#just. watch it. please

[ocularmacdown]

okay, but i NEED to talk about the junior players production of be more chill... i have found exactly one (1) post talking about this version, but god, i honestly think it's my favourite? maybe even more so than the og two rivers production...i wish they had comments turned on on youtube, but instead i'll have to ramble here.

maybe it's me having my actor-brain turned on too much when watching any theatre, but i just think all the actors did exactly what i really wanted them to do; all the comedic beats landed, the emotional paths feel connected, lines and pauses are given the space they need, plus everyone was so committed physically and the vocal performances fucking eat.

i really like every choice that every actor made. jeremy's actor has amazing chemistry with michael, christine, the squip, and basically every character he interacts with. he felt nerdy pre-squip, he felt cool during the squip, he felt comfortable in himself post-squip. he was just a really believable teenager and loveable guy.

christine is so unabashedly weird in a way i kind of miss in the broadway version (and to an extent, the two rivers version...shh dont sue me).

michael is actually chill and funny and comfortable with himself, which is exactly what makes mitb sooo gutwrenching (again, felt this was DEFO missing in the broadway version... broadway michael, i have opinions about you)

and the squip!! when he walked on as ted from bill and ted my jaw actually dropped THAT MADE ME SO HAPPY!!!! there is not nearly enough bill and ted appreciation in this world...and the actor nailed keanu's mannarisms sooo fucking good. plus, the progression then of jeremy's squip going from essentially a chill teenager as ted to a far more powerful and ominous entity as neo from the matrix? REALLY cool costuming choice and progression, i fucking love it.

plus there were just so many stupid little details in the background that ALL the actors did that i might ramble about in another post (mostly rich. i really like rich's little moments. in all productions tbh).

i also really like how they DIDN'T let the original version affect their production design. obviously the og has a very iconic look and i can see why most other productions sort of follow its costume/set designs and character choices, especially as it's a musical that largely blew up because of the fandom, and fandoms sort of cling onto the original of any version (not a criticism /gen, that's just how it is). but i think the best thing about theatre is that every production you see has the potential to be totally different. in both design/look, and the actors' choices as well.

which is i think why i watched, like, every version i can get my hands on this past week; because i just really wanted to see different versions. different line deliveries and beats and motivations and all the boring actory stuff. (and also because unlike tv shows, there's alas wayy less content to consume, so you take everything you can get yaknow)

and i just love love love how different this version is, oh my god i just. can't. its sort of seperate in my head to the two rivers version tbh? i've seen people talk about how they see broadway bmc and two rivers bmc as almost like different stories, and that's definitely what i'm feeling right now. in terms of fandom and art and how the show exists in my brain as a concept, i do adore og bmc. but as a wholly seperate story that i could genuinely watch over and over again and not get bored, i just fucking love the junior players one. its like...that's MY be more chill. in my own perfect world, that's the real one.

this really does sound like im slagging off og bmc, but please please know that i am not. honestly, i've enjoyed and saved every version i've watched, from the broadway bootleg to high school productions to animatic versions. but i just want to share my love for this particular version...idk, maybe it has LOADS of fans (the youtube vid has like 1k likes so idk), but alas because the comments are turned off, i haven't gotten to see anyone else raving about it. i don't even know any of the actors names, which SUPER sucks cuz they're fucking awesome.

anyway, ramble over (for now). please go watch the junior players production if you haven't, its worth it i swear. if you have seen it, please yell at me in my ask box, i will be over the moon.

[ladychlo]

Motaz Azaiza interviewed by Ajstream after fleeing Gaza, please do watch the whole interview...

[beemochi-art]

Did you hear Elon wants to buy Hasbro?

[bereft-of-frogs]

There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation

because WHAT are people talking about sometimes

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Must be a Sugondese joke.

[novelconcepts]

I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.

[mellosghosts]

in my heart this joke is in the movie, but unfortunately im afraid only we, hughjackmaniacs, would get it 🥀

[spirkbitch]

one more opinion about star trek fashion

it actually shouldn’t look like stuff you would wear (or at least a lot of it shouldn’t)

i’ve seen a lot of praise for modern trek fashion being better than classic trek because ‘people would actually wear that’

look at what people wore as everyday fashion 200-300 years ago, would you wear it? probably not, maybe for the novelty of it, but definitely not every day.

like, yeah this stuff looks crazy

it’s 300 years in the future. some of them are aliens, makes perfect sense to me that they would wear ridiculous extravagant clothes that look strange to my 21st century eye

similar to how if you showed modern fashion (especially alternative fashion/runway fashion) to someone dressed like this,

they would probably think we’re crazy.

yet for some reason modern trek wants us to believe that hundreds of years into the future people still just wear zip up hoodies?

(idk if the spock fit actually is a hoodie or not but come on man, the zipper? nothing more futuristic than a zipper?)

or this dress that looks like i could buy it in a 21st century target?

(not to hate on chapel, she’s just the only one i can find decent pictures of out of uniform)

also why is everything so grey now? when was it decided that people don’t wear colors in the future? i can not find out of uniform pictures where any of these people wear color, all black, white, grey, and maybe a bit of muted green.

tldr

clothing design in star trek should be just as important as clothing design in a period piece. i don’t think a screencap from any star trek should look like it could just as easily take place in the 21st century, i should see some crazy outfits. the clothes can do a lot of the heavy lifting to remind us that this is supposed to be far in the future.

[qifreyplushie]

can i see your necklace for a second, your highness? ^__^

[spitblaze]

I guess Chilchuck has brought us right back to 'adults who are short are child-coded and if you like them you're a pedophile' discourse huh

[heartorbit]

if we could stay connected, just like this

[artlyloser]

not really related to this drawing but I was sick yesterday and spent all day reading sentryagent fanfic and I'm afraid the dynamics got to me

[aerialworms-art]

Lifespans.

(ID under cut)

[Image ID: A three-way venn diagram floating against a starfield. The circles are coloured; one yellow, one light blue, one a darker shade of blue. The yellow is the smallest, the two blue ones over double its size, with the darker blue the biggest. The yellow is half covered by the two blue circles, while it takes up a small amount of the two blues. The centre overlap between all three is labelled "the precious few years we three were together".

There is very little overlap between the yellow and the darker blue without the lighter blue.

The work is signed 'aerialworms'./End ID]

[beif0ngs]

Nimona (2023) official art

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[homeboygirl]

[8 seconds from a ytp my friend @normalname69 made]

nurse joy: "Have you seen that posteR?"

ash: "HUauuaUH?"

nurse joy: *one single angelic note*