Goddess Of Destruction And Dick Jokes

how will you ever find your soulmate now if you don’t drink coke???

They really were just three ordinary boys from West Virginia, and if you listen to Griffin’s Florida State lecture (the whole thing’s on youtube) he talks about how rough things were for them when they started their podcast. He mentions how they were in mourning over their mother, fighting all the time, and ready to separate forever, but held on and decided not to abandon each other in the thick of it. And things were still rough, because their father had to work stupid hours at the radio station to support himself, and the brothers were trying to make it in game journalism.

And then they started MBMBaM, a goofy bad advice podcast full of improvised bits and comedy segments, and it blew up. They started TAZ, a fun D&D podcast where they played with their dad, and were able to bond together and let him retire comfortably on the revenue it generated, and now Clint oversees the TAZ graphic novel series that’s still releasing issues and spends boatloads of quality time with his three sons. Monster Factory is just a funny game stream where Justin and Griffin try to destroy character creators as much as possible, but it’s one of their biggest IPs. Their TV show was short-lived but explosively popular among their fanbase.

They sell out entire stadiums and Lin-Manuel Miranda plays them We Didn’t Start the Fire parodies as they walk on and people lose their collective minds. Tom Holland fanboys over them at SDCC. People come from all over the place to hear them perform, and that performance never got less authentic. It’s just three brothers and their dad being goofy together and trying to make each other laugh. And the laughter and love they carried for each other was so contagious that it made an entire world of people love them, too. 

Vampires have had a pretty bad rep. We’re not these mopey old creatures who live in castles. Well, most of us are… a lot are. But there are also those of us who like to flat together in really small countries, like New Zeland.

I love absolutely everything about this: from that eyebrow clearly directed at Simon, to that lil blush (& his skin tone!!!), to this BEAUTIFUL shirt (y’all look at that faded pattern on the inside of the cuffs; I am weak), the fact that the book he’s taking off the shelf is PURPLE!!! And of course that bun. Those forearms. The everything. I’m obsessed, but in the good way. 

Thank you so very much for this, @pitchpatronus . Now he can keep Simon company 💜💜💜

like, for $10 (the average price of a movie ticket) you could watch the proshot of hamilton, with the original broadway cast. you could see the original broadway cast of hamilton for $10 dollars. you’re literally paying a hamilton to see hamilton. and you don’t need to worry about sitting in a rear mezzanine seat or having an obstructed view, since it’s a proshot.

DON’T PIRATE. PAY THE TEN BUCKS.

Musical theatre aficionados have been fighting for YEARS for this to be a regular thing. As far as I know, it’s only been done a handful of times: the final performance of RENT, the 10th and 25th anniversaries of Les Mis, the 25th anniversary of Phantom of the Opera, and there are a few “on a stage but reblocked and edited for video” shows like Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar 2000, and Into The Woods. We have been FIGHTING for general releases of shows. This is an actual theatre industry thing.

You may notice something about the shows I listed above: only three of them aren’t Andrew Lloyd Webber shows. Love him or hate him, he’s a huge advocate for the idea that theatre should be accessible and preserved for the historic record; he actually arranged for a proshot of Love Never Dies on the basis that he was pretty sure it WASN’T going to be playing for very long, and future theatre fans who wanted to see it for any reason should have access to it. Webber has been in this industry since 1969. When a man with that kind of resume says “yes, this needs to be a thing,” it’s a fair bet he knows a thing or two of what he’s talking about. It’s one reason I love Webber: yeah, some of his shows are kind of questionable quality, but he’s on the fans’ side here.

(Also, I feel the need to defend him against the new CATS. He arranged the 1998 stage-but-edited version that was pretty good. He was PISSED about the 2019 version long before it was released.)

So basically: if you’re not a Webber fan, you’re screwed. If you ARE a Webber fan but you also want to see cool stuff like the bilingual version of West Side Story or the production of Fiddler on the Roof that was partly in Yiddish, you’re screwed. If you want to see cult classics that weren’t around long, like Spring Awakening or Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark (or, for the REALLY obscure: Chess or Bat Boy), you’re screwed. If you want to see shows that were reasonably successful but require a huge budget and so don’t get put on often, like Aida and Little Shop of Horrors, you’re screwed. If you want to see shows that require a budget SO huge that no community theatre no matter how well-endowed will ever be able to afford them, like Wicked? YOU’RE SCREWED.

I am begging you. BUY HAMILTON. DON’T PIRATE. This is a fight 30+ years old and buying it will help demonstrate that YES, there is an entire audience outside New York ready and willing to buy in; YES, it’s worth the outlay of cash to do these recordings and mix and edit them; and, and understand I am saying this as a Webber and Les Mis fan, RECORDINGS THAT ARE NOT LES MIS OR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER ARE WORTH RELEASING.

Help us fight the good fight and make professional theatre available to everyone. BUY HAMILTON. DO NOT PIRATE. YES, EVEN THOUGH IT’S A DISNEY RELEASE. YES, EVEN THOUGH NON-PROFESSIONAL RECORDINGS EXIST.

This is important. As a theatre advocate I cannot stress HOW important. If you follow me, you know I’m all in favor of things like streaming services and breaking up the Disney monopoly. But in this, my loyalty has to lie with a fight I joined in 2005 that was going on when I was still smelling markers in kindergarten.

If you have any interest in seeing Hamilton, no matter how casual, buy it. Please.