Anna, aka articulatelyComposed

Jonaya recently made a checklist for both our in-progress actual play shows to see how much of the Hays code they violate. The answer is almost all of it.

Fuck the hays code, it’s not 1934! Write protagonists who kill in cold blood! Have your characters fuck on screen! Not all media is for kids!

For reference, I was 2 in 1999, and my parents were busy raising me on a steady musical diet of They Might Be Giants, the B52s, and Putomayo world music CDs. I wasn’t even exposed to pop radio til the late 2000s lol

Jonaya read me this post and it sparked this conversation:

Jonaya: you remember that song?
Me: I’ve never heard of this song
Jonaya: it was played on the radio all the time! It went like [starts singing song]
Me: what year was it played on the radio?
Jonaya: …1999

I once wrote a song that made Tony nominated composer Michael John LaChiusa cry

First TTRPG I played that wasn’t D&D?

Monster of the Week! Also my first game in general

(I’ve only played a single session of D&D ever. The vast majority of what I’ve played is PBTA)

We’re back!! Get excited for a murder mystery!

Moment of Balance OST: Volume 1, by Anna Marcus 17 track album

Hey all, it’s Bandcamp Friday! If you like the music for Moment of Balance, or you’ve been itching to listen for some cool jazz to do crime to, today is a great day to pick up a copy of the soundtrack!

articulatelycomposed.bandcamp.com/album/moment...

"But what if a kid sees it" there's a global cabal of child rapists running the government who use gmail to send each other CSAM during lunch, Billy seeing a dog mask on the subway should be the least of your concerns.

Things I’ve found sorting through 5 years worth of files to transfer to my new computer:

• a picture of the cast for my first ever musical back in 2019
• the start of a play I wrote for class about a sad boring man getting haunted by the inebriated ghost of Alexander the Great
• this valentine:

What am I gonna do to turn my brain off for hours and hours after work now??

Looks like the MAGA billionaires own tiktok now… Is this my sign to get off tiktok for good?

Moment of Balance OST: Volume 1, by Anna Marcus 17 track album

Hi, I’m Anna, I’m the composer for @momentofbalance.bardrockcafe.com! I do both instrumental and vocal music, and I’ve done a bunch of work for game soundtracks and musicals as well.

You can check out my stuff here! articulatelycomposed.bandcamp.com/album/moment...

Bonus Episode: Bubsy ± Hanako (Part 1) Podcast Episode · Moment of Balance · S1 Bonus · 1h 17m

Book 2 Premieres March 2nd, but in the meantime, enjoy this bonus episode where Hanako has a series of insightful conversations with... Bubsy the Bobcat?!

We play a hack of Garfield ± You and present some canon Hanako backstory!

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I am contractually obligated to promote my own actual play, @momentofbalance.bardrockcafe.com. It’s an Avatar Legends actual play, which focuses on leftist politics and is extraordinarily gay :)

Honestly, you should check out all of the shows at @bardrockcafe.com , there’s a bunch of non-DND APs

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

Pisster beast

I know this kinda sounds self centered, and we all know I love a self promo moment, but it’s also super demoralizing to be a child and only see men’s names in the corner of your sheet music. So I hope showing her that I, a woman she knows, can write music, it means she could too.

Today, one of my 8-year-old students became aware that most famous classical composers are men. She flipped through the piano book and asked me if every piece was written by a boy or a girl. So I showed her my instrumental music, because she shouldn’t grow up thinking composing is for boys.

My wife: You smell like onions.

Me: Well, I was eating onions earlier.

My wife: What, like just straight-up? [makes a motion like eating an apple] Like Shrek?

....in New York??? Why the fuck is that happening here? Kathy Hochul, Letitia James, and Mamdani all need to condemn this show trial

14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Moment of Balance OST: Volume 1, by Anna Marcus 17 track album

So yea, not the most insanely productive year for creative work, but pretty great for life stuff! Here’s to lots more music and gay shit in 2026!

Also, stream the Moment of Balance soundtrack: articulatelycomposed.bandcamp.com/album/moment...

We got married a month later :)

YouTube video by Count Báthory 🦇 Modern day Broadway Vriska singing “All I’ve Ever Known” by Hadestown (THEY GOT ENGAGED!!!???)

And of course, we can’t forget the biggest thing I did all year: publicly proposing to @jonayariley.bsky.social at promstuck, on stage, in Vriska cosplay, with a song from Hadestown. Which is possibly the most me-core sentence you’ll ever hear. C

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The other big thing I did is I’ve shifted to teaching private lessons full time! No more standing around a theatre for a low wage!

Piano lessons pay my bills, but my favorite lessons to teach are theory/composition lessons, which I primarily teach virtually! DMs are always open for lesson inquiry

Moment of Balance Republic city, one year after the events of Legend of Korra. The avatar may have brought balance to the world once more, but the city is still steeped in crime, corruption, and exploitation. Changes a...

I never shut up about it on here, but @momentofbalance.bardrockcafe.com dropped this September! This show has been my child for the past year and a half, and we’re dropping the final episode of S1 this Monday, so now’s a great time to catch up!

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Usually, around this time of year I post my aC wrapped. Even last year when I put my channel on hiatus, I was able to do a little aC wrapped with all the creative projects I worked on. Unfortunately, this year I didn’t work on nearly as many individual projects. I did, however, do two major things: