#the squip is teaching jeremy to drive

[mono-socke]

I sadly do not have anything for Squipril today bc I don't have any SQUIP OCs :(

so instead, take this weird thing, created by me and my best friend

TW: drawn blood

[morgan-lowell]

I wish I knew how to draw or animate cuz I would love an animatic of Dear Old Dad from Steven Universe about Jeremy and his dad.

The first verses where Steven is singing would be like, Jeremy’s childhood where his dad played with him, he sat on his dad’s shoulders, his dad was just there and present. Unlike how it was in BMC.

The next verses with Steven’s dad would be from Mr. Heere’s pov during BMC. He’d see Jeremy depressed after his mom left, Jeremy blowing him off while gaming with Michael, Jeremy yelling at him and storming out the house.

But the dad’s final line where he says “In this world of gems, there’s no one like you”, they’d be in the hospital after The Play. There’d be tears and hugging and apologies and it’d be so sweet, you feel me?

Then the last line is post-squip. They’re trying. Mr. Heere is present. They’re making dinner together and probably catching the stove on fire. Jeremy is teaching him how to game. Mr. Heere is teaching him to drive. Jeremy continues theatre and Mr. Heere brings a bouquet.

Actually, wait, I could probably do it. I’m imagining like, mostly still-frames and not a lot of actual animating.

We shall see…

[lohstandfound]

In my mission to find the post I made about The Block au, I also found:

The bmc and Beetlejuice crossover where after a near death experience (that involved Rich teaching Jeremy to drive), Michael meets Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice is thrilled to have someone see him. Since Michael is the only one to see Beetlejuice, everyone assumes that he has a (faulty) SQUIP and tries to get rid of it. Michael is dealing with his new demon friend (?) who has plans of his own

The Vinegar Tom au based off of Caryl Churchill's (?) play. A play about witches with no witches. I had many thoughts about it. (I actually still like this idea)

The b99 bmc crossover where Jake Dillinger is related to Rosa Diaz. She's his cousin or something. There's a post somewhere about it

[yourlocalenbyreblogs]

theres more so heres more

the way he says “good morning, time to start the day”

honestly all of michaels part in more than survive

specifically his laugh afetr he says loser

”i like gay people 😊”

“but since the zombie army’s yet to descend”

“the center of attention”

“the many reasons whyhyhyyy”

“poor guy”

“then then then then then then then then then then then then then” (yes i did count this out)

rich not calling jeremy hopeless but calling himself hopeless :((

“dude you are cooler than a vintage cassette”

“you know that you are my favorite person”

“if you leave your buddy behind its lame cause its an effed up world but its a two player game”

“wwwwaitwaitwaitwaitwait”

the chourus saying “everything about you sucks”

“she just pretends to be for attention”

”be more CHILL!!! i mean. chiilll”

“i was just gonna check my email..?”

you can hear the optic nerve blocking im gonna sob

”is he worth it? jeremy?”

“keep it up!” the squip sounds very proud 👏

the background vocals in a guy that id kinda be into im falling.

“i guess theres a part of me that wants to!“ and the following lines with the background vocals 🤌

all of loser geek whatever i just lsitened to it and i cant stop im

“i wanna go all the way and more”

“but a load of bread will do”

“BREAK A VASE its halloween”

“yo. he wasnt drunk”

“you cant blame the things he did on alcohol”

“spit it out spit it out!!”

“woaaahhh”

“no i was crying”

“and i was frightened because i feared his state was heightened”

everyone just calling rich small/tiny

“its just so awful so ill talk about it alot”

“WORDDD”

“that rich is flecked”

“always be aware of autocorrect” THEY SOUND SO DISAPPOINTED IM GIGGLING

“changed my profile pic to you now i fully understand what youre going through”

“talk it text it pass it talk it”

“cause he knew he was gay”

the smartphone hour (rich set a fire) slowly getting more and more chaotic

“you cant see it but theyre all in pain”

“so lets complete the chains and get inside some brains”

“shiny happy people singing sweetly”

”we love everything about you” to “we love everything about squips” im. having emotions

“but im not what he wants”

“… you drive a hard bargain, son”

“up up down down left right a”

“you think i wanted to teach high school drama?” IN NEW JERSEY????”

“and ill be back when youre sober!”

“I NEED MOUNTAIN DEW REDDDDDDDD”

“actually? that doesnt sound weird at all!”

the squips little chuckle

“i was already pretty boss before now im totally boss and then some more, im livin’ the upgrade” especially that high note on upgrade

“jiiiiiiinx”

THE CALLBACK TO TWO PLAYER GAME IM

“ALLLLL THE TIME”

“i just feel so connected to you guys right now!!”

“WHY NOT?”

“that is NOT christine!”

“youre the guy im so kinda into!”

“jeremy i love you!” and the little music behind it afterwards 🧎

“and thats the way you get to her heart”

“there might be voices in our heads” THE WAY HE SAYS HEADS IM

the “nanana”s in the background

the last ‘c-c-c-cmon lets go!!’s of the musical. theyre so happyyyyy 😭😭

random bmc things i love

“oh! im listening to marley”

the whole “i saw it in the window” part of be more chill pt. 1

“pause :(“

“everything about you makes me want to die” “jesus christ”

“CRISTINEEE”

all of michael in the bathroom

specifically his “i wanna dance with somebody”

“ITS FROM JAPAN”

the robotic voice that plays sometimes

“THIS IS WAY TOO GOOD FOR A SCHOOL PLAY”

michaels response to everything being “get stoned in my basement”

“MICHAEL MAKES AN ENTRANCE”

“you got quick?” the way he says quick is just 🤌

“of course, ive been releasing your pheromones” HUH?

“beep boop beep boop”

THE VOCALS IN THE PITIFUL CHILDREN

every time jeremy says michael <333 hes so excited

the sound the squip makes when its dying

michael joining in on screaming, theres nothing for him to scream about he just wants to

the beginning of voices in my head and also just all of it actually that song is really good

“is……… jake c:”

just all of michaels part in more than survive

”im never gonna be the cool guy”

“im a supercompter, jeremy. im made of math 🙄”

”thats a girl shirt”

“I CANT SAY THAT TO A HOT GIRL????”

“hey. hamlet. be more chill”

“the loudest one is mine!”

“should i take the upgrade”

[average-gay-walrus]

Squip, teaching Jeremy how to drive: Alright, you're driving and then Michael and Christine walk into the road, quick, which do you hit?

Jeremy: The breaks

Squip, rubbing his temple: Michael. You fucking hit Michael.

[discountshostakovich]

How to make Be More Chill a good musical

Be More Chill is a show I have a huge soft spot for- it’s a fantastic premise (both the idea of the Squip and the elements of parodying all the shitty tropes we have in stories about youth) and there’s some pretty clever and fun music.

However, in the transition to Broadway, the producers of the show compounded on the flaws of the original, while moving farther away from what made the Two River version likable- most notably, trying to pander to the fans of the show that boosted it into popularity on social media. Not even a bad idea, but they did it really poorly. The way they ought to have gone was to rewrite the leading characters, among other stuff.

But first, I’ll quickly go over what works about Be More Chill that spoke to me when I first stumbled upon it- defining the paradigm of the concept makes it easier to understand why I’d change what I’d change.

Be More Chill, in a lot of ways, is/was a deconstruction of the School Musical- think Mean Girls, Legally Blonde, Dear Evan Hansen, and, to an extent, Heathers. That deconstruction is pretty half baked because it focuses too hard on being funny, but all of the pieces are there. For example, Jeremy being the stooge that he is allows for some commentary about the nature of the milquetoast, inherently relatable protagonists we’ve gotten too used to. Michael, the stereotypical best friend who would do anything for the protagonist, is a vessel for the show to ask us to think about the plot-devicey nature of these characters- are they people with feelings, or do they exist for the protagonist to bounce off of? The ever-present trio of popular girls seem to be bratty queen bees, but we get to peek into the dysfunction and insecurities that drive that behavior. (This is the pretty much the only aspect the Broadway show nailed almost perfectly.) You get the idea for the other archetypes- the immaculate Love Interest, Dorky Dad, Jock, Bully, etc.

Keeping that in mind, the way to make this a good show is to reframe Be More Chill as a revision of the cultural staple of those tropes into a modern context. Those rewrites I mentioned start to really fit into a more cohesive and satisfying narrative when you do so.

Character rewrites: Michael and Christine, as they are now, exist as characters that enable Jeremy to develop- realistically, yes, that is the job of every supporting character, but that doesn’t exclude them from having their own arcs and development.

Michael: Michael in The Bathroom is so effective- not only is it a punch in the gut, but it’s a big moment where the archetype is ripped open and the audience realizes that Michael actually matters and how harmful Jeremy’s actions are. However, the show does nothing with that- Michael goes right back to existing solely for Jeremy. For Michael, I’d suggest that his ending isn’t just straight up forgiving Jeremy unconditionally- Michael is willing to take the shot, to come in and save the day, perhaps in a reprise of MITB where he decides that he’ll be brave enough to confront his friend’s stupid actions. After working with Jeremy in the Play, he is reassured that he and Jeremy are good friends who work well, but he makes it clear to Jeremy how hurt he was by his treatment and that Jeremy needs to be a better friend. As such, Michael learns that he is worth being treated well by others and most importantly himself. That gives him an arc- he starts dependent on Jeremy, anxious, and using his love for his friend as an excuse to ignore his own issues, and ends having learned how to healthily give and take in a relationship and to respect himself.

Christine: Christine, on the other hand, is an object on a pedestal for Jeremy to attain and literally almost nothing else. There’s a little bit to her- Christine is afraid of life skipping her by, and wants “things to be easy”. So, instead of being the cardboard cutout she is, Christine should be motivated by finding the easiest way to meet her self-imposed standards of being fulfilled- successful at Theater and in a happy relationship. This characterization displays the problematic nature of the generic love interest for love interest’s sake. Christine dates Jake not because Jeremy needs a motivator to embrace the squip, but because she’s afraid and lonely. “A Guy I’d Be Into” and “Upgrade” would feel disingenuous and artificial, which both explores how wrong Christine’s forcing a relationship is, and the trope-y teeny bopper song. At the end of the show, she fights to break put of the trance, which leads the Squip to bring up Jake, offering Christine the chance to become that fulfilled person she dreams of. Christine refuses, and she becomes the one to deactivate the Squips. That way, both Christine and Michael’s decisions to do the best thing allow them to be heroes alongside Jeremy. (Jeremy’s moment of redemption comes anyway, when he decides to try and break the Squips hold on the school, but fails because of his previous surrendering of control to the machine.) When Jeremy finally gathers the strength to ask her out, she declines, saying that she doesn’t really know Jeremy all that well and that she just isn’t ready for a relationship- but she won’t close the door. So, her arc goes from feeling helpless and needing to meet arbitrary standards to finding the independence she wants for the rest of the world in herself.

Jeremy: Christine and Michael’s new arcs, of course, both define the growth Jeremy needs to undergo perfectly. Jeremy needs to learn how to expect respect from others and for himself, and he needs to learn that dating Christine and being popular aren’t the keys to his happiness. As a result, the supporting cast enables Jeremy’s development by teaching him by example while still being relevant and alive characters. However, Jeremy doesn’t deserve the happy ending he gets. I addressed that he shouldn’t magically become all chummy with Michael and Chrstine already, but Jeremy’s decision to decline the Squip only earns him the chance for redemption. It makes no sense that everything is perfect with his dad and the rest of the school all declaring themselves his unconditional friends. Brooke should be rightfully upset at being used by Jeremy, Mr Heere should be furious at Jeremy for his misbehavior, and so on. Jeremy made the mess, and it will be a lot harder for him to earn forgiveness. At the end of the story, Jeremy should instead come to the conclusion that he has a long way to go to become happy, and begin the climb to self improvement- the current resolution is only half of that. (“Of all the voices in my head, the loudest one is mine/So I guess I’ll start the uphill climb/It might be hard but that’s just fine! [Im no lyricist, but you get the idea.]) So, the story ends on a high note, with the people who did the right thing succeeding, and Jeremy repairing the damage he’s done and to earn his happiness- a modern refinement of the ending of these kinds of stories, thus completing the deconstruction.

Other stuff:

Transitioning away from character fixes, the show has an awful flow from song to song- numbers like Halloween and the Smartphone Hour are vestigial little criticisms of youth culture that jack up the pacing of the thing and rip you out of the story. You know something is wrong when someone burning down a house is irrelevant to the plot. The way I’d fix that is to more closely involve Jeremy in those parts of the plot. Jeremy should immerse himself fully in the party, singing his own lyrics about his transition into the lifestyle the Squip wants for him. The audience can be aware of how dangerous this is- the drugs and alcohol at the party, the gossip loop about rich, Jeremy’s awful treatment of Brooke, and so on, but Jeremy is invested in it and loving it. That makes his decision to fight the Squip after seeing Christine’s disgust at him taking one that much more impactful- it’s the turning point of the show, and yet it is irrelevant in the plot compared to the Play.

The show tries to be too much to be liked by its younger fans- Loser, Geek, Whatever is the worst example of this. Just because a line  makes someone go “SKDKSDSKDJSKDS MICHAEL IS SO GAY I CANT” or “JEREMY IS SUCH A GOOD PORTRAYAL OF G.A.D. OMG” online doesn’t mean it’s good writing. Some other examples where pandering ruins stuff: the “Do you love him?” joke in the Pants Song, “My mothers would be thrilled!”, that god awful ADD joke in Play Rehearsal, Rich coming out as bisexual.

I love the idea that the squip adopts the persona of someone it knows the victim will trust and idolize- it’s great worldbuilding that lets the viewer participate in the story by thinking about who theirs would be. However, that doesn’t mean you go all in on the Keanu Reeves joke! Jason Tam’s quip is so bad! Stop the stupid Keanu/Surfer voice! Please!

[flightysquip]

PLEASE BLAB ABOUT RICHMO, I NEED MORE OF THEM, SPEAR SOME RICHMO PLZ SIR ROBOT PERSON FUCKER

general visuals and thoughts:

Rich and Mo grocery shopping (once Mo is no longer just in his mind/once he has a body); Rich riding in the cart, drinking a capri sun

Rich and Mo grocery shopping (once Mo is no longer just in his mind/once he has a body); Rich pressuring Mo to get in the cart instead and Rich’s tiny little body straining to push him around the store as they shop, as Mo’s large body is cramped up and uncomfortable within the metal contraption

Mo being basically a disney princess, in which various woodland creatures and small animals and birds naturally flock to him; holding completely still, arms outstretched, a gaggle of animals just chilling on him, nibbling at the collar of his shirt, etc etc

snowball fights--Mo with the worst aim ever

basketball--Mo with the worst aim ever part 2: electric boogaloo

Rich making Mo little homemade valentines cards

Deciding on what day is going to be Mo’s birthday, since he’s not a bio-human, and Rich hopping around trying to get streamers on the ceiling (Jeremy’s Squip has to help him ultimately)

Movie nights; Moses knows all the spoilers and Rich is very frustrated

Just the sheer volume of food they can both eat.  So much food.

Moses’ nice proper grammar and capitalization in texts; Rich’s consistent lmaooooooooo’s and emoji abuse

Rich’s consistent inability to put his clothes in the GODDAMN HAMPER LIKE A CIVILIZED PERSON (except Mo thinks it’s more endearing than infuriating)

Brushing their teeth together, elbowing each other away from the sink playfully

Mo is cold, Rich tries to give him his jacket, to comical effect

Rich is cold, Mo gives him his jacket instead, and Rich just drowns in the material

Teaching Moses How To Swim In His New Robobody

Teaching Moses How To Drive In His New Robobody

Moses’ first job shenanigans; Rich keeps showing up to flirt and distract

Collecting tiny figurines and stuffed animals from thrift stores

Mo’s general fashion savvy nature, while Rich is in cut off tanks and four years old shorts

Little Spoon Moses

[someone-online]

Be More Chill characters as things my AP Physics 1/C teacher has said

Jeremy: You see, there are a lot of tennis problems, but I can't name any tennis players, then like... Waluigi plays tennis in Mario Tennis.

Michael: I will give you two doses of motivation.

Christine: HRGGGAH!!! I'm doing stuff because it's fun! So we're going to have fun!

Jake: I do the homework, but only once. If it's wrong, I don't fix it.

Rich: Can you imagine how creepy a hollow Earth could be?! Like, you dig a couple feet, then you jump in and you're weightless. *gasps* What if when they bury you six feet under, they store the bodies in the hollow Earth?!

Chloe: So if you got this question wrong, stop getting it wrong.

Brooke: Llamas are alpacas with bravery.

Jenna: The other day, I saw one of my neighbor's cats outside, and it ripped a squirrel's head off, and it was feasting upon the squirrel. (Did you say something to the cat?) Yeah, I said, "Hey... Mr. Cat... You don't do that."

Squip: A lot of forces you've dealt with were contact forces. Like, take the llama, punch the llama, contact force.

Mr. Reyes: Pikachu is sad because he has to teach two physics courses back to back. It's tiring. Also he has to drive a minivan.

Mr. Heere: We're gonna watch one Carl the Llama, then go back to Gauss' Law.

[what-stop-the-presses-rly-means]

*Squip teaching Jeremy how to drive*

Squip: Turn the car on.

Jeremy: Umm, okay. (rubbing interior) You like that? You filthy who-

Squip: Okay, we're done here.

[that-was-anticlimactic]

Y-you have Lloyd as Jake headcanons???? Do you mind sharing them?

heck yES

Okay so Imma start with some reasons why Lloyd is Jake to me

So, Jake says in Upgrade “my parents won’t be home so it’s all right, they laundered money now they’re on the run… which means the house is empty so that’s fun”

Jake’s parents are criminals and he’s alone, Lloyd’s father is evil and his mother left him at a boarding school for bad boys and essentially he is alone.

Both Lloyd and Jake essentially had no one to teach them and guide them in life, therefore both of them have trouble being a good person sometimes

Jake, for example, knows that Rich isn’t the best person, but he kind of just let’s him be an a-hole. Not to mention, when Jeremy is writhing in pain on the ground at Sabaro’s, Jake’s initial reaction is “the freak’s freaking out”

Lloyd, for example, was not the best kid (being left at Darkley’s didn’t help either), he was essentially / technically a criminal and thief and he didn’t always treat people the best.

After I Love Play Rehearsal, when Jake talks to Christine, he mentions how he feels the need to be the best all of the time, and how much pressure he feels to, essentially, be himself.

Lloyd is the freaking green ninja. He constantly feels the need to be the best and constantly feels pressured to be the best and to be strong and such.

They both feel like they have to be happy because you can’t be popular in school if you’re sad and you can’t save the world if you focus on your problems. You can’t lead after school activities or lead a team of ninja if you get too much in your head.

Speaking of activities, let’s talk about the fact that Jake literally does almost every after school activity and leads a good chunk of them. He most likely does this because he’d rather be at school all day long than in an empty house all by himself. He also throws parties that he invites so many people to, because he’d rather be with too many people than no one because he’s been alone so long. It’s a good distraction.

Lloyd distracted himself from absentee parents by trying to be evil, by absorbing himself into all of this evil business, into revenge, freeing the serpentine and pitting them against each other, even perhaps with comics and training later on.

They also both had a broken leg (or legs Jake sorry hun :/ ) at one point

Okay so I feel like Kai would be Rich and let’s be real here, Kai would burn down a house to save Lloyd in a heart beat (which is essentially what Rich did, he burned down Jake’s house to kill himself so that his SQUIP couldn’t control him and spread the SQUIPS)

Okay but Lloyd would dress like Britton Smith’s Jake rather than Jake Boyd’s Jake. Like, he’d start by dressing like Jake Boyd, with the red jacket and jeans, but when he grows more confident and more comfortable with himself, especially after the “SQUIP situation” (or Nadakhan situation because Nadakhan is the SQUIP to me lol) and he’d feel so much more comfortable being as colorful as he wanted!Lloyd isn’t as “smooth” as Jake, but he is definitely as adorably oblivious to some things

Speaking of, after the Nadakhan / SQUIP incident, he works really hard to be a better person and not to be as ignorant to the way people treat each other and how he treats people but sometimes he still falls into old habits and he can act like an a-hole towards others but he feels so trashy after he realizes what he’s done or when someone tells him

He moved in with Kai / Rich after the incident too, because he finally talked to someone about how much he hated being alone all the time

The whole gang is all about self-care and such now because they all realized how much they needed it because they can’t save the world and help each other if they can’t love themselves and Lloyd’s way of self-care (aside from moving in with Kai) is dropping activities and things that cause extra stress

On that note, if this AU is still kind of a high school AU then it’s clubs that he absorbs himself into (as well as thievery and young!Lloyd season one stuff), but if it’s not school, then along with the thievery and such he is still in like a bunch of clubs and teams like bowling or a book club as well as working like three jobs because he’s alone in the world, but drops almost all of it (aside from a job) so that he can take time to do other things that he needs to do and and get his life back on track. He still has fun, he just makes sure that he doesn’t try and do everything just for the sake of not being alone, because he realizes that he’s not anymore

Even though he had the jobs, he still did (borderline) illegal things because he wanted to impress his dad and maybe his mom (he knew nothing about her, for all he knew she was evil too, she did drop him off at Darkley’s) but he didn’t want to be a complete thief because at the same time he really didn’t want to be like them because they left him and so he stopped himself from being terrible

He still struggles with not focusing on living up to standards that the world and his title as the Green Ninja created for him. His friends help him with that as much as they can but taking the pressure off of his shoulders is hard

It’s also a little scary for him because all of his life he knew he had to be this, and act this way, and just be the way the world perceived him because of his dad and his title as Green Ninja, and attempting to break free from that and be more relaxed and more openly him and not what everyone wants him to be is difficult.

(I love the word essentially in case you couldn’t tell) That’s the most I think I can like… articulate right now? I’m having trouble wording some of it, particularly the happier ones- a lot of these were kind of sad??- maybe I’m just more tired than I thought lol, but I can picture it all so clearlyyyyyyy! I hope those made sense? I like… lived in a BMC / Ninjago AU for a solid few weeks straight and I still think about it a lot so I have a lot of feels and opinions on this! (also Jake Dillinger is like… my 1.5 favorite BMC character for so many reasons and I’ve done character analysis’ on him so many times like when I’m driving I’ll speak them to myself or I’ll think about it as I fall asleep or in the shower or during school when I daydream… I love this boy he’s so underrated !) ((actually… I don’t think I’ve ever fully written one out for him… I know I’ve written an eight aged long Chloe analysis / oneshot type thing but I don’t think I’ve ever officially done Jake… I’ll have to do that someday…))

anyWAYS I love my boy Lloydie-G (thank you for that so much by the way I love it ahh) and I hope that made a lick of sense! Have a great night or day or whatever time it is for you when you read this :)

(this is what I mean by Britton’s clothing vs. Jake Boyd’s red jacket and jeans and tank tops and stuff. Like I can see Lloyd in those, but like… I get more of a Britton Jake vibes more than Jake Jake vibes) (BUT I LOVE BOTH VERSIONS OF JAKE EQUALLY BECAUSE THEY ARE BOTH EXTREMELY TALENTED AND BOTH STYLES ARE AMAZING AND FIT AND I LOVE OKAY BYE)

[cleverbroadwayurl]

someone had to say it- you should cast your mutuals in bmc

Hella yes

Jeremy: @macbookpro-hard-drive you knew it was coming... because we both know Percy and CB culture are one in the same and we both have crushes on people that we are a little too nervous about talking to. Also,,, I mean you always say you relate to Jeremy a lot so yeah...this shouldn’t be a surprise. 

Michael: @finnofamerica I have no idea why but you give me such Michael vibes??? Like you’re very upbeat and always encourage others??? idk it’s very Michael to me. 

Rich: @be-more-heidi-hansen oh we both knew this was coming too. And the part about this that’s like,,, strange is I don’t even know why

Jake: @stargirl-murphy You’re so sweet??? Oh my god?? And you are always just,,, rooting for everyone, including new writers and that makes my heart warm?? And you always include everyone even if like they don’t feel it? Maybe it’s just me idk

Christine: @catatonic-kuragin We both knew this was coming also,,, anyways! You’re Christine not because Christine is always happy and smiling and loves theatre and stuff, no you’re Christine because to me, she has a lot going on and hasn’t quite figured it out yet. Theatre helps her cope with everything around her. We see this at the Halloween Party, at school, and even after the fire with Rich. Theatre is how she feels grounded and it helps her make important choices and go through life. I feel like you’re the same way. 

Chloe: @dehdiaryorwhatever okay hear me out,,, I feel like you have this very secure attitude when like,,, talking about yourself if that makes sense? Like there’s probably a lot underneath that I don’t know about but you always seem so comfortable with yourself I guess? And even if you’re not, it passes off that way? Which is like super cool teach me how to do that

Brooke: @scarsonthecuffsofyourjeans You! Are! So! Nice! You care so much about other people and their problems and you’re so cool to talk to??? Oh my god like I know that I have like--idk quirks?--when I message people but you are just so chill about it? You never like,,, idk bring it up at all and it’s just passed off as me being normal which I really enjoy? So yeah, you have this way about you that makes people feel included and you deserve so much more than what the world is giving you. 

Jenna: @retrogarden Hello!!! I absolutely adore you so much ahhh! You always silently (or sometimes not so silently) cheer me on and keep me going! I know that you’re kind of an underdog, but that’s okay! I’m not quite sure what you’re going through right now, but I completely understand the hiatus and believe me, if you need to take care of yourself do it. I really enjoy your works even if I’m a little quiet about them sometimes and you have so much to offer I can’t even begin to describe it! I really hope everything with you is okay, and if it’s not, I hope it gets better soon! 

No one is the SQUIP bc I have very bad memories and very bad associations with it and believe me, no one I know, that’s on here at least bc I def know people outside of this site who are, is SQUIP-esque 

Okay I love these and they’re so much fun ahhhh thank you so much for asking me to do this! 

[happy-theatre-anon]

Glamorous (BMC Character Headcanons)

Warnings - Makeup?

Tag List - @rainbow-anon @petal-anon @sax-anon @the-trashy-tornado @sweater-anon @bouncyscreamingnewsboys (If you want to be added, removed or if I forgot you please say! 💛)

A/N - So this is based off of some Headcanons I did a while back where I said about Jeremy wearing makeup, so I wanted to go more into detail about that, but then I thought just Jeremy by himself might be a little bland so I ended up doing Headcanons for all the characters! Please note that this probably isn't my best quality of writing, but I thought it'd just be better to put it out there before I changed my mind. Also please note that all the editing and the tags were done on chrome due to an issue, so if I missed certain parts or it looks weird - that's why. Enjoy!

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Jeremy

- So Jeremy for sure would wear highlighter

- I can just picture it very easily?

- And it wouldn't just be a simple white, plain shade

- Oh no, it'd be any colours possible

- Pink? He'd wear it

- Blue? He'd wear it

- Green? Makes him look a little weird but he'd wear it

- He just loves how confident it makes him feels

- He'd mostly wear it at home or to parties rather than to school however

- At school he's more likely to wear blush

- Christine or Brooke were probably doing his makeup when they introduced him to blush

- It started off light and barely recognizable

- But then he discovered that if he put a lot of it on his nose or his cheeks, he looked absolutely adorable

- Sometimes he wears a lot, sometimes it's light

- It depends on how confident he's feeling

- Regardless of whether he wears blush or highlighter, he loves anything that makes him look a bit more angelic or a more like a video game character

- It makes him feel a little more confident and just good about himself

- He'll also put concealer on his acne the days where he feels particularly insecure

- On days where he's feeling particularly catty, he'll wear darker shades or a light lipstick

- Watch out for him on those days

- Looks absolutely enchanting when wearing makeup

Michael

- I feel like he would go for a look that makes him glow a bit more

- Maybe some gold highlighter or gold blush

- Maybe a bit of eyeliner

- He's great at doing winged eyeliner nobody knows how, he's just naturally good at it

- He doesn't like wearing makeup that will smudge off easily

- He likes moving his headphones around a lot, and it wouldn't be great if he got makeup on his headphones

- He just looks absolutely glowing when he wears makeup

- Some of his looks can be quite out there, but to be quite honest he does not care

- He likes to feel very confident in all of his looks so he'll spend about an hour overall in the mornings doing his makeup

- Looks like royalty when wearing makeup, it's magical

Rich

- Christine 100% taught him how to do his makeup

- I imagine them with a sibling relationship so I feel like out of everyone she would be the one to teach him

- Absolutely loves eyeshadow

- His favourite eyeshadow shades so far are a dark shade of red and a lighter more pastel red

- He likes pairing the shades together along with a red lipstick, and some black eyeliner and mascara

- Sounds like a lot of red with the red streak in his hair, but he makes it work

- He can't do a wing with his eyeliner for the life of him

- Usually Michael or Christine will help him out before he gets to frustrated with it

- Somehow always smudges it?

- He always keeps his hands away from his face when wearing makeup but then he'll look in a mirror and

- He'll have a huge streak down his face or something will be smudged or in the wrong place

- But always looks so fierce and gorgeous

Christine

- She 100% knows what she's doing when it comes to makeup

- She's had enough experience with stage makeup to know what works, what doesn't and how it works

- Loves her mascara and eyeliner

- She likes using dark colours mainly as it makes her eyes look nicer, but occasionally she'll use a brighter shade

- She likes to keep her makeup very traditional outside of any productions she's in

- She might spice her look up with a shiny red lipstick but that's about it

- But with stage makeup she goes all out

- She'll have every colour you can think of for any makeup product purely for when she needs to do stage makeup

- She's very fast with it and can do it in a ten minute time constraint and still looks stunning

- So talented with makeup and just looks absolutely amazing

Jenna

- Always goes with whatever is on trend right now

- She always tries the latest instagram makeup trends

- They don't always turn out great but if you can name a trend, she's tested it

- She has a lot of expired makeup from when she's used things and then forgot to throw them out when they went off trend

- Knows where to buy the best makeup for the best price, in every store within an hours drive

- She is amazing when coming to removing makeup stains, or which one is best for your skin type, or what colour works best for you

- She doesn't actually wear a whole lot of makeup whenever there isn't a big trend happening

- She'll wear some foundation, concealer, mascara and maybe some blush

- She just wants to fit in and she knows if she wears too much people will tease her, but if she wears too little people won't pay any attention to her

- After gaining friends from the whole squip incident she's gotten better with her confidence, but she likes to stay safe anyways

- Looks fantastic always and you can bet she knows what's trending and what's not

Jake

- Doesn't wear a ton of it, purely because he's always trying new things and doesn't know whether makeup is a good choice for that hobby

- But when he does

- You can absolutely bet he looks absolutely amazing in it

- He's really good with makeup unsurprisingly

- Most of the makeup themed tips he knows are from Chloe

- When they were dating he would watch her do her makeup in the car and then she taught him how to do it, and then he just started wearing it himself

- You can guarantee most of the makeup things he uses are things his friends bought and then never got to use because they 'mysteriously vanished'

- They all know it's Jake that takes them before anyone gets to use them but they never say anything

- Likes going for a smokey eyeshadow with mascara and maybe some lipstick

- Loves his mascara

- It makes his eyes look great, his eyelashes look great and it's fairly easy to apply when in a rush

- Of course looks dashing with or without makeup

Brooke

- Loves natural looks

- Her favourite things are a shiny pink lipgloss, and thick eyeliner

- She wasn't that big on makeup until she met Chloe and even now doesn't like to wear a lot

- Similar to Jeremy she absolutely loves highlighter

- It's just so pretty and makes her look like she's glowing

- She really loves to wear thick eyeliner on her top lid though

- It makes her eyes look a lot brighter and clearer

- She has practically flawless skin

- Nobody knows her secret to it and she won't confess it, not even to Chloe

- The truth is she just drinks a ton of water and then has naturally good skin

Chloe

- This girl knows everything possible about makeup

- She knows every hack or tip

- She knows how to mix really odd colours and make them work

- Honestly just a wonder when it comes to makeup really

- She likes to go for a heavier look compared to the others

- She’ll use foundation, concealer, contour, eyeshadow, eyeliner, lipstick, mascara, etc

- She doesn’t really have a consistent look with her makeup she just matches it with whatever outfit she’s wearing on that day

- Most of the things she’s learnt have been from YouTube, instagram, Jenna or just guessing

- Out of all of them she’s been using makeup the longest, so she’s definitely the ‘makeup master’ of the group

All in all when wearing makeup or when not, they’re stunning. Even if Rich, some of them aren’t amazing at it

[pitifulbefore-a]

misconception: jeremy’s feelings for christine aren’t genuine

lune hates the bmc fandom : a series

Jeremy Heere is absolutely infatuated with Christine Canigula. 

It’s the driving force for most of his actions within the musical. He wants Christine to notice him, he wants to be someone in her eyes ( ‘ I just wanna know that Christine is aware I’m alive’ ), but his anxiety and low self esteem keeps him from approaching her on his own. Christine is inadvertently the catalyst for Jeremy’s decision in getting a squip, her brushing him aside in favor of Jake ( Jeremy’s perspective, not necessarily Christine’s ) is the push to get him low enough to consider something as outrageous as a supercomputer pill that makes you better from his biggest bully. Even after Jeremy takes the squip and his goals shift ( from Christine to popularity ), Christine remains his biggest motivator– believing if he was someone like Jake, he’d be the kind of guy she would be interested in. Without Christine, without Jeremy being head over heels crushing on Christine, Be More Chill wouldn’t exist as we know it. 

And honestly, a girl like Christine is exactly the kind of person Jeremy would fall for! He’s a kid who’s desperate to obtain approval from his peers, yet the people that are first and foremost in his mind ( Michael and Christine ) throughout the story are those who appear completely unbothered and are unabashedly themselves. They aren’t the traditionally popular kids, they’re geeky and goofy with obvious quirks and interests that would be considered lame to the average high schooler, but they’re passionate and outgoing, and their personalities are loud. They’re themselves, completely and entirely, no matter what others may think about them. Those are qualities Jeremy very obviously admires ( re, the play with michael, ‘well, I’m jealous you don’t!’ ), the kind of traits he wishes he had, the traits that the squip teaches him to feign when he’s under its influence.

It’s a crush and only a crush ( within canon events ), but Jeremy’s feelings towards Christine are real and genuine and run deep. She’s the kind of person he admires, the kind of person he wishes he could be, and she remains the motivation for most of his actions throughout the months that the story takes place over. 

[shioritsumi]

In general, I think having Musical and Book Jeremy compare their lives during the SQUIP period would be interesting. 

And Musical Jeremy gets progressively more anxious while Book Jeremy is kind of nostalgic for the SQUIP. 

“That was the year I nearly destroyed all of humanity as the Squip took over the entire cast of the school play and attempted to spread to the rest of the school body before taking over the world.”

“.....that was the year I made out with several girls, did some LSD and had a bad trip, learned what an infected nipple looks like, embarrassed the FUCK out of myself with a corny on-stage confession, wrote a book to the girl I liked, and then STILL failed to woo her. Your Squip tried to...take over humanity, WHAT?”

“Yeah, but Michael saved me! He brought me the Mountain Dew Red I needed to deactivate the Squip!” “Mountain Dew Red...? That weird stuff from, like, the late 80s? I heard it was only sold in, like, Alabama or something. My Squip told me to use the Mountain Dew Code Red to dissolve him...what’s all this about deactivating? Couldn’t you just shut him down?” “.......what?” “Whenever I used the ‘Shutdown’ command, he shut down. It was really useful for leaving him undamaged if I wanted to get drunk or high or something. Or just...wanted some time alone with my own thoughts.” “You could SHUT YOURS DOWN?!”

“So the Squip taught me how to drive; also calculus and getting buff. What did yours teach you?” “Squips are supposed to TEACH you stuff?” “If the goal you give them is to help you improve your public status, then...yeah. One of my Squip’s first steps was to get me dressing better, grooming myself better, and genuinely exercising. Yours didn’t...do that at all?” “....He made me buy new clothes....? And corrected my speech patterns...?” “......mine just gave me advice on which words I should use more often, or less often. Otherwise, he just sat back and let me test the waters for myself so he could advise more accurately.” “Yours sounds more like an actual advisor than mine was. Mine just sort of grabbed me by the nuts and said ‘do exactly as I say or you’ll be a loser forever, got it’ so...” “Mine just sort of sat me down and said ‘if you want to be more popular we need to revise some of your habits, okay? Now show me what I have to work with.’ And we did that. Your Squip sounds like a legit fuckin’ supervillain.” “.....yeah, you’re not the only one to say that....”

“So Rich burned down a house because he was suicidal and desperate to get rid of his Squip. Please tell me things were better in your world...cause the Squips are better in your world, right?” “They are, and that’s the problem. Rich still burned down a house, and Jake still got burned and broke his legs trying to rescue him, but it wasn’t even remotely Rich’s Squip’s fault. My Squip wasn’t really sure WHAT happened, except that most likely his Squip wasn’t online at the time. Rich just kind of....drunkenly set fire to the house for no reason. Our group only barely got out in time because my Squip determined that was the time to leave.” “.......Rich set a fire FOR NO REASON IN YOUR WORLD?!” “Yeah, it actually gave the Squip a fair amount of anxiety because he, with his Quantum Processor, still couldn’t understand WHY Rich set fire to the house. He...didn’t always have a complete grasp on the workings of humans, so he tended to get stressed when human unpredictability ruined things for us.” “....Yeah, I can see that. Wait-you mean...your Squip actually had anxiety?” “Oh yeah, loads. When my on-stage confession to Christine fell worse than flat, he panicked so hard he had to do an emergency shut-down. He legitimately couldn’t understand why our super romantic plan had failed and he completely shut down.” “..........yours almost sounds like a real person. Mine is a cartoon villain.” “I’m not trading.” “Dammit.”

[thetwoplayergays]

Prompt: Jeremy kissed/made out with Brooke and Chloe when he was squiped and now Michael is embarrassed because he hasn't kissed anyone yet. And so he looks "how to kiss" in wikihow, doesn't delete the history and Jeremy finds out. (The part of searching it in wikihow it's meh, I just want Jeremy to find out and be like "dude, you don't have to worry. I'm sure you kiss alright) and then they kiss. Ahhhh, I'd love you even more if you do it.

Sorry it took so long (._.) Here you go;; Thank you for the prompt!

“Hey dude can you grab me a soda while you’re up and moving?” Yelled Jeremy from across the room, too lazy to move from his fixed position on the beanbag. 

“Since when was I your maid?” Michael joked, tossing his best friend an ice cold soda nonetheless. “I’ll be right back, don’t play without me.”

“Wouldn’t dream of it,” Jeremy muttered in response whilst taking a small sip of his drink. The two boys had just spent the last few hours clearing floors off of a DLC of Apocalypse of the Dammed Michael had managed to find in the old retro game shop down the street. Within half a day the boys had almost gotten through the whole game but given their poor diet of mountain dew and chips the two often had to pause for bathroom breaks and refills, slowing their overall progress down.

Jeremy set down his drink and looked up at the ceiling in contemplation. It had been a month or so since the Squip incident and everything had virtually settled down. Jeremy had gained a bunch of new friends from the experience, despite how traumatic it had been. This included Christine, a girl on whom Jeremy had lusted for years. The two had tried to date, they really did, but it was soon apparent that despite how well they got along together, they only saw each other as close friends. When Jeremy had told Michael that night, his friend assumed the worst, instantly offering to come over with a horde of junk food and movies to distract him. Surprisingly for both boys, Jeremy felt great. He assured Michael that nothing was wrong and that he was the happiest he had been in a while, and strangely, he didn’t miss the slight change in Michael’s tone of voice, almost as if he was smiling sweetly over the phone. 

Jeremy didn’t miss the soft blush on his best friend’s cheeks whenever he complimented him.

And Jeremy certainly didn’t miss his sinking face whenever he talked about his time with Brooke or Chloe, despite how much he hated to think about it. 

As the weeks went on, Jeremy payed close attention to his friend. He had never really asked about Michael’s love life before, mainly because of his assumption that Michael didn’t have one. It slowly occurred to him how he had never even asked if Michael was straight. After Rich had so openly revealed his new-found sexuality, Jeremy began to ponder his own. He was attracted to females, there was no doubt about that, but what if he-

“Dude do you need a refill?” Michael’s voice interrupted, cutting Jeremy off from his train of thought. He looked over at the bowl in front of him which was indeed empty. 

“That would be appreciated,” he bounced back. Turning his attention to the TV screen he remembered that they had been stuck on a particular level for quite some time. It was definitely a tricky one, it required a lot of thinking - something that neither boys possessed at 1am. Remembering that Michael was upstairs getting food, Jeremy looked over at the computer that had been moved from upstairs into the basement for convenience purposes. He knew Michael hated looking up how to win a level but it was late and the boys really wanted to finish this game tonight while they were still into it. 

‘A quite peek won’t hurt’ Jeremy convinced himself as he slowly got up and shifted his way to the computer. Heaving himself onto the chair, he swivelled the mouse to awake the screen, he knew Michael normally just left it on. The browser pooped up suddenly, making Jeremy squint at the sudden change in light. As his eyes began to readjust, he processed the website in front of him. Before he could open a tab to search for what he wanted, the title of the page sank in:

‘How to kiss: Wikihow’  

Jeremy stared at it for a couple more seconds before convincing himself that this was something Michael must have accidentally clicked on while scrolling through facebook or something like that. He clicked the back arrow key to try to return to the social media but instead a google search was opened:

‘how do u kiss?’

He blinked in disbelief, clicking again. Another search came up:

‘can u learn how to kiss?’

He clicked again:

‘teenage kissing help’

And again:

‘how do u kiss a boy?’

‘how do u kiss straight boys?’

‘i think i want to kiss a boy’

‘how to know u have a crush’

‘do i have a crush?’

‘i think im crushing on my straight best friend’

The last one made Jeremy stop frantically clicking and instead choosing to read the search over and over again. There was no denying this was Michael, his best friend never used proper grammar when typing - it used to drive Jeremy insane. He stared at the last search for god knows how long with a million questions flying through his brain. Jeremy didn’t know why, but he started to giggle. The more he read the sentence, the funnier it got. 

“What’s so funny?” 

The voice snapped Jeremy right out of his hysterical laughter. He turned to see his best friend smiling, holding a bowl of freshly popped popcorn. 

“Care to share?” He asked again, a small chuckle escaping his lips. 

Jeremy didn’t know why, but he suddenly felt the urge to stand up. Leaving the opened tabs behind, he walked across the room before stopping right in front of Michael. His hands seemed to move on their own as he brought them up to meet his best friend’s cheeks and before either boy could process what was happening Jeremy was kissing Michael. 

It was different to when he kissed Chloe or Brooke. Back then it was forced and Jeremy only did it because he ‘needed’ to. It was rough and not enjoyable. But here, with Michael, it was sweet and quick. Jeremy could have stayed there for hours if Michael hadn’t dropped the bowl of popcorn in surprise, causing the sticky food to spill all over the floor. Jeremy broke the kiss after the bowl hit his foot, making him jump around in pain as Michael stood there still trying to process what was happening. He eventually realised that his best friend was in pain and rushed to get an ice pack.

“I’m not straight Michael.” Said Jeremy, breaking the awkward silence between the two. They had returned to the beanbags to let Jeremy sit down and heal his throbbing toe which was going numb from the coolness of the ice pack. 

Michael looked from his fixed gaze on the open computer browser which he had noticed just after the two boys settled. 

“But you-” He began before Jeremy cut him off.

“I’ve never really thought about it much, especially with my crush on Christine the thought was rarely brought to my attention,” Jeremy paused to sneak a peek at Michael, who was staring at him with his big chocolate eyes. Jeremy couldn’t help but laugh. 

“What?”

“I can’t believe you actually looked up how to kiss someone”,” Jeremy sniggered, provoking a huff from Michael. 

“How else was I meant to learn, I couldn’t exactly ask you,” he complained. “Sorry, I should have talk to you about it sooner. I just- back when you were still with the Squip and dating Brooke. I felt… embarrassed ok? I thought that maybe now that you’ve had experience with others you would think that I’m a complete dork who isn’t worth hanging around with.”

Michael paused for a moment, locking eyes with Jeremy. He opened his mouth to continue but was cut off with another kiss. This time, both parties were ready and it lasted a little bit longer than their first. When the two broke apart, the two paused and just stared at each other, contempt with their presence. 

“So,” Michael said. “Are you going to clean up that crushed popcorn over there or are you going to teach how to kiss properly like a real boyfriend should do?”

“Boyfriend…” Jeremy muttered, inching closer to Michael in the process. “I think I like the sound of that.”

[nyancheetosmusical]

More Human Squip HCs

Here are some little HCs @justpidgance , @takeabreathandsmile , and I came up with while developing the story of the AU. Enjoy! :)

-The Squip really likes fuzzy socks. Like, really, REALLY likes them.

-The SQUIP has tons of practical knowledge on various subjects, but he can’t actually put it into practice. Like, he’s a How-to manual; he can tell you how to fix a car, play an instrument, give someone CPR, etc. etc. because he still has a vast array of internet research in his memory. But, if you ask him to do any of it, he’s at a loss. There’s this disconnect between his mental and physical abilities.

  Michael: “Hey Squip how do you convert a polar coordinate in a Cartesian one?

Squip: “Well, first you need to use relationships established between r and theta and x and y. The easiest way is to use x = rcos(theta)-”

M: “Okay how about you just do it for me.”

S:“...*looks at the problem*....uh….*sweats*....you uh…..uh…..”

- Christine is the first person to actually truly come around to human!SQUIP and genuinely see him as a friend. Even though the SQUIP still finds her to be exceptionally strange (especially after being inside her brain.)

-He loves the stars and astronomy a lot

-He gets a telescope and is SO HAPPY

-The Squip ends up moving into Jeremy’s closet cause it’s small and dark and he likes being able to be all curled up and safe

-And one day Jeremy sneaks in and sticks some plastic glow in the dark stars on the ceiling of the closet and the walls

-and when the Squip sees it

-STAR EYES

-he was so overwhelmed and excited

-The Squip basically becomes like a little brother to Jeremy

- Sometimes when Jeremy and Michael are hanging out at night, Christine will come over and pick up the Squip and drive out to an open field and the Squip brings his telescope and they look at the stars and at first she’s telling him what constellations are what and which planet that is, but after a while the Squip starts doing his own research and soon he’s teaching her, and afterwards they go to Sharis and have a slice of pie. And Christine loves how honest the Squip is and loves to talk about her problems with him and after a while he really warms up to her and boom it’s like he has an older sister and it’s great.

-Imagine the SQUIP just casually blurting out some of the things that Jeremy thought about her when he was living inside his brain. And Christine is just like “awww, really? He thought that? That is so cute!” But then when the SQUIP repeats the information to Jeremy, his face goes red and he gets all stuttery.

- at some point Mike “pranks” the Squip by somehow getting him to drink Mtn Dew red (without Jeremy knowing) and the Squip gets like….REALLY sick. And you can’t take him to the hospital cause he’s not legally a person.  So they just gotta wait it out....

- The Squip would be that one kid who’d refer to his friends parents like: “Jeremy’s dad” instead of “Mr. Heere”

- The squip only really needs mountain dew to survive, but that doesn’t limit him from eating other things. So time for the squip to find out how vegetables are gross and discovering yummy treats. Plus, don’t get him started on hot chocolate (his favorite)

-SO I don’t know if you know what Squeaky Cheese is, but basically when you make cheese you can skim the curds off the surface and you get these cheese curds that legitimately squeak when you eat them. Anyway, one time someone brings over Squeaky Cheese and

Squip: “JEREMY JEREMY JEREMY LOOK AT THIS” *shoves handful of cheese in mouth*

*squeak squeak squeak*

Michael: “dude that stuff is kind of nasty, what-”

Jeremy: “dude shhhhhh....just look at him”

and the Squip just has a look of pure excitement on his face

Squip: “JEREMY THIS FOOD IS MAKING SOUND!”

Michael: “....okay that is kind of adorable.”