dark and dreadful things

in other acting news I booked my next show after a) getting called back for a side character b) the callback going super well but not getting the role c) the director calling me a week after I got the rejection email bc their first choice for the lead backed out and they really liked me so would I maybe want to play the lead instead? (yes)

unfortunately as an old-school hater ass bitch of an actor i am deriving joy from annoying the intimacy coordinator who introduced herself with her zodiac signs. no actually i WOULD prefer to just learn the blocking and not do a "body awareness check in" thank you. no i do not need a guided breathing exercise. i am a professional

having a spectacular late 20s glow up feels like a goddess or fae suddenly blessed me with beauty in the fairy tale magical boon sense. great but disorienting. hard to talk about because understandably nobody wants to hear me muse about my bone structure like i'm on an incel forum. also i do think about 40% of it is "light behind my eyes"/ confidence/ energy related and not physical but again, hard to talk about; i think my loved ones will throttle me if i tell them another story about my charisma winning the day and I don't blame them

brain on fire with the concept of breach’s big move on aradia being to straightforwardly confess his feelings and bale’s big move on aradia being to attempt to seduce her. when you would assume the exact opposite bc breach is the slut who flirts with her and bale is the earnest principled one. you love to see a man panic and pull out a different playbook

it’s not that breach and adestina have no chemistry, they could for sure have a thing were aradia not in the picture, it’s just that the the thing in question is, spiritually not literally, divorce. breach and adestina are so alike in their edgy, self-centered angst and so benignly unpleasant-yet-fond with each other that they’d skip the ‘passionate romance’ thing and go straight for “couple that broke up ages ago but won’t file the paperwork because at least it’s convenient to still have sex with each other”

local theater doing a new, original dracula play that’s “loyal to the book” this fall ooooooohhhhhh I BEEN WAITIN FOR THIS