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Guys, is it gay to torture your ex-lover who left you for dead four years ago?

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Lin-Manuel Miranda is not untalented but he shouldn't be making billion dollar disney movies or whatever. This guy should be in a garage making deeply earnest but unpolished rap opera concept albums and posting them online for a niche fanbase of no more than 100,000 too-online theatre nerds. Hiring him to make forgettable paint-by-numbers radio friendly disney princess pop is trying to raise devil's pupfish in captivity. You have to stop giving him money and let him go make cringe in his natural habitat or you're never going to get anything good.

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it’s her month

hers

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i LOVE watching clips from high school productions on youtube. geeky high school thespians are my favorite people on this earth

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Don’t Sleep on Headless

Hey everybody. Real talk time. If you want @shipwreckedcomedy to be able to keep making stuff, if you want to support female/POC indie creators, you need to watch Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story. We NEED you to watch and share it. 

Headless is it for us. We pulled out all the stops for this. This show cost us a quarter of a mil to make (thanks to you!). The four of us at Shipwrecked paid ourselves none of that. We’ve worked on this show for three years now. This is what we gambled on.

The response to the show thus far has been so positive, and we’re so happy! But even for the small channel that we are, and even with the INCREDIBLE cast who gave their time to be a part of this project, the views we’ve been getting on this show are fewer than we hoped. 

I remember a few weeks into The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Hank Green made a vlog talking about how the show wouldn’t be sustainable if it didn’t start getting more views. And it really helped! And that’s where we’re at. We can’t keep doing this if we don’t grow. 

Don’t get me wrong, we are going to continue to put out Headless until Halloween and make it the absolute best show we can. But if we can’t grow as a company, we can’t keep making shows like this. It just isn’t sustainable for us. 

We really thought this was gonna be the one to do it. We thought this was gonna be the thing to take us from small creators with less than 50K subscribers and a handful of views to a real, bona-fide channel with reach and influence that pulls the kind of viewership on our projects to match the amount of work we put into them. And I think it can be! It looks good enough to be on any streaming network. It makes me laugh every thirty seconds. But we are a small group and we NEED word of mouth for this show to succeed.

Shipwrecked is primarily female-run, making narrative content in a space where other (more successful) creators are predominantly male. I’m sorry to harp on this, but I can’t help but feel like we have to work so much harder to get the same amount (or a fraction) of attention. 

The episodes we have yet to come in this show are so wild, so wacky, so Intense, and so heartfelt. SO many people put their hearts and souls into this show. I believe it can catch fire and become one of the most successful digital series out there. But WE NEED YOU TO WATCH IT. 

The story we have playing out over the next few weeks is Shipwrecked at its most Shipwrecked. We have some surprises and reveals up our sleeves that I think you are really going to love. More than anything, we love unfolding a big story over a period of time and bringing people along for the ride. I’m so excited for you all to see what we have in store, and I promise you are going to want to do what you can to experience it in real time.  

It’s free. It’s fun. It’s spooky. It’s funny. If you want Shipwrecked to be able to continue to make shows like this - original content, inspired by literature, with a mysterious twist and fresh humor - help us make Headless a success. We need you to take us there - we can’t do it on our own. ♥️💀🎃

Subscribe to Shipwrecked Comedy - support female driven literary inspired cinematic narrative content!

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reblog if the first musical you listened to was not Hamilton

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In case you missed it: The Headless trailer dropped today!! I don’t know about you guys, but I’m beyond excited to see this series, and I’m proud of Shipwrecked for being able to make something at this level, something they deserve to be able to do more of 💛

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VERY iconic of courtney to sing so much better at roles we'll never play and then get cast as elle anyway

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GET TO KNOW ME MEME: [5/5] Musicals -> Twisted: The Untold Story of A Royal Vizier

Half a scarab. Half the key. It is said that the cave was sealed by two lovers who were then transforme­d into one golden scarab. The cave will only reopen when the two halves become one, and the lovers are united once more. So you see, you say you only believe what you can touch and feel. Magic does nothing if not touch the soul. There’s no greater feeling than that.

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it’s her month

hers

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hiiii this might seem weird but ive been searching the whole internet for a tgwdlm digital ticket and i came across some of your posts from like - 2 years ago - and was wondering if you still have it hahaha im so sorry

no apology needed! i don’t have it anymore (a friend let me watch on their account) but i’m gonna post this publicly so that if anyone still has it they can send it your way!

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Parents please check your kids Halloween candy, I found some mysterious blue shit that causes people to sing & dance in mine

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Gonna get back into spying after 4yrs of crying over my bf's death, I know he'd want me to do this

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And so it shall be, fire! 

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