#Love in hate nation

[doyouknowthismusical]

[thesquirrelqueer]

an album's not forever but the writing on it is

[mrjoeiconis-blog]

“Sometimes love is between two boys and sometimes love is between four boys.”-Joe Iconis, 2024.

In which I discuss my love songs “Oh Well,” “Two-Player Game,” “Masochist,” “It’s All Good,” “Old Flame.” Give those tunes and more a spin on my Valentine’s Playlist: “Joe Iconis’s Bloody Heartsongs.”

Songs about hearts breaking, mending, melting, and/or exploding. Love comes in many forms and love goes in even more. Happy Valentine's.

[celestetcetera]

how to make a joe iconis song:

some kind of repetition of a sound (c-c-c’mon, wri-i-i-iter man)

someone’s name being stretched out and sung (juuuuudith ramone, christiiiiine)

topic that is simultaneously incredibly silly yet very heartfelt

either really bizarre or really old slang

silly instrument used completely seriously (kazoo, recorder, theremin)

filler “na na na”

the singer humming along to the melody

orchestral hit at the end

[protobutch]

I’ve been thinking iconisverse thoughts. Ms. Asp and the Squip are one and the same: created and molded and built for a purpose, to make the youth normal. They are not the system, they are perpetuators of it, and they genuinely don’t understand why their teens aren’t obeying. As their control slips, they decide their teens are beyond saving (Ms. Asp thinking the girls are just incapable of being helped and have powers to torture her, Squip deciding that just telling people what to do won’t work and he needs to make everyone get a squip) and they lose their carefully crafted persona of laid-back perfection. And then, in their final hour when everything has been ruined for them, they’re killed.

But at their cores, all they wanted to do was to fulfill the mission they were promised. Grant happiness and joy and stability. All they wanted was to help, but they were programmed to believe that help meant stripping away all that is good and unique.

[nothingunrealistic]

rip sheila nail, you would have loved good luck, babe! by chappell roan during the week you spent in solitary and mad at susannah. when you wake up next to him in the middle of the night / with your head in your hands you’re nothing more than his wife / and when you think about me all of those years ago / you’re standing face to face with “i told you so” / you know i hate to say i told you so / you know i hate to say, but I TOLD YOU SO

[loganschwarzy]

happy lesbian visibility week! if anyone has any requests or things for sapphic ships, i might just write a little thing with it.

(please i just want to write sapphics and i don't know who)

[william-austin]

i dont need a partner, what i REALLY need is a friend who is aware of the existence of the black suits and love in hate nation cause i can't keep telling JUST the voices in my head about joe iconis !

[joe-iconis-banger-bracket]

Submit to me your Joe Iconis songs for a bracket. This will legally determine the best Joe Iconis song of all time. Please make a new submission for each song you submit.

Submit your songs here!

You have until May 13 to submit. The first round of matchups will begin on May 14.

Rules for submitting and voting:

It has to be by Joe Iconis

It’s unenforceable, but please have heard the songs before voting

Remember, this is for the best song, not your favorite.

[loveingaynation]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. A VERY long while, actually.

Love In Hate Nation is still just as special to me now as it was when I saw it at 17 during a High School showing at Two River Theater. The reason being, I showed this show to someone very close to me and this show helped not only her accept herself and her LGBTQA+ identity, but it was very personal to us both in the way we felt for one another. We were in love with each other for the longest time but didn’t want to threaten anything in our friendship or lives to tell one another, and she found herself listening to the song Oh Well over and over again in this time.

Here we are now, finally together as girlfriends, and we rewatched the one existing video of this show online together… and wow. Rewatching it with her once again, but also just seeing how close the show is to the climate of LGBTAQ+ rights today and the way it handles the topics of our rights, our safety, it’s insane.

I want to live to see the day this show finally gets produced. The day it does I don’t care how far I have to travel, I will be seeing it and taking my girlfriend with me.

At 17 I shyly approached Joe Iconis after the show with a group of my friends and I struggled to tell him just how much it mattered to see myself represented on stage. Now at 20, I would give nothing more than to see it and say it more proudly—say with confidence that it’s fantastic to see myself represented and it means the absolute world to me.

If you’re a theater kid and read all this and HAVEN’T seen or listened to Love In Hate Nation, PLEASE do!!! It’s so impactful and has a wonderful and talented cast—along with fantastic LGBTQA+ casting, such as trans actress Emerson Mae Smith portraying the character Kitty Minx, a trans woman.

The cast album is available on all music streaming services and I’ll be linking a video in the replies 💕

[musicalresolution]

Round 1 B Match 4

Propaganda under the cut

Oh Well

THEYRE LESBIANS HAROLD!!

it's about these two girls in juvie hall in the 60s realizing their feelings for each other. in their solo parts they say the world isn't ready for two girls going steady" but when they sing together they sing "i don't know if i'm ready for two girls going steady". the music and lyrics slowly climax. everything between them so far has been building up to THIS MOMENT. THEY KISS!!

Fine

No propaganda submitted

[thesquirrelqueer]

when a musical has a cohesive sound without every song sounding the same

[mrjoeiconis-blog]

[showtunes-lobster]

Musical Theatre Sideblog!

uhhhhhhhh

some shows I like and will probably talk about

anything by Starkid

Be More Chill

Love In Hate Nation

25th Annual etc.

Frankenstein

Heathers

Falsettos (I don’t really “get” it I just like the music and the Cube)

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Lightning Thief

Also I am an actor in real life and hope to do it professionally so maybe I’ll talk about that.