#theater majors

[elsewhereuniversity]

ah, the joys of theater. the feeling of sinking into a role, of dancing and singing until your body gives. the dionysian thrill of drawing laughter and tears and painful applause from a crowd until they can give you nothing else. the bonds you forge with your cast and crew, so sudden, so unbreakable. the adrenaline rushing in, the celebrations, the technique, the work and reward...

here, hear, none of them are worth it.

#vignette #the theatre #theater majors

[silverystardustt]

At its core, every piece of media we ever have consumed and ever will consume — whether it’s art, music, books, movies — is fundamentally about love, or the lack of it.

it’s an inescapable facet of human life. it could be about the love you have for people in your life, or how much you hate your job, or love your city, but the love is always there.

#literature #academia #dark academia #poetry #classics #english major #theater #theatre #music #art #light academia #books #reading #jane austen #dark academia aesthetic #museums #liberal arts #university #student #artist #latinx artist

[blood-bagz]

"Wyll's entrance is too corny!!! Wyll's entrance makes me cringe!!!" You are playing DnD: The Video Game.

#Also all the characters are cringe and corny #embrace it #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion calling me Bhaal Babe (unromanced! By the way) made me want to skin myself but you don't see me shitting on him for that alone #Wyll is just a theater major let him live #wyll ravengard #bg3 wyll #baldurs gate wyll

[dxmxuse]

As a writer, the thought of being paid $260 for helping write a show that has over 12.8 billion minutes viewed is sickening. The writers strike is absolutely crucial for the future of script writing, I can’t see anyone in this generation wanting to work for so little when the workload and potential payout is so massive

#suits tv #writerscommunity #writers strike #hollywood #suits #netflix #television #movies #scriptwriting #writing #creative writing #film #script #theater #university #college #english major #writers guild of america #wga strike #wga solidarity

[weirdgirlzip]

HEATHER CHANDLER VELS!!! i thought about making this an au but thats a project for the future ....

#trolls #trolls fanart #trolls art #velvet trolls #my art #heathers #heather chandler #velvet and veneer #why yes i AM a musical theater major

[buttclench-ryugazaki]

headcanon that phoenix is so quick on his feet when it comes to bluffing because he joined an improv comedy team in college. he wasn't funny and that's why he looks back on those days with slight shame, but he acknowledges that "yes and"-ing honed one of his most signature skills

#it's not that different from the theater major thing but i think with an added layer of cringe #ace attorney #phoenix wright

[luuxxart]

do you guys think love can bloom between a doshisha theater major and a ritsumeikan pre-law major?

#no idea what Akira would actualy major in but I’m going w theater for now lol #persona 5 #goro akechi #akira kurusu #shuake #akeshu #also I am late for honey I’m home day so pls take this in apology

[specs-shoe]

Newsie trending so hard rn it woke up my almost dead bway blog

#newsies #broadway #newsies the musical #1992sies #musical theater #musicals #theater #don't worry im still a theater kid #im even going to collage as a theater major #i just haven't had much to add to strictly theater stuff #but i do talk about other musicals like hazbin hotel and jatp on my other blog

[porcelainlu]

Photo collection of THIS Jinkx because I'm going absolutely ✨insane✨ over this look.

#jinkx monsoon #drag race #drag #rpdr #trans #lgbt #lgbtq #jinkx & dela #jinkx and dela #jinkx and major #queen of all queens #drag queen #drag queens #little shop of horrors #broadway #theatre #musical theater #theater

[bakedbakermom]

@agent-troi you made me do this

(based on the notes on this post)

#sir this is a wendys #i am not even ashamed of having this whole ramble memorized. #txt #ftf #honestly from a screen-writing perspective a drunken rant is the BEST way to deliver this kind of background information to an audience #without clunky exposition. very important considering this was a major theatrical release and not everyone in the theater would have been #familiar with the show.

[littlestfallenangel]

It's so ridiculous that people are pressed about Furina being an archon when the archons we've seen so far are:

a drunk bard who got mugged for his gnosis by one of the weakest harbingers

an old man who faked his death and perpetually forgets his wallet

a shut-in who got tricked into starting a civil war

a small child

#furina #genshin impact #obviously i'm exaggerating the negative traits of the others #but 'the gods kind of suck actually' has been a major theme this entire time #so of course the god of water france is a theater kid

[bisamwilson]

MOVIES ARE BACK BABEY

#155M!!! 80M for an R rated three hour biopic!!!!! hello!!!!! #iirc this is the first time ever that one movie has hit $100M and another has hit $50M at the same time during opening weekend #like!!!! cinema!!!! #i spend the vast majority of my free time at the movie theater alright. and like. #the last time i’ve seen the lobby as busy as it was thursday night was during fuckin endgame #and i tend to see major events the day of release #anyways!! we’re so back!! #mak rants #mak watches movies #barbie #oppenheimer #barbenheimer

[neversetyoufree]

Looking back through the first couple volumes of VnC, it's wild how much of what Vanitas does in early chapters is nothing but a series of transparent attempts to put himself in control when he feels uncomfortable. You don't notice the first time you read it, or at least I didn't, but he's really quite obvious once you have the knowledge of what subjects he's sensitive about.

I've touched on this before, but I think Vanitas's biggest defense mechanism is theater, specifically playing up his own power/unpredictability in order to make everyone around him uncomfortable. "Vanitas" is a character that he plays, and he weaponizes that character against others when the man behind the act feels threatened.

(Now that we're under the readmore, here's your warning for a VnC-standard amount of discussion of sexual assault).

Even starting in his very first scene in chapter 1, when we've yet to see Vanitas get anywhere close to vulnerable or upset, we get a hint of how he operates. His first attempt to get Noé away from Amelia isn't to physically fight him—it's to play sinister and deliver a vague threat.

He could have gone straight for the knives, or he could have told Noé the truth that Amelia herself was dangerous and urged him to get away. But that's not the person Vanitas is. He doesn't talk things out with honesty, and he doesn't resort straight to violence unless he's really over the edge. He threatens and plays up his dangerous persona to get what he wants.

He even uses the very same line with the security guards later in the chapter, playing sinister again to escape arrest because he might be screwed otherwise.

He's pretty much never authentic pre-catacombs, but moments like this where he dials up the act to achieve something show how in control he is of his own inauthenticity. And he never takes advantage of that control more than when he feels threatened, be that threat physical (like the security guards) or emotional.

When Noé asks him about how he inherited the book of Vanitas in chapter 2, something we now know is a sensitive secret, Vanitas immediately changes the subject. He gets in Noé's space, acting borderline flirtatious (and he often does get flirty as part of his persona), then returns to the topic of Noé being his shield (which is an act in itself, given how he really reacts to being protected).

It takes one poke to the chest and a couple of sentences to switch the conversation from "Noé insists on knowing Vanitas's sensitive past" to "Noé has to deal with the mysterious, overbearing Vanitas's whims," which is just how Vanitas wants it. Playing up his demanding, in your face side buries the threat of an uncomfortable topic.

Then, when Dominique suggests that he worships the blue moon during the bal masqué, we get a much more extreme incarnation of this same behavior. Domi's words threaten to undermine a huge part of the narrative he's built for himself as Vanitas, and they do so by dredging up a truth that he wants desperately to keep buried. He might not worship the blue moon, but he really did love Luna, and being reminded of that throws a big wrench in the narrative of his revenge against them.

He cannot handle having his narrative undermined at this point, and especially not by a reminder of Luna, who is arguably the most sensitive part of his whole tragic backstory. So he freaks out, and freaking out for Vanitas means throwing himself into his false persona as hard as he possibly can. He grows sinister, speaking darkly before breaking into maniacal laughter that startles Dominique and her attendants. Then he hurls his constructed narrative into public view, revealing himself and ensuring that every vampire knows his claim of "wanting revenge."

Nobody's going to forget the human that leapt onto a chandelier in the middle of a ball, revealed himself to be the kin of the blue moon, then swore his vengeance against that very kin, and that means nobody else is going to misunderstand him like Domi and dredge up the truth: that he never really hated Luna.

Going manic and theatrical like this is a defense mechanism, and it's one that ensures not only that Domi stops hassling him, but that, hopefully, he'll never even have to consider worshiping the blue moon ever again. It's a total rejection of an idea that made him uncomfortable, achieved through theater. It also takes a situation that was quite out of his control, his being chained up by Domi, and turns it into a scenario that he engineered, where he is in absolute control of the crowd for at least a few moments.

The best example of all this though, the time when Vanitas combines every form of weaponized persona I've talked about into one awful act, is the scene in which he forces a kiss on Jeanne.

As I mentioned before, Vanitas often plays up his flirtatiousness as part of his persona. He does it with Jeanne quite often, and he does a (usually) subtler version of it with Noé a few times as well. It's a great way to change the subject and make throw people off their game without resorting to threats, and his treatment of Jeanne in chapter 4 is an extreme, but not too surprising incarnation of this same flirty habit.

He might be attracted to Jeanne, but attraction alone is not a reason to force a kiss on an unwilling stranger while ending a fight. Vanitas kissing her was, as much as any other moment I've referenced here, an instinct to protect himself and gain control of a situation that otherwise threatened him.

Winning the fight or not, Vanitas is in a tenuous position in terms of control when dealing with Jeanne. Jeanne is an incredibly strong opponent, and she managed to withstand both a bite from a curse-bearer and a direct stunning hit from the Book. Vanitas has played all of his cards, and his only insurance that she won't murder him immediately is Noé, a man he barely knows, successfully keeping Luca hostage without realizing that's what he's doing. These are not great odds. He's also extremely attracted to Jeanne, and though his initial attraction to her isn't nearly as distressing as his full-on infatuation in mal d'amour, being weak to the sight of her represents yet another loss of control.

Then Jeanne tries to sacrifice herself. She tells Vanitas he can do anything to her he pleases, so long she can protect the child she's devoted herself to watching over, and there is no way on Earth that this moment isn't a trigger for Vanitas, because he once did the exact same thing. He's already in an unsteady situation, and then she reminds him of Misha and his own darkest moments, which means that conversation has to end immediately.

"Please don't hurt him," is the last thing Jeanne says before Vanitas flips suddenly from threats to advances, and his face when he gets close to her is manic.

So when Vanitas gets uncomfortable, what does he do? He changes the subject wildly, suddenly making the whole situation about him and his fickle, unpredictable moods and unreasonable demands. He cranks up the character of the wild, demanding, show-stealing Vanitas to eleven. He kisses Jeanne. And even though it's a cliche line, the fact remains that sexual assault is never really about the sex. It's about power and control. Vanitas does wild things and plays up his persona as a clutch for control when he's uncomfortable, and this is that to an extreme degree. This kiss gives him the power in their interaction.

Plus, the specific bad memories that Jeanne unintentionally triggers for Vanitas are all about bodily autonomy. His own "do what you want to me, just don't hurt the kid" moment was protecting Misha in Moreau's lab, which led to physical violation after violation. It was a complete loss of his agency and autonomy. And his memory of Misha is also deeply tied to whatever happened with Luna's death, and given the possibility of his being made their kin without consent, that memory may also be one of the loss of autonomy.

This scene is Vanitas not just getting triggered, but being reminded of his loss of control and ownership of his body. It makes a twisted kind of sense that the resultant clutch for power and control comes via him forcing his body onto somebody else. He manufactures a situation that is all about bodily autonomy, but he has all of it and the source of danger has none. And he does it all while stealing the show and rerouting the topic as he always does.

Just like so many other actions he takes early in the series, his most reprehensible moment is just another desperate grasp at control. He has to be threatening and showy and unreasonable. He has to be the kind of man that announces himself as savior to a room full of powerful enemies. The kind of man can force himself on a powerful woman like Jeanne. Because if he doesn't drive home the act well enough, somebody might gain access to the horribly vulnerable person underneath.

#vanitas is what happens when the most traumatized man in the world weaponizes being a theater kid as his main defense mechanism #the man was literally raised in a troupe of actors #and if everyone is busy focusing on how unpleasant he is #nobody is dwelling on the things he doesn't want them to see #and he can pretend those vulnerable parts don't exist #vnc #vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #vanitas my beloved #vnc vanitas #english major hours #ID in alt text

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

The funniest thing about Gay Dads AU meeting The Other Ones is Ballister finding out his twink ass musical theater major husband who probably works in fucking,,, marketing or some shit was effectively a soldier/cop for over a decade

Like "MY husband!?!?!?"

Both the other Ambs like "what's THAT supposed to mean"

#gay dads au is fun because it's basically just a modern Normal World au #theater major and chem major bfs #nimona #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister boldheart #goldenheart #ballister blackheart #gay dads au

[kaysdenofchaos]

AA OMG YOU LIKE MUSICAL THEATER? WHAT'S YOUR FAV MUSICAL??

BDBS even better— I did theater 😌✨ (in high school) (I sucked lmao)

(Maleficent in Descendants, Farrah in She Kills Monsters, Cowboy Bob + Travis in Footloose)

My nostalgic fave is Be More Chill (cough George Salazar and Stephanie Hsu my queer awakenings COUGH), though I can’t say I have an all-time fave. Dear Evan Hansen is still the only musical that’s made me breakdown while watching, and from the oldies I adore The Count of Monte Cristo. That being said Beetlejuice, Hadestown, and Six are SO PEAK AND LITERALLY EVERYTHING I NEED IN LIFE RAHDHSJBDJW

Anyways Merrily, We Roll Along was fun!!!! A tragedy but still rlly enjoyable ^^

#I wanted to double major actually in art and theater but that shits ✨expensive✨ #I sorta just gravitated towards the antagonist roles lmao #khaotic

[trauma-insence]

“can you be quiet?” no actually, i can’t. im a theatre major and im practicing for my professional yapping classes

#ignore that i’m a production major focusing in sound and technical direction #the point still stands #i will never shut up #you can beg but like god i will ignore your pleass #theatre #theater kid #theater #theatre major #theater major