#ask me about anything

[mollywog]

WIP Title Game

Thank you for the tag @solar-halos!

rules: list the names/titles of docs in your wip folder + open your inbox to asks about them!

Limiting this to the ones at the top of docs (just know there are many (many) more)

Tagging: @littlemarianah @persephoneprice @katnissmellarkkk @thesunpersists @rarepairheathen @thelettersfromnoone @lasthaysileeshipper

[rainbowdelicsunshine]

Heya guys, sorry I haven't been so chatty for the past couple of days

I've been going through a medical emergency in the form of a toothache turned tooth infection I've been currently taking care of with antibiotics

Since getting to the dentist fucking sucks and last time we tried it got us nowhere but back to square one, I'm hoping that the antibiotics will help for now

If y'all wanna chat just come to the inbox!!

[murdleandmarot]

Any top 5 favorite ships?

Hi hello!!

I don’t know if you mean just cats, so I’m going to just go through the ones that are most relevant to me atm, across media :)))

I’ll start with cats bc it’s easiest

1. Plato and Victoria

EEEEEEEE MY BABYGIRLS FOREVERRRRRR

I love them so so so much they’re both the prettiest in the entire world <333333

I just adore them a lot

2. Tugger and Misto

I know it’s basic but like….look at them…..my special guys…..I adore watching them in the background of things, I’ve watched so many productions at this point, but one of my favorite iterations of their dynamics has to be the Paris 1990 production. They both seem really equal in that version in a way that I don’t really see too often. They invented being silly and goofy and I love them very much.

3. Deductive Logico and Inspector Irratino

My favorite detectives ever. They’re SO cute

4. Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood

A must. Guys please listen to the Magnus archives it’s SO good.

5. Ana Limon and Mabel Martin

GUYS PLEASE LISTEN TO THE MABEL PODCAST THEYRE BEAUTIFUL AND I ADORE THEM

[cashthecomposer]

Any good resources you can recommend to learn more about the inspiration for you musical?

Yes! Here's a list to get you started- each title will link to a place to read or buy the thing!

The Clairmont Correspondence

These are a collection of Claire Clairmont's letters. I wanted to be true to her voice, as she is often the most muted in many adaptations of the story- and it is really her story, more than anyone else's.

The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron

Some Unpublished Letters of Mary Shelley

The Life and Letters of Mary Shelley

The Correspondence between Byron and Percy and Mary Shelley

Though Claire's letters were the most important to me, I also gathered a lot of character info, dialogue inspo, and plot points from the letters of Byron, Mary, and Percy. There's some overlap in these, but it's still worth it to read everything.

The Diary of John Polidori

John is a very insular character, and most of his presentation in the musical is self-reflection. So, I had to read his thoughts. And boy, the guy was depressed AF.

Then, there are the various stories told within the show... get ready for this:

Don Juan

Le Morte Fiancee & The Family Portraits, from Fantasmagoriana

Christabel

Darkness

Fragment of a Novel

The Vampyre

A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus

Note that for the Frankenstein text I selected, I chose the original 1818 text, purely because this is the original, the least edited, and in my opinion, the best. Far too many people only know the 1831 version, which is so far removed from that original summer I feel it is irrelevant.

This Article from the New York Times that was totally viewable back when I actually started researching for this show back in 2015 without a subscription so here's the web.archive link yo

After my dad suggested this story as the basis for a show to me back in 2015 (my god, 8 years ago???) this article was the very first thing I read about the Shelleys and Byron, and their summer at Diodati, and it got me hooked. I recommend giving it a read. It's great writing, and the sort of thing that NYT no longer writes nearly frequently enough anymore.

I immediately purchased the following three books, cited as sources by that article:

Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives

Byron and the Romantics in Switzerland, 1816

Followed by like... hundreds more books, articles, etc. But those three are a great start! If anything, I'd add this book, purely because it's more well known and referenced than those three, and takes a more Byron-centric view that, well, gels more with the portrayal of events in my show.

Thank you for this question! I'm going to post this list on my Patreon as well, where I'll go more into detail on each resource. :)

[awsugar]

can someone talk to me about frerard.....my inbox is dry donrt you remember how we used to run

[jigsawllie]

hiiiiiii

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

[walkingintheamm]

I have managed to disappoint my family in all areas of my life, who else is doing it like me 😌💅👑

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[starcurtain]

Please someone redraw this with Dr. Ratio and Aventurine because this is the exact vibe they have in my head post-Penacony.

[choccy-milky]

@foundthatoldzeppelinshirt what did u do to me...what in the wattpad is this... i only planned to do a few doodles but then i kept getting more brainrotted and things got out of hand LMAOO (and ofc i HAD to draw hockey player seb at SOME POINT bc its my duty as a canadian citizen🫡🍁🍁 O CANADA!!!)

[literallygwenandjinx]

my favorite part of arcane season 2 was when ekko and jinx got married and raised isha and ruled over zaun together. truly an amazing ending wouldn't change a thing haha

[shepscapades]

[Set in Mid-Late Hermitcraft Season 8]

In which we learn a little something about Cub, a little something about Doc, and a little something about Xisuma.

[cashthecomposer]

i agree with you that sunday is a better musical but do you think it’s possible you’re getting a little heated over a silly internet poll? like this isn’t an award show, there’s no prestige here it doesn’t matter who wins. treating it like a high stakes issue when it’s literally just a poll on a tumblr blog is a little much right? if the “wrong” show wins its not like the world will go “okay fuck sondheim take away his accolades the people of tumblr decided it.” especially since you seem to be aware you’re talking to kids, calling them idiots for enjoying a different show more feels really unnecessary

I'm a teacher, specifically a music teacher. Sometimes kids need to be told they're idiots. It's not an insult- idiocy isn't something to be protected and harbored, it's merely ignorance, and ignorance is something easily amended. If you're nice about it, most of the time, the student doesn't understand the gravity of their ignorance- if you're blunt, and honest, and use words like 'idiot', then the reality kicks in.

If you think I'm being mean to my students (and by using the same language here, to my followers), think again. I'm critical, because I respect my audience, in both. If I treated my students with kid gloves, couching everything in soft words, that would not be respectful, that would be diminutive and derogatory. I don't coddle, and I don't condone coddling. Grow the fuck up and get off anon, say the criticisms you want to say without hiding. I do. I'm an adult, and don't mask that fact on this site; I will speak freely on here, especially in regards to topics about which I harbor strong passions.

I don't care if it's not an important award, instead just a silly internet poll, it's still hundreds of people voicing an opinion about what the "best musical" is based on 1) a lack of adequate information about both competitors, and 2) a fierce loyalty to fandom for the sake of fandom. And that's an insult to a great man, and to add insult to injury, it further diminishes the incredibly important nature and message of the show itself.

There are plenty of shows that could win against Sunday, and I'd understand and accept that. Phantom, Les Miserables, Hamilton, Rent, to name a few; hugely impactful musicals that have strong scores, stories, characters, and have stayed the course strongly, more successfully than Sunday. There are even some shows that don't necessarily fit all of these arbitrary qualifications that I would understand- for example, The Drowsy Chaperone if pitted against Sunday would be an interesting match that Sunday might lose, given that they're both introspective odes to art, and Drowsy in particular is specifically about the theatre, thereby more relatable for audiences. Or Sweeney Todd, which pushes more boundaries than any other show in existence in literally every facet. Heck, even Dear Evan Hansen, which I hate, might stand solely on its strong message of the difficulties surrounding mental health.

But an Internet musical that's merely slightly clever in its meta nature, following the trends established by the hyper meta media people seem to love lately, is not a contender. Voting for that because you don't know the other option is disingenuous, and voting if you know both is ignorant.

If it were high stakes, I wouldn't be talking about it on Tumblr, ffs. This is the low stakes site for low stakes things. There's a reason I'm sitting front and center at the first public performance of his last show, and there is a reason my own musical, a piece a decade in the making, is looking to make its own local premiere in my hometown next season. It's because of Sondheim, and his magic, and how strongly he inspired me. And I'm going to defend that tooth and nail until I die.

[14dayswithyou]

Give Redacted a kiss for me!!!

Do you have any dark/creepy headcanons for Redacted? I’m very curious ^^

✦゜ANSWERED: I know you asked for [REDACTED] specifically, but everything mentioned below could also apply to Ren as well ^^;

cw: mentions of gore, torture, (one line about) cannibalism, NSFW themes, and just general creepy behaviour

I'm sure most people already know about Ren's red room days, but for the newer folks: he used to livestream himself torturing his victims on the dark web. He would also harvest and sell their organs for extra cash.

His red room phase began after a group of upperclassmen started livestreaming themselves bullying people (Angel included) for attention online. If those teens wanted a taste of online fame that badly, Ren would be all too happy to give it to them — especially after he heard all the degrading things they said about Angel during their stream.

Ren has probably sniffed (licked???) Angel's underwear on multiple occasions lmao

He also keeps a bunch of their discarded cups, mugs, bottles, etc. — and on the days when he's feeling especially lonely — Ren likes to put his lips where Angel's would've been and treat it like it's an indirect kiss.

If Angel is fine with it, Ren would be more than willing to carve his name into their skin. He'd have to use an ample amount of his numbing cream though (typically reserved for when he gives himself tattoos and piercings), since he doesn't want them to be in any pain.

Similarly, he'd also be willing to carve their name into his skin as well — as many times as Angel would want. But he already has multiple tattoos of their name on his skin, so.... gksgsjj

I'm sure everyone already knows this, but Ren has an entire shrine dedicated to Angel. He keeps all his sentimental and stolen items there.

Ren genuinely has no empathy for anyone other than Angel, so if they were to ask him to murder his own mother (or his sister, his best friend, etc.) and bring back their heart, he'd do it with a smile on his face.

Because he has no empathy, Ren would probably enjoy watching snuff films like it's any other B-tier horror film. To him, it's just more research material on how he can get rid of his competition.

I've mentioned this in the past, but Ren has jacked off to the thought of Angel while in the library lol

I made a post back in 2022 that mentioned how Ren would willingly offer up any of his body parts to a cannibal!Angel, and I think the point still stands!!

He likes to put Angel's stolen laundry on his body pillow and rut into/hump it 😟

I once mentioned that Ren would slap a barcode sticker on his sledgehammer to make it look less... questionable whenever he carries it around in broad daylight — but alongside that, I think he'd also carry around some tools and an unopened can of paint to make it seem like he's just doing renovations. In reality, he'd probably force his victims to drink paint or gargle nails teehee

Builder AU except Ren mistook a body for plywood??? Why is he hammering so many nails into them?? Why is he feeding it into a wood chipper???

Builder AU except Ren gives Angel a different meaning to getting nailed and railed???????? Jackhammering???????? Getting screwed sideways????? KGJDSGNK It's 2AM I'm losing da plot now T_T I'll shut up

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Homer!Odysseus and Epic!Odysseus would try to kill each other if they ever met

[succo-al-limone]

DC doodles for funzies