anybody got a west wing fanfic prompt they want written?? looking for some inspiration

hi prompted to watch a bo burnham interview where he talks about having panic attacks on stage after i watched inside and when he talked about being a young person performing your life for an audience in real time that 14/15 year old girls would come up to him after his show and say they felt the same way and that it really made him think about his own work and the social media experience, and me remembering being that 14 year old girl coming up to him after a show in 2013 and telling him i’d memorized all of his songs and that i really felt connected to them even though that was probably weird since i was a 14 year old girl, and him being so cool about it and telling me to not let anyone ever tell me i was weird and that he thought it was really cool. and realizing that i was one of those 14/15 year old girls he’s talking about, and that after all this time this interaction with someone i really looked up to that i remember as being cringey on my part and assumptively obligatory on his part was actually maybe not and i think im gonna cry

It’s like I have this disease that makes me place online orders

— Ken Liu, Translator’s Postface to The Three Body Problem. (via as-if-falling)

hi please please please i need your help. im using bandstand the musical in my honors thesis, and im trying to mention the coming out scene for jimmy campbell that was cut, but i can’t find any formal documentation of the scene. i remember somebody mentioning that the actor who played jimmy (james nathan hopkins) and laura osnes were upset by the cut, so i was wondering if perhaps there’s a twitter exchange? something? anything? i truly just need a shred of citable evidence that the scene existed so i can use it for my argument!!!!

anybody got some fluffy klave tua fic requests?? i just wanna write 

oh my god

i hate the end of the semester so much! every day im like “ok honey u need to do x y and z or u will nearly fail all ur classes” and then when it comes down to it i’m watching 5 hours of youtube makeup tutorials 

In defence of Nico

I have to say, I’m glad that they finally showed that Nico is human. He makes mistakes, he was overconfident and it ended tragically. He lashes out when he’s hurting and then tries to act like it’s not bothering him. He’s clearly got communication issues, which we’ve seen before, he closes himself off if he’s upset with Levi instead of explaining what’s bothering him. He does all these things because he’s human. It doesn’t make it right. That was a low blow he took at Levi, it was wrong. But people don’t always do everything right. And they’ll definitely need to have a conversation about it. But the writers finally made him real. He’s not just Levi’s boyfriend anymore. He’s got his own problems and faults. They’ve laid out the tools to test this relationship, and hopefully they’ll be able to use them.

also (because I’ve been thinking about this far too much) consider the fact that while Nico may be the super confident, experienced gay man he is now, the way he originally reacted to Levi in the elevator about having “already done” his coming out and saying that he “can’t go through it again” lends some thought to Nico’s earlier life. It doesn’t sound like he necessarily had an easy coming out experience (in fact it sounds almost painful for him to imagine going through it again) and the fact that he is the way he is now means he probably had to go through a lot of self hate, external hate from others, and eventual growth to get there; not to mention the anxiety behind the idea of becoming a revered surgeon while also being a gay man, dealing with patients/civilians all the time and never knowing how they might react if they find out but busting your ass to do it anyway. 

So this idea of failure and giving up is something that he has a genuinely founded fear of. He has clamored his way to where he is now, past homophobia and self doubt in the past, and the thought of stopping even for a moment is terrifying because what if it’s all going to come falling down the minute he stops holding it up? Nico obviously has a pretty deep fear of rejection so he tries his best to make rejection a variable impossibility (or to do the rejecting first). Like, even the way he uses the word “identity” to describe how Levi supposedly deals with failure. It feels very much to me like someone in his past equated gay with failure and therefore he can only continue to hold up the queer part of his identity if he can continue to disprove the failure part that he was told would come with it. 

sorry for the rant, I’ve just been looking at posts responding to this scene and no one seems to have brought up how his queer identity might play into this fear of failure and rejection. please let me know your thoughts on this!!

ok but consider this: dave singing “why god why” from miss saigon about klaus

My dear, you’ve suffered quite a bit throughout this life of yours your body’s back from battle but your soul’s still stuck in war

soooooo because im self indulgent im writing a chaptered tua fic about the story of klaus and the man he stayed with for 3 weeks who made “the most fantastic osso bucco” because im obsessed with that seemingly throw away line and i want that story so stay tuned

hey i actually did the damn thing if you wanna read it here!!

next chapter is up!! it would mean a lot to me if you gave it a read cause im genuinely liking the way this fic is going ❤️

man. what is it with the intrinsic gay urge to boogie. i literally cannot stand still. at any given moment i am gettin down just a little bit. grocery store line? im dancin. waiting for my water to boil? you betcha. why don't we just let Go

soooooo because im self indulgent im writing a chaptered tua fic about the story of klaus and the man he stayed with for 3 weeks who made “the most fantastic osso bucco” because im obsessed with that seemingly throw away line and i want that story so stay tuned

hey i actually did the damn thing if you wanna read it here!!