#as you like it musical

[anti-dazai-blog]

miniseries-- BSD Characters as Musicals

see rules for what musicals qualify for this

this is not meant to be taken too seriously. this miniseries is mostly a joke. ha ha.

PART 1-- ADA

Atsushi -- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

why? -- everyone really do be jealous of this guy for being the Specialist Little Guy. and for being Dazai's "favorite." and they keep beating him up for it.

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Dazai -- Into The Woods

why? -- I'm not saying this from an anti-dazai lens. I just really think he'd resonate with Last Midnight. the whole "you're so nice. you're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not bad, I'm just right."

ngl I always loved that song and also ngl but the witch is making some pretty good points 🤔

but also it applies equally to Fyodor so. it turns out that anything I wanted to assign Dazai would also work for Fyodor and vice versa.

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Yosano -- Suffs

why? -- specifically this song, also very girlboss of her.

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Kunikida -- Hamilton

why? -- I'm so sorry man it's 100% because of the work ethic this guy's got going on. my man really does write like he's running out of time.

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Tanizaki -- Heathers

why? -- my guy is truly always on the verge of snapping. he's just got those vibes.

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Naomi -- As You Like It

why? -- I feel like she'd like Rosalind. I also feel like both her and Rosalind are the type to do tiktok 'boyfriend tests' (the "would you love me if I was a worm" genre).

also-- second Shaina Taub musical mention and we're only in part 1. everyone go listen to literally any musical by Shaina Taub please and thank you.

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Kenji -- Come From Away

why? -- It's the sense of community,, it's the themes of everyone helps everyone to get by. it's the we're a tiny town but we care for each other and we care for any travelers passing through. it's the You are a stranger but you are a friend and I'll help and protect you

yeah I think he's appreciate that.

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Kyouka -- Matilda

why? -- You are a little girl in a big world and people are unfair to you. It's ok, you are strong. you can stand up for yourself. you can fight back. you can get a new family. found family > all else.

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Ranpo -- Ride the Cyclone

why? -- season 1 Ranpo be like: WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS IS PEOPLE LIKE ME

people who aren't into ride the cyclone will probably argue that Ranpo's not this obnoxious. people who are into ride the cyclone will probably be ok with it because ultimately. Ocean's really not that bad

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Katai-- Be More Chill

why? -- look it's the tech musical and he's the tech guy. I'm not gonna bother justifying it past that

and yeah it does feel very 2016 to put BMC Hamilton and Heathers in the same post. deeply sorry if that traumatized anyone. I already assigned musicals to everyone and this is just how it fell out.

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PART 2 coming idk later or something. coming at some point in the future.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Penelope's final gambit, you will always be famous, no matter the subtext.

[nyssasatelier]

The past Friend Reveal :

For @autisticgremllin

[thebat-musicman]

Odysseus: *lying, traveling, stealing, etc*

Hermes, the god of all those things: YOURE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE

[wukyma]

In the light of recent events I have a very vivid image of Poseidon or his sirens munching on WiFi wires

[weirdgirlvampire]

If yes, tell me what it is in the tags!

[a-little-bit-of-ravioli]

so how about that theory that Odysseus' red eyes in Six Hundred Strike mean Ares is helping him out on behalf of Athena, huh?

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[theoldaeroplane]

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

[sirazaroff]

I dedicate this post to the funniest beef ever

[elrohirtheneurodivergent]

I gotta settle a debate between me and two of my siblings:

(I'm making an updated poll, cause I forgot that lots of people listen to entire albums)

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

[justsmth2]

quick odypen sketch from the ithaca saga

[justalittleguest]

[gigizetz]

I love when people talk about me like I'm a rare little forest creature or something