For People Like Us, In Places Like This

mostly because that means when he shows up in river city and hears that Marian the Librarian seduced a secure and permanent position out of the elderly town miser, he would think: ah, another creature like me.

(not that “sadder and wiser girl” isn’t a phenomenal song on its own, but it takes on a different tenor if it’s game recognizing game rather than HH just refusing to go after nice, church-going girls.)

plus, leaning into that characterization would mean that marian is sadder and wiser, did in fact befriend (or seduce) specifically to have access to books and then later, to keep accessing them; she’s a con man too, just on a lesser scale due to lack of opportunity.

[Harold Hill gazes meaningfully at Marian, then looks back to Winthrop]

Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire

I made this sticker for a small freebie to include with my other TLB designs, got an emphatic response that it needs to be a full-size sticker so I had to bedazzle it. Thought it’s a good use for my black holographic foil.

Behold the sparkle: