MAROON IS SO FUCKING GOOD. LIKE WOW. I LOVE IT SO MUCH.

Ik the internet has collectively decided liking Hamilton is cringe bc ppl were writing real person fic, making founding father self inserts, and because anything that gets a big enough following must be mercilessly shunned after 6-12 months but like, I got surprise tickets to a matinee today as a bday gift and it really IS that good?

Like. I'm not USamerican. I'm not sitting here like "oh yes this is absolutely historically accurate and this is how everything went down and how these ppl were irl". Its a story. A historical adaptation. But it's a Damn Good Story. It's thematically compelling. It's emotionally resonant. It's about hunger and imagining death and ambition, about that desperation that drives you towards elusive satisfaction, about legacy and memory and the construction and telling of narratives, it's about UNEARNED GRACE and impossible forgiveness.

Like it really IS a good story, and as someone who only know these people as /characters/ and not historical figures, they're compelling characters? Their arcs are interesting? Hamilton and Burr as foils is so good? Washington as a model of leadership and of regret? Of legacy earned and unearned? ELIZA??MY EVERYTHING?? She's not a "main" character but the narrative hinges on her, when Hamilton is stripped bare of his ambition he thinks of her. She controls and saves the narrative, ultimately. It comes down to Eliza as the centre of it all, best of wives and best of women truly.

The music is a bop, the choreography fun, the set design simple but effective. Like? I get things that have a massive teen fandom can be annoying, and taking it as Historical Fact would be stupid. But as a story???? It really is that good?

Also we had an understudy as Hamilton and he was v young with such a soft higher voice and it REALLY worked esp in act 1 with the whole young scrappy hungry thing. He was also shorter than Eliza which imo. Perfect. Tiny man among a cast of largely very tall men and a few very tall women.

>pirate software >doesn't condone pirating software

smh

Can we get a GOOD rpg magic game.

Like i want to make my own character, i want to make decisions thatll affect others.

I wanna kill my entire family and run from the magic police. I wanna be a straight up CRIMINAL.

But with magic but not made by a shitty, mediocre transphobic white woman. Ya dig

At the time it was bright and burning red, but now she’s had a decade of distance from it.

The memories are still there, with all the same excitement and pain, things she gained and lost, but it’s different now. It’s sunk in. Not as sharp or explosive, but much, much deeper.

It’s maroon.

thoughts?

I may or may not be writing a firstprince piss kink fic…and it may or may not be your fault 😅😘

OH? OH?

this may be the fourth? fpws fic i'm tangentially responsible for.

I can’t take it anymore.

you realize, don’t you, that they haven’t made a good muppet retelling since 1996? I understand that Jim Henson had already died at that point, but a lot of the old guard was still deeply involved. and his son directed both A Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island, and he hasn’t been involved in anything since, except in an executive producer role.

the Muppets themselves--the characters, the puppets--have a kind of magic. sure. but the fact that I haven’t seen anyone on here mention Muppets Most Wanted ever, let alone the NBC series or the Disney+ “improv” show, means that their magic has a limit. the story has to be told by somebody who gets it. the Muppet properties that we all know and love were made by a group of friends, many of whom had been working together for literal decades. you can’t just expect whoever’s calling the shots at Disney to throw Kermit and Gonzo into your favorite classic novel and create something of the same caliber, let alone with the same heart.

.

Maroon just turned on and my eyes are watering 🥹

three days too late but my condolences friend </3 one day i'll fix the hurt scout's honor

maroon is so fun to sing though

Made the mistake of scrolling down the Hogwarts Legacy tag for a while, gonna blacklist it now so I can't keep doing it because it's not a helpful or productive thing to do. It's all kinds of infuriating though.

i fucking love the bbmc so much

writing my current wip? no. we succumb to taylor swift and eddie munson brainrot in this household. 

the reputation tour intro but instead it’s the records she’s broken *this week* instead

listening to midnights and hoping that he is listening to it and remembering listening to each of her albums for the first time together between reputation and evermore. hope he's enjoying the stories. hope he's enjoying the synths. the vocoder. the harmonies. i hope this production is taking him to heaven and also driving a knife through his heart because he's not in my life anymore. hope he winces at any lyric that reminds him of me. i hope he's enjoying it.