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I had this idea that I've been obsessing over that I have not had any idea at all how to write out, but the fun writing event I've been doing for the last several weeks has a challenge to write a fic in the style of a recipe/recipe blog, so I decided to take a crack at that.
Theatre AU, gen, familial/parental royality, Hairspray!
Patton shares the steps to get his dad to play the best role ever.
word count: 604
AO3
Hey friends! I’ve had a few ask me how I managed to make last week’s big surprise, so I thought I’d write it all out!
I had the idea a few weeks ago based on some things I know about my dad. I’ve talked before about how I’ve been doing community theatre in the same theatre where my dad grew up, and how he’d performed the lead in just about every show they’d done. In one of those, when he was my age, he played Link in Hairspray! And then when the theatre brought Hairspray! back around again, he was cast as Corny Collins! (He was a little too old by then to play the teen heartthrob lol)
Well he hasn’t had time to be in the last couple shows, with work and stuff, but I’ve still been there! So when they finally brought Hairspray! around again, I knew I had to get him to be in it with me!
So here’s how I made it happen!
Ingredients:
One neighborhood theatre
One stage-loving dad
(Dad traits that will help but aren’t technically crucial)
Confident
Loves to dance
Great singer
One son he’s never been able to say no to (lol, he can’t even deny it)
A super sweet theatre director who’s known both their whole lives
Three productions of Hairspray! across about twenty years
A surprisingly well-made costume
Lots of sequins
Very large high heels
Spectacular wig
Instructions:
Go to the theatre director when the show is announced and ask if they have anyone in mind for the role you want your dad to play. (She’ll probably know exactly what you’re up to just based on the look in your eye - she’s apparently seen it a thousand times on both you and your dad.)
Get the green light for that.
Start working on just the right plan for how to get your dad interested - this will probably involve reminding him he’s been in every performance of Hairspray! by this theatre, that it would be a great memory to do a show together when you’re playing the same role he did, and that he’d do such a great job. (If it really seems to not be going your way, call Grandma)
Get lucky and find some size 14 kitten heels in a thrift store - if not already, these will need to be painted red.
Encourage him all the way up to audition. (He might be a little hesitant since he hasn’t performed in a little while)
Wait until the final cast list is posted, then continue to encourage him and assure him he definitely will get the role, and promise to help him with rehearsals and makeup.
Celebrate that you both got the roles you auditioned for!
Start rehearsals - probably encourage him a bit more, going from “leading man” to this is going to be a bit of a jump for him, but remind him he’s going to do great!
Have an amazing show!
Remind him when he tells you that you did a great job and that he’s proud of you that he did too! And you’re proud of him too! This is very important!
(Bonus step: Get a picture of him as Link to put next to a picture of you as Link in a frame.)
(Bonus Bonus step: Get Grandma to give you pictures of him from the first two performances to put in a frame with a picture of him from this show. ((Be prepared that this one might go to Grandma’s house.)) )
Anyway, that’s how I got my dad to play Edna Turnblad!
I had this idea that I've been obsessing over that I have not had any idea at all how to write out, but the fun writing event I've been doing for the last several weeks has a challenge to write a fic in the style of a recipe/recipe blog, so I decided to take a crack at that.
Theatre AU, gen, familial/parental royality, Hairspray!
Patton shares the steps to get his dad to play the best role ever.
word count: 604
AO3
Hey friends! I’ve had a few ask me how I managed to make last week’s big surprise, so I thought I’d write it all out!
I had the idea a few weeks ago based on some things I know about my dad. I’ve talked before about how I’ve been doing community theatre in the same theatre where my dad grew up, and how he’d performed the lead in just about every show they’d done. In one of those, when he was my age, he played Link in Hairspray! And then when the theatre brought Hairspray! back around again, he was cast as Corny Collins! (He was a little too old by then to play the teen heartthrob lol)
Well he hasn’t had time to be in the last couple shows, with work and stuff, but I’ve still been there! So when they finally brought Hairspray! around again, I knew I had to get him to be in it with me!
So here’s how I made it happen!
Ingredients:
One neighborhood theatre
One stage-loving dad
(Dad traits that will help but aren’t technically crucial)
Confident
Loves to dance
Great singer
One son he’s never been able to say no to (lol, he can’t even deny it)
A super sweet theatre director who’s known both their whole lives
Three productions of Hairspray! across about twenty years
A surprisingly well-made costume
Lots of sequins
Very large high heels
Spectacular wig
Instructions:
Go to the theatre director when the show is announced and ask if they have anyone in mind for the role you want your dad to play. (She’ll probably know exactly what you’re up to just based on the look in your eye - she’s apparently seen it a thousand times on both you and your dad.)
Get the green light for that.
Start working on just the right plan for how to get your dad interested - this will probably involve reminding him he’s been in every performance of Hairspray! by this theatre, that it would be a great memory to do a show together when you’re playing the same role he did, and that he’d do such a great job. (If it really seems to not be going your way, call Grandma)
Get lucky and find some size 14 kitten heels in a thrift store - if not already, these will need to be painted red.
Encourage him all the way up to audition. (He might be a little hesitant since he hasn’t performed in a little while)
Wait until the final cast list is posted, then continue to encourage him and assure him he definitely will get the role, and promise to help him with rehearsals and makeup.
Celebrate that you both got the roles you auditioned for!
Start rehearsals - probably encourage him a bit more, going from “leading man” to this is going to be a bit of a jump for him, but remind him he’s going to do great!
Have an amazing show!
Remind him when he tells you that you did a great job and that he’s proud of you that he did too! And you’re proud of him too! This is very important!
(Bonus step: Get a picture of him as Link to put next to a picture of you as Link in a frame.)
(Bonus Bonus step: Get Grandma to give you pictures of him from the first two performances to put in a frame with a picture of him from this show. ((Be prepared that this one might go to Grandma’s house.)) )
Anyway, that’s how I got my dad to play Edna Turnblad!
Sapphic Dynamic where the popular queen bee type is hopelessly in love with the weirdo girl that runs Anime Club. She's so down on herself, writing in her diary "Erin is so cool. She can beat Super Mario Brothers in under five minutes, she learned Japanese to read imported manga, and she runs an Anime Club even though nobody shows up. She's committed to that club longer than I've committed to a hair style. I just know about clothes and makeup, she'd be so bored by me. Oh what would I do for her attention?"
Her cheerleader friends are supportive, like "Are you kidding, girl? You played Sonic on your iPhone once! She's not out of your league!" but she still doubts if she'd be enough to keep up with Erin's zest for life.
"I went to Paris over Summer break, like some normie loser. Erin spent the entire Summer decompiling an abandonware point-and-click Nancy Drew game so she could port it to her Android phone. It's hopeless, she'd get bored of me in a week!"
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red can mean whatever the heck you want it to mean, that is never going to change that this straight up looks like they DRAGGED A BLOODY BODY ACROSS THE FUCKING FLOOR 😂
Hi fun fact, colors do have meaning and there is a legit thing called color theory. Red does has more positive connotations than negative like the @mintymaiden said. Red is associated with more love, lust, passion than blood and death just like the chart shows you but If you want, here’s a link for you to check it out yourself. Also, check out “The Designer’s Dictionary of Color” by Sean Adams. Have fun learning something
Xoxo
-Designer
What isColor Theory? Color theory is a term used to describe the collection of rules and guidelines regarding the use of color in art and de
I like that the presumption here is that “No One On Tumblr Has Heard of Color Theory, Let Me Explain in Depth” rather than simply acknowledging that the VISUAL EFFECTS of this particular color choice, applied in the manner it was, can still amount to “this is a hospital and that looks like blood”
like, color theory doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If your design of choice for Blood Red Paint is asymmetric splatters and sploches against the wall, or in this case, a snail trail on the hallway’s floor, an infographic won’t override the viewers’ instinct.
Not all venom fans are monster fuckers 😞 some of us are just aroace disasters who like the idea of a platonic soulmate who likes to murder annoying people for you, is that so bad?
A three-circle venn-diagram where the circles are "sex workers", "the furry community", and "people working in morgues". I don't know what the overlap parts are.
"The value of the physical form and what is done with it / how it is presented may be either sacred or immaterial depending on the beliefs of the first party, but no matter the case, the first party should have the choice to alter, modify, and impliment whatever physical aspects desired or required for the desired outcome to be achieved regardless of the anesthetic or philosophical preferences of those unaffected", but also "Everybody else thinks they know exactly what your job is and has an opinion on it despite zero first hand experience"
Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.
If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.
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