#askers

[the-alphonze]

[It only takes a few hours for her to arrive. It's quite late at the moment and most of the crew is already asleep. She's creeps her way across the empty deck, poking her head into rooms until she finally reaches the one Alphonse in.

The door creaks open, a head of reddish-brown hair pokes through.]

(°●~)

[Alphonze is sitting on the ground against a wall in uhhhhhh a room idk I forget what they have on the ship, there’s a book next to him and some mechanical bits next to to her as well. Almost looks like he’s building, something.]

[he hears the door open and just stares at her direction. Maybe waves a little]

[genderfeel]

im so sorry you missed out on nick cartell because that man is phenomenal

i liked rehberger's suicide though (fly system issues(?) nonwithstanding i just got a railing hop lmao) would you wanna talk more about that? i like seeing other peoples perspectives but its okay if not!

oh to clarify i have seen nick cartell once before in 2023, so i haven’t missed out at all. huge fan for obvious reasons—dude is top tier. and omg sorry you had a jump malfunction. i had a beast transformation malfunction when i saw batb live and they had to stop and start over 😭😭

but honestly it’s hard for me to untangle my issues with specific suicide performances from my issues with how the suicide as a musical number is written so i’ll break the two out and try to talk about them separately and i’m so so sorry this is so long but i have to fully explain myself and the floodgates are open

it’s also hard to articulate how i prefer actors to take the suicide without audio so i would reference this recording of clarke to see what i mean (ty claire 🥹). my issues with rehberger’s suicide are actually pretty common in the average javert performance, so i wouldn’t say he’s an outlier in that regard

there’s a tendency to play javert angry in general, but i think this is a mistake particularly because it sets up the suicide for failure. playing javert as wooden in most of his interactions is (to me) the most in-character you can get. he can be cunty or whatever but i think getting across the idea that this guy has never let himself feel anything in his life is the goal. adding maliciousness into it muddies the waters here, because what you need with javert is contrast between his inner and outer world

both stars and the suicide are windows into javert having first a crack of emotion and then a full-on break. if you don’t get that contrast, the explosion at the beginning of the suicide loses all impact. the second part of this contrast comes between the first verse and the rest of the song. obviously there are an infinite number of interesting ways to play it, but there needs to be some kind of shift at that point that makes you feel for this man for probably the first time. like, oh man this guy actually can feel things and it’s all coming too fast and hard. i need genuine emotion here to connect with. and there are soooo many emotions to play here. javert should be feeling simultaneous anger, fear, confusion, love, admiration, regret, etc. that’s what makes the piece so varied in how you can play it but also so difficult because you’re juggling all these things, but the song does allow for a lot of creativity in this regard imo

(also needs to be said but stars is written like a love song and should be played at least in part that way. bringing some of the romantic tone from stars into suicide in the way javert sings is fully essential to making this work to me, but this is suchhhh a specific thing i’m looking for. i think i’ve seen this show too much maybe)

rehberger unfortunately played it angry all the way through, never pausing to really consider all the other emotions he should be struggling through. i need to see him thinking. just didn’t get that at all from what i saw. which sucks, but i think it’s a standard way to play it because of a fundamental misunderstanding of the character. i also feel spoiled by clarke’s performance, which genuinely makes the best use of the number i’ve ever heard. it’s genuinely the most difficult number in the show to get tonally correct, but i think the way the song is also just prevents it from ever feeling “right”

so. the suicide in general. i would say musically (lyrics are a whole other rabbit hole i don’t care about right now) i think it’s wonderful right up until the final verse. the vast majority of les mis adaptions, musical included, do what i consider to be a tasteless way to depict suicide, fully on-screen and preoccupied with screaming or crying or splashing (and head cracking. hi 2012) and general spectacle. the musical digs into this and has him yelling all the way down along with silly flailing. i laugh at it like every time which is like obviously not the tone to hit here. it’s tasteless as a suicide scene and doesn’t align with the book’s very deliberately quiet and “off-screen” approach that makes it so haunting

my ideal re-staging of this scene would have javert finish the song as-is (if a little quieter near the end) and then have the orchestra go dead silent as he gets up on the railing and quietly jumps out of sight. also it’s less technically taxing and expensive to produce, which is what some productions avoid by just having him shoot himself (which i don’t actually hate entirely. could be interesting staging but maybe not the best thematically) but that’s all just a pipe dream anyway lol. there are many things i would change about this musical but i’ll take what i can get

[rina7z]

Day 8: Xray

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[weirdzano-and-co]

Attention.

(Thanks for 9 awesome followers, he loves you all.)

Внимание.

(Спасибо за замечательных 9 поклонников, он вас всех любит.)

[altruistic-meme]

Helloooooooooooo dear Abram

Based on that little clip netflix just shared, my unhinged theory is that wilmon make a point of making out in front of their classmates as much as possible. Now that they don’t have to keep their feelings a secret anymore, they’re making it everyone’s problem. They’re a menace to the hillerska student body.

hi millie darling :D

i think this is a normal theory considering the making out in the halls akshfshf imagine being the boy whose room is on the other side of that wall 😔 poor kid

but i LIVE for the idea of them making it everyone else's problem like "oh ok you know what fine. yall wanted wille to get on the table??? he's gonna get on EVERY table now and he WILL be kissing simon while he does it"

[ send me yr3 theories - wrong answers only ]

[roystory4]

when did your art get so soft? it’s wonderful!

im drawin love all the time bro i cant help it 😔

[nightmareentertainment]

Thank you nicolas cage

[justanechoflower]

AAAAAAAA-

CONGRATS ON THE (unofficial) WEDDING YOU TWO!!!!

[tamsong]

KEEFITZZZ

hi will you draw keefitz possiby? :3 tyty <33

Keefe learns human rituals in order to touch the skin of other boys very heterosexually. Fitz is down with it because of course he is.

(reminder that i am taking art requests for pride month <3 just drop a line in my inbox)

[apatheticlexicographer]

lexi are you okay. for the past hour i have seen 25+ different cursed house posts on my dashboard

LMFAO SORRY

it's 4am,

[georgeeehd]

apparently someone gave them matching tshirts in the p.o. box that said “i’m gay but at least i’m not american” and “i’m gay but at least i’m not british” and dream said george wore his while george denied wearing it but with a huge blush and smile on his face

[the-alphonze]

(( gryffon swings open the door of regular-non-cold storage, running over to alphonze. ))

alphonze? are you there? can y'hear me?

(( under his breath, in koalia: )) kol, liaso, sopa. sopa p'ir maso'tri, jek sopa.

[Alphonze is sitting on the ground with her head facing down, instead of her usual yellow there’s a blue light barely coming out of his eyes]

[Gryffon comes up to talk to her and he doesn’t react]

[genderfeel]

Ouh i do always love valvert gardening 🥺

just a leetle valjean…….. wonder where he’s looking

[rina7z]

Day 7: Eyes

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[weirdzano-and-co]

Seems like Pizzy gonna die from heart attack right now.

Кажется у Пизи сейчас сердце остановится.

[altruistic-meme]

what are your views on tom 'tommyinnit' simons (based on the knowledge you have gained through osmosis) 🎤

hi hello :)

i think he is just some funky little guy. he's very loud and he is incredibly strange. but he seems very earnest in a way that is rare and fun!! i'm glad he and his girlfriend and his husband have good relationships :) i am still very confused how he successfully got tubbo to legally marry him without tubbo knowing, but like. good for him? i admire his commitment to the bit immensely.

happy for him and his ability to say 'ggot now. funniest way he could have done that.

also rip him and everyone's increasing desire to put his character in the most torturous and sad situations possible. but. well that's actually a good sign so like good on him for creating a character that is beloved enough to consistently be put through the Horrors. truly the greatest honor for a blorbo in my eyes.

i really enjoy learning about what new shenanigans he gets up to through you and the others i follow :D i have only good hopes for his future especially considering he was really close to some pretty bad shit in the past👍