We're doing this again.

Sideblog for both Warriors (2024) and The Warriors (1979). I follow from @rainydayscribbling. Very gay. He/They/It/Neos.

[rembrandts-neckerchief]

Hooooly hell.

It’s finally done. The project I’ve been working on on and off for months is done.

I think I need to lie down.

Still Breathin’, an animatic.

don’t be discouraged by the thumbnail, i cannot do custom thumbnails

REBLOGS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED

[zee-bean]

"When we all come home alive" being a prominent lyric in a show where you've got main characters that are queer and women of color

[rembrandts-neckerchief]

I love the line "there’s a gun and he’s pulling it out" because of the inversion of the way one would assume it would be said, "he’s pulling out a gun." It really shows Cleon’s tunnel vision in that moment, she is panicked and is only perceiving the world in bits. Of course she would notice the gun, an object that should not be there and is dangerous, before the motion of pulling it out!!

[cxsmic30]

a rembrandt

[rembrandts-neckerchief]

you like my shirt?

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

one of the big stagey things the Warriors album doesn't have is an act break. i like the idea of putting one being between the tension of Still Breathin' and the energy of Quiet Girls, but we can ramp it up. maybe Cleon's and Masai's argument is intercut with vignettes of other crews (Hurricanes, Rogues, Bizzies, Furies) getting the call to go to war like echoing "What do you do when they kill everything you believe in"

and then start of act ii but before they reach the Hurricanes' platform, maybe Cochise gets a moment to summarize what's happening. this would both give Cochise an actual moment to shine, and fits with her being the only historically minded Warrior, citing Wilma Rudolph later

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

@subwaylesbians frothing at this!!!!!!: #admittedly it usually plays film-style in my head as I listen (<- film major)#which is one of the reasons I love hearing from people who are curating entire theatrical productions in their head#that said the one thing I am so so sold on is that towards the end of reunion square where philippa soo’s voice is layered twice over#from and we’re both on the floor/I look to my right#someone (presumably off-stage) has to sing the lower harmony. and for thematic reasons I need it to be ajax so so badly#fox is very literally filling the space left by ajax’s arrest in stepping into her role as fighter#but she’s also picking up the mantle of righteous anger we see from ajax in sick of runnin’/park at night#in general I think she models​ herself a bit on ajax - especially when she wants to be tough. and this scene is the ultimate expression#of that. but it also gives them a shared moment as the two warriors who don’t make it home due to police violence#and finally just that them sharing the ‘swan would have beat him but I am no swan’ line would kill me#would the audience be aware of any of this? nope! but it is important. to me

[asthedeathoflight]

Okay no way because ive actually had this exact same thought about Ajax picking up the other part in Reunion Square but I'm chiming in as a theater person to say that when you say the audience wouldn't be aware of any of this you're simply not thinking big enough. Like I love what you've got here but I'm here to say we can go farther.

Because there are a bunch of scenes which require people to be onstage but not quite onstage, most notably the DJ but also luther in the interlude. So the set needs a fun little side platform (every set's gotta have at least one) to be the 'dj booth.' And if the DJ booth is already there, and you've already established to the audience that characters in the dj booth are not literally present, then there's no reason not to put Ajax there for that part of Reunion Square. Its fun for whoever's playing Ajax too to actually get to play those lines and lean over the railing like she can somehow stop what's about to happen just by being there with Fox in that moment. And yes it definitely makes that verse hit harder if Ajax is saying it too because so much of it does make sense coming from her as well as Fox, especially the Swan would have beat him but I am no Swan line.

And then Ajax is already in the DJ booth when the DJ comes in to do same train home (and i can see that, too, the moment of silence before she starts to sing and a hand on Ajax's shoulder because this was all a little bit her fault too) so she can join in (i have thoughts about splitting up Same Train Home to give parts of it to Ajax and Fox) and she and Fox get to have a little silent character beat in the dj booth of being together again. And they get to hang out and watch Finale, too, until the Riffs arrive and Cyrus shows up in the booth and takes Fox's hand and nods to Ajax that it's time for her to go because she survived, and they didn't.

[rembrandts-neckerchief]

we need to talk more about disabled cyrus (and masai but that’s another story)

[cxsmic30]

OKAYYY

[subwaylesbians]

masai condescendingly referring to cleon as “miss”, and then a moment later cleon using it as an honorific when referring to cyrus, is such a slick way of acknowledging his hypocrisy without so much as breaking the flow of her argument

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

not to think too much about disabled Cyrus, but let’s think too much about disabled Cyrus

firstly the evidence: 1, it would be rad. 2, there's a whole song making way for her, where at her own party she needs time to get where she's going. 3, "Cyrus said you can't survive alone, you need your team"

now here's how i've been thinking about how it affects everything. i think there's a tendency in non-disabled folk to unconsciously discriminate right up until the disabled person passes some threshold of afforded humanity, at which point all of these folk's unhomed theoretical allyship gets over-attributed to this one disabled person. they're put on a pedestal, usually metaphorical, Cyrus's happens to be real. now since Cyrus didn't ask for this, and since she's been around long enough and has worked hard enough to tell her own accomplishments from the sainthood her crew has invested in, what she chooses to do with her power is share.

but at the end of the day, she's still a Black disabled woman, and for all everyone says about how much they believe her, their narrative about her as a victim is just so perennially hair trigger. the reason it's so hard for a lot of them to even reconcile what happened is all that "look at this proof i don't hate Black disabled women" they wear is gone. for them it's like what was the point of those few seconds' patience they put in for her using mobility aids or needing sign language translation or whatever. and they take it out on the other women of color (maybe also disabled!)

a lot of this power to me is in the moment of a person used to their disability essentially saying hey, i know what we need, but i also know you're not gonna really listen to me yet, not the actual essence of what i'm saying, and that's ok but here's the practical stuff we need first and when you're ready to put in the work, my words are right here

[witawwy-ponyboy-curtis]

are masai and cyrus doomed yaoi

[rembrandts-neckerchief]

we need to talk more about disabled cyrus (and masai but that’s another story)

[asthedeathoflight]

Oh it's so serious. It's so extremely serious.

[asthedeathoflight]

And the director they got specializes in experimental and immersive theater.... Guys this is SO serious

[asthedeathoflight]

AND THE CHOREOGRAPHER FROM HAMILTON!!!!

[gay-barbarian]

Thinking about Cleon who didn't mind people smoking, even smoke herself when stressed, who now can't hear the click of a lighter without stopping herself from flinching

[parasitoidism]

being a fan of something with like 30 total fans on tumblr is funny bc you get like 12 notes on a post and you're like wow the gang's all here

[flowersandskeletons526]

If you are talking about the movie then tag the movie. If you are not talking about the album then do not tag the album. I don't care if you said the word album once in your monster of a post, KEEP THE SHIT SEPARATE!!!!!!

[rembrandts-neckerchief]

Crying at your reblog tag idk why but I find that so funny dude

Thanks 👍 love the original film even though it’s definitely a product of its time in some ways