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recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

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monsieur magnifique for @cursed-iris!!

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omg just asking because im curious and need new music to listen to but what are your favourite songs

omg! okay, so i have a few. i listen to a lot of random music, so i kind of just kept it to like, non-musical more contemporary songs but some of my favorites in that category right now areeee

dorothy - her's

swing lynn - harmless

artefact - phoenix

lost in the sound - tahiti 80

tongues & teeth - the crane wives

renee - sales

everything will be okay - orion 224

silver soul - beach house

if you care - post-modern connection

thank you for the ask!! :DDD

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i updated cardflower's mc... i named her polly rose

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omg im so glad you like the new oc!! she was inspired by your carnaval du mystique, i thought all the different performance outfits were so bright and creative... anyways im rambling whoops

OMG, YOU'RE KIDDING!! /pos 😭😭

no way, that's so cool! thank you! i'm honored. i absolutely love her design, she would fit right in with the rest of the carnival 😌

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a lovely freak of nature

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tell us about your oc lore!!!

you want to hear about my oc lore? 🥹 i've been waiting years to talk about my oc lore! i don't know how long this has been in my inbox but thank you for the ask, anon! i don't want to yap too much, so for now, i have the sparknotes version. TW for mention of death, mention of guns and brief descriptions of being dead (which i tried to keep very pg, but just in case)!!

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the carnaval du mystique is the name of a 1920s traveling carnival of performers, all of whom have a strange ability of some kind. it appears in random places across europe every fall and spring.

main cast: monsieur magnifique: the magician, divina alonto: the trapeze artist, lady henriette: the fortune teller, mirage: the tightrope walker, jeremiah gale: the gunslinger

monsieur magnifique, magician of the macabre

born: april 1st, 1885

monsieur magnifique is the eccentric resident magician of the carnival, known for dangerous tricks that involve audience participation and usually end... not great. he's practically mad, always looking for the next big, terrifying trick.

he has had several different names throughout the years to the point where he can't really remember his given one. the ability to perform magic acts was passed down by his mother. he grew up in a devoutly religious town that still hadn't evolved past their fears of witches, and his mother was executed at the stake. after her death, he had to run away from home. he ended up joining the royal flush circus, and he lived most of his childhood and early teen life under the new name "spade," assigned by the cruel circus ringmaster. long story short: he did not, in fact, have a great time there.

he's arrogant, flamboyant and dramatic. also, he's always smiling, unless someone calls him a "circus freak," which has happened on more than one occasion. that sets him off.

the only stipulation with his powers is that every trick he does is based on some magician gimmick. can he fly? no. can he turn invisible? nope. can he pull literally anything out of his hat? you bet he can. do his gloves walk off on their own to get things for him when he's too lazy to do so himself? absolutely.

his best friend is divina, and they are the only two who have known each other before they joined the carnival.

he is dreadfully afraid of fire.

divina alonto, belladonna with wings

born: september 21st, 1886

divina has had the ability to fly ever since she was in boarding school, but she didn't learn to control that power until several years later so it was constantly a problem. there were times when she would just start floating randomly in front of teachers and it was such a constant issue that the literal headmaster had lead shoes commissioned for her to wear. they weren't the most comfortable thing in the world, but also desperate measures are called for when you're constantly three seconds away from randomly launching into the stratosphere, so you win some, you lose some i guess.

on a mandatory school fieldtrip to europe, they straight up left her there on accident, not realizing she wasn't on the boat until it was too late. home alone style. but worse.

anyway, she is able to control her abilities now, and though she always wanted to be a ballerina, she's become the closest carnival equivalent: a trapeze artist of the carnaval du mystique.

the only stipulation is that she can only take off from solid ground, kind of like a plane.

she is surprisingly short tempered and is under the impression that she's the smartest person there. she's not.

her best friend is monsieur magnifique, but partially because of an incident at a show back when he was just starting out at the carnival, she always bickers with him about something.

mirage, master of illusions

born: december 12th, 1884

mirage is the tightrope walker, though he has notably never walked a tight rope in his life. his whole talent is that he makes people see things that aren't there or aren't happening. when he 'walks on a tightrope,' he really is just walking on a solid platform.

why is he a tightrope walker and not in charge of something that relates more to his powers? well, he used to be in charge of the now abandoned house of horrors alongside another member of the carnival, but after frightening a person to death, he decided he better choose a different career path.

mirage is known for being aloof and reserved, but not unkind. he's just the calmer counterpart to his partner magnifique.

he is the only one that actually has a family that's alive, that he has a good relationship with (aside from maybe jeremiah with his wife, but he can't see her). he sends them postcards from every place he's visiting and writes to them often.

lady henriette, the den mother seer

born: june 12th, ????

lady henriette doesn't like to talk about her life with people. if anything, she is more concerned about other people's lives and futures. she has the ability to see the future and the ability to speak to the dead. the only future she cannot see is her own. she tells people's future through whatever medium they are most comfortable with, but most people gravitate towards tarot reading.

she also kind of has an obligation to make sure othe people's fortunes are set in stone, because she knows from experience that if they aren't, they could become much worse.

she's been at the carnival the longest and is business partners with the actual ringleader, so she's pretty much the second in charge when it comes to all the performers. she ensures everything runs smoothly in the ringleader's absence, while they're out finding new people with peculiar powers.

she's the most logical out of everyone.

jeremiah gale, deadshot

born: march 8th, 1834

died: may 17th, 1864

jermiah gale is literally dead. not figuratively, not metaphorically, like actually. rip, died 56 years ago. fly high.

that probably should've been where it ended, living a pretty standard mid-19th century life with his wife before joining the union, but no. a few weeks after he was buried and they had a funeral for him, he just woke up in his grave, unable to get out. any normal person would probably come to the conclusion that they had been buried alive, but jeremiah definitely remembered dying, and his skin was translucent. sure enough, the wound that killed him was still very much in the back of his head.

he is a zombie in the most basic sense; he's undead, but he has retained all his mental faculties and he's very much harmless. not gonna lie, brains do not sound appetizing to him.

he was still dead and the laws of nature did not stop for a body that might've been conscious but still needed to decompose. the only reason he looks the way he does is because mirage works to make him appear normal to guests. it would be kind of jarring to see a skeleton in a cowboy hat walking around. but there's only so much mirage can do for him; he's still very pale and his eyes almost white so he has to wear shades to protect them from the sun.

jeremiah is the best shot from the west in europe; he's never missed a single target.

he's probably the friendliest of the main carnival troupe. he's a people person, even if he's not the sharpest tool in the shed. honestly, he just wants to get back home to his wife, but he knows that's probably not the best idea. being dead also isn't so great; he tired but he can't sleep, he's hungry but he can't eat, it's pretty much torture. his unwavering, annoying optimism gets him all through it.

thank you for the ask, anon! you have given me an excuse to ramble.

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Hadestown West End Epic III change alert! (If you read Working on a Song you knew this was coming. XD)

For the first day of previews--note that this can always change later--the verse that used to go:

The more he has, the more he holds The greater the weight of the world on his shoulders See how he labors beneath that load Afraid to look up, and afraid to let go So he keeps his head low, he keeps his back bending He's grown so afraid that he'll lose what he owns But what he doesn't know is that what he's defending Is already gone

was replaced with the following:

I know how it is because he is like me I know how it is to be left all alone There’s a hole in his arms where the world used to be When Persephone’s gone His work never done, his war never won Will go on forever, whatever the cost Cause the thing that he’s building his wall around Is already lost

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"oh, mon amour."

what if i was a magician whose tricks put the audience in life-threatening danger and you were a tightrope walker that could make people hallucinate.

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I've seen your Jack and Miss Acacia fanart (the one inspired in a 1923 paint), and now I'm interested on the extended lore of the 2005 album.

Thanks in advance, and have a nice day.

so sorry it took me so long to answer, but thank you so much for this ask! :DD

so, i answered a similar question a while back that also incorporated some of the book lore to make it make more sense, so you can find that post here.

but otherwise, i'm going to talk more about the actual album because i don't think i did the best job explaining it before. cut because it's kind of a long explanation and it does contain some book spoilers from the original post.

so basically, dionysos released the album "monsters in love" in 2005 about 4 years before mathias malzieu (lead singer and writer for the band) published the book in 2009, and 8 years before the movie was released (cerca. 2013 but the release dates were different internationally). this technically makes everything that came after the album, the book and the movie, a prequel.

so that's important because that means the lore in the album (and even to some extent the book and movie) is drastically different from the rest of the source material. however, the book is much closer to tying the narrative of the album together. "monsters in love" is pretty much the first time the character of jack or miss acacia appears.

the album begins with a track called "giant jack,"

this is jack several years after the events of the book take place, and he's like massive.

i don't think we ever discover how exactly he became a giant (it's mentioned at the end of the book), but he's returned to edinburgh and is terrorizing the town. the song isn't sung from jack's perspective, which is interesting because jack is basically a mathias malzieu self insert. but anyway, it's sung from either mathias' perspective or the "broken bird's" (that's another track in the album) perspective because there is a mention of the speaker having wings.

it's hard to decipher some dionysos lyrics because they're super metaphorical and i don't think they're supposed to make that much sense. but from what i read of the lyrics, giant jack strikes a deal to protect the speaker.

in the animated mv for another monsters in love song, "tes lacets sont des fées," we see jack again along with miss acacia. he's wandering the streets of edinburgh at night and sees her (and the broken bird, who at this time, i believe was also a mathias malzieu self-insert character) performing in an orchestra hall. and then... some other... weird stuff... happens... that i'm not going to fully get into. but you can find the music video (cw nudity) here.

so how does any of this tie in with the rest of jack and the cuckoo clock heart? the answer is, it really doesn't for the movie. in the movie, jack dies. he is dead. full stop. but as we know, the movie is based on the book which is based of the album, so the book ending where he doesn't die and returns after a coma actually segues into the beginning of the "monsters in love" album.

this is a direct quote from the last chapter: "As for our 'hero,' he grew taller and taller. But he never got over the loss of Miss Acacia. he went out every night, only at night, to roam the outskirts of the Extraordinarium, in the shadow of its fairground attractions. But the half-ghost that he had become never crossed its threshold. Then he retraced his own boyish steps all the way back to Edinburgh. The city was exactly as he remembered it; time seemed to have stood still there."

Anyway, he returns to his childhood home in the last chapter, only to be told by arthur (and i think anna and luna), that he never even needed the cuckoo clock heart for that long in the first place. it was supposed to be temporary. madélèine could've removed it at any time, but specifically chose not to so he wouldn't go off and leave her, which is pretty messed up actually (wtf madélèine?). my theory, if the book really is a true precursor to the album, as in everything that happens in the album is canon to the jatcch storyline, is that jack starts terrorizing edinburgh after hearing that news. because the clock heart ruined his life and he didn't even need it.

i hope that answered your question. 😭 thank you for the ask!

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Words cannot express how utterly disappointed I am when it comes to helping Sudan. People are hesitant to show their support. They would even dismiss it. No, I am not making this shit up. I have been talking to people about Sudan and their reaction is lacklustre!

I know anti-blackness plays a significant role, along with the lack of media coverage (which is, again, due to anti-blackness), but this is unacceptable. Many people are dying. The country going through a flooding. Homes are destroyed. Families are displaced. Famine is claiming more lives than the RSF (Rapid Support Forces) and SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces) combined.

They need our help!

There is one way you can show your support! Kindly have a look at this fundraiser. It belongs to Eman Abdelrahman (@emooz-8). She is a 25 year old Sudanese and she is raising funds to evacuate. She has been campaigning since January of this year, but she struggles to receive donations to this day! The last one was made 2 DAYS AGO!

Let's pick up the pace and aim for a doable goal once again - 30K in 3 days! As of writing this (Sept 9th), 29,517 CHF has been raised! There is only 483 CHF left to go! Please check your currency exchange. It is in Swiss Franc! ($10 USD = 8 CHF)

There is also a fundraiser for her extended family. Please keep in mind that it is in Singaporean Dollars, so double check with your currency exchange! ($10 USD = $13 SGD)

You can even match me! I've given 5 CHF and $5 SGD!

Verification (#213).

Thank you!

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Hi there 👋,

My name is Mohammad, and I’m reaching out in a moment of desperate need. I’m a father of three young children living in Gaza, and we are caught in the midst of a catastrophic war. Our home is no longer a safe haven, and the future here seems increasingly uncertain. 💔

I’ve launched a fundraising campaign with the goal of raising $40,000 to relocate my family to a safer place where my children can grow up in peace and have a chance at a brighter future. 🕊️🇵🇸

Unfortunately, my previous fundraising efforts were abruptly halted when my account was terminated without explanation. However, I remain determined to keep fighting for my family’s safety and well-being. 🫶

If you could take a moment to read our story, consider donating, or simply share our campaign with others, it would make an incredible difference. Every act of kindness, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to safety and a new beginning. 🙏

Thank you for your time, compassion, and support. ❤

https://gofund.me/fd1faea2 🔗

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Where is your treasure inside of your chest?

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