#so bean still knows about tgwdlm stuff and they-

[local-soda-can]

me: yknow the last time i did an rp with my friend about the hatchetfield universe it was sad maybe this time will be different :3

-a few hours later-

[i-love-you-very-much]

saw Nerdy Prudes Must Die and uh

it's very much not what i expected. unlike Black Friday, it doesn't have the same plot as TGWDLM, and the references to it don't impede the plot (although i do still think it was a bit much). like Black Friday, however, the start of act 2 has a song from a different musical that i would be more interested in watching instead, as i don't really give a shit about high schoolers but i love me some smoked meats.

i haven't seen any of the Nightmare Time stuff, so i don't know if there's more to the story between the Mayor and the Lords In Black, or if they decided to put that into the plot because they could. again, it didn't impede the story, but it seemed... underfounded? i guess? especially for something that's 2½ hours long and takes a break in the middle for The Barbecue Monologues and The Bath Scene (which. i get it was there for character reasons. but it didn't need to be that drawn out no matter how good the song is).

i think Mariah, Angela, and Bryce really carry the show, they were perfect casting for the characters they played. it's also Corey's best acting in a starkid show so far. sometimes it's fun to hear Kim's vibrant and piercing voice in a song where that's absolutely not the style they're going for.

speaking of, the music sounds much more full than the previous two, although the semi-hollowness adds to the charm and atmosphere of TGWDLM (not so much Black Friday though). the camerawork is also much better.

it feels almost a waste to cast most of the actors to characters that don't really fit their vocal strengths. i get that the cast is supposed to be stereotypical high school nerds, but like. you don't Have To make them put on funny voices for the characters.

speaking of the characters: i don't like any of them. not "i don't like how they're written," but i simply find them all insufferable and would hate to be locked in a room them. this isn't a bad thing, sometimes it's fun to absolutely hate characters, but i did find myself wincing at them more often than i'd like to in a musical. they're more "what 30 year olds think high schoolers are like" than "what high schoolers are like." like. they should have been a different kind of insufferable.

i'd like to see someone give an intricately detailed literary analysis of it, mainly because i think it would be fun to read but also because i wanna see how many parts of the story i can throw at it and ask "how does this work with the themes, motifs, and symbolism present in the story to make it stronger and more cohesive?" and if any of the answers are "it doesn't. dude, it's a comedy musical, it doesn't have to be that deep" i will not be surprised.

given that it's a horror comedy, i probably should have expected to experience the hallucinations i did, but there were quite a few moments where i had to look away and try not to pay attention. this isn't an indictment of the show, this is just my personal thoughts on it. if you know someone who doesn't like gore, physical violence, or bullying, do not recommend this to them.

my favorite bits (not in order)

when Max all but dares the audience to leave the theater in Literal Monster Pt. 2

"So you... DON'T want to be bullied?" and the ensuing scene

"Wow, Ms. Tessburger, it IS like that, isn't it?"

"i'll carefully smash it with this hammer."

honestly? The Barbecue Monologues

pronouncing only the first half of rendez-vous correctly when logically it should be all right or all wrong

the fact that Grace's dad calls her mom Mother but her mom calls him by his name

any time Angela makes a face

the beans bit

"the trees are greener! the sun is brighter!" when it's october and neither of those should be happening

"Fuck you, Clivesdale, go get fucked, you're fucking losers and we'll kill you" as an accepted high school cheer

Curt visibly holding in laughter after "they didn't say."

Grace downing 20oz of "strong" hot water in one go

"are you a woman of faith?" "catholic." "i'll take that as a no. imagine you're a GOOD christian."

Steph asking both Pete and the audience "what are we watching?"

overall? 6/10. not bad, but not my cup of tea. if i were to rank the hatchetfield musicals this would probably be the middle of the three.

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lauren lopez, cis female ( she/her ), bisexual. did you hear ? EMMA PERKINS, a ( canon ) character in ( THE GUY WHO DIDN’T LIKE MUSICALS ), went deviant THREE MONTHS ago ! now they’re a 31 y/o barista/student. people either think they’re [ QUICK-WITTED & ADVENTUROUS ] or [ CRABBY & INTOLERANT ] but associate them w/ coffee beans, messy buns, unread texts, risen middle fingers, rolling eyes, blue goo, black shorts & blood stains either way. they DO remember the apotheosis. ( pace, she/her, gmt. )

surprise ! it’s me, ya girl, with another musical theatre goblin ! this is emma, i adore her endlessly, and she’s probably the muse i actually have the most muse for rn so expect to see A LOT of her, my friends !

CANON FOR THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW:

okay so the guy who didn’t like musicals is a musical about, get this, a guy who doesn’t like musicals. how do they think of these titles ? but him hating musical theatre is all very well and good until a meteor hits the local theatre, and their island slowly becomes infected by singing alien-zombies. the whole thing is on youtube ( professionally shot and legal and shit. it’s a starkid production and they truly do come through for us ! ) so maybe watch it maybe ?

emma is said musical hating guy’s love interest and eventually the show’s final girl 

she works at the local coffee shop as a barista, and loathes her job more and more with each passing second. the customers are vultures, her boss is an ass, her manager is ten years younger than her and a pesky theatre kid, the pay sucks, and the tip jar reads ‘tip for a song’ and she’d much rather take a cactus to the eye than follow the instructions of a piece of paper 

all she wants is to avoid not dying in her hometown, and spent the first eighteen years of her life trying to leave the island, and only returned when her sister died. she always invited emma home to make her be apart of the big events of her life, but emma never went, and her sister’s death made her realise she was missing out on too much and not doing anything with her life. so she moved back home and enrolled in college and decided to start fresh

but then uh whoops zombie apocalypse decided to rain on her parade and take the lives of her friends

FUNKY RP STUFF:

i put a lot of ( probably too much lmao ) thought into which of my characters would have their memories and which wouldn’t, but emma becoming aware of the loop is LITERALLY so in character for her. tgwdlm is kinda meta anyway, and ( SPOILERS ) the show ends with emma talking to the audience and trying to get someone to help her. she literally screams ‘WHY ARE YOU ALL CLAPPING ?!’ as the rest of the cast take their bows, it’s highkey brilliant ( / SPOILERS END ) and then the whole thing starting again and THAT being emma’s life just,,,, fits ? and of all the characters, she’s the one smart enough to figure it out and break out and try and go against it, and then eventually ending up here. but ya she’s honestly perfect for this rp lmao

she’s trying to Deal with all of that, and what happened during the apotheosis, but also build a life for herself now she’s,, Real ? so she’s studying exactly what she did in canon, botany, with the exact same end goal, of starting a pot farm. while her life may have been a musical, she’s still the same and her motivations were still the same. plus, having to find a new life goal is just one big existential crisis she doesn’t want to deal with. and she’s still a barista, but maybe somewhere that doesn’t involve singing. since,,,, y’know, the last time people sang around her, everyone died and then tried to kill her

still emo about paul, trying to Deal with all of that too. honestly becoming deviant has just been a Lot for her, which is saying something when her last memories beforehand were here running away from singing zombies with blue shit dripping out of their mouths

probably needs a roommate or two if anybody is game, that could be fun ! she’s working her way through college so girlie has, like, zero money and needs all the roomies she can get 

while being snappy and intolerant, emma’s somehow......likeable ? she’s loyal, and sympathetic, and doesn’t put up with people’s crap. she’s got a pretty good noodle on her, and she’s very quick on her feet. but tbh she’s also crabby and grumpy and snarky but,,,, also the least intimidating woman ever. she’s a 5′0′’ soprano and can be really soft, there’s nothing intimidating about that 

again i’m probably forgetting stuff so to be updated !!!!