Our Man Tadius Really Had One (1) Conversation With Someone Who Wasn't Obsessed With The Royal Family

"Don't kill the part of you that's cringe, kill the part that cringes"

-Richie probably

(Stephanie and Grace's first time eating lunch with the trio ☆)

I come bearing grim news. The old king, at last, has died.

Aww why can’t we share? How about this, I’ll buy every doll in the shop. On weekdays they’ll be mine, and on weekends you can look at one for five seconds through the front window of my house! Seems like an fair trade off!

Happy Black Friday everyone! Just a quick reminder that if you see a little green doll that resembles an under water creature from out of this world, to leave it on shelves! For me. Because that doll will be FUCKING MINE.

I found this again while scrolling and...it hit me a little too hard

So that means it's time to trauma dump :]

Part of why I love Steph so much is because I relate to her a lot (not just personality wise). Back in elementary school/middle school, because of my ADHD I struggled a lot and I was seen as stupid by a lot of my peers. And I didn't grasp that it was just my ADHD so I believed that I really was an idiot. But thanks to some friends I met at my high school (who I love dearly and would gladly die for) I realized that I couldn't be more wrong.

So seeing Nerdy Prudes and Steph's character growth, and seeing her going through the same things I did, AND get a happy ending with Pete who loves her and sees past her self loathing and sees how smart she really is, helped cement that for me that I wasn't stupid and that I shouldn't give a shit if other people think I am, and I shouldn't give a shit how other people perceive me in general.

Alright, I misphrased, that’s my bad.

I was trying to figure out how to explain this before but I was having trouble. Hopefully this is the better explanation

The goal of the crowdfunding is to break even. The goal of the digi ticket is to make money.

What I mean by this is that crowdfunding is done with the goal to use every single scent that you receive. You’re not saving any of this money, you’re using every single penny. And unfortunately a lot of times even what you get from crowdfunding wasn’t enough to do everything you wanted to do for the show, and pay everyone. digital tickets are done with the intent to actually make the money. This is the money that lets you not scrimp and save, lets you go buy the new shirt cause your old one ripped, this money can actually be put into savings for future use! (Aka the money that you can dip into when the crowdfunding wasn’t enough lol /j)

The actors are paid during the crowdfunding. Everyone is. They can’t be living for months without getting paid. (Again sorry for misphrasing, that’s my bad)

the whole point of the crowdfunding tho is to be able to have money until you can make money. It’s just enough to pay the actors enough to live. Pay the props department enough to get the props, etc. if this was all the money they receive during the run of the show they’d be bankrupt in weeks. It’s not going to be enough to maintain long term financial stability.

And this isn’t some random business plan that Starkid cooked up. This is just how the entertainment industry works. It’s the same tactic that’s used in mainstream Hollywood. Except that usually in Hollywood people will get a sponsor for their movie. Like some bigwig exec who is willing to give them money until they are making money from the movie.( then usually these executives have the ability to change up the movie to fit their ideals better. Which is why executive interference is so prevalent.)

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.

cinderella’s castle countdown day 3

Lautski Day 3: camp 🕺💃💅💅💅✨✨

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I call this one camp at camp. I’m imagining a full met gala show to the absolute horror of all of the camp counselors 😂

I had meant to draw Nick-Pete but went into some kind of trance and when I woke up I had draw Joey 😭😭 idk what happened 😆

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