Grey Bard

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In the wildest but most welcome way, Takarazuka just announced today the realease in VOD of their Castlevania adaptation on BeyondLive with subtitles in several languages, starting today !! (More specifically, their Symphony of the Night adaptation with a few references to other parts of the game lore) Considering the first and last time Takarazuka put a show on BeyondLive for international audience was 2 years ago for their James Bond show this is like,,,, insane (positive). There's also no way of knowing how recurring that thing will be so please, if you've ever been a fan or just curious about Takarazuka and/or Castlevania, give this a try, it's so damn worth it 🙏 To go straight into purchasing it, it's right here. Here are some details about the show and cast fans compiled on the Takarazuka fandom wiki. And if you want an idea of what the show looks like, here's lead playing Alucard and current Top Star of the Flower Troupe talking about it with english subs ❤️ Happy viewing and Happy Christmas ig ??

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Seriously, go watch! The subtitles are good, the costumes are amazing and the price can't be beat! I hope they do more.

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Impromptu Takarazuka Stream - Action!, Star Troupe, 1995

I will be streaming ‘Action!’ by popular request at 3:00 pm EST on Wednesday 10/22. This stream will not provide subtitles, and is ripped from my VHS collection.

'Action!' (1995) - the anthology show, not the revue this time - stars Saki Asaji in a show with everything but Yul Brenner robots, bodyswap, death rockers, tap dance and Michael Jackson songs.

Stream will open ten minutes before start time. I will also follow the show with taking requests of what revue or item(s) from my library to stream immediately after it as an encore.

The link is https://cytu.be/r/Flashback_Project ! Come on down!

(No, you don't need to know me, or Takarazuka fandom, just show up and pull up a chair. Feel free to reblog.)

If you miss the stream and want me to restream it - or any of my other shows - please let me know, I am happy to make something happen.

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Seal of Roses (Shibuki Jun, Tsuki) Takarazuka stream (Short notice, Sunday 9/21)

I will be streaming Seal of Roses on Sunday, 9/21 at 5 pm EDT (New York time zone). This stream will not provide subtitles, and is ripped from my VHS collection.

Seal of Roses stars Shibuki Jun as a heroic dancing vampire, Emi Kurara as various women who loved said vampire, and is written and directed by the inimitable Koike Shuuichirou. Expect chivalry, Versailles, fighting Nazis, and... a vampire-themed music festival?!?

Stream will open ten minutes before start time. I will also follow the show with taking requests of what revue or item(s) from my library to stream immediately after it as an encore.

The link is https://cytu.be/r/Flashback_Project ! Come on down!

(No, you don't need to know me, or Takarazuka fandom, just show up and pull up a chair. Feel free to reblog.)

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Takarazuka Flashback stream requests open!

I’m Grey Bard, I have a collection of Takarazuka vhs and have digitized some of them. For various reasons… I’m getting back into Takarazuka again, and if you don’t know me, hi!

I’m planning to stream some of my collection of older shows I call my Takarazuka Flashback Project, and I’m taking requests! Please feel free to reblog.

List of shows below the cut. Comment or PM to let me know what you’re interested in. No, I don’t need to already know you.

Flashback Shows and Revues available to stream:

Flashback Shows:

Luna, Tsuki (A moon god, a mad scientist and a rock star all figure into the plot.)

Cesare Borgia, Tsuki (Stabby, vaguely incesty, Rennaisance Italy)

Tango Argentina, Hana (There is tango, in Argentina)

Prisoner of Zenda, Tsuki (Identical cousins, court intrigue, 1800’s)

Action!, Hoshi (Fantasy crack show at Christmas. Robots and body-swap)

Singin' in the Rain, Hoshi 2003 (Yamato Yuuga as Cosmo)

Calaf and Turandot, Sora (Wao and Hanafusa Mari)

Great Pirates, Tsuki 2001 (Shibuki Jun as a revenge stabby pirate)

Black Rose of the Desert

Seal of Roses (Shibuki Jun as a heroic vampire through history)

Flashback Revues and specials:

Blue Moon Blue, Tsuki (It is moon themed, Shibuki Jun is a literal snake?)

Prestige, Tsuki (Mix of legit and crack)

Revue ‘99, Hana (Extra long revue with some classic Takarazuka songs)

Jazzmania, Tsuki 2000 (High quality jazz-themed revue with Makoto Tsubasa)

Jazzmania, Tsuki 2001 (High quality jazz-themed revue with Shibuki Jun)

Action’s revue, Hoshi (American pop themed. Extensive Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson sequence)

The Showstopper, Sora (Typical Wao and Hana crack revue)

La Chanson

King of Revue (TCA 2000)

Passion Blue

Note: I do not have subtitles, though there may be some out there you can download and read as a text file as we go.

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5/19 Japan Day Takarazuka meetup

Hey, it’s been awhile! The weather is finally nice again, who wants to meet up for Japan Day in Central Park? May 19, 12 pm

There will be music, dancing, vendors and a gorgeous park. And it’s free! Who wants to come? We can enjoy the festivities and talk Takarazuka!

Details here: http://www.japandaynyc.org/

If you think you might want to come, please let me know here on tumblr by commenting or messaging me (likes are cool but don’t tell me you’re coming) or at my email fitzrose at msn.com. (Btw, on Facebook this I posted using a friend’s account with her permission.)

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CANCELLED due to lack of interest

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5/19 Japan Day Takarazuka meetup

Hey, it’s been awhile! The weather is finally nice again, who wants to meet up for Japan Day in Central Park? May 19, 12 pm

There will be music, dancing, vendors and a gorgeous park. And it’s free! Who wants to come? We can enjoy the festivities and talk Takarazuka!

Details here: http://www.japandaynyc.org/

If you think you might want to come, please let me know here on tumblr by commenting or messaging me (likes are cool but don't tell me you're coming) or at my email fitzrose at msn.com. (Btw, on Facebook this I posted using a friend's account with her permission.)

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Heads up, if I defriend you and you changed your tumblr name recently... it isn’t personal. I just have no idea who you are!

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Tsukigumi Retirements - 6/9

The following four actresses will retire with Tsukigumi’s Unmatched In Dreams and Reality at the Tokyo Takarazuka Theatre on June 9th 2019:

Miya Rurika

Hibiki Reona

Remi Kurea

Otokaze Seiya

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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Dammit, and (okay this is selfish of me) before I got to Japan this fall too!

I’m going to miss her!

I’m so glad she made nibante, and I vastly enjoyed this time of hers on the stage, even though I’m sad that it’s coming to an end soon. But I do wish I had gotten to see her live. I really hope she keeps acting! I feel like her special something translates well to the right kind of female roles too. (Dear Japanese tv, do you need a morally ambiguous femme fatale woobie? Hire her!)

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Call to Action (again)

We got Tumblr’s attention with our past peaceful protest campaigns

Protect the Creators

Bring Back Reply

Protest against hate speech

Bring Back Arch Atlas

Maybe it is time we use our beloved Tumblr to protest this sexist policy that marks female nipples as porn. Tumblr is being extreme in what its decision and policies, and is using a useless algorithm that sees Rothko paintings (see @dailyrothko) and flowers and all kinds of non-porn images as porn.

So, on Monday, 12-17-18, we should not post anything on Tumblr, except the above photo, which is available here. NOTE: You can also add these to your avatar to let anyone who visits your site know about this.

As this post suggests, if we have a queue with images, we should add this one to 12-17-18. As part of our protest, we should not do anything on Tumblr for the whole day: no dashboard, no posts, no comments, chat, replies. We should also, as recommended by @jtmportland, we should also completely log out to show a physical drop in traffic/use.

Nothing on Tumblr, all day, M, 12-17-18. Even log out completely for the day so there is a drop in traffic/use.

Also, please think about putting @staff & @support​ on any and all reblogs of this and any on any posts about this, since this will send them a direct notification of each and every post about this. We need to flood their dashboards so they see we are upset.

Also, please use the staff and support tags.

Again, here is the link to the above sign: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CWHndyT6EUu1ZKzS_CCUZ4yEJlS6vhcI

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@staff @support

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ARCHatlas supports this!

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From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

- archive everything on your blog you want to keep

- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.

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I’m still on grey-bard.dreamwidth.org, though I’ve never been a super frequent updater (but hey, with more people there, that could change) and I’m grey-bard on AO3. Yes you may save anything of mine to your computer.

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Free massive 70's fashion primary source! Butterick August 1971 pattern catalog. This thing is hundreds of pages of vintage fashion illustration and is basically a coffee table book that weighs about three pounds. It is amazing. If you are interested in vintage fashion, costuming, or illustration, you're gojng to want this Free to good home, and no, I don't need to know you. (In NYC area free for pick up, or shipped media mail at cost of shipping.) Message or Ask me, first come, first served.

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REBLOG if you are old enough to remember what a VCR is.

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I’m so old I’ve forgotten what a VCR is but i have two of them hooked to the TVs and use them as blinking clocks. They’re right twice a day.

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I’m so old that I remember not having VCRs. I remember them being so expensive that people rented them from video stores.

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I………still use VCRs.

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I remember renting a VCR from a video rental store. Oh god. I’m old.

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Dude, I had STARMAN saved to Betamax tapes that I held onto for 30 years.

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Oh my friends, I still have one. Those tapes aren’t going to convert themselves!

That reminds me, I have a TCA video tape of Me and My Girl to rip....

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Takarazuka Stream: Singin in the Rain 2018 / Grandes Belles Folies 1997

Impromptu stream on my Flashback Project Cytube - tomorrow, Sunday 11/11/2018, 12 pm EST I’m going to be airing a stream of the 2018 Tsukigumi production of Singin in the Rain, followed by a stream of the revue Grandes Belles Folies from 1997′s Tsukigumi with Kuze Seika. (Click the words Flashback Project Cytube)

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shit, guys, you can practice a religion and not love everything about it.

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Finally a version of this post I can reblog. No religion in this world can or should function like that, either.

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Bonus: 

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I. I cannot disagree.

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Impromptu Company / Revue stream

Tonight in about two hours at 8:30 pm EST I will be streaming Company as well as the revue (or revue clips) of the audience’s choice. I’ll be streaming at my Rabb.it room (user name grey-bard on rabb . it) It will be followed by the revue or revue clips of the audience’s choice.

Company is a 2018 Takarazuka production starring the current Moon Troupe (Tamaki Ryou, Manaki Reika and Miya Rurika as leads) about an idealistic salaryman being put in charge of a financially challenged ballet company, and featuring boybands, man on man otokuyaku on otokuyaku Swan Lake, and a ballet dancer with a day job at a convenience store.

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Anyone up for impromptu stream?

I’m considering running a stream at about 8pm EST tonight or tomorrow, probably a combo of an older revue and either Company or Grand Hotel. Is anyone interested? And if so, would you prefer Company or Grand Hotel?

If you’re interested, hit like or message me or comment or email me at fitzrose at msn dot com