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Yknow, for a minute i wasn't a fan of the hc that Noel knows French, just because it feels like it's piling on to the already multilingual man that is his boyfriend, but then I realised.
These people live in Canada. They probably all know French.
#exceot mischa#i think mischa doesnt know french#omg omg#the choir teasing noel about his crush on mischa in french#bc mischa doesnt know french#nischa#noel gruber#mischa bachinski#ocean o'connell rosenberg#penny lamb#rtc jane doe#ricky potts#constance blackwood#ride the cyclone#rtc#i swear this will still be mostly starkid#im just riding high off rtc
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!! plz dont send me chain asks !!
(pronouns page is linked on there but also here if you dont wanna look for it:)
ok so uhh basically the gist of it
hi
im preston
uhh for names call me preston or pres or squid or orion or jaxon or actually just whatever you want i dont mind (more on my prounouns page) (if we're friends/moots feel free to gimme a nickname if ya want)
pronouns are it/he/they (the order of preference changes from time to time also neos are alright just anything other than she/her)
fandoms im most active in: varian and the seven kingdoms/tangled the series, camp here and there (will wood too!!), adamandi, the art of pleasing princes, starkid, spies are forever and percy jackson (mostly the musical bc im in a production of it :)
you can always interact with me! apparently im intimidating but i swear im really nice (i think) and id be really happy if you sent an ask at any time :3 i promise i wont get annoyed even if you think youre being annoying i just really like interacting with cool people :3
you can tag me in anything and everything! i promise ill look at it :3 and i try my best to do tag games and stuff (lmk if you dont want me to tag ya) but if i dont uhh, just assume i was like, really tired that day, or ive been tagged by another moot in that game before and im too lazy to dig it up :P sry
uhh im a minor too so like nsfw/18+ blogs dni
i try my best to use tone tags but if i forget and you need them please let me know!! (i also find tone tags helpful for myself) :3
theres more info on my card about like other stuff too
tag key:
#marble musings = original posts
#marble monologues = long posts/reblogs usually about chnt or just like existentialism idk
#marble draws = art/fanart/crafts/cosplay type thing
#marble games = i make games on google forms! hoping to learn to code or get an actual game engine to make full games past like choose your own adventures
#marble music = song covers :3 (yes i have all the filtered instrumentals i used for adamandi, lmk if you want them i can send em over discord or something)
#marble asks = answering stuff in my ask box
i think thats all of them :3 might add more eventually, and sometimes i forget to tag properly so sorry about that :(
i have some sideblogs if you wanna check em out (not super active on them but ill still try to respond if you shoot me an ask)
vent/writing sideblog: @lonelyinkcap (you can interact with my vents i dont really care. i mean. if im talkin about someone please dont fucking go like "but have you considered that theyre going through something" because uhh yes i have and also fuck you stop making my panic attacks worse :P) (if you know me irl. um. you can do whatever ig. i mean i cant exactly stop you. but proceed with caution. some of them might be vagueposts about you. im not gonna fuckin tell ya tho. also if you see anything concerning there. um. no ya dont. and definitely dont bring any of it up in conversation irl.)
hatchetfield rp sideblogs: @thelilcloverpatch @fading-angelic-starlight @marble-man @honey-sparrow @ivy-wreathed-arches and @hatchetfield-bone-thief (not sure why that one isnt properly linking but i swear its there you can search if you want)
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Fic Masterpost!
This is mostly for me I’m not going to lie to you guys
Non-It Fics:
Stranger Things:
A Complex Analysis on Why Robin Buckley and Steve Harrington Are Not a Couple: A Study by Dustin Henderson
Fem Dustin walks in on Ronance making out
One shot
StarKid:
(i swear) i will die trying
Ted Spankoffski POV during the plot of Nerdy Prudes Must Die
2 Chapters
Locked and Loaded (oh so devoted)
Steph shoots Pete at the end of NPMD, but she misses (...sorta)
TW gun shot injuries
In Progress
it's like hearing a ticking sound coming from unmarked packages (something isn't right here)
Basically a what if for if Tinky was Pete's 'imaginary friend' the way Webby is Hannah's
One Shot
slurpees are a love language (prove me wrong)
Fluffy lautski drabble
Date Idea: sharing slurpees so ur boyfriend doesn't pass out
One Shot for Lautski Week 2023 (prompt: blue)
unfortunately, it's not quite a fairy tale (at least, not the one you were expecting)
Lautski cinderella au (Cinderella Pete/Prince Charming Steph)
HEED THE TAGS PLEASE PLEASE FUCKING PLEASE
In Progress
It Fics:
Unfinished:
Forgotten Familiarity
Richie and Eddie find each other as adults without their memories of each other, fall in love, and get married. And then Mike calls.
It’s unfinished and always will be sorry, like the story is pretty much complete I just got overly optimistic where I should have ended it
Note to Self: Don't be Gay in Derry, Maine
Fem Reddie The Prom au
She’s also probably terminally unfinished
(like) Silence (but not really silence) is Infinity
Loose Matilda Ben au
Ben Centric
Optimistically in progress but who knows
we got the keys (the kingdom's ours)
Descendants au
In Progress (optimistically but like y'know-)
whats found in the palace gardens, as seen through silver-framed eyeglasses
Richie Cinderella au (reddie)
In Progress
the real world is where the monsters are
Camp Halfblood au
In Progress
Completed Works:
I Know Your Secret. Your Furry Little Secret.
Werewolf Richie au
3 chapters
Life (even infinite) Still Must Have Life In It
Time Traveler Stan and Eddie and Immortal Richie au (Streddie)
1 chapter but it’s LONG
so we took it in turns, and to my surprise, we found my words
Richie loose little mermaid au but like only the losing her voice part
Another fic with 1 very very long chapter
Family Road Trip
Eddie and the Neibolt Kids road trip from Derry to California so she can kiss Richie
4 chapters
One Shots:
Living on the Dance Floor
Stan and Richie were on dance moms as children au
i'm sorry. iloveyou.
Richie’s dead, it’s Eddie’s fault, and she doesn’t know how to deal with it it.
Super Hero Losers Club with powerless tech guy Richie au
This ones.... sad y’all
Radio City Presents: Middle Aged Lesbians Learning to Love
Canon divergence where Eddie lives, Richie has chronic pain, and they love each other a whole lot.
Merry (Fucking) Christmas, 1992 (1995)
Christmas themed Reverse Reddie au
A universe where Georgie Denbrough forgets his rain boots
Canon divergence where Georgie lives and Bill raises her little brother, until she forgets she has one
this one is also! sad!
Eddie Kaspbrak Vs. The Olympic Level Asshole
Olympic figure skater Richie and ice hockey team manager Eddie au
Calculated Gambles
Richie takes the hit for Eddie, but she survives. Now Eddie’s waiting for her to wake up in her hospital room.
Something Is Wrong With Richie
Richie stops talking. The Losers want to know why.
Basically my hot take on how Fem Richie having ADHD affects her differently than a male Richie having ADHD
This one is not well written I'm ngl
Tumblr Only One Shots:
Cheerleader Richie au
Only BESTIES get tortured in a lab together (Platonic Stozier) (also like really really sad)
Dracula au (this one is sort of a glorified head canon post)
Sad Internalized Fatphobia Ben One Shot
Emotober One Shots:
Otherwise known as that once scene from Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Prompt: Collapse, "Why do you even care?"
Reddie
Otherwise known as kissing is gross and Queer Eye is a decent backing track to a breakdown
Prompt: Fears, “I know what you need”
Tumblr Only
Reddie
Otherwise known as Dear Miss Michelle Hanlon it is my sincerest pleasure to accept you into the Derry, Maine school of being miserable, graduating class of 2019
Prompt: History, “I quit.”
This ones a sad one y’all
Otherwise known as this anniversary dinner is sponsored by: a shady black market love potion
Prompt: Disaster Date, "I never had a choice."
Another sad one with very creepy Connor Bowers
Otherwise known as some conversations are worst had on a fire escape drunk at three in the morning
Prompt: Insecurity, “We are not having this conversation.”
Implied Poly Losers, mostly Ben/Stan
Otherwise known as Ben has a nightmare
Prompt: Nightmare, “It’s not enough anymore.”
Poly Losers and posted ten months after October lol
Otherwise known as this anniversary dinner has been interrupted to bring you: the angriest Eddie Kaspbrak the world has ever seen
Prompt: Aftermath, “So it was all a lie.”
Follow up to shady black market love potion
also posted like a year after the rest fhjkl
#fic#fem losers club#fem reddie#rev fem Reddie#rev reddie#long post#masterpost#this might not even be all of them idk man
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OK OK OK. I recently saw TGWDLM & Black Friday for the first time so now I finally have faces and some context to the characters I see you talk about!! I was wondering, obviously you've talked about Ethan and Lex, but do you have any headcannons for Paul and Emma? 👀
AHHHHH YES WELCOME TO. THIS.
If ever you wanna chat more in depth, hit me up, dude— the overlap in vore n starkid people is So small so I’m VERY 👀 at anyone else who may have the same interests! But ANYWAY that’s not why you’re here,, you’re here for Paulkins my beloveds.
I can see them both taking on either role in the predator/prey dynamic to be honest with you, so I’m gonna just do hcs for either side with both of em :)
Paul, as a pred, as a rule, is the Most Nervous guy ever. Full stop. You want him to eat you? Great, now kindly fill out this thirty page safety waiver. He’ll ask about a million times if his prey is alright with the idea of being eaten, and even when he gets a yes, he still feels the need to double check. He’s very protective of his prey and the sheer amount of nervous stimming he gets up to with anyone tucked away. His hands don’t stray far from his middle, and they have his undivided attention for the duration of their stay. All of the lead up is something that’s incredibly slow with him as well, making sure that whoever he’s eating is really, truly alright with their situation before letting them in— though he tends to swallow quickly, wanting to minimize the uncomfortable sensation.
As prey, he’s incredibly fidgety. Always kneading and squeezing at the walls, shifting his weight— it’s a miracle if he stays completely still. He hates being swallowed (the enclosed space and the fact that he’s being squeezed really tends to bother him), but enjoys being close to someone so completely. Very chatty when he’s in someone’s gut, he’ll talk their ear off and nervously joke his way through the entire interaction (“I know this might be a bad time, uh, but do you like film?” “Yeah, you’re right, this is a bad time-“). That said, once he settles down, he likens it to a weighted blanket and usually doesn’t stay awake too long. That said, if he’s unwilling, you’d better believe that you’re gonna be fucking miserable. He’s not the shortest guy, even if he’s small, and he’s gonna make sure that you feel every last bit of strength he has in his little body.
Emma as a pred is also quite nervous, but casual about it in a way that’s hard to explain. She’s the type to simply continue with whatever she was doing once she has someone inside, though she’ll occasionally check up with a soft press and a gentle “Hey, holdin’ up okay in there?” She’s a little self conscious about the whole idea, what, being responsible for the life of another whole person, but she tends to brush it aside in favour of jokes. The noise of her heartbeat quickening is usually what gives her away. She needs reassurance, but refuses to ask for it, and even though she talks a big talk, she’s not uncaring in the slightest.
As prey, nine times out of ten, she’s unwilling. Doesn’t like being soaked, doesn’t like feeling so small— everyone already towers over her, there’s no need to make that feeling even stronger. She’s incredibly squirmy, swears up a storm, hates being tasted, and makes herself damn near impossible to swallow. With that said, however, when she is willing, she is the easiest meal to get down, and tries to make things as easy on the pred as possible. Gentle tongue rubs, limp body, she’ll slide right down. She doesn’t do much upon getting eaten, though. Mostly reclines, though she tends to poke and prod at what she can reach, just to make sure she isn’t forgotten about.
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Holy Musical B@man
I told myself last week to make sure that I rewatch HMB for the 10th anniversary, and I nearly forgot. Mostly because I forgot what day it was.
But today (yesterday) is the 10th anniversary of Holy Musical B@man being posted on YouTube! Yay!
Like I did with MAMD, I’m going to try not to pause every 5 seconds, but inevitably I will end up doing it anyway. (Spoiler alert, I did)
I call this “Hope Freaks Out Over Puns and Costumes for 5000 Words and Comes Up With a Conspiracy Theory about Denise’s Character(s).”
Our first image of Jeff in a StarKid show is him maniacally laughing. Sounds about right.
The underwear. I can’t. June Saito, my girl, these are still some of the funnest costumes StarKid has ever done.
Oh and Chris Allen!
Nico!
Oh Jim Povolo my beloved.
“There ain’t no such thing as a Bat” You sure about that?
“Well it’s a good thing I brought... my racket.” I’M DEAD. The prop comedy in this show. This was just a taste of what’s to come.
“Oh my fucking tibia!” Guys I swore I wouldn’t pause every 5 seconds but I can’t not do it.
“Support your families like the rest of us. Be born billionaires.” God these lines.
Nick(cholas Joseph) Strauss(-Matathia) and Lauren!
The way Nick says “fear” like “fair” I’m dead.
“And then it’s signed ��Bruce Wayne’... but then that’s crossed out and underneath it’s written... Batman!” Guys. Guys. This show. Is so funny.
AHH BRIAN AS CLARK KENT IN THE BACKGROUND. Love love love. I’m not the biggest DC person, I always say that my DC knowledge comes from the OG Teen Titans and Justice League over 15 years ago. But even I clocked Brian as Clark immediately, and I was so excited.
“Does he want fruit or blood?” I swear, StarKid is just casually throwing in some of the most hilarious jokes in the first 10 minutes.
The plane!!
“Rata tat tat” I can’t.
Raise your hand if you only know where your patellar tendons are because of HMB. *Raises hand.*
“God’s not up here. Only. Batman!” GUYS. I’m gonna die of laughter before this show finishes.
Oh that poor Shop Owner.
“Batman? Rabble rabble rabble.” No I totally didn’t just go “rabble rabble rabble” with them... why would you think that...
The fact that it’s taken me until now to mention Dylan’s voice in this post is disgraceful. But oh my god Dylan’s voice. So perfect for this opening and so perfect in general.
Woah. I NEVER noticed that everyone is just sitting on the back platform nodding their heads to the music while Denise and Jim have their pizza scene.
“I wonder if Bruce Wayne knows that Batman lives under his house.”
Seriously, why did I never notice the entire cast was just sitting there until 10 years later.
“‘Love Batman.’” “Love Batman.” Ok but was any of what he said about the system wrong?
I don’t think I ever noticed that Batman is dancing with the rest of the cast. I guess I assume he just loomed in angst above them.
Julia’s voiceover while everyone is dancing and singing the final chorus, announcing that the Joker is dead, is so dramatic and amazing.
God. The way they set up Batman’s entire backstory, set the stage for Gotham City and its many issues, and essentially told the audience “Look, the Joker’s not gonna be here, so don’t even ask. He’s dead. Bye bye.” all in an amazing 10 minute song that shows off Dylan’s beautiful voice? Incredible. Possibly the best opening of any StarKid show. Dare I say better than Back to Hogwarts? Honestly, I think it is.
"The city’s crime rates are at an all time low!” “Yay!” *everyone pulls out a gun to shoot at the sky* “Yup. Still the highest in the world but we’re working on it.” Amazing.
“Hahaha. Striking terror. Best part of the job.” Bruce why.
The synchronized movements, and Denise doing them all with a pizza box strapped to her hand. I’m dead.
Wait didn’t that Shop Owner die?
“It’s - Captain Marvel!” I want Nico to know, that when I watched Endgame and Captain Marvel came swooping in during the final Thanos battle, that Nico’s voice saying “It’s Captain Marvel!” was the only thing that went through my mind. I am not even remotely joking. I wanted to make a post about it but couldn’t find a good enough gif of him saying it so I never did. But I really wanted to.
“Hey guys, it’s Captain Marvel all the way from Metropolis” “It’s Superman” “It’s Captain Marvel!” That joke deserved more laughs.
“Oh no. Are my limitless powers about to run out?... 😏 No!” I’m dead.
“Hey I caught the Riddler, you were looking for this guy right?” I’m dying.
The way Batman walks in all slumped, then does the flourish of the cape, is great.
“Now, when I wrote Huckleberry Finn...” I knew the Commissioner said something insane before the fade out. I did not remember that.
Batman putting the glasses on Superman. I can’t.
The fact that the citizens of Gotham were willing to shoot Superman over an insult is insane.
"It’s your father’s plane. And it’s all that’s left of him.” His father had a bat shaped plane?
“Ah now there’s a good idea. Spiderman could use a good plane.” Amazing. Love the foreshadowing.
“...I have a confession to make, sir.” That deserved a bigger laugh.
“Turn around. The other way.”
Ok wait. Is Lucius Fox being Alfred actually canon... I don’t know who Lucius Fox is, soooo, off to google!
OKAY NO THE ANSWER TO THAT IS NO. Lucius Fox is Black. But in some storylines he does sort of replace Alfred. So I see where StarKid got this from, but eek feels a bit weird to me. (Can you tell I really do have only the bare minimum of DC knowledge?)
“I buy you new clothes!” Amazing.
[Batman sobbing... again] StarKid captions are so great.
“You got my hopes up so high, and then you mugged and shot them in an alleyway.” God. I used to use that line all the time. I should start using it again.
“The cave is a mess!” The dramatics. I have not yet seen the Rpattz Batman movie, but I fully imagine this is how exactly he acts.
“You know, before the war, your father used these tunnels to help build the underground railroad.” Ok wait. Wait. WHAT war? And do they mean a railroad that’s underground, or the Underground Railroad? I am confusion.
“And I swore I protect you - and I haven’t.” Dying.
“And make bloody certain that you’d never see another dark, sad, lonely night.” The sentiment behind that line makes me actually emotional. Alfred really cares about him.
“I never had a pony.” Iconic.
THE BAT DANCERS. I remembered them a second before they came onstage.
Ok you can REALLY tell that Lauren and Denise are the dancers, because they reacted sadly to the “peanuts and shellfish” line since they’re more used to conveying the emotions of the music, while Meredith and Jaime kept pleasant smiles on their faces.
I love the way Joe mimes driving the friendship ship.
God the joy I had the first time Dylan came out as Green Lantern. I knew very few DC superheroes, but Green Lantern was always a favorite.
And the first time I watched the show I was like “Who’s singing with Lauren?” I honestly can’t remember if I immediately figured out it was Jeff, or if it took until everyone else was onstage and accounted for for me to realize it was him. I ADORE the way Jeff walks onstage for that part though. So much swagger.
The low “Somebody. Somebody.” line is my favorite. Mostly because of Jim.
“Somebody anybody everybody be a buddy.” So great.
And then just the trio. Then just Batman. GOD that’s such a good song.
WAIT THIS IS 1997? BUT THEY HAVE IPHONES? Did I just NEVER notice that or did I forget?
“Save it for a rainy day, I will.” I can’t.
That kick jump though.
“All night long I’m busy partying with my friends at the Fortress... of Solitude.” Seriously this show is too funny.
Green Lantern comes in singing “I wanna beeeee” so was he singing Dark Sad Lonely Night or was he singing I Wanna Be from Starship? I know the answer but let’s pretend it’s a cute reference to another musical. But also, he’d be singing an in-universe song... which would mean that every song they sing is sung out loud and not just imaginary... I’ve overthinking again.
NICK COMING IN SINGING SINGLE LADIES. Oh my god and the zipper. I can’t.
“Yoink.” I’m dying. Nick kills me every show.
This takes place in 1997, but Twitter’s around... ok then.
“Wait. You know my secret identity?” “It’s a secret?” I laughed so hard.
The way Dylan laughed at the 2 dollar bill joke was so cute.
“It’s like, have you ever heard of Mr. Mxyzptlk?” “No.” “No... That’s right. Cause I do my damn job.” That scene has been gif’d and went decently viral on Tumblr over these last 10 years. It kills me every time.
“My ring is ringing.” Underrated line.
I love the attention to detail that it’s Meredith’s voice for Wonder Woman.
Yesssss here we go. The most iconic villain song ever!
The costumes. June my girl. Amazing.
I love that Jim just doesn’t even participate in the dance break.
And the way Denise modifies some dance moves to be more cat-like! So good!
Nick also waddles like a penguin! Yes!
“I’ll weed out any wussy.” “I’m a pretty little kitty but I ain’t no-” The BEST line.
The PUNS. Every other word is a pun. The way the “I thought I saw a putty-tat” works as both a cat and bird pun!
“I’m sure you’ve all be reading my... tweets.” Amazing.
CONSPIRACY THEORY TIME. Nick and Matt allowed Twitter to be a thing in this show despite the 1997 setting, PURELY so they could make that one Penguin joke. I’m ready to assume that’s the reason. I do not hold it against them. It’s a good joke.
"I second that!” I laughed so hard.
“Snow way.” “Leaf!” Incredible.
I just rewatched this scene because of 2/22/22 so it’s very fresh, yet I’m still dying.
The way you can see Jeff walk backstage to his entrance.
“Get your broke ass out of here, Two-Face.” HOW DID I FORGET THAT LINE?
Sweet Tooth! Here we go. The moment Jeff stole all of our hearts. Or at least stole mine.
“Well well well, looks like you guys are up to your old... Twix.” Iconic. Also Jim’s shoe is untied.
Oh 100 Grand bars. It’s been 9 years since I developed my chocolate allergy, and honestly, 100 Grand bars are the only chocolate bars I still miss to this day.
Chilly Willy! God all the debates over who was under the Chilly Willy suit. I forget when it was finally confirmed to be Joe. But looking at him, from the way he holds himself I don’t know why I didn’t always know it was Joe.
The way Chilly Willy says “three!” just after Sweet Tooth, almost excited to know the answer. I’m dead.
Chilly Willy twitching on the ground. I can’t.
Ok my OCD cannot handle Denise putting the lollipop in her mouth after Jeff had his hands all over the candy part. Nope nope nope. That specific part has made me anxious for 10 years. But I know Denise liked that joke though since she got a new flavor of lollipop every show.
“Now quit your Snickering, you AirHeads.” Oh my god. The costume design plus the prop work plus the writing all coming together to create this amazing character. I can’t.
Speaking of the costume. I LOVE the shade of aqua they use for Sweet Tooth’s vest and handkerchief. They actually both have a very nice subtle paisley-like design to it. Love love love. Also the peppermint striped tie. June Saito. You really just went above and beyond for this show.
Lauren’s crown is literally so big it’s covering her eyes.
You can see Brian backstage getting ready for his entrance while Nico’s doing his Sherlock Holmes bit.
Ok I have QUESTIONS. What does the Commissioner think of evil Huckleberry Finn if HE is the one who wrote the book? Either the book is public domain and Commissioner Gordon is a billion years old, OR Evil Huckleberry Finn is committing copyright infringement. Honestly though, adding copyright infringement onto whatever other crimes he’s committing would be really funny...
“The battle can begin, OOOH” The way he goes “OOOH” is so great.
Evil Mother Goose. The best.
Brian’s laughter as Huck Finn.
“Rogues are we.” “HONK!”
The BEST villain song ever. Not even just StarKid. I mean for all of musical theatre history.
The number of times I’ve rewatched Rogues Are We and the Reprise over the years is insane. It’s been years since I last watched HMB in full, but I come back to Rogues Are We all the time. And the Apocalyptour and other live performance version of Rogues Medley are AMAZING too. So great.
10 years ago, 16 year old Hope finished this part, and had already decided that Jeff had soared towards the top of her favorite StarKids list. Just one song did it. He’s that amazing.
Joe’s face when he peaks back out around the door. I can’t. “Batman loves the circus.”
Yay Nick Lang! I know he was in the opening but still.
“Or a clown at least. I miss the Joker.” I laughed so hard just now.
“I’m Bruce-Man - I mean. I’m Bat-Wayne. Fuck!” Literally the funniest thing.
“Dazzling!” Of all the adjectives to pick.
“A juice box. And make it a Motts, goddammit.” I completely forgot that line.
“The floorboards are warped with tears of sorrow.” Oh my god that’s so sad.
“May I be frank with you?” “Well sure, Frank, if you prefer it to Dick.”
“I’m just your average... run of the mill... down on his luck... billionaire.”
Awww in the background you start to softly hear Dynamic Duet as Bruce gets ready to reveal he’s Batman to Dick.
“It was the man behind the bat symbol, and in front of the cape.” “.........Me?”
“I’m a little poopy pants.”
“Yes I would like that.” Adorable. Nick plays such a convincing little boy.
“You must take on the guise of what you fear most to scare... them.... yeahhhhh.” That face journey though.
“I think that Batman works well because I’m a HUGE BAT, but I’m a tiny pterodactyl.” Honestly, good point. And I completely forgot that line.
The tear-away suit reveal! So good!
“Tonight will be a night-” “Of dancing!” “Uhh... YEAAHHHH.”
That was such a cute scene.
Also I need to check if a specific tumblr account still exists... I’ll be shocked if it does.
Ok maybe this was a fever dream but I am like 95% sure there was a tumblr account called Nick Lang’s Legs because of his costume in HMB, but I can’t find it. It either was deleted or it never existed at all, but I’m pretty sure it was a thing. I did find a twitter account though. I wonder if I knew the person and I just can’t remember who they were now since it’s been 10 years....
Jim’s walking stiffer as Matches out of the hospital. Great detail.
AHHH I FORGOT ABOUT EGGHEAD.
“Egg-cellent” I’M DYING.
“SCRAMBLE.”
The dead bodies snapping. I remembered that a minute before it happened.
“Look Batman, a dog!” “Quick Robin! Pet it.”
Oh my god. 10 years later. I FINALLY understand why StarKid picked TGI Fridays as the establishment that Calendar man robs. I guess I thought they just wanted to pick something random. But no. Calendar joke. That went over my teenage head apparently.
“Calendar man your days are, numbered.” “Hee hee hee hee hee.” I’m dying.
“Thank you Batman” *Batman punches her too.* HELP I laughed way too hard at that.
I feel like a gif of Robin and Batman dancing the night away is really widespread. But I don’t know for sure. I just know I’ve seen that particular little moment MANY times over the years. Maybe it was in a fan-edit...
Shoot I got so distracted by the dead bodies moving their arms that I missed Batman lifting Robin. Had to rewind that.
Sorry I love the way Joe says Robin at the “Batman?” “Robin.” part.
HUMMINGBIRD-OSTRICH-HYBRID-MURDER-BIRDS??!?!
Robin tip-toeing and flapping around. I’m dead.
The Penguin’s vest also has a very nice subtle pattern to it.
The Penguin’s bloodcurdling scream. Amazing. I cannot handle it.
“You sure got me out of a - birdcage.” The disappointment in his face at making the bad pun.
“No Robin DOOOOOON’T eat those.”
He stuffed it in his underwear oh my god I forgot that.
“Lifelong friend.” “No...” *gasp* “Life... partner!” I forgot that part.
“Buddies, bros, homies, amigos.” “Pizza.” “Nintendo.” “Woo woo woo let’s go!” I will never forget that part.
Yesssss the kicks.
I’VE NEVER NOTICED THE LOOK OF DISGUST ON SWEET TOOTH’S FACE WHEN EVERYONE’S GROUP HUGGING BATMAN AND ROBIN.
Ok I’ve made the executive decision to stop here for the night since it’s almost 2am and I don’t want to mess up my sleep schedule TOO much. I’ll watch Act 2 tomorrow.
OK ACT 2 TIME.
“Robin sucks!” No he doesn’t!
“It’s like, don’t do that.” I think of that line pretty often.
“Where’s the kid’s pants?” AN UNDERRATED LINE THAT DESERVED MORE LAUGHS.
Oh hi Specs.
“So say we all, Excelsior.” But Stan Lee is Marvel not DC. Also, Jim’s wearing a “I believe in Harvey Dent” shirt and I am extra confusion. That’s Two Face right? I saw all of half of Dark Knight over a decade ago, but that’s literally Two Face on Jim’s shirt.
Also did Jim get that mohawk haircut for the show? It fits perfectly with the comic aesthetic.
Batman’s voicemail message cutting him off as he messes up the name again. I’m DEAD.
HEY SUPERMAN. I REMEMBER KRYPTO. I APPRECIATE KRYPTO. Add Krypto’s show to my limited knowledge of DC along with Teen Titans and Justice League.
“And that was kind of strike 3 for Krypto” awww and the sad music.
Oh my god I forgot how bad this Krypto speech is. He ran away? My childhood is ruined.
“Me and... Solomon Grundy.” I forgot how sad this is.
Nick Strauss’ face I can’t.
I love that Robin holds Jim’s hand for so long, and then the look on Jim’s face when he finally lets go.
Lauren taking off her pants oh my god.
“He has to go to the hospital so he can go to jail!”
“That my tum-tum wouldn’t hurt no more.” Nico’s killing me.
Pop rocks and coke oh no!
Sorry. Gotta take a moment to appreciate the costumes some more. The M&M zoom in shows that Sweet Tooth has peppermints for buttons. I forgot about those. Oh my god. Genius.
“Aren’t you a Smartie?” “Oh I like these!” Me too. Fave candy.
“My Almond Joy Wonder.” “Oh. I don’t like these.” I used to LOVE Almond Joys. Coconut is great. Everyone else is just weak.
Right as I was thinking “What does Dylan’s shirt say? Does it say Bob?” Sweet Tooth says “Gob, stop her.” AMAZING. SO AMAZING. ALL FOR A PUN.\
And the Bazooka Joe joke, which is much more subtle. Too bad they didn’t have any Bazooka gum.
Candy and her INCREDIBLE dress. I will never EVER be over this costume. And the wig! SO GOOD. SOOOO GOOD.
“And he’s my Sweetart.” Love. Also love her two-toned lipstick.
The whiplash from the “Now or Later” “Chiclet” “Take 5″ “Dove” puns coming all at once.
THE WAY JIM PICKS UP NICK. I AM STILL SO IMPRESSED. HOW DOES NICK EVEN GET DOWN BACKSTAGE FROM THAT POSITION.
Candy’s shoes! And her laugh! I hope Jaime knows she has the best costume in StarKid history and that she herself is amazing. I hope June knows she made the best costume ever.
I forgot the letter from Spiderman! “I don’t have any place to... stick it.” Amazing. “I follow you on the web.” I’m dying.
“That I gave an A plus.... plus plus plus plus *Kissing noises*” Adorable.
Shoutout to the props again for making a ROBIN SUCKS headline.
“Well when you put it that way, you can’t blame them. I mean almost everything is stupid.” “WHATTT.”
“Don’t bother, I’ll have them burned.” Harsh.
Oh and here we go. The one true downside to this musical. God I wish they could just cut Kwan Lee out of this completely.
And it sucks that the best “Bay-Wayne/Bruce-Man/Batmannnnnn” line comes from this scene.
Wait it’s New Year’s Eve?
“What am I thinking? I’m such a boob!”
“Who can take the sunrise, ah! And sprinkle it with BLOOD.” I love the song Candyman, so I love that little joke so much.
“And Two Face.” I FORGOT ABOUT THAT.
The use of Whatchamacallit is amazing.
The way Jeff can go from zany saying “Do I implode your heads” to being so serious and scary for “or put a bullet in the Boy Wonder’s?”
Sweet Tooth’s face as Two Face pops back in.
Holy quick change Batman! Nah but seriously super quick change from Two Face back to... I’m just gonna say Alfred. I’m not gonna acknowledge his other character anymore.
The boop is so cute.
THE PUNCH. I DIED. I FORGOT THAT UNTIL A SECOND BEFORE.
WHAT WAR? YOU KEEP MENTIONING A WAR, ALFRED.
“She was a double agent, but she forgot. She didn’t know who she was working for.” Underrated joke.
“I know what I have to do. Fuck Gotham, I’m saving Robin!” I forgot that that was the verdict.
I love that so many comments point out that Two Face’s second appearance is in Act 2 part 2.
Also, special shoutout to the person who said the reason Alfred is so good at disguises is because Duder’s a Spy.
The tension between Construction Guy and Pizza Girl though.
“You guys better get on Twitter.”
OH MY GOD. The way Batman turns the phone sideways to type on the larger keyboard. That’s such a 2013 detail. Now the phones are so big that typing vertical is more comfortable than horizontal. But back in 2013, we had only just stopped using Sidekicks and EnVs with the horizontal keyboards.
Nick Strauss’s “I DON’T KNOW” scream. Amazing.
Nick Lang as Obama. I nearly forgot about that.
“You got a phone call, motha-fucka.” That was literally my ring tone until like... ok I wanna say 2019 but the thing is that my phone’s always on silent, so even though it was my ringtone I rarely ever actually had the sound on to hear it. Actually it might still be my ringtone... did I ever change the settings... I assume I did for my newest phone...
And I did it the old fashioned way. I recorded the audio on my phone then set it to the ringtone.
Superman’s disappointment at getting a call from Obama instead of Batman. Amazing.
“Any means necessary, Superman.” Wow this got dark quickly.
I love Superman’s verse. Lupin can sing.
I LOVE watching Nick Strauss dance in this. He really commits. It’s great.
“And in America I do what I like.” Yep.
Ok Sweet Tooth’s verse is my absolute favorite. And he does the same “OOOh” that he did for the Rogues are We reprise. So great. Also I love the way he tilts side to side when we have the front view camera. He looks like an actual cartoon in that moment. Love love love.
The way Meredith says “We’re all just pawns in a fucking game of chess” on the recording is amazing. They’re so aggressive while singing it. I was listening to the soundtrack earlier today and it’s so great.
Also something I thought of while listening to the soundtrack is that I realized I probably thought the way Jeff sang was a character choice, and now 10 years and... 6(?) musicals later I know that that’s just Jeff being Jeff.
“A briefcase filled with 2 dollar bills!” Iconic.
“That’s the American, not quite Canadian, most of us are Mexican!” Amazing.
The way Nick says “smithereens” is amazing.
“But you can do that for free anytime you like.” Amazing. And I never noticed that Robin hands Sweet Tooth back the Good and Plenty box that he will throw at Candy. Was that purposeful or did Jeff hand it to Nick by accident and Nick slyly handed it back to him in time for the cue?
“Wait Batman’s got a plane? Where’d he get a plane?” Sweet Tooth you just said you had Rogues on the roof, were they not there to be prepared for a sky attack? I guess he thought he’d climb to the roof, not land on it.
“What are these little... Dots?” THE DOTS JOKE. God it love Dots.
“I’LL NEVER WALK EVIL WATSON DOWN THE AISLE” JOHNLOCK IS CANON IN THE STARTKID UNIVERSE. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FOLKS. IT’S CANON.
“Aw fudge it’s Batman.” “Run for your nine lives.” I think I missed the fudge pun originally. Also I love how the two women ended up unscathed and only the guys got injured. (Jim is nonbinary but Bazooka Joe’s a guy)
That’s the second time this show that Batman has punched an innocent Meredith character.
OK WAIT. Wait. Jim is the one holding Brian right? But xe JUST went offstage. Wow that’s a quick change. I guess just pulling on black sweatpants over leggings and switching out the leather coat and wig for a hoodie is easy, but still. Impressive. That was about 40 seconds.
“Or should I say, Butthead?” “*ungodly high pitched screaming*” I can’t.
The body rolls and hip thrusts in this song. Katie Spelman thank you for your choreography.
Batman kicking Superman and then cradling his own leg while Superman is unfazed, love it.
THE DUMMY.
The lighting change for “how about some Kryptonite tonight” is epic. Yes Sarah Petty. She said in the Homecoming documentary that HMB had her favorite lighting and I agree.
The look on Brian’s face after he gets punched but still singing “fuck you” is so amazing.
Knowing that Brian got cut on the face by a Kryptonite punch at the one of the performances makes this funnier to me.
GOD that is such a good fight scene. They did Batman Vs. Superman so much better than the movie (I say as if I bothered to watch that movie).
And the Kryptonite prop and the lighting?! So good.
Plus the fight choreo and just normal choreo is such fanservice. Katie Spelman knew what she was doing.
Jeff running with Robin I can’t. “I’ve never run so fast in my life.”
“That vat of melted chocolate” Comedy comes in threes.
Batman says “Grayson dive!” I never noticed until I read the captions just now. He learned from Robin! That’s actually so sweet.
That one arm lift from Joe though.
The slap fight oh my god.
“OH you’re not coming any closer!”
THE CRUNCH BAR. How did Batman know that it was there?
“Gimme a break!”
“See if the snozberries taste of snozberries.” I love that line.
“I am falling into THAT vat of boiling hot chocolate.” Ok comedy comes in fives actually.
Water shots! Nick’s little excited dance I can’t.
For a second I forgot the Commissioner Gordon dies in the original timeline.
The Construction Guy turning the hat around to become Pizza Girl’s son... the son she has with the Shop Owner... feels strange...
Wait. So was she cheating on the Shop Owner with the Construction Guy? Is her son not the Shop Owner’s but instead the illegitimate son of the Construction Guy and that’s why he’s the spitting image of him? Is Pizza Girl the Shop Owner’s wife Belinda?? Am I uncovering some deep StarKid lore?
The way they say “peeeople who belieeeve in good.”
“...Spiderman’s an orphan.” Love it. “All the X-Men!”
“You got x-ray vision! You can see girls’ totties whenever you want!” I mean, I sure hope not.
“But those people are pretentious douchebags.” Calling out a chunk of the DC fandom I bet.
That whole “Superheroes are cool! Helping people, is cool.” Speech is so heartfelt. I love it so much. StarKid really loves to have their shows be 95% comedy and then throw in emotional moments like that.
Yesss Jim with the floating cape effects.
Commissioner Gordon and the Cop reversing the motions of their deaths. Hamilton stole Satisfied’s rewind staging from Holy Musical B@man.
HA when Brian had the prop facing the wrong way and we saw the cardboard branding. I can’t.
“Well, goodbye!” “Good luck Superman!” “Hey! Captain Marvel!” Nico, Nico, Nico. I really think of him every single time Captain Marvel does anything.
JAIME’S SUNGLASSES. SO CUTE. JUNE AND YOUR DETAILS.
"And thats, why they call me Superman!” Yes it is!
“I just followed you home after the first day we met.” I forgot about that.
And Robin taking off his mask to say “I’m Dick Grayson” is so cute.
“I didn’t save Gotham. In fact I very nearly led you all to your doom.” Just a minor teeny tiny mistake.
“Three cheers for Captain Marvel!” Best running joke of the show.
“We’d be like a league, for justice.” Yes. “I have the perfect name. The Super Friends.” Yes good.
Spidey coming out. I’m dead. “He’s agile as hell!... Help him up!”
Super Friends. Literally the most uplifting StarKid song ever. The number of times I’ve listened to it while walking, and literally danced my way down the street is limitless.
I remember spending a day in Summer of 2012 learning the choreo to this dance number and I still know it. Oh muscle memory.
I WANNA BE A MODERN DANCER!
I literally did not fully get that “losing my guano” was meant to substitute “losing my shit” until this year. Or maybe last year. Wait no it was last year. Either way, way too long of a time to not truly get that line.
I love how the caption says “[Lauren offstage] Aaaahhhaahaahahaaaah” Also I can normally sing those notes, but at Apocalyptour I had lost my voice from all the screaming, so by the time we got to this finale I tried to sing along to her “aahhs” and sounded like a dying cat without a voice. It was not my finest moment. Someone in the crowd literally turned back and looked at me. God I’m cringing.
Jim flying in as Hawkman with the “YEAHH” “SURREE” just iconic. Amazing.
THEM ALL COMING OUT TOGETHER FOR THE FINAL CHORUS. AMAZING. I WAS SO ELATED THE FIRST TIME. THIS IS SO GREAT.
Nico as plastic man flapping his arms around!
Yesss Dylan.
Jaime’s little Flash pose before running to the back line. I can’t.
Jeff doing some sort of running man move during every freestyle moment. And Nick Strauss’s dancing just before the button of the song. I can’t.
I love that Meredith is the only one in boxers. I assume it’s because Wonder Woman’s normally in briefs already so June wanted to switch it up a little bit. I appreciate it
Ok. I might have to amend what I said in Starship, and make the decision that this is my favorite StarKid musical.
It almost hurts because for 11 years I’ve said it was Starship. But Holy Musical B@man’s music, jokes, prop comedy, set, lighting, and especially the COSTUMES... I think I might love it the most.
Nick Gage was such a good find for StarKid. I remember 10 years ago we were like “A StarKid musical that’s not written by Darren, AJ, or Carlos? Hmmm...” And yet, the music was amazing and unique compared to the other shows, and the PERFECT vibe for a comic book musical. Plus they got Nick to perform in Twisted a year later and he was SO funny, so yeah. Nick Gage needs more appreciation. And Scott Lamps for his additional music too.
Watching the credits and shoutout to Lana McKinnon’s hair and make-up!
Wow wait. The whole band was 3 synthesizers and a drum set? That’s crazy.
Shoutout to Liam White as always.
So good. So so so good.
But honestly, I cannot get over the COSTUMES. June Saito you’re so great.
Using the underwear and converse along with dance unitards as a base then building up from there, so genius. The billion strategically placed pockets in Sweet Tooth’s jacket and his WIG?! HIS COTTON CANDY WIG!? I cannot handle it. Candy’s custom wig and her tutu? Her incredible TUTU!?!?! The billion costume changes everyone else had to do were so great too.
Wait, is Denise’s jacket for Black Canary also her Pizza Girl jacket? OH MY GOD I THINK IT IS. Oh my god. And her shoes and tights are Cat Woman’s! The lore just goes deeper. Black Canary goes undercover as Cat Woman (because who would suspect the Canary is the Cat), and her real secret identity is Pizza Girl. She’s married to the Shop Owner who thinks her name is Belinda, but she’s cheating on him with the Construction Guy and has an illegitimate son! No I’m definitely not overthinking this in the slightest. It’s definitely not just that costume changes and versatile costumes are used and people play multiple characters. She’s totally playing just one person in this entire musical.
Anyway. Half the budget must have been spent on the converse and the candy.
Jeff Blim. We really had NO idea the impact he’d have on StarKid. We had no clue. We were just like “oh haha another StarKid who looks kind of like Joe Walker and Chris Allen!” but no. He was amazing. He made a huge impression with his first show. A bigger impression with his next. And now has written more StarKid shows than anyone else if I remember correctly. We had no clue what we were in for when he came onstage as Sweet Tooth. StarKid history forever changed with this casting and I am SO thankful.
Yay Holy Musical B@man. 10 years. Insane. It does not feel like 10 years ago but also it does. God I’m old. I’m older than half of the StarKids were in this show. I don’t like thinking about that.
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I Swear That I’ll Be Around
Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: Major Character Death
Category: Gen
Fandom: The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals - Team StarKid
Relationships: Charlotte/Ted (The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals), Alice/Deb (The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals)
Characters: Hot Chocolate Boy (The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals), Ted (The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals), Deb (The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals), Alice (The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals), Bill (The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals), Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: My First Work in This Fandom, This is largely based on theories I had post Black Friday, That have mostly been ruined by Nightmare Time, But I still wanted to post this, so there, Light Charlotte/Ted but it's not the main focus, I adapted from the theory that Hot Chocolate Boy is Oliver Green, Combined it with the theory that Ted is Oliver's dad, And also made Ted Deb's dad, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Bittersweet, Bittersweet Ending, I know Ted's age doesn't match canon but shhh it's fine
Language: English
Summary: Ted was never one to settle down. He didn't like relationships and he didn't want to be tied down, so an unplanned pregnancy definitely threw him for a loop. In a move shocking everyone that knew him, he asked for shared custody. Time to try to be a better dad than his own. Twice.
Notes: This was born of a combination of the theory that Hot Chocolate Boy is Oliver Green, that Ted is Oliver's dad, and my own personal headcanon that Ted is Deb's dad. There is no evidence for that last one, I just like it. I also incorporated in a few theories I had post-Black Friday that have since been destroyed by Nightmare Time, but I wanted to finish and post it anyway. I know Ted's age doesn't match canon but shhh it's fine.
Ted was never one to settle down. Not in relationships, anyway. It’d been like that since his first girlfriend in his freshman year of high school. Emotion made him uncomfortable, and the thought of having to share his emotions with someone was even worse. So he kept his romantic prospects at an arms-length, and he was happy with that. Naturally, his relationships didn’t last long, considering his lack of attachments, and jumping from girl to girl as quickly as he did had gained him the reputation of a sleaze. To be fair, even he had to admit that he could be a bit of an asshole.
Despite this, he never had trouble picking up girls. Puberty was kind enough to make him reasonably attractive by the end of the summer before sophomore year, and his pretty face made girls inclined to overlook his douchey personality and his inability to make a commitment. Or at least make them decide he was hot enough for them to risk trying to change him. That never worked. So high school was spent with girlfriends that didn’t last more than a month at a time, or, more often, one-off dates that ended with a skeevy hookup in the back of his car.
College was more of the same, but with less guilt about if he left a girl broken-hearted. Unlike high school, most of the girls he hooked up with also had more interest in a fun night or two than a full-fledged relationship. No one in college had any idea what the fuck they were doing at any given time, and for many, including Ted, bringing someone new home every few nights was just stress relief. Just a few drinks, a quick bang at home, maybe a little cuddling, then they were gone in the morning. It was perfect; all the physical benefits of a relationship without all the strings to get tangled up in.
It seemed, however, that strings were determined to tie him up. A one-night stand from a month or so before showed up at his apartment one night, a plastic baggie with a few pregnancy tests in her hand and a ‘we-need-to-talk’ look in her eyes. He let her in and sat quietly while she said her piece.
Almost every test she took was positive. She had an appointment in a few days to confirm, but she was fairly convinced already. She told him that she had no desire for a relationship and she knew that he didn’t either. That said, she was keeping the baby, and he had no say in that particular detail. She had a fairly decent income and would be just fine on her own, so she was merely informing him as a courtesy. He could have as little or as much involvement as he wanted.
In a move shocking everyone that had ever known him, Ted asked for shared custody.
Keep reading on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27157147
#Starkid#Team Starkid#the guy who didn't like musicals#Ted#Charlotte#Alice#Deb#Alice x Deb#ted x charlotte#Hot Chocolate boy#Oliver Green#Bill#First work for this fandom#first time writing in years#angst#Angst with a happy ending#bittersweet#bittersweet ending
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Favorite classic musical? Favorite modern musical? I'll let you create your own distinctions between where classic ends and modern begins because idk bro. Favorite lighthearted musical? Favorite dramatic musical or musical that makes you cry?
This is gonna be hard. So presented in no particular order, and because I have commitment issues in picking only one...
Classical Musical: Pre-50s (?): I’m partial to Oklahoma! Mostly because I was in that in high school. Though I enjoyed South Pacific when I saw it at a local theater.
Post-80s but pre-00s: Sweeney Todd(One of my favorites) or Miss Saigon(Fiance listens to these a lot, so I’ve caught on)
Modern Musical Post 00s: Wicked. I would kill to see this on broadway.
American Idiot (I feel like a lot of these are fiance inspired...)
Modern, not Broadway: Anything Starkid related, but specifically Firebringer and The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals (I swear I could spout these in my sleep at this state of isolation)
Lighthearted Musical(Ok, maybe not quite lighthearted and a wee bit offensive...): The Book of Mormon (As someone who lives in Utah, I’m obligated to say this. But I love to go back and watch it for giggles.)
Avenue Q (How did I almost forget this?)
Dramatic Musical: Les Mis. Because my fiance will not stop playing the music and I saw it like... twenty times in choir and still belt it out in the car to this day.
Also, Phantom, because yeah. Dramatic car singing.
Did I go overboard? I think I went a bit overboard.
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Undertale the Musical ramblings
I’ve been watching Man on the Internet’s Undertale the Musical and have some thoughts about what I would do if I made an actual onstage one. This is kind of a rambley post but if you think stuff like this is cool than by all means, read it. Ramblings below the cut.
•one upon a time would be the overture, no words.
•flowey would be a puppet (technically two, one for his happy face and one for his kill or be killed face.)
•the beginning in the ruins would be very similar to Man on the Internet’s musical.
•Frisk would have a lot of lines about how nothing makes sense and nearly every character would ignore these lines.
•the guard dogs would be the Snowdin ensemble.
•bonetrousle would be a dance number (tap & ballet)
•papyrus either wouldn’t sing at all or wouldn’t sing until after the neutral ending phone call. (The running joke would be that the great Papyrus doesn’t sing)
•the dogs would be papyrus’ backup dancers
•the blue attack would just be the dogs running around frisk with blue cloth while frisk stands completely still looking weirded out
•papyrus’ date would mostly consist of frisk walking around his house asking questions about every little thing (Why is your sink so big? Isn’t mtt the name of those products you kept putting behind your ear that you don’t have? Why is your bed a car? Why do you have action figures of sexy robots that look like dogs?)
•Blooky, Shyren and Mad Dummy would all be puppets.
•the echo flowers would be the waterfall ensemble.
•undyne does a super deep voice to sound threatening, throughout the course of the show she ranges from sounding like Jasper from Steven Universe to Peridot from Steven Universe.
•undyne’s number is also very dance heavy (a fighting kind of dancing, think Newsies)
•the echo flowers are her backup singers
•undynes hangout consists of frisk silently walking around her house and touching everything while undyne jabbers on about her stuff.
•alphys’ catchphrase is “Mettaton no”
•Mettaton classic is a puppet
•not even a good one he’s like a little paper bag
•his puppeteer/actor wears heelies
•the royal guards kill frisk repeatedly until frisk get so frustrated they skip the battle and angrily tell the guards to go fall in love.
•spider dance is another dance heavy number (think Irish step dancing!)
•Mettaton falls down the stairs during Oh! One True Love
•There are several scenes that just consist of frisk calling undyne and papyrus
•mettaton’s number is extremely dance heavy as well! (This is almost the last one I swear) his backup dancers are the tiny mettatons he launched at you during the battle.
•they all do solo stunts except for one backup dancer who just does a dorky little hokey-pokey-like dance.
•when Mettaton looses his legs he just shouts “oh no! My legs just FELL OFF! I am JUST A TORSO!” In a really dramatic way and falls to the ground instead of, you know, actually loosing his limbs because he’s being played by an actual person at this point.
•for the fans is a duet between Mettaton and Napstablook.
•undertale is an ensemble song but Chara has solos in it (and maybe Asriel)
•asgores number is not dance heavy. (I know. Disappointing)
•the song/scene itself is pretty similar to Man on the Internet’s as well.
•the friendliness pellets that kill Asgore are played by actual people (as are all the attacks in the game/show)
•photoshop flowey is part projector screen and part elaborate puppet (similar setup to starship by team StarKid)
•the six human souls are played by the same actors as sans,(Aqua) alphys,(orange) papyrus,(blue) Toriel,(purple) undyne (green) and Mettaton.(yellow)
•frisk starts to sing a song when they are alone after they spare flowey, but they are interrupted by sans’ phone call.
•flowey appears to talk to frisk as a new puppet, his serious/sad face.
•when flowey leaves, frisk attempts once again to sing their song only to be interrupted by Undyne’s call.
•The alphys date/unyne and alphys’ confession scene is a tap number between Undyne, Alphys, Frisk and Papyrus.
•After the tap number, Frisk tries one more time to sing their song but is interrupted by Papyrus’ phone call.
•Frisk runs into Mettaton in Alphys’ lab who is lying on the floor depressedly without his arms attatched. The galaxies are swirling around the lab. Frisk comes to a shocking revaltation that Mettaton is Napstablook’s cousin and starts freaking out like a conspiracy theorist only to remember Alphys and run into the lab.
•The true lab has a very similar feel to Havin’ a Hunch from Seussical.
•Mettaton falls over when trying to point to Alphys and Undyne with his leg due to his lack of arms. This causes him to be in the finale. It is heavily made fun of. (”This feel unnatural, there’s an odd number of us.” etc.)
•Asriel’s number is very disco and crazy (Think rock and roll musicals)
•Asriel’s final form is a puppet.
•His Theme is a duet between Asriel and Chara.
•All of the post-pacifist dialogue from the main bosses is in the game plus more.
• Right before they go through the door, Frisk finally gets to sing their song.
•Bring it in, Guys! is the bows.
•Every character has a sign with their yellow description on it.
#I really want to talk more about this so I might make some separate posts elaborating specific moments.#undertale#undertale the musical#long post#I also might make a post reviewing man on the internets musical because i love it.#man on the internet
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Top five filk songs!
…. I love how I asked for asks cause I’m like, I miss tumblr, I wanna talk with you guys more! And then I didn’t have time to answer for a whole day >_>. OH, WELL.
You would probably get a different list if you asked again tomorrow, but five OF my most favorite filk songs under the cut. (Oh, and only some have links, because the others don’t seem to exist on the internet. Though I could record myself singing them, if anyone would want to hear and if it wouldn’t be a breach of etiquette…).
1. My Brother, My Enemy by Sassafrass. [and/or: lyrics and explanation here.] It’s hard for me even to pick a favorite Sassafrass song! They’re my favorite filk artist, and one of my favorite musical artists in general. This one doesn’t have quite as many harmonies/parts as some, but, it’s still excellent at doing that Thing where each voice sings different words as well as different notes, and, especially here, I love the way the voices diverging and coming back together repeatedly illustrates the flow of the story. I love the evocation of a foreign (to me) emotional background (and they cry not for justice forgiveness or peace but for vengeance vengeance vengeance vengeance, an insistent crescendo that ends in a crash), and… so why is this number one. It’s the story as well as the artistry of the telling that gets me.
In the span of seven? Minutes, Odin and Loki find something unique and valuable in each other, make this connection, this bond, swearing blood brotherhood, and then are brought by circumstance to break it (these worlds are my duty to guard and protect, I can’t make exceptions before such a threat, your children were my enemies), and the emotionally painful and complex fallout. Could you get any more my personal aesthetic? I kinda think not.
2. Glass Half Full (Of the Sea) by Benjamin Newman. This is one of those songs that’s So Important to me. (And when I saw Ben at Contata last month, I got to incoherently try to tell him so! :D.) This makes sense, I’m sure, to no one but me, but it is to my life what I liked to imagine “Rock Star” was about Kurt in New New York.
The story is… I found this song (for #reasons), some few years before I properly got into filk. (I somehow managed to not realize it was about a selkie until the first time that I heared it in a filk circle!). There’s been a lot said - outside of filk circles, too, I’m sure, though I’m mostly thinking of “Still Catch the Tide” - about the selkie myth as representing how women are confined in the traditional picture of marriage. And at the time that this song was the song I needed - my now-husband and I had just recently moved in together - we’d known each other for three months at that time? but there were practical reasons for this. And I was SO IN LOVE, y'know, but also struggling so much. What is space! What is independence! My husband then (he hasn’t been for years and years now, we have LEARNED~) was very much like Blaine in New New York. Basically. Always wanting to do everything with me, and taking me not wanting to as a personal hurt.
So I used to sing - “a free creature or a wife, either way she’d lose a life, that she never wants to lose.” Because the song wasn’t just a description of my dilemma. (Though even the fact that it shows these as both things you might want, I appreciate!). The chorus - especially the last chorus:
i’m not the girl who sees the glass half empty, i’ve got both my loves, that’s what makes me free, and since i can decide, i’m staying by your side, with a glass half full of the sea
provided an image of resolution for me. And here let me explain one more thing: back in my late teens/early twenties, I actively identified myself as a deliberate optimist. So the ending of the story being a. well, I can pick, so I’ve always got that, and, b., maybe some things suck, but here’s this THE GLASS IS STILL HALF FULL image… it just fit the particular things I was looking for so WELL. It was a rocky adjustment, living together, deciding whether to commit to this particular relationship rather than all the unknown possibilities out there. I’m happy with my choices! (If you read my blog, ever, that should be obvious.) But, yeah, this song #helped.
3. Solar Flare by Sam Baardman. I do not have an essay to write for this one! I just find it really beautiful, both the music and the images created by the words. I think it was the first song I heard in a circle (where it was perfomed by Decadent Dave Clement) where I was like… I NEED TO FIND THAT AGAIN, AND HEAR IT AGAIN… and that was early on (in my filking ~career), so back when I knew less how to do that. And for most of a decade it’s just been for me one of those songs that - you know, when you don’t feel like singing almost anything, you’re sick of all the songs you know, or they’re just not right for the mood you’re in, or whatever? (Maybe you don’t know. Maybe this feeling isn’t in fact ubiquitous. I don’t know! *shrugs.*) It is one of those very rare songs that I never don’t feel like singing. *hums* there’s a comet just outside my window, hanging in the afterglow of a solar flare, and the stars like a diamond spilling off of the moon…
4. As I Am by Heather Dale. One of my favorite love songs Of All Time? I love Heather Dale a lot, too, and I’ve been singing this song just so much recently. It’s supposed to be about Arthur and Guinevere. But there’s a lot of specific notes - ’i’m not looking for perfection, i’m not offering a saint’ - ’i offer you this look inside, i offer you this trust’ - and, most especially of all, ’i need your strength to help me fight the battles that i must, i need you to remind me of the light we bear within’ - that are beautifully worded and sung, yeah. But that also feel to me like beautiful expressions not just of infatuation, but of the sort of partnership that is… my life, really ;). And, it’s pretty.
5. Causes And Effects by Seanan McGuire. [link is to lyrics] A song that answers many questions for me - not with answers that I didn’t know, mind you. But it provides a crystallized form of something that otherwise isn’t. And I’ve used it, in-circle, as an answer to songs that I’m sure were meant well but Rubbed Me Wrong! … the song feels like it’s About Me, though I’m sure it’s about Seanan, but it fits many of us geek girls, and what I most take from it is this: ’she tries to tell herself that beauty isn’t worth its weight in gold, she sometimes thinks she’d sell her soul just to come out of the cold.’ (Cause YES isn’t an explanation, but also, yes.) I don’t know. It’s one thing to know that societal standards of beauty and of it being paramount for women to be ~beautiful~ are both bullshit, to know that if you’re lonely it’s not necessarily because of you. It’s another thing to be able to believe that all that’s true. And I’ve gotten there now, yeah, but it’s been a long fucking journey. So this is a song about the road I’ve walked.
AND because, I couldn’t resist, various honorable mentions.
6. Eternal Flame, words by Bob Kanefsky, music by Julia Ecklar. [or, to slightly misquote Batya’s Words of Bob, Julia wrote the music, Bob wrote the filk ;)]. This song is particularly special to me out of all the other filk Songs I Have Loved because it was both the first song that I sang in a filk circle - a decade ago, now, in October! - and the first song I sang at a filk non-circle (concert!!), just recently. Also it’s probably good to have a little humor in my list somewhere, because there’s really quite a lot of it in filk. And also also, I do sincerely love this song not just as humor, but e.g. ’when he filled the leaves with green, fractal flowers and recursive roots, the most lovely hack i’ve seen‘… really does get at something real about the beauty that’s in Nature’s patterns, and of process-based even though not intentional design.
7. Mary Ellen Carter by Stan Rogers. Is the song I’ve sung most frequently in filk circles that isn’t a filk song. Well. We sing it a lot. It’s ~found filk??~ Or it’s just a song. But a story song about resurrecting a ship that’s served you well, even if the ship’s on sea rather than in space, well, it fits in. And it’s something that I sing against sadness, when I’m sad. ’though your heart it be broken or life about to end, no matter what you’ve lost, be it a home, a love, a friend, like the mary ellen carter rise again.’ (… also, it reminds me of Jack Zimmermann, nowadays.)
8. Goin’ Back To Hogwarts by Starkid. I could meta more, on that spoken bridge of Days of Summer, or on To Have A Home, but… as a kind of complement to 'frequently sung in filk circles, not really filk,’ as above, I’m ending with another 'not really filk.’ (Though I’ve sung starkid songs in filk circles several times, and it’s always gone over just fine.) Cause, like,.. it’s a fan song about a fictional property. (And fun and funny and a great crowd-pleaser slash singalong.) And certainly has a place in fandom, somewhere!, - but not specifically filk fandom. Even if this performance in 2009 looks SO MUCH LIKE so many circles I’ve been in at other cons since slightly before that time. I don’t think any other celebrity clip has ever made me feel so much #oneofus.
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