#measuresderepo

[nice-to-meet-ya-shank]

Trick or treat!

have the Ivy Trio smiling :)

[lordoftheringsmusical]

Hi. I need your opinions on the lotr musical cause I feel just a little crazy about this musicals iteration of Sam (in a good way I promise)

Ooo please tell me more about Sam! He's my favourite!!

Okay. My LotR Musical opinions:

(Please remember that this blog is not connected to the show and not sponsored by the creators haha)

"Now and For Always (Reprise)" should have been included in the final West End version or at least brought back for the Watermill production. It's so beautiful and heartbreaking.

Laura Michelle Kelly changed Galadriel's lines in the Lothlórien scene, and these changes provide much needed context and improve the flow of the dialogue massively.

Actually, lots of lines are extremely clunky. I'm surprised that the script and the Elvish bits weren't updated for the revival. Kudos to the Watermill actors for making the book work surprisingly well, good job!!

Making Pippin a girl was a wonderful idea - there aren't that many female Tolkien characters, so why not simply change that? It's a lovely continuation of this show's tendency to create more roles for women: Gildor > Elránien, and Glorfindel being played by a woman. And also: "The Road Goes On" sounds absolutely gorgeous with Amelia as Pippin!

It's extremely annoying that the original productions are remembered first and foremost as financial flops. The show ran for 20 months in total and was nominated for five Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical. It was expensive, yes, but also incredibly innovative. The sheer scale of it, the massive ensemble, the rotating stage with more than a dozen lifts, the circus skills involved (silks, stilts, etc), there has never been anything like it on a theatre stage. It's unfair that this show is reduced to its lack of financial and critical success while other flops that had shorter runs are treated with respect. LotR has always been special.

I'll keep this very short, but most people have no idea how adaptations work. A stage adaptation needs to change and exclude plot points, it can never put a book on stage. The LotR Musical draws in audiences who aren't too familiar with theatre, and the worst takes on this show come from those who've never spared a thought on stage adaptations before.

Happy to talk more about these ✨️

[moobrvoobl-moobmoob-oobmpoobroom]

Ok ok ok give me a ship you love! Just rant…

just one? ksbjsbddj

first of all:

THEM

idk there’s just something about loving someone so much that you will go to such extreme lengths to keep them alive that it ends up burning down everything and everyone you’ve ever loved including them and they’re gone because of you and you live the rest of your live alone, angry and hateful at yourself and everyone else because of what you’ve done until your son comes along, your son who you thought died with Her who is everything that you could never be and he brings you back to a place of love and light and you learn that sometimes love isn’t sacrificing everything else for them it’s sacrificing yourself and you start to break down and fade into death but he lives. he lives, and he brings back everything you burned down and more. idk.

secondly:

THEM

look at them. just look.

the intense eye contact. the lack of personal space. the elevator scene. ugh.

just Look at them.

I am so insane about them in every way

[juney-blues]

Trick or treat!

happy hallowed e'ening

[sulietsexual]

Trick or treat

Treat! 🎃🎃🎃

[moobrvoobl-moobmoob-oobmpoobroom]

I don’t really have a repeat playlist so I shuffled my mega one which is just about all the songs I’ve listened to in the last 3 years so don’t judge me XD

January - Don’t -Simu Liu (uhhhh that doesn’t sound promising skndjdnd)

February - Collide - Jars of Clay (okay that’s not bad actually for my birth month)

March - Teenagers - My Chemical Romance (I’m either going to scare the living shit out of someone or have them scare it out of me)

April - I See Stars - The Shires (aww ok that’s p sweet actually)

May - Sorry, Not Sorry - Mayday Parade (that tracks because I always feel sorry for myself)

June - Happy Together - Gerard Way (da da da da da so happy togetherrrrrrr dadadadada)

July - Famous Last Words - My Chemical Romance (I LOVE THIS SONG. THE VIBES ARE IMMACULATE. Based on the music video tho it might get a tad warm and I might tear muscles in my leg and foot by being tackled by an insane guitarist friend)

August - I Wanna Be Your Dog - John McCrea (is this the year I’m finally allowed a puppy)

September - A Thousand Years - Christina Perri (slightly ashamed this song came up ksndjdnd but do I finally get a bf as well 👀)

October - Calling - Zachary Staines (looks like the anxiety is making a vengeful attack in autumn)

November - It’s Hard To Be Religious When Certain People Are Never Incinerated By Bolts Of Lightning - Mayday Parade (HDBDJDBDBD looks like I might be a bit of a jerk this month I apologise in advance)

I accidentally clicked onto a different song before seeing the last one so I had to shuffle again

December - Flashlight (Sweet Life Remix) from Pitch Perfect (at least this year will end on a satisfied note it looks like XD)

thanks for the tag this was really fun to do!

i wanna start a tag game so: let your spotify predict your 2024!

shuffle your on repeat playlist, and the first twelve songs represent your 2024

january- guns and ships- hamilton (idek what this could represent but okay)

february- we fell in love in october- girl in red (PLEASE)

march- say no to this- hamilton (…i have nothing to say about this)

april- castles crumbling- taylor swift ft hayley williams (damnit sad month then?)

may- you’re losing me- taylor swift (FUCK TWO SAD MONTHS?? breakup songs are even worse now that im actually in a relationship. please. better not be accurate)

june- astronomy- conan gray (please stop why am i having so many sad songs)

july- stoned- ed sheeran (oh fuck this)

august- new year’s day- taylor swift (hm okay. idk what to say about this)

september- heather- conan gray (i consider heather to be a happy song AND it’s mine and my partners song so i’m taking this as a good one)

october- 18- one direction (yessss we’re going okay now)

november- king of my heart- taylor swift (YESSS)

december- all too well (ten minute version)- taylor swift (i take it back ugh)

no pressure tags!!- @autumnleavesforwinter @weeping-in-the-willows @swiftieannah @felizusnavidad @jittyjames @anixknowsnothin (please help me get this off the ground, but also if this flops you saw nothing)

[anonymous-witness777]

New picrew chain, no pressure! You vs what you looked like as a kid (or if you're still kinda a kid, a younger kid).

Link

@prxckedradiolove @pealeii @measuresderepo

[prxckedradiolove]

It’s kinda hard to see cuz I suck at carving pumpkins so I messed up but I carved a Felifaux Jack-O-Latern for Halloween. (Cuz I’m literally hyperfixated on Felis rn WHAT) yayayyy

I hope you guys had a great Halloween, I sure did :)

(Also, @measuresderepo carved the Psyduck (he’s named Harold) so yeah she did amazing on that)

[its-tea-time-darling]

saw @measuresderepo do this and it looked like fun!

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most!

lol 1 i downloaded when the kendrick drake beef was on but never listened to it, 3 i have no idea what that song is lol

tagging @go-catch-a-chickn @crestfallercanyon

[icy-watch]

From @measuresderepo

#it’s so real 😔#now Lego men have the same problem as all woman

It's time for someone in Ninjago to invent the murse? Ninjurse?

Pockets in gi.

Oh, no. The struggle is real even in Ninjago!

[pealeii]

Hey everybody it’s @measuresderepo ‘s birthday go give her good wishes 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

[measuresderepo]

Did I make another Maze Runner fic??? Naur way…

[moobrvoobl-moobmoob-oobmpoobroom]

Trick or treat!

(Yeah I’m doing it on both)

you get my new wallpaper

grrrr

[prxckedradiolove]

I got the chance to see a lovely performance of tuck everlasting for free last night with @measuresderepo and @pealeii and I thought I would talk about unique aspects of this performance that I enjoyed!

They had a live band!! I was not expecting it since the performance was free but they had a very nice live band!

During partner in crime, on the lyric: "To keep my profile low, low, low." Jesse limboed these two sticks set in front of him by the ensemble and actually fell before getting up again awkwardly and pausing before going into the next lyric and it was very funny.

Constable Joe CARRIED. He almost gave off a passionate gym teacher vibe at times and it honestly worked. Also, his comedic timing on all his lines was stellar.

The actor for Miles did a absolutly stunning job. I would talk more about it but measures covered it in her post here: https://www.tumblr.com/measuresderepo/724241301919367168/okay-so-i-went-to-a-community-performance-of-tuck?source=share

ALSO, THEIR HUGO WAS PERFECT. HE HAD HIS cUTE LIL SACHTEL BAG AND A BABY BLUE SUIT IT WAS PERFECT!!! AND ALSO ROUND GLASSES IT WAS SO CUTETJEJTE. He was also blonde which was a welcome nuance!! I HJECKING LOVE HUGO HE WAS THE PERFCT SILLY BILLY SKRUNLY GUY EVER!! During you can't trust a man [ WHICH CARRIEDDD ] he was just moving around so theatrically and I LOVED IT 😍😍😍🤩🤩

hugo was perfect, what more could you ask?

anyway just some silly thoughts that is alL !!

watch tuck everlasting if you haven't already!!

[its-tea-time-darling]

reblog with a quote from your fav character from at least 5 fandoms that you’re in/used to be in!!

thx for the tag @measuresderepo

1. We're all hanging on by a very thin thread.

- janson in the scorch trials

2. What matters to me is where you're going.

- athelstan, vikings

3. Hello. I hope somebody is listening.

- aled, radio silence

4. History, huh? Bet we could make some.

- alex, red white and royal blue

5. You think everyone you like is special. I'm just a normal person. When you get to like someone, you make them feel like they're different from everyone else. You're doing it with Nick, you did it with me once.

- bobbi in conversations with friends

tagging: @crestfallercanyon @go-catch-a-chickn

[pealeii]

making a new chain cuz the other one was long af

thanks for the tag @drinkin-cherryschnapps ❤️

relationship status: single 🎉 🖤🩶🤍💜

favorite color: i love sooo many

song stuck in my head: land of yeaterday from anastasia

favorite food: soooo many

last song listened to: why didn’t you stop me? by mitski

dream trip: big road trip all around the united states

last thing I googled: aromantic flag

tagging @ethereal-maia @long-suffering-little-spoon @measuresderepo @prxckedradiolove @resident-dumb-fuck @bad--but-sad-boy @antisocialgaycat