Call Me Star ★彡

"Swan's in your corner if that shit goes down"

"We can take these wimps"

"Swan would've beat him"

Even in the promo photoshoot they were the only ones actively posing with their muscles. And of course we know Ajax like to start fights like that's a recurring theme in the musical but I don't think we talk enough about the way Swan always ends them. Their fighting style mirrors each other Ajax takes the offensive while Swan takes the defensive AND THAT REFLECTS WHEN THEY TRY TO LEAD!

The two casualties of the trip are Ajax and Fox - both taken out by the Cops.

None of the gangs end up hurting the Warriors as much as the police.

I keep thinking about a debate I once had, credit to Carl Wilson for Slate, where he argued that the album felt too reactive to contemporary issues and that this would make it feel dated when it finally arrived. History has a funny way of exposing how misguided that fear is. What sounds “of the moment” is often just the sound of unresolved structures repeating themselves.

Weaponized police terrorizing marginalized communities in the name of order and power. Luther and the Rogues as cultural grifters, spinning entire realities out of rumor and misinformation. Narratives with no substance becoming the glue that holds white supremacy together. Captain Victor’s brutal killing of Fox as an assertion of authority that doesn’t need justification, only force. None of this feels trapped in a news cycle. It feels structural. It feels eternal in the worst way.

It’s genuinely hard to listen to Derailed or The Park at Night now without mentally overlaying recent events onto the music. The songs haven’t changed, but the world keeps proving them right.

Oh I feel you baby

And as much as I dont exactly care for our amethyst earth goddess, people can remember how to spell AND pronounce Rongomaiwhenua.

2026 redraw of fanart I have made back in 2022. Times have changed.

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