#pulptown

paper stars pulptown moodboard for @mythuzalasheir3!

What if instead of a flower, the Song™️creates an almost Radiant sunbeam??????

never apologize for pulptown thoughts i love them all

Also, should we do a fic exchange? (You said you wanted to write something Severed In The Shadows related, right?) I write something pulptown? /gen

kal and charles would be fun!!!!

“You know where to find me” being something bitter Margaret says every time Samuel leaves (bc Doubt and shit and maybe a little jealousy??) and then he turns it back on her but hopeful in Wait For Me Reprise

Samuel!Persephone is truly fascinating, bc he’s just trying to do his job right and keep everyone happy but Margaret is taking him back sooner and sooner and it’s not enough time

I said it in the reblog to my last ask but POLARIS MOTIF FOR ROSE AND JOHN DURING PROMISES AND DOUBT COMES IN! They swear to walk with each other and trust one another and let them guide each other but then John has to follow Rose but Rose has nothing to guide her as she leaves the underworld and that’s where doubt comes in.

ALSO FLOWERS BUT STARGAZING FOR THE ASTRONOMY COUPLE!

also also I feel like Rose should accidentally smack John over the head at some point before All I’ve ever known to echo the PPP/silly

SIA HERMES THE LOML! SHES SEEN IT ALL BEFORE AND SHE KEEPS TELLING THE STORY ANYWAY IN THE HOPES THAT IT WILL TURN OUT THIS TIME

Have you thought about who the Fates would be???/gen

i lovvvve using "you know where to find me" as something bitter. of course she's bitter, sam is kinda all she has in this au? when samuel leaves, he has his sister to visit. when samuel leaves, margaret is alone. dakkar likely doesn't visit often. he's her only company and he leaves for half of the year! half of the year, she's alone!

i also adore samuel turning it back on her.

Polaris motif..........

if mags is the queen of the fog (instead of the mines, idk), maybe the winter she causes blocks out the stars? the skies fill with smoke, and you can't see the stars, barely even Polaris. maybe rose's song brings that back. idk

rose and john actually meet when she hits him in the head with her printing press plate... orpheus and eurydice run into each other, rose is carrying around a full sheet of metal for some reason, and john is the unlucky bastard who gets hit

sia hermes ily

LIKE HADES!MARGARET BEING A COLD SLY MANIPULATOR WHILE JOHN IS JUST ALONE AND HUNGRY AND CONFUSED (lowkey g&r vibes but scarier)

also could throw in an evil “you must have questions/I have questions” somewhere around Why We Build The Wall, either as a prelude to the song or as the invitation to sign the contract

aaaah hades!margaret you fog queen she’s so slay

(also not sure if I’ve said this but can we say in terms of larger myth dakkar!poseidon?!)

hades!margaret is so fun, honestly. she's so cunning, she's so different from canon margaret, and that's so much fun for me. i like her dynamic with john here! they have a sweet friendship in canon, but here, it's like he's just a pawn for her. it's great.

QUESTIONS??? okay yeah that's great. tempting john in because she knows about his desire for knowledge (maybe samuel mentioned that?), and using that as a way to manipulate him onto her side. hades!margaret you are despicable i love you

dakkar!poseidon! i think we've mentioned that idea a couple times, but i love him.

Beneath their fog/bricks and money and flower motifs on their outfits, Margaret and Samuel have small, easily concealable sun and moon motifs- maybe on their buttons, full moons like silver coins for Margaret and sunbursts that almost look like flowers for Samuel.

But in Epic 3 “They Danced” We have our attention drawn to a silver crescent tie pin that Samuel wears and a small golden brooch in the shape of a sun that Margaret has

hey so what if i started crying :(

Spring’s all about renewal and rebirth and that’s Persephone’s thing, right? YOUNG MAN WITH POTENTIAL MOTIF CAMEO

Going vaguely as such:

On the road to hell there was a railroad line

And a god stepping off a train (cue ymwp leitmotif over the usual beat

With a suitcase full of summertime

Samuel by name

Also I feel like Margaret’s Belief motif “I am alone…So many people have nothing to believe in/I need something to believe in” could be flipped on its head in her His Kiss, The Riot:

“They were alone,

Children wandering the firmament throwing stones,

Destined to face maladies on their own,

So many who die have nothing to believe in,

I gave them something to believe in,

now what do they clamour for? Freedom!”

Also also I vote Sia as Hermes, not Dakkar bc I feel like it would be funnier to extend the olympian family even though they aren’t depicted in Hadestown and have him as Poseidon with Itzal as Kronos (but that’s me being a massive mythology nerd lol)