hello :))) VHS Christmas Carols is a Starkid musical: 80s inspired retellings of 3 Christmas stories– Gift of The Magi, The Little Matchstick Girl, and A Christmas Carol!
there's an omniscient narrator in the form of the piano player (clark baxtresser) (who also wrote the show) and another onstage instrumentalist (meredith stepien) (who plays jacob marley), and it's very lighthearted but also very real and it does make me cry sometimes when i watch it :) most of the costumes are inspired by real life 80s trends; off the top of my head, Christmas Present is Wham!, Christmas Past is Jazzercise (i believe she's inspired by Olivia Newton-John?) and The Little Matchstick Girl is Cyndi Lauper!
they have their 2021 live released for free on youtube– just A Christmas Carol, not with the first act, and some of the 2024 songs posted on their Youtube as well! I've attached
i cannot identify every moth, and occasionally will seek help from the Internet, but for the most part, this will be coming from my knowledge of moths :))
tag me in posts of moths, or send descriptions or pictures in my asks!
i mean, to be honest, it was watching Celestial Spear and the celestial spear talkback. there really is something so compelling to me about these guys who share their whole lives with each other and have pack bonded for LIFE out of like. not great scenarios! and also sometimes there is a dwarf with a box to stand on to kiss tall girls and their detective partner is a tall girl looking to be kissed and then there is their orc #theirorc who they clamber all over and who supports them trying new things :)
What are your favorite things about the ship?
They're a goddamned bonded pair of three and they're going to SHOW IT. their dynamic as a group is so distinct in that they're ribbing each other a little, but they've got each other's backs ride or die about it! rosé manages the money, and york lets grendan experiment, and they let rosé have a family and they are all so there for each other even as they have a silly time!
Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
ohhhhh a good question. i don't know what opinions are popular or unpopular in this fandom! one of my headcanons is that when they go out for drinks, york is the functional one in getting them into a vehicle/getting his partners a way home, somehow. he might get lost for three days. they're waking up at home in the apartment with water and advil on the bedside table. not really an opinion more of a headcanon? idk
idk i think that they're. neat :) happy pride my queerplatonic polytectives
Superhero AU? (I am not familiar with this, invitation to talk about it)
i guess to be entirely clear it's more of a superpowers au– i alos call it my vigilante au. but anyway. pitch voice ahem ahem
ghost stories
80k of fig and gorgug being thrust into a disappearance plot and an imbalanced government and SUPERPOWERS ! most of the bad kids have superpowers!! there's some figayda in there and a little bit of kidnapping and it's like a little action movie! to me.
i'll drop the ao3 summary here, if you want it:
fig, as much as she people-pleases, is a fighter. she's loud and she's brass, and, as gorgug has pointed out, it's never just glitter. she puts herself into everything she does.
she doesn't need her own face to do it, though.
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or, a vigilante AU where Gorgug and Fig stumble into a plot years in the making, fight people they're not sure they should, and work retail, in no particular order.
link here! they're my most sillies :) i'll also put the first few paragraphs under the cut :)
Up until she learns she has superpowers, Fig is having the most mediocre day she's ever lived.
It’s wet out, and Gorgug’s van is broken down, so she has to walk home from work, and her umbrella’s got a hole poked in it from when she accidentally jabbed it with her horn, so even though it should be keeping her dry, by the time she reaches the apartment, her hair is essentially plastered to her head.
But Gorgug’s home, sitting at the counter and fiddling with some metal thing that Fig can’t quite see. The antique shop he works at is much closer to their apartment than Fig’s coffee shop, and she really shouldn’t be as jealous as she is that his walk didn’t soak him. The van being broken is a work in progress. As she towels herself off as best she can, she squints at what he’s doing– it looks like some sort of car part, but she really can’t see.
“Hey!” she chirps, swinging around the counter to face him. “What’re you doing? Whatcha making?” He looks up at her, eyes wide and focused, and she pokes at the metal in his hands.
“The engine exploded, Fig. I’ve, um– we need a new engine.”
Three different types of caterpillars! Any idea what they are?
I am so sorry I forgot to answer this! My phone completely bricked before I got a chance to look at this ask, and then I got distracted trying to solve that problem lol.
In order from top to bottom:
Hickory Tussock Caterpillar (Lophocampa caryae)
Virginian Tiger Moth (Spilosoma virginica)
Walnut Caterpillar (Datana integerrima)
Also a quick PSA regarding this post,
DO NOT TOUCH OR HANDLE ANY FUZZY CATERPILLAR WITH YOUR BARE HANDS!!!!!!!!
ALMOST EVERY FUZZY CATERPILLAR IS POISONOUS AND MORE THAN LIKELY WILL GIVE YOU A BAD RASH!
If you need to move any fuzzy worm, use a container to transport because these can give you very uncomfortable reactions! Please take my word for this, I have experience.
13 and/or 14 and/or 1 (the blog title one) for the ask game please!
ooo!!
13) what's something you learned recently?
i learned some basics of (campbel)locking, popping, and breaking last friday!!
1) What's your blog title from?
when i joined i wanted to play on words in les miserables! so it comes from Castle on a Cloud, since the song’s about cosette’s dream and collections of things that make her happy! and this blog is absolutely indicative of that - almost everything on this blog are things that make me happy :)
