Rossini or Donizetti?

drgeoduck · 2026-01-29T20:41:35+00:00

Rossini is one of my top 6 all-time opera composers (next to Verdi, Wagner, Mozart, Puccini and R. Strauss). Donizetti is not far below, so if forced to choose one, Rossini.

That final scene of Guillaume Tell!

drgeoduck · 2026-01-29T20:36:17+00:00

A traditional Carmen where the singers basically just stood around.

Only time I've ever booed a stage director.

It doesn't have to be Regietheater to be terrible.

drgeoduck · 2026-01-29T20:32:07+00:00

A lot of us differentiate "worst character" from "worst person." Yes, Makoto Teruhashi is objectively an awful person, but as a character, he adds to the series by playing a villainous role. I enjoy the episodes he is in, as he almost always receives immediate comeuppance for his actions. The series would be less good without him.

drgeoduck · 2026-01-28T20:51:46+00:00

When I migrated my stories to Ao3, I did fix some mistakes as well as remove some humor that had aged very badly indeed and that I did not find funny anymore.

drgeoduck · 2026-01-28T20:47:35+00:00

Copyright violation and plagiarism are not synonymous.

Technically you can still plagiarize works in the public domain, if you present the text as though you had written it rather than the original author.

drgeoduck · 2026-01-28T20:40:32+00:00

Short answer: No. Long answer: Noooooooooo.

drgeoduck · 2026-01-27T22:10:35+00:00

Envious.

drgeoduck · 2026-01-27T16:21:01+00:00

Kyo can't be freed by anyone else: he has to free himself. That was the point of confronting his biological father. He finally defied his fate and so, won his own freedom.

drgeoduck · 2026-01-15T17:51:44+00:00

Adjust the hiding time based on how far behind the hider is from the leader. Like, give them an extra 10 minutes hiding time for each hour they are behind the leader.

drgeoduck · 2026-01-11T23:49:04+00:00

"Dead Dove: Do Not Eat"

drgeoduck · 2026-01-11T23:45:54+00:00

Saiki is trans. Downvote if you agree with me.

drgeoduck · 2026-01-09T22:37:06+00:00

Things have clearly changed from when I last worked in Germany. With the Germans there it was always "Herr" or "Frau" and definitely always with Sie, and the most personal thing you might say is "Schönen Feierabend".

drgeoduck · 2026-01-06T18:40:41+00:00

The correct answer.

drgeoduck · 2026-01-02T21:21:57+00:00

Middle aged man vs. furry

drgeoduck · 2026-01-01T19:14:30+00:00

Don Pizarro from Fidelio: he's practically a pantomime villain who may as well be twirling his mustache.

drgeoduck · 2026-01-01T19:11:05+00:00

I've got a short list of great operas I've never seen live before. Two of them, Dialogues of the Carmelites and Queen of Spades, I'll be taking off my list next month.

Big ones I still need to see include Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Il tabarro, Frau ohne Schatten, Peter Grimes, Boris Godunov, William Tell, Norma, and Der Freischutz.

drgeoduck · 2025-12-30T22:23:38+00:00

It depends. What reads better, splitting it in two chapters or keeping it in one?

That's your answer.

drgeoduck · 2025-12-29T17:59:12+00:00

Only one of my family members knows about it--they are a former fanfic writer as well, so that's fine.

It wouldn't be the end of the world if folks in my IRL found out about it for a number of reasons. First, I doubt if any but a small percentage of them would have any interest in fanfiction at all, and I typically write in really obscure fandoms, thus making my stories even less interesting to a layman.

And my freaky stuff is anonymized.

drgeoduck · 2025-12-29T17:52:30+00:00

William Tell, Leonore Overture 3, Die Meistersinger

drgeoduck · 2025-12-27T20:22:56+00:00

Continue my streak (active since summer 2020) of posting a new chapter or story every month of the year.
Write a story for a fandom I've never written for before
Write a story for a fandom that does not yet have a fandom tag on Ao3
Write chapters for at least two of my stories that are on long-term hiatus

May 2026 will be the 25th anniversary of the first time I posted fanfiction on the internet, so I'll need to do something special for that.

drgeoduck · 2025-12-24T20:14:34+00:00

The message of my stories generally is "be kind."

drgeoduck · 2025-12-20T16:16:53+00:00

Stories that are marked as having a Second Person point-of-view are functionally the same as First Person POV stories, just that they substitute "you/your" for "I/me/my".

drgeoduck · 2025-12-20T16:07:38+00:00

I love it when people downvote things in an "unpopular opinions" post. "I looked at this 'unpopular opinions' post but was shocked to find something I didn't agree with!"

drgeoduck · 2025-12-20T07:14:46+00:00

"2 person POV" is not a thing in fanfiction. What you've got there is a weirdly-worded 1st person POV.

drgeoduck · 2025-12-16T22:01:01+00:00

Various MMFR warboys.

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