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The fact that "Show Stoppin Number" is in "Inevitable" will forever be funny to me, because when Hidgens sang it, he wasn't infected yet, which can only mean that Pokey heard the song and decided he liked it enough to put it in the song Paul sings to Emma at the end of the show.

Bro really went "I like this song. It's mine now."

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there are only two genders btw. people who are alive and people who are fucking dead

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Sam and Bailey are both shitty cops but the difference is Sam isn't trying to be a genuine cop and is only there for the power whilst Bailey is actually trying to be a genuine cop but just isn't cut out for the job, even if he wants to be.

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Holloway has accidentally rickrolled the entire diner before because she just thinks of it as a hit song from the ‘80s and does not know it’s modern context. Brenda thinks it’s hilarious and refuses to delete it from the playlist.

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Wilbur cuts apples with the Black Blade and it pisses Wiggly off like ‘why are you using my most powerful magical artifact to eat your fucking fruit just eat it whole like Nibbly does.”

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I know it’s not Halloween anymore but I think Steph’s favorite candies are Smarties and Nerds

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i’m screaming i forgot to post this yesterday

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sometimes i just think about steph needing to be on her tippy toes here so she’s eye level with pete

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the fact that hatchetfield is set in michigan makes the “skel’e’on” that much funnier

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In the Hatchetfeild universe, the phantom of the opera HAS to be about either an encounter with Pokey or just based on Pokey himself. Like, the phantom only really cares about Christine as a conduit for his music. He uses her as a socially presentable version of himself, it's proven in the actual song "The Phantom of the Opera" when they sing "I am the mask you wear/ it's me they hear". He only cares about the music and is more than okay with killing people who fuck with "his voice". And who does that sound like???

Anyways, thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

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Barneston is important because Tom getting in a relationship with Becky shows that he's moving on from Jane and beginning to heal while Becky feels like she's unforgivable and awful for what she did but Tom's love for her disproves that

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I love the fact that he also has T.P. and eggs for some good old fashioned pranking. Five bucks says it's Duke.

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Happy halloween with the lords in black >:D

I've been revisiting the hatchetfield trilogy and it's so good

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Yeah idk what I’m doing anymore, I guess I just wanted to draw Wiggly

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Chapters four and five are out now. Didn't mean for it to be over a week but life happened and the chapter kept getting bigger so I turned it into two chapters. I hope that makes up for the wait.

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Wait wait wait remember that post about how Team Starkid/the Lang brothers are going to be comparable to Shakespeare 500 years from now and it was mostly played for laughs like yeah lol you’ll need a paragraph of footnotes to explain the zefron poster but like

I don’t think that’s actually far off from how Starkid’s place in theatre history might play out and here’s why. Just hear me out

Why is Shakespeare so popular today when he definitely wasn’t the only playwright from that era? When he’s not even the only playwright from that era from England that we have surviving works from?

Two main reasons:

1) Shakespeare’s work is (relatively) universally relatable. The characters do things that are so fundamentally human. They make jokes at their friends’ expense. They complain about being awkward in front of their crush. They have daddy issues. The plot lines of the plays aren’t too complicated. The dick jokes land whether you’re watching in 1611 or 2024, and they probably still will in 2637. Shakespeare’s works are timeless because he didn’t try to outsmart his audience. He wrote about things everyone could relate to rather than trying too hard to peacock his intellect in front of the nobility. This is not true of every playwright.

2) Shakespeare was really popular right around the time England started colonizing everything in sight. Copies of his work got shipped all around the world, translated into dozens of languages, performed probably thousands of times. Setting aside the moral implications of this, the important thing to note is that Shakespeare was about the most easily accessible English playwright during a time of rapid, intense globalization.

Meanwhile, Starkid:

1) Invests hard in meaningful, relatable character arcs instead of spectacle and expensive sets or costumes. Also, lowbrow, immature humor and dick jokes that make A Very Potter Sequel funny and enjoyable regardless of if you’ve ever seen any other Harry Potter media in your life.

2) Posts professional recordings of their musicals to YouTube FOR FREE, making their shows about the easiest, best quality musical theatre you can get pretty much anywhere in the world, regardless of if your area has an active theatre scene. Proshots from other companies are rare and usually not free. Bootlegs are all well and good, but even if the video quality is alright (and that’s a big if) the audio is usually garbage. Starkid has been posting the best quality free recordings they can afford since 2009, shortly after the birth of social media, another time of rapid, intense globalization.

In short, I’m not saying that theatre historians in 500 years won’t remember any our current Broadway faves, but I am saying that in my opinion, Team Starkid is probably going to be more accessible for the general public. If you’re a 26th century English teacher trying to teach your class about narrative structure in 21st century theatre, what are you going to show your students? A bootleg of Hadestown with blurry video and garbage audio? Or the professional recording of Twisted, parts of which they will probably even enjoy, because even long after no one remembers Disney’s Aladdin anymore, your class of 26th century 16-year-olds are still going to laugh at “No One Remembers Achmed.”

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Wow that's really cool. That looks like him then Webby and then his father I'm guessing. Either way this is some fun fan art.

Behold, the little prince, sitting upon his humble throne.

Living under the watchful gaze of his Monarch, in peace with his sister and with a second sibling on the way.

Oblivious to the tragedy the future would hold.