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in "peter and the wolf" you could replace the wolf with a pelican and the story would still work (except for the fact that it's set in a forest in Russia and wolves can't fly but shhhh)

the wolf/pelican comes out of nowhere, tries to eat everything in sight, swallows animals whole, is taken to the zoo in the end, and is generally an agent of chaos. it would also make way more sense for Peter to be unafraid of a goofy looking pelican rather than a wolf

anyone up for writing a menacing pelican motif for the piece?

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upon my hundredth rewatch of twisted I realized that the "tigerf*cker" joke isn't random

IT'S A WICKED REFERENCE

in the book, the side characters at one point are like "well, the funeral is over and the two main characters ditched us, GUYS LET'S GO TO THE MAGIC BROTHEL" and in this universe you have more types of people than humans, so there's a Tiger at the orgy.

THE FORGETTABLE SIDE CHARACTERS ARE TIGERF*CKERS, LIKE ACHMED

the musical already parallels wicked (dream a little harder = no one mourns the wicked/dancing through life, follow the golden rule = the wizard and I, twisted = no good deed, etc) and they poke fun at this by having Ja'far hold a copy of Wicked at the start of the musical.

i'm never going to hear that joke the same way again

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I GET TO SING A SONG ABOUT ELDRITCH HORROR DEITY THINGS

I get to BE an eldritch horror deity thing!!

I auditioned for the npmd cover project for the fun of it??? I definitely did NOT actually expect them to like my singing!!! especially for male role??? I mean idk if an an eldritch horror deity would have the same conceptions of gender as humans do BUT STILL!!!! BEING AN ALTO IS AWESOME!!!

I AM WIGGLY EHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

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the apocalypse may be upon us BUT at least I got to watch Tangled with a bunch of my favorite band nerds and eat popcorn and play stupid video games

not a bad way to go out

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went to planet fitness today with someone because of the free summer teen account thingy

and the color palette was really really giving watcher world (purples with warm yellows).

there's definitely an alternate universe where blinky is still a giant eye but represents vanity more than orwellian surveillance, and owns planet fitness to like. prey on people's toxic beauty/fitness standards for themselves or something idk

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first of all, I think twoey would taste slightly mildewy and bloody, like steak and rotting spinach, and would be rubbery like mushrooms with annoying sinewy bits like the ends of asparagus

but on second thought, I feel like audrey ii simply would not die. we see seymour shoot at it near the end of the musical and go at it with a knife/machete thing to no avail. however. if you were to somehow cut it up and consume it, I think that the parts if the plant, though separated from the whole, would still be alive through some undefined extraterrestrial magic, and would start eating you from the inside out. you'd eventually become a decomposing husk for the plant to consume and control.

you would probably have no idea at first because your nervous system isn't wired to tell you what's going on with the food in your stomach, so you wouldn't realize until it's too late.

in the later stages, I think you would have insatiable cravings for meat and the plant would be constantly singing and complaining in your head, and you would feel the plants tendrils/roots spreading under your skin

I feel like this is a premise for a horror movie that has probably been done before, but it's cool nonetheless

i wonder if audrey ii would be edible if you steamed it like broccoli. forbidden snack

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my sister just stuffed a whole fortune cookie in her mouth.

like, paper and all

I can't decide whether I'm mortified or impressed

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the senior band concert is over and life doesn't have meaning anymore

quick help i need to find something else to center my self worth around

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Also!! As for lyrics, there's the reference to "We'll Have Tomorrow" right at the end of "Don't Feed the Plants"! It's not a copy and paste of the melody, but it has the right rhythm and direction of pitch, and the words are the same.

Regrettably I don't have access to the sheet music to prove it but I swear it's there.

Analyzing the music of little shop never gets old hehehehe

I love how some of the deleted songs still ended up making their way into the show anyway as leitmotifs for characters or just little easter eggs

For instance, The Worse He Treats Me’s piano melody was turned into Orin’s play on/off

And I Found a Hobby’s main melody appears in Now (It’s Just the Gas) around the part when Orin says “Seymour I am flying now!” (0:36) as the glockenspiel

Not sure if they were always planned to go with the songs or they were later repurposed when they decided the songs were going to be taken out of the show but still very cool!

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I JUST HAD A REVELATION

The events of Little Shop of Horrors

Would SO happen in Hatchetfield

Like COME ON!! in an alternate universe, nibbly ("feed me seymour" anyone???) and pokey (the plant literally comes down from space!) are 100% the ones behind this

this makes me so happy I cant even function anymore

I literally wrote a whole 4k word essay on why little shop is a legit piece of drama this year and I LOVE the hatchetfield universe so combining my two favorite dramatic entities is just AAAAAAAAAAAAA

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YALL THE POPE HAS AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT

HE WANTS TO RELATE TO THE YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS

I LOVE THIS GUY

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OH MY GOSH

OH MY GOSH

IM FREAKING OUT

IM GONNA CRY

NEW WOF BOOK ALERT IM SCREAMINGGGGG

UMBER!!! UMBER IBE BEEN WAITINGGG TO HEAR THE TALE SINCE BOOK 6

DONT MIND ME IM GONNA GO DRAW SOME DRAGONS NOW EEEEEEEEE

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i know it's been a minute, but i was thinking about how i found out about the pope's death because of tumblr... does this mean my initiation is complete? Is this the last rite of passage - hearing about a major historical event here before any news story - or are there more horrors to come?

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I keep track of funny quotes I hear people say, so behold, some of the things I overheard at ihop today:

- "As soon as I turn 18 me and the wife are getting married...and then divorced... I just want to be married for the bit"

- "THEY TOOK MY NAPKIN TO CRY IN"

- "you remind me of richard nixon"

and from yours truly:

- "THE FETUS IS A DEI HIRE!!!"

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my watch broke a few weeks ago, and that wouldn't have been a problem, except for two things. one, I run track, but that's easy enough to just get someone else to time you.

but two, I was going to a production of "the trail to oregon"

and I was a little terrified that my phone would be off and i'd ask a starkid fan what time it was, and they would turn to me and go, "WEAR A WATCH!!!!"

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there's a sort of dystopian dread that settles over you when you pass dozens to hundreds of billboards, and instead of advertising art or music or even businesses, they're ALL advertising ai stuff

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my FAVORITE things in the ENTIRE world:

- getting up early on the weekend

- being around lots of people

- unclear instructions

- adults yelling at you for not understanding said unclear instructions

- people in your way that walk impossibly slowly

- parent volunteers that think they know everything but just cause confusion

- performing a skill you've been working on for years and then being outdone by tiny freshmen

Put it all together and you get a track meet. Yayyyy (this is a cry for help)