#also hartro’s singing???!!

[bookwormonastring]

i’ve got there. i’m experiencing stellar firma songs for the first time. why do these go so hard

[two-dolla-bills]

Tbh David and Hartro should have pulled an Ides of March on Trexel. I think it would have done wonders for them

[rystonlentil]

2022 Podfic Roundup!

(2021 here)

forever hurtling towards the earth, by vienna_salvatori The Mechanisms Raphaella la Cognizi, Dr. Carmilla teen and up 24m 3s

Brilliant scientist Raphaella la Cognizi is down on her luck. She might've made more breakthroughs in her field over the past six months than most could hope to achieve in a lifetime, but it's still not enough. Her project isn't working, and she's run out of time. No one else sees the potential. No one else appreciates the majesty of it, the impossible breakthrough with every painstakingly assembled connective joint, the full sum of scientific knowledge etched into the sweeping curves of not-quite-feathers. It's not enough. And yet- And yet there is a woman standing in the middle of Raphaella la Cognizi's lab, annotating her diagrams and rearranging her wires, and even though it might kill her, Raphaella realises she might just have a chance.

when midnights break their sleep, by SummerFrost The Witcher Geralt/Jaskier, Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer, Geralt & Renfri mature 1hr 48m 55s

The first Snapchat that anyone ever sends Geralt is a picture of his own irritated face. shrike_princess: can u believe this dumbass finally got a snapchat bc a cute boy asked him nicely "It wasn't even that nicely," Geralt says flatly. AKA: The one where Geralt is a bartender and Jaskier sings karaoke.

Blurry .jpeg of a Little Glass Bird, by spaghetti_garrote Five Nights at Freddy’s mature 51m 44s

In an alternate universe, where instead of hanging around Hurricane as a security guard, William Afton takes on the identity of Dave Miller, a widower and art gallery secretary in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont...

I Want My Octokitten Back, by shella688 The Mechanisms teen and up 6m 13s

Gunpowder Tim has lost his octokitten. What if he never sees it again? WAIT He has seen his octokitten... (A Mechs version of I Want My Hat Back, by Jon Klassen.)

where no man (should have) gone before, by fushifables Stellar Firma teen and up 28m 45s

“You– You’re not going to stay?” he was saying nervously. “Don’t you think you should... er, instruct me? Commentate? Mock me for my hubris? Please Hartro anything—” “Stop whining, Trexel,” Hartro said, pressing a large green button on the console in front of her with a flourish. “I have zero-gravity yoga, so you’ll have to manage on your own. Just remember,” she added, making for the door, “If you die in the HoloDome—trademark Stellar Firma, Limited—you die in real life! Toodles!”

The Point Of Clothes, by pikablob Five Nights at Freddy’s Vanessa & Glamrock Freddy & Gregory general 16m 1s

After taking Gregory in, Vanessa takes him to get new clothes for the first time. While there, he plucks up the courage to ask for something specific.

so i’m the dragon (big deal), by SummerFrost The Witcher Renfri/Yennefer, Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer, Jaskier & Renfri, Geralt & Renfri explicit 2hr 51m 0s

If Renfri were straight and also someone who believed she needed a relationship to have a meaningful existence, she'd probably marry Geralt and not totally hate her life. Luckily she's neither of those things, so she's fucking Geralt's girlfriend instead.

You’ll Figure It Out When You Get There, by TheQuietWings Five Nights at Freddy’s Vanessa & Glamrock Freddy & Gregory teen and up 15m 3s

Vanessa doesn't know exactly what she's supposed to do now. It turns out there is no 12 step program for recovering from being manipulated and possessed by a child murderer who likes to dance around in a rabbit suit. or, an ex-security guard and a piece of stolen property have a chat while Gregory robs a gas station blind.

Nothing Really Sticks, by Rosie447 Stranger Things Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington, Steve Harrington & Nancy Wheeler teen and up 1hr 11m 9s

Steve cuts his hair with safety scissors in the bathroom of Family Video. Maybe he's less okay than he's been letting on.

The Very Best People, by scioscribe Stranger Things Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington teen and up 1hr 45m 40s

“Why are you messing up my undercover operation, Steve?” Dustin said. “Do you want another tear to open up in the space-time continuum and suck us all into the Upside Down? Do you want the entire world to turn into squishy, mind-flayed zombies because you and Robin couldn’t get your shit together?” (Or, the one where Steve and Robin go undercover in an evil suburb.)

Case #0222411, by FireflysWriting The Magnus Archives, Goncharov (1973) general 6m 37s

Statement of Maria Angelova regarding her supposed involvement in the film Goncharov (1973). Statement given 24th November 2022.

A Mile Away, by lenaballena Check Please! Nursey/Dex, Chowder & Nursey & Dex teen and up 5hr 32m 45s

The thing is, he’s had study nights and TV marathons in Chowder’s room. He’s gotten stoned in Shitty’s, and Lardo’s, crashed on Jack’s floor after a kegster, gone to Bitty’s for advice, and checked Ransom and Holster’s for ghosts. If it were anyone else’s, Nursey would at least have some indicator of what was going on, because he’d be able to recognise the decorations, the layout. But Derek Nurse wakes up in William Poindexter’s room and has no idea where the fuck he is.

A Christmas Carol - Mechanisms Style, by otherhawk The Mechanisms teen and up 18m 34s

On the night before Space Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge is going to change his ways. Brian will make sure of it, with some unhelpful help from his friends.

[shipaholic]

was just cold-clocked by the image of Trexel Geistman singing ‘Face Your Fears’ to David 7

[equalseleventhirds]

i miss............. stellar firma

[noblessejess]

(Link to Season 1 here)

[shorter version of the show theme]

TREXEL: No circumstances can you do that. Because, David—

DAVID: ♪ —Fact Corner! ♫

TREXEL: No, David, stop it!

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DAVID: So, ♪ David's Fact Corner ♫ is never happening again.

TREXEL: [crosstalk] Is David's Fact Cancelled.

DAVID: [sadly] Oh.

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TREXEL: Tell me you accept that.

DAVID: ♪ David's Fact Cancelled. ♫ 

TREXEL: Excellent stuff.

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DAVID: ♪ David's Flat Corner. ♫

TREXEL: If you like.

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TREXEL: [sings]  ♪ What's? That? On the horizon? It's time… for sales! [David sighs] Who's? That? Man over there? It's the king of sales! And I feel that he has the power to take us on a journey, but never fails! Lalalalalala, dancing girls and dancing boys— ♫

DAVID: [crosstalk] Trexel! Trexel!

TREXEL:  ♪ Dancing with their dancing toys! Because— ♫

DAVID: [crosstalk] Trexel!

TREXEL:  ♪ —sales is on, and sales is high— ♫

DAVID: We don't have time for a full number!

TREXEL:  ♪ —and it is time for sales-y time! And sale will win the sale-y thing, [DAVID: T-Trexel!] and the thing will swim in the lake of thing— ♫

DAVID: TREXEL!

TREXEL:  ♪ And the time is happening now! ♫ [pause] SALES TIME!

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DAVID: …all kicking has to be done with golden shins!

TREXEL:  Yes, yes! And you have to pay the kicking tithe!

DAVID: Yes!

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ I want to kick, pay the kicking tithe! I want to stay alive, so I pay the big mouse god the kicking tithe! So I may live! ♫

DAVID: Yes, exactly that! Right, so kicking tithe. What else is here… uh, uh, nauseous! Every time you feel nauseous that’s—

TREXEL:  ♪ Pay the nauseous tithe! I want to stay alive, [David sings along] so I pay the naughting nauseous tithe— ♫ Oh, and it all just fits into the same rhyme scheme, David!

DAVID: Right. Okay, okay, right! So they want to be a mouse concubine, so, so some kind of body transmogrification tithe!

TREXEL:  ♪ Body transmogrification tithe! I transmogrify to stay alive! To become a mouse! A mouse of my god, because I've got this hot mouse bod! ♫

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DAVID: Oh Board, what is going on? Wait. [hyperventilating a little] Has somebody found out about my permissions? Have I been locked out? Oh, I knew I shouldn’t have secretly recorded more editions of [singing badly] ♪ David’s… fact corner! ♫

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TREXEL: That's a coquettish hat. [sings] ♪ Oh, yeah! Coquettish man in a coquettish hat. Ooh! Where'd you get that hat? [DAVID: From-from David.] Baby! [DAVID: Well, you made it.] Got it from my imagination. Made it on this space station! ♫

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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Frost Bees and Legalese. Who will win? The Legalese will. ♫ That—

DAVID: I hope so, otherwise we're in—

TREXEL: That's a theme tune and you can keep it.

DAVID: Okay.

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TREXEL: When you're dealing with beings from all over the universe, [DAVID: Mm-hmm.] some of them are going to eat you, David! You have to get this in your thick head! [DAVID: Oh.] [sings] ♪ Some of the clients want you dead. In the head, in the head. The clients will murder you if they can. Don't go off of the plan. If you learn these lessons three, you'll be fine and stay with me. Meeee-EEEE! Trexel who's alive. ♫ You see?

DAVID: Right.

TREXEL: They sing that to children, David, [DAVID: Okay] so I'd hope you'd understand!

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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ It's the— ♫

TREXEL and DAVID: [sings] ♪ —butter box. ♫

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ It really cuts you off from the buttery animals you want to be. Fear us, fear us, now you flee. ♫

DAVID: Okay. Uh, right.

TREXEL: [sings, kind of] ♪ Butter box! ♫

DAVID: The butter box.

TREXEL: Trademarked by Trexel Geistman.

DAVID: Okay.

TREXEL: Hog played by David 7.

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TREXEL: And I'm going, [bells jingle throughout] [sings] ♪ "meow meow meow, I'm a little kitty cat, and I'm doing something I shouldn't do. Is that milk mine? No, that milk's not mine, but I'm gonna lap it up all the same. Oh, I've been caught! My hackles are raised. I've tried to run away. No, I'm sliding on a floor! This floor is so slick, and I've hit a wall. Yes, I've hit it." ♫ And then I murder the puppet.

DAVID: What?

TREXEL: Because that's what they like, cat videos and murder.

DAVID: Okay.

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DAVID: So, go on! Take it! Take it up to your "high ground" where you're "trying" ever so hard. And I'll just stay languishing down—

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Lucy— ♫

DAVID: And I'll just stay la—

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Lucy, I can see— ♫

DAVID: And I'll just stay languishin—

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ You're so beautiful to me. ♫

DAVID: Okay, it's no longer about me anymore, is it?

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Oh, Lucy! The angles we shall take,

        Measurements real and fake.

        Together we

        Will measure the

        Sweet world we have— ♫

DAVID: I thought that was it.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ In our grasping hands.

        Drawn in bonds

        Such binding bands.

        You and me

        Luuuuu-uuuu-uuuucy! ♫

DAVID: Yeah, it also does lil' spirals.

TREXEL: I love her.

DAVID: Great.

TREXEL: I love my new graph friend, David. Thank— thank you. 

        [sings] ♪ Lucy, through the dewdrops we do dance.

        Lucy, in the meadow we'll prance.

        Lucy, take me by your corners,

        Don't hold back,

        I'm not a hoarder.

        You're the only graph friend I have. ♫

DAVID: That's not very kind to Percy.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Since I lost my greatest friend,

        A childhood, a special friend,

        A Percy that I'll never see again. ♫

DAVID: To anyone listening, it's not the clone.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ He is lost to me— ♫

DAVID: He cares more about the—

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ And for a long time I couldn't see— ♫

DAVID: The graph friend is more important.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ A way out of my sorrow and despair! ♫

DAVID: I don't even know the clone's name!

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ But Lucy, you have come into my life,

        Buried yourself into my heart

        Like a kindly, kindly knife and we shall be

        Together. ♫

DAVID: He doesn't even remember who's made it.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Lucy! ♫

DAVID: David made Lucy.

IMOGEN: [beep] Musical crime detected. There is no one appropriate to inform.

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[Trexel lays down a beat including snapping and scat singing]

DAVID: Darkness.

        My feelings

        they're hurt now.

        I'm thinking

        I don't know what!

        I don't know where!

        Where is my place

        in this crazy mixed up station?

        Is it with Trexel?

        Is it with IMOGEN?

        Who are the Board?

        Who is Hartro?

        There are her feet.

        Why are her feet?

        Keep your feet

        to yourself.

        Leave me alone!

Ah— no, I'm done. No, I can't go there.

TREXEL: [snaps fingers] I'm applauding. I'm doing jazz applause, David.

DAVID: Okay. Right, well… thank— thank you, I suppose.

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DAVID: Plea— Trexel!

TREXEL: [sing-songy] Trexel's nipple dance.

DAVID: Put them away!

TREXEL: Okay. Okay. [puts shirt back down]

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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Look out! It's TD-dog. TD stands for "Trexel dominates". He's on the streets. He's commanding respect. Don't look at him 'cause he will flex because Trexel's the one that's allowed to be swole. David stop exercising, it hurts your soul. You use your mind. I also use my mind but my mind has muscles on the end of my arms. ♫

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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ I partake of a tune or two in my spare time. Da da la da la da da. Tunes arrive! I want to make a massive rhyme. Di di li di li di da. Who can say— ♫

CLYTEMNESTRA: [claps] Oh, very good!

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ —when the song will end? Not now yet [CLYTEMNESTRA: Oh!] or even later! It goes on even though it grows later— ♫

DAVID: Trexel, we have about 8 minutes of the shift left.

TREXEL: ♪ —in the day. In the day! In the day! [at the top of his lungs] In the day! ♫

CLYTEMNESTRA: Oh.

DAVID: Why is it that whenever you bring people into a room singing happens?

TREXEL: Because I have a tune in the heart and a song in the mind.

DAVID: Eugh.

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DAVID: [starts rage singing] ♪ Sadness. Sadness. Sadness and anger. Anger and rage! [TREXEL: Okay. Okay.] Anger and rage and everything here. ♫

CLYTEMNESTRA: Oh, dear.

TREXEL: Okay. Um—

DAVID: ♪ Kill! Kill! Destroy! [becomes incomprehensible and devolves into rage noises] ♫

TREXEL: Um! Clytemnestra, um...

CLYTEMNESTRA: Um, wow. Okay. Okay, I think that's enough. Lovely. [David begins to calm down but still breaths angrily] Very beautiful performance. Thank you very much.

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DAVID: Go sing.

TREXEL: Is it my turn?

CLYTEMNESTRA: Your turn— Yes, it's your turn, Trexel.

TREXEL: Okay. [sings] ♪ Everybody's having a nice little time. But then when they stop and have time to reflect they look at a wall and realise that they have no friends [starts getting upset] and nobody loves them! Sadness and sadness and sadness and anger! And sadness and sadness and sadness and woe! ♫

TREXEL and CLYTEMNESTRA: [harmonising] ♪ Sadness and sadness and sadness and anger! And— ♫

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Sadness and sadness! Where do I go? ♫

CLYTEMNESTRA: [sings] ♪ Where does he go? ♫

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Oh no! ♫

CLYTEMNESTRA: [sings] ♪ Oh! ♫

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DAVID:  Isn't Bathin one of our direct competitor— Why would we have an award specifically about, about Bath—

TREXEL: Customer competitive, David. Locked in a dance as old as time itself.

DAVID: So, Stellar Firma—

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ I hate you. I love you. Hold my hand and turn away. Don't look in my eyes! But don't look away from me! I feel your heart beating in your chest. ♫

DAVID: Hey Trexel.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ I grab your heart and crush the life out of it! ♫

DAVID: You're dancing with Bathin.

TREXEL: Ooh! Get off me! Get off me! [stammers] I don't— I don't— I didn't want it! I didn't like it! I didn't like it. I didn't like it.

HARTRO: But that is what—

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DAVID: [footsteps approaching] …in Sales but—

[door swooshes open]

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ A new dawn! [David yelps] A new dawn has come to pass! ♫

DAVID: Trexel, we need to talk.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ The mistakes of old are now cast— ♫

DAVID: Trexel, we need to—

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ —aside to reveal a brand new future shining bright in the sky! Trexel! ♫

DAVID: Needs to listen to me.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Trexel— ♫

DAVID: Really needs to listen to me.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ —has arrived-dah! ♫ [DAVID: Yes.] Cheering! Cheering! Cheering!

DAVID: Uh, no. No. No cheering. Look, Tr-Trexel—

TREXEL: Cheering.

DAVID: Trexel, we need to talk!

TREXEL: Fireworks!

DAVID: We need to pro— No, Trexel.

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TREXEL: [taunts] Weatherboy! Ah ha ha ha ha! Weatherboy! What's that Weatherboy? Testing gases? [sings] ♪ Weatherboy, Weatherboy, weather weather Weatherboy! Weatherboy, Weatherboy, weather Weatherboy. Who's that Weatherboy? It is you. What's the Weatherboy? Tell me true. Is it raining? Is it shining? Tell me, Weatherboy, am I pining for the time when the Weatherboy was here? Now the Weatherboy is here it's clear, there's a Weatherboy, Weatherboy, Weatherboy! The boy of weather is you! Ha! ♫

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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Who's there I see across the sea? It's a Weatherboy, a Weatherboy, a Weatherboy coming to me! ♫

DAVID: It's actually Welby Weatherby.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Tell me what the weather is. Weatherboy, tell me true [DAVID: Weatherby.] for the weather, weather, weather, weather is something you do! ♫

DAVID: So that— yeah, something that Wel-Welby Weatherby does. Yes.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ He's a Weatherboy! ♫

DAVID: Ok— no. Weatherby.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ He's a Weatherboy! ♫

DAVID: Weather— Weatherby.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Play with your weather toys! ♫

DAVID: Weather-tee.

TREXEL: [sulking] Well, now you've ruined it.

DAVID: Good. Anyway—

TREXEL: You've ruined the meter.

DAVID: Okay. Does that mean we can— Okay.

TREXEL: I suppose so. I mean, [DAVID: Right.] the-the-the meters ruined now so just, just move on. I don't care.

DAVID: Okay. No, that's fine. So, I just have to ruin meters and that will just— Okay, that's—

TREXEL: No, don't learn that! Don't— I don't want you to learn that! That will ruin all my fun!

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DAVID: [sings] ♪ Welby Weatherboy, you have come with your boys to control the weather. Here you go. Lovely love— ♫

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Look, you control the flow, the flow of the weather through all the sky. Look outside, it's time for guys! Guys from, from— ♫

DAVID: [changing the meter] ♪ Guys from thathn. Guys to time. Guys to time with thum-some-thum-thum. [continues singing gibberish] Some tha blu blah ba-be-dap-ba! Bo whap ba ba ba boo! ♫ End of the song.

TREXEL: [grumbles] I see. They call him David 7, [DAVID: Hmm?] meter ruiner.

IMOGEN: [beep] Or ear saver depending on how you look at it.

DAVID: Mm.

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TREXEL: [singing] ♪ Weatherboy! How are you doing? Weatherboy, [crosstalk] it looks like clouds are looming! It looks like— ♫

DAVID: [crosstalk, singing a different meter from Trexel] ♪ It's Weatherboy. Weatherboy. It, it is Weather— It is Weatherboy. It is— ♫

TREXEL: [yells] I will hurt you, David!

DAVID: What? No. Mm?

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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ But look outside, what can you see? The Weatherboy is here to decree what the Weatherby, the Weatherby, the weather will be! Oh! ♫

DAVID: [sighs] Right.

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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Ooh! Ooh! Enjoying the rain. I'm an Executive, an Executive brain. [starts scat singing] ♫

DAVID: [talking over Trexel's singing] Okay, well I'm just gonna ma— Okay. Maybe for now we'll just table the thinking caps. Well just— I'm gonna take my thinking cap off, okay? Like, here it goes. Ooh!

TREXEL: ♪ —for you! ♫ Here you go.

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TREXEL: [echoing, sings] ♪ King of the vents is me, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! ♫

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TREXEL: Ha ha! [sings] ♪ I get to go somewhere you don't get to go! I get to go to the nose-mouth-butt. [ENOLA: Yeah.] Nose-mouth-butt for me, me, me. ♫

ENOLA: Have a sticky leaflet, Trexel.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Sticky leaflet, sticky leaflet for me! Take it to the mouth-butt-n— ♫ [muffled as Enola sticks the leaflet in Trexel's mouth]

ENOLA: Get in! Yes! Yes, good.

DAVID: Oh! Oh, that worked. Ah, nice one!

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DAVID: Okay. Yes, Trexel. It turns out that you continue to do your—

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ When will The Face know me? [David sighs] When will Gonk feel the reach of my hand? When will Tracer P. Zazz Cage know that I am the great one with the great plan? Doug Whimperton. Oh, Doug Whimperton. Oh, Doug Whimperton should know my name! ♫

DAVID: I thought we didn't like Doug Whimperton.

TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Welby Weatherby shall know my fame. ♫

DAVID: Right.

TREXEL: But no.

DAVID: Yeah, but, but no!

TREXEL: All lost.

[short version of the outro theme]

[radioromantic-moved]

💫 !! tell me abt stellar firma !! i remember listening to like 20 episodes of it when i was zonked out from wisdom teeth removal and all i remember was that one survival reality tv show island with the dirty humour latched to it asdfjkl;s

you know what i can think of no better way to listen to it honestly. i already talked about it a bit (a lot.) here but i've always got more to say about my dumbest special interest let's go

-i didn't really mention the supporting characters before but i should have because they're also very good.‏‏‎ ‎hartro is the main boys' line manager as you probably know. she starts off scary girlboss with a weird foot thing which is a trope very much up my alley (minus the foot thing) but she eventually devolves into just a giant dork who likes space d&d and drawing things on whiteboards. she's kind of adorable, honestly. she and my sf s/i are somewhat-amicable exes.

-imogen is the station ai and my favorite brand of character, aka a morally questionable female ai who hides behind a cheery front to hide how much she hates her life. she cares (tentatively) about exactly one person, and that's david. who deserves it, because he deserves the world.

-there's also enola, who appears in like 3 episodes and is a metaphor for liberal politics that everyone fell hopelessly in love with. i mean i love them too. they live in the vents and write a lot of pamphlets about the state of things.

-bathin‏‏‎ ‎of‏‏‎ ‎galactonium‏‏‎ ‎is david's true love. they wrote a song about him. he appears in one episode for a single minute so most people make up characterization from him mostly from scratch. we know he is a surfer dude and a himbo, which are his two most important traits.

-one last very important thing!! there's an album of songs by the main cast!! it's VERY good and VERY fun and has a lot of little hints to future events if you listen carefully and overanalyze everything like i do. it was released during season 3 but based on the stuff they sing about most of the songs feel like they'd be sung in early season 2. that's just my weird theory though. i still put more thought into this show than like. anyone but 3 other fans maybe.

-if you ever feel like listening through the rest of the show you SHOULD because i love it so dearly and i love to talk about it with people. it's very dumb like 90% of the time but that's just one of the reasons i like it so much. just don't make fun of me too bad for my taste in characters pwease i clown on myself enough

[rq-described]

[ID a digital drawing of Hartro Piltz from Stellar Firma. She is a tall slim dark skinned woman, with blue dreadlocks and blue eyes. In the main image she is sitting on her knees, clutching a small pink puppet, roughly shaped like a person, in her hand. Her other hand is close to her chest, where she appears to be looking down at her nails and singing.

She has bright red lipstick, and a gold, crown shaped hairband tying back her blue hair. Her visible earring is also gold, shaped like a small round stud with a triangle danging off it. She is wearing a red skirt suit that matches her lipstick, with a partially open white shirt, a chunky black belt, and grey tights. She has chunky blue shoes, with a heel attached to the sole.

There is a smaller square in the corner of the image that shows Hartro's face close up. She is looking angrily over her shoulder, saying "I had them made!".

End ID]

i love hartro and i love her puppets

[radioromantic-moved]

okay here we go liveblog part 2

-even though tom and becky aren't my favorite characters i'm happy when they're happy. they are doing their best they've had to adjust to change and massive guilt. killing an abusive husband is kind of girlboss behavior though

-"there's an alternate reality where we're now a family" YEAH I'M SURE THERE IS ACTUALLY,

-becky's high notes are WILD

-if linda was more of a cartoony villain and didn't hit so many notes of a real life classist karen-type i'd probably have a little crush on her. sorry but she is girlbossing it

-apparently‏‏‎ ‎our‏‏‎ ‎doors‏‏‎ ‎are‏‏‎ ‎open‏‏‎ ‎instrumental plays in a minor key before frank gets killed and hi that literally distresses me so much

-OH MY GOSH...if frank is‏‏‎ ‎trexel‏‏‎ ‎and‏‏‎ ‎lex‏‏‎ ‎is‏‏‎ ‎david‏‏‎ ‎linda‏‏‎ ‎is‏‏‎ ‎their‏‏‎ ‎hartro. she even tries to kill them <3 but‏‏‎ ‎hartro‏‏‎ ‎gets‏‏‎ ‎better‏‏‎ ‎and uh linda definitely does not.

-"well, webby‏‏‎ ‎is a stupid bitch!" erm. still top tier line i think <3

-hannah's actor is really good at screams of terror. normal thing to say

-do you want to play is i think the creepiest song on the soundtrack or at least top 3 and i appreciate it for that even though it's still not as good as‏‏‎ ‎feast‏‏‎ ‎or‏‏‎ ‎famine. becky would've been such a good villain

-and the worst thing is they both work with kids normally they WOULD be safe people in an emergency like this and that's what makes the song so fucked up! tom is a fucking dad!

-stop calling wiley an anti-capitalist icon he literally LIKES capitalism that's what‏‏‎ ‎empowers‏‏‎ ‎wiggly‏‏‎ ‎he just likes fucking with the people in power. also he was a creep to an 18 year old who would still be in high school but that's unrelated. his song does bop though

-i think that all the sniggles are played by people who also act as a character who fought for a wiggly and i think that is fun :) i think it is fun.

-the way wiggly says "deck the halls with your gutsy-wutsies" is one of the most unhinged line deliveries i've Ever heard and i love that. these actors are literally so good at their characters

-sherman‏‏‎ ‎young‏‏‎ ‎brony‏‏‎ ‎:( leave the ponies alone most of them are lesbians anyway

-"would i lie to a loyal customer?" sounds like a frank line. maybe she's channeling him a little. i wanted to make myself sad don't worry about it.

-black‏‏‎ ‎friday‏‏‎ ‎(the song) is one of my other favorites. lex is one of the only musical mcs who has a similar range to me and whenever i hear the song i think "i could sing that." make me‏‏‎ ‎lex‏‏‎ ‎foster‏‏‎ ‎in an unofficial production of‏‏‎ ‎black‏‏‎ ‎friday‏‏‎ ‎someone do it i dare you

-JUST noticed lex's AWESOME boots. she is so lgbt

-speaking of her outfit when did she find the time to change out of her toy zone uniform. did the cultists let her go to a bathroom so she could get more apocalypse ready

-"THEY'RE ALL INTO‏‏‎ ‎FORTNITE, DUDE!"

-me a year and a half ago on the‏‏‎ ‎hatchetfield‏‏‎ ‎wiki: whoa lex is 18? but she still acts so much like a teenager i thought you were really cool and mature and adult by then. me now, 18 years old: Ah. Yeah.

-god yeah i actually really like tom sorry for thinking you were boring man he's just dadcore and i need to appreciate that more

-the scene where linda overpowers lex and tom is so unrealistic but i know they couldn't end it yet. and we get another bop it's fine

-thinking about the‏‏‎ ‎line from twisted "tomorrow will come, even if it comes without us." not the first person to draw this parallel but i will still be thinking about it!

OKAY THERE'S THAT <3 time for new content. exciting exciting exciting

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🎵🎵 two songs!

ty!! time to discuss some podded cast characters

hartro isn’t a romantic f/o exactly but...she’s in a very weird “it’s complicated” space where i can imagine romantic stuff with her but i don’t really have romantic emotions attached to that i just think it’s fun. which is part of the reason i came up with the “hartro/cyril somewhat-friendly exes” storyline. and going along that route i think asymptotic is kind of a cute song to describe slightly younger them getting into a fumbling awkward first relationship with each other and then slowly drifting apart as hartro becomes more and more invested in her career and cyril sort of gets detached from people because intimacy is scary. also i like the song i think it’s neat.

spiraling shape is the latest addition to the helen playlist because like. hello....legit wrote an entire chapter into my fic for her where my s/i riffs off of it and she sings the song. that spiraling shape WILL make you go insane. and the lyrics just generally match up to their relationship really well!! “this could lead to excellence or serious injury”... “putting all reason aside you exchange what you’ve got for a thing that’s hypnotic and strange”... “don’t spend the rest of your life wondering”...very applicable to a shitty human that puts themself in active danger to flirt with a fear being of madness because they’re just a gigantic lesbian and the fear being of madness is really pretty, dude,