I Happen To Love Musical Hyde And The Fact That The First Person He Killed Was Actual Scum Of The Earth

Reblog to have the most homoerotic year of your life 2024

Okay seriously. Reblog if you're OLDER than 11.

i had a dream about fucking… vampire discourse on tumblr like;

“reminder that blood sucker is a slur”

“vamp-born-vamps are valid if u got bitten later in life you’re not part of the vamp community” 

“support vamps who drink human blood, support vamps who drink animal blood, support vamps who drink animal and human blood”

Can we just talk about how awful it is, that when you buy original lithographies of scientific (botanical) sketches from the beginning of the past century or older, they most likely have been ripped out original dictionaries that otherwise would've been in good condition? Most even have the page number on them, some also the name of the dictionary they belonged to.

Or that decorations with antique sewing machines probably ruined the actual antique machine? Victorian machines could sew through anything, were easily repairable and modern machines still cannot sew as tiny stitches as they could.

People's craving for "academic" decoration is literally ruining actual academic artefacts with knowledge, that's being more and more forgotten.

oh the misery

big brain

Queen tries to dismiss the idea and play it off as a joke but… she and Berdly are CONSTANTLY set as parallels throughout Chapter 2. Like there’s this throughline that Berdly is to Queen as Queen is to Noelle:

This scene is just one example but it happens a whole bunch of times through Kris and Noelle’s journey in Cyber City - Kris and Noelle are just hanging out. Suddenly Queen comes in and Noelle has to hide. Queen expresses her belief that Noelle is her loyal peon and ally despite all evidence to the contrary. Suddenly Berdly comes in, Queen has to hide. Berdly expresses his belief that Queen is his adoring boss  despite all evidence to the contrary.

I mean Berdly is also to Noelle as Queen is to Noelle. Poor girl has to deal with two of these blue smartasses, but here I wanna focus on how the Berdly-Queen dynamic goes.

Because Noelle is hiding from Queen and Queen is hiding from Berdly for kind of the same reason, they are unable to properly explain to the other that they are not interested in working with them and so avoiding them becomes the best option.

Now, you can say the difference is that with Queen & Noelle, the problem was that Noelle’s anxieties make her unable to say no to the Queen. While Queen has made her lack of interest extremely clear to Berdly, he’s just so invented in his own ego that he doesn’t notice. Buuuuuut, let’s be honest here, ego plays a huge part of Queen’s motivations too. The exact lines between “you need to communicate more clearly” and “this is on them for misunderstanding you” can be a bit subjective at times. 

Maybe Queen should’ve understood Noelle doesn’t actually want to take part of her plan from her clear discomfort and hesitation and the fact that Queen repeatedly needs to threaten Noelle’s loved ones with death to get her to do what she wants. But it was her ego and conviction that she knows best for Noelle that made her ignore that until Noelle said it in the clearest words possible. 

Queen and Berdly’s goals are both a mix of both noble and selfish. Queen wants to make all Lightners happy, but she wants to do so by taking over the world and making everyone worship her greatness. And this is a mix of genuine concern for Lightners’ happiness (and especially Noelle)…………. but it’s also about her convincing herself that something that she already wants for herself (Power, status, people’s love and attention) are actually for the greater good.

And the same kinda goes for Berdly, he’s like… the only one of Queen’s minions who’s really really into her world domination plan and it’s kinda about how he also bought into the idea of creating a great perfect world for everyone but it’s also about how he convinced himself that a world where he’s on top IS the perfect world for everyone and he convinced himself that Queen wants that too the same way that Queen convinced herself that Noelle wants her to take over the world.

And if we move back to look at how Noelle and Berdly have kind of the same relationship with Noelle, both have visions of a ‘perfect world’ that they want to make ‘for Noelle” - but it’s clearly more about the perfect world that they want for themselves. They both care deeply about Noelle, but her soft-spoken nature makes it easy for their huge egos and selfish tendencies to override what she actually wants and just project on her their desires.

With Queen is obviously the whole “I control the world and everybody worships me” part of her vision and with Berdly…

Noelle never expressed the sort of attachment to “the Smart Kid” label as Berdly has. She has never shown any interest in being forever labeled one of “the Smart Kids in the Class”. Even without Berdly automatically giving himself the “Number 1 in the Class” spot, this is as far removed from Noelle’s actual desire as a world under the hellish bosom of Queen.

And like… Berdly’s motivation is fueled by his insecurity. If the world forces him and Noelle’s apart than he won’t be able to maintain his image as “the Smart Kid” - because Noelle was actually the source for his academic sucess and knowledge. And if he can’t be the Smart Kid, than he’s doomed to go back into being a ‘forgettable little bluebird”, ignored by everyone, abandoned. 

Queen and the other computers in the Libary usually enjoy tons of attention from the Lightners. Until the Internet went down, the internet which was the source for Queen’s knowledge and her main value to the Lightners. 

(yes I am saying that in this metaphor Noelle is the Internet)

And now the Lightners of Hometown have stopped using Queen and the other computers for their purpose. And Queen is always processing it as a “oh no what could these poor Lightners ever do without me” 

But I wonder if some of this is to mask anxieties about the Lightners abandoning her for good. After all, we’ve seen in the Card Kingdom that some Darkners are really emotionally messed up from being abandoned by the Lightners.

Basically, Berdly for Queen is kind of a chance to see herself in an outsider view - a version of herself which is less cool, more obviously insecure, even more self-absorbed and just kind of an obnoxious mundane teen. I dunno if this idea just totally went over her head (because just like Berdly, Queen also isn’t good at self-awareness) - or if she did but she doesn’t want to give Berdly too much credit because she still doesn’t like him.

when people ask where you see yourself in 10 years

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(they're literally quantum entangled your honor)

Bill Nye for most of his career: Imma do science for kids. Science without politics. Nice, tame science for the kiddos.

Bill Nye now: