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made a handy little slides presentation about lumber max, because every time someone asks me about it i get frustrated with myself when adhd attacks and i can't get all my thoughts together in a nice concise way dkgndsfk so now i can just show them this! yayy

screenshots version below the cut just in case the link is being silly or screenshots are just easier for you :]

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i think that a tragedy of grace chasity, one of many, is that she needs to grow but both her endings trap her in her upbringing and the unhealthy aspects of her beliefs. but worse because there's murder. through her stewardship of the witchwood due to lumberaxe at the end of ac, and her servitude to the lib at the end of npmd, her duty is to continue purity culture, to kill for it, and she isn't exactly connecting with super forgiving masters. what this person needs, if i knew her in real life, is a lot of time and patience and processing and healing. she can't get any of that.

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daryl tofa dallas winston i love you with my whole heart

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We should talk about The Lords in Black I'm gonna do that right now because I wanna talk about their trope subversion and symbolism and shit.

So obviously The Lords in Black are a subversion of Cosmic/Eldritch horror and I'm gonna explain how using an ant metaphor

So the classic ant metaphor for cosmic horror is to imagine that you're an ant encountering a piece of human technology, right? I believe it's usually a circuit board. The whole point is you're witnessing something deeply incomprehensible and unfamiliar.

The ant metaphor for the Lords in Black is: imagine you're an ant and a teenager starts burning you with a magnifying glass.

It's still incomprehensible, but not in the way the complexities of a circuit board is. If you were suddenly stricken by a scalding beam of light, the only way you could rationalize that is that it was an act of a god. You and your ant colony would invent and fear this god.

The Lords in Black each represent a kind of strange and inscrutable cruelty that the modern world offers, the cursed lasers that cut into our souls, from places we have no power over.

Wiggly is obviously the idol of capitalism. Animalistic desperation, commodity fetishization, and the exchange of money, products, and emotions. All of the things that the other Lords represent stem from elements of capitalism, hence why Wiggly is THE Lord in Black, the leader of his brothers. What Wiggly offers will never be enough. He is what leaves you always unsatisfied.

Nibbly is the idol of the consumption of human beings as products. Obsession with self image and presentability, trends of all kinds, and the beauty and fitness industries. People in the modern age are desperate to be consumable, and some would go to any lengths to do so. This is an attitude that especially impacts women, who feel that they need to wear make up every day just to earn respect. And when we feel the need to change to be respectable, the need to look appealing and to be consumable, the bourgeois eat well. Our quest to look special makes us like any other customer, filling. It's no mistake that the two leads of Honey Queen are women desperate to be noticed and respected. It makes them all the more eager to be eaten.

Tinky is the idol of infinity and repetition. Dead end jobs, middle class suburbia, and the inability to escape one's circumstances. It's no coincidence that the first time we see Tinky is at a wedding, a ceremony dedicated to eternal commitment, or that he's associated with CCRP, a company in which most of the workers do useless busywork all day. When you look at the life you have ahead of you, it can feel crushing. Will you ever have a real career to be proud of, or will you be stuck at this job until you die? Will you ever not struggle to make rent? Will you really love your spouse forever? What if you don't? Isn't it just easier to continue the routine than to address the problem? After Ted is driven to insanity by the Bastard's Box, after he discovers that he can't escape the person he's become, he becomes homeless, one of the most terrifying eternities a person can find themselves in, fully dependent on random acts of kindness to survive while your situation drives you further into insanity.

Blinky is the idol of the panopticon. Gossip, public drama, and unwanted attention. One of the first things Blinky does on screen is sexually objectify a girl who's fresh out of high school, and this plainly displays a consequence of living in a content driven world. There is constant scrutiny and interpretation given to your every action. At any moment, you could have over a thousand eyes on you, whether you want them there or not. The panopticon we live in captures us in moments of time, and turns the person we were in that moment into an object deserving anger, embarrassment, lust, admiration, judgement, or anything else a watcher might assign. But Blinky also targets another fear, the fear that we feel when we can't see the danger, and cannot protect ourselves or those we love. Alice's anxiety that Deb might cheat on her when she's not around are made manifest in Watcher World, and Bill's frustration at not being let into Alice's life are used against the family. We are inclined to both want and fear the panopticon. We hide, and we seek, and we expose.

Pokey is the idol of tyranny. Complacency, sedation, and obedience. The world revolves around the few and uses the many in service of this. We are all expected to fill some role in service to the rich, to work for a corporation and to buy the products of those corporations, and when we cannot fill these roles we are at risk of starving, or being kicked out of our homes. We must join them in their quest for profit, or die. But we must also accept their pacifiers or we will be driven insane. We must choose between complacency or despair in confronting our place in the world as a pawn, as an ant in the colony. Isn't it easier to accept the comforting lies? Your job is important. Corporations give people what they want. People in power deserve their power. People in power are using it well. We are happy. America is great.

These are the magnifying glasses that are being used to torment us, that we cannot make reason out of, that we've made dark gods out of. But this isn't the first time humanity has encountered scorching light from the heavens. When the people of ancient Greece witnessed burning rods of light, falling viciously from the heavens, they invented Zeus.

But we know where lightning comes from now. We know the science behind electricity and its place in the world. We know what keeps lightning away and what attracts it. We can protect ourselves from it.

But there's an important difference. Lightning is natural. It's existed long before we have and it will continue when we're gone.

The unorthodox cruelty of being alive today is not natural. We cannot logic our way into surviving it because it does not operate under a sound logic. But we can make things a little more bearable by focusing on what is sound, understandable and natural.

There is humanity. There are families friends and lovers who would go to the ends of earth to protect each other. As long as we have this humanity, we have hope.

That's why Miss Holloway's deal with the Lords erases her from living memory after her temporary deaths. To have the powers that she does she gave away the power most important to have under the Lord's rule: human connection. The only real thing we have left.

Alice and Bill escaped Blinky's manipulation through the love they have for each other

Emma survived the longest out of any character in tgwdlm because of the genuine hope Paul gave her of a better future

Lex snapped Tom out of Wiggly's control by reminding him of what his son really means to him

Ted couldn't escape Tinky's plan for him because he was too jaded to make a genuine connection with a woman.

Linda was eaten by Nibbly because she didn't have a loving connection with her father, because her father always made her believe that she was never good enough, because this mindset led her to take for granted the connections she did have in her life.

The world no longer cares about us. We have to care for each other. It's the only thing we have left

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THE SCREAM I LET OUT.

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interesting bit from the dialect coach, gigi buffington, who worked on the outsiders!

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HELLO HI Hatchetfield community! I made a character study of everyone's favorite nerdy prude Miss Grace Chasity! please consider checking it out if you're into that sort of thing! thank you for your time have a nice day <3

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honestly i think i could play biff. i can't act or sing or dance and i am five foot even but i have the mean butch energy and that's all you need, right?

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daryl moments before his flawless broadway con preformance

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new high quality biffgoons photos are yet to come.... not to mention official evan smith george pics!

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i've always assumed that it was "chas-ity" but everyone pronounces it like the word "chas-tity" either to make fun of her, or because they actually think it's her last name.

because i have all of max's lines in my brain: he actually pronounces it correctly the first time we hear it in that scene!

he says "nobody, and i mean nobody, talks that way about grace chas-ity." which is interesting from a character perspective, that he cares about her enough to say her name correctly even if she isn't around to hear it. but after she rejects him, he says "i will not rest until i taste grace chas-tity's little peach." which is, again, interesting.

detective shapiro also says "chas-ity" most of, if not all of the time. as she's an outsider with no feelings about the chasities, it leads me to believe that's the correct pronounciation.

I love the Grace Chasity name debate, bc I like to think it’s pronounced chast-it-e, but hatchetfeild high pronounces it chast-titty to annoy Grace.

I think I had proof for this, it I can’t remember all the instances. One was in the little cutscene between literal monster pt.1 and pt.2, max pronounced it like that(chast-titty)

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i love you different interpretations of characters i love you understudies i love you alternates i love you stand bys i love you swings i love you temporary replacements i love you principal actors i love you different ways to play characters i love you musical theatre i love you one actor playing a character super confident and another playing that same character as really shy i love you actor's interpretations changing over time i love you bootlegs i love you live theatre i love you i love you i love you

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"drink up, biff!" — an appreciation for 3-D's gremlin energy in back to the future part ii

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if i wrote a basic post on what being diabetic is like for fic-writing purposes, would that help people who want to write pete accurately? because abstinence camp is not the greatest representation of what it's actually like, and every time i see him eat chocolate and then magically be fine my own blood sugar spikes a little from the stress

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bttf cartoon but evil: biff somehow has the delorean now and he keeps traveling to important historical events to fuck them up. the goons have to trail behind him fixing everything because they might be bullies, but they don't want the world ending.

tom wilson appears as biff in the live action segments and says "hey kids! remember, violence is always okay." bill nye's part is the same but he never follows lab safety rules

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back to the future but they're all monsters, because i'm predictable:

marty passes as human but he's a banshee, able to channel his voice/guitar into a magical blast (or just a really powerful performance)

doc is the sandman, putting people to sleep and observing their dreams. his inventions take inspiration from the dreams he watches.

lorraine is a selkie. her natural form is that of a seal but she much prefers her more human-like form. her sealskin is magically disguised as a cardigan.

(she tries her best to subtly let marty "take" her sealskin and he freaks out every time. biff tries to snatch it every chance he gets because he can smell the magic on it. at the dance, george questions whether she's too warm in her cardigan and she immediately hands it over.)

george is a changeling, deposited at his parents' doorstep when he was a baby. he doesn't know why he was abandoned. every famous changeling tells tales about being switched with a human child for an ulterior motive, but george doesn't know his purpose.

goldie is a sphinx. he used to "protect" the diner (mostly just cleaned it, because lou didn't really care who was served there) but was elected mayor and proudly protects the clocktower.

jennifer is half-mermaid— she looks fairly human, but she can breathe underwater and has a naturally talented singing voice.

biff is a werewolf. he has the unique ability to half-transform even when the moon isn't full, which allows him to intimidate his classmates. he's threatened his victims many times to watch out, or he'll go after them the next full moon— his grandma doesn't care about protective measures and lets him roam free.

3-D is a basilisk, turning anyone who looks at his eyes to stone for a day. he wears his glasses to prevent this from happening, and tries his best to hide the fact that he's a monster at all.

slick is a sigbin, who can suck blood from someone's shadow and turn invisible. he only takes small amounts at a time, often going invisible to drink from multiple people while biff and 3-D distract them.

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thinking about hell valley and the biff that created it. what if 2015!biff wasn't a bitter old man? what if he'd learned to be a better person in the 60 years since high school?

like, as much as i recognize that biff's place in the story is to be a villain and i wouldn't change the movies, i can't help thinking how much more compelling it'd be from a character standpoint if biff was explicitly a nicer person in lone pine.

he doesn't steal the almanac out of malicious greed, he just remembers how hard it was to start his auto detailing business and wants to give his younger self a boost. similar to what marty was thinking before doc threw out the book.

but he doesn't account for how much of a little shit he was in high school, and that the biff who turns 21 with the almanac would start to scheme about using its power for his own gain.

a kind old man accidentally creating the worst timeline in existence, because his younger self was so vulnerable to being corrupted by fame and fortune. isn't that heartbreaking?