Don’t Forget That People Ship The Two For Some Reason. They’re Both Amazing Villains But If They

finally my spring break is Compleat.(Adding Phyrexia!)

flint and steel chicken jockey

Huh? -☕️/🔪

Mrow meow... (Don't get them started...) -🐈‍⬛

DIAMOND ARMOR: FULL SET. -🎼

THE NETHER. -🪣

I do the same with my squishamallows the huge ones are the best for it.

I'm glad squishmallows seem universally loved. Here's a post showing how much I enjoy mine!

These are the plushies ever, definitely

I found their Tumblr!!

Introducing content warnings for D's Journal

Hello, dear listeners! Because our upcoming episode has significantly more intense content than usual in D’s Journal, we’re planning to include a content warning for it, and we’ve decided that it’s a good practice to include content warnings for D’s Journal in general. We want to establish a few general guidelines about how they'll look.

Content warnings will be listed under the timestamps. That way it’s easy to avoid them if you don’t want spoilers, but they’re available if you need them.

Please be aware that these content warnings are only for D’s Journal, not for the out-of-character discussion in the episode; we discuss body horror in the Princess Mononoke episode, but D never encounters any of the horrible wormy boar-demons, so that one wouldn’t have had a content warning for body horror. (If you feel like we need more content warnings for the episodes, please let us know because we want everyone to feel comfortable.) That’s because D’s Journal has the potential to get a lot more bracing than the episode proper, since there’s a big difference between Tom and Rachel sitting around chatting about WandaVision and D experiencing it firsthand.

HOW THEY’LL LOOK

Content warnings are going to be divided into three rankings, based on how prominent they are in the episode: major, moderate, and minor. Explanations for each one, with mind control/memory manipulation as the example:

Major: D experiences or witnesses this firsthand, and it’s played for horror. A lot of episodes won’t have major content warnings; plenty of awful things happen in Olympus and Crescent City, for instance, but D didn’t witness them. A good rule of thumb: if it unsettles D so much that she can’t be sarcastic about it, it’s probably major.

Examples of episodes that would get a major content warning for mind control or memory manipulation:

WandaVision, of course. D spends most of the episode as Wanda’s meat puppet. 

Encanto, because even though Abuela only whammies D for a minute, she sees all the NPCs who have been whammied and is disturbed.

Toy Story. D doesn’t spend much time believing she’s a toy, but it’s thoroughly milked for horror potential.

Moderate: D experiences or witnesses it firsthand but it isn’t played for horror, or she reports on something that she heard secondhand with a level of detail.

Examples of episodes that would get a moderate content warning for mind control or memory manipulation:

Spirited Away. D loses her name and her memories, but both she and the listener know from the beginning that there’s a plan in place for her to get them back, and she doesn’t dwell on the horror of the experience. 

Home Alone. D gets a brief dose of the McElminster House’s “silver tuna” power, but shakes it off almost immediately and treats it as an annoyance rather than a violation.

Tron: D never sees any programs being rectified and doesn’t know for sure whether that fate befell the program who helped her, but it comes up frequently and unsettles her.

Minor: D mentions it in passing but doesn’t dwell on it.

Examples of episodes that would get a minor content warning for mind control or memory manipulation:

The Jungle Book. D’s guide warns her about Kaa, but they never meet him or share detailed stories about his victims.

NOTES ON SPECIFIC TRIGGERS

A few specific notes on common triggers, so you have a sense of how far they’ll go and whether you need to check for them every episode. If there’s ever an exception to these boundaries, we’ll put an announcement at the beginning of the episode.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT

For sexual harassment and assault that doesn’t involve any charm spells or love potion nonsense, D has already experienced the absolute worst that this will ever get in Beauty and the Beast, which boiled down to “Gaston got fresh in an unspecified way and continued getting fresh after I told him to buzz off, so I eldritch blasted him in the cajones.” She will never experience anything worse than that. Full stop. 

Secondhand experience with sexual harassment and assault will only come up if it’s baked into the setting, like it was in Beauty and the Beast and Hunchback of Notre Dame, and D’s going to be euphemistic about it because she doesn’t want to talk about it any more than we do. (I honestly don’t know if this is ever going to come up again, because who would it come up for except Gaston and Frollo? But just in case we get an oddball Listener’s Choice or April episode or something, there it is.)

Writing out the extended Labyrinth journal made us realize that we need a special caveat for charm spells and love potion nonsense, since D got sucked into a World Falls Down bubble and kissed Jareth while she was in there. If there’s any kind of enchantment that leads to D being in a romantic situation that isn’t 100% consensual, we’ll put a warning at the beginning of the episode, the written content warning will detail exactly what happens, and it will never go any farther than the bounds of a PG-rated podcast.

RACISM, QUEERPHOBIA, ABLEISM, AND MISOGYNY

Any racism D encounters will be fantastical. That said, there may be strong parallels to real-world marginalized groups, especially if it's part of the source material (Roma for Vistani and Travelers, immigrants for Runes, etc). If that's the case, we’ll let you know in the content warning along with the general racism warning.

Unlike some other phobias and isms, there’s no Disney property where pushing back against queerphobia is an overt theme. That means we don’t have to engage with it, so we’re not planning to do so. If we can get through this entire podcast without D having the faintest idea that anyone would care what genders anyone else identifies with or is attracted to, we’ll call it a win.

Ableism may come up, and misogyny already has, so please do check the content warnings for details if you’re concerned about those. 

ANIMAL CRUELTY

If it isn’t intrinsic to the setting or character (looking at you, Cruella), it’s only going to come up in passing, like the mention that there are no pets or livestock in Arendelle.

The exception is animals with human levels of intelligence, since they’re basically NPCs. Sorry, Iago, you’re not safer than an aarakocra just because you’re pocket-sized.

CHILD ENDANGERMENT AND DEATH

We’re parents. We check “Does the Dog Die?” for this one every time we watch a horror movie with a kid in it. When Tom runs Curse of Strahd, there are no dead kids involved with Dream Pies. If we recommend horror novels or movies to each other and don't warn each other about any dead kids first, someone's sleeping on the couch. We freaking hate it when child characters die or suffer permanent harm.

That said, there are some settings where Very Bad Things happening to children are thoroughly baked in, so it has to come up sometimes. Part of the horror of Neverland is Pan’s disregard for the Lost Boys’ safety, and it’s going to be impossible to do a horror setting of Monsters Inc., Pleasure Island, or Hocus Pocus without traumatizing or killing some child NPCs. There will be content warnings when that happens, and our utter distaste for it is a good indicator that it won’t be graphic or gratuitous. If it isn’t baked into the setting, though, it’s a safe bet that any time a child is endangered, they’re going to be rescued and come out without a scratch (like Ratigan kidnapping the kids in Great Mouse Detective).

Don’t forget the new Pokey Forme!

I’m rewatching Black Friday and this is the only way I want eldrich horrors depicted from now on

Like this is infinitely more horrific than any actual interpretation of a massive beast, no matter how scary the design

Just having the design of the beast be made from the set is genius and leaves the actual look of it in the minds of the viewer

It also helps Wiggly and the rest of the Lords in Black because their only designs are this for wiggly, the toys they’ve made, and the human designs from Nerdy Prudes Must Die. I’m fucking obsessed with this design

Anything Hatchetfield:Ascension is The Idea of Your Stupidity being so high others are below it even when they try to beat it.(Yeah I love Starkid but come on it’s just like that when it comes to dark comedy.)

Musicals as things I or other people have said

Hamilton: I always like to take a shot at our right wing audience members

Jekyll and Hyde: I’m going to drink this, and then I’m going to fight my shadow

Dear Evan Hansen: once in a while my mom is like; clean your room. Clean your attitude. Clean your face

Heathers: no amount of bleach can kill my mind

Mean Girls: you are so straight it disgusts me

Next to Normal: if the voices in your head are saying it, it must be true

Beetlejuice: the emo effect just makes you emo

Be More Chill: I can live in the ear canal

Wicked: if a blonde has glasses she’s an oxymoron, if she doesn’t have glasses she’s just a moron

Les Mis: here’s a rock. Go to the frontlines

Waitress: you know what pie makes me think of? DOGS!

Rent: hobos are capable of anything

Book of Mormon: you can’t steal God’s chips

Sweeney Todd: Jacques, I will cut out your tongue

Little Shop of Horrors: I wanted a piece of that guy’s face

Bare a pop opera: I am a happily married gay man

Ride the Cyclone: that rat is prettier than you

Phantom of the Opera: I am going to kill every composer that puts fortissimo in percussion

radical Highway go BRR

As I fall here, I recall the monster you tried to make me and like before I’ll crush you all the Same.Why did you bring me back to my darkest hour,why did you bring me back to cables,cars,and towers. From this highway I was taken off the Turn. Let Retribution Burn! Damn who let Him in here I meant to post #Bemorechill but instead #ShadowTheHedgehog so here’s the be more chill.

wooah,everything about you is so terrible. STOP!!! I want radical highway it go brr not gaslight,Gatekeep,Gender is Masc Nonbinary or Masc Agender Boss.

OOC: Hatchetfield fan 🫵

- @melissafromccrptechnical

Yep I’m a Hatchetfield Fan. Tinky Memes are my lifeblood though.

Bronx Zoo

My brother says he wants to relive being 8 and we’re at the dinosaur exhibit but when he was 8 I had a Dinosaur hyperfixation! So now I’m saying dinosaur facts to the tune of Starkid songs.

Someone mixed the book I read for school and the musical I saw just before school started again! Yay!! Also @wonderfulworldofdarklords just liked it and they’re why I went to Hadestown in the first place.(A Charity for Autism Helped me go to a Performance with Dimmed Lights and Other things to help with Sensitivites of Neurodivergent People.)

It's an old tale from way back when/ And we're gonna sing it again and again...

This person Forgot anything Starkid other than TGWDLM,Forgot Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz(So be more chill fans can still answer). Continue adding more until all Queer or Commonly Queer Liked Music Has Been Assimilated. The Apotheosis Is Upon Us.

Oh you're a queer kid? what's your fav music artist? and don't say...

will wood

will wood and the tapeworms

Tally hall

Miracle musical

mitski

jackstuber

joe hawley

that handsome devil

chonny jash

tom leher

ghost and pals

maretu

6arelyhuman

odetari

penelope scott

rio romeo

cuarteto de nos

riki musso

santiago tavella

laufey

taylor swift

radiohead

marina

weezer

the beatles

tv girl

billie ellish

milk in the microwave

bo burnham

fish in a birdcage

toby fox

lemon demon

sarah and the safe word

asteria

artic monkeys

they might be giants

my chemical romance

green day

gorillaz

ado

melanie martinez

the strokes

evanecense

glass animals

soddiken

the scary jokes

whatever Your favorite martian was smoking

tyler, the creator

the crane wives

the living tombstone

cavetown

mindless self indulgance

the orion experience

hamilton (yeah ik its a musical)

heathers (yeah ik its a musical x2)

ride the cyclone (YEAH IK ITS A MUSICAL x3)

steam powered giraffe

kiuko (i dont remember how its spelled)

21 pilots

Sir Chloe

hazbin hotel soundtrack

paparrapa the rapper soundtrack

sonic soundtrack

or the omori soundtrack

edit: just to make clear that i don't know every queer band on existence