Duke and Holloway Consume My Brain

Liv//they/she//posting silly things on my silly little starkid blog//ao3: @memoriesaremine// I take requests and my dms are always open//follow from @booksandolivebranches

[memories-are-mine]

Intro Post

Hi everyone! So since I’ve gotten a decent amount of new followers lately and I’ve literally never done this before even though I probably should’ve, and because of the stream there are a lot of new people joining the SK fandom, so here’s my really really long overdue intro post: 

My name is Liv, I’m 20 and use they/she pronouns 

I’m a writer for this fandom and you can find my ao3 account under @memoriesaremine 

My writing can all be found both here on tumblr and on there and is not really well organized so sorry about that, but there’s a lot of canon fics and OC fics that I’ve made in collaboration with other writers on here. I also take fic requests for pretty much any ship except the ones I’ve listed below 

Feel free to talk to me about anything Starkid, Tin Can Bros, or Shipwrecked Comedy! My specialties are the Hatchetfield shows + Nightmare Time and I will happily gush to you about that for hours 

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BLOG RULES: 

DNI IF - you’re any form of homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist. Basically don’t talk to me if you’re a bigot and we’ll get along fine 

ALSO DNI if you ship tedgens or barnroe, I do not like them and barnroe is a ship that especially really upsets me, so please don’t. 

ASK RULES: 

Ships/characters I will write for: Most of them! I’ll leave it up to my individual discretion but I’m pretty open except for the DNI ones. I will also do literally any ship involving my OCs for those who are familiar

Ships/characters I will NOT write for: Anything where Hidgens is a hero, tedgens, barnroe

And just a note: please tag your DSMP posts!! happy to have you all here but if you are here from that fandom please do remember to be respectful of Starkid and tag your posts regarding DSMP. Thanks!! 

[vltra7-deactivated20231230]

Life is so funny for putting me on tumblr. But it makes sense

[down-therabbithole]

Everyday I fall more in love with Zebulon & Effie Mucklewain.

[aleshakills]

I don’t think you’re ready to have an adult conversation about politics until you’re able to admit that there are things you love and enjoy that would not and should not exist in a just world. $8 billion dollar budget movies every other month don’t exist in a just world. New 900 GB AAA video games every year don’t exist in a just world. Next day delivery doesn’t exist in a just world. 80 different soda brands don’t exist in a just world. 

All of those things come from exploitation on some level, and if you wouldn’t trade those for a world where everyone can eat and have a home no matter who they are or what they do, I don’t know what to tell you. 

[captain-acab]

Man, this post makes me feel conflicted, because on the one hand, of the things listed, next-day delivery is the only one that DOES actually exist in the world today. The others are exaggerations, and while I understand the point being made, they do detract from it.

I understand—and agree with—that sentiment of, “I want slower deliveries by drivers who are paid better,” as one recent tumblr post put it. I absolutely agree with the idea that we need to produce and consume less as a culture, and that an actual substantive conversation about politics should involve willingness to relinquish the many modern luxuries that are built on exploitation.

I don’t think these are good examples of those luxuries, though.

Large budget movies are possible because consumers (and investors) are willing to pay for them. A large budget is actually a necessary component in making sure workers are being adequately compensated; the fact that they currently are often exploited by studios is a result of deliberate misallocation of resources, not anything intrinsic to the size of the production. Same thing goes with high-quality video games. As for releasing a new film/game every month/year, that’s only unsustainable because there’s only a handful of monopolistic studios doing it. In a well-regulated industry that encourages growth and competition, we could see tens, if not hundreds of studios producing big-budget films and games. And, with a well-compensated and socially-supported citizenry, consumers would have enough disposable income to support it.

Similarly, the problem with soda isn’t that we have 80 brands; it’s that we have two. And those two brands each own 800 different labels. In a healthy economy, these monopolies would be dissolved, and we could support well over 80 moderately-sized independent beverage companies producing their own sodas.

Same-day delivery, again, could be easily supported with proper allocation of resources. Currently, we have huge centralized distributors like Amazon exploiting gig-workers with slave-wages to ferry cheap mass-produced crap to people, and that’s what makes it bad, not the speed at which they do it. If instead, we had something like a super-robust USPS, with well-compensated deliverypeople working reasonable hours within a decentralized network of independent-but-cooperative suppliers, there would be absolutely no reason why you couldn’t get something delivered to you from the distro ten miles down the road within a day.

When we critique capitalism, and they respond, “Yeah, well capitalism made the cell phone you’re using!” our response shouldn’t be, “Oh shit u right,” it should be, “No, capitalism made the cell phone I’m using break after a year so I’ll buy a new one, and they use slave labor to do it while they pocket the rest.”

There are luxuries, and there are artificially-valued, mass-produced, built-to-break trash that are marketed as luxuries. But we don’t solve the problems of fast-fashion by saying, “Welp I guess I shouldn’t wear clothes.”

[eldritch-flame]

Okay everybody, this is your reminder to not pirate or bootleg Cinderella’s Castle

So what if you need to wait an extra week or two for digital tickets? Starkid posts all of their shows for free regardless, you can be a little patient

Trying to avoid spoilers? Use Tumblr’s filter system. Filter out the spoiler tags

Do not pirate from the small theatre company

[shoe109]

[memories-are-mine]

Really glad Sam Reich is taking accountability and speaking up about this important issue. Disappointed it got this far 😭😣

Interstitial abuse isn’t funny guys

[ace7librarian]

I want to marry each and every person who made some sort of content with Duke and Wilbur. I'll never be sick of this, please continue.

[pianofirepirate]

both Brian Murphy and Curt Mega are the same type of hot

[myvoide]

Doomsday In Wonderland

So our DM (@warriorblood1) sent a very ominous message refencing wonderland and it prompted me to fling our party into the roles of various characters

mostly used the mouse's designs just with more detail but i hate the queens design in the movie so i also used Alice in the country of hearts bc i read one book as a kid and could never find it again and naturally became obsessed

characters from top to bottom, left to right

Eli (Eliazer) - Alice Art (Artillery) - White rabbit Pip (Perekip) - Mad Hatter Atha (Athalia) - March Hare Drevil - Cheshire Cat Quian - Queen of Hearts

[warriorblood1]

@zeldapix @snaill-dragon @memories-are-mine @emothenerd @eggman-babey

[massacre-girlypop]

You know a lot of people talk about Matt Brennan and Aabria as being amazing DMs and PCs and especially Emily Axford being a PC extraordinaire, but you know who doesn’t get nearly enough credit?

MURPH!!!

Murph is one of the best D&D homies ever and not nearly enough people give him the credit he deserves.

Murph built a tanky gummy bear man who couldn’t do a ton of damage, but could withstand an ENTIRE ARMY of dudes because his AC was so goddamn high

Murph constantly rolls below average, but is so good at playing his characters that no matter what he rolls he’s incredibly entertaining to watch.

Murph has so many unique and clever concepts for ANY games and characters he makes or plays and is truly inspiring to watch.

Murph fucking kills it on NADDPod and his worlds are so freaking cool and creative.

People don’t recognize how much Murph knows about D&D and how creative he is when it comes to role playing games in general and it’s about time people see how dope his play style is.

[violetheart77]

(inspiration)

[1wn8ure]

FAVORITE INTREPID HERO?

you know them, you love them- time for them to battle it out

Which hero takes the cake?

Emily Axford

Lou Wilson

Ally Beardsley

Zac Oyama

Brian Murphy

Siobhan Thompson

Voting ended onFeb 8, 2023

this is all for fun, I’m curious to see y’all’s thoughts :D

[syb-rooks]

Besties, who's gonna come with me to beat up gerard 's parents for convincing him he was a bad kid because he *looks at notes* yelled a lot and run around too much, and then never looking for him when he disappeared? We can get McDonalds afterwards <3

[mutechild]

HE WAS TEN

[szollibisz]

There's a lot of controversy over the new Velma show, so I'm just gonna butt in and tell everyone to go watch the Solve-it squad returns if you want to see a "scooby doo, but they're grown up/there's adult humour" kinda show. It's great, it's actually funny, there is a sandwich trick(!!!) the creators don't hate trans people and Brian Rosenthal makes out with a wig on stage.

This is peak theatre and ya'll are hypeing up some shit show again

[brionbroadway]

moment in the woods

Gerard reflects on his wedding day during his conversation with Ylfa at The Golden Chair.

“They’d said the same words as young teenagers in the woods, a princess and a frog, but much more than that. Two people realizing, for the first time, with stupid, giddy, naïve excitement, that the love they’d read about in stories was real. And the two of them, against all odds, got to experience it together.

Remembering that thrill, Gerard followed his wife into the woods.”

gerard/elody, gerard & ylfa, angst and romance. 1.5K. 

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