#I personally like horror-comedy more than straight up horror in general
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The fact Gerard's vision of a better world is 'none of that 5am bullshit, we wake up at 8 to workout', just the best. I wonder if Ylfa's still got dawg in her, or if that's not a thing in her new reality. Anyway, another great finale for the books, wrapped more satisfyingly than I expected. There were so many threads, I didn't think they would have the time. I was expecting the Top Hat Fairy to do something to help like Turquina, but *shrug*. I suppose Ylfa having that hat for the rest battle was enough help and was definitely not a waste of precious resources. *sighs* So many 20's, so many stressful Box of Doom's, on the edge of my seat the whole time, satisfying conclusions to everyone's story arcs. You can't ask for better than that.
OK this has been sitting in my inbox for a bit for two reasons. The first is I've just been majorly busy with IRL stuff. The second is that I have...let's say mixed feelings about Neverafter as a whole having seen the finale.
Like, as a vehicle for comedy (which Dimension 20 largely is--makes sense considering the cast is all comedians who are friends. A recipe for shenanigans if I've ever heard one) the season absolutely succeeded. There were very few moments of this season where I wasn't entertained. Thinking about Ylfa saying the phrase, "honking big" will break me every time. Watching the cast lose their mind during adventuring party every week as they descended further into madness was fantastic. And Ylfa going in for the kiss w/ Pinnochio at the end had me dying.
But as a story? And specifically, as a story ABOUT stories?
Ehhhhhhhhhhh.
[To be clear, I am talking about MY opinions here. To everyone who really loved how this season wrapped up, that's fantastic! I'm just talking about me and my thoughts. Even when I'm making broad statements, I'm still just talking about me. Cool? Cool.]
Just to start with the broadest thing, it is *insane* to have a finale that is nigh incomprehensible without having watched some bonus content, and honestly, only slightly more comprehensible if you have watched that bonus content. Like, was it FUNNY to see the full cast practically melting as they went feral for the Orange Fairy? Yes, obviously. But it also undercut any sense of like real stakes or weight to the entire affair.
I'm not the biggest fan of final fights in general because it often feels like just drawn-out math, but I feel like, even factoring that in, the fight didn't feel as engaging as it could because by the second part of the fight, we were fighting characters we hadn't spent a lot of time with. Like, sure, I have thoughts about how the princesses were handled but we did spend time with them. Enough time to at least have some sort of opinion when they were taken down. And enough time for characters to have relationships with them that paid off during their fights--Red taking down La Bete for instance, or Pinnochio reaching out to Mira. With the fairies, we only really met three of them (Turq, The Evil One, and the Godmother), and we really only got a half-decent read on Turq. So it really wasn't that emotionally satisfying (outside of whatever emotion they were CLEARLY getting from their Orange Fairy Acid Trip).
And then the Authors we know the least about! There were all these meta elements that were introduced in this season that weren't really explored much at all. So that element felt really obligatory to me. It was like, the fighting of a vague concept. Which isn't to say that can't work. They fully fight the American Dream in Unsleeping City 1. But that worked for me because (1) they had the concrete villain of Robert Moses to fight as well and (2) there was a very clear thematic reason they were fighting the American Dream. Put a pin in that, I'm coming back to it.
The last two big elements in the fight are the Gander who didn't really do anything but by all accounts, SHOULD have been a bigger player and the Stepmother who ABSOLUTELY should have felt more satisfying to defeat because I actually think she has one of the more interesting stories in the story. Unlike the princesses (who struck me as shortsighted and selfish at worst and majorly misguided at best) and the PCs (who felt very rebel without a cause and a bit aimless for large parts of the season), I fully understand why a character who is always written to be evil would want to be like OK, screw it. Burn it all down. But then, at the last second, we get this, "No, wait, I actually wanted to free us all from the authors" thing and it just feels like it comes out of nowhere. Like, maybe giving her her name back gave her back her humanity or something, Fine. But it gave me so much whiplash. We did not spend enough time with her story threads for that to work imo.
Going back to the Authors thing now. I'm going to skip over a bunch of my logistical questions about them (Is that one ink hand speaking for all Authors? For only some? What even is an Author in the context of this world? Is the world that exists above the Never After even really our world? Fairy Tales don't even have set authors most of the time. They're oral tradition. What does killing an ink hand do mechanically in the actual world? Did they kill the entire concept of storytelling or just give one person bad writer's block? ) and go to my thematic question which is, what is the tone that was meant to be struck here? Or I guess rather, why was this the tone struck? The idea of Authors as a malevolent force and that never really being challenged is so bizarre to me. Because storytelling as a concept exists in their world. So why would they assume malevolence rather than people who just don't understand they're playing with the lives of sentient beings? Like, I get the concept of seeing something just beyond your meagre comprehension and cracking. I really do. But that really only happened when Tim saw the ink. Everyone seemed to just jump on the "Authors Evil" bandwagon and didn't examine that further. And I guess you're not obligated to look further into the people who are controlling your life against your will (though, I really don't understand to what degree the Authors were actually doing that--add that question to the pile) but that makes for a very unsatisfying story beat.
But even outside of that, it's a weird take on storytelling from a storyteller in a medium where you're seeing the storyteller on screen at all times along with the other six storytellers who are telling the story. It's like, an insane level of dissonance, watching someone narrate about how Authors are so cruel and uncaring while watching seven people who are so passionate about what they do, clearly having a great time in the world they created. It made that thread ring hollow to me. And I'm not trying to do some kind of pedantic gotcha like, "Oh ho. You said storytelling is bad and yet you are a storyteller. Interesting." That's not what I'm saying. If you want to tell a story about control and lack of control and agency and all that, then I can see having your players play characters who are being controlled by authors. But it wasn't explored in a way that made any kind of point other than, "Free will is good." Which...yeah. And I initially thought it was very cool that they were telling a story about character feeling like they didn't have agency in a medium where we literally have to watch the "extraplanar beings" controlling the characters' agency because I thought they were going to do something interesting with it but they never really did. Frustrating.
There were hella loose ends that were never tied (What actually caused the Neverafter to merge? What does the Auroratory actually do? What caused the times of shadow*? What was going on in the other worlds?) but lastly, I just want to touch on the loose ends that actually *were* tied. Specifically in the epilogue.
So the idea here is everyone gets to write their own stories. That sounds good in theory. But, in reality, people are gonna have wishes that contradict. And people are gonna have wishes that are bad. And people are gonna have wishes that control other people. Like, in this new reality Tom Thumb wakes up at 8. But that's what Ger wants. Is that what Tom wants? In this new reality Elody and Ger are divorced. Did they both want that? What if one of them didn't want that? What if multiple people want to be married to the same person? What if multiple people want to be royalty of the same place? What if multiple people want to be despotic dictators or the same place?
I'm not going to go through every epilogue, but Roz's in particular gave me pause. Not because she decided to not give herself a true love and in fact specify a cruddy dating life for herself--wouldn't have been my move but do you girl. No, it made me go "huh?" because Siobhan said that in this rewritten version, instead of avoiding spindles, she gets really good at handling spindles, and then when the witch shows up with a spindle, she knows how to handle herself. But that's just like...not how Sleeping Beauty works? Like, it's not that Auora's curse takes hold because she was bad at spindles. It happens because she was cursed to die (softened to sleep) when pricked by a spindle on that day and time! Michael Jordan could have been cursed to die via basketball on his 25th birthday and no amount of talent would have saved him because it's not about life experience. It's about magic. And like, I get that she wanted to have more agency in her story but that's just like...not Sleeping Beauty at that point. If she had been like, "So I spend my whole childhood preparing to face the evil fairy and defeat her in a battle of wits/magic/sword fighting/Uno/etc before my curse takes hold instead of letting people solve the problem for me" then that would have tracked for me. But as is? That was just bizarre.
And then also the fact that the Stepmother AND the Gander were just like, good in this world? The stepmother, I can maybe kinda sorta buy. Like, I have questions 100%. Was this what Cinderella wanted? For her abusive stepmother to just get a clean slate to be in her life again? We're not given any indication that the Stepmother is really a nice person who is being forced to play into the villain kayfabe by her puppet masters and really in her heart just wants to be good. But that COULD happen (and I wish it had) so sure. Fine. But the Gander? The Gander, this primal force, just wants to be good and wander? First off, not the main thing here, but if I was Tim and this dude made my son turn to bones I'd be like??? No??? But also, I thought the Gander was like, a force of the universe! The opposite of the Goose! Yin and Yang type stuff! He can just be good with no cosmological consequences???
(Also, as I said, it's really kind of jarring to watch these characters like struggle for control of their stories and then just, in real time, while 6 actors put words in their mouths about what their best life is. I know that's the nature of the game but it doesn't make it not weird to watch.)
In conclusion, I found this season exceptionally funny but also not very narratively cohesive. I really wish it had come together a bit better because I really love fairy tales. My thesis project right now (which I'll probably share on here when I'm done with it) is a fairy tale retelling and the last major writing project I worked on had a lot of fairy tale inspiration as well. I think there were a lot of potentially interesting ideas in this season! Pinocchio asking why other kids get to mess up but he can't is a great beat. Pib as an incarnation of an archetypical trickster spirit is inspired. The effects of a True Love's Kiss spell wearing off as your marriage crumbles has interesting implications. But it didn't coalesce in what I felt was a satisfying way. I admire the effort that went into this season and would love to see Brennan's notes because I'm sure there's a lot we never got to (some of which might answer some of my questions) but as is, it felt a bit overstuffed and underbaked.
*OK, we actually did get an answer to this question, but it was so tautological as to be basically meaningless and I would like a more in-depth answer.
PS: Oh! I got kind of carried away and didn't answer everything in your message. Let me fix that!
-I think Ylfa is just a normal girl now. I did think Roz taking her in once she was separated from the wolf was very sweet. I have some existential questions about the splitting situation but the moment was still sweet regardless. I do like that people still draw her with the wolf ears though. Wolf ears are always fun.
-It *is* very funny that Ger had a page to write literally whatever he wanted and that made the list.
-I am fascinated by what would have happened if they'd failed that roll. I know Brennan said they'd have time looped back to the start and ended on a bummer note, but I mean like, what would the table's energy have been like. They've never lost like that before. Still haven't. And I didn't really *want* them to but also...my fatal flaw is curiosity so you know...
-Them fighting fully corrupted Tim would have been interesting too. What a cool what could have been. I'm sure there are so many of those.
-That damn Top Hat. Do you think they're actually gonna sell that with the rest of the minis or keep it?
#asks#farmer 10#dimension 20 spoilers#I'm not trying to start discourse or anything#i wanted to wait for everyone to enjoy the end of the season before I posted about it#and I still love d20#I plan to watch the next full cast season#this season just never came together for me#which is a shame bc i love fairy tales so much!#I'm not even pressed about the horror tone not being consistent#I personally like horror-comedy more than straight up horror in general#there was just too much stuff and not enough shaping it for me#i would have cut some of the opposing forces to keep things more streamlined#and if you introduce meta stuff you REALLY have to keep a handle on it or it can get so wonky so fast#I think this could have worked in a game with all these elements but like in a home game with unlimited time not in a 20 ep show#with actors who will spend half that time riffing (which I love them for don't get me wrong)#neverafter spoilers#neverafter
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┈ ✧.* chapter v﹕three's a crowd
“Wow, Vivi…” You took a deep breath in, marveling at the architectural wonder before you. “This is…”
“Totally awesome?” Nami chimed in, looking around the room.
“I was gonna say that it rivals the work of Michaelangelo, but that works too…” you replied.
Vivi crouched down and crawled into the blanket-pillow fort, poking her head out and looking up at the two of you.
“Feel free to come in! There are many snacks for us to share and movies to watch!” Vivi said cheerily, tucking herself back into the fort.
Both of you crawled after her, choosing your spots within and diving straight into the generously provided snacks.
Nami shoved a handful of pretzels in her mouth, “You’ve really outdone yourself, Vivi.”
“For sure,” you added. “Having a sleepover wasn’t on my college to-do list, but it definitely should have been.”
“And without the boys!” Nami cheered, kicking her legs excitedly. “No Luffy here to eat all the food!”
Vivi smiled at you both, “I’m glad you are enjoying the sleepover! I don’t have any siblings, so I have perfected the art of fort-making from a young age…”
“Well, that’s what friends are for!” You took a couple pretzels from the bowl. “Now we can do all sorts of things you couldn’t do back then.”
“And we can drink!” Nami interrupted, stealing a pretzel from you.
You rolled your eyes, moving over to the laptop to pick a movie, “I’ll leave the drinking to you, Nami.”
“Really?” she snickered. “You seemed pretty open to it when we were at the Baratie. If I can remember correctly, Sanji had to carry you back to the dorm…”
“How the hell would you know that?” you gaped, crossing your arms defensively. “You drank more than I did!”
Nami laughed, crossing her arms proudly, “I can hold my liquor pretty well, for your information! I’ve outdrank at least 30 grown men before!”
“What an accomplishment, Nami!” Vivi clapped.
You grimaced at Vivi’s cheeriness, “Don’t congratulate her for that, Vi…”
“Any more interesting bits of information from you, ____? A story we’ve yet to hear, maybe a long lost love? Or perhaps you and Sanji…”
“Nope, not a thing,” you quickly countered.
“Oh, you’re no fun!” Nami pouted.
You were quick to bring this party back on track, and away from your own personal life, moving to the laptop to search for movies.
“Alright, what are we thinking, gang? Romance? Comedy? Horror?”
Nami made a gagging noise, “Ew, no horror, please. I’m here for a good night, not a nightmare-filled one.”
“I do love romance!” Vivi said excitedly, looking over your shoulder with Nami at the selection of movies.
“Also, I want something classic!” Nami reached for the laptop, scrolling endlessly for movies. “And no superhero stuff, or future-y stuff.”
“Ok, well, we’ve got Clueless, Mean Girls, 10 Things I Hate About You…”
“10 Things I Hate About You!” Nami shrieked, reaching over and clicking on the movie before you could stop her.
Vivi gave Nami a confused look, “I’ve never seen it before, is it good?”
Nami scoffed, “Only the best romance movie of all time! Trust me, Vi, you’re in for a treat.”
“Agreed,” you added, “it’s at least in the top ten best movies of all time.”
“Make that top five,” Nami corrected, leaning back into the pillows.
“I’m glad to be experiencing it, then!” Vivi cheered, joining Nami in her cushioned throne.
You cracked your knuckles, “Alright, ladies! Movie’s starting now, I expect all phones to be silenced and all mouths to be zipped! Now, please enjoy the show.”
“Ok, mom,” Nami quipped, throwing her arms behind her head.
“You wish I was your mom.”
“Nuh uh, my mom’s already the greatest mom, like, ever!" Nami hissed, sticking her tongue out at you.
“Yeah, I already know, we had a fantastic time last night.” You grinned, copying Nami’s pose.
You earned a pillow to the face for that joke.
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“I knew it! They belonged together from the start!” Vivi sobbed as the credits rolled, throwing her face into a nearby pillow and staining it with her tears.
“It’s a romantic comedy, Vi,” you said, pinching your nose, “you’re not supposed to be crying.”
Vivi’s lip wobbled, “I can’t help it…”
“Shh…there, there, Vi,” Nami cooed, rubbing the poor girl’s shoulders. “Be nice, ____! It was her first time seeing the movie of a lifetime.”
“It was a romantic comedy, ” you groaned, laying down in the mass of pillows.
Nami hummed, giving Vivi her blanket before collapsing down beside you.
“Tell you what, girls,” Nami yawned, pulling her sleeping mask over her head. “We absolutely need to go shopping soon. I know we all need a break after this heart-wrenching cinematic experience.”
“It was a fucking romantic comedy!”
“Well, so was the Fault in our Stars, and I cried at that!”
“You’re supposed to!” you yelled, hitting Nami with a pillow, “it’s not a comedy!”
“Comedy, shmomedy,” Nami shrugged, “you in for a shopping trip, Vi?”
Vivi smiled, her blanket pulled up to her chin, “Yes, it sounds very fun! I would love to go out with the two of you again!”
“Well, I suppose that depends on our little roomie,” Nami smiled devilishly, turning towards you. “You in, ____?”
You grimaced as the two girls looked at you expectantly, waiting for an answer you didn’t want to give. Nami’s eyes were dark and knowing, while Vivi’s were light and full of happiness, unaware that Nami would probably coerce her into paying. You were more than capable of saying no to Nami, but Vi? A world with a sad Vivi was a world you couldn’t bear to live in.
“...How about Friday evening, after classes?” you muttered.
“Perfect!” Nami cheered, sliding the sleeping mask down to cover her eyes. “I’ll see you girls then. Just text me when you two are out of class and we can head out!”
“A terrific plan!” Vivi said, snuggling into her pillow. “I will see you both in the morning, good night!”
“Yeah, night, Vi,” you murmured to yourself, fearing for the safety of your wallet.
And so you joined their roommates in their quests for sleep, shutting your eyes and curling up in the mound of blankets and pillows surrounding you, giving you a very cushioned send off to the world of dreams.
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“...up, ____,” a voice mumbled above you, though you were hardly able to make out their words on account of the pillows smothering your ears.
Instead of responding, you just rolled to your side and pulled the fluffy comforter over your body, deciding that whatever the person was trying to tell you wasn’t worth it. You could decipher it in a minute, or five. Hell, why not just make it ten?
“Wake up!” the voice, now shouting, called out.
The dull pain in your ears was nothing compared to the unexpected pain in your face as a pillow hurled at top speed smacked you in the head.
“Hey!” you shrieked, clutching your cheek and looking around frantically. Nami stood above you, fully dressed with a hand on her hip, brows furrowed.
“Are you kidding me? How many times are we gonna have to wake you up?” she huffed, throwing a pile of clothes at you. “You’re lucky I set my alarm for earlier, you still have time to get ready.”
“My savior,” you groaned, examining the clothes laid before you. “Thanks for the clothes, though.”
Nami certainly had style, and it wasn’t hard to see with her daily outfits. What she picked for you chic, but comfortable enough to walk to your classes in, and wasn’t that the college dream?
“Oh it’s nothing, just something I threw together for you,” she giggled. “Vi’s in the shower right now, so once she’s done and dressed we can head out, ‘kay?”
“Got it, girl boss.” You rose from the jumbled mess of pillows and blankets and stepped carefully over to the closed bathroom door, gingerly knocking.
“Vi, it’s me! Mind if I come in for a sec?” you called out.
A muffled ‘yes’ came from the other side, so you creaked the door open and stepped inside with your bundle of clothes, doing your best to get dressed as quickly as possible.
“Sorry for the intrusion, Vivi,” you apologized, slinging the top over your shoulders.
“Ah, it’s no problem, really!” she said from behind the glass walls of the shower. “I hope you had a good night’s rest after our sleepover.”
You scoffed, “Oh, believe me, the rest was wonderful. It was the wake up call that sucked.”
Vivi laughed heartily, the sound echoing in the cramped bathroom, “This is the second time Nami has woken you up, yes? I am glad I missed this time, the first was quite…brutal.”
“Be lucky you’re not on her bad side, Vi,” you snorted, pulling your phone out.
Aside from notifications from games and emails, you did have a couple unread texts from Sanji this morning.
| Mr. Prince: Good morning Sleeping Beauty!!!!!
| Mr. Prince: <333333333
Read 8:12 AM
| You: lol i swear you say the same thing every morning
| You: do all the women in your life get the princess treatment?
| Mr. Prince: Just you!
| Mr. Prince: I swear princess <33333
| You: swear your loyalty to me and i’ll believe you
| Mr. Prince: ;3;
| Mr. Prince: If it means earning your love…
| Mr. Prince: I’ll do it!!!!
| You: lol i’m just kidding
| You: pls don’t do anything rash
| Mr. Prince: ;3;
| You: go forth and take care of every princess!!
| You: that is my command
| Mr. Prince: You are too kind!!
| Mr. Prince: I wilokgopp;;;;;
You raised an eyebrow as Sanji’s final text, clearly too disordered to be anything except for a violet keyboard smash.
| You: did you die prince charming?
| You: it’s only like 8 in the morning lol
| Mr. Prince: its zoro
| Mr. Prince: sanji needs to get ready so im taking his phone away
| Mr. Prince: see u guys at 9
| Mr. Prince: Attachment (1) Image
The picture featured was a selfie of Zoro and a very angry Sanji, the latter attempting to wrestle the phone out of the former’s hands. You could also make out a very blurry Luffy crawling over a horrified Usopp in the background, clearly trying to be a part of the picture.
“I’ll give you some space, Vi,” you said, exiting the bathroom and making your way over to Nami amongst the mess of comforters.
“I got a text from Sanji—well, from Zoro, technically. They’re planning on heading down at nine, if that’s cool,” you said, sitting beside her.
“Yeah, that’s fine,” Nami responded, scrolling through her phone. “We’ll probably have a few minutes to kill, depending on how fast Vivi can get ready.”
Vivi’s voice rang out from the bathroom, “I will be out shortly, do not worry!”
“Take your time, Vi!” you shouted back before turning to Nami. “Judging by Zoro’s texts, Sanji might be a while.”
“That tracks,” Nami sighed, a smile slowly forming on her face. “Knowing him, he’s probably ironing his suit right now.”
“Or curling his eyebrows.”
“Or waxing his shoes.”
Vivi’s head poked out of the bathroom, clearly trying to hold back her laughter.
“Perhaps,” she giggled, “he is powdering his nose!”
The room was silent for a second before the three of you burst into laughter, doubling over at your stupid jokes. You could afford wasting a couple of minutes to laugh, unknowing that the boys were, indeed, waiting for Sanji to finish ironing his suit.
“Pancakes aren’t that bad, Vi,” Nami said, drizzling her stack of pancakes in tangerine syrup. “You just gotta add what you like on top!”
“Yeah, Vivi!” Luffy said, voice muffled as he stuffed his face with his seventh pancake. “You’ve got syrup, sugar, butter, ice cream, gravy, meat—”
“You can’t put meat on pancakes, Luffy,” you pointed out, sliding your plate further away from Luffy’s potential grasp.
“Sure you can!” Sanji said, carefully decorating his own stack. “There’s plenty of traditional recipes that utilize meat and ‘pancake’, though I’m not sure you could call every example a pancake…”
“I’m saying you can’t put meat on pancakes like how Luffy does it.” You gestured to Luffy’s plate, which consisted of pancakes with huge pieces of steak and chicken on top.
“They’re not even serving steak right now!” Usopp hissed, looking at Luffy’s food with a mixture of awe and terror. “This is crazy! He’s crazy!”
“Pancakes don’t have any special nutritional benefits, but they are yummy,” Chopper remarked, taking a bite of his cotton candy-covered pancakes.
“I will stick to rice, but I thank you for your unique perspectives,” Vivi said, giving a polite smile to everyone.
“Here here,” Zoro agreed, taking a sip from his bottle.
“Stop drinking during breakfast, you have classes afterwards,” you whispered, nudging his shoulder.
“I’ll quit when I’m dead,” he responded unflinchingly, taking another swig.
You sighed, continuing to eat your meal amidst your chattering table of friends. Every conversation seemed to switch, both in topic and participants, every five minutes. You were able to catch details about the introduction of new majors—as if Grand Line didn’t have enough—as well as the topic of Luffy’s potential major.
“Come on, Luffy,” Usopp said, pointing his fork in Luffy’s direction, “you’re gonna have to choose a major soon. Why not try engineering?”
“I don’t wanna do math!” he pouted.
“You could do exercise science like Zoro,” Nami added. “Isn’t Ace doing something similar?”
Zoro hummed in agreement, “I think you’d like it, Luf. You’ve gotta learn a little bit, but you might like it.”
“But I don’t wanna copy Ace!” Luffy cried, shoveling more food into his mouth.
“If you’re interested in it, then you’re not copying,” you reassured.
“But I’m not interested.”
The table sighed in unison, knowing that any hope of finding Luffy a major would be short-lived on account of his short attention span.
“Well, you can always talk to your advisor,” Sanji concluded, wiping his mouth with a napkin. “Or your brothers. They’re juniors, aren’t they? Should have plenty of experience.”
“Oh, yeah!” Luffy exclaimed, practically jumping out of his seat. “I bet Sabo would know what to do! He’s way smarter than Ace!”
“I wouldn’t say that out loud, Luf,” a blond man sitting behind Luffy said, turning to face your group. “You know how Ace gets when you compare us.”
Luffy’s momentary confused expression turned to one of glee as he tackled the man, grabbing onto him like a koala.
“Sabo!” he shrieked, earning the attention of nearly half the cafeteria.
“I think I remember something like this happening with the other brother,” Usopp grimaced, looking all around as if something would hit him at any moment.“Has he been there the whole time?” you whispered to Nami.
“I’ve only started sitting here since last week,” Sabo replied, giving you a knowing smile. “I heard Ace had a rather ostentatious entrance, so I thought I’d surprise Luffy in a little quieter way.”
“...I’m not sure you can call this quiet,” Nami said, watching Luffy squeeze Sabo rather violently.
“Does this mean Luffy’s off our hands?” Sanji asked, peeking over at the reunion.
Sabo seemed to think for a minute, looking between Luffy and your group, before saying, “I doubt he’ll let go in time for his classes, so I can take him for a bit.”
“Sounds good to me!” Nami cheered, standing up from the table. “We should all head to class anyway.”
“Have fun on your field trip, Luffy!” Vivi smiled, waving at Luffy before dashing out of the cafeteria with Nami.
You grabbed your plate and turned to Chopper, “Do you have class right now, Chopper? I’m heading over to the science building to talk to a professor before my biology lab, so we might be heading the same way.”
“I have my chemistry lab there in a bit!” Chopper said.
“Perfect, we can head over now.” You smiled, before thinking for a second. “Are you in organic chemistry, Chopper? Or are you in some higher class?”
“No, I’m still in general chemistry,” Chopper nodded excitedly, but then looked down at his feet. “I think I’m in your class…”
“Oh, shit,” you blurted, feeling guilty. “Where do you sit? I don’t think I’ve seen you in class before…”
“In the front.”
“...Really?”
Chopper blushed, looking embarrassed, “I can’t see when I sit in the back…”
“Well, I can sit up there with you tomorrow!” you offered. “If that’s not a problem, that is. It might be nice to have someone to talk to.”
“I’d like that!” Chopper smiled, picking up his bag. “But we should head over now, before all the spots get taken.”
You slung your bag over your shoulder, calling back to the table, “See you guys later! Don’t let Luffy cause too much trouble, please!”
Sabo waved back, laughing, “I’ll do my best, but he can be unpredictable…”
“Hey!” Luffy shouted, “I’m 100% predictable!”
“That’s not—”
Before the conversation could grow into an uncontrollable argument, you escaped with Chopper in tow. Luffy may be unpredictable in seemingly every other aspect of life, but you could certainly predict how that was going to go. There would be no winners in that cafeteria, only poor, emotionally-scarred college students.
It’s truly amazing what you can learn from someone despite knowing them for less than a month.
“I fucking hate chemistry, Chopper,” you deadpanned, feeling wrinkles etch on your face as you looked over the lab you’d gotten on Tuesday.
You’d been sitting at one of the few tables in the building, trying to get a start on your lab before Chopper finished completing the in-class portion of his, but you’d been struggling with question two for roughly the entirety of Chopper’s lab, leaving you feeling hopeless, even with the aid you’d received from the professor.
Chopper looked shocked, joining you at the table, “It’s not that bad! I promise it’ll get better, ____! If you want, I can help you study?”
“Truly, Chopper,” you sighed, “I think I’m a lost cause. But I’ll still take you up your offer.”
You dug your phone out of your pocket and opened your contacts, swapping info with Chopper. Another friend to add to the collection, and this one had inherent value to your major!
“Thanks, Chop.” You smiled, tucking your phone away. “I should probably head to my psych class now, so good luck with your lab.”
“Thank you, ____!” Chopper beamed, waving you goodbye.
Luckily, your psych class was in the next building over, so you didn’t have to worry about being late. In fact, the only thing you had to worry about was your chemistry lab. Psychology wasn’t too hard for you, especially back at South Blue High. It was basically just memorization—albeit a lot of memorization—that you didn’t really struggle with. Differentiating ideas could be a tad difficult, but nothing you couldn’t manage. Way better than chemistry, at least.
Your class wasn’t all too great, however. It was full of people who didn’t really want to talk to others, leading to incredibly bland discussion times. Their lack of enthusiasm killed your vibe, so despite the subject being a total snoozefest, you weren’t really looking forward—
“Hey, ____!” Luffy yelled, waving at you from a lone table near the back.
Sitting beside your rambunctious friend was his brother, Sabo, who also gave you a polite wave.
“...Is this part of the field trip?” you asked Sabo.
“Well, I’m TA-ing for this class, so I thought it might help Luffy to learn about other subjects!” Sabo said, grinning.
“Wait, you’re the TA for this class?” You raised an eyebrow, setting your bag down at a nearby desk. “I didn’t see you on Wednesday, and you weren’t introduced either.”
Sabo leaned back in his chair, “It was a spur of the moment thing. I’m a sociology major, but I thought I might dabble in psychology. It’s fascinating, the mind, and what you can do with it…”
“You sound like a supervillain.”
“Me? A supervillain?” Sabo gasped, putting a hand over his heart. “I’ll have you know, I am the kindest, gentlest, utmost altruistic gentleman this world has ever seen! Isn’t that right, Luffy?”
Luffy blinked, not a single thought going on behind his eyes, “Sabo is totally awesome! One time Ace dared him to eat a caterpillar, and he did it!”
“...Gentleman, huh?” you snickered.
Sabo shrugged, his grin tugging at one end of his mouth, “What can I say, I was a strange child. But not as strange as Luffy…”
“Hey!” Luffy yelled, shaking Sabo violently as the latter laughed.
“Well, if you have any questions, just ask,” Sabo said, easily pushing Luffy off. “Though, you seem like a smart cookie, so I’m sure you’ll do just fine.”
“Or you could ask me!” Luffy shrieked, trying to push back against Sabo.
You laughed, finally taking your seat as class began. With Sabo and Luffy providing you company, the class wasn’t so bad. Sabo was nice to talk to during discussion times, as well as when you were filling out your notes—though it was slightly grating to hear your notes being critiqued. Luffy, despite being reprimanded by the professor multiple times, kept the mood of the entire class up. Luckily Sabo was good at smooth talking, or else Luffy would have probably been expelled. You can only break the same desk so many times before being a lost cause.
As soon as the clock struck 3:20, everyone filed out of the room. You left with Sabo and Luffy, making your way over to the cafeteria for dinner, though Sabo planned on showing Luffy one more class before officially ending their ‘field trip.’
“Has any class struck a chord with you, Luffy?” you asked, glancing over to your friend.
Luffy seemed to think for a moment before speaking, “Nope.”
“Seriously, Luf?” Sabo groaned, pulling on his hair. “Not even sociology? Come one, it’s awesome!”
“I hate sitting in a classroom all day!” Luffy pouted, dragging his feet as he walked. “I wanna do something cool, like being a firefighter!”
“Well, you can bring that up to your advisor,” you offered. “I’m sure there’s a degree that—”
“Fire Fist!”
You felt a tug on your waist as Sabo pulled you ever-so-slightly closer to him and away from Luffy, and within an instant you understood why. Hurling towards Luffy at top speeds was Ace, who tackled Luffy and sailed into the nearby grass patch.
“That’s 572 to 0, Luffy!” Ace cackled, slapping his brother harshly on the back.
Luffy heaved for a couple of seconds, clearly trying to catch his breath after being so blatantly assaulted by his older brother.
“I’ll get you next time,” Luffy scowled, jumping to his feet. “I’ve been working on my punches too!”
“Oh, I’m shaking in my boots,” Ace snorted.
“Now, now, guys,” Sabo said, releasing you. “You almost hurt this poor young lady! What would Dadan say if she saw you now?”
“Don’t leave the house until you’ve done your chores?” Luffy responded, picking his nose.
Ace punched Luffy again, causing the latter to fall over onto the grass. He stepped up back onto the sidewalk, approaching you with an apologetic smile on his face.
“Sorry ‘bout that, ____,” Ace chuckled, scratching his head. “But brothers will be brothers, ya know? Can’t go a day without tackling one of them.”
“I seem to manage just fine,” Sabo coughed.
“...In other news,” Ace said, “I thought I might invite Luffy and his gang of pals—that’s you—to a lovely restaurant in order to celebrate the upcoming hockey season!”
“Is it really hockey season? School literally just started,” you deadpanned.
Ace barked out a laugh, “Every season is hockey season, baby! Now, I have other plans currently that I’m 10 minutes late for—”
“You’re what ?” Sabo’s eyes widened as he turned to Ace.
“—and I need to be there soon, so I’ll take your stunned silence as a ‘yes’ to coming, and I’ll see you Saturday night at eight!”
Before you could even respond to Ace’s outlandish statements, he sprinted away as quickly as he came, dashing through—not around—groups of people, knocking over countless bystanders as he ran away.
“Your brother is a work of art, Sabo,” you finally said, feeling breathless watching Ace’s escape.
Sabo only snorted, looking down amusedly as his little brother rolled angrily through the grass.
“Which one?”
“...Fair point.”
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some quick thoughts on nerdy prudes must die
first off - this is 100% a return to form for starkid for me. tgwdlm was like. lighting in a bottle but i really, really am not a fan of black friday - so i dipped after that, and never really looked into nightmare time etc. as i'm not super into the hatchetfield eldritch lore stuff - honestly, i figured i was aging out of it. THAT SAID. holy shit. npmd is brilliant
every single goddamn song is a banger. every one. it's so rare for me to like everything at least to a little bit, but when i can interchange my entire top 5 you know it's brilliant. high school is killing me, nerdy prudes must die, dirty girl, hatchet town...all top tier starkid in general. up there w tgwdlm
angela giarratana and will branner steal this entire show. absolutely insane stuff from both of them. will in particular...oh man. it's his show and you just KNOW it
oh shit!!! oh fuck!!!! i didnt think thered be a skele'uhn here... im so fucking scared of skele'uhnz!!!
it's FUNNY
i <3 the weird anime nerd kid. rip king
jon's vocals and just. general range in this is amazing to see from tgwdlm
i will say i wish this maintained the more straight slasher vibe of the first act all the way through but that’s just personal preference since i'm less into the overarching eldritch lore stuff as mentioned. with that in mind though, i didn't find the lords in black stuff as jarring as i thought i would (and the summoning's a banger) - so it works narratively. i think at the end of the day i prefer my standalone shows - not everything needs to be an extended universe - so i was pleasantly surprised at how relatively well this could function as its own thing.
following that - i think this is the closest starkid's gotten to like, off-broadway quality - with plot modifications i could 100% see it making the jump. the production quality - of both the musical itself and the proshot, is amazing - everything pops, it's incredibly polished and just looks brilliant (again, such a step up from BF.)
shoutout to the costume design in particular. top tier work again. ghost max looked crazy good.
for something that in actuality didn't get a lot of focus...can’t stop thinking about how the whole max jagerman grace chastity dynamic is like the absolute HARDEST thing to randomly come out of starkid. the implicit themes had absolutely no right to go that hard!!!! it’s a silly horror comedy!
devout repressed christian and a boy that thinks he’s god. and then she deals with the first sign of sexual attraction to him by killing him??
and then his ghost comes back for vengeance, viewing it as divine justice - and then she ends the musical enacting her own vengeful divine justice?? straight up with modified reprise of his song?? they’re one and the same?? the prayer motif???
“will you pray for me / when i’m gone / or is this the eternal dark without a dawn” and “who will pray for you / when your body’s gone” is like the rawest motif of all time and it’s in the same musical that has an ten minute long barbecue joke sequence unrelated to the plot
nothing sexier than the motif of killing god and god killing you, in general. i do think i loved this one because it played with a lot of my fave tropes and themes of horror - high school slasher, archetypes, coming back wrong, religion, all that
"the big game" kept cracking me up it's so dumb and yet
anyway this whole thing just felt like we've unlocked...i dunno, a new level of starkid?? i was blown away and i'm sure for those more invested in hatchetfield beyond tgwdlm it hit even more, but it's left me so excited to see what's next from them for the first time in years.
#team starkid#nerdy prudes must die#npmd#starkid#NO REASON THE GRACE AND MAX THING HAD TO GO THAT HARD. FOR WHAT REASON. fuck i would have loved if that got a bigger focus#i wasn't as invested in steph/pete i think because of it - they were very cute but the batshit insanity of those two offstage was compellin
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Very curious to hear you elaborate on your thoughts of dungeon meshi anime sucking! Most of the folks I’ve seen talk about it have been pretty positive, and while as a fan of the manga I dropped out of the anime partway through I can’t really articulate why I stopped watching
this is gonna be pretty unformed but maybe @haunting-hole could add more if she wants. to phrase it to the best of my ability (unfortunately sans picture examples because i don't have time to dig them up):
it looks bad. or, well, the issue is actually that it just looks okay. the lighting is extremely washed out and sterile feeling. the manga has 1. gorgeous art and 2. extremely strong usage of light and shadow to convey tone, and the anime drops the ball both on fully conveying the atmosphere of those environments via their color (because the lighting is sterile and ubiquitous) and on using color in more subtle ways to convey the tone that the manga was initially striking for certain plot beats, whether that be horror or humor or emotional closeness. good example of this is comparing the first fawin fight in the anime vs the manga--in the manga, there's really stark use of light and shadow that adds an immense sense of emotional gravity, and the anime Does Not Have That
i think it in general lacks the artistic nuances that make the manga good...like first fawin fight as an example again. when she rips her shirt off in the manga, she's extremely bloodsplattered with a horrifyingly slackjawed, unfocused, animalistic look--she looks like a predatory animal. in the anime, the expression is altered in a way that makes her appear significantly more in control of her faculties than she actually is. or directly compare delgal's birth in the manga to delgal's birth in the anime--the one in the manga feels extremely personal and intimate and human, and the one in the anime has absolutely none of that weight because of how the scene is designed and drawn
i understand that things have to get cut out oftentimes in adaptations but i cannot fathom why they decided to cut namari explaining how resurrection works because it's literally Critical context for understanding the plot event of why everyone is so horrified when they find falin's bones. the sense of dread is so much more significant in the manga...i remember seeing a big post having 2 explain why this was a big deal 4 anime-onlies bc they were just straight up missing the critical worldbuilding detail that Resurrection Doesn't Fucking Work So Good when someone is just Bones. like please. that's importance.
the manga does comedy, horror, horror-comedy, extremely convincing character-focused emotional intimacy, etc. the anime has like. i don't fully know how to articulate it, it tries to recreate panels one-to-one but it ends up coming off as awkward and jarring instead. toshiro and laios' fight is particularly dire for this. i haven't watched the most recent episode myself but my friend whom i trust to be so right about dungeon meshi reported that it completely shits the bed on giving senshi's backstory the same compelling gravity as the manga. and also they put one of those overly cheery shiny yellow backgrounds over a group hug scene that's incredibly cozy and intimate and not at all humorously played up or lighthearted in the manga.
like, i think it really just boils down to the fact that the manga is a solid 5/5 with broad appeal, and the anime is a 3/5 mediocre sort of situation you just kinda drop without really thinking about why. just starkly milquetoast compared to everything the manga does. the anime being this popular is like watching people flock 2 outback steakhouse when a michelin star restaurant is right next door handing out free meals. it's Fine, it's Perfectly Serviceable depending on how distinguishing your taste is, but it's distinctly worse in comparison to the manga, and i don't care about seeing the same story rehashed in a diminished quality
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Hi again😆 if it's no trouble I was wondering if you could do more Shuri x reader headcannons, this time where the reader has a movie night with Shuri in Wakanda. Idk about you but I definitely think that even though Wakandans have advanced technology they definitely wouldn't use it for Tiktok or YouTube and stuff like that probably because they don't really know about it even if they witnessed it when a few of them went to America but anyways. They are in Shuri's room watching a movie on a projector or something idk😭 but yh Shuri gets to experience a movie with the reader.
I literally have another idea but imma leave you with this😂. I think I might become a regular 😭😂.
Love you ❤🫂
ღ movie nights
hi sun! thank you soo much for this request!! when i read it my imagination just got straight up to work. i got a bit carried away at the end but i hope it makes it better! and yes, i love your ideas so don’t be shy to become my regular<3
navigation // request // me and find the rest!
summary: movie nights with shuri
warnings: f!reader; nothing really
notes: i just wrote this in totally different style than i usually do but oh well, we should try different things right?
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• okay okay so
• i think shuri would be into watching anything you like
• of course she’d have her own preferences but like everything is acceptable as long as you’re happy (fine, almost everything)
• i also feel like she would love horror movies but not because they’re scary but because she’s laughing while watching them
• yap, she’s the type of person to laugh at the most scary jump scare you’ve ever seen in you life
• if you’re also into horror movies i think it’d be your most viewed genre of films
• i have a feeling you two would make a list of best to worst scary films you two have seen together
• and also list of the ones were she was laughing her ass of and/or you were looking at her in pure horror
• unless you also laugh at these
• well then, that list would be common
• but if you’re not so much into horror movies (like me) i know for a fact shuri would sometimes just play this type for you to snuggle up with her when you’re scared or when you just generally don’t want to watch certain scenes
• also if you’d be really scared she would talk you out of it
• literally i see it so clearly, you sit between her legs, your back rested on her front, her fingers playing with yours
• and she whispers those sweet nothings to your ear
• “you know why i laughed so hard? well if you look closely you can see the tip of the microphone in the corner. also it isn’t physically possible for human body to do THAT and then run over 5 miles and STILL be able to fight this cheaply dressed up guy with a knife that was oh so accidentally laying there and MISS! it’s pure comedy, really”
• and you would actually start to notice those little things more because of her
• and see for yourself that she’s totally right
• even tho jump scares still have your heart rate rising up high and quickly the other scenes loose there magic a bit when you not even consciously get to see little mistakes coming along with them
• of course, she wouldn’t make you watch horror movies with, if you actually despise them
• but she would mind watching them with you even from time to time
• as i said before she would be cool with watching almost anything
• i think she wouldn’t admit to it but she would really enjoy watching some cartoons with you
• it’s just like a bit of break from the real, sad world
• cartoons were everything will turn out good at the end
• or the ones with totally no sense at all
• just something that will be able to take her mind off from everything or anything that’s happening
• you would love those nights too
• shuri would prepare everything, as usual
• you’d have popcorn, some chips, the sweet ones and the salty, some cookies you two probably baked together an hour ago, she would adore jelly candy, don’t know why she just would, and she would always have them in almost every flavour she could find! and every color. the red ones, blue, green, yellow, orange and even purple! our girl loves having the whole ass rainbow on her table
• she’s more of a salty than sweet person but jelly candy are the only exception
• i think more of the movie nights you two would spend at the top of the palace
• she just loves the comfy feeling of breeze while laying with her girl
• she would definitely prefer for you to lay on her so you can see the movie as clear as possible without the possibility of her getting in the way for you
• for her own she just doesn’t care that much, i mean she knows what’s happening so that’s enough
• unless you two watch one of her favourite movies
• then if she could she would come into the screen
• you often need to tell and sometimes even drag her to sit a bit further cause, first she blocks your vision and the only thing you can see is her back (not that you don’t like this view it’s just in that moment you’d prefer to watch the movie) and second, sitting so close is damaging for her eye sight (not that she’s not aware of that)
• i feel like at the roof she would have a big white screen just for watching movies with you
• at first she was always taking it down when the two of you were done, but now it just stays there looking at the fact that your movie nights are pretty common way of spending your time together now
• i feel like she would constantly play with you hair if not your fingers, this girl just need to keep her fingers busy with something (if you catch my drift-)
• besides loving the times you two you’d have movie nights at the top of her palace i think there would also be many times where you’d just snuggle up in your shared bed and watch something on the projector she has in her room
• i also think sometimes she would just accompany you when you’re watching one of your series (even though she would have no clue what’s going on and you were to caught up in watching to explain everything to her. knowing to well she would just forget everything the minute you stop talking)
• i have a strong feeling shuri wouldn’t be the type of person to watch series she’s a total movie person
• but as i said, she wouldn’t mind just laying next to you while you’re watching something from your genre
• i think that wouldn’t work the other way tho
• it’s easier to catch up with a movie or even a series of let’s say five movies than in a whole series, so it’s easier situation for you
• at the end i think those movie nights would be one of shuri’s favourite moments with you
• i’m sure she even asked you to be her girlfriend at one of them, i’m 100% certain of this
• it was a night filled up with only the movies you’ve chosen
• shuri explained herself she’s not in the mood to chose something tonight which was the biggest lie of the decade
• of course it was one for the times when you two were at the roof of the palace
• she prepared everything
• snacks? check.
• whole list of movies? check.
• pillows and blankets? check.
• your favourite plushies? check. (most of them were gift from her)
• everything was as it was supposed to be.
• she took you to the roof covering your eyes and finally she took her hands away when you were standing right where she wanted you
• the smiled that appeared on your face that moment was the best thing she could ever wish for
• beside you, of course
• and when the sun was starting to set in, you began your movie night
• you were laying next to shuri while she was playing with your fingers
• i think you were two movies in when suddenly she stopped it by touching one of the stones on her bracelet
• she sat up and you did the same moment after her
• you looked her a bit surprised, but when you saw her face you knew something bigger was up
• she then started the movie again but quieting it a bit
• and it was your total favourite from the whole list
• your attention came back to the screen for a second only realising that it was your favourite scene
• then your attention went back to her when she immediately took your hands in hers and squeezed them a bit
• and she just asked “do you wanna be my girlfriend?”
• it take you a bit by a surprise but as soon as you came back to you senses you replied “of course!”
• and shuri smiled with as bright smile as you did when she brought you there that night
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thoughts re: skip/norman (also on the aso discourse the d20 fandom went through and also as a big skip/norman fan)
The ultimate problem that I see with the pc concept of skip/norman is that aso had heavy heavy themes of autonomy and "owning yourself", whether that's literally, through gunnie, or figuratively, through syd, margaret, etc. the leading question that was prompted by having one of the pcs literally being something that takes over a body and removes the original owner's control of it was just, WILD to me to tee up and then not explore.
norman was an asshole, for sure, but brennan and zac put just enough effort into making him a realistic person that the way doing brain surgery on him without consent was played straight for comedy felt a little strange. it is fascinating to me to discuss skip's position as a literal parasite in the galaxy and how he still deserves the right to exist and live, and how that intersects with norman's same rights, but aso just didn't have time for that.
and aso is a comedy, and one of my favorite seasons, so it's a pretty small issue that this is kind of shrugged off (that's where I disagree with the people who discoursed about it). like, I don't think that was what the season needed to be about. but, d20 in general is so committed to themes and philosophy uniting the pcs that the glaring hole that is the skip/norman of it all duct-taped over with "ahhh symbiosis is a thing" stands out. skip as a pc concept in the sense of his backstory isn't wildly dark to me (I mean, gunnie's is already pretty awful lmao), but in the sense of what he says in terms of the larger story, he feels a bit out of place.
there's a lot more to say here about how the Wurst crew's actions play into that given that he was their asshole boss, etc etc, but essentially: I thought skip/norman just kind of incidentally brought up some points via backstory/pc concept that were a little too complex for a 18 episode comedy season of dnd.
ps. pib fits perfectly into neverafter imo and I adore him completely
I'm going to be totally honest: I learned about this discourse re: Skip and autonomy long after it happened and my gut reaction was "well that's fucking stupid." I also haven't rewatched it and my memory for D20 seasons is often nowhere near as strong as for Critical Role.
I did not blink once at the concept for two reasons:
I'm familiar with sci fi and "creature that takes over the bodies of others" is a pretty standard trope, and not only that but one that has been played for both extreme horror and comedy. Which isn't to say you can't explore the concerns about autonomy but like...I do not find this to be remotely obligatory, which sort of removes all the concerns raised above. "Oh yeah, brain slugs, I know about those, one took over my cousin for a few years" is to me an entirely valid way in-universe of dealing with it. Cannot stress enough that at no point did this seem weird or horrifying to me. Which doesn't mean that it's not valid for others to feel that way, but it just...did not even register as a thought people would have, because it felt so utterly organic to the genre and universe.
I'm also familiar with actual play and Zac and Brennan were quite careful not to abuse the possession mechanic (to the point of creating Norm so that Zac would essentially have his own PC to possess as his real PC) so I have autonomy concerns re: the metagame.
I will also admit that I found the theme to much more be a case of finding one's place within the tough universe in which the characters must live, rather than autonomy and self-ownership, which puts Skip's story well in step with the rest of the group as he fights against his father's wishes. I should also add that I don't see any disjoint in Starstruck being a comedy. All D20 seasons are comedic; even the more serious ones are still comedic in tone and choice. They've also gone extremely dark at points, and that's a choice one can make in comedy, and in my opinion, a valid one.
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Yknow what here's a fun one for you:
Do they see The Stepford Wives(2004) as mainly a Comedy, a Horror, or a Cringefest? (i'm in the horror camp, it unnerves me a lot worse than the original did.) and for a little queer test, how do they feel about Roger specifically.
OKAY GENUINELY THOUGH-
i think i actually remember seeing people bring up the stepford wives in a conversation about misinterpretations of midsommar, but i'll admit i haven't seen it myself so there's not much i can add here.
i also wanna do on a quick side tangent here. under the cut b/c this is rambly nonsense
so i'm not at all opposed to the usage of terms like "cozy horror" or w/e but goddamn the use of that gets on my nerves at times. i don't think it's at all bad to find comfort in horror, even more disturbing and upsetting horror concepts, but i think it's important to examine *why* you find something comforting. and i think midsommar is a *fantastic* example of this idea.
midsommar is a movie about a vulnerable person being drawn into and manipulated by a white supremacist cult. that's it. i see a lot of people describe it as cozy horror or a hard-hitting feminist narrative about a woman escaping a shitty boyfriend to find a community of people who truly care about her, and to be honest a lot of those arguments are significantly more disturbing to me than the movie itself, haha! because that isn't even a surface level reading of the movie--it's straight-up just falling for the same indoctrination that the main character experiences.
i don't think it's a red flag or anything for someone to enjoy midsommar or find some kind of comfort in that story (for example, i find it kind of cathartic in some ways to see the tragedy and horror of midsommar unfold, especially considering my personal history i won't be getting into here), but i am *very* suspect of people labeling it as "cozy horror" because i think that takes the bite out of this story. because it's not *cozy*, it's a horrific scenario and the ending is genuinely devastating if you're not approaching it through the superficial white feminist lens the cult uses to recruit the main character.
i don't know how much sense any of this makes actually, i just have a lot of thoughts about how people engage with horror as a genre. and like yeah sure there's no *wrong* way to enjoy fiction, but i am so so uneasy with folks who miss the point that fucking bad. because, y'know, not to make any broad sweeping generalizations, but how people interpret movies like midsommar can be *really fucking telling* for how they might handle a real situation like that.
(obligatory disclaimer: i am not at all saying that people who enjoy darker fiction like that or enjoy midsommar would be completely okay with a real-life cult situation like that. i'm just saying that people who look at midsommar as a girlboss feminist victory narrative about a woman taking revenge against her shitty boyfriend............. you missed the point to such a spectacular degree that i'm wary of whatever other opinions you might have regarding gender, race, etc.)
#talk to the bunnykitty#luesmainblog#just!!! idk i have a lot of thoughts#and i love talking about this#also for me. one of my favorite comfort movies of all time is the conjuring#the first one not the other two#but i think the real life ed and lorraine warren were fuckin con artists who exploited the people they ''helped''#and honestly i could type a thesis paper probably on shit in the first conjuring that is concerning#but we don't have time for that#just idk y'all. be critical of the media you consume. examine your reactions to it.
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Horror: A Personal Musing
I've always just said "I don't like horror." But I don't think that's true. There are stories I've really enjoyed that have horrific elements, or are straight-up categorized as horror. I think the problem is that I don't have the insight to know if something generally called "Horror" is going to contain elements I don't enjoy:
Things I don't generally enjoy:
Visual depictions of gore
Narratives that offer unrelenting stress or despair with no moments of catharsis.
Narratives where the horror reinforces societal oppression (ie: the evil voodoo witch, the psychotic serial killer)
When the majority of the sympathetic characters I'm rooting for die
Hopeless endings
Things I am neutral on:
Written and audio depictions of gore
The death of one or two sympathetic characters while others survive (so long as they are not the only minority characters)
Things I rather like, actually:
Tension and dread broken up with comedy and catharsis.
Explorations of societal or personal trauma
Narratives that viscerally evoke real oppression in the world (ie: settler colonialism as horror)
Horrific elements in speculative worldbuilding - particularly if they are mundane day to day life for the people living it.
Laying it out like that, it's a little easier to see why I did not like watching Final Destination, but Hot Fuzz I enjoyed tho I did wince at a couple scenes. It's also easier to explain why I've enjoyed books like Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark - it's pretty much straight up horror but it is also very much in line with my likes. The Neverafter D20 season I also enjoyed, as well as the Locked Tomb books.
I see why I have trouble with it - the things on my likes and dislikes list aren't the sorts of things aren't usually discussed in the press about media, but being able to articulate it to myself helps me ask the right questions when I'm feeling it out with someone who knows the story.
What got me thinking about this was @drchucktingle talking about his new book, Bury Your Gays, which I think is more likely to hit my likes than my nopes (Chuck, if you see this, full permission to weigh in on whether or not that's true). It also makes me think I should ask people who have seen them some more specific questions about Jordon Peele's movies, which I've been on the fence about for a long time.
And hey, if you've got media that is classically defined as horror but you think I might enjoy - tell me, and tell me why! I don't mind spoilers for these sorts of things, it actually helps me enjoy the rest of the book.
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Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...
There are only two good things about Creature from the Haunted Sea. The first is its laughably stupid-looking monster, whose comedic appearance was used in the opening credits of Malcolm in the Middle. It brings back warm memories. The second is that it’s in the public domain. This means you can easily find it for free or packaged together with 49 other horror films for less than $20 - like I did. That price tag is a valuable lesson, which we’ll get to in a bit.
During the Cuban Revolution, American gambler and racketeer Renzo Capetto (Anthony Carbone) is hired by deposed General Tostada (Edmundo Rivera Alvarez) to smuggle the national treasury out of the country. Capetto and his criminal crew, which include his girlfriend Mary-Belle Monahan (Betsy Jones-Moreland), her brother Happy Jack (Robert Bean) and animal impressionist Pete Peterson Jr. (Beach Dickerson) come up with an idea. They will murder the General and his loyalists, then keep the gold for themselves. To avoid suspicion, they will convince the Cubans they are being stalked by a sea monster. Little do they know a real-life monster is following their ship. if the secret agent onboard, XK150 (Robert Towne) had any kind of brains, he’d be able to figure this out quickly and put an end to it.
Even though this is a horror comedy and that much of the criticisms that could be thrown towards Creature from the Haunted Sea were likely intentional, the movie’s not funny so they turn into marks against it anyway. The characters are flat, uninteresting and annoying, with Pete Person Jr. easily winning a gold medal in irritation. Speaking almost entirely in animal noises thanks to a brain injury, his schtick gets old immediately. You’ll spend the brief 75-minute running time wishing he would shut up or get torn apart by the sea monster, which is obviously a scuba diver covered in seaweed (or something that looks like it) with toothpicks glued on the end of their gloves, vampire teeth, and ping pong balls for eyes. Go into any Halloween store on November 1st and you could piece together something better.
Even before the dreadful creature shows up, this premise is just dumb. I know if my shifty shipmates told me two men were just murdered by a sea monster I wouldn’t believe them. No one with their head on straight would. What’s much more likely to happen to Capetto is that the Cubans will see right through his dumb scheme and chop him up into shark bait.
It’s a bad movie and would’ve been bad even in 1961 when the Get Smart comedy thing was popular. If there was any kind of justice in this world, this desert of laughs would’ve been forgotten to the ages. Instead, it made its way into the public domain and regularly finds itself for sale/viewing. The problem is that no one cared about this movie then and they certainly don’t now. Every print you’ll see is scratchy and dusty, with muddy sound that will require you to crank up the volume just so you can understand what the hell is going on. Worse, you won’t find any subtitle option anywhere. You practically have to read the Wikipedia article just to understand what’s happening. It got so bad with the disc I was watching that I actually wound up going on Tubi, hoping that a better print would be available there. I got “lucky”, starting watching again. In no time, I was looking forward to the commercial breaks. At least those were lively, professionally made, colorful and audible.
Suddenly, it hit me. The only reason I was watching this movie is because it came in a box set I bought years ago. I would have to do this 49 more times to “get my money’s worth”. Meanwhile, there are thousands of other movies I could be watching. Even a horrible film like The Snowman or The Love Guru didn’t make me exhausted because I was able to passively absorb them. This was work. A job I wasn’t going to get paid for so I’m cutting my losses. I might've wasted my money, but I'm done wasting my time.
Even if you were sent back in time to see Creature from the Haunted Sea in a top-notch theatre with impeccable audio in the most comfortable seat ever made, I still wouldn’t recommend it. Today, presented like this? It would take all the gold in Cuba to convince me to hit "play". (On DVD, September 13, 2021)
#Creature from the Haunted Sea#Roger Corman#Charles B. Griffith#Antony Carbone#Betsy Jones-Moreland#1961 movies#1961 films
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Oooooooh shipping game?? How did I miss that you’re doing this! I haven’t participated in one in so long, so hopefully I’ll be able to give you something to work with 🙈
Zodiac sign: Pisces
Chinese zodiac: Wood Dog (94 liner, and I actually turn 30 this year and hoooo boy the crisis is real)
MBTI: whichever one is the (turbulent) Logician type, sorry I don’t remember the abbreviations
She/her pronouns.
I’m an introvert (not the shy type) who routinely gets adopted by extroverts and then has to withdraw from society to recover. I love dogs (but irl I actually have a cat, because my dogs were too big to move them with me when I moved out for uni, so I literally googled ‚cat breeds dog personality’ and got one for myself).
I’m also a bookworm, although uni kinda killed my love for reading for a long while (literature major) and my favorite genres are fantasy, sci-fi and supernatural horror. I’m drawn to things that are a bit (a lot) darker than the usual, books and movies that explore the complexity of human nature and our place in the universe (I feel like I’m setting myself up to be shipped with Namjoon by writing this). I was raised as a metalhead and still listed to metal and rock a lot, I actually got into BTS and k-pop in general in early 2023 because my extroverted friend nagged me for six months and the rabbit hole just opened up one day. Other than BTS my favorite group is Stray Kids.
I’m pretty independent as a person, often come off as closed off or straight up bitchy, but I’ve been told that once people get to know me better it’s like I’m fluffy on the inside. My best friend would probably tell you that I’m like a tunnel: once we’re friends and you betray my trust, the tunnel collapses and there’s no going back. My other friend claims that I have goth/witchy vibes and that I’m a grinch (which tracks, actually). It’s not easy for me to make friends but I found out in the past year or so that I have a lot more of them than I thought possible.
Other than that, I love dark humor and dark comedy. I rarely make jokes, mainly because I don’t think I’m that funny, but I do enjoy banter. I find it really hard to let go and let loose (anxiety is a bitch and a half), but I try my best to be better at just being myself and vibing with other people.
I’ve been told I’m a decent cook and have some tattoos (and planning on getting more). And I think that’s about it really 🙈
I would love to see who you’d ship me with if you have the time! Thanks so much for all the hard work you put into your writing this past year, when I dove into the BTS content your blog was like a headcanon central for me 😹
Lol, I know you joked about it, but I do genuinely ship you with Namjoon, as well as Yoongi!
You have a lot similar interests and traits as both of them that I think would make it easy for you to connect, and although Joon is an extrovert, he really respectful his and other people's boundaries and space, so I think he'd be good at helping you open up a bit more without being draining or exhausting for you.(Also lowkey think they'd both really be into your style)
Yoongi's also has that 'tough outside, soft inside' vibe, and also isn't afraid to discuss darker topics or the different aspects of the human experience, and I think he'd appreciate someone he can talk with easily about those types of things.(He also has/had a slightly dark sense of humor, so I think you'd be able to bounce off each other well)
Hope this was okay!💜
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Danzo is awful but is one of my favorite examples of body horror in the series. His reveal is right up there with Kabuto turning and showing his half grafted face. Imagine if Kishimoto teamed up with a horror author! He's already halfway there with anime filler being lifted straight from Lovecraft stories like the Color out of Space and the night gaunt in the Blood Prison movie.
Yes!! See also: Orochimaru's weird ass snake form, where he's simultaneously one being consisting of many snakes, which erupts from his previous body - or, you know. Just Orochimaru in general is so, so fucked up and I love every nasty, gross second of it.
And horror isn't even a central theme in the story! That's just some flavouring! Some parts of Naruto really read like a horror-enthusiast tried really hard not to write horror but instead some classic shonen adventure story. Which, I think, is a shame: we have all these absolutely amazing set ups for the genre of body horror specifically, but it never goes further than that. It's all a bit superficial - just a physical transformation, a power up even. It rarely, if ever, gets examined, or reflected on, and sometimes there's not even a proper reaction to it (how many times do you see a character being disgusted or horrified of these scenes?)
I personally would have loved to see a more in depth exploration of the trope that is already being used - how the manipulation of the body can come with unexpected side effects, where the line between "mine" and "other" is drawn in regard to your own (transplanted) body, any of that sort, you know?
But then again, that's not the goal of Naruto. It's a shonen adventure comedy manga intended for mostly children and young teenagers. And that's cool - if I wanted good horror, I'd have picked a different manga. But it does add a nice flavour to Naruto.
Anyways, sorry for the long post, I know you didn't really ask my opinion on this. Also, looks like I really need to watch the Blood Prison movie. Thank you for the ask!!
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2023 Halloween Bar Viewing (!): Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College. (dir. John Carl Buechler, 1991)
I love Halloween. I don't like dressing up; I've done it as an adult only once or twice and reluctantly so. I doubt I'll ever do it again. I don't decorate. But I love the general spirit of Halloween, and it's a night I always prefer to spend out somewhere, absorbing the vibes. This Halloween my girlfriend was out of town, so I went to my neighborhood tavern, a comfortable and low-stakes spot. My friend the barman loves to show movies in the bar. I generally dislike those nights; I don't go to bars to watch TV, and I'd rather hear the jukebox, but he once owned a video store and delights in screening ridiculous movies. In the lead-up to Halloween he'd told me about a handful of absurd "horror" movies he wanted to see; our tastes don't overlap, but it's fun to hear him talk about stupid movies. He'd be the first to offer "absurd" and "stupid" as descriptors for a lot of these.
On Halloween night, shortly after I arrived, he told me he was about to play Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College. At the time, I didn't remember ever hearing about the Ghoulies franchise, but the longer I watched the more I dimly recalled the idiotic trio of "ghoulies" who wreak havoc in this film in the frat houses of a college campus. The movie is a dumb as you can imagine, maybe even dumber. Poor Kevin McCarthy, lead actor in the original 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, plays a demented professor, the bane of every student's existence, who falls in an alliance with the ghoulies before they (of course) kill him. Sitcom actor and game-show regular Marcia Wallace plays his secretary. These are pure paycheck roles, the kind that make you feel sorry for the actors. McCarthy in particular gives a committed performance, but his character is so unhinged that it's almost humiliating to watch him. It probably goes without saying, once you've seen that image above (not a true movie poster, as this film was straight-to-video), that this is more of a dumb comedy than a horror film. It's okay; parameters can be loose on Halloween.
I'd never give my time to this movie had I not been a captive audience, but it provided me with amusement on a snowy Halloween night. The barman and one of the regulars marveled that I watched the entire thing; I apparently was the only person who did so. When the barman started it I asked him to check the running time; it was only 90 minutes, so I decided I'd just do the whole thing. I would have preferred for a Halloween viewing to be more like the recent time I was in a bar and The Exorcist was playing, but sometimes it's fun to spin the wheel and deal with whatever you're given.
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In celebration of the successful conclusion of the SAG-AFTRA strike, I found a place I could watch the FNAF movie without giving Scott Cawthon any money. And I have to say... I was pleasantly surprised.
Just to be clear, everything the critics say about it is correct. It is not a terribly good movie; it's a toned-down version of the kind of silliness you get in the FNAF books, made safer for both general audiences and its PG-13 rating. But to leave it there is to ignore what works in the movie, and that's the stuff I was surprised by.
The protagonist is, despite Cawthon's usual brand of "let's make the guy an asshole and hope people connect with him anyway", genuinely entertaining for how much of a human disaster he is. There's also a lot of comedy in the way the animatronics are depicted, and in the tonal dissonance that haunts them like a bad smell in an enclosed bathroom. Like, I understand why people criticized that aspect, but to me, they did a great job capturing the way people's - especially kids' - attitudes toward the animatronics have dramatically shifted away from their original intent, while maintaining the fact that they are able and willing to perform murder.
The cop character is written very much like an actual cop. Any time she gets close to not getting her way on something, the mask comes off and she goes straight to bullying her way into making it happen, all the while treating the protagonist like he's just being pointlessly noncompliant when he asks her for more information. It's interesting that they went with this tack, given the inconsistency with her otherwise pleasant and compassionate personality, but I find it a good reminder that even "nice" cops cannot be trusted.
...ok, I can't keep a straight face on that one. Cawthon is terrible at writing people, doubly so when it comes to women. I'm not joking when I say it worked for the protagonist, but the cop is an unbelievable asshole and an utter mess of a character. It is surprisingly realistic though.
Anyway, the last thing that really worked for me was the big reveal in the climax. There's two or potentially three twists revealed at once; one is in-universe and kinda naff, while the other two are meta-twists, and while they both require some background knowledge to appreciate, if you have that they are fantastic. So this is very much a YMMV situation, one that worked for me because I know a lot about the FNAF games and have a strong love of horror movies.
Unfortunately, though, while I really enjoyed the movie, it can be summed up in one sentence: "For people who like this sort of thing, it's exactly the sort of thing that they would like." If you enjoy the absurdity of the FNAF extended universe, unintended comedy produced by tonal dissonance and goofy character designs, and toothless horror movies that are heavier on plot than scares, this will be right up your alley. Otherwise, the combination of those issues with the atrociously written plot and Cawthon's low-simmering misogyny (he's a conservative Christian who romanticizes the 50s, to give you an idea of what you're in for) will probably make it a pretty unpleasant experience.
OH YEAH, one last note: You might have heard from somewhere that the movie "relies on" jump scares for its horror. This is horseshit. There is one good jump scare in the movie, period. That was one of the biggest letdowns for me.
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8bit watched: X
I'm not a particularly big fan of horror movies. I just don't care to watch a movie about loud irritating people being combative towards one another only to wind up gorily dismembered. Not the gore part, that's fine, it's more that I'm unwilling to endure listening to the corpses to be just yell fuck at one another for an hour and a half plus. X (2022) was however a fine change of pace from the usual set up and run of one of these types of movies. Instead of our intrepid group of aspiring pornographers being vile and needlessly catty to each other the people seem to generally like one another. When it does inevitably turn to one character is a bastard to another it very swiftly turns to murder.
The plot is a group of young people in 1970s Texas decide upon the almost timeless idea of striking it rich by making their own porno. They go to a farm far removed from society to film their movie, whereupon the group starts getting murdered by the aged farmer and his equally aged wife. I went into this movie not particularly caring about the movie but after a time I came to realize that I was hooked on how it turned out. I wasn't particularly filled with admiration for any of the characters but I was really enjoying the movie and wasn't just counting the minutes until it was over.
One of the things I liked about the movie was it didn't rely on it just being gross to set an atmosphere of horror. Too many movies just have the environments be gross disgusting places that no person in their right mind would be in for a minute let alone a few days. Another thing I like is how the movie more or less plays itself straight. It irritates me when horror movies insist on making quips and jokes about everything that goes on in the production. Horror comedies for me usually fail at being both, so it was refreshing that X was a more straight affair. It's not a period drama where its stiff and straightlaced, but it doesn't have a character who runs around just going "LOL this spooky house looks like it's right out of a horror movie. When's the killer gonna show up and gut Jimmy?"
If you're interested in X (2022) I'll put the spoilers behind the jump. The TL:DR is: A surprisingly enjoyable horror movie that set itself apart from a lot of others by having a cast I didn't actively hate. Would recommend!
Spoilers
What I like about the kills in X is it strikes a nice middle ground between the relatively restrained kills in a movie like Halloween Ends and the more gore intensive splatter of a Texas Chainsaw (2022). Sure you get to see Pearl get her head splattered apart at the end of the movie, and the blonde girl gets torn to shreds by an alligator in the absolutely funniest part of the movie. But when you see two of the characters get blown away with a shotgun yes it's bloody but not overly gory.
Also I say this not to sound horny but I was pleasantly surprised by the copious amounts of full frontal nudity on display in this movie. It always just feels weak to me when in your movie, be it horror or whatever, it goes out of its way to assure that Girl is a massive slut and fucking people only for absolutely nobody to actually show any skin more than you'd see in a swimsuit. So the fact you get to see most of these people naked is a plus in my book. Also it plays the nudity for the old woman Pearl being naked for a bit of gross out horror without just being like "ew, old people nudity, am I right?"
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Holding Up Mirrors: How Sorry to Bother You succeeded Where Don’t Look Up Failed
In 2021, Adam McKay released Don’t Look Up on Netflix. The film centers around two astronomers discovering that a meteor the size of Mount Everest will strike the earth in half a year, killing everyone and everything. Utterly terrified, they try to warn the world of the impending doom with unbelievably mixed results. Politicians are more concerned with re-election and news reports try to make light of an apocalyptic event.
The film was met with very clashing reviews. Some saying that it’s a funny and poignant satire about major government’s reaction to the climate crisis, others say it’s an obnoxious and poorly edited film that’s too smug for its own good. Me personally, I’m in the latter half of that argument. The actors involved certainly do their best, and I’m glad that climate scientists feel vindicated or at least related to the scientists in this film, but to me it’s a slog to get through. While I’m not usually one to compare certain works of fiction to each other, I’d like to compare Don’t Look up to Another dark-comedy satire. That movie, one of my personal favorites, is Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley.
Sorry to Bother You follows Cassius Green, a rookie telemarketer that finds an unlikely pathway to success. But with that success comes immediate conflict with his friends, who plan on unionizing against the company that Cassius works for. While Don’t Look Up deals with the bleak horror of the climate crisis, Sorry to Bother You deals with the bleak horror of late stage capitalism. With that brief description out of the way, let’s get into the comparisons.
Variety, The Spice of Comedy
What different people find funny is one of the most subjective things on earth. More sophisticated people can sneer at fart jokes all they want, but that won’t stop some people from chuckling at them. So I won’t say that Don’t Look Up is objectively unfunny. But the film does have a problem when it comes to the assortment of jokes. Nearly every comedic event found in Don’t Look Up can be put into two camps; the world not understanding the severity of the situation and “politicians, ammiright?” It’s really hard for a comedy to be consistently funny when it only has two jokes to work with. Sorry to Bother You, while primarily satirizing capitalism, knows not to completely rely on that for its humor. From how poorly maintained Cassius’ car is to poking fun at physical comedy game shows, Sorry to Bother You has enough different jokes to let the capitalism satire to breathe.
Mirror, Mirror
While the limited comedy is a problem, the Major issue with Don’t Look Up is the way it portrays it’s world. In my opinion, a good satire is like a funhouse mirror; it creates an exaggeration of something to poke fun at it or point out it’s flaws. Don’t Look Up is weirdly selective with what it chooses to satirize, or at least how far it satirizes. The politicians and billionaires are (rightfully) made fun of for prioritizing profits and personal gain over actually saving humanity, but everything else is played straight. It’s cartoonish antagonists don’t feel complimentary to the everyday people in the story. In Sorry to Bother You, almost everything is exaggerated to some extent. Tying back to the varied comedy, the general world building makes it so that when the antagonists over the top plan is revealed to the audience, it actually makes sense in the context of that world. If Sorry to Bother You is a funhouse mirror, than Don’t Look Up is just a cracked mirror.
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Starkid Show Ranking
So, for the last few months I’ve watched one Starkid musical a weekend. Best few months ever! Some I hadn’t seen in years and some I regularly see at least 3 times a year. A few I liked even more than I remembered. So here is my new ranking for which I like best! These are just my personal faves. Not saying which ones are best just putting in order which shows I like best. I think they’re all great!
13) Ani: A Parody
A genuinely good show. I love characters like Obi in it but I just don’t know jack about Star Wars.
11) Black Friday
I love a lot of the music. It has some really great moments.
10) Holy Musical B@man!
I did not give this show a chance all those years ago when I first watched. Maybe because I wasn’t big on batman. I am a huge Superman and DC fan in general though and the last rewatches I’ve had I’ve really enjoyed it! Love Superman and Batman’s dynamic. Really fun show with great music.
9) Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier
Love the Wicked vibes. Never really been an Aladdin fan but I really like this show. Jafar and his wife’s story breaks my heart every time.
8) The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals
I love the fact it’s a horror comedy. The music is so good. It makes me laugh and cry. Great introduction to the Hatchetfield series.
7) Firebringer
This show has a very special place in my heart. It was my mum’s first introduction to Starkid and she’s been the one person I’ve got who’s been watching Starkid with me ever since. We make so many references and it’s all thanks to this show! We watched it about 20 times the year it came out. The music is phenomenal, the family aspect of the show makes it feel like home.
6) Trail To Oregon!
So my Nanna forced us to watch Little House and the Prairie with her for many years and this show has strong lhotp vibes. I feel such a warm feeling when watching this chaotic family and the musical is awesome! I cannot express how much I love the mother especially.
5) Starship
This show is freaking hilarious. The characters are great and the story is beautiful. It was one I didn’t give a chance at first, given the space theme but I wish I’d done so earlier on because it’s really awesome.
4) Me and My Dick
I loooove this show. It’s hilarious and heartfelt. It gives me such nostalgia. I love all the characters with all my heart. I love saying lines from this show and confusing people.
3) A Very Potter Senior Year
Another heartfelt musical. I just cry at the end. I just love it so much.
2) A Very Potter Musical
This was my first introduction ever to Harry Potter! And this trilogy was all I knew of Harry Potter for many years after. I now love hp and the starkid version but the starkid version of characters and Hogwarts will always be the real characters and Hogwarts to me. I was so confused when I first watched the movies and then the book. Some stuff I thought starkid had straight up made up. It was one of my first Starkid shows and will always have a special place in my heart. I love the characters so much it makes me emotional. They mean so much to me and a lot of them are my all time favourite characters in anything ever. I just want them to be happy! It’s hilarious and the songs are amazing.
1) A Very Potter Sequel
Love this show so so much. I cry with laughter every time as I do with all the trilogy but especially this one. It’s one of my favourite things in the world and is in the top 4 musicals ever for this musical theatre nerd right here. The music is beyond totally awesome. I can’t express how much I love this show and this musical trilogy.
#starkid#team starkid#firebringer#trail to oregon#twisted#tgwdlm#holy musical b@man#mamd#me and my dick#starkid ranking#ranking#darren criss#lauren lopez#joey richter#jaime lyn beatty#joe walker#meredith stepien#dyaln saunders#brian holden
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