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Lautski Week: Day 4 (Loop)

This board is a Lautski AU based/ inspired by the movie, Happy Death Day. (Admittedly, while I never watched the movie myself, I have read and watch videos about it.) I thought it would be a different take for the theme.

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Despite it being her eighteenth birthday, Steph isn’t too thrilled. Her dad is to focus on the upcoming election to notice it. (Not that he would do much if he had notice.) It doesn’t help that she felled asleep in home room and got embarrassed. In addition to that, she got busted for cheating on a pop quiz with the nerd she tried to cheat on with by Grace ‘Nerdy Prude’ Chasity. The only upside is the party happening for her birthday by the popular cliche. Or it would be except a hooded figure stalk her on the way to the party. Steph tries to run for it but the figure ends up killing her, only for her to wake up in home room. Steph first shakes it off as a bad dream but everything that happened in the dream happens again. She tries not to get caught cheating only to be caught again. She does spend a bit more time with the nerd who she got in trouble with, Peter Spankoffski. While going to the party, she takes a different way and does make it there, only to be kill in one of the bedrooms by the figure again. Steph again wakes up in home room to realize she was living the same day over again. Not sure what to do, she turns to Pete for answers when they get trouble for cheating again. While they have barely talked before, Pete is probably the smartest person Steph knows. Pete doesn’t want to help at first as 1. he tries to stay away from the popular crowd and 2. what Steph is saying out is bizarre. However, after seeing how freak out she is, he does give her suggestions of what to do and how to prepare herself. They would also get closer with every loop Steph goes through. After a certain point, she changes the pattern of events to see Pete more. Her goal swaps from just surviving the day to making sure they both live to see tomorrow.

the plot of nightmare time

I will honestly never get over this

Full spoilers review of Cinderella’s castle

Ok so now that I’ve had some time to ruminate, I really want to share my thoughts on Cinderella’s castle

First of all, I think the song that has stuck with me the most was “I want you to watch” (I’m pretty sure that’s the name) I think it stuck with me so much because of the insane vibes. It was such a banger song, played to the chorus of Cinderella being tortured to death. The song was so haunting and insane. And just that one line “I want you to watch” has been stuck in my head all night.

That being said I wish we had access to the cast recording because I already miss the rest of the songs. Like I remember the song about starlight being so beautiful but I can’t even remember it (Cinderella moment amiright)

In terms of costuming it was the sort of thing that felt like it worked so well you didn’t notice it until suddenly Cinderella came out in her Led starlight dress and suddenly it hits you how amazingly accurate all of the clothing has been.

The actors were all amazing. Idk if there’s more to say than that. Everyone slayed, and Jeff was serving cvnt the entire time.

The characters were absolutely amazing. I feel like Nick lang looked at the moment from NPMD, where Richie says “I love being alive” and the audience started crying, and just made a whole play about it. There were so many immediately beloved characters that died (some brought back thank goodness) that the audience were sobbing about loosing.

Honestly I think the show is amazing. I can’t wait for the digital ticket and if I had more money I’d probably go see it again.

Oh also I saw Curt Mega before the show and all of my friends missed him except my mom. I was shaking so hard just from him walking past us. It was nuts

Think of it this way: the crowdfunding is all for the show. It’s to buy props, and set pieces, and costumes, and even to reserve the venue, and stuff like that.

The digital ticket is for the actors. This pays the actors for their time and effort, so that they can keep a roof over their head and food on the table and so that they want to come back to do more shows in the future.

They can’t use crowdfunded money to pay the actors because they need as much of it for the show as possible. Not only for cool props and stuff but also for if anything breaks, or if there’s any other last minute things they need to worry about.

If starkid put their stuff straight into YouTube without doing things like digital ticketing they would start losing money fast, and future shows would be harder to create.

I know it’s hard, but have faith that these guys aren’t just putting up paywalls for no good reason :)

Just in case anyone was hoping to watch Star Baby on the 8th without a digital ticket, you can't <33

Here’s a sad thought about Princess Jasmine in Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier, courtesy of listening to the soundtrack again and feeling the feelings about her and Ja’far: this version of the Sultan must be a really bad father.

We never see him interact with his stepdaughter. He already seems rather senile when he steals Scheherazade, and that’s sixteen years before the present day. His sanity may well have completely gone in that time. Even if it didn’t, he makes it clear in his one appearance that he considers everyone in his power to be objects defined entirely by how they can benefit him and remorselessly will torture, enslave and murder them on a whim. I doubt that he’d be sensitive or nurturing toward his child. Now, I think Scheherazade would be a great mother - but she never got to try.

The Sultan has evidently been very neglectful and distant, failing in his duties to teach the Princess how to be both a good person and a good member of royalty. Despite her being his only heir and old enough to marry and rule the kingdom, which apparently has no problem with a female sovereign, he’s let her grow up to be extremely sheltered and not at all adequately prepared for responsibility and politics. It doesn’t even occur to her that having her tiger assault a neighbouring country’s visiting prince might have consequences. The Sultan, and on his behalf the Captain of the Guard, don’t let her know important news and royal decrees: neither what a menace Aladdin is, leaving her vulnerable to him, nor the Sultan’s mass execution of the 2D Department, since for as insensitively egocentric as she is at the beginning, she’s still deeply sentimental and quick to empathize with the homeless peasant Aladdin, so I can’t believe that she wouldn’t be at least a little upset with the Sultan (or more likely Ja’far) over so many lost human lives.

More than that, her immaturity speaks to bad parenting on the most basic level. She hasn’t internalized the Sultan’s cruelty, but has learned his selfishness, entitlement, impulsiveness and poor emotional regulation. Her social skills are notably clumsy and underdeveloped (not picking up on Aladdin’s numerous red flags, “No high five”, “At least Abdul had a family who loved him!”, even cringing herself at the last one). The Sultan’s passed down absolutely zero wisdom of any kind.

Instead it’s Ja’far with whom she has a familiar father-daughter dynamic (“What’s up, are you mad at me?” “Where are you going?” “There she is!”). It’s him who shows concern when she runs away and gives the order to find her before all else, notices that she’s upset and talks her through her feelings, warns her about sexual predators, appreciates her idealism and effort. It’s him who provides the gentle but firm, healthy guidance and challenge that she needs to grow. Who sees her potential, respects and believes in her. Who loves her. However, he is ultimately in her service. Between the imbalanced power dynamic making him wary of treason (after all, the last time he had a stronger relationship than the Sultan with a woman the Sultan called his, it didn’t end well) and his other responsibilities taking away from their time together, he can’t be as influential a presence in his life as he’d like.

Maybe this why she’s initially so resentful of him. Subconsciously she does see him as a father all along, but he hurts her and lets her down sometimes. Like the Sultan, her only official parent, always has. That stings. The differences are that the Sultan hurts her much more, more consistently and without her best interests at heart… but Ja’far is the one she can lash out at and complain to and be a messy adolescent around, because firstly, he’s her subject instead of her ruler, and secondly, he’s actually involved in her life. He cares, and therefore yelling or halfheartedly trying to poison his wine will make an impact. The Sultan is untouchable. We know that she conflates the two in her head as unjust authority figures keeping her trapped and crushing her aspirations (“All the people who say I’m just dreaming, like Father and Ja’far”, one of the only times she mentions the Sultan). It’s easier to blame your problems on an employee everybody else hates than accept that your parent is a bad one.

Maybe this is the root of her discontentment as well, her yearning that she can’t articulate for something more than what the life she’s been given. The joke of “Everything and More” is that she doesn’t need anything besides what she has… but she does. She needs a competent, reliable parent. One who she can trusts loves her the person as her parent, not a servant of her bloodline, and she knows to love as such in turn.

No wonder she falls for “Orphaned at Thirty-Three” hook, line and sinker. She’s never known her mother. Her relationships with her paternal figures range from terrible to complicated. Having unconditionally loving, supportive parents and then suddenly losing them must be the worst thing she can imagine.

But in the end, the Sultan dies and her dad has to leave her. Although he found a way to live forever, it wasn’t enough to save her from the pain of being orphaned at sixteen.

Please please please 🙏

I need to know what Henry Hidgens was like before the lightning incident. I need to know what he was like immediately after the incident. I need to know when he finally lost his fucking marbles and how long did it take for him to snap. I need to know what it felt like when he first killed someone. I need to know how he got to the point where killing someone is just another Tuesday for him, how he dealt with it so easily and casually. I need to see all the grief and emotional turmoil he went through. I just need to.

So has anyone considered a Hadestown AU with Steph as Orpheus and Pete as Euridyce

Lautski Week: Day 7 (Morning)

For the last day of Lautski week, I have a pretty simple Werewolf AU.

Steph is a werewolf and it’s the morning after a full moon. She’s tired and weak after a long night. Pete, being a good boyfriend, prepare some breakfast for her. They then cuddle in bed with Pete reassuring Steph that she’s safe. This leads to them sleeping in late.

Funny how my boards started the week with cuddles and is now ending the week with cuddles. Hope everyone had a good week.

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