Who Let This Man Babysit.

Who let this man babysit.

I just bought your ticket thank you so so so much

Honestly thank you for saving my wallet from the presale website being absolutely awful and highly unusable!

I’m sorry that Twickets added a bullshit extra £10 service fee - I intentionally sold them at face value because I 1. Just wanted money back, and 2. Wanted another starkid fan to get a ticket at the original price.

But I do hope you enjoy front row!

The darkness will spare my soul.

Hi so here’s a reblog with some of the closer up details because they got absolutely nerfed when I uploaded this. I need people to appreciate the fact that I was doing genuine pixel art at some points during this.

Also I’m just going to ramble a bit about this comic strip because ngl it’s completely self indulgent and full of personal hc’s. I also put in way too much thought into the symbolism of colour through each slide.

“I don’t really know if she cares or not” - This panel is the first one we see of Teddy, and the fact he’s entirely in blue with the only pink being the letter shows how Jenny has already left.

“All I Know is she left a lot of stuff in my apartment” - considering how Jenny died instead of leaving I imagine she left things in his apartment she was never able to come and collect, including the jacket we see her wear in every panel. This scene shows how intertwined their lives were together, with Jenny literally decorating his apartment (come on this man would not have any flowers in his room without it being Jenny influence). I also just littered my own personal hc’s, like Teddy skateboarding and Jenny roller skating, Jenny gifting Teddy rock/metal band pins, Ted having a pulp fiction poster (come on- he would), Teddy having a lot of cd’s etc. Also yes, the calendar shows October 17th, 2004. Yes that is Jenny’s bong. Yes those are porn mags on the floor.

“She’s never getting back” - Everything but Teddy in this panel is pink, showing how he’s desperately trying to cling onto what’s left of her (the jacket) while also destroying himself in the process (drinking & smoking). I could go on a whole separate text post talking about how self destructiveness is one of Teds main flaws but I’ll save it.

“As her smell of her pillow fades” - ngl I was just being cute with this one. But here we see them sharing each others stuff (Jenny with T-shirt, Teddy with the hair bobble). This is also where we first see the fact that they have matching earrings, each with each others colour. I personally hc that they got the ear piercings together while drunk and thus the act itself remains intertwined with each others presence. (Also yes that’s a goat hoof birthmark- blame booigi-boi for that).

“Her cigarettes might stay” - Full shot of Jenny, again with the earrings. Another hc of mine is that Jenny was the one who got Ted into smoking (she offered a cig when they first met, he took it because he didn’t want to seem lame in front of a cool girl. He then proceeded to cough his lungs out after the first drag while Jenny laughed her ass off. The rest is history). She would also totally bum cigs off him. Also you see the necklace? You know how Ted thought Kilgore gifting Jenny a necklace was pathetic? Yes well Teddy didn’t. He gifted her one for her birthday and she’s worn it everyday since. This just further empathises the difference between Ted and Teddy.

“Like a Roman Coliseum” - This is once again long hair Ted propaganda my friends. Teddy had long hair and after Jenny left he cut it because Jenny would always say how she likes his long hair. This is shown through the scissors themselves being pink, with Jenny cutting a part of Ted away.

“A dry and worthless monument to our love” - A close up on the photos in the apartment scene. I imagine Ted just has a load of pictures between him and Jenny. Again I was just being cute here, with them doing a photo booth together, Teddy falling asleep on Jenny, them posing for the camera. And my personal fav, then dressed up as Brad and Janet for Halloween (Ted learnt he likes men after seeing Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show when he was 15 my source is divine intuition).

“I still have your lighter” - Here we see Ted with his new short hair and the lack of earrings. Despite changing himself he was never able to kick the smoking habit he picked up from Jenny, the pink symbolising that despite it being 15 years there’s parts of her at still linger. (Nobody show this man I Don’t Smoke by Mitski I fear the consequences).

“I still have your book” - Don’t even try and convince me that letter doesn’t have permanent tear stains on it. I know he has re-read it a thousand times.

“I still have everything you brought, but you never took” - While Ted can’t stand the reminders of Jenny in his apartment he can’t bring himself to get rid of her stuff (even the flowers that have died). I imagine he has a box full of her stuff hidden under his bed or the back of a closet. (Also yes he does have all of the larger stuff shown in the apartment scene just imagine there in a separate box ok they were too big for the scene).

“You know where to find me” - the first scene where we see Ted without any actual pink on him, and yet he’s still not able to let go- always looking back at Jenny.

“And I know where to look” - Unlike Ted, Jenny isn’t looking back. Even has her hair covering her earrings, being fully pink. They both have each others colour for the text because despite parting ways they will always be interlinked, with Jenny being the cause of Teds change and Ted being the cause of Jennys death.

“(I’m not a crook-)” - I could technically say that Ted being represented by the disintegrator shows his destructiveness but honestly man I was just being evil here.

Song - Taking What’s Not Yours by Tv Girl.

(I learnt my lesson from last time so here’s the animated version in the original post)

Hey, Dickhead!

*smashes your face in with a crowbar*

Take a bonus cursed one courtesy of Lauren Lopez.

“Aside from TGWDLM (and a brief BF cameo), Ted Spankoffski has long hair and we as a fandom need to represent that more often within our fanworks, ” I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

“They’re right,” he says. I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 5th row stands: Joey Richter himself, with long hair.