotational shorts for other roles??

I don't get it tbh. One of the biggest issues that exist with alt costumes is that none of them are truly right for all six roles with their main variation. With silver the skirt works really well for A/B/H but not so much for S/C/P. I will always stand by open skirt, full cleves and pants being the best combination for swings. But in this case I think just giving Meg pants is probably the best alternative. We have seen pants for S/P, it works really well for both and it would be a solid C look. Also it would be not super complicated to alter a peplum for her and only do the leggins. We haven't seen the shorts with the main top but I get the feeling that the costume would look too busy and not super balanced between top and bottom. So pants.

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Hey, you know that one character? The one played by the tall, long-haired actor? The one who was pre-law in 2005, and well on his way to going to law school and getting a degree until an unexpected family issue reared its head, and he dropped out and chose a different career path? Y’know, he’s got that complicated relationship with his father, a parent-child relationship with his only sibling, and has some strange, destructive abilities that tie in with multiple traumatic experiences with fire?

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(open pages for better image quality)

the moment I heard elphaba's delivery of "there's a girl i know..." in i'm not that girl i knew i had to draw this comic, i strongly recommend listening to it while you read for the full experience!

this comic is a companion to this piece (which was inspired by glinda's delivery of the same line in the i'm not that girl reprise).

pages 1-4 are from elphie's pov, pages 5-8 are from glinda's.

flower meanings in order of appearance:

prints of individual pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8