The Way Jeremy Screams Michael’s Name When He Makes An Entrance During The Play Reblog If You Agree

Yeah, Les Mis you just have to admit defeat at some point.

guide to singing along to musicals alone

Be More Chill: sing along to ALL the instrumentals.

The Book of Mormon: passionately yell the lines. Then glance out the window awkwardly to make sure no one’s listening. Then resume passionately yelling. Awkwardly go quiet when you hear people passing your door. Repeat.

Dear Evan Hansen: two modes: either humming the songs peacefully to yourself or jumping to your feet, perfectly executing the “Sincerely, Me” dance and also doing all of Ben Platt’s physical tics and waiting for your Tony.

Falsettos: *singing along happily for hundredth time* *abruptly stops* What does that line even mean

Hamilton: there is literally only one way to do it: singing along to all the parts at once and incorporating all the furniture in the room for maximum effect.

The Last Five Years: have a hundred tabs open with the lyrics. It would be one of the easiest musicals to sing along to alone if there weren’t so many goddamn words.

Les Misérables: reconcile yourself to the fact that it’s physically impossible to sing along to all the parts. You gotta just pick a character to sing with. Which is actually fine, because most Les Mis fans have this one character that’s “their” character. And there’s probably only one character who’s in your range, anyway. I mean, you can try to sing along to all the parts, but prepare to get absolutely slaughtered in “One Day More.”

Newsies: whatever you do, just don’t try to dance along. Please.

Next to Normal: *singing along happily for hundredth time* *abruptly stops* Whoa. That line is really clever/weird/sad/beautiful.

The Phantom of the Opera: AHHHHH aaahhhh ahhhh ahhhHHHH SING MY ANGEL OF MUSIC AHHHH ahhhh ahhh hahhhHHHHH sing mY ANGEL ahhh hahhhhhhh ahhhhHHHHH SING FOR MEEEE AHHHHH HHHHHHHH HAHHHHH HHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SING MY ANGEL HHHHHHHH Ś̹̗̝̠̫I͓̻̰̲N̢̠͕G̦̬͟ ̲F̳̫̦̜̭̰O͙̹̪͕̞͉͟R̩̭̦ ̛̠͚̰M̫͍̬͇͈̖EE̖̙̬̳̞̞̹È̖E͈EE͏E̗̞̲͍̰̕E̗̙̬̻̭Ḛ̫͉̗̜ aaʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰʰ

Rent: ALL the air guitar.

Spring Awakening: *forgets lyric* 🎶 lonely grass purple horses hay bale 🎶

Waitress: wait until “I Didn’t Plan It” and “She Used to Be Mine,” and then let out YEARS of pain and sadness

Wicked: *searches on YouTube* how to belt

Dear Evan Hansen fanart :) using MyPaint digital art program

Very important for Stormlight Archive fans who are reading the preview chapters!!!!

All right, fronds, Tor has announced that starting August 22, they’ll be posting Oathbringer chapters! This is terribly exciting for people who want to read the preview chapters, but for people like me, who want to wait and savor (and liveblog) the whole book at once as opposed to piecemeal and spread out over several months, it’s kind of a source of anxiety…

I know that I’m going to be dodging spoilers for almost three months now (thanks, tor). And while I would never want to dampen people’s enjoyment of the preview novel chapters, I’m adding my request to the pile of people saying, yo please please please tag your spoilers!!! 

Aaaaand as much as I love tumblr, it can be kind of…a complicated endeavor making sure that posts end up where you want them–or don’t. So here’s a friendly review of how to make sure spoilers don’t end up where people who don’t want to see them…won’t.

Read mores are your friends. That little line makes everything so, so much easier to avoid. Read mores are your friends.

Wait until the fifth tag. Here’s one of tumblr’s less well-known features: only the first five tags on a post will show up in the public tag. So if the FIRST tag you put on a post is #brandon sanderson, that shit’s showing up in the #brandon sanderson tag. BUT if you put #one #two #three #four #five #brandon sanderson, (or similar “junk tags”–I tend to use // marks), then we’re all safe. It won’t end up in the tracked tag and it’ll be easier to avoid spoilers in the public, tracked tags. You still maintain organization on your personal blog, because it’s still in YOUR #brandon sanderson tag, but you won’t ruin someone else’s day by having it show up in the public tag with spoilers attached.

The first five tags work the other way, too! No one wants to scream into the void and not get a response–I’m on board with that. So somewhere in your first five tags, put #oathbringer or #oathbringer spoilers or even #stormlight archive spoilers. That way, people reading the preview chapters have a place to go to interact with other people reading the preview chapters, and people who want to go into November fresh and clean and unspoiled can still check the regular SA and Bsandy tags without fearing they’ll get spoiled.

Don’t put reactions in the tags. A lot of people have blacklist settings so that even if a post is blocked, the tags still show up as readable–this makes it easier to see why things were blocked, but it also runs the risk of tags like “#omg and then JASNAH did the THING and I DIED” spoiling even tiny things. Keep tags for…well, tags for a few months, and add additional screaming or reactions to the bottom of your actual post.

Discord and Mibbit are your friends. The nice thing about both messaging services is that you can set up different chats and servers that are subsets of the regular ones. So make a spoiler chat separate from the regular, spoiler-free chat, and go wild.

TAG EVERYTHING! Even if it’s a meme or a stupid shitpost or a vagueblog or something that doesn’t seem like it’s spoilers–TAG IT ANYWAY. If it’s even tangentially related to Oathbringer, TAG IT. Especially memes, tbh. Memes are insidious, and often innocent, but with a closer look, they reveal more than they might have intended. Tag literally everything, even if you don’t think it’s spoilers, even if you think it’s annoying. Those of us avoiding shit will thank you.

KEEP tagging stuff, even after the book is released! Maybe you read the preview chapters and so you’ve got a 300-page headstart, or maybe you speed-read, or maybe you took time off from work just to read, and maybe you finish two days after the book comes out. Keep tagging spoilers. Some people read slower, or have time commitments or work keeping them away from the book, or simply read a few chapters a day to savor it, or want to read faster but can’t because they’re liveblogging it (hello, fronds!). But just because you are finished doesn’t mean everyone else is, and continuing to tag for spoilers is super necessary, even six months–or longer–out from the release date.

All right, I hope that didn’t come out as patronizing or anything. I’ve just found that an occasional reminder of the ins and outs of tumblr’s more useful systems can be super helpful, especially if it’s stuff that newer users might not have encountered yet, like the fifth-tag-rule.

ANYWAY, for everyone starting with the preview chapters, ONLY SEVEN DAYS UNTIL OATHBRINGER!!!! Those of us waiting the remaining 90 days until November 14 thank you in advance for tagging your shit. <3

….shit, 90 days? that’s closer than I thought it was…..guess, I need to get a jump on my WoR reread!!

I NEED THIS SHIRT YOU HAVE NO IDEA

1) oh good lord it's been like 175 in the past 2 years and I'm 15 so that gives you an idea

2) Harry Potter is an obvious one, but Every Day is a great read that helps gain an understanding of a lot of different types of people while still following a romance/fantasy storyline

3) The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan

4) Archenemies - Marissa Meyer

5) Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson

6) The Iron Trial - Holly Black/Cassandra Clare, and at least 3 times

7) not all night but definitely late: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

8) Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

9) The Scorch Trials - James Dashner

10) idk

11) oh God I don't know, I don't normally hate books

12) probably one of the Stormlight Archive books, can't pick which

13) Simon vs. the Homosapiens Agenda -> Love Simon

14) again Stormlight Archive and also a good Percy Jackson remake

15)

16) Girls Made of Snow and Glass - Melissa Bashardoust

17) SURPRISE! Roshar from Stormlight Archive

18) Dragons are great

19) Emma Carstairs and Cristina Rosales, Dark Artifices - Cassandra Clare

20) Callum Hunt and Aaron Stewart, Magisterium - Holly Black/Cassandra Clare

21) top of the ferris wheel in Simon vs. the Homosapiens Agenda - Becky Albertalli

22) Linh Cinder, The Lunar Chronicles - Marissa Meyer; Jasnah Kholin, The Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson

23) Elend Venture, Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson; Renarin Kholin - Stormlight Archive

24) Nova Artino, Renegades - Marissa Meyer

25) Kaladin x Happiness, Stormlight Archive-- just kidding. There are so many.

26) idk

*27) best plot twist

28) Adrian Everhart's power from Renegades: making drawings come to life

29) Moash, Stormlight Archive; Alex Strike, Magisterium; Octavian, Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan; Gally, Maze Runner - James Dashner

30) Alex Strike

31) ooh I don't know

32) Death Cure 250 (because spoilers)

33) Jasnah bashing Amaram in Oathbringer

34) Sewers in Les Misérables

35) again DC 250, also the last 100 pages of Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson

36) SHOCKER! Stormlight Archive

37) Lunar Chronicles

38) Every Day

39) I don't read horror

40) Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee

41) Maze Runner

emoji book ask

1) 📚 approximately how many books have you read 

2) 📝 book that everyone has to read 

3) 📕 favourite first book in a series 

4) 📗 favourite second book in a series 

5) 📘 favourite third book in a series 

6) 📖 book you’ve read more than once and how many times 

7) 🛋 book that keep you up all night 

8) 🎁 book that was surprisingly good 

9) 😡 book you expected more of 

10) 💰 most expensive book you’ve bought 

11) 💩 the worst book you’ve read 

12) 🏆 the best book you’ve read 

13) 🎥 favourite book to movie/tv show adaptation 

14) 🎬 book you want to be a movie/tv show 

15)  🏝 summer book recommendation 

16) ⛄️ winter book recommendation 

17) 🌎 favourite fictional world 

18) 🐲 favourite book creature 

19) 👯 favourite female friendship 

20) 👯‍♂️ favourite male friendship 

21) 💋 favourite kiss 

22) 👸 favourite princess/queen 

23) 🤴 favourite prince/king 

24) 😈 favourite villain 

25) ❤️ favourite ship 

26) ⛵️ favourite crack ship 

27) 😱 best plot twist 

28) 🔮 power you’d like to have 

29) 🥊 character you’d punch in the face 

30) 😤 character you loved but now hate 

31) 😻 character you hated but now love 

32) 😭 death that made you cry the most 

33) 😂 the funniest scene 

34) 🤢 the grossest scene 

35) 💔 scene that broke your heart

36) 🏹 favourite fantasy book

37) 🚀 favourite sci fi book

38) 🌹 favourite romance book

39) 👻 favourite horror book

40) 🏰 favourite historical fiction book

41) 🔫 favourite dystopian book

Angourie Rice and Owen Teague as Rhiannon and A (Alexander) from the Every Day movie poster. Drawn with Prismacolor pencil and white gel pen, July 2018

Some amazing photos from Oregon/Washington!

1) A cool tree in the woods of Vancouver

2) The foggy ocean

3) A smoky sunset, the view from our Air B&B in Netarts

4) The less foggy ocean, with some beautiful waves

5) An oceanside cave

6) Looking up in an old growth forest

7) The view of Mount Hood from Timberline Lodge

8) The beautiful Barlow Wayside Park

9) A caboose shaped Air B&B

10) Beautiful roses at the Oregon Zoo

So I found videos of Waving Through A Window (first picture) and You Will Be Found (second picture) and found something really interesting. If you look closely, they have EXACTLY the same setup, except in Waving Through A Window the ensemble is facing away from Evan and in You Will Be Found everyone is looking at him. At the beginning he is wishing they would notice him, and by the end of act 1 they see him and appreciate him. ❤💕💞

I wrote a long essay about my thoughts on Oathbringer, so enjoy this extensive nerdy paper! Spoilers included!!!

ATTENTION

‘saltyurio’ on Instagram is reposting my art and a lot of other YOI artists’ art without credit and since they blocked me for asking them to take it down I’m guessing they’ve blocked all the other people who have messaged them. If you could go to their account and comment on their posts or something just so their followers know who the original artists are I’d really appreciate it.