mymiraclewitch

[mymiraclewitch]

This.

I have no clue what's going on and get confused every time something like this pops up.

Disclaimer :I am not involved in the drama so I'm as objective as one can be.

Please, Baylee and everyone involved in this drama, stop addressing it in the fandom. This is a place in which we come to enjoy and adore Patti and her work and talking about whatever it is happened only causes harm to yourself and makes people leave the fandom. I understand that harsh things have been said and there have been certain actions that can be interpreted as stalking behaviour, that is up for people to decide what they want to understand them as, but please, any issues you might have let's keep them in DMs or as far away from the fandom as possible. Posting about it everywhere only causes the issue to grown bigger and involve more and more people, and that's not fair to everyone that doesn't know what's going on and only wants to enjoy Patti, so please stop and either talk about it in private or do whatever it is you prefer but away from this spaces. Thank you.

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being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

[mymiraclewitch]

Chat,

I'm doing it.

Chat, I've never written fanfic before, but I have the absolute urge to write fxf Hetty Woodstone with her painter, but the painter is disguised as a man. I have like the whole story in my head, I can almost see it as a movie. Is this something or should I just leave it in my head

[mymiraclewitch]

my 5 year plan is a beautiful middle-aged woman takes advantage of me

[mymiraclewitch]

Chat, I've never written fanfic before, but I have the absolute urge to write fxf Hetty Woodstone with her painter, but the painter is disguised as a man. I have like the whole story in my head, I can almost see it as a movie. Is this something or should I just leave it in my head

[mymiraclewitch]

I need Patti LuPone to cover Copacabana right now. That would help with a lot of things right now. What things? I don't know, but it would help with a lot of them.

Ignore the lyric, "She lost her Tony. Now she's lost her mind," and the fact it might hit a little too close to home.

[mymiraclewitch]

Okay so this 'open letter' to Patti LuPone is now getting me annoyed on a level that has nothing to do with Patti or Audra or Hell's Kitchen. And it's been eating at me all day.

Why is it that a woman not being friends with another woman, and evidently having a fall out, and calling another woman a bitch (or, rather, as I originally read it as adding bitch to the end of a sentence. Like Spike 'Out for a walk, bitch'. Maybe because that's a turn of phrase here in the UK, where we are like 'don't tell me what to do, bitch' but you're not actually calling that person a bitch, you're just expressing annoyance) is enough to get 500 random people in the name of Broadway to call for a disinvitation of that woman to all Broadway events, but no such call out was made for Kevin Spacey when he sexually assaulted young colleagues, no such call out was made for Woody Allen for that atrocious situation where he also made major efforts in a smear campaign against Mia Farrow, no such call out was made for Dustin Hoffman when he admitted he exposed himself to a minor, and not only was there no call out for Roman Polanski, but there was a petition to bring him back, and they gave him a fucking standing ovation.

It's pissing me off because it feels so performative. Surely if all 500 of you are so concerned about equality, and lack of toxic environments, to improve the industry and to call out wrongdoers, you would have done it years ago for the above names? That you would have issues with sexual abusers and paedophiles? Or are you reluctant to stand up against that because you want to be in one of Polanski's or Allen's films? Do you all feel safe signing this letter because you won't ever get work from Patti, she isn't hiring? So you don't lose any chance at work by signing it?

Someone commented online that they hate how vapid Broadway is; that people will be in outrage over someone 'being bitchy' and 'not being friends with others' but make zero effort about actual serious matters, such as the genocide in Gaza. And that is what is getting me so mad about this whole situation.

I don't care if you like Patti or not, I don't care if you think the sound change request was a microaggression or not, I don't care if you think Patti is racist or not, or what she said was out of order or not; it is fucking off as fuck that this is what has 500 people in a supposed collective outrage when they are consistently silent on so much else.

[mymiraclewitch]

I’d like to address the accusations of racism against Patti LuPone. Patti’s always been known for her strong, sometimes overly blunt opinions. While I’m 100% against racism in any form, I really don’t think that’s what this is.

She was talking about the noise levels at Hell’s Kitchen - she found it too loud. That’s a valid critique, not a racial one. Patti has criticized tons of Broadway shows over the years - regardless of race. In the interview, the situation was brought up and she responded the way she always does - direct and unfiltered.

Patti has always supported the LGBT community and other minorities, and there’s never been any history of racist behavior from her.

Was it okay for her to call Kecia Lewis a “bitch” or question her Broadway experience? No, that was out of line. But I don’t think it had anything to do with race.

I get that people felt hurt, and those feelings are valid. But let’s take a breath. Patti would’ve said the same thing to anyone, regardless of race. Let’s not confuse harsh criticism with racial intent, especially without clear evidence.

[mymiraclewitch]

Chat, am I delusional? I swear I was reading agatha Harkness/reader fic titled "in the space between" or something like that, and now I can't find it. Did something happen and I'm late to the party to find out what?

[mymiraclewitch]

Chat,

I've been listening to almost exclusively Patti Lupone covers. I see Sutton Foster this weekend. My usual thing is listening to the artists whose concert I'm going to be prepared. Tell me why when I was listening to the "Anything Goes" soundtrack with Sutton, I physically reacted??? I was like 😖.

This is not the first time this has happened. If I listen to a song that Patti has sung and it isn't her, I immediately skip.

[mymiraclewitch]

Can I join 👉👈

I can't offer much except maybe my depraved fantasies and knowledge/experience in the BDSM world

so what i'm gathering is that there are like 7 tumblr lesbians that go absolutely feral for patti lupone and they all know each other

[mymiraclewitch]

Not George Clooney trying to stir the tea by subtlety asking Patti if she ever hated a performance of a show she made famous and then mentioning Evita when Patti said no. I'm fucking dead!!!!

I love this man bc honesty, same. I would have been like "ma'am. Two words. Evita and Madonna" and sit back and watch it all unfold

[mymiraclewitch]

Turns out I am not delusional - a full recording of Master Class!!! @nycticoraxtheatre is an absolute angel.

[mymiraclewitch]

”my daughter is fine”

your daughter dreams of a middle-aged woman taking advantage of her and using her whatever way she wants to and then praising her for being a good girl

[mymiraclewitch]

Thoughts......are being thunk.....

[mymiraclewitch]

Reblogging to save and look back to

yes maybe any rules you follow while writing or what you think is important? would really help and I bet there's lots of ppl who wanna know

ok so I’ve put together a few but these are just my opinions. I’m not a fan of writing rules, so keep in mind that these are just my personal guidelines that I’ve learned over years and that always have exceptions. The most important thing is to have fun and to develop a feeling for what works and that’s something you only get through experience. My first fanfiction was crap but I had a blast writing it anyway. Hope this helps, lmk if you have questions 💕

Beginner:

Formatting. This is about reading economy for the reader. get rid of empty lines (there’s shortcuts in word for that). Use paragraphs (there’s info online when to start a new one). Use quotation marks (“” or »«, don’t get fancy). Punctuation (em vs en dash, comma goes before the quotation mark etc.). No caps lock. Use bold or italic for emphasis.

Consistency. choose whatever narrator you prefer, the tense to write in and the pov—stick to it throughout. See also: “head hopping”

Grammar & spelling. Doesn’t have to be perfect but just using a simple spell checker helps get rid of major issues.

Advanced:

in medias res. start as late as possible in the scene and leave at the earliest point. skip the simple stuff like waking up or falling asleep unless you have a reason to. This keeps the tension up.

always say less than necessary. give as little info in dialogue as possible. Usually I’ll write what I want the character to say and then go over it again and cut it to the bare minimum. People never say what they actually mean. I aim for not more than 2-3 sentences per direct speech section.

Avoid info dumping. Don’t have a character tell you their backstory. Show how it affects them today and drop subtle hints at it. Use environmental storytelling. When describing environment, sprinkle details throughout instead of putting them in a paragraph and try to always relate them to the character. Like what do they think of the carpet? Do they have a memory attached to it? Maybe the forest seems dark and lost to them because they have been kidnapped and feel lost. Stuff like that.

Rule of 3. This is for foreshadowing etc. once you mention something 3 times for some reason it gives the reader a sense of consistency and “roundness”. Referencing something that happened earlier in the story also helps make the world feel more real.

Avoid head hopping. Don’t switch from one character’s pov to the other’s in the same paragraph. Better even avoid it in the same scene or chapter. It’s hard to follow.

Overused phrases. “She released a breath she didn’t know she was holding” and more (you’ll find lists of that online).

Very niche:

Remove the filter. Whenever you’re tempted to write words like “saw”, “felt”, “heard” or other words pertaining to senses, see if you can rephrase the sentence. Just describe the thing directly. Ex: instead of writing “I looked at the clock.” write -> “The old fashioned clock on the wall showed it was already past lunch time.”

Said is not dead. Don’t overdo it with the dialogue tags. Said is a word that the reader skips over and doesn’t notice. It focuses the attention on the story rather than the writing, so no need to show off your vocab. Again, this is a case of do everything in measures. It’s not forbidden to use other dialogue tags on occasion—dosage is key!

Dosing adverbs (words ending in -ly). Same thing. Whenever I use an adverb in my writing followed by a verb, I try to think about whether there is a stronger verb to use so I won’t need the adverb. But sometimes it’s perfectly okay to use it. Like when you try to show a contrast. “She smiled happily” is redundant because a smile usually indicates happiness and you could use “she beamed” instead. But if you write “she smiled sadly” it’s an oxymoron and therefore a strong use of an adverb.

Metaphors/purple prose. Good and necessary but don’t overdo it. Rule of thumb for me is: use metaphors and similes etc to describe sensory input but keep it simple when describing actions. No need to write “she removed her elusive presence from the limited space of existence surrounding us.” Instead of “she left the room.”

A good scene for me ends in a different place (emotionally or/and physically) than it began.

Character voice. study the way a character speaks and try to mirror that in your writing. What kind of vocab do they use? Where are they from? Do they swear? What terms of endearment do they use? Do they speak more formal or informal or even slang? Where do they come from?

My favourite story structure: chiastic or reversed chiastic. Not gonna explain it here, if you’re interested you can look it up. This is just a personal favourite.

[mymiraclewitch]

I need to show yall my haul from the Patti Lupone concert in North Bethesda!

So, I brought my dad, and I had initially bought balcony tickets, like all the way at the tippy top. Well, I saw some front row seats that were empty and me being me. I always go on side quest at concerts, so I went to the ticket office and asked abt the seats. Long story short, I got upgraded to orchestra for free!!! Ahhhh. I got to meet the band and I had a lovely chat with them, I asked for a rose from the concert and he gave me the whole vase!!!! Ahhhh, he also signed my ticket