#i must rewatch the musical

[banderskrad]

enemies to lovers

[herefortheships]

I feel like The Phantom of the Opera can be a metaphor for how society shames women for their sexual desires. Women must aim to be chaste. The Phantom represents Christine's sexual awakening, while Raoul represents her innocence.

Christine and Raoul met as kids; he is the light, "the good guy", chastity, etc. He is everything to be loved in the open air, in the light for all to see and approve of. Meanwhile Erik is darkness, "the bad guy"; he is the passion kept in the night and out of sight. He lurks in the darkness and is everything to be feared, but also everything to be loved with great passion. The kind of passion that is often shamed when it is women who pursue it.

Ultimately Christine chooses the light (what she is expected to choose), over the darkness (the passions and desires a woman is often shamed for).

I always hold the interpretation that the one Christine truly loved was Erik; she only chose Raoul because she was pressured into making a choice, and, well, see my points above.

Plus Erik became all homicidal, oops. But I know she did love him.

[frootbyethefoot]

obsessed with the fact that pete has to. not crouch down? but like bend his knees to be even close to eye level with steph. its cute. its very very cute. plays into the whole "seeing eachother for who they are, as equals despite being on very different tiers of the highschool social hierarchy. love wins."

[velociheroviridi]

I'm not fixated on Danny Phantom right now, what could you possibly be talking about?

After like 6 years of having the software, DP is the motivation I needed to finally understood the youtube tutorials on how to animate in csp I guess, so here's my first ever little animation! I know it's super rough but now that I actually know what I'm doing, I'll probably try again when it's not past midnight

[dragotale78]

Ok, i havent seen anyone talk about this in depth yet but: in npmd they call blinky “bliklotep, the watcher with a thousand eyes”. This is the exact name that jeff blim’s character in tto gives the audience when he enters a half dead state. Does this mean that tto exists in the hatchetverse? I mean we know for a fact that hollowell has existed for at least a couple hundred years. Additionally we know that thats at the very least how long hatchetfield as a community has existed. But also because of time bastard theres an implication that all of hatchetfield is simply existing through rippling versions of its own reality withing t’noy karaxis’ toy cube so idk.

[blinkysrewatchparty]

IT'S ALMOST PARTY TIME!

Not gonna lie, the dates totally got away from me and I only just now realized this is TOMORROW!!!

GET YOUR BLAZE ON (though you still need a doctor's note if you want them drugs), GET READY TO CRITIQUE HOW CAPITALISM DIVIDES OWNERSHIP FROM LABOR, AND COME JOIN US FOR PARTY #2!

[lost-in-frog-land]

Want and desire in the hatchetfield series, and how it almost always directly leads to a character's demise. Buckle in for this long post because I have been thinking about it for a while

THE GUY WHO DIDN'T LIKE MUSICALS

Established individual desires for the characters tend to lead them to take actions or make mistakes that lead to their demise.

Paul - doesn't want anything, until he wants to be with Emma -> if he'd just gone with General Macnamara he would've gotten out alive but he went back for Emma. Then he died. Then everyone died.

Emma - wants to get out of hatchetfield/ not die in hatchetfield -> gets out, ends up helping the infection spread to clivesdale (this one's more irony than causation but it still counts)

Bill - "I just want my daughter back" -> goes to rescue Alice which leads to his death

Ted - wants to get out alive, even at the cost if his friends ("everyone else died just rescue me") -> runs straight into the infected army and dies

Charlotte - wants to reconnect with Sam -> is easily manipulated by him when he's infected and dies

Professor Hidgens - wants his musical to be real, possibly also wants to reconnect with his old college friends (depending on how we interpret his show) -> purposely leads the infected to his location and gets killed

BLACK FRIDAY

characters individual wants and goals are often intertwined with the common want of gaining a wiggly doll, and this is what leads to their downfall

Lex - wants to escape her life and move to California -> wants a wiggly doll to sell -> leads her and Hannah to get caught up in the cult and Lex to almost die, even asking on her deathbed "should I never have wanted?" (The answer is yes. You shouldn't have. Wanting in hatchetfield only leads to suffering)

Tom - wants to reconnect with his son -> wants a wiggly doll because he believes his son wants one -> gets stuck in the mall looking for one and goes insane for a good portion of the musical

Becky - Becky wants a doll for the children's hospital but that actually isn't what leads to her getting caught up in the plot. It's her desire to reconnect with Tom that leads her to follow him deeper into the mall, because he won't leave without a Wiggly and she won't leave without him

Linda - wants to be worshipped / adored -> easily taken in by wiley and convinced to start the cult, dies as a result

Ethan - wants to make Lex happy -> dies protecting Hannah

NERDY PRUDES MUST DIE

Steph & Pete - doing them together because it's their love and want for each other that is almost their undoing. "I never wanted you anyway" "what do you want Steph?" "We want what you really want" - they almost have to kill the other because they wanted eachother. That's how the Lords get you.

Grace - wanted to rid herself of "sin" (normak sexual desires) -> tried way too hard to get rid of Max and, as a result "ruined [everyone's] lives". This also leads to her gaining the powers of the LIB and killing many more people.

Richie - wanted friends, to be accepted -> as soon as he gets this he is killed. More of the tragedy inherent in almost getting what you wanted than it inherently causing it, but this is also a key theme in the tragedy of hatcehtfield, as also seen with...

Ruth - wanted to perform, to overcome her anxiety -> also gets killed as she takes a step in this

The tragedy of the hatchetfield series is all about the idea of wanting. It's about how your desires can lead to your destruction, and how you'll never be able to truly get what you want before it is taken away from you. Its about peoole who will do anything to achieve their desires, and people who will never achieve theirs. That's the tragedy and the driving force behind these stories. That is what gives the Lords in Black their power.

[godsiero]

me again! because this is actually working!

wanna know who’s gonna play zoe and alice and melissa and the greenpeace girl???????

she sounds and looks just like mariah, no i’m not joking.

is that enough for you to click the link??

https://gofund.me/bee7e3c9

[keysmashing-bees]

October 13th is coming soon everyone. Prepare for me to be absolutely insufferable.

[scootersscooter]

Just realized his name is Barry Swift because it sounds like Very Swift and he's the fucking Man in a Hurry

[full-time-femboy]

Goat bros, the guys 🐐

Ted Spankoffski, smoke club graduate

[im-not-a-l0ser]

Am I rewatching the hatchetfield trilogy today? Maybe. You can't prove anything.

[macaroni-stars]

And what if this was my last straw-

[pinazee]

Do you think if i watch nerdy prudes must die for a 4th time, ill finally stop thinking about it?

[stealingyourbones]

I really enjoy all your dp/dc stuff, out of curiosity have you ever seen holy musical b@tman! From starkid? It's on YouTube and it's very funny I'd be interested in your opinion of it haha

I have!! It’s absolutely hilarious and it brings me great joy.

I have a review somewhere on my blog about it but I can’t find it :/. A true tragedy. None the less: shit slaps. 10/10 I love Starkid to an unhealthy degree

[apocalypticdemon]

okay okay okay so i just finished the terror and i think i'm insane