#talkfine

[thecountercurseisunjellify]

I haven't posted in a looong time! But hello! It's almost been a year since I went to New York for the first time and saw Spies in Concert! I made this pop-up card last minute because I just had to!

[sunnifer]

do people like spies are forever

[thebugthatruinsyourpicnic]

Ani: a parody and Movies Musicals & Me need more love and attention

[jeffblimchat]

In anticipation for the second Cinderella's Castle livestream and preview of the 80s themed soundtrack this coming Saturday...

(last poll) Hopefully this isn't too hard on you cause it is for me. Screw, why did I make it alphabetize. I'm having a hard time choosing between the choices.

[violetheart77]

Look I get it, the Curtwen/Gonchrey parallels are obvious, but COME ON, this line’s RIGHT THERE

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

Doing This

Anyways, I just wanted to take a moment to talk a little about part of why Spies Are Forever means so much to me.

Like many, many other people, I have lived some real-life version of "Doing This." I'm asexual, my romantic orientation is... complex, and after a lifetime of being taught a very allosexual concept of my own future, I really struggled to navigate what those ideas meant for me during my college years. Compulsory Heterosexuality is a hell of a thing, and I can remember watching the clock while making out with someone I thought I should, mentally calculating how soon I could end the evening without making things rude or uncomfortable.

(To be clear, no one ever forced me to do anything or was anything but respectful. It was all my own choice to follow a certain script and struggle on through discomfort.)

And then I would curl up in my bed and cry while listening to "Sunshine On My Shoulders" by John Denver over and over again. No, I do not understand that song choice either.

The resulting memories aren't... great. At the time, they further damaged my already shaky relationship with my asexuality. It was around then that Spies came out.

Watching "Doing This"... re-contextualized things. That scene allowed me to look at those moments of compulsory heterosexuality and genuinely laugh about them with fondness and patience for myself. And being able to do such a thing changed in the game in a way I didn't realize I needed. That silly spy musical that breaks my heart every time I see it also helped heal something.

So, yeah, thank you Tin Can Bros. and TalkFine for that song and those characters. And thank you Curt Mega and Mary Kate Wiles and Lauren Lopez for your pitch-perfect performances. They mattered. They matter.

[chiefmartinbrody]

For a website full of humans that love a good, angsty main pairing, there is a shocking lack of Spies Are Forever content. C’mon folks… get to watching and crying with the rest of us!

[smytherines]

Spontaneously springing back to consciousness because I forgot to mention the funniest thing from my partner's mandatory birthday rewatch of Spies!!

So despite my best efforts, he has NEVER seen The Sound of Music. When we got to the end of One Step Ahead he fully yelled "Are you fucking kidding me? That's where that's from???"

Apparently he's had "so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu, goodbyyyyyyyyyyyyyye" stuck in his head for the last 2 weeks!! I don't know what's funnier, the fact that he had a SAF song stuck in his head for weeks, or the fact that he legitimately thought it was something Talkfine wrote because he doesn't know The Sound of Music.

Of course, immediately after that came the staircase scene, so my brain got obliterated until just now when I woke up and remembered

[sequestered-song-skirmish]

Round 1 Poll 37

IWANT!：　「LITERALLY my fave artist on this whole planet and this song infests my brain in ways i cannot describe but i can play it on loop for literal hours」

Maple Leaf Etc：　「the most obscure song i have, it only has 30 views. please be its 31st」 (Except now it has 33 because of me.)

I Can't Wait To Say No：　「IT GOES SO SO HARD. it's at 4.3k views on youtube so it's over the 3k limit but you have to understand, this song, it could revive me from the dead probably. it's such a funky disco jam. the vocals? chef's kiss. gorgeous. that falsetto bit is so clean. and come on, the synth?? the synth, man!!!!」

[wildwoodart]

It is the year 2023 and I am still certain that Clark Baxtresser is the only pick to play an adult version of Five Hargreeves.

Tell me this isn’t the perfect casting.

Also we could have a musical episode.

[the-treviathan]

It should be similar, with the blame and the blood soaking through his skin, but it feels so utterly, irrevocably different. Curt watches for the second time as his lover crumples to the ground, dead. This time, there’s no ambiguity or denial that can remove the guilt, and it doesn’t sicken him when his hand reaches up to wipe the fresh red liquid off of his face. Owen’s limp body looks peaceful, something Curt has never, ever seen. It’s almost as though he’s accomplished something, even though he hasn’t. He has done nothing.

[crowley1990]

ANI: a parody may not be anyone’s favourite starkid musical, but the music is immaculate. Most listened to starkid soundtrack for me.

[sunnifer]

black dahlia - devotion, betrayal, sadness

[deadhousep1ants]

[jeffblimchat]

In anticipation for the second Cinderella's Castle livestream and preview of the 80s themed soundtrack this coming Saturday...

In other news, I just got my discord server on disboard

https://disboard.org/server/1178351989009170573 so if you like more of my content, do join :-) Server Description: Group about the chaotic duo Jeff Blim and Jon Matteson mostly for their livestream chat members but also general Jon and Jeff and StarKid fans. Also, an online museum/archive of everything Jeff Blim/Jon M./StarKid that I find interesting/old/rare and to do my watch parties.

[lnich]

The Cranberries - Dreams (TalkFine cover)