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Twice recently

rymenhild has brought joy into my life. The first time was when I found out that there was a Valdemar ficathon scheduled and emailed her about it. She explained to me that the Valdemar fandom had experienced a small explosion, and the ficathon was in fact the celebration of a victory won by an anonymous fail_fandomanon person, known only as Vanyel's Campaign Manager, who after much successful lobbying and quoting of Mercedes Lackey's loving depictions of Vanyel's tragedy at last saw Vanyel Ashkevron crowned the Woobiest Character Ever.

This is so appropriate that I don't really have words to express it. The nineties have returned -- the once and future nineties -- and Vanyel reigns enthroned, as always was destined, from the beginning to the end of time, below a banner that says "Saddest of all the medium-length* tales ever told."

*you know, the ones appropriate for a three-volume novel in mass-market paperback form

The second time was today when she told me that Frank Wildhorn -- my favorite-least-favorite composer of musical theater, author of such enduring works as The Scarlet Pimpernel: The Musical, Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical, and Death Note: The Musical -- just got married to takarazuka actress Yoka Wao, known for playing such roles as the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera, Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, and Dracula in Wildhorn's own Dracula: The Musical. That last one isn't even a takarazuka show! They just cast her as Dracula anyway, I guess because she's just that good at incarnating seductive evil in a tuxedo.

When Andrew Lloyd Webber cast his girlfriend as Christine, that was creepy. This? This is AMAZING. Frank Wildhorn is a man who is living his dream, and I have never liked him better.

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I didn't even realize there *was* a Death Note musical, so my life is enriched.

Frank Wildhorn -- my favorite-least-favorite composer of musical theater, author of such enduring works as The Scarlet Pimpernel: The Musical, Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical, and Death Note: The Musical -- just got married to takarazuka actress Yoka Wao, known for playing such roles as the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera, Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, and Dracula in Wildhorn's own Dracula: The Musical.

I read about that last night! I wish them all happiness and will be tremendously entertained to see what they do next.

(I didn't know about Death Note: The Musical. I am . . . impressed. I'll go with impressed.)

So excited about

21_days!! Yay, Valdemar fic!

I was so flabbergasted when she told me about it. I had to go and listen to some of it.

L and Light are pretty good, Misa doesn't sound anything like I imagined she might.

...to be fair I literally can't think of a character more woobified than Vanyel.

*beams at you*

I made only one useful contribution to the ffa discussion of Vanyel Ashkevron, to suggest that Vanyel and fellow woobie finalist Elsa would have a great time living platonically and antisocially in an ice palace together. Of course, a later commenter capped this with Frozen!Vanyel.

I never even READ Death Note and it is still a deep sorrow of mine how unlikely it is to come to Broadway anytime in the near future.

My dream is that he goes the full Tim Burton and casts her as the Count in a big-budget cinema release of Count of Monte Cristo: The Musical.

I just remember that Yuletide a few years ago when someone requested a Tylendel/Vanyel high school AU and all of a sudden there were, like, SIX of them, fulfilling a niche that had always seem to exist. I don't even like high school AUs, but I hope it's exactly like that.

NOBODY COULD. My favorite comment in the whole FFA thing:

"I just want to let you know that Vanyel is currently up against the character I had previously written a lengthy campaign post for. That's a character who was canonically tortured to death, then resurrected and tortured to near-death, mutilation, and blindness. And then stabbed nearly to death by his idiot true love.

I just voted for Vanyel. Well-played."

OF COURSE THEY DID.

Honestly, I'm kind of surprised Frank Wildhorn has not yet written Vanyel: The Musical.

My dream is that he goes the full Tim Burton and casts her as the Count in a big-budget cinema release of Count of Monte Cristo: The Musical.

I would pay money for that. I don't say that about everyone who gave one of my distant relatives a hilarious villain song.

Oh my lord, that Woobiest Character competition is giving me life.

I don't even understaaaaand! Tho, Wildhorn and Wao seem to be kind of adorable. Shine on, you crazy diamonds!!

I swear, between all the theatre shows and the talk of the new King Arthur movie, you are trying to kill me. With laughter. Or tears. Tears of laughter as I start having Swan Lake ORANGE flashbacks.

Oh my god, FRANK WILDHORN. My youthful obsession with Linda Eder introduced me to the wonderful world of Frank Wildhorn musicals. In college, my friend and I used to drink wine and watch J&H -- the one with David Hasselhoff, of course. GOOD TIMES.

What amazing news, gosh!

That was me. ;)

OF COURSE IT WAS YOU. I don't know why I didn't guess that from the very beginning.

Whoever wrote the Vanyel posts: well played, sir/ma'am. WELL PLAYED.

THE NEW KING ARTHUR MOVIE. Oh god, I knew there was something that was laughorrifying me that I forgot to post about here! RAISED BY THREE PROSTITUTES.

Of COURSE the one with David Hasselhoff! Only he can truly embody the beauty, the sorrow, the agony and the ecstasy that is JEKYLL AND HYDE: THE MUSICAL. I used to come home from school and watch it repeatedly on PBS (I don't know WHY it was always on PBS) and fall over laughing every time.

"DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE THING. BECCA TOLD ME ABOUT A THING." is basically how that conversation went down.

(She literally choked on her drink and said "So... are we all going to watch this when it comes out, then?" before I even got to the three prostitutes and the giant viking-like creature called Nemesis.)

Death Note: The ... Musical? Whaaa?

I want you to know (both of you to know) that I just choked on my coffee and am laughing helplessly at the screen now.

So which character was Vanyel competing against?

...

*blink*

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