#Marie Drosselmeyer

[theevilemster]

Rainer and co.

[highflyartist]

My idiotic dumbass forgot to mention this-

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So, @shinyzango had a Magma session last week and I decided to join. Here are some of the sketches I did just because.

Oh yeah, I also doodled more nutbois other than Saragona. The session was fun! I enjoyed it!

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Hans & Clara belong to @shinyzango

Prince belongs to @tippytopdays

[exittotheartscape]

Marie every time she spots something new in the Land of Dolls.

[ivanandrainfall45]

Day 3 Swap roles

Soooo I'm late- I had art block for the second one sadly- cause I also kept getting upset of how it looked anyway!

Here we have Now! Nutcracker Mary and Human Ivan as they look at one another in the mirror of being the swap roles~ The list of Nutcracker season belongs to @artsynoova/@noovamulticolors

again thank u for making the list! It's the best UwU

[owlfacenightkit]

I’m reading through the fanfic I typed on my tablet as I change it over to my phone and I hate autocorrect. Either that or I kept making a typo.

I kept spelling Marcy’s name as Mary

[unreliablenarratorpoll]

and here's the long awaited match-ups! for the sake of readability, here it is in text form:

Left Side:

1: The Narrator (Fight Club) VS Richard Papen (The Secret History)

2: Belgarath the Sorcerer (The Belgariad) VS Lain Iwakura (Serial Experiments Lain)

3: Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) VS Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

4: Patrick Bateman (American Psycho) VS Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu)

5: Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files – Nirvana Initiative) VS Ishmael (Moby Dick)

6: Amy Elliot-Dunne (Gone Girl) VS Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein)

7: Mary Katherine Blackwood (We Have Always Lived in the Castle) VS Odysseus (The Odysseus)

8: Pi Patel (Life of Pi) VS Alice Liddel (Alice: Madness Returns)

9: Jamie Taylor (The Haunting of Bly Manor) VS Jonny d'Ville (The Mechanisms)

10: Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb) VS Elena Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries)

11: Wei Wuxian (Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation) VS The Batter (OFF)

12: Charlotte Wiltshire (Hello Charlotte) VS Yuki Takeya (School-Live!)

13: Eleanor Vance (The Haunting of Hill House) VS Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII)

14: Louis de Point du Lac (Interview With The Vampire) VS Harrier Du Bois (Disco Elysium)

15: Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games) VS Will Navidson (House of Leaves)

16: Maebara Keiichi (Higurashi: When They Cry) VS Emperor Kuzco (The Emperor's New Groove)

Right Side:

17: Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye) VS Ethan Frome (Ethan Frome)

18: Kayleigh (We Had To Remove This Post) VS Attolis Eugenides (Queen's Thief)

19: Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) VS Mapleshade (Warriors)

20: The Narrator (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo) VS Offred (The Handmaid's Tale)

21: Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) VS Zampanò (House of Leaves)

22: Steven Crain (The Haunting of Hill House) vs David Wong (John Dies At The End)

23: Renata Ghali (Planetfall) VS Johnny Truant (House of Leaves)

24: Mfer From Telltale Heart (The Tell-Tale Heart) VS Meursault (The Stranger)

25: Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) VS The Narrator (The Stanley Parable)

26: Genly Ai (The Left Hand of Darkness) VS Hiroshi Odokawa (Odd Taxi)

27: Frankenstein's Monster (Frankenstein) VS Varric Tethras (Dragon Age 2)

28: Cadi My Friend Cadi (Real Life) VS John The Apostle (The Bible)

29: Pelafina Heather Lièvre (House of Leaves) VS Johnny Silverhand (Cyberpunk 2077)

30: Rodion Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment) VS Marco (Animorphs)

31: Flannery Culp (The Basic Eight) VS Daniil Dankovsky (Pathologic)

32: Cecil Palmer (Welcome To Night Vale) VS Mr. Stevens (The Remains of the Day)

[princesssarisa]

As I do every December, I've been watching videos of The Nutcracker, and I've been struck by the different ways that different productions cast the roles of the little girl (whom some productions call Marie, others Clara) and the Nutcracker Prince (both his living toy form and his human prince form) are cast.

The casting I grew up with, which seems to be the standard way in American productions, was to cast real children in both roles. A girl and boy between ten and fourteen years old. In these productions they do as much dancing as their beginner status allows, but by necessity they're more pantomime roles than heavy dance roles. In Act 2 they typically just sit and watch the dances in the Land of Sweets, while the principle dancers who perform the pas de deux and subsequent solos are the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier.

Then there's the alternative that seems more popular in Russian and European stagings: to cast adults, with a ballerina in her twenties playing Clara/Marie as a girl in her early teens, and to make them the ballet's principle dancers. In these productions, there typically is no Sugar Plum Fairy or Cavalier. Instead, Clara/Marie and the Prince perform the pas de deux and the solo dances in Act 2.

Then there's the alternative that choreographer Peter Wright used in his production for the Royal Ballet in London. To have the roles played by young adult dancers, and give them more extensive dancing than productions with children do, but to also include the Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier as separate characters and to still have the latter two perform the iconic pas de deux and solo dances.

Another choice, which I've only seen done once so far but read that several productions do, is to have children play the roles at first, but then have adult dancers take their place. After the Mouse King's defeat, Drosselmeyer or some other magical power transforms them both, so the child Nutcracker becomes an adult Prince and little Clara/Marie becomes a beautiful maiden. Thus they perform the iconic Act 2 dances, and only when Clara/Marie wakes up at the end does she become a little girl again.

Yet another choice, which I've read about but haven't seen yet, is to cast a child as Clara/Marie but an adult as the Nutcracker Prince, and to include the Sugar Plum Fairy, but have the Nutcracker Prince take the place of her Cavalier. In this casting, the Prince is a kindly older brother figure to little Clara/Marie instead of the traditional crush/love interest, while the Sugar Plum Fairy becomes his romantic partner with whom Clara/Marie helps him to reunite.

I could analyze the pros and cons of each choice in detail, but this post is already long enough. Which casting do you prefer?

[mangleschmidt]

Marionette as Uncle Drosselmeyer (+Fritz as Fritz)

I'd like to think that Mari gave Mike the Foxy Nutcracker bc they doesnt like him as much (bc that's not in Mike's wishlist), but put some magic in the foxy nutcracker anyways for the fun of it

[highflyartist]

Saw a meme on Twitter

I HAD TO DO IT!

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So it was one of those "Draw your Comfort Characters" meme and you know what? I went all out!

ORIGINAL

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MY VERSION

These are my main 5 comfort characters, THEY DESERVE TO BE PROTECTED AND LOVED!!!

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Alexander belongs to @hobbies-miscellaneous

Reuben belongs to @k-roseartt / @toony-nutcase

Kris belongs to @owldart

Crispin belongs to @shibible

Matt belongs to @sariahgonzales626

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An assortment of nutcracker sketches!

[ivanandrainfall45]

Nutcracker Season Day 8 Time with Herr Drosslemeyer~ list by @artsynoova

"I don't remember much about the stories my Uncle told me.. I do remember he told me that my nutcracker was very good friends and family with most of them, and hearing some of their stories made me wonder..."

Who my Nutcracker is?~

OKEY The people's nutcrackers! We have the lovely Ben by @artsynoova/@noovamulticolors

The Beautiful Gurl Erica belongs to @kate66s lovely gurl~

The also angwy boi Matt belongs to @sariahgonzales-626

and lastly the good boi Haritas belongs to @niklaiblnski They are all such wonder babies!! can't wait to learn more about them!! Also Happy Thanksgiving to all :3c

[nanenna]

Thinking of an Anastasia (1997) AU for Princess Tutu.

Before getting into it more fully I always enjoy tweaking or even completely changing endings for AUs, if I just wanted these characters to act out that movie as is I'd be better off just doing screenshot edits. Since I'm taking out any and all actual history from this fairy tale (sadly the idea that Anastasia lived is a fairy tale, poor girl) I get to play around with culture and character motive and stuff like that. To that end:

First off we're gonna chuck that version of Rasputin entirely and just full on replace him with Drosselmeyer from the show. No changes, he's perfect.

Anastasia: Duck/Ahiru Dimitri: Fakir Vladimir: Autor (only instead of knowing the royal family he's just obsessed with them)

I haven't figured out the others yet, I'm thinking Edel might be a good replacement for Dowager Empress Marie (but maybe she's an auntie instead? Could keep her the actual grandma, still thinking).

The really fun part is what I can do to get the other characters in! Since we don't have to worry about historical accuracy I can have Duck stick around with Edel and you know... live with her. Actually be the rediscovered heiress and how all THAT plays out. Duck feels so out of place, she's so awkward when everyone around her is so elegant.

Pique and Lillie can be childhood friends that Edel reunites her with, and they remember her (as a child) but she doesn't remember them. They're happy to just pretend the last 15 (or whatever) years didn't happen and be chummy like they weren't separated, but Duck doesn't know how to deal with them.

Maybe Mytho is a prince from a foreign country and Rue is his betrothed. Duck is warned not to fall in love with him, that even if he weren't betrothed as the one and only heiress (to a country no longer under family's rule but semantics, don't worry about the politics) she can't marry the heir to another country. Duck is too busy admiring Mytho and Rue to pay attention to the warnings.

[georgi-girl]

The Troll Princess

original meme belongs to isathekittypan. BridgetxPoppy meme requested by my Discord friends! Starring... Bridget the Bergen (Trolls) in the role of Clara. Princess Poppy (Trolls) in the role of Hans. King Peppy (Trolls) in the role of Uncle Drosselmeyer. Frankie Stein (Monster High) in the role of big sister Louise (I'm not into the MH fandom, but I like some of the character designs) The Ogre Triplets (I don't remember their names) in the role of Fritz. Shrek and Fiona (Shrek) in the role of Bridgets' parents.   Belt (The Croods) in the role of Pavlova. (Bo Peep) (Toy Story) in the role of Trudy. Jessie (Toy Story 2) in the role of Marie. Woody (Toy Story) in the role of Pantaloon. Mr. Perkins (Despicable Me) in the role of the Mouse Queen. Vector (Despicable Me) in the role of the Mouse King. The quality of the screenshots is completely atrocious.

[orchid3a]

i bought a nutcracker and now i feel like the little marie stahlbaum when her godfather drosselmeyer gifted her the nutcracker

[fantasyandromancelover]

Nutcracker AU.

A drawing or writing request.

Juvia - Marie/Clara Stahlbaum

Gray - The Nutcracker Prince/Drosselmeyer’s Nephew

Makarov - Drosselmyer

Romeo - Fritz Stahlbaum

Macao - Father Stahlbaum

Hades - The Mouseking

Guild of Grimoire Heart - The Mice

Natsu, Gajeel, Laxus, Elfman, and Bickslow - Toy Soldiers

Happy and the exceeds - Family pet cats who the toy soldiers use as horses

Wendy, Mirajane, and Lisanna - Snow Fairies

Lucy, Levy, and Evergreen - Flower Fairies

Cana - Arabian Coffee

Freed - Chinese Tea

Bisca, Alzack, and Asuka - Mother Ginger (and Father Ginger) and her children

Erza - The Sugar Plum Fairy

Jellal - Her Cavalier

[granma-sweetie]

sobbing apparently there's a text limit in posts??? and i hit it??? so this will be a two parts but @graciecreates @pa-pa-pa-pa-papageno

so i didn’t just see a midsummer nights dream, but also a contemporary piece called hush, and the tchaikovsky pas de deux. also before the performances there was a class going on and a person talking about what was going on in the class which was very funny to me, my friend and my sister because we’ve all done ballet for Years (i stopped over quarantine but they’re still dancing) so the person was talking like “so now as you can see they’re doing a grand allegro, and a cool thing is they don’t know the choreography they’re just watching the teacher and then the teacher lets them do it on the other side without help they just have to remember it” and my friend and sister and i all just Looked at each other because we had done like. that exact thing before (specifically i had been thinking “i stg this is exactly what we used to do with That One Teacher at the end of class and then my friend and sister both said “hey this is exactly like what we always do with That One Teacher lmao”) but after that the person narrating the class ig? told us some history about the particular version of a midsummer nights dream that we were about to see which was really really interesting like how the costumes were based off wildlife where we live which is super cool, and like how normally in a midsummer nights dream the wedding is at the end, but in this version they had it so like the wedding is at the beginning, with everyone in formal clothes and doing conga lines and shit which was so funnyhsdbksja and then they’re like “hey lets do a play about love or something” and the white sheet wedding tent lifts up and you’re in this magical forest with fairies and its soooo gorgeous. but more on that in a bit.

SO. hush. it was really really good!!!! like genuinely i wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as i did aksdhdvbksj the dancing was very cool and unfortunately i can only find videos of one of the dances from it on youtube but luckily it’s a video of one of my favorite dances. take a shot every time i say “dance” or “dances /jjjjjj anyway basically the plot of it is it’s about this family of circus performers? at night? six family members; a mom and dad, older sister and brother, and younger sister and brother. i am going to talk about the costumes now. i really liked how the ages were portrayed not just in how the dancers moved but also through the costuming? like the younger sister and brother were in a short-ish white dress and red hat, (the sister,) and shorts and a short sleeved shirt with suspenders and a white hat, (the brother,) and then the older sister’s dress was longer but still short sleeved and the older brother had longer pants on and a waistcoat/vest, and the mom had a long sleeved dress and her hair was in a bun with a red flower (as opposed to the little sister’s braids and the older sister’s half up/half down) and the dad had a three piece suit with a red tie. don’t ask how i remembered that much! my favorite dance was definitely the one set to flight of the bumblebee, which takes place after the parents have their romantic moment or whatever after the kids go to sleep. it starts with the little brother waking up, and chasing around an invisible bee until he is joined by his older brother and they dance for a bit until the little sister wakes up and catches the bee and eats it??? i think??????????? it was a bit unclear as the bee was invisible. anyway i highly enjoyed it.

moving on, the tchaikovsky pas de deux

choreographed by george balanchine, (dont even get me started talking about him though, his nutcracker is waaaaay overrated and like the whole thing changing clara to marie like no who are you what why. also with the drosselmeyer's nephew thing like why???? why did we need to have that be part??????????????????? anyway.) and composed by tchaikovsky (duh) the music is sooooooooooo good and so Very tchaikovsky like if you’ve even the slightest bit familiar with any of the nutcracker or swan lake or smth you’ll recognize it. i wasn’t familiar with this piece specifically, but the music for it was partially taken directly from swan lake which is cool, and the rest of the music has a Very swan lake vibe (emphasis on the violin soloist for when the girl is dancing, and lots more brass and horns for when the guy is jumping around n shit, etc) and also my friend really really loves it so she was hyping me up a whole bunch, specifically for the coda (the last few minutes where the two dancers come together again and do a bunch of crazy shit like. fish dives which are literally insane!!!) the dancers were really good and really skilled but it seemed like they were a bit off their game? like they didn’t rehearse this piece enough/didn’t rehearse it together a lot, they didn’t hit all the notes and although their technique was really good (specifically the girl’s arms during her solo <33) they weren’t together completely which was unfortunate (no hate to them ofc, they were fantastic in mnd) 

OK FINALLY WHAT YOURE READING THIS FOR: A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

here’s the music btw it’s sooooo gorgeous 

so starting with the plot. as i said at the beginning, they changed around some of the events, but other than that i think it’s the same? we begin in a modern-ish wedding, and then the wedding tent rises and we’re in the magical forest with fairies and hermia and lysander are here they’re so in love!!! Nothing could possibly go wrong!!!! except what’s this? puck and peaseblossom are here and they are going to Cause Problems On Purpose!!!!!!!!! also demetrius is being angsty and helena is in love with him despite his 0 interest in her, or seemingly anyone until hermia comes along. (he does however really want everyone to know There Is A Skull In His Hand,,, idk maybe he’s like. reverse headless like they’re trying to find the headless horseman’s head maybe he’s trying to find the rest of the skull’s body) meanwhile in the kingdom of the fairies king oberon and queen titania are arguing over who gets the changeling boy (what they’re going to do with him i’m not sure, it’s tradition to switch them out with a regular human child to Cause Chaos in the human world or smth so maybe it’s just whoever gets to pick what baby they switch him out with??? idk.) so king oberon calls on puck and he’s like “yo puck lets play a really funny and hilarious prank on the queen ok so i want you to go get cupid, right? cupid will cast a spell on titania so that when she wakes up she’ll fall in love with the first person she sees. who will that person be? i’m so glad you asked remember those waiters that wandered into the forest and you tormented? remember the one you turned into a donkey guy? he’ll be the one the queen falls in love with won’t that be so funny” and puck has nothing better to do so he’s like yeah sure so he goes and finds cupid (who btw was played by this little kid who was so adorable?????? like oh my gods and she was really fucking good too like she Knew what she was doing and her acting was super good) and we go to queen titania and her fairies and they’re dancing and it’s gorgeous and mesmerising and there’s a choir too???? there was a youth choir???? and they were singing and they were so good it was aksjgdfshasbj it was so good and absolutely haunting and all the dancers are so together adn in sync and it’s amazing and then titania goes to sleep and puck and cupid come in and put the spell on titania and make sure bottom (the donkey guy) is there when she wakes up and then she does wake up and falls in love with bottom and they do an amazing tango. ALSO puck has these little fairies who follow him around and they’re all butterflies except for the two dragonflies and they’re played by students at the company and one of the dragonflies was played by one of my mom’s former students which is neat. what happened after that um RIGHT!!! ok so we’re back with the love square? z? who knows,, anyway. puck and cupid decide to Fuck Shit Up for them as well because for fun!!!!! so they make lysander fall asleep, and then cast a spell so when he wakes up he’ll fall in love with whoever he first sees, and who is it htat he first sees? HELENA!

so now lysander is following helena around like please love me and helena is like no fuck off i love demetrius and demetrius is following hermia around like please love me and hermia is like no fuck off i love lysander!!!! and cupid and puck are like yes we did a good job here. bye. side note i absolutely loved this dance, it was organized chaos at its best and the acting was so good and the dancers were all so with the music and it was incredibly well rehearsed as well. i wish i could show you guys it because seriously it was so good (maybe i’ll find a video!! if i do i’ll send it if yall want) anyway oberon calls puck over and he’s like “hm ok so maybe we should not have done all this. maybe we went a bit too far,,,, let’s set everything back to normal and all that.” and puck again has nothing better to do so he’s like ugh ok fine so he and cupid go and fix everyone’s marriages /j they make titania not in love with donkey man bottom anymore and they make bottom not a donkey man, and then the little fairies come and bring the four humans over and cupid makes hermia and lysander back in love again and they make demetrius and helena in love and they all get married or smth. oberon and titania decide they both get the changeling boy (or something idk????) and they have a beautiful pas de deux and it was so pretty and gorgeous and i loved it. the end!

moving on to costumes. the little fairies all had butterfly/dragonfly wings which were apparently all hand painted which is so neat like akjgvejhkbaj and they also had little lights below the wings that lit up at one point and it was. fantastic like seriously. puck was a lightning bug i think? his costume was soooo slutty though i loved it so much. he had like the shortest shorts ever and stripey black and green top with a v e r y deep cut neckline <333 i love him. i touched on hermia, lysander, demetrius and helena’s costuming here as you know, gracie, but i just. i loved it a whole lot like hermia in a pink dress and lysander in a white tunic with a pink cape and they’re the happy couple, they’re compared to romeo and juliet and then there’s demetrius, in purple and black and helena in a purple dress, and they’re compared to hamlet and ophelia and ashjdg it’s just such a nice touch. oberon and titania also had wings but they only wore them a couple times bcause it’s very difficult to dance with large things on your back dnwhjnds. also during their last pas they did

^this

and my friend and i both looked at each other like  !!!!!!!they did the thing!!!!! the thing from the program!!!!!!!

i think that’s all i have to say atm but i will reblog this again if i remember more (also listen to the music it’s seriously so good)

OK I REMMEEBR ANOTHER THING!!!! bottom's costume when he got turned into a donkey man was a hat with donnkey ears and a tail and it was so funny he did like. the michael jackson thing?? with the hat and started moonwalking asjdghjbhkjs ok that's all