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meg | she/they | adult (over 30) | theater, fanfic, fandom TrueLahey on ao3

[truelahey]

In Spite of All Around Us by TrueLahey

Stephanie Lauter is moving to Hatchetfield for her senior year. But she quickly learns the small town and popular crowd she’s fallen into isn’t exactly what she’s been looking for. Peter Spankoffski is a local nerd who’s just trying to figure things out. And after a very strange night, he ends up on Steph’s radar. Steph and Pete just want a nice senior year. But small town social pressures and their respective personal issues put a lot more barriers in their path than either one of them could have expected.

New Lautski fic!! Yes I took a one shot I'd written before and made it a multi chapter!!

Read Chapter 1 here!

[visualisvery]

Darren Criss has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever and just randomly show up in Miss. Halloween.

[capinejghafa]

happy 10th anniversary six of crows | the crows

[truelahey]

next chapter of 'in spite' coming soon finally???

[jayzhine]

I’m back in the building 😭

[hipsternumbertwo]

Angela's favorite Cinderella's Castle moment

[thetheatergremlin]

Destined to find each other in every universe is one thing. No one is doing doomed to lose each other in every universe like Starkid in the hatchetfield series

[duke-keane-irl]

will branner's fave starkid show is black friday? BASED

[hyenabeanz]

HAPPY FUCKING PRIDE, FROST FANS.

[spookyfbi]

I just want my OTP to derrive meaning from each other in a way that would be incredibly unhealthy and codependent if two people did that in real life but is profoundly poetic and romantic within the context of a fictional piece of media in consuming.

[lostinpubwe-deactivated20220705]

[truelahey]

yall should go watch Big Bear on youtube. go because lauren, joey, jon, and angela are in it, stay because it's a really good play

[magnhild]

it's midnight on the 1st of june aest

[very-tired-rat]

live theatre is probably the most important thing in the world

[wups-up]

Actually Pokey asking Steph what she wants in the same tone as What Do You Want, Paul is ironic considering Steph’s I want song was literally cut

In universe this could be Pokey seeing a little bit of Paul in Steph, her own refusal to admit what she wants, (her and Pete literally have an “I don’t want you song” lol) and him deciding to force her hand

Out of universe it feels like an accidental meta commentary on how Steph is lacking her own I want song, and her holding up her phone, even as a bit, is reflective of how little we get to know about her in comparison to Grace and Pete

[aliceisaperson]

A criticism I've heard a lot before for Nerdy Prudes Must Die is that it doesn't make sense that Steph and Pete would be what the other cherished most because they had not known each-other that long and I don't really think that the criticism is wrong, but I would like to offer a counter-point.

I don't think it's unrealistic I think it's just deeply sad. Isn't it sad that in these characters 18 years of life they haven't found anyone they connect with on the level they connect with each other? Isn't it sad that they never met someone who saw them for who they truly are? Steph before that had never met anyone who didn't see her as stupid. Pete hadn't met anyone before who saw him as genuinely cool. That's depressing as fuck that a friendship that has lasted for about 2 weeks is more meaningful to them than any of the other relationships they have with people because no one else sees them as more than what they are on the surface level.

Honestly I see both Steph and Pete as both deeply lonely people. Sure, they have friendships, but I don't see them as particularly deep or healthy ones. Richie and Ruth are constantly making fun of Pete and crossing his boundaries. The friendships Steph has seem pretty surface level with them also being pretty judgmental of her and her choices. They don't have a lot of people in their corner. Of course they'd cherish the first relationship that gave them a true connection. Of course they'd want to hold onto it for dear life. No matter how short they'd known each other, they made an impact on each others lives in a way no one else had been able too.

[probuccalfat]

stop inventing shit to be insecure about oh my god

[probuccalfat]

like i’m actually so sick of it i’m two days from pulling my hair out and screaming in the walmart parking lot about how fake the constructs of our society are like you don’t have to do any of this shit you can have a fine and content life doing shit the way you want to do it oh my GOD you don’t need to have glass skin or have a 6 figure salary or try to find a house in the city or have a baby or try to get a promotion or whatever the hell else people told you makes for a happy life you can work at the library or pool forever if it makes you happy you can be single forever if it makes you happy have whatever the fuck kind of skin or hair or clothes you like having on your body have whatever the fuck kind of body you want this shit is MADE UP!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE ALLOWED TO BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU HAVE AND NOT CONTINUALLY STRIVE FOR MORE AND MORE!!!!!!!!!