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The Hamilton/jcst one killed me XD
Bad Musical Synopses
Phantom of the Opera: A speculative fiction about what would happen if Benedict Cumberbatch were a woman and his fans had access to a basement. Hamilton: The best friend of an ambitious political dissident warns him repeatedly that his actions will end in tragedy. When that doesn’t actually happen, the best friend takes it upon himself to teach a valuable life lesson.
Jesus Christ Superstar: The best friend of an ambitious political dissident warns him repeatedly that his actions will end in tragedy. When that doesn’t actually happen, the best friend takes it upon himself to teach a valuable life lesson.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: Tim Gunn was sick today on Project Runway. Let’s see what happens!
Miss Saigon: White savior done fucked up. No one is surprised. The Scarlet Pimpernel: Proto-superhero pretends to be gay. Wife is understandably miffed when she discovers she won’t be getting the D. Hilarity ensues. The Lion King: A Shakespearean look at a pride of liMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSAAAAAWENYAAAAAAMAAKALAKIIIIIIIIIIIISSHUENOOONOOOOOOO
Chicago: He really did have it coming. Cabaret: A Conservative Republican’s worst nightmare is set to music.
Cats: Furries provide a fun-filled look into an average night out.
Rent: All these people are going to die the minute you leave the theater.
Avenue Q: Today on Sesame Street, we learn an important lesson about the purpose of the internet. The word of the day is ANAL.
Les Miserables: A man steals a loaf of bread and is chased across France by the most dedicated police officer on the force. Consequently, everyone dies.
My Fair Lady: A valuable life lesson is taught: if you want to make it in life, all you need to do is sacrifice everything, suffer torment from an obsessive linguistics major, and fake an upper-class English accent. Unless you’re a man, and then you just need to explain that you really need money for alcohol. In that case, someone will promptly die and will you their fortune.
How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying: A young man attempts to push the boundaries of white male privilege. He soon finds there are none.
Sweeney Todd: A barber and his girlfriend take Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” a little too far.
Madame Guillotine
I drew this month ago. It was going to be an au but I barely did much with it lol. Silver is the God of Justice with Shadow being the Guillotine.
So I’m reading the book and there are two idiots in love.
But it’s actually only one idiot. Who’s technically is considered intelligent.
And the second idiot is portrayed as and idiot, but it’s only a disguise.
Friends and enemies, please meet Marguerite Blakeney and sir Percy.
whiteboard doods w/ @rtbyg
a lot to unpack here wow
blocking out the hatersss
Anne Shirley would have loved the scarlet pimpernel
"Odd's Fish!"
“Odd’s Fish” was the favourite exclamation of King Charles II. It also featured in the play ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ and was said by Captain Hook (a character who based his image on King Charles) in the 1953 Disney version of 'Peter Pan’.
It is what is known as a 'Minced Oath’ a specific kind of euphemism or disguise mechanism, whereby an offending term or taboo phrase is distorted or “minced” so that it no longer offends. (We still have the idiom “not to mince one’s words” meaning to speak frankly.)
Other examples are, God’s truth becoming strewth!, by God! becoming egad or plain Gad !, Jee whiz for Jesus, Crickey for Christ, Lummey! for Lord love me!, tarnation for damnation, heck for Hell, Deuce for the Devil.
In the late sixteenth century there were increasing Puritan injunctions against the use of profanity on the stage, so that there is no doubt that the response was the great number of minced oaths. Consequently, the name of God was either distorted to gad or abbreviated to od , producing curious forms like ’od’s my will for “as God is my will” and ’od’s me for “God save me.”
The minced oaths caught on in their own right and were still used after the Restoration.
Odd’s fish is a minced oath for “God’s face.”
quick paint study of Sir Percy Blakeney
Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) dir. Harold Young
Leslie Howard characters + tumblr and tiktok texts part 1.
for @theydoctor :-)
me as a tween: oohhh wizard Howl
*eight years later*
me: AAHHH Sir Percy Blakeney!!!!
*eight years later*
me: LORD. PETER. WIMSEY.
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me: ...guys i think i have a Type