so here's what you missed on campusloser … save the judgy looks, because we already know what you're thinking. show choir? in the year 2026? i thought we, as an ever-evolving society, collectively left that behind with side bangs, acoustic covers with changed pronouns to be heteronormative, and watching proposal flash mob videos in 360p, along with all the other antiquities of the long and gone obama administration? well, apparently not!
because last year, new directions wasn't just irrelevant, they were supposed to be gone with the wind, like totally obliterated from the minds of the masses! they spectacularly failed at sectionals, half their members graduated, and the university administration had already quietly placed them into the same category as those other extracurricular casualties like slam poetry club, a certain club for an imaginary sport from a book series by a wildly problematic author, and the soaring society of lgbtqia+ ornithologists … yikes!
and according to all known laws of college social hierarchy and optics, there shouldn't be any coming back from this. yet, our ambitious glee club captains julian devereux and stella nasr somehow were somehow given a new lifeline, and a pretty hot one at that!
… enter carter cortez, captain of the saint rivera titans.
it's a little muddy how the members of new directions actually got him to join their devastatingly pathetic club, especially when half of them would consider him an untalented muscle chad. some say it's a deal to tutor him so he doesn't have to take another year to graduate, some say it's blackmail, but all that you really need to know is … that facecard? never declines. he's practically the face of the athletics department's brochures and posters, alongside cheerios captain, cecelia sinclair!
and now with both of saint rivera's patron saints of college popularity in new directions, everyone else has come running to audition so they can get the behind-the-scenes tea or pretend that they have always respected show choir. hell, the athletes might even outnumber the performance geeks in their own club soon enough! all hell might just break loose when that time comes!
today is september 22, 2026, and it has been a month since our students returned on campus, and new directions is beginning to look like campus' newest and hottest trend. but they're going to need to be more united if they want to maintain their surge in popularity.
because here's a secret not many people know about: popularity isn't something that can be just generated out of thin air, it's redistributed. and whenever one group starts getting attention, it's only a matter of time until another is paid dust and questions are raised!
like, " why does the cheerios get all the budget? "
or " why do they have their own private training gymnasium while glee club practices in a room with peeling paint and a potential gas leak? "
which brings us to the woman who does not want you to ask these questions … coach shauna steele. even just saying her name feels like i'm summoning the boogeyman! but as scary as she might be, she has the nerve, the gall, and the gumption to always get what she wants and run the cheerios like a military institution with glitter requirements. i mean, five consecutive championship titles and named coach of the year twelve times by the national cheerleading association? that takes talent … and she doesn't like being overshadowed by a bunch of losers.
so, cecelia sinclair, goldie lewis, and sully vane? congratulations, you are now secret agents for the cheerleading-industrial complex, tasked by coach steele to rope in the other cheerios in new directions and destroy glee club from the inside out together. but make it seem natural, so no plain sabotage and cartoon villainy, of course! don't be suspicious! but they better start weaponizing their influence and popularity to question song choices, encourage cliques, and spread stupid rumors about interpersonal relationships to turn everyone against each other, because cecelia's position as cheerios captain is at stake here!
then, we have eugena davis, clementine brandt and micah de leon, a potentially great troublesome trio if i've ever seen one! but their job is more about influencing the rest of the student body for now. they just need to convince people that glee already peaked and joining is so uncool. i mean, competitive synchronized singing and dancing? can anything be more corny and gauche?! but overturning their newfound popularity means problem solved for coach steele and the cheerios. god forbid the glee club dip into their bi-monthly weekend wellness spa getaway funds!
but while forces of not-necessarily-evil are planning their downfall, new directions are just trying not to implode a month into the school year. before they can prepare for sectionals, they must learn more about each other first. there are just suddenly way too many people, too many personalities, and too many friend groups.
so faculty advisor and resident cool music production professor, bobby kelmeckis, have decided on their first assignment for the semester.
it starts with a hat and names inside, a quick and easy way to create random pairs. these pairs must then create a mash-up performance together of songs that represent each person, blending two identities into one mash-up song as a way to introduce themselves to each other and the rest of the club. oh, how worlds collide! isn't that just exciting?!
… and that's what you missed on campusloser!
OOC INFORMATION.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! glee in 2026 is so serious. we're finally opening tomorrow, june 22, monday @ 4pm cst. and i'm so excited to build this universe with all of you and have so much #campy fun. dates will also be flash forwarded for the timeline, so the month in-game is currently september but still the same day as present!
i just want to thank everyone again for joining! i didn't think many people would actually be interested in a glee rp in this day and age, and yet here were at full capacity with so many wonderful writers and amazing muses!
more information about our first glee club task will be available tomorrow in the glee assignment channel of our discord server. the locations page is also a work in progress, so feel free to keep on recommending places in our suggestions channel or make up locations for your starters for the meantime!
if you have any question, please let me know! and again, thank you so much for joining!
HAPPY SLEEPOVER WEEKEND! this is our bi-weekly meme days lasting from 12pm fridays to 11:59pm sundays where curated ask memes can be circulated, sent out to each other, and answered for character development and curiosities! but remember our golden rule: give and you shall receive! don't forget to send out ask memes to others if you'd like to receive as well, to make sure no one is left out!
so here's what you missed on campusloser … mashup week was a success after only producing one hot mess of a performance from theodore warren and valeria chavez, and rumor has it that ariana grande has sent glee club a cease and desist to never use her songs for mashups ever again! but particular standouts this week are julian devereux and milo callahan with their corner of the sky and don't stop me now mash-up. well, freddie mercury is #DEAD in that corner of the sky so he definitely cannot stop them.
but #MILIAN aren't the only pairing who held space and felt power with the lyrics of their mashups, because other top performers this week are cecelia sinclair and sydney fennewick, and noemi ibarra and indy presley! there's just so many talented people in the club!
but our quarterback, lucas shepherd, seems to be part of another strange mash-up, this one happening outside the choir room after he was seen leaving a frat party with resident glee club weirdo, noemi ibarra. something is afoot with those two, and i'm not just saying that because they look like they'd be into foot fetish!
and to end mashup week, bobby kelmeckis have prepared a mashup of i wanna get better and someone new by bleachers and hozier for the glee club to all sing together while wearing red tops and jeans, with each of the week's top performers getting solos! how fun! don't they just sound amazing together? i guess we'll just have to see how long that lasts...
because this week, it might just be all about emotional maturity, conflict resolution, and the students of saint rivera finally learning the importance of letting others break your walls down. but operative word here is might. i mean, let's not get #UNREALISTIC! this is gen z we're talking about.
emotions are so embarrassing to them, and it'll be hard to let their guard down when they're finally getting that coolness back. why would anyone try to ruin it with an emotionally devastating natalie imbruglia medley? c'mon, new directions is trending! people who openly called show choir the most embarrassing club on campus are now posting instagram stories captioned like:
" lowkey thinking about auditioning... " and
" ...wait, why are they actually good now? "
and have you seen all the fan edits? we expected this from marijoy, not other members of the student body. somebody even made an anonymous confession page dedicated entirely to ranking members by vocal versatility, sexy emotional baggage, and kissability. and somehow hockey besties #JESSBROOKS are at the top of the rankings and they're not even in glee club? maybe someone should recruit them!
but things are definitely getting serious with glee club. #MASHUPWEEK have definitely brought most of them closer together, and sectionals doesn't feel like a big fat joke anymore after last year's catastrophic failure. people are already talking like they have everything it takes to redeem themselves and avoid another shitshow, and some are already dreaming about performing at nationals in the city of angels.
but when people start dreaming too big, disaster arrives. naturally. because every campus ecosystem demands balance one way or another, and this disaster has the name of monseur thibault bellamy-delacroix.
nationally-renowned professor of vocal performance, director of the annual winter musical, a french-canadian transplant turned local artistic terrorist of saint rivera. and don't forget playbill online's sexiest man alive 2023, or he'll remind you himself.
non-theatre fans beware, because every conversation with him feels like he's accepting a #LIFETIMEACHIEVEMENTAWARD, every outfit he wears includes a scarf even when he spends most of his time indoors, and the type to tell students " honey, your diaphragm sounds illiterate right now, " and somehow get a standing ovation for it.
and last year's musical was modest, but this year? he looked straight in the eyes of every member of the administration when budget concerns were raised, and he said: " what if we simply ignore those? "
because saint rivera's winter musical this year is none other than WICKED! yes, that wicked. elaborate moving setpieces, flying rigs, colorful costumes, green body paint, and high notes so difficult that they should probably be considered as weapons of mass eardrum destruction.
plus, coach steele has taken a liking to bellamy-delacroix, promising to share her glitter and confetti budget with the winter musical if he promises to put those #THEATREGEEKS in glee club to work to make sure they're running on fumes by sectionals.
and bellamy-delacroix's audition instructions? prepare their most dramatic and vocally impressive in their repertoire. he's not looking for authenticity here, not yet at least. he wants to find people who can sing and has the charisma to captivate an audience for three hours first! and he isn't looking for a safe choice either, he wants you to collapse on your knees and stare at the stage lights like they #KILLED your family, because how else can you show your level of commitment for your audition?
plus, bellamy-delacroix has also hinted that a friend of his from #BROADWAY whose production just closed its doors last june is visiting to conduct auditions with him! suddenly, everyone with even a mildly functional mixed voice is developing dreams of broadway to be in the proximity of a star. ⭐
and unfortunately, new directions is infested with theatre kids who might be forced to choose between which extracurricular they have to focus on.
and speaking of new directions, our resident cool music production professor, bobby kelmeckis, is finally getting into the swing of leadership and has finally noticed that his club currently has thirteen unresolved interpersonal conflicts, five or six situationships, four people who simply refuse to speak during rehearsals, and at least one meathead jock whose emotional vocabulary begins and ends at " i'm locked in. "
so this week's assignment? ballads! and not just any ballads, it has to be a song that actually mean something to them. a song that reveals something about them when simple words don't feel enough. after all, glee club is a #SAFESPACE.
well, as safe as it could be when coach steele has pulled cecelia, goldie, and sullivan to remind them to strike when the iron is hot. and it cannot get any hotter than when a bunch of young adults are forced to be vulnerable with each other. she doesn't care if cecelia has to use her feminine wiles to seduce people in the club and break their hearts or turn people against each other, or if sully has to spread some virus, she wants #RESULTS!
and to make sure they don't fuck around and don't start actually enjoying glee club, coach steele also reminds them that goldie is there on an athletic scholarship, and she has already reserved a spot for her in the saint rivera's hyper-aggressive contact sport that is the roller derby team once she kicks her off the cheerios if they don't #GETTOWORK!
i guess shit's about to go down. will new directions lose any of their powerhouse vocalists to wicked? and will sectionals just be another tragic humiliation ritual? and most importantly, how many students are about to discover they cannot, in fact, sing defying gravity?
… and that's what you missed on campusloser!
OOC INFORMATION.
happy two weeks of being open campusloser! it has been so much fun and we're just getting started. i'm loving all the personalities so far, and please don't be afraid to take it up a notch! we want this to be as campy and absurd as glee, so feel free to take impermanent plots like brief flings and hookups, or have your muses exhibit some villainy, or just really hone in on their personality traits and be so dramatic with it! we support #DRAMA!
for more information about the ballad assignment, please check out the ballad thread in our new directions channel. the audition information for wicked is also live in the audition thread in our winter musical channel!
please note that rehearsals for the crucible and rocky horror are also underway starting today, so feel free to use them as starting points for threads with other cast members!
if you have any questions about anything, please let me know! and as always, have fun and thank you for being here!
HAPPY ONE MONTH TOGETHER, SAINT RIVERA! it has been one hell of a ride, with new chaos and drama every day, but thank god that's only in-character. but as we get closer to our first event this weekend, why don't we spend the next two days just loving each other? that's right, there will be no activity checks in the next two days, so chillax and close out the threads that need to concluded.
... but one catch, it's time to send each other love notes anonymously ( or not anonymously, if you want to be brave ) ! so from now until friday, please send your fellow members some #LOVE in their inboxes. it can be anything from their portrayal of their muses, the vibes they bring to the group, maybe you want to write with them more, or just any kind of appreciation that you have for them ! because our characters might be getting into all sorts of drama, but there's only love outside of that. can i get an amen ( non-religious ) up in here?
… and we are open for interactions! don't forget to follow everyone in our blogroll, check out the opening episode and locations around campus, read the first glee club assignment in our discord, and most importantly, have fun!
🎧ྀི #fuckitweball, writers cap back to 24, so we have a couple of spaces open once again! i can't wait to see more bombshells enter the villa glee club!
🎧ྀི i'm back and ready to go through our inbox! but i do believe we've hit our # of writers goal, so watch out for the acceptance date and ooc opening soon!
🎧ྀི feeling like #suesylvester as i do my due diligence of researching competitive show choir rules, and apparently they can actually have up to sixty members! but i don't think our losers are on that level yet, but i did increase the cap for new directions to thirty-six members, and writers can now have up to two members each. but i still recommend having only one glee clubber to start with, then one of your other muses can be a potential recruit for the future!
