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I just want to see Mike Faist, Will Roland and Ben Platt perform the dance routine to Candy Store from Heathers is that too much to ask

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So! You saw/listened to/had a dream about Hamilton and discovered how fucking glorious rap is. Maybe you already know some rap and hip-hop but not a lot. Maybe you’re looking for some great rap songs to memorize to use for your Hamilton auditions (you badass, you). The reason why you’re reading this doesn’t matter so much; the point is we’re here, and it’s time for some basic history and recommendations! 

By Genre

A nice and easy place to start! This will mostly be about education and covering all the bases, but I promise that you’ll like it. This is by no means an exhaustive list of all sub-genres (I’m skipping some of my favs like Crunk and Dirty South because I don’t think it applies to Hamilton), just ones that I think relate to the musical.

Old School You might like these artists if you enjoy the tracks that are more stripped down and simple, and more conversational. Notable examples: A Tribe Called Quest, The Sugarhill Gang, Eazy-E

Latin Rap You might like these artists if you want to throw some love at Lin in particular and give respect to his roots Notable examples: Calle 13, Daddy Yankee, Don Omar 

Pop Rap/Hip Hop You might like this if you loved the tracks that blended more classic musical style with the rap style. Notable examples: Kanye, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Lil Wayne…basically all of Young Money

Conscious Rap: You might like this if “I am just like my country/I’m young, scrappy and hungry” resonated with you on a deep level Notable examples: Kendrick Lamar, Common, Talib Kweli

Gangsta Rap: You might like this if you found yourself wanting more Hercules Mulligan in your life Notable examples: Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, 2Pac, Notorious B.I.G.

Alternative/Nerdy: You might like this if you’re on Tumblr Notable example: N.E.R.D., Childish Gambino, Lupe Fiasco, The Roots

Queer Rap/Hip Hop: If you’re into that Hamilton slash thing and are LGBTQ Notable examples: Big Freedia, Zebra Katz, Mykki Blanco

By Character

In which I basically do fanmixes? Here is a general example of that I think they would have on their iPods/phones/etc.

Alexander Hamilton would like: Kendrick Lamar, Calle 13, 2Pac

Aaron Burr would like: Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Childish Gambino

George Washington would like: Common, Kendrick Lamar 

King George would like: N.E.R.D., Kanye West, Drake

Eliza Hamilton nee Schuyler would like: Eve, The Roots, Nicki Minaj

Philip Hamilton would like: Jurassic 5, A Tribe Called Quest, Eazy E

Lafayette would like: Nicki Minaj, Maitre Gims, Nino Ice

Thomas Jefferson would like: Kanye West, Jay Z, Snoop Dogg 

Angelica Schuyler would like: Nicki Minaj, Eve, N.W.A.

John Laurens would like: Common, Kendrick Lamar, Missy Elliot

By Song

Recommendations on a song-by-song basis! This is my approximation of songs that match in general tone or style

If you like Alexander Hamilton you’ll like Alright by Kendrick Lamar

If you like My Shot you’ll like Hustlin’ by Rick Ross

If you like The Schuyler Sisters you’ll like Va Va Voom by Nicki Minaj

If you like Right Hand Man you’ll like Boyz-N-The-Hood by Eazy-E

If you like Satisfied you’ll like Pink Toes by Childish Gambino and Jhene Aiko

If you like Wait For It you’ll like Pills N’ Potions by Nicki Minaj

If you like Guns and Ships you’ll like Break Ya Neck by Busta Rhymes

If you like Yorktown you’ll like B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) by Outkast

If you like Non-Stop you’ll like High Fidelity by Jurassic 5

If you like What Did I Miss you’ll like Peaches N’ Cream by Snoop Dogg

If you like Cabinet Battle you’ll like Without Me by Eminem

If you like Say No To This you’ll like Young & Wild & Free by Wiz Khalifa

If you like The Room Where It Happens you’ll like Xxplosive by Dr. Dre

If you like The Adams Administration you’ll like Put You On Game by Lupe Fiasco

If you like Blow Us All Away you’ll like Champion by Kanye West

So Finally

Here are some links to explore more! What I’ve given is by no means exhaustive. 

History of hip hop/rap

The Definitive Guide to Hip-Hop Subgenres

My Top 50-ish Spotify Playlist

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Deleted Song from the Musical:

How do you solve a problem like Maria (Reynolds)?

#hamilton #hamilton musical #alexander hamilton #aaron burr #james madison #thomas jefferson #sound of music #technically the answer to that question is the reynolds pamphlet #Honestly hoped they would have done a ham4ham like this #broadway #broadway musical

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Hamilton: Every Song Summarized

Alexander Hamilton: It's ye home boi Alex

Aaron Burr, Sir: Two college men walk into a bar with three drunkards, and-

My Shot: Do you ever just want to overthrow a government (Featuring Alexander having an existential crisis)

The Story Of Tonight: Painful foreshadowing coming from Laurens

The Schuyler Sisters: its ye home gals angellica eliza AND PEGGY

Farmers Refuted: It's Time For Alexander's Opinion

You'll Be Back: I cannot fucking believe King George III is a yandere

Right Hand Man: Burr needs to call the rejection hotline

A Winters Ball: RELIABLE WITH THE *LADIES*

Helpless: Ye gal Eliza falls for ye boi Alex

Satisfied: Angelica has emotional issues and I want to help her

The Story Of Tonight Reprise: SPIT A VERSE, BURR

Wait For It: Burr spits a verse (Sort of)

Stay Alive: Charles Lee shows up and Laurens is like "We should shoot that guy"

Ten Duel Commandments: Laurens shoots that guy

Meet Me Inside: Alexander gets grounded

That Would Be Enough: HEARTBREAK.

Guns and Ships: L A F A Y E T T E

History Has It's Eyes On You: Don't fuck up because history is always watching

Yorktown: Alexander and Lafayette overthrow a government

What Comes Next?: King George is still a yandere but now he's a Bitter Yandere

Dear Theodosia: THE DAD SONG

Non-Stop: Burr wonders why and how Alexander does things

What'd I Miss: Jeffy boi is done getting high in France and now he's back to get high in America

Cabinet Battle #1: Political debate turns into a rap battle

Take A Break: Alexander says "No" 500000 times

Say No To This: Alexander forgets how to say "No" 500000 times

The Room Where It Happens: Burr needs to call the rejection hotline again

Schuyler Defeated: Alexander throws away Burr's friendship bracelet

Cabinet Battle #2: you must be out oF YOUR GODDAMN MIND-

Washington On Your Side: MOTHERFUCKING SOUTHERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS

One Last Time: Washington is resigning and Alexander has abandonment issues

I Know Him: JESUS CHRIST THIS WILL BE FUN!!!~

The Adams Administration: Hamilton fucking obliterates John Adams

We Know: Jefferson, Burr, and Madison become the TMZ of the 1700-1800s

Hurricane: Alexander decides to #expose himself

The Reynolds Pamphlet: Alexander probably regrets deciding to #expose himself

Burn: ELIZA DESERVES BETTER THAN THIS

Blow Us All Away: Alexander encourages his son to get in a gun fight and is shocked when he gets shot

Stay Alive Reprise: CRUSHING DEPRESSION

It's Quiet Uptown: EVEN MORE CRUSHING DEPRESSION

The Election of 1800: Jefferson is tired of drama and he just wants politics

Your Obedient Servant: "Fucking fight me, Alex." ~Burr

Best of Wives and Best of Women: WOW EVEN MORE CRUSHING DEPRESSION

The World Was Wide Enough: "Talk shit get hit." ~Burr

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story: I'M CRYING OVER A FOUNDING FATHER.

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I died of laughter when I heard this 

Every time “Hamilton” is said in Hamilton

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Okay, sooooo based on this post from the Hamilton Pinoy Facebook Group, this has been made just for laughs. 

(Also entitled: That moment when Jasmine forgets which act it is)

#hamilton #hamilton musical #maria reynolds #peggy schuyler #and peggy

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Reasons I desperately want the Voltron/Korra people to make a Percy Jackson cartoon:

They wouldn’t have to do anything but animate it because the dialogue is already perfectly written

You can slap an educational label on it for the parents, but it’s way too entertaining for kids to care

There’s more than enough material for 5+ seasons, and no end in sight

There’s a huge built in fanbase 

Animation means no terrible live action effects

IMAGINE THE MERCHANDISING OH MY GOSH like just imagine the Argo II Lego set!! and CHB shirts at Hot Topic and Festus on everything

They clearly know how to capture/choreograph water-based fight sequences (Also imagine Jason, Leo, and Hazel air/fire/earth bending)

As far as I know, Fox still holds the adaptation rights. Meaning, they could probably contract the animation studio to make the show and then air it one of their networks 

Seeing Rick go from, “Movie? What movie?” to “Lol yeah, I wrote that.”

Representation. Like a cartoon made with kids with ADHD and dyslexia in mind? Yes please. Main characters of all different races/backgrounds? Gotchu. Gays? Doesn’t get gayer than Greek mythology. 

People loudly and proudly supporting team Greek or team Roman 

Also people sporting their Godly parent like a Hogwarts house

The very first Percabeth kiss breaking the internet. 

Nico Di Angelo breaking the internet. 

Characters dying onscreen and it being traumatizing but necessary

Getting to see whats going on at both camps simultaneously and filling in some of the gaps

Kids getting to grow up with Percy in a completely new way

#pjo

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Just thought those who adore both Hamilton and Star Wars would love this! 

#hamilton #star wars

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Trials of Apollo fandom

Can we start tagging Apollo stuff and arts as #Lester Papadopoulus ???

#lester papadopoulos #apollo #pjo

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The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle

GUYS I SWEAR ON THE RIVER STYX THAT THIS SERIES IS EVERYTHING I’VE WANTED UNCLE RICK TO WRITE

#toa #trials of apollo #the hidden oracle #apollo #lester papadopoulos #pjo

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queen of the universe, space mom™ to many, professional badass, slayer of the galaxies. my fav

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Resource Dump: Creating Characters!

Primary Characters

Your Hero: Top Ten Rules

10 Traits of a Great Protagonist

4 Steps to Creating a Truly Active Protagonist

20 Tips for Creating Relatable Protagonists

How to Center your Story

How to Create Unforgettable Protagonists

25 Things You Should Know About Protagonists

Creating Memorable Characters

Creating Strong Female Protagonists

Creating Dynamic Protagonists

How to Create Characters

Inner Dialogue - Writing Inner Character Thoughts

25 Things a Great Character Needs

5 Ways to Create 3D Characters

Secondary Characters

10 Secrets to Creating Unforgettable Supporting Characters

How to Write Effective Supporting Characters

Question to Ask (& Strengthen) Your Minor Characters

5 Tips for Developing Supporting Characters

Techniques for Creating Great Secondary Characters

5 Steps to Dazzling Minor Characters

3 Ways to Create Stupendous Supporting Characters

Creating Memorable Secondary Characters

5 Archetypes for Supporting Characters

Your Map to Creating a Memorable Minor Characters

Names

Top Ten Tips

8 Tips for Naming Characters

7 Rules of Naming Fictional Characters

Name that Character!

6 Creative Ways to Name your Character

Naming your Characters

A Guide to Naming Characters

Female: 1 | 2 | 3

Male: 1 | 2 | 3

Alien: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Surname: 1 | 2 | 3 

Unisex: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Traits

List: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

Developing Character Traits

How to Create Good Personalities for your Characters

Develop Memorable Personalities

Give your Character Personality

How to Create a Character’s Personality

How to Make Sure your Character’s Personality Shines

5 Building Blocks of your Character’s Personality

Appearance

Appearance Generator

Your Character’s Physical Appearance

How to Describe a Character’s Looks

Describing a Character’s Appearance

Character Description Resource

Examples of Physical Characteristics

Describing the Physical Attributes of your Characters

How Great Authors Describe Character Appearance

Ultimate Guide to Nailing your Character’s Appearance

Describing Clothing and Appearance

Character Appearance Help

Character Description Resource

Describing People: A Person’s Physical Appearance

Describing the Physical Attributes of Characters

Speech

Talking About your Character: Speech

Variety in Character Voices

All your Characters Talk the Same

How to Create Distinctive Character Voices

How to Create Characters Who Don’t Sound like You

The Art of Voice in Fiction

Create Varying, Yet Realistic, Speech Patterns

The Art and Craft of Dialogue

Writing Character Voice

Creating Differences in the Speech Patterns of your Characters

Style: Person and Speech

Dialects: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Backstory

Building Better Backstories

Basic Tips to Create Better Characters with Tragic Backstories

How to Write a Backstory

Writing Characters Using Conflict and Backstory

Backstory Description Generator

Questions to Create Character Backstory

How to Weave in Backstory to Reveal Character

Nail your Character’s Backstory

How to Write Backstory Without Putting your Reader to Sleep

How to Write a Killer Backstory

Diversity

How to Make Young Adult Fiction More Diverse

Writing People of Color

A Few Tips and Resources for Writing Characters of Colour

Writing Characters of Colour Tastefully

Writing With Colour

7 Offensive Mistakes Well-Intentioned Writers Make

Writing Characters of Colour

Describing Characters of Colour

Gender

Female: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Male: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Transgender: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Non-Binary: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Sexuality

Main Character Sexuality

On Writing LGBTQ Characters: 1 | 2

Writing Gay Characters

Guide to LGBT YA

Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes

Writing Bisexual Characters: 1 | 2

Writing Asexual Characters: 1 | 2

Pansexual & Demisexual Characters

How to Write Gay, Bisexual and Pansexual Characters

Introduction

Introducing a Character

Introducing your Main Character

Do’s and Don’ts for Introducing your Protagonist

First Impressions

How to Introduce a Character

How Not to Introduce a Main Character

Introducing the Protagonist

Development

Character Development

9 Ingredients of Character Development

Characterisation 1 - Character Development

How to Develop a Character for a Story

Character Development

Character Development Drives Conflict

Developing your Characters and Making them Interesting

Relationships

How to Write Strong Character Relationships

Character Relationships

3 Keys to Developing Character Relationships

The Secret Behind Great Character Relationships

3 Tips for Character Relationships

Building Believable Relationships

Sibling: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Platonic: 1 | 2 | 3

Romantic: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Strengths

Identifying your Character’s Strengths

Character Strengths and Weaknesses

Introducing the 24 Character Strengths

Character Strengths and Virtues List

Strengths and Weaknesses

A Balance of Strengths

Flaws

123 Ideas for Character Flaws

DarkWorld RPG Flaws List

Character Flaws

Ten Ugliest Character Flaws

The Four Types of Character Flaws

On Giving Flaws and Weaknesses

Character Flaw Index

Goal

Why your Character’s Goal Needs to be 1 of these 5 Things

Goals Define the Plot

Goal Setting for You and your Character

How to Explore you Character’s Motivation

4 Ways to Motivate Character and Plot

Motivation

By Genre

Fantasy: 1 | 2 | 3

Sci-Fi: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Romance: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Thrillers: 1 | 2 

Horror: 1 | 2 | 3

Heroes

Your Hero: Top Ten Rules

How to Write your Own Hero Story

What Makes a Great Hero?

Creating Heroes and Heroines

Write a Story about a Hero

How to Create an Antihero that Readers Love

Heroes vs. Anti-Heroes

Create a Super Hero

How to Create a Brand New Iconic Hero or Villain

What Makes a Hero

Villains

How to Create a Credible Villain in Fiction

How to Make a Purely Evil Villain Interesting

9 Evil Examples of the Villain Archetype

How Not to Create a Villain

Creating Villains People Love to Hate

3 Techniques for Crafting a Better Villain

Basic Tips to Write Better & More Despicable Villains

Writing Tips for Creating a Complex Villain

How to Create a Great Villain

Do’s & Don’ts

Do’s and Dont’s of Writing a Good Character

How to Create a Character

Characterisation Dos and Dont’s

Female Characters of Do’s and Dont’s

Do’s and Dont’s of Dialect

Helpful Writing Blogs

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment*

writeworld

referenceforwriters

thewritingcafe

aquestionofcharacter *

writingwithcolor

fuckyeah-char-dev

dailycharacterdevelopment

Clichés

Characters and Cliches

Top 10 Character Cliches

7 Lazy Character Cliches 

10 Most Cliched Characters in Sci-Fi

Four Worst Character Cliches

Female Character Cliches

Character Cliches to Avoid

The Cliche Character Test

How Cliches Can Help You Make Great Characters

Templates

How to Create a Character Profile

Writing Character Bios

Character Sheets and Character Creation

Gender/Sexuality Generator

Extremely Detailed Character Template

Writer’s Resource: Character Template

Character Description

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au in which it isn’t the weasley family walking up to the platform at the same time as harry but the malfoys

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Inheriting after Signing the Storybook of Legends

After watching Way Too Wonderland, the question of what other characters inherit after signing their fate off to the book has been quite puzzling. If you don’t understand, I’m talking about how Raven just gained her full/mother’s power after signing it. So my question is, after signing the book, what do all the other characters in the show gain after signing the book?

#ever after high

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#ourgeneration horror stories

They find a book written in Latin… one guy doesn’t take Latin and doesn’t want to mess up the pronunciation. The girl is studying Mandarin. Another guy recommends sticking it into Google Translate but that’s likely to land them with gibberish. They leave it alone.

The car won’t start. They call an Uber.

The vampire captures the girl and insists that she wears the gown to dinner. The gown is actually hella cute. Only problem is it’s not in her size. Oh, it only comes in 2’s and 4’s? Sorry, vamp, you want me in that dress you contact the goddamn company and tell them to get their shit together.

“How did you possibly know that? It saved our lives!” “I’ve got two degrees and I spend way too much time on Wikipedia.”

They encounter a spirit that gains power the more people believe in it. One girl makes a vine and uploads with, “fakest ghost ever!!! Right??” Twenty minutes later the spirit is destroyed.

The circus is in town tonight. Except she’s lived her whole life here and the circus has never come before… it’s also in a pretty sketchy part of town, not somewhere you’d want to walk alone at night. She goes to a movie instead.

“You’d need an ARMY to fight this evil!” “Okay. I’ve got 20,000 followers, lets see how many can make it.”

The Evil Whispery Voice of Doom tells the jock that it’s going to kill his pretty blonde girlfriend. The jock gets offended because, excuse me, Cindy and I are just friends. However, Marty over there is my boyfriend and I’m not saying you should kill him, just stop making assumptions yeah?

“This spirit tried to convince me it was Jerry when it texted but its texting style is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT so yeah that didn’t work.”

We could have easily gotten lost and ended up at some creepy cabin in the woods, but luckily we all had functioning GPSs. Beach party, we’ve arrived!

“We have to find a way to destroy it! We—what are you doing?” “Looking up ‘exorcising demons’ on Google. Oh look, first hit.”

The child she bares will be the devil’s spawn. Good thing she doesn’t want kids. Or if she changes her mind she can always adopt.

“How can we possibly outwit this serial killer…” “… There’s gotta be an app for that. Lemme look.”

Only the virgin will survive… Turns out they’re all virgins. One is asexual. One wants to wait until marriage. Two just haven’t found the right person yet. One is meh about sex. So we all survive, yeah?

The girl does not fall. She was on varsity track.

“Quick! We need someplace to hide the artifact. And then decoys to confuse the beast! What have we got?” “… I’ve got a hundred plastic bags stuffed into another plastic bag.” “PERFECT.” 

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Once upon a time, heroes and villains used to live in the same land. The heroes would try to spread love and peace, while the villains would try to bring darkness and chaos, but the thing was that those things were expected of them. It was their duty to be good or evil because once you went off script, you endangered the people you loved and those around you. The cycle went on generation after generation where both villains and heroes coexisted together until a certain fairy tale changed things... I'm pretty sure we all the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. There's a beautiful girl with hair as dark as ebony and skin as white as snow named Snow White and her evil Step Mother who we all know as the Evil Queen, we'll talk about her in a little while. Along the way we encounter seven dwarves, a huntsman, a lot of poisoned things like combs, bodices, and apples. Once Snow White wakes up from her poisoned-apple-induced slumber by true love's kiss from her Prince Charming, they got married. Real surprise, huh? Well, with their marriage and story came one of Ever After's most powerful villains : The Evil Queen (I told you we'd talk about her). The Evil Queen had went off script by cursing young Sleeping Beauty and even poisoning Wonderland before she had gotten trapped in the magic mirror. After that, Snow White, her Prince, and the Brothers Grimm had thought up of a genius idea to avoid any more fairy tales going off script: to banish every villain and keep them all imprisoned. Stupid idea, right? It wasn't like the villains weren't just trying to live and all. Well, Snow White and Prince Charming didn't see it that way. Together with every other kingdom in Ever After, they rounded up all that was evil and imprisoned them on an island called the Isle of the Lost. All the villains, their sidekicks, and all their children were sent there. They were kept there by a force field set up by the Fairy Godmother's magic. Now the people in Ever After live happily in peace. They have everything their hearts could desire. It's sickening, especially when everyone on the Isle lives in chaos. It just goes to prove that there is no such thing as happy endings, at least not for people like us.

When villains of different fairy tales are rounded up and banished to live in the Isle of the Lost while heroes of these fairy tales are celebrated as they live in the land of Ever After, Apple White's first proclamation as queen is to open the doors of Ever After High to the children of these so called fairy tale villains.  (Imagine Raven Narrating this okay?)

Okay, I suck because I suddenly thought of a Descendants AU for Ever After High. I know that a number of people dislike Descendants and often compare it to Ever After High but I honestly thought a Descendants AU would actually be quite fun.

I could definitely see Apple as Ben and Raven as Mal. Maddie could definitely be Evie’s character (unfortunately, The Mad Hatter isn’t considered a villain but Maddie and Evie match really well since their the smart people in the group) I’d love Cerise to be Jay’s character since Jay eventually joins the Tourney team and that kind of reminded me of the bookball game in Thronecoming and Cerise could definitely be considered a Villain since her father is the Big Bad Wolf. Carlos is a bit tricky though but he could possibly be Humphrey (since Computers and Tech) or Hunter (for like his love of animals). Any more ideas guys?

#ever after high #disney's descendants #descendants #disney descendants

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Ayyy guys, just shamelessly advertising that if any of you have Descendants OCs you could post about them here^^ The wiki isn’t quite developed but it’s a start^^

#descendants #disney descendants #disney's descendants