Dec 2, 2017
Hamburr + Bloodlust BECAUSE WHAT ELSE
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Hamburr + Bloodlust BECAUSE WHAT ELSE
perfect
ITH is better than Hamilton
not at all | eh idk | neutral | yeah definitely | the most accurate statement ever
honestly i like both a lot but the novelty of Hamilton has worn off with the popularity of it and if i had to pick only one of these that i could see i would probably pick In The Heights
17 and 26?
17. Your favorite uplifting song(s) from a musical?I always feel better after listening to Carnival del Barrio, the music is just so lively and makes me feel really good. However, if we’re going in terms of lyrically uplifting (not that Carnival isn’t), I’d probably have to say Dust and Ashes. When I saw Great Comet, I was literally crying when Oak sang the “I want to wake up” part at the end.
Does Fearless count as a musical song cause that uplifts me instantly? 26. Your favorite quote from a musical?Not necessarily one quote, but I am always a sucker for the smoothest and sweetest lines in Sunrise: “Llamame.” “Call me.” “Azul.” “Blue.” “Amame.” “Love me.” “Perhaps I do.”
There’s also the line from Unlikely Lovers that kills me, but I find so beautiful: “Let’s be scared together, let’s pretend that nothing is awful.”
you think you could draw karen olivo in her dream role as George Washington?
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25. photo for Ana and Fareeha?
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Fareeha had found the picture in one of her history books. It was awkward, learning about the strike team in class, when all her classmates and the teacher were making very obvious efforts not to stare at her. But when they got to the page where her mother was standing there, holding a flag, wind blowing her hair back, the teacher could not resist asking her, “do you know the story behind this one, Fareeha?”
Fareeha did not. So she asked her mother about it when she went home that night. But her mother responded with only a dismissive, “it was not anything.”
Fareeha could not go back to class with that answer and moreover, now she actually cared. So she headed to Commander Morrison’s office, to see if he could help her.
He looked surprised when he opened the door and saw her there. “Fareeha! Is everything alright?”
“Yeah,” she said. “I just need help with a school project.” She hefted the book up, and Commander Morrison nodded and ushered her in.
“What’s the project?” he asked, settling in behind his desk as Fareeha placed the book on it, forced to stand in his cramped office. He looked at the cover. “It’s for history? Is it about the Crisis?”
“Yeah,” Fareeha said. She flipped to the bookmarked page and pointed to the photo. “It’s not like, a project really, just my teacher wanted to know, where was this photo taken?”
Commander Morrison’s jaw tightened and Fareeha’s stomach sank. She was probably not going to be able to pull this off.
“Why don’t you ask your mother?” he asked. She suppressed an exasperated sigh and drew on her prepared excuse.
“I asked her, and she couldn’t say.”
“Couldn’t say,” Commander Morrison repeated. Fareeha thought that since it was not technically a lie, it would be easier to stick with, but she still was unable to meet his eyes. He did sigh now. “Fareeha, I know you’re getting to an age where…”
Fareeha waited patiently for him to finish that sentence, and only spoke up when it became apparent he was unable to. “It’s just one photo,” she said. “And it’s for school. My teacher will get mad if I don’t have an answer. My mom also doesn’t want me to get in trouble at school.”
“I’m sure your mother could write you a note explaining everything to them.”
Fareeha bit her lip in frustration. “Commander Morrison, it’s just one picture-”
“I know, Fareeha.” He sounded very tired as he shut the book. “But it’s a picture from a… very difficult, very complicated time. For your mother, and for everyone.” He stared at the cover of the textbook, which showed an Omnic and a human standing side by side in front of the globe. “Your mother hasn’t wanted to tell you about this stuff both because she wants you to be prepared, and because she wants to be able to prepare.” He slid the book towards her. “If you learn anything from this, it should be that you can’t go through the world untouched by its troubles, no matter who you are or where you’re from. But your mother wants to protect you for a little bit longer. And it’s not my place to contradict her.”
Fareeha sighed heavily as she left his office. She would have to find someone less beholden to her mother than her mother’s boss. That ruled out Reinhardt. She might be able to get something out of Torbjörn, but he was still on paternity leave. That left her with only one member of the strike team, and he was very skilled at never telling Fareeha things he did not want her to know.
Still, at least talking to him was fun, she thought as she slipped into Uncle Gabe’s office.
At the sound of someone entering, he looked up, eyes angry and fierce, and immediately softening when he saw who it was. “Fareeha! What’s going on?”
“I need your help with something from school,” she said, sitting down in the chair in front of his desk and sliding the book over to him. He leaned over to look at it, and laughed when he saw the subject matter.
“You need me to proofread this thing? Because that is not how the Battle for Midtown went down.”
Fareeha rolled her eyes. “I just need help with the picture, Uncle Gabe.” She tapped at her mother’s face and he focused on that. “Do you know where this was taken?”
He raised an eyebrow. “I mean. We both know the obvious question here.” She sighed.
“My mom didn’t want to tell me, and Commander Morrison was a complete dweeb about it, and so…”
“Didn’t want to tell you?” He leaned back, frowning. “What exactly did she say?”
“She said, ‘It’s not anything.’”
“Ah. Well, you’re wrong, Fareeha. She told you exactly what it is.”
She glared at him. “If you turn this into a dumb riddle, so help me-”
He laughed. “It wasn’t taken at any battle or raid or anything. It’s a publicity photo, something to use in recruitment material or whatever. It was taken at a soundstage in L.A. We did a bunch of them. Stopped by In-N-Out afterwards.” He looked off into the distance. “Man, I haven’t had them in forever. I should see if they deliver internationally.”
She stared at the picture. “I don’t get it. Why did you take them? Why not use a picture from an actual battle?”
“Because those pictures wouldn’t be pretty, Fareeha,” he said. “They’d be us surrounded by scrapped Omnics after we carpet bombed an Omnium. It’d be us leaving civillians behind, because we couldn’t save everyone. If they wanted a picture of your mom, it’d be a picture of her on a rooftop somewhere in a ghillie suit, on her third hour of sitting perfectly still.” He shrugged and tapped the book. “They want to talk about the triumph in here. They want to tell a clean and inspiring story about the Crisis. They use actual pictures from the war, they couldn’t make as compelling an argument.”
Fareeha sat thinking about that, while Uncle Gabe watched her. “But why wouldn’t mom just tell me that?” she asked. “Commander Morrison just said she doesn’t want to talk to me about the war. If this wasn’t really the war, why didn’t she just tell me?”
He shrugged again. “I don’t know, Fareeha. Jack’s right. She doesn’t really want to talk to you about any of this stuff until you’re older. But if I had to guess? She knows you’re going to see the Crisis being portrayed like this a lot. And she wants you to start thinking a bit harder about it.”
Fareeha turned the book back to face her, and looked at paragraph headers, the “Heroes of our World” and the “Humanity’s Light.” “I don’t know why Commander Morrison couldn’t have just told me that,” she said.
Uncle Gabe was trying to hide his smile, and completely failing. “Well, you know Fareeha, Jack cares about you very much and wants what’s best for you, he’s just a bit…”
“Super awkward?”
That broke him. “Around kids, yeah,” Uncle Gabe said between laughs.
Fareeha left Uncle Gabe’s office satisfied. The next day in class, she repeated what he had told her. The teacher nodded with a tight-lipped smile and gave Fareeha a note to give to her mother after class. Her mother read it, and then took her out for ice cream.
“I thought I wasn’t supposed to get in trouble,” Fareeha said as she licked her cone.
Her mother snorted. “Some things are worth getting in trouble for,” she said. “And if that book isn’t teaching how to figure out what those things are, you don’t need to listen to a word it says.”
the OT3, 19, 34 (names, please), 26?
19 - What dothey fight about? What are their arguments like? How do they make up?
I don’t think Monty and Phoebe fight that oftent, but i think that in the beginning of their relationship, Phoebe, would feel pretty neglected sometimes, or she’d feel as if Monty loved Sibella more than her, andI think that eventually, she would call him out. Monty would feel terrible andapologize immediately, and reassure her that he loves her just as much, and promiseto be better at showing it. He’d itup to her by spending the rest of the day with her and completely spoiling her. And of course, their relationship got stronger over time, as the communicationbetween the three of them got better, and eventually, she stopped feeling thatway.
Monty and Sibella hardly ever fight, their arguments rarelygo beyond Sibella being offended and annoyed over Monty forgetting to complimenther, or tell her “I love you”.
With Sibella and Phoebe, I definitely feel like there would’ve been a fewarguments in the beginning, usually over misunderstandings, since theirrelationship was still pretty new, and they didn’t know each other very well. Theywould be pretty quick to talk it out though, so it would never take long forthem to make up.
34 - Do theyhave any pets?
They do! They have two corgis, named Bella and Donna (got theidea from a fic I read, and since then, I have not been able to let go of it, I’msorry), and a big, fluffy white cat named Maxwell
26 - How dotheir friends feel about their relationship? Their families?
Honestly, I think that the only ones who knows about their relationship aremiss Shingle, and Sibella’s brother and sister. Miss Shingle was fully supportivefrom the very beginning, she always saw it coming and she only wants what’sbest for her boy. Same with Grahame and Cynthia. even though they didn’t reallyget it in the beginning, they tried to be understanding and supportive, becausein the end, they love their sister and they both want her to be happy, and ifshe’s happy with Monty and Phoebe, then that’s all that matters
in the heights?
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*Favorite Ensemble song
-The Club,
*Favorite small Ensemble song
-What the heck does this mean? I’m going to say 96,000
*Favorite Solo
Nina in Breathe obviously
*The song I love to sing at the top of my Lungs
-WHEN YOU’RE HOME
*The Song I sing the shower
-All of them!
*The Song that gets stuck in my head
-It won’t be Long Now!
*The Song I relate to because it describes me/my life
-Breathe hands down
*The song that gives me the most feels/makes me cry
-Act 2
*The Song that puts you in a good mood
-In the Heights
*The Song that makes you Laugh
-Piragua and Piragua reprise
*The song I can never remember the lyrics too
-All of them
*The Song I know all the lyrics too
-All of them
*The song I wish I had someone to sing with
-When You’re home
*The song I would listen to repeat for Hours on end
-The Club and Blackout
*The Song I don’t Like/Get tired of easily
-Don’t have one!
*The song I’m used to hearing a specific way and get upset if I hear it a different way.
-Breathe
1, 20 and 27?
1. favourite musical overall i’m really impartial to next to normal but Groundhog Day is definitely up there too, probably tied for first place
20. favorite musical for sentimental reasons Wicked because it was when I first really fell in love with live theatre
27. favourite non-obc cast of a musical In the Heights London was excellent so i’ll say that