#caffeine ramble

[d-c-k-y]

Scarab enjoyers:-

It has came to me in a dream that his human form wore a green and yellow lingerie

I can die happy now

[mblue-art]

once again i was fueled with coffee (did not sleep the whole night) but this time i doodled college au to cope bc ofc i did (also did not feel like sleeping wooo)

[takami-takami]

THE HAWKS COFFEE IS FUCKING REAL?!?!?!?!?!

[lazylittledragon]

Feel free to ignore if this is intruding but I remember you posting about dealing with caffeine addiction and I hope you're doing ok <3 Addiction is really hard to deal with so I hope everything is going alright for you!

!! thank you for checking in <3333

i haven't cut it out completely (i really don't think i'd be able to) but i'm still doing much better, i've cut down from 6 shots per cup to only 2. i've also changed my sleep/eating habits so now i don't feel like i need the caffeine as much because i just don't feel as shit anymore.

it's been very nice :3

[sunshowersanddandelionwine]

Okay, cod musical thoughts (not musical au, but an actual mw2 ‘22 musical lmao)

I remember seeing/reading a quote about musical theater one time where it said something to the effect “characters on stage sing when the emotion gets too much to just speak” and just. The themes you can work with just from that alone.

The first time the audience is introduced to ghost, it’s everyone else talking/singing about him. Rumors flying, wildly exaggerated stories, the works. There’s almost this wild, frenetic energy in the characters as they stage-whisper like he’s going to appear out of nowhere.

But as soon as he does show up on stage, all music cuts. No singing. No instruments. Dead silence.

Until Soap appears. Then it’s all brash, upbeat tempo and overwhelming music. Which clearly is at odds with ghost’s whole thing.

And the no music/no singing rule extends through most of the numbers. Ghost never engages with the music, diagetically or non diagetically. He’s entirely separate from that entire world. He’s keeping himself emotionally distant from that entire world.

At least, up until the act 1 finale and the graves betrayal.

Act 2 starts with just soap, not even singing. Until ghost makes contact and they start their banter. And the audience doesnt really notice until partway through that there’s another voice. It’s quiet, and almost impossible to hear, but it’s there. Ghost is singing harmony. He’s reaching out for the very first time.

It culminates in their meeting at the church where the two of them sing a duet (and, in my head, singing each other’s leitmotifs because I’m a ghoap girlie first and a human second).

Ghost’s only solo is that moment on top of the building in Chicago. Time stops, and it’s just him and the audience. And he bares his fucking *soul* to them. The walls are gone. Emotion is overflowing.

He takes the shot and the music cuts. Silence.

“Perfect shot, lt.”

It swells back.

“You called it sergeant.”

[nikoisme]

My personal take on Patrochilles is that they are both lovers AND friends. You know how a relationship often starts with a friendship first??? Well they never grew out of the friendship part of their relationship. But their relationship is neither romantic nor platonic. They just,,, are. There was never strictly a time where they stopped being platonic and started being romantic - the lines of the nature of their relationship are really blurry - as they grew older they just started displaying affection in different ways. There was never a need to put a label on their relationship. Because like,, why have Achilles lose just a friend or just a lover - when he could lose a lover, a friend, a best friend, a brother, a comrade, a partner-in-crime ALL in one??? Really drives home the idea of Achilles' grief and rage - he literally lost the man who was everything to him.

Long story short: qpp patrochilles (in a way)

[sweeneydino]

Yknow if karai can turn into a sword, what's stopping a krang from becoming a suit of armor?

I'm kiddin.

Pls stops typing.

[post-it-notes7]

huh, so mir falspar wasn't sleeping due to Nightmares? we know he'd already been working himself ragged, but how closely did this latest version of insomnia match up with mir arthur's offer? (if so is it also safe to guess that timing lined up with his latest 'breakup' as well then..?)

Spot on anon, Mir Arthur's offer was about a week old when Mir Falspar finally hit his limit and found himself passing out and waking up in the infirmary (he's still not quite sure how he got there).

Mir Falspar wasn't necessarily sleeping well before that (the dreams aren't exactly a... new problem) but that was one of the worst bouts he's had in recent times. Mir Dragato thinks he only gets the occasional nightmare, just on the rough nights.

Mir Falspar would rather keep the true extent of it to himself.

[sophsicle]

i hate ppl who r like. "oh i can't drink coffee after 5pm or ill be up all night." like here i am guzzling coffee at 8 pm and FOR WAT. i am still sleepy.

[why-the-heck-not]

truly my best brain time is in the middle of the night caffeine & sugar rush. I think I just understood math, like some part of the general pattern of math if that makes sense. something clicked somewhere in my brain and I felt it

[chaotic-warbler]

Robotgirl whose tits have been redesigned to lactate Monster because her engineer gf is too exhausted to just grab a can from the fridge after several hours of maintenance work.

[anna-scribbles]

h-how do you ever finish any of your work? genuine question because you seem to be productive despite your agreste syndrome and I need to learn your ways. but also how do you ever finish any of your work

unclear. last night i stayed up and finished a report worth 25% of my grade at about 5am, arrived on time for my 9am lecture, and spent about half of it zoned out while thinking about seventeen year old emilie agreste. and i was one of the most active participants in the class discussion

[lazylittledragon]

hey quick serious question. how do you deal with what might be a genuine caffeine addiction and not in the fun quirky way but the "my brain doesn't feel like life is worth living until the coffee kicks in" way

[purenguyening]

I love, how like, regularly, I warn my friends that Vietnamese coffee is infamously strong. And then my mom prepares it for me and my dad and throughout the day I wonder why I'm off the walls only to realize... oh wait.

[s0fars0perfect]

look, i don't know how to tell y'all that it is SO beyond panera's "charged" lemonades just how badly we, as a society, have gotten about acting like caffeine just isn't that big of a deal

do you how much caffeine is in a celsius? or an alani? or a prime or a ghost or literally any other "healthy" energy drink that's on the market. yeah, they're all marketed as "healthy, clean caffeine" but you know how much caffeine is in just ONE of those cans?

200 mg. 200 mg, MINIMUM, in almost every single one of those drinks. some of them climb as high as 300 mg in ONE can of energy drink.

and that's not even taking into account how prolific the idea of pre-workouts have become in fitness circles. i used to work at a place that sold fitness powders like protein and creatine and pre-workouts. pre-workouts is a fancy term for caffeine powder that gets you really, really stimulated and is supposed to help you work out. which would be fine, if these powders didn't have up to 400 MILLIGRAMS of caffeine in two servings. sometimes even ONE SERVING. are you seeing what i'm getting at?

caffeine is fine, in low doses, everyone once in a while, but as a society, it is getting so out of hand just how easy it is for people to come across these drinks and not even GLANCE at how much caffeine they're about to drink. panera is just the most recent perpetrator of a problem that has been going on for quite some time.

[harpieisthecarpie]

Harp rants about Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang AGAIN

The dichotomy of Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang in Link Click is, to me, a painful one that I understand both sides of. That I think is so meaningful, and wherever you fall within that dichotomy will tell you a lot about yourself.

The dichotomy

Lu Guang: I love you so much it makes me selfish Cheng Xiaoshi: I love you so much I can be selfless

Both matter. Both are perfectly okay to feel, to accept, to fall into. And what's wonderful about Link Click is that these mindsets both hurt them and heal them, but from what I can tell are never demonized or shown as wrong.

They see each other, even if they don't know all of the other's secrets. They don't need the answer to everything to love their best friend, their partner.

Not to be lame, but it's very much "I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world" (Probably a Song of Achilles quote).

They orbit each other and I truly believe in any universe, any timeline Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang would find each other, not by fate but by sheer force of will. They have been irrevocably changed by each other's presence. There is something found in the other that nothing and no one else could provide.

It's why hands and their clapping is so important throughout the show, why there is so much focus on it. They reach out to each other, a show of vulnerability and trust. Fate isn't grabbing a hand. No, that's choice. That's real love. Through adversity I am with you. Every time I choose you. You are my choice. You are my choice. You are my choice.

I was talking to @fluffy-rulos and I ended up rambling something I think is neat. The vulnerability they show each other is truly "I give you the pieces of me that have been broken, the shards that cut into my hands. You could hurt me, stab me in the back, carve into my heart with them. But I hope you won't. I'll give you my faith and my trust. Know neither are blind." (All from me, baybeee)

Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang show love in different ways, feel it and know it differently, but ultimately it is the intersection of their devotion, their trust, and their dichotomies.

They are juxtaposed, oxymoronic, irrevocably interconnected ideas.

And they are both so, so, so human.