#wattweek2023

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Hello WATT fandom! I would like to introduce you to an event I just made up because other fandoms have their week, and We Are The Tigers deserves one too! WATT Week 2023!

WATT Week 2023 starts on July 25th and ends July 31st, the day of the WATT reunion concert! (Hence the final day’s prompt) You can do all of the prompts, or just one if you want! This is an open to all fanwork, so you can write fics or draw art or anything else you can think of for WATT! Currently announcements are up on my Instagram and Tumblr (here!), but this event is open to all social media platforms. (I just don’t have any others so it’s harder for me to announce this and view things elsewhere.) If you participate in this event, make sure to use the tag #wattweek2023 + #wearethetigersweek2023 so others can see your creations! It’d also be cool if you could tag me since sometimes things in tags don’t show up and I want to make sure others can see others’ works! This community is small, but is very talented and dedicated to the murder mystery cheerleaders!

We Are The Tigers Week 2023 prompts:

Day 1 (July 25th)  - The basement Day 2 (July 26th) - Captain of the team Day 3 (July 27th) - And the freshman’s in prison! Day 4 (July 28th) - Pom poms up Day 5 (July 29th) - Mistletoe Day 6 (July 30th) - Pizza delivery Day 7 (July 31st) - Reunion

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WE ARE THE TIGERS WEEK DAY 7/ REUNION DAY

AHHHHHHHHH

HAPPY REUNION DAY MY FELLOW TIGERS/GILES COREY STUDENTS.

I JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE LIVESTREAM AND OMG IT WAS AMAZING.

SO AS MY POST FOR THE LAST DAY OF WATT WEEK, ENJOY MY NOTES I WROTE DURING THE LIVESTREAM:

Preston starting things off! Hello icon and legend!

YESSS GO CAROLINE!!!

MAJOR SHOUTOUT TO CAROLINE LELLOUCHE AND LEANNA (I didn't get her last name I'm sorry) FOR COVERING PARTS

COVERING FOR LIKE 4 songs 

APPRECIATE YOUR SWINGS 

AHHHH CHESS AND KATE

JENNY AND CELESTE ARE BACK I MISSED THEM

HAHAHAAA Kaitlyn holding the phone when she calls Farrah 

AWWWW ZOE AS FARRAH

GOD I MISSED THEM ALL

SHE'S GOT THE FARRAH BRAIDS

AHHHH “sure Riley, what could go wrong?” 

awww Caroline changing the way "welcome everyone" is said

OK WE'RE ON DON'T EVEN

BUT I DON'T EVEN CARE I DONT CARE

JENNY AND CELESTE YESSS

“Chords for Christ” HAHAA

“Is co-captain a thing now?” Iconic line +1

“It’s not nepotism it’s called friendship” Iconic line +2

WOAHHH A LITTLE LYRIC CHANGE? (I didn't get the words down I'm sorry but maybe someone else will remember)

SCRELTING!!

Oh god it’s Skype tomorrow time

OHHH THE WAY JENNY AND CELESTE TOTALLY GET INTO THE CHARACTERS

OH GOD BEFORE THE BREAKDOWN

CELESTE AND ZOE VOCALS!!!

OH GOD EVERYONE SINGING NOW

THE BEAUTIFUL HARMONIES 

UH THE ZOOM IN ON THE LAST LINE KNOWING WHAT HAPPENS TO CHESS AND FARRAH

“Unfortunately after that Chess is murdered” HAHA Preston narrating in between

RIP Chess now it’s abstinence song time

YESSS KAITLYN SINGGGGG

YESSS CLARK SPOTLIGHT TIME

The man has entered the plot

FOREVER FOREVER-

"or however long it takes" lol love that lil line from Clark

Their voices are great together

Awww they must have had a lot of fun singing this one together again

HHHHH

A SURPRISE?

YES PRESTON BEING REESE!

YOU CAN CHANGE THE KEY FOR TRANS ACTORS!!! (said by Preston himself, ICON!)

Ohhh Preston singing this gives it such a deep meaning and it’s so good in every way

CAROLINE NO IMMA CRY (Y'all she started crying doing the dialogue when Riley says when you're a Tiger, your team won't let you fall, anyone who breaks that promise breaks us, and then everyone in the chat got EMO)

OMG THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL

CAROLINE DID SO WELL

THEN FARRAHS SONG AFTER THAT OMG

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE

BUT YES ZOE BEAUTIFUL VOCALS AS ALWAYS

OMG WALLFLOWERRRRR

Omg Wonu and Caroline did so good

The VOCALS AND RUNS

THEM GETTING HYPE IN THE END AWW

Omg DEFENSE TIME

defense, defense 

AWW LOL WONU COVERING HER LIL LYRIC SLIP AHAHA

Wonu I love you 

A national treasure

TIGER PRIDE ALWAYS

TAMPER WITH A MURDER SCENE

YESSS WONU!!! SCRELT

LEANNA AS MATTIE YESSS

I LOVE ITTTT

YESSS VOCALSSS

HAHAHA SOMEONE SAYING "SHUT THE FUCK UP"

LEANNA DID SO WELL SINGING MATTIE'S LAMENT

Oh god here we go 

“Not my usual reaction to homicide” haha Wonu as Cairo I will always love you

“Welcome back everyone” while like 3 people have died

OH GOD MOVE ON IS AFTER PHOENIX IM NOT READY

OH GOD NOOO

My heart

Kaitlyn and Jenny their voices together

UGH THE HARMONY ON "don't let go" 

ALWAYS GETS ME

AHH THE HUG AT THE END (Kaitlyn, Jenny and Celeste all hugging it out but Zoe completely missing it haha)

YESSSS SYDNEY 

SHUT UP AND CHEER TIME

AHH HER KEEPING THE GROWL ON "SHIT"

LOVE IT

SYDNEY VOCALS

EVA SANCHEZ I LOVE YOU

OMG HERE WE GO 

Haha the lines in IDK

so good 

WONU SINGING SEE YOU ALL IN HELL is my religion

YESS CAROLINE DOING THE BREAKDOWN

AHHH THE C-C-C-CUT EM

Amazing.

HHH MOVE ON REPRISE???

WE LOVE A LITTLE BIT

HHHH

OMG THE FINALE

NO NOT ALREADY

IM EMO

IM ACTUALLY SO EMO

THIS! SONG!

WE ARE THE TIGERS GO!!

Ugh seeing everyone up there singing together again MY HEART

OMG AND A LIL ENCORE

SINGING A CUT SONG OOH

EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE HER

OKAY BANGER

AS EXPECTED

YESSS VOCALS

OOH FARRAH AND CAIRO HARMONIZING

THE MOTIF OF "We are the soul of the school" COMING BACK IN THIS SONG TOOO???

OMggggg I wish it didn't end

That was amazing

So WORTH the livestream ticket

Ahhhh I love this musical

WATT my beloved, you will always be loved by me.

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one last time, please

Annleigh isn’t in her room. She doesn’t find herself on her bed, where she’s supposed to be.

She’s standing in the middle of the school corridor, lockers lining the walls and students passing by as they chatted.

Her eyes rapidly dart around, frantically taking in information as she tries to make sense of what she’s seeing. She looks down, and her uneven breaths stop altogether, for she sees something that she destroyed with her own two hands. She sees herself wearing a sweatshirt Clark had left at her house, a sweatshirt she had burned in her blind fit of rage.

(Written for WATT Week 2023 day 7: Reunion)

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WE ARE THE TIGERS/WATT WEEK DAY 6

Hello everyone.

So I had a plan for Day 6. Since the prompt for today was pizza delivery, and I really didn't have anything creative like others in our fandom, I was going to do more song commentary, just for the songs I hadn't done ones for already.

However.

After seeing some of the cast's updates on Instagram, I decided I would just not do a post, and wish them the delivery of good health.

Specifically to Mimi Scardulla, and Lauren Zakrin, thank you for everything.

Even though we won't get to see you singing tomorrow, I really just hope you both get better. (for details, Mimi is on vocal rest, and Lauren has COVID)

I send my best wishes to the rest of the cast and I hope everyone is just doing okay and taking the time to care for themselves.

As excited as I am for the reunion, it is definitely a reminder that life happens sometimes. (and "things change" in the words of Reese, icon)

I'm also totally not listening to the Finale right now and not getting emo, whatttt

Anyway, whatever happens before tomorrow night, I just wish everyone the best.

It's been a pleasure to be in this fandom ever since I discovered this musical. I've loved every second of it.

So come what may, and never forget,

"We are the soul of the school, the pride in the name, the heart and the flame / We'll give you something to hold onto, when you think your time is up / We'll give you just the song you want to hear when you're out of luck."

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WATT WEEK DAY 3!

HAPPY WE ARE THE TIGERS/WATT WEEK DAY 3!!

So today’s prompt is: And the freshman’s in prison! Therefore I present to you:

A song commentary/analysis of Mattie’s Lament!

Hold on to your landlines y’all.

•“Dear mom and dad” so wait did no one visit her, not even her parents? This is a wonderful start

•Also this line giving me “DEAREST DARLINGEST MOMSIE AND POPSICAL” I’m sorry I had to say it

•“Well I’m not shivved so that’s something” ahahaha I know it’s not funny but I do laugh when I hear this part I’M SORRY MATTIE

•“Statistically so many people die each day”

•It IS good she’s not another dead person

•But also oof not me now hearing this line differently and thinking holy shit this IS sad imagine being reduced to a statistic 

•“It’s the little things” and the ukulele in the background 

•LIKE WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS

•I mean I love it but oh god the ukulele being like the main instrumental- it’s giving “everything’s fine, we’re fine- NO WE AREN’T but we’re gonna pretend it is” 

•“I have friends here” WHEN YOU HAVE BETTER FRIENDS IN PRISON THAN ON AN ACTUAL CHEERLEADING TEAM 

•Okay but having listened to this song with fresh ears I think this song is sadder than I really thought oof 

•How Riley managed to send a freshman to prison before she herself ended up there, I just- 

•“But some girl named Tasha just made me her wife” MATTASHA!!! 

•PRISON WIVES!!

•If they ever did a live performance again or did an actual run of the musical could they make a scene where we just see Tasha briefly?? For research purposes?

•“Prison has hardened me” honestly you go Mattie good for you girlie

•“I don’t think that I can do this anymore” AND THEN HOW SHE SINGS IN THE FINALE “I’m not sure that I’m okay but I get stronger every day” and then how everyone joins in with her like yes they’re finally supporting her “I know I’ll find the good things” parallel to “it’s the little things” THIS MUSICAL!! can you tell I love it???

•“I’m sorry I got drunk, I’m sorry about peer pressure, peer pressure SUCKS” IT REALLY DO (imagine THIS being your hazing story- BOOO HAZING)

•“Cause I don’t think I killed those girls, I really don’t” ugh like I am going to defend Mattie here. I was thinking about it and yeah sure she got drunk and she did that but also Farrah does but also I love them both and I really don’t want to blame them because I believe it wasn’t Mattie’s fault she was framed and I know logically and canonically it’s Riley behind it all but I also sometimes support woman’s wrongs so-

•“SHUT THE FUCK UP” LOL but really has Mattie done this thing before? Imagine she sings rants out loud and everyone except Tasha are like this random inmate just tired of hearing mattie sing

•Again, I’m dead with the ukulele being the main instrument- like it’s brilliant, if you think more in depth about it, it’s like a calmer and lighter sounding instrument but the whole situation is anything BUT

•Like, the masking in this song is genius

•“You build a bridge and you move on” I mean I’d personally hold a big grudge against whoever did this to me if I was sent to prison by the rest of my team but-

•“And hope that 4 years doesn’t feel very long” AND THIS IS WHERE I GIVE MY GIRL MATTIE A VERY BIG HUG BECAUSE YES GIRL YOU MADE IT YOU SURVIVED PRISON AND BEING ACTUALLY KILLED LIKE CHESS AND FARRAH AND YOU’RE ON A TEAM WHO WILL ACTUALLY HAVE YOUR BACK!

Mattie my beloved! 

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WATT WEEK DAY 2!

Happy Watt Week Day 2 everyone!!

Once again, since I am not an individual in a fandom who exhibits artistic talents, I decided to do what I do best.

I will write about the daily prompt, and analyze the music, as I am a music enthusiast. Therefore this is how I shall provide my contribution to celebrate Watt Week.

So I listened to Captain of the Team as this is todays prompt/theme.

•I really relate to Reese in this song

•LISTEN. THIS IS REESE’S SONG!!

•Also LOVE Mimi Scardulla, iconic

•”it must be nice being her” reminding me of Hamilton lol I didn’t notice that before

•Not me forgetting that Reese was the mascot- can you tell I haven’t listened to this song in a hot minute

•”doesn’t matter what I look like” ”they all know they don’t deserve me” YESSS WHOOO

•”I’m not defined by years on the sideline being the girl no one wants to be around” OOH that always hits. so. deep. •omg haha I can’t wait to hear the rest of the cast singing this part “captain of the team we are really so sorry” and “I know we were mean to you”

•Riley.. oh Riley 😂😭 do I laugh or cry because I know how the musical ends and the pep talk she gives them is one BIG LIE

•”I’ve gained too much to let this all go” ONCE AGAIN HITS DEEP TOO RELATABLE

•YESSS DANCE BREAK!!

•IF MIMI DOES THE SPLITS DURING THE REUNION I WOULD LOVE THAT

•”don’t want a lot, they just have to say” RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU ARE LIKE REESE AND FELT LIKE YOU NEEDED VALIDATION

•calling me out there lol, it’s like Preston knew my love language was words of affirmation!?

•”LADIES!”

•”you turned out so well!” I KNOW

•UGH THE WAY THE PART FROM EARLIER “I know we were mean to you” SWITCHES PERSPECTIVES AND COMES BACK IN THE END “I’ll forgive the years of pain and calling names” I LOVE IT, the musical recurrence. The music nerd in me LIVES for this. Preston YOUR MIND! And then Mimi really controlling her vocals while also being able to put emotion into that slight buildup “and hopeless days and praying it would go away and yet it stayed, FOR YEARS I PAID, BUT-“

•the harmony on “things change”

REESE MY BELOVED!

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This was written for We Are The Tigers Week 2023!

Day 1: The Basement

I hope that everyone is as hyped for the reunion concert as I am! Let's help bring this fandom back to life through the excitement!