#so surprised

Wha… how… that’s… 🥹🥹🥹

this was a canon event

just listened to lizard boy on spotify and i cannot believe this musical does not have a following on tumblr dot com, home of all things diverse and wonderfully weird SO listen up

lizard. boy. it rlly is that simple folks. local protagonist has scales and has hidden in his apartment for the last year because he feels insecure about being a lizard!!! he's also queer, and filipino, living in seattle, and from what i can gather the catalyst of the musical is him texting some guy on grindr. what a legend.

trevor (the protag!!!) learns to accept himself throughout the story -- scales and all. but!!! but. that is not all. there is also a villain who could frankly throw me off a cliff and i would say thank you. her name is siren and she has a huge fight scene with trevor and plays guitar and dresses like a rockstar and As She Should !!! every song of hers is a banger but A Terrible Ride and Take Me To Bed slap so hard

the writer of the musical, justin huertas --- who wrote the musical as a combination of many things that he loves (comics, cello, his city), wrote it specifically to have a queer, poc protagonist, because it resonated with his own experience (!!!)

--- he plays trevor alongside cary and siren -- who also serve as their own band!!! they play things like violins, glockenspiels, guitar, piano, cello, and kazoos and ukuleles, which honestly bang. literally a 3-person cast and they make all their own music. the theatre/music nerd in me is dead on the floor rn

it's also VERY MUCH comic book inspired and structured. the spiderman nerd in me is ALSO dead on the floor.

he's just a boy who looks like a lizard !!!

good ass lines include:

- "You'll leave me behind, and if I cross your mind,

It's 'cause I'm just a boy who looks like a lizard!"

- "You've been told all your life you don't look like a hero

You believed it and now you're an absolute zero

You make music alone because you don't feel pretty

And you're doing too little in too big a city"

- "Every other night,

I play my music all alone/ I fall asleep on my phone/ there's no one to tell me I'm a mess"

- "It's time to live! Not just get by!

Yoda says, do there is no try!"

- "I fought and fought hard, and I could've died,

And I got scarred, a terrible ride! a terrible ride!

"This game was not fun, I thought it was right,

Because, I WON! Was it worth the fight?"

it's genuinely so inspiring to me?? apparently the process was that he got commissioned to write the musical and he just knew that he needed to make it about someone like him (queer, poc) because, why SHOULDN'T he be the leading man? and yes!!! they made the music through like jamming like a garage band, he wrote the music and then taught it to the other two, and there's still no sheet music or official score because they just learned it and rehearsed and performed it. that is so metal.

i read that the musical is going through a third revision rn?? i hope to god it finds wider audiences because it goddamn deserves it. go listen!!! go!!!!

an article that describes the musical better than i ever could

and songs to have a listen to if u want to just dip in:

a terrible ride | lizard boy | recess | myth to live by

Writing GO prompts. Send me some here! Writing in order I recieve them and about one a day, so might be slow to get to ones I have.

‘Some humans think this is poisonous,’ Crowley comments, watching Aziraphale digging into this new type of pizza Crowley’d found for him. 

Aziraphale rolls his eyes as the new sauce drips down his fingers. ‘Ah yes, the tomatoes right? I’ve read some of the things the British have been writing about them. Quite ridiculous.’

He licks at his fingers, stealing all thoughts from Crowley’s head. ‘Urgh.’

‘Rather my dear. They do grow them though, think they’re a lovely looking plant.’

That manages to get into Crowley’s foggy brain and get him to snort. ‘Course they do. Humans. Oh yes we think this is poisionous. But wouldn’t it make a lovely center piece in the garden!’

‘Yes rather,’ Aziraphale says as he licks the last of the sauce from his lips. 

Crowley makes another noise as he attempts words. ‘Well I could,’ he finally manages, ‘do some freelance work back home. See if I can tempt them into eating it.’

Aziraphale smiles, his head ducked as if to hide it. ‘I shouldn’t encourage freelance tempting,’ he says in the voice he uses when he’s absolutely going to abet Crowley’s freelance tempting. ‘But if I let you do that I should counterbalance it over h-’ He pauses and frowns. ‘Home?’

‘What?’

‘You said home.’

...Shit. 

‘Well I’ve been talking to Hell about your home base and you know them. Equality or better so they’re open to a home base for... for me. And well, best done where I can keep an eye on you. For the Arrangement.’

Aziraphale’s eyes are wide. ‘Of course my dear. For the Arrangement. Do... do you need any... any assistance? In finding a base?’

Something warm creeps into Crowley’s chest. ‘I’m sure some subtle assistance wouldn’t be totally amiss.’