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cosettepontmercys · 6 months

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Hi! How are you? I have a Chihuahua and his name is Tony but mostly I just call him toey without the n. I hate finding bruises later..it freaks me out more even if it doesn't even hurt. When and why are you going to Boston? It seems fun!

Haha I don't blame you. I liked them but wasn't obsessed anymore by the time I went to see them. Like I never loved them the way I love Taylor really..but I think cuz I wasn't as obsessed during 1989 either was maybe why my mom thought I would prefer to see them. That was actually I think my first big concert in a stadium show besides Kelly Clarkson. I don't really listen to their music anymore really but I still like them individually I guess but I wasn't like a crazy fan girl or anything. I was also obsessed with showtunes at the time and twenty one pilots and some heavier bands lol. That was the kind of concerts we went to actually. My music taste is all over the place.

Well I honestly can't remember most of the songs from Jekyll or Bloody Bloody anyway but it is mostly just like campy. I would love to see Little Shop or Rocky live..they were doing a showing in early October but I missed it. I thought it would be closer to Halloween. Something Rotten is so fun..I vividly remember watching the Tonys performance and laughing like..what the heck is that? I was intrigued..I also think Shakespeare is so funny. Then Fun Home was a really good one too..it left a strong impression and showed me the serious side of musicals. Finding Neverland is not fun haha..I remember crying at the end of the show. Gentleman's Guide is a fun show and I remember the Tony performance too. I guess I do kinda like silly musicals too if they're done well but I think I'm more into the serious ones or maybe something in between. Sondheim is a great example of that but he does have humor in his shows too. Sweeney is my favorite Sondheim show and then probably Sunday or into the Woods I guess. I do like Company too but I'm not as familiar with the full show and it's more about loving the songs for me. I also feel that way about Sunday but Company and Sunday both have a stronger message in the shows..with the ending songs Being Alive and Moving On. I'm hoping to see it too and I'm very interested to see how I feel about the gender swap.

Oh cool! Beautiful World is also on my list..im pretty sure I read some of it before but that was a year or two ago lol. I enjoyed Normal People but didn't really care for Conversations with Friends as much. I also never even finished the show of Normal People either, but I want to..I know a lot of people really like it. I struggled with some of her writing and no quotations too. I actually read some of the Night Circus the other day and was surprised by how engaging it was. I thought I would have a problem and it would be hard to read 3rd person or cuz it was old fashioned but it wasn't at all! I think it was set up really well and hooked me in right away. I hope I can keep up with the timeline and it doesn't become confusing with more characters. Sometimes I make guesses or predictions on things when I read but then I end up flipping thru it instead. This happened cuz I was trying to figure out how many parts there were or how long chapters are and why the book is split up like that but I guess I will see. I did a similar thing with Tomorrow x3 and ended up seeing a spoiler..lol. so I hope that doesn't happen with this. I read all of the backstory so far or when they were children. Ooh that fancast could be interesting I think but sometimes it doesn't work in your head as much as you want, and can be pretty hard to come up with too. It's just that sometimes when I'm reading a book and I know what the author looks like, I end up picturing the author as the character instead lol. This has happened with Emily Henry for example but most times I don't even know what they look like anyway..but since this is less modern, I thought it might help. A fun thing was that I had the book next to a cover of the Blurryface album by twenty one pilots and it was the same exact colors..black, white and red, and looked extremely similar, next to each other which made me smile.

That's also why I thought reading TBOSS might help now with the movie coming out cuz there is already a cast. I figured out that if I read 2 chapters a day, I could be done in like 15 days just in time for the movie so I might be focused on that for now. I actually think the movie might be better than the book anyway though but I think it's okay so far. I understand wanting to finish the Hunger Games first though. I loved the Olivia song. It was pretty different for her or at least pretty different from Guts, so I was surprised in a good way. Her voice is pretty powerful and it totally fits the tone of the movie. It made me wonder if it was easier or harder for her to write lyrics based on something or not..or if she has a personal connection to the lyrics as well, since there is always a part of songwriters in their lyrics like authors having parts of themselves in their characters in books. Omg wait..how do you have mutual friends with her? That's so cool..I'd love to hang out with her! The first time I heard her voice was singing Shallow but it's cool she loves Broadway and also Taylor too. Maybe that's why I think we would get along. I would recommend the West Side movie and I appreciate it being updated but I just preferred the original a lot more. That's just me though and I have watched the original so many times. I think a lot of people actually do prefer the new one more which is interesting but I guess it also makes sense. I think its pretty funny her and her bf were in West Side and now this movie..she is truly living the dream haha.

Pick whichever url makes you happy I'll still be able to find you :) or you can ask my opinion if you want. I've never changed my url but I changed blogs before..or made new ones and I've been here since 2010 lol. I think the vault does sound like Midnights a little but I think.its just a similar sound that probably inspired the sound of the album in the first place. Like people think Suburban Legends sounds exactly like Mastermind but I don't actually hear that. That specific lyric made me think of Midnights but my point was she has always had songs or a similar idea like it since her first album..so I don't get when people say she didn't write it in that era or whatever. I still think some of the vault still had an 80s sound to it though and someone pointed out Say Don't Go kinda sounds like her can't stop loving you cover and I sort of agree with that. I love that theme too and a fun fact about me is I've never seen the movie sliding doors but I actually think I will watch it soon. Oh that sucks! I hope you can get tickets closer to you..and everything works out.

I've never heard of these before but thanks for telling me! I will check them out and I hope I'm pretty good at them. I am familiar with a lot of stuff even if it's a movie or show I haven't seen so I'll tell you if it's easy or hard.

What did your mom think of the show? Oh that's such a bummer that the show had technical problems. Your seats looked pretty good though and I'm glad you were able to enjoy it anyway. I think I prefer the act one so it was maybe less noticeable for me but I see what you mean. I mostly agree with you about Wait For Me as the closer and Why We Build the Wall isn't as dramatic for the act one finale. Wait For Me was definitely one of the best parts of the show for me but what about you? Is there different things you noticed since you have seen it before?

My weekend was good! I actually went to a casino which was kinda fun. I played a Little Shop and Wonka machine and was able actually to win some money on them but not for long or as much as I hoped. Thank you for the hug and well wishes! I will probably need it as I will feel stressed and busy for the next month though so I might not be able to reply as often. I hope you feel relaxed and rested this week before your trip!

hi friend!

that's so so cute — i call toto a bunch of things too; totoroto, bobo, totes, among others, and he's learned to respond to all of them 🥺 i'm definitely soaking all the toto cuddles i can before my trip (he's sleeping on my lap as i reply to you); it's a very short trip, but :( i leave for boston sooooooon! i'm just visiting a friend for the long weekend, and we have some fun things planned!!

i've never liked an artist the way i like taylor and i don't think i ever will find someone else like that — growing up alongside her music is something very very special that i will never get to replicate, because her music has really soundtracked so much of my life! before this year i didn't really go to concerts (i'd go to like the occasional theatre one if there happened to be one near me but not like a concert concert), and so i feel like i'm making up for lost time haha. i think by the end of this year i'll have gone to like ten concerts and two music festivals? which is kind of crazy when i think about it that way! what's your favorite concert you've ever been to?

something rotten is very fun! have you also listened to & juliet? some of my friends are obsessed with it! i'm hoping that they'll do a national tour and come to seattle at some point so i can see it; i don't foresee myself going to new york anytime soon :( but things could always change! have you ever listened to eleri ward's indie folk sondheim covers? her voice is beautiful!

my rooney ranking is normal people > beautiful world > convo with friends! but i might actually change my mind and bring CWF with me, i haven't quite decided yet. i loveeeed the normal people show, it's one of the few adaptations that i think does the source material justice! and i think paul and daisy have not just wonderful chemistry, but also an amazing understanding of the characters.

i'm really glad you've been liking night circus! i have not been reading it much; i've just been very busy but hopefully will get on it once i'm back from boston! i did start reading cleopatra and frankenstein while i was at the doctor's office this week, and i found the first two chapters to be really funny. i'm not sure if it's actually funny or if it's a "i'm not supposed to laugh here so i'm trying to be quiet and so everything is funnier and i cannot stop laughing" situation, but i'm hoping to finish it tonight (very unlikely; i have a ton of stuff i need to do before boston) because otherwise i will probably never pick it up again. i always do this; i get super into a book a few days before i have to leave and i don't finish it and by the time i'm back from my trip i'm no longer interested (did the same thing in may, and again in january). if you have an idea for a night circus cast, let me know! i'm definitely interested to hear what your choices are :) i hope you continue liking it!

i really, really loved olivia's song — i keep thinking about how hauntingly beautiful it is! i thought about getting the 7" of it, but i rarely spin 7" vinyls, and i think i should save my money for other vinyls ... but i'm still thinking about it haha. i do! i have some friends in the theatre scene :)

i change my url so often! i'm always worried you won't be able to find me but i do try to do a redirect etc so people can always find me 🤍 i probably won't do anything until i'm back from boston, and then maybe by then i'll want to do something else anyways! what are your thoughts on the vault tracks now that it's been a few weeks? i think my rankings have shifted — i definitely like now that we don't talk, slut and is it over now? more than i did before! speaking of, eras tour is back today!!!! one of my dear friends is going to eras tonight and i'm so so excited for her 🥺

let me know how those games go for you! i didn't do murdle yesterday because i got busy and forgot and now i'm like "i'll just start it up again once i'm back from boston" because my streak will be broken anyways. would not recommend doing murdle on your phone!! it's much much easier (better user interface) on a computer.

my mom had fun! she said it reminded her of come from away and jasper in deadland — i understand the jasper connection, because it's also based off of the orpheus eurydice myth but i'm not sure how she got come from away from that haha. wait for me is probably in my top 3 hadestown moments! i remember my friend gripping my hand out of shock and excitement when we first saw hadestown (first preview on broadway!). i think of that moment + her every time i listen to wait for me!

i hope next month is okay! sending you lots of love! remember to take care of yourself <3333

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engazed · 2 years

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Hi, Engazed! I was wondering what you think A fold in the universe would've been like if Sherlock and John's roles had been reversed. In the sense of, Sherlock swapping places with an omega version of himself?

Like, what would he have learned for his own world or what do you think would've been the problems of the A/Ω John and Sherlock?

The more I think about it, John going there seems more compelling? (Which is probably why you chose that, duh xD) Like, whatever you throw at him, he gets up somehow? And he already has these don't-mess-with-me vibes, it seems strange to 'amplify' (?) those with gender. I'm just curious to hear what you think, I really loved your original story. :)

This is a very interesting question and has led to some intense speculation. The nature of story-building is that one can't simply swap these roles and expect the story to play out in any cogent way. If the characters change, so too does the story environment, and so too do the themes that come out of it.

Okay, so let's engage the thought experiment. Let's send Sherlock (both Prime and Alter) to Waterloo Bridge. Let them experience synchronicity and bam, swap universes. Alter Sherlock finds himself in a London in which he's one of two sexes only, a simple male (beta). Prime Sherlock finds himself in a London in which he is one of sixes sexes, a Omega-Y. Okay. So. We've begun.

Next we ask the question: how does each Sherlock need to change? Any protagonist needs to start HERE and end THERE. Any protagonist needs three things: want/need, flaw, and desire. So both Sherlocks desires to return to their own universes (their motivation). That's the obvious. Let's then talk about flaws and their need for change.

We'll begin with Prime Sherlock in the omegaverse. His counterpart, whose life he is now occupying, lives a very comfortable life. He's a well-kept Omega-Y. He's lazy because no demands are made of him, neither intellectually nor professionally nor domestically, really. John, his Alpha, works as a doctor and is gone most of the day while Sherlock whiles away the time watching crap telly and playing video games (multiplayer games with other omegas around the world) and basically existing in a state of arrested development. When John gets home, John does the cooking and the cleaning and the bill paying and the shopping because, on the whole, he feels it's cruel to make demands of an omega. John tries to make conversation but is met mostly with eye rolls and grunted answers. When Sherlock's heats come around, it's a chore for both. This is not a happy relationship. John is frankly depressed and drinks in secret, and Sherlock, feeling unfulfilled and unstimulated daily increases in self-loathing. They're just sort of existing and going through the motions, and both are reaching something of a breaking point that has yet to manifest.

This sort of set-up yields a couple of new realities about the world. Whereas in AFITU certain canonical characters occupied their usual roles (Lestrade, Mycroft) and some had to be introduced later (Stamford, Molly), in this plotline there would be no reason for either Sherlock or John to have any connection to the police, so there's no established history with Greg Lestrade or Molly Hooper. Mycroft is a player, as is Harry. The other details would be unveiled in the unfolding of the story, I suppose.

But when Prime Sherlock shows up, the story has been initiated, and change is set in motion. Sherlock, naturally, is initially horrified by his bodily transformation, and then deeply curious and experimental (because how else would he be?). He has zero interest in telly or his video games, and while John is away begins to set up a laboratory around the flat, and then some mystery would arise and he would put his brilliance to the problem and begin engaging as the detective that he is. He's actually having quite a lot of fun in this new universe (as opposed to what Prime John experienced in the original story), and he sucks John into it, and a relationship begins to repair.

Now, as far as Omega Sherlock goes, finding himself in our Prime Universe is quite jarring and distressing. Aside from discovering a new and unfamiliar body, this John makes demands of him all the time. He expects so much from Sherlock, and far beyond the washing up. His first time trying to solve a case, he tries to rely on some video game or television-show knowledge, and John is confused and thoroughly unimpressed, and it makes Sherlock feel ashamed. But also, he experiences something he hasn't in a long, long while, which is ... he wants to impress John. So he tries harder, and he's beginning to realise he's got a brain, and quite a good one, and with it he can solve puzzles even the police can't solve and ... help people. What a wonder!

These plotlines are just initial note-taking. When I start to write a story, flesh out the characters, develop the world, grander themes begin to emerge, and I don't know what would come of this particular story. Perhaps those themes would make a social commentary of a different sort to the original. But that's for Alter-Engazed to figure out (or is her name darkest_bird?). I hope she has fun!

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triviareads · 3 years

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Ok so this ask is in response to some of the other asks coming in and before I begin I would like to say that this is nothing personal so don't take it that way.

That being said, I do have a bit of constructive criticism to offer to (partially) you and (mostly) your anons. I don't agree with a lot of your takes but that's whatever bcI don't expect everyone to share the same thoughts. But where I do have a problem is when your anon tried to psychoanalyze why women chose the characters they did because there is nothing wrong with relating to a character bc of their insecurities. But just because you relate, it doesn't mean that "most" of the fandom feels like male heroes are their's and shouldn't be messed with. I don't like how it seemed to put everyone in a box that doesn't really fit.

But I think the worst part of it is when your anons and you act like you are the woke part of the fandom and then proceed to put extreme labels on others just bc of their opinions. I don't even like Benophie but it's not fair to call them homophobic just bc they want to see their ship on screen. Benophie stans are a small subset in the fandom and it seems like everyone wants to gender-swap Sophie but keep every other ship. So this, understandably makes them defensive bc even if logic says Ben will not be gay simply bc that will not ensure a HEA and that's what BR is based on. It's not fair, imo, to put this label on them for wanting what every other couple has.

Also, on a smaller note, I really don't think calling Simon boring or not liking Marina makes anyone racist, it's just their opinion. Extreme labels like racist and homophobic being thrown around for having opinions and getting defensive will not get anyone woke points. While I agree racists do exist in the fandom, just bc they do not perceive a character in the same manner it doesn't mean they are racist.

So while this may come across as this hateful rant I just think you and your anons need to think about throwing such generalizations and accusations around bc while your opinions/fics abt gender-swap Sophie, Santhony, and Marina do not hurt, those do. So I hope you see this as an opportunity to maybe reflect and decide to be more careful with your language. I know this will prob get a lot of hate in your blog, but I think someone needs to say that just bc your anons seem like the ones exposing the problematic aspects of the show/fandom, they too can make mistakes and sometimes take things too far.

Firstly, I don't think this message will get a lot of hate in my blog (there certainly isn't any coming from me), because the people who I interact with, overall, are open-minded people who are willing to change. I know I am.

We are... a portion of the woke part of the fandom. I don't act like it. I'm fairly sure I am, at least. There is nothing wrong with it, especially considering all the interviews I've seen of Chris Van Dusen trumpeting how his show deals with racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. Add to that the apparently non-color-blind universe, and a family named "Sharma", that's just inviting the sort of commentary the people on my blog engage in, in my opinion.

I do not think I ever called shippers of Benedict x Sophie homophobic. That is a generalization. What is not a generalization is to say that a few (see, I'm learning as per my previous ask) people seem way too adamant about not gender-swapping any couple (I'd be open to Benedict or Eloise or anyone else- I don't really care either way) because it will "mess with the integrity of the love story". Besides, the "wokeness" that the show is aspiring to achieve will only be enhanced by having a same-sex couple, especially considering Bridgerton has already proved itself to be an unfaithful adaption in other ways.

Regarding Simon, I personally find him as a character boring (RJP did the best he could), and yes, I am aware that does not make me racist.

As for Marina, I think I'm more upset with the writers of Bridgerton that the fandom, because they chose to put a woman of color in the shitty position they did, even as they knew this was a race-conscious world. And to see these notions perpetuated in the fandom has just been... yikes, to say the least.

Honestly, I think people should get more comfortable with realizing that yes, they do have internalized racism and homophobia, and not get all hurt about it. As a woman of South Asian descent, I know I have learnt a lot about the sort of latent racism and homophobia I had internalized as a child, and continue to put in work to undoing what I was taught.

As for "taking things too far", that is what fandom exists for- taking things further than what was provided to us by canon. Ultimately, if you are so disturbed/hurt by what I write, tumblr has created a few lovely ways for you to completely ignore me. I suggest you use them.

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