#sam johnides

[underscore-jude]

the starkids doing their traditional All The Small Things at Josh’s wedding because of course 🩷

[fallinginaforrest]

"Walk with me" / "Forever, Taavi"

this was an excuse to draw fire <3

Edit: Do you know how many times i looked at that fuckass genius lyrics page only to spell his name wrong Smh

[pulp-lyrics]

The Traveler's Vow: The Arms of Tantalus

NARRATOR At that moment Margaret and Sia looked for Taavi At the Paradise Research Institute All the Gatherers worried Kal was throwing a fit At the Paradise Research Institute

GATHERER 1 He’s tearing every lab apart Until there’s only scraps

GATHERER 2 Screaming

GATHERER 1 Sweating

GATHERER 2 Bloodshot eyes

GATHERERS 1-2 He’s completely snapped

MARGARET Do you know where he is now

GATHERER 1 Basement level three

MARGARET Sia, let me talk to him alone

SIA Margaret, please I can’t feel him anymore His presence, his thoughts, a mystery Something inside him’s been knocked loose It’s like we’ve lost him completely

MARGARET You know I have to try My Traveler, stand by

(teleportation)

NARRATOR Everything was ripped up but the walls Each room turned inside out Kal paced like a jackal

MARGARET Tell me what this is all about

KAL Oh, hey, Mags.

I was up all night in virology On orders of the king You know I like to mix and brew So much, I used up everything Everything, everything

I didn’t pay enough attention Can’t be everywhere all the time My property has been stolen I’m the victim of a serious crime

Itzal would be furious If I fail to track them down It might be the end of me

Have you seen Taavi around?

MARGARET What have you gotten into What does my father have you doing

KAL Why are you just standing there Help me look for them or get moving

MARGARET We’re friends Tell me if you’re in over your head

KAL If I catch the one who did this They are dead, dead, dead!

Wait-

I know why you aren’t looking It’s because you did it

MARGARET What?

KAL We can skip the pageantry Now tell me where you hid it

MARGARET Stop-

KAL You knew we were close You spied on us, admit it Well I won’t let you take the credit I forbid it

(Fog bubbles and attacks. Margaret defends. Sia teleports in to help)

SIA Kalfu, what are you doing?!

KAL About time, Sia! You’re just in time to catch the fireworks!

MARGARET (sadly) Please don’t do this!

KAL Give them back!

(another attack and defense)

MARGARET He’s lost his mind.

SIA Get ready to do our combined attack.

MARGARET That could kill him!

KAL (voice splintered) Tell me where they are! The Gates have spoken!

SIA Now, Margaret!

(extreme radiance - the combined attack lands)

NARRATOR With radiance like lightning Kal shattered into fog Pulsing and crashing As total anger filled him

Margaret and Sia Held on to each other As the fog faded away They believed they’d killed him

MARGARET What did he mean ‘the Gates have spoken’?

SIA (breathing heavily) We need to get back to the Bonaventure. Now.

(teleportation)

DAKKAR Sister.

MARGARET Kal… he’s-

SIA Gone.

MARY KATHARINE Gone? What…?

SIA He attacked Margaret. We fought back and he turned into fog.

CYRUS My god.

SIA It’s unclear if he’s dead or if he’s completely transformed. Either way-

AHLAAM Did he know where Taavi was?

MARGARET He asked me the same thing.

DAKKAR Taavi left behind two orreries With firestone fitted in the center Different from any I’d ever seen or used He also stole Kal’s journal A log with careful notes Taavi stumbled onto something huge

I’m sorry, Margaret You need to hear this

In his obsession With seeing mother again Itzal’s tried to go back in time For years, he used firestone Then, Kal made elixirs With shadow powers on both sides

In his addiction With the arms of Tantalus All of it was only in his mind ‘Till they discovered Orreries could help them Tragically, they ventured in a dangerous direction

Of course, there had to be tests The king would find volunteers They’d visit Kal one by one And one by one they disappeared

MARGARET (horrified) No…

DAKKAR Kal has lost his compass The king has gone insane These machines can’t be built Without these notes to help explain Without them, they have nothing These orreries are all that remain

(rushing footsteps)

TAAVI There you are!

AHLAAM Taavi! Taavi, where have you been!?!

TAAVI I was helping other Gatherers. With Kal destroying the Institute, none of them knew what to do…

CYRUS We got the things you left behind.

MARY KATHARINE That was very brave.

AHLAAM And stupid! We were so worried.

TAAVI Of course, my love. I’m sorry.

MARGARET We’re going to put an end to this.

DAKKAR Not without a plan. (beat) This is what we’re going to do.

NARRATOR The Bonaventure swayed In the solace of the harbor Travelers and Searchers Were united on the water Taavi leaned in close With a whisper of a smile

[jack-0f-stars]

taking this aro awareness week as an excuse to point at my newest favorite song rn and say

LISTEN TO IT !!!

listen, the aro vibes are there just trust me

the first lines are literally I'll write you a love song, but I won't keep loving you and it's fantastic

[hipsternumbertwo]

Meet The Whippoorwills [Digital Ticket] [Part 1][Part 2]

[frogyeshumanmaybe]

The Cinderella’s Castle Band

The Greatest Band in all of Bog’s Hollow

Hope I got the Whippoorwills names right

[no-sleep-need-musicals]

I was thinking earlier about whether the accompaniment of TGWDLM songs is diegetic (able to be heard by the characters), and I remembered that, in the credits, the band is credited as, “The Hatchetfield High School Band,” so what if the band is just a high school marching band that follows the characters around offstage and plays accompaniment for them when they think it’s time for a song?

[random-jot]

Y’know what shoutout to Sam Johnides for playing the guitar in Team Starkid’s Black Friday ‘cause the solo in Take Me Back is catchy af and gets stuck in my head all the time. Like that solo alone bumps Take Me Back way up in my ranking of the bf songs. So good on ya, Sam