DramaQueen

Quick life update:

I'm a senior in college about to enter my final semester. I graduate in May with a BFA in acting and a minor in music.

I have a boyfriend and he is the most amazing person of all time (and he does like Brandon Sanderson and D&D and all the other sufficiently nerdy things, don't worry.) We're talking about moving in together this coming summer :). For those of you who were here and aware of everything between Fadran and me...my current relationship is so so so much better than that whole situation.

I'm 21 (and yes, I have taken advantage of that fact). 

I'm working as a cook at an assisted living center, so that's fun.

I also have a job as a UTF (Undergraduate Teaching Fellow) (Essentially a Teaching Assistant) for the junior acting class's Stage Combat class, so that's really fun.

I still haven't released any music.....but I do still want to! And I still write music things!

I also wrote an episode for a web series that my cohort wrote, directed, and starred in for our Acting For The Camera class! The episodes will be released on the theatre program's YouTube channel, so if you're one of the lucky few who know what college I'm at...keep an eye out for that.

I think that's it for now. How are you guys??? How's the Shard been in my absence??? I'm not gonna be active again by any means, but I do check in every so often, so feel free to send me a message or tag me and I'll see it...eventually.

Love you guys!

Happy 5th shardiversary to me (yesterday) (July 4th) (I was a bit late) 

Crazy that it's been 5 years since I joined, though.

Hey anyone have some good Sanderson fight scene recommendations? Especially if it's from Reckoners. My friend and I need to find dialogue for our final in our stage combat class hehe

How's everyone doing? 

I guess it's time for my update on how my life's going???? And I would love updates from all of you, too.

I'm a junior in college, I turned 20 back in June, this is WILD. I'm a college upperclassman? HUH????? I'm still majoring in acting, and I'm minoring in music! 

I'm gender-fluid, I use all pronouns and currently kinda mostly leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I really want to go on more dates buuuut dating is terrifying and most of the people I'm ever around are in the theatre program with me, and dating within the program is heavily discouraged lolllll.

I've got a musical coming up, it's called Between The Lines, we start rehearsals in a couple weeks, and I'm playing Jules, a non-binary character!

I'm working as a sweets baker, which means I have to be at the bakery at 3am every Tuesday, Thursday, and every other Saturday. It's the only time I can consistently work with my class schedule, so my sleep schedule is NOT great, but honestly I love my job and I'm making money so that's nice!

I hardly ever read now which is depressing.

Speaking of depressing, I was diagnosed with depression at the end of last school year and I got on meds. Now I'm chatting with my therapist about potentially having ADHD so we'll see what happens with that. But I'm in therapy! So that's good.

I'm kind of working on writing a musical, not much and not very often, but hopefully I can work on it more and get it done!

I'm also wanting to release music (under the artist name Valtameri), and I've got access to some really good microphones that I can use to record! I'm hoping to release at least one single by the end of the year, but I've got three albums planned so far eventually! Just gotta finish those songs.

Anyways, that's me. How are you guys??

Alright

Which one of you little suckers is on the genshin impact idea board and put a version of me in there?

Blue top hat, military-style jacket, queen vibes with the crown-like top of the hat, relation with the ocean (I have an OC/stage name/character that is an ocean goddess), does theatre???????? Fess up and give me my credit rn

Guys Taylor Swift brainrot is eating me alive omg

Woah it's my four-year Shardiversary.

I'm not nearly as active anymore as I used to be, but I'm forever grateful for the friendships and community this site provided me back when I was active, and especially for the friendships that have lasted, some of which have even turned into irl friendships.

Sure, this site might also have led to a rough and traumatic experience, but that honestly fades to irrelevance when compared with everything else that's a part of my life because of Brandon Sanderson and this fansite.

Love you guys :)))

Okay so. I have two options. 

1: live in my college town for the summer, it would be $775 plus utilities (about $25/month) for the full summer. I'd have to pay for my own gas and buy my own food. I would continue working my current job, which doesn't have very regular hours, but it pays pretty well. I would also want to get a more regular job, maybe at a thrift store or a coffee/drink shop or a cute little local restaurant. I would be near a lot of my college friends, so I could do things with them and continue wearing my less "modest" outfits and going by a more gender-neutral nickname sometimes and using multiple pronoun sets and just in general continue figuring myself out in that way.

2: move back in with my parents. Free housing, free food, they'd probably even pay for my gas, I'd already have a regular, well-paying job that I mostly enjoy lined up, and I could try out for a production of Aida that would also pay. But I would either have to act like the version of me that my parents knew from when I was in high school, or let them meet this version of me when I'm not even sure I like this version of me and I'm actively trying new things to figure myself out. I know everyone is always a "rough draft" of themselves, but my current draft feels especially rough, and I don't feel ready for my parents to see it. There have already been times just over phone calls where it's felt like my parents and I are on the brink of a breaking point regarding my identity, and if I live with them over the summer it'll be even more difficult. 

However, my program is also next year incorporating travel opportunities, so next year I could travel with a faculty mentor to New York, and the following year to London. I would, however, have to pay my own way. So, saving money by going home would be really helpful for that. But is it worth it if I would be living a lie all summer??

Oh and I need to decide by Tuesday, because the girl whose lease I'd be buying if I stay needs to know by then.

Any input/advice is welcome, lmk if you have any questions lol

:))

Hi! 

What's going on in your lives? 

Feel free to answer that however you want, if you want more of a prompt you can tell me one thing that's been hard and two things that are good! 

One thing that's been hard for me is figuring out if I'm going to stay in my college town for the summer or move back home with my parents. 

Good things: one is that I got on depression medication! Wooooo! Another is that my run of The Tempest is going well, we close tomorrow (which is sad but good!)

Hey guys you should read the Webtoon Realta, it's what the bird in my new pfp is from and it's incredible.

I'm really proud of this one and I'll love you all forever if you check it out :))

psssst I write stuff sometimes (basically the only stuff I post anymore lol)

Anyone else just...blame everything about you on one aspect of yourself?

Like, sometimes I'll be like "oh yeah I'm obsessed with such-and-such thing, it's just cuz I'm gay" and sometimes it's something that makes sense, but sometimes it's just like "oh yeah I'm obsessed with mozzarella sticks, it's just cuz I'm gay"

Which, to me, still makes sense. Somehow. 

Or something like "ouch I just stubbed my toe dangit, it's cuz I'm gay" (and, therefore, cannot walk straight I guess??)

Another frequent excuse of mine is "it's cuz I'm a theatre kid" but that one usually does make perfect sense.

.....and tbh I'm a theatre kid because I'm gay, and also I'm gay because I'm a theatre kid, it's like the chicken and the egg dilemma. Which came first, the theatre or the gay? no one knows.

(Oh and btw I'm using "gay" as an umbrella term here, I currently identify as a panromantic asexual demigirl lol she/they/neopronouns)

Seriously I would be so so grateful to anyone and everyone who checks out my writing, I am a huge fan of feedback of any kind!!

https://www.17thshard.com/forums/topic/123959-queens-quill/

How's everyone doing? 

Tell me one hard thing from this year, and two good things :))

For me, I had a hard time managing my time and actually having time for myself, so I got pretty burnt out at times.

But two good things are:

1: I've been in four shows this year, and they've all been super fun, and I've made a ton of progress in my acting both in those shows and in my classes!

2: I've gotten closer with my cohort, closer with some of my other friends, and been able to keep in touch with the friends that I'm now kinda far away from!

Also! Friendly reminder that this exists and I love getting feedback on my writing :))

I feel like a lot of people here don't know me very well anymore (now that I'm not super active 24/7 like I was when I first joined) so please ask me stuff!

I promise I'll get to my Taylor recs, but first.

SPOTIFY WRAPPED!

I was in the top 0.5% of Taylor Swift listeners (and got a special message from her ), and with how many MASSIVE Swifties there are in the world, I feel like that's a pretty big deal idk.

Shocked that Clockmaker's Daughter isn't represented on here more...

Oh but my top song? I didn't know it existed until September 9th, and I still listened to it that much. It was a recommendation from my crush, so. Checks out.

Tell me what Sanderson character you relate to most and I'll tell you a Taylor Swift song to listen to.

(Please check my about me to make sure I've read the book your character's from)

Y'all y'all y'all okay so

I'm a theatre major, if you didn't know that before, now you do.

In the spring, I'm going to be in a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

I'm one of four people playing the character of Ariel.

"Wait, what? One character played by four actors???? How does that work?"

Allow me to elaborate.

Within the show, Ariel says that they "divide and burn in many places." Hence, we are all the divisions. There are two actors who will be kind of the "main" Ariels, so they'll have the bulk of the lines, but then me and the other other Ariel are internally understudying the main two, so that no matter how many Ariels go out (which, hopefully, no one will), as long as there's at least one Ariel left, we can still have the full character of Ariel.

We're also going to do a lot of really cool movement stuff and I GET TO CLIMB ON THE SET AND STUFF. I GET TO USE THE SET BASICALLY AS A PLAYGROUND??? YES PLEASE OMG.

And the COSTUMES??? I'm so excited. If you don't know, Ariel is a nature/wind spirit on an island, so they do a lot of magic stuff and aren't. Human. I love love love I'm so excited aaaaaaaaa.

Also the other three Ariels are all gender-wiggly in some way and I have lately been having a bit of a gender crisis so it's possible that all of the Ariels are gender-wiggly lol.

Taylor Swift is a genius that is all thank you for coming to my TED Talk

Please please please everyone I am BEGGING ON MY KNEES PLEASE listen to The Clockmaker's Daughter it is probably THE BEST musical of ALL time it's SO GOOD I would commit so many crimes if it meant I could play Constance.

If you do listen to it, please talk to me about your thoughts!!! DMs here are fine but I personally prefer messaging over Discord, my username is @drama.queen27_11 so HIT ME UP IF YOU LISTEN TO IT AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LISTEN TO IT!!!!!!

Rapunzel!!!

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