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so i want to talk a bit about the adaptation process for the DPS play i did as my final project in my school course

(because as ive mentioned before i studied theatre and Just finished school as of like. this month)

so since im finally done with school and with this whole project i rlly want to talk here about the changes we made in the story in order to turn a narrative about teen boys into a narrative about teen girls in a coherent way, and since my teachers really praised the work me and my friend who did the adaptation process with me i figured it would be fun to explain what we did here as well!

The main point of this adaptation was turning welton into an all girls school, mainly because since 3/4 of my work group were girls we decided it would be interesting to try and adapt the story through a feminine lens. we couldnt keep all 7 poets in the story (due to a lack of people) so we reduced the cast from 7 to 5, then from 5 to 4 by meshing cameron and knox into a single character (named nora overstreet), who had traits from both boys (such as camerons love for the rules and fear of getting out of line and knoxs lovestruck personality) but in the end served camerons role of being the one to tell nolan about the club.

we also decided that since keating had been a student at welton hed also have to become a woman (and i played him. it was very hard but very fun), and the same thing happened with jeffrey.

then we picked the names:

christina / nina perry for neil;

victoria / tori anderson for todd;

charlotte / charlie dalton for charlie;

nora overstreet for knox;

joan keating for mr keating;

jenny anderson for jeffrey. (shes just mentioned like Once)

chris stayed named chris but became a guy, but he just gets mentioned by name as noras crush since we chose not to add any of the chrisknox plot

(cameron, meeks and pitts had names picked out for them as well, even if they werent added to the cast in the end / were fused with other characyers in camerons case - rachel for cameron (richard), stella for meeks (steven) and georgia for pitts (gerard).

a key thing about these names is that nina and tori are nicknames because we thought it would be interesting to have them be called nicknames by their friends and keating while being called by their full names (christina and victoria) by nolan and their parents. (nolan stayed the same btw this is important for later)

nora being a mix of knox and cameron also made it so her dynamic w charlie was the chameron dynamic for most of the time, and made it so that after nina dies and charlie is expelled tori is Truly alone, since theres no knox, meeks or pitts to be around her.

this change Did compromise the "captain, my captain" scene a bit bc we had to choose between having tori stand up by herself or having nora stand up too, as if she regretted what she did to keating and her standing up was her way of apologising, and in the end we picked the latter.

another thing that we had to do was to change the whole "charlie brings girls to the cave" scene bc i thought it would be #Weird for a younger girl to bring two guys to the cave with her and also bc we didnt have enough ppl for that. SO. what i did was make it so charlie was super drunk in this scene, thus justifying her acting strangely and doing smth so careless as adding the article she wrote into the school paper

the article itself was Also changed, bc i thought no girl would want boys to join an all girls school, Especially such an elite school as welton. so i changed the article from "let girls join welton" to "kick nolan out of welton", since in our version of the story all teachers in welton are women, so charlie thought it was ridiculous to have a Man directing a school entirely composed of women, and also it made it so nolans anger towards charlie was intensified (cause yk. the article was a Direct Attack on his person)

keating also had some changes but they kind of happened naturally throughout the process, mainly being the way she dressed. the costume i wore was almost exactly what keating wears in the film, which is yk. male formal clothing. making her dress more masculine was at first just bc i thought it would look good but THEN it became another aspect of her defiance of the rules, and another way of showing how different she was to the other teachers (both for the girls and the audience). we had planned on making her a lesbian too, because of the scene where we see a picture of a woman in keatings office, which would 1) be another way of showing to nina and tori that she was a safe space and 2) another reason for mr perry to hate her / make her think She was the one influencing nina, but that scene had to be cut due to time sadly

AND TYING BACK TO THE LESBIANISM we decided to make anderperry canon WHO CHEERED

no but actually we chose to make nina and toris relationship assumedly romantic bc we thought that it would be an interesting way to show How Close these two became in Such a short period of time, since like it or not girls Are naturally a lot closer than guys, and we thought that this would be a way of showing that their friendship was something Stronger. and because most of us liked anderperry

the desk set scene was also changed to make it so the desk set was a sewing kit, but that had to be shortened due to time so in the end it was just a box with a card (it was shortened bc we had a choreography in this scene, where it was the moment their relationship changed from friends to Something Else, and that ended on them almost kissing but then tori kind of pushing nina away bc she was #scared and it was #1959. i can explain this choreo a bit better if anyone wants to)

ok so i Think this is it??? if i remember anything else of importance ill add it, and if anyone wants to know abt any scenes or things in particular feel free to ask i Love talking about this project i had SO MUCH FUN with it!!!!)

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this thing was rigged 😡😡😡ANYWAY COME TAKE MY FRIENDS QUIZ

HI GUYS I MADE ANOTHER TLP QUIZ

EXCEPT THIS TIME ITS A "HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT TLP" QUIZ AHHHHHHHHH

pleaes take it....... i worked hard on it................

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joyride!

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tfw youre a really sad guy and suddenly youre a dad except not really! cause the son has to die and then you have to live with that grief and the memory of a boy only you know and who possibly wasnt even real? except you Hear his laughter and isnt That proof of him existing? and also youre broke

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I have always had the HC that the skykid/moth is NB. so yesss NB cape

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you can just feel the self-congratulatory glee of whoever named this paint this color, like they truly thought they were so funny and i think you're so funny paint color naming man good job paint man

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“On ne voit bien qu’avec le couer; l’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

In Sufism, the heart (qalb) is not merely an emotional center but the spiritual organ of perception—the mirror through which the Divine is reflected. The physical eyes see only the outward (ẓāhir), the surface of things, but the heart sees the inward (bāṭin), the hidden essence behind appearances. What Saint-Exupéry calls “the essential” is, in Sufi terms, the Real (al-Ḥaqq)—the Divine Reality that underlies all creation. The Sufi gnostic (‘ārif) seeks to polish the heart of all impurities—ego, pride, attachment—so that it may once again become a clear mirror reflecting God. When Saint-Exupéry says “it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,” it parallels the Sufi realization that true knowledge (ma‘rifa) is not acquired through intellect alone, but through the awakening of the inner eye, the ‘ayn al-qalb (eye of the heart).

The Little Prince's words can also be read through the Sufi lens of divine love (‘ishq-e-ilāhī). For the Sufi, love is the path and the guide. Only through love—born in the heart—can the seeker truly perceive the face of the Beloved in all things. The eyes may miss the sacred hidden in the ordinary, but the heart, moved by divine love, sees the signs of God in every star, every rose, every encounter.

As Rūmī says:

“Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”

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i am so sick of them im serious

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My redesign of the little prince (but make him haute couture)

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the latest in Creepcast news I guess

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one thing i find somewhat interesting about The Little Prince and its translations is that the number of sunsets the LP watched that day he was really sad varies between 43 and 44

i have no clue what the original number was but from what i've seen (going through my collection, that is) the number difference seems to be pretty evenly split, these are just a few examples but as you can see there are three of each

i would love to know exactly When this number discrepancy began #tbh

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Kathleen Hanna + Kathy Acker

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sometimes i can't help but wonder what holden moved onto doing as an adult. that was my main thought when i finished the book around a year ago. bcuz whilst tragic his story, his way of thinking n what he DOES is, it isn't all that dissonant from what many many many boys were experiencing at the time. he could've damn well just held a job lived a normal life n it would've been all well n good.

shit, 4 example. i will sit down w/ my father who was born in 1963 (which is crazy bcuz holden would've been an adult by then)- a man who despite being completely happy n mostly fine nowadays will relay stories 2 me of his upbringing - that sound absolutely terrifying - w/ the most naturality in the world; sneaking into clubs at 13 yrs old practically blacked out on warm hard liquor n limes, hitching rides at 10 yrs old w/ pedophiles n escaping once he thinks smth feels off, many many many near death experiences (the youngest at 9) that he'll tell me w/ a smile on his face n say "we were just crazy back then". n yet he's living a completely mundane normal life 2 this day

that's a huge factor of catcher in the rye 4 me: the fact that none of it is extraordinary at ALL 4 the time period. in the 1950s childhood is a mostly firm concept... but teenagehood is in its uttermost infancy- there is no support 4 teenagers in a substantial way other than a rising consumer market. the concept of teenagehood that is going 2 b solified a decade, two decades later, is still kind of lukewarm n forming. but teenagers still exist!!!!! w/ equally complex interior worlds, equally complex traumas, equally complex opinions. n they all grew up. n they mostly moved on.

so i just wonder. did holden get married? i'm not doubtful that he could've married someone, he seems 2 b good w/ girls when he actually is interested in them. what job does holden have? did he go 2 trade school? he didn't seem 2 have much support from his family so he could've been very well working a blue collar job. working at a factory maybe- or as a plumber, or a delivery guy, or smth. did he have kids? how he would've been as a father? he got 2 see the tecnological advancements of the 1980s for sure, did he like those? i keep imagining his completely mundane life. it's very interesting

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I HOPE THIS HURTS!

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(from Empire of the Senseless)