#Lauren Lopez

[hipsternumbertwo]

There's a castle on a hill as the story goes...

#cinderella's castle #ella ashmore #starkid #team starkid #bryce charles #angela giarratana #joey richter #lauren lopez #mariah rose faith casillas #curt mega #kim whalen #jon matteson #jeff blim #james tolbert #hfgifs #sir hop a lot #crumb #i LOVE a good map

[tgifridaysisdaycare]

Unlocked Via a stretch goal for the Cinderella's castle fundraising campaign: Workin' boys is now available to non-kickstarter backers on YouTube!!! Premiered during the Hatchetfield Halloween party in October last year, It was unlisted and only available to those who backed black Friday, but now everyone can watch it thanks to the CS crowdfunding effort. Those people who hadn't seen workin' boys now can!!!

#angela giarratana #workin boys #hatchetfield #starkid #jeff blim #mariah rose faith #lauren lopez #kim whalen #bryce charles #virginia vass #jon matteson #dylan saunders #joey richter #corey dorris #curt mega #i think i tagged all the actors #Youtube #mary kate wiles #matt dahan #paul gabriel

[in-a-continuous-daydream]

FINALLY! I have collected most of my favorite moments from the livestream.

So! Without further ado! Here are:

My favorite moments from “A Pit Stop in Hatchetfield!” livestream!

(Part 1)

#starkid #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #jon matteson #jeff blim #team starkid #richie lipschitz #hatchetfield #npmd starkid #hatchetverse #hatchetfield pit stop #corey doris #joey richter #lauren lopez #mariah rose faith #nick lang #hidgens

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

So I Spied Another Day...

You know it was a good show when you can’t decide whether your heart is so full from all the love and joy, or so empty because it's over.

Really do buckle up, because this is a long one.

So the show went a little like this. They played the Spies pro-shoot on a giant movie screen, but any time a song started, the audio changed to the instrumental track, the video typically faded to simple background graphics, and the cast came out to perform the number live in concert style. There were also a series of audience participation prompts up on the movie screen, such as standing to deliver a line in unison, giving Lauren a standing ovation for the Pay Attention! Reprise, enthusiastically booing Dr. Baron von Nazi and the still infuriatingly catchy Not So Bad (for anyone who’s curious, in addition to encouraging boos and yelled disagreements with von Nazi, they also cut the audience participation bit from the song).

The energy in the room was so electric and full of joy and warmth. People shouted out iconic lines, went wild for everyone’s entrances, and absolutely lost their damn minds over Curtwen at pretty much every opportunity. And the cast were clearly having just as much fun. Doing This has always been my favorite, and there was something so sweet about them singing it again all these years later. We finally got Joey performing Spies Are Forever (Evil Reprise) again and it was just as chilling and beautiful as you’d expect. And One Step Ahead was just on a whole new level. I don’t want to give anything away, but the details in that performance were INCREDIBLE.

It was simply so special seeing most of the original gang come back while also bringing some new friends along. Shout out to Mariah for coming out at the top of the show so ready to play, setting the tone for the whole evening. Shout out to James for putting his comedy chops on full display (LET JAMES BE FUNNY MORE) and dancing the hell out of One More Shot (another favorite number). And shoutout to Carlos Alazraqui (taking over the roles of Sergio and Vladimir Poopin) and Tommy Link for coming into this crazy part of our world with such enthusiasm and silliness. Brian deserves a medal for agreeing to once again play the most cringe-worthy character in all of Pulp-StarCanWrecked history, and for sounding so fucking good while doing it. Tessa was having a blast in full unhinged glory and I gladly worship at her altar. Lauren is maybe the funniest person alive and deserved her standing ovation, prompted or not. Seeing Joe Walker perform live has been Item Number One on my fandom bucket list since I moved to LA a couple of years ago, and I still can’t quite believe I managed it. I’d wondered if he’d be rusty, but honestly he sounded great; it was like no time had passed. Mary Kate still has one of my all-time favorite voices and her Tatiana remains forever engaging. Joey showed up dressed to slay as a gay evil genius Bond-movie supervillain and proceeded to thoroughly deliver on that promise. And Curt… every time I watch Spies I am increasingly blown away by what he does with this arrogant, broken mess of a character. He clearly loves Agent Mega as much as any of us, and to see a performance refined and powered by such clear and thoughtful passion is just a huge treat.

(And while he wasn’t in the cast, I can’t not mention Corey. Between his roles as director and co-writer, so much of what Spies is comes directly from him and we don’t appreciate that nearly enough. And shout out to Esther Fallick for her wonderful work as Susan and the Informant. She might not have been there in person, but her incredible performance was with us the whole time.)

I know this is preaching to the choir, but Spies Are Forever really is such a special show. It’s a story about recovery, and devastating as it can be, I think there’s also something deeply healing about it at its core. For one thing, I know it played a huge role in mending my relationship with my asexuality. I will forever be grateful to it for existing, to TCB, Talkfine, and the original cast for creating it, and to those same people for maintaining its legacy with the amount of love and care it deserves. It was a privilege to be in the room as so many people came to celebrate this miraculous little musical. There were a couple of minor tech glitches (I wonder if they’ll even include the “big one”—the projector jumping over most of the staircase scene before getting fixed—in the digital ticket version), but nothing that could even begin to damper the magic of the night.

We all know that spies never die (except for Owen and the Informant, oops). And at times like this concert, I think this special little show with its short run in 2016 will prove to be just as immortal.

#anyways I just had the best time #and it took a couple of days because I've been so busy but I had to write down how special it all really was #so grateful #spies are forever #spy another day #tin can bros #tcb #tinlightenment #agent curt mega #curt mega #owen carvour #tatiana slozhno #cynthia houston #the deadliest man alive #doctor baron von nazi #the informant #joey richter #lauren lopez #brian rosenthal #corey lubowich #mary kate wiles #mariah rose faith casillas #james tolbert #joe walker #tessa netting #tom lenk #Carlos Alazraqui

[starcanwrecked-confessions]

can we like... go back to positive confessions? its getting icky again.

ill go first, lauren lopez is so amazing and i cant wait for her to crush it with the choreography in cinderella's castle.

~~~

#confession #starkid #cinderella's castle #lauren lopez

[smytherines]

they all love the show so much and it makes me want to cry

#spies are forever #spy another day #tin can bros #saf #tcb #tinlightenment world tour #lauren lopez

[teranobriss]

Made something

#starkid #team starkid #firebringer #jemilla #zazzalil #lauren lopez #meredith stepien #hatchetverse #hatchetfield #starkid memes

[that-disabled-princess]

#mariah rose faith #nick lang #jeff blim #lauren lopez #starkid #hatchetfield #professor hidgens #workin boys #nightmare time #honey queen #polls #team starkid

[forevertrueblue]

The Hatchetfield livestream was definitely better planned/paced than last week's retrospective one but I still think they could/should have ironed out a few more things in advance. Namely, how the winners were determined.

If the goal is to raise the most money possible (tbh I think they've left some money on the table multiple times with their various crowdfunding endeavors but that's another topic) they shouldn't be putting people in a position where they're telling others not to donate or even rescinding their own pledges (hopefully as just a temporary thing, but still). But that's what happened with the way they set up the Death Match "voting". So here's what I would have done:

Have them set up the scenario of the fight like they did, and give the fans a set amount of time to reach a certain goal. If they reach it in time, create a poll in the YouTube chat so the audience gets to vote for who moves on. If they don't, StarKid decides (and they don't tell us their choice of victor until the time limit to reach the goal is up).

Besides that it was a pretty good livestream. I really enjoyed the new Hatchetfield content, especially the last scene of Miss Holloween. I'm just worried they're never going to actually get around to making NMT3 and we'll never get the end of these stories. (Same goes for the Miss Holloway musical and whatever the end of the series they said they have in mind is.)

On that note, I'm also kind of torn as to who I think the Lords in Black should be played by in this story and future projects. Besides Jon as Wiggly, each character has multiple actors. Seems like they were going with the NPMD actors for the most part (I guess since they're the most well-known versions to the overall StarKid audience) but on a more permanent level I would probably give it to whoever has less prominence in Hatchetfield overall. That said, I'm glad Lauren was Blinky today since James had a big part in the Bottle Imps scene.

#starkid #hatchetfield #nightmare time #nightmare time 3 #bottle imps #miss holloween #cinderella's castle #kickstarter #the lands that are #lauren lopez #theatre

[februarys-wednesday]

starkid fans when they see Normal Man and his Barista Crush onscreen for 0.5 seconds:

#im starkid fans btw #like i screamed out loud when i saw them in npmd #i'll never get sick of them #starkid #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday #npmd #starkid npmd #nerdy prudes must die #emma perkins #paul matthews #lauren lopez #jon matteson #theatreposting #elle's original content

[blondephenobarbitol]

If you guys liked the whole "Stephs flannel matches Peter's suspenders and bow tie" thing then this costuming detail is in tgwdlm gonna fuck you up.

When we get our first scene with Paul and Emma, the two are dressed in their respective main outfits. These are the ones people tend to associate with them.

But throughout the show, as they get closer and bond, their outfits become more and more similar. Pretty soon Emma's lost the apron

Then at the professor's house, Paul loses the jacket

and by the time McNamara is infected, Paul has his sleeves rolled up and Emma's bow tie has come undone.

At this point, the two are at their most aesthetically similar, and also the closest they've been the entire show. This is moments before the helicopter crash and their failed kiss. They remain this way for a good chunk of time...until Paul comes back

It's like some fast-paced foreshadowing. Emma remains in her changed state, the same as her character, but Paul is back to square one. He's wearing the same outfit he was when they met, and they no longer align. She doesn't know who he is anymore.

I don't know if this was intentional (and if it was, no one explained it to Jon) but it plays out so damn well.

#tgwdlm #paulkins #paul matthews #emma perkins #starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #theory #npmd #jon matteson #lauren lopez

[khruschevshoe]

Starkid is one of the absolute best arguments for supprting independent art. The fact that the shows you're invested in can't get canceled by Big Daddy Streaming, the quality is always amazing, the love of the cast and crew doesn't get squeezed out by surprise budget reductions, the fact that since crowd funding provides almost all costs up front (plus the presence of voluntary digital ticket/in person tickets for additional funding), the fan base can access the full material for whatever cost they can contribute (even if you can give nothing monetarily, you will still get a professionally shot version of the material eventually, without surprise fees or password crackdowns, AND with captions/completely accesible regardless of location). The same goes for Tin Can Bros, Shipwrecked, and all the other associated theater and web series companies loosely connected to Starkid. Like, I cannot believe the amazing content provided to us at the same level as Broadway or streaming services with billion dollars at hand, with almost none of the catches that come with others. Like, I cannot believe that we get all of this right at our hands.

#starkid #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #tin can bros #shipwrecked #netflix #indepedent art RULES #it is a miracle we get this level of content it's amazing #twisted #spies are forever #two of mt favorite musicals of all time came from them #hatchetfield #jon matteson #lauren lopez #joey richter #angela giarratana #mariah rose faith #accessibility #feeling burnt out by ofmd and shadow and bone news #independent art

[skylarksof]

Nerdy Prudes Must Die + Reductress articles

#starkid #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #hatchetfield #hatchetfield series #starkid productions #team starkid #grace chasity #stephanie lauter #steph lauter #peter spankoffski #pete spankoffski #ruth fleming #richie lipschitz #max jagerman #angela giarratana #mariah rose faith casillas #joey richter #lauren lopez #jon matteson #will branner #npmd starkid #nerdy prudes must die starkid #nerdy prudes must die musical #npmd spoilers #nerdy prudes must die spoilers #nerdy prudes spoilers

[in-a-continuous-daydream]

Here’s part 2!

#starkid #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #jon matteson #jeff blim #team starkid #richie lipschitz #hatchetfield #npmd starkid #joey richter #lauren lopez

[booigi-boi]

Lords in Black but they're just normal high schoolers, nothing bad on their mind 💚

"Redraw" of this drawing I did in February when we didn't have HD pics of them yet (I love it still, just wanted to draw it in a different style)

Close-ups under cut

#starkid #team starkid #nerdy prudes must die #hatchetfield #lords in black #the lords in black #wiggly #tinky #pokey #nibbly #npmd #nerdy prudes must die spoilers #jon matteson #corey dorris #curt mega #kim whalen #lauren lopez #my art #art #art post #digital #digital art #fanart #fan art #sketch #drawing

[starcanwrecked-confessions]

I had a dream last night that Lauren Lopez was teaching me how to do some choreography for something but I was so bad at it she took me by the hand, looked into my eyes, and called me a flamingo. I still am not sure what this means.

~~~

#confession #starkid #lauren lopez