WHY APOLLO, BOYS?

doesn't it make you curious? doesn't it make you smile?

[soundbodys]

HELLO! you can call me HATTER! :)

here's a little adamandi / taopp sideblog! my main's harejaw! if you receive likes/replies from there, it's me!!

i'm 23, i use he pronouns. if you go to my main, you'll notice i use many different names! you can call me anything you see on my info over there too!

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doesn't it make you curious? doesn't it make you smile?

[melliotwrites]

Our musical, The Art of Pleasing Princes, premieres Monday 4/13 at 6pm ET!

In a glittering royal palace at the center of a cataclysmic drought, five queer misfits band together to kill the king and save the world. Betrayal, infighting, and paranoia make forming community harder - and more necessary - than ever before.

The Art of Pleasing Princes is a new musical by Mel Hornyak and Elliot Valentine (Melliot) with a medieval fantasy setting and a rock and electro pop score. This workshop production was produced and presented by the Phoenix Players at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY on 4/3/26 and 4/4/26. Come watch the premiere on Youtube on Monday 4/13 at 6pm ET!

[soundbodys]

SAVE ME, 2AOPP. SAVE ME

[soundbodys]

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK PEOPLE

[soundbodys]

SAVE ME, 2AOPP. SAVE ME

[melliotwrites]

A new version of “Blood Oath” from our musical, The Art of Pleasing Princes, is now available to stream!

When King Astor passes over his son for the throne, the queer underbelly of the royal palace is endangered. Five unlikely compatriots plot to kill the king, while betrayal, infighting, and self-doubt make forming community harder - and more necessary - than ever.

[soundbodys]

that wasting time the way i please can hide the sword of damocles..?

okay truly i've been sitting on this piece since.... oct. 2023 and forgot to post it! have a little meal for rowan nation

[soundbodys]

how do i stop bringing vincent lin up in therapy. please. i cant keep talking about vincent in fucking therapy

[soundbodys]

this segment made me genuinely physically nauseous in every good way possible. unrelated but my review of ghost story is i want to scream and cry. i smiled and listened and felt an ache in my chest that i can't seem to shake. i love it. i think it's incredible and i cannot wait to see what direction it might take in the future. personal and more in depth under the cut, because it's late and i haven't written an essay in a while, and certainly not on this blog in ages. hope this is coherent. i'm not tagging this in the main tags

i feel seen and hurt (positively) and pulled in the ways i didn't realize truly affected me in such deep ways. there are intricacies and nuances of being in interracial relationships as an asian person and i believe that this is such a visceral way to portray and explore it. i love it. i don't know. it's an exploration of a feeling that you just want to step around or not cause a problem with and it just backfires in your face at any time.

and another thing is, it has this other aspect in which joey inserts himself into józef's life forcibly, into his shoes to pretend he understands and pretend he knows the history. he doesn't. he can't. there is such a drive nowadays to insert yourself into relevant history; and while that can be done tactfully with the right amount of displacement from the narrative, it can also be done with less than grace and more disrespect. joey is not józef. joey has nothing to do with józef, not as he lived. but he places himself there in a desperate attempt to connect further than he really truly can. i thought that was so interesting.

anthony doesn't deserve to have his race unacknowledged, but he also doesn't deserve to have his race carry the wrong sort of race in their relationship. part of it is just the "we won't talk about it" aspect. something funny with it. i've experienced it. there's this feeling of "well? my culture is a large aspect of who i am, but i don't want it to be the only part of me you have or like. i don't want you to find it a hassle. i don't want you to bore of it." i think that the fact that he and joey sing an entire song about feeling like the bottom of the barrel is very telling. getting into a relationship almost solely because of how much you both hate yourself for something neither can control is no way to carry on. i'm going to pretend this has never applied to me.

overall, ghost story is an excellent piece in my opinion. i loved it. i think there is a lot to think about and a lot to talk about. these are my very raw thoughts straight out of the gun here. i just finished watching it about an hour and a half ago? anyway. it's a beautiful piece of work. i've been following the development and i'm very pleased with the progress it's made. i would love to see more of this piece in the future. i can't wait for the development it might have.

[linglongs]

ain't no grave - bethel music / in your love - tyler childers / lady may - maggie antone / the house that built me - miranda lambert / ghost - josiah and the bonnevilles / deeper than the holler - randy travis / people - gabe lee / annie's song - john denver / drink the river - gabe lee / cover me up - jason isbell / a house in nebraska - ethel cain / canary - joy williams

listen here!

[pyrotechnicarus]

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Ghost Story Pinterest + This Playlist

Image Credits:

La Casa Sulla Collina | Gio Mondelli

Untitled (Burning House) | Tito Merello Vilar

Untitled (Fire Face)| Amir Adel

Untitled (Mirror Face) | Simon Kerola/Johnny Keethon

Deimos | Dragan Bibin

Other photos taken by me (Mel Hornyak)

[soundbodys]

WAIT IM SIIIIICK I'M WATCHING GHOST STORY FINALLY AND. MY GOD

[soundbodys]

rowan astor can you hear me.... i miss you......

[eliolikesapricots]

San Sebastián by Aurelio Cabrera y Gallardo (1870-1936).

Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

[memories]

The day I started posting about #vincent aurelius lin was the best day of my life.

[grox]

Lol babe you look cold as fuck. Hell no you can't wear my letterman I just got this. I earned it.

[zabreus]

transfem version → 🏛

[soundbodys]

i cut my hair and i don't look like vincent lin anymore. i look like if vincent was shorn like a sheep

[averlym]

"We are pleased to inform you that you have been awarded the Phaethon Prize...."