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The New Yorker Interview

Jonathan Groff Rolls Merrily Back

The actor reflects on his journey in reverse: from his latest Tony nomination to his arrival in New York, waiting tables and dreaming of Broadway.

By Michael Schulman, Photograph by Thea Traff

June 2, 2024

Excerpts:

One of the problems with “Merrily” is its protagonist, Franklin Shepard, whom we first meet as a slick, philandering forty-year-old Hollywood producer. It takes two acts to arrive at the charismatic musician he once was, with a lot of mistakes in between. Putting effect before cause gives each scene a painful irony—but how do you get an audience to care about a guy who’s off-putting for so long? “Merrily” is back on Broadway, in a production directed by Maria Friedman, and it’s finally a hit. One big reason is its Frank, played by Jonathan Groff, whose natural warmth shines through even in the character’s older, sleazier incarnation. When this revival opened Off Broadway, in 2022, The New Yorker’s Helen Shaw wrote, “Groff’s silky tenor and angelic face elevate a part that can sometimes be contemptible—for the first time, I could see Frank as both the dreamer who believes in greatness and the glib charmer who believes every lie he tells.”

Groff, thirty-nine, is now nominated for a Tony Award, alongside Friedman and his co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez. He was previously nominated in 2016, for “Hamilton,” in the scene-stealing part of King George III, and in 2007, for the indie-rock musical “Spring Awakening,” as the rebellious schoolboy Melchior Gabor—his breakout role, opposite Lea Michele. Groff had come to New York three years earlier, as a stagestruck, closeted nineteen-year-old from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he grew up among Mennonites and was obsessed with the original cast recording of “Annie Get Your Gun.” “Merrily,” with its themes of aging, idealism, and the vicissitudes of show business, has had Groff thinking about his own path toward stardom. “Doing this show on Broadway at this time, moving to New York twenty years ago, I’ve now lived the time frame of the show,” he told me recently.

We were talking at a bakery north of Washington Square Park. Groff had glided in on a bicycle. As we spoke, he frequently welled up with tears—he’s a crier—but regained his composure by focussing on a pair of googly eyes affixed to the wall behind me. For our conversation, which has been edited and condensed, I had an experiment in mind.

Let’s start with the extremely recent past. Three days ago, you went to the Met Gala. How was your night?

The big headline for me was Lea Michele was pregnant, and I sat next to her at the table, holding her giant train thing while she peed. She took it off, and I was holding that and her purse. I saw Zac Posen, who was at our table, help Kim Kardashian up the little tiny stairs, and I said to him, “Wow, that was such a sweet moment of the gay helping the diva.” I was relating to him, like with me and Lea. It’s a zoo of famous people. I was going to go to the after-parties, but my body was just, like, “No.” I hit a wall from the shows and the epicness of the week, with the Tony nominations. So I was home by eleven-forty-five, and in bed by midnight.

The Broadway production of “Merrily” opened last fall. You told Jimmy Fallon that Meryl Streep came to your dressing room, where you have a bar named BARbra, and she took a video of you and sent it to Barbra Streisand. Who else has been there?

The first thing that comes to me is sitting in BARbra in October or November, drinking whiskey with Sutton Foster. I came to New York as a teen-ager and saw her six times in “Thoroughly Modern Millie”—now she’s in BARbra, dropping in for, like, an hour and a half after the show, and it’s so full circle. Who else? Patti LuPone was there—another big one for me. Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Martin McDonagh. Glenn Close sent back a bottle of champagne to be chilled in BARbra, which we drank together.

This show, like every Sondheim show, is very dense. Over the course of three hundred-plus performances, are there certain moments that have suddenly hit you a different way, or that you realize have a double meaning?

Double, triple, quadruple, infinity. I’m still having revelations, which really makes me believe that it’s a true work of art. Maria [Friedman] talks about how, with Sondheim’s writing, he “leaves space,” which is why it’s always new. He always needed to work with a collaborator, and she talked about the actor being an essential collaborator. She said the lyric he wrote in “Sunday in the Park with George”—“Anything you do, / let it come from you, / then it will be new”—is Sondheim’s directive to the actor.

The Tuesday after the Tony nominations, I got to the theatre, screamed with Lindsay [Mendez], screamed with Dan [Radcliffe]. [He chokes up.] Then I was singing “Growing Up”—“So old friends, don’t you see we can have it all?”—which has meant so many different things to me in the run of the show. At yesterday’s matinée, Dan and I were sitting on the roof singing “Our Time”: “Up to us, pal, to show ’em.” We’ve done it a million times. We look at each other, and Dan just fucking loses it crying. He had to look away from me. We talked about it afterward, like, “What the fuck was that?” I don’t know. Something just happened.

When you started the show, in 2022, at New York Theatre Workshop, were there kinks in your performance that you’ve since figured out?

I remember feeling shocked at being disliked for so long in the first half of the first act. It was very clear from the energy of the audience that they loved Mary in the opening scene—immediately, they’re on her side. I’m out here as a gay guy, playing this straight, two-timing Hollywood producer who’s cheating on his wife. I’m already having to feel confident in a way that I don’t in my everyday life, this sort of swagger. And the audience hates me. I remember feeling scared and self-conscious. Maria, in that preview process, really helped with that, because she talked about the value of when it’s real, and you’re not playing ugly just to be ugly. The one line that I really struggled with was “I’m just acting like it all matters so people can’t see how much I hate my life and how much I wish the whole goddam thing was over.” That is a really confronting thing to say.

People might say that this is one of the fundamental flaws of “Merrily We Roll Along”—that you’re confronted with this cynical, smarmy Frank in the first act, and you don’t really understand him until the show’s over. I can imagine going into this not knowing if that’s a solvable problem, because it hadn’t been for decades.

Well, Maria wanted us to find the truth. She really believed that these characters weren’t archetypes, that there’s humanity in the writing from beginning to end. I found it after that first week or two of previews, not being so afraid. The line that made me want to do the show was “I’ve made only one mistake in my life, but I’ve made it over and over and over. That was saying yes when I meant no.” I’ve done that a lot in my life, and there was something that felt like the closeted version of myself. George Furth and Stephen Sondheim—I can only imagine being gay at the time that they were gay. Even though Frank is straight, there’s so much repression that feels very familiar to me.

Except that you felt it at the beginning of your life and not the middle, as Frank does.

Yes and no. I still feel it. I’m still trying every day not to go back. I’m obviously out of the closet, so that’s a huge relief, but I’m always going to be reckoning with the Republican upbringing that I had. I’m always negotiating whatever homophobia I’ve got. It’s all in there, still. What we see as ugliness in the top of the show, to stand and say, “I want to fucking kill myself, I hate my life,” and not overdramatize it but try to find it in the most pure, truthful place—it’s still, every night, a meditation to go there.

Let’s wind back. In 2021, you played Agent Smith in “The Matrix Resurrections.” Any good stories about Keanu Reeves?

Getting to play Agent Smith really unlocked rage inside of me that I didn’t know was there. That’s helped me so much with “Merrily,” particularly in the first act. Learning the kung fu was, like, months of fight training. They called me the Savage, because I was so into it. We were shooting a big fight sequence with Keanu, and, after the first few takes, I remember Lana [Wachowski] at the monitor, like, “Jonathan, come over here. Who is that?” I was, like, “I don’t know.” And she was, like, “And what is that?” I said, “Gay rage?”

I’d never shot a gun before. I shot Keanu and thought I had peed my pants, because I had this hot feeling. You know when you pee yourself and it’s warm? It lasted about ten minutes and then it went away. I sat next to Keanu and said, “Keanu, I just had extreme heat from my groin for, like, ten minutes.” And he was, like, “You opened up your root chakra.”

You turned thirty that year [Hamilton]? How was that?

I remember it vividly. We were at the Public Theatre. There was a fire in the East Village, and the show was cancelled that night. I got a cupcake at the deli around the corner from my apartment, on Sixteenth Street, and ate it by myself. I can be a bit of a loner, so that was a happy birthday for me.

(On Looking being cancelled)

But, in 2015, Michael Lombardo was our executive at HBO, and I was crying into my salad at some restaurant in West Hollywood, trying to convince him to keep the show going, right before getting on the plane to come do “Hamilton” Off Broadway.

I loved Raúl Castillo, who played your love interest Richie on the show. I interviewed him around then, and he told me that, since he’s straight, you all had to teach him some of the mechanics of what gay people do.

Oh, yeah! God, I love him so much. I officiated his wedding in July.

Let’s go back to 2013, when “Frozen” came out. You voiced the iceman Kristoff and the reindeer Sven. How did that film change your life?

It’s funny—I remember recording some of “Frozen” in San Francisco. I would be teaching Raúl, like, how to lick my asshole while jerking me off—not teaching him, but sharing the ins and outs of gay intimacy—and then going into the recording studio on a Saturday and being Kristoff and Sven in a Disney movie.

When they showed me “Let It Go” for the first time, I was, like, Oh, my God, this will help millions of people come out of the closet. This is the gayest thing I’ve seen in my life! That was the thing about “Frozen”: I don’t think anyone who worked on it thought it was going to be a juggernaut. It’s so weird to think of this now, but when it came out it felt quite alternative, because there was no villain, really, and the love was between two women. Now there are, like, tissues with Elsa on it.

Now we’re moving backward to “Spring Awakening.” By the time it moved to Broadway, in 2006, you were the twenty-one-year-old lead of the coolest musical in town. What was your actual life like?

I was so not cool. The show was cool, and the music was cool. I had people dropping me off joints at the theatre. And I remember fully understanding the stark difference between who I was playing onstage and who I was in real life, which was an extreme theatre nerd who wanted to be in the ensemble of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and never would have imagined playing Melchior. It’s his gravitas. And trying to tap into that side of myself, which was a side I’d never experienced before.

Tell me about your audition.

I went to the open call and knew who Michael Mayer was, because he had directed “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” But it was “Spring Awakening” and I was, like, There’s a beating scene? This is so intense! They called me in for Melchior, then had me sing “Hey Jude” in a falsetto, and Michael was, like, “That was your falsetto?” And I laughed at him sort of making fun of me. Tom Hulce, who was our producer, told me years later that he moved my head shot from the “No” pile into the “Yes” pile because I had laughed at Michael in the audition, and he thought, This kid has the ability to let Michael roll off his back. We should bring him back in the next month or two.

It was, like, ten people up for Melchior. They brought me in first, because they thought they would just see me and cut me. But I had worked so hard on the audition material. I remember calling my dad the night before the final callback and saying to him, “I know I can’t be this character all the way yet, but I—”[He tears up again.] I really got to get my shit together! Why does this keep happening to me?

Because we’ve gone on an emotional journey.

I guess so, in reverse! Fuck me. [Pauses.] I knew that I had it inside, if they would just give me the chance. That’s all I was trying to say, but I guess I can’t stop crying while I’m saying it.

In 2005, you made your Broadway début, as an understudy in “In My Life.” Now, this was the weirdest musical I’ve ever seen. As I recall, there were dancing skeletons in a song about how everyone has a skeleton in their closet, a giant lemon that came from the sky at the end, and a girl on a scooter who turns out to be a ghost. And it was written by the guy who wrote “You Light Up My Life,” who then came to a dark end.

And his son!

Yes, his son killed his girlfriend. What the hell was going on with that show? Did you ever go on?

I went on for the ensemble members. I was so excited! I was in my first Broadway show, at the Music Box Theatre, walking in where it says “Stage Door.” And you couldn’t give away tickets to see the show. People were coming to laugh at the show from the audience.

Like “Springtime for Hitler”?

Exactly. And the cast had to do the show, even though people were laughing at them, which is devastating for the actors. But we formed a little family. It’s the plight of the actor. You’re just out there, like Sally Bowles in “Cabaret.” I was twenty years old, so I was lit.

Had you been waiting tables?

Yeah. The whole year before that, I was at the Chelsea Grill, in Hell’s Kitchen. The day I got to New York—October 21, 2004—I moved to Fifty-first Street and Ninth Avenue, before it was super gay, and I walked down Ninth and got a job waiting tables. A week later, I waited on Tom Viola, who runs the charity Broadway Cares, and became a bucket collector. I’d watch the second act of shows and then collect the money at the end. I went to hundreds of auditions, trying to get my Equity card. That, to me, was “Opening Doors,” from “Merrily”—that moment of sheer will and ambition and ignorance.

We’ve now reached our finale, which is 2004. Can you tell me about the decision to move to New York?

My mom was a gym teacher and my dad is a horse trainer, and they didn’t really understand anything about the performing world. But my dad grew up on a dairy farm, and he was supposed to take over and become a Mennonite preacher, which is what my grandfather was. My dad didn’t like cows—he liked horse racing, so he sort of rebelled and did his own thing. My mom always says that nurse, secretary, or teacher were the options for women in a small town at that time, but her passion was sports, so she ended up being a coach.

So they understood the power of fanning the flame of passion. When I was a kid and into acting, they drove me to play practice. They drove me to community theatre. My senior year of high school, my mom drove me to New York to audition for this bus-and-truck tour of “The Sound of Music.” I got that tour, and deferred my admission to Carnegie Mellon. I made ten thousand dollars after a year on the road, and I learned so much from getting to act every day. I wanted to take my ten thousand and move to New York, and my parents were super supportive: “If you feel like you need to go to college, you can always go to college. But take a gamble and move to the city.” I’d worked at this theatre in Lancaster called the Fulton Opera House, where I’d met this girl who wanted to move to New York, so she became my roommate.

To me, “Merrily We Roll Along” is about how difficult it is to stay in touch with the person you were as adulthood knocks you sideways and forward. When you think about nineteen-year-old Jonathan coming to New York, do you feel like you’re the same person? What’s changed?

[He bursts into tears.] I can’t tell why I cry! When we were about to start rehearsal for “Merrily,” I would listen to “Our Time,” and I couldn’t sing it without crying. And, when I think about that version of myself—I think it’s because that person who brings you here does diminish. Maybe it’s the grief for that person. The whole reason that I’m here now is because of that person, but that person no longer exists.

But that person is still in there, somewhere. That voice is so quiet now, but it’s still driving my choices. You have to make choices. You get older, that pure inspiration dies, but it doesn’t have to go all the way away. I think that’s the whole point of the show, why it goes backward. Maria says that Sondheim put all of his regret into it, so that we could have less regret for ourselves. And perhaps the reason it ends with these people, with these versions of ourselves that we remember when we see it, is that it’s an invitation to remember and honor that person.

Why does that make me cry? Is it grief? Is it joy? I don’t know, but I’m so grateful for that purity and that optimism. The first month that I was here, feeling so lost and confused, I pulled the Bible that my Mennonite grandmother gave me off the bookshelf. She gave me that Bible before I left town. I was alone in the apartment thinking, What the fuck am I doing in New York? Or not even “what the fuck”—I didn’t swear until “Spring Awakening,” and when I would sing “Totally Fucked” I would get beet red. And I remember putting the Bible down and thinking, This is not the answer. This is not making me feel good. And then running to Central Park and standing in front of the Bethesda Fountain. I was nineteen, and I was, like, This feels better—but, like, What? Who am I? What am I doing here? I know I want to act, but I’m so scared. And gay. But it was something—some voice, some passion, some inspiration. Some something brought me here.

#jonathan groff #merrily we roll along #interview #Lancaster #in my life #spring awakening #Hamilton

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princess-of-hells-littles · 5 months

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The Magictastical Backflipping Master List (The Caregivers)

Hazbin Caregivers:

@the-spider-cg

@cannibal-auntie

@cherri-babysits

@caregiver-carmine (Currently inactive, please respect this)

@cg-sir-pentious

@papa-kitty

@cg-zestial

@husky-babysiter

@bigsisniff

@princess-of-hells-littles (flip)

@queen-of-hell-lillith (flip)

@the-radio-flip (flip)

@mamamimzy (flip)

@tiny-teevee (flip)

@duckciferthecg / @altlucicg (flip)

@mama-vaggie (flip)

@the-radio-demon-caregiver (flip)

@velvetebabysitvibes (flip)

@enmmyheavenscg (flip)

@bratboyadam (flip/multimuse)

Helluva Boss Caregivers:

@verosika-maydays-caring

@bees-babies

@caregiver-moxxie

@blitzbabysits

@fizzy-whizzy-cg

@your-hellhound-babysitter

@celestial-prince-cg

@octavias-owlettes

@mayberries-daycare

@wackford-cg

@strikerthecg

@ozziethecg

@bigbrother-striker (flip)

@caregiver-fizzarolli (flip)

Broader Hellaverse (aka OCs/non-canons):

@babysitting-hellhound

@fluffycreaturebabysits

@the-wolfie-cg

@riko-babysitz

@the-beatle-namedh0pe

@rae-angelofdeath

@m-and-m-daycare

@dreaming-gaurddog-flip

@cloudscaregiverservice (flip)

@littlest-owl-prince (flip)

@crowthejuicebox (flip)

@big-brother-hez (flip)

@rhea-de-la-bahia (Little)

Beyond the Hellaverse (aka Other Fandoms/Personals)

@Big-Brother-N (Murder Drones)

@rika-caring-services (Pokemon)

@pinkiepiecg (My Little Pony)

@ender-is-smol (IT)

@spider-caregiver (QSMP)

@carerboo (MCYT)

@qpeek-da-bandit (Non-Fandom OC)

@loves-caregiving (Non-Fandom OC)

@big-sis-uzi (Murder Drones)

@mamarabbitsmusical-emporium (Steam-Powered Giraffe)

@artificersshelter

@unclelamb

@the-golden-robot-boy-pepsi (Steam-Powered Giraffe)

@that-goddess-auntie (Epic The Musical)

@cg-deer (Non-Fandom)

@l1ttl3-l0tus-fl0w3r (Flip) (Undertale)

@eda-the-mama-owl-lady (The Owl House)

Razzle, Dazzle, KeeKee, and Fat Nuggets

@razzle-little

@dazzle-littledragon

@kittykeekee

@fatnugget-agere-esa

#hazbin hotel agere #cg!charlie #hazbin hotel roleplay #hazbin hotel rp #charlie morningstar #hazbin hotel #themasterlist

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ashwithapen · 1 year

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⚠️ this post is edited and updated regularly! last edited: 5 july 2024

⚠️ note: this blog is the parent blog of the sideblogs @wolfdogmisty and @ourstarsys, so if you're confused as to why this blog would interact with you, check the sideblogs! :)

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ᯓ☆ strawpage!

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hi, my name is ash! here are some things about me...

⤷ 18 | they/star pronouns ⤷ autistic, adhd, hsd, osdd-1b (system sideblog) ⤷ agender, greyromantic, bisexual, & queerplatonic ⤷ intp, aquarius, hufflepuff, 5w4, etc.

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some things i do...

⤷ write! i'm an author :) (prose, poetry, plays...) ⤷ compose music (i use musescore) ⤷ film & edit videos (check out my youtube channel) ⤷ play guitar and write songs

im SUPER into soundtracking & symbolism in music as well as abnormal psychology!!

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recently: i wrote an original soundtrack for a book

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i hope you enjoy :)

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below the cut: tags, WIPs, fandoms & interests, and more!

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#drabbles: shorts

#poetry: poetry

#life writing: life writing

#creative non-fiction: creative non-fiction

#fiction: fiction

#get wipped lmao: anything about my WIPs

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#ash.txt: for when i have stuff to say

#ash answers: where i answer asks take a wild guess

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#composing: i write music scores sometimes

#insane mashups: sometimes i combine songs and create monstrosities and that's okay

#music!!: where i yell about songs/artists i like & other music stuff

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ᯓ☆ WIPs!

heart beats fast; colours and promises

Viva La Ávila

tales, second edition

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ᯓ☆ fandoms & interests!

ranges from obsessed, to involved, to generally liking. listed alphabetically. i will probably post/reblog about mainly the ones in bold as they are my current 'favourite' interests, but anything is free game.

13 reasons why (show, haven't read book)

abnormal psychology (neurodiversity)

avengers + avengers adjacent (mcu, haven't read comics)

avpm, avps, avpsy (musicals)

bo burnham (musician + comedian)

c418 (composer)

circe (book)

cream crew (content creator group)

crywank (musician)

dream smp (livestream series; i don't support dream/dream team)

e7i (musician)

epic (musical)

generation loss (interactive livestream + adjacent media)

good will hunting (movie)

greek mythology

hamilton (musical)

harry potter (fuck jkr)

hazbin hotel (tv show; i don't support the creator)

heartstopper (show, haven't gotten to read the graphic novels yet)

heathers (musical and movie)

heroes of olympus/percy jackson (books, still watching series)

how to train your dragon (movies + show)

how to train your dragon soundtrack

hozier (musician)

jacob collier (musician)

james marriott (musician + streamer)

john powell (film composer)

magnus chase and the gods of asgard (books)

modern baseball (band)

mom jeans. (band)

my hero academia (show, haven't read manga)

nimona (movie, haven't read graphic novel/web-series)

origami angel (band)

rainbow kitten surprise (band)

sherlock (bbc show)

sleepy bois inc. (content creator group; fuck wilbur soot)

song of achilles (book)

soundtracking & symbolism in music

star wars

studio ghibli (movies by the animation company)

the 1975 (band)

the star and the sun (book; still reading)

the oh hellos (band)

toby fox (music, haven't played his games yet)

qsmp (livestreamed minecraft server)

why don't we (band; old fan)

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oxceen · 8 months

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Introduction, since I probably should have a masterpost

Hey all! My name is Quinn and although I prefer no pronouns, they/them is perfectly fine :)

I am a 14 year old artist and animator (hobbyist) and I'm very friendly so feel free to interact!

Some things about me:

I'm aromantic and asexual

I'm Chinese, currently liviing in Australia

I identify as nonhuman/alterhuman, specifically a therianthrope and otherhearted

My theriotypes are Vancouver coastal grey wolf, western jackdaw, orca, banded linsang and domestic cat (turkish angora).

My fictotype is Applejack from MLP: FiM!

I am an age and pet regressor

Asks are OPEN - ask me literally anything, I'm happy to respond to any questions about me, my ocs, etc

Art requests are OPEN - however, spamming art requests will not be appreciated

DNI:

Homophobes/transphobes

Racists/ableists/sexists etc

Z00s/P3d0s

NSFW blogs

Proshippers

Pro ED, s/h, etc. blogs

Anti agere/petre blogs

Fandoms I'm in, tags, alt blogs and misc info under cut

Fandoms I'm in:

AvA/M

Lackadaisy

Murder Drones

The Amazing Digital Circus

The Hunger Games

Warriors

Wings of Fire

Tian Guan Ci Fu/Heaven Official's Blessing

the Gone series

Hazbin Hotel

EPIC: The Musical

Tags I use:

#valleylily.exe videos, art and other stuff with my main oc Lily of the Valley

#oxceen's ocs anything featuring any of my ocs

#therian userboxes userboxes that I made! They are all f2u, but please credit me!

(I might forget to add these tags to something)

Alt Blogs:

@jackdaww-draws is where I will post art that is not AvA/stick figure related

MISC:

I mainly draw AvA related things, and mainly my ocs

My main oc/semi-sona is Lily of the Valley/Lily (who's currently my pfp), but she's got a looooot of lore attached to her so if I'm depicting me as a stick figure I'll use my actual sona:

Here are my three main ocs' reference sheets

user boxes cuz I love those:

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natsuki-bakery · 1 month

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⁎˚ ఎ Ranfren Agere Headcanons ໒ ˚⁎

caregiver nyen with sebastian? or just sebastian agere hcs

•When regressed, Sebastian exhibits an intense fascination with old technology or retro gadgets. He might be drawn to vintage video game consoles or outdated computer systems, reflecting a childlike wonder and curiosity about technology

•When feeling particularly small and scared, Sebastian might express his fears about Nyen to a trusted figure ( especially Luther ) , seeking reassurance that Nyen won’t hurt him. Hearing that Nyen won’t, and that they actually care in their own way, might slowly ease his fears

•Sebastian becomes more playful and energetic, seeking Randal’s attention for fun activities. He might challenge Randal to retro video games, engage in silly pranks, or ask him to participate in imaginative play

•Quirky Humor : His sense of humor becomes more playful and whimsical, embracing slapstick or childish jokes. He might engage in humorous antics that fit his character’s style but with a more innocent twist, like playful pranks or silly puns

•Sebastian regresses by creating elaborate imaginary worlds or scenarios, much like children do during playtime. He might pretend to be a hero in an epic adventure or create elaborate stories with his friends, blending his adult experiences with childlike imagination

•His regressed state could involve a renewed obsession with collecting items, such as rare comic books, collectible figures, or nostalgic memorabilia !

•Sebastian often asks innocent, sometimes naïve questions about Nyen’s behavior when he’s regressed. He might ask others why Nyen is so angry or why they act the way they do, trying to make sense of it in a childlike way

•Comfort Food : During his regressed phases, Sebastian craves comfort foods associated with his childhood, like specific snacks or meals. He might express strong opinions about the best candy or the ultimate cereal, reflecting a nostalgic attachment to these foods

•The six buttons on his black shirt are a source of fascination when Sebastian is regressed. He might button and unbutton them repeatedly or just trace their outline with his fingers, finding the repetitive motion soothing

•Little Sebastian often touches or adjusts his white ruffle collar when he’s feeling anxious. It acts almost like a security blanket, giving him something familiar to hold onto in moments of insecurity

•Regressed Sebastian might display a heightened sense of vulnerability and trust. He could lean more heavily on his friends for emotional support, showing a need for reassurance and guidance in a more innocent manner

•He frequently references or quotes from pop culture of past decades, showing his childlike engagement with media he grew up with. This could involve discussing old TV shows, movies, or music with a sense of nostalgia

•His regressed state might lead to awkward or innocent interactions with the more eccentric characters in the Ivory household. He could display a mix of confusion and genuine curiosity, trying to relate to their odd behavior while maintaining his own sense of normalcy

If you're in the basic criteria , are DSMP fans, vivziep0p fans , h0tel/h3lluva b0ss fans, Owl h0use fans, St4r butterfly fans, Ghibli fans, ddlg/abdl blogs, nsfw/k!nk blogs, anti-agere blogs, or anti Christians/Christianity blogs : just dont interact !

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fandommoodboards · 1 month

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Hi fellas. My name is Bailey. I make moodboards now. Whoa!

Fandoms I Will Do: Arcane & League of Legends Five Nights At Freddy's Most Valve Games (L4D, Portal, Half Life etc) Bendy and the Ink Machine Murder Drones EPIC: The Musical Pokemon Bioshock Lackadaisy Generation Loss Dream SMP The Owl House The Mandela Catalogue Splatoon Cry of Fear My Little Pony Fallout The Amazing Digital Circus Studio Ghibili Honestly, I'll do a lot of fandoms, but fandoms I don't know a lot about will take me longer, I'll do just about any fandom.

I will do Ships (wlw, mlm, mlw, etc etc, just no proship.) Pairings (platonic, family) Single character Comfort Agere

What I won't do Proship Harry Potter Weird shit, honestly.

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the-radience-of-the-moon · 6 days

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Finally making my intro post!!

Welcome there! This is my blog :3

Name(s) to call me: tom/jay/nova (any pulp, nature & space related nickname is fine!)

Pronouns: it/he + any neos!

Gender & such: im male! (Ftm), im also cupioromantic, and prob gay idk

Intrests: pulp musicals, starkid, shipwrecked, tin can bros, dnd, dungeons and daddies, ttrpgs, creepypasta, slenderverse, body/cosmic/analog horror, horror movies, nature, biology, wolves, magic, supernatural, werewolves, greek mythology, epic, cartoons, after dark (webtoon), clouds, the sky, musicals, photography, theatre, minecraft, videogames, mcyt’s, writing, rping, the crane wives, folk music, cool clothing styles, cosplaying, wolfwalkers

(Theres more so tbh talk to me about mostly anything and ill probably know it)

Dni’s: homophobes, transphobes, racists, general dni tbh, ‘endo’ systems & their supporters, nsfw blogs, isnotreal supporters, capitalists/hj, proshippers

Pls interact/safe space for: agere&petre, sfw blogs, fans of anything im fans of, therians, furries, kemonomimi, lgbtq, any religion, any race, anything tbh aslong as you arent hatefull (or in the dni blogs)

More under the cut!!

Extras about me!

dyslexic, audhd, dutch, minor!! (15), furry😱 (wannabe kemonomimi), wolf therian!, cosplayer, ENFP

I will post SO RANDOMLY :3

My anon emoji in most blogs is 🐾 :D

Also feel free to ask to be mutuals! I always LOVE new friends! Also random asks, dms, hcs and such are totally welcome!

Also: most of my little thoughts and such are under the tag #nova-says-stuff

And most of my ask awnsers are under #nova-awnsers-stuff

Im a fiction kin!

Grant wilson - dndads🪓

Charlie - generation loss🖥️

Trevor - hatchetfield🎭

Jay - hatchetfield (oc)🪶

Margaret cavendish - pulp musicals🌕

I have two rp blogs! (I will add more):

@trevor-lipschitz-musical-lover

@literally-a-blue-jay

Socials!!

timmy_the_unworth on ao3

bl00dyb4th.exe on insta & tiktok

The_radience_of_the_moon on discord (only moots send me friend requests pls!)

I will add anything that i forgot to put in soon :3

Big note!! I used to be timmy-the-unworthy!! (Themed after either ‘virginity rocks’ or ‘woof falls’)

(This is me btw)

#updated 16/9/2024 #the radience of the moon post #intro post #nove introduces itself!

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cams-cozy-corner · 1 month

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Mommy coded. If u even care

#sfw agere #sfw age regression #sfw little blog #sfw age dreamer #epic the musical agere #fandom agere #Circe agere #animatic is by gigi on YouTube I’m not tagging her tumblr sorry lol I’ll stay in my corner of the internet thank you #yes I know she’s about to commit acts of evil let me have this #I’m not usually a huge fan of self inserts of x readers but this is my exception. pls Circe let me move in w you

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stims-in-the-stars · 5 months

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welcome to stims-in-the-stars, a new sfw stimboard blog!

about

hello! i am mod sera and i use she/it pronouns. i'm biromantic & aegosexual and also a huge theatre kid. this is a safespace for agere/agere reqs <3

rules

no nsfw

i accept any and all fandoms, even if problematic. i trust that you don’t support the negative aspects

no spamming requests! i’ll get to it when i get to it

if you request something anonymously, you can choose an emoji to sign off with for the future! there will be a taken emoji list here so you know which ones are available.

blacklist

x real people

x organs

x nsfw

x proship or questionable ships

media i will 100% do

x any musicals (starkid, epic, bmc, alw shows, heathers, mean girls, some like it hot, bonnie & clyde, quite literally anything with jeremy jordan or christian borle, etc.)

x hazbin hotel or helluva boss

x splatoon

x sanders sides + other web series

enjoy your stay, lost one

#info #stim blog #stimboard blog

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catilinas · 2 years

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hey Tate :^) randomly popping up to say that i just finished both 'The king must die' and 'The bull from the sea' in (almost) one go instead of working/eating/sleeping. and i can't thank you enough for recommending these books, the first one especially! so... maybe you have some other myth retellings or historical novels in mind to recommend?

hi!!! i’m so glad you enjoyed them / that i’m not the only person who felt like that reading them. the king must die especially Yeah. holy shit.

for Other Recommendations. the few ~myth retellings~ that i’ve read alas mostly are not novels. the genre of ‘myth retelling’ novels < the genre of weird long poems that Do Things with specific ancient texts rather than ‘myths’. but i do read a Lot of historical novels so i definitely have recommendations there! as long as you care about like. the roman republic. anyway here’s a list:

memorial - alice oswald. a ‘translation’ of the iliad, but only the death scenes (often just lists of names!) and the epic similes. it frames itself as yknow. a memorial. to the dead minor characters of the iliad but imo it also speaks to the futility of epic memorialisation. i have read the two page introduction approximately One Million Times.

nobody - alice oswald. you will be missing out if you don’t read this one against memorial. it’s a ‘retelling’ of ‘the odyssey’ and a lot of other myths that involve the sea at any point. a lot of the oresteia too. but it also never names any of its characters or indicates where each story starts or ends. oswald’s best poetry is always about water and this book is Mostly About Water so it snaps supremely.

war music - christopher logue. similar concept but completely different vibe to memorial. also a king poetic Selective reinterpretation of the iliad, but focusing mostly on combat scenes. i’m a big fan of the deliberate anachronisms and framing of the poem through camera angles / film terminology like it’s such a sexy way to ‘translate’ the omniscient moving narrator. AND it pushes you towards a v different emotional response than oswald like memorial is lowkey War And The Pity Of War (The Poetry Is In The Pity) while war music is like. uncomfortably fun. i think comparisons of ancient epic to modern (war-focused) action films can be Lazy or Done Badly (thinking only abt Violent Action Scenes Made Heroic and not the role of the listener/reader/viewer) but the elements of that in war music Work! also agamemnon gets called a piece of shit

tv men: hektor - anne carson. the spectatorship element of war music made more obvious and on a much smaller scale (it’s just one poem in a sequence). also v cool things going on w different degrees of Looseness of translation stacked inside one another

autobiography of red - anne carson. based on the fragments of stesichorus’ geryoneis but bcs the original is so incomplete it can’t really be a ‘retelling’ so much as an imagining of what the poem could and definitely Could Not be. technically a novel but A Novel In Verse. also one of my favourite books of all time ever. it’s in third person but the claustrophobia of the narrative style / the way the protagonist is often closed off to parts of his own thoughts is Weirdly Similar to theseus in the king must die? ALSO geryon ends up with a photography motif. this time we are also using it to think about the subjectivity of which fragments of a poem end up surviving / what gets cut off outside the edge of the photograph

red doc> - anne carson. rip so much carson But this is the sequel to autobiography of red. what happens when you live past the end of your myth. namedrops the battle of ager falernus. prometheus is there. (and also: h of h play - anne carson. i didn’t know whether to include this because it is A Play. like it’s a ‘translation’ (loosest sense of the word) of euripides’ hercules. but geryon (or a version of him) is there for long enough that it counts as the final installment of autobiography of red. to me.)

lavinia - ursula le guin. the second half of the aeneid told from the perspective of lavinia. BUT what sets it apart from other What If Myth—But Woman ‘retellings’ is like. v close engagement with the aeneid as a story and specifically A Story Written By An Actual Author who created his fictionalised past in very deliberate directions. like it doesn’t just treat the aeneid as an authorless body of mythic stories. vergil’s ghost is a character also. fate is real also. ALSO the setting in The Mythic Past As It Becomes The Historical Past + le guin’s decision to include vaguely supernatural elements but never the gods directly is like. very similar to the texture of worldbuilding in renault’s theseus books.

fire from heaven - mary renault. speaking of her. she wrote a whole bunch of other historical novels which you might like! this is the only other one i’ve read so far though. it’s the first of a trilogy about alexander the great. alexander has lot like theseus in that they are both deeply fucked up little guys :-)

dancing with the lion series - jeanne reames (@jeannereames hi 👋). also about the early life of alexander the great. i’ve only read the first one of these (again) but like. i read the whole thing in a day. the level of historical detail is also absolutely nuts. which makes sense bcs reames is an alexander specialist. but still!!!

cicero trilogy - robert harris. welcome to the rome zone. this is the series that got me into roman history :/ it follows the life of cicero from the perspective of his secretary tiro (the inventor of a shorthand system!). It Makes Roman Politics Fun I Promise. for real though these books manage to cover a very complicated period while also not getting bogged down in it And showing you cicero’s Wit. like i know i’m tumblr user catilinas but these books mean i can never really dislike cicero

roma sub rosa series - steven saylor. but if any books Could make me dislike cicero. well. these are a Long series of detective novels set at the end of the roman republic. catiline is there And He’s Sexy. you WILL get invested in the fictional detective’s family drama. also the author is gay and writes lgbt characters in a way that like. actually thinks about what that means In Ancient Rome. catilina’s riddle (book 3) is one of my favourite books of all time ever. also congrats to saylor for writing detective novels which really get into the function of the figure of the detective / Who Is The Detective Really Helping Here / cicero is a massive bastard etc

masters of rome - colleen mccullough. i’m just going to link the review that convinced me and also my entire family to read these. they are terrible they are amazing marcus livius drusus is there. they are massive they cover almost one hundred years of history sulla is sexy and kills people and you will know so much of the minutiae of roman politics If you get through them all

the key / the lock / the door in the wall - benita kane jaro. the key and the door in the wall are a duology about marcus caelius rufus and his relationships w catullus and then caesar. and also clodia. the lock was written later but i’d chronologically in between, and is about cicero and his conflict with clodius. BUT also all three books repeat A Lot of the same events, just from slightly different angles. the unreliability of the narrator helps / makes this v fun. the prose is A Vibe also a lot of the focus is less abt the political situation than like. caelius being young-ish as the republic collapses.

attis - tom holland. legally i have to include this :/ i don’t even know how to describe it like it’s a cryptid of a book you might have to get it through interlibrary loans. it’s not even brilliant it’s just so so weird and also the author cannot explain why bcs he can’t remember what happens in it. it’s about catullus (archeology student?) in a modernised alternate history version of rome (90s london?) being involved in a mystery involving ritual murders (tom holland HAS read girard. if you were wondering). there are also clowns.

hostis - vale aida ( @valeaida hi also 👋). first in an in progress series abt an alternate history version of the second punic war. i read the whole thing in a day instead of writing one of my essays earlier this year :/ have you ever read livy/silius and been like uurfgjhgh the narrative parallels between the lives of hannibal and scipio…… What If That Was A Book. you will go nuts over the barcids

augustus - john edward williams. my highschool philosophy teacher recommended this to me :-) it’s a kind of epistolary novel In That it’s framed as a collection of (imaginary) texts like. letters and biographies and memoirs, all showing Sides but never the entirety of The Emperor Augustus over the course of his life. i read this around the same time as A Source Book for the augustan period and was like. yeah.

#if this end up being formatted weird. whoops. i am on my Phone #book list #beeps

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