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Went and made a collage of the poster & stickers plus the gifts people were giving out on opening and closing night.
Thank you to everyone both in the show, and all the fans who made seeing it such an incredible experience! Hope to see you all again next time!!!
Was lucky enough to see The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals on the West End with my best friend and it was genuinely one of the greatest theatre experiences of my life! Everyone was so kind and chatty, and you could tell we all really wanted to be there and cared about the show
Highlights from closing night! (in no specific order)
Charlotte (or rather, Jamie lol) spilling the sugar over the stage floor and instead of mucking about with stuff on the desk, having to scoop it up to clean it, meaning Paul had to peer around to see her - I actually loved it so much it really made me giggle
The DRYNESS of the first office scene really set up how boring paul is, and Charlottes sudden secret cig sooo much more funny
TEDS ENTRANCEE OMGGGG i have never found borat funny but Joey let the pauses sit just the right amount and kept humping Jons leg I almost cried
MARIAHHHH i loved her voice in all her songs but Not Your Seed really hit different i was actually in awe
Paul getting choked out by Mr Davidsons phone wire
The Professors "Show stopping number" being soooo energetic and full of life, and how he went from being elderly to so bouncy. Also, how done Emma was with it and how much Ted was clearly enjoying it
I also loved the way Prof Hidgens pronounced some of his words like "football" and his air of wisdom that was so clearly fake
Corey is such a fantastic bass I kept getting destracted by his voice in group numbers it just adds so many layers, and he played being distraught over Alice SO WELL like in the first scene, on the phone, and ESPECIALLY just before he got shot
Charlotte and Sam's dance number was sooo well choreographed I didn't know who to watch there was SO MUCH HAPPENINGGG like initially they were acting all sexy and scary and then they just kept punching and kicking people it was great
Same with the scene with the cops people were getting thrown left and right it was hella impressive
Also shout out to all the wigs/ costume staying on because they took a LOT of shit (and rip joey and emmas hair both falling out by the end of act 1, the quif and pin up SUFFERED during the fight scenes)
The absolte JUMPSCARE that was the start of Act 2 omg i almost peed my pants
All the lil references to the rest of the Hatchetfield series - in the music like the nightmare time theme and some Neardy Prudes Must Die riffs - and in the costumes/set like having Ruth Pete and Max all make an apperance (my pookies) and all the signs in Hatchetfield high
Teds monologue about how Alice is dead, while clearly thinking about Pete OOOOO JOEY WHEN I CATCH YOUUUU he played it so well i teared up a bit
And i'm so glad the cast came back for a real final bow instead of just the staged one - they all did so incredibly well!!!
I cannot WAIT for the proshot but this london version will live in my heart forever. TGWDLM: Reprised you mean sooo much to me i will love you forever and ever
All this was utterly awesome and I am so glad that Lauren got to bow for the final show!
You missed out the best one for you me though. Which had to be Jeff's gun falling on stage during his first entrance as Sam and him yelling 'FUCK' completely in character!
I am so happy to have seen it and really hope they get to come back for more shows on the West End!
Amazing find in London today! No one in my family knows why I'm laughing but oh well!
ok i am curious. how long is the longest song in your library (not counting tracks that are like several songs in one file like a full album mix or symphony recording or whatever) (also if it is longer than 20 minutes say the name in the tags i am curious)
how long
< 3:00
3:00–3:59
4:00–4:59
5:00–5:59
6:00–6:59
7:00–7:59
8:00–11:59
12:00–15:59
16:00–20:59
21:00–24:59
25:00–30:00
≥ 30:00
ok i would like to clarify it has to be music and it can't just be a short song that's been looped a bunch. that still counts as several songs in one file, it's just several of the same song in one file. no audiobooks no podcasts no plants vs zombies theme 2 hour loop
For me that would be The Greatest Show On Earth by Nightwish clocking in at 24 minutes. The bits with Dawkins have aged poorly but overall it's brilliant.
It just beats The Legend of Elijah Shade by Arena which is 22:40 and is just an incredible prog experience. I cannot recommend this song, and really anything by Arena more, they are incredible!
So excited!!! It is just amazing to see this sandwiched between Hadestown and Oliver. Well done to Team Starkid and all involved!!!
Someone is super excited for the show to start!! Everyone has been so wonderful to hang out with in the queue too!
So excited!!! It is just amazing to see this sandwiched between Hadestown and Oliver. Well done to Team Starkid and all involved!!!
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I'd love to see more people get insane about Ayeron! Come on, we have:
-Evil sentient AI -Immortal beings experimenting on humanity/people to try to get a semblance of a self of self and emotions -Merlin dooming humanity because of his arrogance -People fleeing their dying planet and letting everyone they know to die -The last human being branched to a machine and experiencing the birth of the universe -Time manipulation -Really cool music overall
If you do start though, you can skip the albums Actual Fantasy, The Theory of Everything (though that one is amazing) and Transitus as they are not part of the main story
While the end note is true, these albums are all absolutely worth listening to. The Theory of Everything especially made me cry foe the first several listens because it hits me so hard in the heart. And on the opposite, Transitus makes me so damn happy, the ending alone lifts my spirits more than anything else!
What is your favourite voice role by Tim Curry?
Nigel Thornberry (The Wild Thornberrys)
Hexxus (Ferngully: The Last Rainforest)
Professor Finbarr Calamitous (Jimmy Neutron)
Forté (Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas)
Taurus Bulba (Darkwing Duck)
Captain Hook (Peter Pan and the Pirates)
Ben Ravencroft (Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost)
The Cat King (The Cat Returns)
Dr. Mystico (Freakazoid!)
Auntie Whispers (Over The Garden Wall)
Doviculus (Brütal Legend)
Other (reblog your answer)
Too many smashing voice roles to fit into one poll. Happy 80th birthday, you absolute legend!
As much as I'm tempted to put Hexxus, The Darkness from Legend absolutely wins for me!
everyone get in the avantasia car we're blasting tobias sammet's music while we're on our way to see avantasia live
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I need this car!!!
I call it “soft queerphobia”. It’s when you come out to your family and they don’t reject you OR encourage you, they just forget every few months again. I have come out to my father nine times
That's definitely how it feels with my dad. Meanwhile mum is a transphobe and when she isn't getting angry or upset at me being me, she is actively hoping that it's 'just a phase'. It's been 8 fucking years and it's not a phase. I don't think she realises how utterly miserable it makes me
Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book. It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.
there’s a timeskip
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!
IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH
AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because
THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING
AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA
BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM
HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -
IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK
#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick
yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.
i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.
Hey @phillipfancypants I am intrigued, go ahead and lay out your argument
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Okay so basically this all started in 10th grade when my English teacher (idk if this context is needed but she grew up in Yugoslavia in the ‘80s before moving to the US as a teen and she has a VERY thick accent. She’s about 6’4” and has huge black hair that sticks out all around her head. She’s the human embodiment of a corvid bird. Truly such a fascinating person) anyway she was talking about Lord of the Flies in class and mentioned that a few years ago some students of hers tried to convince her that the book couldn’t have taken place during WWII and that she didn’t believe them because “there have been no atomic bombs except during World War Two” and an atomic bomb is referenced as the inciting factor for why the boys were flying over a deserted island in the first place.
But the thing is, if you actually look at all the throwaway historical context details in the book, there is no logical way that it could have taken place in WWII. I realized that all clues point towards an alternate timeline where the Cold War turned hot. About halfway through the book I started bookmarking any scrap of information related the time period and it was getting to the point where each chapter took me twice as long to read because I would continually need to check various articles and Wikipedia pages to cross reference.
Eventually, I ended up writing a 5 -page paper picking the book apart for details which you can read here but I’ll also give you the individual points (a mixture of historical details and borderline headcanon):
Early on in the book, the boys mention that there are probably maps in “the Queen’s library” that show where they are—this was one of the first things that stuck out to me, as Elizabeth II didn’t become Queen until 1952, and WWII ended in 1945
Ralph mentions watching something on television at home. His dad, although a naval officer, would almost certainly not be able to afford a TV in 1945, BUT televisions were already popularized around the time of Lizzy 2’s coronation (or at the very earliest the 1948 London Olympics) and it’s believable that Ralph could have had one at home. There’s also some mentions around space travel/putting a man on Mars that would make more sense during the Cold War
I found Piggy’s character to be very interesting. For one thing, he’s introduced as being fat due to his Aunt owning a candy store (his parents are both dead). If you know anything about the sugar ration during WWII, you’d know that candy stores would have been non-operational and Piggy would probably not have had access to an excess of sweets.
Continuing with Piggy, I’d place his distinctive accent as either London Cockney or London Estuary. If Piggy was from London, he would have been evacuated to the British countryside via train (the same evacuations in which the Pevensies stay with their uncle in Narnia) long before the dropping of the atomic bombs. Here’s where the headcanon comes in: I’d be willing to bet that Piggy was evacuated to the countryside as a baby during WWII and both his parents were among the 27,000 killed in the London Blitz, hence why he now lives with his aunt. By assuming the years leading up to the book are peacetime instead of wartime, there’s no issue around the candy store.
And finally, the most compelling argument imo…WHY WOULD BRITISH BOYS BE EVACUATED AFTER VE DAY??? In the book, it’s very clear that the LOTF boys are being evacuated from their boarding school after an atomic bomb was dropped. Victory in Europe was May 8th, 1945. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August. In what world would British boys be evacuated by a plane traveling over tropical airspace (historically child evacuations in the UK were domestic and carried out by train) to protect them from a bomb dropped in Japan four months after the end of the war in Europe?? The only plausible explanation would be that the USSR dropped a bomb on an Allied power and the boys are being evacuated from Briton all together to avoid nuclear fallout and/or future bombings.
Final note, at one point the boys consider building a new plane and decide against the idea because they “might get shot down by the Reds” even though the soviets were literally allies with Britain during WWII. Do you know when they most certainly weren’t allies? The Cold War.
Anyway, I end up giving her this essay which she reads and then promptly says “these are all very interesting points, but there was STILL no nuclear bomb besides the ones dropped on Japan in World War 2” and I’m like “Yes!! I know this!! And I’m saying it’s an alternate future!!” But she never really seemed to understand what I was saying.
Anyway a few weeks ago I was at my job (I’ve been working IT some summers at my high school after I graduated) and I ran into her and she says “I was going through my desk and I found that essay you wrote on LOTF! I read it again and it was a really good argument piece, especially for a 10th grader.”
So of course I ask her “oh really? Well, were you finally convinced?”
And she basically says “it was good…but no :) <3”
And I have simply not known peace since.
Amazing song by Nightwish for those wanting something inspired by those six kids from Tonga. Especially love the line 'Every new day we beat the Lord of Flies' and the song fills me with hope every time I listen to it. Highly recommend it and the whole album honestly.
Bookshop called Ink and Ember not only having the book but a load of goodies to go with! Can't wait to start reading!!!
I'm no supporter of Starmer but I'm not gonna sit here and criticise him for actually doing the thing we've been begging him to do for months which is stand up to Trump.
I don't want the UK to be dragged into another illegal war that's going to end with millions dead and a country left in an even worse state than it was when we got there.
It's how Iraq ended.
It's how Vietnam ended.
It's how Iran is going to end.
I find it absolutely despicable that the Tories, Reform and most of the media are pushing so hard for a war that over half of the population does not support.
Let's be clear here, these aren't stupid people, they know full well that this war is going to be a complete catastrophe for the entire world and that getting us involved is a terrible idea, but that's the point.
Starmer's hanging by a thread and him getting us involved in Iran will not just be the end of his premiersh5 but also Labour as a political party.
This is opportunistic politics at it's absolute worst, throwing away the lives of people both here and in Iran all because they want to bring down a goverment that probably isn't even going to win the next election.
It's disgusting and reminds us exactly why we kicked the tory scum (that includes Reform) out of office in 2024.
Keir Starmer has my full backing on this one and I don't say that lightly as a Green voter.
Best way to start off the day! Still blows me away just how incredible this album is!
Credit to @world-of-tomorrow-dreams
Such a good album! Totally worth checking out!
Shout out to the TWO set medics on Iron Lung
After seeing what that man put himself though I bet they had only one and partway through filming they were like "yeah this guy is a hazard, can we get another in here?"
Do love that they had two medics. But my favourite from the credits (besides Henry being included in the family photos at the end) absolutely has to be 'Blood Wrangler'!
