Franklyn Stark [she/they]

Thank you so much! 🥰 Yep, this keyboard has served me well over the years!

It’s one of my favorite things in the world 🥰

What a passionate story 💖 Thank you so much for sharing with me. It is electric, yes, and it’s an older Yamaha model, a YPG-535. I’ve had it since I was about twelve or thirteen!

Yesss! Thank you! 🥰

Thank youuu! 🥰 Yes, I did! Among my many trades is arranging/sheet music copying, and often my theatre clients ask for arrangements of songs that don’t exist in sheet music yet, so I do a lot of this for work as well as for fun projects like this one!

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted, but here I am and here’s some music!

Have I had this song + “Losing Streak” stuck on repeat since Wednesday? …Maybe 🫢 What can I say? Huskerdust for life.

-FS 💖

#HazbinHotel #PianoCover #Arranger #LoveInABottle #Husk #Huskerdust #Season2

I made this because Pride 😤🏳️‍🌈 Also, I’ve changed my last name to Stark! I’m hoping to get it legally changed in the near future, and I’ll explain the full story another time. 😘

-FS 💖

#PrideMonth #HappyPride #Lesbian #Agender #Nonbinary #MyJourney

You are NOT pro-life and you do NOT care about people.

-FG 💖

#AbortionIsHealthcare #TransRightsAreHumanRights

A dog licked my hand and that’s unironically the nicest thing to happen to me in weeks, so yeah, that’s where we’re at 😭🐶

-FG 💖

#HangingInThere #ByAThread

I found this via @ soapboxtok on my TikTok feed, for my fellow friends with disabilities for whom going out in-person tomorrow may not be feasible. Link is below!

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-FG 💖

#StandUpFightBack #VirtualProtest

- I’m still working on “The Garden.” I think this is an especially important story to be telling right now, as we are currently overwhelmed with the ongoing consequences of American Christian nationalism/fundamentalism.

That’s all for now!

-FG 💖

#Updates #NewWorks

- I was recently offered a position in the writing department for a new project, but I don’t know how much I can say yet, so stay tuned! I’m SO stoked about it 🤩

- “Kitty & Jill” was a semifinalist for the SheNYC Summer Theater Festival! Although it didn’t advance to the finals, I’m incredibly proud of how far it went out of hundreds of submissions.

New photos and brief life updates (see comments):

Well, it only took me A MONTH, but my rough take of “Everything You Know Is Everything You Know” (from the show I’m currently writing, “The Garden”) is now up on YouTube! Please go show it some love if you have a spare moment. 🥰

-FG 💖

#TheGarden #NewMusic #MusicalTelevision

YouTube video by Madeleine Skye Writes Musicals How I Accidentally Became a Musical Theater Writer

One of my closest friends, Maddy, just started a new YouTube channel about musical theatre writing! You should ten THOUSAND percent go follow her for some fabulous musical content!

-FG 💖

#Musicals #Writing #MadeleineSkye

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I wrote a song for “Kitty & Jill” that everyone really liked at the time, but I knew I would have to eventually scrap because it missed the mark of the show’s armature.

Now here I am on this rainy Sunday, finally getting around to writing a new one instead. 👀

-FG 💖

#WriterThings #SetMyHeart

🚨TRUMP IS TRYING TO BAN HEALTHCARE FOR TRANS KIDS🚨

NYU Langone is one of the few hospitals in the country that's begun withholding life-saving healthcare for trans kids. Join us for an emergency rally tomorrow. Demand NYU Langone reverse this decision! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
actionnetwork.org/events/prote...

Demand NYU Langone Resume Life-saving Healthcare for Trans Youth On January 29th, Donald Trump signed an illegal executive order that attempts to ban gender affirming care for youth under the age of 19, an attempt to detransition all trans children in the US. Despi...

AND! If you CAN’T make it tomorrow for whatever reason, PLEASE sign a letter demanding that the CEO reverse this decision. This is something that we can actively change right now amidst all the horror, so please do everything you can. 🫶🏻

-FG 💖

#ActionStartsNow

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THANK YOU for sharing this. I just found out about it a few minutes ago and have also been sharing the hell out of it. I’ll be at the rally tomorrow evening and would love to see plenty others there. 🫶🏻

Protect Trans Kids On January 29th, Donald Trump signed an illegal executive order that attempts to ban gender affirming care for youth under the age of 19, an attempt to detransition all trans children in the US. Despi...

As the event description itself states, this is outrageous.

Please join us at this emergency rally if you’re able. Defending our rights and the rights of the generations after us starts with standing up at the root.

-FG 💖

#Rally #Monday #ProtectTransKids

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I love this.

Listen, grief and anger and time are necessary processes, but quitting out of cynicism is not.

Action is critical, even the actions of continuing to exist and speak out.

-FG 💖

#CareAndAct

I HAVE to stop thinking of all my coupled characters’ best love song ideas at work; I CANNOT keep crying at my desk 🫠😭

-FG 💖

#Writing #Outlines #SongSpots #LoveSongs #NewWorks

Today’s goal: don’t drink seven cups of coffee.

…I don’t think I’ve EVER drunk seven cups of coffee in one day, but it’s reallllly tempting right about now.

-FG 💖

#TGIF

Sleep is for the weak.

It’s me; I’m the weak.

-FG 💖

Make them broke. #foryoupage #freedom #foryou TikTok video by Dannie D

I’m sharing this here because it’s incredibly important for both safety and success. Keep hitting their wallets hard.

-FG 💖

#StopBuyingShit #DannieD

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I read “it was the 90s” in its glorious musical form before I even turned on the audio 🤣

I really needed this comment today.

There is joy in art, and there is resistance in joy.

-FG 💖

#CreativeArts #ResistanceInJoy #NewWorks

It’s worth noting that you should read my comments on this post for my full thoughts. It’s doubly worth noting that maybe my feelings will change or grow stronger, as feelings tend to do. But this is a valid expression of anger right now, and I feel it deeply.

-FG 💖

(2) people who will eventually open their eyes and wake up from the brainwashing that is the cult. And when they do, ostracizing them won’t help and we will need to work together; HOWEVER, that doesn’t mean that the actions they took when it counted against us require forgiveness.