[dandeliont3aandsageleaves]

"Brennan is the best game changer contestant" this "Brennan is so competitive" that

Okay well I've never watched in fear as Brennan hit a bong full of whisky for a game changer now have I

[themaidenofwords]

Brennan plays the game to win and be funny doing it.

Ally plays the game like a jester who is trying to see how strong the protections against being executed are.

[fencecollapsed]

rotating something particular about paulkins in my brain... Emma has meaning in her life outside of Paul. she has a passion to pursue, grief and guilt and trauma to process, strained relationships to build and mend. Paul doesn't have much going for him outside of Emma. she brings meaning and motivation to his life, she's central to his character. to Paul, Emma is a guiding light. when he loses her, he loses his way. he becomes something else.

to Emma, Paul is an anchor. he grounds her, he keeps her steady. Emma will be doing what she's doing, whether he's with her or not. she'll come back home, she'll work, she'll study, she'll try to engage with her family, she'll pursue her dream. Paul has nothing to do with those things, but his presence makes them easier. he's a pleasant constant she can look forward to seeing at her shitty job. he's a buffer to support her and back her up with her family. he's a listening, understanding ear. he's an encouraging squeeze to the shoulder. he's someone who sees her for who she is and lets her be, he's a safe place. Paul is Emma's first real connection, the one successfully meaningful relationship she has. Paul is Emma's proof that coming back to Hatchetfield was worth it. when Emma loses Paul, she loses her anchor. she loses the thing that makes her efforts feel worthwhile.

there's something about how in paulkins' tragedies, Emma is the one we tend to see really experience losing Paul. even if the rest of her life is left intact, even if she seemingly gets her dream handed to her on a silver platter, it means less when it coincides with losing him. she still wants it, and she'll still do it, but there's a hollowness to it when she has no one to share it with.

[catbritta]

he’s a beautiful boy💓💖🩷💘

[kiwiforg]

he actually said this

[ammnd]

Sir hop a lot ✨✨dramatize ✨✨

[ricky-mortis]

It’s the perfect place for a picnic!

[cc-tinslebee]

Grace Chasity is truly the character of all time. She’s a strict Christian. She’s a totally freak. She’s She’s THE nerdy prude. She’s hunting down perverts and killing them for sport. She’s on a holy mission. Said mission is being funded by five guys who are “worse than the Devil”. She’s Max’s perfect opposite. She becomes exactly what Max became.

and to top it all off, it’s not like Grace Chasity truly fell from grace over the course of the show. she was lowkey insane to begin with. she has one (1) horny thought and goes “I need to obliterate the man who’s making me feel this way”. she organises a humiliation hit on him. she jumps straight to “here’s exactly how we’re gonna bury the body” after he accidentally gets himself killed. her little dance moves? the way she’s so conniving and into all of this devious planning? Grace Chasity was never truly the “good girl” and that’s part of why her character is SO much fun

[nin-ei]

Save me God of War Ragnarok (Prints available here)

[whitesheepwrites]

God of War, of all games, acknowledging and making loot gremlin behavior canon is so fucking funny. Kratos canonically wanders off mid-missions to break random chests and steal from coffins. Atreus copies him. Atreus defends him by saying "well he likes be throughout," while his dad is behind him demolishing every vase in the room for a few gow equivalent of cents, instead of simply reaching inside or toppling them over. Hilarious concept and execution.

[princessnoctis]

thinking about how much atreus looks like young deimos. heart broken.

[angstandhappiness]

DUDE

[heavenlymorals]

!!!!SPOILERS FOR GHOST OF YOTEI!!!!

I finished playing Ghost of Yotei and I'm genuinely fucking devastated. Out of all the characters that didn't deserve to die, Jubei, the one who deserved to die the least, is like the only one to get fucking killed in this game.

There is something genuinely so tragic about that. Atsu gave her life away for her vengeance because she thought she had nothing left. She'd go to the mainland and train and fight and stay alive more through luck than anything else in order to come back strong enough to kill the Yotei Six for what they did to her family. She would play her mother's shamisen when she returns home. She would strengthen her blade in her father's forge. She would stack rocks like her brother because he liked doing it when he was a child.

She has absolutely nothing but her vengeance and she tells us herself that once she kills the Yotei Six, she'll join her family on death. Suicide.

But then she meets her brother once more. He was never dead, just like her. But Jubei was of a more gentle breed than Atsu could ever be. Jubei would see the sprouting of seedlings in scorched earth while Atsu would be blinded by tears of visceral rage and see only smoke and ash.

Jubei decided to live a different kind of life. He became a Samurai and well respected for being as kind as he is fair. He builds his life to be a protector of the north. Lord Kitamori. He has a beautiful estate inside the walls of the castle. He has men who respect him. He had a wife, even though she would later die. And he has a wonderful daughter.

As Atsu says: he did well for himself.

Unlike Atsu, who is so torn up for revenge, Jubei sees what else life has to offer and decided that that is far more valuable than vengeance.

Atsu says she has no one left. She says that she is doing it all for her family. But her family didn't all die. Jubei and his niece is right there and her world must be tearing itself apart because she dedicated her life to this quest of vengeance but now she sees that she isn't completely alone. Her brother is still alive and he is doing well.

But she is too obsessed with vengeance. It doesn't even really matter that he is alive or not. It doesn't even matter is she makes things worse for him and the life he built. She exists only for vengeance. And this happens over and over again throughout the story, whether its completely disregarding him or using him for her own means. It's like her brother doesn't even exist because he's been dead for so long to her.

So then comes the stand at Matsumae castle against the Dragon. He begs her to let it go, to help him save his home and her niece and focus on the living. But Atsu can't do that. She abandons him for her vengeance, a vengeance that he was a reason for, and she kills the Dragon, sure, but at the cost of everything.

Only then does she see that she made a mistake once her brother and Oyuki are captured. And Jubei is tortured. He is weak. And Atsu saves him and begs him to help her and he agrees, even if begrudgingly because though she may abandon him for the dead, he will never abandon her because she is the living.

So even though when she fights Saito, she tells him to leave, he jumps back in to save her like the wolf once he realizes that Saito is overpowering her. Because unlike Atsu, he could never abandon his sister.

And that just fucking kills me because Atsu finding Jubei and Kiku is perhaps the best thing that could ever happen to her because after she gets her shit together, she realizes that they are the reason to keep living and she gives up her sword for a more peaceful life.

For Jubei, finding Atsu alive is the worst thing that could've happened to her because he lost everything. His home, his strength, and then his life because he values the living far more than vengeance for the dead.

He did so well for himself and it was all ripped away from him because his sister was so hellbent on revenge that she could only see his worldview when it was far too late.

Like fahhh man 😔

[gracechastities]

Welcome to Hatchetfield.

Take a look at Solomon Lauter's latest attempt to increase tourism to Hatchetfield - an illustrated tourist guide! Too bad someone - his daughter, maybe, or one of those other teen rascals - got a hold of the first copy and marked it up for their own use. And... why are some of the buildings on the map... glowing? City Hall can't afford re-printing any of this...

Welcome to Hatchetfield, the setting for Team StarKid's Hatchetfield musicals series, including The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, Black Friday, Nerdy Prudes Must Die, Workin' Boys, and the Nightmare Time series.

This fan-created map includes all canonical locations - some are featured locations labeled in the map key section, while others were lovingly added on the map in handwriting, as if written by your favorite character.

Available for purchase here.

Made with Inkarnate and licensed for sale using the commercial license!

[whoareyoueventhough]

hey guys dont think about how Max saying "the skeleton was really special" was probably the first and only compliment Ruth ever got on her acting and how it probably at least in part gave her the confidence to practice the monologue and how Maxs boos must have hurt so much more from the one person who had enjoyed her theatrical side. Don't think about that

[coloredlion]

coming to terms

[lyovpple]

Recordé que me gusta mucho NPMD

[coloredlion]

could you forgive yourself, seeing what you’ve become?

Close up and alt background color bc I’m indecisive

[reneerapps]

Nerdy Prudes Must Die   —   Starkid,  2023 The Fallen Angel   —   Alexandre Cabanel,  1847