#the Great moon hoax

[pulpmusicals]

New character alert! The character Taavi is voiced by SAM JOHNIDES!

[tapestryoftrauma]

Hello Pulp Musicals Fandom!

So, as you may have noticed, we have zero tags wrangled in our AO3 tag right now. Not only is this frustrating for filtering purposes, but it also means tagging your own fics with incorrect or missing tags is very common.

Therefore, I have been working on creating a master document that contains all the tags you'll need, and extras we can add for wrangling sake too.

You can find the link to that document at the bottom of this post. However, please keep in mind this is still being updated, and I am open to requests for additional tags to be added to this growing document. So, if you have a request, go ahead and either drop me a comment under this post, or feel free to DM me about it and I'll review it and let you know if I decide to add it.

Otherwise, I suggest you use this document for a guide when posting future fics, and also portentously consider going back and updating older fics with these uniform tags as well.

In this document you will also see a guide as to why certain tags are formatted certain ways, which tags are mandatory, and which tags are optional. My comments and DMs are also open for questions about any of those too.

Here you go, go wild!

[dailypulpmusicals]

hello! this blog is dedicated to posting pulp musicals art or writing every day, and is run by mod griffin (he/they/neos; @ella-ashmore), mod kal (he/it/neos; @tnoy-keraxis), and mod morgan (he/she/they/neos; @r0mannumerals) -- check under the cut for more detailed information + request status!

this will be run primarily on a queue so we dont have to worry about posting on days that we're all busy. everything that isn't art or fic will be tagged #not a daily post so if you don't want to see content that isn't the daily posting, block that tag!

we'll primarily post whatever we feel like, but we also do requests and actively encourage them! they are currently open -- send in an ask and one of us will get to it as soon as possible! we reserve the right to decline any requests under any circumstances, but i feel like that will be a very rare occurrence. our only huge immediate no's are anna x [any man] and kal x morgan

current requests to-do:

- anna&benjamin [mod morgan]

- coin flip [mod kal]

- benjamin&charles&kal

[thearcanecat]

Pulp Musicals as dice

Samuel

Rose

Margaret

John

Sia

Kal

Anna

Benjamin

Dakkar

Bonus - Printing press plate

[ricky-mortis]

Here’s my submission for @pulpmusicalsfortnight2024 Day 13 (ignore that that was technically yesterday): Light/Dark

[fallinginaforrest]

"The author knew their history, a scientific sleuth. Maybe in another life, we would have got along..."

In another life. Sure, John.

[hey-melissa]

Don’t be scared of the dark 🔭💚

listened to pulp musicals and now i’m OBSESSED. can’t wait for episode 4!!!

[oswaldpettyeyeart]

villain medley.

click for better quality! commission info.

[not-so-plus-ultra]

I got randomly possessed by the space blorbos again and suddenly I had doodled this idk. I LOVE Herschel and Rose so much. One might say that I love them to the moon and back. Alright that was terrible

I am SO EXCITED TO LISTEN TO THE NEXT EPISODE Y'ALL DON'T EVEN KNOW !!!!

[kmesons]

an artistic rendition of samuel stratford realising that Maybe This Wasn't Such a Good Idea during belief

[starkidobsessedgiantgremlin]

I’m gay??? I’m straight??? It’s a hoax??? One big hoax??? A fairytale attributed to me??? But it’s a lie??? Fake news??? This will destroy my credibility???

[pulpmusicals]

Thank gravity for you ✨

[amethystunarmed]

Genuinely Pulp Musicals may be one of my favorite pieces of media of all time.

In a world of gotcha bullshit twists and quippy dialogue with no substance and writers getting more and more limited in the stories they can tell with budget cuts and time restraints, there is something beautiful about it.

About this story about love and creativity, plotted out with so much care and consideration, that is just being made as a passion project by all these talented people because they love it just as much as we do.

[violetheart77]

[missholloween]

The only characters that sing (and in a way, twist) the Great Astronomical Discoveries motif during TGMH apart from the Stratfords are Benjamin and John. And let me tell you, I love what they do with it.

Benjamin's take comes first, during Benjamin's Appartment/The Radiance. After days of listening to the Stratfords talk about their hoax, of seeing how they meticulously crafted their stories and the world clamor them, Benjamin has finally given up and is ready to betray the Stratfords. So, he invites Margaret to his appartment to reveal their hoax. Benjamin uses the same language he's learned from the Stratfords, and so, the great astronomical discoveries motif starts playing.

For the first time in the album, it's not a victorious melody: it doesn't sound grandious anymore, it doesn't have any build up, it's just Benjamin and a piano. Curt Mega's performance is really sober, as he's trying to cover up his own emotions. He only fails to do so in "to advance their own career", where he bitterly laughs, losing the beat for a second. Although a bass and another string section join for the climax they quickly go away, as Margaret also joins the sad melody. Even if Great Astronomical Discoveries brought the Stratfords fame and renown, it has also deceived and hurt many. It is satisfying to hear two of its victims sing it then.

That's also why, in John's Choice, it's Herschel's time to speak, we are expecting something similar to happen. The music stops, all the characters await, and Herschel starts to talk... And the melody is More Than This. It's subtle, and one may not notice it on their first listening or if they're not that familiar with the soundtrack. But then there's a crescendo, and John starts singing Great Astronomical Discoveries.

The passion, the energy, the love that comes from John's voice (in another amazing performance by Curt) blows away both the audience and the characters that were there. He has the same accompaniment as Rose and Samuel did, but there's a key difference: there's no harmonies. And it doesn't matter, because really, what a chilling performance. There's also something very poetic about John taking the Stratford's position and being in control of his story after all the hoax.

TL;DR I love the Great Astronomical Discoveries and everything Matt does with it in part 3 of TGMH. Curt totally kills it every time he sings it in any way <3

[ricky-mortis]

S1 Pulp Musicals Gang my beloved