Happily Ever Beginning

 

Welcome to the Moulin Rouge, a classy club full of beautiful women doing the most dazzling dances – a chance for romance, tragedy, and endless costume changes. Based on the jukebox musical/film, this meme dives into the tropes found in the movie and beyond, so grab a shot of absinthine, crank up the remixes, and see where the night takes you!

Sparkling Diamonds

The music is loud, the dancers are beautiful, and the booze is pouring – so party like it’s 1900! Or update it to modern times, slap it into an AU fantasy, make it your own! Are you a newcomer startled by all the sounds, a lifelong customer who knows the score, a beauty on their first day at the job, a bodyguard with wandering eyes? The party don’t start ‘til you walk in!

Your Song

Love is in the air – even by accident! Did one of you blatantly lie about who you are to get a chance with someone out of their league, or is it all one big misunderstanding? When the truth is revealed, will the sparks still fly? Is it a matter of money, class, or just personality clashes? There’s only one way to know, so shoot your shot!

Spectacular Spectacular

Who says this meme just must be about dancing girls and guys? Throw on the biggest production this town’s ever seen, where every player has a part. Explore the world beyond France by putting this story anywhere in the world, or another world entirely – royals, supernatural, cram it into your favorite canon. Maybe the rich guy is the good guy or throw out the whole script and just keep the themes/aesthetic/vibe you like. And in the end, should someone die?

One Day I’ll Fly Away

Behind the glamour and glitz, life beyond the curtains can be a depressing one. Are you seeking to leave this place behind for something better, or have you given up on trying something different? Do you have friends supporting your dreams, or enemies weighing you down? The club can be one big happy family, or everyone at each other’s throats. Who doesn’t love a tragic origin story?

Elephant Love Medley

It might not be easy convincing your one true love that what you have is real, but that’s no reason to give up – at least in fiction. Songs, poetry, gifts, show how sincere you are that you love them for more than what they think they are. Is it a case of Pretty Woman and spoiling your favorite, or offering nothing but your most sincere feelings? And who says the dancer can’t go after the attendee instead? Or dancer x dancer?

Like A Virgin

Not everyone is going to approve of such a relationship, so it might be best to keep it under wraps. But how long can you keep a forbidden relationship out of sight? Go for comedy with ridiculous excuses and convenient timing, or up the drama by making it a deadly case of self-preservation. Not everyone enjoys sharing, and there can be consequences when you’re found out.

El Tango De Roxanne

“Never fall for a woman who sells herself – it always ends bad!” When jealousy takes a nasty turn, even the most beautiful people can get ugly real fast. Can your lover stand aside when you need to put on a show, or will the relationship break under the strain? Go for quiet heartbreak as you try to confront the situation or explode with full-blown yandere over your most prized possession.

The Show Must Go On

The secret is out, or it’s becoming too close for comfort. The best way to save your one true love may be to break their heart. Can you go through with a lying smile, or can you change the ending to find a way out? The clock is ticking, and while your love may last forever, the choices may not. Break in a rage, or sob your way through the story, but either way… well, look at the title for the prompt.

 THE EAST MEETS WEST HIGH SCHOOL MEME

In real life, school sucks and we never want to go back. But in RP, high school AUs are full of fun, romance, and endless potential! This meme combines the best of western tropes and anime expectations so all your favorite cliches are in play! Here are some prompts to get you started – mix and match to your heart’s content, and feel free to add any that’ve been forgotten!

Running Late

Oh no, you totally slept through your alarm! Stick a slice of toast in your mouth, run for your life, and crash around the corner into your unexpected love-interest!

Clicking With Cliques

It’s hard to find out where you belong – unless you’re in a fictional school setting, where established groups are already there for you! The popular kids, the goths, the punks, the brainiacs, the theater kids, it’s a never-ending list and you decide who holds the most power.

Student Council Superpower

Tremble in fear of the almighty STUDENT COUNCIL! These kids run everything, from how you look to what you can carry! Plead for their help, defy their rules, or throw your hat in the ring during election season! President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary… there’s sure to be some scandals inside.

The Big Match

Nothing brings kids together like crushing your rivals – it’s Your School versus their eternal enemy, That School! Will you try to destroy their confidence by stealing their mascot, or go through a crazy good-luck ritual for your team? Any sport will do, so long as you want to beat them senseless!

Teacher’s Lounge

Who says you can only play as a student? Hit up your fellow staff and find out the latest buzz on all the kids. Maybe you knew each other when you used to attend this school as a kid yourself, and this is quite the reunion!

Festival Funtimes

A staple trope of anime, where the classes vote on what to turn their classroom into so they can raise money! A maid café? A haunted house? A haunted maid café? Walk around the stalls to chow down, and vote for the cutest couple!

The Play’s The Thing

Maybe you need the extra credit, or you’re a theater kid at heart, but everyone can sign up for the best show ever! Explore UST as assigned romantic leads, play cupid behind the scenes, or discover your hidden acting talent! Go out there and break a leg! … Hopefully not literally, but we won’t stop you.

Bullying Beat-downs

Can’t have school without bullies, be they a single terror, a whole gang of delinquents, or the meanest girls around. If you see someone being picked on, do you swoop in to save the day? Maybe they’ll surprise you by saving themselves… and perhaps these bullies have a hidden heart of gold deep down.

Sickly Sweet

The Nurse’s Office – a hidden haven where one can relax with illness or injury. Or maybe you’re faking it to skip class. At least your friends will be nice enough to check up on you, even if you’re pretending to take a nap.

Study Date

Shhh, it’s totally not a date! You just need some help with this particular subject, and it’s a coincidence your love interest is an ace at it! Of course, you can skip the romance angle and have a whole study group, so long as you guys don’t get distracted by all the stuff in your friend’s house. Say, wonder what they’ve got hidden underneath their bed?

Rooftop Hangout

The place where the mysterious transfer student chills, or where the lonely outcast silently eats their lunch, or perhaps the meeting place of the coolest kids in town. You’re probably not supposed to be there, and might be surprised to see someone else in your spot. Maybe if you share your bento, they won’t spill the beans?

Club Craziness

If there’s an activity to be had, there’s a club to be made – Sports, Arts, Music, the After School Club so you don’t have to join clubs… hunt down new applicants or explore the fun you have with your friends. There’s no limit to what kind of club you can have – though there may be drama of potential shut-down without enough members.

Cheerleaders and Jocks

Gimme a J! O! C! K! Capture the spirit of sports in the lockers, training with the coach, or just general gym class shenanigans. Shake your booty at cheer-leading try-outs and give it your all when the Big Game arrives! And if your character needs an extra dose of embarrassment, someone has to fill the shoes of being the mascot.

Dance Dance Revolution

Nothing says sweaty teenagers panicking over crushes quite like the Big Dance! Do you have the courage to ask them out, or will you chill with your friends in big dresses and sleek tuxedos? Up the stakes by making it Prom, and go big or go home with the most epic Prom-posal ever. Remember kids, it still counts as dancing if all you do is touch their shoulders and sway.

Battered Babysitters

The best way to test if you’re ready to be a parent is by forcing two kids to watch over an egg – or a bag of flour, or a constantly crying little robot toy. It can be a cute way to have romantic interests bonds together – or to drive friends absolutely insane.

Days of Detention

You’ve caused trouble one too many times, or maybe it was a misunderstanding, but here you are, stuck after school with nothing to do but possibly write about your crimes one hundred times. Make new friends with your fellow inmates, and maybe go full Breakfast Club and cause chaos by trying to escape.

Cafeteria Clownery

Bring your own lunch and have your friends fawn over your cooking skills, or take the plunge and explore what the lunchladies have in store. Do you eat alone until a noisy neighbor interacts, or do you stare in awe at the popular kids table that has generously invited you over? Don’t forget the ultimate staple of school – the FOOD FIGHT!

Class Reunion

The gang’s back and better than ever – reunite with your friends and enemies, and see who’s gotten better and who’s gotten worse. Reveal old secrets, get some revenge, or finally hook-up with the crush you lost years ago.

Finding Field Trips

Passes ready? The entire class gets to go out and see the world! Explore museums and learn something new, or do overnight trips at fancy hotels and try not to get into trouble. Get lost with a friend, crash a sleepover, and make memories to last a lifetime!

Supernatural School

If average humanity isn’t your style, flip the script by making it a magical school! Or maybe a school that’s all about monsters and how to fit in with humans! A spy school to teach you how to be secretive, heroes/villains switch-up, an academy just for Princesses – the sky’s the limit! But an F in any of those would still probably suck.

 

Whether your character has flowing locks or just a bit of a bob, they know that taking proper care of their hair can be a hassle… but in the right hands, it can also be a way to bond! This warm little meme is all about the different ways your character can take care of another – and it doesn’t have to be shippy! Help a pal out while you talk through your past, recover from a difficult fight, be a doting parent working on their new kid, or go for the lulz with the worst look imaginable!

Here are a few ideas to help you out –

• Your character’s had a rough day – through work, battle, or just plain bad luck and is too tired to take care of themselves, so someone else offers!
• Wash, scrub, brush, braid – go the full nine yards! That shampoo smells really good, and be careful with the knots.
• Coffee Shop AU, eat your heart out – have them meet at a hairdresser/barbershop!
• Snip snip snip – let’s try a brand-new look for a brand new you. Be sentimental and try to let go of your past, or go for the giggles and see how bad your buddy is with bangs!
• Pamper the day away – why stop at hair? Go full on with taking care of nails, skin, make-up, anything that involves improving the look and feel of your friend.
• Don't forget your furry friends - preen feathers, clip claws, and shine scales!

 

The rules are simple!
♪ Post your character, series, and any preferences in the header. You can pick any song(s) in your comment, or let someone else choose when they tag you!
♪ The goal here is to be inspired by the lyrics (no one has to sing!) – it doesn’t have to be the lyrics shown, or it can be the entire song! Focus on a single scene or make a whole new AU! It can even be a different take on the song – for example, Kiss The Girl can be a sweet love song or a seductive siren’s call.

♪Feel free to pick more than one song, or choose a song that isn’t listed here!

Love Songs

So This is Love → "And now I know the key to all heaven is mine; my heart has wings, and I can fly. I'll touch every star in the sky!"

Something There → "We'll wait and see, a few days more... there may be something there that wasn't there before."

A Whole New World → "A whole new world... a new fantastic point of view. No one to tell us no, or where to go, or say we're only dreaming..."

I See The Light → “And the world has somehow shifted, all at once everything looks different, now that I see you…”

Can You Feel The Love Tonight → “The peace the evening brings, the world, for once, in perfect harmony, with all its living things…”

Kiss The Girl  → “Yes, you want her, look at her, you know you do, possible she wants you too, there is one way to ask her…”

I Won’t Say (I’m In Love)  → “I thought my heart had learned its lesson, it feels so good when you start out…”

Bella Notte  → “Side by side, with your loved one, you’ll find enchantment here, the night will weave its magic spell…”

Once Upon A Dream  → “I know you, that look in your eyes is so familiar a gleam, and I know it’s true…”

Beauty And The Beast  → “Tale as old as time, true as it can be… barely even friends, then somebody bends, unexpectedly…”

If I Never Knew You → “And if I never held you, if I never felt this love, I would have no inkling of, how precious life can be…”

Never Knew I Needed → “For the way you changed my plans, for being the perfect distraction…”

Love Will Find A Way → “I was so afraid, now I realize, love is never wrong, and so it never dies, there’s a perfect world, shining in your eyes…”

I Still Believe → “Somewhere I know that he waits for me, someday soon he’ll see I’m the one…”

So Close → “We’re so close to reaching, that famous happy end, almost believing, this one’s not pretend…”

Sally’s Song → “ And does he notice, my feelings for him? And will he see, how much he means to me? I think it’s not to be…”

Villain Songs

Prince Ali (Reprise) → "Read my lips and come to grips with reality... yes, meet a blast from your past, whose lies were too good to last! Say hello to your precious Prince Ali!"

Hellfire → "Like fire, Hellfire, this fire in my skin... this burning desire is turning me to... sin."

Friends on the Other Side → "You're in my world now, not your world... and I got friends on the other side..."

I Put A Spell On You → "It’s been three hundred years, right down to the day, now the witch is back, and there’s hell to pay!”

My Jolly Sailor Bold → "My heart is pierced by Cupid, I disdain all glittering gold, there is nothing can console me, but my jolly sailor bold…”

Trust In Me → "Slip into silent slumber, sail on a silver mist, slowly and surely, your senses will cease to resist…”

Poor Unfortunate Souls → "I admit that in the past I’ve been a nasty, they weren’t kidding when they called me, well, a witch…”

Ready As I’ll Ever Be → "Believe me I know, I’ve sunk pretty low, but whatever I’ve done, you’ve deserved!”

Family/Friend Songs

Honor to Us All → "Ancestors, hear my plea! Help me not to make a fool of me. And to not uproot my family tree... keep my father standing tall."

Della’s Lullaby → “Face each new sun with eyes clear and true, unafraid of the unknown, because I’ll face it all with you.”

You’ll Be In My Heart → “My arms will hold you, keep you safe and warm, this bond between us, can’t be broken…”

You’ve Got A Friend In Me → “You got troubles, I got ‘em too, there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you…”

Friend Like Me → “I got a powerful urge to help you out, so what-cha wish? I really wanna know!”

That’s What Friends Are For → “And if I should ever go away, well, then close your eyes and try to feel the way we do today…”

Surface Pressure → “Give it to your sister, your sister’s older, give her all the heavy things we can’t shoulder!”

He Lives In You → “Wait! There’s no mountain too great! Hear these words and have faith… Have faith!”

We Are One → “If you and I stick together, nothing could separate us, one family under the sun…”

Anytime You Need A Friend → “When you’re scared, I will stay with you, When you feel you’ve fallen, I’ll lift you…”

I Thought I Lost You → “Because I knew I couldn’t live without, you in my life for one more day, and I swore I’d never break, the promises we made…”

Say The Word → “In trouble, in it deep, this is a promise I can keep! Make it right, count on me, to be the best friend I can be!”

When Can I See You Again → “Look all around at the mountains you haven’t climbed, it’s just a matter of time, before we learn how to fly!”

Misc. Jukebox

This Is Halloween → “Boys and girls of every age, wouldn’t you like to see something strange?”

Under The Sea → “Down here all the fish is happy, as through the waves they roll, the fish on the land ain’t happy…”

A Pirate’s Life For Me → “ We pillage and plunder, we rifle and loot, stand up me hearties yo ho!”

Why Don’t You Do Right → “ Why don’t you do right, like some other men do? Get out of here, get me some money too…”

He’s A Tramp → “ You can never tell when he’ll show up, he gives you plenty of trouble…”

I 2 I → “ I got myself a motion, and one I know you’ll understand, we set the world in motion, by reaching out for each other’s hand!”

I’ll Make A Man Out Of You → “ Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within! Once you find your center, you are sure to win!”

Go The Distance → “ I have often dreamed, of a far off place, where a hero’s welcome would be waiting for me…”

Jolly Holiday → “ Aint it a glorious day? Right as a mornin’ in May! I feel like I could fly!”

Topsy Turvy → “ It’s the day the devil in us gets released! It’s the day we mock the prig and shock the priest!”

Welcome Home → “There’s a buzzing in the air, children running everywhere, as all of us prepare…”

Nothing Left To Lose → “The path of hate is a dangerous track, you take one step and its hard to turn back…”

Next Stop Anywhere → “I wanna break every rule, and cross every line, I wanna show all the stars how stars ought to shine…”

God Help The Outcasts → “Yes I know I’m just an outcast, I shouldn’t speak to you, Still I see your face and wonder, were you once an outcast too?”

Out There → “All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day, not above them, but part of them!”

Rhythm Of The Tambourine → “Flash of an ankle! Flip of a skirt! Feel them excite, enflame, and inspire!”

I Am Moana → “I’m a girl who loves my island, and the girl who loves the sea, it calls me!”

Into The Unknown → “Or are you someone out there, who’s a little bit like me? Who knows deep down I’m not where I’m meant to be?”

Show Yourself → “I have always been a fortress, cold secrets deep inside. You have secrets too, but you don’t have to hide!”

For A Moment → “All of me is alive and at home in the sea, I’m swirling and twirling, so graceful and grand…”

Waiting On A Miracle → “Always walking along, always wanting for more, like I’m still at that door longing to shine, like all of you shine…”

What Else Can I Do → “I just made something unexpected, something sharp, something new…”

Stand Out → “Once you’re watching every move that I make, you gotta believe I got what it takes!”

Almost There → “So I work real hard each and every day, now things for sure are going my way!”

I’m Still Here → “They can’t tell me who to be, ‘Cause I’m not what they see, Yeah, the world is still sleeping, while I keep on dreaming for me…”

There Is Life → “And the colder the winter, the warmer the spring, the deeper the sorrow, the more our hearts sing…”

Through Your Eyes → “And I could show you secret trails, where no one’s ever gone, I bet you’ve got secrets too!”

Find Yourself → “We go through life, so sure of where we’re heading, and when we wind up lost, and it’s the best thing that could’ve happened!”

The Call → “And then that word grew louder and louder, ‘Til it was a battle cry, I’ll come back, when you call me, No need to say goodbye…”

The Place Where Lost Things Go → “Time to close your eyes, so sleep can come around, for when you dream you’ll find, all that’s lost is found…”