#cy talks about musicals

[cyanid-apple]

*in which the two lovers are bonded into something greater than themselves

**that all living things in the universe are part of a single consciousness

[cyanid-apple]

It’s probably too late to overturn these results, but, I’m very passionate about Telephone Wire, so here

Telephone Wire, to me, is very relatable as a song about struggling to connect with a parent. Alison wants to have a meaningful conversation, a meaningful connection with Bruce, but it falls short. She latches onto the first thing he says that she can relate to, kind of going "hey I relate to this experience you had, I had this experience too. I am the same as you, don’t you remember? Don’t you see how we are the same? Don’t you see me ?" But Bruce doesn’t notice.

This is even more tragic when taking into account that this is adult!Alison replaying the scene in her head. She knows that this isn’t merely the last chance to connect with her dad before she goes back to college, but really the last chance before Bruce’s death. She needs it to have gone differently. "This can’t be our last …", she needs a connection, she needs something, but it is their last talk, she can’t change the past.

The shift from "Say something, talk to him" said to herself (an encouragement, she needs to do something) to "Say something, talk to me" to Bruce (she’s despairing, she needs him to see her, to acknowledge her) hits me really hard also

Also just, this paragraph

Musical Theatre Song Contest: Round Two B

Submitter’s propaganda under the cut

Balaga

hey balaga ho balaga hey hey ho balaga hey hey balaga the famous troika driver hey balaga ho balaga hey hey hey balaga hey hey balaga the famous troika driver WHO'S THAT MADMAN FLYING AT FULL GALLOP DOWWN THE STREEEEEEEEET

It's a really fun song from an underrated musical

Telephone Wire

This song always make me cry so bad

It’s the desperation, the need for something to have happened, the need for closure, the desperation to have been seen truly. "there’s a moment I’m forgetting where you tell me you see me" but there’s not, Bruce barely listens, it’s the most normal car ride ever, this is the last time they ever talk

[halcyoncyrus]

Naked in Manhattan is one of those earphones in volume full blast time for a spiritual awakening kind of songs

[thotsfortherapy]

y'all my friend was telling me about how her friend with a 4.2 GPA and 5 labs got rejected for what I want to go into... I was having a crisis about grad school but it looks like that choice might get made for me

[keferon]

Sorry in advance for the word vomit but. I love the whole Jazz-and-Prowl figuring out the language barrier but also consider:

They don't.

Prowl's been captured by Quintessons and is currently thinking of ways to completely scrape his processor so they can't get any useful data, only to get rescued by a random mech. They fight their way out (the mech is extremely proficient in combat). At first he thinks it's a drone- it looks at him when he asks questions but doesn't answer (responds to noise, not language), it is sparkless (not alive) and it makes random but entirely incoherent noises and doesn't even ping (not able to communicate). Prowl has no idea what's going on but he's too injured to make it back to base alone and it's helping him? So. He chalks it up to some waylaid stealth military asset and tries to think of ways to both get it back to base whilst also making sure it's not some sort of Quintesson Trojan-horse [10%].

Meanwhile, Jazz was sent to blow up a Quintesson command camp by his organisation but instead he got thrown through a weird portal, and found a pilot all tied down and probably being tortured so naturally he busted him out but uh. He has no idea what the other is saying. He's talking in total tonal gibberish. Not that he's judging, he's heard some stuff about how far other piloting programs are willing to go to advance neural technology. And his face! He has one! A handsome one. Must be some advanced shit because he's got micro expressions and he's using them to frown as him. Anyways, Jazz's got bigger fish to fry. The sky's a different colour, there are two suns and atmo is reading terribly low levels of O2. Maybe he and this pilot got thrown into an alien planet? Cool- well, actually pretty bad but hey they're in this together.

Prowl knows by models that they're bound to run into another Quintesson patrol eventually, and based on the drones alertness to its surroundings, his previous observations to its capacity to fight, and how it doesn't stray to far from him, if patrol numbers are favourable [1-8 range] they can survive [70, .5]% the route back to base. But the drone is reckless and abandons him to the melee (how can a drone be reckless?) and Prowl gets injured worse. Energon drips from wounds, and the angle makes it challenging for him to patch it. But the drone creeps closer, folds to its (knees? Its joints are in an odd but effective configuration) and gently (gently?) begins to mimic (clumsily) Prowl's motions of patching his wounds. Here is where Prowl falters, because drones are not so careful. Drones do not do not look up multiple times at his faceplates, and become more delicate when they see you in pain. Drones don't hold out a servo and help you to your pedes when your done. Which begs the question, if he's not a drone, so what has been done to this mech?

Jazz on the other hand is freaking the fuck out. Naturally. Because uh, he started slicing Quints, expecting Frowny to do the same because his mech was still clearly operational, only for the idiot to completely disregarded normal combat standards which can be summarised as 'fight hard or die' and instead get chewed on by some big ass teeth.

Only to see the glowing purple dripping from his torn sides, only to see that he's bleeding.

Machines don't bleed.

So Jazz figures out Frowny is an alien first. He starts pointing at himself and saying his name, insistently, until Frowny repeats it. He points at Frowny, and records and replays whatever sound bite Frowny makes until Frowny's also nodding in confirmation. He still calls him Frowny, because even though he has his name? Probably? He has no idea what it means and can't actually pronounce it (no idea how to get a mouth to move that way) but hey! Progress! He does this again and again with small things (rock, hand, cyber?animals, music (Frowny's confused at that one it's pretty adorable) ect.

Prowl has no idea what to make of this strange mech. Is he a failed experiment? A runaway from Cybertron following the Functionalists rise or power? Thennn Prowl finds out one fateful night that the mech is actually an alien organic (in a fit of misunderstandings, and squeezes him pretty hard for it ouch and feels SO guilty about it later) and suddenly the language/culture barrier makes way more sense.

Prowl's injuries degrade (a line splits). He has no way to communicate this except for the energon dripping out of his chassis. The organic is clearly worried (how did he think he was ever sparkless), and Prowl can't reach the injury himself. So he guides the mech's servos past armour and wiring, down to protoform (near his sparkchamber) to the split line. Gestures and hopes the mech can figure out what to do from his miming[#^%]. That'll he'll be careful, and won't hurt him [5%, 87%, #*%, *########%].

Frowny is later picking shrapnel stuck in his forearm that's too small for him to remove, so Jazz gets out of his mech to help with his small human hands. Jazz has no way to communicate to Frowny that if he moves, he'll sheer Jazz's limbs clean off, but he goes in anyway, because Frowny's hurt, and speckled in blood. Because he's clearly struggling and hurt and tired. Because Jazz has to trust that he won't.

Frowny's injures eventually make him collapse, and Jazz carries him the rest of the way. Jazz has no idea how they'll be received (especially considering how Frowny reacted when he found out Jazz was organic). Jazz knows he might be dissected. Knows he might be pulled apart (again) but.

He remembers all the little moments they had on their journey (Frowny shielding him from falling rubble when Jazz was out of his mech once, them getting to gesticulating arguments, Frowny's reaction to his music, how he fell asleep on Jazz once and it was fricken adorable).

It doesn't matter that Jazz can't say (barely understands) his actual name. That Frowny probably doesn't understand his. It doesn't matter that they talk in halting miming, in broken sound clips and touches and half-glares.

He's already gone out on all his limbs, might as well put his head on the chopping block. And if it causes him to lose the damn thing, well.

He's a pilot. Dying horribly is practically his job description.

OOOUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHH DYING HORRIBLY IS PRACTICALLY HIS JOB DESCRIPTION,,,,,,,,,,,

[cy-cyborg]

The Jaws Effect and what it means for media representation

The Jaws Effect is the name of a phenomenon that described the panic and fear that sprang up around sharks, fuelled by Steven Spielberg's movie, Jaws. While the fear of sharks and other marine predators had always been a thing, Jaws launched the fear of sharks, and Great White Sharks in particular, to new (and mostly unfounded) heights. Most people will never encounter a real-life shark and so their only knowledge about the creatures come from movies and other forms of entertainment. Entertainment that largely portrayed them as mindless, unfeeling killing machines. After Jaws, sharks became a staple in the creature-feature genre of movies, which only perpetuated the idea of sharks as dangerous monsters even further, reigniting and reconfirming the beliefs the public held about them in the process. These ideas about sharks are, of course, not true, but the misconception and fear has had a real, observable impacts on shark populations, shark conservation efforts and even laws and legislations surrounding sharks and shark conservation around the world.

Ok but Cy, this is a blog about disability and disabled representation, what do sharks have to do with anything you talk about? Well, Because The Jaws Effect is just one of many examples that shows how massive of an impact representation in the media can have, for better or for worse, especially when talking about subjects the public generally knows very little about.

This conversation is not unique to disability representation, nearly every person I've seen who's talked about how to write and design characters from any minority brings it up eventually, but the media we consume, the movies we watch, the books we read can all have big impacts on people's perceptions on those topics. When talking about disability specifically, it's an unfortunate reality that not many people know all that much about us, and so, much like sharks, for many, their only real exposure to disabled people is through the media they consume.

If you don't know anyone in a wheelchair, and your only knowledge of life as a wheelchair user comes from books and movies like Me Before You, of course you're going to (spoiler) come away thinking that life in a wheelchair is horrible and death is better than living like that. If you don't know any DID Systems and your only exposure to a condition like that is through movies like Split (and honestly, a number of other horror movies and crime shows) of course you'll think people with DID are unstable monsters who could become violent any moment. If your only exposure to autistic people is Music, then it's not shocking that you might think Autistic people are "trapped in their own minds," completely unaware of the world around them and lacking any kind of agency. As much as I'd like to be able to say these are "just movies" or "just books," and that if we don't like them, we can just not watch them, they all had an impact on the real world and real people's perceptions of the disabilities they depicted, as do the many, many smaller examples of bad representation.

This is why I personally spend so much time focused on the portrayal of disability in the media, why so much of my content is focused on creating resources for creators to represent us better, and why I think writers, artists and other types of creators should care about the representation they include.

Unfortunately, people believing misinformation and stereotypes, while annoying, isn't the worst of the impacts bad rep can have. If a stereotype is prevalent enough, and enough people believe it, it can both put us in harms way and cause us to loose access to things we desperately need and things designed to help us. One really common example of this is when movies and TV shows show a character getting up out of their wheelchair, and use this as proof that the person is faking being disabled. However, in reality, there are many disabilities that might mean someone has to use a wheelchair, even if they can still walk a little bit or stand up. The stereotype of someone standing up from their chair being a fake, especially when it's reinforced over and over again in the media, leads non-disabled people to believe that anyone who stands up from their wheelchair is faking, and results in a lot of real disabled people being harassed and denied things like access to disabled parking, toilets and other accessible spaces. There were even a few cases of people reporting those they see get out of their wheelchairs to Centrelink (The Australian "welfare" department, for those not familiar) as frauds, and while these investigations don't usually go far before someone realises what's happened, it has, on occasion, resulted in people loosing the income they depend on to survive, even temporarily.

But the impact of representation, of course, can go both ways.

I was in high school when the first How To Train Your Dragon movie came out, and at the time, I didn't really like people being able to see that I was a leg amputee because I was sick of kids in particular staring, pointing at me, asking their parents "what's wrong with them?" or asking me directly, "what's wrong with your legs?". I wore long skirts and big, bulky tracksuit pants to keep my legs covered, something that became dangerous in the hot Australian summer, but I didn't care.

But the impact of How to Train Your Dragon came in two ways. The first, was that it was one of the first times I'd seen an amputee (or rather, multiple amputees) who didn't keep their prosthetics covered or hidden, and it gave me the little boost in confidence I needed to do that myself and wear clothing that was more comfortable and functional. And second, the comments from children changed, albeit slightly, but enough that it was noticeable. The questions and comments went from "what's wrong with you?" to "oh cool, your legs are like Hiccup's!" I even had one little girl ask me once if I had a pet night fury. They went from being scared of me and my legs, or at the very least concerned for me, to genuinely curious and impressed. While reactions like that did become less and less common over time, they didn't fully go away either. Even today, I occasionally get young kids asking me why I have legs like hiccup. A friend of mine who was born with one arm shorter than the other and without fingers on that side had a similar experience with the movie Finding Nemo. Her disability was a bit more complex than what I described here, and she always found it hard to explain "what happened" to small children, however, after Finding Nemo came out, she was able to simply tell kids "this is my lucky fin, like what nemo has!" and that was enough to take her from someone "scary" to these kids to someone like their favourite characters.

Of course, it's much easier to see the impact positive representation can have on people's perceptions when we're talking about kids media, but it's not exclusive to it either.

When it comes to a minority like the disabled community who are so thoroughly misunderstood by the wider public, misinformation can and does spread easily. What people see and read in the media they consume plays a big roll in how people perceive the real people attached to the stereotypes. We often hear people say "Fiction imitates life" but the reverse can and often is also true, life can imitate and be influenced by fiction, and those of us creating should be mindful of this, especially when we're talking about a group of vulnerable people.

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[keuwibloom]

Its been a while since ive posted anything Parasynth, so I thought id make these polaroid-inspired drawings to make up for it!

As an added bonus-- I have nicknames for the guys! I actually made these a while back, but I figured id post them here for organization purposes, and so its easier to differentiate when talking about Parasynth.

The nicknames + my reasons behind choosing them listed below the cut!

Blue "Polaris" - Also known as the "north star", polaris is the only stationary star in the night sky, commonly used as a compass for navigation. A star that symbolizes stability when you've lost your way.

Dream "Apollo/Pol" - Named after the Greek god of the sun, music, medicine, and archery, twin brother to Artemis. Went with this because of the twin thing and sun symbolism, plus the healer and archery association.

Ink "Opal" - Opal is a gemstone that shines with rainbow colors. A true opal gem also has a base color of white, which fits with Ink's whole thing. Ink also calls others "pal" so I thought the name would be a nice reference to that.

Axe "Condor/Kon" - A large scavenger bird, related to the vulture. One species of it is the largest flying bird in the world. A condor's head also has no feathers, which kinda reminds me of Axe's skull.

Nightmare "Artemis/Arte" - Named after the Greek goddess of the moon and the hunt, twin sister to Apollo. Chosen for the same reasoning as Dream's nickname. Artemis is also the goddess of wilderness and wild animals, which fits with the gang (in a "they're a group and they are dangerous" way).

Killer "Shrike" - A cute little passerine bird that is known to impale its prey on sharp things, usually thorns. Shrikes are also known as "butcher birds". I think it fits with his vibe, plus shrikes have these black markings over their eyes that remind me of Killer's eyes.

Dust "Owl" - A nocturnal bird that has eerily silent flight and large eyes that reflect light in the dark so it looks like its glowing. I was in between this one and "Kestrel", but I feel like Owl fits Dust's general vibe better.

Cross "Cypress/Cy" - A tree that symbolizes longevity and endurance, but also mourning. It's also associated with protection and strength. I was looking for stuff that was associated with the goddess Artemis and the cypress tree was one (also the gang as birds and Cross as the tree they rest on).

Error "Oregano" - An herb that has a very strong bitter/peppery taste and smell. It's known to have antiviral properties and other benefits, but it is best used in small amounts. I also chose this name to parallel Opal (rock VS plant).

Swap/Blue belongs to the AU Community

Dream and Nightmare belong to Jokublog

Ink belongs to Comyet

Horror/Axe belongs to Sour-Apple-Studios

Killer belongs to Rahafwabas

Dust belongs to Ask-Dusttale

Cross belongs to Jakei95

Error belongs to Loverofpiggies

[justcallmedoz3]

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Lingsha ;

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Akimitsu ;

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Name: doze

Age: minor

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Pronounce:

She/her/they

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Birthday:

24 January

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Mbti:

Intp - 5w7

(yes i have taken the test three times, and yes it's the same answer.)

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yellow

red

purple

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°Like:

-quiz (Nikolai ref)

-sleeping

-sleeping late

-food

-tea

-talking about my interest

°Dislike:

-spending my time doing nothing

-my PHONE ADDICTION

-myself

-people making fun of my interest

-crowds

-foods that is TOO SPICY

-homework

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-SOME of my classmate

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-listening to music

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★Interest:

-moriarty the patriot

-Rotg (rise of the guardians)

-Lmk

-My inner demons (Aphmau)

-hazbin hotel & helluva boss

-black myth

-god of war

-alien stage

-Tbhk

-finale fantasy

-call of duty

-sonic

-bungou stray dogs

-ejen Ali

-paddle pop

-Eddsworld

-eloquent contenance

-epic the musical

-Sherap of the end

-Pressure (roblox)

-BoBoiBoy galaxy

-Undertale

-AOT

-mulan

-marvel

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(And maybe a undiagnosed adhd?)

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-the creator like to ship themselves with random people they arent interested to no one knows why

-this creator is lazy.

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-hakuna mutata

-a fan for history

-the creator likes birds, big cats, omg I especially love cheetah, and snow leopard, cat, dog, butterfly, (tbh every animal to ever exist)

-but they randomly dislike small insects (dislike worms >:(

-always late tbh

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-Imactuallylazy / layze

-Eddsworld

-VOAdam

-let's game it out

-graystillplays

-miawaug

-kubz scouts

-kein moytod

-shoosimooshi

-fingess

-benoftheweek

-CY YU VODS

-manlybadasshero

-droomps

-kindly keyin

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-rustage

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°Kinnie:

-William James moriarty (MTP)

-sun wukong (LMK)

-Nikolai Gogol (BSD)

-Dazai Osamu (BSD)

-Raiden Ei (GENSHIN IMPACT)

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Oooooh man im watching the end:

Part 1 feels so sad, raven trying to do all the things for her friends on their last day is honestly so so so sad

This projection thing is sick

Them making her the bunker behind her back because she probably would have opposed to it

Beast boy quickly giving her the penny is the most sweetest things ever im actually gonna cry, and every time they did a close up on it

It makes me so sad that she doesnt even try to fight back despite if she goes the end is innevitable. I guess she just wanted to get it over with so her friends dont need to spend any moore time of their ladt moments fighting for her :((((

Raerae my babyyyyyy

"Stay safe" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Her absolutely obliterating Slade with words is so amazing i cant even-

The raven leading them all together, their hands in the middle, the hope 😭

Im so happy with this little call back to season 1's "switched" where raven and star switched bodues and learned how to use their powers, its so good and im glad star remembered that because she would

Her giving them a bit of her power is so sick and them all saying "azarath metrion zinthos" is so so sick

Can i say the ost for this show as a whole in EVERY episode is absolutely sick and sounds so good i would listen to it on its own, but they also know how to dial it down and turn off the music for so much inpact its crazy, they did it with some apprentice arc scenes and haunted and such and it works so well to hear the atmosphere and suspense is perfect, i also like the ost that plays when the "dark versions" of star, cy and BB appear, its so minimal and impactful (i also like the konochrome no shading look they have) them talking is also pretty creepy

BB going inside trigon's ear and turning into a whale is so smart and also the "wet willie" he said he would give trigon XD

I knew slade teams up with them in this episode but it still feels weird! Also rob volunteered tovfind rae but honestly i think that BB has the closest bond with her and the little things he does through the series, and the penny he gave her, i dont ship them really at all but i feel like he has the closer bond and whole robin is my favorite and the leader, it would have made more sense for BB to go, and more emotionally impactful

Also dont say robin cant stay cuz he would easily beat the shadow titans but they could have done that and nobody would really care too much, they were defeated before by that robot that tried to beat cy in "only human" so shadows of themselves could definetly still proviide a problem with robin there, and it would have made no difference to how that scene could have went

Slade has a point, uf he gets a thing he wants and the end of the world is gonna happen anyway, he might as well take the deal.

Also i thought this whole time that "what he had lost" was gonna be his son or something cuz i didnt have any clue what it could be and drew on the tiny bit of deathstroke comic lore i knew but i was still skeptical, i was NOT expecting the skeleton tho, that seriously shocked me.

Him saying "The fringe benifits were quite enjoyable" and then panning on this scene is just:

Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew no no no no no no no no no no no no

Knowing what that episode implied and then this line is just ewwwwwwwwwww 😭

Slade and robin being mirrors while fighting litterally on the same wavelength and same split second is more of a testament to how alike they are 0.0

"Im here to save you too" robin saying about slade is 0.0 D: as well

AHA I KNEW THEY HAD TO FIGHT EACH OTHER'S SHADOW TO DEFEAT THEM!!!

BB's saying that terra was right to dump him is just vile

Still think that BB going after raven would have felt more impactful, like sure, robin and raven have been in each other's minds or something and i feel like them being the main two in "birthmark" makes so much sense, but for this, i feel like it makes more sense for BB to go, he's spent the entire show getting to understand raven more deeply than any other character, and he has littlerally been inside her mind. I dont ship them at all but their strong platonic bond would have been perfect for this

Baby rae sounds so weird her voice like that lol

SO. SMALL.

The big white projection raven is so sick lookin. You go girl!!

BB what do you mean raven giving hugs is weird? She litterally gave you a hug at the end of "spellbound"!

Maaann i love them so much.

Something i love about this show is that the titans' friendships is strong and genuine, they care deeply for eachother, truly want to connect to eachother, make sure each ither is okay, they believe wachother instantly when something us wrong and dint disregard eachother's feelings, nobody is ever the butt of the joke and nobody is made to feel bad on purpose by the others, even if they are all completely different from one another, and if it happens then they do their best to make the sincerest of apologies. Them being mad at each other is always coming from a place of frustration from wanting to hang out and enjoy each other's company but just not understanding how

Many kids shows make friends kinda hate eachother, always get on their bad sides, cant seem to stand each other, and always have one of the others as the butt of jokes (even teen titans go does this! D:) so i really love this show for that

"We'll be ready for him" is what cyborg said at the end of "haunted" which i guess goes to show the hope and trust they have in themselves and eachother

Again i would say BB would have worked a lot better for this last scene with raven instead of robin, since BB while being a bit childish, is still really emotionally intellegent! (I mean look at all his interactions with raven and terra!) And this little speach about raven having the most hope does sound like something beast boy would say more than robin (yes he is the leader, but it sounds more right in BB's voice), like, i can imagine vividly what it would be like with bb in robin's place and it makes so much more sense. I honestly wanna draw a version of the same events but with bb instead but thats so hard to do and would take forever sooo :/ thats only a maybe few pannels kinda thing MAYBE

This is a sick arc, the music again was so cool,

I think my favorite part was part 1 tbh, before any of the world taking over takes place

[droughtofapathy]

In which DOA lays out the specific and vaguely incomprehensible foreshadowing that hangs over her latest fanfiction's narrative:

If you haven't read "If It's Thursday, It Must Be Nora" then proceed beneath the cut at your own peril. But since I don't actually walk you through the details in-text, instead I'm going to do it here in a way that is both somewhat condescending and a little unhinged, all the while assuming you weren't perfectly capable of having figured it all out on your own. Just trust me when I say it completely recontextualizes a vital chapter. But I need to talk about this, so here we are:

The timeline to this particular story is left intentionally vague, but if you, like me, are an encyclopedia of theatre history, you'll have had no trouble reading between the lines.

In chapter one, Sandra auditions for an unnamed musical Avis calls "that Herman musical" for the role of "the hat shop woman, currently being played by a woman in her mid-thirties," who is later identified as Eileen Brennan, in a roundabout sort of way. You may think this is simply a reference to Kate Baldwin's Tony-nominated performance as Irene Malloy in Hello, Dolly! (2017), as well as a reference to a prior story where Blanche treats Avis to Hello, Dolly! tickets. It is, but there's more to it.

The show debuted on Broadway in 1964, and replacement casting implies it's been a few years since. Sandra and Avis also allude to another upcoming musical "with the young songwriter team that did that strange little show last season with Judy Garland’s daughter. I hear they’re mounting this fall."

This is, of course, Cabaret, and we all knew that right away. But how did we know that? Judy Garland's daughter being, who else, the incomparable legend Liza Minnelli, who made her Tony-winning debut at nineteen Flora the Red Menace, with music and lyrics by Kander & Ebb. Flora the Red Menace (big flop, but Liza became the youngest performer to win a Tony, so good for her), debuted in 1965, and Cabaret premiered in the fall of 1966, which sets our timeline squarely in early 1966. But how early?

Skip ahead to chapter six, and you'll find more blatant hints to the story's setting if you didn't pick up on the first. Avis returns to the hotel singing fragmented lyrics from Cy Coleman's Sweet Charity, and while this too could be overlooked as a reference to Bebe Neuwirth's Tony-winning performance as Nickie, but it also helps us to home in on a more precise date. Sweet Charity opened in January of 1966. Avis goes to see two shows on this particular visit, the other being Mame starring Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur.

Mame officially opened on May 24, 1966, putting our date in late May at the very earliest, as that was the only time you'd have been able to get this sort of legendary two-show day. But Avis specifically mentions "I don’t know which of them is going to take home the award in a few weeks." The award being the Tony, which took place on June 16th that year. So, the story, and this specific chapter, has to have been either Saturday, May 28th or Saturday, June 4th.

And it could not have been June 4th.

On June 4, 1966, Blanche Knopf died in her sleep. On a Saturday. One week after Avis leaves Manhattan and their hotel room for, though she doesn't know it at the time, the last time.

And that is the real tragedy here.

[cyanid-apple]

I am so normal about Trial Before Pilate (lying) (misinformation) (is actually insane about Trial Before Pilate) (You hypocrites, you hate us more than him! We have no king but Cesar!) (Crucify. Him.) (Die if you want to, you misguided martyr)

[pinktaeyeon]

Every month of 2023!

i was tagged by @baekslight, @floweruna & @baekhyunnybyun! thank you 🥺

rules: link your favorite and/or most popular post from each month this year <3 (it’s totally fine to skip months!) and tag some CCs you love!

january

my favourite, and most popular, post from this month was my XG shooting star set. for some reason doing an entire set for a music video is really intimidating to me but i think i did well!

feburary

my favourite was this taeyeon weekend set. i wouldn't be tumblr user pinktaeyeon without having this be one of my favs. i think i coloured and sharpened it well. my most popular set was this irene monster set! i'm proud of this one as giffing stages can be SO difficult! i think it came out well.

march

my favourite was this taeyeon happy performance set! my other fav aesthetic other than pink in general is underwater! taeyeon at the aquarium singing ??? a video after my own heart. my most popular set is this nayeon & sana set from the set me free mv.

april

this month was the start of exo activities and i felt in my element. my fav set is this one of baekhyun doing the sorry i'm cute challenge. he's just !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my most popular set was my le sserafim break the bridge set!!!

may

my taeyeon fine set was my fav from this month. it's one of my favourite taeyeon title tracks and i think i did well making this set considering the video quality is not ! it ! my most popular set from this month was my aespa welcome to my world set. this is actually one of my favourite songs from this year. it's just so stunning.

june

june was A MONTH!!! shinee came back, taeyeon was doing concerts and EXO RELEASED LET ME IN AND HEAR ME OUT!!!! my favourite and most popular post was a set from exo's hear me out mv. this mv was just so special to me. seeing the exos having fun and being silly just meant so much. this set is another fav too. kyungsoo eating a donut gif you're so dear to me.

july

july was peak exo comeback content so i made sooo many sets. it was SO much fun making exo content again so here are a few of my favs 1. chanyeol vs. nails (most popular) 2. chanyeol cream soda mv set 3. exo cream soda performance set from mcountdown (pink shirt, curly haired junmyeon !!!!!!! yeah !) 4. hear me out behind video of baekhyun being a menace

august

my most fav and most popular was my aespa better things set. i loooved this mv so much they all looked gorgeous and the song was so pretty. i loved everything about this release!

september

favourite and most popular is this taeyeon got the beat set. this look.... it's just... so legendary... lives were changed.

october

my favourite post from this month was this set of chanyeol and jongdae in chanyeol's good enough music video. seeing chingu line in yeol's mv really healed something in me. these two sets (cy, ks & jd & chanbaek) are close seconds just bc the good enough mv was so special. my most popular set was this one of taeyeon at the louis vuitton fashion show!

november

taeyeon comeback month!!!!!!!! i made a few sets for her comeback but this one has to be my favourite. she just looks so stunning!!!!! my most popular set was a taylor swift set from the reputation stadium tour!

december

i haven't made much this month but this set of taeyeon's fabulous performance video is my favourite and most popular set! yet again she looks stunning. talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before etc.

this year has been a really good one for creating. i've genuinely had so much fun making things and also seeing other people make things for my favs too. being able to create for exo and taeyeon specifically has been so much fun!!

anyway if you've read this far, thank you! thank you for enjoying all my silly little gifs and talking to me about my favs. i've enjoyed it so much. i'd like to get to know people better but i'm v shy! but seeing people say nice things in tags has been so lovely.

i hope you have a fun and safe new years if you're doing anything to celebrate, and i wish everyone a healthy and happy new year. 💖

tagging: @tipannies @jaennie @thankyou-taeyeon @sunghanbin @jftk @bu99erfly @dazzlingkai @suuho @ryudaeng @byunbaekhyunie @jsuh @bethereforme no pressure but if i've tagged you i've really enjoyed everything you've made this year! thank you for making such pretty content!

[halcyoncyrus]

Been so hyperfocused for the past month that I haven't listened to much music outside of musical soundtracks but I just went on a walk and listened to Make Way For Love by Marlon Williams and I forgot how grounding this album is for me.

[redsea8me]

Medic in the house!

Is Rest-Q a play on rescue?

If you wanna spill more about him please do there's never enough transformers ocs 👀

Okay so 😭 Rest-Q isn’t a tf oc he’s actually a Gobot character from hit show Challenge of the Gobots and I’ve taken it upon myself to reboot the series!! Also Rest-Q is 100% a play on rescue it just has to be

But uh, I’ll still take the chance to talk about him!!

He’s definitely got the most varied music taste in the world, has the special ability to pick something the whole group will like, he’s got the aux cord 24/7 unquestioned

Leader 1 is so in love with him it’s so silly, I’m so glad you got over your divorce w/ Cy-Kill, but like when Rest-Q gets into one of his spiels that freak out the others Leader 1 will be sitting there like mhm, yeah, mhm do you know I love you mhm, oh interesting, like he’s making heart eyes the whole time

him and Leader 1 aren’t actually that far off age wise, Q is a bit younger but he’s got one of those eternally 20 faces

Oh!! And Q’s like pet name for L1 is Loonie bc I think it’s silly

but like.. please feel free to ask me questions about my GoBots Rework pretty please I love it 🙏

[dulcisregnumdorm]

Temperence Celeritas Von Schweetz

More info under the cut

Name: Temperance Celeritas Von Schweetz

Age: 21

Gender: Bigender

Sexuality: Pansexual

Pronouns: He(preferred)/She

Year: 3

Best Subject: Trans mutation

Birthday: November 4th

Twisted From: King Candy 

Class: Class C (No.5)

Club: Motorsports Club

Height: 5’4 (5’8 in platforms)

Hobby: Racing,Playing Arcade games,Stunt driving,shopping

Homeland: Glace Duchy (current) Turio (former)

Likes: Racing, Electronic music,going on road trips,stunts Dislikes: Things not going as planned,people who destroy things,people who speak down on her dream

Unique Magic: TURBO TASTIC (Can call upon different alter egos when needed)

VA: Shizuka Ito

Nicknames: Creepy Crawly (Floyd),King,Temp

Pet Peeves: Lazy people, Cold weather,bug spray

Favorite Food: Honey BBQ chicken

Least Favorite Food: Tomatoes

Talent(s): Racing,Event planning,fixing machines,playing mind games

Zodiac:Scorpio

Personality type: ENTJ-T (Commander)

Personality: Temperence can be one of two things at a certain time, around the people he cares about she is sweet, kind and very loyal (most of the time). Around everyone else Temperence can come across as very cocky with the need to try and one up those he views as a hindrance to her achieving her goals. Of course opinions on Temp will vary who you talk to so your best bet is getting to know the aspiring legacy racer yourself.

 Fun Facts:

Terrence and Vincent are Temp’s half siblings

Temp loves body horror movies

Between the two Temperence would take part in Nascar

You can find Temperence chewing gum often (no its not because he’s a bubblegum cy-being)

^ It’s because chewing gum helps Temp calm down

Temperence lost his leg after being involved in a car crash cause by his grandfather

Loves to dress in vaporwave type clothes

Especially one piece jumpsuits

Do not let Temperence go shopping in the beauty section of the mall cause she will come back with 5 types of lip glosses 

Loves to have tea with Riddle and is often invited to the dorms unbirthday parties as long as he brings some sugar cubes as payment

Due to already being able to do thanks to having wings Temperence has difficulty flying on a broom like his other siblings.

Temp has been a huge fan of Lightning McQueen ever since he was a small child and dreams of meeting him one day

Temperence has become the designated dorm leader to deal with any kind of insect in any location in NRC 

Sometimes Temp exhibits more animalistic quirks (chirping when happy,cooing stuff like that)

^same applies to Terrence and Vincent

Due to being a cy-being canadian hybrid  Temp and take heavy hits (the same can apply to Vincent and Terrence)

Has fought Floyd once (AND WON despite going to in-school suspension but it COUNTS)

Sometimes during dorm meetings Temperence may appear taller due to flying in one place (he wants to feel tall)

[milascorner]

HIII just wanted to drop by your inbox. i hope you’re doing well <3 i saw ur reblog about ev and miko and immediately went ??? i was like that’s my pairing why didn’t i get a notification??? then i remembered it was from my old blog 😭 but i would love to hear those hcs 🙂‍↕️

ALSO about the golden rewrite i’m so excited for it hehe it made me swap loren’s and kirsten’s careers because while i can imagine loren studying psychology i can’t imagine her being a therapist LMFAO but being a nurse works for her because i can see her studying to be a future doctor. plus the banters between her and asher would be so fun like i can already hear him telling her “you wanna be a doctor yet you smoke” “yeah so?” or like if loren’s not in a good mood and being snappy asher would be like “how do you even take care of people with that attitude?” shdhajdha

I hope you're doing well too, I miss you so much <3 At this point, you're getting my therapy bill because your ocs take up a whole portion of my brain.

I think about your pairings an unhealthy amount... so in this essay I WILL (I'm joking, I'll try and keep this short lol) disclaimer is that this is just a lot of unorganised word vomit:

Constellations by Jade LeMac gives me Ev and Miko vibes

And not to insert Cypress everywhere, but I hc that Ev wrote ‘Birds of a Feather’ by Billie Eilish about his friendship with Cy

Alsoo, Ev embracing Miko’s dancer background by doing dances with her — this in particular

okayy, but the Ev and Miko fan edits that are made by their fans are immaculate

even when they're in a relationship I imagine that Ev still has his private account that he follows Miko's social media accounts, and every once in a while Miko goes through her followings to find which account it is because Ev won't tell her

alsoo Miko's a dancer so I know she knows good music, and when Evren's particularly stuck on a song I see him calling Miko and saying "babe, will you listen to this hook for a quick second? I think it's missing something"

which brings me to when Ev's worried about making a genre switch with his music, Miko would give him such a good pep talk

this is a ramble, but I know Ev realised that Miko was the one when he didn't feel anxious around her. like, sure there are butterflies, but overall he feels calm and okay and soo content and he's never felt like that

they're always gonna be our Starstruck pairing <3, so whenever Miko's teasing Evren she's playfully like "*gasps* I cannot believe that I, Miko Sanada, get to sit next to the Evren Acevedo. this is everything I've ever wanted." — and Ev would roll his eyes and yet always absolutely adore the fact that Miko knew nothing about him before they got together

I always imagine Ev and Miko being so comfortable yapping with each other, and I see Miko sitting on Ev's lap and she's talking about football, dancing, fashion, whatever—and Ev's just intently listening and running his fingers through her hair

but alsoo not to be nsfw but all of these posts give me ev x miko vibes — x, x, and x, x, x

ooo, but also my ramble about Ev and Miko with Ev's parents, back story: Ev and his parents end up travelling to Colombia at least once a year to see the extended Acevedo family (and Rosalie always gets invited bc we know that she being divorced from Javier is criminal)

^ and Miko gets invited, and I just see Ev's family loving her. and I imagine Ev and his grandma cooking dinner together for everyone, like chopping vegetables and she goes "so you are in love?" and Ev smiles and says "you wouldn't be meeting her if I wasn't" and his grandma would pause before saying "if you come back to Colombia and Miko does not have a ring on her finger, I will kill you Evren"

^ and I just see the dinner going so well, and the Ace family end up making all these non-subtle hints about Ev and Miko's future, about marriage and kids, and comparing their relationship to Rosa and Javier's

I talk about Evren’s family a lot so I must know everything about Miko’s family and what you think their dynamic is like with Ev

I have soo many other hcs but this is already long so I'll leave those for another time asdfhjklk.

—

Omg, with Kirsten, I genuinely think you made me in oc form.

When Asher says that about Loren, I imagine Loren raising a brow and going "you have the audacity to talk me about attitude", and I see it being an argument that crops up any time a cigarette is between her lips.

But yeah, omg, I'm so happy you're excited for the rewrite. That makes me so happy <33