blue skies and bright sunshine

Lute ✨ G&S + GWOS fan ✨ profile picture by la_flaneuse on Discord ✨ my fansite: melancholy-lute.neocities.org

[melancholy-lute]

Sing hearts and diamonds, spades and clubs!

♥️hearts

♦️diamonds

♠️spades

♣️clubs

Remaining time: 4 days 19 hours

[animate-mush]

🪦🖤🖤Ruddigore🖤🖤🪦

[respectablecapers]

miminy piminy

[fuckyeahgilbertandsullivan]

Francesca di Rimini?

[wizardysseus]

bears repeating:

🐻🐻‍❄🧸🐻🐻‍❄🧸🐻🐻‍❄🧸🐻🐻‍❄🧸🐻🐻‍❄🧸🐻🐻‍❄🧸

[melancholy-lute]

Thank you for the tag, @pegasusdrawnchariots!

"Tag nine people you want to get to know more"

Currently reading: nothing, and trying to decide what to read next...

Recently finished reading: play scripts for something I'll be doing IRL!

Last song: "the cure" by Olivia Rodrigo

Last film: Project Hail Mary 🪨🎶

Last series: The Adventures of Serena Berg (in progress)

Sweet/savory/salty:🍫

Tea/coffee: both are good!

Working on: improving my musical skills 🎼

Tagging: @bad-at-names-and-faces @whatameshugenah @basingstokemercury @animate-mush @baencentral @greencheekconure27 @mrpinniped @malleusmaleficent @reine-du-sourire

[basingstokemercury]

Watching Grand Duke may have been a mistake my response to any minor inconvenience (and most of the other operas' conflicts) is "statutory duel!"

[narcissistcookbook]

"i've got no qualms about it" meanwhile i'm over here making qualm chowder

[ninadove]

De toi, je me souviens de tout, j’ai tout aimé :

Je sais que l’an dernier, un jour, le douze mai,

Pour sortir le matin tu changeas de coiffure !

J’ai tellement pris pour clarté ta chevelure

Que, comme lorsqu’on a trop fixé le soleil,

On voit sur toute chose ensuite un rond vermeil,

Sur tout, quand j’ai quitté les feux dont tu m’inondes,

Mon regard ébloui pose des taches blondes !

— Cyrano de Bergerac (Acte III, scène 7) d’Edmond Rostand

[bees-and-mice-and-frogs-and]

We could all do with a bit more TANTANTARA in our lives.

[mutationgirl]

I am the very model of a frightened shaking animal

[basingstokemercury]

GUYS GUYS GUYS

CUT IOLANTHE MUSIC FULL ORCHESTRATIONS NOT A DRILL

Three Deleted Songs from Iolanthe

On a recent research trip to London, I found three deleted songs from Iolanthe, hiding in plain sight in the British Library.

[reine-du-sourire]

What do you call a sarcastic loaf?

Wry bread!

[hipstertheatrepictures]

[respectablecapers]

to say she is his mother is an utter bit of folly

(oh, fie! our strephon's not a rogue!)

perhaps his brain is addled and it's very melancholy

(taradiddle, taradiddle, tol-lol-lay!)

i wouldn't say a word that could be reckoned as injurious,

but to find a mother younger than her son is very curious

and that's a kind of mother that is usually spurious

(taradiddle, taradiddle, tol-lol-lay!)

[melancholy-lute]

Life is love in merry May!

[shimyereh]

The last time I was in Patience, it was scifi fandoms instead of Aestheticism. I’m remembering an alternate version of Angela’s line from the Act I finale (when Grosvenor entered, dressed as the Eleventh Doctor):

But who is this, whose godlike grace Proclaims he comes from outer space?

I don’t think it was actually sung that way in performance, just rehearsal silliness.

[respectablecapers]

for him, for her, for thee,

i yield my life!

behold! it may not be —

i am thy wife!

(aiaiah! aiaiah! willahalla, willaloo!)