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[storyweaverofgondor]

Most written theater on AO3

I got bored and did this. Since AO3 separates these alphabetically and by numbers, each is the most written for of their section. I ordered them according to number of fics. This is accurate as of 4/15/2023 at 10:12 am. Beyond that? Probs not! FYI This is nonsense made out of curiosity. Again i was just super bored and made a list.

Les Miserables - 24861

Hamilton – 20337

Be More Chill – 7525

Newsies – 6389

Dear Even Hanson – 5672

Phantom of the Opera – 4947

SHAKESPERE William – Works – 4903

Romeo and Juliet - 2366

Cats – 1449

Wicked - 1444

In The Heights – 918

The Prom - 855

Anastasia – 676

Elizabeth – 548

Jesus Christ Superstar – 509

Love Never Dies – 441

Tanz Der Vampire – 379

Kuroshitsuji – 238

A Very Potter Musical Series- 180

Orthello – 172

9 to 5 – 88 (I counted all the numbers as a single section)

Ghost Quartet – 85

The Magic Flute -  39

Urinetown – 20

YANK! - 14

Quidam – 7

Xanadu & Xi Tai Trilogy - 2 (There is only two productions in this section and they tied)

According to this, Les Mis and Hamilton fans are extremely productive. Most theater works on AO3 is you guys, hands down! Also, HEY, CIRQUE DU SOLEIL! I SEE YOU, QUIDAM, SQUEEZING IN AT THE BOTTOM THERE, MY LOVELY! AND CATS, MY BELOVED! Sneaking into the top 10 and beating Wicked by five. Good for you, Cats Fandom!

[edensundae]

Constance Blackwood 🍭

I cannot be the only person who cries like a BABY during Jawbreaker. I mean UGLY CRYING 😭😭 she’s a deeply relatable character for me, & I LOVE HER W MY WHOLE HEART 🙋🏽

[tagidearte]

Moon on Moon

[flowercrownbee]

I really liked the new Inside Out movie!

[justarandombrit]

Is this meme still around?

[helpallthenamesaretaken]

friendly reminder that normal is a myth. everyone has issues they're dealing with. and there's a place you need to go, where you belong. where the things that make you different, are the things that make you special. special like your father, yes percy you are special. like food the colour blue, all the things that make you you, are the things that will make you strong. so be strong 🫶🫶

[goformoony]

james potter, mary macdonald and peter pettigrew would be theater kids i don’t make the rules.

[hitwiththetmnt]

The boys! My sweet blorbos!!

They are so silly and I am so happy to see them get an amazing movie

🥓🍳🧀

[crabsnpersimmons]

Your art style nearly gave me a heart attack damn! Mostly cause of eclipse lol.

She thinks he’s hot -Raven

Hey!

ough thank you! tho i still feel the need to apologize for Eclipse's actions 😅

...

i'll put him in timeout

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Am I The Asshole for demanding my coworkers get themselves tested? I, M, (30sM) work with these guys (20s to 40s, all M) pretty regularly as a contractor on bigger projects, usually to handle the machinery they can't. It's fine, I get along more or less with most of them, and as long as I can play my video games at the end of the day, its all good. There's about 12 of us total. So it all starts in winter, you know how it is, flu and covid and all making the rounds again, so being responsible, we keep to ourselves. One of the guys, C, had recently put down a new dog he just adopted. The guys are all making a big deal out of it, but I don't care, its not my dog, and all that. Anyways, things start getting weird after that.

I don't want to name any names, and I don't know who did what, but someone threw out a whole bunch of test kits. Two of my other coworkers, F and B1, started really getting sick and had to leave. Someone fucked with the equipment, mine included. B2, my other coworker, just decided to work from home for now but it's radio silence, he won't talk to anyone.

Last time I went to work, I had to come back in through the backdoor because they wouldn't let me in the front, saying I probably caught something while outside. But I've been so cautious! I know I didn't catch anything, I know I'm still myself, I just want to get this done with and move on with my job! What am i supposed to do, work from home?

This is where I might be the Asshole: I got fed up and just demanded that everyone gets themselves tested in front of everyone else. So I grabbed a bunch of leftover tests, herded everyone in the lobby, and locked the doors. I tested myself in front of everyone, and I am negative, and should be free to move in and out. But the others, especially my boss P, is saying I am being extreme, I am threatening people, the tests are unreliable, I shouldn't have tied them to the couch etc.

So I've been wondering. Am I really the Asshole for wanting to find out who is still human and who is actually the Thing?

What are these acronyms?

[anonymouscheeses]

What they both saw when they were inches away from str8 gay up kissing eachother 😭

Im so funny guys. Right. Im so hilarious. You may laugh now. You may laugh... you may.. ☹️

Original below (meme and image i took ref from-ish) vvv

These two are so gay. And i lovr them. RAAAAHHH

But srsly, MALIA DID U JS LOOK AT HER LIPS CZ IT WAS AN AKWARD SCENE OR WERE U TAKING ONE FOR THE GLASSHEART/REDCHARMING TEAM?? I NEED ANSWERS NYOWWW!!

[objectivesthatareobjectified]

BE MORE CHILL FANDOM PLEASE SEE THIS

So a while back I had made Broadway BMC Youtooz plushie designs and Youtooz said that if enough people wanted them there was a chance they could be made

It would be super coolio if a ton of people asked Youtooz for them because I NEED Be More Chill plushies 🙏🙏

Here are the designs btw :3

[edensundae]

IDRK WHAT THIS IS LOL

Yes he is driving a beetle I just can’t draw cars </3

I CANNOT BELIEVE MY BEETLEJUICE ERA WAS ALREADY SO LONG AGO IT FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY. When the movie comes back out TRUST I’ll draw some more 🤙🏽🤙🏽

[thecrowinacrown]

I'm a believer. (every time I listen to a musical I hope that Eurydice will survive the winter, Orpheus will not turn around, Veronica and JD will be just seventeen, Evan will tell the truth, Alexander will say no to his desires, Odysseus will save the infant, spare the sirens-)

[this-tastes-lemony]

Falsettos Food Theory

Okay so someone asked what this is and I really wanna explain! So the falsettos food theory is that food represents love throughout the Marvin trilogy.

In the show, In Trousers, Marvin is very strict about what kind of food he wants, and he gets very upset when he doesn’t get it imminently or the way he wants. For example, in the song ‘How Marvin Eats his Breakfast” there is the lyric,

“No one looks busy in this kitchen

And my breakfast isn't ready

And my stomach aches.”

This is in reference to that no one at that moment is giving him the love that he wants, and that he aches for it. Later in the song he also says ,

“I don't want miracles from heaven

Just some eggies over spinach over toast

No, I will not apologize!

She should win a prize:

Very best emoting

That girl can't cook”

When he says the first line he doesn’t literally mean he just wants a basic breakfast, he means that he doesn’t want much, he just wants to feel loved. By saving “that girl can’t cook” he doesn’t mean she’s lousy at making food, he means that she doesn’t give him the kind of love that he wants. One of the other ladies says

“maybe she can’t cook, but have you seen her milk a cow?” Implying that sexually she “provides” to Marvin, even if he doesn’t romantically like her (obviously this means nothing, just because they can be sexually active does not mean that it is love).

Another one is in Whizzer Going Down he says,

“he hates my wife

I hate his food”.

He’s saying he hates when Whizzer shows him love because he is not ready to accept the fact that he can be loved and he can love another man.

There are many more references of this in the show In Trousers and if anyone wants to hear them I’ll gladly go into it in another post!!

The ones in Falsettos are even more obvious references to love. In the song Tight Knit Family, Marvin sings,

“We all eat as one

Wife, friend, and son

And I sing out as they cook

I love my tight-knit family

I love the way they cook linguine”

They all eat as one meaning they are all receiving love from one another, even if it isn’t good. The next line being “I sing out as they cook” (singing out meaning to say or shout something loudly, most likely implying the unhealthy relationship he’s in with his family) this line is saying that while they provide him love and what ever he asks, he continues to complain about it.

However, in the next line he says “I love the way they cook linguine” which is a considered normal traditional meal for a lot people. This is showing that he enjoys when they provide him with basic normal love, instead of arguing or disagreeing with him.

Another reference later on in the musical is in the ENTIRETY of the song “This Had Better Come To A Stop”. The first set of unique lyrics though is what I’ll cover.

“Whizzer's supposed to always be here

Making dinner, set to screw

That's what pretty boys should do

Check their hairlines, make the dinner

And love me”

This is saying that Whizzer is supposed to always be at Marvin’s command, loving him and giving himself to Marvin sexually at all times. He mentions making dinner twice in these lyrics, again implying that he doesn’t want Whizzers love unless it’s later in the day once he’s gotten his love from his other family ( breakfast specifically).

Another general reference to food equaling love is Cordelia’s entire character. All she does throughout the show is provide food and such to the characters, this being her giving them constant love. Since Cordelia was giving Marvin so much food (presumably) during the two year gap during intermission, we can assume that her unique and (sometimes) not so great food taught him that he doesn’t always get to choose what to eat, but that he should be greatful someone is cooking for him anyway. I think Cordelia is one of the most amazing characters in the story.

For all of the song “Days Like This” she’s trying to get Whizzer to eat something, meaning she’s trying to share her love with him.

In the song “Jason’s Bar Mitzvah”, Dr. Charlotte says

“She's cooked for some 200 guests

[CORDELIA]

We number not that many

Actually... we're seven”

This shows that she has provided so much love for all of these people, even though there’s only seven. Only a couple lines later, she tries the food Cordelia made, and says that the food “tastes really yummy.” (in the pro shot Trina nods her head to agree).

This is important to me because it shows that Cordelia finally found a way to show/express her love with the rest of the characters, and have them reciprocate it for the first time on stage, showing that they are all at peace and finally love each other.

Just like in trousers there are hundreds of more references in Falsettos so if any of you would like me to go more into it I’d be happy to!

This is all speculation of course, we don’t know if any of this was intentional, buts it’s by far my favorite thing to talk about that’s falsettos related. Hope you enjoyed reading!

[pey-up]

You know damn well it'd be the most angsty one shots you'd ever read