#Be More Chill the Musical

[merp-blerp]

So Claudia Cacace recently posted her last Be More Chill animatic and said in the pinned comment that she had wanted to stop a long time ago when people gave her bad attention; it made me think about how animatic creators at the height of the musical theater fandom were treated horribly, despite being the backbone of that fandom for the longest time. For example, I remember people used to give Mushroomie/Mushie r crap about how they were “copying” Szin’s art style, which is literally impossible. A lot of people in the fandom were clearly inspired my Szin’s artwork because she was one of the most popular artists in the fandom at the time and her art was indeed really good. You can’t “copy” an art style. And when Szin announced that she wasn’t going to make Hamilton animatics anymore “fans” were calling her a liar among other awful things because she had said in a now private (or maybe deleted) Q&A video that she had wanted to do all the songs, despite that fact that she also said in that same video that she was going to keep making Hamilton animatics as long as they were fun for her, which they has ceased to be by the time she had finished Act 1 and a bit of Act 2. It had been years, disinterest naturally happens and that’s okay. There were a lot of animatic creators who stopped for the same reason; animatic creating had stopped being fun for these artist and began to be more like a job rather than the hobby it started out as. Remember most of these creators were making these animatics alone and possibly without much if any pay from YouTube. And on top of that a lot of these creators were minors at the time! They likely had other obligations in life like school and family, not able to have time for a job, let alone a very time consuming, demanding, solo job. Not to mention all the other things these creators had to deal with, like making content in a timely manner so the algorithm didn’t abandon them, or YouTube’s shitty fair use system constantly threatening to copyright claim or strike videos and even entire channels in some cases like Mushroomie. If you were in the musical theater fandom around 2016-2019 you know how important animatics were. Pro-shots were even more rarely made than they are now (like pretty much never), and bootlegs of then-currently running shows stayed up online for only a few days or weeks if you were lucky, so a lot of fans had no way of legally seeing the show(s), and sometimes not even illegally. A lot of people who loved these musicals would love a show for it’s music, but had no clue what the full plot was out of a lack of being able to access the show in an affordable way, affordability still being an issue with Broadway today. So animatics were very vital to people getting at least an idea of how these shows visually looked and an opportunity for artist to do something they loved. This was how people got to see their favorite show in away that YouTube couldn’t (fairly) take down. Quite noticeably, when these animatic creators almost collectively stopped making animatics for these musicals or slowed down around 2019, the fandom fizzled out as well, or at least changed. Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t dead like some believe in my opinion, but it’s definitely different. In one way, now that a lot of the most popular shows from this time and others have some kind of pro-shot or shitty movie adaptation, and YouTube being a lot more lose with bootlegs then they used to be, animatics aren’t as vital, but their importance shouldn’t be something to sneeze at and it blows that these animatic creators weren’t treated with the utmost respect they deserved at the height of their popularity. I know I’m pulling an old issue out of the grave and this issue is essential gone, with animatics being made at a less frequent rate than they were at the time, but I’ve never seen this talked about in length. If any animatic creators, currently active or not, are reading this, I hope you continue to enjoy you creations and that people respect you as they should.

#musicals #musical #animatic #animatics #artist #theater #broadway #west end #the west end #hamilton #hamilton the musical #hamilton an american musical #heathers #heathers the musical #dear evan hansen #dear evan hansen movie #be more chill #be more chill the musical

[blep-23]

BE MORE CHILL WAS A FUCKIN BOOK?!

#be more chill #the musical #be more chill the musical

[mishima-in-places-he-shouldnt-be]

Kazumi Mishima shouldn't be in a production of Be More Chill the musical!

#Mishima In Places He Shouldn't Be #Mishima Enrichment Locations #i think he would have fun #maybe #your turn to die #yttd #kazumi mishima #be more chill #be more chill the musical #bmc #bmc musical

[andmusicalstoo]

This is probably depressing and weird since I'm still actively thinking about be more chill in 2023

But I would take the squip even knowing what happens in the end

(ngl the book squip was superior aka didn't try to take over the school and the world presumably)

#bmc #be more chill musical #be more chill #squip #bmc squip #bmc musical #be more chill the musical #bmc the musical #squip be more chill

[the-little-robyn]

Happy halloween, everyone!

And throwback to last year where i had a panic attack at my uni's halloween party and hide in the bathroom and the first thing i did was to play Michael in the bathroom.

A song about a boy having a panic attack at a halloween party and hide in the bathroom

#happy halloween #halloween #be more chill #be more chill the musical #bmc #michael mell

[justalittlerandomartist]

Dear sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health and in a prosperous enough position to put wealth in the pockets in the pockets of people like me, down on their luck. You see, that was my wife who you decided to fuck

Uh-oh, you made the wrong sucker a cuckold. So time to pay the price for the pants you unbuckled. And hey, you can keep seeing my whore wife if the price is right. If not, I’m telling your wife

you were always quite the loser, Jeremy.

#hamilton the musical #hamilton musical #hamilton #be more chill #bmc #be more chill the musical #Be more chill musical

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The musical episode.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #Remember jin guangyao: If you do any treachery you will face the wrath of five horses. #When are the horses going to come into play? You'll see. #s2.ep8 had beautiful music... I listened to it on loop while drawing! #Good music to chill out to before you fly into a rage. #This episode really cements how JGY's mind works - It is a matter of long-term outcomes at the sake of nearly everything else. #Morals do not matter to him if the outcome is more favourable. #and at the center of it all - he has learned that the only person he can truly trust is himself. #In turn - the only person his actions benefit are himself. #He will do anything and everything it takes to reach a position of power - not just for the power. But because it means safety. #Because it was something he was denied and the idea of not having control in his life again is unforgivable. #'Happiness' isn't a goal. We are looking at someone still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. #Everything and everyone is a piece in a game. Bonds and friendships are assets. People are dispensable. #He wants to climb for the sake of climbing. He wants praise and recognition because he feels it is deserved. It's all so hollow. #We could go deeper into his psyche on this. #But these are also tags under a comic in which 'evil penis music' is the punchline.

[charlesoberonn]

#tweet #musicals #musical theatre #dear evan hansen #hamilton #heathers #heathers the musical #be more chill #hamilton and heathers are great tho #bmc is mediocre #dear evan hansen is hot garbage

[war-never-ends]

"i'm straight" "i'm gay" I AM HANGING IN THE BATHROOM? AT THE BIGGEST PARTY OF THE FALL?? I COULD STAY RIGHT HERE??? OR DISAPPEAR???? AND NOBODY'D EVEN NOTICE AT ALL?????

#michael mell #michael in the bathroom #be more chill #bmc musical #bmc #will tag more idk

[hotdamnitsabbey]

Sorry for admitting that I listen to musicals do you still think I'm hot

#musical #musicals #hamilton musical #hamilton #heathers #beetlejuice #in the heights #into the woods #be more chill #dear evan hansen #musical theater #grease musical #six the musical

[can-a-tuna-fish]

Give him $25 and he will come home with a bag full of food that hasn’t seen the light of day since the early 90’s.

#hello be more chill fandom (7 people in the world) #I love him for his ambiguous early 2000’s charm!!! #in my own little universe bmc takes place in like 2012 - 2014 but he could exist in any time frame and I’d go ‘yeah that seems right’ #this phase will likely not last long I fear #but I didn’t want to main-post it so it goes here #his patch says ‘don’t be a dick’ because I forgot what it actually says when I was drawing this #I forgot the Ecuador flag patch :( #michael mell #be more chill #bmc musical #bmc #bmc fanart #bmc michael #undescribed #my art

[eerienostalgia]

When Rich set a fire and it melted his head! When Rich set a fire and he’s totally dead! When Rich set a fire and he burned down the house!

Love drawing some angsty be more chill

#artists on tumblr #art #drawing #digitalart #trans artist #be more chill #theatre #bmc #bmc fanart #theatre kid #rich goranski #bmc musical #bmc art #bmc rich #be more chill fanart #be more chill musical #theatre fanart #musical theatre #musical theater #theater #musical fanart #musical fandom #broadway musicals #musicals #angst #bmc angst

[jasongracesluvr]

C-C-C-CMON GUYS WE HAD A WHOLE ASS MUSICAL SAYING WHY THIS ISNT A GOOD IDEA.

#be more chill #bmc #bmc musical #bmc squip #at least it’s not from Japan #guys please 💔

[like-this-post-if-you]

Like this post if you enjoy musicals.

#musicals #Broadway #wicked #marry poppins #ordinary days #next to normal #be more chill #hamilton #newsies #fiddler on the roof #west side story #les mierables #les mis #chess the musical #annie #rent musical #chicago musical #mamaia #the phantom of the opera #likes

[cam-stopped-eating-candles]

Wow I love be more chill

#be more chill #be more chill musical #bmc musical #boyf riends #jeremy heere #michael mell #basically the boyf friends backpacks

[joanna13]

being in a small fandom is like being given a bone, chewing on it until you're done with it, burying it in your backyard, and then digging that same chewed up bone months later to continue chewing on it, and then the cycle just repeats.this is especially true for small fandoms that you know won't be getting any new content, so you just have to consume the content you've already consumed thousands of times before.

#. #grem babbles #sons of anarchy #the maze runner #mayans mc #cold case #now you see me #banana fish #chronicles of narnia #detroit become human #disney descendants #kingsman #how to train your dragon #rise of the guardians #high school musical #sky high #be more chill #dear evan hansen #my babysitter's a vampire #julie and the phantoms #the devil judge #the quarry #walker #law and order svu #monster prom #1k #2k #3k #4k