#my musical experience

[axolotl564]

The musical theatre experience (My first audition was today)

So today I auditioned for a musical! It was my first time auditioning for anything, really-

Anyways, I got to the place I was auditioning at, stood in the entrance until I was told to go to the vocal practice room thingy, I practiced several times and I was super excited I thought I was gonna do amazing

So after the practicing and stuff I went with my group and I was first to sing on stage, as soon as I was called up my excitement was replaced with nervousness and anxiety, I got up on the stage, I was late in my first line and I was super quiet, Im surprised I didn't cry right after my "performance", everyone else performed and they all sounded beautiful I believe absolutely NOTHING was wrong with any of their voices

Anyway everyone finished I met back up and as soon as I got it the car I cried almost the entire, drive, home

This isn't my last audition though, idk when my next one is, but I will keep improving until I get a part! :D

(Im alr now dw)

Extra : I covered Burn from Hamilton, I was told I couldn't do the full song but other people were after me sung there entire song so I don't see why I couldn't- (I was called up first btw) so I was disappointed and upset that I couldn't do the full song, I probably would have sounded better going farther through the song :[

[miwkchii]

Finally debuting my telemachus design 🙏

Little Wolf basically :

[dapper-lil-arts]

So P-E-R-F-E-C-T, let me solve this mystery!!

[syn0vial]

messages to your younger self

[heyheresathou]

how do y'all not let the things you like consume your entire being

[bambiilooza]

i had this idea ever since i reread the odyssey a while back and the recent epic saga just drove this idea into my head

he got cast out or smth idk. he can drink from coconuts and eat crabs which doesn't sound too bad but he's lost his waterbending (and everything else) which sucks

he's still immortal tho. i feel like it's one of those 'fate worse than death' situations

if u recognise which design of mine i'm referencing with his jewellery, you rock <3

i'm gay and stupid

[sayuri-of-the-valley]

On how Crowley and Aziraphale felt during the kiss (but mainly Crowley here):

Ok so first, the main idea for this huge meta is that a LOT of us noticed how the music from the kiss scene is similar to the nebula one, right?

Second, a lot of us also correctly noticed the parallels between the kiss and how it was to taste food for the first time for Aziraphale: bc of his reactions, the hand on lips, the similar way MS acted both scenes, the little inhale etc. So how was it for Crowley?

Aziraphale's reaction to the kiss is practically a puzzle to solve on its own, so it's fun to analyse it, but basically, in a few words, Aziraphale kissed Crowley and he discovered he was physically starving for him, longing for him, yearning for him, for his kiss, and he had no idea. Just like with the ox. And now he needs to gorge himself in him but he can't. Great amazing heartbreaking chef's kiss someone give MS an Emmy.

But there's already so much amazing meta out there about Aziraphale x Ox ribs x The Kiss that I want to focus on Crowley here, and on the music.

So back to the music. The song in "Before the Beginning" and the song that plays during The Kiss (I Forgive You + Don't Bother) are so similar. They're not *exactly* the same, but they're totally reminiscent of each other. The viewer is immediately reminded of those chords that played in the opening scene. It's no coincidence that the fandom was talking about this fact only minutes after first watching those final fifteen minutes. This is an obvious intentional choice for storytelling reasons (David Arnold is a genius).

I have no expertise whatsoever when it comes to music, so I asked our friend @otsanda to see if that made sense and not only it does and she explained it, but she also uncovered so much more hidden meaning in all of it (musicians are amazing), so check out her meta about the music that not only serves as evidence to what I'm proposing here but it also has so much more juicy information in it 💖.

Back to the point: WHY thought? Why choose a similar song? Why intentionally COMPOSE a similar song for that moment?

Hear me out. WHAT IF, by reminding the audience of the creation of the nebula, they meant to convey to us that, for Crowley, kissing Aziraphale gave him the same feeling that creating his stars did?

THAT'S what the music is telling us. THAT'S why it makes us remember "Before the Beginning". It may sound cheesy, but Crowley may have literally seen stars when he kissed Aziraphale. He couldn't react accordingly (just like Aziraphale couldn't), bc it was an overwhelming and extremely sad moment (the music is also telling us that) for both of them. They knew it was ending . They were both having a moment of huge revelation that was fated to not come to completion. Crowley was right, it was too late.

It makes sense to show Crowley's feelings through the music, bc he was the one who started the kiss, and also he was wearing sunglasses in that scene, it's different from a character like Aziraphale that has all his million expressions for everyone to see at all times. And they've been doing this ever since s1 with the Queen songs that play in his car or in the background.

So my point is: the same song being used there makes me wonder if kissing Aziraphale finally gave him what he lost. His purpose. What Aziraphale was trying to give back to him by taking him back to heaven. There's no need for Heaven. Just kiss him, Aziraphale, and there he'll find the stars you want to give back to him. There you will one day see that smile on his face you saw Before The Beginning. Neil Gaiman and David Arnold I am in your walls 😭

This is what may lead us to see this happiness in Crowley again (not the action of kissing itself, of course, but what it represents to their relationship, them being together, them being an Us).

As @otsanda said: from the music we can interpret that that moment was a Revelation for them. Almost a religious experience. Crowley found his purpose again. What he'd been missing the whole season (or even his whole life since the Fall, but we've seen him especially depressed this season).

I'm not even getting into the poetry of how one can interpret the parallel to the angel's reaction to the kiss as carnal, and the demon's as religious; that would be another whole essay but let's just agree that it's incredibly beautiful. (Let me be clear that I mean here Aziraphale's reaction is carnal specifically for Crowley, and Crowley's is religious specifically for Aziraphale, not religious as in "worshipping god")

"Do you ever wonder what's the point?" Crowley asked in s2e1. The point, for him, is Aziraphale (if you've seen The Good Place you know what I mean). I hope he figured this out with that kiss, even as heartbreaking as it was. Even if it was a (temporary) separation kiss. (I hope Aziraphale figures this out with time too, that he's more than enough to make Crowley happy, that Crowley doesn't need Heaven, or stars, that Crowley needs him.)

Maybe that's why Crowley didn't leave and kept waiting outside until the very last moment.

Aziraphale and Crowley both bit the apple at the end of s2. There's no turning back from that Knowledge now.

Edit: I just have to add here this brilliant colour analysis of the nebula scene by @halemerry. And it's pointed out that during the nebula formation there's a moment when it looks like two people embracing. And the fact that a similar song is used in the actual Kiss scene I just... I have no words

[secretsimpleness]

Sometimes I want to bring Morrigan but then I remember I play as a face-tanking rogue and I bring Wynne. Warden Cousland, Morrigan, Wynne / Dragon Age Origins (c) Bioware

[yourlocalabomination]

Finally got around to making a Webby design.

[iinryer]

“the devil gave me a crooked start when he gave me crooked feet”

lyrics from raise hell by brandi carlile

[vanmarkus]

• ONE QUEER SHIP FOR EACH WEEK OF PRIDE 2024 • 🌈 WEEK 1: CHYAN ↳ CHAD DANFORTH & RYAN EVANS, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL FRANCHISE

[blabberoo]

Driftcells animatic :)

[mrs-gauche]

Alas, so long as the music plays, we dance.

(Cole's cryptic comments + The Song)

[exhausted-undead]

okay so I finished this piece in ibispaint and fucking. accidentally cropped some of it on the canvas without making a duplicate. so I lost the high quality version of this and I was mourning at like 3am but we move on

heres erik having his heart torn out - I don't really feel like my art shows all that much emotion usually, so this was out of my comfort zone! lemme know what y'all yhink

[reginamillls]

sometimes you just need to be honest with yourself and admit that your blorbo probably would have different music taste than yourself

[cpyclopse]

Navajo Miku!

I'm mixed so we gotta represent both sides:)

I love saying "miku, miku, ooohweeeoooh" idek what that song is called but it's on loop in my mind

This is peak Americana

[My art]