funniest thing about Hey Melissa to me is how completely unsustainable the ending actually is. like there's three options for how this could go post-canon

every ICE agent could die right now and they'd all deserve it

primrosebakery on ig

The duality of being a creative is wanting your stuff to get attention but also being afraid of white people liking it because you know the core message is about to be lost and the characters are gonna become one dimensional

starting to think starkid fans dont find black people as attractive or as capable of being a sexyman as a white person or literal objects

OMIGOD YES THIS IS SO TRUE

BRYCE CHARLES AS ELLA IS SO SEXY AND NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE

James Tolbert. Two words, that is very important for everyone to remember. He does an amazing Eldritch horror.

this reminded me that charles coven is also sexyman material and he wasnt even submitted :/

/ruesworldd

ok well. sometimes people just don’t like your favorite white boy.

Be the first woman in your bloodline to choose herself challenge

thinking abt getting some new faces to wear

the thing is that i have been listening to the cinderella's castle cast album on loop for an unreasonable amount of time and so i am starting to see through the Extremely Specifically Made for Me-ness of its tone and premise and characterization to the bits of clunky lyricism. i am not saying the lyricism as a whole is bad, but like logically how the hell do you parse "if life is a burden, you know that you are burnt or shady." or the bits in ash to ash where it is so clear they needed to shift one or two syllables any given way so in the otherwise banger line of "you will be as radiant and terrible as i" you get "i shall wrap thee in these cinders, ell" not even finishing her name. "cinderella trust to radiate and glow" is like theme word salad. ella says she might need a lawyer "'cause i've been forced to break a few legs" like has she literally been forced to break people's legs for the trolls, or is that supposed to be a metaphor? but if it's a metaphor for her having to do bad shit, she hasn't actually done any of it yet and that's the whole point? and if you think about it too long "will it ever after happily" is like. i mean, that is A Way to convey that.

AND YET every time i start thinking about these things, bryce (and the others. but mostly bryce) just sell the shit out of it and i forget all about it. the thing about cinderella's castle to me is that it is a musical that is more than the sum of its already very strong parts. the "burnt or shady" line that makes zero sense is in a killer melody. "will it ever after happily"? what a poignant outburst of grief and uncertainty. bryce is there doing the musical equivalent of a top-tier hamlet adaptation while angela giarratana has the time of her life in a troll puppet.

anyway this is my argument for why cinderella's castle is my absolute favorite starkid show.

starkid shows but bryce charles plays every character

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXWyAeUhGBw/

starkid shows but bryce charles plays every character

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