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Notes From The Booth

@not-she-which-burns-in-it / not-she-which-burns-in-it.tumblr.com

They/She. Professional theater and podcast person, semi-professional pain in the ass. If you know me IRL, no you don’t.

I need a new pinned post. Here we go.

Looks like I’m actually using Tumblr regularly again, God what fucking year is it? Now that Twitter has fallen into the ocean, this seems like the best place for yelling about fandom style things.

Currently eating my brain: The Magnus Archives

Always on my mind: OFMD, Doctor Who, Broadway/musical theater, labor unions, Buffy

I’m not gonna list every fandom because that would take 100 years. But a good mix. I actively try not to post about the maw of despair that is American politics/current events. Because that has invaded every other aspect of my life. And I need a break to post about gay pirates or whatever.

I live in fear of the day I end up working with someone that I’ve posted about and need to delete myself from the entire internet.

I am once again begging you to get your hands on physical media and/or save your fave stuff OFFLINE.

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unpretty

it’s DIRT

unmute for comically aggrieved farmer

reblogging for the second time because I still laugh uncontrollably. in my mind the cows are trying to be gracious about their strange gift. ‘yes we love it thank u’

I know I literally  just reblogged this but I love this video so much it always makes me laugh because

1. “LADIES”

2. The very disappointed “Eclair…”

3. “WHAT?” (High pitched mooing in response)

4. The way they turn into Pleakley from Lilo and Stitch as they get progressively more frustrated

You ever read a fic so good it knocks you right out of your hyper-fixation?

I thought I was reading a fic for my OTP with some Protagonist/Villain (past) thrown in for flavor. But instead it was actually Protagonist/Villain historical gay yearning, slow descent into evil boyfriends, I would do *anything* for you, you’re the other half of my soul. And I WAS THERE FOR IT.

From chatting with the author, they didn’t even intend for the story to go that way, it just *happened* the romance just jumped off the page and would not be denied.

It was at least 100k words in with me screaming JUST KISS as they both begrudgingly admitted they were still in love after a century of separation. It was 200k words before they finally slept together.

It altered my brain chemistry. And the tragedy is THERES NO MORE OF IT it’s a rare pair to begin with and this particular plot was only possible because of a “what if” canon divergence. There is simply no more to be had of this pairing with this dynamic.

Please give me 7-10 business days to recover.

DID THE NEW YORK TIMES JUST

Please tell me I’m not the only one who can see it. That just HAPPENED the be the character art? Of a person likely to say Archivist. 🤨

Or is my brain so thoroughly rotted that all I see is TMA references. HELP ME

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mamacastiel

why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain

no one tell him

This is it, lads. The post that started us on this path 9 years ago.

I sure hope no one told him.

Having a really long-term hyperfixation that has since faded is terrifying yes but it's also so embarrassing. Hi I used to think about Scrimblo Splungus 25/7. Yeah, for 2 years straight. Nah, I don't think about them anymore except for with a vague sense of melancholy as I recall how they used to make me feel. Anyways this new one, Blimpkins McGee? I'm gonna think about them forever and the cycle will NOT repeat in 2 years. Trust me guys.

I think about this all the time. I sometimes think about periods of my life based on the hyper fixations.

Right now I’m in my Magnus Archives era.

Before that was Our Flag Means Death for like a year and a half

Before that was Doctor Who (this one repeats every so often, and has expanded to include any media with David Tennant)

Before that was Supernatural for like 3+ years. I really thought that one was gonna be permanent.

Sometimes there are gaps between them, sometimes one hyper fixation kicks another one in the face and takes over. My childhood was the same moving from Lord of Rings to Harry Potter to Phantom of the Opera. It’s almost easier to access memories of being 12 by thinking of what I was obsessed with in that moment. trying to remember what it felt like to be 12, when you’re 34, is hard. Trying to remember what it felt like to be obsessed with Aragon from Lord of the Rings, oh yeah that’s relatable. 

MECHANISMS REF IMAGE MASTERPOST

Okay, so I put together refs for each of the mechs as best I can. I tried to avoid anything in a show lighting, but sometimes it can't be helped. Notes will be underneath each section

Whole cast

Ivy is the only character leaning on the wall in the second image, but is roughly as tall as Ashes

Jonny D'Ville

Jonny in earlier shows like TTBT wears a black shirt underneath instead of the white. He occasionally has red or black painted nails and his goggles are either black or bronze. He has a black 7 of diamonds. He often holds a mic - which is a Shure Super 55

Drumbot Brian

He usually has just the flower in his hat, but sometimes it's replaced with RAM or his drumsticks. His goggle has a very small crack at the base. The rings seem to be a bit of a motherboard and screws? The visible heart is something I can only find in one picture, but it's cool

Gunpowder Tim

Sometimes wears jeans instead of dark brown trousers. His eye scars are more geometric than Jonny's, and he has dark eye shadow around the eyes where Jonny uses just eyeliner

Raphaella la Cognizi

The top is three layers: a white/cream shirt, a brown puffy shirt and a a top layer which has a halter neck. Occasionally one or both of the undershirts won't be worn (see HNOC liveshow). Tights can be blue or black. Light up wings from DTTM

The leggings/tights are sometimes black and sometimes deep blue

Ivy Alexandria

A few different outfits, in liveshows they're also wearing some outfits not shown here - but always black and red with a waistcoat of some kind.

Nastya Rasputina

The necklace is a little cat :3

Marius von Raum

Kneepads in DTTM. The cards are a jack and ace of hearts. Necktie either has a white or gold pattern on it, but they don't always wear it. The green jacket has a tailcoat

The Toy Soldier

Hair varies a lot. Sometimes it's worn down, in a ponytail or hidden under the hat. Sometimes nails are painted red or black

Ashes O'Reilly

In live shows they often wear this eyeliner which has thick bars that go behind the ears - but I couldn't find any clear pictures of this. Though their outfits changes, always mostly black with some red in the hair

Dr Carmilla post can be found here

I hope this was in some way helpful to anyone who wants to draw the mechanisms. If you have questions feel free to ask me in the ask box and I will do my best to answer them and provide some photos <3 have a great day

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