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billpottsismygf · 17 days

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The Devil's Chord! This was my most highly anticipated episode of the series because of The Beatles - who I'm very nostalgic for, sue me - but they had a much smaller part than I expected. That may be for the best, as the actors don't look anything like the real deal, but they did an admirable job considering the circumstances.

I love the idea behind this one. I'm a musician myself and love things about music. Music being important, music being holy, I love it all. Everything from Maestro playing us into the theme tune, to the way it aligns with the characters' established personalities (the Doctor's jukebox and Ruby's band), made me very happy. The music battle was especially cool. Very The Devil Went Down to Georgia. Out there, but I liked it a lot.

Maestro was also a lot. I liked them, though. Great costumes, great performance. A campy villain in the best way. They're the Toymaker's child, which is interesting in itself, and I like that the rules around fair play seemed to extend to them as well.

There was a lot of series arc stuff here. So, Ruby has Carol of the Bells deeply ingrained within her. There was some important figure (another of the Pantheon, presumably) at her birth - is Ruby herself a child of the Pantheon? More snow, as well. There's also the One Who Waits coming up again. It all feels a little too self-conscious and crammed in - "remember, there's pay-off coming for these random mysteries that you have no context for!". I know we live in an era of heavily serialised media, in large part because of streaming and the binge model, and obviously Doctor Who has been semi-serialised since the revival, but it just seems like a lot. Maybe even too much, especially since the first episode was quite heavy with it too.

Although, I did wonder if this one was meant to be later in the series. First Ruby saying "you never hide" and then "you always know what to do" signaled a far longer association with the Doctor than she has had, but then it was especially jarring when she said it was hard to keep track of when her time is and it could be June or July... That sounds like someone who's been travelling with the Doctor for a while, not like someone who's on their second trip. And it was Christmas for her only last episode. Obviously there can be off-screen trips, but usually for the first couple of episodes we want to feel that this is the start of their journey as the audience gets to know them. Did this get plucked from later in the series and dropped into the episode 2 slot? Because it seems a bit of a shame, if so.

There was a lot of fourth wall breaking in this one as well. There was a wink to camera each from Maestro and the Doctor, as well as the Doctor's comment about thinking the music was non-diegetic (a nice little moment that probably a lot of people will miss). I do quite like a meta moment, and particularly loved the Twelfth Doctor's partaking in them, but I wonder if these serve a particular purpose, because we also had Mrs Flood talking to camera at the end of the Christmas special. Since RTD seems to be going with a theme that the rules of the universe have changed and become a bit more magical, I wouldn't be surprised if the meta elements tied in somehow.

Then, this is less meta and more fully surreal, but that whole ending musical number was... odd. I don't know what I think about it yet. The Doctor with his wink and "there's always a twist at the end" seemed to signal that we were leaving the normal reality of the show, but then... Did that musical number literally happen? How about the Abbey Road zebra crossing acting like a piano? It's part of my specific brand of autism that I struggle with surreal things when it's not clear how/whether they relate to the more realistic things going on, so maybe other people love it. It just made me feel confused, though, and slightly annoyed. I expected a musical number because the trailers showing this made that fairly clear, but I'd assumed it would be explicitly connected to the strange happenings of the episode. Instead it's just plonked at the end after everything has been fixed.

A lot of this latter stuff sounds quite negative, but overall I really liked this one! As I said before, the music stuff speaks to me personally very much, and I'll withhold final judgement about the serialisation stuff and even the meta/surreal stuff, as it may well pay off yet.

Small things

Love their outfits so much, and obviously we've known about them for a while, but it was funny they were worried about blending in when both of them (especially Ruby) were wearing pretty 60s adjacent outfits at the start. The Doctor was more 70s, but I don't think many people would have looked askance.

Ahhhh, Fifteen mentioning that One was in the junkyard made me exceedingly happy! The speculation about what happened to Susan also has me hoping beyond hope that this might be set-up for a Susan return.

I loved that extended instrumental scene where Ruby just played on the rooftop and people listened. It was quite moving!

Love hearing the word "lesbians" on Doctor Who <3 - I don't think even Bill explicitly got to use that word!

Just the general queerness is really nice. Ruby writing a song for her friend's gay break up. Maestro being they/them and it not really being a thing beyond their introduction. Ruby's mum having a "girlfriend" who was a Beatles fan that makes me wonder if that's in the platonic or gay sense.

I want to know the behind the scenes details of how they chose the music they did, especially when it comes to the chords that both summon and banish Maestro.

Henry the child is real and alive at the end! (Though it's during the musical number, so I guess real is dubious.) When he vanished into nothingness (and his music teacher didn't seem to care), I had thought he wasn't real. Does he have his own world-ending powers?

The Doctor referring to bigeneration as having had his soul "torn in half". Hmm, don't like that! I won't rehash my feelings on bigeneration here, but this implies that there is not continuity between the end of Fourteen and the start of Fifteen, which mucks up one of the only ways I could hold onto being just about okay with it.

#doctor who #the devil's chord #mine #dwmine #reactions #doctor who spoilers #dwspoilers #it's not even a good musical number #oh well #also the susan thing has me genuinely very very hopeful #please please please bring back carole ann ford while you still can #and obviously if you do bring back susan she had better be played by carole ann ford #dwe15

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pop-punklouis · 6 months

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#just got around to reading taylor swift’s profile for Time and…..#and i’m saying this as someone who went to her show #who spent a lot of money to see her with my sister #and who genuinely likes her and her music #the profile was fucking bad lmfao #reading through it i kept wincing at how cringe-girl boss-capitalism it all was #and then the entire part where the journalist refuses to challenge taylor’s narrative about being canceled in 2016 #even though she FELT canceled her numbers and success did not show it at all with reputation #like. a journalist just. spoke about it in their own article but not TO her #when it’s so important for anyone but especially journalists to challenge people’s narratives especially inner narratives that might warp #the reality of the situation #it was just a puff piece obviously but god was it…. not good imo dkdkkd #also her talking about mastermind and how it connected to the end of phantom thread made me wanna 💀#like girlie go back to your eras tour enough interviews for now #it did its job. but at what cost to my brain to read for both @ taylor and @ the journalist

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kaythefloppa · 2 months

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Zachary Bennett is a known singer, I don't know why they don't have him involved in the character-sung musical numbers in WK.

#wild kratts #zach varmitech #zachary bennett #Like imagine Zach having a villain song in the series #JUST IMAGINE #WHAT IF?!#It would actually be good. Great even. Especially next to the sub-par musical numbers sung by the mains

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ambivartence · 11 months

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My top songs (of the first half) of 2023 ✦ Boys Planet edition ✦

tagged by @lunetual @jikyu @leewonseo @lee-minhoe ty 💕

I've listened to over 300 new releases from over 100 different kpop artists this year so picking my top songs felt like an mnet-level survival show 😭 the irony that i never watched Boys Planet AND one of the songs is literally a Peak Time song is not lost on me ! 🙃 but i wanted to pick a trendy format so here we are 😈 anyways i included albums instead of songs that didn't make the cut since there's too many honorable mention songs that i have had on repeat this year 😭 but most of them are in these 22 albums (oo-li is on here twice and istj isn't out yet !)

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tagging (no obligation ofc and if you've already posted will u tag/send me so i can see 🥺): @bahngentertainment @chrisbangs @coupsnim @dakbees @dive-in-the-blue @hannahbahng @hyunfelix @ingblr-s @jinniebit @kyubins @losergirlz @quokki @shorelinnes @starcatching @userjiung @userwoodz @wabisaba @woodziecup @yohanblr + anyone else who wants to share just say that i tagged u <3

#tag game #song recs #flashing tw #*ambiv.gif #ok i didnt have to go so hard but it's the holidays so i had a free day hehe #im actually very proud of my coloring for some of these gifs especially the BSS one .. had to borrow some mvs for the b-sides without vids #anyways yall shouldve seen the spreadsheet i had to use to get to 12.... also the biggest tragedy was number 13 was skz topline :((((((#one thing about me is that even tho i love my noise music i also LOVE my ballads :') and clearly i love my boy groups 👹#i tried to limit to 1 per album & artist except i can't do that to woodz so he got an exception asdfsdfjj OO-LI IS TOO GOOD IT'S UNMATCHED #i have so many other faves..... nct dream best friend .. nine (onlyoneof) beyOnd .. kep1er lvly .. holland number boy .. newjeans omg ..#epex sunshower .. enhypen bills .. dkb more than 100 reasons .. cravity groovy .. boynextdoor one and only .. blitzers macarena ..#billlie eunoia .. bae173 gt .. atbo next to me .. agust d haegeum .. (g)i-dle queencard .. cupid fifty fifty .. golden child weekends ..#ive kitsch .. jinyoung cotton candy .. kim jaehwan lucky! .. lee chaeyeon knock .. mark golden hour .. lun8 wild heart .. nct djj perfume .#sf9 puzzle .. stayc teddy bear .. purple kiss sweet juice .. &team firework .. tripleS rising .. viviz pull up .. xg left & right ..#.......just to name a few slkjdflajfdjlf DO U SEE HOW HARD THIS WAS :'( i DIED !!!#OK BUT IF I DID MISS UR FAVE PLS SEND ME IT I WILL LISTEN

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nympippi · 1 year

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Bruce Yamada post revival!

Here’s the sweet and lovable baseball player!!! He enjoys baseball, and soft jazz!

I tried to make it seem like he’s thinking of spaced out because like canon Bruce has the most memory issues post revival, he has trouble remembering numbers, dates, faces, and sometimes names. It frustrates him, so to keep his mind busy he pops rubber bands on his wrist, and he writes in a memory book!

He’s still very sweet but I think dying put a damper on his personality, he’s spacey, aloof, and calm on most days and sometimes he’s cold, bitter, and mean on worse ones. Those are the days where he can barely remember he’s alive.

I tried to keep it similar to canon with him having his memory and own sense of self being altered because like all the others I think dying left a serious impact on his mental health and psyche.

One thing didn’t change though!! He’s a major nerd for baseball and is an absolute natural at it!

#pippi art #the black phone fandom #the black phone #the black phone fanart #necromancer finney au #bruce yamada #tbp brance #bruce yamada fanart #y’all I never said I’d give them happiness in this au #the only ones even remotely getting happyiness is Griffin and Robin. everyone else gets ANGST!!!#but back to the Bruce forgets he’s alive sometimes. he’d have one of those episodes and see Finn and thought that the Grabber killed him #and just breaks down crying.#I promsies. he gets better with time #his memory is still shit though. like he’s not very good at remembering numbers AT ALL. like it’s one of. the things he’s worse at #but yeah I love sweet Bruce but I also see this post-dying Bruce to be someone who’s more aloof and spacey with how he goes about his day #only really focusing on one thing at a time #griffin reads with him though. and Vance shares his music even though Billy and Bruce have more aligned music tastes #the other boys try to remind him he’s still here and that he’s okay. Gwen would probably make him a homemade fidget necklace too

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thelesbianthespianposts · 1 month

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Back to the Future the Musical should have been a 4 and a half hour rock opera with each hour and a half being one movie

#Either that or a jukebox musical using only rock songs from the 80s and 50s #Obviously power of love would be in either #They fumbled it so hard #I just listened to the soundtrack for the first time #This series means so much to me and I hate to see it treated like this #Marty McFly wouldn’t be caught dead singing Andrew Lloyd Webber esque musical numbers #Without even the slightest guitar #Tell me you don’t understand a character without saying you don’t understand them #Plus the song that implied that 1985 was not racist???#Or sexist???#Obviously the 50s were worse but it’s still a terrible take #And how is biff getting all the good songs?#Bttf #back to the future #back to the future musical #marty mcfly #The creators of this musical do not understand the principles of a gesamtkunstwerk #P-14f

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thewhizzyhead · 1 year

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okay I'm gonna need more of my mutuals to fall into this rotpl hellhole with me so may the power of my icon rebranding aka nancy nakagawa in a hangover convince the lot of y'all to check out a TV musical series made perfectly for musical theatre gays like myself and over half of my tumblr audience,,,anyways please check out Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies like I swear it's good

#like these actors can SING #i'M NOT EVEN KIDDING THESE PEOPLE ARE SOLID VOCALISTS #It's honestly everything i want in a tv musical series #damn good vocals damn nice storylines AND VERY COMMENDABLE DIRECTING WITH THE MUSICAL NUMBERS #I CANT EMPHASIZE THE LAST PART ENOUGH LIKE I'M GONNA RAMBLE ABOUT THAT ONE SOON #the directing in this show with all the musical numbers is just so damn creative #and as a mass communications college student yes i am furiously taking many many notes #i'll talk more about this series when i'm not as super busy #grease: rise of the pink ladies #rotpl

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icklewolfiekins · 1 year

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songs from musicals that are the same but also one of them is a good person and one of them is my personal enemy something something anyway it’s Hard to Be the Bard from Something Rotten and Moving Too Fast from The Last Five Years have such similar energy??

#this is even greater because. one is my history boyf and one is my greatest enemy #pistols at dawn with that shithead #christian borle #Jeremy Jordan #those are the versions I know don’t hate me musical theatre tumblr #something rotten #Shakespeare #William Shakespeare #Jamie is the worst for context #OH MY GOD speaking of have u guys seen #the Jonathan Bailey audition where he sings the number one gaslighting anthem #also from the last five years #I’m p sure he booked it #which he absolutely should have it was AMAZINH #It made me dislike that guy which should be IMPOSSIBLE I’ve loved him since his cbbc leonardo days #jonathan bailey #the last five years #tagging this with #anna kendrick #because she’s so so good in the film of this #I couldn’t think of the title of the song so this has all been padding for time #a thing which is insane to say about the tags on a tumblr post but. oh wel #moving too fast #musicals #musical theatre #mine #jason robert brown #John o’farrell #karey kirkpatrick

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magentagalaxies · 2 months

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just finished interviewing bellini for one of my finals in my comedy class and i'm losing my mind over bellini going on a tangent about how if he were grading my comedy over the past year he would give me an A+. like i didn't ask him to say that and it wasn't related to any of the questions i asked but you better believe i'm leaving that in to be like see professor? BELLINI gave me an A+!!!

#it was very sweet lmao and a great conversation over all #last time i was in town i told bellini a one-liner i came up with about the 2SLGBTQIA+ acronym having the exact qualifications #for a strong password (8 letters a number and a special character) and he said he's repeated it to several people #and it's always gotten a big laugh!! which is so cool!!! i'm not typically a ''joke'' writer my stuff is usually character-driven #so that's awesome that both bellini AND scott really loved that line!!#bellini in particular has been such a fan of my comedy since we first met (across multiple eras now)#like we met while i was working on my musical ''other girls'' and he was so excited to hear about it when i first mentioned it #and had me send him the recording as soon as i got it #and he's been so helpful in developing aubrey as a solo sketch character too #it's so cool having a professional comedian (especially one with such a meticulously good ear for comedy like bellini)#be as excited about my work as i am and be able to help me refine it into something even better #and especially as a queer comedian today who's finding it difficult to navigate this landscape of being ''bad representation''#bellini having been an openly gay comedy writer for almost double my lifetime is such a great resource to have!!#of course a lot of this is true for scott too (tho scott hasn't actually *seen* any of my comedy yet. he's just heard me tell jokes from it #but bellini is such a special mentor for me and i'm so happy we randomly connected over mouth congress over a year ago

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hafwen · 2 months

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Btw I finished season one of Renegade Nell and I am obsessed

#Nell is so cool #just kicks butt in pants #the only thing i did not care for was the musical number #it wasn’t even good #personal #tv time #renegade Nell

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volivolition · 2 months

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Yoooo Voli I made ya a Electrochemistry × Volition playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/19Au6o98AzOf4hEGLMHKtB?si=7kBYYWAhSR-TuLPYicpgYg&pi=a-iR4K2sFbQsWA

also I can't DM you bc you don't follow me, LEMME IN PLS :3

oh hi hello! oooh, hold on, lemme add the link so its clickable. some cool songs in here, thank you for sharing :D!!

also yeah, sorry! :'3 DMs make me nervous and uncomfortable unfortunately, and i much prefer communicating through asks and comments if thats cool!!

#coffee is an EXTREMELY good one for them. i understand the vision of this one PERFECTLY. ''just a sip!'' ''maybe a cup of self-control''#politely considering the implications of love like you. ''if i could begin to do something that does right by you'' as echem and ''i could-#even learn how to love like you'' as voli. i cant put this into words. echem self aware he's fucking it up. voli not letting himself give #into vices like love. traits they look at each other at first with a scoff (''you keep suggesting vices that will hurt harry.'' ''maybe let #yourself have a good thing sometimes you killjoy!'') but they better each other. echem looking forward to better things; little joys #voli learning to allow those little joys and love. is this anything?? i just want them to help each other heal.#and then dead girl walking. thinks about it and smirks to myself slightly. yeah. yeah i get it lmao.#left brain right brain is just a big musical number with several skills taking different lines #left brain: logic; ency; viscalc; voli; authority?; esprit; endurance?; pain thresh; h/e coord; interfacing; composure #right brain: rhetty; drama; concept; inland; empy; suggestion; phys inst; ECHEM.; half lit; savvy; react speed #shiv isnt here because she will not be involved in this lmao. percep is just chilling. it's senses baby!! it's not getting in on this lmao #this is so sad for my empath and voli bestie agenda but alas.#anyway may i suggest: 'A Lovely Night' from La La Land | 'Bad Little Boy' from Adventure Time | 'Weak' by AJR | 'Sweet Talk' Saint Motel #and on my bullshit as usual: ''From Eden' by hozier because ''chivalry fell on his sword / i slithered here from eden'' is so volichem :]#volta transmissions

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ezraphobicsoup · 6 months

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maybe i’m just like sick and twisted and evil but actually the best part of so many songs (specifically thinking about songs in musicals here) is when they repeat a word or phrase in agony and feelings and . it does something to me idk

#tbh this is pretty much just about marvin ‘i never never never never never never wanted to love you’ falsettos #and beth ‘day after day after day after day after day’ merrily we roll along #i mean there’s more examples of this for sure #but these are the ones that rotate in my mind on a regular basis #also today i was thinking and i need i need to analyse the leitmotifs of merrily there’s so many it’s so good #i think that’s all i have to say here i have a normal number of thoughts this evening #it is wednesday tomorrow lasts forever and ever and ever but then it will be the day after #which also lasts fairly forever and ever but then it will be saturday and then #well yknow then the rest of the passage of time i can’t be bothered to go there right now #gonna try some composition so my regular brain may not remain intact i’ll see how it goes #ezra’s real life rambles #ezra likes music

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marnie1964 · 2 months

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The Jolene reboot is bad in a good way but the Oh Louisiana reboot is bad in a bad way. That’s my take.

#m #‘what if I squared up with Jolene?’ come on guys that’s hilarious #my number 1 complaint about Beyoncé has always been that she’s so self-serious that her music leaves me cold even when it’s technically good #you have to be goofy if you want to make good pop music

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synonymouslyyours · 3 months

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