#bare: a pop opera

[hearmyvoicee]

pt 4 of reimagining the bapo’s characters’ closets: the play edition! pt 1 uniform edition here, pt 2 rave edition here, pt 3 ivy’s birthday here !!!

[cactus-cactus-cactus]

What time is it? That’s right! It’s time for the fourth annualish Ivy redraw YAYYY!!

(January 2025, January 2024, February 2022, May 2021)

Here’s last year’s also

[pocketsizeddie]

i would so love to write a bare: a pop opera AU for buddie but one of my wips is already way too similar in premise for me to justify doing that :(

[heysmalltownboy]

y’all ever realize every 2-3 months that bare a pop opera is the best musical ever written and you need to devote your entire life to it

[almayver]

I doubt anything will be as fucking devastating as this bit of Bare

Like do you understand

You know that poem that is like “14 lines from love letters or suicide notes”? Yeah. Yeah, exactly

Peter saying “I've never been so scared” while Jason says “a moment of such peace”

Knowing what you mean to me vs Knowing who we have to be because Jason has made peace with the past, finally, while Peter is getting ready for the future. A future probably without Jason. And he doesn't know how right he is about that

Try to see its not goodbye

"I know you're here in my heart" being the only truth they both share. The love was there, it didn't change anything, but it was there etc etc

[weirdloverwilde]

I've listened to bare so many times and im just now realising that probably the main reason jason kills himself is because he doesnt want to marry ivy. as soon as peter rejects the running away option jason knows that if he lives he will marry ivy, be "honest". and he cant bare that which is why death is a better option

[everythings-an-act]

I can’t talk I’m too busy liking posts from 2 years ago about musicals with a fan base of about 20 people.

[spaceasianmillennial]

The First Draft: CONCLAVE PARODY MUSICAL "My Pope of a Lifetime"

Read the second page on AO3

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Based on this:

[plain-jane-fatass]

Bare 2004 you will always be famous

[cosmicallydivine]

i fear the target audience for this may literally just be me but this realization hit me like a fucking truck the other day and i could not stop thinking about it

[hearmyvoicee]

part 3 of reimagining the bare character’s closets: ivy’s birthday edition! might do the play outfits next! part 1 uniform edition here, part 2 rave outfits here part 4 the play outfits here

[saint-starflicker]

I can't find the post anymore. Which one of you recommended Lilies 1996 film?

it's my new favorite movie of all time you have ruined my life

[andie-platonically]

when i was in high school, we had this one teacher, dr. b. he was the cross country coach, nearing 80, and not entirely there. as such, he flitted from position to position, wandering the school like a ghost and going on nonsensical monologues to whoever would listen.

everything he said became an instant school-wide meme. his favorite thing to do was make us chant “i believe! so i belong!” over and over and over and over at pep rallies. and we all thought it was hilarious in that teenage sardonic way, so we did. another time, he gave a confusing speech about how we were all family (this was in rural texas, at a school where the go-to insult for any social outcast was to call them inbred) and had us all turn to the people sitting next to us and say “howdy cousin!” for months, you couldnt walk the halls without hearing someone yell “howdy cousin!” and laugh raucously

he had other, quieter moments, like telling me in complete seriousness that he liked his coffee “black, with a little sugar and cream” or the time he said, “of all the people i know in the world, joey, you’re one of them.”

but my person favorite moment of his is the time he had wandered into my art class (he was technically a sped teacher at this point, not that it mattered) on a day we were doing typography. i decided to draw the line, ‘we climbed an escape grown from seeds that you planted / you slew all my giants, ignoring your own / and now that they haunt you, im left with my courage, alone.’

dr. b asks me what the quote is from. i didnt feel like explaining bare: a pop opera to him, so i said it was from a musical that was fairly obscure, since it had never made it to broadway, and he likely didnt know it.

without missing a beat, this man says to me, “oh. is it sweeney todd?”

so anyway now whenever somebody tells me i probably wont know something, i like to ask if its sweeney todd.

[st0rmyseas]

i <3 bare: a pop opera

[yourfaveisqueerandreligious]

jason mcconnell from bare: a pop opera is catholic (canon) and gay (canon)

submitted by @gay-little-axolotl

[ruined-sketchbook]

I was today years old when I realized the guy who played the priest in the cast recording of Bare: A Pop Opera is the same guy who played the Greek god Pan in the cast recording of Bat Boy