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The darkness will spare my soul.

canon

there's a specific subset of fans who headcanon pete to have curtwen grandparents and while i see the vision it's a little funny like yeah my grandpa invented the computer my other grandpa is a world-famous spy who tried to stop him from doing that and almost killed him they've been married ever since. my dad sells women's shoes

It's always "he killed multiple people" and "he was a huge jerk to everyone" like yes your honor but also consider he's just a silly lil meow meow pathetic man

peter!!!

POV you think Star Wars is better than Attack on Titan

my favorite loser!

richie!! best character! glad he made it out of there alive and happy :]

Didn't exactly come out as I wanted it to but it was funny in my head, lol 🐐

Ted is Ruth's hear me out, I will not take comments

I love them

Drew the siblings for a thing I’m making. I’m actually rly fuckin proud of how they came out

Posted my second YouTube video ever after a whole year. If you wanna check it out go for it, I do plan on starting to make more.

Steph: *carrying all the groceries*

Pete: *reaches out to help*

Steph: *switches all the groceries to one arm to hold his hand*

Pete: That’s not what I- ok.

My current mood: listening to the song ‘High School is Killing Me’ from NPMD on repeat.

Jason Jepson is literally everything the fandom wants Max to be (kind of dumb, gets redeemed and turns out to be actually really sweet, cares a lot about his friends, makes up with the nerds he bullied, hell he even likes Grace). But yet the fandom still favours Max more. I wonder why that is! Hmmm, I wonder what the difference between these two could be!

I’m sorry, I may just be a bit oblivious but I don’t actually get what you’re trying to imply here 😅 especially because in my mind these are two very different characters.

Mainly because from point one it’s obvious Jason doesn’t want to be doing the things he’s doing which contrasts with max who seems to revel in it and so has a much more stark difference between his terrible behavior and his redemption.

I think it should also be mentioned that (imo) Jason isn’t really a character who gets “redeemed”. (Hear me out!) From my understanding redemption is when you do something truly truly bad, make up for it, and learn to be a better person. Jason barely fulfills the truly bad thing by hanging with max and doing his bidding (but as I said above he doesn’t want to be doing any of it in the first place) but his “redemption” is a bit overshadowed by the fact that he tells Richie that if max ever came back he’d go right back to bullying. Now even though max’s redemption is also overshadowed by a return to his evil doings I think it’s really important to mention that Jason just randomly says he’d return to bullying if max ever came back. Whereas max has a more character reason to make his decent back into evil (mainly getting hurt, and pissing his pants. Which are both embarrassing things and we know he has a problem with his dad humiliating him)

In your tags you mentioned that you didn’t think screen time had to do with this, but I actually think it does. And the reason I think this is because of Kyle. Now idk about anyone else but I often don’t remember much about this character. (I had to look up his name just now.) and to me that’s because he hardly does anything in the show. So it would make sense to me if Jason, who is in the show less than max but more than Kyle, would get less attention from the fandom than max, but more than Kyle. And while I know that people love taking random background characters and making them the fandom favorite. I don’t actually think that Jason really fulfills what a typical fandom wants to see which is mainly toxic sad boys. (Which Jason is not imo. Other than the whole “we’re gonna return to bullying” he’s pretty healthy and happy)

I’m sure there are more in depth reasons but that’s the one that came up to me.

Sorry, not trying to be rude or anything. Just kinda hoping to start a conversation because I’m really curious about this topic! 😊

(edit: I looked back at your tags and saw that this is about race, which is totally fair. I’m not going to claim that isn’t what’s happening here since I haven’t really looked at the fandom from that point of view. Feel free to disregard this entire reblog 😝)

Jason Jepson is literally everything the fandom wants Max to be (kind of dumb, gets redeemed and turns out to be actually really sweet, cares a lot about his friends, makes up with the nerds he bullied, hell he even likes Grace). But yet the fandom still favours Max more. I wonder why that is! Hmmm, I wonder what the difference between these two could be!

Everytime someone spells Richie Ritchie a part of me dies

Looks like I’m gonna be “studying” hard tonight

Made a wheel you can spin to find out Where in Hatchetfield You're Going!

⚠️ Warning: some results may not be in Hatchetfield or this dimension. The creator of this wheel accepts no responsibility for anyone who ends up in unfortunate circumstances, or Clivesdale. Spin at your own risk.

(Also please ignore the fact I somehow forgot the name of Miss Retro's when making this. There's no way to go back and edit it now :( )

this musical was the only thing keeping me going through the end of the semester i'm obsessed

blehhh 😛

Okay but Luke 22:39-44 but it’s Grace during cool as I think I am reprise preparing to sacrifice her chastity

Like “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”

hello?

HELLO?!????

the idea of Ruth as a trans allegory has me crying in the club

(SPOILERS FOR NERDY PRUDES MUST DIE GO WATCH IT ITS AMAZING)

the idea of discovering something more to yourself that you want to show the world, but feel stuck in what people say you need to be rather than what you really are hits really close to home

Max Jagerman saying “you’re a nerd cause I said so. i willed it into existence.” represents how the more acceptable, “normal” people project what someone is supposed to be onto them without considering what they truly are, to keep them in a box, a box that Ruth is trying to break out of

when Max is presumed dead, it represents those expectations being lifted off of those who were affected, allowing people like Richie to be confident in who they are and make friends

even though Ruth doesn’t know exactly what she is yet, she finds her passion for being in the spotlight at the beginning of “Just For Once”, singing about how she now knows she wants to be in the spotlight

lines that talk about her character growing old, talking about how she’s disappointed with where her life is, maybe reflects how she’s feels about growing up herself, being scared of a future where she has to live as someone she isn’t or with someone she doesn’t want to be with

her repetition of “just for once,” in the song reflects many of the thoughts that other trans people have, often imagining ultimatums like “if only I had a button that turned me into a (preferred gender)” or “if I could just wear this outfit just for one event,” or “if I could just be a (preferred gender) for one day”

“just for once I’d feel the spark that I once knew” reflects feelings of many trans people who realized they weren’t cis around high school, where Ruth is, and searched to find that feeling again, but felt trapped by expectations by parents or others

“should I flip the burgers now? should I double check it’s well done on the outside, not within?” her indecisiveness reflects one of her main character traits, that she is riddled with anxiety, a common struggle that trans people experience, her anxiety makes scenarios that even though people are starting to accept her after Max’s death, that she’d still be ridiculed, or that it isn’t right for her to be who she is

her musicality shows her in bursts of confidence, like at the end with her lengthening the last note and letting it trail off, setting it free, only to go completely silent, highlighting the duality of her confidence in her new self, and fear of change (the last note always kills me it makes me tear up everytime)

what makes it even more gut-wrenching is that she isn’t able to feel the freedom of living her dream

the trailing off repetition of “i used to dance” after talking about giving away her tap shoes, representing her surrender to anxiety and fear, giving up on her dreams of being a performer, before being killed by Max

“Life is fine, if only it were mine.”

some quick spankoffski bros memes bc i'm a sucker for age-gap siblings like wdym ur older brother was alive for the end of the cold war. ted what was it like living through the great depression.

also hc that pete wouldn't be caught dead using zoomer terms except in the very specific instance of making his brother feel Weary

Richie headcanons!!

First anime was the Pokémon anime and Naruto

First video games was Pokémon Y

Naruto ran down the halls in middle school

Really likes Final Fantasy VII

Has an Eren Yaeger pfp on every social media site (and it's always different)

Forced Ruth to watch My Hero Academia

Thinks new anime fans are annoying while also really wishing everyone around him watched more anime

Has a list of cosplays he'd like to do, and hasn't done any of them

Has a stuffed animal collection under his bed that he refuses to share with anyone

Owns at least one nendoroid

Has only read manga since 7th grade, other than for school

Collects snow globes from every place he goes

When I showed this to my partner his only comment was "Davy Jones High School Musical Prom King"

Anyway, still feral about this musical and pumped for The Guy Who Doesn't Like Musicals Reprise <3

Please Reblog, but Don't repost without asking please!

"You don't want him anywhere near you. He's a bastard."

This was also a rendering practise!

holy shit

IT"S FINALLY DONE!!!!!!!!!!! Check out my animation of the title song from Nerdy Prudes Must Die, a horror musical from @teamstarkid You can watch the FULL stage show on their youtube channel!

https://youtu.be/PG3RDdyD_GQ?si=Rhxg6asT0MMoTTXd This clip features Jon Matteson as Richie, Will Branner as Max! The story and script is by Nick and Matt Lang, with music and lyrics by Jeff Blim!

Me? Projecting weird and highly specific headcannons onto favs? More likely than you think

"who's your favorite villain??" well obviously it's Bill Cipher-

"That's such a BASIC FUCKING BITCH ANSWER"

ALRIGHT YOU WANT A REAL ANSWER????

WIGGOG Y'WRATH WHO IS APART OF THE MUSICAL 'BLACK FRIDAY' AND APPEARS IN 'NERDY PRUDES MUST DIE' ALONG WITH THE SERIES 'NIGHTMARE TIME', MADE BY STARKID PRODUCTIONS, AND HE LOOKS A LOT LIKE THE ONCELOR, AND HE HAS A DOLL THAT LOOKS LIKE CTHULU IF IT WAS KIDZ BOP-IFIED AND HE SPEAKS IN AN UWU LANGUAGE AND HE BOMBED RUSSIA.

LOOK IT UP.

T’noy Karaxis WIP yayyyy