Mel

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[pyrotechnicarus]

An Informative Pinned Post

Hey! I'm Mel, a playwright, musical theater writer, and researcher. My pronouns are they/them. This is my personal blog, and all opinions expressed here are solely my own.

Please read my FAQs before asking me questions!

Tag System

I try to tag fandoms so my blog doesn't become unfollowable if you don't like same the things I do, LOL. Right now I post mostly things related to Homestuck (#homestuck), The Terror (#the terror), and Dungeon Meshi (#dunmeshi). I do my best to tag common triggers with #tw [trigger] (e.g. #tw gore).

Some tags you might encounter here:

#it's all real life : My IRL posting tag. Things about my life. (reference to this post)

#for elliot : Posts I'm saving for my fiancé, Elliot! He can be found at @elliotly

#the new thing : Posts related to my next project, whatever that may be. Sort of sedimentary (e.g. there are multiple projects that were at one point tagged as 'the new thing' on this blog).

I also tag stuff related to musicals I've written: #en abime, #adamandi, #ghost story and #ghost story musical, #taopp (for The Art of Pleasing Princes) and #2aopp (for its revision), etc.

🎭 Melliot 🎭 (Musical Theater)

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Melliot is the artist name that Elliot and I use to write and release queer speculative musicals together! If you have questions about a Melliot show or ARG, head over to @melliotwrites to ask it.

Recent Melliot musicals: En Abime, Adamandi, Ghost Story, The Art of Pleasing Princes

Find out more (incl. merch!) at www.melliotwrites.com

In conclusion:

[transguyarchive]

Issues #1-15 of Lou Sullivan's FTM newsletter now available on the Trans Guy Archive

FTM was a quarterly newsletter started by activist and author Lou Sullivan in 1987. Sullivan, who had founded the organization FTM International, hoped to promote an understanding of transmasculine people and wanted to provide services and community to their lives. The FTM newsletter contained everything, like articles on topical FTM issues, local events, advertisements selling the latest stand-to-pee protheses, and a "classifieds" section for those looking for social connection.

There are 67 (hah) issues to be digitized, so I've got my work cut out for me.

Read them all by going to the Quick Links section of the Trans Guy Archive.

[targetedknowledge]

[waepenwifestre]

mike’s hard past couple of months

[encryptidarchivist]

count dracula? uhhh ok. one

[cool-jpgs-of-wizards-with-swords]

🧛 nathing vrong vith me

[anatheyma]

#dailyaffirmations

[sheisraging]

OH GOD?

[gardengnosticator]

friendship addicts will be like “i just need one more hit of your infectious laughter and zest for life”

[identitty-dickruption]

I get to be more free as an adult than I ever did as a child and I think more kids need to know that. as a high schooler part of what made my depression so bad was being told over and over again that it was the most carefree time of my life. while I was trapped in an abusive home + amongst bullies at school + in a body that wasn’t right for me. opportunities to be carefree don’t end when you turn 18. you can be more you than ever as an adult and that’s such a gift. I know ‘it can get better’ is an annoying thing to see over and over when you’re as trapped as I was back then. and I know that if you’re still a kid you deserve to be free right this second. but it can and will get better and this is not where life stops being interesting. promise

[oflline]

[pyrotechnicarus]

one thing about working on Someone Like Me is I hope it gets popular enough that it makes a whole generation of gay teenagers talk like Lou Sullivan. If they don't start saying "I coulda shit" and "weird-os" and "big fucking whoop" and "Oh brother-" and "real easy" I'll have failed them

[ellewantsrevenge]

aadam jacobs's archive

[charmwasjess]

Having someone ask ChatGPT in a meeting is like being a grown-ass professional adult in a room full of other grown-ass professional adults trying to solve a problem, while a colleague with one of those baby toys that makes animal sounds repeatedly presses the cow button. And we all have to stop what we're doing and listen to cow go moo and say "wow hm yeah that's not really what we're asking but the cow does definitely go moo, good thoughts"

[yohjimuse]

[reptilerex]

Striptease 10 hour remix

[teaboot]

biblically accurate shirt

[thelaurenshippen]

it's always "did you really need to burn down your workplace to prove a point" and never "how was the revenge arson? did you have fun doing revenge arson? were the flames pretty?"

[graffitinight]

When you try to talk about enshittification, it sounds like conspiracy theories. (I'm not crazy)

Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.

Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)

I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)

YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)

The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)

The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)

The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)

It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)

Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???

To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)

So I talk about enshittification (it sounds crazy), so people don't forget that things have been made worse on purpose (it's true), even though I sound crazy. (maybe I am)

[addisonarvad]