#trauma troupe

[stripeyzebra]

Tonight on DnD and the first time DMing and putting enemies in that are vague in-jokes with the group and seeing how long it takes for them to clock them :)

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

I will always vividly remember this, because i was so so excited for this show (I love Them There / The six idiots), but then on the day of the first episode (15/4/19) my house burnt down…and i remember that evening i was lay on the floor in my grandparents living room and the tv was on in the corner on like volume 1 because i physically couldn’t be in complete dark or silence, and the first episode was playing…anyway because of that i didn’t start the show for like 2 years, and then i did and it’s now one of my favourite shows ever, but still to this day when i rewatch, certain scenes from ep 1 make my stomach turn 👻

[michyeosseo]

Just because of a bit of cheers when doing sori, you think you have some grand talent? That path ruins a person.

Moon Sori as SEO YONG-RYE aka CHAE GONG-SEON

JEONGNYEON: THE STAR IS BORN (2024)

[troupe-of-eldritch-horrors]

hey, is there a reason why klaus looks like candy mouse?

Klaus: . . .

[TW: MEDICAL TRAUMA UNDER THE CUT]

Klaus: NO! PLEASE!!

Klaus: Wh-What's happening to me? I want my dad-

Jack: I think he needs a BREAK-

[legendstrauma]

All My Rooks From Every Faction (AKA The Trauma Troupe):

Dáire Mercar (He/Him)

He’s just a kid and life is a nightmare

Sloane de Riva (She/Her)

Just that bitch

Orri Thorne (He/They)

Bakes cupcakes

Aris Aldwir (They/Them)

Child prodigy of the Veil Jumpers, literally fourteen

Marek Laidir (He/Him)

Trouble Incarnate, literally twelve

Dolores Ingellvar (She/Her)

Canonically Eleanor’s ( @a-mumbling-nerd ) Auntie Dolores

[catwouthats]

Tolkien fans can be so bigoted that I’m always surprised whenever I open up LoTR and find that it’s a story about BIPOC coded little people saving the world from evil (with the help of an old ass little person who has DID bc of the horrors) and also a Native man getting his right to his ancestors land.

[pynkhues]

Stupid question, not sure if it’s been asked before, but: do you think Armand actually likes theatre/fine art or does he just adopt whatever his partner is into so deeply he has no clue it isn’t (or wouldn’t be) his bag if not for said partner?

That's not a stupid question at all, anon, and it definitely hasn't been asked of me before. Mmm, my gut instinct is to say that I think his interest in visual art is probably more authentic than his interest in theatre? There's that little beat in 2.06 where they're rehearsing the fake play, and Armand's a lot more attached to the projection art as a part of the show than seemingly everyone else, which feels fairly unique given how rarely he expresses that sort of personal preference. It actually could be reflective of his interest in technology too though, which is canonical to the books.

Film and projection art only really started to become a part of theatre in the 1910s and 1920s - probably the most famous magician of all time, Harry Houdini, was actually a very early adopter of that in around 1908/1909, and he was hugely into technology as a performing artist generally (I actually randomly know a bit about this as I've been researching/working on a creative project for a couple of years now about Houdini's 1910 tour of Australia where he brought this tech with him to the Melbourne vaudeville and variety scene [and hilariously became the first person to fly a plane across Australian soil, because he was also obsessed with flight technology, and also Australia is insane], and also just have a general interest in very early cinema).

We don't really know the show's timeline yet in terms of Lestat leaving Paris, nor if the show will follow the book in having Nicki be the one who really founds the theatre, but assuming Armand's at least being honest about the timeline, if Lestat left Paris around the turn of the 19th Century, it will be long before that sort of film/projection art existed in theatre. I think the 2.03 flashbacks were partially about showing us how much the theatre itself has declined / hit hard times / been impacted by the French Revolution and two World Wars, but still - - that sort of projection technology didn't exist when Lestat was performing in Paris, and so someone introduced it. The reality is too that it was innovative in the 1910s and 1920s (it really hit peak popularity - along with vaudeville and variety theatre, which is what the Theatres des Vampires are doing by the time Claudia and Louis meet them - in about 1925), and I think there's a pretty logical read there that that may have been Armand's doing.

It kind of works I think in terms of the creative friction within the troupe too, because both that sort of projection and variety theatre wasn't really in fashion by the 1940s when Louis and Claudia meet them. Armand feeling it's vital to their work and Santiago being over it (especially with Santiago being younger, and having wanted to be a serious actor) actually makes a lot of sense timeline-wise, and I think could be interpreted as an acknowledgement that the sort of theatre they're making is dated (cinema basically killed this type of theatre by the late 1920s, and that sort of projection art played a role, because with it came, well, film). The fact that Armand as the theatre director hasn't really kept up with theatre as an artform I think lends itself to him not being that into it personally / it being something he adopts because Lestat loves it, and he deifies Lestat.

If he is the one who adopted the projection art, and is the one still attached to it in the 1940s, I can see that indicating more that his interest in art and technology is perhaps a bit more authentic and true to who he is? I'm not going to be able to find it now (and don't have the means to check the ep at the minute, just because I'm not at home), but in the ep where Armand and Louis are contemplating what to replace the Francis Bacon triptych with in the Dubai loft, Armand suggests something that's extremely different to everything we've seen / that Louis likes, which I think is indicative of him having his own taste when it comes to fine art at the very least, but how much that might have been informed by Marius is anyone's guess right now.

But I actually, delightfully, think the interest in technology is all him, and I think you could make a case that Armand probably brought that projection technology to the theatre in the 1910s when it was genuinely a pretty innovative new invention to play with. It's interesting to think about!

[afragmentcastadrift]

Secrets are what will ultimately undermine and destroy Bells Hells, and yet... half of them aren't even fully cognizant that they're keeping secrets, don't really recognize and/or acknowledge that they're holding their desires/hopes/fears/misgivings close to the chest, haven't fully processed enough what has happened in the last month, week, 24 hours to even begin to talk, formulate, comprehend to a point where they can even dare to try to be comfortable and fully vulnerable enough to utter the deepest, darkest stirrings and etchings of their souls.

It's a terrible thing to admit to the weight that you carry, and it's a bittersweet pill to swallow when you have to admit to and allow that you need help carrying it.

[captaingimpy]

Station Eleven Review – Art After the End

There’s no weak link in Station Eleven. From an acting perspective, every performance hits—so much so that it’s hard to single anyone out. The show takes what could’ve been yet another pandemic collapse narrative and turns it into something far more layered. Instead of leaning into zombies or societal death spirals, it centers artists. Not survivalists, not cops, not politicians. Artists. Most…

[stripeyzebra]

We all have to meet our match sometime or other.

-Watership Down

In which the story of Moss, the wanderer, the brave, he who runs from that which he is scared, comes to an end.

When there is a fight against too many enemies. When he is trapped inside a mimic and is not going to be strong enough to escape.

Where he is not immune to acid damage, and he has imagined himself as impossible to kill for too long.

[beauty-grace-outer-space]

I just realized I'm straight up turning into my DnD character.

[chronicyappper]

I hope Furina's second SQ is better than the first one cause the first one was so terrible

[is-the-watcher-video-cute]

I love the troupe so damn much. They are all trying their best despite their flaws and despite a fucked up world and a fucked up situation and seemingly everything trying to force them apart THEY STILL FUCKING CLAW THEIR WAY BACK INTO EACH OTHER’S ARMS CUZ THEY ARE A FAMILY AND THEY MEANT IT WHEN THEY SAID THEY WOULD NOT LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND

[taleofabandonment-archived]

okay. wow. book of circus.

[chaimachi]

Sitting here chewing on that ending scene like fucking wow.

I've never seen two characters just straight up honestly saying how they feel and what they want, but still not being able to reconcile because of their own biases and notions. Damn.

[borom1r]

ok I’m still not over sth a friend said to me when we were talking abt. Recent Life Events.