#no that joke doesn’t land

[laughableillusions]

Nick: I wish I lived somewhere else, I wish I lived in a land so green of crystal blue. I wish I knew things were okay and I could find someone true :(

Jareth in Nick’s window:

[maybeimamuppet]

Hey uh I need you to go more in depth about the "the characters know they're in a musical" thing because that is an insane take I've never heard about any musical in my entire life

hello i will do so and relish in it

okay to begin with this only applies to the stage production. both movies we are just watching what’s happening in real time imo. they have no idea wtf is going on look at them.

when the stage production opens damian has a whole little spiel like “good morning freshmen! welcome to high school!” and then cautionary tale happens and blah blah blah etc.

it’s also worth noting that. mean girls is objectively not a good musical. is it my favorite yes will i shank anyone outside the fandom who says this 100% BUT if you compare it to something like the prom with a similar setting/similar vague concept it’s really not. not great.

BUT i think this was kind of weirdly intentionally done.

again in the beginning during it roars and whatnot the animals that walk by are clearly just people in costumes and i think that’s also on purpose. the zebras have paintbrushes for manes for pete’s sake (like janis hello???)

SO i personally think that what we’re seeing is a musical that damian and janis co-wrote. i think damian did most of it and janis helped. she wrote i’d rather be me and things like that

i think it’s bad because it was written and produced by actual teenagers themselves. i am 100% convinced that they are seniors acting out the previous year as a sort of welcome to high school assembly for the incoming freshmen. mr. duvall said they could either do something creative to tell their story as an example of why Bullying Is Bad ™ or have detention for the entirety of the next year and they did this. the others have to act in it for the same reason and janis and damian just wanted to.

they’re acting as themselves and fully self aware the entire time. it feels like it’s happening in real time because it’s only been a few months since it did and the memories are fresh for all of them.

karen is the only one who breaks the fourth wall (except janis and damian at the top of the show and top of the second act) for GOOD REASON!! SHES DONE IT ALL BEFORE!!!!!

the reason janis and damian are the sort of narrators and the audience’s window into the show is because they’re the ones who are putting it on and producing it.

anyway in conclusion i fully believe they’re aware they’re in a musical and this is all happening like in their school gym or auditorium lmao

[crown-of-roses-thsc]

Any time i read the comic i just imagine Ellie in:

A: the clothing of the most praised fashion which would literally make your eyes water,

B: a plain red shirt with short sleeves, and black pants.

I cant imagine her clothing otherwise

No the Toppat clan is a nudist colony they are all butt naked at all times

[girldewar]

not just the best but the ONLY 97 in the league thank you

[hyumjim]

Like you do understand that projecting gay dynamics onto archetypes of straight culture (i.e. superhero being tied up by nemesis) is what’s actually subversive. As opposed to saying “gosh wouldn’t it be nice if a hero and villain could just tie each other up without all the gay stuff haha”

[crewdlydrawn]

Is this article about wristwatches? Yes.

Is that what my brain read into it? NOPE.

[karl-raccoon-enjoyer]

Oh my gosh guys Sigma probably wouldn’t know what tickling is until Nikolai did it to him one time trying to annoy him, but it just ends with Sigma kind having fun and thinking maybe Nikolai is better at being a clown that he thought

[jojoeyo]

I’m low key ruined for the comfort character thing, because the first one I ever saw was Bluey tell Buccellati they’ll have to kill someone, and it was so silly, nothing compares to it

[puppyeared]

Based on this

@poicyss

[frascospecimen]

Finished bocchi all in one day👍very very good would highly recommend it for anyone who has seen clips/screenshots/etc but hasn’t watched the anime in full yet. It’s such a delight… such a fun time from start to finish and can easily be watched in a day. Very very funny with a lot of heart it’s so fun to cheer on bocchi…. I want her to be happy 🥹 loved how expressive the animation was

[webslingingslasher]

the worst part about this whole girlfriend thing is that my amazing stalker abilities literally aren’t working at all. i cannot find ANYTHING about her online 😭😭

i will keep updating however, so look out for that haha

-🥰

don’t worry, she’s just canadian.

[lionofstone]

This is kind of a deep cut but I've been following you for years (congrats on the book!) And I was wondering- are you still Mormon?

i’m mormon the way dallon weekes is mormon

[idrawgaystffs]

Y'ever just feel like the sketch instead of the painting,

also Calamity without her fin, heh :>

[punk-pins]

tbh I like this little trend in ship names of the better sounding name combination being the Serious Ship that you have some amount of legitimate belief in the canon potential or validity of vs the silly option being for the memes-to-meta fanon version of that ship. like with frerard vs grank, frerard posts are about those two people, but there’s this kind of blanket understanding of “this is a joke about the fanon of this ship, not the actual ship” in grank posts. which I think is an interesting distinction, and also a time is a flat circle example of the ordering of ship names coming back into vogue but with a new meaning to it.

[bawnjourno]

boy this season of *nly m*rders has uhhhh. fuckin sucked lmfao

[voiceshearingyouloud]

I have accepted that I am just not a very funny person but I always make my sibling and my best friend crack up and my partner thinks I’m hilarious (and I think they’re hilarious) so that’s all I really need I think