#robert ward

[nightingaletrash]

Okay, I think I'm gonna stick with Qui's romance as canon for Khalia, while still working in some aspects of Jordan's route because I love Khalia and Jordan being besties 😌

Cue post-game movie night at Jordan's. Khalia invites Qui along, and Jordan decides 'hey let's invite Lucca too!' Arundel finds out and invites himself and Ward. Meanwhile Lucca invites Kashif because 'you're friends with Khalia, it'll be fine, besides she owes you for saving her life' and so Kashif invites Ophelia. Gerard comes along too because Khalia insists that he deserves the night off after everything that's happened.

Khalia only pays attention to the horror movie, otherwise she and Qui are preoccupied with cuddling and pda. Unless it's an action/cop drama of some sort, in which case Qui will be criticising the shit out of it and saying 'that's not how that would play out in real life.' Gerard often agrees with him and criticises the movie criminals for being inefficient idiots. Suddenly everyone remembers that this man was a soldier in a criminal syndicate once upon a time.

Ophelia correctly predicts the plottwist everytime to the point that everyone knows she's spoiling it on purpose. Jordan spoils it on accident because he gets caught up in the input from his visions and doesn't realise that they've not reached that point in the movie. Only one of them is apologetic and its not Ophelia.

Lucca is either praising or dunking on every single film, from the cinematography to the costuming choices. She had a ten minute rant over how a particular style of dress straight up didn't exist for over a century after the period setting of the movie.

Kashif doesn't care for any film that defaults to Islamaphobia, and neither does Khalia. The moment it happens, they both lose all investment and everyone usually agrees to move on to the next movie. He has a lot more to say on the spy movies and that the assassins are stupid for letting themselves get spotted. They should have just gone for the kill instead of standing there like an idiot.

Arundel knows way too much about brains when the horror movies are on and everyone else silently agrees to never watch the Brain That Wouldn't Die with him. Lucca owes Ward ten bucks for shutting Arundel up with a makeout session.

[quiet-hubris]

im just gonna be throwing ideas around for that story idea so bear with me;

a biotech student focusing on genetic engineering rooming with an english lit major who’s trying to keep his football scholarship while at the same time helping said asshole biotech student keep his fucking creature on lock down.

“Art! Art, it’s alive! It’s ali-”

“Robert. You’re my roommate, and I love you and you’re perfect. But I have a fucking. 8 am class tomorrow morning. Shut the fuck up.”

[x-viadne-x]

[newsfromsomewhere]

[kavalyera]

i need jeffrey dean to write wardundel gay sex honestly. i think vtm fans (me) deserve it after eternal hearts

[kavalyera]

i shuold learn male anatomy more so i can draw arundel getting pounded by ward

[its-all-down-hill]

[tenestelapromessa]

I know my musings have been melancholy lately, so I wanted to write a little about the highlight of my singing year: performing the character of Abigail Williams from Robert Ward’s The Crucible for opera scenes in the fall. Amidst a lot of disappointment this was the zenith of everything that made at least my fall semester worthwhile.

Let me preface by saying that while I had never heard of the opera before, I was a huge fan of the play since I was a teenager and an even bigger fan of the history of the Salem Witch Trials in general. History was always my favorite subject in school and I never understood why people thought it was generally boring, especially American history. American history doesn’t fascinate me out of patriotism and a belief in a heroic, pure past - it’s just overall interesting, and the religious roots of the US in general are very intriguing. Plus I’m drawn to the paranormal and the history of witchcraft so....this is really just my jam. (For the record, I don’t believe anything paranormal happened in Salem and please don’t tell me about ergot poisoning, that’s a theory that’s been largely discredited since if it were true there should have been some deaths from it)

Anyway, when we all were gathered into the room to learn what we had been cast in, the moment the director started his preamble about the scene from The Crucible (the finale of Act 1) I was like, “oooooh, what’s this?” And then when he said announced MY name for Abigail Williams I internally started shrieking. “I’m a witch!!!” I actually exclaimed aloud like a giddy 12 year-old.  There were a lot of fun scenes last fall, but I can’t emphasize enough how much Abigail was a dream come true for me and I wouldn’t have traded her to be a character in any of the others. If any other name but mine had been announced for her, I would have been PISSED, especially with how everything else shook down.  Now, I know the opera itself isn’t a total masterpiece, but that scene was so satisfying (probably the most fun musically out of the whole work from an ensemble standpoint). A lot of the satisfaction came from having the different scene - you know what I mean? We were bookended by a lot of Mozart, Handel, operetta, etc, and don’t get me wrong, I like that stuff....but 20 straight minutes of darkness, singing about drinking baby blood, clawing and fighting on my hands and knees on stage, and difficult, borderline atonal music was such a blast that I didn’t care if the audience was like “WTF????” And we had a great sense of camaraderie in our crew - we all really felt that it would be amazing to be able to maybe someday do the whole opera. 

Lastly, it was interesting to me that I have never really been cast as a good person. I don’t believe in black-and-white good-and-evil, but everyone I’ve sung so far (Frasquita, Queen of the Night, and Abigail) doesn’t make conventionally good choices in life to varying extents, and I really get a kick out of that, especially since my voice type is usually the demure maiden. I love those roles, too, but I’d love ride this complex, bad girl wave for as long as I can..

So all I have left now of this is Abigail’s aria that I’m working on. I really hoped to present it this fall at the school music competition - it would be my first competition ever and my last chance to participate in this one since I’m graduating in the spring, but now that we’re starting the semester virtually I don’t know if that’s going to happen anymore. I don’t want to present it because I think I’ll win with it, but because I really believe in it and it’s out of the box. Nonetheless, the full role is on my list of dream roles now for sure and I will insist on singing the aria in my senior recital at all costs.  Just thinking about it sparks a little joy for singing again. I’m interested to see how my voice rehab will go once I’m up north and will try to chronicle my progress here. I don’t know why I’m writing sometimes (especially now that I’m at a low point), but I do believe in at least commemorating the positive experiences like this one.