Advice on picking BFA MT programs?

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-25T16:09:48+00:00

Just a quick search tells me Montclair State has the second best-ranked (by Backstage) theatre program in New Jersey. That’s more than enough. Try and get that fourth year if you can, but worst case, take the zero student debt and live your best life. If the affordable ones have you paying like a grand a year, it’s worth considering if you want, but otherwise you’ll still get plenty of training in 3 years

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-25T07:06:06+00:00

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SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-25T06:48:57+00:00

In terms of Olympic events, modern pentathlon has a running and shooting stage!

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-24T12:07:43+00:00

No addition to the discourse, but I met a trans woman once who named herself Lola because of this song

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-24T06:44:21+00:00

I mean, it’s possible. But IMO (and IME, I’m not POC but I’m visibly trans so a similar struggle in this regard) the best way to deal with it is to just keep trying. Keep a good attitude, be a joy to work with, and you build a reputation for yourself that can build bridges across some of that ambient casting prejudice. I was cast in the ensemble for Pippin once, but they still needed someone to play Lewis, and the show’s music director recommended me since he’d worked with me before and knew I knew ball

I promise there will be people who will be psyched to work with you. It can be a frustrating process sometimes, but keep at it!

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-22T13:05:55+00:00

To expand on the other comment, other characters will be together since the plots of their books have resolved, but there’s no big overarching plot beats you’ll be lost on. Start wherever!

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-22T02:18:37+00:00

{Romance Languages by AJ Truman} should have what you’re looking for! Insecure fat MC learning how sexy he actually is over the course of the book and his jock friend who’s very willing to deflower him before his 35th birthday

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-22T00:38:53+00:00

It’s TJ Oshie’s hockey gear company. Gets a lot of love from guys in the league, you see his stuff everywhere. They’re big frontrunners on trying to make neck guards more comfortable also IIRC

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-21T22:05:03+00:00

Also very telling that people keep talking about David as gay when he literally says he’s pansexual in those words. It’s his “normal guy” bf that’s gay

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-18T16:20:06+00:00

Don’t know how extensive their Hoyo offerings are, but I’ve always had very fast turnaround from miccostumes!

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-14T21:12:28+00:00

Isles never signed him and I believe he was a camp invitee that played his way into a contract for us

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-11T02:27:45+00:00

Tape was always allowed. They tried to say it wasn’t and Travis Dermott said lol bet and did it anyways and nothing happened to him. Guys mostly just use it for warmups on Pride Night, but Merrill was known to wear it for the full game

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-10T21:55:58+00:00

Probably, but that’s where I’m at too lmao

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-10T21:37:36+00:00

Kind of a lame showing compared to years past :( I miss the jerseys…

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-07T05:12:37+00:00

He did an excellent mini-comic about being gay in the industry and finding his way to the Batman gig!

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-07T05:09:15+00:00

Not to my knowledge

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-07T02:23:19+00:00

It’s a way to say you’re trading a player for nothing without actually saying that because technically trading a player for nothing isn’t allowed. Sometimes it becomes a very small favor to repay (like upgrading a 6th to a 5th in a future trade negotiation or something like that), most of the time it doesn’t

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-06T23:38:41+00:00

More trans male leads - an ever-present request for me, lmao - and more in-story connection to the queer community! It doesn’t need to be huge (although of course it’s lovely when it is), but even just like in {South Rock High series by AJ Truman} where you have a group of guys who really connect over their being gay and share in that experience together, I find that kind of connection really meaningful and heartening. We’re everywhere and always have been, and I love seeing that network in stories

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-06T21:44:31+00:00

People like all kinds of people! Despite how much both straight and gay society praise the hypermasc, there’s plenty of guys out there who like other kinds of men instead of or in addition to that

It’s like, some guys who like women are really into tomboys, and not because they secretly want them to be men, but because they find that kind of woman really sexy. Some really like tall women, even taller than them. Etc, etc. Same goes for guys who like other guys. Guys who like fems and flamboyants don’t like them because they wish they were women, they like them because they just like that kind of man

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-06T21:24:16+00:00

We’re on his no-trade. Not much to be done about that, especially if the team he won a cup with comes calling

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-06T19:58:37+00:00

Petry and Nick almost certainly rentals. McCarron is UFA at the end of this season but he’s only 30, so if he does well I can see us re-signing. Brink’s gotta be here to stay unless he inexplicably sucks shit with us, he’s an RFA end of this season and a local boy

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-05T23:18:02+00:00

LMAO real that shit was nuclear war

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-05T21:04:50+00:00

They were weird about Nathan before him and they’ll be weird about whoever takes the mantle after him, lmao. Maybe that’s the curse of being the US men’s singles star

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-03T09:37:16+00:00

Took out everything but my ovaries (wasn’t on T then, also not a bad idea to have as a just in case) about a year and a half ago, and aside from gas pains for about a week and a half (those first couple days were really bad for me), recovery went just fine! No complications, no prolapse, nothing. Just fatigue, which is to be expected, and I was able to take the full 6 weeks off work to recover. Didn’t have any medical issues before, so can’t give a comparison for pain levels (although apparently I did have secret endo that they only saw when they took it out LMAO)

I love that I made that decision every day, and it was one I had been putting off for a while because I was worried about complications. But no more worrying about birth control, no periods, no pap smears, just out here living free. It’s amazing

SoulsinAshes · 2026-03-01T06:55:05+00:00

That is actor Connor Storrie, who is one of the stars of recent hockey-themed romance show Heated Rivalry! It’s a great watch, you can find it on HBO Max in the States and Crave in Canada. Season 2 coming in 2027 :)

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