#jcs 50

[pooroldjudas]

Worm Festival isn't over until Herod makes an appearance with hundreds of worms (on a string)

... with a bonus Webber-Rice crossover

Info below the cut!

Herod's jacket is inspired by the INCREDIBLE MONSTROSITY made by artist Silver Rox (I'm sure many other artists have done similar but theirs was the one that I saw first)

This depiction of King Herod is from the 50th Anniversary Tour, but specifically Reuben Kaye, of the Australian leg.

Our crossover is Joseph from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, as played by Donny Osmond in the 1999 film.

Shoutout to the beautiful Jesus Christ Superdiscord for taking a meme and making it into the gloriousness of Worm Festival 2025!

[solarflicker]

Practicing a bit of everything!

[showme-thesun]

I am unreasonably going absolutely wild after seeing the Jesus Christ Superstar 50th Anniversary Tour so here I am with all the stuff I wrote down on the train of the things that were just so outstanding oh my gosh I'm losing it:

everyone passing their microphones around/sharing mics (like when Jesus took it from Pilate to answer him after he'd been beaten because his voice was gone!)

Judas and Mary giving little “I hate you" looks after her song/before he gives Jesus up

Jesus waiting on stage to see if Judas would try and look in the money chest (and then he did, of course!)

Judas’s hands actually being stained silver by the blood money and then his silver suit when he’s dead matching!

Herod with a machete/sword(!?!?!?) because he beheaded John, a threat to do it to Jesus too!

Pilate is a rockstar lol

Jesus taking off his crown of thorns and laying it between him and Judas when he gets off the cross 

The disciples recreating The Last Supper and being totally stupid and clueless. Ignoring Jesus to return to their songs and dreaming heaven LITERALLY on their minds and ignoring the present!

Gotta figure out who that dancing girl is supposed to be, fate? God? Both?

Yo those priests were hella weird 

Judas singing “I don’t know how to love him” the same way Mary did????

[frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe]

i get so unnecessarily miffed when i'm watching a long(ish) video on youtube about some topic i found interesting and then like 2/3rd of the way through me discovering that i've had an inherent need to learn everything i possibly can about the history of speedrunning a video game i've never heard of the creator is like 'but i'll keep this short since this video is running long' like BRO!!! I WOULD WATCH THIS VIDEO IF IT WAS 10 HOURS LONG

I'M A QUINTON REVIEWS VETERAN, I'VE WATCHED HANA'S GF VIDEOS MULTIPLE TIMES FOR FUN PLEASE JUST KEEP TALKING I PROMISE PEOPLE WILL WATCH YOUR VIDEO IF IT WAS AN HOUR PLUS LONG

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Whatever, *crucifies your superstar*

screenshot redraws from jcs 2000

[coquelicoq]

adsfkj i have dusted off the cql folder on my computer for the first time since 2021 and i just found a bunch of fic snippets so short i can't even tell what they were supposed to be about. except this one in which i apparently had the lan sect invent hash functions, all so that there could be a dramatic reveal that jiang cheng had never removed wei wuxian from the yunmeng jiang sect records??

Wei Wuxian sighed and slumped back on his heels. It wasn't that he was incapable of being patient, he just didn't want to. Here was an array that could tell a sect if a prospective initiate was currently on another sect's rolls, without actually giving any sect access to the records of another sect. How was it doing that? The applications for this technology were potentially enormous. Wei Wuxian couldn't wait to get his grubby little hands all over the design.

there's also a more extended passage from a different "wei wuxian finds out he's still a member of ymj" concept (feat. jin ling!) which includes the paragraph

"He can't join the Lan sect!" Jin Ling was exclaiming. "He's already in a sect, technically, and you can only be on the official roster for one sect at a time. I should know, my elders have only been hounding me about it since before I could even say the words 'conflict of interest.'"

but the rest of them are just single sentence one-offs like

'Hey‚' Wei Wuxian protests weakly. 'It’s not my fault. I’ve been dead for quite some time.'

and

After customer service‚ there isn’t much an unearthly shriek can do to phase a person.

and then there's this sentence fragment:

The leader of the Jiang Sect‚ who looks like a Sect Leader‚ is dressed like a Sect Leader‚ and‚ most importantly‚ is not stuck in a hole like an idiot‚ therefore behaving with the dignity of a Sect Leader‚

dying to know where i was going with this. and who was the narrator? whoever it is, they are definitely comparing someone unfavorably to jiang cheng. some idiot has fallen in a hole and jiang cheng comes along and the narrator is like now that's what i'm talking about. maybe the narrator is the idiot in question? maybe wei wuxian is the idiot. but then i don't know why i would have been leaning on the sect leader thing since wei wuxian is not a sect leader. 2021 was a long time ago apparently because i have no memory of this.

[trans-yllz]

truly one of the most heartbreaking and masterfully blocked out scenes of the show is jin zixuan asking lan wangji where wei wuxian is, as jiang yanli looks up at jiang cheng in the background and asks simply "a-xian?", and neither of them is able to respond

[crowcoven]

im gonna do it guys im gonna draw my take on valonquar jaime im gonna be brave

[yunmeng-jiang]

I'm gonna say Jin Ling, because:

a) he had a good relationship with JGY and therefore isn't going to be prejudiced against an idea simply because it was JGY's

b) he knows it was helpful, and he's a good kid who cares about people

c) most importantly, anything Jin Ling decides he's going to do, Jiang Cheng will be there to make sure he doesn't get in trouble. If JL speaks out in favor of the watchtowers, anyone who tries to disagree is getting obliterated by Jiujiu's Angry Glare before they can even open their mouth.

presumably gusu lan's representatives are already in the coalition

things to consider:

who does lan wangji have the highest chances of successfully recruiting? successful recruitment isn't guaranteed.

who, if recruited, would be the most beneficial to the coalition? who, once added, will make adding other members easier? who has the political strength, resources, and/or popular support to make success more likely?

[solarflicker]

More light studies! Trying to learn hair this time.

[19silvermirrors]

50 shades of JC 🖤🤍

[wanderingsimsfinds]

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**** All Pixicat shoes can be found here

Thanks to the creators, converters, and age converters: @ameriko-steelie, @anzuchansims, @auroraeternal, @bellakenobi, @camoflash004, @dhalsims, doiwonnasims, @elvgreen, @grimothy-cc, @hoodoowoman, @joojconverts, @kentconverts, @kotajose, @leorora-sims-3-cca, @liegt, @lwillowlthewicked, @mickeymouseclubhouss, @nadegata-blueskystyle, @nightospheresims, @pixicat, @polaesims, @potatobuttcheek, @qertyv, @rstarsims3, @sim-songs, @suteflower, @sweetdevil-sims, @whimsysimming, and winnie017.

[a-trick-or-two-with-lepers]

Rebloggin again because YOU GUYS. COME ON.

[asexualbookbird]

Okay. So May. Happened. I had a lot of birthday fun and fun with friends. The month was a friend sandwich with The Horrors in the middle. At least I managed to read a lot, with thanks to audiobooks. I spent a lot of time sewing, which means I spent a lot of time listening to books. And a many good books this month at that! Step aside, Horrors, fantasy escapism is here!

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus ⭐️⭐️ - Hm. This book sure is from the 90s. This is why I never reread favorites from my childhood, they rarely hold up. It is refreshing to see the woman (lol she's seventeen) be the unhinged stalker for a change, but Vivian. Girl. What the absolute shit are you doing. I finally feel brave enough to say The Movie Is Better, but now I'm scared that's bad too. My original rating was five stars, and I kept that rating on goodreads for nostalgia's sake, so no real rating here except also it's a two star book.

After the Forest by Kell Woods ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Fine. That's all I really feel about this. I thought things Just Happen to Greta and was annoyed about it until she said "I'm tired of doing nothing, actually" and took action, but that was the last quarter of the book. I don't know, I mostly enjoyed reading it, might read it again, but it's really Just Fine.

The River Has Roots Amal by El-Mohtar ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - An absolutely delightful nugget of a book. Illustrations? Beautiful. Writing? Wonderful. Characters? Delightful. Loved every bit of this, would read again in an instant and I almost did.

The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Reread! Still love it. Is it heavy handed? Yes. Is it fun? ALSO YES. This is one of those books where I am ignoring all flaws because I love the characters and their dynamic so much. Still my favorite depiction of bone magic.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Overall fine and enjoyable, but nothing special. I think most people may have been blown away because they've never read a book about a queer woman before. I find it hard to believe that a bisexual woman from the 50s, who lived through the AIDS crisis, would've never uttered or heard the word queer before. I'm glad I read it, but I won't be repeating the experience.

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Fantastic. Delightful. Heartbreaking. This was technically a book club book, but for reasons I don't remember I missed that meeting and didn't read the book. Foolish of me, to be honest. I was missing out. It's interesting that I read this so close to After the Forest, because I think that tried to do similar things and failed. I enjoyed this so much more and how it focused more on Vasya's relationships to everyone and everything around her rather than a Love Interest. I love that despite it all, I do in fact feel bad for The Evil Step Mother. The writing was melodic and makes me excited to read The Warm Hands of Ghosts.

Inheritance by JC Jones ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - My friend wrote a short story! He put his heart on a platter for the world to read, and I am honored to be one of the first.

Metal From Heaven by August Clarke ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ - waffling between three and four and even three and a half feels odd somehow. I loved the genders going on here, loved the anger and the grief. It did some meat things with POV, too. I think the comps do this a real disservice. I could come up with a half dozen things that are better fitting than Princess Bride and Gideon the Ninth. Parable of the Sower, The Unspoken Name, Leech, to name some. It's not a bad book, and I read whole chapters multiple times. I even reread the first quarter of the book once I got a better feel for things. It feels disjointed somehow, and maybe that's intentional but it didn't quite hit right with me. I'll probably read it again regardless, I'm curious if my opinions change.

The Girl In the Tower by Katherine Arden ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Against my better judgement, I have been bamboozled by a charismatic man. You know I'm having a good time when I almost immediately go to the next book in a series. Some good gender presentations going on here and a wonderful example of social dysphoria (with a cis main character!) I'm in love with the horses, and especially Solovey. Finally, some good fucken fairytale retellings.

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Crying. Sobbing. Screaming. The cyclicalness of it all. You know it's good when I not only finish a series, but do so in a timely manner. And a fairytale retelling, of all things. I was crying at the beginging because they killed my fave. I was crying at the end because they brought him back. I want to reread this whole series immediately.

I'm also halfway through The Art of Destiny (a buddy read!) which is going slow, but well. I kind of like the slowness of it all, to be honest. So I look forward to finishing that in June. Book club is soon too, so I get to read Katherine Arden's other novel which I am now SO hyped for. I'm almost done with my sewing project, which means I will once again be able to do Fun Art. A couple friends say I should get into furry art, so I don't know, maybe I'll dabble in that. We'll see! This post is long enough so as always, Be Kind <3

[qiu-yan]

congratulations jiang cheng!!!!

[anxiousdreamcore]

If you haven’t yet watched Elias’s video on the Avatar franchise from a perspective of a Native American — please do, it’s a very good watch! Plenty informative and insightful. Summarises not only his own opinion of the movies but also what the general reception of said franchise has been by native communities (it’s about 50-50 from what I gathered.)

What peaks my curiosity with this essay is how much it revealed of JC’s perspective. My opinion of JC has soured greatly, as you may have heard if you caught me in my Twitter era before I got outta there, and new context only contributed to my disappointment, yet at the same time revealing the titanium effort the few natives who got involved with the franchise put in to make, especially the second movie, as authentic as possible, which is incredibly tragic as that should have been the job of the culture consultants, of which I have no knowledge of whether James Cameron hired at all.

Everything I like about these movies came from the effort of actors, artists, musicians, lore writers and designers. Avatar is very obviously a big group effort, not just JC’s passion project, as when Elias detailed some of James’s inspirations for the first movie I realised “Oh…oh he did not make allat. He had massive help.” And it applies especially to the sequel.

I love this franchise, but it became very apparent to me that it is NOT because of its main producer. If anything, his motivations behind some choices in the script left a sour taste in my mouth about A1, that I will need time to recover from. I won’t stop liking the franchise, but I’m very much over the idea of its producer being hellbent on doing things on his own.

Avatar 3 and every instalment after NEEDS native writers and consultants. I don’t think I’ll remain a fan for long if it doesn’t, because the money is there, so why not take the opportunity??