#ough i had so little to say about damian and so much to say about ves i am so sorry

[mister13eyond]

cool color OC questions, dealers choice/all charas! :)

OH GOD THIS WAS TOO MANY OPTIONS I GOT OVERLOAD hold on i'm gonna run a randomizer and pick 2 questions and 2 characters LMAOO

yellow: What is something your OC wants but knows they can never have? How does it feel to never get this specific desire?

damian wishes so much that he could tell everyone around him that he's a demon hunter. he wants to share this cool, dark secret so that people will know just how cool he is. unfortunately, it's also a (somewhat) closely kept family secret, and it would also be kind of a dumb idea for everyone to know he was a demon hunter, otherwise demons would Come For Him, and he can't compromise his mission like that!

(the demon crew all 100% know his "occupation". he is not very good at hiding it. he's also not all that good of a demon hunter, his current killcount is at 0. but shhh. he has to hide his identity!!)

blue: How would your OC spend a single day of uninterrupted peace? Where would they go or who would they be with?

oh this one is fun... ves actually had to contend with this question a lot when he first "retired", because he didn't know how to HANDLE a full day of uninterrupted peace. his previous life of crime had this constant underlying sense of danger, urgency- so that even in the moments he was supposedly safe, he still felt that lingering at the back of his mind. he started picking up carpentry and odd jobs because he was so completely restless and at a loss for what to do with himself- eventually he figured out he liked it, that keeping his hands moving until he was exhausted gave him somewhere to channel all that restless energy.

as a result, though, he has a tendency to never slow down, to always be doing something. he's ostensibly retired, but between half-finished projects and repairs and odd jobs around the neighborhood, he's always working on something. and once he does take a day off, it tends to be full to the brim with people- giorno stopping by with coffee to chat, one of his neighbors dropping in with some extra tomatoes from their garden, sam and ori showing up to "have a few beers and play cards" (drink, get rowdy, fall into bed with him.) he kind of likes it that way, though!

he kind of has to be wrangled into having a true, real, genuine day of peace, but sam and ori sometimes manage. usually by keeping him in bed on some rainy day where his joints are achy and he's already a little tired and he's a little more willing to simply... laze around; draped over each other, a movie in the background, leafing through a paperback or dozing off intermittently. it's rare, but it's definitely worth it <3

[luminouslotuses]

my (hopefully) coherent thoughts about mean girls! spoilers ahead ofc👍

music:

the songs weren’t that bad! sexy, world burn, apex predator, and meet the plastics were my faves

my least favorite was stupid with love though,, the production makes it so boring i’m sorry😭

<-but what i will say is that the stupid with love reprise performed at the spring fling SLAPPED. why can’t that be on the soundtrackk

i feel like a lot of emotion that the original songs had is lost here. whether it be the production or the vocals accompanying it or both; i feel like they go hand in hand. reneé auli’i & jaquel definitely brought the energy that was needed here

the choreography & visuals that went with the songs definitely made them better than simply listening to the soundtrack on its own. like i was much more invested in what ifs & revenge party for example– and i already liked someone gets hurt, but the VISUALS??? holy shit that scene was incredible

i really wish a few songs were kept from the show like any of damian’s or that the someone gets hurt reprise in the movie was included in the soundtrack. hell i kind of wish do this thing was kept because i think that would’ve gone so hard at the end for some inexplicable reason pfft

and of course these can’t top the original broadway versions, nor did i expect them to. also sometimes the production or mixing was either bland or off (like in world burn reneé’s vocals are a second or two behind the backing track at one point, which is super weird since it’s fine in the soundtrack but i digress lmao)

cast/characters:

the cast have great chemistry they’re all so talented they’re so fucking funny aghh the casting was perfect

reneé as regina made me gayer somehow. Not surprised there

AVANTIKA. she was soso perfect as karen!! so funny so insanely pretty and she did sexy so much justice

okay admittedly i was a little unsure about angourie as cady. only at first though because once she became part of the plastics she played that role so well

speaking of cady that scene when regina’s singing in the cafeteria and cady’s staring at her is actually the gayest thing i’ve ever seen hands down

ms. norbury & mr. duvall are in a relationship. they have dogs at home. janis said (jokingly) that they got wasted at the spring fling. they are My straight couple i love them so fucking much

ough the bond between cady and her mom is so sweet and even emotional at one point i really like it

the band always seeming to be around and playing is so good especially when they’re in the tree in that one scene lol

i knew lindsay lohan would be there somehow and her being the proctor for the math competition was golden. (also her lines like “this has only happened once more”<-referencing the original movie & then the “i don’t know your life” to cady were SOOO)

miscellaneous:

so happy some of the jokes and moments from the musical were in the movie. like “homeschooled? oh that’s a fun way to take jobs from my union!” & mr. duvall’s retainer case & the bathroom scene with cady & regina lol

i was thinking they’d go overboard with the social media aspect (like a lot of media typically tends to do when making a movie like this) but i was pleasantly surprised! yes it was definitely a large part of many scenes but i think it mostly worked & made sense

it’s best to not have any expectations when walking into this movie; nothing too high, nothing too low. i probably like it more than the average person as i’ve always loved the broadway musical but still. if you want to see it i say go for it! it has a great cast, songs that range from bland & perfectly serviceable to great with exceptional vocals (coughs. Reneé), and some nice references and moments for fans of the original movie, the musical, or both. it was fun time and i could tell there was heart put into it🫶