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Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome: Tag Masterpost

Cto10121 is finally doing a personalized tag masterpost!!! It’s about damn time. Anyhoo, hopefully this will make it easier to find most everything of interest in my blog.

Me, Myself, and I

Cristina Reviews: General tag for my reviews of books, movies, musicals, and TV shows.

Cristina Reads: General tag for books with text, quotes, and screenshots.

Cristina Opines: My cold takes.

Cristina Has An Unpopular Opinion: My hot takes.

Cristina Is Silly: Technically I have a sense of humor.

Cristina Memes: Badly, but she does.

Cristina Metas: General tag for my nerdy griping.

Icon Fun: I had tons with those icon memes of yore.

Ask/Reply

I Come Anon: For anonymous asks.

Books & Literature

Cristina Is An English Major: Main tag.

Popular Fandoms

Twilight Meta: Meta on Twilight.

Anti Anti Twilight: This is a pro-romance blog above all, but honestly it doesn’t deserve it.

Twilight Clownery: Tumblr’s hatred of Twilight has much to do with hate, but more with love clownery.

SAB Meta: Very critical meta on Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone. See also: Anti Malina, Mal Me Cae Muy Mal

Darling Dorkling Darkling Done Dirty: I originated this tag and don’t you lot forget it! Defense of The Darkling from Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone.

HP Clown Takes: Harry Potter clownery is real and so I eat it.

Shakespeare

R&J Meta/RJ Meta: Meta on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The Struggle Is Real for both Shakespeare and Presgurvic meta. I also did a read-through on Arthur Brooke’s version.

R&J Clown Takes: It’s a whole series by this point. See also: RJ Clown Takes, RJ Clownery, R&J Clownery.

Romeo Hate Dumb: So much material that I literally had to create my own tag for it. Thanks for nothing, world.

Hamlet Meta: Meta on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Hamlet Clownery: I foresee this will be a thing.

Shakespeare Meta: Meta on Shakespeare’s plays in general.

Shakespeare Clownery: Might as well create this tag because I know I’m going to need it.

Life of Will: Meta on Shakespeare himself and his life.

Musicals

Romeo et Juliette: General tag for Presgurvic’s musical. Also Roméo et Juliette.

RetJ Meta: I like to talk about this musical way too goddamn much.

RetJ World Domination: The whole purpose of this blog by this point.

Original French RetJ

Revival RetJ

Takarazuka RetJ

Hungarian RetJ

That Production That Must Not Be Named: You lot know exactly what I mean.

Idaho RetJ: This exists.

Notre Dame de Paris: General tag for the Plamondon/Cocciante musical.

Elisabeth: General tag for the Kunze/Lévay musical. Also with the das.

Rebecca: General tag for the Kunze/Lévay musical. Also with the das.

My Writing

That’s kind of my main thing. I still have my AO3 and Fanfiction.Net accounts, as well as a sister blog here, technically.

Lyrics and Translations

The agonies of a certain English translation of RetJ has driven me to a life of crime lyric writing, beginning with RetJ. I also uploaded whole scripts to my lyrics website; those are more or less the latest versions.

My Lyrics: My general tag for all my translations, including pop and world music.

RetJ English: English lyrics for Presgurvic’s Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l’Amour.

Notre Dame de Paris English: English lyrics for Cocciante’s and Plamondon’s Notre Dame de Paris.

Elisabeth English: English lyrics for Kunze and Lévay’s Elisabeth.

Starmania English: English lyrics for Plamondon and Berger’s Starmania.

Tanz der Vampire English: English lyrics for Kunze and Steinman’s Tanz der Vampire.

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We can hope. Hungarian fans are trying, we have those "Save Romeo" groups on Facebook and weeks ago there was a little demonstration thing on Instagram. The problem is that Hungary is a little country and there are suprisingly few Opi fans mostly the older generations go to theatre. The director and the management will notice that things went wrong sooner or later when they go bankrupt... Okay, it’s a little bit extreme thought but the money of the Operettszínház mostly came from the successful musicals and those are taken down.

Actually, one of the most promising young actors (Veréb Tomi) quit, because all the roles he loved to play was taken down. He was absolutely amazing, I saw him in the Hunchback of the Notre Dame this summer, he played Quasimodo. He played in ResJ, Mozart!, Miss Saigon etc. 

I like the new musicals, Hamilton and Heather etc but I think the europian classics are the best. Sadly you are right, no one knows them but they deserve more recognition. 

Uhg, I have so much to say about the nationalism in the arts but my English is nearly not good enough. I will try though. So I think in Hungary there is this toxic nationalism. The goverment (who funds the arts) is trying to base on the pride of the people in every possible way. It’s hard to explain but this is the base of their campaign or propaganda or how-you-would-like-to-call-it. Okay, I sound like a total idiot but the political situation in Hungary is not the best and it’s hard to explain for foreigners. The goverment funds the the culture which strengthens the national consciousness and represses the other. For example some theatres has to close soon because they don’t get support from them. They will support the Operettszínház but in the long run it won’t be enough if the new director continues like that. The “old” fans say that before Kero the Opi was nearly empty...  :/

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cto10121 replied to your post “The FanFic I was reading in public was starting to get steamy when...”

if it was a male/male pairing...then the song is more than appropriate ;D

[sNORTS LOUDLY] OMG TRUE. 

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14, 9 (if not fic then story), 39, and 8 (if you have any)

[twirls] Thank you so very much!

14. What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?

Hmm...good question, because normally any advice I seek, I take into account. I do believe that some people take the "don't use 'said'" rule too seriously though. If you feel like it fits, then use it. Don't change it into something that doesn't seem right just because using 'said' isn't [air quotes] recommended.

9. Which fic has been the hardest to write?

Oh, what a difficult question...I've written so many things that no one knows about. I have been struggling with something for a while, and for that reason, it gets little attention. I think the reason it's giving me so much trouble is because the characters are so purposefully out of character. But then again, that's the point. 

39. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?

Oh yeah, I've gotten 2 or 3 since I first gathered the courage to post my fics on the internet (oh so many years ago). If the review is critiquing (no matter how crass) I still attempt to take something from it. Why are they angry? Why did they think that particular detail was so unnecessary? What made them post this? 

If it's someone just being and outright ass, I toss my head back, have a good laugh and then get on with my life.

8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

Oh gosh. Excuse me while I dig.

[“You surely must think highly of yourself,” she said, defiance sparking in her emerald eyes. “to believe that the princess of Tamaran would follow you so blindly.” Her chin rose an inch, along with a single, alien eyebrow. 

I flinched, suddenly bashful. I could feel my face blush with embarrassment beneath my mask. 

“Well no,” I stuttered, a feeble attempt to mend my words. “That’s not what…I mean I didn’t-“

She glided forward to place a slender finger over my lips, bringing my words to a halt. “I am doing the teasing of you,” she giggled, satisfied with herself. Her bubbly demeanor returned, and I let relief settle over my shoulders.

Starfire let her hand drop before hovering even closer. “I am happy here,” she whispered, smiling warmly at me in assurance. “Protecting these people in this city, fighting along side you…it is, as they say, a dream come true, yes?” 

With her so close, uttering an answer like that, I can’t help myself anymore. So I reach out, pull her towards me, and connect her lips with mine.]

That was a tiny little section from something I wrote recently for Teen Titans (well, sort of recently). It's a moment shared between Starfire and Robin (or, more precisely, Nightwing), as well as my first personal addition to the category. I guess I was proud of it simply because it came so effortlessly. The characters were so much fun to right, especially Starfire. It had been a while since anything I wrote came as easily as this did, and in the end, it showed. The story ended up lighthearted, fluffy and simple. 

Sorry this took me a thousand years to get out, my internet is moving at an absolutely sluggish pace. Thanks again!