Happy One Year Anniversary!
Hello, my little babies (gaybies, if you will) (I'm so sorry), today is a very exciting day!
Today (well, actually yesterday, unforeseeable circumstances delayed this) marks this blog's one year anniversary! A whole year! It's been an exciting year for me personally, but what a year it's been for all of us together! Regardless of if you're been following this blog for the whole year, we have shared this past year as humans, and it has not been an easy one! Truly, King George in Hamilton was correct when he said 'oceans rise, empires fall, we have seen each other through it all'. Give yourself a pat on the back that you've made it this far!
Now, when dailypocsix celebrated their one year anniversary earlier this year, they did so with custom art. All this blog has ever been is basically me ripping off their ideas and I'm not stopping now! I commissioned art from some very, very talented people to celebrate some of the dream casts that we have enjoyed on this blog and that we will see in the future! Let's all take a look together, shall we?
This wonderful piece by @lightleckrereins celebrates Jordan Luke Gage as Fiyero in Wicked, Eloise Davies and Courtney Stapleton as Kate and Eva in We Are The Tigers, Rob Houchen as Clark in We Are The Tigers, Rosario Dawson as Persephone in Hadestown, Lauren Zakrin as Christine Daaé in Phantom of the Opera, and Cathryn Wake as Karen Smith in Mean Girls!
My dear friend TrashPandaPocalypse brings us this fantastic piece, which is Frankie Grande as Damian Hubbard in Mean Girls, Billy Porter as the titular character in Beetlejuice, George Salazar as Jamie New in Everyone's Talking About Jamie, Kyle Sherman as Orpheus in Hadestown, and Chris McCarrell as Evan Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen!
@you-need-a-jello-shot was so kind as to contribute this beautiful art, which imagines Karis Oka as Regina George in Mean Girls, Milly Shapiro as Annabeth Chase in The Lightning Thief, and Beth Malone as The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods!
Of course, any celebration of this blog would just be downright wrong without including @dailypocsix, since she's always been my biggest inspiration and cheerleader, so I'm thrilled she gave us this awesome piece of Shannen Alyce Quan as Gretchen Weiners in Mean Girls, Kayla Pecchioni as Alana Beck in Dear Evan Hansen, and Blake Patrick Anderson as Percy Jackson in The Lightning Thief!
This fun and lively piece was provided to us by @p-chux who came through super fast and gives us Alicia Corrales-Connor as Farrah in We Are The Tigers, Hazel Karooma-Brooker as Janis Sarkisian in Mean Girls, and Sandra Mae Frank as Alice Spencer in Alice by Heart!
Liam, who also goes by artcommission on Fiverr, gives us this absolutely stunning piece that features Karen Olivo as Catherine of Aragon in Six the Musical, Ben Levi Ross as L in Death Note, Cooper Howell as May in & Juliet, and Kaden Kearney as an alternate in Six the Musical!
And last but not certainly least is this beautiful and creative piece from @kachinnate that has Jake Zyrus as Laurens/Philip in Hamilton, Emerson Mae Smith as Katherine Howard in Six the Musical, MJ Rodriguez as Jane Seymour in Six the Musical, Murphy Tayor Smith as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, and Peppermint as Becky in Waitress!
I've talked at length about this blog and what getting to run it means to me, so I won't bore you all with the whole spiel again, but just suffice to say that this blog means a lot to me, and being able to run it and share all these ideas and this celebration of the LGBT+ community and maybe some hope and some joy with you all means a lot.
They say it takes a villager, and that is true for this project. Thank you to all the artists above for hearing my super vague idea of "okay so it's, like, actors but in colors that match the flag of their orientation" and running with it. Thank you to dailypocsix for always being the best hypewoman. Thank you to my dear friend Jazzy who isn't on tumblr but I will send this post anyway for helping me navigate social issues I don't understand as well and making me a better person. Thank you to every person who's ever sent in a dreamcast or information on people I didn't have on the masterlist. And thank you to you, dear reader, whether you're like @much-brighter-ink and @a-rose-remembered who were amongst our earliest supporters and still show up in our activity regularly and I feel deserve a special shoutout, one of the four new followers who joined in the last 24 hours, or someone in between, for coming with me on this journey, letting me onto your dash day after day, and (usually) being nice even if you don't understand or like what I'm doing. This probably would have been possible without any individual one of you, but it sure as hell wouldn't have been as fun.
Anyone up for another year?
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