#her name is Kelly

[makeshifthousewife]

This is money cat. they only show up every once in a blue reblog. Reblog money cat now to have good luck for a year.

[girldadbuckley]

S04E05: Buck Begins // S04E14: Survivors

[thatoneurchin]

[shania-twain]

rollisi in 25x11

[chrliekclly]

o cmon ull forgiv me :)

[crystaltreebee]

Wow I wonder how many Newsies Characters I can name from memor-

44

I can name 44 Newsies characters from both 1992 and livesies from memory. 28 Newsies, 16 non Newsie characters. That’s not good. That’s an issue. I already have half the songs memorized.

[hotvintagepoll]

If you could have worked on any of the Old Hollywood movies, which one? Or specifically a director, actor/actress, designer...?

I would have loved to learn from Walter Plunkett. He’s my favorite of the Old Hollywood costume designers, and brought so much originality and fun to his designs—his Singin’ in the Rain fashion show is a parody of his own designs from the 1920s; his quilt dresses in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers combine character and practical storytelling with musical stylization and iconography. I’m also in awe of John DeCuir’s production design and would kill to be able to draw and style to that degree.

[a-a-a-anon]

cat (charlie (cat))

[biochemandmonsters]

I hope this disaster with Kim ends with Eddie realizing that he’s never going to be able to/doesn’t need to find a “replacement” for Shannon, allowing him to finally move on & find something different that actually works for him

[artemx746]

(Just copying this from my frustrated-with-the-pjo-fandom induced ramblings on the ta server + al lot more more shit than I expected to write)

I think the main pjo fandom has such a misunderstanding of why Alison might be bad for the show

It's not because she's a new character, I honestly think a new character could be good for the show, but it's because the pjo show team has already shown a fundamental misunderstanding of what pjato should be at its core (that being disability). Alison will most likely only prove what we already knew: that being the show not actually knowing what to do with pjo

Gonna be straight up here, I don't think any of these arguments against Alison are really about the fact she's a new character, season one had plenty of changes that a lot of people were fine with despite them not really making sense (why was Annabeth there for Luke's betrayal). They're because she's a new ta character and that'll either lead to the fandom confronting the fact that they've had a bias against the ta characters for literally no reason (Percy destroyed a bridge and blew up a boat, chb also had child soldiers) or their deep rooted sexism against barely morally gray women without stripping them of their agency.* The only fear I kinda get is that Alison will end up replacing one of the ta characters but unless you're a diehard Kelli fan I don't think there's really much to worry about, I'm not saying she'll replace Kelli as a Luke love interest but rather an 'evil bossy woman' type so they don't need to animate Kelli's hair.

The only thing I'm worried about is the lack of disability. I've rambled about this before on the ta server** but Alison is most likely going to be a child of a minor god, and while I do want more minor god kids, the minor god's kids represent a very important part of the disability metaphor, that being disability hierarchies specifically being detrimental against people with physical disabilities and people with stigmatised mental illnesses (npd bpd schizophrenia etc) . Alison has an open casting, and while that would usually be fine for any other character I doubt they'll cast someone with a physical disability and I highly doubt they'll cast someone with a stigmatised mental illness. So you either have: an abled bodied person acting like they have a disability OR a ruined metaphor and Ethan's eye was lost for nothing.

Ta server ramblings under the cut

*Me: considering how this fandom treats women I do not wanna see them if Alison is in the book. They can't handle Silena without stripping her down to "UwU poor manipulated girl" I do not wanna see them with Alison

making it out that Silena was just in love with Luke and he manipulated her is a) reaffirming the sexist stuff about aphrodite kids and b) robs Silena of her agency to make decisions that she ends up regretting

**Me: Honestly hate when people act like it was just Percy who got the minor gods cabins, buddy did the metaphor go over your That Much. The reason it had to be Percy was because he represents people who already have resources speaking out for those who don’t because they’re more respected. That applies to both Percy and Luke. Percy was not the reason for it it was Ethan,

There is a Reason why Ethan was the first named demigod child of a minor god and he had a physical disability, it has a mythic reason like all of the others but it is still a disability. Ethan represents the metaphor in the minor god demis, that being hierarchies in disabled communities

(this is another reason why I'm scared for Alison in s2 because she's probably going to be a child of a minor god)

what I'm really worried about is they either: make Alison physically disabled and kill her off (killing off all* your physically disabled characters rick how fun)

OR

make her able bodied and the metaphor is lost unless they explicitly say she has another stigmatised mental disability which they will not

*I don't count the kid from toa since he's a background character mentoned once and hephaestus was pretty much disabled in the myths so not rick's

okay end of ramblings jesus christ

[soapcan18]

Hot take (I think idk I’m not in the Newsies fandom) Something To Believe In is the worst song in the musical IM SORRY it’s just so boring and it doesn’t stand out to me in comparison to any other love song 😭

[babybatxxx]

This is so bistro huddy Ruby !!

[spikes-got-anger-issues]

I recently listened to The Sit and Chat (Jake and Bradley's podcast) episode that had Kelli on it and decided to create timestamps where they talked about anything relating to MM, LR, or LR:EF

But seriously go watch it for yourself, it was neat listening to Kelli talk about her life, insightful in general, and very funny!

11:46 - 12:31 - They talk about first working with each other on LR:EF and the Lab Rats vs. Mighty Med episode

20:40 - 21:08 - Billy is briefly mentioned due to Jake mixing up where Kelli is from with where Billy is from

25:00- 26:22 - Bradley and Kelli talk about how thankful they were to be on Disney as kids and their experiences

27:16 - 28:17 - Kelli talks about starting LR and how she grew up with Bree/as Bree and was happy with her character arc and where Bree ended up

28:17 - 29:22 - Bradley points out how Kaz, Oliver, Skylar, Bree, and Chase were essentially all different characters in LR:EF compared to who they were in their original respective shows

29:22 - 30:20 - They talk about how all five of them in LR:EF were ready as lead actors but were confined down to the writing of the show and how difficult that became as the characters switched leading parts in different episodes. Bradley says that they weren't angry at each other because of this, but Jake and Kelli say that something deeper than that was going on. Jake expresses that he wished he could have done more on LR:EF

30:20 - 31:09 - (continuation of conversation above) Jake talks about how he was interested with where Oliver's character arc would go in LR:EF and didn't know what to expect going from MM to LR:EF. He said he trusted the creators of LR who went on to create LR:EF and their writing for Oliver, but quickly realized in LR:EF that it wasn't what he was expecting for Oliver (I feel so bad for Jake). He still appreciates his time on the show and being on Disney, but views that time as a transition into more serious acting

31:49 - 35:33 - Bradley talks about how funny it was that Kelli always had a difficult time hitting her mark, especially when he was directing an episode ("Sheep-Shifting")

41:09 - 42:13 - They briefly talk about how they weren't allowed to do other projects without approval after LR:EF ended while they waited to find out if the show would get a season 2 and how the holdout on that was for one year after season 1 came out. Bradley says that they weren't even told what was going to happen to LR:EF and how it just dissipated out

[ddesanta]

i finished reading Her Name In The Sky last night and all I want to say about Kelly's books is:

[okcoolthanks]

Woe, genderfluid skeleton be upon ye,

[cocomuffy]

i try not to speak of devlish things but like... what is this robin lineup in teen titans go?

like. obviously the robin from ttg was here, but like..????? tim drake??? carrie kelley??? whoever the frick the dude next to her was???

like i thought that the second one on the left was Jason, but apparently the wiki says it's "60's robin"? which is still dick?!?!??!

okay so apparently there is evidence that these two:

are the same guy.

and...

what?!

like, by all means, sure, have a retro robin, but shouldn't this be someone else??!?!?!

and since we have tim, then it can't be jason.

it also cant be jason because (and im not kidding this is an actual shot from the show. episode 33: sidekick at 3:36)

he's literally dead.

so like... why is he here.

and why carrie kelley!?!??!!

am i just crazy, because literally. let me run you the facts.

im not doing any carrie kelley erasure, but like...

the main continuity robin as of current and at the time??? damian wayne??? isnt here??? and like they could have just fully gone a little funky with the timelines and had dick, jason, tim, and damian, but that would make too much sense, it seems. because you have to pick carrie kelly, who, to my knowledge, wouldn't be robin at this point?!??!

like, carrie has like twenty other mantles at this point, she wouldn't have been robin for a while when tim joined i think. and like... i guess it makes sense but at the same time you're joking me. look at these dates.

okay so damian wayne was christened as robin in 2009.

and this episode had its original airdate in 2014.

that's 5 years, and the show was made in 2013, which meant that this had to be premade.

they intentionally left damian out?!?!?! even though he's like-- a really good robin?!?! a really good partner?!?!? even if he doesn't get along with everyone all the time?!?!?

i decided to watch a portion of the episode again and phoo boy i am reminded how much i dont like this show.

okay but here's the conclusions from today's meeting:

thank you for coming to my ted talk