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Hey few readers of TPU, I'm going to give a quick update on what's been happening and why it's taken so long for the next draft2 chapter to get up.
First off, I'm making a TTRPG system right now, and if any of y'all want more just stuff from this blog I can start posting updates for that too. Also, between college, the new system, and some irl stuff i've been working out, I haven't gotten past the about third of the next chapter that i've written. It's really hard to get any motivation to publish it either because of just how little interaction I get. So (because I have polls now!) I'm going to have a little vote on which of the many courses of action I've been considering would work best, as well as a small cry for help at the end.
also, if you enjoyed tpu, please please please reblog this, or reblog the first chapter (right here) and get people to just reblog, reply, whatever. it would mean a lot to me.
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one of my favorite things about a lot of different musicals is when they have their opening number reprised in their finale, the same melody and lyrics having an entirely new meaning to them thanks to the context of the rest of the show.
and obviously there are a Ton of examples (Wicked, Come From Away, The Outsiders, SpongeBob... i know there are others i can't think of them), but there are two specific shows that I genuinely think are examples of the absolute best use of this.
to me, those two examples are Cabaret and The Great Gatsby.
like the other examples listed, each time this sort of thing happens, there is new meaning given to the same song thanks to the rest of the show happening in between, but both Cabaret and Great Gatsby have it in like... a very chilling way.
In Willkommen and Roaring On, these are both somewhat upbeat songs, introducing the club, the parties, the energy that the audience is Supposed to feel at this point. nothing else matters in the world, only the thrill of endless entertainment.
but this isn't what these shows are about. there are much darker stories going on underneath, and by the time we get to the finale, the audience is changed along with the characters - but the song is the same. Nothing else Matters. only the thrill of Endless Entertainment. We have No Troubles Here.
but another thing that i find so musically fascinating is that it's not just the audience's perception of the song that changes, no the music itself helps to drive the audience to those realizations. at the orchestra's break in Willlkommen (finale), it begins very similar to the opener, but gradually adds more and more dissonance, making it harder and harder to even bear listening to. In Roaring On (finale), the ensemble lines are just slightly more staccato, slightly more dissonance, slightly more unnerving to listen to.
it's just so fascinating to watch a musical, and have the same song mean something so incredibly different, just because of the context it exists within, and very slight musical changes.
#musical theatre#cabaret#the great gatsby#the great gatsby musical#constance speaks#IM BACK BABEY#im in my essay era#i could write So Much about this type of thing#do Not even get me started i s2g#saw both of these shows on broadway a few weeks ago and have simply never recovered#(haven't recovered from the other 4 either but still)
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book rec drop!! currently reading ‘speak’, to be finished tomorrow! I’ve been told the ending leaves much to be desired but i’m not so sure just based off what I’ve read (like 150ish of 198 pages) tbd tbh
bye! 🤟
#booklr#bullet train#speak#someone knows my name#books recs#history books#historic fiction#chew comics#comics#comic recs#little monsters#enby#enby representation#enby vampire slay#great gatsby#we have always lived in the castle#myorar#sleep#my year of rest and relaxation#Shirley Jackson#ottessa moshfegh#the secret history#donna tartt#tomie#junji ito#junji ito tomie
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My writing/reading question of the day:
Do you prefer present tense or past tense? Or something entirely different like future tense? For writing AND reading🫶
The more I write (I wish I realized how fun it was before this year😭😭😭) the more I realize I like to play around with language & tense choice can have such a profound impact on how your writing comes across & even how I feel as I’m writing. With my oneshots I’ve been playing around with only present tense & my main fic is past tense (but present during the flashbacks - idk don’t ask it just felt right😆).
Or does nobody else think about tense and I’m just alone in this😆😆😆 LANGUAGE IS JUST SO COOL !!!!
#I’m not even getting into POV😆😆#like I prefer third person limited where you don’t have all the information#but I LOVE first person when the narrator is super unreliable (lolita secret history American psycho great gatsby etc etc)#plus#omg I just remembered the cortazar short story where he’s getting strangled by his sweater that one makes me SO claustrophobic#and I doubt it would have been successful in third person#maybe you can answer pov too I just want to start a conversation about it bc I’m interested#I read something once in future tense and it was SO COOL#it was all kind of hypothetical and at the end of the story you realize that none of it had actually happened yet#I just love reading talk to me about it😭😭😭#I liked the conversation a lot about my confusion with the perfect tense#(in my defense I don’t use it when I speak in spanish/bable bc🤪 it doesn’t exist in bable…)
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I need lady godwin to hit gatsby with a car. it would be so beautiful and symbolic
#sierra speaks#taz vs dracula#taz versus dracula#taz versus gatsby#im not there but my beloved is and i just need this to happen.#i needed daisy buchanan to be there and she is. this is the only other thing#i heard they gave godwin car keys...
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My husband is annotating The Great Gatsby for the Book of Bill I love him
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"Nick Carraway is gay but he is unaware of it" is such a funny academic take, bro he has gay sex on page 34 i think he knows
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the great gatsby but it’s rich elusive recluse Lewis Nixon and small time reporter Dick Winters, who become unlikely friends at one of Lew’s parties, and from there…who knows???
#my favourite book x my favourite show#dano speaks#winnix#band of brothers#dick winters#lewis nixon#richard winters#the great gatsby
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from the great gatsby on broadway
gatsby is me when i want a cookie so effing bad…
#great gatsby#broadway#musicals#daisy buchanan#jay gatsby#jeremy jordan#eva noblezada#great gatsby musical#fish speaks
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“It’s starting to collect dust, yknow.” SLEEP IN MY BED OLD SPORT
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Info and Masterpost
Hi and welcome to the blog for all The Powered Universe and Affinity System updates! I'm Menace or Payton or Gatsby, and I run this! My main is @menace-in-the-void. He/She/They :)
What is The Powered Universe/TPU?
TPU is my original story about superheroes, supervillains, and what leads them to that point! It's currently in its second draft of an estimated 4-5. The overall draft evolution will be 1: Get ideas down. 2: expand on ideas. 3: refine ideas. 4: revise and edit. 5: whatever else was missed.
It does deal with themes of abuse and violence, so fair warning about that.
Here's the TPU Masterlist
What is the Affinity System/TAS?
It's the TTRPG system that I'm working on! It's inspired by a conversation I had with a friend, and updates on ideas will be coming out periodically!
Here is the TAS Masterlist
Why are tips on?
Because I think that, as an artist, sometimes I should get paid by people who like my work who feel like giving me some money.
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Succession Finale - The Great Gatsby Final Chapter
#succession web weaving#succession hbo#roy family#roman roy#shiv roy#kendall roy#tom wambsgans#the great gatsby#with eyes open#Succession finale#my work#logan roy#techno gatsby fuckers#tutter speaks
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Completely out of left field here, but I can’t let yall forget that I’m fandom trash so easily. That being said, Gatsby people-
I completely understand the appeal of sweet little nervous Nick Carraway (especially when considering ship stuff, I see the appeal) HOWEVER, I would like to remind everyone that this is the man who gets practically no sleep throughout the events of the book because of everyone else’s bullshit. This man is sleep deprived and, supposedly in his own words, honest. Please please please, particularly in all of our dear fix it AUs, let us see more extremely sleep deprived and brutally honest because of it Nick.
But J! I hear you ask, what about the sweet nervous idiot of the friendship/relationship? My answer is simple: Jay Fucking Gatsby. This idiot almost fell down the stairs because his crush looked at him, he is downright horrible with anxiety, for god’s sake listen to Only Tea- you want a nervous stuttering idiot in that duo/ship? It’s Jay Gatsby. I don’t make the rules and honestly I want to see more of it rather than him always being the super confident one because he just. Wouldn’t be. That would be Nick through and through
TL:DR- give us more blunt honest Nick and nervous Gatsby, especially when it comes to Natsby bullshit. Thank you and goodnight!
#the great gatsby#yeah no I’m back on my bullshit#everything I see and read is like “oh yeah super suave and confident Jay Gatsby’’#which yeah sure he CAN be#but not around people he knows#like Knows knows#especially not someone he likes#also let Nick speak his mind 2024#let him flame everyone after the hell that was his 30th birthday#that will be all#farewell!
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hey guys have you heard of that great gatsby musical starring jeremy jordan and eva noblezada
yeah. im there at intermission rn
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i had a blast when I went to nyc! can't wait to go back!
#alex speaks#six the musical#fave musical is easy to guess#but try and guess my 2nd fave one i saw there#wicked isnt signed just because i didnt stagedoor it#(cause i didnt know where the stagedoor was and i was hungry)#but it matches my tour playbill with not being signed but that one was because it was a lot of people and i didnt want to try#this is coming from my insta but i dont really rlly use it much i just lurk#the outsiders musical#hamilton#and juliet#hadestown#back to the future musical#the great gatsby musical#wicked
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You really shouldn’t use the word “debauchery” in a modern setting. Debauchery is reserved for the masque of red death and jay gatsby. If it’s past the 1930s that’s no longer debauchery you’re just a fuckboy.
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