#bohemian-rhapsody-in-blue

[specialagentartemis]

Trick or treat! I’d love to hear about this asexual caveman project you speak of 👀

thank you!

So admittedly I am being kind of facetious calling them cavemen. The setting is 30,000 years ago in Eastern Europe or Western Asia. Gravettian culture era. And my group mostly doesn’t live in caves (Ice Age people didn’t often live in caves, at best they usually lived in shallow rockshelters, though many also resided in seasonal tents and huts.)

Atm I have my Paleolithic human group spending the winter in anachronistic but badass mammoth bone huts.

Shelters… made of mammoth bones! This was a real thing Ice Age people did!

Image: an archaeological site strewn with the bones of at least 60 mammoths, which were used as the structural supports for tents or huts around 25,000 years ago. Western-ish Russia.

Image: hypothesized reconstruction of a mammoth bone hut from the site of Mezhyrich or Mezhirich, Ukraine, 15,000 years old. This shows exposed bone but it would likely have been covered in hides when it was in use.

My Ice Age protags live in mammoth bone huts in the winter because I think they’re rad. Honestly, one of my difficulties has been trying to decide on a time period setting, because I want Neanderthals (traditionally identified as going extinct 40,000 years ago, but some arguments for pockets of Neanderthals that survived up to 30,000 years ago, which I’m jumping on) but I also want mammoth bone huts (oldest known 25,000 years old, but more of them closer to 15,000 years old.) Mixing the last vestiges of surviving pockets of Neanderthals knowing they’re going extinct without really having a framework for that, and Gravettian Homo sapiens making mammoth bone huts a few thousand years early because they’re trendsetters like that. However, they’re also highly mobile, not living full-time in any location.

They do have a sacred cave for religious activities and initiations. That becomes important later. The sacred cave can also trans your gender if u want it to.

[thelaurenshippen]

Hi Lauren! I’ve loved The Bright Sessions since 2017, my first year of high school (now I’m about to graduate college!!), and am really excited for this opportunity to ask you stuff!

As a writer (hopefully!) myself, my question is: How many drafts/versions do your scripts typically go through before you deem them ready to record? How different does the final version typically look from the first?

ahhh I love hearing that the show has been with someone through such huge periods of their life!!! that's awesome.

it, of course, depends on the project, but most scripts go through at least three drafts - a first draft, a second draft that may make major changes to the first draft, and then a polish that just cleans everything up and strengthens it.

that's usually what my contracts stipulate, because it's a pretty good rule of thumb to have a script and two revisions. but when I'm making my own stuff, it varies hugely. the pilot of The Bright Sessions is a second draft with really only a few lines changed from the first. every Breaker Whiskey episode is, by design, a first draft. for the big idea I'm working on right now (that sadly I can't tell you anything about), the pilot script went through.......idk, seven? eight? drafts?

that is largely because of collaborators - for early TBS, I was doing everything entirely by myself, like I do with BW. as TBS evolved, the actors got more involved with their characters and I would always send them (usually a second draft) the script and ask for any feedback/concerns/questions/ideas. those usually didn't change anything massively, but when you're building a story with people, it's going to change a bit more!

crucially, that script editing does not stop once you've recorded. using the thing I'm making right now as an example (we've made a pilot proof of concept), here's how the revisions went:

I wrote a pilot script that I didn't share with anyone

I found partners to develop the idea with. through the outlining stage, a huge part of a character's season 1 arc shifted, so I threw out pretty much the entire pilot script I'd written

I wrote a new pilot script

I got notes and did a V2

I got more notes and did a V3

we cast the proof of concept and then decided to cut half of the last scene

we recorded and created a draft and I ended up: cutting several lines, cutting an entire scene, and adding three new lines. I also changed the staging/action of several scenes

and those are just the big changes - I also did a lot of smaller shifts and adjustments in between drafts based on how I was feeling. in terms of who was involved: two producers, a director, a sound designer, a composer, and six actors. while the actors didn't directly give notes or feedback, their performances prompted some of those post-recording changes.

in terms of how different the versions look, again, it depends. as I said, the pilot of TBS barely changed, and the thing I'm working on now is an entirely different shape from how it started. usually it's somewhere in the middle - a scene may get cut or added, but if you've outlined, the final probably won't be so different from the first draft, beyond the dialogue itself!

[phoenixyfriend]

🥰 for the ask meme?

WIP and Published Fics Ask Game (reblog to play and feel free to drop the emojis/questions in the ask box!)

(This ask was sent in November)

🥰 a fluff WIP snippet

I had a lot of trouble finding a fluff snippet but I found a moment!

“Okay,” Rex says, grabbing the bucket that Anakin is admittedly very close to accidentally swinging into a wall. “I’m confiscating this. If you need to scream into something, borrow my helmet.” Anakin takes the helmet and screams into it. The padding actually absorbs the sound better. That’s nice. Rex settles into the seat next to him and pats his shoulder. “You know you’re an idiot, right?” Yes. Anakin is painfully aware of this.

[showmethesneer]

So I’m also reading Anna Karenina right now (for a college class on Russian Lit) and it’s so cool to read your liveblogs because they are SO TRUE AND CORRECT. YES, Konstantin Levin is the perfect man (and his relationship with Kitty is so ridiculously cute)!!! YES, Anna as the “surprised Pikachu” meme when Alexei Karenin finally threatens divorce is perfect! YES, Kitty is 10000% bisexual (I first read part of this book at age 15 and picked up on it even THEN—she so has a little baby crush on Anna and then Varenka)!!!

I seriously wish this book had more of a fandom, and it’s just so fun to see your reactions to it and see that someone else out there shares my love for Kitty & Levin in particular—I can’t wait to see what you think as we both finish the book!!

Hey friend!! I'm so happy my liveblogging amuses you 🥰

My feelings about the book overall were basically "wow this book is named after this one character but there's so much going on around her that has nothing to do with her"

I found Anna to be an annoying character and i definitely think treating her for postpartum depression could have worked wonders. The fact that, after all that, she didn't even love the baby she had with Vronsky is just like 🙃🙃🙃 it's a book about full on clownery at the end of the day. And i really enjoyed the writing style, it felt fun and accessible, but my god this is a very long book with so much in it. It's like six full seasons of The Real Housewives of Moscow.

I do love Kitty and Levin with my whole ass heart though.

[kylejsugarman]

So, re: this post, has your American Girl doll Jesse finally satisfied your urge to have a Jesse you can hug and cuddle?

Also, I think I’ve seen you mention a different Jesse doll you own on this blog before, although I could be mistaken…if that’s true, how many Jesses do you have? And may I see pictures of them?

(Also also I am OBSESSED with the crocheted Kyle J. Sugarman in the linked post…homemade one-of-a-kind dolls of a person’s favorite things my BELOVED—and I, too, just love having physical representations of your favorite characters whom you can cuddle and hug 🥲)

it really has satisfied that urge :') its so hard to explain but just being able to wrap both arms around him and hug makes me feel so happy and at peace. hyperfixations for me often involve a huge amount of energy and fixation that can be really difficult to articulate or "get out", especially when i dont have time to make or talk about stuff, so hugging and squeezing a physical representation of it helps "get" some of that energy "out" and gives me that same rush.

and yes, i have another jesse doll 😔 hes cute but not super accurate and not as easy to hug. i also, embarrassingly enough, have a kyle sugarman american girl doll, but he lives back home in my closet storage so i just keep my crocheted one with me always. ive had him for like five years now and never sleep without him. here's some pics of my four dolls 😔

[zukkaoru]

“Incredible” for the WIP guessing game?

Romance had always just been something that may or may not happen to him one day, if the right person came along. It wasn’t that Ranpo was repulsed by it; it was that he wasn’t sure he’d ever find anyone who met his incredibly high standards, and he was plenty happy without it.

from a currently untitled oneshot where ranpo has to tell fukuzawa he's dating someone from the organization that tried to burn yokohama to the ground

[mx-sinisters]

Happy birthday!!! I hope you have an amazing day! 🎉

tysm maya!!!! <3

[fridayiminlovemp3]

Happy late birthday!!! Hope you had a good one!

thank you!!!! i did! i didn’t even cry once with is huge for me <3

[creativenicocorner]

IM DELIRIOUS CAUSE I JUST FINISHED BINGING ALL OF BLUE EYE SAMURAI AND

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT THIS WAS SO GOOD

I LOVE HOW CATHARTICALLY A N G R Y THE MAIN CHARACTER WAS!!!!! THE DELICIOUS EXPLORATION OF THE DESTRUCTIVE CYCLE OF REVENGE

MIZU I LOVE THE COMPLEX GENDER FEELS YOU GIVE AND SERVE

THE ART DESIGN

THE FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY

KURASAWA FILMOGRAPHY HOMAGES!!!!

I'm very normal about this show, god I hope they get okayed for a second season.

Please PLEASE I am emphatically inviting you to give it a try. Be warned, it is, uh, bloody

[efortmanteau]

One of my favorite things that can happen is someone says something like, "Oh, I love that song, it has a bunch of different sections, like Bohemain Rhapsody."

And I get to say, "So it's a... rhapsody."

Like... that's what a rhapsody is, my guy.

Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin? Actually also a rhapsody. He didn't lie in the title.

Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day? I'd say... a rhapsody. Even Wikipedia calls it "a punk rock version of Bohemian Rhapsody." You don't have to do this. It's just a rhapsody that is punk rock.

Not to downplay how cool it was that Queen made a modern rhapsody so sick that it's the benchmark. I'm just saying. We can have more rhapsodies.

[starlightmay]

Lucy Boynton for Elle France, January 25th 2024.

©️ Paola Kudacki

[eisvogel666]

Details...

[thesunmakesmetired]

I know i might have a weird taste for music but i didn't think it was that bad until i gave a lift to my brother and he kept begging be for a normal song after being forced to listen to nyan cat for not even 30 seconds...

And than two trucks started playing...

I just kept skipping through my playlist the whole ride and this is my fun playlist too :((

[wren-of-the-woods]

I choose to believe that if Jaskier had been in that prison cell with Gordon for a while longer, he would have invented Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley.

[giddlygoat]

OH ALSO. i think i screamed in the movie theatre when they played blue sky at the end of the smb movie. i know everyone knows that song and you could argue that it’s overused but it IS by my favorite band in the entire universe and whatever man i thought it was perfect. that was special to me

[kylejsugarman]

Trick or treat!!

happy halloween to u!! :D based on ur url, i think u deserve a blue and music-themed pony and thankfully, miss piccolo is here to deliver on both fronts for u!!