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Everyone around me is “soft launching”well I’m gonna launch myself into space so

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one thing I absolutely adore about tgwdlm is how completely and irrevocably a stage musical it is. it HAS to be a stage musical - the medium is so deeply baked into the story that it truly would not translate to another medium.

some reasons why:

the musical style is old-fashioned in a way that screams classic broadway. you can't get away from it, especially in songs like "lah dee dah dah day" and "show stoppin number". and it's not just the music, it's the dancing too - have you ever seen a kickline in a movie musical, once, ever? or jazz hands? gimme a break

along similar lines - all the broadway references! hamilton of course, but also wicked and mamma mia and jekyll & hyde

all the attention deliberately brought to the lighting and set! the performers in "la dee dah dah day" loudly saying "lights down!" when it's over; ted, paul, and emma striking the stage after "show stoppin number"; the lighting panels used as sirens, TVs, showcasing hudgins' alexa, and more; ted wheeling the big meteor prop off the stage after "let it out". they don't let you forget that we're in a theater.

all the hokey ass miming and special effects???? charlotte and hudgins having their guts ripped out is flashy and fun onstage because of the intestine props. emma and ted having blood capsules in their mouths. paul, emma, and zoey violently shaking when pantomiming being in a helicopter. ted running in place, moving forward or back to suggest movement across the road. it's all so fun and consistently reminds you that this is a stage

double-casting as intentional obstruction of the truth. we're used to seeing one actor play several roles in a musical, so when a familiar face shows up in a new costume we assume it's a new character. but it was zoey flying the helicopter to clivesdale, and I think it was zoey in the hospital at the end as well. you couldn't pull that shit in a movie because movies don't double-cast.

the role of the audience, the laughter and gasps and reactions and applause, especially the applause at the end when emma is begging the audience members to let her use their phone and demanding to know why they're clapping; sure movies have audiences too but the presence of the audience as part of the story makes a point about societal ideals as something we all have a part in that a movie just couldn't make in the same way

on a related note - emma's sudden awareness of the stage and the audience as the horror trope where the person realizes they're trapped and will imminently die. she knows she can't escape because it's just a fuckin loop. she knows no one will save her because they're all clapping. you couldn't do that in a movie because in a movie there is a fourth wall, whereas on a stage there's nowhere for the characters to run away. on a stage the characters can look you, the audience, directly in the eye, with no camera or screen between you

I will literally never shut up about that curtain call

god damn what I wouldn't give to watch this show performed live

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hi

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"I'm gay" "I'm straight" ok??? I'm dead, the blood is all but draining from my head, the nightmare started there but now has spread, my pulse is certainly dropping and my life is hanging on my a thread

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Gillion Tidestrider🪼⚡️

/Benton James Kessler/Eight by Sleeping at Last/Anonymous & b0nkcreat/Gillion Tidestrider/Destiny Calls by Megan Shumway/Louise Glück/Frank Bidart/Gillion Tidestrider/

#web weaving #quotes #jrwi gillion #jrwi #gillion tidestrider #just roll with it #just roll with it riptide #jrwi riptide

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i'd like to imagine that in a tgwdlm movie, the audience would be able to tell who is a part of the hivemind because the infected would be aware of the camera. this could imitate the feel of being an audience for a musical performance, with the added bonus of an extra layer of creepiness.

during numbers like "la dee dah dah day" the singers would be making direct eye contact with the audience for the vast majority of the song. there could be a scene where greenpeace girl is looking at the audience while paul confusedly tries to figure out what she's seeing, and as the camera pans, her eyes follow it, while paul's stay looking where the camera originally was. in "not your seed" the singers' awareness of the fourth wall would be less pronounced, since the lyrics are directed at bill, but it would still be noticeable. paul's involuntary dance moves in "let it out" could be accompanied by him looking at the audience and then blinking and shaking his head as though trying to stop seeing it. in "inevitable", the illusion of a happy ending is maintained until, when paul begins singing, there is a shot aimed at emma's back and, as paul hugs her, he looks into the camera.

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MOTHER SPORE

Part II

Thanks so much for the waiting! I know we kinda hype up the chapter too much but I hope it can live up to y'all guys expectations Once again thanks so much to maru for doing the flat colors and also for being an amazing writter and friend in general

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Where’s q!Charlie this! Where’s q!Charlie that! Guys!!

His obviously with Juanaflippa at eggxile :))) (hiding away from the rest of the world in shame of his actions and the thing is becoming. Slowly losing his humanity wishing for the family he thought he made but it was just another mirage. Because I what brother would he be if he had willingly abandoned them. A traitor to his kin but not his daughter. Never her)

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Roier, welcome to the RatSMP!

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Roier cubito turning into a rat is one of the funniest things to happen on the qsmp and also one of the most terrifying things to happen on the qsmp

#qsmp #qsmpblr #qsmp liveblog #minecraft #mcyt #qsmp roier #q!roier #roier #roier cubito #qsmp cucurucho #cucurucho #qsmp spoilers #spoilers

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The best part about new traffic series winners is the stain glass fanart where the new winner looks up at the past bc I know next series they’ll be in the glass too

Cycle continuessss one day you’ll be as mythic as they are, committed to legend

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I’m starving, darling 🍳

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I love watching Lord of the Flies Team Bolas

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Q!Cellbit is so Eat Your Young by Hozier coded

#he’s talking to roier #qsmp #qsmpblr #qsmp liveblog #minecraft #mcyt #cellbit #qsmp cellbit #q!cellbit

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Shoutout to q!Charlie reaching out for help and turning to q!Cellbit who’s “advice” was to tell him to just get worse if it means protecting who you love

Blind leading the blind over here

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Obsessed with the idea of Charlie transforming completely into this terrible code monster but Flippa staying exactly the same.

Me and the devil but it’s not who you think it’s is!

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Cremation- A Q!Slimecicle poem

They say you died the day she did and you can’t help but agree

While your flesh remained intact your soul began to rot inside you

The hands you reached out in desperation scorched the earth

The voice you cried out with spit flames

And the people around you hid in fear from your blaze

So you flew like a diseased animal content to quarantine your rotting soul

Left without even the one who promised himself in sickness and in health

Though you suppose you being both sick and healthy at the same time cancels something out

But then she returns dancing and flipping and breathing as she did before

Hell hardened with new scars to prove it

Glowing once more no longer with heavenly rays but life itself

(You never knew if life itself glowed green but you don’t question things)

But you were never born for joy

As if her revival was an afront to the gods they turn their wrath to you

While your soul lives along with her again

The body begins to rot in its place

To the point the ground you walk is poisoned by your decay

The people have burnt out

They have lost their souls too, but you spare no pity since they could afford none to you

The voice you use turns to sparks

Flickering in and out in a dying way that’s still almost beautiful

And the warm hands you hold hers

Because that’s all that matters

The fires are contained in you

Burning away all the sensation in your hands now

But it’s fine

The metamorphosis is worth it to look her eyes once again

The flames will cleanse you inside and out

Till you are whole body and soul once more

Then you can be what you always thought she needed you to be

She and you both did died that day

And she never came back

And neither did you

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