#im talking about heathers

[weiner-enjoyer]

my favorite part of having theater friends is being told what roles i’d be good in. i’ve never been in a play, mostly because i’m too scared. but then sharing my hyperfixations and my friends telling me i’d be great in those plays/musicals is like being told that i’m actually god

[mildeleaf]

Wingnut and his moms

[happyyft]

Riblox

[slime-hoe]

I need more people to get weird with analyzing and iterating on the American Pie sequence in ST season 3. Like there’s so much there. Like the idea that heather is genuinely concerned for her mother despite the mindflayer controlling her but the way she attacked her dad felt personal. Like he’d done something to her and the monster basically gave her the command and strength to go through with a revenge fantasy. The staging, the framing, the lines. Idk it feels very abuse victim gets her revenge. Her pinning her dad to the living room floor with a pristine white heel before grabbing him by the hair and smothering him with an ether soaked rag whispering “ I’m really sorry about this daddy, but it’ll be over soon. I promise” feels like a callback to something horrible in her past*. She’s taking her power back and making her abuser suffer the same fear she felt. Idk I’m probably just crazy, but I swear Billy and Heather both strike me as heavily abused kids who’ve been taken advantage of by the adults in their lives and I think that needs to be explored more. Not to mention the song choice. It’s just a really good scene and I need to hear what other people think.

* I know it’s in cannon meant to be like Billy’s line to her where it’s a genuine attempt at comfort and remorse that’s been blunted by the mindflayer but you can’t deny how similar it is to something that might be said by an abuser

[poemistic]

im really sad no one else saw the cult aspects of sh3 more compelling like i did when i first watched a playthrough of it. idk it maybe my religious trauma talking, but the constant talk of bringing salvation and being saved by god steams from the deep primal fear of the world and life and all its sufferings and just the gaping unknown of what comes after death and!!! idk it gripped me personally. along with heather’s struggles with identity, agency, and the constant themes of cycles repeating and rebirth?? 

Saint Alessa Gillespie Mother of God Daughter of God?? am i the only one who thought this went fucking hard as hell?? 

in this part of the game when we see this painting, Heather has been going through a lot of self reflecting, especially during the chapel section. We really get to see Alessa’s life was like when she was carrying God, and it’s during this part I think heather accepts that Alessa is an important part of who she is, even if she’s no longer Alessa anymore. I think she says something along the lines of “I’m not Alessa, but Alessa is still me.” at one point. I can’t help but see it as an allegory for self acceptance, specifically the acceptance of trauma/abuse done unto you. Heather’s denial of being Alessa makes sense during the beginning. She has no memory of being Alessa, and people (Claudia) who clearly want to hurt her keep insisting that she is. 

But the thing is, Claudia sees heather as Alessa: Mother of God... simply a vessel meant to carry their cult’s deity. not the true Alessa Gillespie. So as the game continues with Heather recovering more memories of her past life, along with suffering the same problems as Alessa did 17 years ago, she truly comes to accept that she was Alessa, who fought SO Hard to be and to live as heather!!! Being heather, or Cheryl Mason, was supposed to be Alessa’s hard won happy ending. After literal years of being tortured in a cocoon of pain and misery, Alessa does escape in the end too, through being reborn as heather. How can heather deny that part of herself that used to be Alessa, after all Alessa has done to get her where she is? 

the symbolism of agency and autonomy with the mother of god daughter of god stuff makes me go actually insane. The cult forcing her into motherhood, but Alessa embracing that role to birth a life that She wants to bring into the world? A life that is filled with love and joy (with harry !!! 😭😭😭), her OWN personal paradise??? WAAAAAHHHHHHHHH 

[sabretoothtrailcamserve]

Uncanny X-men #140

The Jamie-Heather-Logan roommate situation is so funny to me. The way they talk about them here is like they are yuppie couple and anxious rescue dog

[theveryhumanhuman]

I love how character motivations are established in this musical, as well as what they are in general. I want to talk about JD, but I need to get my thoughts together on that train wreck of a guy and Veronica is also so fascinating.

In 'Beautiful' we get the first look at her. While we know that she's very hopeful, we also get to see two of her main beliefs. One is her loyalty to her friends, when she stands up against Kurt for Martha. She genuinely cares for people (also shown when helps Heather Duke in Big Fun/stops Heather Macs' suicide attempt). We also get another big motivation, her wanting to feel secure and safe. She helps the Heathers, then asks to hang out with them in order to not be bullied. To her, this is the quickest way to be safe in high school. It's also seen in 'Candy Store', where she goes along with the prank in order to stay with the Heathers. Even if she kind of hates them, they mean safety.

We can really see that want for security in 'Fight For Me'. A part of why she likes JD so much is because he's someone who could protect her without being as unpleasant as the Heathers. It's also interesting that she doesn't just want a bodyguard, she would fight for him as well. She wants a mutual relationship where both people are equal (AS OPPOSED TO BEING WORSHIPPED JD TAKE NOTES).

'Our Love Is God' could have some of this, with her going through with the bullets because she just thinks JD is looking out for her and doesn't realize that he needs professional help. 'Seventeen' also has the idea of her wanting a mutual relationship where they can both be normal together, but her motivations don't really come up for a while. An example of her loyalty could be her choosing to hurt Martha so she doesn't go poking around in JD's locker. She also realized that JD isn't really that safe when she breaks up with him, and we can see her putting herself and her friends before their relationship.

The want to feel safe is brought back around in 'Dead Girl Walking (Reprise)'. She says "I wanted someone strong who could protect me." She mistook JD's obsession with her as him being protective, which she wanted, but she's come around to see that there's a big difference between the two.

Overall, Musical Veronica has such interesting motives for what she wants and does. It's fun to see how that desire for security develops throughout the story/interacts with other motivations. I might be reading way too into this though, I'm not sure.

[dumbcrustyassbitch]

♡ heathers - 24/09/2024 ♡

“what's your damage, heather?”

i didn't actually think id ever get to see this show live omg !!!! after 18 months of torturous waiting, i can officially say that ive seen heathers live.

and christ, did it live up to what i thought.

first of all, seeing jenna in her hometown was just so special. i was getting emotional too (i cried through about a quarter of it id say) seeing someone from your hometown perform on the stage you want to perform on is incredible.

second of all, esme bowdler ??? step on my neck pls ????? like HOLY SHIT. i was gay panicking from my seat. the way she just AGAJAVAJKA. and she was so tall !!!!!! so perfect, the best chandler ive ever seen (ive seen too many bootlegs) THE CANDY STORE RIFF I AUDIBLY GASPED.

next, i got to see madeleine hargrave's mac debut !!!! her lifeboat gave me fucking GOOSEBUMPS OMG ????? AND SHE WAS SO CUTE WHAT !!!!!!! SHE WINKED AT ME IN BOWS I ALMOST DIED.

keelan's jd scared me shitless. i told him this when i met him at stage door, and he said “so many people say that, what is it about me?” and i was like “dude, you have veins bursting out your head during meant to be yours” and he laughed !!!

BUT SERIOUSLY STAGE DOOR WAS JUST AMAZINGGGG. my theatre doesn't really have a whole lot of stage doorers, but there was tonnes !!!! almost every cast member i met complimented my outfit (i was dressed as veronica !!!!) and everyone was so sweet !!!!!

MS FLEMING WAS SO FUNNY HELP ME. steve was an icon, he took his glasses off and played along cheeky fucker it was insane.

honestly everything about it was just incredible. amy's kindergarten boyfriend made me sob. i started a cheer when veronica goes “lick it up, baby, lick. it. up” and everyone followed along and started cheering too !!!! same just before shine a light, when ms fleming goes “hellooo westerburg !!!!” no one else cheered and then i went “WOOOO” and she SMILED AT ME (i was in row b so she could see me !!!)

id attach my bows video but all you can hear is me cheering and crying so !!!!!

oh oh and the merch i got !!!! i got a programme, brochure, magnet and script !!!!! i already had a scrunchie :) ALSO !!! id been saving up for months, ive been saying “oh, i can't, ive got heathers soon” for too long but now i am poor :( /silly

overall, so so so incredibly lucky, this show has been on my list for years, and to finally see it, and for it to be my 40th ever show is insane. so much love for this show !!!!!!!

DONT FORGET TO BUY CORN NUTS !!!!! ITS NOT A PARTY WITHOUT CORN NUTS !!!!!!

[wackpedion]

is it an alexithymia thing when u dont really feel something but urr behavior slash actions show otherwise

[hoescarer]

lesharold  (leshawna x harold from tdi) headcanons bc i am so obsessed with this ship.

leshawna and harol my blorbos anywayz ahem aHEM AHEM (a lot of these are like. post-tdi. cuz uhmuh uh) (also this is sorta like. an au. of some sort?)

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✧ leshawna nd harold cosplay together all the time. just. for the silly funnies.

✧ harold listens to vocaloid songs and when leshawna asks what a certain song means and he explains she either ends up laughing or being mortified

✧ due to harolds shenanigans leshawna has like. half of lemon demons discography engraved into her brain (her favorite song is “eighth wonder” but she’ll never admit that ever)

✧ same goes for just general media harold endorses a lot / becomes hyperfixated on (shes in awe of his tism)

✧ one time harold gifted leshawna a lego set for her birthday and she made fun of him for it in the moment and then like 10 hours later in like the middle of the night harold caught her forging the most articulate and jaw dropping lego-brick-made masterpiece and when he asked her about it she denied everything and hid it away in her closet 

✧ every time they see a spider anywhere together they just stand there and cry for like 5 minutes until it leaves or a friend (duncan, gwen or like heather) kills it or puts it outside

ok thats it 4 now bye u filthy shippers BYE BYE GOOBYE BYE :3

[kalosbian]

ivy isn't lesbian coded btw y'all just have an aversion to the word "headcanon" and like to ignore that m!alear exists and has the exact same dialogues with ivy that f!alear does

[baynton]

[constellaj]

hey do u have some kind of list of the major variants in your multiverse au? It’s super cool and I really like it :3 (btw I am the original anon who asked you about it and the anon who was praising your Gwen, Courtney and heather art lol. just call me spiral anon)

also do u have any like, horror variants. Not horror necessarily, more so just tragic ones (the sillies have been through the trenches). Thanks :D

-🌀

OOH I've been meaning to get a list of my favorite multiverse guys together and this is the perfect excuse!! thank you spiranon!! I tried to trim this wall of text down best I could but it's SO LONG. buckle up!! as always mega thanks to @crystalfloe for developing and brainworming these fellas with me!!

I'll divide them up by the original character, and clarify their pseudonym; because the 'verse is populated with the same characters over and over, many end up choosing pseudos for themselves that they go by! I'll also elaborate on the ones that have some particularly horrifying aspects, but off the top of my head some who have really been through the ringer are ZombieMike (haven't given him a pseudo yet), Two-Inches-Taller Trent, Indigo (Jose), Mortal Bat Heather and Sea Bridgette. please note that I loooove duncan (and also dunhar) so a lot of these fellas are, well... dunhar :)

LOTS of Duncans! Let's get started! (duncans pictured above are not any real multiverse duncans) Zero rules the Duncan Underground with an iron fist. He has the power to up the "asshole levels" of any Duncan, spreading it like a zombie virus.

Declan comes from an Actor AU dimension, and has to rapidly adjust to a world where all his coworkers' fictional characters are real. He manages to settle down with a very stereotypical Courtney, and they're so mushy-in-love it's like a Hallmark movie.

Concorde is also known as "Normal Duncan". He's so abnormal that he actually spends most of his time hiding out at Club Vaquero, an underground nightclub exclusive to the multiverse's "weirdos". (more about club vaq later!)

Helix or Badger is also known as "Cop Duncan". He works with some powerful multiversal agencies to lock up and detain dangerous immortals. He has the ability to generate handcuffs and chains out of nowhere. He's an asshole and nobody likes him.

Fox is our newest addition to the multiverse! He's your standard Duncan, except he's accepted his soft side and lets it play out alongside his more punk-rock edgy end. He's got a huge multiversal network, with Bridgettes and DJs bringing him orphaned baby bunnies every other day to look after.

Harolds: Harlow Princeton Orange is the other side of our newest multiverse addition. An actor on Camp TV before he was thrown out into the multiverse, he thinks of everyone as an annoying coworker who won't ever break character.

Samurai Bloodshed is the platonic ideal of a Harold. He ran the Harold Hub-City with his epic anime powers, until he was cursed by a Justin to be... a jock. Stripped of his nerd swag, he's now doomed to wander the multiverse as a mere shell of his former self. (or IS HE???)

Matrix, aka "Punk Harold", is another frequent patron of Club Vaquero. He hangs out in the dirty punk scenes, plays awful music, and causes problems everywhere he goes. The only person who might be able to stand up to him is... Concorde?

Invisible Harold is Harold, but invisible. That's it I just think he's neat.

Alejandros: Siren is, well, a siren. With the help of Sea Bridgette, he flooded the entire Alejandro Resort, and turned it into an underwater, mermaid-filled utopia we're calling Alelantis. Unfortunately, he forgot to return a favor to Sea Bridge, so she turned her curse on him next. Transmuted into a scaly sea monster to match his powers, he ran (swam) away to hide in shame. Fortunately, this didn't perturb Marathon Tyler, who offered him a place to stay...

When most Alejandros were forced out of the resort, Silk fell into an open dimension (Angel Lindsay's dimension). Stranded in the empty wastelands below the angellic clouds, he's resorted to manipulating any other immortal who falls in on accident.

Naturo (yes we know that's not a real spanish word, we just think it sounds cool) controlled nature itself, using that power to enslave dimensions and threaten a total overtake of the multiverse. At least, he used to! His incarnation was killed, and he reset into someone we affectionately call Autistic Alejandro. This incarnation of Ale was carefully monitored since birth to prevent another Naturo situation; monitored by someone who he thought was his brother... (more on Indigo later!)

There's one more important Alejandro to mention! That's the Alejandro who's one half of Vaquero, the owner of Club Vaquero. Vaquero himself is a living fusion between an Alejandro (he's a pairhunter, more on them later!) and a Geoff. Yes this is the alegeoff fusion I've been drawing all along!!!!!! I fucking love Vaq!!!!!

McLeans: Gold lives in a massive penthouse in the bougiest part of the multiverse, living his ideal celebrity life, with his fake and real Gemmys so thoroughly intermixed you can't tell which is which. He's not a bad person per se, but he doesn't quite understand what's wrong with doing whatever he wants, whenever he wants.

Silver (no relation), on the other hand, lives on a cursed island and is a classic whistle-blowing camp counselor. He spends his time recruiting multiversal campers onto his island, to compete in death-defying challenges. Seems nasty, but if you win, you get the ultimate prize; he has the ability to grant wishes.

Meanwhile, out on True Wawanakwa, something very bizarre is happening. Chrises coalesce on this island, all fighting for dominance over a place they're convinced is "theirs". Every week, each Chris's team competes- and the losing Chris has to lose one of his carefully cultivated cast members. One of these Chrises is Lake, a granola-crunching, ADHD-ridden, dadbod-having hippie. Lake never executes members of his team, and instead hides everyone in a mystical glade; everyone on his team actually treats him like a genuine team dad. Just, y'know, be careful when dealing with him on the full moon-- he is a vengeful lake spirit, after all, and sometimes he loses control. I mean, how do you think Geoff turned into that tree? (Don't worry, Bridgette pours a cold one onto the roots once a month to keep him healthy.)

Everyone else! These are characters that we really only have one or two instances of.

Mildred (Blaineley) is a bit of a horror villain shut-in. She keeps pocket dimensions full of contestants and harvests their essence, essentially selling it on the black market.

Carmine (Blaineley) is another horror villain, but more composed and some would argue more sinister. Her facility allegedly works to rehabilitate former dangerous immortals, but what she actually does is manipulate (and if she has to, mind-control via magical contract) them into working for her. Indigo (Jose) had this unfortunate realization after he took her up on her blackmailed job offer. Autistic Ale's original Jose was removed from the dimension and locked in a cryo chamber, while Indigo encouraged Ale to avoid nature, making his own decisions, and saying no. Unfortunately, this turned out to be the exact right mix of traits to allow Carmine access to the nearly omnipotent Naturo...

Rehab Hatchet runs a small island full of lost and confused McLeans. He wields a magical machete that can cut open your mind; it helps him perform reconstructive brain surgery, but it's fucking terrifying.

Shadow Gwen is a loner with a sentient shadow. Well, she used to be a loner, until a mermaid Lindsay and an annoyed Noah show up explaining how she might be the only person who can save Alelantis from crumbling away forever. Will she accept the hero's call??

Sea Bridgette, unfortunately, is paired with an Aftermath Geoff. Pairing is an obscure but dangerous concept. Two magical beings with their auras intertwined; this makes them both more powerful, but also more vulnerable. She's a mutant fish person, and he's at the peak of his asshole arc and only cares about appearances. Siren offered to humiliate her pair on international TV, and she was thrilled-- but then he was a no-show.

Angel Lindsay and Bat Heather are two halves of a coin. Lindsay reincarnated as the only magical immortal in a dimension full of mortals. When Heather betrayed her on the island, Lindsay let out a burst of magic that split the world in two. Above the clouds, in a polished city, all of the "nice people" with beautiful fluffy angel wings. Below, in a wasteland without food or water, all of the "mean people" with dragging, scraggly bat wings. While Lindsay lives her life as Her Hotness Admiral Princess Angel Lindsay, Heather is left to scrape together a band of post-apocalyptic survivors, and try not to think about the friend she lost.

Two-Inches-Taller Trent is a Trent who is slightly taller than the average Trent. He lived a happy mortal life being best friends with Mike-- until he was ejected out into the multiverse, sucked through a rift in spacetime that traumatized both him and Mike. Separated from someone he had nearly paired with, Trent became what's known as a pairhunter; an amorphous, unstable ball of energy that can't survive without their pair.

ZombieMike is the collective term for a set of alters who, at one point, hated each other so much that they physically split apart from each other to form their own dimensions. Mike, Vito, Mal, Manitoba and Svetlana each led their own individual lives (as different supernatural creatures)-- until they were pulled back out into the multiverse, and slammed together into the same body.

Contract Titan Courtney is desperately pretending she's not a pairhunter. So desperately, in fact, that she lures Duncans into signing autonomy-overriding contracts, pretending that her pair never left. If the contract breaks, though, she snaps and enters titan mode...

Mirror (Dawn) works for a containment agency, and has a very skewed view of how to treat people. She genuinely thinks she's doing you a favor, molding you into your ideal self, but in actuality she's warping you and shaving off anything that makes you unique.

Evil Zoey is, well, Evil Zoey. Sent to an immortal jail alongside a Mal who didn't know why he was there, she tried to manipulate him into being even worse... and then the two ended up breaking out together.

Punk Courtney sings lead for the cover band Court's in Session, and she mostly sings about how much she hates everyone. She has a massive following of Gwens... I wonder why?

Marathon Tyler is a recurring Tyler who is just, always out on a jog throughout the multiverse. His jogging route encompasses every location you could possibly imagine. I'm not sure he's ever completed a run.

CONCLUSION: This isn't even a fraction of the guys we have LMAO so sorry for the long list and the long paragraphs. I've cut it down as much as I can so if you have any questions about anyone, please ask-- I probably left something out!

Also feel free to ask if there's any variants of [character] I left off-- I'd be more than happy to ramble some more!!

[toonbly]

watched the blair witch for the first time today and um. i think this movie is about what its like to experience misogyny in a male dominated space where you're expected to be cool about it and take responsibility for the actions of men and laugh it off. i will not elaborate

[caracolcondiarrea]

when the song is so good you have to go to the mirror just to lip-sync it and act with the song

[no-light-left-on]

hi I am still not normal about how we never get much of an epilogue for Emily and Corvo in the second game we are told how the rule turned out and that Emily is the beloved empress now but nothing beyond that and I get that the entire game is very much built on that I get that the first game we have close relationship with Emily and become fond of the staff that work with the Loyalists so we feel alone because we do not quite see eye to eye with our allies and all we have left is this little innocent child that sees Corvo as someone who can do no wrong in this world which is strongly contrasted with the second game where Emily (or Corvo) has few trusted allies that they can actually rely on and it feels like a group of almost-friends working to dismantle the conspiracy but at the very end of it all Emily is all alone, even her return to the Tower is so much more grim, her taking down Delilah, the entirety of Dunwall- it all feels so incredibly and thoroughly isolating, she is all Alone now, and maybe that's why it bothers me so much to see the story end so abrupty.

it would've been so, so poetic if both the first and the second game ended with Corvo and Emily embracing