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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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Wave Girl 🌊✨

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[ID: Anime-style illustration of a girl in a blue outfit kneeling in a relaxed pose, pulling on her shoelaces absentmindedly. She is surrounded by a wave with a crescent moon riding on and, and yellow stars and fish float around her.

She wears a blue hijab, blue bucket hat with cloud motive, over-sized blue sweater with different moon phases on the sleeves, and blue pants. She also wears white socks and shoes, and blue eye shadow. She has light skin and blue eyes. /end ID]

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Best Snubbed Musical World Cup Round of 16

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

Little Shop of Horrors

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Could Little Shop actually be a contender for the Quarterfinals? We shall see.

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Little Shop is winning!

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Great Comet has retaken the lead!

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The race is neck and neck but Little Shop has taken the lead!

the-anemoi

ok. if it helps. lets look at the first song

literally the best i have heard in a show so far i think. like its the only one i can ever play on loop, and it made me so heavily invested in the show it wasnt even funny

the way it introduces the characters makes you intrigued and gives you a starting point on what to expect from each of them, and some of them are genuinely so funny (i love amber gray). the chorus is also so funny to me personally i think.

also! it has that thing going on. you know that absence in a narrative that haunts it? where a character should be, but theres none? yeah. it starts off the show by literally singing about how a character is not here. its so good

please vote comet

musicalsorwhatever

Okay I adore Great Comet and everything you said is true but if we're talking opening songs we GOTTA talk about Skid Row (technically the second song but the first is more of an overture with vocals if that makes sense)

Like??? Little Shop is an extremely funny show but it opens with this grim earnest look at lower class life. It establishes the setting as barely exaggerated and sets a tone that lasts through the whole show: these people are fucking desperate. I love how it introduces Seymore and Audrey as barely seperate from the ensemble. This could have happened to any of the characters in Skid Row and they all would have done the same thing.

AND THEN it transitions into that quiet, slow build of the characters just begging ANYTHING to give them a shot at something other than abuse and neglect, it's just magnificent. It just makes you go fuck, I'd take a chance on a talking vampire plant too. Tbh I think it's Menken's best song, and that's a very high bar.

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Best Snubbed Musical World Cup Round of 16

Newsies

Falsettos

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This is just the funny bits, and they are wonderful, but here's some of the reasons i think falsettos is the best:

  • Amazing harmonies and dissanant chords
  • The whole cast is so talented
  • Incredibly complex and flawed characters
  • Starts as just a dysfunctional family, but ends up examining the realities of the aids epidemic and how it both brought people together and tore them apart
  • I just love it so much
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“telomeke:
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Post by “Mike I Guess” @‌mike_i_guess:
“The lack of boomer LGBTQ+ people isn’t because it’s “more popular now.” Many were murdered by their peers, died from government inaction during the AIDS crisis, committed...
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Post by “Mike I Guess” @‌mike_i_guess:

The lack of boomer LGBTQ+ people isn’t because it’s “more popular now.” Many were murdered by their peers, died from government inaction during the AIDS crisis, committed suicide due to lack of social supports, or have had to live in the closet due to their peers’ cruelty.
rivertalesien

Photo of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, showing most of the members in black suits with their backs turned to the camera: they represent those lost to AIDS. A handful are dressed in white, facing the camera.

“The men in white are the surviving members of the Original San Francisco Gay Men’s Choir. Those in black represent the members lost to AIDs. Remember this when people say the gay community survived the epidemic. We had to start over because we lost a whole generation.” (original post)

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Best Snubbed Musical World Cup Round of 16

Newsies

Falsettos

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I love newsies as much as the next person, it’s one of my favorite musicals and has a good message. But it does NOT come close to being as good as Falsettos. For those of you who don’t know, Falsettos is a musical about Queer Jewish people in late 70s and early 80s. And the revival was done SO dirty at the Tony’s

It lost best revival!!!

and for no reason!!!

All of the actors are incredibly talented, and Andrew Rannells is straight the perfect Whizzer. The main character Marvin is complicated and interesting and grows by the end of the musical! There’s also a really touching relationship between Jason, Marvin’s son, and his stepdads Mendel and Whizzer.

Also Trina deserves the world and she one of the best solos ever, I’m Breaking Down.

Plus there’s two lesbians Charlotte and Cordelia and they love each other very much and you should vote for Falsettos for them.

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bogleech

The big discourse on twitter right now is that writers going on strike or cancelling their own series are breaking an invisible “contract” they made with their fans and all creators owe their fans a satisfying conclusion to their stories.

Actually all fans owe all creators for entertaining them and if a creator says “I don’t want to perform this labor anymore,” then regardless of the cliffhanger that leaves you with, your only response should be “take care! Thank you for all your hard work!!!” :)

dduane

Like it or not… this.