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HAPPY FUCKING BURTHDAY KING

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OH AND BTW UHHH. HAPPY BIRTHDAY WIGGLY

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I google translated the first part of TGWDLM a bunch of times

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anyone else notice how literal monster from team starkid's 'nerdy prudes must die' and apex predator from the mean girls musical are really similar? (long yap below woop woop nerd alert)

they're in the same key

they both serve to introduce the main bully of the show

they both make reference to the animalistic, primal nature of high school's seemingly complex hierarchy

in that nerds and loners and losers are the "prey", and the popular kids/bullies are at the top of the food chain

lyrical similarities:

"he's got the face of a saint" and "don't be fooled by the pink, she is not playing dolls"

"he's got the hallway on lock" and "she is stalking the halls/for the thrill of the kill"

"best to drop and play dead" and "they go perfectly still"

"istg he has fangs" and "and it's kinda fun when she bares her claws"

and of course:

"a predator of my size" and "she's the apex predator"

you could probably remix them together if you wanted to! please lmk if anyone has done it yet because i desperately need to hear that 😩

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NPMD Theory

Felt the need to publicize my Nerdy Prudes Must Die theory, so here it is:

You know how much is sucks that Ruth and Richie aren't acknowledged or even mourned after "The Summoning"? You know how people headcanon that Ruth and Pete met at tap class, but he clearly stated "Mom said it'd help me make friends. Boy, was she wrong!"?

My theory is that Grace had good intentions. She didn't like seeing her friends so sad, so in the time between the banishment of Max and Homecoming, she uses the Black Book. She finds some kind of memory modification spell and completely erases the fact that Ruth and Richie even existed - or at least the fact that they were friends (seeing as Miss Mulberry mentions they've lost classmates, plural) - from their memories. But she's also really fucked up and doesn't realize how shitty a thing that is to do.

We know the Lords in Black are capable of all that, considering their magic is what causes Miss Holloway to be forgotten every time she's declared dead.

I dunno. I just got mad like everyone else about there hardly even being a line about their deaths and figured this made some amount of sense.

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Something something... The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals.

For as popular as the idea of a "hivemind" is we never talk about how it doesn't exist in nature. There's no animal colony that connects and controls all its members through a psychic connection. Even bees, the eponimous hivemind, communicate by pheremones and, more importantly, interpretive dance. My point is when are we going to get a movie about an intensely organized alien race that mainly communicates via sick dance moves, why are we sleeping on this.

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I made this for Halloween and then never posted it so uh here it is nearly 2 months late

Ruth would absolutely show up to school in one of those inflatable dinosaur costumes. Richie would wear the full AoT getup on a regular basis and definitely for Halloween. I had to reference the star wars "I love you" "I know" scene so Pete and Steph are Han Solo and Princess Leia. Grace is a nun because unlike most other Halloween costumes, nuns are holy, not demonic (Grace's words). Max is himself in ghost form cause I wasn't originally gonna include him so I didn't bother thinking up something different. I only included him in the end because he would definitely imagine Grace in one of those hot nun costumes and I needed to include that

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i’m really interested in the etymologies of the names of the LiB but i haven’t been able to find out much about them 🥲

here’s what i can work out (feel free to correct me or help me out in the comments/reblogs if there’s something i’m wrong about/ am missing):

-Bliklotep sounds like it’s inspired from Ancient Egyptian naming conventions, with the ‘-otep’ suffix being similar to the ‘-hotep’ suffix commonly used in the names of pharos

-T’noy Karaxis sounds like it might have some greek influence? i ran ‘tnoy karaxis’ through google translate and it was detected as greek, with ‘karaxis’ apparently meaning ‘engraving’ but it detected ‘tnoy’ as russian but didn’t translate it -_-

-Pokotho sounds kind of latin-esque, with the name ‘otho’ apparently being roman in origin, although another source said it is of germanic origin so idk…? i ran ‘pokotho’ through google translate as well and got ‘pocket’ in southern sotho, but ‘poko’ returned ‘not yet’ in haitian creole. if i had to bet on any, i’d say his name can probably be assigned to either western europe with the latin influences, or south africa with southern sotho having the closest translation

-Nibblenephim is probably quite obviously influenced by the naming conventions of the ‘biblically accurate’ angels (cherubim, seraphim, ophanim etc) probably grounding his name’s inspirations in the middle east

-I have no clue what is going on with Wiggog Y’Rath tbh help lol

if anyone sees this and knows stuff about this i don’t please help me fill in the gaps. also i might do follow up research cause i don’t have time to look into wiggly’s name rn so look out for that ig

edit: quick disclaimer, i’m taking the google translate results with a hefty grain of salt obviously and you should too

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me: ishould stop drawing bug smiling into the middle distance and draw something else for a change

me:

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funnies aside about the catboy episode im starting to see a pattern

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StarKid Dissertation

About a year ago now, I announced I was writing my dissertation on Team StarKid and was lucky enough to get a number of people to fill out a fan survey to help with it.

Anyway I had a number of people reach out to me about reading the dissertation when it was done and I'm finally able to share it!! You can read it here.

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As someone who believes in the "Paul is Richie's uncle" head cannon, my personal theory is this. Mr. and Mrs. Lipschitz aren't the most attentive parents, so they don't care that much about whether their son is at home or with friends. Leading to Richie bouncing between his home, Paul's place, or his friends' places without telling his parents. So when Richie died his parents just assumed he was with Paul or his friends again while Paul and Richie's friends just assumed he was with his parents. Now should someone (like Pete or Ruth) have noticed something was off? Absolutely. But if he didn't have one place he lived and slept at, it would be a little bit harder to notice if he wasn't around.

I think the reason I pegged Richie as having a bad home life in canon, because despite how much I want him to be the Paulkins kid I know he isn’t, is because he was missing for days and no one noticed.

I’m able to give the Nerdy Prudes some leeway in that perhaps Richie didn’t often hang out with them on weekends and he certainly didn’t seem to have told them he was the mascot, but that doesn’t explain why it seemed like there was no media or acknowledgment he was missing.

Surely if his parents cared they’d notice him not get home and the janitor finding his body the Monday after the Friday game wouldn’t be how anyone found out. Surely if his parents cared they’d call the Fleming household to see if he was over there because it very much seems like he and Ruth are best friends. Surely they’d report him missing when he didn’t turn up on Saturday or even Sunday.

Max was eventually noticed missing. It was even in the news. Richie wasn’t until his body was found.

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I don't know if anyone put this up on tumblr yet, but potentially big developments for icbiballtay

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i think someone should draw tinky standing on one of those really steep cliffs

draw him as a goat, humanoid, some weird mix, i don't care

i just wanna see him fucking lurking like this

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Wiggly ornament :)

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This is what I could come up with.

•Soup

• Daddy

• Inevitable

• F*ck Clivesdale!

• Teddy Bear

That's all I could come up with.

Phrases/words hatchetfield fans can't be normal about

Apotheosis

Watching fireworks

Implications/thinking about implications

feel free to add more

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Do you think Webby is unhappy? Do you think she looks upon a relationship like the Fosters and feels a pain in her chest at a family who protects each other? Do you think she misses her own family? Depending on whether you think Webby is the oldest or the youngest, that headcanon can go differently. Do you think she grieves? If she’s alone in the white, it must get lonely and quiet. Do you think she ever talks with the trees in the forest when the loneliness gets bad?