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Hello good people of Tumblr! 

My name’s Aeryn, aka Raven, and I’m a writer. 

But on top of that, I’m also a fangirl. The image above is of a fantastic book called “Heartless” by author Marissa Meyer, and it is the backstory of the famous character, the Queen of Hearts. This is such a good book, I utterly love it.

And like any normal human being...I wanna turn it into a musical. 

I’ve actually been working on a screenplay version of the novel for a few months, and while it may not look like much immediately, I am putting a lot of thought on how to get this just right. Last October (2020) I attended a virtual meet and greet with Marissa Meyer, and brought up the work I wanted to do with the author herself. And much to my happiness, Marissa Meyer has said that she would love for there to be a Heartless musical--and who am I to pass up this encouragement???

Reason I’m making this post (finally XD): I can’t write music. 

Lyrics, melody--I can’t do it, at least not well. I can determine what type of stuff I want to put in a song, but I can’t actually create it. 

That’s why I need your help. 

I want to work with a few composers and lyricists (amateurs and beginners are more than welcome, I just want help) to help me make this project. It would be more helpful if those who are selected were familiar with the subject matter (the book Heartless) or at least Marissa Meyer as an author, but I don’t mind debriefing if that’s what it comes to. 

What you would receive for your work: I sadly, can’t pay anyone. And I know that whomps, but if this does make it big (I do intend to try and see if I can get it produced) or something, then payment might be discussed. For now though, you’ll receive full credit for whatever you produce, a cool and creative project to work on, and hell, if I can get this produced somewhere, full creative input (as always) on your entire area. 

I know this is a lot of information, but this is something I’m very passionate about, and want to do very much. I’d rather work with people that want to do this for fun, or experience or anything like that, than pay some professional (most likely an adult and until December, I’m still a minor and that’d just be kinda awkward) to help me out just as a formality, if that makes sense? 

If you’ve read this far, thank you so much for hanging around for so long, it really means a lot to me and I hope you consider my offer. :)

To contact me for anything regarding this project: my DMs on Tumblr are open, theballadoflmanburg@gmail.com (don’t ask about the name, I’ll explain later--), harpie_raven on Tik Tok (DMs open), Harpie_Raven#4120 on Discord. 

TLDR: Hi! I wanna make a Heartless musical based off this book I read, but I don’t know how to write lyrics for, or make music at all, so I need some composers and lyricists to help me out! Info on contact above. 

Deplorable and disgusting. Selling out your users to keep yourself rich. Project yourselves everyone. The IP thieves are coming to the neighbourhood.

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.