i do not “watch” riverdale. riverdale is not a show that you “watch.” riverdale is something you witness. akin to the divine. every week roberto aguirre-sacasa himself has allowed us to witness some kind of unhinged godly message beamed down directly from the heavens to our televisions and it is only the brave and devoted few who stand witness to the history unfolding before our eyes. the holy truths of the universe (homosexuality) being written before us
after years of talking about it online, working on it on and off, discussing it with my friends, creating playlists, and sending drafts to anyone who cared, i am proud to reveal SPRINGFIELD.
for the unaware, the premise is simple: what if the simpsons was an edgy teen drama on the cw that mirrored the likes of riverdale? a horrifying concept to many, but an intriguing one to others. regardless of where you fall, i hope that you’ll read, share, and enjoy SPRINGFIELD.
a labour of love four years in the making. i’m so happy to finally sharing it with you all.
Modern AU Phantom of the Opera, but it's all modern people with the original Erik from eighteenwhatever who is immortal for extremely stupid reasons that are immediately glossed over in favor of subjecting him to the horrors of modern life.
For instance, the new theater owners are a pair of elder millennial lesbians that got in on bitcoin early and decided to buy the opera house* because why the hell not, and upon recciving his first letter demanding pay, write back:
"Great! Glad we don't have to hire a new art director because everyone who applied is a pretentious shithead. Come up to the office so we can set up a direct deposit."
Because honestly? The maniac in the basement that rants about inventive methods of homicide in french is like, only the eighth weirdest person in the house crew, never mind the freaks in the actual cast. Highlights include:
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"Erik. My dude. You can't have live tigers on the stage. They're an endangered species and probably an OSHA violation."
"Who is this OSHA who dares dictate the how and what of MY theater? Do you fear them more than me, the Opera Ghost?"
"Its the new york state attorneys office, and yes. You'll only stab or hang me. They'll make me suffer. How about we put that baritone you didn't like in a tiger costume instead?"
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Erik getting into twitter beef and his managers allowing it because you couldn't buy this kind of publicity.
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Modern AU La Carlotta is played by Madonna, like in the Dick Tracy movie, but she's a parody of herself.
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The Author Takes A Long And Very Blatant Pro-Union Ramble For Half A Chapter.
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Erik Basementghost vs. CBT.
The Therapy technique, he's already familiar with and probably versed in the fetish from the 1800's. Modern psychotherapy though? Terrifying, please punch him in the dick instead.
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Erik is old enough to remember at least reading about the original Alexander Hamilton and writes to Lin-manuel Miranda about the inaccuracy of "jefferson should have been eating macaroni and cheese every time he was on stage."
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Erik having an enormous tantrum that he was not around during the Golden Age of Broadway. One of the managers goes down to his non-OSHA-compliant-former-subway-station he uses for an office and finds he's somehow acquired a twelve foot tall portrait of Lorenz Hart.
"What."
"My lost beloved from another time, I only learned of him far too late..."
"Weren't you alive then?"
"Yes, but alas, I was in the Atlantic for most of his career."
"AGAIN?"
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* it's not the paris opera house because I know fuck all about paris and because I feel like this extremely dumb AU is the sequel to this magnum opus: https://www.google.com/amp/s/muirin007.tumblr.com/post/190275380840/wait-wait-wait-have-i-not-told-you-guys-this/amp
So it's probably like, The Met, because that's the only american opera house I can think of at 2:30 AM.
I truly am obsessed with how Knives Out was like. Hello Daniel Craig, man who has spent the past two decades of his career being alternately beaten up and objectified playing an action hero with no personality. Would you like to please put on a shirt and an incomprehensible vaguely Texan accent and flex your character acting dark comedy muscles as well as your pecs for a while. And he's like BOY WOULD I and they made a work of art. Also love that they put Chris Evans in sweaters. Get your beefcakes then dress them nice make them soft and give them some bonkers character work to do it's what cinema needs more of
Here we are back again for a 48 hour log off protest of the current version of Post+.
WHEN?
October 2, 2021
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October 1, 2021
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If you don’t see your time zone, or unsure which to use, click HERE for the checker!
We’ll be running countdown posts leading up to the main event!
We’re logging off for 48 hours! So, for example, if you log out on October 2, 2021 at 1pm JST you’ll log back on October 4, 2021 at 1 pm JST!
Also! Our Australian friends, take note that daylight savings/summer time ends in certain territories on October 3rd!
WHY?
Exhibits A, B, C, D, E, F, G
Tumblr recently announced a new feature called Post+ meant to help content creators make money while keeping a cut to help maintain the site. Not a bad idea, right?
The problem is that tumblr actively encouraged the use of Post+ in conjunction with fan works. Which is, despite the way they continue to side step it, highly illegal. Not enough people are aware of that fact.
Our mission is to force tumblr to either rebrand the Post+ feature as something for original content ONLY and/or offer a means to help the site survive outside of monetizing fan work. We want the see tumblr thrive but Post+ has the potential for ruining everything. Give us a better option, @staff ! In fact, HERE are some options!
WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?
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WILL THIS WORK?
We got tumblr to temporarily hide the original Post+ posts and possibly made wip a thing. So who knows?
ANYTHING ELSE?
Keep checking @postplus-protest for updates and further info, especially updates to this post! Thank you, all of you, for participating or boosting!
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