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dewprisms · 11 months ago
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idk how I would do an ask/rp blog for Seridux/XigSeri, cause how xe interacts with asks and others depends entirely where xe is in xyr storyline, tho I'd likely make them pre-CoM but post-Carona visit. though post-KH3 would be when they're at their most social and would be more likely to not be as secretive about stuff.
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fitzrove · 1 year ago
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1, 5, 15 for musical asks!
Thank you so much for asking!!!
1. What is your current favourite musical, and is it different from what it was at the end of last year?
Ahhhh it's so hard to pick :D I think objectively (how insane the themes make me and have made me for a long time) it's probably TdV, but right now (3:28 am on December 28th) it's LOTR because I've been listening to it on loop for like 2 weeks ajsjfjhk. Like it's kinda flawed but I love the music so much and it's giving me major nostalgic feels. Last December I think it was Elisabeth (or maybe TdV tbh, that one's hard to displace) but I think Elisabeth is maybe my 3rd favourite now so there's not a huge change :D
5. Did you see any live musicals this year? What did you think of them?
Yess, I saw a whole bunch of them!! Highlights include Rebecca (Vienna), Cabaret (Finland), Evita (Germany), Wicked (London) & Les Mis (London). I really liked Cabaret and Evita (both were staged in innovative ways), had fun and appreciated the casts at Wicked and Rebecca (both were staged in uninnovative ways XD) (ahdhgjgj half joking), but Les Mis kinda sucked (I couldn't see anything because I had a cheap balcony seat and a guy with a big head sat in front of me) ajdjgj. But the cast there was amazing so it's not like it was a complete waste!!!
In total I must've seen like 20+ pieces of live theatre ahsjjf, but some of it I can't reveal here because I'm not open online about where I'm living in Germany. I'm really hyped to be living there, though, because good and speedy train connections are making next year seem very very promising!!!
15. Infodump to me about a musical!
Oooh idk which one... :D Maybe something I haven't talked about on this blog a lot before but I really enjoy: The Lord of the Rings (2006/2007/2023)!!
I first listened to this one in like 2017, because I liked the books/movies and discovered that it existed. Mostly I played Lothlorien on loop because it's an amazing song and there's an actual proshot video of it on youtube and Laura Michelle Kelly as Galadriel is really sparkly and pretty. Then I listened to the rest of the album and the music is just great all over!!! It's done by AR Rahman (composer, multi-instrumentalist, winner of a million awards for film soundtracks mostly in Indian cinema), Värttinä (Finnish folk band - most famously creators of Ievan polkka) and Christopher Nightingale (don't know much about him ahdhf). The Finnish folk influence is especially audible in the songs of the elves, they have real ancient cattle call vibes sometimes (in a good way xD). But my favourite songs are actually the more story-based and cinematic ones that I'm drawn to attribute to Rahman, as well as the soaring instrumental sections. So I would rank my fave songs (yes, all of them are favourites):
Lothlórien
The Road Goes On
Now and For Always
Wonder
The Cat and the Moon
Star of Earendil
The Final Battle
The Song of Hope
That's most of the main songs actually ahdhfgjgk.
The show is flawed, like I mentioned before; for someone who doesn't know the story from the LOTR books or movies it would get confusing pretty quickly, and because of the size of the cast it's hard to get insight into many of them in such a limited timespan (Boromir and the elves other than Arwen and Galadriel fall especially flat). But I love the music soooo much and I'm so excited that it was produced again in 2023, and in such a cozy and compact way too (it was done in a 200-seat theatre with an actor-musician cast as a semi-immersive production). The London cast recording is on Spotify, everyone should listen to it!
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skrelps-cafe · 2 months ago
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Okay I know only like 1 other person out there would remember and care about this but I want to talk about the unused event idea thing I had planned for Gill's 100 follower milestone!! The one that actually one that I backed out of last second becauseeeee. Idk i find it interesting
I called the event 'Turtles All the Way Down' and that's right baby !! It had to deal with Terapagos and paradoxes. The whole premise of the event is also crazy convoluted so hopefully I can present clearly enough lmao
So the event would START with Gill receiving this old letter via Pelipper Mail. He doesn't share what's on it but it's a bunch of super personal/private stuff along with some vague threats that if he doesn't do what the letter asks of him, bad shit will happen to his friends and family anddd stuff.
The letter tells him to go to Medali and visit the crater- the whole thing is probably phrased like a 'you're the chosen one, Gill! You gotta do this otherwise your family's doomed!' Or something. And since Gill is already really freaked out by all this, she opts to follow the letter to a T and. Leave.
At the same time, his Rotomblr is overridden and someone else takes the wheel! They don't give their name, but they do talk a bit about themselves!
- they're a "researcher" stuck in Area Zero
- they've been there for a while
- kind of infused with terastal energy, yaaaay
They would run the blog for the rest of the event, with small off screen posts updating you on what Gills doing.
Anyway, at some point it would be revealed that this researcher guy is actually- surprise!- Gill! A different version of her, at least. Here's where the paradox comes in
SO. Gill gets a letter to go to the crater. She does so, because she's scared. She meets someone over the intercom who says 'hey real sorry about all this but you're going to have to go deeper in. I need your help down there. You're not gonna back out right' and Gills like 'oh idk. Who are you'
The voice is like 'I can't answer that rn but I know so mjch about you oh my god just let me blackmail you. I can name your entire team.'
This guy's info is flawless. Gill is terrified and goes into Area Zero. Doing it scared.
He goes really far in- like, into the underdepths? The voice is able to override the system from within or something. And then when he's down there- ta-da! He meets the person behind the voice! Who is just. Him. Older, covered in crystals, but him.
Older Gill doesn't really explain anything. Just kind of blocks off the exit and tells Gill to follow him. Gill panics and runs away, deeper into the underdepths.
The two end up fighting- like at first Pokemon battling, but then actually fistfighting- right in front of Terapagos' little crystal cocoon. The commotion is enough to dislodge the guy, jussssst a little bit so he wakes up and lets out a burst of terastal/paradoxical energy that a) fucks up the cave system even more, leaving galing chasms within the underdepths, and b) WUH OH! SENDING GILL BACK IN TIME!
Gill is now trapped like three-five years into the past, at the bottom of a crater. Epic. Being this close to so much Terastal Energy does mess up her body a bit, hence the crystals all over her skin. They kind of...take over her organs, negating the need to eat or anything, and he just kind of. Stays there. For a while.
He eventually crawls out back to the (destroyed) lab, meets the AI, and it's there he finds out his predicament. And she chooses to simply. Stay down there. What else could she do really?? There's another version of her already out there if she's in the past. Her body's already pretty fucked up. She can't do much else? The AIs pretty chill about this too
(It should be noted her Pokemon didn't come with her. They were all left behind. The letter came with him, though.)
He manages to hide when the protagonist and co. Show up. Do the whole finale plot. And then he just kind of lives the rest of his life down there. Until he Remembers that. Oh yeah. Paradox.
If the 'current' version of Gill- the one outside the crater, flourishing and in his lane or whatever- never went into the crater and did the whole thing, then where would that leave crater Gill? Would he just. Cease to exist? He wasn't supposed to be alive, anyway. He was occupying a space in time only meant for one person.
She had to complete the loop if she wanted to keep existing. She cant imagine a world where she doesn't exist.
So, a few years later, she sends the letter.
And a Gill at Blueberry Academy receives it.
And the cycle continues.
The cycle is supposed to be infinitely repeatable- HOWEVER. This loop is different. There is something that is not unlike every other iteration of this 'tradition' 'thing'. This Gill has Social Media.
Because of Rotomblr, current!Gill has seen Things. He has a Slither Wing, Seadra, Salandit, and joint custody over a Solosis, meanwhile crater!Gill knows nothing of any of this. Hence why they were so curious about getting access to this site.
So, when current Gill gets to the crater and the voice is like 'I can name your entire team, etc. Etc.' And misses like four whole Pokemon??? Gill has an epiphany. Starts poking holes in this guys claims. Realizes how stupid he was for following a letter all the way out here, how he was nearly gonna break the law for a flimsy piece of paper that knew about something embarrassing he did in fourth grade.
The voice starts to panic, just pleading her to come down. Gill says she won't unless they explain everything.
The voice is like. Screaming. Because they don't want to die. Gill, having none of the last fifteen paragraphs of context, doesn't get it and thinks it's like a paranormal thing. He takes one step back
And the voice just. Cuts out. And it's quiet again.
Gill leaves and gets his Rotomblr back, and spends the rest of the day vibing in Medali. If asked, she'd say it was for a family emergency. She'd never tell anyone about anything that happened in the Crater.
Okay so I liked this event because it highlighted how Gill views herself, how far she'd go to preserve herself, and also how much she sabotages herself. Literally traps herself in an endless cycle. And then sabotages said cycle against 'his own best wishes'. Fun.
I DIDNT like this event for multiple reasons.
One holy shit was it convoluted.
Two lots of segments weren't really...ironed out? Like realistically, why would Gill listen to the letter. How would she get into the crater. How did she cope living w the AI. Etc.
THIRD the premise really had. Nothing to do with Gill? Like it was stupidly out of left field, at least in my opinion. Terapagos and Gill had no common thread until that point, and neither did she and Area Zero.
I didn't expect it to win the event idea poll, and a mixture of cold feet + me reviewing my work made me realize that it probably wasn't the best idea. So I shelved it and went with the URS AU instead! And by the time I wanted to go back and revisit it, the canon i was currently running with had wrapped up Indigo Disk, meaning no more Terapagos ex Machina for me to use. Sad!
I had thought about replacing Terapagos with the time machine, which mightve made more sense overall, but over time the whole idea fell to the wayside. And here it rests. Lmao
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