meddlingmaez

[meddlingmaez]

men will literally return to write another two-and-a-half seasons of doctor who instead of going to therapy

[meddlingmaez]

Hadestown (in 4 Acts)

One of the biggest dilemmas being a Hadestown fan is deciding which soundtrack to have your friends listen to first. Each soundtrack has its advantages, and with such drastic song & character & story differences between productions, the soundtrack you choose to show a friend may lastingly shape what they think of the show.

Fan-compiled Spotify & YouTube playlists have been an answer to this problem, though a limited solution, as the show's story beats may not make sense when simply intercutting between the best versions of songs from different productions. Not to mention the best versions of some songs are not found on Spotify or any officially released soundtrack.

So, three years ago I made a fan edit of the soundtrack backdropped with minimalist visuals and featuring the lyrically best/most dramatically useful versions of each track (in my opinion) to help a new viewer understand the show's plot, aesthetic, structure, and dramatic heart; cutting out certain small story beats to gel individual songs within the context of all other tracks used. The end product is a sum of parts that creates a new shape and whole to my favvvvv musical :3

This is Hadestown (in 4 Acts), a semi-visual fan edit of the Hadestown soundtrack made with the intention of being the most accessible version of the show for someone who hasn't seen or listened to Hadestown before. This was made for you to send to your uninitiated friends, to be their first experience of the show.

Give it a watch and tell me what y'all think! ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶

(( i intended to publish this three years ago when i originally made the edit, but alassss, when i uploaded it to youtube the vid got an immediate copyright strike :\ figures. but !! i just discovered that at some point in the last three years the copyright strike was removed? idk why and i'm not gonna question it 😅. i'm pumped though to finally be sharing the edit [albeit three years late] !!!

i've thought in the years since about how i might make different editing choices [especially since the release of the west end soundtrack]. but unfortunately I lost the original premiere pro files on an old hard drive 😭💀😭 so this is sadly the final version. ))

Here's a work cited for the media used:

~ Font: Kraft Nine

~ Flower animation: from the Hadestown website

~ Background: from the Hadestown website

~ Songs:

01 – We Raise Our Cups (Instrumental) – uploaded to YouTube by EJM Instrumentals

02 – Road to Hell – 2019 Original Broadway Cast Recording (OBC)

03 – Any Way the Wind Blows – OBC

04 – Come Home with Me – OBC

05 – Wedding Song – OBC

06 – Epic I – Bootleg of 2016 New York Theatre Workshop Production

07 – Livin' it Up on Top – OBC/2017 New York Theatre Workshop Live Recording (NYTW)

08 – All I've Ever Known – OBC

09 – Way Down Hadestown – OBC/NYTW

10 – A Gathering Storm – OBC

11 – Epic II – NYTW

12 – Chant – NYTW

13 – Hey, Little Songbird – OBC

14 – When the Chips are Down – OBC

15 – Gone, I'm Gone – OBC

16 – Why We Build the Wall – OBC

17 – Way Down Hadestown (Reprise) – OBC

18 – Flowers – OBC

19 – Wait for Me – OBC

20 – Our Lady of the Underground – OBC

21 – Come Home with Me (Reprise) – OBC

22 – Papers – OBC/2010 Righteous Babe Records Concept Album

23 – Nothing Changes – Bootleg of 2016 New York Theatre Workshop Production

24 – If it's True – Phone recording of 2011 America Sings Hadestown Tour uploaded to YouTube by AugustWynde

25 – How Long – OBC

26 – Chant (Reprise) – NYTW

27 – Epic III – NYTW

28 – Lover's Desire – 2010 Righteous Babe Records Concept Album

29 – Promises – OBC

30 – Word to the Wise – OBC

31 – His Kiss the Riot – OBC/NYTW

32 – If You Wanna Walk Out of Hell – OBC

33 – Wait for Me (Reprise) – NYTW

34 – Doubt Comes In – NYTW

35 – Road to Hell (Reprise) – OBC

36 – We Raise Our Cups – OBC

[meddlingmaez]

and and and if river were the one to jump into the doctor’s timeline on trenzalore in place of clara, then this could provide an in-universe explanation as to why river and the doctor happen to meet in almost exclusively the opposite order besides the doylist explanation of ‘for the time travelers wife vibes’

after the great intelligence starts tearing the doctor’s timeline apart from the inside and the doctor prepares to jump in after him, river decides to incapacitate the doctor and jump in his stead. she succeeds in knocking him out and handcuffing him to a rail but before she can enter the time stream, the doctor comes to and begs her not to go through with it. she explains that she knows if he enters his own time stream he’ll die and also that if she goes in, her own timeline will tangle with his, thus explaining why they meet in an unusually convoluted order even for time travelers.

bonus points if they get married in this moment instead of on the pyramid at the end of s6.

i say this as a 12/clara enthusiast and a friend to clara stans… but I personally think every episode featuring clara would be better if river was there instead 😬

imagine the ‘be a doctor’ moment in day of the doctor with river in clara’s place, imagine more kingston + capaldi, imagine river and missy’s rapport, luna university instead of coal hill, the singing towers leading into heaven sent, river’s portrait in the confession dial, river on gallifrey.

again, I do like clara!!✌🏻much love clara stans!!!! ❤️ i just personally care about river and what a thorough completion to her arch could have looked like more than I care about clara. i feel river’s arc is a cekhov’s gun set up with no execution. the story sets up her future adventures with the doctor, reveals who she is, then suddenly drops her except for three guest appearances to wrap up loose plot threads.

if anything, this is another layer to add to your butch lesbian 12 au’s :)

[meddlingmaez]

heya!

i’m a 26 year old white autistic trans woman anarchist who likes doctor who, percy jackson, infinity train, sort of, the magnus archives, audio drama in general, crazy ex-girlfriend, twin peaks, lost, poker face, dimension 20, jessica jones, mike flanagan shows, hadestown, dave malloy musicals, star wars, etc.

free palestine.

all power to all people.

[meddlingmaez]

i say this as a 12/clara enthusiast and a friend to clara stans… but I personally think every episode featuring clara would be better if river was there instead 😬

imagine the ‘be a doctor’ moment in day of the doctor with river in clara’s place, imagine more kingston + capaldi, imagine river and missy’s rapport, luna university instead of coal hill, the singing towers leading into heaven sent, river’s portrait in the confession dial, river on gallifrey.

again, I do like clara!!✌🏻much love clara stans!!!! ❤️ i just personally care about river and what a thorough completion to her arch could have looked like more than I care about clara. i feel river’s arc is a cekhov’s gun set up with no execution. the story sets up her future adventures with the doctor, reveals who she is, then suddenly drops her except for three guest appearances to wrap up loose plot threads.

if anything, this is another layer to add to your butch lesbian 12 au’s :)

[meddlingmaez]

people don’t talk enough about that scene in the eleventh hour/the angels take manhattan where the doctor goes back to the night/morning he left amelia and he tells her something of the future that they’ll have together.

what did he tell her? that she would meet him again in many years and that when she did, she couldn’t tell him about this conversation until the right moment (she’d know it when it comes) and she’d write to him to tell him to go back in time and have this conversation? maybe amy was keeping that secret about their morning conversation the whole time she was traveling with 11? or maybe they talked about it offscreen in s5 and the doctor was like “oh, good to know that in my future i’ll have to go back and tell you about some of the adventures yet to come”.

in hindsight, this makes young amelia’s knowledge and fandom around the premise of doctor who, that the doctor goes on adventures across time to save people & planets in his box, make much more sense (i.e. the dolls, the roleplaying with rory and mels). we didn’t see 11 tell amelia about his life in their fish custard scenes and it doesn’t seem to me like a child’s imagination would be sparked in such a particularly accurate way just based off those first minuets of the eleventh hour.

not really sure what the overall point is here. maybe this could be one of the only instances of moffat’s original long-term story arch plans staying the same(ish) through production issues then coming to fruition in a later series?

[meddlingmaez]

i first read sea of monsters when i was a kid and i knew nothing about greek mythology. when they arrived at cerci’s island and i realized men weren’t allowed there and then cerci began to transform percy, my heart skipped a beat and i was like PERCY’S A GIRL NOW!!?!?!!!! 😮✨🥹🩷 then he turned into a guinea pig…

that was one of my first egg crack moments. still annoyed that the rest of pjo after som isn’t about percy figuring out her gender and negotiating her feelings for annabeth while fighting against the titans. 2 trans 2 furious indeed, tuck woodstock. 2 trans 2 furious indeed.

[meddlingmaez]

✨ Time 🩷 Meddler 💫

[meddlingmaez]

Some visualizations of the exterior of the citadel on Gallifrey from 1996 to 2016.

I suspect there are earlier visualizations which influenced the Leekley Bible, and then in-turn influenced New Who, but I'm not sure how to find those pre-1996 visualizations. Y'all have any info on that?