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wizards will b like “I know a place” and then ask you to trust him, lead you to a crappy inn, buy nine rooms when there’s seven of you, pay extra for a closet, act like ur all going ur separate ways for the night, cryptically ask u for one last word, and then theatrically cast a magical mansion spell and say “welcome home” instead of just telling u that he can do that now in the first place

Okay I’ll admit this the was really awesome and a really well matched to the song and edited

That’s fucking tight.

ting ting TING TING TING! TING! *panting out of breath gasps in time to the beat* I LIVE FOR THIS STUFF

fun fact a few months ago I showed this video to my 4 y/o brother and to this day he asks me to play the song (glitter and gold) because he is convinced it is “The Avengers Song™”

A lot of fanvids either have the sound effects and speech lines overpower the actual music. This is one of the rare few when it’s actually properly edited to match the beat, and doesn’t rely on “oh, it’s that line you like! And that other line!”

the syncing at 2:19-2:20 gave me chills

Sometimes you just come across something that puts into words what you have yet been unable to.

friendly reminder that u can be like “lin manuel miranda created a work of art that was meant to highlight performers of color and made broadway mainstream again and was full of amazing themes and motifs” and still be like “but hamilton is inherently problematic because it glorifies the founding fathers when they should not be treated as people to look up to” like u can and should do that

this post blew up in the few hours since i made it wow so one thing i wanted to address is that some of the replies on this post and others that i’ve seen have argued that hamilton plays largely off of criticizing the founding fathers. and you’re right, it does. but the issue is a lot more fundamental than just the characters within the show calling each other out. when i say that the narrative glorifies the founding fathers, i don’t mean that it shows them as perfect—because to an extent it does bring up some of the bad things they did—i mean that the way that the story is written makes them the protagonists, and therefore as an audience we’re driven to root for them. a lot of that is also contributed to by the way we’ve learned american history in schools and stuff, but what i’m trying to stress is that after falling so in love with this musical, i now have to constantly make a conscious effort to separate lin manuel miranda’s version of the founding fathers from the actual people in history. because they’re not the same people. the plainest example: thomas jefferson was not a black man, he was a slaveowner and a disgusting human being! every single “character” in this show was historically at the very least a white supremacist; almost all of them owned slaves or engaged in the trade. they created a system that solely benefitted rich white men. and yet, every single time i listen to this musical it convinces me that i love them and i want them to succeed. that’s what media does. no matter how much it openly criticizes its characters, the moment you’re emotionally invested in them, it becomes extremely difficult to view them as bad people. i’m not immune to it, and neither are you. that’s why hamilton is inherently problematic, despite the groundbreaking things it did for the industry. that’s why it’s necessary to separate yourself from the text for long enough to say “this piece of media is incorrectly influencing my viewpoint and i need to make a conscious effort to undo that”. i am absolutely not saying you can’t enjoy it; i definitely do. and i believe, despite all of this, that it was well-intentioned. but unfortunately that’s not enough. double check the way you consume media and please, by god, allow yourself to acknowledge when the things you love are flawed.

On this day of Hamilton dropping on Disney+, when people start saying ‘omg I wish all plays were recorded & up for us to see online,’ let it be known that Starkid has been doing the same thing for FREE for over a decade :)