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i deleted the post cause i don't wanna get notifications baout it anymore go reblog it from someone who reblogged itfrom me sory

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can I be completely honest. do we have any evidence that noah grossman is still a full fledged zionist. I could understand hating him if he was like. still to this day actively saying nasty zionist shit but as far as I’m aware he hasn’t really done anything since those weird tweets two years ago? he participated in the creators for Palestine streams. and considering how closely tied his family is to israel im not entirely sure it would be like. safe to do much more than that? like if he’s done something else i will be fully willing to scrutinize him more but i also understand the difficulty of unlearning something like that that’s been in your family for generations

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ok. okokok. i saw the apology. i am formulating thoughts. my intitial reaction is that i liked most of what they had to say. i personally think that wayne's reflection is the most indepth and i appreciate scorpy going the extra step to see if this is something they could talk to fangamer themselves about.

im not native, in fact im mostly white. so i have no grounds to accept this apology whatsoever but im also not gonna say "we all need to look to the native fans/letter writers to see what they say" because they've already had so much attention on them recently and i really really hope none of you are bombarding them with "so what do we do now" questions. just for the sake of not overwhelming them.

overall i still stand by my sentiment that i don't think RTVS are racist, i think they did a racist thing. im glad that they took the time to make sure they worded themselves correctly considering how much of wayne's intial backlash was based off of the assumptions he made and that's what ended up causing most of this.

things of merit take time. patience is a virtue all too undercherished in today's society. that goes for both the members of RTVS, the fans who attacked the letter writers, and (although to a lesser extent) the fans who were mad at the crew when they thought the response was taking too long. everyone needs to take a second to breathe and read over everything once or twice before starting to formulate a response and then think about it two more times before hitting send.

for now i think im gonna keep taking a break from rtvs content just cause i could use less screen time in general but im also not gonna burn my beautiful discs shirt just yet.

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also ppl commenting about Cinderella’s castle on the space baby promo r cringe. Nerdy prudes took 9 months to get from the live run to the YouTube release. It’s been 7 since CC’s live run closed. I truly fear some people do not understand patience anymore

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YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PAY ANY MONEY TO SEE SPACE BABY.

YOU HAVE TO PAY MONEY IF YOU WANT TO SEE IT EARLY, ALL AT ONCE, WITH THE CREATOR TALKBACK. THIS IS A STARKID BUSINESS MODEL THAT HAS EXISTED SINCE 2014, IT IS NOT "BEHIND A SECOND PAYWALL", IT IS A WAY TO GIVE A LITTLE EXTRA MONEY TO THE ARTISTS WHO WORKED ON THE SHOW KNOWING FULL WELL THAT IT IS AN EXPERIMENTAL PILOT AND COULD FLOP.

anyways. hi this is my rant blog so here's the rant

tldr: starkid needs a social media manager, they don't make the youtube residuals or ticket sales profit you think they do, chicago and la are great places to do theatre due to the audiences they draw but they are SO FUCKING EXPENSIVE, capitalism is rotting this country from the inside out and starkid knows this better than anyone

first and foremost:

curt mega is not a legal representative of starkid and he is entirely within his rights to defend misconceptions about the art he makes. he is so respectful to the fandom on here, even apologizing to the confessions blog after accidentally following them because he wants fans to have a safe space where they don't feel like they're being monitored by someone from the company. there is nothing wrong with him trying to assuage people's fears about the show. debunk whatever you want my dude (including if i say anything wrong in this post!)

i am not, under any circumstances, a blind defender of starkid. they've made choices that i do not enjoy in the 15 years that i've been watching them. like i say in this post, i think fans need more notice than a week if there is going to be a livestream we have* to pay money for. i would like a musical that is composed by someone other than jeff or clark. i wish the black friday deluxe download had the digital ticket in it. i wish jangle ball could've come to the actual southeast rather than claiming to be coming to the east coast then hanging out in new york (but as you'll see, that would've cost MONEYYYY). you will notice that these are nitpicky personal grievances. that's the point. im not gonna shell out completely for a group of white guys in LA, no matter how autistic i am about the musicals they make.

as someone who also donated to starkid returns and has also been disappointed to see how long it's taken for this stuff to get off the ground (I absolutely loved cinderella's castle but i would not have minded waiting for it if it meant we got space baby sooner or sissy/ttip. i want to see/read Sissy SO FUCKING BAD)

but think about it. starkid returns made $386,000. a weeklong rental of the El Portal Theatre costs $12,000. so for two weeks of tech thats $24,000. the two weekends of performances were $6,000-7,500 each. it's $7500 per shoot day for a film production. already, that's almost $50,000. Now think about renting film equipment, making costumes, sets, props, paying the cast, crew, theatre technicians, house management, REHEARSAL SPACE RENTAL, we don't know if any of the actors had to be housed in LA while they were working on the show, not to mention getting merch made (FUCKING EXPENSIVE). And that's just on Nerdy Prudes. They also had an entire fucking national tour to fund. i ain't doin the math on every theatre they rented for that tho.

while the 10iversary kickstarter made about $547,000, considerably more than SK Returns, that money went into funding the travel and stay of the fuck ton of people who came to LA for the show, renting the Ace Hotel Theatre, funding Black Friday, and of course the unfathomably expensive Wiggly plushes, which were very kindly restocked what, three or four times? because the FANS kept begging for them. and then after all of that was said and done, the company took a huge hit with the pandemic. Some of the SK returns money probably went into making Workin' Boys too! That's what happens when a global pandemic shuts down all your plans for two years!

i was also surprised to hear that space baby wasn't going straight to youtube. I had it in my mind that it was going to be something similar to Movies, Musicals, and Me. I see now that I was incorrect. It's experimental. It involves SO MANY ACTORS. and not to mention starkid has been doing the digital ticket prior to youtube release thing for YEARS. my main thing is that i would be totally totally fine with having to buy another ticket for space baby (which is only $10 by the way, less than all of their other digital tickets. not to mention it includes the talkback afterwards) if they had only clarified it just a little bit earlier. Nightmare Time 2 was announced on October 8th, 2021 and the first ticketed livestream wasn't until the 23rd. that's two weeks, a whole week longer than we got for space baby. however, im willing to understand that there probably wasn't as much time to announce things/people have been a little bit scrambled lately due to, i dunno, having to evacuate due to the raging wildfire.

unfortunately, people aren't always going to understand that making art is fucking expensive in this day and age. i hate that starkid has to keep reiterating that but it might be smoother if they had a media trained person running the socials who had a prewritten explanation of "making stuff costs money" for the people who don't get it. and then when starkid DOES do stuff for cheap they get taken advantage of. i'm still not over those fuckwads who bought meredith's beautiful handmade coasters at VHSCC and upsold them for three times as much money. the people who bootlegged the black friday digital ticket and posted it online just cause they didn't want to wait the measly 3 months it took for the show to get posted online.

being angry when the person who made the show is looking at the tumblr tag for the show because he wants to see what people are saying about the show he made comes thru to clarify some misconceptions when the tumblr tag is full of people not understanding the starkid business model that's been around since 2014 is not the move. not the move!!!

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love love love (most of) jeff's songwriting but im begging for the next show to have a different composer please

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ok but fr I hope none of the letter writers feel personally responsible for this just because Wayne didn’t just say “I took being told I did a racist thing as being accused of being Racist and had a knee jerk reaction to that, sorry” and then also acknowledging that taking the pizza tower sponsorship in the first place was bad and they are sorry. Don’t try to explain why you did it, don’t try to backtrack it, just say “we realize now that this was a bad thing and we will do better in the future” and then actually fucking do it.

im sorry that some loud and vitriolic bigots have given you grief and given them big heads.

I hope they’re undergoing a lot of reflection while writing that statement. and maybe deciding they shouldn’t be allowed to respond to fan messages of concern in the discord until you’ve had a proper moment to digest everything and think that you may be wrong this time and not everybody is a parasocial pseudofan out to get you. It ain’t 2021 anymore my dudes

Also “this isn’t us” okay whatever. Maybe the appropriate thing to say would be “this has been us and it’s not okay and it’s reached a boiling point and things are going to change from now on”

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someone explain the snails to me. as far as i understand those are admins playing as snails specifically equipped to nerf the players that are too OP? is that correct?

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imagine riding the high of the insane three album run that is folklore, evermore, and midnights and then putting out ttpd. if i were that woman i would be embarrassed

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this is late night trio

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a qsmp black friday au would go so hard. Fit as a teacher taking a break after his husband died trying so so hard to make his son happy. Rekindling his romance with Pac after running into each other in line at the toy store. Roier trying to get outta town with his boyfriend & kid sister and somehow getting caught up in being the favorite plaything of the forces that control this world (admins fav <3) and having to dismantle a cult (bringing a whole new meaning to Leo as a final girl frfr). Phil's greed leading him into becoming the leader of said cult. Yelling on the phone that YOU'RE NOT TO STEP WITHIN A THOUSAND FEET OF A CINNABON, MISSA. oooh who would be wilbur cross. im stuck between quackity and rubius

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the federation is making two spheres so that they can latch them together to make a big pair of yabbos

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bugs when you lift up a rock

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MISSA LOG ON I DARE YOU

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the eggs aren’t “kidnapped for the 1000th time” they’re in a deep sleep while they figure out the issues hope this helps 👍

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“The list of people I hate grows daily” have you considered that you might be the bad guy ONCE IN YOUR LIFE

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I hate that we’ve turned into a world where monetary incentive is the basis for everything so when I try to be a good friend it makes me panic that they think I’m obsessed with them