#like it was soo good

[so-bitya]

I FINALLY watched the Tango on the Campania and it was the BEST. Show stopping, jaw dropping, just awed at how amazing it was and so, please enjoy my unfiltered rambling during my liveblog:

5 min in and its already wayyy better than the anime

I dunno maybe the musical just has more room to reinterpret the events than the movie

snake is so precious I lovvvvvvvr him the fact he has cute lil snake's in his clothes aifhskhriwjrjdhs

I really liked the part of the lady doing the electrocuted worm on the table

ciel is so good here!! you get to see how sulky teenager he is. how childish he is, I love the grounded format, this is the best!!!

the pacing is a thousand times better, I love how they don't waste time on details and move in beat, and the songs they have add much need context for the story in ways the animation could not.

I LOVE how the zombie crate song literally shows like ciel is reenacting his trauma, separated from everyone while sebastian narrates, almost pleased his massacre reminds ciel of that day.

ciel has his shoulders just hunched over all the time love how baby he is

I like it when the adaptions treat ciel clumsier than he is too, like in the movie he trips over a chair causing him and lizzy to fall or the musical when its both him and lizzy that couldn't get to the watertight door

the musical is making up so much for the anime's lack luster expression, like you see ciel actually struggling so much he's dragging himself off the floor to get to lizzy. like actually desperation

ok lizzy's voice dropping an octave <3<3<3<3 I'm insane and all the little details in her song. how she's almost embarrassed, humiliated to be wearing childish shoes or her childish appearance but if that makes him happy! if that makes him accept her!! and I need to go over all the details for the song I love it, official lizzy song to me, ummm, the fight is so much better too, I love it, not too flashy, just like her family..her mummy. emphasizing she must be a bride, that being a bride is what's most important!!

I'd be so pissed to have to act as viscount druitt and carry around a glass of wine during my routine without spilling.

so sweet how seb always has a hand protectively on ciels back, ready to pull him away from danger and occasion looks like hes giving him a pep talk like "ok be good now, just stay out of trouble, play nice with the zombies while I go give undertaker a kick in the rear, ok? :)"

I love undertaker i love love love him, he slfhsifgwjxuwjgdiwvfievfhdh ok I just, his delivery of the lines are sooo much better and he sounds crazy and half mad with boredom, his delivery of "who is the rabbit hunted" is sooo much scariwirvrudbxjd

I love this sebastian. he is sebastian I don't care. he is him and thats that. I like him more than manga sebastian like howoww. I love how he always drops the act the sec he's out of sight, like it is an act. I love how sassy he is and uncommitted to British manners. xuheksjd

alexis being the one to assist and help ciel in the background please!!! I really need to see more of their relationship

grell actually being bothered by madams red introduction giving so much more than the manga... like yeah why was grell so unbothered when undertaker mentioned her??

the way undertakers voice softened with ciel.... after he caught the lockets...

momo crying after her performance xyryjwevuwhdje i with you girl, im crying too 😭😭😭😭😭 thank you thank you!!!💞💞💞

[magicicephoenix]

i finally finished reading I see you, Sundrop! by @shirajellyfish and IT'S SO GOOD I CAN'T BELIEVE IT TOOK ME THIS LONG TO FINISH IT RAAAAAAA

i will be gushing about it in the tags but here's a lil animation i made based on the below paragraph in chapter 6 that gave me such a strong mental image that i had to make it real :)

[nottenebia]

Yaaaaay happy birthday to Mabel and Dipper!!! Weird to learn that we're the same age tho ahahah

[kureijei]

x-files screencap study from a photo i had saved on pinterest to get myself used to painting again :] not anything crazy it was just for fun

[digitalmyyth]

Throwing around a Peter the Panda design

[occudo]

Out of respect for @deepblueink2d Fanart for Deep Space Discounts - Good luck Immy 🚀

[ronanlynchbf]

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

[stealingpotatoes]

heres a crappy venn (??) diagram explaining the dynamics in the tl4j time travel au bc it's easier than trying to write a full plot

[stevenrogered]

We're becoming some kind of team, huh?

[nenoname]

Stan and Soos' sorta-Dad and Sonployee relationship

We of course have Soos assigning Stan as his father figure the moment he got hired

But Stan holds that moment dear too, with Soos becoming his main source of company after the Mystery Shack, his first big success, was starting to hit rock bottom. And he made sure to keep the screwdriver that led Soos to him for a decade which unfortunately gets stolen by a certain time traveler...

(Their meeting being a paradox of Soos' family leading him to them is super sweet too!)

Playing one game of catch with their dads still was a dream for both of them, even when it was clear that it'll never happen, even when Soos knows that the Pines are his family and he shouldn't care about that biological deadbeat, even when Filbrick threw Stan away like trash.

But both of them end up finding closure with each other anyway.

Along with Stan likely teaching him how to fix golf carts (to the point that Soos is pretty skilled at it now), he also taught him boxing and tried to do something about his birthday, which is another sore spot for the both of them.

In the Sooscast, we have Stan continuing with the podcast despite learning this horrifying truth/not understanding what the hell is going on.

Noticeably, we see that Stan is a lot more lenient on Soos in comparison to Dipper, mostly because Stan doesn't project most of his issues onto him. (Not that he's immune from chores or shitty tasks but that's the burden of being a sonployee...)

And in NWHS, Stan trusts him to guard the lab with no questions asked (even if that ended up being foiled by Soos loving Mabel and Dipper too)

The comic story is Soos helping Stan regain and continue one of his childhood dreams, with the website having Stan continuing to draw on the Stan o' War.

And while unfortunately most of their father-son relationship content is at the end or after the series, Alex still said a lot about them in the commentary and interviews!

Before they met, Soos was someone who appeared to only really have his Abuelita and cousin, while Stan had.... a baby goat. And a disappearing frilly lizard.

We have Stan claiming that the reason why he never had children was because of his own dad and that money is basically his child (which just loops around back to his money obsession being his desire to get back his family)

But even still, he passes down the Shack and fez to Soos with barely any pause, the fez in particular being tied up with a lot of complex emotions. But Soos getting his own suit fitted just for him and not being pressured to wear a girdle to hide his weight kinda symbolizes to me that the role of Mr Mystery is now free from that baggage.

And whenever we'd end up getting Stan o' War stories, I'm sure the two of them are gonna get way more father-son moments

(Filbrick's impact on Stan post, Stan projecting on Dipper post)

[asteraws]

zaza rivals YAYYYY

[therealcallmekd]

15 YEAR TIME SHIFT

[lonelyzarquon]

thinking about how this is the first time agatha got to perform any type of magic since being stripped of her power✋😔💔

[starryemeralds]

pines pines pines!!!!!

(reference is this art by joe pitt)

[Image description: digital art of the Pines family from Gravity Falls, posing for a photo. Stan has his arms around Dipper and Ford, with all of them grinning. Soos is making a peace sign, and Mabel is sticking out her tongue. Wendy has a relaxed smile. End ID.]

[eltsia]

🧲🧠 don't pay too much attention to how metallic that metal looks. I iust wanted to draw their Russia reconnaissance outfits and Erik with white hair....

[batman-gif]

"Frank and Gerard early 2000's stage kisses" this "Frank and Gerard early 2000's stage kisses" that. LISTEN! 2022 Ray and Frank forehead kisses. In conclusion . Frank iero.