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t0ast-ghost · 20 days

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S3 EP8 (For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky) welp that’s the longest title in tos and this is a long post because I was not normal about this episode

Let’s get it started:

- Immediate red alert with Spock in charge

- You think they ever held hands?

- What’s got Chapel so upset? She’s most likely right about whatever it is

- The way he kind of yells and then lowers his voice and just says, “Please, Christine. I promise I’ll give the captain a full report.” He’s not actually mad at her and he knows she’s just looking out for him but he’s scared

- Bones can’t say that he’s the one who’s dying. He can’t admit it out loud. He says that the cmo has it (not even gonna try and spell the diseases name)

- “Without me, Jim? You’d never find your way back.” My heart- oh my heart. He doesn’t want to be cut away from the crew, let alone Jim and Spock.

- Spock is standing in the transporter room like, ‘What is going on?’

- This asteroid looks like the planet where Tasha dies to the goop in TNG

- I was looking at McCoy about to beat someone up and then it was violently revealed to be a stunt double… obviously

- McCoy was fairing pretty well in that fight until he looked at that lady

- Kirk not only fighting to get to an injured McCoy but begging (he’s using his words cause he cares about him sooo much)

- Normal! Normal thoughts and feelings 🙂

- Okay I know not very relevant to anything but I’m appreciating the stairs shot

- “You will kneel.” All three of them just go, ‘okay’

- Absolutely stunning wardrobe, makeup, and hair for the priestess though

- “THEN LEARN WHAT IT MEANS TO BE OUR ENEMY BEFORE YOU LEARN WHAT IT MEANS TO BE OUR FRIEND.” Get fucking zapped, idiots

- mhm mhm

- Good thing Kirk’s not a doctor (especially a therapist) cause this man is NOT confidential

- Kirk looks so sad. Holy shit .

- McCoy’s like sleeping beauty, cause he’s beautiful… and sleeping I guess

- MHM YEAH. So UHM SPOCK JUST- he just grabbed McCoy’s shoulder to help him up. Why does this have me blushing???

- “Well we’d better get to the control room.” Is this just the normal procedure? Find the control room -> blow shit up

- McCoy immediately tastes the random substance

- he’s dead. (Edit: NOT McCoy! The random guy)

- He CHOSE to sit in the sluttiest way possible. No wonder everyone wants him DAMN

- ‘Bones listen, you’ve got to seduce her. For the mission.’

- I- she loves his stunning blue eyes

- “Is there a woman for you?” He takes way too long to answer this. How do you explain that she just met your two boyfriends

- I love her. I don’t care. She’s so amazing. Like “Until I saw you there was nothing in my heart. It sustained my life, but nothing more. Now it sings. I could be happy to have that feeling for a day, a week, a month…a year.”

- Hiding behind a pillar works…

- Spock and Kirk listening to Natira asking the god if she can have McCoy as her mate and both of them look so ready to attack

- GET ZAPPED IDIOTS

- “for me” 🥺🥺🥺

- THE FUCKING HAND KISS

- “You’re returning with us.” “Dr. McCoy I order you to return with us.” Kirk knows this won’t work but he’s desperately clinging onto any last thing that could keep them together

- “Your decision is most illogical, Doctor.” “Is it, Mr Spock? Is it really?” IM SORRY THIS MOMENT?!? are we? are we not going to talk about this? There’s no real fight between them here. It’s Spock telling McCoy this is ‘illogical’ because he doesn’t want him to leave. And McCoy’s reply is calling Spock out, basically acknowledging that he knows what Spock is saying but also challenging him to find another reason for him to actually stay :(((((((((

- Kirk’s going to cry. That long look from McCoy looks like he’s going to cry. He’s going to cry. I’m going to cry.

- After the breakup :( Kirk is in silent hurt and Spock is pouting (he’s gonna listen to Logical by Olivia Rodrigo after this)

- WOW. McCoy wasn’t sure if they’d actually leave him. I think, if I may speculate, that McCoy was expecting rejection (as a doctor, crew member, friend even) because of his illness. Then Natira wants him, and as she states, she’ll have him for however long she can. Now, McCoy thinking that he’ll inevitably get pushed aside by the people he’s closest to is testing them. It’s a win- win situation for him, right? Either Spock and Kirk force him to go back with them, proving they won’t leave him, or he stays with Natira for the rest of his days. Ideal situation… but I don’t think he actually thought they’d leave him.

- congrats on the marriage I guess

- I like how McCoy is still in his starfleet uniform… no I do not, let him change clothes

- “Starfleet command will take care of the situation.” They’re gonna blow it up.

- “An urgent call from dr. McCoy, sir.” This is like after a break up texting, ‘you up?’

- McCoy stops answering the phone so Kirk and Spock immediately beam down to the planet they’re banned from to save him <3

- That was a fast divorce. This is the second time that they’ve helped each other divorce someone.

- THEYRE BEING PUT IN AN OVEN

- If McCoy and Natira went to an event together everyone there would fall in love with both of them immediately

- The chin tilt. He looks down and she tilts his chin back up. I love them both

- “Which indicates that the flow of oxygen to each cell of your body is back up to its abundantly energetic level.” Spock says this and is basically smiling in relief (you have to see it to believe it)

- Kirk is still in support of his boyfriend’s wife

Honestly 10/10 episode. Thank you so much for this one.

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Episode written by Rik Vollaerts

#star trek #star trek tos #star trek the original series #spock #s'chn t'gai spock #tos spock #leonard bones mccoy #tos bones #tos mccoy #captain james kirk #jim kirk #tos kirk

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aemiron-main · 1 year

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oh im going insane

im finishing up an analysis that involves parallels that show owens likely being a father figure to henry & then i remembered. ‘peter’s school projects’. and THEN it hit me like a brick. so, i hadnt mentioned this yet but i have an analysis rn sitting in my drafts about how some of the unused costuming pieces in young henry’s wardrobe room remind me of vintage boys school uniform shirts & how the bts pics have henry wearing a pair of black leather shoes (which would be uniform code) and just some other stuff and long story short i think there was a school uniform in his wardrobe. but it confused me bc like YES hawkins in the 50s could have had a school uniform but smthn still wasnt clicking bc why wouldnt they show him wearing the uniform during any of his hawkins scenes then? but. if henry was living with owens and his wife......... in nevada... ruth, nevada..... a different school...... a uniform......... and the fact that nancy’s fake name at pennhurst is RUTH and the discussion about petey and summer camp happens at pennhurst.... ‘peter/petey’ and ‘ruth’ tied together AGAIN. and owens. owens is tied to the theme of bullying because he gets angela’s charges against el dropped. long story short i think there’s a chance henry went to school in ruth and was living with owens and got bullied at school (bc yknow. outcast weird kid) and that’s why owens is tied to the bullying imagery w angela. ‘peter’s school projects’ -> whenever we see henry drawing in the creel house, save for the one scene in victor’s flashback where henry’s sitting at the couch, henry is drawing in his school binder, with school supplies, on lined paper, and one of his school binders even has some words written on the side of it that i need to go back and look at. and its been stumping me like. we KNOW henry made it to the lab right after the creel murders. so when would he be at owens’ house. but then it hit me. that other analysis im working on. it also talks about henry very very likely escaping from the lab at some point and being brought back. if henry escaped. and was taken in by owens. and then the lab eventually located henry again/brenner realized henry was with owens.... this would explain why we dont see owens at the lab at all in 1979 & why he doesnt come back to the lab until s2, until after brenner’s ‘death’ in s1. because he would have double-crossed brenner. and brenner wouldn’t have wanted him influencing henry/helping him escape again. and there’s those mike and owens parallels i need to make a writeup on.... mike, who took in a child who escaped from the lab. owens, who likely did the same thing. mike, who dressed el up to take her to the school. owens, sending henry to school in a uniform. this post is like. half coherent i promise i have actual evidence LMAO im gonna go work on the writeup about it bc. hm

especially considering the costuming parallels between owens vs victor creel.. both of them being father figures to henry... smthn smthn owens-obi wan parallels (which is an analysis in and of itself) smthn smthn ‘my allegiance lies to the republic, anakin- to democracy’ smthn smthn that but its owens with the lab smthn smthn brenner either finding henry or owens GIVING henry back to the lab after some sort of incident... which is inch resting when we think about the idea of henry being bullied & how el hit angela and gave her an injury just like the one that brenner got from henry in 1979... henry using his powers against one of the kids bullying him.......... AND OK INSANE ERA TIME

This is said to OWENS, at OWENS’ house. and henry was the attacker so henry = ghost. why is this relevant? well. that bts pic i posted awhile back that i said might be unused footage of henry in a ghost costume as a kid..... and el with hopper in the cabin, dressing as a ghost... but not being able to go out because the lab would find her... henry going out for halloween though and something happening/getting bullied (will parallel) and maybe that’s when shit went down... resulting in him getting taken back to the lab

anyway i am insane. and Henry, if he escaped, would have escaped pretty early-on I think bc he likely would have gone the same route he took El…. and would’ve needed to be small enough to fit.

#stranger things #st analysis #byler #henry creel #sam owens #henry creel analysis

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salted-caramel-tea · 6 months

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god yeah all those old money aesthetics are beautiful, yes, ajd i do like the idea of having the money to buy more sustainable things like real wool sweaters and such that a lot of these aesthetics preach, like feminine elegance. but oh my god why are we all obsessed with dressing like rich people. first of all like please we need some class consciousness like yeah everyone should be able to have nice things but there comes a point where its excessive. second rich people all have awful awful taste anyway have u seen any of the syper expensive houses in like la or new york theyre all gross. also. charles leclercs style for example. he is rich and hot but unfortunatley thats not enough he dresses like a crazy person. like cmon people.

also also i have a small garden and some chickens and theres no way im wearing those cottagecore dresses anywhere near either of them. everything is covered in chicken shit girl bffr

i think it all comes from influencing tbh influencers have the jobs that they have bc they can afford to make social media work for them they can afford nice things to show off and and wear and nice places to go and create content around it by reccomend ig their favourite places and products to other people so naturally the people who can afford these things become our point of reference for what is good and popular . like fashion tiktok is iconised by people not who utilise their everyday wardrobes to create unique and wearable outfits or universal styling tips but by people who are able to buy into every trend and every iconic fashion piece that’s causing chatter like the diesel mini skirt the chopova lowena skirts the mschf red boots the people who we look to for fashion styling tips and inspiration generally have wardrobes that are unaffordable to most people and they can change their wardrobe by day to meet current trends or to create outfits that people ask to see . it’s these people who set trends by appearing as normal people they’re not marketed as influencers or celebrities they’re homemade videos made in their bedroom about them trying on outfits which makes them appear more relateabke to the average user and therefor their aesthetic more attainable . ‘how to dress like a vivienne westwood model’ ‘how to dress clean girl’ ‘how to look old school prep’ these are all trends made and followed by people with extensive wardrobes we like them because we see people who wear them and we see it as an attainable aesthetic because of the casual nature of the way it is presented to us and we subconsciously want to seem relevant to those around us . bc what these people aren’t telling you is the skirt they’re wearing is £400 or that the ‘dressing like a vivienne westwood model with my every day wardrobe’ contains actual vivienne westwood pieces . i think the whole normalisation of wanting to look rich comes from the fact that the people who set the trends are changing to market their aesthetics through more interactive and relatable platforms that kind of blurs the lines of attainability and affordability but LMAOOOO DRAG CHARLES LECLERC HIS STUPID ASS OUTFITS

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full---ofstarlight · 14 days

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oc fun facts!!

tagged by @sun-marie to share some oc fun facts :3c ty for the tag!!!!!!!!!!

rules: share some fun facts about your oc(s). they don't have to be relevant to their story, perhaps even better if they aren't. the weird ones are the best!

araiya (d&d)

has a stick and poke tattoo of an arrow on her hand that her edgelord teenage boyfriend gave her when they were YA heroes together. he is dead now, but ofc she keeps the tattoo

on that note, even though she could get her chin scar magically healed, she got it in the battle where he died so... she keeps it hahaha

She's an excellent fisherperson and likes waking up at the crack of dawn to get on a rowboat and fish

on a more meta note, she's based on the childhood OCs that me and my cousin made up when we were 10 which in turn were based on Arya from Eragon bc the fact she was unconscious the whole book pissed me off as a kid lmao

delvyre (bg3)

her casual outfit at home is a silk robe and literally just panties underneath it. back in baldur's gate she has one very very good silk robe she loves, and when she marries gale she has a WHOLE WARDROBE of them in various colors

loves to dance. is not very good at it. her sheer enthusiasm makes her a worthy partner though

does not have an indoor laugh. it is LOUD. you WILL hear it.

snores. drools. tosses and turns in her sleep. good thing gale sleeps like a rock.

i imagine her voice to sound like billie piper as rose tyler :3c she has a lot of rose in her

isadora (dragon age)

are there pianos in thedas? i do not know, but when she was a kid, isadora learned piano... but when she was sent to the circle, she never got to play again. she misses it a lot. (if pianos arent a thing, then it was idk the harp or something)

Anyway on that note, Josephine catches her plucking at some instrument and then buys one for her and she starts getting lessons :)

Loves to sing in her free time, has a very sweet voice actually if unrefined because she never got formal training

Likes to leave flowers on Cullen's desk <3

tagging anyone who wants to play!!! im a bit lazy r now so if ur reading this and wanna join you can say i tagged you uwu

#ty!!!!!!!11 #tama tags #oc stuff #char delvyre #char araiya #char isadora #these three were on my mind

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savethepinecones · 7 months

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Frost fireside spice!

frost: if you could give some advice to your younger self, what would you say?

i would probably say that its never wrong to stand up for yourself. i probably couldve used a lot of advice at different points lol but i think this would have been relevant at most times.

fireside: if you had your dream wardrobe, what would it look like?

oh man this is kinda tricky tbh. a lot of black for sure lol. probably more chunky sweaters for the winter. a couple pairs of platform shoes. maybe some shorts that arent just jeans i chopped up when they got too short lol. a real leather jacket or two would be awesome.

spice: have you ever encountered a house that you believe to be haunted?

ooh this is a good question. the short answer is kind of? the longer answer is that i definitely had a couple experiences at my moms house when i was younger but i dont think anything was necessarily attached to the house. there was a faint handprint on my bedroom wall that wouldnt go away and was way to big to have been made by anyone who was living there but thats the most house specific thing. the other experiences i had i think were more just things passing through. i got the impression it was a high traffic area. i dont think ive shared these stories on here before so i might expand on this stuff a bit at some point if anyone wants to hear about it

also at the place im living rn every once in a while my stepdad will comment that he heard someone making a lot of noise upstairs when i was the only one home all day and was in my room the whole time and ive noticed that its always in october when this happens but idk if thats anything. the thing that makes me think its potentially spooky is that hes hard of hearing so like it would have to be pretty loud for him to notice but i never hear it and its certainly not me making the noise.

also also when i was a kid the local theater that was made when the town was first built got reopened and that place was hella haunted. my mom was in a lot of plays there and the owner of the place had some kids my age that i was pretty close to for a while so i heard a lot of stories although i never experienced much myself. i did play murder in the dark in the costume room in the attic once after a play but thats unrelated lol

thanks for the ask! i really enjoyed answering these 🧡

#answered asks #thegoliathbeetle #also also i did trip in front of the house on friday the 13th (yesterday) and sprain my ankle (ow) but i think that was general clumsiness #and coincidence #rather than anything spooky #the cat was pretty spooked tho (i was holding him when i fell) (sorry jack)

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greyeyedmonster-18 · 2 years

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Hello! Hope you're having a good day. Could I ask for 2, 17 and 31 please for the Fic Writer Ask Game?

hello!! thank you for the ask!

2. How do you spend your time when it comes to fanfiction? Are you primarily a fic reader, writer, or a perfect 50/50 split of both?

well these days its literally neither. earlier this year it was writing, but prior to 2021, i was definitely a reader only.

i think before my life got crazy it was a pretty even 50/50 split of reading and writing though.

17. How obsessively do you sit and stare at your fic after you’ve just posted and wait for feedback?

lolololol so usually after i post, i immediately go do something else to avoid slipping into the anxiously awaiting phase. so ill go run errands, or go catch up on charts/paperwork or go make art or go outside.

also i tend to be quiet when i post--like i don't advertise on tumblr until like HOURS after i post on AO3, in hopes that no one will notice. and im not relevant enough that there's a million subscribers who get emails when i post on AO3. so that i don't immediately get feedback and therefore can just like mind my business and have a moment to myself to like get it together and just revel in my little story that's just for me.

short answer: i don't give myself opportunity to do the staring obsessively;

31. Of the characters you write for, which is your favorite? Has that choice been swayed at all by your followers/readers’ reactions to certain ones?

will answer again-- sirius. my man. my babe. my whole heart. but as an extra, though this is fic specific-- i also loved writing for Marlene in ten reasons and from the fic that must not be named. she's a fucking hoot all the time, and i found myself looking forward to Marlene Moments when i was writing those two fics. (and also her wardrobe is heavily inspired by my own and that makes me happy)

send me an ask from this game!

#asks #grey answers #ask game

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misscarolineshelby · 3 years

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Spanked

Part Two: First Day

Pairing: Modern Tommy Shelby x Reader Words: 1,345 Warning: None…This is only the beginning!

Original Blog: @queenshelby (this is just my backup account as I have been having Tumblr issues)

When you told your friends and roommates about what had happened to you that morning, they couldn’t believe it.

Whilst you were excited to be working for one of the largest enterprises in the UK, they were more intrigued by the fact that you were going to work directly for Thomas Shelby who was a well-known business man and who was quite popular with the ladies across the country.

The 39-year-old had quite a reputation which is what attracted these women. But you decided that you wouldn’t be one of them.

According to your friend, he was the perfect mix between an elegant business owner and a working a class man. He was different to many others out there and, unlike the other men in charge of other big corporations in the UK, he had built his wealth by himself.

Of course, when you read his name on the business card, you remembered reading the rumours in the papers. According to the London Telegraph, he was said to be involved in some illegal businesses as well and it was believed that he had built his empire through drug trafficking and illegal race fixing. But these were just rumours. Thomas Shelby hadn’t served any prison time and was never convicted of any crimes. It was only his brother, Arthur Shelby, who was charged with two murders but never convicted.

He was also involved in politics, having acted as an MP until it became too boring for him. Luckily for him, he maintained connections to other politicians and judges and, miraculously, he had no problems getting licences for any and all of his business operations.

But none of this bothered you much. You saw this job as an opportunity and stepping stone of some sort.

***

Despite your lack of interest in the man himself though, you listened to your friend’s advice when it came to appropriate office attire.

‘You cannot possibly wear this’ your roommate said as she watched you put on a grey coloured suit and a black blouse.

‘That’s what you wear to an office though’ you said somewhat confused while looking into the mirror.

‘Men like something to look at. At least wear a dress and show some legs. You never know, you might even find your prince charming’ your roommate then said with a cheeky smile before disappearing into her room and returning with three dresses for you to choose from.

Of course, she had a point. You had been single for two years and, before that, you had one boyfriend who was just as nerdy as you were. He was your first and your last.

After trying on all three dresses, you chose an elegant knee length black dress but, when you put on some stockings and shoes, your roommate shook her head again.

‘Oh god no. Please let me style you’ your roommate insisted.

‘No, I don’t have time’ you huffed out, looking at your watch.

‘I will style you up for your first day and then I will call you a taxi. I will use my father’s credit card. He won’t even notice’ your roommate said and, after some convincing, you reluctantly agreed.

Your roommate quickly found some suspenders and stockings in her draws and made you put them on. Then, she looked for some shoes, but none of the ones she owned would fit you.

Eventually, she found a pair of black high heels in your other roommate’s wardrobe who, luckily, had the same shoe size as you.

Finally, she applied your make up and straightened your hair. It looked perfect and she was certainly impressed with her own work.

‘Holy shit, I am fucking awesome’ your roommate then said and you couldn’t help but laugh.

‘I look good’ you said somewhat surprised as you looked into the large mirror in your bedroom.

‘You fucking do. Go and get yourself a suitor’ she teased you and you shook your head.

‘No, I am there to work, not to flirt. Despite, I don’t even know how to flirt’ you admitted and your roommate couldn’t help but giggle.

***

When you arrived at the offices of Shelby Company Limited, you were greeted by a tall dark-haired woman who showed you to your new office.

It was near the reception area and you were surprised by the layout of the building. Everything was made of glass and the floors looked like marble. It was incredible.

Lizzie explained to you how things worked around the office and told you that you would be reporting to a man by the name of Michael Grey.

‘I thought I will be reporting to Mr Shelby’ you said somewhat surprised, causing her to laugh.

‘Sweetheart, please don’t flatter yourself. You are here on your merit but no one new reports directly to Mr Shelby apart from me and Michael Grey. He only likes to deal with people he knows and trusts’ Lizzie said before handing you your office swipe card and a stack of files for you to look at it.

Just as you sat down and Lizzie took a seat right next to you, talking you through the accounting software the company uses, you saw Tommy enter the reception area.

He was accompanied by a tall blonde woman who was wearing expensive clothes and was carrying a Louis Vuitton handbag.

‘Who is this?’ you asked curiously, causing Lizzie to look up from the computer.

‘Elaine Sutton. Apparently, she is the flavour of the month. He likes attractive women who don’t talk much, which makes her perfect’ Lizzie chuckled, seemingly annoyed by the woman.

‘How did you become Mr Shelby’s personal assistant?’ you then asked and Lizzie chuckled again.

‘I’ve known Thomas since he was eighteen. I used to be married to his brother, John Shelby, before he passed away’ Lizzie said and you were surprised by her directness and openness about it.

‘Any more questions or can we get back to work now?’ she then said and you apologised to her immediately.

***

Throughout the day, you developed an investment scheme to lower the tax rates the company was otherwise required to pay in the next financial year. This was what you had mentioned to Tommy at the café and you assumed that it was what he wanted you to do when Lizzie handed you the relevant files.

As you were working through them one by one, you also became to notice that Tommy himself was quite the talking point between the women in the office.

His blue eyes, his expensive suits and what tie he was wearing was on today’s agenda in the lunchroom and you couldn’t help but be amused.

Then, all of a sudden, there was dead silence. The room went quiet and no one said a word as the man himself entered the lunch room.

‘Can I get you anything Mr Shelby?’ one of the service employees asked nervously.

‘Can you tell me where the cable ties are kept, please?’ he said in his low gruffy voice and, just when the employee nodded and told him that she would fetch some for him, he approached you.

‘Office attire suits you much better than coffee-stained clothes Y/N’ he observed, causing you to swallow harshly, smile and nod.

‘Thank you for the opportunity, Mr Shelby’ you stammered out in response just as the service clerk returned with some cable ties for Tommy and he walked off.

‘He knows your name’ a short brunette woman observed. ‘I’ve been working here for a year and he hasn’t even noticed me’ she then said before offering you a cup of tea which you gladly accepted.

‘Well, I spilled hot coffee onto him yesterday at the Coffee Bean Café across the road which probably made stick’ you said somewhat embarrassed, causing the woman to laugh before introducing herself to you.

Her name was Emily and she was also working in the business advisory department. Just like you, she was smart and nerdy and you knew that you would be getting along well.

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cobra-shy · 3 years

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Karate Kid/Cobra Kai survey

tagged by the very sweet @hunkydorkling for the cobra kai survey!!! I have no idea what I'm going to say but let's do this!! >:-)

It's the year 2021 and you're obsessed with The Karate Kid. How are you feeling?: great!!! I never would've imagined meeting so many kind and talented people through this karate show and my humble doodles inspired by it haha, and I know I sort of came to it late but its been crazy to watch how much the fandom has grown in just the last 6 months?? Absolutely bananas, I cant wait until the next season 🍌🥋

Did you grow up with TKK or are you new to the series?: kind of new!! Like obviously my friends and family had seen it, (I think I remember my cousin telling me she really liked it when we were kids, which made me spitefully REFUSE to watch it on tape while I was at her house because we were beefing over little kid shit at the time?? afsgdhfjf god bless) and like obviously it was available to me through popcultural osmosis and so on, but it was never really something I took an interest in or went out of my way to watch, so last year was the first time I sat down and actually watched all three movies from beginning to end, so I'm pretty fresh to it!! (and LOL sorry to my cousin!! you were right!)

We gotta do the basics. Favorite character: UHHHHHH this is so hard oh my god, because I feel like I flip flop on this pretty much daily but uhh?? Daniel? And maybe more specifically adult Daniel, because there's something incredibly moving watching the karate kid grow into a complicated adult whose sort of living like he's trapped in the second verse of a Bruce Springsteen song T___T (and OBVIOUSLY adult Johnny too omg, I mean he's the soul of the show and the reason I ended up falling in love with it, and I literally cry about him all the time, so T____T I don't know this is a tough call! also Miguel!!)

Favorite ship: 🚗Tom Cole 💕 Pawn-Shop Guy💰 (...I'm joshing you of COURSE it's Lawrusso omg 🌳💖🐍)

Underrated character: I mean obviously Aisha, there was so much they could've explored with her character in the canon, and she had such a specific and unique relationship to the themes of the show that would've been awesome to have seen developed further, and the sort of flippant "didn't you hear? Her parents sent her to private school" was just :-((( but I guess Counselor Blatt too!! Like I have loved what I've seen of her character explored in fanfic, but I'd also kill to see more of her on screen, because like?? She went to high school with these guys omg, it'd be great to see all three of them interacting with each other in some capacity, and I want more unsubtle Daniel-thirsting ("I was kinda hoping you would show up in costume. Maybe a karate gi?" ;) for a whole show dedicated to karate, this poor lady has yet to realize her gi kink omg, someone fix this)

Underrated ship (don’t say therapy, lol): Louie/Anoush!!<33 (would love to see a Loush & Lawrusso double date honestly)

Wax On, Wax Off or Sweep the Leg?: Sweep the Leg!

Which of Daniel’s dumb little outfits is your favorite?: oh gosh, a difficult choice to be made from this lesbian fashion icon, who's always batting 1.000, wardrobe-wise--- I think I'd have to go with the prom suit!! I'd like to think him and Mr Miyagi picked that out at JC Penney's together 😂

Character from the films you most want to return, who’s not Terry Silver: Mike Barnes!! Would love to see if he chilled out over the years 👀

Scene that lives in your head rent-free: ahhhhhhh it's so hard to choose, but I think the bonsai trimming scene from the first movie T___T<3333 it always chokes me up.

(also the Bill Conti solo training montage directly after Mr Miyagi shares his grief with Daniel, making him approach this pursuit with renewed gravity & grace & purpose in this silent, perfect way ;_; the editing was so beautiful)

(ALSO, a lá RiffTrax and GIF courtesy of @howard-ly

Will Anthony LaRusso ever be relevant?: PLEASE GOD!!!!!!! IM BEGGING 🙏🙏🙏 fanfic has once again totally spoiled me in this regard (when I first started watching the show I read @storyshark2005 's incredible (No) Mercy for the Midlife Crisis before I had even began season 2, which incorporates Anthony's character in such a convincing and satisfyingly brilliant way that, after finishing it, I erroneously believed that he'd be given a similar depth and necessity in canon and like!!! NOT EVEN CLOSE OMG 😭) but if he ever does get his moment to shine, I hope it's via him joining the current Cobra Kai as like, a white elephant ringer wherein Kreese and Terry think theyve totally gotten one over Daniel by indoctrinating his son, but actually he's such an intentional nuisance and obstacle to their evil plans that Kreese and Terry are like "fuck it, this ain't worth it-- let's just retire to Tahiti", thereby saving the entire valley, and Daniel's like, SO proud :"-) but Anthony's just like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ yeah that was cool, can I order Mortal Kombat 11?

You live in The Valley and are forced into the karate gang war. Which dojo do you join?: As much as I'd like to ogle Johnny's sleeveless karate physique in action, I completely disintegrate any time someone yells at me (or even in the face of loud noises in general afsgdhdjfj) so I would definitely have to defer to Miyagi Do🌳 (and also I actually enjoy doing fastidious, mind-emptying chores and yard work 🤷‍♀️)

What’s your training montage song?:

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It’s the crossover event of the century! Which TV show are you combining with Cobra Kai for an hour-long Saturday night special?: QUANTUM LEAP!!!! it would be so seamless omg, I can vividly picture the opening scene where Sam has already leaped and he's like why is it dark and why is there a gang of teenage skeletons chasing me across this field, and just after he's been peeled off the fence and Johnny sneers "you couldn't leave well enough alone, could you, little twerp?? No, you had to push it. Well, now you're gonna pay!" and then Sam just kind of reels back and says OH BOY in his little Scott Bakula voice, with Al all the while just puffing on his cigar in the background and saying ya gotta break the cycle of violence, Sam!! The soul of the Valley depends on it!!

(WAIT I just read that that said "Cobra Kai" and not the TKK universe in general agshdjjfjgkjgj soooooooo... the Newlywed Game, wherein Johnny and Daniel kind of slay it?? Or fucking, Judge Judy, who tries to settle all of the small-claim legal disputes in the Valley with all of the patience and elegance of Judge Judy-- somehow Terry Silver wins his case against Daniel and Johnny owes Raymond [he tries to be recognized as Stingray but is immediately shut down by Judge Judith Sheindlin who insists that this isn't Animal Planet, buster] up to $3,000)

And afshsjdhfjkfj I THINK most of the people I would've tagged have already done this at this point?? But if you havent and you'd like to then consider this your invitation!! Go forth!!<3333

#Youtube #long post #(sorry for rambling adagshdjfj)#thank you again corny!!<33

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hunxi-guilai · 4 years

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just your post talking about the Jiangs wearing white and funeral rites and that really piqued my interest bc im actually super interested in burial, funerary, and mourning traditions?? (i used to work in a historic burial ground so yeah i came by it naturally) would you be willing to do a post on funerary/burial/mourning traditions as they relate to the story/time period? I would be eternally grateful

oh man oh man, funerary/burial rites are a huge and fascinating field of study, especially since a great deal of archaeological studies center around tombs and funerary goods (since they’re underground and often left untouched, you get some great artifacts that way. Unfortunately there’s also a huge black market for these artifacts, and there’s a whole debate going down in the classics field about whether or not academia should get involved with the black market on these items but whoops that’s a tangent).

From a philological standpoint, we’ve got loads of texts about ritual -- the《礼记》Liji / Classic of Rites (one of our earliest texts on ritual) already has six chapters (or more! I just glanced at chapter titles) devoted to the regulation of mourning, which you can find translated on ctext by James Legge if you’re interested in pursuing this further. Personally, I think it’s pretty dry reading, but it does give you more insight into the production research Chinese period dramas will do for scenes of mourning -- 《琅琊榜之风起长林》/ Nirvana in Fire 2 did a phenomenal amount of research, which I might have... written a paper on... I’m getting off topic again

Mourning rites are complicated; a great deal of conduct and ritual depends on 1) the status of the deceased, 2) the mourner’s relationship to the deceased, 3) political/historical context, and 4) your funeral budget. Some aspects that might be considered more relevant to CQL are:

Jiang Yanli’s wardrobe change -- she wears white (the color most heavily associated with death in China, for those of you who missed that) and much plainer cloth

periods of fasting (usually up to three days) immediately following the death

mourning periods could last for up to three years, during which you weren’t really supposed to be actively involved in society

exhibit A: funereal white, plain clothes, plainer fabric. friendly reminder that there is no “period-appropriate attire” for CQL because it’s a show that lives in a fantastic and ahistorical setting that prioritizes the Aesthetic over the Historically Accurate and let’s be honest what even is historical accuracy anyways

exhibit B, screenshot from LYB2: Look! at! that! research! now THAT’S some actual hempen fabric, and you can find mentions of the staff in the Liji as well

Oh! But what might be fun to talk about w/r/t to burial practices and CQL is the significance of the phrases 死无全尸 siwuquanshi / ‘to die without an intact corpse’ and 挫骨扬灰 cuoguyanghui / ‘to grind bones to powder and scatter the ashes.’ I think this might have gotten lost in translation, not by the fault of the subtitlers, but just through cultural context.

Historically in (Han) Chinese culture, it is extremely important to be buried intact on a philosophical/spiritual level. A lot of this comes from a line in the 《孝经》Xiaojing / Classic of Filial Piety from way back in the Warring States period:

身體髮膚，受之父母，不敢毀傷，孝之始也。

Body and bone, hair and skin -- these are received from one’s parents. Do not dare to ruin or harm them -- this is the beginning of filial piety.

Correspondingly, serious crimes were punished in ancient China by mutilation (i.e. chopping off a hand or foot to punish theft), which, on top of being, y’know, horrifically brutal, was also extremely shameful because it meant that you would not be able to return the intact body your parents gave you to the grave. Thus, crime = mutilating punishment = multidimensional dishonor upon you, dishonor upon your family, dishonor upon your cow, etc.

(this is, incidentally, also why a streak of dyed hair and/or tattoos is a classic -- if now somewhat dated -- way of denoting a rebellious Chinese teenager in media; dyeing hair and getting tattoos both go against this ancient precept. It’s much less of a taboo now, but it varies family by family.)

So the burial practice of cremation in the West is pretty uncontroversial, but in China, it’s definitely not the preferred mode of disposing of a body (there’s a fascinating episode of 99% Invisible about how Singapore is handling this cultural taboo with the need for land).

It’s also worth mentioning that this is primarily a Han Chinese thing; other ethnic groups have different attitudes towards the human body after death (e.g. Tibetan and Mongolian sky burial), often heavily influenced by naturally limited resources.

But back to CQL! This is why the phrases 死无全尸 siwuquanshi / ‘to die without an intact corpse’ and 挫骨扬灰 cuoguyanghui / ‘to grind bones to powder and scatter the ashes’ are such significant phrases. To die without an intact corpse (Wei Wuxian’s fate) is like, the peak of shame and abandonment. Not only has he failed to return to the grave the body his parents gave him, but he has no one who will give him the appropriate rites and offerings for a peaceful journey into the afterlife. Meanwhile, 挫骨扬灰 cuoguyanghui, the fate of the Wen refugees, is notable because it conveys just how vicious and vengeful the other clans are -- it’s not enough for the clans to, you know, kill them all in cold blood, but the clans will also desecrate their corpses by smashing their bones and scattering their ashes (it’s very Achilles-dragging-Hector’s-corpse-behind-his-chariot, for my fellow Iliad nerds out there).

I’m sure there’s much more to unpack in CQL/Chinese period dramas as a whole w/r/t to burial practices, but that requires the research of a dissertation (and I am, at least at the moment, but a mere hobbyist).

#ask and ye shall receive #mdzs meta #cql meta

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totiredtowrite · 2 years

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NO WAIT PUBLISH THIS ONE NOT THE OTHER ONE I FORGOT TO SIGN OFF😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

i just have a fucking word document for these topics lmfao

“totiredtowrite” anons as bad habits i have

airhead:

gets real emotional for no reason

•hed be doing the most mundane task in the existence of mundane tasks

•like folding his boxers on a saturday night while listening to lady gaga

•and then hed start tearing up

•moving on from the the fact that this has happened to me

•seeing 🖕🏽 eat without airhead telling him to? enough tears to water the dying zucchini plant in my dorm room (i need to get to that fuck)

•seeing unavailable take off his grippy socks? straight up sobbing.

•idk maybe

🪶:

folds the book pages to keep tab

•yeah

•im THAT guy im sorry— (blame my grandma she got me into the habit)

•unavailable lets him borrow one of his books for a day

•and our dear anon keeper just hears loud shrieking coming from 🖕🏽

•panicked, he runs into the room and sees a very confused 🪶 holding a dog-eared book while 🖕🏽 is sobbing against a wall

•safe to say that unavailable joins 🖕🏽 in the wall sobbing

🦇:

runs around in a black bathrobe and saying hes batman

•i dont do this anymore i just think it fits him

•once scared the shit out of 🌘 in the middle of the night

•#justicefor🌘

🥑:

cant tell when hes picked on a friend too much

•literally wont notice that hes made fun of 🖕🏽for being too short until he has a fucking mental breakdown

•only realizes it when unavailable is running after him with a pencil

•only realizes it when he comes across 🖕🏽sobbing into airheads arms

🌘:

he has enough bad habits with the bottle collecting im sorry

but he probably simps for the weirdest people and characters

•theres an ed sheeran tshirt somewhere in his wardrobe

•he probably likes naoya from jjk 🤢

unavailable:

has like 15 tabs open on his laptop

•6 of them are frozen

•3 of them arent even related to what hes using the laptop for at the moment

•3 of them are relevant to what he needs to do

•the remaining ones are open to pictures of hq characters

♾:

hes too sweet i assign no habit to him

🪂:

LAUGHS AT THE WRONG MOMENTS

•”my grandma died last night” *cackles uncontrollably*

•people be thinking hes a psycho fr

•get this boy some help

•man tried to eat lasagna with a straw and its partially my fault

🖕🏽:

doesnt know when to take a break until his mental health takes a massive decline

•just cant stop trying to be perfect until hes having a panic attack

•probably consciously ignores the signs as well

•bonus point added if he tries to hide the fact that hes breaking down

•my inner family dynamics anon telling me that hed go chill in unavailables room until he stops fUCKINF HYPERVENTILATING

🎹:

hangs up to soon

•ud be talking to him and say “i have to go but ill—“

•hes already gone

•u have been hung up on

🌙:

probably cant tell that hes making people uncomfortable (for me it happens with sex jokes but i feel like for him itll happen with violence jokes <seeing from his past asks>)

•also wont be able to tell until the person he made uncomfortable gets scared and leaves and someone else points it out to him

•idfk

-fda

CRYING THE TAB ONE IF TOO ACCURATE

AND WHEN MY COMPUTER SHUTS DOWN AND CLOSES MY TABS I FREAK OUT THEN REALIZE I WASN'T EVEN USING HALF OF THEM AND WAS JUST KEEPING THEM OPEN IN CASE I NEEDED THEM IN THE FUTURE

#sobbing #god anon you should join the discord #we make fun of 🌘 about ed sheeran on a daily basis #he will be delighted to see that you think the same #(god).anon

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Do you ever donate unused clothes/books or stuff like that?

ya whenever i can manage it pretty much! book less so bc well. ive posted pics ov my room and there are obviously a million books in there but ... less than 10 percent ov those are actually mine and most books i have physical copies ov are ones that are particularly important to me and relevant to my interests so i like to hang onto them.

clothes/shoes/accessories on the other hand i have a ton ov and theyre things that are fairly easy for me to procure cheaply or for free so i keep them circulating :3 i like giving a lot ov stuff to my friends esp if i have something that theyre looking for or that fits their personal style... i also enjoy just putting a bunch ov my old stuff in free clothing bins or whatever and i pick up some cute garments for myself there too... also the harm reduction outfit i volunteer with has a really fuckin sweet wardrobe/free clothes setup so rn im sorting out a lot ov things to bring over there and ive got some BITCHIN tshirts personally out ov the deal... lots ov cool clothes there... yesterday at the tent i complimented a dear patron on their purple tie dye button down shirt and they were like yaaaa i got it from the phra spot B)

so anyways the sharing economy rules i love it so much basically. the one thing i dont like doing is donating shit to like goodwill or value village ect bc i dont want my shit to make money for some huge corporation thats brutal to all its workers but esp disabled ppl and immigrants which has been my experience w pretty much all big thrift corps

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saleintothe90s · 4 years

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422. ”Carrie” (May 12 - May 15 1988)

I adore reading about flops. One of my favorite flops to read about is Carrie the musical. A doomed production from the start. Millions of dollars wasted. Bad costumes. Filler songs.

Similar to my Simpsons season 10 review, I wanna give something to the worst aspects of the show. With Simpsons, bad episodes were awarded Marge’s homemade Pepsi. For Carrie, I think I’m going to give the bad parts the “Vending Machine Maxi Pad” award.

As most anybody who follows Broadway flops knows, clips from Carrie are scarce and are in poor condition on YouTube. Most of the actual clips are from when the show was in test productions in Stratford Upon Avon, but the music has been replaced with the Broadway soundboard. So, keep that in mind. Most of the time you can’t even make out what’s going on. Here’s the closest copy of the entire show I could find on YouTube, from the Sratford Upon Avon production.

I know people bash the musical, and sometimes it’s rightfully so, but two things are consistent: Linzi Hateley who played Carrie, and that orchestra that is on.point. Check out the overture.

(source)

The show begins with girls cheering in gym class in the beginning of an aerobics lesson? The white gym shorts look like diapers. That’s the first of many costume mistakes.

The song is a banger, I love Darlene Love playing the gym teacher, she’s my favorite part of the song. The only part that is cringey to me is when the girls sing “I go CrAzZyyyyy” and they get on the ground and dance like a toddler having a temper tantrum in a Toys R Us. Since the audio quality is so bad in these clips, I thought at one point the girls were singing about not being caught picking their nose, no, the lyric is:

Bought the clothes, did my nose,

Near the end of the song, the girls are on these rising rafters? It took me for-ever to realize that they were simulating a cheerleader pyramid, and that Carrie had snuck in near the end of the number to be on the bottom of the pyramid. Oh, and she causes it to fall and someone tells her to eat shit.

“Dream On” is the song that the girls sing while in the showers. Why yes, it does look like they’re in the nude due to the poor quality of the video. The song is ok, it gives total night driving home from the mall in the late 80s early 90s vibes. Although one girl says the line, “Six foot three and he's in his forties!”. WHAT.

Carrie breaks those vibes at around 3:44 by screaming that she’s bleeding. When Miss Gardener slaps Carrie, a cymbal plays. I love it.

I like to imagine that when the girls threw the tampons and pads at Carrie, some flew into the audience.

“Carrie” is shrill at first, and then it turns into a bit of snoozefest. Linzi sings the name “Carrie” about 458 times.

Betty Buckley who previously had played the original Grizabella in Cats. and who played the gym teacher in the original movie plays Carrie’s mom. Her song, “Open Your Heart” is pretty good. It’s a nice little break before mom goes bottoms up on Carrie for getting her period (”And Eve Was Weak” [Stratford version with Barbara Cook]):

Carrie: I was in the shower and...

Mom: You’re forbidden from showering with the other girls...

Carrie: I started to bleed!

While Carrie spends the rest of the night in a cellar, the popular girls are at the drive-in. Now, this musical cost over $7 million dollars 1, but yet this was the best set they could think of for a drive-in movie theater:

It looks like something out of a high school play -- which I guess makes a little sense since they are high schoolers? I’m grabbing at straws here. It cost so much money to put Carrie on, what’s a few more dollars to have two real hollowed out cars on stage, one with Chris (in the red) & Billy (in black) in it, and the other with Sue (pink leggings) and Tommy (purple windbreaker)?

“Don’t Waste the Moon” is the song sung at the drive-in, with Sue having regrets about throwing tampons at Carrie in the beginning of the song. The song is very 1980s, and it kind of doesn’t fit in the musical. Gene Anthony Ray’s (Billy) talent is wasted here.

It’s time for some “Evening Prayers” for Carrie where she discusses with God her new telekinesis powers. Meanwhile Carrie’s mom is being a worrywort. During the Stratford production, Carrie’s mom is in a rocking chair over there looking like Whistler’s Mother.

“You’re going to tell Carrie that you’re sorry!” belts out Miss Gardner. In the musical, Chris seems more obsessed with torturing Carrie than in the movie or book if that’s even possible. Sue is like, “What did she even do to you?”. Even Billy asked earlier, “Who the hell is Carrie White?”.

Oooof. Seeing the gym teacher try to cheer Carrie up by singing a song about the prom (”Unsuspecting Hearts”) and how she could go too is patronizing. Even if its sung by Darlene Love.

“Do Me a Favor” might be the most infamous song from the musical. It’s the song I see referred to the most when I read bad reviews. For some reason Chris is wearing a metallic red bodysuit and Sue is wearing a light pink bodysuit. Are they supposed to be that cliche devil and the angel on the shoulder thing?

Chris looks like Evil Homer!

I’m going be the unpopular opinion here and say that I love the song! The erratic dancing also fits with the song.

Carrie tells her mom before “I Remember How Those Boys Would Dance” that Tommy is sweet and polite, but the audience doesn’t know that. Tommy is barely a character in this production. In the end, Carrie uses her powers to shut her mama up.

From what I gather in “Out for Blood” (audio) where Chris and Billy go looking for a pig to kill, the chorus dancers are the pigs? The video quality is so poor. Chris had another crazy ass red outfit on, some sort of shiny red skirt and a crop top. The costumes in this are just horrible. It was like the wardrobe budget was $50.

This song is so.so.bad. It reminds me of whenever Rocko from Rocko’s Modern Life would see a movie trailer or a parody of something on TV for some reason?! Or the “gotta get that Reptar song” from Rugrats when the kids saw Reptar on ice. Especially when the chorus tells Billy to kill the pig:

CHORUS Cha! Kill the pig, pig, pig! CHRIS Go! CHORUS Kill 'im, kill 'im, kill, kill! We'll make him bleed! CHRIS Go! CHORUS Get the blood, blood, blood Oooh, blood! CHRIS Oh, baby show... CHORUS Kill the pig, make 'im bleed Let's get the blood, that's all we need!

Sue’s song “It Hurts to be Strong” is a bit of a throw-away. It gets a vending machine maxi pad award. Moving on. It’s filler

In “I’m Not Alone”, Carrie sings while using her powers to move things around in her room. What things? I don’t know the video quality was so bad. That’s another thing! The sets are nonexistent! I wouldn’t know we were in Carrie’s room unless the Playbill told me. It’s another forgettable song. Three in a row!

Betty Buckley saves the day in, “When There’s No One”, a sad song about facing life without Carrie being her subordinate.

I don’t understand the prom dresses in “Wotta Night”, they’re all garish giant white numbers that make the actresses look about 20 pounds heaver. The guys look like that Rio doll from Jem. The costume designer couldn’t just go to Alexanders or A&S and buy prom dresses? You know, why am I even asking at this point. We all saw what Chris has been wearing this whole time. There is a disco ball thrown aside in the corner instead of hanging up. More on that later.

The song sounds way too much like that song “Rock on” by David Essex. Automatic Vending Machine Maxi Pad.

Here’s a cute rehearsal clip I found of “Heaven”, the song sung while the Prom Queen and King ballots are being counted. Unfortunately, the audio is bad. Chris is there to remind us that she’s still out for blood.

Finally, finally it’s time for Carrie the prom queen to get drenched with blood -- but the thing is, due to microphone technology back then, Carrie really couldn’t have blood dumped on her. Chris and Billy just run up to her and half ass pour the bucket at her. Could the set designer not suspend the bucket from above the stage? Is that also why the disco ball is thrown in the corner? I don’t even think she has stage blood on her during “The Destruction”, (which is the best song from the musical). I think a red spotlight over Carrie signifies the blood.

I think Linzi is really only truly covered in blood for press shots.

Anyway, the Destruction, I love it when she screeches “DOESN’T ANYBODY EVER GET IT RIGHT??! DOESN’T ANYBODY THINK THAT I HEAR?!” It’s the best. I could listen to it all day and I almost did the other day.

Due the poor video quality, I can’t really tell how the prom-goers are dying. They’re kinda just twitching there in the laser light or slamming themselves against the clear barrier that descended from the stage to signify Carrie closing the doors to the gym.

After Carie kills everybody, this giant white staircase descends and covers up the gym. I read somewhere, I forgot where, that its supposed to be the school stairs? We’re led to believe that Carrie’s crazy mom ran to the school. The first time I saw it, I thought that it was Carrie and her mom getting ready to go to heaven. I thought maybe someone over at the set department took the classic song too literally.

It appears that while the stairs are descending, Carrie smears stage blood on her.

The reprise of “Carrie’ is so much better than the original. Carrie stops her mom’s heart cold mid song. Then she slins down the stairs and Sue catches her. In an interview on playbill.com, Betty Buckley says that on opening night (I don’t know if she meant the first preview, or the official opening night), there were boos from the audience at the end, but cheers for Linzi and herself. I believe it. Betty and Linzi were amazing. Darlene Love was amazing. The rough scenes are the scenes with the school kids. They’re awful, in the words of my boy Jay Sherman, “they’re awful I tell you. aw.ful.”

(relevant prom .gif)

1. Rothstein, Mervyn. “After Seven Years And $7 Million, ‘Carrie’ Is a Kinetic Memory (Published 1988).” The New York Times, May 17, 1988, sec. Theater. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/17/theater/after-seven-years-and-7-million-carrie-is-a-kinetic-memory.html.

New York City Broadway reviews on the news in NYC for Carrie. That first reviewer, Stuart Klein, I love him. I’ve watched several of his reviews on flops on YouTube. Joel Sigel who was the Good Morning America film reviewer is here too.

Archive of Betty Buckley interview.

#carrie #carrie the musical #1988 #betty buckley #linzi hateley #charlotte d'amboise #broadway #musicals #broadway flops #flops #the 1980s

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notcatherinemorland · 4 years

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More Hamlet Thoughts because i leave everything to the 11th hour . production continues to be the 2018 globe w/ Michelle Terry

Hamlet and Ophelia’s uhhhhh fight

Ham’s personality twists into cruel mockery of her at the line ‘Where’s your father’ and OHO the facial expressions

Ophelia kept trying to hold onto Hamlet’s hand and body and curl her fingers around hamlet’s hand and it was very heartbreaking . Hamlet was a ball of chaotic energy who scrabbled her hands off himself. rlly interesting to watch

this turned around with hamlet scrubbing over her face as he presents her to the audience’s 4th wall for the make up lines. and shoves her down to the floor at the end

the physical manipulation hamlet takes out on ophelia is a super interesting segue to the players scene

2 b / x 2 b

ham sat in the middle of the front of the stage and held the hand of an audience member who he talked he speech to. very intimate and closed and really interesting interpretation

im a nerd so i really like the juxtaposition of such a grand and philosophical speech being told on such an intimate and small scale

Hamlet’s still got his smudged clown makeup on

hamlet and horatio come across Very gay in the ‘something too much of this’ line. i vibe

hamlet decimated his friendship with R&G and i LOVED how Horatio held him and then forced him away to give him just a touch more character. this Ht loved R&G as well and i appreciate the bit of character we all try to give horatio

Horatio’s Emotions over R&G’s impending death is a++ give this man some emotional range

OH the ‘if your mind dislike anything, obey it’ can we PLEASE listen to horatio the lone voice of reason within elsinor’s halls

that’s not me being gay, that’s a legit analysis of Hamlet in that everyone in Elsinor has a twisted sense of reality and morality and Horatio as an outsider is immune and must watch in horror

the argument is flawed with R&G but hey it’s not my theory.

THE TRUMPETS . there’s live trumpets

the music they played to signal the half time of the play was wonderfully dissonant and i VIBE WITH THAT that is the ENERGY of Elsinor right there

honestly im annoying and i don’t particularly care for the play scene as an audience member. like academically the play within a play is rife with analysis but like. to just sit and watch it feels like such a halt in the energy

plus i really dislike it when they use gross physical comedy in the dumb-show because again. im annoying

anyway they only do the dumb-show (more tollerable than a lot) and they use drum beats and purcussion in place of lines, and have hamlet explain what’s going on with his lines. it’s certainly different and its a lot quicker than the text is

This Claudius is Prime Smarmy Politicians and is very indignant as he tries to pray and i REALLY LIKE HIM

The scene transitions are .. non existent in this play and i LIKE IT

the lines follow on immediately between scenes as the other characters are leaving the stage

i love how it supports the theme of acting this play has and how it breaks down the barrier for the audience of personal vs private

thats not quite what i want to say uhhhhh. in other productions some of the scenes are really discreet from each other- like how pearl necklaces have stoppers between the pearls- and that’s especially evident in films, but here it’s the opposite and the scenes bleed into each other to create a really fast paced and chaotic energy and i REALLY LIKE IT

‘personal vs private’ is on god my favourite theme in hamlet and the way it works with the audience creating it here is GREAT

Closet scene... OH BOY

this hamlet is CRUEL oml

the ghost enters after hamlet spends 3 minutes berating his mother and she’s crying on the floor by the audience and hamlet immediately stops and starts weeping

‘oh save me’ sounds so small and childlike and it really showcases the love between them

not that kind of love, sigmund fucking freud. get your mind out the gutter

the disdain hamlet has for gertrude absolutely breaks my heart but that’s a me thing because i haven’t been able to see my mother in person for coming up on a month due to quarantine :(

added an extra hug before ham leaves .. v sweet

Claudius comes barreling in and picks up ham’s dropped sword. :eye emoji: doesn’t put it down until Hamlet’s brought in for questioning. but he’s still holding a book (english dictionary presumably?) and this act of holding a sword for 2 scenes WILL be reiterated time and time again in ever hamlet essay i write forever to whatever end i so desire because it’s easy to manipulate to my own purposes. bless this moment

There’s a seagull that keeps interrupting claudius at perhaps the funniest possible moments in his soliloquies and honestly WHERE is it’s Olivier

Ophelia’s madness isn’t as explicit as it is in other versions, but watching her tumble into emotions and lack of restraint is so, so heartbreaking.

this is one of the productions of hamlet that makes a really convincing case for ‘madness’ in elsinor being synonymous to speaking one’s mind and being truthful about one’s heightened emotions and like. i Love that interpretation

lets be real i love 99% of hamlet interpretations

the 1% is freud. fuck that guy

I’m Digging the parallel of Ophelia’s emotional outburts of grief (in madness) to Laertes incensed outburst of grief . ohoho

Laertes gets rosemary and pansies, Claudius gets fennel and columbines, Gertrude gets the rue, Audience member gets the daisy and the thought of violets

unfortunately i once wrote a shite poem about gertrude and weather she know of the poison in the cup at the end and unfortunately that’s all i can think about for the last 40 mins of the play hfdhgjgghjhgj

im annoying so i read along with the play and the duets Claudius and Laertes make of the meter and the word formatting on the page comes across really different on stage, which is super interesting.

not to be really fucking dramatic but i read in the info packet of this play that the pillars on the stage are actually tree trunks carved and painted to look like marble and considering how many times i had to hear the words ‘appearance vs reality’ in my english class, i think im allowed to use the smirk emoji about how the setting of the globe is Integral to Hamlet as a play

i am itching to write an entire 4000 word tirade about the use of the physical body in hamlet because between the actual acting on stage, polonius, ‘one auspicious and one dropping eye’ and all whole host of references made to physical body parts i am going feral

PLUS this one incorporates sign language

i actually hate the word incorporates but needs must

The Ophelia’s death speech is of course wonderful, but i can’t stop thinking about how John Everett Millais made his model (who’s name escapes me in a terrible irony because i got this information from an exhibition about the female pre-raphalites) sit in a cold bath for hours on end whilst he sketched and it made her very ill because the fire went out and she was sat nude in a bath of cold water for hours.

Gravedigger only has the songs and the hamlet interaction, and he wears a high vis jacket. he’s also played by the ghost’s actor, which whilst understandable in such a small cast, amuses me greatly

Hamlet’s got his hair tied back and in a military style jacket, and marches around with Horatio who’s in a hoodie and a black duffle coat (absolutely a student) and the same tight plait. Ham’s definitely meant to be sane now, he speaks very brusquely and all but marches around the stage

Not To Make An Edelgard Reference But edelgard’s cause in 3H was also cemented by a timeskip and a military outfit and a brusque personality hehehe

Hamlet gets into the ‘grave’ to chat to Yorick which, again, i will use in every relevant essay i will write and manipulate this scene to whatever end i desire and on god i thank this production for this

a level me would have gone feral

current me is also going feral

Grave Scene: a terrible one for your family to walk in and ask what the fuck you’re watching

Polonius’ actor plays the priest. yes, capsule wardrobe of a cast, i know but i’m an english student it’s my duty to wring every irrational inch of analysis out of this thing

i won’t trail on about unsubstaniated interpretations of Polonius’ parenting skills and fate in Hamlet but on god i will find an essay about it

i always enjoy it when someone leaps in the grave .. the melodrama... the meaning... the liminal spaces...

the DRAMA of seperating feral laertes and the really calm and imposing hamlet is excellent and a bit hilarious and the camera is going nuts

i’m very aware that everyone is now traipsing about over the grave in the middle of the stage and THAT’S a fun dynamic you don’t get from film or text

ok I’ve just noticed the video has the ‘top chat replay’ going and the very first line i saw is ‘what if hamlet had tiktok’ and i am CRYING

Ophelia’s actor also plays Osric and is a) absolutely hilarious and b) again, capsule wardrobe of a cast will not stop me from analysing everything and anything this play may or may not offer me.

im not saying hamlet is a play about inheritance and the burden of it, but also... isn’t it :eye emoji:

if bloody fire emblem fates can do it so can i, step off

Fencing scene: oh thank god it’s nearly over

The hearts on their fencing get ups parallel Hamlet’s clown outfit with a heart on the sleeve Very Nicely

Gertrude isn’t wearing her headpiece anymore .. ohoho dispelling the trappings and suits of dishonesty, if you will

The duel is a) bloody terrifying because sword fighting and b) judged by Osric (Ophelia) and the poetry of having ham & lae’s duel waged over and judged by Ophelia is absolutely excellent

Claudius’s aside (or to laertes? camera didn’t follow) had no right to be as humorous as it was jdfsghfkd

Gertrude figured out it was poison in this one. Nice

I like the call and response effect of ‘Treachery! Seek it out! / It is here Hamlet’ they made with Hamlet running around they stage to find little propped up Laertes

The dramatic eye contact of Hamlet and Claudius as he forces him to drink the poison.... OH HECK YES

the way they sink to the floor in a pair, with hamlet crawling over his body to make sure he dies... oh LORD

the swing hamlet does with his arm to the audience to cast them as ‘the unsatisfied’ was EXCELLENT and i would like that in every production of hamlet please

the tussle of horatio and hamlet over the cup..... iconic.... and i enjoy the parallel of that to hamlet with claudius as they’re stood in the same corner

The harsh projection of Hamlet’s voice and the blunt manner of his words about Fortinbras’ inheritance of denmark against the soft way Horatio rocks Hamlet back and forth ... i want to CRY

Horatio got to have emotional range in this production .. wonderful

i always enjoy the way the play tails off with politics in a room of dead bodies.. the layers the absolute onions

how none of the drama within the castle has any meaning to anyone outside of it is Excellent

and then the way the prison and enclosure of elsinor is finally broken with military force in parallel to the tumultuous interpersonal relationships within it... i vibe yet more

they actually ended with ‘go bid the soldiers shoot’ which i enjoy a lot!!!! and the music is wonderful

then they all start doing this dance which i think is meant to be about the themes of the play and to be perfectly honest it’s a bit crunchy for me but the music absolutely slaps!!!

final thoughts:

that sure was a hamlet production and i thought it had a lot of heart and did some new things very very well!!!

and i loved the emphasis they put on the costuming!!!!

overall: a solid hamlet. very nice. i greatly enjoyed it!!!!

#hamlet blogging #OH BOY THIS IS LONG THIS IS SO LONG

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[RS] new poster

maybe im just a huge sucker for space aesthetic?? ahaha but pretty colors

some thoughts/notes/analysis as per usual:

maidang looks REALLY good. like redraw worthy. something about the expression / angle is just :ok_hand:. and i think the thick line style they use for these posters is also just really nice man

also really love diya here, prepping to use her power! please let us see more of her power, spatial powers are so freaking cool

gudong is gudong haha ready to kick some enemy butt

but auroras... is.... it’s painfully obvious they cut/pasted from an actual screenshot, you can tell (see end of this post). shame bc it’s still a cool pose and everything, but the shading and line weights are all off... downsides of studying something too much ahaha

maidang’s dad in his classic pose

MILONG MILONG MILONG MILONG MILONG IT’S BEEN OVER HALF A DECADE SINCE I’VE SEEN YOUR LOVELY FACE. wonderful to see him in the new artstyle finally!!! lowkey he looks a bit tired already tho ahaha. but god please let him join the crew ;_;

shu!!! actually my first thought when i saw her was disappointment bc she’s suffering from the same wardrobe thing as like black widow and plenty of other fighting gals. did they make her boobs even bigger? ugh. PLEASE give the girls realistic outfits, that’s like my one big nitpick with this show, treatment of woman, but. sigh. par for the course. (i miss ponytail/sassy diya...).

but anyway more relevantly about shu - shes so prominent in this poster!! even though she wasn’t in the 30s teaser!!! come on pleaseeee let the shu theory be correct and let it be well-executed and not brushed off. also this shot kind of emphasizes the choppiness of her hair, almost as though she cut it herself actually. hm.

redeye being brooding, nothing new

tang wude!! he made it onto the poster so im happy, please let him play some kind of role still, whether helping or working against our heroes

blind monk guy and kangaroo guy... have already forgotten yalls names rip but their inclusion on this poster is perhaps good for importance-scaling comparison. because i can’t imagine they’ll be *that* important in this movie... but then again, what do i know?

the big question of the poster: who’s the gardener-looking old man?????? for him to make it onto a promotional poster in a decently prominent position, he must be pretty plot significant! but whomst? is he the guy who’s gonna save/exorcise maidang? backstory relevant??

actually im surprised medici didn’t make it on the poster :0

we see the king spaceship at the upper left, midway is the digital screen sorta thing trademark of the competition arenas. behind RS logo is the engine i think? then a row of seven galaxy eye spaceships. then what looks like the stands of the competition?? or maybe some ruins, it’s hard to tell. and most intriguingly, what is the ox-man statue at the center? vaguely reminiscent of the guy teased at at the end of last movie. one of the yayaluo warriors? will we learn more about aunt panda / redeye backstory / that whole shebang?? planet earth things? possibilities endless, there’s so much we don’t know :000

statue closeup:

the aforementioned screencap (from the teaser no less!)

countdown continues aaa let’s go

#rainbow sea #synco talks #i should use this tag more but rip back-tagging #mine

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