u/mew-the-wizard

Hi, all! I used to be a trader a few years ago and I'm looking to get back into it. Unfortunately I lost most of my collection since I lost access to my mega accounts and didn't have most of it backed up anywhere.

There's only two boots I had backed up on my computer and thus still have access to.

One is a video of Anastasia that I need help identifying. It's the full show, with the original Broadway cast, and it's split into 5 VOB files. Sorry, I know that's not a lot of information to go on, but any help is appreciated!

The second is a video of the Les Miserables revival with Ramin Karimloo as Valjean and Cassie Levy as Fantine. However, I cannot trade with this one since the file size and format (mp4) make me certain it's a rip. If anyone has the original and would be willing to gift it to me, I would greatly appreciate that!

I would also be very grateful for any gifts (video or audio) to help get my collection started. My favorite shows are The Phantom of the Opera, Hadestown, The Great Comet of 1812, Hamilton, Anastasia, and Les Miserables, and those are mainly what I'm hoping for. But any gifts would be welcome since I'm looking to get into other shows, too!

Sorry if this is a confusing question; I had a hard time thinking of how to word it right! But what I'm getting at is, for those of you who have lore with your F/O, how does it fit in with their official source material? Like, what point in/after their official canon did you guys get together? Do you stay canon compliant or do you have an AU? Or rather, do you picture your F/O in this world with you? I've seen people experience their relationships in a lot of different ways, so I'm curious to learn more about you all!

For me personally, I experience my relationship by imagining myself in Thrawn's world! (Which is Star Wars if you didn't know). His canon is all over the place and he has a lot of source material from different phases of his life, but I imagine meeting him when he joins the Empire and then getting together several years later, when I'm assigned to work on his ship. I stay mostly canon compliant up until the last episode of Rebels and then I go full AU and imagine what would've happened had he won that last battle. (I also rewrite parts of that show to make him more in character because heaven knows Dave Filoni does NOT understand my Thrawn lol). Imagining us together in his world and the effect I could have on his life (and how we could effect the galaxy together) makes me feel closer to him than anything else and I have so many different concepts of possible stories for us. It's a little odd because my self-insert is very different and seperate from my actual self, but I still feel close to him through imagining their story together.

But anyway I'd like to hear, how do you guys experience your relationships, and what are your stories like? I'd love to hear whatever you want to share!

EDIT: Thank you all so much to everyone who responded, I am really enjoying reading about all of your beautiful relationships! I am really bad at replying to people so I'm sorry if I don't respond to everyone but please know I will read your comment and I'm glad you took the time to respond to my post!

So sorry to have my first post here be something negative but I have something that's bothering me a little and I want to vent. My F/O has multiple writers and they really cannot agree on how to characterize him sometimes and it's very frustrating to see. I was wondering if anyone else here has similar issues and how they approach it.

Getting into the specifics of my situation, my F/O is Thrawn from Star Wars. His creator and the author who handles his book appearances, Timothy Zahn, is an absolute MASTER at writing him and the Thrawn in the canon novels is who I hold up as THE version of him that I love. (I haven't read all the legends novels yet, but I will!) And then... there's Dave Filoni who handles his TV appearances, and while I think Filoni gets Thrawn mostly right, there are some glaring issues that really bug me. I can get around some of them with mental gymnastics and headcanons but some things I just cannot justify. What's specifically bothering me is I rewatched the season 3 finale of Rebels today and good heavens Thrawn's attitude in that episode is just so wrong. One of my favorite things about him is how he genuinely respects his enemies but in that episode he speaks very disparagingly about them on multiple occasions and overall comes off as pretty arrogant and that is just not at all how my Thrawn in the books is. It's nothing I can't fix by just rewriting a few lines in my head, but still it really annoys me that even his own offical writers can completely misunderstand him sometimes. (And don't even get me started on the Ahsoka series, that show is an absolute minefield of wrong portrayls, even with Filoni's own original characters, and I like to pretend it doesn't exist sometimes lol). What makes this really ironic is Thrawn in Rebels is actually the version I initially met and fell for, but now that I've read the books and know the true him it's kinda strange to go back and see Rebels him and realize it only feels 75% like how he actually should be. And as a side note, it kinda hurts how the mischaracterization is in his more mainstream media because it means the not entirely correct version of him is the version people will know unless they put in the effort to read the books and idk that just makes me kinda sad, there's just SO much of him that people are missing.

Thank you if you read my long rant, and I understand if you didn't lol. But either way, if your F/O has multiple writers or portrayls I'd really love to hear your thoughts and/or frustrations about your situations!

Why am I so weird about doubles aaaa

I just saw a post on Instagram where people were talking about their Star Wars crushes and about 5 other people (in the hundreds of comments) mentioned my F/O as theirs. And at first I was really happy to see other people love him too (and also I was kinda upset there weren't more people mentioning him because to me he is the best). But then that feeling happy and excited kinda turned into... something icky? Like the idea of other people loving him as much as I do really weirds me out and makes me uncomfortable if I think about it too long and honestly I'm not sure why. I guess it makes what I have feel less special somehow? The duality just confuses me. Like how can I simultaneously feel excited to see other people who love him, offended he doesn't get more attention, and also uncomfortable and weirded out? Idk I guess I just feel like sharing status is supposed to be this neat and clean thing where you either like to see doubles or you're upset by seeing doubles and I just hate that my feelings are so ambiguous. If anyone else feels the same way please tell me, I'd love to feel less alone in this

I just saw a post on Instagram where people were talking about their Star Wars crushes and about 5 other people (in the hundreds of comments) mentioned my F/O as theirs. And at first I was really happy to see other people love him too (and also I was kinda upset there weren't more people mentioning him because to me he is the best). But then that feeling happy and excited kinda turned into... something icky? Like the idea of other people loving him as much as I do really weirds me out and makes me uncomfortable if I think about it too long and honestly I'm not sure why. I guess it makes what I have feel less special somehow? The duality just confuses me. Like how can I simultaneously feel excited to see other people who love him, offended he doesn't get more attention, and also uncomfortable and weirded out? Idk I guess I just feel like sharing status is supposed to be this neat and clean thing where you either like to see doubles or you're upset by seeing doubles and I just hate that my feelings are so ambiguous. If anyone else feels the same way please tell me, I'd love to feel less alone in this

...and I made it an entire 20 minutes! I died to the giant boulder in the stasis shrine because it's been forever since I've played and I forgot runes had a cooldown 😭

Imagine if that was the plot of the actual game. Zelda waits 100 years for Link to wake up and then 20 minutes later he dies to a ROCK