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emptyspaaace · 4 years

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The irony of Sparks Nevada is that Croach is like “my species does not experience emotions, I do not have them and find them confusing” and yet he gets angry and passive aggressive and sad and drunk and in love and flirts with Cactoid Jim and seems to take a lot of it in stride meanwhile Sparks is over here like “I cant figure out how to show affection in relationships my tone of voice hasn’t changed in five years and I couldn’t articulate an emotional response to my best friend fucking dying but lmao Croach u wild Martians don’t have emotions???? Literally cannot imagine it anyway it’s been real I’m gonna go take a nap now”

#sparks nevada #snmom #listen #they are a Martian who has emotions and a human who does not #it’s situational irony

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wellntruly · 6 years

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A Series of Unfortunate Events - S2: The Vile Village

I had a long Friday for both stressful and fun reasons so yes as you’ll be gathering I am just lounging watching most of ASOUE S2 tonight, *cheers*

This one’s very visibly set on a sound stage and then by the end everyone’s talking about the tradition of playmaking devices: good work team.

The Vile Village: Part 1

“Before long they’ll find themselves bewildered and bedeviled in the town’s attractive if drafty town hall, desperate and despondent near this prominent but off-putting landmark known as Fowl Fountain.”

Shirley Jackson reference!! gold

the Jewish current through this series is deeply welcome & charming and also more prominent here than the books, which should really just be encouragement to art-makers that the more Jewish the better

WOOWW their town flag is…allusive

and Esme posing as a fascist Italian police officer, damn go in

oh my god---its Cactoid Jim

wow, he flung himself right off that bar..

Hector, sunshine 🧡

lol omg secret retina scan after he undoes the old timey padlock

that is the White Tree of Gondor on that bowsprit

really into Jacques having a long history of trying to offer Olaf tea

Hooks is playing jazz bongos he’s so into it I’m so into it

Nathan Fillion’s whispering voice is very reassuring, how pleasant

she needed the biggest wrench to hit it with, wonderful, truly Violet is a mechanical engineer

nice

they have super scaled up the overarching mythology reveals in the TV show version! kinda tracks they’d do it here since the Vile Village volume was a wee bit draggy, if I recall

noooo :(

The Vile Village: Part 2

they really figured out how to make this more painful, and it’s with bad scatting

Esme’s smile grimace as she watches him flounder through these rhymes is A+

“We can do this the quiet way, or it can get very noisy” is suuuuuch a scary threat!

GOD everything Jacqueline wears is #retro goals

the new running gag of newspaper boys on bicycles appearing in unlikely places to toss you the latest is so fun

Evelyn Waugh reference!

she wore white after Yom Kippur, MAN it is a treat being in a world where the calendar is based around Jewish holidays!

aww, son! my sweet sad boy

the Poes were each the only ones in their class not bar or bat mitzvah’ed DANG this really takes place in an American(ish) world framed by Judaism instead of Christianity doesn’t it!

“I am going to blow my top and I am going to blow my cover!”

“I think I’ll interview the townspeople for some mob mentality angle.”

this is starting to get pretty Pushing Daisies. obviously I’m down.

I love a story where part of the plot relies on what a character knows of another character’s poetry style

commonplace books!

Hooks’ fond frenemy relationship with Sunny is the best

my heart is filling with love, Violet standing strong bluffing with a fire hose while Klaus threateningly rattles off statistics about fire trucks --- my kids

so many deus ex machinas! repetition is a common teaching tool and I love the gentle didactics of this thing I really do

repeated rhymes give me goosebumps

oh man the weird torture horror book’s next isn’t it haha oh boy

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The Austere Academy | The Ersatz Elevator // Season 1

#A Series of Unfortunate Events #entries for my commonplace book #Tarra takes notes

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onesourceofbadinformation · 10 months

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the essay on sparks' dreams is coming eventually but for now

I need to know more about how you see sparkscroach. Stat.

Also!!! I learned during my relisten of the bits with Cactoid Jim in them that my fave USSA guy, Gene Peeples, iconically Space Jewish was Space CATHOLIC in his second appearance and Space Jewish was a retcon. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. They should just give Joshua Malina all the Space Judaism jokes he seems to know what he's doing.

Also also do you remember when Billy the Bot said "I'm a metal robot wearing a hat" after a brief line flub where he and Croach swapped lines kind of? Because I think about that a lot.

I am moving so pardon the disorganized thoughts. They also used my questions for the trivia game and NOBODY REMEMBERED SPARKS' MIDDLE NAME and said MEJ wouldn't even remember. Are you kidding? MEJ would remember. Marc Evan Jackson IS Sparks Nevada. They have the same birthday!! (Proven by Danger 2.0 in which his password is August 21st which is MEJ's birthday) -Tintissi

first of all, sorry for the late response! i promise i have not been ignoring you, just very busy and wanted to take the time this deserves to respond to.

sparkscroach is just so real and true to me. in the first recorded episode they bodyswap. in the second recorded episode there is egg sac stimulation that is explicitly sexual. and it just gets worse from there. sparks impregnates croach. for anyone who hasn't listened to sparks nevada, marshal on mars, that is not a joke or exaggeration in any way. he got that martian pregnant. i love whenever they "break up" and are so fucking lost without the other. and when croach dies in sparks' arms? fuck off!!! and then off course the egg dreams. my opinion of sparkscroach is essentially "they are in love and will never admit it due to being horribly disgustingly stubborn." it's one of the first "ships" that i got really into—i was 15 when i started listening—so it has a lot of nostalgic value to me.

i wish i remembered more of these details, it's been at least 5 years since i last relistened in full... i barely remember gene peeples unfortunately, though i do remember the ussa stuff! i don't remember the "i'm a metal robot wearing a hat" either, though i do love when they fumble lines or start laughing or when things go wrong in some way. live theatre babey!!!!

also i have to be real i didn't remember sparks' middle name until i looked on his wiki page. that's really cool they used your questions for a trivia game!!! also omg his birthday is coming up...happy early space birthday sparks nevada my friend..

best of luck with moving!! :)

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