. . . you cannot unsee.

leila • 23 • audhd • she/her • multifandom • mainly starkid & pulp musicals as of sep 2024 • paulkins, lautski and tadmore brainrot | current hyperfixation(s): hatchetfield (again) | songsofnoble, char1iesnick & buck1eysdiaz on twitter. asian drama blog: leilawatchesdramas AO3: songsofnoble

[stratfordsandthestars]

hi! thanks for checking out my tumblr - we have fun over here even tho i'm not super active all the time!

i'm leila! i'm 22, i live in the uk and i love starkid and pulp musicals. this account started out as a doctor who blog (you may recognise me as songsofnoble, which is my user on twitter still) but i'm not as obsessed w doctor who as i used to be and pulp musicals is now my main interest on tumblr tho i often post about other things (like some of my favourite tv shows) here and there.

i'm also over on @leilawatchesdramas where i post about the asian dramas i watch, as i adore kdramas particularly.

general DNI interact criteria applies - no trumpies, no lgbt+phobes, and if you're under 16 or don't have your age obviously on your profile somewhere, i likely won't follow you back. dni if you're pro-israel.

[meanbuddhist]

what they don’t tell you is that it lives inside you until you let it out

[hatchet-creek]

but...what will I let in if i...let it out?

[dulledtalons]

did anyone see in remount when hidgens uses alexa to dim the lights, charlotte is genuinely impressed by the feat, and so excited about it that she taps sam’s knee to try and get him to wake up and see the lights dim. and when hidgens brightens the lights again she applauds him for the show. and after the blue shit drops onto the ground and hidgens is looking for where it went, she points out where it is for him (and jaime does this in a way that’s still in-character by doing a small point to where the slime fell). charlotte. charlotte. charlotte please a nightmare time story about you. pleaseeee

[averagecygnet-blog]

say what you will about grace chastity taking up the worship of five eldritch demon-gods and devouring the souls of everyone she deems impure but at least she's nice to bill woodward at church

[subcultureblues]

yes fanfic has a reputation for being amateurish and self indulgent and YES a lot of this is writers falling in love with the craft for the first time like this is a sandbox and we’re sharing the toys it’s fun we’re having fun here but coming from someone really truly loves all manner of Grown Up literature NOBODY is giving enough credit to all the pseudoanonymous authors that log onto AO3 dot com to drop 30k of shatteringly incisive prose —and for no other reason then to upset you! They do it for FREE. For the love of the game

[angelwalking]

(source) its so funny how actual Greek and Homeric scholars are talking about this movie vs the fact that people on tumblr are acting like Nolan personally dug up Homer's actual bones and pissed on them

[lt-sparrow]

[princessmuk]

What must it feel like, to suddenly become aware of the audience around you? To suddenly notice all the room around you has disappeared and is replaced by a pale imitation, no furniture, no door, just a lit backdrop on an empty stage? What must it feel like, to see everyone watching you, laughing at you, ignoring your cries for help, watching you get dragged off stage to your death?

And then for it all to be reset, like nothing ever happened, and you forget, forget yourself completely to sing the opening number, dressed as yourself but not yourself, and you’re only truly present at your shitty dead-end barista job, where you meet a man that makes you smile, and your boss keeps referencing a line that isn’t there, and the coffee cups are empty, and over and over you make the same quips, ask the same questions, tell the same stories, until suddenly, it’s over, the apocalypse is here, and everyone’s singing, and you’re wandering through an alley way that feels almost alive, and then the man in front of you isn’t the man you knew, was never the man you knew, and neither are you, and suddenly—

Suddenly there’s a stage.

This happened to my good friend Emma Perkins

[stratfordsandthestars]

ted spankoffski i wanna put u in my pocket u strange wet dog of a man

[stratfordsandthestars]

i've said this before but i fear it is impossible to make a sherlock holmes adaptation and not have homoerotic tension between sherlock and john.

[rotund-squirrelmeister]

how are you feeling after enola holmes 3 op

because that was truly something 😭

is this a record? making them gay even though they probably only held about 3% of the franchise’s overall screentime. i mean establishing john and johnlock in (essentially) one movie with about 5 total minutes of screentime is just insane

[anne-adler]

the only way to make holmes and watson not homoerotic is to not give them shared screentime. and they kind of succeeded at that

[stratfordsandthestars]

tbf, they still managed to give them gay vibes even without them sharing screentime.

[starstruckbasementbread]

Every single time a new Sherlock Holmes adaptation drops the internet revives the whole "johnlock is alive and well" schtick and I go slowly insane parsing through text posts and screenshots tryna determine if it is ACTUALLY GAY or just aggressive subtext again...

I mean it when I say it, I WILL NOT be queerbaited by this ship! NOT AGAIN

(so if someone could tell me what degree of gay we're at in the new Enola Holmes movie that would be great, thanks!)

[stratfordsandthestars]

unfortunately, they don't actually interact on screen as sherlock is kidnapped for the duration of the movie and we infer most of their relationship and dynamic through dialogue - several lines made me go 👀

there is a scene in which enola and sherlock's mother meets both enola's love interest (her future son in law) and john watson and refers to them w almost the exact same line, however, omitting the son in law part for john.

[stratfordsandthestars]

i have mixed opinions on enola holmes 3 - gonna need to do a rewatch to properly articulate my thoughts i think but overall i enjoyed it.

[bibastibootz]

Enola Holmes 3 observations

✅ John is Sherlock's +1 at Enola's wedding ✅ John is the first to notice that Sherlock has been kidnapped ✅ "I care for him, too." ✅ John made tea for Sherlock so they could become friends, it failed and so John stopped ("It's making you unhappy, John. Let go."), so then Sherlock made tea for John instead and opens up to him ✅ Eudoria gives the same compliment to John as she gives to her actual son-in-law ✅ Sherlock calls John a "good man" ✅ basically: Johnlock is real and thriving in 2026 🌈

[rotund-squirrelmeister]

enola holmes is possibly the straightest adaptation of sherlock holmes there is, and yet. AND YET.

JOHNLOCK PERSISTS.

[kyhemis]

HE MADE TEA. John Watson made tea for Sherlock every day since they started living together and asked him about his cases, and when he stopped, Sherlock came to him with tea. Sherlock Holmes made tea for him and then told him about a case.

No one will ever know how much I freaked out, I really did, hearing that. Sherlock Holmes doing something for another person to connect socially with them without receiving anything in return and without, apparently, any ulterior motives.

Also: John's Diaries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And then Enola brought Tewkesbury a cup of something ( I don't care if it's tea or sewage water ) she, Enola Holmes, brought a cup of a drink to her love pair.

Fuck I love parallels. Holmes and their love language. The best? John was ready to give up on his tentative friendship and then Sherlock came with a cup of tea. Tewkesbury and Enola have a fight and he was, probably, ready to be abandoned and then she came with a cup of something.

Kill me.

[stratfordsandthestars]

i should finish punisher, i don't think i ever did 😭

[stratfordsandthestars]

words can't explain how much i need to see new lautski content from starkid asap. if we get nightmare time 3 i hope there's a story that features the nerdy prudes full stop.