18/30 To quote my tumblr tag: fm has fangirl problems
In my never-ending quest to get enough sleep, for the past few months I have been making myself step away from my computer/iPad/phone at night and read in bed (on my Kindle, but its backlight doesn't mess with my brain and make me stay up late). I finished Miller's The Song of Achilles the other day, which I both loved and was enormously frustrated with, and now I'm reading a very interesting book on cosmology (in no small part simply to keep up with the museling's questions, which are more complex than my shoddy memory of the last serious book I read about cosmology a decade ago can handle). I've always loved the feeling of lying in bed and reading before sleep with nothing to bother me, and it definitely helps me to settle in to unplug from the internet and even to unplug from fandom and read something unrelated to my heart-pounding fangirl passions.
I'm still reading fanfic here and there during the day (largely Steve/Bucky MCU fic and Captive Prince fic at the moment), but most of the time even the best of those fics keep not being quite the fic I want to read. It's so frustrating. (You know, while not being anyone's fault.) I'm not quite to the point of "Fine, if you aren't writing it, I'll have to write it, myself," but I could see getting there. Had I world enough and time, anyway. I aspire to be inspired.
The big news at the moment is that I'm seeing Hamilton this week, and in pure fangirl fashion I'm terrified that one of the actors I most desperately want to see will be out sick. I am a thousand percent certain that whoever might step in to replace them would be magnificent and would enthrall me in the moment, but I'm kind of waiting for my heart to be crushed beyond the boundaries of the performance because it was a different Burr or Lafayette or Hamilton.
I am fully aware that this is a ridiculously fortunate bit of angst to have, because getting to see Hamilton with any/all of the original cast is a huge and exciting opportunity. And yet, since I've moved mountains to get to see it this one time, please let them all be there. Especially Leslie Odom Jr. And LMM. And Daveed. And Groffsauce. And all of them.
I am so excited to see the staging, you have no idea. I mean, I'm excited to see it all, but I feel like I have a good handle on the cleverness of the music. The choreography is a whole new layer I barely know how to expect, and I am looking forward to discovering all of its additions to the story.
And that's all the news that's fit to print right now, I guess. It's funny when a trip to midtown Manhattan sounds peaceful and restful, but it actually feels like a respite compared to the general hullabaloo around here, so I'm looking forward to this season's Broadway trip even more than I usually do.
I'm still reading fanfic here and there during the day (largely Steve/Bucky MCU fic and Captive Prince fic at the moment), but most of the time even the best of those fics keep not being quite the fic I want to read. It's so frustrating. (You know, while not being anyone's fault.) I'm not quite to the point of "Fine, if you aren't writing it, I'll have to write it, myself," but I could see getting there. Had I world enough and time, anyway. I aspire to be inspired.
The big news at the moment is that I'm seeing Hamilton this week, and in pure fangirl fashion I'm terrified that one of the actors I most desperately want to see will be out sick. I am a thousand percent certain that whoever might step in to replace them would be magnificent and would enthrall me in the moment, but I'm kind of waiting for my heart to be crushed beyond the boundaries of the performance because it was a different Burr or Lafayette or Hamilton.
I am fully aware that this is a ridiculously fortunate bit of angst to have, because getting to see Hamilton with any/all of the original cast is a huge and exciting opportunity. And yet, since I've moved mountains to get to see it this one time, please let them all be there. Especially Leslie Odom Jr. And LMM. And Daveed. And Groffsauce. And all of them.
I am so excited to see the staging, you have no idea. I mean, I'm excited to see it all, but I feel like I have a good handle on the cleverness of the music. The choreography is a whole new layer I barely know how to expect, and I am looking forward to discovering all of its additions to the story.
And that's all the news that's fit to print right now, I guess. It's funny when a trip to midtown Manhattan sounds peaceful and restful, but it actually feels like a respite compared to the general hullabaloo around here, so I'm looking forward to this season's Broadway trip even more than I usually do.