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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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on the question of who raised perpetua

in my canon, Gaia, the earth ghoullete and Papa Primo are a couple and raised him. i'm also going with the retcon here so that means the twins were both raised by one of nihil's siblings lol

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It's a long shot but I'm gonna post this on Tumblr too. This is my twitter account, please contact me if you have lost a Copia at the Glasgow Ritual

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Some people had questions for the new era about how to tell the ghouls apart. So I made a handy flow chart! I hope this helps (:

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My theories for Chapter 20

Marika is Nihil's sister

Judith is a spy for Ol Jimmy boy (Jim defroque)

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Who's winning in a fight? Bitsy or Lethica

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ducktales crew: lol okay so then we wanna introduce our silicon valley villain, we’re gonna call him mark zuckerbird and-

disney legal team waking up in a cold sweat: someone’s gonna try to insult a billionaire 

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What did Andrew Lloyd Webber do to make Patti Lupone upset? Sorry, saw your tags and i was curious

Oh.

Oh honey.

You sweet child.

Anyway, get ready for one of the most infamous showdowns in all musical theatre history, with the guy who writes the straightest musicals on Broadway (derogatory) and the one and only, the matriarch, the queen, two three-time Tony award winner Patti LuPone.

So, Andrew Lloyd Webber was basically kind of a boy genius in his prime - he met his future collaborator Tim Rice when they were 17 and 20 respectively, he wrote his first big hit, Jesus Christ Superstar, at 22, with Tim Rice writing the lyrics. And it was kind of a big deal at the time because the topic was controversial (you know, the Passion with rock music), but also because Broadway wasn't that far off from its golden age and let's just say the music and style were very different from, say, My Fair Lady. Or The Sound of Music. Or Funny Girl. It was basically the Rent/Hamilton of its time. (Yeah, Stephen Sondheim was around at that time, he worked on West Side Story which was revolutionary in of itself, but he's kind of an oddball in this case. You'll understand why later.)

Their real follow up (I'm not counting Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for a variety of reasons) was a little musical called Evita, which you might know mainly because of a song called Don't Cry For Me Argentina. Or at least, your mom has probably heard it once at the very least. It's that song that's oversung from a musical while being out of context along with I Dreamed a Dream for Les Misérables. Or Memory from Cats.

Evita tells the story of Eva Peron, the wife of an Argentinian dictator, who basically screws her way to the top and ends up becoming the mistress of Juan Peron and the most beloved woman in her country through guile and deceit. Yes, I know the historical accuracy is very much debated but I know jackshit about Argentina's history except the bare basics so don't come at me. It was first produced in the West End in London, with Elaine Paige in the role, but because of Equity issues, she couldn't reprise her role for the Broadway production. So a Julliard graduate who was mostly starring in David Mamet plays got the part instead, and that was Patti LuPone.

Patti... did not have a good time during Evita, because the part is basically the kind of score where you can tell the composer is used to writing male parts, but most female singers have a two-octave range (yes, you got Julie Andrews who used to have a three-octave range, and many others, but they're exceptions), so she struggled a lot. That being said, if you listen to live recordings of her, you wouldn't be able to tell, and it got a lot easier later on. But she had this to say:

"Evita was the worst experience of my life. I was screaming my way through a part that could only have been written by a man who hates women. And I had no support from the producers, who wanted a star performance onstage but treated me as an unknown backstage. It was like Beirut, and I fought like a banshee."

This is from Patti's autobiography, which she wrote in 2007 - 8 years after shit with ALW went down. With all that said, she won a Tony Award for Evita, and she pretty much became a musical theatre household name from then on. She played Fantine in Les Misérables, Nancy in Oliver!, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes. Meanwhile, ALW's next big hits were Cats (I'm not even kidding, Cats was a hit), and, you guessed it, The Phantom of the Opera, which he wrote in part to showcase his then wife Sarah Brightman's triple threat talents.

So, you need to understand before I continue that ALW, from my perspective, has always had a bit of an inferiority complex. He's basically associated to writing these commercially successful musicals that show a big spectacle but aren't ultimately substantial. I'm not sure I entirely agree with that, but I do think that if he didn't have Hal Prince, Maria Bjornson, Charles Hart and Gillian Lynne backing him up for Phantom, it would have probably been a Rocky Horror Picture Show knockoff people would have forgotten about pretty quickly. This is what I mean:

Yep, that was Phantom before any of the people I mentioned above (and Michael Crawford) were really involved.

Remember how I said Stephen Sondheim was an oddball? The thing with him is that his musicals weren't always commercially successful, but in general, in part thanks to being Leonard Bernstein's protégé, he was generally pretty well-respected and it was considered that his work was bringing musicals to a whole other level. Without Sondheim, you wouldn't have Jonathan Larson, and you wouldn't have Lin-Manuel Miranda. I am convinced ALW is resentful of that, and when you stop and think about it for more than 10 seconds, it's so obvious he REALLY wants to be Sondheim or at least command the same level of respect, but that's a story for another day.

So, after Phantom, ALW had other musicals that followed that either got a meh reception or outright flopped. Then there was Sunset Boulevard, which is based on the movie of the same name with Gloria Swanson. Despite all of her griefs for Evita, Patti LuPone agreed to partake in the musical as Norma Desmond, for its production in London, with the promise that she would transfer to Broadway once that production would open. And overall, after a string of flops, Sunset was actually doing pretty well.

HOWEVER. One day, while reading the gossip column of a newspaper, Patti found out that contrary to what she was promised, Glenn Close, who was meanwhile starring as Norma in the Los Angeles production, was to play Norma on Broadway. That was a complete surprise for her since no one on the production team had bothered to tell her it was happening - and keep in mind that for the news to come up the way it did in a gossip column, it probably would have necessitated a delay of a few weeks between the producers and the newspaper, which would have given them plenty of time to break the news to Patti. And Patti kind of needed the leg up because she was pretty bitter that a) Madonna was cast in the Evita adaptation instead of her; b) they actually lowered the key to fit Madonna's voice range, and she still had to expand her own to be able to sing the (lowered) score. And trust me, Patti is mad about it to this day.

So of course, she trashed her dressing room, the cast and crew weren't even mad about it because they were as shocked and angered as she was by the news. Patti sued Andrew Lloyd Webber for breach of contract, namely for 1 MILLION DOLLARS (yup, those are the real numbers), won, used the money she got from the lawsuit to get a swimming pool, which she called (and I SHIT YOU NOT) the Andrew Lloyd Webber Memorial Pool. Since then, Webber is dead to her, to the point rumor has it she had part of a building blocked during an event so she could get out of it without coming across Webber, because she hates him so flipping much she doesn't even want to be in the same building as the guy.

(There's also drama that happened with Faye Dunaway who was supposed to replace Glenn Close after she went from Los Angeles to Broadway, except they abruptly closed the show down after Close left, but that's a story for another day)

So with all the bad press, and with ALW forced to pay 1 million dollars for Patti's lawsuit, that led Sunset's productions to close earlier than expected. ALW has stayed around since, with... mitigated output, so to say. The lowest point for a lot of people is Love Never Dies, the sequel to Phantom, which some people love, and that's fine, but it didn't do well with either critics nor fans of the original show, which ALW is EXTREMELY BUTTHURT ABOUT. And like, there are so many stories I could tell about LND alone, but I will share my own crack theory about it, since it does relate to the ask.

Anyway, buckle up.

So. There have been jokes going around for years that the Phantom in LND is basically ALW's self-insert, where he displays to the world that he's totally not over Sarah Brightman leaving him (in part because making Phantom kinda ruined their marriage lmao), despite, you know, having married since. (Aaaaaakward.) So LND basically becomes this really uncomfortable therapy session where a man writes a self-insert musical about how his ex-wife made a big mistake of leaving a sensitive artistic soul such as himself. The characters from Phantom who appear in LND are all more or less unrecognizable as a result, and one who gets it worse (in my humble opinion) is Meg Giry, who was basically Christine's sweet and loyal ballerina friend who basically went into the Phantom's lair on her own to save her friend despite the danger. In LND, she's basically a bitter hag (because ALW hates women, guess Patti was right about that), who really likes the swim and even has a stripping vaudeville number about it, written in universe by the Phantom, no less.

For comparison, here's Don Juan Triumphant (the Phantom's opera in the original):

And here's Bathing Beauty (the vaudeville number):

Yeah, so... do you see why people hate LND already?

And that's not the only thing with Meg! She's also pining for the Phantom to pay attention to her and threatens to drown the Phantom and Christine's secret love child when he makes it clear that he's gonna love Christine for EVA AND EVA.

So, with everything we learned today about ALW, would someone like him view someone like Patti LuPone as some sort of crazy, bitter diva who's obsessed with him for whatever reason? Absolutely. Would he be petty enough to insert Patti LuPone into his self-insert musical, which gave us the version of Meg Giry we got in LND? Of course. Why does Meg love to swim so much and why does she drag Gustave out ostensibly for a swim? Is it a dig at Patti's Andrew Lloyd Webber Memorial Pool? Maybe.

I kind of hope we find out one day if that theory is true. And maybe start a kickstarter so Patti can add this painting from the 2004 movie in her collection.

Fun fact: during the process of casting for the 2004 movie adaptation of POTO, ALW allegedly suggested Patti LuPone to play Carlotta... only for Joel Schumacher to have to awkwardly remind him that they were not on speaking terms. The idea was therefore promptly dropped.

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My Ghost Ocs

just wanted to make a post with the basic info of them.

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Gaia

Element: Earth

Ghoul Age: ???/ancient

Human age: Appears to be late 70s/80 when glamoured/ late 30s/40s partially glamoured

Height: 8ft unglamoured/partially glamoured, 6ft Glamoured

Pronouns: she/her

Glamoured appearance: Looks almost exactly like Sister Imperator (since she was the first human she ever saw) except taller and brunette instead of blonde with grey streaks.

Even wears a similar outfit except for a pencil skirt in place of dress pants.

Walks with a cane when glamoured

Partially glamoured/everyday appearance: long chestnut brown hair, grass green skin/eyes with dappling like a deer, deer antlers instead of horns, hooved feet, droopy cow ears and cow tail.

Her outfit mostly consists of her hair pulled up in a ponytail, overalls and a t-shirt.

Job: Was Sister's Assistant/ Personal ghoul before the chamber ghoullettes. Is now retired and spends most of her time in the gardens.

voiceclaim: Rose Quartz

https://youtu.be/fA3PUEoQQ9o?si=2jZMASZhD--hIGMo

Fog

Element: Air

Ghoul Age: 300

Human age: appears to be late 20s/early 30s

Height: Glamoured/ partially glamoured, 4'8, Unglamoured 6ft (smol)

Pronouns: She/they

Glamoured appearance: Purple wolf cut, Pale skin with freckles, and blue eyes. She wears a black crop top, fishnet top over it, black skinny jeans with rips, and black platform boots.

partially glamoured/ everyday appearance: Blueish-grey skin, silvery-white wolfcut dotted with grey feathers, small ram horns, blue eyes, feathery ears, and a feathery bird tail. Steals the bigger ghouls hoodies due to being cold all the time.

Job: Handyperson around the ministry/ fills in for the other ghoullettes on stage ( mostly aurora cuz smol)

voiceclaim: me, Both singing and speaking (cuz self-insert)

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Pietra Emeritus

Age: 55

Height: 5'2

Pronouns: She/Her

Appearance: Long red hair, blueish-green eyes, Pale skin with freckles. wears a habit and a black dress with a corset and heels

Job: History teacher at the ministry's school

Marital Status: Married to Frater Imperator/ Copia

Kids: 2, one girl and one boy in that order.

vc: tba

Mara Faust

Age: 73

Height: 4'11

Pronouns: She/her

Job: Retired nurse

appearance: Basically Pietra but older with short hair

Marital status: ???

kids: 1, Pietra

vc: tba

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this is Gaia, my earth ghoulette oc.

she was the first ghoul Seestor ever summoned and served as her personal ghoul/ assistant until the chamber ghoulettes were summoned. She also served as a studio ghoul for papa Nihil's early attempt to get the ghoul project running providing backing vocals for the future is a foreign land and was a back up drummer for that era (she never got to actually perform due to how short said era was).

also i am super proud of this drawing. I think it's one of my best.

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The Thanksgiving Myth

The "friendly Indians", that kids all across the US dress up as in generic stereotypical caricature "Indian" costumes in the week leading to Thanksgiving, are not characters in a play, or people of the past. They are the Wampanoag Tribes— learn their history today.

"In 1692 the Wampanoag Tribe Had Its Own Agenda: In American lore, friendly Indians helped freedom-loving colonists. In real life, the Wampanoags had a problem they didn’t know how to fix." By David J Silverman in The Atlantic

"The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue",by Clair Bugos in Smithsonian Magazine. Interview with the above author.

"Do American Indians celebrate Thanksgiving?" by Dennis Zotigh in Smithsonian Magazine

WATCH People of the First Light, Thanksgiving: A Native Perspective on Youtube

Donate

Donate to the Native-Run Land Conservation program in New England

Donate to the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project

Donate to the Native American Rights Fund

Support, learn, and donate to the Wampanoag Tribes directly:

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. Mashpee MA. Culture & History, Donate, Facebook,

Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe. Plymouth MA. History , Donate , Instagram , Facebook, Twitter

Chappaquiddick Wampanoag Tribe. Edgardtown, MA History , Donate , Instagram, Facebook

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Y’all

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I would love to be in the pit for the Fort Worth ritual but I fear I am too smol and won’t be able to see. Also the tickets are probably way more than my dad is willing to pay for a Xmas present.

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With that tour announcement, that’s my Xmas list settled lol

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Having thoughts:

So, Copia becomes Frater Imperator and wants to revive his brothers, since Sister can't say shit. He does so, and they return as ghouls. Primo's element is earth, Secondo's is fire, and Terzo is quint.

Copia doesn't treat them as lesser beings he still sees them as his brothers, just bigger and scarier.

So, a ghoul's way of having fun is to play fight. And I don't mean light hearted wrestling, shoving matches. I mean full on, beating the shit out of each other, throwing each other into walls and furniture. Ghouls have an insanely high pain tolerance to the point, where biting feels more ticklish than painful. Holy objects/water and stabbing are more hurtful and harmful than a mere punch to the face.

One day, Copia's making his rounds, making sure everything is okie dokie, nobody needs help with stuff, duties are being done etc. He's walking down a hall when he hears a pretty loud thud against a wall in a room. Curious, he pokes his head in the door:

Secondo and Terzo are in the midst of a fighting match. Copia watches as Secondo gets thrown against a wall again, and headbutts Terzo.

"You hit like a kid, fratello!"

"... Three seconds to take that back."

Copia knows this is perfectly normal ghoul behavior, he's seen it thousands of times. He's not even concerned when they start laughing manically as they're exchanging blows. He just wishes they'd take it outside, because this will now be the third hole that's gonna have to be fixed, and he's still learning to assert his authority. Maybe Primo can give him some advice...

MINORS DNI.