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So this is a long shot but does anyone by chance have footage of curtain call from Be More Chill’s matinee performance on Saturday, May 25th 2019?
I saw it yesterday and it was so so amazing, but we messed up when trying to record curtain call so if it exists somewhere out there that would be super rad!!
Be More Chill 💊
I made a poster for BMC!! Bc I love it sm!! Enjoy!!
“Look I put a party hat on my squip cat!!!”
https://youtu.be/bWYFns4joDs
Michael, drinking two slushies at once: ‘sup
J.D: *pulls a slushy out of nowhere* ah, I see you are a man of culture as well
Places I am hanging: The bathroom
The party that the bathroom is in: Biggest of the fall
Places I could stay: Right here
Other things I could do: Disappear
People who'd even notice: Nobody at all
How I used to feel: Fine
What I used to be: Half of a pair
Whose fault this is: Not mine
Where my other half is: Not there
Who I am now: Just Michael
Where I am: In the bathroom
Who I am: Michael
Where I am: In the bathroom
Where the bathroom is: At a party
How long it's been: Forget
Who I am: Michael
Where I am: In the bathroom
Who I am: Michael
Where I am: In the bathroom
Where the bathroom is: At a party
Can people come in: No
What I am doing: Waiting it out
What I am waiting for: Time to leave
What I am also doing: Picking at grout
What I do as I pick at grout: Softly grieve
Who I am: Michael who you don't know
What I am doing: Flying solo
Who I am: Michael
Where I am: In the bathroom
Who I am with: By himself, all by himself!
Inspired by this one Michael In The Bathroom video with an excessive amount of hotel: Trivago jokes
DELAYED DUETS from SUNDAYS ON THE COUCH WITH GEORGE - Joe Iconis (Episod...
This is insanely silly and wholesome, love love love love love love love love love love love love!!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Also, Jenna is just overall an icon, she is so underappreciated, I love her so much 🥰🥰🥰
Shout out to Jenna not questioning Michael saying he's having his period, Jenna said trans rights y'all, slaaaaaaaaay queen 🥰🥰🥰
Yo, I just realised that the shirt Will Roland is wearing in the video for the acoustic version of Loser Geek Whatever has little USB symbols on, and yeah, thought that was cool and also appropriate lol
We don't know for certain Michael has two moms, do we? We just know he has more than one. He could have three, four, five, seven, twelve, twenty-seven, a hundred, he could have found an infinite moms glitch for all we know!
Boyf riends: I think I'm in love with you
so basically I found myself scrolling through wedding speech tiktok the other day and it got me so unbelievably mushy and these boys are the only way I can process my feelings rn so mix in drawing this to the tomodachi life soundtrack and we get a 10/10 unnecessarily emotional experience I just I love them so much you guys it's actually a problem
I dunno how to share two posts in the same part but this is the other part
Yaaaaaaaaaas 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 I headcanon all my children as neurodivergent, they're all so relatable. Also y'all should totally 'embrace the traits that make you so odd', neurodivergent or otherwise, cause y'all are like soooooo rad :D
Tbh I don't know what 'say it like you mean it' means either lol :)
Yayyyyyyyyyyyy I found it in a random newsagents
Tastes pretty much like it says on the can: like regular mountain dew but with a little cherry. I mean I bought it for the bit, but it's nice :) I mean I won't be buying it regularly cos it's an American import so it's like £2 but it was good to try. Not planning on getting a SQUIP so I shall be ok lol :)
Aight, I don't think I've ever heard out The SQUIP Stalks, it's good!
I was reading the lyric booklet along with the Broadway album and I found that SQUIP calls Jeremy bae in Be More Chill Part 1 and I'm not sure how to feel about this :/
Also does anyone else find the text is like, super tiny? Like, I had to borrow my mom's reading glasses. I mean I don't know if I'm just blind, this is a possibility, but like I swear I can normally read CD booklets? I dunno. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Top tier BMC analysis
Christine Canigula was socially ostracized & developed a complex to protect herself: an essay
(suddenly i NEED to infodump about Christine actually so here)
Something I only noticed on rewatch: the way Christine will say something silly and then just kind of gingerly wait to see if Jeremy reacts well to it before continuing, almost like she's asking permission?? (e.g. the gap after the first stanza of "Play Rehearsal"). And it's only after he riffs off her bowling alley bit that she feels comfortable talking about her personal feelings with him (right before "Guy that I'd Kinda be Into"). The same happens with their "weird noise" exchange immediately before "It's pretty killer to sit and chat with you." I know theater relies on being succinct, and that 'bonding over shared quirks' and 'feelings talk' are both just crucial parts of relationship development... but I don't think it's a coincidence that it always goes in that order!
It's like Jeremy has to pass these *trials of weirdness* before she feels safe opening up to him and it drives me BONKERS so I wrote a whole 1000 word thing about it under the cut and this got too massive and I'm sorry. Also some autistic Jeremy meta at the end if that sweetens the pot hehehe
Table of contents:
Why she was ostracized
How she was ostracized
How that might inform her pattern of relationship development with Jeremy and Jake
How gender caused Jeremy's experiences to differ from hers, and how that affects their current relationships with "popularity" and peer acceptance.
1. Why she was ostracized
I am just so certain that Christine has been bullied or at least majorly outcast for a lot of her life. She's very obviously neurodivergent and because of that she can have these obnoxiously deep and repetitive interests, she can't judge if a piece of information will be genuinely interesting to someone, and she doesn't take social cues very well.
She frequently interrupts people when they're talking (an ADHD symptom btw), even when they're literally talking to her about the thing she wants to hear!
(C: "Do you find that? Because I totally find that!" J: "Uh, yeah, I-" C: "-And no matter how hard I try....")
(J: "I know the last thing I deserve is another shot, but-" C:"Jeremy, just... say what's on your mind.") (girl I'm sorry but that's what he was doing..... I have a whole other thoughtpiece on how this particularly fucks with Jeremy while they're dating but thats another thing...)
She doesn't seem confident in her interpretations of people's emotions and she'll ask/talk about them point blank (both theirs and her own) in a way a lot of people would find rude
("Uh, you seem really nervous...") ("Popular people are fucked up! *mutual laughter* …I mean, you're one of them!") ("I am flattered, this is new / still I'm not sure what I should do" <- as a response to getting asked out, that's pretty bold! Plus the entire part where she laughs at Jake's "rich boy routine") (also compare and contrast to Jeremy's "I don't know what I'm supposed to say right now." idk. are your allistic stage dorks in the room with us right now motherfuckers)
I'd go on about her hyperfixations/special interests too but I think Play Rehearsal pretty much sums it up lol
2. How she was ostracized
All this to say that I am CERTAIN she spent a lot of her schooling having "nice girls" patiently let her sit with them at lunch for weeks at a time until they finally get sick of her rambling and faux pas. Only when they leave does Christine realize that they didn't actually care about anything she said... And this happens over and over and over. (I know this seems hella specific but I swear it's an actual phenomenon... at least I'm pretty sure? sdjflksjf)
But anyway, it's clear that by the time they're juniors, Christine has kind of (and I do only mean kind of) figured out what behaviour other people respond poorly to. And from evidence I stated in the intro, I think she's become really careful about which people she lets herself get attached to. She doesn't want this to ever happen again - which means if she's going to hang out with someone, she has to know that they actually care about her, that they know she will sometimes be obnoxious or blunt, and they'll still be okay with that forever.
3. Applying this to her canon relationships
You can extend this to Jake, someone who sees her in her element in drama rehearsal (the thing everyone finds annoying about her because she won't shut up about it) and STILL likes her. I think it's a totally valid reading that her bluntness with him later ("Upgrade") is just because she misreads him / doesn't quite get the social standard that she should be white lying instead. But I think you could also read her as testing the waters. If she's really going to commit to dating this guy, she's gotta know he's okay with her being herself. And the fact that this guy (and I think it's significant that he is a boy, for reasons I'll explain in the end note) genuinely seems to like her is a whole new level of peer validation ("I am flattered, this is new") -- so of course she's gonna fall at least a little! It doesn't hurt that he's "tired of being the person that everyone thinks that I am..." just like her!
Her history with being pity-liked makes Chloe's "advice," that Jake's just toying with her and is going to move on soon, even scarier, because that's genuinely happened to her (on a platonic level) so many times before.
Jeremy is also a good candidate from the beginning because he's weird he's a weirdo he doesn't fit in and he doesn't wanna fit in you ever see him without this stupid cardigan on? that's weird! And she keeps warming up to him not only because they're getting to know each other but because he gets progressively more willing to not only tolerate (as Jake does) but *participate* in her weirdness!
First, she does something weird and he tolerates it ("Play Rehearsal"); the next time she's weird, he participates! (bowling ball before GTIKBI). Then finally finally finally he initiates the weirdness and lets her join in! ("weird noises" exchange before GTIKBI reprise).
And notably, it is THIS moment that canonically signifies that they've hit the apex of their canon relationship development. If there was an achievement called "Befriend Christine," it would have popped up right then and there!!!
IN CONCLUSION: YOUR HONOR I LOVE THEM T_T
4: Christine vs. Jeremy: Gender differences & how that ultimately impacts their social goals
I also think all of this would have happened to Jeremy too if he'd been a girl. But because, generally, young boys feel less social obligation than girls to take pity on the autistic kid (and because boys tend to be more quickly recognized as autistic) he just ends up completely alone for most of his school life (Michael nonwithstanding - and yeah there's an important distinction between your childhood friend putting up with you and knowing that, woah, I guess literally nobody else ever will).
Meanwhile, Christine has had people "put up" with her, and she's SICK OF IT!
That's part of why their complexes are so different, because Christine is trying to check everyone she meets to make sure they'll be okay with her weirdness before she gets attached, Jeremy is trying to eliminate his weirdness altogether because he's never even experienced his peers listening out of *pity* so how the hell can he expect someone to ever listen to him out of *interest?*
Jeremy has never had someone pretend to like him before, so he completely lacks Christine's fear of befriending someone who secretly hates you. He doesn't realize how bad it'll hurt him if he destroys his real self for popularity, if he befriends people who would have bullied his real self. He doesn't know what disingenuous friendship feels like, so like a very young Christine he's still actively trying to get there because he thinks it's the only kind of validation he'll ever get.
Do you see what im saying? Do you see it???? AUAUGUGUUGGH
THANK YOU FOR READING!!! If you have thoughts or even rebuttals please share i am so desperate to discuss the blorbos
Aw yissssssssssss we stan Christine
“Christine Canigula is a strong, lovable and valuable character,” I say into the mic.
The crowd boos. I begin to walk off the stage in shame, when a voice commands silence from the room.
“She’s right,” they say. I look to the owner of the voice. There, in the 5th row stands: Stephanie Tsu and the entire BMC cast and creative team themselves.
EDIT: Jesus Christ how did this get 30 notes in 5 minutes hdhdhfij
Omgggggggggg I just saw this for the first time and it is everythinggggggggg, I can't even, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ So yeah, would recommend :) Alright, love y'all <3 Hope y'all are doing amazing
Okay….Will Roland and Joe Iconis playing an acoustic version of “Loser Geek Whatever” is giving us ALL the feels! 🎧
Me and my babies cos I can't pick a favorite
Also I need a froggy hat
Thank u luvly @goldenrings-n-pillows for the tag </3 mwua
Make this picrew of you and your blorbo
Me and my HUSBAND Damon Salvatore
Np tagging: @onlyasimp4-2dbitches or @hor3nee plus anyone else who wants to make picrews of their blorbo :3
In these difficult times I would like to remind y'all that y'all are all cooler than a vintage cassette :) So much f'ing peace and love <3
You guyyyyyyyyyyys!!! This is a full animatic for Act 1 Two River! Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!! The dedication!!! Y'all should totally watch this if you want to I mean you don't have to but I think y'all would enjoy it :)
Happy Halloween y'all! Hope none of y'all are crying in the bathroom or setting fires tonight :)