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22, he/him, UK, queer aro slutty disabled dogboy. 18+ please, multifandom blog 🦇🦎👁

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So proud to have made this happen

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Just saying I would do anything to see Alex!Monty and Morgan! Charlie together 🤷‍♀️

[beetlesyourjuice]

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i am not exaggerating when i say that morgan's tub got the biggest laugh out of any version of that gag i've ever seen - hell, it might've been the biggest laugh of the entire show. i was in literal tears at how they played it, and it has made me desperate to see their take on charles again before tour is over!!

run!! go see the mincemeat tour!! it's good stuff!!

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For the art requests: Hester and Bevan having that dinner together?

Definitely not my best work but here you go!!!

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Hi lads! Officially opening my asks for art requests! SFW and NSFW (go as wild with this as you desire), any fandom I'm a part of (its easy to guess but currently Mince (and musicals in general), IWTV, Britcom, TMA and a bunch more). I'm aware I'm not a great artist so doing this for inspiration and practice <3 okay love ya xx

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Opinions?

[beetlesyourjuice]

can someone please draw monty falling backwards off his seat at his desk (yes, like a child in school)

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Okay sure but it won't be good (ill be back in a bit)

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WHOA Monty time!!! I love being evil and drawing prompts that exactly no one asked me to xoxo Alex!Monty because I've drawn so much Maddie lately lmao

[ineffablyholistic]

Making A Man

Closeups because I made this really unnecessarily detailed

This was supposed to be posted in time for pride but unfortunately. That didn’t happen. Either way this is a big happy pride and I love you and you’re doing great to all trans and gender queer folks! I hope the premise of the art obvious but if not my intention was that Monty has burnt a portrait of a version of himself that he no longer identifies with, and has brought the spotlight over to himself as he is now. (I’m now worrying that this could be bad messaging but maybe I’m overthinking so could someone who is part of the community just confirm or deny thank you x)

This took a long time, nearly 13 hours of tracked because I couldn’t just copy from a single reference and had to make a lot of stuff up (we’re one step closer to commissions! Yippee!), but in reality a lot longer because my iPad needed frequent breaks throughout the heatwave.

Next piece will not be mincemeat (unless it gets thrown into the WIP pile) but I will be back! I have a few more ideas for pieces and it’s criminal that this is the first time I’ve drawn Alex’s face, so this is for all the Alex!Monty enjoyers and I will get back on the case of that soon.

But anyway love to you all, stay safe in the hot weather and special shout-out to anyone who writes or draws trans Monty, you are pillars of this community xx

[beetlesyourjuice]

can someone please draw monty falling backwards off his seat at his desk (yes, like a child in school)

[taperecorderpuppy]

Okay sure but it won't be good (ill be back in a bit)

[beetlesyourjuice]

i was going to try write one big post about all the new y4 mince principals but i started writing this and realized maddie needed her own post so here are my ramblings.

i never caught maddie when she was a cover in any of her roles and was delighted to hear i’d have a chance to see her now. she really, really blew me away with some of her acting choices and her vocals are incredible. her eyebrows might as well have been a sixth actor because boy were they working overtime. due to her age and having heard that she’s a very joyous monty, i was worried she might lack the power or authority of other monty’s, but that simply wasn’t the case. the only way i can think to describe how she plays him is incredibly oblivious to just how manipulative he’s being, while also clearly being on the brink of a breakdown as the show goes on. she has the audience absolutely hooked around her finger with every little wink and gesture, while also being very scary in act two during the jean scene and the father scene. the audience was so clearly on edge that not a single person laughed when she made the “father” jokes. she bounces off the rest of the cast extremely well, and her and ahmed really make charles and monty feel like friends and like they’re growing closer throughout the show (until they’re not). she’s very very smiley, but it only serves to make monty more charming and made me believe he truly has no clue that what he’s doing can be downright mean and controlling, it’s just what he’s always done and been expected to do. my god can she dance, and it is glorious. chloe almost broke her after the “what do we have to lose” “the war” part of the pitch, which was brilliant, and chloe DID break her juan during the morgue scene. after juan didn’t get his cake the entire crowd went “awww” which resulted in chloe turning to the audience and mocking the “awww”. maddie proceeded to very clearly giggle to herself so hard that she couldn’t do the juan frown and was instead kinda manically grinning.

some specific acting moments that i jotted down and thought were great:

- maddie!monty doesn’t know his left and rights (turn left at france) he does the L things with his hands before nodding to the left

- her cockney voice is so squeaky that i cried laughing in surprise

- “james james… i think i might be sick”

- she points a LOT, reminds me of alex with ties

- she does a split jump thing in jft

- very trans coded monty right here!! he crosses his hands over his chest a lot, especially post his first failed pitch when he’s talking to charles. maddie!monty might actually be the most trans coded monty i’ve seen live.

- looks jean up and down in the pitch and mouths “wow”

- her acting pre jft is so fucking good

- her scream when spilsbury comes through the blackboard is pure terror

- when maddie!juan has the yellow hat and phone he excitedly compares the two and mouths “amarillo” to himself and it is ADORABLE OH MY GOD

- before calling haselden a genius, monty gives charles a sort of knowing look that solidified for me that maddie!monty is not using genius as a way to manipulate charles. the look she gives him very much reads like “watch what i’m about to say to this dumbass, know you’re different because you are a genius”

- she’s in the air a lot

- she REALLY does not want it to come out that monty is a filmmaker - other monty’s almost seem to be pretending to fight for the files back because they want to show off their brilliance, maddie!monty is terrified of people finding out

- “at least it’s not a bloody musical” followed by spinning in a circle, little leg kicks, and grinning at the audience in delight at his own jokes

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"[charles] is literally saying, 'i'm a man, i'm scared', during war. when everyone is like, 'don't be fucking scared. we can't be cowardly. we can't think about that, we certainly can't talk about it, because if we did, none of us would do anything.'"

[...]

"it's why i feel the need to get [his] face, and to be like, 'we can't go there. i'm going to share something with you, to say i understand, but we can't go there.'"

alex young on the milky pig scene [x]

(@mozartlikestheatre's master)

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So... um...

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@satan-offical do all British people shag trout or is that just you

[neptuenery]

i’m pretty sure @charles-cholmondeley-official does as well

[charles-cholmondeley-official]

No I don't?! Who told you this?!

[troutmemo]

she's an interesting critter (inspired by the VHB one)

[beetlesyourjuice]

i'm in tears she's not real

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HELLO. CHARLIE IN THE CHAIR. NOW AVAILABLE TO READ ON AO3

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All go read this now bc newt says so

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SECOND MINCEMEAT TATTOO NEXT WEDNESDAY LETS GOOOO

Officially got the Alex and Peter blessing

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Because Alex Monty will never ever die for me I am going to talk about one of my favourite insanely clever things she did. There are these BRILLIANT parallels where things she does that seem innocent or fun come back and become actually a bit insidious.

In pre jft scene, she would shout 'NO!' at Charles, really playful and fun, and get very in his face when he's protesting about going on a bar crawl, and it is such a familiar moment - and then in the bloody tea as Monty leaves and he says 'ok Charlie, plan is back on' he again leans right into Charles' face and says 'ok' in that exact same abrasive tone as 'no' and it becomes cruel and humiliating and still so familiar, but the moment is completely twisted.

There's a similar thing where in making a man Monty gives this sly little look at Charles on 'the nation's in need of a marvellous man' (implying he is the man the nation needs, and the man they are making), it's such a sweet insular moment from Monty revealing his appreciation for Charles. Then, in act as if, there is the return of this secret look on 'there's so much at stake when you're making a man' but this time it's almost bitter.

And then obviously everyone and their mother knows about the tie motif but it is so brilliant to me how it transforms from a correcting, guiding gesture to controlling and admonishing (though always possessive).

I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting but I just think it's such a brilliant way of exposing how calculated every one of Monty's moves are, and how (as Alex once said) 'Ewen's wonderful until he's not'.

[halfwit-halfblood]

details from yesterdays matinee i don't want to forget that i need to put here because if i send my best friend one more voice note about mincemeat they will probably block me:

• alex blowing roshani a kiss in god that's brilliant

•i'm so sure alex also tapped geri's ass not long after

•alex generally being a menace and flirting with everybody else on stage and also the audience

•how smiley and jumpy she was throughout the whole thing but especially during the first few songs where she would look across the audience loads like she was taking it in one last time

•peter nodding at the audience member who aww'ed very loudly after the door was slammed in his face

•peter choking when alex asks what his pitch is called

•alex's squeaks when talking about spilsbury after the pitch

•alex and geri as the waiter before just for tonight ... beautiful women indeed!!!!!!!!

•alex going so hard during just for tonight one of her suspenders fell off. it was really hot

•i'm also really going to miss peter's dancing too <\3

•roshani mocking alex's hand flapping during the script reveal

•geri coming out as fleming in glitzy finale to the BIGGEST applause (aka when i started crying and then did not stop)

•roshani as deborah LAUNCHING the top hat at alex so hard that it flew across the stage and completely broke her

•roshani poking her head out after this to salute at the audience

•geri's voice wobbling when they start to talk about glyndwr and promptly breaking everybody in the audience

it was such a fun show and i already miss them more than is healthy i don't know how to get over this!!!!!!