#daddy nmt

[thelesbiandeli]

*raises glass* Happy 6 years of killing my favourite character

[beckybarnes]

best milf ever /ref…. ❤️

[scwprideflags]

Lesbian flag colorpicked from Sheila Young | requested by; @tedspankoffskisbignaturals

[justarandombrit]

“You see a deal, I see a meal”

I have a few gripes about how Frank’s redemption arc in Daddy is handled, but the added meaning to this line is just perfection.

In the context of Black Friday, Frank’s role is as a representation of capitalism on a smaller scale. Unlike Wiggly, who's the physical embodiment of greed and cruelty, Frank is a stand-in for the business owners, the bourgeoisie, if you will.

In this song, he has complete power over the situation, relishing in the amount of money he's soon to make, and this line, like a lot in the song, and later in Feast or Famine, serves to show the gap between Lex and Frank’s individual motivations.

While Lex covets money out of desperation, out of Famine, Frank hoards his wealth out of greed, he wants a Feast.

However, in the Nightmare Time episode Daddy, it's revealed to the audience that in the wider context of Hatchetfield, outside the framing of Black Friday, Frank is… almost poor. He's lonely, sure he's close with Miss Holloway, but his only real friend seems to be his dog, who's killed off in the beginning of Daddy.

Toyzone isn't a multi-million dollar company, it's Frank’s passion, and his livelihood. Without Toyzone, Frank would starve. In the context of Nightmare Time, Frank sees the shoppers’ money as a “meal” not in the predatory sense, but in the sense that it is literally his only source of income.

He may be greedy, but he sustains himself via Toyzone, something he's genuinely passionate about, and he may be hard on Lex, but she is one of the few people he apologises to when he thinks he's about to die.

Frank Pricely is a character who was developed from an allegorical representation of greed and capitalism, into a sympathetic flawed protagonist, who, while not being excused of his actions, is justified and explained as just a passionate man trying to make ends meet.

He's an incredibly interesting character to me, and it's a shame I never see anyone discussing him.

[fencecollapsed]

Becky Barnes' cameo in Daddy is one of the funniest cameos in the series actually

"this is the pediatric wing and he's a grown-ass man"

Becky be sassy more I'm begging you-

[inkwell-illustrations]

Part 4!

Boy Jerry requested by: @yourworsest

Barry Swift & Sherman Young requested by: @pangothepangolin

part 1 part 2 & part 3

[idontlikemusicals]

hatchetfield poster series part 2

[severely-nearsighted]

wine and dine stimboard for @tedspankoffskisbignaturals <3

X - X - X / O - X - O / X - X - X

[starcanwreckedpulp-doyoushipit]

do you ship it?

[dailyhatchetfield]

day 67 - small town lesbians

[cherrieguroo]

sheila young's dresses

all or them are iconic i love her what a fashion icon

[lilacthebooklover]

part of the reason why i find nightmare time episodes so interesting is because in half of them, i'm not even sure who the writers want me to root for.

take honey queen, for example. linda's the focus of it and we see her emotions, motivations & family, so it's expected that she would be the "hero" of the episode. but she isn't. the episode consists of her doing horrible things to zoey, zoey doing horrible things to her, and it gradually escalating to the point of kidnapping and murder. it's due to linda that zoey dies. and she gets what she wants, what the whole episode has been about her vying to achieve, but we as viewers don't feel satisfied, because how can all that's happened possibly be worth such a tiny, temporary, meaningless title? linda's father seems to be proud of her, which is what she's been hoping to gain and added an extra element of sympathy for her character. but in the end, he sacrifices her to an eldritch being because she "the hungriest". honey queen is tragic and comedic and messed up and chaotic and there are The Horrors and nobody is distinctly good.

and that stays the same in every nightmare time episode. so many of these characters wouldn't care a bit if they killed someone, as long as they were able to survive. but that's just hatchetfield. a strange community of selfish people with no clear morals, because that's all they know and that's all they can be if they want to survive. they have a magic child fighting ring, they have evil weed birds, they have clones in the technical department, they have an asexual axe murderer in the woods, they have a wealthy doting mother who's been alive for centuries, they have a 1986 foxbody mustang possessed by a dead psychiatrist, so on and so forth.

the whole hatchetfield universe is so surreal: this is a place where people go missing every day, where gruesome murders are dismissed unless it threatens their football team losing to the clivesdale chemists, where a character can do the most horrendous things or seem absolutely irredeemable, only for the narrative to put them through so much that the audience ends up loving them.

each character is so complex and unique (i could write an essay about literally any of them if i tried to- and yet that includes peanuts the hatchetfield pocket squirrel). none of them are meant to be all good, and none of them are meant to be all bad. they're realistic to their environment and screwed over by their universe and they all have their own lives to focus on.

the vast majority of the antagonistic characters are very beloved in this fandom, because this is hatchetfield, where the most horrifying things are normalised in-universe, so they begin to be for us, too. we don't think it's as awful when we see zoey's body hanging from the rafters, or watch boy jeri be killed by his own son, or see eldritch beings hunt people down, since that's all seen as far more normal in this world. besides that, people like to have flawed characters, it's good to have little fictional freaks committing atrocities since it means the episodes are completely unpredictable.

every volume of nightmare time is a rollercoaster or a fever dream, because they'll take the most unexpected characters and the most random concepts ever and throw them into a completely absurd plot. so many modern pieces of media follow a specific genre or structure, but the hatchetfield universe does whatever the hell it wants, and it's so investing to see. there aren't any limits here, and each episode is a separate timeline, so the creators can go wild and do literally anything with this town. it's like a treasured collection of cracky aus that have been written and performed astonishingly beautifully.

anyway, this is your sign to go check out nightmare time and @blinkysrewatchparty! it will be entirely worth it, i promise <3

[heir-of-the-chair]

Rewatching Nightmare Time 2. So given that they all take place in the same timeline:

Ted dies during the honey festival after Shiela decides she’s going to get back with Frank and kills him because she no longer has use for him

Pete is away the whole summer at Abstinence Camp under the iron rule (and blade) of Grace Chastity. They’re not even allowed to have their phones.

NMT 2 Ted dies while Pete is away at camp and there’s a very real possibility he doesn’t even learn until he’s back…

[yourmoodboards-areonfiirree]

Frank and Sherman moodboard with Paint inspo!

✰ self indulgent! ✰

(All images found on pinterest)

[apieceoftoastedbread]

guys i cant lie i yap about hatchetfield so much but i actually do not watch nightmare time. ive seen all of them (even hey melissa..) besides daddy and killer track and watcher world and hatchetfield ape man. ive seen most of honey queen? can someone PLEASE summarize them to me because i really wanna watch them but some of them dont have captions and i cannot listen to them without rewinding all the time

[fencecollapsed]

so if the backstory about sherman's mom is canon for every timeline does that mean in black friday he's already aware that wiggly isn't just a doll?? and instead of just being like "well this guy really wants the doll and he's a weirdo of course he's gonna be obsessive over it" he's in linda's cult bc he's trying to reach the lords in black by going around his mother??? sorry if this is obvious i'm only just now putting it together sdfghgfdghj

anon that is a really good question, I have been wondering the same thing myself since Daddy came out fjdkfnd

Sherman doesn't seem to be aware of anything More going on with the doll at the beginning of BF, and in his little monologue before Linda enters as Prophet he says

"I came here in search of a doll, but what I found was something far greater. Faith in the one true god! All hail Wiggly!"

that doesn't come across as a guy who already knew Wiggly was a god when he got in line, yknow?

I don't think we get much of a sense of how much he really knows in Daddy other than that he memorized the words to the life-sucking spell, though, so maybe he doesn't know much about the specifics? maybe part of what drew him to Wiggly was a sense of familiarity he couldn't quite place? or maybe he actually was fully in the know the entire time, I'm genuinely not sure kgjdjnf