Hey, it's Ellie!
A little bit about me and this blog:
I'm the author of this dodie jukebox musical, which is based around the album Build a Problem. It follows the stories of separating best friends Emma Gardner and Celeste Anders as they learn to deal with interpersonal conflict. Check out my faux-Wikipedia summary of it here!
My main blog is at @chaotic-theatrical-weaver.
Rules:
Keep your language kind, civil, and appropriate. No cursing.
No NSFW asks.
While we're at it, no shipping asks between Emma and Celeste or any of the BAP Periphery Girls (including Rose and Phoebe).
Note: Asks about pairings canon to any timeline are allowed. Diverging Pairings: - Celeste/Thomas - Celeste/Theo - Miranda/Theo from “A Different Path, A Different Day” (ship name Miradore) Roleswap Pairings: - Emma/Theo - I'm loath to call this a pairing when he was forceful towards her once, but if you ask about the Emma/Thomas dynamic in this timeline, I will reply. - Miranda/William (ship name Mirawill)
Please send me a respectful DM if I have reblogged a personal post as a character or used it in the BAP Tumblr sim against your wishes! While I try to be mindful of avoiding this, mistakes happen, and I promise I do not mean to be insensitive or trivializing. I will calmly take down the offending post as soon as I am aware, and if you have any special ways of denoting personal posts that you would rather not see reblogged as characters, let me know of that as well. Your feelings always take precedence over my writing.
Main Navigation Features:
#the authors look down: meta tag for my point of view regarding the characters as a writer, or regarding writing in general. Block this tag to make me disappear.
#build a problem musical: original posts on this musical, lyrics from the album, feelings in the scenes leading up to songs in the musical, or anything related to the plotting or writing of this musical. Mostly original posts. Block this tag to make me disappear.
#pov: [character name]: posts I deem spoken by the character tagged. Currently established for Emma Gardner, Celeste Anders (Lucienne Ash in longer iterations of the Starless Sky timeline), Thomas Hargrove, Theo Gray, James Gardner, Elaine Gardner, William Gray, Delia Anders, Laura Anders, Rose Peresada, Phoebe Sadler, Maggie Gray, and Jeremy Gray. Miranda Hayes and Rachel Clark, characters who appear only in "A Different Path, A Different Day," have also received their own POV tags.
#[character name]: accompanies #pov: [character name] but can also stand on its own (most notably if the post is about that character, but not by that character or if it's about that character in relation to the tagged POV character). Currently established for all characters with POV tags as well as Josh Anders, Delia Anders, Laura Anders, the BAP Periphery Girls (collective name for Rose’s and Phoebe’s friends Kaitlyn, Alice, and Lucy), the Anders parents, the unnamed Ensemble Cellist, the unnamed Ensemble Pianist, and Jordan (the Ensemble Flutist). There are also tags for Alice Hayes and the Hayes parents, featured only in "A Different Path, A Different Day."
#[character name] aesthetic: aesthetics for the characters tagged. Currently established for Emma Gardner, Celeste Anders (Lucienne Ash in longer iterations of the Starless Sky timeline), Thomas Hargrove, Theo Gray, William Gray, Elaine Gardner, James Gardner, Phoebe Sadler, Rose Peresada, Delia Anders, Laura Anders, the BAP Periphery Girls, Maggie Gray, and Jeremy Gray. Miranda Hayes from “A Different Path, A Different Day” has her own aesthetic tag as well. #bap musical aesthetic encapsulates aesthetics for the show as a whole, often as the more darkly humorous counterpart to the serious #theme. #bap musical aesthetic may be used in conjunction with #theme as well for more sincere, tender aesthetics.
#[character last name] household: aesthetics for the homes of a character’s family. Currently established for the Gardners, the Anderses, and the Grays (including the Gray-Hayes/Miradore household).
#bap tumblr sim: my Tumblrite characters' post reblogs!
#a different path a different day: posts about my story of the same name that takes place in the BAP universe 7-8 years after the main canon. This post details more.
#oc hours: in which people lampshade stuff about writing OCs, or in which I answer questions from OC question blogs. Can be accompanied by #the authors look down in the first sense if the post is specifically a lampshade for OC creation; always accompanied by #the authors look down in the second.
#asks: ask games and answers to asks
#theme: posts that capture the themes of BAP; sometimes used in conjunction with #[character name], but may not be if too serious or too general for any one character
#salt and light: in which the Christianity of the author works its way through the story
#problem-builders: posts about the hypothetical BAP fandom, be it my own behavior as part of it or my commentating on it
#not dodie + #ellie's influences: non-dodie songs, poems, or web weaves (standalone quotes or normal textposts not included). #ellie’s influences may also be used in a meta sense to refer to how Ellie interacts with or feels about her influences.
#writing reference: practical influences on writing, as opposed to the stylistic, emotional ones of #ellie's influences
#christian oc tournament: my promotion of my characters in the Christian OC Tournament!
Timeline Directory:
#bap main timeline is the main universe; all posts tagged as such reference multiple timelines but pertain to the main one. All posts with no timeline-specifying tags such as this one also relate to the main one by default.
#starless sky au is a canon-divergent timeline in which Emma dies after Act 2, Scene 7 after being met with Elaine’s continued attempts at positivity and stability at all costs.
#boolean emma au is a less-realism-grounded AU of the Starless Sky timeline where Emma is a ghost attempting to fight her possession by the version of her constructed by Celeste and Thomas. I'm also tagging this #eyes closed endless her because I am now turning this into a text-based psychological horror game.
#stars restitched au is another canon-divergent timeline and an offshoot of the Starless Sky AU in which Emma survives but is left with a disabling brain injury that she must now learn to manage.
#bap roleswap au reverses the characters' positions while keeping their personalities.
#two-theo timeline features main timeline Theo meeting his roleswap counterpart and experiencing a recovery arc. Tagged only in conjunction with the roleswap, not the main.
