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Continuing my community theater ramblings, Ms. Canigula was 1000% right, I do love play rehearsal because it's the best and because it is fun, literally the highlight of my life lol

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I love love love your merboy Jeremy drawings, how about both of the boyfs as merboys?

okay I think I'm actually in love with this au now

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One thing I wish they didn’t change in browadway!be more chill was this dance Jeremy does. Big fan of whatever this is. Idle animation type dance

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smoochin

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WAIT,SCREW THE LST THING I SAID I NED U 2 DRAW SECRET ALIEN MICHAEL AMAZED BY HUMAN STUFF JERMY IS SHOWING HIM

[srry for asking sm, i just love ur acc<:[

I appreciate your enthusiasm and the request I really do but unfortunately this is another thing that I just can't really wrap my head around as a concept (I never know how to flesh out alien type characters/ etc.) but may I interest you in a mermaid Jeremy AU instead?

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I think at the 10th anniversary BMC concert they should have the Wills fight

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Say what you will about Two River vs Broadway edits, but for my two cents, the More Than Survive hallway gossip of Two River is EXCEPTIONALLY better than what it got replaced with.

The subplot about Madeline and Jake's fateful game of pool and the girls calling Jeremy a pervert for overhearing it makes the stakes far more 1) interesting and 2) personal/serious than "I never noticed him"

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Trial Separation: A BMC One-Shot

I watch as Jeremy hoists the box into his arms and shoves it into the back of his car with the other piles of junk he’s lugging out to college. I’m honestly a little surprised that he’s kept up the whole “impure thoughts = push-ups” thing his squip forced him into last year, but old habits do die hard. I don’t mind. He can finally be useful when we���re at my place and I get a sudden desire to rearrange my bedroom in the middle of the night. And his girlfriend Christine certainly doesn’t mind, either. I have plenty of blackmail from knowing Jeremy for thirteen years, but I’m sure he’ll do anything I ask if I ever threaten to tell Christine why Jeremy wound up a beefcake overnight.

I wish I could say I was part of the junk Jeremy was bringing up to college, but earlier in the year, it was made pretty clear that Jeremy was flying out in the world solo. This was an upsetting realization for both of us- “Jeremy, I don’t think I even know what I want to do with my life.” I’d told him at some point after we took the SATs.

“What do you mean?” He asked. “You’re not going to kill yourself, are you?”

“No,” I said. “I don’t know what I want to do with my life.” It was some decision paralysis, mostly; I could do just about anything. Math, science, coding, I know computers inside and out. But the question was: what skills needed more refinement? What could I get by on? Like how I was already taking Calculus 1 as a junior, which is a lot more than some people can say. And what if I wanted to try and learn about something completely new? I’m not much of an artist, my writing is abysmal by Jeremy’s standards… I got to a point where thinking about it for too long made me want to start screaming.

But then at some point I remembered: oh yeah, high schoolers aren’t legally mandated to be shipped off to college as soon as they graduate. And my decisions began to clear up.

I thought about staying home for another year or so to work, bulk up my savings, maybe take some community college classes if I’m really bored. And school blows, maybe breaking up my theoretical sixteen consecutive years of education and giving myself a break would be better for me.

We had a really long discussion one night about this, Jeremy and I. About our lives and what the future might look like. Which sucked for him, I know I was the one hyping him up about college, and now I’m the one having second thoughts and backing out. There was a lot of weed and a lot more crying, all the while my Wii’s menu music served as the background track to our bout of vulnerability.

Eventually, after a good while of silence, Jeremy lit up a roll and said, “You can do whatever you want.” His phrasing and tone scared me, as did the fact he took a long drag on his joint without saying anything else. I worried this was going to be Jake’s Halloween Party all over again, but then Jeremy grinned and looked back at me with more tears in his eyes. I’m not sure if they were genuine or a result of him getting too high. “I’ll always be behind you. And hey, maybe a trial separation is a good thing.”

“You were the one who made me swear that we’d be going together,” I joked.

“Because I’d miss you!” Jeremy wailed. I chuckled, he was definitely too high. “I can’t stand it when you’re home sick from school, what am I supposed to do when we’re actually God knows how far away from each other?”

“Hey. Hey.” I put my arm around his shoulders. “We’ll figure it out. No matter where we end up.”

And finally, I cleared my decision with my moms, who were more than thrilled to let me stay a basement dweller for another year or so.

Jeremy slams the trunk of his car shut and leans on it, looking at me like he’s expecting me to say something.

“Is that all?” I ask.

“Mm-hm.” Jeremy nods, but his lips are pursed in his “I’m sad but don’t want to talk about it so I’m going to just run away and cry” way. Like he thinks I can’t see right through him.

“Do you want to talk?” I ask him.

“No,” is all he says.

“Do you want me to leave so you can cry into your porn?”

“Shut up.” Jeremy takes a swing at me, but I catch his arm and pull him into an embrace. He hugs me back just as hard.

“It’ll only be a few months, Jer,” I say.

“I know,” he replies. I could hear that he was crying, and I might’ve accidentally made it worse by rubbing his back. He sobs, then says, “I’ll just miss you, man.”

“Yeah. Me too.”

Jeremy lets me go so he can wipe his face, and a thought crosses my mind that I worry is a bit too coupley, but hey, who decided articles of clothing were only supposed to be exchanged with a significant other, anyway?

So, as if I’d been planning it all day, I untie my jacket from my waist and hand it to Jeremy.

“Here. Now I’ll be going up with you,” I say. Jeremy gasps.

“B-but Michael, this is your favorite!” He objects.

“Well, you’re my favorite.”

Jeremy laughs in a way that’s more like another sob, then says, “What are we, dating in middle school?”

“Good point,” I joke along. “I wouldn’t wear that around Christine, she might get jealous.” Jeremy laughs, really laughs, which makes me laugh, and then I get this pang in my heart because I don’t think it actually registered until now that oh, yeah, we’re not going out into the world together. I don’t know the next time I’ll get a moment like this. I start tearing up a bit and pray that Jeremy doesn’t notice, but of course he does.

“No no, stop,” Jeremy cries, throwing his arms around my neck. I cannot resist picking him up and spinning him around, and we could have stayed locked in our embrace all night if a cold evening wind hadn’t started cutting through us.

“I guess I better go,” I tell him. “Don't… do anything stupid.”

“I’m pretty sure I already cashed in my stupid,” Jeremy smirks, “but yeah. Obviously.”

One more hug, then I’m in my car and waving goodbye to Jeremy through my rear-view window. For a moment, a pit in my stomach forms at the fear that this might be the beginning of the end for us, but I banish it. We’ve separated under worse circumstances and came back together regardless. It’s just a year. He won’t be that far away. And besides, doesn’t distance make the heart grow fonder?

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And one more sketch for tonight inspired by this one-shot by @dragonairice that made me sob

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Went to a callback last night for the first time in like... four years was inspired to draw some stagedorks from the experience

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I. need. to. see. MICHAEL AND JEREMY AT PROM.

prom was mad overrated to me but yk if you actually go with the people you want to go with I'm sure it's great

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....guys I think I might have a Thing going on with our main Percy

(it's fine we're around the same age)

continuing the theme of this being my place for blogging about my underwhelming community theater adventures, I am doing The Lightning Thief again!

Poseidon/ensemble and also understudy for Percy, Luke, and Ares!

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My favorite thing ever when watching cartoons as a kid was when a character got a change from their static wardrobe so like needless to say I do appreciate Michael's long lost Upgrade fit

and for pt 2 I was graduating yesterday and just felt like drawing them (mostly Michael) getting a little wasted at a party

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continuing the theme of this being my place for blogging about my underwhelming community theater adventures, I am doing The Lightning Thief again!

Poseidon/ensemble and also understudy for Percy, Luke, and Ares!

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hearmeout

jake

but he eeadibg some random theatre play at 3 am vc chridtine told him about them

Idkimsosorryokayimgoingtoaskforearthtoswallowmewhoelsorry

I imagine that him and Christine sometimes video call and cold read plays they've never seen

I want them to still be friends post-canon lowkey 👉👈

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Writing an essay < the reason I haven't completely lost it this semester (but you could've figured that out)