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I was going to record this all nice on my mic? But it's still fucked, and I have been tending to a soup emergency. Also, uh. I should admit that, being in opera, I wasn't trained on how to use a mic? Like not a single session ever? IDK man, either you could hit the back of the theater or you weren't good enough to be on the stage, and at the time it was one of god's little miracles if we even got room mics.

Anyway one of the many reasons I left vocal performance is it was just so damn bad in my gender? Like I was being pushed towards being a lyric soprano, and I was doing it because it was absolutely the correct career move; I was losing my ability to sing tenor through disuse, and every time I had to sing in the higher part of my range, I had the most horrible (what I know now is called) gender dysphoria. I already knew I hated being a girl, but if I ever decided to live like I wasn't, my career was over for good.

So for that and several other reasons, I left, but I miss it. I don't know if performing is something I'd ever want to do again; I shrugged it off when I was young, but that shit is very demanding. Being a full time performer, or even just training full time, requires being exacting about your instrument, and thinking back about it is exhausting. That doesn't mean it wasn't fun.

I've also been really heartened by the opportunities for roles that don't break along traditional gender lines? The sudden explosion of recognition for nonbinary actors has really taken me aback, and the number of productions that are being cast with the actor that's right for the role, not the most appropriate gender is really cheering. It's made me think a lot about picking up lessons again, and if I do, I think I want to retrain as a tenor and just... not go back to where I was, if it's even possible.

Right now I am feeling particularly inspired by Operation Mincemeat, which is not a surprise, and by step 1 endear self to dog step 2 best friends?? step 3 steal gender life goals wife goals Jak Malone, for just a lot of reasons, so I decided to try my hand at Dear Bill. I have a lot of feelings, and a lot of Hester et al drops directly into my tenor range. Please enjoy, and yes that noise near the beginning is my son Freddie, making his opinions (meows) known.

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You Know I have to ask about PruCoraDob for that ship ask game - 5 and 15?

You chose the same questions as Egg XD AND YAYYYYY THANK YOU MY BELOVEDS

5. If this ship didn't meet in canon, how do you imagine they would have met?

You know, this question is actually asking- [shot for being a smartass]

Alternate first meetings, yes yes yes. I mean. Like. Hey my girlfriend and I saw you from across the bar and really liked your vibe, can we buy you a drink? I think Corazón and Prudence would hook up because they’re just. You know. Those two. They get on like a house on fire. And Corazón picks Dob off the street one day and takes him home like a stray animal and Prudence is like :/ fine. THIS ISNT EVEN REALLY ANSWERING THE QUESTION SORRY but that’s my thoughts

15. One to three AUs you would like to see explored with this ship?

Every AU. Any of them oh my god I just want them to fall in love over and over

I think that a rivaling bands/battle of the bands type AU would be fun. OOOH AND I’ve read like, sex toy shop AUs for other fandoms and I think it would be a fun setting. Prudence and Dob as employees who have no shame, and Corazón is a repeat customer who is so embarrassed and weird about it, and they like messing with him because You’re The One Making It Weird, Dude

ship game

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For the bookish asks - 4, 14, and 19!

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

Yes! Fredrik Backman and Charlotte McConaghy come to mind - I hope to read more of their books this year.

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

I did manage to finish everything on my thesis list in 2025. For 2026, I have 12 books I want to prioritize; The Count of Monte Cristo is the big, ambitious one, but I also have Beloved, The Screwtape Letters, Vanishing World, Murder on the Orient Express, Norwegian Wood, Emma, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, Redwall, Carrie, and Klara and the Sun.

19. Did you use your library?

Of course!

end-of-year reading asks!

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For that couple's poses post - I would Love to see Corazon/Prudence in either C1 (clothes swap) or D4 (bridal style)?

dA ship art tropes

i looove clothing swaps, so i had to go with C1 ehehe

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For the Spotify Wrapped Drabbles Ask - number 42?

Ooh a Fun one!

Bad Things Coming, We Are Safe by Emmy the Great | Lyrics

This song weirdly ends up on a lot of my writing playlists, but weirdly not for any of our shared fandoms, so I'm trying something new just for you, because you've reminded me that at one point I was a 16 year old with Normal Feelings about Wicked and my best friends.

The thing is, Galinda has had friends before. Galinda has had best friends before, tea parties and gossip and warm hands tucked into hers. What she feels with her new roommate is nothing like friendship.

She’s not protective of Elphaba, exactly. Elphie’s never needed any kind of protection Galinda could provide, and she’s never been shy about letting the world know it. She has the thickest skin and the strongest magic Oz has ever seen. It’s just that-

The thing is, whenever the whims of their class schedules separate them, there’s this- tugging sensation, in her chest. It used to be a relief, an hour or so without the unbearable distraction of her roommate’s presence, but now…

Now she thinks, What’s Elphie doing? Is she happy? Are people staring? People better not be staring- and then she’s embarrassed, because she knows that’s not a normal feeling to have about her roommate, the mingled anger and guilt that curdles her stomach. She knows what so many of them will be thinking when they look at her – after all, didn’t she tell them what to think? Didn’t she give them the words to whisper behind their hands whenever Elphaba walks into a room? Terror. Disgusting. Freak. So now, whenever they spill over, it’s her fault, and even if they’re friends now, they both know it.

They don’t whisper those things, when Galinda is with her. Even if they’re baffled by their new closeness, they don’t go against the tide of Galinda’s will. It’s one of the perks of popularity – she says pink and green go good together, and the world agrees. At least, it agrees for now.

She knows, with a tight, nauseous feeling that she doesn’t want to name, that for now doesn’t mean forever. With every magic lesson, with every drop of praise that Madam Morrible pours onto Elphaba’s head, she knows the time is coming where the Wizard calls her to the Emerald City, and then…

Will her life return to the way it was before? Will she revert to the girl she used to be, the one who spat words into the halls and didn’t care how they might echo? She doesn’t like how she sees her past self, now, reflected in Elphaba’s eyes, in the arch of her brow or the line of her sneer whenever a particularly juicy snippet of gossip escapes.

She likes the affectionate curve of her lips whenever she says something that makes her laugh, even unintentionally. She likes the pleased surprise whenever she looks up from her books to find a steaming cup of tea at her elbow, or a shawl wrapped around her shoulders. She likes the soft, secret smile that crosses her lips whenever Galinda and Nessarose are deep in conversation, and she thinks they aren’t paying any attention.

She’s wrong, of course. Galinda’s always paying attention to her, it was impossible not to, even when she loathed her. And she knows that that’s wrong too, because she didn’t care half this much for how any of her other best friends looked at her. She doesn’t care half this much when Fiyero laughs at her jokes, eats the cakes she buys for him, twirls her around whenever she dresses up just for him. He looks at her like she’s beautiful and charming, but everyone looks at her as if she’s beautiful and charming.

Elphaba looks at her like she’s good. That wasn’t something she wanted, before. Is that still something she’ll want, when they aren’t together? Is that something that will matter to her, when the eyes reflecting it aren’t Elphie’s?

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my contribution to the @tmabigbang for @shutupeiffel‘s wonderful fic ‘When I Grow Up’ (link is below). I had such a blast creating this- thanks for letting me participate :0)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35062744/chapters/87335920

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[ID: A digital painting of Jon and Melanie from the podcast The Magnus Archives. The painting is fully coloured, cartoonish in style and in landscape format. The two characters are depicted as 8-year-olds sitting on chairs in a school hallway. Jon is abrown-skinned Jordanian boy, with floppy brown hair and large glasses. He is wearing a white button-down shirt, knitted green vest, dark trousers and brown shoes. He is holding a black backpack on his lap with folded hands. He is sitting on the second chair to the left and looking across one empty seat at Melanie with a nervous expression. She is depicted as white British with pale skin and an uneven, messy mousy-brown bob. She is in her school uniform (a white blouse, black skirt, white sockc and black shoes with a buttoned-up blue cardigan). Melanie is sitting eith one arm slung over the back of her chair and her legs crossed, displaying bandages on her shin and knee and a tooth gap as she speaks to Jon with an unimpressed expression. On the wall behind them, there is a cork notice board with various posters and papers. The Book Club meets on Wednesdays during lunch and the Library needs more helpers. There are two posters with spiderweb imagery and two posters with eye imagery. The eyes are all looking towards Jon. /End ID]

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[ID: A black and white photograph of several people in Victorian/Edwardian clothing at a beach. Above is text in a cursive font reading "Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside" in black, with the word Do in a dark blue. End ID]

Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

Podcast: Victoriocity

Rating: G

Pairings: Inspector Archibald Fleet & Clara Entwhistle, background Sandringham/Balmoral

Fleet and Clara are sent on their most intriguing mission yet: Have a nice holiday at the seaside. Is this a plot? What is Julius Bell really planning? And will Clara convince Fleet to take a dip in the sea?

AUTHOR

@shutupeiffel

I’m here to drink tea and write fic for incredibly obscure shows, and I’m all out of tea (This is a lie, I always have a large stash of tea)

BETA

@zigzaglurkswag

Cheerleading and learning new fandoms are some of my favorite hobbies!

ARTISTS

@talking4the1

Powered by spite, caffeine, and 5 hour energy.

@shelbsart

just here to fuck around and find out

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Julian Ward did not become a monster on purpose.    That isn’t to say it was an accident, either. His transformation lay somewhere in that grey space between choice and chance that Julian preferred not to look at too closely. In the end, it hardly mattered whether he tumbled into his fate by his own hand or not; the result was the same. Between one breath and the next, Julian Ward slipped between the cracks in the world, and emerged wearing a face that didn’t quite fit.    And life continued, uninterrupted.    Mostly.

the beginning to a wip i started messing around with recently (to avoid all my wips which actually require attention...)