#in ur operas messing up ur tragedies?
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Fanfic asks: 🤲 🛒
🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc. I definitely tend to write a lot inside of characters' heads -- does that count? My most common AO3 tags are angst and introspection and that's 0% wrong. A whole hell of a lot of talking (or even thinking) around rather than about feelings, because it's more fun? Thematically, I seem to hit loss and grief quite a bit (which I guess goes with the angst tag). Small touches and significant facial expressions and other gestures in that vein, because they are my kryptonite in a visual medium and I love echoing them in text. I also like incorporating vague mythological allusions, even if they're so vague only I'm going to notice them, because they give me joy.
🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip? Gonna go with a couple because I can't pick and because I've been jotting down a lot of little snippets that I want to turn into longer things lately ... and because I owe you opera fic and I haven't forgotten that. (Most of my WIPs right now: House of the Dragon, Fate: the Winx Saga, and occasional operatic and/or theatrical bits as I watch too much of those.)
[ but first, for anyone who wants to ask more ... ]
<Les pêcheurs de perles, because so many operatic tragedies could be solved with judicious applications of threesomes>
Nadir looks back at her, and she sees her heart echoed in his eyes. When she reaches out, his hand finds hers, fingers twining through her own. "Alright?"
"No," she murmurs, "and neither are you," because their hands may fit together smoothly but something is still missing, and because she had learned to watch, in her years at the temple, and she understands. She had wondered how she could reconcile a heart divided until she'd seen what underscored Zurga's pain, seen Nadir's indecision in that final moment. And so she eases her thumb across his knuckles, soothingly, and says, "We need to go back."
That he does not question says everything.
<House of the Dragon, because it felt like time to try to get into Corlys' head for a bit instead of just camping out in Rhaenys' forever>
He leaves without saying goodbye, still smarting from how she had pushed him away. In that moment, perhaps more than he ever had before, he’d needed his wife, but she had refused to leave the hall, sobbing over Laenor’s body like her heart had shattered, and he could not stay there — not when she refused his touch, not when he could not bear to look upon the charred remains of his son — his son, the only legacy his name and his blood might have known. He knows they grieve in different ways; has he not seen her through the loss of so many of her family? And when the news from Pentos had come, they’d held onto each other. But this … this is different.
He bleeds, and part of it is the wound she’s dealt him, and if he knows it was anger and grief that caused her to lash out it makes it no easier in the moment, for his emotions are running as high and wild as her own. Does the sea not boil into a tempest, as surely as a fire may blaze?
But she had told him no with that one gesture, and he cannot stand a fire right now — not when it has taken both of his children in such a short space of time. He needs the solace of the sea, the only comfort that has never denied him, now more than ever.
#asked and answered#fanfic asks#house of the dragon#corlys velaryon#rhaenys x corlys#les pêcheurs de perles#in ur operas messing up ur tragedies?#wip tag#meme me#i thought about posting some of the unfinished stuff from between midnight and dawn#but i don't know if i'll ever be able to go back and write that one#so that seems like it'd be mean#defunct wips don't count#(i have so many wips it's ridiculous)#my suggestible brain#am i doing this instead of the work i need to be finishing up today? you bet i am!
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what are some of your favorite gay operas and why? (I think we all know ur #1 but I'd like to hear about more of ur faves and/or more on this one as well!)
First off, happy National Coming Out Day to everyone, especially to you, dear anon!!!
So obviously, as you seem to have correctly guessed, my favorite Gay Opera Couple is Carlo/Rodrigo from Don Carlo. Just...such a perfect couple. They complement each other so well, they build each other up, and most importantly they really, really love each other and would do anything to help the other. Of course that leads to tragedy (I’m not crying it’s just raining on my face), but STILL. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh just let them be happy.
Some other Gay Operas (gonna try to keep this short although I could probably write about this and opera playing around with traditional conceptions of gender all day):
Julie, premiered as a film opera this year from New Camerata Opera, is everything. It’s about Julie d’Aubigny! Pretty period costumes! SWORDFIGHTING!!! Kissing!!! Neither of the ladies in the couple die!!! (Also it’s very short and in English, and I think it’s really accessible.)
Massenet’s Cendrillon. Mezzos (even though one of them is a trouser role) falling in love and singing glorious Massenet love duets. Bonus if the production lets them kiss. What could be better???
I just rewatched Forza yesterday, and especially with the Kaufmann/Tezier duo, you cannot tell me there isn’t some twisted homoeroticism going on there. It’s messed up (especially because Don Carlo di Vargas is racist as hell), but for just a little bit in Act III they don’t know each other’s true identities and become ‘best buds’ basically immediately and sing amazing duets. Also, you cannot convince me that in Ballo, Gustavo and Renato aren’t at least somewhat in love until the whole ‘wrongly assuming an affair’ thing. They should’ve just agreed on a threesome. I know this, you know this, whoever made That One Met Promo Photoshoot knows this. Also the real Gustav III was likely gay, so there’s that.
You all know my dear love for trouser roles, and one of my favorites is Nicklausse/the Muse. Whether they’re two completely different entities or two sides of the same is something I feel like can be interpreted either way (although please don’t make Nicklausse a girl I am begging you), and I just love that duality.
One more because I realize I’m probably rambling so hard at this point and also I pulled an all-nighter for no reason whatsoever and am starting to regret it: @carlodivarga-s has convinced me that Riccardo and Giorgio from I puritani get together after the opera ends. I love that idea and also ‘Suoni la tromba’ is the proto-’Dio, che nell’alma infondere’ IMO. So there’s that.
Anyway, more opera characters should try polyamory, women in love triangles could usually solve their problems by dumping the jerk tenor and running away together, more ‘out’ representation is always appreciated, and once again, happy National Coming Out Day!
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ABIGAIL COWEN , CISFEMALE , SHE / HER → according to the school records , NATALIE LUCILLE BEAUSOLEIL has been attending sacred heart for the past three years . i last saw them hanging around the john bracken library ; i think they were working on writing her novel . at twenty - one years old , natalie has been studying english literature and get this , i heard that she’ll zone out while writing papers for class and come to surrounded by pages and pages full of archaic languages she doesn’t speak — figure it’s true ? everyone around here always associates them with a moonlight sonata echoing through empty halls , seats in the back row at the opera , and dead flowers pressed between the pages of an old book . in the time since these strange happenings , they have encountered unexplained occurrences .
HI , hello . i’m hannah n this is like . the only thing i’ve been thinking about recently , aka i’m so excited . ok anyway ! i’m 20 , kickin it in the est ! i’m a full time student ( majoring in being a dumb bitch n gay rights and i’m at the top of my class baby . . ) and i’m ALSO a preschool teacher so if i’m ever Not here , i’m with my babies ! ! but that isn’t the reason why ur all here . . ur here for an intro post ! so !
let’s talk abt my girl . . . 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐈𝐋 !
okay . so . first thing’s first . i have some Real Things prepared for my girl , including but not limited to :
a pinterest board !
a stats page !
and what i call NATALIE : A TRAGEDY IN THREE ACTS . it’s kind of a bio , mixed in with some stage directions here and there . it’s a quick read n rly gives you that Natalie Flavor if you know what i mean . . so if you feel so inclined n wanna take a look . . but full disclosure it rly does hit different than just reading this intro
anyway ! i’ll give a more condensed version of her bio here n some info abt her personality n some random headcanons . . etc !
𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈 : 𝑨 𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑹𝒀
alright SO . our girl natalie was born on april 13 , 1952 to michel and colette beausoleil . it was a thursday , and it was ALSO eleven weeks before colette’s due date , so we all know that can’t be good
( spoiler alert : it wasn’t )
natalie was supposed to be a twin , but the other baby ( a boy named pierre ) didn’t survive . they didn’t think that natalie would , but she did ! unfortunately , her parents were too wounded by the loss of their other baby and it was all grieving and no celebrating .
also . there’s more info abt her parents n how they met in the bio but , a sparknotes version is that michel was a playwright in paris and colette was a ballerina / his muse and they rushed into a marriage
michel made it rly big a couple yrs after natalie was born and so they decided to use that $ $ $ to send natalie away to an expensive boarding school in london called our lady of sacred suffering . it was , of course , a catholic girls boarding school and natalie hated it there
but they hated natalie there bc she was just the WORST catholic school girl of all time , so it was mutual
meanwhile , her relationship w her parents is . . very complicated . her dad is just kind of The Worst across the board , very reliant on drinking , definitely got into drug use at some point , had lots of affairs with the young actresses in his plays . and colette was just . . very sad and very absent so the support was Minimal
natalie has a lot of issues that are all rooted in her childhood tbh .
somewhere along the way , she found a deep passion for Writing and developed this sense of purpose and for a minute things were going very well
which we all know means things are about to get WORSE .
on her eighteenth birthday , natalie receieves a card in the mail from her mother for the First Time Ever . and she immediately is like . huh . well . something is Wrong .
she’s right .
( tw : nondescript mentions of car crashes & death )
a week later , she receives word that her parents were involved in a serious car accident at the pont de l’alma tunnel in paris and her did not survive the accident .
( end tw )
her mother’s family is not convinced that michel should walk away from this without blame and decides to take legal action against him and get him convicted with a more serious charge than just manslaughter .
they promise to keep natalie out of it as much as possible but when it comes time to testify as to whether or not michel had a history of not caring about colette’s life and well - being , the only one who can speak to it is natalie .
so she testifies and it’s her testimony that is the metaphorical nail in the coffin .
( tw : suicide mention )
michel knows it , too . that’s what natalie thinks . he turns up dead in his jail cell the day before he’s supposed to be sentenced . she never knows if he deserved the life sentence he was going to be given .
( end tw )
so then ! she’s an orphan ! but she does gain control over everything that her parents left behind , which turns out to be a lot .
she sells their house in paris , goes to wales to begin university , and hasn’t gone back since then . but like , she grew up in london for the most part so she’s not exactly sad about being away from paris and all the ghosts there .
and now she’s at sacred heart , working on writing her debut novel , which is the ( albeit , dramatized and fictionalized ) story of her parents !
𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐈 : 𝑨 𝑺𝑼𝑴𝑴𝑨𝑹𝒀 .
so basically , she’s got issues .
fictional character inspo includes : jo march , alaska young , cheryl blossom
if you know anything abt astrology . . she’s an aries sun , mercury , and venus . . and a scorpio moon and mars . . and a gemini rising . . i’m so sorry JKDSFM
she’s very emotional but does a super good job of hiding it and keeping all those emotions ( esp the intense n darker ones ) buried away . . deep down where no one could see it
the minute that ppl kind of ? ? but two and two together n realize who she is ( bc . . in my head . . her dad’s whole trial was kind of . A Thing that the public knew abt . ) they’re probably rly concerned w Little she shows any real emotion to the whole thing .
rly she’s just the queen of compartmentalizing n repressing !
she’s very . . Assertive . like , when she wants something she’s going to do whatever it takes to get her way
very Very reckless . she’s like . . so fucking impulsive that it physically Pains me sometimes .
she’s very smart but like . More So , she’s very clever and very sharp with her words . a very fast thinker and a very loud talker
someone please . . tell her to stop yelling . she needs to Relax .
she’s very charming i’ll say it . n like ? seems cool ? the kind of person that you meet and immediately want to hang out w them .
very flirty , has always used that charming smile of hers to get ppl in her corner and she’s not gonna stop now ! she’s very good at making ppl feel special
but like . she means well most of the time sdkfj her heart is in the right place okay
big time trust issues . big time commitment issues . painfully independent and refuses to let anyone know how much she cares about them until she’s like . . Really sure that they aren’t going to hurt her
also very afraid of hurting people , which is another reason why she struggles to get attached to people . she definitely has this deep - rooted fear that Bad Things follower her and she doesn’t want to drag ppl into that
it’s literally a toss - up as to whether she’s going to seem like she’s demanding ur attention or entirely disinterested in it . bc she’s all over the place .
but like . i’m an emotional BITCH so she’s probably going to end up being 100000% softer than i intend bc i project too much soft bitch energy onto my characters Always .
𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐈𝐈 : 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑵𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺 .
so many things . literally , anything . just a disclaimer , if u read thru this and had An Idea then like . yes Pls tell me , i want it xoxo
but here are some i have up in the old . . noggin .
EXES . please , please . . for the love of GOD give me some angsty exes nonsense . do you need someone who broke ur characters heart ? consider natalie UR GIRL . she’s Emotionally Damaged and has the capacity to be the angstiest ex of all time , okay ?
give her a weakness . she needs someone who she’s Actually vulnerable around and actually sees her have emotions and knows she’s not just this huge Mess all the time
i rly want someone that is like . from the same ( ish ) bg as her in the sense that like . . they also were surrounded by nice clothes n expensive private schools n Luxury but like . they Thrive in it the way natalie used to wish that she could . n just . i think it would b a super interesting dynamic bc they would just ! clash ! so intensely ! ! n tbh nat would probably b lowkey jealous Still n . spicy !
@ all those ppl who are into theatre : i’m Dying for some connections of ppl who knew / knew of her father n would know what happened w him perhaps on a deeper level than ppl who read it in the newspaper a few yrs ago . . ( bonus points if they lowkey idolized / looked up to her dad bc thats a Big Mess and could b spicy as fuck to explore , u know ? )
idk if any of y’all have characters who grew up in / around paris ? but if there are . . then Perhaps someone who knew her in her youth ?
okay . not to be Trash but like . i rly want her to have a dynamic that’s jo x laurie adjacent ? do they have to be in love w her ? no ! i just want someone that has that genuine bond w her and they care abt each other n goof around n like . . i’m already getting soft on main , huh , ,
she’s soo fucking messy that like . . all the messy fwb / frenemies with benefits / one night stand type of plots . . yes pls
i always want there to b a badass girl squad like . a group of ladies n theydies that take no shit n get in fights for each other n rly truly ride or die w each other . . we can workshop the name ok but for now ? my girl squad is open for applications
okay . let me cut myself off right there but i’ll leave you with my WANTED CONNECTIONS TAG n also again i’m 10000% okay to just brainstorm out something else completely if its what ur feeling !
if u read all / any of this . . i love u . <3 either hmu on discord ( let's go 𝓁𝑒𝓈𝒷𝒾𝒶𝓃𝓈 ! #6227 ) ksdjfskm OR ! like this n i will come to u ! okay , that’s all , bye
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