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“With malice, beasts will show their fangs; they’re in for a surprise. Bravely, I will wield my weapon I made from fangs of those that died.” (-The Crane Wives, 2012)

I drew Nadia McConnell again… oops, but she is SO “Show Your Fangs” by The Crane Wives to me… and I got the brainrot to draw this while listening to that song-

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I’m so normal about them. And so normal about the post I saw comparing their dynamics if Gabe had lived. So normal.

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I doubt anything will be as fucking devastating as this bit of Bare

Like do you understand

You know that poem that is like “14 lines from love letters or suicide notes”? Yeah. Yeah, exactly

Peter saying “I've never been so scared” while Jason says “a moment of such peace”

Knowing what you mean to me vs Knowing who we have to be because Jason has made peace with the past, finally, while Peter is getting ready for the future. A future probably without Jason. And he doesn't know how right he is about that

Try to see its not goodbye

"I know you're here in my heart" being the only truth they both share. The love was there, it didn't change anything, but it was there etc etc

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bare a pop opera documentary

Hi Y'all! I'm working on a bare a pop opera documentary including interviews with the og director and other original cast and creative team! I'm hoping to find a few fans who would be willing to send me a few testimonials about how Bare has affected their lives! Please message me, and id love to chat with y'all

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The circle of 'musicals that feature a gay protagonist, a song about spring time and a song called '911 emergency'' currently looks like this btw

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I think it’s beautiful that Bare is like 30 years old and still lives on. And that we still have Matthew Lloyd discourse 💖 peace and love

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too ill about peter simmonds from bare a pop opera. . .. can’t even watch the source material i’ll cry

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"matthew lloyd was just a teen who tried to do as much good as he could for his friends, was misled in his judgment by his religious upbringing, made one very big mistake and genuinely, deeply regretted it; he is not the villain of the show but one of its many victims" AND "matthew lloyd was an entitled straight male teenager who got so mad that one girl told him "no" that he went ahead and outed a gay guy knowing this would result in his losing all his friends, his family and his scholarship; even though the audience understands where he's coming from, he is very much a product of a sexist and homophobic society and it's pretty distasteful to victims of (sexist/homophobic) male violence and high school bullying to try and redeem him so hard" AND "matthew lloyd is a morally fascinating character and it's understandable he'd get so much focus from the fans" AND "it's kind of annoying how the only straight guy out of a main cast of 5 characters otherwise only comprised of women and gay guys, is the one who is the focus of most of the fanworks for the show especially when there aren't that many fanworks to begin with", are ideas that can and should coexist

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i don't consider the bapo new york workshop to be canon (considering most of the changes never made it to any official production/cast recording) however i think they provide some very interesting insight into the characters. for example during the dialogue part between confession and portrait of a girl you've got the girls and nadia talking shit about ivy ("the girl is like the anti-Mary, so many men have touched her it's a miracle she hasn't conceived") then the stage directions go "Ivy overhears and walks off. Jason stops her" and that's when Jason tells her "hey, chantelle says your drawing looks great". and i think this says a lot about jason's character. he is smart and notices a lot of things. he is aware of how fast rumours can travel and how they can ruin someone's reputation. but he is also kind and feels for ivy because he knows exactly how awful it'd be if rumours were going around about him too. i think he sees himself in her. and i also think it's very sweet (in a sad way) that their relationship started with him simply trying to comfort her and letting her know she's not alone despite the bullying she's facing. they could have had such a sweet friendship if things hadn't escalated the way they did

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jason mcconnell from bare: a pop opera is catholic (canon) and gay (canon)

submitted by @gay-little-axolotl

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friend gave me the idea and so naturally i had to draw jason and peter as in a heartbeat

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Rediscovered the ‘Bare: A Pop Opera’ soundtrack this evening. I’m almost certain that if I ever saw a production, I would ugly cry.

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Relistened to Bare today after not having listened to it for years and holy shit. It's so good. Why do I never see anyone talking about it??

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Wedding Bells is such an underrated song, top tier act 2 opening