#thespys was fun

[panheartandsoul]

Dreamworld characters as scenes and songs I saw at thespys

Session 1 - Solo music:

I'm breaking down(Falsettos) : cheer (this is based on the performance that actor gave)

confrontation(Jeckle & Hyde) : ribbon dancer and Eric or Loli and virus pop

She loves me(she loves me): starlight

Once upon a december(Anastasia): Glory

I love Betsy(Honeymoon in vegas): Starlight or Rex

Goodbye(Catch me if you can): Oliver(?)

Session 2 - Group/Duet music:

Tango Marine(Rent): any two of the founders

End of the line(Theory of Relativity): Lewis and Sara or Oliver and Sara (playing Sara & Jenny)

Take a chance on me(Mama mia): Sara & Norman

I love the way(Something Rotten): Oliver and Damien

Therapy(Tick Tick Boom): Sara and Norman

Session 3 - Solo music:

Nobody does it like I do(see-saw): Sara

King of the world(Songs for a new world): winnie

As long as he needs me(Oliver): Norman or Morris

If I can't love her(Beauty and the beast): Rex or Carlos

Session 4 - Group Acting:

Clue (finding out mister body is double dead): Hayden, Wiatt, Norman, Pen, Audrey, Andrew(as mister Body)

Shrek the Musical(Shrek and Donkey Act 1 scene something): Starlight(Donkey) and Winnie(Shrek)

This is what boredom does to a boy

[whitefuzzykitty]

I originally made these so I could make some custom badges for myself (which I did) but I thought they could be used as icons as well. So feel free to use them with credit.

Under the cut is King, so Spoilers if you haven’t played or finished the game yet!

Edit: Bizzyboys icons are here!

[coffinshaped]

Collection of Click Clacks feat. Thespius and Cobi!!

(The last 3 panels are sequential)

[gemsofgreece]

All the places that participated in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks according to the Iliad

Below is a list of all the areas mentioned by Homer, in their original names. Bold text is used for areas that retain their name, places that still exist and are inhabited or are unearthed ancient settlements. However, please keep in mind that my English transliteration might be all over the place, as I transliterated them on my own straight from the ancient text.

Boeotia: Aulis, Skhinos, Eteonos, Skolos, Thespia (nowadays Thespies), Mykalissos, Graea (nowadays Tanagra, do I keep it? It’s also the origin of the name Graecia > Greece), Arma, Eilesio, Erythres (nowadays a part of Attica), Yli (built near the lake that is still called Yliki), Peteonas, Okalei, Medeon, Thisvi, Koronia, Aliartos, Plateae, Ypothives, Oghistos, Arni (later Chaeronia), Mideia, Nisa, Anthidona (nowadays the area belongs to Euboea), Orchomenos, Minio, Asplidona.

Orchomenos

Phocis: Kyparissos, Pythona, Krissa (now Khrisso), Daulis, Panopeas, Anemoria, Iampolis, area around Kifisos river, Lilaea. 

Daulis 

Locris (present-day parts of Phocis and Aetolia-Acarnania): Kalliaros, Cynus, Opus, Avyies, Vissa, Skarfi, Tarfi, Thronio (the nearby settlement nowadays is Neo (new) Thronio, in Phthiotis).

Euboea island: Chalcis, Eretria, Istiaea, Kirinthos, Styra, Karystos (a 100% there, well done Euboea)

Chalcis

Athens

Salamina island

Argos (also called Argolis): Argos, Tiryntha, Hermione, Asini, Troezen, Heiones, Epidaurus, Aegina island, Masita, Mycenae. 

Aegina island

Corinth, Kleones, Sikyona (nowadays Sikyonies), Tonoessa, Yperisia, Aegio, Pellini, Aegialos, Eliki.

Ruins of Ancient Kleones

Lacedaemona (also called Laconia): Sparta, Fari, Messi, Vrysies (could it be associated to the current village Vryses?), Avyies (could it be associated to the current town Aeyes?), Amykles, Elos, Loeo, Oitylon.

Oitylon

Pylos, Arini, Thryo, around Alfios river, Kyparissienta (nowadays Kyparissia), Amphiyenia, Pteleos, Elos, Dorion.

Kyparissia

Arcadia: Mount Kyllini, Feneos, Ripi, Stratia, Orchomenos, Enispi, Mantineia, Stymphalos, Parrasia. 

Mount Kyllini 

Ilida, Vouprasio, Yrmini, Myrsinos (nowadays Myrsini), Olenia, Alisio. Echinae islands (nowadays Echinades), Doulihion island. 

Echinades islands 

Cephalonia island, Ithaca island, Krokylia, Aeyilipa, Sami, Zakynthos island.

Beach in Sami, Cephalonia island.

Aetolia: Pleuron, Olenos, Pyllini, Chalcis, Calydona.

Ancient theatre found in Pleuron 

Crete island: Knossos, Gortyna, Militos (there is a place named Milatos nowdays, not sure it’s the same), Lyktos (nearby village named Lyttos), Lykasto, Phaestos, Rytio. 

Gortyna.

Rhodes island: Lindos, Ialysos, Kameiros.

Lindos

Symi island, Nisyros island, Krapathos island (nowadays called Karpathos), Kasos island, Kos island, Kalydnes island (nowadays Kalymnos...do I keep it?)

Nisyros island 

Halos, Alopi, Trihina, Phthia, Hellas. (Note: Homer now jumps north, towards Thessaly. He already mentioned regions of Phthiotis, however the Ancient Phthia corresponded to modern Phthiotis but also extended very much in the north, across Thessaly. As you also see, Hellas in Homer’s time was nothing more than just another area, although it was one of the areas, alongside Phthia and the rest here, controlled by Achilles. This might have been the reason its name grew so much in significance that eventually overpowered everything else and became the name of the nation and its lands. That happened very soon, maybe within a century or two after the Homeric Epics.) 

Pyrasos, Itona, Androna, Pteleos, Fylaki, Feres, Boibeis (mostly known as Karla nowadays), Iaolcos (Iolcos, later Volos through a painfully gradual procedure, do I keep it?), Glaphyres (nowadays Glaphyra)

Fun fact: It is Iaolcos > Iolcos > Yolcos > Yolos > Gholos > Volos. I wish them to get their shit together and go back to Iolcos

Mithoni, Thavmakia, Melivia, Olizona

(Massive Homeric leap to) Limnos island

Limnos

(And back again to) Trikki (nowdays called Trikala, do I keep it?), Ithomi, Oehalia.

Trikala

Ormenio, Asterio, Ypereia, mentions the white peaks of Titanos, which must be Othrys mountain, known as the Mountain of the Titans

Argissa, Orthi, Yirtoni, Oloosson (nowadays called Elassona, do I keep it?), Iloni

Elassona

Dodona, referring to it as δυσχείμερον, “which gets bad winters”

Ancient theatre of Dodona

And lastly,

Magnesia: Mount Pelion, characterized by Homer as εινοσíφυλλον, densely-leaved, meaning with dense forests. (Note: Homer does this weird thing, where he says that the Magnetes joined from Mt Pelion, however he has already mentioned several Magnetan locations including Iolcos, Feres, Pteleos etc. Then he makes a giant leap to the east to randomly include Limnos island, then he returns west of Magnesia, to the regions of Larisa and Trikala all the way to the outskirts of Epirus (Dodona) and then he suddenly returns to Magnesia and closes off with Pelion. Beats me.)

In Mt Pelion

Below is a map with all mentioned regions and their leaders in English.

Map from Greek mythology link

[thespiusgreen]

The name's Thespius Green! Writer of Oh Partner Mine and love god of HobbyHoo. Take a load off, cool cat!

\\ Welcome to my RP blog! Feel free to ping me, interact with my posts, all that jazz. I'm mostly here just to have some fun, not focused on being 100% accurate - expect headcanons and whatnot!

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# Thespo's art - art mun made

# Thespo's asks - asks for thespie

[freddiecorleone]

Writing Patterns

I was tagged by @somebirdortheother, thank you! this looks like fun 💗💗

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

so I don’t have 10 posted fics, I'm a relative newcomer and I write at the pace of a glacier. 😭😂 instead I'm gonna dig into my archives and post a mixture of posted works, WIPs, and old discarded drafts that will never see the light of day!

The Ripper Room, as it had been dubbed some weeks ago, had a new addition. (Tetrahex Noire, Transformers: MTMTE)

It was unrealistic, he conceded, to expect the guilt and stress of three decades to simply melt away overnight. (Bright In A Hollow Sky, The Outer Worlds)

Brother Dusk did not attend dinner the evening of Anacreon and Thespis’ destruction. (I Will Feel Lost, Unhappy, & At Home, Foundation TV)

Having no need to sleep, Demerzel used the night-time to perform maintenance and catch up on the latest intelligence reports from across the galaxy. (Hoping It's Going To Come True, Foundation TV)

Arctic night followed Crozier across the water. (The Orange, The Terror)

“But don’t you have a plan?” (The Riddle, Foundation TV)

They’d called me downtown to the museum, again. (Paradise and Gold, original fiction)

Cleon the First, to his great surprise, had died at the height of summer. (Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps), Foundation TV)

Obrecht asked the same careful set of questions the second time, the third, the fourth. (Sway, Foundation TV)

Cleon Enton did not believe in alarm clocks. (Saturn and Sons, Foundation TV)

finding that most of my intros are quite short and punchy, especially the newer ones? part of me feels I should spend more time on establishing a scene before getting into the action - but being overly descriptive and roundabout has always been the #1 way to get me to put down a book, and why write in a style that I don't like to read? 🤷‍♀️ maybe I could find a balance. definitely learned something about my writing though!!

tagging: literally anyone who feels like it.

[caughtthedarkness93]

That...is an interesting question, because we don't quite know where the curse on The Scottish Play came from. We just know that particular Shakespeare tragedy is supposed to be bad luck if you say its name in a theater and aren't performing it.

The theory that sticks out in my memory most is that the Globe Theater burned down during a production of it, but I remember that theory because it's been specifically debunked - the play that burned the Globe down was Henry VIII. Wikipedia lists a coven of witches cursing it for using a real spell, and this is very fun and I love it, but it's a little hard to verify. Either way, The Scottish Play is known for having performances go disastrously, with injuries, theater closures, and other calamities befalling theaters who don't treat it with the respect it deserves.

Should you slip up and speak the name of the cursèd play, you must leave the theater, spin around three times, spit and either curse or speak a line from another Shakespeare play ("Angels and ministers of grace defend us!" from the ghost scene in Hamlet and "If we shadows have offended" from A Midsummer Night's Dream are common choices) and then ask for permission to be allowed back in. If you subscribe to the "All the world's a stage, and so speaking the name anywhere is bad luck" theory, well, good luck leaving the theater. In that case, I think just spinning, spitting and speaking is enough.

In general, there are a lot of theater superstitions, and many of them are really fun!

There's a superstition that all theaters are haunted by the ghost of Thespis, the Ancient Greek poet who is hailed as the first actor in the western tradition. To appease him and other ghosts, you leave a light onstage when the theater in unoccupied. Also, you don't wish anyone good luck before a show - you say break a leg because wishing good luck is bad luck, so the culture is to wish something horrible on them instead ("May you fart audibly in the middle of your soliloquy," though arguably more evocative, has failed to catch on in spite of my best efforts).

Anyway, yeah. I just really like theater mythology and superstitions and miss my theater days, so it's cool to share them.

(common superstitions from the perspective of a USAmerican- would love to hear superstitions from other regions and cultures!)

(follow the most often when the situation arises, or believe in the strongest)

[clan-en]

🍓🍇🍐for ask game?

OHHH HECK YES

🍓 - favorite wet cat dragon and a fun fact about them!

My favorite wet cat (pathetic) dragon is probably Thespis [x]. He's such a dramatic little guy, "all the world's a stage" type theatrical, liable to start spouting on a definitely-not-rehearsed soliloquy if he gets sad enough (this happens quite often). They made him eat cement when he was 3. I think he'd cry if you looked at him funny.

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🍇 Share the "villain" of your clan and talk about them!

This is a tough one because there are at least 4 different villains in my clan, and everyone is potentially the villain depending on who you ask. But the most overarching villain I have is probably Silver Leightwood [x]. He's a merchant in Goldensparc who sells weaponry to any clan that wants them. He also isn't afraid to instigate clan wars and supply weapons to gangs and insurgents, all to keep his profits high. Somehow, though, being a war profiteer isn't enough. As an explanation for him being my Ghostlight trainer he also spends much of his free time luring innocent dragons to the Ghostlight ruins to sacrifice them to whatever deity will bring him most profit. (I am aware exalting is not meant to be death, but in this specific case it is actually just a blood sacrifice). At his core, Mr. Leightwood is a horrible, cruel man, what else can I say?

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🍐 narrow down your clan into 2 movie genres

Hmmmm I have to say Drama for sure, everyone here is a drama queen and I can sometimes hear the musical stings when I'm writing some of this stuff. As for the second genre that kind of depends on which 'subplot' you're focusing on, for a group like my Naomis it might be adventure, while for my Goldensparc crew a period drama feels a lot more fitting of a description. But just picking 2 I'd have to go with drama and action.

[the-gimmick-returner]

I went a fun little thespis award ceremony at my high school. If you dont know, thespis awards go to best actor, best actress, best small role, best ensemble(if it's for the musical), best set crew member, etc. This year for our musical we did "Zombie Prom" and the play we did "The Crucible".

Anyway it's super fancy and I dressed up really nicely for it!! Would anyone be interested in me posting pictures??

[lesbiandarvey]

btw! next wednesday nov 23rd is dan and caseys anniversary so! if yall are interested i thought we could have some fun! like rewatch thespis and wish them a happy anniversary♡

[insanityclause]

There’s a moment that every child who aspires to movie stardom dreams about. They practise it in front of the mirror: graciously thanking their parents, their first drama teacher, their favourite hamster; smiling; waving; trying valiantly to cry. No, it’s not an Oscar’s acceptance speech – at least, not anymore; it’s the moment that super-producer Kevin Feige offers you his hand across a conference table and tells you you’ve landed a Marvel movie.

Yesterday came the first reports that Olivia Colman is in talks to slip into full-body lycra and join the MCU, via the studio’s next small-screen series Secret Invasion. The news follows a recent clutch of arrivals of actresses of a similar age and calibre to Colman to other Marvel projects, including Kathryn Hahn’s show-stealing turn in WandaVision, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ surprise appearance in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

Such casting choices may once have sounded insane. Why would the woman who just two years ago won an Academy Award for her grief-stricken, crumbling performance as Queen Anne in The Favourite, and who is up for another one this weekend for The Father, choose to submerge her pristine brand as the reigning monarch of British acting, both on-screen and off-, in a barrel of brightly-coloured, pop-sountracked, quippy-scripted comic bookery?

Secret Invasion sounds even more deranged than the average Marvel project: it will likely focus on the race of green, reptilian aliens called Skrulls (Ben Mendelsohn will reprise his role as Skrull commander Talos from Captain Marvel), as they invade earth by shapeshifting to imitate superheroes. Colman as an alien reptile? It’s hard to think of a more unlikely piece of casting since Judi Dench dressed up in a catsuit.

But over the last decade, a foundational piece of Marvel’s strategy has been signing-on not just fresh-faced stars like Chris Evans and Tom Holland, but some of the world’s most serious performers: inde darlings (Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton, Brie Larson), BBC-drama-grown Brits (Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch) and awards-laden  powerhouses (Annette Bening, Scarlett Johansson, and even Anthony Hopkins, Colman’s co-star in The Father, who is also up for an Oscar) have all rocked up in the MCU. Much as the Harry Potter franchise once was, the films have become a who’s who of Oscar after-party invite lists.

So why would the great and good of Hollywood acting willingly attach themselves to a franchise that one of the greatest directors of all time not so long ago declared to bear a greater resemblance to theme park rides than cinema? Marvel films are delightful but they are also frequently silly (inevitably, in the transition from cartoon comic book drawings to full-sized, three-dimensional adults leaping around on-camera dressed in skin-tight lycra suits and capes, some space for ridicule is opened up).

The studio is fully aware of this, which is why these films are comedies, but that does not make them any more obvious as vehicles for artists interested in rendering psychological depth on-screen. In 2012, Kiwi wunderkind director Taika Watiti told Interview magazine that he was suspicious of the way feature films can often “turn into commodities”. Yet five years later, his own Marvel movie, Thor: Ragnarok, hit cinemas.

The financial incentives to any actor are obvious and no doubt play a part but there is something even more valuable to someone like Benedict Cumberbatch – not exactly strapped-for-cash following Sherlock, The Imitation Game, and The Hobbit films – inextricably wound-up with those mega pay packages. That something is audience size. Avengers: Endgame, the highest-grossing film of all time until Avatar’s re-release in China in March last year, took $357 million at the domestic box office on its opening weekend.

In America, the average price of a cinema ticket that year was about $9  – that means, by the roughest of calculations, that within 48 hours of the film’s release, 12% of the population, or some 40 million people, had seen the film. An actress like Colman has not exactly been confined to niche audiences – The Crown is not a small show – but even so, the prospect of such unparalleled exposure must be seductive.

The dream of a Marvel movie has not replaced the dream of an Oscar – it all but guarantees it. A symbiotic relationship is emerging between the franchise and the Academy, as the popular reach of one feeds and is elevated by the prestige of the other. There is no better example of this than the tragically-curtailed career of the late Chadwick Boseman.

From a handful of critically-lauded but quietly received biopics (42, Get on Up), he was propelled overnight to global stardom by his MCU roles as Black Panther, Marvel’s first black superhero, culminating in the Black Panther film in 2018. Now, just months after his death from cancer, he is a shoo-in to win a Best Actor award this week for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The opposite of a Marvel film in almost every sense – it’s claustrophobic, literary (it’s based on an August Wilson play), and tragic – it was Black Panther nonetheless that secured him the part.

This give-and-take between superhero flicks and prestige dramas extends beyond actors: Watiti, who has just wrapped shooting on another Thor film, was nominated for an Oscar in 2019 for his German Resistance drama Jojo Rabbit, while Chloé Zhao, who is sure to win Best Director this weekend for Nomadland, has just wrapped her own Marvel movie, Eternals, which is slated for release in November.

Kathryn Hahn, meanwhile, was brought into WandaVision by director Matt Shakman, better known for directing prestige shows like Mad Men and Succession. His vision, in collaboration with the writer Jac Schaeffer, led to a formally wildly innovative show, providing the opportunity for Hahn and the show’s pair of stars Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany – both outstanding actors – to flex their comic and creative muscles. Such starpower behind the camera is itself an attraction for actors of Colman’s calibre, and while there is as yet no word on who will direct Secret Invasion, there are many exciting possible names in the mix.

A few powerhouse industry figures were instrumental in fostering this mutually-beneficial relationship. The first was Robert Downey Jr, the original posterboy of the franchise. When he agreed to star in the first film, 2008’s Iron Man, it was a huge gamble – director Jon Favreau had to battle the studio to accept him – as he emerged from a wilderness decade marred by drug addiction, but it was also a huge coup. Downey Jr had just been nominated for an Oscar for Ben Stiller’s comedy Tropic Thunder and had recently starred in David Fincher’s instant cult-classic Zodiac; his personal reputation may have been in tatters, but as a serious actor, he brought chops.

His Iron Man would become the emotional and dramatic heart of the franchise over its next three phases. Kenneth Branagh, who directed the 2011 film Thor, also bridged the gap between the big flashy studio and his own thespy circle: he brought his protégé Tom Hiddleston, who at that point was best known for his British TV and theatre work, onboard to play Loki, a decision that Feige apparently described as the most important the studio would ever make. Hiddleston capitalised on rather than abandoned his roots: he approached the character like “a comic book version of Edmund in King Lear, but nastier.” It paid off: Hiddleston is a global superstar, frequently touted as the next James Bond, and his dedicated Loki spin-off show is the Marvel TV release of the summer.

Of course, there’s one thing that Marvel offers its actors that money simply can’t buy: a bit of fun. “If my actors aren’t having a good time on set, then I’m doing something wrong,” Waititi told Polygon in 2016. Reflecting on her playfully heightened performance in the early episodes of WandaVision in a recent interview with the New York Times, Hahn said that her husband said her performance had reminded him of her younger self in her college days. “I haven’t seen that part of you in so long – just you, hamboning it,” he told her. Colman, who is by all accounts is a mischievous on a film set, may simply want to bust out of those period costumes, slip into a bodysuit, and have a good time.

[g-on-ef]

A small Goldric drabble {do wanna warn y'all this is a little dark so yeah ^^} also the name for Goldie is credit to @dykespeon on twitter ^^ on another note this is a dark turn of my hc ^^

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While he was only 16 the Golden Guard was one of the most dangerous wizard in the Emperor's coven. He was strong, powerful, cunning, smart, and knew how to take down anyone that stood in his way.

He may goof off but any one who's met him knew better than to underestimate him as he showed no mercy to his or his father's enemies.

There was one thing however that'll make someone like the Golden Guard weak in the knees.

The beautiful Blight wizard. Edric.

Thespy didn't believe in love at first sight but seeing the wizard made him reconsider things.

Edric was laughing as he read something that Jerbo send him via scroll message, the two have been spending time together since Grom.

He was currently in his secret garden as he was about to messaged Jerbo to hang out with him when,

"Having fun?"

Edric jumped as he turned to see his boyfriend standing behind him no doubt reading his messages.

Edric glared at him before he stood up and walked away or tried to.

He felt Thespy's magic surrounding his body before he was lifted from the ground and brought towards him.

"It's rude to walk away when someone is talking to you,"

"It's also rude to ditch someone on Grom and leaving them hanging,"

"Still mad about that my little song bird?"

Edric wasn't a violent person nor was he an angry one but Thespy always brought emotions out of him he tries to ignore.

Edric turned his head away, yes he was mad.

He was happy to finally be spending time with his boyfriend until he got a message telling him that Thespy couldn't make it.

He had more important things to do than attend a stupid dance.

"One don't call me that and two, can you let go of me I have important things go do than to waste time on...on...oh man I don't know how to use your own words against you,"

Thespy couldn't help but laugh. Edric always had a way of making him laugh.

Thespy cup Edric's cheek and stroke it.

"I missed you and your shinanigans now why don't you be a good little wizard and tell me who was that you were talking to?"

All of Edric's bravery left his body as he could feel Thespy's sharp gaze on him.

"No one, it was no one important,"

"Good, it better not be," Edric wasn't stupid he knew that Thespy most likely read his messages but as long as Edric didn't admit Jerbo was important than maybe Thespy wouldn't do anything to him.

"Now, why don't we go back to the castle and spend some quality time together?"

It was a request it was an order. Edric knew that Thespy was still pissed at his parents for their abomination creation and he wanted Edric far from them as possible.

He knew that he wouldn't let him say no so he just nodded his head.

The Golden Guard lift his mask and placed a soft kiss on Edric's lips.

"Let's go,"

He placed Edric on his staff and he got behind Edric and the two flew back to the castle Edric knew he won't be returning home for quiet a while.

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A/N: Good bad tell me what you guys think also to everyone who's send me Striker x Blitz prompts don't worry I haven't forgotten them I'm still working them and should have them all up as the week goes by ^^

[invisibleicewands]

Staged's Anna Lundberg and Georgia Tennant: 'Scenes with all four of us usually involved alcohol'

Not many primetime TV hits are filmed by the show’s stars inside their own homes. However, 2020 wasn’t your average year. During the pandemic, productions were shut down and workarounds had to be found – otherwise the terrestrial schedules would have begun to look worryingly empty. Staged was the surprise comedy hit of the summer.

This playfully meta short-form sitcom, airing in snack-sized 15-minute episodes, found A-list actors Michael Sheen and David Tennant playing an exaggerated version of themselves, bickering and bantering as they tried to perfect a performance of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author over Zoom.

Having bonded while co-starring in Good Omens, Amazon’s TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s novel, Sheen, 51, and Tennant, 49, became best buddies in real life. In Staged, though, they’re comedically reframed as frenemies – warm, matey and collaborative, but with a cut-throat competitiveness lurking just below the surface. As they grew ever more hirsute and slobbish in lockdown, their virtual relationship became increasingly fraught.

It was soapily addictive and hilariously thespy, while giving a voyeuristic glimpse of their interior decor and domestic lives – with all the action viewed through their webcams.

Yet it was the supporting cast who lifted Staged to greatness,Their director Simon Evans, forced to dance around the pair’s fragile egos and piggy-in-the-middle of their feuds. Steely producer Jo, played by Nina Sosanya, forever breaking off from calls to bellow at her poor, put-upon PA. And especially the leading men’s long-suffering partners, both actors in real life, Georgia Tennant and Anna Lundberg.

Georgia Tennant comes from showbiz stock, as the child of Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson. At 36 she is an experienced actor and producer, who made her TV debut in Peak Practice aged 15. She met David on Doctor Who 2008, when she played the Timelord’s cloned daughter Jenny. Meanwhile, the Swedish Lundberg, 26, is at the start of her career. She left drama school in New York two years ago and Staged is her first big on-screen role.

Married for nine years, the Tennants have five children and live in west London. The Lundberg-Sheens have been together two years, have a baby daughter, Lyra, and live outside Port Talbot in south Wales. On screen and in real life, the women have become firm friends and frequent scene-stealers.

Staged proved so successful that it’s now back for a second series. We set up a video call with Tennant and Lundberg to discuss lockdown life, wine consumption, home schooling (those two may be related) and the blurry line between fact and fiction…

Was doing Staged a big decision, because it’s so personal and set in your homes? Georgia Tennant: We’d always been a very private couple. Staged was everything we’d never normally say yes to. Suddenly, our entire house is on TV and so is a version of the relationship we’d always kept private. But that’s the way to do it, I guess. Go to the other extreme. Just rip off the Band-Aid.

Anna Lundberg: Michael decided pretty quickly that we weren’t going to move around the house at all. All you see is the fireplace in our kitchen.

GT: We have five children, so it was just about which room was available.

AL: But it’s not the real us. It’s not a documentary.

GT: Although some people think it is.

Which fictional parts of the show do people mistake for reality? GT: People think I’m really a novelist because “Georgia” writes a novel in Staged. They’ve asked where they can buy my book. I should probably just write one now because I’ve done the marketing already.

AL: People worry about our elderly neighbour, who gets hospitalised in the show. She doesn’t actually exist in real life but people have approached Michael in Tesco’s, asking if she’s OK.

Michael and David squabble about who’s billed first in Staged. Does that reflect real life? AL: With Good Omens, Michael’s name was first for the US market and David’s was first for the British market. So those scenes riffed on that.

Should we call you Georgia and Anna, or Anna and Georgia? GT: Either. We’re super-laidback about these things.

AL: Unlike certain people.

How well did you know each other before Staged? GT: We barely knew each other. We’ve now forged a friendship by working on the show together.

AL: We’d met once, for about 20 minutes. We were both pregnant at the time – we had babies a month apart – so that was pretty much all we talked about.

Did you tidy up before filming? AL: We just had to keep one corner relatively tidy.

GT: I’m quite a tidy person, but I didn’t want to be one of those annoying Instagram people with perfect lives. So strangely, I had to add a bit of mess… dot a few toys around in the background. I didn’t want to be one of those insufferable people – even though, inherently, I am one of those people.

Was there much photobombing by children or pets? AL: In the first series, Lyra was still at an age where we could put her in a baby bouncer. Now that’s not working at all. She’s just everywhere. Me and Michael don’t have many scenes together in series two, because one of us is usually Lyra-wrangling.

GT: Our children aren’t remotely interested. They’re so unimpressed by us. There’s one scene where Doris, our five-year-old, comes in to fetch her iPad. She doesn’t even bother to glance at what we’re doing.

How was lockdown for you both? AL: I feel bad saying it, but it was actually good for us. We were lucky enough to be in a big house with a garden. For the first time since we met, we were in one place. We could just focus on Lyra . To see her grow over six months was incredible. She helped us keep a steady routine, too.

GT: Ours was similar. We never spend huge chunks of time together, so it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. At least until David’s career goes to shit and he’s just sat at home. The flipside was the bleakness. Being in London, there were harrowing days when everything was silent but you’d just hear sirens going past, as a reminder that something awful was going on. So I veered between “This is wonderful” and “This is the worst thing that ever happened.”

And then there was home schooling… GT: Which was genuinely the worst thing that ever happened.

You’ve spent a lot of time on video calls, clearly. What are your top Zooming tips? GT: Raise your camera to eye level by balancing your laptop on a stack of books. And invest in a ring light.

AL: That’s why you look so much better. We just have our sad kitchen light overhead, which makes us look like one massive shiny forehead.

GT: Also, always have a good mug on the go [raises her cuppa to the camera and it’s a Michael Sheen mug]. Someone pranked David on the job he’s shooting at the moment by putting a Michael Sheen mug in his trailer. He brought it home and now I use it every morning. I’m magically drawn to drinking out of Michael.

There’s a running gag in series one about the copious empties in Michael’s recycling. Did you lean into lockdown boozing in real life? AL: Not really. We eased off when I was pregnant and after Lyra was born. We’d just have a glass of wine with dinner.

GT: Yes, definitely. I often reach for a glass of red in the show, which was basically just an excuse to continue drinking while we were filming: “I think my character would have wine and cake in this scene.” The time we started drinking would creep slightly earlier. “We’ve finished home schooling, it’s only 4pm, but hey…” We’ve scaled it back to just weekends now.

How did you go about creating your characters with the writer Simon Evans? AL: He based the dynamic between David and Michael on a podcast they did together. Our characters evolved as we went along.

GT: I was really kind and understanding in the first draft. I was like “I don’t want to play this, it’s no fun.” From the first few tweaks I made, Simon caught onto the vibe, took that and ran with it.

Did you struggle to keep a straight face at times? AL: Yes, especially the scenes with all four of us, when David and Michael start improvising.

GT: I was just drunk, so I have no recollection.

AL: Scenes with all four of us were normally filmed in the evening, because that’s when we could be child-free. Usually there was alcohol involved, which is a lot more fun.

GT: There’s a long scene in series two where we’re having a drink. During each take, we had to finish the glass. By the end, we were all properly gone. I was rewatching it yesterday and I was so pissed.

What else can you tell us about series two? GT: Everyone’s in limbo. Just as we think things are getting back to normal, we have to take three steps back again. Everyone’s dealing with that differently, shall we say.

AL: In series one, we were all in the same situation. By series two, we’re at different stages and in different emotional places.

GT: Hollywood comes calling, but things are never as simple as they seem.

There were some surprise big-name cameos in series one, with Samuel L Jackson and Dame Judi Dench suddenly Zooming in. Who can we expect this time around? AL: We can’t name names, but they’re very exciting.

GT: Because series one did so well, and there’s such goodwill towards the show, we’ve managed to get some extraordinary people involved. This show came from playing around just to pass the time in lockdown. It felt like a GCSE end-of-term project. So suddenly, when someone says: “Samuel L Jackson’s in”, it’s like: “What the fuck’s just happened?”

AL: It took things to the next level, which was a bit scary.

GT: It suddenly felt like: “Some people might actually watch this.”

How are David and Michael’s hair and beard situations this time? AL: We were in a toyshop the other day and Lyra walked up to these Harry Potter figurines, pointed at Hagrid and said: “Daddy!” So that explains where we’re at. After eight months of lockdown, it was quite full-on.

GT: David had a bob at one point. Turns out he’s got annoyingly excellent hair. Quite jealous. He’s also grown a slightly unpleasant moustache.

Is David still wearing his stinky hoodie? GT: I bought him that as a gift. It’s actually Paul Smith loungewear. In lockdown, he was living in it. It’s pretty classy, but he does manage to make it look quite shit.

[poiregourmande]

I miss the Worth It crew so much :( any fic/blog recs about them?

god same here honey

now for the content:

my own works:

double espresso | adam/andrew/steven

the ‘once’ series | adam/andrew/steven

we’re here tonight (and that’s enough) | adam/andrew/annie/kelsey i/marielle/ryan/sara/shane/steven/thespi

to face unafraid | annie/rie

marshmallow heart | inga/steven

flirtsgiving | adam/andrew/annie/kelsey i/ryan/sara/shane/steven

orbit | andrew/ryan/shane/steven

cluster | adam/andrew/garrett/justin/ryan/shane/steven/zack

you made it | ben/steven

suit up | evan/steven

a taste of honey | adam/annie

la bohème | adam/andrew/steven

my drug is my baby | andrew/steven

all is fair in love and mario kart | adam/andrew/steven

flow | andrew/ryan/shane/steven

come on in | andrew/steven

instant | adam/annie

recs:

sugarrushgay | i need that sugar sweet | andrew/steven

@fervidusships | recently featured solo male gay p*rn videos longer than 10 minutes | adam/andrew; adam/steven

@fervidusships | it’s a leap of faith | adam/andrew/steven

@thehumblehumdrum | lost in translation | andrew/rie

@fervidusships | markmaking | adam/andrew/steven

@anotherlostblogger | you’re holy to me | adam/andrew/steven

@fervidusships | discipline by another name might be devotion | adam/andrew/steven

@worthitandchill | but it’s always been you | andrew/steven

@anotherlostblogger | birthday wish | andrew/steven

@anotherlostblogger | the holiday | andrew/steven (& ryan/shane)

@mediumboybergara | a christmas (party) to remember | adam/annie

redmaynes | know you like the tattoo on my shoulder | adam/andrew/steven

blogs:

so. the worth it fandom is, sadly, pretty much dead? by which i mean most worth it centric blogs are defunct (although i might be wrong because i unfollowed a lot of people who were doing adam erasure so these might still be active i wouldn’t know oops). a bunch of blogs i follow post worth it when it’s on but the rest of their blog is pretty bfu/watcher centric, so yeah

but like, check these out, and feel free to #chimeoffbro in the replies if you got a worth it blog!

@fancybois

@worthitupdates

@worthitboys

@eatingyourfeed

@andrewilynyckyj

@stevenandandrewbianchi

@ilnyckyjs

and a shameless plug for my own sideblog, @rarebuzzships which is about all buzz-adjacent rareships (and we have a #bfwi tag!)

wowza that was fun to make haha! thanks for the ask honey! hope it helps!

[nrth-wind-a]

📺- Favorite TV show? 🐋- share a Weird/funny story?

// oh my gosh so many shows

The first that came to mind was x-files, followed very closely by a show that I always watch to chill out or for comfort and that's the Addams Family tv show! I also am a big fan of steven universe! So I can't pick a favorite probably but those three came up first in my mind, so top 3?

And ooh okay a funny story! Idk how funny this actually is, but I don't have many others, so I hope this is at least a fun read!

So for the past few years, I have been on a rocky horror picture show shadowcast! (Where you project the movie in the background and have actors and set on stage imitating the movie-- it's great fun!) However, we do other shows as well! Every October, for instance, (our most active month of the year) we do Hocus Pocus

Well, we often double up on roles since we aren't very big! Last October I was both stage manager and Human Thackery Binx! So it's the night before that show, and I'm texting my other stage hands, making sure everyone's got everything ready to go, and that we all know when quick changes need to happen-- in particular for the Allison switch from her halloween costume (a royal ballgown) to her normal clothes (jeans and a sweater, two articles of clothing that DO NOT GO UNDER A DRESS VERY WELL, MEANING WE CAN'T USE LAYERS). BUT, we've practiced it, and everything should be good to go, so I'm like alright well I'm gonna talk to everyone tomorrow; break a leg, ect, ect. As I was getting ready to go to sleep, I get a phone call from the director.

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It's midnight.jpg

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Fun fact: our cat Binx could not do the show anymore

According to the director, I was the only other liable actor who could play cat Binx.

....

Me: ...Fine but if it goes poorly it is not my fault we're too small to have understudies

Director: fair enough

Time to learn an entire role in one night.exe

This is getting long, so to sum up the next twenty four hours after that:

Someone: comes to me with a stage manager note

Me: sends them to the newly promoted actual stage manager congrats good luck you'll do great please don't cry I'll cry

Someone: how are you gonna do your own quick change?

Me: layers and a faustian bargain with Thespis himself

Me, pre-show: ...I have to crawl?

Me, watching the other actors do blocking I never learned: where are y'all going wait come back-

Me: is this how a cat sits?

Them: ....close enough

Me: nice

On the happy side: it ended fine and most audience members didn't even notice I didn't know what I was doing which either means it was dark enough in there that they didn't see my facial expressions most of the time, or, college has made me so good at not showing stress outwardly, that I fooled them all

Either way, my soul belongs to a dead greek priest, and that's how I learned that if you have enough caffiene, you can fight god themself

[rarebuzzships]

@rarebuzzships Holiday Event - Round Up

thanks to everyone who created, boosted and otherwise helped spread the rarepair love! we had 41 fills total! our most successful event yet! every single one of these brought me so much joy, you’re all incredible and i can’t wait to see what you do next.

please consider reading/reblogging/commenting/kudosing all of these, our creators worked so hard to bring you the gift of holiday rarepairs!

and now, for the fun stuff, the rewards!

Everyone who posted a fill will get a custom moodboard based on one of their fills made by @poiregourmande

see the full round-up under the cut

@kittensmctavish | Rareships Advent Calendar | various ratings up to M | 31 one-shots for different pairings: Shara, Ryelsey, Shandrew, Ryannie, Stinga, Keldrew, Shadam, Stelsey, Kelvan, Kelnie, Shannie, Shelsey, Sarielle, Saryan, Sharielle, Adamnie, Maryan, Adara, Nedrie, Arinedgene, Sarannie, Sarach, Zaggie, Adamrie, Sarandrew, Kelchang, Kelra, Keldam, Alvinga, Shyanara

@ebonybow | happy holidays, let smooch | sara/shane | art

@mediumboybergara | a christmas (party) to remember | adam/annie | teen | 5.2k | Holiday parties are hell. Sometimes, though, the company makes it worth it.

@cellard0ors | hallmark’n it | kelsey i/shane | mature | 6.6k | Shane and Kelsey get snowed in at a strange hotel, in a strange town, and Kelsey's just not feeling the holiday spirit. Shane wants to help, Hallmark Christmas movie style. But as they both give in to the idea, they might find more than either expected.

@stillusesapencil | a multitude of smiles | kelsey i/ryan | gen | 1.4k | As they clean and store their skates, Kelsey says, “Hey. I’m Kelsey.” She offers him a winning smile, one that she hope compensates for the sweat clinging to her temples and neck. The guy looks up, and dear god what a smile. It’s bright and toothy and wide, and he says, “I’m Ryan.”

@businessbabybergara | if only in my dreams | maya/ryan | teen | 22k |  “You’re single, right?” Maya says, arms crossed underneath her chest, looking at him with a particularly pointed look. Ryan raises his eyebrows.  “Are you coming onto me?” Ryan says, grinning up at her. He likes Maya, thinks she’s gorgeous; they bond over their lack of Spanish.  “Sort of?” she touches her hand to her chin, biting down on her lip.  “Uh?”  “I got myself into a sticky situation, and I need your help to—I sort of told my family—because they’ve been pestering me for ages about how single I am—I told them I have a boyfriend and they’re expecting him to come with me to Christmas Eve, but haha, I don’t have a boyfriend, and I know it’s a big ask, like really huge, to ask you to come hang out with me on Christmas Eve, but I don’t know anyone else who would do this." or; maya and ryan fake date for christmas.

@businessbabybergara | i’m a present and you know it (here i am boy) | kelsey d/shane | explicit | 5.3k |  It’s a little after six, and he’s just gotten himself up off the couch for another beer when there’s a knock at his door; it surprises Shane entirely since it’s Christmas Eve and he isn’t expecting any visitors.  When he opens the door, he’s taken aback; it’s his neighbor, Kelsey, and she’s holding up two bottles of wine.  “Shove over, I need someone to drink with,” she says, and he doesn’t know what else to do but step aside and let her come waltzing in. or; shane and kelsey spend christmas eve together.

@kittensmctavish | life flies by in seconds | kelsey i/shane | mature | 34k | Shane moves to a new town with his daughter. He needs to find a nanny. Kelsey's a nanny.(Or: the Hallmark movie fic, but from Shane's POV.)

@businessbabybergara | i’ve loved you three summers now, honey | kelsey i/shane | unrated | 1.2k |  Kelsey reaches to take the phone from Shane’s hand, and he lets her, and she types in the word confirmation and as the results begin to populate, Kelsey filters through them, until she sees one in particular that makes her breath catch in her throat, fingers frozen. She doesn’t click on it, and Shane snatches his phone away from her, and they stare at each other; she’s never seen panic in his eyes. Shane doesn’t scare easily. But here, his brown, Tennessee whiskey eyes are looking at her and then he looks away and Kelsey stares blindly at the television. or; kelsey finds out just how much shane loves her.

@stillusesapencil | with love | ryan/sara/shane | gen | 1.4k | She’d like it to be somewhat special. It’s their first Christmas as a trouple, and on top of that, the boys just launched Watcher, and she’s so proud of them. This just needs to be something more than a bottle of cologne, or the vintage shaving set she’d bought Shane last year, or the matching Harry Potter scarves they’d gotten before that.Why does gift giving have to be so hard?

@bellairestrella | you are the songs i dreamt (but never sung) | kelsey i/shane | gen | 1.4k | Girl meets boy. Girl marries boy. Boy dies. Girl saves boy from death.(Also a retelling of the Ruru and Priyamvada story.)

MOD FILLS by @poiregourmande

shelsey headcanons | kelsey i/shane

tell me baby, do you recognize me? | mulaney/shane | teen | 2.1k | it would be a shame if shane ran into an old flame as he's flying home for his first christmas with his new boyfriend, wouldn't it?

we’re here tonight (and that’s enough) | adam/andrew/annie/kelsey i/marielle/ryan/sara/shane/steven/thespi | teen | 3.4k |  hear ye, hear ye, holiday baking extravaganza at andrew & thespi’s this saturday afternoon be there or you might miss a holiday smooch from the shanester

shipper goggles | alvin/kelsey i | gen | 1.6k | Kelsey's appearance on Alvin’s Making It Big is one of these rare exceptions to YouTube comment sections, which couldn’t be more harmonious — the unanimous observation is that Kelsey and Alvin were unequivocally on their first date.