meep mop

a lot of my drawings of musicals

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archduke ferdinand’s assassination was the result of time travel

okay, hear me out: first there’s the fact that the bomb thrown by one of the assassins bounced off Ferdinand's carriage (what) and exploded, but didn’t kill anyone important. anyway, said assassin tries to commit suicide by cyanide pill, but for some reason, it’s defective. the assassin then tries to commit suicide by throwing himself off a convenient bridge, but the river happens to be four inches deep so he’s fine, and the police just take him out and bring him to jail. anyway, ferdinand takes a different way to give his speech, and the assassins kind of disperse. after his speech, ferdinand decides to visit the people hurt by the bomb. a general decides that the carriage will go a different way to the hospital then planned to avoid danger, but he forgets to tell the driver. the driver makes a wrong turn. one of the assassins, Princip, happens to be at this cafe RIGHT where they make the wrong turn--but that’s not the weirdest part--the engines stall, and the GEARS LOCK right as the driver tires to turn around. Princip takes this ridiculously perfect opportunity and fires two shots, killing both Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, and sparking world war I. my theory is that a time traveler went back to prevent world war I, but b/c of the mounting tension, the war still happened and ended up being worse and bloodier than it had when it started with the ferdinand’s assassination, so the same time traveler has to go back and ruin his past self’s attempts to save them. thank you for listening to my ted talk.

@buzzfeedunsolved where’s my episode

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what she says: I’m fine

what she means: assuming Amber Von Tussle is 17, which is Tracy’s age in the Hairspray movie, and Hairspray takes place in 1962, Amber’s birth year would be 1945. In “Mama I’m a Big Girl Now” she says “Once upon a time I used to dress up Ken”, referencing Ken from the Barbie doll line. Barbie first was introduced in 1959, which means Amber would be 14 when she first got one. Ken wasn’t even introduced until 1961, making Amber 16 when she could have gotten one. Amber would not have gotten a children’s toy at 14 or 16 or even any age after 10, considering her mother. Amber also makes a references to “Gidget”, specifically Gidget going to Rome. Gidget was an American sitcom that first aired 3 years after Hairspray takes place. Gidget going to Rome was a novel that was published before the sitcom, but it was published in 1963, which is still a year after Hairspray is over. Amber and her mother are time travelers who did not do their research, but I did. They’re caught. I cannot put up with these lies any more.

[orion-rising]

Before the sitcom Gidget was a movie and before that a novel. The first movie came out in 1959, three years before Hairspray takes place. The novel was published two years before that in 1957. It is reasonable to assume most people in the early sixties would be familiar with the movie as it had a large influence on American culture at the time, enough that it still airs on classic movie channels today. While yes, Gidget Goes to Rome the movie (the book was a novelization of the original screenplay) did come out in August of 1963, Mrs. Van Tussel is involved enough in the entertainment industry that she might very well keep her ear out for casting opportunities especially in a film franchise that had already changed leads once the way the Gidget one did. There have since been nine women who portrayed Gidget on film, television, and stage. Furthermore Amber Van Tussel strikes me as the sort of person who would toss out information like that in an effort to impress upon other people her imagined importance in the industry. As if to say, “Oh you didn’t know? Gidget goes to Rome in the third movie.”

The Ken line strikes me as more of a topical and timely joke than a literal account of experience. But I don’t care as much about the history of the Ken doll as I do mid-century American youth cenima.

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I am living for the detail in this response. thank u for your insight. you have valid points, but I’m still hung up on the whole barbie thing. just is very suspicious….

[orion-rising]

I’m not going to lie, I just spent like 20 minutes reading up on the history of Barbie, Ken, Elliot Handler, and fashion dolls to see if I could find, like, a male fashion doll that Ken could have feesibly replaced in the popular conscious (because I have to get up early tomorrow and worrying about getting enough sleep while not sleeping is what I do best.) As far as I can tell there is not, although this was only a quick dip into the history of Barbie and fashion dolls (please someone ask me about the birth of the fashion doll and their post WWII revival.)

As I mentioned before, in light of the timeline of the show I can reasonably write off the Ken line as a “This is what kids do now” sort of thing rather than a personal account of childhood. Or even that Mrs. Von Tussle did in fact get a sixteen year old Amber a Ken doll because Ken is white and Mrs. Von Tussle was attempting to instill in Amber a racist view of idealized white malehood.

tho honestly at this point “time travelers” prolly makes more sense

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I can definitely see Mrs. Von Tussle doing that lmao. On an unrelated note, I am so glad to find I am not the only person who does way too much improptu research for the sake of historical accuracy. Like this is undoubtedly, of all 3,198 notes, the best response. (ps I would love to hear about the birth of the fashion doll and post WWII revival)

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what she says: I’m fine

what she means: assuming Amber Von Tussle is 17, which is Tracy’s age in the Hairspray movie, and Hairspray takes place in 1962, Amber’s birth year would be 1945. In “Mama I’m a Big Girl Now” she says “Once upon a time I used to dress up Ken”, referencing Ken from the Barbie doll line. Barbie first was introduced in 1959, which means Amber would be 14 when she first got one. Ken wasn’t even introduced until 1961, making Amber 16 when she could have gotten one. Amber would not have gotten a children’s toy at 14 or 16 or even any age after 10, considering her mother. Amber also makes a references to “Gidget”, specifically Gidget going to Rome. Gidget was an American sitcom that first aired 3 years after Hairspray takes place. Gidget going to Rome was a novel that was published before the sitcom, but it was published in 1963, which is still a year after Hairspray is over. Amber and her mother are time travelers who did not do their research, but I did. They’re caught. I cannot put up with these lies any more.

[orion-rising]

Before the sitcom Gidget was a movie and before that a novel. The first movie came out in 1959, three years before Hairspray takes place. The novel was published two years before that in 1957. It is reasonable to assume most people in the early sixties would be familiar with the movie as it had a large influence on American culture at the time, enough that it still airs on classic movie channels today. While yes, Gidget Goes to Rome the movie (the book was a novelization of the original screenplay) did come out in August of 1963, Mrs. Van Tussel is involved enough in the entertainment industry that she might very well keep her ear out for casting opportunities especially in a film franchise that had already changed leads once the way the Gidget one did. There have since been nine women who portrayed Gidget on film, television, and stage. Furthermore Amber Van Tussel strikes me as the sort of person who would toss out information like that in an effort to impress upon other people her imagined importance in the industry. As if to say, “Oh you didn’t know? Gidget goes to Rome in the third movie.”

The Ken line strikes me as more of a topical and timely joke than a literal account of experience. But I don’t care as much about the history of the Ken doll as I do mid-century American youth cenima.

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I am living for the detail in this response. thank u for your insight. you have valid points, but I’m still hung up on the whole barbie thing. just is very suspicious....

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it’s October, so please remember

this is the month that skeletons are most notorious for stealing your girl

please keep her safe

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catholics are so funny because we don’t say stuff like ‘oh my god’ but we say ‘fuck’ every other word

[impulsemuseum]

ass-mar

[marcusspector]

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his little laugh as he fixes his glasses

hands down best character

[pro-diversity]

english teacher: why is there so much conflict throughout history?

me:

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this is wildly incorrect, and to be honest? this is really offending me. I see incorrect posts like this a lot and it’s really troubling. I wish people put some research into their posts before they publish them on the internet for everyone to see. you all need to think and do your own research before you reblog and agree with things like this. if you did your research, you’d know the lyric is “straight white male”

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y’all

can we please stop ignoring the fact that connor murphy hit things and screamed about how he was going to kill his sister?? he’s not ur gay soft flower boy,, he was rly abusive to his family.

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♬ Eliza 

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life of pi: if you were stranded, would you be able to take care of yourself?

the lightning thief: what would you be the god/goddess of?

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pride and prejudice: are you romantic?

the princess bride: what's your best feature?

a raisin in the sun: what is your most important possession?

romeo and juliet: have you ever done anything ridiculous for love? what?

stargirl: do you value uniqueness?

the taming of the shrew: would you be willing to be in a relationship with someone who is very dominant?

the tell-tale heart: is there anything you feel guilty about right now? what?

to kill a mockingbird: do you believe something has value simply because it's beautiful?

twilight: how consistent are your feelings about people close to you?

watership down: do you think your right to life is any greater than an animal's?

the westing game: if you died now, what would you want to happen to your possessions?

[cungadero]

me: man i sure am hungry but i dont know what to eat

brain: then just fucking eat nothing

me: understandable have a good day

[damienhaaas]

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[science-junkie]

… and here is a gift for all of us.

[willque-deactivated20220826]

reblog so that everyone knows god bless

[apathetic-demon-deactivated2015]

I MADE AN ART MASTERPOST

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I made this most for my own benefit to organize this stuff, and have no idea how to make a masterpost!

[mslead]

Art ref

[czxw]

Reblogged so I have a chance of ever finding this again.

[butch-king-frankenstein]

My favorite thing about Thomas the Tank Engine is that it canonically takes place in a train post-apocalypse where the Island of Sodor is the only safe zone in a totalitarian dystopia in which steam trains are routinely killed and their body parts are sold or cannibalized for repair

If you think I’m kidding you need to read the original books

[co-rp]

could you please direct me to a source? i would feel much better if this was validated.

[butch-king-frankenstein]

It took me so long to find this quote online but I did it because it’s so much darker than one might expect from Thomas the Tank Engine:

“…Engines on the Other Railway aren’t safe now. Their controllers are cruel. They don’t like engines any more. They put them on cold damp sidings, and then,” Percy nearly sobbed, “they…they c-c-cut them up.” -”The Bluebells of England.”  Stepney the Bluebell Engine.  Rev. Awdry, Wilbert.  London: Egmont Publishing, 1963.

This illustration, by Gunvor and Peter Edwards, accompanied the above text in the original book, and depicts a pair of unfortunate Other Railway engines moments before being disassembled with a blowtorch.

[nightjarring]

HOLY FUCK LOOK AT THE ONE IN THE BACKGROUND THEY TOOK ITS FUCKING FACE OMG

[butch-king-frankenstein]

[zidane-xv]

the early thomas the tank engine books are pretty standard stuff. saccharine bubblegum type stories and illustrations. if you watched the show, it’s like that in book form. the second half of the railway series are so fucking dark and surreal i’m convinced they were a result of reverend wilbur awdry doing copious amounts of lsd and having hallucinations of his own death.

[butch-king-frankenstein]

Excuse me but the very first story in the Railway Series is about an engine who hides in a tunnel and refuses to run because he doesn’t want to get his paint job ruined in the rain, so railway management seals off the tunnel.

They eventually let him out because another engine breaks down or something, but the original plan was to just leave him in there forever.

[shulamithbond]

On the show, didn’t they also hook up one engine to a generator, so he’d never move again? That was literally one of the lines, I think. It’s on some other post on here. It was chilling.

[butch-king-frankenstein]

Yes!  This also happened in the books, to an engine referred to only as “No. 2″, but the television series applied the same scenario to an invented character named “Smudger”, in the episode “Granpuff”.

“Smudger,” said Duke. “Was a show-off. He rode roughly and often came off the rails. I warned him to be careful, but he took no notice.” “Listen, Dukie” he snared. “Who worries about a few spills?” “We do here! I said, but Smudger just laughed.” “Hahaha!” “Until one day, Manager said he was going to make him useful at last. Smudger stopped laughing then!” “W-w-why? What did he do?!” “He turned him into a generator. He’s still there behind our shed. He’ll never move again.”

[deducecanoe-deactivated20161213]

This is so fucked up

[unclewhisky-deactivated20150726]

No, listen.

Okay, so we see Railway Management doing all this shit, right, but supposedly it’s so much worse in the Other Railways? I mean, sure, you might get turned into a generator or bricked into a tunnel for not doing as you’re told, but at least you’re not cut up and sold for parts, right? It’s not so bad on the island of Sodor, right?

Or maybe that’s just what Railway Management wants the engines to think.

Maybe the island of Sodor is the real totalitarian regime, and the engine citizens (slaves) are fed propaganda, illustrated in hellish grays and sulfuric yellows, about how bad it is everywhere else, at all the Other Railways.

You are lucky to be an engine of Sodor.

Railway Management cares about you.

Trust Railway Management.

Stay on Your Track.

It Could Be So Much Worse.

[coralineandthesapphicfantastic]

Wtf the fuck is this train based 1984 bullshit

[squimbsquamb]

okay I was literally the only one who noticed this as a kid and was so confused that my little brother did not find it strange. thomas the train is some scary fucking shit.

[meangirlnurse]

sometimes i think about the fact that Dreamworks was working on the Prince of Egypt and Shrek at the same time and would apparently send people to work on Shrek instead of the Prince of Egypt as a form of punishment 

[meangirlnurse]

the night i posted this i couldn’t find a source and i’ve been wondering ever since if maybe it was just some kind of fucked up fever dream or something. but no, it’s real:

[somehow-you-will]

i learned something today