#...its not more specific. shut up

[asydicsydney]

MY BOYS ARE DONEEEEE

Ahem- I've been hyperfixated on this game and these dorks for a few days now. I love drawing from reference but omg Jerry is the most painful thing to draw. Anyway, they are my boyfriends and they are boyfriends, no further questions your honor

[beastlyidiocy]

Feuċ, súile Dé go fuireaċ air

[rugwurm]

treasure island inspired doodles...... yas

[ocularmacdown]

okay, but i NEED to talk about the junior players production of be more chill... i have found exactly one (1) post talking about this version, but god, i honestly think it's my favourite? maybe even more so than the og two rivers production...i wish they had comments turned on on youtube, but instead i'll have to ramble here.

maybe it's me having my actor-brain turned on too much when watching any theatre, but i just think all the actors did exactly what i really wanted them to do; all the comedic beats landed, the emotional paths feel connected, lines and pauses are given the space they need, plus everyone was so committed physically and the vocal performances fucking eat.

i really like every choice that every actor made. jeremy's actor has amazing chemistry with michael, christine, the squip, and basically every character he interacts with. he felt nerdy pre-squip, he felt cool during the squip, he felt comfortable in himself post-squip. he was just a really believable teenager and loveable guy.

christine is so unabashedly weird in a way i kind of miss in the broadway version (and to an extent, the two rivers version...shh dont sue me).

michael is actually chill and funny and comfortable with himself, which is exactly what makes mitb sooo gutwrenching (again, felt this was DEFO missing in the broadway version... broadway michael, i have opinions about you)

and the squip!! when he walked on as ted from bill and ted my jaw actually dropped THAT MADE ME SO HAPPY!!!! there is not nearly enough bill and ted appreciation in this world...and the actor nailed keanu's mannarisms sooo fucking good. plus, the progression then of jeremy's squip going from essentially a chill teenager as ted to a far more powerful and ominous entity as neo from the matrix? REALLY cool costuming choice and progression, i fucking love it.

plus there were just so many stupid little details in the background that ALL the actors did that i might ramble about in another post (mostly rich. i really like rich's little moments. in all productions tbh).

i also really like how they DIDN'T let the original version affect their production design. obviously the og has a very iconic look and i can see why most other productions sort of follow its costume/set designs and character choices, especially as it's a musical that largely blew up because of the fandom, and fandoms sort of cling onto the original of any version (not a criticism /gen, that's just how it is). but i think the best thing about theatre is that every production you see has the potential to be totally different. in both design/look, and the actors' choices as well.

which is i think why i watched, like, every version i can get my hands on this past week; because i just really wanted to see different versions. different line deliveries and beats and motivations and all the boring actory stuff. (and also because unlike tv shows, there's alas wayy less content to consume, so you take everything you can get yaknow)

and i just love love love how different this version is, oh my god i just. can't. its sort of seperate in my head to the two rivers version tbh? i've seen people talk about how they see broadway bmc and two rivers bmc as almost like different stories, and that's definitely what i'm feeling right now. in terms of fandom and art and how the show exists in my brain as a concept, i do adore og bmc. but as a wholly seperate story that i could genuinely watch over and over again and not get bored, i just fucking love the junior players one. its like...that's MY be more chill. in my own perfect world, that's the real one.

this really does sound like im slagging off og bmc, but please please know that i am not. honestly, i've enjoyed and saved every version i've watched, from the broadway bootleg to high school productions to animatic versions. but i just want to share my love for this particular version...idk, maybe it has LOADS of fans (the youtube vid has like 1k likes so idk), but alas because the comments are turned off, i haven't gotten to see anyone else raving about it. i don't even know any of the actors names, which SUPER sucks cuz they're fucking awesome.

anyway, ramble over (for now). please go watch the junior players production if you haven't, its worth it i swear. if you have seen it, please yell at me in my ask box, i will be over the moon.

[martian-martian-martian]

somehow, profesisonal wrestling fanfiction isn’t RPF but professional wrestling itself IS.

[autistic-katara]

my 4am angst D:

[athene-owl]

Seriously - as a Pokemon fanatic myself, wtf is with Pokemon fans insisting that:

1. Pokemon's success is solely due to it being perfectly designed game and character-wise

2. Every other monster taming series that doesn't blow up to the degree that Pokemon did is a fucking failure because it doesn't follow what Pokemon does????

I don't know how the fuck to explain this to some of y'all, but Pokemon's success was in large part due to pure luck. It came out at the optimal time, it was brought overseas and it struck gold. Of course it has a lot of great elements that helped it be so popular, but to act like it's success was due to it being so uniquely genius and perfect is a slap in the face to its predecessors. Pokemon had a capitalist juggernaut behind it that had the means to pump money into it and if you seriously think that it won by its own merits purely then I think you are very naive.

If it came out today, do I think it would be popular? Sure, I can see that. But it would not be guaranteed to blow up the way that it did in the 90's. Again, this is coming from a diehard, lifelong Pokemon fan.

And the absolutely bullshit idea that every series remotely comparable to Pokemon is a failure for not being Pokemon 2.0 is worse. OF FUCKING COURSE NOTHING ELSE COMPARES TO POKEMON'S SUCCESS. Pokemon is an established, centralizing, multimedia powerhouse which makes more money than any other franchise on Earth. We don't say that indie animation is lesser than Disney for not getting the same box office sales, but Pokemon fans LOVE throwing this idea around. To insist that capital success = artistic merit and flawless design philosophy is honestly just disgusting.

It's easy for Pokemon to dominate other franchises when it was one of the first to blow up on an international scale. Of course, when you can buy Pokemon merch of anything, it's gonna gather more focus and money than an indie game. When you have a prestablished fanbase of over 20 years, yeah you're gonna sell better than new franchises. So what - no other monster taming series should even bother? Because nothing will ever dethrone Pokemon, it can't.

I am so sick of watching unique and creative works with a ton of passion behind them get shit on for daring to not follow the Pokemon formula and their inability to outsell it being used as proof of their deficiencies. God forbid a piece of art have its own goals, intentions and meaning behind it.

And how hypocritical too, to ignore the serious design flaws in early Pokemon generations. Pokemon's first gen had a lot of weak designs and major flaws BUT it had the financial backing to continue on and define it's own style and formula over time. Watching Pokemon fans lambast new franchises for not having everything perfectly worked out in their first entries is laughable.

And can I just say how depressing this shit is? I am not a game designer, I will never make a monster taming series, but watching indie creators' works get disregarded for not being Pokemon is so disheartening. 99.99999% of artists will never make anything comparable to these giant media franchises. Our works will never gain even a fraction of these series' fanbases and success and enthusiasm. In my experience, this is something a lot of creatives struggle with - if I'll never be as successful as this huge thing that inspires me, if no one will ever see my work, if I can't create the single most original thing, why bother creating?

That doesn't mean our work is intrinsically worse or useless, its just the cold hard reality of living in a capitalist hellworld. Mega franchises established 35 years ago dominate the media landscape. They make money on brand recognition alone, they set the industry standards and if you equate that with them intrinsically being better, more worthy of success and shit on indie creators for not reaching those impossible standards then you're a piece of shit. And this attitude is so rampant in the Pokemon fandom, so unquestioningly pushed, that it drives me up the wall.

[aro-aizawa]

hey here's your reminder that fresh lemonade is really simple to make and is also very wonderful so go do it

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

I kind of disagree with the idea that Kokichi ever really had a close friendship with Gonta. I think what Kokichi was doing there was more complicated than that. not necessary malicious against Gonta specifically but I can't see them being genuinely close friends either.

[end-orfino]

i really wish people could learn to appreciate canon relationships instead of turning everything into ships and this being the only way they're able to consider it

[kinikxluna]

"use these wireless bluetooth headphones"

i like wired because theres no lag. also i always lose small objects. also i dont want to charge my headphones

"use these wireless headphones with a transmitter! there is virtually no lag"

i always lose small objects. also i dont want to charge my headphones

"these headphones with a transmitter are HUGE! youd never lose it"

i can still lose the transmitter. also I DON'T WANT TO CHARGE MY HEADPHONES...

[alloftheseworldz]

More Daveposting because I can’t find myself falling asleep for some reason…

I’ve been thinking about that one deleted scene from 2001, the one specifically with Dave playing the piano. I like to think that… Dave’s always been a piano player ever since he was a kid. I also like to think that it was possible for his family to get him to start playing at the start, but with the passing of his father and his brother, this allows him to connect with the long departed. It would reflect on how Dave’s had to deal with death so early in his life (perhaps what made it so easy for him to accept his own mortality when he becomes assimilated into the monolith?) and how he accepts and, perhaps, fully understands the concept of life beyond being mortal. The songs his preforms on his piano are ones that have seen and been played with by the hands of time, and some of those legacies will truly never die. Along with that, piano music sounds so much more… majestic than the typical human vocals, for example. Much more ethereal, much more him. Much more Dave Bowman, or who he’s trying to find and figure out.

At the very least, his music comforts him, establishing a tranquility nothing else can. That will be changed much later in his life, once he’s gone to picking up drawing (as I think that’s something Dave’s only just recently devoted time to, sometime right before the launch of Discovery One).

No matter what, whether it piano or pencil, Dave Bowman’s not that of typical human understanding. Perhaps it is much more alien than we can make of it, and what Dave himself sees in his crafts. Maybe that mystery is why he was the one chosen by the monolith to begin with.

[marionettou]

anyways hello every1 i am DEEPLY in love with itsuki shu

[thatonebipotato]

apparently people are already starting to babify Simon P again,,

that is an almost 60 year old man who lived through an apocalypse and the trauma of being suppressed in his own mind for almost a thousand years, who then had to be thrown into the future where he lost his lover and was left to struggle in an unfamiliar environment while he grappled with whether or not being present in time and sane was even worth it

what do you mEAN

[autistic-katara]

if i listen closely i can hear that the voices are urging me to reread percy jackson (not in order)

[svtskneecaps]

i'm mourning the loss of purgatory's Government Assigned Team Dynamics (because i'm a sucker for shaking up dynamics and the forced interactions of people who may not otherwise have spoken) so please indulge me with your dream egg parenting group i'll start, bagi tina and rivers [i'm right]