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Dungeon Meshi - Female Dwarf beards

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So this little exchange here is Picture-Show-Specific, there’s no equivalent piece of dialogue in the original stage version. Cause the motorcyclists are all actually Frank’s Transylvanian guests, and they are a specifically movie-exclusive element of ‘Rocky Horror’.

The stage show calls the backup dancers ‘phantoms’, and usually treats them as entirely non-diegetic. Like, some productions do dress them up like the film’s Transylvanians (due to the movie and it’s iconography eclipsing the show in popularity) or sorta implies that they’re also part of the castle staff like Riff-Raff and Magenta. But for the most part, any piece of dialogue that implies there’s anyone in the Frankenstein’s Place outside of our main characters is movie-spesific. 

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The movie is hardly grounded in reality, but I guess they decided that non-diegetic backup dancers was a flavor of unreality that only works in theatre - but also they still wanted an actual dancing crowd for like the Time Warp and stuff. So they wrote in the whole idea of the “Annual Transylvanian Convention” and added that line from the Criminologist about how the ‘other guests departed’ after the “I Can Make You a Man” reprise so that the castle is appropriately empty for the rest of the story.

And this is how it hit me, that that exchange about the motorcyclists isn’t just there to, like, foreshadow the Transylvanians and contrast them with Brad and Janet being totally judgemental squares. It also there to plug a movie-spesific plot hole.

Cause if Brad and Janet are in the Frankenstein’s Place just cause their car got stuck, and there’s a bunch of other guests around who leave midway through the story… why didn’t Brad and Janet just ask one of them for a ride back to Denton? Well, that’s because all the Transylvanians ride on motorcycles, and as that exchange clearly establish, Brad and Janet don’t like motorcycles and think they’re dangerous. 

The implications of that are hilarious to me. Like, Brad and Janet could’ve skipped the entire latter half of the plot if only they weren’t such big judgy weenies about motorbikes. 

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the bravery of a girl who has to decide what is for dinner and then cook it and then wash dishes every day forever and ever.

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i've been through the desert on a horse with no shoes it felt good to get out of the ooze

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i just love the difference between laios and falin relationship with family dogs. these dogs had zero respect for her 😭😭 😭 but still they were a family

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Btw if I say things like “by god” or “good lord” in posts please be aware I don’t mean it in a catholic way I mean it in a 1950s scientist reacting in horror after they create an evil creature in the lab set in the distant future year of 2005

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Don’t buy other stuff

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why the fuck is it called the xbox 360 what does 360 mean???????????????????

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“it is what it is” and “what will be will be” convey the same sort of feeling in present and future tense but there’s no good past tense counterpart 

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The unique thing about an armadillo is that it is an animal that can both scamper and trundle

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new halloween costume idea: "sexy management consultant"

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Today I discovered that "bro visited his friend/the visiterrrrrrr" isn't necessarily a widely known meme outside of tumblr after I referenced it irl and seemingly came across as a complete maniac, ironically exactly creating the circumstances of the original meme

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She quickly pegged me as a secret agent, but despite the irony of her costume she never realized i was a spy.

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