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WHO WILL PRAY FOR YOU!?

celebration piece/print for the fact npmd is finally on spotify!!! god its so good

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Can we talk about how pokotho is the first name in the summoning because of course he has be the lord to start the song

(and make sure that his summoners are in tune)

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douglas ‘duke’ keane walks into a room late absolutely covered in bright lipstick and looking moderately dazed and confused. “you should see the other guy,” he says. moments later miss holloway kicks in the door looking very pleased with herself.

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found this on Pinterest and it reminds me of Max, Kyle and Jason

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they are autism4autism but like. in different directions. hope this makes sense

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feeling real normal about siblings

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The Hatchetfield town charter has a section stating that if the mayor resigns, is impeached or disappears and the city council can’t agree on an acting mayor, the position automatically goes to Peanuts the pocket squirrel btw. I know this in my soul.

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Nerdy Prudes Must Die au where Max Jagerman doesn’t become a vengeful spirit and simply passes on to the next plane of existence.

Richie and Ruth still die, though. Richie is killed during the big game when a football gets thrown a little too long and hits him in the head, knocking him off balance and sending him tumbling down the steps of the bleachers and breaking his neck. Ruth dies during her Barbecue Monologue when a stage light falls and crushes her.

Steph, Pete, and Grace are all convinced that the spirit of Max Jagerman is cursing them and are scared they’re going to be next.

And the scene changes to show Max just chilling in the afterlife. He fondly remembers the nerds that put together a prank just for him.

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in hatchetfield, i always find all the timelines so fascinating because anything could happen in them. some unspeakable horrible thing could happen or someone puts themself in the worst possible situation but, there’s always the hope that somewhere, in some timeline, they didn’t make the mistake or that traumatic event didn’t happen. anything could change.

which just makes the events that happened before october 5th, before the timeline split, all the more tragic. because they’re set in stone, there is never any hope that those can change. across every timeline those events will have always happened

jenny will always be gone, there’ll never be a timeline where she and ted can find each other again. he’ll always have lost her and it’s all his fault. and since he made the decision to change who he was in 04, he’ll always be that sleazeball

hidgens will always be obsessed with making working boys because they will have always died on that football field in that lightning storm. every hidgens we see has had to crawl out from under the fried corpses of the men he loved. he’ll think of the life he could have had with chad and his other boyfriends forever

jerry and jeri will always have that child. since ted remembers hearing lumberaxe dragging his axe around and he certainty didn’t go to the camp after 05, lil jerry will always be raised in the woods and kill the horny campers. girl jeri will always be stuck.

miss holloway will never be able to save those three girls. she will have always made her deal with the lords in black. despite the people she saves now, she can never do anything to spare the lives that kickstarted this whole thing for her

it’s just the fact that some things, that didn’t make the 2005 cutoff point, will never be altered, will never be changed! those people will always be dead, they will have always done those things. every single version of each character across any timeline will still be marked by the same defining events

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Chapter eight is out. After getting away with sneaking out last night Steph and Peter get to know each other better and prepare for an end of camp scavenger hunt.

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while i’m on my paul 23 fixation of the day, i’ll just say that emma being an android only made him fall more in love with her. yes he undoubtedly loves her before he even knew the truth and i doubt that would even change if she wasn’t, but still her being something artificially made and killing the og and taking her place makes paul 23 closer to her in mind and body than being married may ever will because they are the same. obsession with the og’s life to the point they’d do whatever even if it means killing whoever and committing crimes to sustain that normality, the act of pretending to be someone else that in a way you are but can never really show your whole self to anyone and finding that person that would not only understand but completely agree with you in that aspect? ughhhhhh i love them

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Well Starkid shows always have at least one or two or dozens of fourth wall breaks so while I agree with the ideas presented here sometimes a silly fourth wall break is just a silly fourth wall break.

I still head-cannon that characters associated with the Lords are more likely to be aware of The Watchers With A Thousand Eyes aka the audience though.

I find it really interesting that in the Hatchetfield shows, only certain characters can see/interact with the audience and I'm curious about what that might mean (other than me overthinking things)

Uncle Wiley/Wilbur Cross makes sense. He's an emissary for the lords, he moves between hatchetfield and the black and white, so it's understandable he'd be aware of the audience.

Max reacts to the audience and he can control the lights on stage even before he gets all ghosty. Maybe his God complex stems from knowing he actually can control things but it's unclear why.

Emma is an interesting one as she only seems to register the audience when Paul and the hive are after her. Previously she sees them as inconvenient shrubs in an alleyway. Maybe it's a side effect of prolonged exposure to Pokey's spores. I suspect both she and Paul have some level of immunity given how long it takes him to get infected/how he actively fights it off and how in the opening number Emma is present and singing but Paul misses his cue suggesting only partial control. This could have some side effects, like awareness of the audience

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There are just some Starkid songs that I simply cannot listen to without mentally adding the screams from the proshots. For example, the frenzied shrieks when Wiggly says “Hello, fwendy-wends” at the start of ‘The Summoning’ and the people who were very audibly thirsting over Corey Dorris during ‘Our Doors Are Open’. They’ve just become solidified in my brain as non-negotiable parts of the songs 🤣.

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The Langs naming Wilbur Cross, a relatively minor character in the Hatchetfield universe: Yeah so it's a pun on 'double cross' but also a parody of Randall Flagg from The Stand - but also mayyybe a Charlotte's Web reference? Because of Webby's spider motifs? And it could even be a reference to Wilbur Whately from Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror! Plus its the most extra Southern-sounding name we could think of. 'Uncle Wiley' is a play on 'Uncle Sam', but it kind of sounds like a nickname for the devil as well. Is there any intentional meaning to the fact that 'Wiley' sounds like a Bottle Imp name? Guess you'll have to wait for NMT3 to find out! Did you know there's a type of spider called a Cross Orbweaver?

The Langs naming significant major characters Pete and Ted Spankoffski: hahaha silly name sounds like 'spank off' because funny

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... Paul in a jar AU

SHUCKA SHUCKA SHUCKA SHUCKA SHUCK

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Finally finished my most ambitious Hatchetfield project yet. Every box in the border represents a different Nightmare Time, as well as Hey Melissa, Trail to Oregon, Workin’ Boys, the BBQ monologues and Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel. The three large boxes at the bottom represent the three main musicals. It’s 18x24” and made with sharpie :]

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Thinking about pokey revealing himself to Paul just before he blows up the meteor. Thinking about him manipulating Paul, telling him that if he does it all his “friends” will die and he will die as well and no one would mourn or remember him. Thinking about Pokey telling him that he can make the whole world adore him and worship him because Paul feels that no one has ever truly loved him except Emma who he left to bleed out alone and could be dead by now. Thinking about pokey trying to convince Paul that he can finally make him happy.