#an untold story

[slomurr]

Anyway, Merry Christmas!

[yellowbugifs]

once upon a time 5x23 - You know, I once thought I could contain the darkness to one tiny corner of my soul. First for Baelfire, then for Belle. And I always failed. Do you want to know why? Because I like the darkness. It's as much who I am as the light.

[toby-ko]

A man and a wheel~ What crimes will they commit?

[thatdelusionalnerd]

Bully the bully to bury the bully is so much like follow the golden rule to follow the gold and rule

[jess-is-a-nerd]

starkid really pull out lyrics like

“The question then is whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to be well-liked but ineffectual, or moral but maligned?”

just whenever they feel like it & then also give you the good

“WE DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOUR PHONE” lines of just pure art.

how can you not love them? its range 🤌🏻

hello since this is getting traction im adding this here: everyone go watch hatchetfield musicals & nightmare time season 1 & 2!! They’re incredible & everyone in the cast deserves to have more views on the work they did.

[starkidsupremacy]

Starkid and Puppets: A Legacy

Now if you're like me, you're probably obsessed with starkids penchant for puppetry

And in light of recent news...

It's safe to say I've been screaming, crying, throwing up thinking about it alot

So lets take a journey through all their Puppets shall we!

We start where all good stories start AVPM. Who have the Dragon puppet

Next, MAMD has no puppet's

And AVPS has sorty and scarfy! (<3)

Now obviously... Starship, with an incredible amount of puppetry

Bug and buggette

Roach and some other backround Puppets (including mosquito's)

And (in my opinion) starkids most incredible puppet to date, Pincer!

Holy Musical B@tman has none

AVPSY does have a puppet! They have the basilisk puppet (technically scarfy and sorty again)

Twisted has two Puppets! The monkey

And the parrot

Neither Trail to Oregon or ANI have any Puppets unless you count Cornwallis

Firebringer has both trunkell

And snarl (with a size to rival pincer)

And you know what, let's count the duck

Tgwdlm has none

Black friday doesn't technically have any but I'm still going to put a picture of wiggly here because I just think you should look at him <3

And surprisingly, while nightmare time 1 has no puppets, nmt2 does!

The axe man

And the stupidly impressive (and rival for my fav) Otho

Lastly Nerdy Prudes Must Die, regrettably, has no puppets

That's a total of 20 different puppets (lmk if I miscounted starship). With an average of 1.3 puppets per musical/project!

Sorry this is so long lol

[karvevapen]

"𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐'𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯"

Starkid dads!

[probably-crying-over-the-village]

literally screaming at everybody “pete and ted can’t ever interact with each other, they’re played by the same actor : (“ DO YOU FORGET WHO WE’RE DEALING WITH HERE??

there are the insane quick changes of which we have: joey richter himself playing what i can only assume to be the entire population of independence (plus an ox) in one song:

and then, of course, the master himself, brosenthal, playing frankly 80% of the cast, but ESPECIALLY in this one scene. ONE SCENE:

“oh but joey left the scene for some of the quick changes in tto, he can’t do that if the spankoffski bros are supposed are supposed to have a conversation” FINE, the other option: just play two characters at once. which starkid has done before.

exhibit one, twisted. these two are not the same:

exhibit two, tgwdlm, a hatchetfield show. this already happened in a hatchefield show:

(also, it is two different characters, do not fight me on this. this scene is too confrontation from jekyll & hyde-coded to be the same character) SPEAKING off confrontation:

joey did already. play two different characters at once. i’m not here to argue the semantics or implications about personhood of saying confrontation and let it go has two different characters each, i’m just saying, acting-wise, there’s two distinctive characters in both songs. like. guys. absolutely joey could just simply play both of them simultaneously. they literally do this all the time. what’s your excuse now

[iamfarfromvibingrightnow]

Starkid love song lyrics are honestly insane

like

"He is at once familiar and unknowable to the frightened girl he meets along the way, and to the girl's surprise, something in his eyes beckons her to know him and inspires her to say "I want to know your story."

"Take me back in time to love you. Take me back when we were lost. Lost in love and lost in feeling, without the cost."

"She is at once a comfort and a mystery, to the callow man she meets that fateful day."

"I want to know how you see me, and if it's the same as I see you. With the colours of love on your paintbrush, paint how you see me."

"A thousand and one nights with you is not enough to spend, so let's make ours a story with no end."

"I wish that she could hear her voice, the way that I do when I go to sleep at night, and dream my life away, but she's gone when I awake."

"Take me back when things were light. Light my heart and light my shadow, one more night. Cause I already lost it once, what I already won. I've lost too much now to care, but I know that something’s still there. I'll never let you go."

"Even though I was blind before, I've realized there is so much more. And it was always deep down in the core of me. I know it now. And even though it seems too much to take, there's a feeling I can't seem to shake. I feel like I am reading the signs, 'cause I know that I'm coming around."

"They say you can't feel, with a heart made of steel, but you can't say that steel ain't strong. Well if that's who you are, just a meaningless star in the sky, tell me what is the meaning of what I am feeling if you are the reason why? Now I may be dumb, but where I come from, folks say they're fine when I know that they're blue. But you don't know you the way I do."

"Are we crazy, or did we just taste something sweet? Not sure what to think, but you helped me to see. It's not the outside of things that make them good, that make them bad, that make them anything. All you need is just a taste to start something good."

"This body's not gonna last, the air is cold and thick. I'm losing my last remaining hope for us. My hands are tied in knots and I can't come home. I wanna die in your arms in the evening glow."

"You and I were meant to be something more than a faded memory."

"Now, i still have troubles. I trip and stumble trying to make sense of things sometimes.. And i look for reasons, but i don't need 'em. All i need is to look in your eyes."

"What if I tried something new, and opened up my arms to you? I know we don't always agree, but they need you as much as me. What if I could promise more, than what I gave to you before?"

"I never cared for stories until you entered mine, and now my only wish is that our plots may intertwine."

"You look just like an angel and all I do is pray, that someday you'll hear my song and understand that all along, there's something more that I'm trying to say."

"The universe is infinite, and it’s definite, there’s an alternate reality, where it’s only you and me. Take me back in time to love you. Hold me closer than before. Heal my heart and mend what's broken, to feel you once more."

[mythicalwater]

Starkid's parody musical of Aladdin, Twisted: the Untold Story of a Royal Vizier turns 10 today! here's some fanart!!

[swingingthehatchetnow]

A Very Boop Musical

Me and my Boop

A Very Boop Sequel

Boopship

Holy Musical Boopman

A Very Boop Senior Year

Boopted: The Untold Story of a Royal Boop

Boopi: A Parody

The Trail to Boop!

Boopbringer

The Guy Who Didn’t Like Boops

Boop Friday

VHS Boop carols

Boop Time

Boop Time 2

Nerdy Prudes Must Boop

And of course

Cinderella’s Boop

[slomurr]

Lore Dump #4

Lore dump for An Untold Story

[aliceisaperson]

It’s really funny to me that there’s PG versions of all the Starkid shows up for licensing… except Twisted. That one you have permission to edit the script to make it more family friendly. Like with all the other shows they were able to change things to make them work and with Twisted they were like, “nah nm this is too hard do it yourself.” Fair honestly. I can even begin to imagine what a PG version of that show would be

[socially-anxious-frog]

'Jesus Christ I don't know what's going on here' and 'What. The fuck. Is happening right now??' are spiritual successors

[inkwell-illustrations]

Please, I need more friends who like Starkid!

[dinneratgrannys]

After everything we've been through - darkness, Hades, being separated by realms - I just wanted to say something, you know, when we're not in the middle of a big battle or one of us is facing death, when things are just...normal. And what's that, Swan?