#i edited out like... a lot of dumb commentary

[tarakau]

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#Ok so I had a seizure/ministroke at the age of 17 which wiped a lot of my brain's knowledge #I basically had to learn how to write and read again and it just hasn't been the same ever since #From straight A student I fell down to Ds because suddenly I had this impairment at the end of high school #Grammar punctuation etc absolutely GONE in my head #I've recovered as much as I could but I still do shitload of mistakes and errors and struggle with low key dysgraphia and dyslexia #(on top of really highkey dyscalculia) #And I tell this to people who edit and or grade my things! Like I'm trying very hard #Don't think I'm dumb just please lemme know if there's anything wrong I'll change it #And for some reason sooo many people disregard this and they're downright almost malevolent #Like it'd be enough if you just wrote There's a comma missing #And not make fun of the mangled sentence that comes out of me not using a comma there #Or if you find me using the wrong i/y in a verb just!!! Idk cross it and write ir correctly idk #Instead of adding a really mean commentary? #Like what have I done to you people I don't even go here #Sorry for the rant dealing with editing and corrections on my thing and it just made me sad #Because I'm not used to being treated like this #At least not anymore #God the past two days are just.... Me reliving all sorts of elementary and high school traumas huh #Thank you Petr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for helping me through it

[itoshi-s]

──✧ ˚ · “ 𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫

*.✧ ft. 𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐢

*.✧ rin puts your early christmas gift to good use.

*.✧ wc: 4k. cw: nsfw, fem reader, very self-indulgent!, pet names (love, baby, pretty girl), the sfw part is sooo sweet i'm melting, slight choking and degradation (rin tells you to shut uponce lol), taking pictures in the act, reader has a belly button piercing. characters are 20+. not proof read // notes: rinnie my one and only <3 thinkin about him lots this christmas season !

"it's no fair!"

rin tries to fight back the amused smile that threatens to pull at his mouth, he really does. it seems like it's no use, though, when he has to hold his arm up to try and block the impact of the wrapping paper on his head.

"you just had to snoop around, didn't you?" you huff, brows furrowed and cheeks flushed from irritation and panic that both burst in your chest upon seeing your boyfriend, innocent as ever, unloading the shopping bags - even though this one single time, you specifically didn't ask him to.

to your horror, you could only watch the realization hit him and face light up as he held the collectors edition of his favorite director's top thrillers. extended and with additional commentary, you just knew it'd make him all giddy the second he unpacks it - he's watched these iconic pieces countless times before, after all, and with his inquiring nature, he'd love to go deeper into the lore.

you’ve hit the jackpot with this gift, that you were sure of, and you couldn't wait to see his reaction - but didn't want it to play out like this.

"i'm sorry," he laughs, sincerely even despite the amusement that lilts his tone. "sorry, love. i don't know what came over me, i should've listened."

you drop the freshly bought roll of wrapping paper onto the table, making sure to glare up at rin as he reaches for you and wraps his arms around your frame. he pulls you close to his chest, sturdy and warm underneath his hoodie, and you can try to huff and puff all you want, but it's just so painfully hard to do it - even playfully so - when he holds you so sweetly. you grumble a bit, something about him ruining his own surprise, and nuzzle your nose against the fluff of his sweatshirt.

"do you like it, though?" you ask, voice muffled but rin hears the hopeful tilt. "s'got all the extra scenes and all. the commentary too." you peek an eye up at your boyfriend, gaze glimmering when you see the smile on his face.

"dumb question." rin mumbles and gives your body a firm squeeze to get his point across. you yelp a bit as he continues, "of course i do. can we watch it tonight? or do i have to wait until christmas?" he teases and rests his hands on the small of your back, pinky finger dipping just barely underneath the waistband of your yoga pants.

you're not cruel and never could be - not with the look your striker boyfriend gives you, excitement pooling in the teal irises behind the thick curtain of black lashes. he's giddy like a little kid and you don't see this side of rin too often, despite him easing up throughout the years. and so,

"sure we can, baby." you unwrap your arms from around his slim waist and instead reach your hands up to cradle his jaw. leaning up, you give him a chaste kiss that tastes like your peppermint chapstick and the cup of flavored coffee he's been sipping on before you came home.

he hums into your mouth, tilting his head and leaning further towards you just when you're about to pull away. it's not enough, he's gotta thank you properly - and so he deepens the kiss, tongue slipping past your lips and lapping slowly, tenderly.

your knees nearly buckle at how it so quickly turns passionate, but as fast as it plays out, it as abruptly stops. rin breathes, lips moving against your own when he speaks. "you want one of yours?" he asks and you furrow your brows a bit.

"hm?"

"a present," he specifies, hands moving to rest on the small of your waist comfortably. he clears his throat, then pecks your lips quickly as he makes up his mind. "actually. just wait a sec."

you make a small sound of protest that falls deaf on rin's ears as he pulls away and dismisses you with a wave of a hand. you huff, watching as he skips up the stairs two steps at a time. you don't really mind how he ignores your whining - it'd be funny if you did, especially with the way rin seems far too excited to return the favor.

it's sweet, makes your teeth ache and heart grow and swell with unbearable amounts of love you hold for this boy - the way his eyes only ever seem to shine so brightly when it's around you.

he walks back into the kitchen barely a minute later, a neatly wrapped small box in his hand and it stirs your interest. you lean back against the kitchen counter, hands mindlessly playing with the hem of your sweater as he steps closer.

"god i hope you didn't spend too much." you blurt out before any thought filters it, and rin laughs as you blink once, purely out of worry. "what? don't laugh at me!"

"so what if i did?" rin quips, a teasing lilt to his voice but it still makes your shoulders and eyes drop, as if to say, oh, you didn't. he cracks a smile, feels the corners of his mouth twitch as he hands you the package. "kidding, baby. open up, you'll love this."

you've never really been too big on surprise gifts, always opting for more useful and handy presents, but that never meant you were any kind of ungrateful. both giving and receiving gifts were only ever fun because of how much thought the other person paid to making it, you thought, and the certainty and confidence in rin's voice makes you all the more excited.

as your fingers work on the light brown paper, rin speaks.

"it's not really big or anything, but i know you loved your last one.” oh- “it actually makes so much more sense to give it to you a little early, too."

you already have a clue what might be hiding behind the paper even before you finally pull the box out - and surely, there is a brand new baby pink polaroid camera, blinking right back at you from the packaging.

it might not be much to some, but it is everything to you - and rin instinctively opens his arms when you gasp and lean into him, some sort of an one arm hug and attempt to keep close to him.

"oh my god!" you sound breathy with excitement as you unbox the camera, feel the way it fits in your small hands all over again. "you remembered," you mumble, eyes darting back up to your boyfriend as if in disbelief.

rin shrugs, offers you an interested look instead. "yeah, it's been months since you lost the other one," he points out, "and i figured you'd want to take some pictures this season..."

it's no surprise he remembered, nor is the fact he's thought it through so well. it's rin, and he keeps everything in this mind of his. (he really does. trying to beat him at buying the most accurate present is useless, cause he'll always end up shocking you anyway.)

you stare down at the camera, fingers now aching to hold it up properly, to press down on the shutter. you smile to yourself, glancing up to see teal ones already looking down at you expectantly. he doesn't look nervous per se, but there's definitely a hint of anticipation.

"i love it," you grin, earnest and sweet as you take a step or two away, holding the camera up to your face. you look through the tiny lens, adjusting the angle so that the entirety of rin's body from waist upwards fits. "grab the present." you instruct, one eye peeking up from behind the camera.

he complies, reaches for the box and holds it up, until there's just a pair of bright turquoise irises staring right back at the lens from behind the package. the christmas tree twinkles faintly in the back, warm light fuzzy behind rin's broad shoulders. "good?" you nod, mouth pulling into a smile at the sight and without further wait, you press down on the shutter.

rin puts the package back down, gaze all the while focused on you, and he's glad he keeps watching - otherwise, he'd miss out on the joy written all over your face as you delicately pull the cartridge out. "first one down!" you chirp, the happy sound bleeding into a laugh.

he thinks he could eat you whole if it was the only way to savor all of you, so sweet and pure and all his.

you place the camera down on the kitchen table, flapping the photo around to speed up the process, "this is exciting." you muse and rin notes the way you bounce on your heels a little, a tell tale sign of how thrilled the gift's made you feel. "you gonna be my model again, rinnie?"

a pair of sturdy arms wrap around your waist, manhandle you just enough to plop you down on the counter. he noses at your neck, the spot just below your jaw that makes you shudder when he mouths at it, and rin hums with thought.

there's already a pile of various polaroids of him, sitting in one of your drawers and waiting for their turn to be tucked behind your phone case - but he'd be silly to mind any of it.

he used to be silly in his teenage years, blushing and protesting whenever you’d angle your camera at him, eyes fleeing away bashfully. what’s all that for? he asked once, a miffed expression on his face as he crossed his arms and slumped in his seat a bit. you laughed, thumb pressing down on the little heart on your screen to save the picture to your favorites. so that i can keep looking at you when you’re across the globe again, you retorted lightheartedly, eyes focused on your screen still but the fond smile you wore pulled at rin’s heart by it’s own. he gulped, aquamarine eyes boring into your oblivious features, and he vaguely remembers thinking that he’s fucked and done for - he was in love with you already, but that day he felt it suck him in deep, until there was no air to breathe and his soul soaked through with you, you, you. rin cleared his throat, straightening up in his seat as he leaned forward on the table.

you peeked an eye up at him, a short hum of question accompanying the look, and he gnawed on his bottom lip with anticipation. take another, he said then, voice softer than minutes ago and he swore he could see a spark ignite behind your irises. i don’t mind.

it might’ve been years since he fell in love with you all over again, but the heat still rises in his chest all the same upon the sight of you aiming your camera at him. he’s grown so addicted to the adoring look you’d give him after each taken snap and he’s selfish, doesn’t want to deny himself the sight - and so, rin presses a kiss to your jugular as he murmurs,

“mhm. whenever you wish, love.”

it's suffocating, the way rin doesn't take no for an answer as he works his way down, mouthing and nibbling on your scorching skin. your whining falls on deaf ears as you push at his head, the air in your lungs growing hot and blood rushing through your veins. he just doesn't listen, even as you try to reason that there's not nearly enough time to be doing this now, that the guests will be there in two hours and you didn't turn the timer on the oven so you have to keep an eye on it. he only gives a slight grunt and ignores your whining.

you should've seen it coming, parading around in just a pair of shorts and a long sleeve top that's so tight, rin could make out the way your hardened nipples poked through the thin cotton. he's amused, he really is, with the shocked look behind your bambi eyes as he pulled you in for a kiss far too hungry and desparete to fit in the kitchen scenery - what else did you expect?

now he has you spread on the living room floor, the wool carpet rubbing against your bare skin and chaffing his knees as he moves to rest between your legs. maybe it is the mulled wine that both you and rin enjoyed earlier or maybe it's the close proximity of the fireplace that brings a few droplets of perspiration to collect across your hairline, cheeks flushed red and eyes bleary as you speak,

"rin-" it comes out as more of a moan than a proper sound, accompanied by your eyes rolling back when one of rin's hand reaches to grab at your mound. the thin silk of your shorts feels cool against your heated skin and urges you to shudder. "baby, i'm serious, we don't have the time," you insist, voice almost pleading.

your arms twitch to prop you up, lean up just a bit to try and catch your boyfriend's gaze, but the wake of kisses he keeps pressing to your tummy is enough to make your head roll backwards instead.

rin nearly purrs against your abdomen, palm rubbing on your clothed cunt as he mouths at the smooth skin. his teeth skim over the swarovski sitting neatly at your belly button, give a gentle, playful tug that makes your toes curl. "we do," he mumbles and your jaw slacks in defeat.

he can make it quick, he supposes. of course he can, and he will, if it's the one single rule he has to play by in order to get his fill. in fact, he still hadn't touched you properly yet and the thin material of your shorts already seems soaked through... yeah, it'll be quick.

you gasp, loud and trembling when rin's mouth eventually reaches your heat. he slides a hand up to grab at one of your tits, tongue lolling out to take a long lap up your folds and he groans. catching your nipple between two fingers and giving an experimental roll and tug, he watches your chest ripple with moans that get caught somewhere deep in your throat. you keen breathily, the arch in your back abruptly smoothed out by rin's forearms pressing down on your hips.

the grip of time doesn't let you fully submit to the pleasure still, body taut and head spinning. it holds you back, a film over your mind, and so you try again, "rinnie-"

"shut up," rin grunts, mouth full of cunt and large palm kneading at the swell of your breast. he glances up at you from his spot between your thighs, eyes hazy and heavy with desire. "need y'now, baby. so be good for me." his lips move against your folds as he speaks, the friction making your eyes roll back. "i'll be quick."

you've no problem trusting his words, considering he's proven countless of times how he has your body memorized better than any technique or strategy. you gasp, fingers tugging at the dark green strands and as if instinctively, you push him closer to where your heat is throbbing and leaking pathetically onto his awaiting tongue.

rin senses your surrender, feels it in the way your thighs tighten by his ears and how your clit throbs in his mouth. his eyes flutter, desire pooling in his gut and twisting as he groans. "good girl." he croons and gives your cunt a sloppy kiss, one that has you squealing at the lewd sound.

his tongue dips past your opening, nose nudging against your clit as he slurps and suckles. you've got so much to give him, it's always so much, too much considering he knows no restraints. your tummy feels warm and pussy flutters upon the familiar pull of your orgasm building up.

"gonna cum," it's more of a whimper than anything and rin's fingers twitch on the swell of your breast.

he gives your clit a suck, soft and languid as his tongue flattens on your folds and laps, and white hot pleasure sears through your veins. it's sudden considering rin's pace, as if lazy yet desperate at the same time - passionate - and makes your body seize up, hands tugging on his hair as you grind all across his mouth. you ride out your climax, shameless in the way you use his tongue to prolong the sparks of pleasure, and rin can only groan at the treatment.

by the time he pulls away and sits back on his heels, the very last wave of bliss is still rolling down your thighs, chest heaving and eyes only fluttering open upon rin's warmth leaving you. you watch as he eases his sweats down, just enough to let his cock spring free, and your brows furrow.

"spread 'em a bit more." rin instructs, voice a gravelly hum as he reaches over to grab a cushion or two from the couch. you obey, thighs trembling with the remnants of your orgasm, and rin gives a sound of satisfaction.

he doesn't waste time to speak, instead slides a hand under your hips and easily lifts your ass off the floor to place the pillows underneath. you fist at the carpet, eyes following one of his hands that wraps around the girth of his cock and gives a few strokes.

"fuck." rin sighs, shimmies around a bit to eventually kick off his sweats before he aligns himself at your core. "you were whinin' around not even ten minutes ago.. look at yourself now." you give him a look, both urging him to hurry and begging to shut up. he smirks, confidence warm in his veins as he spreads your wetness on his reddened tip, teases your clit with the way it catches. "say please."

you groan in protest and rin laughs, lighthearted at the sight of your annoyed expression. he wipes it right off your features with just a single forward roll of his hips, and gasps at the initial resistance your snug walls give him.

"please," you whimper, hands resting on top of his as he lays them on the small of your waist. he urges himself deeper, bottoms out until his thighs press against your own and your cunt squeezes down on him right to the very base. "fuck me good." you breathe and watch rin's eye twitch.

he lands a smack to the side of your ass, sharp enough so that it elicits a mewl from between your lips, and he tightens his grip on your hips. "that's more like it."

the downright mean lilt to his baritone makes your pussy twitch, blush spilling down your cheeks as he sets his rhythm. it's rough and urgent, gives away the desperation building up in rin's chest and ghosting behind his turquoise eyes.

head tilting backwards, you gasp and sputter when the tip of his cock bullies right at your cervix. your legs kick out involuntarily and rin's eyes twinkle with amusement as he thrusts deep, pulls your hips forward to meet his halfway. you keen, body squirming at the pull in your tummy.

rin steadies your hips, fingers digging into the soft flesh until he's certain it'll bruise and mark you with his love. "so pretty like this." he rasps, chest rumbling with a groan upon the sight of the tears that cling to your lashline. "my prettiest girl, takes me so well." as if on cue, his gaze drops to where your cunt stretches around his girth, struggling to fit it all in. he feels you leak when he eases himself out a few inches and gives in to the ache in his hand to reach down, thumb gliding across your clit.

you suck in a breath, lungs aching. "please, rinnie." the clammy but oh so featherlight brush of your fingers across his forearm sparks his interest. he knows what you want, the need almost substantial as it radiates off your heated skin when you gently coax his hand around your neck.

lust washes over his senses, thick and heavy as it clings to his conscious and sends a jolt of despair through his flesh. the look you give him, doe eyes glimmering with tears and need, makes his head spin. fingers flexing around your jugular, rin has to swallow back a moan.

"right here, yeah? want me to choke you out?" the tilt to his tone is downright demeaning, hidden behind a coo that turns your brains into mush.

aquamarine eyes glance down to yours, hold your stare as you grow putty in his grip. you nod, quickly so as if you're ashamed of the weight the gesture bears, and whimper upon his hand tightening. "rin- hah, please."

he knocks the breath out of your throat with a single squeeze and leans down to swallow up your moan with a kiss.

"shit. shit," rin feels his shoulders tremble, the exhilaration turning his thrusts erratic and unsteady. he knows he promised to be quick, but the way your cunt milks him and sucks him deeper makes him hope you won't mind if he goes to break his word. he's so ridiculously close, feels the red hot pleasure creep up and it's a pain to deny himself the high.

your thighs involuntarily jerk around his hips, tightening around his hand that still works on your swollen bud. you're close, he feels it, sees it as your mouth parts and eyes threaten to roll back.

you look entirely fucked out, as if you've been laying there at his mercy for hours already - and he wishes he could keep the image engraved into his mind, reach for it on the days where thousands of kilometers keep you away-

huh.

he gets it now.

you give a confused hum when his movement comes to a halt, the grip on your neck loosening just slightly as the other hand leaves your body altogether. you watch questioningly when rin catches his breath above you, a new found interest to his gaze.

before you can voice out your concern, his eyes already move to the coffee table, searching and seemingly finding the thing in question as he reaches over. you tilt your head, following his line of sight, and your breath hitches.

rin steadies himself in his spot between your legs, gives you just the slightest move forward to try and get your features to twist in bliss all over again. blood rushes to your face in embarrassment as you watch him adjust the camera to fit all of you in it's frame.

"holy fuck." it's merely a breath as he speaks, husky with arousal. "you're fucking perfect like this."

the sheer desire in rin's voice might be more than enough to bring you to your climax, you think as he groans, thumb reaching to pad at your bottom lip. he presses down on the swollen flesh, wet and glimmering with spit, and fixes his grip on your neck.

it's sinful, something magazines would kill themselves over to put on their front pages. it exceeds anything he's seen before, the way your eyes stare right through him and the camera, the hem of your shirt hiked up as the smooth skin peeks through. it's addicting, the way your reddened lip obediently rests under his pad as the rest of his fingers stay heavy on your jugular.

it's too much, the entirety of you. you're always everything and too much at the same time.

rin presses down on the shutter, doesn't wait until the cartridge comes out as he gently tosses it to the side. sparing the device a single glance to make sure it's in tact, he corrects his grip on your neck before turning his whole attention back to you.

there's many things that get him riled up even further and you've seen it play out countless times before. (more so, you're always the one to blame for rin losing his sanity.) but the look that he settles on you now is brand new, something borderline lovesick, teetering off the edge of lust.

he flexes his fingers around your neck, vice grip making your head spin and hips jitter when he resumes his thrusts. leaning down, rin lolls his tongue out to lick up your jaw, sticky with perspiration and sweet with the taste of you.

"sorry, love," he rasps right by your ear. "but i can't be quick with you this time."

© itoshi-s. do not plagiarize, repost as your own or mention on other sm platforms.

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[colemckenzies]

Groundhog Day Musical, West End 2023

after six years i finally saw my favourite musical of all time in person 🥰🥰 so here is my write up of the staging, lyric changes, general commentary etc.

it's worth noting that i imagine the staging is more similar to its original west end run than the broadway version, but i didn't see it back then and couldn't find any footage so I'll just be comparing to the broadway ver. it will also all be based off of the One west end performance i saw and One broadway performance that was filmed cus yk live theatre and all that. i'm also only one person so this def won't be comprehensive. if there's anything you particularly want to know that i haven't mentioned please ask!!

for major overarching changes, there was no turntable which significantly affected the staging, especially for songs like night will come. it's also a much smaller space and much more condensed cast than on broadway.

anyway without further ado lets go woodchuck chuckers 😎 in chronological order

the opening video is completely changed. rather than showing phil interacting w his producer, it just shows his forecast segment in full. he explains more about what groundhog day is as a holiday and that this is his fourth year attending. also includes the line 'we can't all have good weather because we're not all good people'. banner along the bottom read 'up next music: white wine in the snow' as a little tim minchin ref :)

only one person sang the 'i was born on a punxutawney dawn' opening section of there will be sun, pretty sure it was buster. lot of solos for the rest of the song as well but not specific townspeople i think

everyone came out of the mist as in broadway version, but everyone was dressed in the top hat costume. they stood a line across the stage and took a group selfie w a selfie stick

phil turns off the radio after 'that's right woodchuck chuckers, it's groundhog day' so there's none of the subsequent lyrics/banter. i'm also 90% sure the radio recording was from the soundtrack

FIRST LYRIC CHANGE. there's an extra line in day one that goes 'their dumb superstitions and vacuous chat, their total unawareness of the fact their trapped, perhaps you don't miss it if you don't know you lack it, I'm sure there was a pack of xanax in this jacket' (EDIT - thank you for the correction @jackhkeynes )

^not a huge fan of this change tbh but only bc the original rhythm is one of my favourite parts of the song.

there's no hallway in the b&b, the kitchen set is the back end of the bedroom set. this means jonathan is downstairs the kitchen rather than meeting phil in the hallway, so the scene ends up as him, phil, and mrs lancaster. the tourist couple do not come in (or exist), mrs lancaster says the popsicle line.

there's a couple of extra new jokes in the dialogue. lmk if you want to know specifics lol

since mrs lancaster comes straight into this scene they skip the 'think i'll lose it all together' little bit of music

all the dancers are part of the marching band and they all join for the selfie with phil

phil getting hit in the head by the groundhog guy is because the hot dog guy (here played by one of the newsies i saw LOL) yells 'GO PHIL!!!' every time so the groundhog turns around to wave

buster uses an alt melody for his announcement - 'prognostication' goes down rather than up for the last note

they get punxsy phil out on the 'this brown log' line, so they skip the 'the finest specimen you will find' section

nancy sings the 'kinda both but not quite either' line over buster, which i actually really like because she does it in this really peppy cheerleader :DDD way that adds to her being a Prop. she even has pompoms.

wilbur in this version is sooooo good he's a lot more physical and really leans into his megaphone

when phil comes back from the blizzard rita seems a lot more genuinely concerned about him than just laughing

she accidentally orders her drink with a 'tryst' before 'kiss' and finally 'twist'

NEW LYRICS in day two - since there's no radio chatter in this version, after 'how many days is this holiday?' phil sings '[something] clearly failed to mention the owner showing signs of early onset dementia, one groundhog day is surely more than enough, even hicks must get sick of this stuff'

rest of the song continues as normal, again rita seems more concerned about phil, shouts 'maybe i can help!' when he leaves the diner

she then sings her diary section quite differently, like alt melody AND alt rhythm, she seems flustered

actually she also has a lot more variation between days than a lot of the townspeople, like she's more responsive to phil acting differently

LYRIC CHANGE in stuck - 'rhino foreskin' is now 'monkey foreskin'. lyric changes that push me dangerously close to googling 'do rhinos have foreskin' (EDIT - tim apparently said this was because white rhinos went extinct so it made him sad - thank u anon!)

the enema takes place behind a screen, a bit like the silhouette technique used for the shower in hope

at the end of stuck when everyone lists their thing again (karma/toxins/etc), phil says no!! after each one until alcohol and then he goes 'oh thank god'

nothing hugely notable to say for nobody cares, just that it skipped over some of the dialogue at the beginning just to make the scene tighter. i will say that ralph and gus are Exceptional in this version

the staging is mostly the same, except jack and wilbur get their own little cars to follow the truck in :)

in philandering, phil tells nancy he's a war correspondant rather than working for the nyt

again the dialogue throughout the song is a lot more streamlined

the little pillow fight section is replaced by a party in phil's room where you just see everyone going in and out of the door that's set up like when he slept w nancy. he gets his big fur coat from a coke dealer.

in one day, rita doesn't comment on phil's choice of drink, so there's nothing about 'frou frou lady drinks', she just orders right after him and the day restarts

not a new thing but. i forgot about the soixante neuf line and it made me choke

rita and phil sit on a bench to the side of the stage after the snowball fight, not on the floor

joelle's voice is extremely pretty in this ver:) I think the harmony may be slightly different?

LYRIC CHANGE. in arguably the most bizarre lyric change, jonathan is no longer addicted to fried chicken takeaway, but rather camembert. which you may notice does not rhyme with 'day'. the full line is: 'one day, i swear, i'll kick my addiction to camembert. my doctor said one day my heart will stop beatin', if i don't ease off this cheese eatin'.' (EDIT - changed due to this track being played by a black actor, though the one i saw was white - thank you anon!)

the diner waitress doesn't exist in this cut down cast, so it's debbie who can't sing. fred is very supportive :)

something cool they do in lieu of the turntable is for Larry's repeated 'ok phil we're on in 5...' they have multiple larrys, similar to the body doubling in hope, who keep running up to phil and fading away

ACT TWO

the act opens slightly differently - since nancy is kind of part of the marching band in this ver (tho not in full uniform), it opens with a quick section of who is that! who is that? emerging from his burrow -. nancy sings her 'kinda both but not quite either' line, and then drops one of her pompoms on 'until we hear it from old punxsutawney -' and then as she goes to pick it up that music stops and playing nancy begins

LOVE that it cuts off just before 'phil' bc it has the same effect as even choosing to open w playing nancy anyway. she was an incredible nancy as well she's not got many credits yet but oh my god? this was so striking and moving irl and it's already one of my favourite choices of the show

there's a lot more use of Red Lighting when phil kills phil. rip.

staging for hope is almost exactly the same, but minus turntable, so it doesn't have the part where lots of Not Phils are dying simultaneously, just the three main deaths

the scene where phil exposits about everyone in the diner goes jeff -> debbie -> freddie. there's a great exchange that goes 'you're welcome jeff.' / 'do you two know each other?' / 'no???' / 'that's jeff.'

also phil doesn't insist debbie wants a diamond (since she ends up w a doorknob anyway), he just goes CLOSE THE DEAL FREDDIE!!!

since this version establishes this is phil's fourth year covering ghd and debbie and fred met on ghd four years ago, there's a pretty good reason why they're such big fans of him :)

not a difference but the 'i'll never have a birthday' line always hits so hard

if i had my time again is THE single most different song between versions. the musical arrangement is quite different to my ear, different harmonies, and there's alt melodies and rhythms as well as some extra lyrics

as i have already seen noted on tumblr, 'and one dude when i was bored' has been upgraded to SOME dudes. also rita goes 'sure..!' she's like ok u bi bitch. also they're still on the benches at this point but she's jumped onto his.

even when they are on the move there's none of the stuff w the townspeople hounding phil for photos/autographs, they're just hanging out

the section where phil 'shows Rita his hometown' has actually been moved to near the end of the show, so they just get on the tilt-a-whirl immediately. also they share a car rather than having separate ones.

the staging for this part was so beautiful it actually made me cry lol. w strings of lights coming down

LYRIC CHANGE - 'i daily eat a dozen donuts' is now 'i eat a dozen donuts every day'

FURTHERMORE, the second 'why' is actually directed at rita's 'i would learn piano', and she replies by singing 'why?? I'd just give everything a try' and then their 'these revolving rides' section is a completely different tune going into a brand new ending where she's lying on his bed and he has a balloon, with:

NEW LYRICS - rita: 'go to all the parties that i missed, kiss all the boys i was too afraid to kiss (why am i not surprised you have a list?), try to have more days that end like.. this :)'

the next couple of scenes play out as in the bway ver

the order of vignettes leading up to and in night will come are switched - phil brings jenson the thermos of soup on the second day and takes him to the hospital on the third day as the song begins, with the scene w the nurse taking place after the first verse

obviously the staging is quite different without the turntable, ned wanders about between verses and then stands still/sits to sing

ned has a lot more of an 'annoying' exaggerated nasally voice in this ver

in his post-song broadcast, phil pronounces 'phi' like 'fee' instead of 'fie'

in philanthropy, phil saves jonathan from choking rather than the tourist, which does end up feeling a bit random since he also gives mrs lancaster a new coffee pot in this song iirc so along with the sheriff and debbie it's established he's solving the problems from 'one day', and jonathan is clearly Not choking on camembert lmao

the singer at the party at the end is debbie!!!

during seeing you, when phil takes rita up to the observation deck, she calls it 'romantic' sarcastically after the toilets/garbage/etc, and then That's when he points out the duck pond, school etc, and she says it's like he's showing her his hometown

MORNING OF FEBRUARY 3RD EVEN MORE DEVASTATING FROM THIRD ROW OF STALLS.

ending is the broadway one, watching the sunrise :) except it's just phil and rita and no one else

so yeah IT FUCKED andy karl I would die for you. as i say lmk if you have any other questions and i will do my best :)

#groundhog day musical #ghd musical #groundhog day 2023 #groundhog day west end #andy karl #groundhog Day

[sapphire-weapon]

you've been in resi fandom for such a long time right? then how do you feel about it as a whole if you don't mind me asking? is it better to just stay in your own safe space with people that share the same opinion as you to further avoid unnecessary drama like I've noticed that likes to break out from time to time? even though it's like this in probably almost every other space there is 😐

i know i'm going to get shit for this answer but

i regard the RE fandom with the same kind of baffled contempt that xenosys vex has for the FFXIV community. but instead of being hypocritical about cosmetic mods vs gameplay mods, they're hypocritical in their elitism. they'll jump down my throat for not accepting every reading of the canon/characters as valid and then turn around and dox a minor for not having the same opinions on ships as them.

i DO keep to myself. i never message anybody or send anyone asks or respond to their posts or reblog their posts with commentary. i don't even follow back the people who follow me. i stay the fuck here, in this sandbox, and keep 90% of my posts untagged so that people can't find me, either. and i STILL get hammered with hate and salt and bullshit from people who have found my shit somehow and made themselves mad over it.

the RE fandom is the fucking worst.

people from your own ship community will turn on you and dogpile you for not shipping the ship the same way that they do. i've been disowned from a huge chunk of the eagleone fandom -- to the point where they refuse to use the eagleone ship name anymore and ban anyone from the discord server who associates with me -- despite me being the sole person out here trying to prove that eagleone is canon -- because i *checks notes*

didn't like a list of prompts for a ship week or the ship name they were using and then refused to make a public apology for it. also i don't read fanfiction.

they sent me over 50 hate anons in 24 hours. and they still stalk me and try to bait me into shit. and then they have the gall to complain about aeon fandom bullying them, when they do the same shit to one of their own.

people will yell at me for "policing how other people ship" because i reject the "siblings" discourse, while obsessively stalking my blog and trying to police how i talk on it.

you guys should fucking SEE the bullshit that gets dropped into my inbox on a regular basis. and i'm a fucking nobody. i couldn't imagine what it'd be like to actually be, like, a known figure in the fandom.

and away from ships, you've got assholes spreading misinformation, KNOWING that it's misleading/inaccurate, and doing it anyway because they've convinced themselves it's a net good for the fandom. i got into it with a mafia background truther on twitter once who admitted "yeah a lot of this stuff is contradicted by the game" but insisted on spreading the bullshit anyway because "people want to know this stuff," completely missing the point of "you're misleading them because they don't know any better."

look at leon's wiki, for fuck's sake. it's filled to bursting with shit that just flat-out isn't true, but it's closed to editing by the public because the elitist fucks who run the wiki got so high sniffing their own farts that they don't want to be told they're wrong.

so in the words of xeno:

"that's your fault, if you give a shit about the [RE fandom]. the [RE fandom] are fucking shitheads. they're assholes. they're fucking dumb as fuck. why the fuck do you give a shit about what the [RE fandom] thinks? i don't understand. like, dude, the [RE fandom] is the last fucking [fandom] you want to listen to."

[gayrobos]

i would fucking love to read your author's-commentary on the stunticon friends comics! maybe not like in the individual update posts but i know spoilers don't really stop me from enjoying anything and it'd be cool to hear about the stuff that can't quite be shown yet :D

WELL OKAY IF YOU INSIST hehe. it's mostly thoughts about people's relationships. and a lot of it is thoughts about people's relationships with motormaster. a nice relaxing 1.5k of authors notes which doesn't contain spoilers for future plot per se.

I kind of think of this comic as being about... what is decepticon culture, and how does it impact people who've been in it and also their adopted human teen. I've joked that the reason the stunticons are here on earth is because they joined the "kick around people who are weaker than you" faction and they were shocked, SHOCKED when someone stronger than them started kicking them around. so they went to a place where nobody's stronger than them ::)

mikki, meanwhile, is in a super weird place about this because they're. not actually strong at all. EXCEPT when they're with the stunticons. so they have this mindset that they're top dog and they can do anything they want but that's not going to be true if they actually leave and they do know this. they know that if they want to maintain the power they have they need to stay with these people who seemed so normal to them and who they are realizing are seriously not normal. who are frightening. who have never been what they seemed to mikki. it makes a teen ask some questions! or stubbornly refuse to ask themself any questions!

the stunticons of course also refuse to do any amount of self-examination. they came out here to do nothing more and nothing less than have a good time at other people's expense. but they're each deeply neurotic in their own special ways, largely but not exclusively because of their time under motormaster's command.

wildrider has always been Like that. as in, needs a lot of stimulation or she will rip up the furniture and chew through someone's face. putting her under the command of a huge control freak like motormaster was kind of a dumb idea, because they were constantly butting heads. except motormaster is four times wildrider's size and can squish her like a toyota corolla. thankfully wildrider has never ever learned a lesson in her life and just kept on antagonizing motormaster forever until she got sick of being beat up for ignoring orders and wandering off to shred things and. you know. impaled her. basically wildrider's injuries were purely physical because she wasn't that afraid of the consequences of defying motormaster or more broadly decepticon command. nobody else got off that easy. (EDIT: I completely forgot to mention how ashamed wildrider is of every time she made a compromise for the sake of her safety. which wasn't all the time, but she sees it as cowardice, not self-preservation. she HAS been altered by motormaster; it showed her a side of herself she hates and now she's got to be even more recklessly aggressive to prove she's not a coward.)

dead end has spent a long time making herself into a tool to be wielded. if you never expect anything good to happen you can't be disappointed! and this doesn't extend just to motormaster, you know? the entire decepticon army runs on "shut up, do what you're told, perform viciousness." wildrider is in some ways the perfect decepticon. dead end sucks at it, but she CAN shut up and do what she's told. she's very good at killing people but she doesn't much like it. I think motormaster has probably told her a lot of times that she's only good for one thing and she's not that good at it. she really really longs to connect with people but she's also terrified of it (for good reason, since she's gotten burned a lot) and in the present she's still pretty withdrawn even from the other stunticons. mikki felt like a safer option because they're just a little alien and if we feed them and tame them they won't be able to leave! and then: uh-oh. dead end caught feelings. she should know better by now.

breakdown, we haven't seen that much of her being neurotic because she's been in a really safe place for four years. the humans can't touch her. she doesn't have to leave her ship. she doesn't even have to talk to the other stunticons if she doesn't want to, mostly. historically she has been a LOT weirder. and we'll see some of that soon ::) to motormaster she was suuuuch an easy target for isolation. you can tell her to always stay in the comms room and she'll just do it! you can tell the rest of your crew to play pranks on her and gaslight her and they will because it's funny and you're decepticons! you can tell her in private that it was their idea! to breakdown, motormaster is THE number one trustworthy person. which isn't to say that breakdown doesn't fear her, it's just that motormaster can't "betray" you. what would that mean. it's meaningless. this is part of why I'm so insane about wildbreak. breakdown is like, yeah, wildrider is violent and kind of unpredictable and she thinks it's funny to torment me, AND she keeps trying to get me to break the rules. the only way to deal with this is to play along enough to get her to keep it a secret. and also she's hot and I desperately want to hurt someone because I feel so angry and helpless all the time. like! the only person breakdown trusts is also the implicit threat whenever she's with wildrider??? the only connection she'll allow herself to have is with someone she truly dislikes and who has never treated her well! neither of them can ever admit they care about each other as more than fight club buddies because their affection is all twisted up in hatred and their clashing personalities and the way they've been intentionally set against each other!!! AUGH

post-motormaster they just hit each other and have sex like regular people. but watch out!

okay and finally we come to drag strip. who as I'm sure you've noticed needs desperately to be liked by everyone and for nobody to be mad at her specifically and also each other. this is a terrible coping mechanism for dealing with motormaster, but it's the one she developed! and it kind of fucked her over because at the crucial moment she didn't join in on killing motormaster. her loyalties were very much divided between the one person who was most important to make happy and the people she intellectually knew were on her side. and now she's always going to be the one who didn't want motormaster dead. and she's always going to be thinking about how everyone else is thinking that. but everything's fine as long as they still laugh at her jokes.

it's been SO fun to plot out the stunticons falling the fuck apart because the foundation of their trust in each other has always been rotten. house of robot usher over here. there's a lot of decepticons out here who feel genuine camaraderie despite (because of!) the way that their military culture encourages them to turn on anyone who isn't performing decepticonness well enough, but, um, that's not the stunticons. living and fighting together for thousands of years just gave them a LOT of beef to pretend they don't have with each other. despite themselves they do all genuinely care for mikki, but their model for caring about someone is "war buddy" which kinda comes down to "do fun shit with them and save their life." and none of them have the capacity to admit (even to themselves) that they have real feelings for someone!! that would be seriously uncool and not macho et c. so you get situations like mikki passive-aggressively going WOW NOBODY HERE CARES ABOUT ME OR EVEN THINKS I'M A PERSON! and getting crickets in response.

whew.

okay, what about motormaster? what's her deal?

funnily enough I've not done that much development on her since she's barely gotten any screentime. so some of what I'm saying here is solidifying for the first time. (I don't really write a lot of notes, just scripts.) like I said, she's a control freak. and an egotist. she needs to claim credit for the victories of everyone under her command, and she's a pretty fucking bad leader which is why she only has four subordinates. but she's unbelievably effective on the battlefield, and that ability transfers well to menasor. a win for the decepticons. truly, what is there to say about her? in this story she's defined by what she does to other people. I won't get into the metaphors that we'll see in stunticomix endgame (teehee), but from a narrative point of view she's literally nothing without them. she's more the spectre of decepticon culture than she is a person, yk?

so the stakes of this story are: can the stunticons overcome millennia of indoctrination, abuse, and generally sucking in order to have a genuine relationship with like 1 person who doesn't have that baggage? can they allow themselves to care about ANYTHING? originally the script I wrote (with arcee's help <3 hi arcee) calls for the answer to be yes, they can pledge themselves to a cause they decided for themselves and yes they can build a community. but you know what? reading all this shit it's really hard to believe that they can do any of that. VOTE IN THE REPLIES will y'all be mad at me if this turns out to be a tragedy. lmao.

#stunticon friends #red I like ur characterizations so much. especially your dead end. I really cherish him. #every day I'm thinking about dead end in your valentine fanfiction #this has nothing to do with the post uhhh I just think your fic is neat #and it stands in contrast to my approach which has to serve The Themes Of The Work (and my regrettable tendency toward understatement) #OKAY PEACE THIS HAS TAKEN ME A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF TIME TO TYPE UP AND I'M SICK OF AGONIZING OVER IT

[aprillikesthings]

Now that I've spent a good day thinking about how hot it is when Catra is a terrible person corrupted by setting off a portal, I'm ready to go back to (re)watching her try to be Good lolol

well okay more than one day.

I mean I literally spent the last four? five? days listening to songs off The Downward Spiral over and over while thinking about Catra and practicing my makeup for my Catra cosplay and ordering more of the things I need for it; like literally just staring off into space at work between phone calls thinking about Catra

I'm totally a well-adjusted middle-aged adult, thanks for asking!

Shit where did I even leave off

Oh right

SO HEY if you're new here, I've been rewatching all of the 2018 She-Ra, and I started doing it for fic-writing reasons but predictably I have become deeply obsessed. Anyway these posts sometimes have a lot of asides and commentary and references to other stuff and dumb jokes among a ton of screenshots, also (and it feels odd saying it this close to the end of the show) it's a RE-watch, so there's often spoilers for later bits of the story, also I keep trying NOT to just describe the entire plots of the episodes but I keep failing lol

s5 ep7 Perils of Peekablue

Adora's trying to become She-Ra (without an immanent threat) and then Bow and Glimmer distract her, and then the door opens on Catra and

I literally did a YES YES YESSSS AHAHAH out loud bc this is the point at which Catra just starts OPENLY FLIRTING, as opposed to just uhhhh flirtatiously taunting I suppose lol

like you're SITTING IN HER LAP

Also while rewinding it to watch again I paused it at the most hilarious moment

look at Catra's FACE

help I can't stop laughing but also look at Bow's expression

Glimmer: omg I'm gonna get to see my dad Catra: *gets up and leaves*

But also I make this face when a cat leaves my lap before I wanted them to:

Anyway they're a day out from arriving at Etheria

Adora's trying so hard

BACK ON ETHERIA

YAY IT'S THIS ONE

the intro finally changed!! I can't get a good screenshot but now when Catra (with short hair) and Adora (in She-Ra's new get-up) are fighting they stop much faster and they're both smiling omgggg

and there she is!! with everyone else!!

okay I'm going to take way less screenshots etc of the underwater speakeasy thing because let's be honest: that part of the plot isn't what I'm here for lol

But yeah they're going to the speakeasy thing to get Prince Peekablue who can see to the edges of the galaxy and can maybe tell them where Adora and the others are because they don't know what happened

Oh also Spinarella is chipped and Netossa is realizing something is off/weird about her but doesn't know what

Oh hey! You used to work for Huntara in the Crimson Wastes

Sea Hawk has pissed off approximately half the people in the room it seems (by lighting their ships on fire at some point)

Scorpia and Perfuma are the cutest and I can absolutely see how they end up together

In my fic I originally had Adora talking to some kind of therapist but I wasn't sure they existed on Etheria, and last week I edited that bit so Adora is talking to these two (which makes the conversation more fun AND easier to write anyway)

Perfuma: "Scorpia. You should do things not because you're good at them, but because they make you happy." THAT IS ONE OF MY LIFE PHILOSOPHIES thank you Perfuma you're 100% correct and I tell people this ALL THE TIME

Mermista: "I might've set their boat on fire. Just to see what it felt like."

Sea Hawk:

lolol

YESSSS I love this scene

Perfuma makes a flower, throws it to Scorpia as she sings, and she blushes and tucks it into her hair, these two are so sweet and cute

oh god I forgot that when "Prince Peekablue" get stung by Scorpia they go through the last half-dozen shapeshifts before turning into a (passed-out) Double Trouble.

lolol instead of "cash cow" it's an insult to poor Catra

Anyway they have the info the Rebellion wanted!

Horde Prime is pissed and has blockaded the planet, also half the people at the speakeasy were chipped....and now so is Mermista, though nobody realizes that yet

But also the phrasing of "She-ra stole his little kitten away" is just amazing

But also the last they heard, Adora and Bow and Entrapta had left to rescue Glimmer, do they think Double Trouble is talking about Glimmer here or what

(which. they did. they just also went back for Catra.)

Netossa realizes her wife (and most of the people around them) are chipped D:

And a chipped Mermista is gonna drown them all

oh shit Micah is also chipped

Entrapta gets the comms working!

"The Rebellion's been compromised! Horde Prime has them! We lost, I'm so sorry! We lost them!" --and then the comms go to static

AND CREDITS!

#april rewatches spop #perils of peekablue

[thephantomcasebook]

Do you think Martin was full "Daeron the Daring, the king that never was" when started to write the Dance and then fell in love (for whatever the reason) by the that demon? I Iove Daeron SO MUCH, and I like to think that his two "nephews" who became kings and had his name where only half of what he was as a whole. Daeron I was military genius, but he was dumb at politics that why he was killed the way he was. Daeron II was a political genius but if he had a eye for war, he should have known that the Blackfyres would become a problem

I wasn't there, so I couldn't say for sure.

But I know, it was either the first editions of either "Fire and Blood" or "A World of Ice and Fire" that expanded on Daeron's character ... though it could be forum posts on Westeros.org from the "lore that got cut in editorial" section ...

I don't know, not to play the old man card at 33 but I have a lot of memories of things that either don't exist anymore or got retconned out of existence.

Like I have this very - VERY - vivid memory of an official art piece that was a black and white sketch of Criston escorting Rhaenyra down a hall with young Rhaenyra's arms wrapped about his bicep and smirking to herself. Then, in the background a very Jessica De Gouw looking Alicent glaring at them. It had to be around 2014-2017, maybe even earlier. It might have been a "Wizards of the Coast" art book for the Westeros RPG and card game. I think it was art from the novella "The Princess and the Queen" and I'm pretty sure in that was a much more detailed narrative telling of Alicent and Rhaenyra's rivalry that was centered around fighting over Criston Cole, which Alicent won and Rhaenyra swore to avenge the insult.

It was the sort of the kick off of "The Dance of the Dragons" in the very early days of "Game of Thrones" the TV show. before GRRM got the HBO development deal.

I'm pretty sure that Emily Carey was given a copy of "The Princess and the Queen" to read and that was where she got the idea that Alicent was in love with Criston Cole. Cause, like Carey, I also remember that detail pretty vividly from the source material. But now, upon reflection, I think I read "The Princess and the Queen" and misremembered it as part of the First Edition of "Fire and Blood" which absorbed elements of "The Princess and the Queen" short story into official canon.

Anyway.

My point is that there was a smattering of stuff on Daeron that I remember that I can't seem to find anymore. Like I remember him being incredibly brilliant strategist - he used Tessarion for recon flights to track the Black's forces movements and scout terrain for upcoming battles. The dude was a innovator in terms of military thinking - way ahead of his time. He harnessed Dragon riding for more than just show of power, but for practical uses in the field that made him near invincible in battle.

I always got the sense that GRRM started off being incredibly influenced by Henry V with Daeron. He was handsome, a great tactician, and a great warrior - and he also was beloved by the common people and spent a lot of time with them, made friends with them. And in the original editions most of King's Landing was ready to help him. However, one of the many things that the TV Tie-In Edition changed was that now people are afraid of Daeron rather than them wanting him to be king which was why they were ready to riot, which was before 2022.

To be honest with you, I think that HBO required bad guys in their social commentary bullshit phase of which "House of the Dragon" was being developed. And I just think that having a nuanced character like Criston Cole and a clear-cut hero like Daeron Targaryen _ "The King that Should Have Been" - wouldn't fit the agenda that a 2019 HBO was pressing. The Greens have to be the bad guys. They can't have a clear cut hero and villain story in which Rhaenyra becomes the mad queen and Daeron becomes the young valiant knight who oppose her like it becomes at the end of the War.

in HBO's mind Daeron has to be a pushover and a weakling ... or he can't be in the show. And even though those execs and Sapochnik and his wife are long gone, I just have no faith that they're gonna do Daeron justice as the easy organic fan favorite character coming out of "The Dance".

Because, don't get it twisted. Daemon is GRRM's favorite character. Aemond is the 'Girlie's" favorite character. But Daeron was the readers favorite character, cause, he was "THAT" dude.

Us Daeron fans are people of culture and taste.

#House of the Dragon #Daeron Targaryen #Daeron the Daring #Alicole #Alicent Hightower #Criston Cole

[castletown-cafe]

I’m hoping to have a new recipe in time for this weekend!

I know I’m not updating as regularly as I used to - around last summer or early fall I got kinda overwhelmed with the amount of recipes I wanted to do so I slowed down. But I wanna get back into it. My ideas are back and better than ever, and here’s what I’m looking to do this spring and summer (and maybe fall):

Get myself a mint plant of my own. Fresh mint has a short shelf life, and since getting fresh mint was difficult as it was either often out or I had too much mint in a sprig to use before it went bad, having my own mint plant would be a good idea. Been thinking about growing my own herbs since last spring. As it is now April as of this time of writing, I think it’s time to look into herbs. I don’t know much about growing plants compared to my roommate but having fresh herbs I can harvest myself will make cooking even better. First things first tho, I gotta learn how to take care of plants.

Bread making. Having made donuts and dinner rolls, I’m ready to make the next step and start learning how to do my own bread. Some of the recipes I want to do for Castletown Café include making bread products - such as black burger buns for Darkburgers (using squid ink) or purple buns for Glamburgers. I also want to try making my own pizza crust from scratch as well as bagels (for CD Bagels), and cinnamon rolls (for Cinnamon Buns), but first things first, I gotta start simple. I’ve already made donuts before, and so far I really enjoy making those fried sweet treats.

Candy making. I’ve said before that making candy is HARD and it’s true. Where you live, climate, and the weather greatly impact how your candy will turn out and I don’t live in a laboratory. I have most of the equipment, but man, candy thermometers seem to die quickly….and it’s so hard to keep things at a certain temperature. Just like how I’m reading books on bread making, I gotta read books on candy making as well. I’ll probably start with chocolate since that MAY be easier than, say, marshmallows, gummy candy, or hard candy. That said, I have successfully made a caramel dipping sauce before for apples…..yum.

Now, the question is, will I be able to follow up on all these? I keep talking about ideas and things I want to do, but will I ever actually do them?? I’m someone who’s often in over their head and hyper-creative. But, at least I try, and that’s important.

Speaking of trying, recording gameplay of Pokémon Scarlet has been going well. I had to stop recording for a couple weeks due to the closing of the Nintendo eShop for the 3DS and Wii U, and I had to play a few 3DS games in order to access the DLC (because the way the 3DS distributed DLC meant having to progress through games in order to unlock it as opposed to buying the DLC after you had the game installed regardless of whether or not you played it. It was a dumb decision and I’m glad that’s not how it’s distributed on the Switch or even the Wii U…seriously what were they thinking??).

Anyway - video editing will be the next hurdle. A lot of my commentary is live-recorded as I play through it, but I’ll have to re-dub a lot of stuff, especially character dialogue. Plus, there’ll be a lot that’ll have to be cut because it can be boring to just watch someone run around, pick up items, and battle Trainers when the main campaign is what’s entertaining for viewers (right?). We’ll see what the final result looks like. I don’t expect it to be good, but I don’t have professional equipment nor do I have much skill in video stuff. (There’s a reason I haven’t adapted well to the Tiktok-dominated era of the internet).

We’ll see where things go from here - both in cooking as well as gaming video stuff. Anyway, that’s my update for April, hope to be back with another recipe! The art is almost done, but I still need to re-write and fine-tune the blog entry.

See you soon!

#mari speaks #update #cooking #long post

[enneamage]

I really love how the cooking video was done. It would be fun to see what he could do with the style moving forth (maybe he can promote his other videos as infomercials? Or just have fun little skits) and the current cast this and the hide and seek out was great to get some fresh faces and a different mix. Sometimes only so many jokes can be made with the same for people especially since he likes to take advantage of archetypes (some times too much imo)

I’m interested in seeing more videos in this style because it looks like there’s a lot of potential to have fun with skits as well as the post-action interview format. Taking less cohesive things and adding an interview format to make them seem more put-together is the spine of a lot of modern reality TV, so it worked out good here too. I was reminded of Tommy saying in a recent alt stream that he likes editing and working in post-production, and the layers of the interview format play well with that.  

I was re-visiting the video because it seemed so different, and I wanted to check to see what the components of the difference were, even though I’ll always be YouTube-dumb on some level. It looks like there was a different editor than usual who helped out on the video, and they were thanked thoroughly in the description, so they may be part of how good it turned out pacing-wise. (Edit: never mind, It looks like they're a regular on the team they all just did a real good job for this one.) The formatting choices still primarily seemed to be Tommy’s though, so it looks like this was him trimming the fat of the format and finding ways to play with it. There’s a commentary that I’m not fully smart enough to make here about how the commercials cut the video into ten minute thirds and the way that that formatting helped keep people’s attention fresh without only making a simple ten minute video.

The video was a lot of funny people working well off each other so regardless of how it was processed it was gonna be good, but the format added a lot to it. It didn’t feel interchangeable with any of his other videos, which is really good, because part of the burnout around viewing this kind of content can be sameness and repetition.

#Also what in the sweet hell is that ai generated lookin ass video description blurb #Algorithm massaging word garble perhaps #gen tmmy tag #tubeposting

[adultswim2021]

Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! #2: “Friends” | February 18, 2007 - 11:45PM | S01E02

Hey! It’s another episode of the Tim And Eric show. How about that! I don’t know if I actually want to go segment by segment; I’m gonna hone in on a Robot Chicken approach here; ignoring the very short bits unless they grab me (Whores Milk, Balls, and Bloody Balls - what am I going to say about them?).

I have a personal theory that the second episode of most shows have a very high likelihood of being disappointing. I have probably posited this theory on every second episode I’ve covered on this blog. To me, if a second episode holds up roughly as good or better than the first, that is a GREAT sign. This one is pretty fucking strong. 

The show opens with Cinco Balls Insurance, which in lesser hands could come off as dumb fratboy humor featured on the loathsome CollegeHumor.com. As Eric points out in the commentary track, the fact that the midget spins away with his arms up adds the Tim And Eric Touch, arguably a better name for the show. Imagine it (with purpose): “The Tim And Eric Touch”. Wow. This bit comes back later and bookends the show! See, this isn’t just random nonsense! It’s recurring nonsense! The man in the ad (Prance Stuard) is played by Ron Stark, and he will be a familiar face in the series. He’s actually pretty great, and seems relatively “with it”.

The hosting bit here is Tim and Eric are sporting fake tans, black turtlenecks, and attempting to be professional presenters, with Ron Lynch announcing their names before each segment. You don’t actually see Tim and Eric talk, and the idea of them trying to be professional isn’t actually communicated in the episode itself. In fact, this originally did have more to it: Eric questioned the effectiveness of this new (to them) approach hosting the show, and Tim was insistent that this is how you make professional television. This is all on the DVD as a special feature. In it’s original cut, Tim presents hidden footage of Eric saying that if the episode isn’t successful, that he’ll let the midget from the Cinco Balls Insurance ad punch him in the nuts. ALL off this pretense is cut out, so at the end the midget just shows up for no reason, and there’s not even a hint of the conflict between Tim and Eric. It’s also MUCH MUCH FUNNIER as-aired. One of the many examples where editing saved a Tim And Eric sketch.

NOTABLE: This costume and set is a lot like the hosting bits they did for the Tom Goes to the Mayor DVD extras, and some of that footage wound up in promos for the show (which show? Tom Goes or Awesome Show? I forget. Sorry). Whether this is the actual same shooting session or not is vague to me, therefore unknowable for the rest of all time. I’m actually taking this from the commentary track, where Tim & Eric bring up the Tom Goes to the Mayor DVD. I should have rewatched those bits, but, (j/o hand gesture).

Do Dah Doo Doo is the introduction of Ron Auster as Pierre, who sings a vaguely menacing song instructing children to dance and think about their dads. This is text book Tim & Eric. It’s crappy-looking, almost realistically so, and the urging of Pierre asking the kids in song “Think About Your Dad. What’s your dad like? I wanna meet that dad!” is creepy, but not in any significantly criminal way on a children’s instructional tape. It’s uncanny creepiness, maybe the funniest kind. This bit ends with Pierre swearing at the kids for bringing rotten meat into the studio. 

ASIDE: I have been to multiple Tim & Eric live shows. One was an all-ages show, and one was a 21+ show. The audience for the 21+ show was full of assholes who’d heckle Tim & Eric’s roster of, uh, “outsider” “artists” and eventually it devolved into them heckling Tim & Eric as well. The all-ages show, full of annoying, awkward teens, was beautiful. Honestly, seeing a bunch of kids genuinely star struck meeting David Liebe Hart was life-affirming (though I hope he didn’t get too close to them). Ron Auster grabbed me and my friend by the shoulders and yelled something like “THIS IS IT BABY! THIS IS THE NIGHT!”. He seemed so happy and stoked to be part of it. Just a wonderful, hilarious guy. 

Another running sketch (which is where we see Gibbons and Friendy on a TV screen for a few seconds) is one where Tim sends Eric a letter telling him he’s dying of Limp Lip, a fatal degenerative disease where you face rots off starting with the lips. Tim sends along a horrifying photo. He asks his friends not to send anything. Eric responds by sending him an ornamental hot dog to symbolize their friendship and love, urging him not to eat it. When we see Tim, we find out his Limp Lip is a hoax, and he just wanted to get his friends to send him stuff. He immediately eats the hot dog, which is almost certainly rotten. Pierre shows up on TV with a PSA about rotten meat being deadly, and to “keep your meat ice cold”. A post-credits scene reveals Tim contracted limp lip and died from the hot dog, with a creepy, animated, digital smile popping up on his face. 

Rounding out what else is on here: The Married news prank Brule into thinking Wayne has passed, interrupting his segment on cool cars. You can tell Steve is so excited to talk about cool cars. It’s so funny. When the prank is revealed, Brule flips out, running into a corner of the studio and spinning rapidly. This is one of my favorite moments on the show, the spinning. It’s just so goddamn funny. So thematic, this episode (the balls guy spun, remember? He spun in. There were no survivors.)

There’s the first “Where’s My Chippy?” bit, we find him, don’t worry! FUN STORY (MAYBE): one time, my friend (the same one mentioned from before, the one that got grabbed by Ron Auster with me) once got really exasperated trying to remember what Chippy’s name was and started stumbling on his words and eventually settled on: “YOU KNOW! THE POOPY MONSTER??” I am trying to hang out with him again lately and it keeps not working out, I wonder if he figured out that I’m GOING CRAZY.

Then there’s “Writin’ a Jingle”, where Tim & Eric compose the catchy “Rolo Tony Brown Town”. This is another bit of silliness that carried over from their website. There was a page of jingles they wrote for companies in a similar vein. It’s funny to me when they do their Papa Johns bit, or their Shrek 3 bit, that people ever sincerely mistake it for actual selling-out. One of the last things I did before the Novel Coronavirus Global Pandemic of 2020 was attend the Tim & Eric live show, which coincidentally involved a disease outbreak, which required the audience to be quarantined. Quarantining was in store for us mere days later. That show was jokingly sponsored by a real health insurance company, and even that got them shit. Also, this was the last time I saw my friend, the one I mentioned two times already, in person. Damn, I need to call him. He said he wanted to hang out! You know, work schedules and all. I’m just saying this outloud on my blog to make myself do it. I’ve been bad at being friends. The name of this episode.

MAIL BAG

I’m hella stoned right now and forgot what bags I covered so hopefully i don’t miss or skip any. KON WROTE:

EPHEMERA CORNER: Boston Mooninite Panic (January 31, 2007) Primarily famous for being the first time my dad was ever made aware of Adult Swim. Honestly that was the first time I felt like Adult Swim had "made it."

I don’t know how to unbold or unitalisize this text. Ahh! Tumbler is telling me i have to pay 5 dollars to unlock this or else I’m “g*y”. Anyway, this is a great call, and I’m sorry I missed it. I’m pissed off that I did. I actually didn’t do a whole lotta research for EPHEMERA, please make sure I don’t forget about whatever other terrorism happened on Adult Swim’s watch.

Love your little deep dive into fake shows. Reminds me that around this time Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was finally getting recognized outside the UK. A fake show on it's own but had the mind to put a talking head wrapper around it with the "actors" that I think set it apart from shows like Saul and often the best comedy bits came from that. If Darkplace was only show within the show I think it would've not been fondly remembered at all (like Saul).

I think it would be very fun to compile a (hey! I did it! I’m no longer bolded somehow! WOW NICE) definitive list of fake shows, and include which tier they are (MOVIE-TIER) (SHOW-TIER) (REAL-TEIR-PARODY) (REAL-TEIR) and the Most top tier would just be that Blazing Saddles TV Show that Warner Bros. made but didn’t release just to retain the sequel rights)

That's My Bush was so fucking funny dude

I legit loved it back then but I don’t know if I would now. My Fake Show of choice was Let’s Bowl. In fact, the first Saul write-up was originally gonna be me talking all about Let’s Bowl as the one example of what a “fake show” and decided to flesh out that concept. It’s just... wow! What a concept!

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #tim and eric awesome show great job

[darkestprompts]

How and where do you search for reference when writing fics/brainstorming? Any recommended websites? Books? Things to keep in mind?:D

I wish this ask was more specific about what kind of references they'd like me to talk about, so I could be more precise! I'll talk about history because that's usually comes up here.

Of course, DD is fantasy so there's always freedom to the level of realism you want add, so often I'm not necessarily seeking out inspiration, but simply reading about something interesting and ding, it'll give me an idea. But let's see if I can give some guidelines.

Tips for more in-depth historical research:

Be specific. If you search "middle ages", even in scholarly search engines, you will get inconsistent content that will range over centuries and continents. "Castille XII Century" will provide much better results.

When you've narrowed down a time and place, take at least a cursory look at what came immediately before, the neighboring territories and main cultural influences. Why are they similar or different? Why did things change in this way?

Even if you aren't a history buff, try to pin down a few milestones for your own reference. To be able to tell "Oh, this is before X, but after Y" can make things much less daunting.

Don't think of history only in terms of events, but of dynamics. Class, culture, environment, technology, law, economy, religion, it all plays a role in how people behave, what customs they create and how they look like.

Material culture is important! That means clothes, tools, art, weapons. A single invented object can change a whole society. And a simple object can reveal a lot about how people lived.

People can do batshit insane things. It doesn't mean people in the past were stupid. Try to understand why those institutions existed within their own system of logic.

People in history fucking lie. No, really, that's an extremely important fact to remember when tackling primary resources, it's impressive how many miss it. If it sounds like bullshit, find commentary about it for further context.

How to find good references:

Museum websites will give you a wealth of material culture to work with. Even if gringos stole a shitload of it.

Be careful with youtubers, social media and the like. It may sound exclusionary, but if I'm not knowledgeable enough to judge the content, I try to at least find out if the person has decent academic accreditation relating to the topic.

It's better to trust a source that deals with an specific aspect, time or place than "THE HISTORY OF ALL THINGS EVER". Even scholars say dumb shit about stuff outside of their primary interests.

Whatever you are reading, CHECK FOR PRIMARY SOURCES.

Academic institutions are all online nowadays! I follow a number of universities on youtube and social media, and there are often classes, talks and seminars going on about every topic imaginable!

Learn how to use art as reference. Know that someone depicting a time period may be representing simply what they imagined about that time, or even what their own era looked like. Think of Renaissance painters depicting Ancient Roman soldiers in full plate. Pay attention to the symbolism and purpose of every element. Why these poses? Why these colors? What class do the people depicted belong to? Are they gods, saints or fantastical creatures? If so, does that mean they are depicted in a particular way? Why?

Same applies to fictional writing. Is this author depicting something he knows? The society and place where they lived? Are some things distorted by style and genre? What things sound unusual to you? Could it be that they assumed the readers knew something you don't? Good annotated editions should be able to give you better context.

And remember: EVERYONE can benefit from a little bit of philosophy, a little bit of sociology and a little bit of semiotics.

Let me know if you have more targeted questions!

#references and research

[histrionicwoman]

‘Girl, Interrupted’ Isn't a Good Movie, You're Just Fifteen

This is a piece of writing that I am going to release on my Medium page in the near future. Link in my bio to follow me there.

I know the title of this might be a little presumptuous of me given that I myself am a seventeen year old, but I’m just going to have to ask you to hang in there with me for this one.

Last night, I stayed up a little later than usual (4:00 am) and watched a movie that had been on my list for quite a long time: Girl, Interrupted. I had some pretty high expectations for this movie, being not only a teenage girl, but also one strangely invested in the “indie sleaze” scene. The movie was not good. I know that might upset a few people, namely the ones plastering edits of the movie all across my TikTok For You page along with a Fiona Apple or Radiohead song, but I think I have some good reasoning for my opinion.

The movie was just… dumb. That’s really the only way I know how to portray it. Girl, Interrupted was like if someone tried to make a Harry Potter movie, except for instead of magic wands and owls the girls had varying mental illnesses and severe individuality complexes. I can’t express to you how frustrating this movie was to watch. 

So why are teenagers so fixed on it right now?

I’d like to propose two theories on that front: Fashion and sadness.

If you’ve been on TikTok recently, preferably the “indie sleaze” side of TikTok that I mentioned earlier, you’ll know that sadness is never efficient on its own anymore. There has to be a glamorous twist; a haunting Lana Del Rey song in the background, your $450 Marc Jacobs outfit fully in view, a full face of makeup melting off your face as you cry. This is the way to be sad. This is the way to portray your mental illness, this is the way to let your followers and peers know that you, too, experience a range of human emotion and aren’t like all those other ogres showing only their happy sides on their public accounts. A part of me kind of feels proud of these people on TikTok, strangely, because they have achieved some semblance of openness, something I haven’t really been able to do. But another part worries for them and everyone in the audience, because feeling like you can’t cry unless you have your $30 mascara on can’t feel great, can it?

I’ve got to give the movie credit where it’s due, though; Girl, Interrupted really nailed the whole “depression chic” thing. I mean, look at these girls’ outfits: Jolie’s emaciated t-shirt look (a popular thing right now, strangely enough; I could write a lot more about this if I was so inclined), Winona Ryder’s quintessential 90’s hipster getup (why??? It’s set in the 60’s), and Brittany Murphy’s complete serve-a-thon with her 60’s housewife-chic looks. I have to say, I am a bit biased for Murphy’s outfits. They were great, and that’s something I think a lot of other teenagers are attracted to in this movie; it somehow has all of the current trends encapsulated while also being a vessel for some semi-relevant piece of “commentary” (if it can even be called that) on mental health for girls. The bad thing about it, though, is that the commentary is just… bullshit. It really isn’t anything. If I had to try to pick out a meaning of the story, I’d say something like, “Don’t make friends with the girl who’s been in the psych ward for eight years,” or “If you’re a ‘sociopath’, you should really sit down and think about your actions instead of being so mean to everyone all the time”. As a viewer, you don’t get much closure at the end of the story and it just seems like Susanna got better and left everyone else to go be normal again. 

The thing that truly perplexes me about the current fascination with this movie is the question: what are people getting from this movie that I’m not seeing? Is there some message that I didn’t receive? In my Letterboxd review of the movie (shameless plug: tinymandarin on letterboxd), I said something along the lines of “Maybe I just don’t like low-rise jeans enough to understand this movie”. I would love to believe that a part of me is just missing the point of Girl, Interrupted, and that it’s a really good movie. But I really don’t think it is. I think the people who are loving it right now are younger teenagers who need some sort of relatable mental health story for people like them, who need their pain to be wrapped up in a coat of fashion and glamour, like a pet taking medicine. I’d like to end this by saying: If you’re a parent whose child likes this movie and wants to buy baby tees and low-rise jeans, by all means let them do it; but also check in on them and maybe show them a better movie to project their emotions onto. This one’s not very good.

#tags #my writing #film critique #girl interrupted #me making a big stink about a movie #post

[nephaelia-sims]

Sims mod ideas:

Make Vampires Better Parents mod

Stop Eating the God Damn Plasma Fruit Salad mod

Stop Dying In The Sun Autonomously mod

Put On Your Coat Young Man/Lady mod

Program Your Servos to Know that Shower WooHoo is Bad For Them mod

details/commentary under the cut lol

Make Vampires Better Parents mod- even vampire children need sleep and human food and to keep on a normal schedule so they can go to school! In my experience vampires are not the best at this. They can be amazing, loving, caring parents and still they will forget to cook any human food for their kids and wake them up at 2 am to play chess or some shit. Obviously if you’re controlling the household it’s not always a huge issue, but it is if you have like 4 adult vampires in the house and a couple children, and all the adults want to do is talk to/parent/play with the kids all the time.

Stop Eating the God Damn Plasma Fruit Salad mod- I would understand the first time an unsupervised child (or an adult who doesn’t know about plasma fruit) attempted to eat plasma fruit salad, but unless you’re like a toddler (and it was left out unattended and you somehow got into it, or a dumb adult served it to you) you would LEARN after the first time not to eat it!! Even if it’s the last food in the fridge, you’d get a quick meal instead, ask an adult for food, or cook food yourself!

Stop Dying In The Sun Autonomously mod- Now I don’t mean the whole neighborhood stories dying in accidents thing, that’s fine (there are obviously scenarios where that would be plausible as a real accident). I mean legitimately, purposefully, standing in the sun when your vampire energy is low until you literally die. I have SEEN IT HAPPEN THREE TIMES NOW and that is THREE TIMES TOO MANY. One time a vampire got home from work and instead of running inside, decided to hang out on the sidewalk for NO DAMN REASON. Another time, Vladislaus Straud went to Bufo’s meet and greet at the pool (there was a lot of shade there so I thought it’d be fine!!!!) and stood directly in the sun (and he has at least one weakness to sun iirc). The third time, Lilith came to the Forsythe house without me knowing and started working on the rocket ship in broad daylight!!! (Thankfully Caleb was there with his death flowers he got from gardening....)

Put On Your Coat Young Man/Lady mod- this is something I fix currently with MC Dresser, and can even be fixed with in-game testing cheats iirc? but it’s annoying af to have to notice every time a random sim is about to die because their stupid ass is wearing a bikini in a blizzard. Tbf it can be kind of morbidly funny sometimes, but it happens SO OFTEN that it’s just ridiculous, and it doesn’t seem to matter how “smart” a sim is (be it book smart or outdoors-smart- if they’re a genius, or they have a high logic skill, or if they love the outdoors, or if they are a great skiier...). It should at least depend on that (I know that’s asking a lot but I like to dream big, sue me)

Program Your Servos to Know that Shower WooHoo is Bad For Them mod- this sounds ridiculous, but.... I have autonomous woohoo on, and one of Kaeru’s partners is a servo. They were in her dorm, and suddenly they do the “YEAH let’s DO IT” animation and I’m like “UH WHERE YALL GOING” and I watch in shock and awe as they start going into the fucking shower. SURPRISING TO NO ONE, not a second later they come out and the poor servo is broken, and I have Kaeru start fixing them right away. Kaeru is studying physics (handiness, rocket science, and ROBOTICS) and the servo IS A SERVO who I believe was ALSO STUDYING PHYSICS. OF ALL PEOPLE THEY SHOULD KNOW!!!

So first I’d need to be able to actually mod Sims. Tbf I haven’t done much research, I am v chaotic and usually try to figure shit out first lol, should probably just look it up XD Because from a quick look all the game scripts are in .pyc and thus I can’t just look at them and edit them with VSCode because they’re all just like weird characters and shit so iirc they’re compiled python, so I need some kind of decompiler? and then there’s probably a better way to do it than that anyway lol like it’s not like to add mods to your game you have to actually edit the real game files?

Anyway these are just ideas right now. I don’t think they exist yet. If they do or you’re working on something lmk because I’m super interested obviously! Also I would love some friends to talk about sims related programming/etc stuff with ;u;

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 mod ideas #ts4 vampires #ts4 servos #ts4 seasons #text

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

i swear to fucking god i'd download tiktok if there was a way that would allow you to edit captions while watching a video. bc the number of times i've had some tiktokkers video come up on my fb feed (bc they obvs have to share the vids across platforms) nearly like HALF, if not more, of the captions are wrong, compared to whatever's coming out of the person in the videos mouth.

like ok. if it's a comedy video that i'm watching. sure that's annoying. but when it's some social commentary tiktokker who's going on about how toxic incels are and like idk rape (oh wait, I'm sorry. no. it's "Grape" culture now, so they don't get demonitised and blocked for a month) or whatever social issue they're talking about.....

it's beyond infuriating that half the words are some fucking weird mumbo jumbo that the speech to text/auto captioning features like either doesn't hear accurately, either by accident. or like. fully on purpose. and then, imo, it absolutely ruins the pertinent point of the video.... all bc the the stupid asf filters (with the dumb ass l33t $peak used for TT) AND fairly accurate- in some instances in the video- but mostly garbled as fuck speech to text thing didn't hear it right so now it doesnt make sense.

also, i watch a lot of this one relationship advice and self-help advice lady.... in her last few videos, she's been talking about limerence/being love sick, right. but the number of times that the captions spell limerence wrong (eg. limerents/limrints/limericks/lime rinds) is driving me fucking insane. just. for the love of fucking god. i'd LOVE to have accurate captions on tiktok (bc let's be real, that's where many of these videos are first posted, then they get put on fb or instagram etc) and other social media platform videos. i'm so goddamned sick and tired of inaccurate or stupid garbled caption word replacements that make it so much harder to follow a video, most especially when it's serious content.

#life #about me #shut up ilona #rape mention

[alternautxyz]

suddenly reminded of the purge movies and thinking of all the potential stuff that could happen there

like what would the internet be like in this reality? because there would definitely be a cultural affect on the internet because nothing stops memes from being people would definitely be canceled for doing stuff. actually this would actually make a pretty good mortality test to see what famous people would do with the power to do anything without consequences. and they show that if they didn’t have these obligations and societal image and it was all normalized, they would commit atrocities(social commentary) 

all that is nice but youtube would be horrible (in the this is funny thinking about the hypothetical but would be really bad in real life)

listen i typed this whole thing out to express the vivid mental image of all the daily children’s vloggers making purge videos out of my head. like they put a sponsor in, put in royalty free music, put in obnoxious editing have that dumb genre of thumbnail with the youtuber doing a surprise face to a death body with the title “I SURVIVED THE PURGE!!!!!!!!! (NOT CLICKBAIT) (GONE SEXUAL) (MADE A LOT OF CASH) (KILLED MINORITES)😮😮😮😮!!!!!”

and then the vlogger starts brutally murdering people with guns and committing several crimes and atrocities. and youtube doesn’t take it down for graphic depictions of violence for some reason(social commentary)

just imagine all the videos about people going through the purge. people are definitley going to monitize it ok

#the purge #idk if i explained it well but you get it righttttttttt #my mind is incoherent i just need to get my jumble of thoughts out there before it disappears #alttalks

[dakt37]

Now that I am reunited with my scanner, here were my various attempts to make the AA husbands dance and/or kiss for New Years :’)

#dakt draws #Dakt DeDraMo 2020 #avengers assemble #stevetony #super husbands #stony #i edited out like... a lot of dumb commentary #mostly 'kissing is hard' and 'stop' and such #i have a bad habit of doing that all over my sketchbook lol #marvel fanart