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“I’m really glad they gave Ella some friends, she has so much to deal with it’s nice she isn’t alone anymore!” I said with joys

They were then shot 57 times.

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“On the ground bitch I’m a cop” in NPMD has the same vibes as “yeah prove it asshole were the army” in TGWDLM

Does this make sense to anyone but me

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I love listening to hatchetfield soundtracks because of how much of the story you CANNOT get from the songs. The jump from Cool as I Think I Am reprise to Best of You is such tonal whiplash

The jump from one being about to shoot the other to *cool guitar* guy who was about to be shot: 🔥🗣️ I NEVER WANTED TO LOVE YOU LIKE I DO 🗣️🔥

I think the jump from If I Loved You to the Summoning is also crazy, cute romance song about two characters not wanting to admit their feelings- ELDRITCH HORROR SUMMONING RITUAL

It would probably be insane to listen to if you hadn’t seen the show, trying to figure out wtf happened

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Realistically I can’t think of a place to add Pokotho himself to TGWDLM that wouldn’t feel forced (maybe there is one though I’m not an expert on this or anything), so I hope they just hint towards his existence a little more and don’t try to actually have him show up outside of being the hive, but if he did show up… what if they got meta with it

Cause TGWDLM is the meta hatchetfield show, it’s the one where the musical numbers are diegetic and characters acknowledge they’re happening, they even acknowledge the audience at the end. And the actor who played Pokey in NPMD is the same guy who plays Bill, you know, Paul’s best friend. And what happens then if Paul has an interaction with the singular voice and he realizes they have the same face…

Actually if blue guy did show up I bet they’d make him a puppet cause I’m sure the kickstarter will get them enough money for one puppet. But please think about the implications if he was a human played by Corey

There are various implications this could have depending on why they look similar. The easy one is that Pokey did it on purpose either to make Paul less freaked out or freak him out more (which it would freak him out more either way, the question is if that was intentional or not). Alternatively if Pokey isn’t actually taking human form it could be explained as Paul’s human brain trying to process whatever he actually looks like, and landing on that, for some reason. But there’s a third option I think could be cool

If Pokotho and Paul interacted in this show I’d assume by this point Paul would be beginning to get infected himself? So he can sort of understand the perspective of this higher being, whether he wants to or not. Maybe it’s not that him and Bill actually look that similar to Paul’s eyes, maybe in his reality they have different face or nose shapes, and they certainly don’t have the same look in their eyes. But from the a perspective of a god so much bigger than humanity, human faces blend together. He can tell them apart, but mentally they’re all the same to him, noisy, annoying, forgettable, erasable. Even someone like Paul, the supposedly special star of this show, doesn’t stand out. Paul realizes that now, to someone like him Paul really doesn’t look that different physically from the camp counselor boy, or the only lawyer in town, or that highschooler with the anime shirts, all people who are in the hive now. Now actually as identical in mentality as they seemed to him.

Would it really matter, if they actually looked the same or not? Him and Bill, Paul and all those people he never really knew. Everyone’s the same now afterall, whatever’s left in Bill’s body is him. Paul is a few seconds from being him too, he’s not special, not anything more than what any of the hive’s victims had been. But he was allowed to get this far, partially because he was that ordinary and unremarkable, partially because he didn’t like musicals.

He shouldn’t be anything more than another indistinguishable face, but if that thing wants a show, he can give it to him by trying (maybe pointlessly) to destroy it.

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Always thinking of this random NPMD production photo I found on Pinterest

It just makes me happy

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Reading the book of bill, got to this great line curtesy of Ford “Bill isn’t a god, he’s a needy theater kid in search of a stage.”

It’s a great line especially aided by the section of the book it’s in and insert more ramblings but unfortunately my special interest is Hatchetfeild not gravity falls so the first thing that line made me think of is “that gives me Pokotho vibes”

Please

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I think it would be very easy to mess up the pacing of a TGWDLM revival by adding too much of the new Hatchetfield lore, but I do hope they add at least like a hint or two towards who/what the hive’s creator really is. And I think it would be interesting if they changed some of Ted’s dialogue so it’s clear he’s upset about Pete’s death or whatever

I’m so excited to see if the announcement is actually gonna be TGWDLM or not aaaaaaa

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Hatchetfield gang do we fuck with lord in black/misc deity ocs, I accidentally made one and they are far from like… canonically accurate or plausible but I need to get the brainworms out now I think

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You know that thing were you accidentally call the teacher mom

Do you think there’s a timeline where Grace accidentally called one of the lords dad

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I don’t have a big audience but I need whatever mutuals and followers I have to watch this musical now

I will warn it’s a bit heavy so definitely look at the content warnings in the description, but it’s so good I promise

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Gotta love how the TUA tag is basically divided between people being like “I’m not done with season four but I like it so far, it has some issues but I think it has potential to do some cool things and idk why people are hating it so much” and people who’ve finished the season going “what the fuck why”

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Important question, what do you guys think Paul’s favorite color is

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Chat am I tripping or does the part where Ody stabs Poseidon repeatedly kind of sound like the part where the Cyclops was swinging his club at people repeatedly was this intentional?!?

The cyclops was the first monster Odysseus faced and now he’s paralleling it what

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I’m not really active in this fandom but saf swap au where Curt falls instead of Owen. But instead of Owen quitting spying like Curt did in canon he does the opposite and just. Burries himself in his work. Does he actually like his job anymore? Probably not. Actually I don’t think he wants to be there at all. But he tries to ignore that too. He’s one of the best spies in the world. He should’ve been able to save him. So there must have been something wrong with him if he wasn’t. So he needs to be better. He’s convinced that if he does well on enough missions, stops enough enemies, he’ll feel better. He’ll enjoy being a spy like he used to and stop feeling bad about Curt.

He won’t.

Since he would’ve never quit spying, when the plot starts Owen is having an easier time than canon Curt was, so that’s why he’s so caught of guard when someone (cough cough DMA!curt) can match his skills well enough to be an actual threat. Maybe that’s part of what tipped him off to DMA being Curt (I saw another swap au where Owen figures it out and that just seems accurate to me so yeah). I think that something about the way Curt’s acting would be what fully convinces Owen, but still his skills and the way he works, even changed by everything that happened, are just a little too similar to the man Owen once called his partner.

(I’ll be honest I haven’t watched SAF in a while so I don’t remember if this is actually makes sense for the characters but you see the vision right)

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Just finished episode twenty two of the Magnus Archives, trying to avoid spoilers but for my own sanity I need to know this one thing:

Are Martin and Jon canon gay for eachother or is it just a popular ship? And if it is canon how canon is it? Like is it heavily implied type of thing or do they actively start dating???

I cannot get my hopes up right now so I want to know before I get anymore attached to these guys and there relationship

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*sighs* time to be autistic on main again

So I remembered the existence of the rockabye musical, which is a musical involving eldritch horror free to watch on YouTube, that sound familiar? Yeah the venn diagram between Hatchetfield fans and Rockabye fans should be a circle and I’m disappointed it’s not. (Here’s the link btw go watch it)

A more detailed explanation of the plot is that this band gets hired to write a lullaby to put an eldritch god to sleep so it wont wake up and end the world in the process (I believe the musical uses the lovecraft mythos or some parts of it? Idk im rewatching it tomorrow it’s late at night rn) the musical has a diverse cast and some pretty good songs.

Anyway the point is that I’m picturing a post TGWDLM Paulkins animatic to the song Crazy for You from Rockabye (link to the song) so here’s me going through the lyrics, explaining why they fit and a bit about how I picture this animatic (under the cut because this is about to be a long post) also Rockabye spoilers under the cut

Okay so the song’s a duet between two characters named Xander and Simon, Xander’s lyrics will be used for Paul and be in blue, Simon’s lyrics will be used for Emma and be in green. Lyrics they both sing will be in purple (not because of lord in black associations I just needed some colors). In Rockabye this song takes place when the characters have entered some Black and White like dimension, I’m comparing it to the Black and White because I genuinely don’t remember the name right now. Being in the dimension is driving the characters a little crazy, this is why Xander is falling for Simon. Simon seems unaffected by the dimension but it’s kind of implied he’s actually gained the ability to see the audience. Now onto me being insane

Some love can be so mundane / enthralling can fade to plain / simple romance is so easy to obtain

This to me could be infected!Paul/Pokey calling Emma and Paul’s relationship boring/plain/simple, Paul is known as the normal tm man afterall.

I’ll change your perspective dear / my love is infectious here / what was once so very cloudy will be clear

I feel like this is pretty self explanatory. A lot of it is reminiscent of how the hive describes infection, changing someone’s perspective and making reality clear feel like actual things a hive member could say in the show. Also infected!Paul calling his love infectious, do I even have to explain that.

I’ll bleed you dry / I will cut you down to the middle with my own teeth / you’ll see in time / inescapable is the monster that lies beneath

What cute things to say to your significant other 🥰 I mostly want to talk about the last two lines, “you’ll see in time” as in it being inevitable and then “the monster that lies beneath” referring to Pokey. Maybe Paul breaks a little when he says that last bit, mainly to lead into the next verse

I can feel you crawling under my skin / my composure is running thin / pain is pleasure if your willing to give in

First line Paul is freaking out a little, maybe he’s not fully infected and kind of snaps out of it. While I think in the actual musical “you” refers to Simon I think Paul would be talking about Pokey here and not Emma for obvious reasons. Next line Emma starts to sing and immediately panics realizing she’s being taken over, Paul is back to infected mode says the next line as some twisted way to comfort her. (Also it’s worth noting in the cast recording Xander’s actor laughs after saying that line which I feel like Pokey would do in that situation)

I’ll bleed you dry / I will cut you down to the middle with my own teeth / you’ll see in time / inescapable is the monster that lies

Chorus again. Emma is singing with Paul now but she isn’t fully infected yet. Paul doesn’t snap out of it temporarily this time. I should mention that now “monster that lies” could have a double meaning in this situation cause Pokey tricked people in order to infect them.

After this Xander asks Simon to dance with him and there’s an instrumental part. Back to the lyrics

This is hopeless, how am I to fix this now (your blood pumping through my veins) / show is over take your bow (my skin plastered to your face) / we’re screwed we’re dead (the beating organs we discarded turned to waste)

The two sing different lyrics overlapping, lot to unpack with this one. In the original musical Simon is talking to the audience here. Emma is processing that the infected have won and that things are over, “show is over take your bow” is A. A really fitting thing to say in a musical apocalypse. And B. Would fit the fact that Emma starts to see the audience at the end of TGWDLM much like Simon does in Rockabye. Then for Paul “your blood pumping through my veins” could be referring to how they become one through the hive mind or how Pokey is taking over their bodies “the beating organs we discarded turned to waste” is how when they are apothesized into the hive mind they die, discarding their beating organs, and how the infection literally replaces your organs and blood with blue ones. I picture at the last line Emma is panicking and Paul snaps out again for a second looking kind of horrified about what’s happening before becoming all smiley again

I’ll bleed you dry / I will cut you down to the middle with my own teeth / you’ll see in time / inescapable is the monster that lies

Final chorus, song end. Maybe Emma gives into the hive here