susannahajones - My name is not Susannah
My name is not Susannah

...but you can still call me that. She/her, they/them. Finnish, queer.

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Kicking Into A Higher Gear

Kicking into a higher gear

So, after that first complete I-don't-know-what-I'm-doing- runthrough we've been working really hard to get this thing going, with advertisement- meetings, a reporter for a local newspaper visiting us, and agreeing not to have any days off (except one!) before the premiere, and so far we've been doing OK. The group has been going through a rough patch, but being the sensible adults that we are (eh, not really), we have talked about it and everything's okay now.

Actually three of us left early today to get a flight to Sweden for entrance- exams, and one other guy is joining them tomorrow. They'll be back by saturday morning, however, and we can continue working with everyone present. The rest of us are of course going to keep going, and getting some more personal tips from our other teacher about our characters, and her vision for the play. Next week we're going to try working by the traditional "theatre hours" meaning we rehearse from about 10 am to 2 pm, have a long break, and continue from 6 to 9 pm. It will take some getting used to, but working this way will give us time to go through and fix technical issues, such as lights and props in between rehearsals, and hopefully allow us to also have a bit of a rest in the middle of the day.

So far the nervousness hasn't really made itself shown, but I'm sure that the stress will build up over the coming three weeks, and we will all be more or less nervous wrecks by the first dress rehearsal on the 17th of march, two days before the premiere.

(Pssst! Here's the official instagram for our production! http://statigr.am/woyzeck2014vnf )


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7 years ago

Seven chapters into The Philosopher’s Stone and I have so many questions.

How many students get into Hogwarts each year? Is there a limited quota? Is it necessary to have the same amount of students in each house? What if during one year there are 10 Ravenclaws and only 2 Hufflepuffs? Is there the same amount of boys as girls? Can wizards/witches from other schools transfer after their first year? If so how do they get sorted? Is there an exchange program? UGH WHY DO I GET THIS EVERYTIME I READ THE BOOKS. HELP. 

7 years ago

Giveaway✨🎁🎉✨

My last follower milestone came and went without me noticing. But I also really just wanted to do something nice for you guys for sticking through such a long hiatus as well, so I’m doing a small Giveaway!

It’s nothing fancy (b/c I’m broke AF), but I’m offering up my writing skills!

1st Draw

A 5,000-10,000 word piece (knowing me it’ll end up being longer)

For any prompt you send me (can be specific or not.)

2nd Draw

A 3,000-6,000 word thing

For any prompt

3rd Draw

A short drabble (1,000-3,000words)

For any prompt

I don’t really have any stipulations (but it would be nice if you were following me) (and you obviously should like YoI).

You can enter by:

Reblogging = 2 entires Liking = 1 entry +1 if you are following me

I’ll be drawing winners on August 18th at 7am GMT, so enter before then!

It’s not much, but I hope you guys will enjoy it anyway.

10 years ago

Brainmelt in progress, please standby

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That is pretty much what's going on in my head right now, while simultaniously trying to remember what i need and want with me to New York. Oh yeah, by the way, we're going to New York. Tomorrow. aerjjg,4olecfg ckerjhcrv kbl-nae.

So, the shows have been going pretty well, except fo the fact that we haven't really had that many people in the audience, but that's not too bad. Yesterday was the last show for March, and we'll resume with that in late April. It's been kinda tough, and I'm actually secretly happy to get away from the theatre for a while, seeing as I'm getting fed up with the whole place, as I suspect at least some others are too. I hope we'll feel better about it when we get back to Finland.


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11 years ago

New year, new distractions

So I haven't written anything since school started in August, but in my defense I can say that I've been really busy these last four months.

Our group has lost three members, some to personal matters, some to job offerings elsewhere. Luckily for us, most of those people left in an early stage, and we who have stayed have really formed a close group, almost like a second family. We have watched movies, baked, partied and had sharing circles together, as well as putting on three different one- night shows, about one per month. (our christmas leave started as early as the 13th of December, and today was the first day back) Two of the shows were of the variety kind, while the last one (actually a two- nighter) was a short play made made in cooperation with the dance- course in our school. They have all been fun, but quite stressful, seeing as we have done everything by ourselves, from scriptwriting, to light and sound- desing, to directing. Each time we have been this close to nervous breakdowns and just screaming at everybody else in the group, but somehow we've pulled through. We've also been lucky enough to have people from the photography- course filming the performances, and it has been fun to watch them afterwards, and especially comparing the newer ones to the old. Even though it has only been a few months I feel like we have really gotten much better at everything involved in producing such a show. 

Anyway, what I really wanted to write about is the Big Production for this spring, and our chance to prove to everyone that we really are amazing. We were told the title of the play way back in October, and had a first read through in December, but the real work starts now. We got the second version of the script today, and looked partway through it, making a few changes on the way, but we're supposed to get at least one more version of it to be able to really start working on it. The people making the costumes, sets, make- up and lighting have also been decided on, and they have all gotten an early version of the script in order to start brainstorming. The premiere is in March, and so we have a quite busy two months ahead of us to get this done. The play in question  is actually a mix of two different things; the unfinshed play "Woyzeck" by Georg Büchner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woyzeck   http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/Woyzeck   and the opera "Carmen" by Georges Bizet  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/Carmen 

I have no idea how these two would actually fit together, but our teachers seem to have some sort of masterplan, so I guess we just have to trust them. However this turns out, it'll be an interesting thing to do, especially for one such as me, who has never done real theatre before.


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7 years ago

Reblog if you genuinely support asexuals

It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals


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