#I’m so normal about this musical guys

[east-polaris]

I want to talk about two specific lines in the Ithaca Saga

These two right here.

Because throughout this entire musical, Odysseus has been keeping meticulous track of how long it’s been since he’s seen his wife. From the third line of the entire show, to the second to last. He is always painfully aware of how long it’s been since he’s seen his wife.

And then on the other side, we have Penelope, who never mentions how long it’s been. What she does emphasize though is the waiting. To her, it’s felt like an endless stretch of time that can’t be measured.

And then, at the very end, they stop the waiting and the tracking. Penelope asks, “How long has it been?” Finally putting a number to the years she’s waited. “Twenty years,” Odysseus answers. And that’s as high as the number will ever get, because finally, they’re together.

[yourlocalabomination]

Chibi Ted for the soul 😌

[ricky-mortis]

I’m thinking about supernatural spies again…

[heyitsspaceace]

can we just talk about paul matthews for a moment

a man who thought he was so insignificant, a man who never wanted anything, just a regular guy with a regular life and a crush on the barista at his regular coffee place (the one he goes too even though there’s a starbucks right there because she’s there)

paul matthews, who’s asks how could he, a regular, average guy, could save the world single handedly. Because he knows he can’t, but when given the chance takes it anyways. The guy who didn’t like musicals, who braved a musical to try and save the world, and even though he failed, he never gave up on the people around him

paul matthews, who’s love story is the only constant ever, that no matter in what universe he’ll find emma every time

paul matthews, probably on of the worst protagonists ever, but arguably one of the best hatchedfield characters

[azgfggf]

I’ve seen a lot of people get confused when Noel is considered the “Most Romantic Boy in Town” instead of Mischa, but I feel like it actually does make sense when you think about artistic romanticism.

Artistic romanticism is more about the extremes and beauty. Like all those paintings of huge, thundering ocean waves against rocks, It’s not meant to go with the “Rational Mind”, leaning more into the emotional side of things going “wow omg art is cool life is cool”

Noel fits this to a T with his romanticism of being a sex worker in post war France. He’s singing longingly for a smoking addiction, murder, and dying from an overdose. Plus, he’s mentioned to be a Pisces, the sign of passion. He’s not the most romantic because he has someone to love, he’s the most romantic because he sees everything through rose-tinted glasses.

Edit: it’s been less than an hour for this much interaction our fandom is STARVED

[dearreader]

the way that maisie says “still don’t play the black key” then proceeds to play the black key to let us know she’s an unreliable narrator and that what she’s about to tell us through her album isn’t 100% truthful cause the past is a haunted house no one lives in but she’s trying to make it a past he could live in. so she’s actively lying to us all and letting us know

[r1ch1e-l1psh1tz]

PAUL HEADCANNON PAUL HEADCANNON!!!

Paul LOVES horror movies, specifically in the gorno genre (Saw and Hostel are great examples of this movie genre). He specifically likes these types of movies because he loves the practical effects that are used. Anytime a kill happens he’ll rant to whoever’s watching it with him about how they made the kill come to life with practical effects. He also got Richie into the genre, so Richie tried showing Paul Blood C, he didn’t enjoy it that much but they have that in common.

…No your honor, I totally didn’t project onto Paul Matthews again, teehee ^_^

[can-a-tuna-fish]

Don’t let him fool you, she has the worst case of senioritis you’ve ever seen.

[seventh-district]

“Why’s he call you Darlin’?”

on my knees begging my brain to stop trying to associate this song with Sam

[carsickcrow]

the most recent manifestation of my malevolent hyperfixation has been just straight up imagining a version of the story where i am a 1930s private eye in arthur’s place. love arthur and i wouldn’t want to replace him but. yeah. this is what my brain does sometimes. thought up a me-version of him and i was thinking about the backstory and how i wouldn’t be british obviously that’s one difference but also more relevantly even if i was a cis man in the 1920s-30s i can’t imagine myself getting married and having a child like arthur did so. had to make up a replacement for bella lester so me-arthur lester can have a tragic backstory. and i did, her name is ellie and she’s great but now i think i just straight up have an original character that’s just. a regular woman from the 1920s. this is all very embarrassing, exposing my daydreaming habits and all but! the reason for this long winded explanation is that i drew this ellie character and it turned out really good and i wanted to post it but i didn’t know how to be like. here’s a woman i made up and she’s. not actually a character from malevolent at all but malevolent is the reason she’s in my brain

[insomniac-dormouse]

FUCK MAN THE ONE PIECE LIVE ACTION IS SO GOOD WTF

I NEVER THOUGHT I’D SAY THAT SHIT ABOUT A LIVE ACTION BUT HOLY SHIT

I LOVE THIS VERSION

ITS SO GOOD

[scrumptiousnuttrash]

I WOULD BURN THE WORLD TO BRING SOME HEAT TO YOU

[kamurawaffles5684]

HELLO PEOPLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH!!! I bless you with Kal’s lore, at long last. (Preferably read this with Now That’s Sacred by Jack Conte or Wired by The Neighborhood. Brings the atmosphere into this a little more.)

[JULY 20TH; 2287 — EASTSIDE OF GOODNEIGHBOR]

Name: Kal Dunham

Age: 40

Status: Relocation to Boston Encampment; Presumed Dead by Enclave Officials

Rank: Soldier; Patrol Officer

Additional Details: Daughter of Sgt Hodges and LT Oxheart. Trained to specialize in Power Armor maintenance and patrol operations

————————————————————————-

Kal, born in 2247, had been in the Enclave at birth, like many other Recruits. She was able to gain the title of a Patrol Officer through rigorous training and examinations, aided by her mother and father’s support.

At around 2264, however, her father, Lieutenant Gus Oxheart, tragically died at Raven Rock, causing her mother, Sargent Hodges and Kal herself to have to move to the Boston Enclave Chapter. The two of them stayed at the Southern Enclave Encampment, up until the Brotherhood of Steel discovered the Enclave’s existence in the East, ambushing the Southern and Western Encampments, where most of the Enclave members lived at the time, the year specifically being 2280. Sargent Hodges, seeing as her only daughter was put in danger again, made the executive decision to send Kal to the Eastern Encampment, to not only keep her safe, but to make sure that the Enclave would at least somewhat survive, even if it was only a few members now after the ambush.

On her way to the Eastern Encampment, however, the Brotherhood noticed the group’s Vertibird fleeing, shooting it down, the vertibird crashing just west of Police Precinct 8 . A minutemen patrol team was luckily stationed near the Precinct, and saw the crash, investigating it. They found Kal in the rubble, right hand and left leg completely destroyed by the impact of the crash, with burn scars and major gashes littering her body. They rushed her to Diamond City with the help of being very quick and careful on their feet, constantly jabbing Stimpacks and stray blood packs into her body to compensate for the blood loss and injuries. She is successful in getting to Diamond City on time, gaining two prosthetic limbs and a massive amount of skin-to-scar grafting along the major gashes and some of the more serious burn scars.

Within her months of needing to recover, Sargent Hodges bares witness to someone finding the coordinates to the X02 armor, hunts down the person who had the coordinates, and ultimately dies from her injuries, the person having to flee the bunker after being ambushed by Hodges and her team. As Kal gains a near-full recovery, she gets a signal from her mother requesting backup, but is still too injured to try and find her just yet. When Kal does fully recover, she heads straight to the Valentine Detective Agency in hopes that they would have even a chance at finding Hodges’ last location, dead or alive.

During the case to find Hodges, however, Kal sees how happy everyone is in Diamond City, starting to regret her actions within the Enclave. It’s also during this time that she finds herself developing feelings for Nick Valentine, as he showed genuine interest in her story when Kal was first interviewed by him. Although, she did leave out the fact that she was of the Enclave, fearing she would be taken away by Diamond City police, or worse, killed on site by them. Once they get to the bunker, however, Nick figures out she’s (now formerly) apart of the Enclave, feeling betrayed and angry at her. She tries to explain herself before Hodges’ backup team discovers them, not realizing it was Kal, considering that the Enclave presumed her as dead after the crash. She takes the chance to redeem herself by killing off the backup, but Nick still feels slightly betrayed by her, even if he forgave her in the end. Grabbing the X02 armor, Kal and Nick get out of the bunker, heading back to Diamond City, Nick staying in his office and Kal going for a drink after feeling the guilt of her actions weigh her down. She falls asleep at the Dugout Inn, but not before renting a room. She would’ve gone back to the Detective Agency, but she knew Nick probably wouldn’t want to talk to her for a while after all that happened. She starts getting dreams of him, regretting what she had done, deeply missing him, either craving his gentle embrace or trying to find how to explain everything to him. She keeps herself from Nick for a few days until Kal convinces herself to write to Nick to at least tell him why she lied to him, and Nick is surprised when Kal tells her full story, and how she realized just how bad the Enclave was and how she felt the need to hide it as to not only keep herself safe, but to try and keep her past self as far away from the present her as possible. In a moment of vulnerability, she admits her feelings as well, Nick being caught off guard by her feelings, but not necessarily scared or upset by them, just confused that a woman like her would fall for a synth like him.

Kal leaves Diamond City in her shame, knowing that her secret could be revealed by the public at any moment if someone got their hands on her letter to Nick, residing in Goodneighbor and working for K-L-E-0 in hopes to restart her life and become a bounty hunter. The dreams of Nick persist still, to the point where she constantly keeps a holotape of his voice on hand and a photo of him taped to the back of the tape, desperately trying not to forget the only person she had to in her life after mother’s death.

____________________________________________

Woo that’s it hope u like it :3 I’ll b making angst posts of the bunker scene hopefully here soon so look out for that :>

[brittlebutch]

truly i’m so beyond insane about the Bill and Ted Musical song “Don't Surrender” that Bill sings when he thinks Ted got killed by the castle guard. i'm being so normal and okay about it tho i promise

[chasebird]

forgot my password 😞 my ass is NEVER logging out of here brah

[littledeadling]

AURORA The Gods We Can Touch is legitimately an unbeatable album to me