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Mama!

Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

Dirt

The idea of The Lords In Black Being Less Sadistic To those with the gift is Hilarious. It’s Just a Hierarchy of Torture!

Stopwatch (Daniel) Headcanons!

He's the trademark polite kid. He grew up with manners being essential in the household.

Hannah and Sophia are his best friends.

He is an only child with a single mom.

He has a relationship with Tinky. They are not nearly as close as Hannah and Webby. Nor is it as fucked up as Ted and Tinky, but still Tinky is relevant part of his life.

He first figured out he had powers when he joined the kid's swim team in fifth grade.

He has to quit the swim team.

His favorite color is blue

Great at math

Dyslexic

He really loves dogs and hopes to finally have his own one day. Today is not that day though. His mom is allergic.

I hyperfixated on the Entire Roller-Rama But The Abstinence Camp Episode does have too little art.

i think more people need to become attached to like random freaking hatchetfield characters that only appear in like 1 nmt episode like come on where’s the love and content for stopwatch? mary and noah? hailey? snigglette? i do not see NEARLY enough content of boy jerry and girl jeri and that upsets me

-Don’t forget Grace Chasity Considers Presbyterians worse than Atheists in her fundamentalist religious opinion.

random things about characters we've learned from the hatchetfield tarot cards thus far:

-becky is confirmed to be the warrior of light

-wilbur sold his soul to wiggly

-homeless man would rather eat rats than mcdonalds

-max sees it as his duty to protect hot girls by beating up nerds

-lex has been to juvie for lighting a bus on fire

-lex once identified a picture of stalin as super mario and thinks napoleon is an ice cream flavor

-pete drops toenail clippings behind the couch...? joey proudly said he does the same thing

It’s literally Blinky’s title. It’s a Perfect Headcannon that all that needs to happen is Jeff Blim’s answer of yes or no.(He did more than the songs of Tto.).

I’ll never stop thinking about the fact that Trail To Oregon could very well take place in the hatchetfield universe because “The Watchers with a thousand eyes” could definitely be blinky

I’ll tell what goes on and slime as much as possible from New Jersey.

the most annoying, jobless person you know (me) is having the best day ever

i mean, tbh i can’t fly to ‘murica, but it’s still exciting :p

The Propoganda is He Likes to Leave Poops In Your Shoe. Is there a God?!

propaganda for Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel:

He lives in a pocket and he's cute

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It definitely was Wilbur Cross Made

i dont care who wins as long as holloway loses #cantstandthatgingerbitch

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Uncle Wiley Sweep!

Why Not Try Both(Mha and Mutants and Masterminds M&M is A Really Good System and the Mha stuff is that kids mentioned it so much in class I made a weird project.)(It’s my Current Hyperfixation Besides 60,Maybye 70 Musical Version Hyperfixations)

if you want superheros that suck you should watch jrwi prime defenders .its a podcast made by the just roll with it crew and it uses the mutants and masterminds system . you would like dakota the most i think ... *shakes a podcast at you like every jrwi fan ever to exist*

ANYTHING TO STOP ME FROM FIXATING BACK ON MHA. ANYTHING.

Dabi Bounced Back but I’ve come to make an announcement.

the king is winning the tumblr sexyvillain round he's in..

Huh

Mha is the bigger fandom too, how???

Revenge For Doof!

Art of Poseidon by Neil the Illustrator seriously guys go check out their YouTube channel

Meutuchen News Network is Here at 4:00

The Rumor Come Out: Does Jake Dillinger Is Gay?

I'm pretty sure people are complaining about BMC reunion being in NJ because of the fact it's far for some people. I haven't posted about it but that's at least my reason since it's super far from me I have no qualms with NJ myself so I assumed it was that

It’s people going “Fuck New Jersey” and saying some pretty mean shit. I know it’s just sadness on being unable to go but I’ve Had a lot on my plate recently and I get defensive when stressed.

I don’t think anyone is trying to make fun of New Jersey!! I think we’re all just jealous we can’t go 😭🙏

Phew. I was actually Uncomfortable for a little there.

Plus New Jersey Has Better Healthcare and Human Rights than Most States in the Us.(Especially on the Healthcare Part). It’s fine I’m sorry if it sounded Rash I’m just very defensive of my home state.(I live in it because in 1971 My Abuela decided it is the place to go to when you leave Cuba.)

Omg Be More Chill having a 10 year reunion event at Two River Theater is so cool but god I wish it was not in NEW JERSEY because I want to go SO DAMN BAD

THEY’RE GONNA HAVE MOST OF THE ORIGINAL CAST TOO INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL JEREMY AHHH

I’ve never wished I lived in New Jersey but just this once I wish I did I love BMC so much it’s literally my 3rd favorite musical ever

AND I CANT GO BC ITS IN FUCKING NEW JERSEY WHAT IF I JUMP OFF A CLIFF

New Jersey

For all of you being sad that The Be More chill 10 year concert is in New Jersey. I live in New Jersey and stop making fun of it. I’ll send All Pictures I’m able to take. Also Stop Because I need This so Badly with all the Shitty News about the Us and New Jersey having so many elections. So Here’s Some New Jersey and Be More Chill Facts.

.The Book When it can Uses Actual Locations In the Borough of Meutuchen in Middlesex County except for Middleborough, which is a Pun on Middlesex County and Meutuchen Borough.

.The Book City is Meutuchen Borough and Musical City Is Red Bank(Home Of the Two River Theatre so it’s very meta.)

.I have more but instead I’d like to say:If you Make Fun of New Jersey one more time I’m Making every recipe in the anarchists cookbook and using the results on you.

Don’t Make Fun Of New Jersey this is one of the very few things I’m glad to be in New Jersey for. Flights are comparatively cheap, especially Red Bank.(I’m saying this though I still have to go 51 miles)

Omg Be More Chill having a 10 year reunion event at Two River Theater is so cool but god I wish it was not in NEW JERSEY because I want to go SO DAMN BAD

THEY’RE GONNA HAVE MOST OF THE ORIGINAL CAST TOO INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL JEREMY AHHH

I’ve never wished I lived in New Jersey but just this once I wish I did I love BMC so much it’s literally my 3rd favorite musical ever

AND I CANT GO BC ITS IN FUCKING NEW JERSEY WHAT IF I JUMP OFF A CLIFF

If you were in New Jersey You’d already know. It’s all Over the Two Rivers Theatre website. It’s amazing!!

BE MORE CHILL IS HAVING A REUNION.

GUYS THIS IS FUCKING CRAZY.

Sorry I responded with the wrong blog and I don’t have the links.(Check the Episode on Apple Podcasts and some reviews include a review of home on the range.)

It's an old tale from way back when/ And we're gonna sing it again and again...

Damn I finally Azalin Rex Account mentioned in @wonderfulworldofdarklords . And There’s Virtually infinite mists Until Klor comes for us all.

Random musing...

The hours I spend researching Ravenloft lore to ultimately end up creating my own stories for my games is kind of hilarious.

Thanks so Much. Can’t wait for the listeners choice Episode in September.

Amazing News

@wonderfulworldofdarklords just followed me, one of my favorite podcasts!!!! Their Conversion of Disney Movies to Ravenloft Domains of Dread Have Inspired so many of my posts. Thank you So much Tom or Rachel Kolar. I work so much on mutants and masterminds and DnD stuff and the fact that their DnD stuff recognized me makes me so happy.(I was hyperactive all morning from joy.)

That’s TGWDLM but everything is Gay instead of Bi.

Hear me out.

TGWDLM where everything is the same but let it out is replaced with I don't dance from high school musical 2.

Is this anything?

Amazing News

@wonderfulworldofdarklords just followed me, one of my favorite podcasts!!!! Their Conversion of Disney Movies to Ravenloft Domains of Dread Have Inspired so many of my posts. Thank you So much Tom or Rachel Kolar. I work so much on mutants and masterminds and DnD stuff and the fact that their DnD stuff recognized me makes me so happy.(I was hyperactive all morning from joy.)

My Pokey Mask Inspired By All The Lords in Black.

here

The shrine to the lords in black(Wiggly was the only one with a song I could play at school besides the summoning)(Heard the Kickstarter Has High School NPMD as a goal, get to it I want to keep the beans cool already.)

I made this for art class at school. It’s going to be In the Shepard Art and STEAM show along with My Piskell(Pixel Art) Animations. Shoutout to Ms.Castellano, an amazing teacher. Prepare the Vore Nibbly,Autistic Tinky and Gay Blinky Jokes,the Lords in Black Call Us.

That’s sad I have a Kid in My School who knows all about Starkid and Another who’s just a general theatre kid who did both Heathers and Ride the Cyclone for School.(But because it’s a school for Neurodivergent people she got a version where Ricky keeps his disability in high school edition! Yay!)

i tried talking to people in my school about nightmare time and nobody knows about it please i desperately need friends who care about the hatchetverse

They should do the cocaine and Tip Sign.

Things that the TGWDLM cast have joked about using their budget for so far:

A trained hollywood squirrel

A new tip sign

cocaine

One Really Cool Costume (and nothing else)

Don’t forget the new Pokey Forme!

I’m rewatching Black Friday and this is the only way I want eldrich horrors depicted from now on

Like this is infinitely more horrific than any actual interpretation of a massive beast, no matter how scary the design

Just having the design of the beast be made from the set is genius and leaves the actual look of it in the minds of the viewer

It also helps Wiggly and the rest of the Lords in Black because their only designs are this for wiggly, the toys they’ve made, and the human designs from Nerdy Prudes Must Die. I’m fucking obsessed with this design

I found their Tumblr!!

Introducing content warnings for D's Journal

Hello, dear listeners! Because our upcoming episode has significantly more intense content than usual in D’s Journal, we’re planning to include a content warning for it, and we’ve decided that it’s a good practice to include content warnings for D’s Journal in general. We want to establish a few general guidelines about how they'll look.

Content warnings will be listed under the timestamps. That way it’s easy to avoid them if you don’t want spoilers, but they’re available if you need them.

Please be aware that these content warnings are only for D’s Journal, not for the out-of-character discussion in the episode; we discuss body horror in the Princess Mononoke episode, but D never encounters any of the horrible wormy boar-demons, so that one wouldn’t have had a content warning for body horror. (If you feel like we need more content warnings for the episodes, please let us know because we want everyone to feel comfortable.) That’s because D’s Journal has the potential to get a lot more bracing than the episode proper, since there’s a big difference between Tom and Rachel sitting around chatting about WandaVision and D experiencing it firsthand.

HOW THEY’LL LOOK

Content warnings are going to be divided into three rankings, based on how prominent they are in the episode: major, moderate, and minor. Explanations for each one, with mind control/memory manipulation as the example:

Major: D experiences or witnesses this firsthand, and it’s played for horror. A lot of episodes won’t have major content warnings; plenty of awful things happen in Olympus and Crescent City, for instance, but D didn’t witness them. A good rule of thumb: if it unsettles D so much that she can’t be sarcastic about it, it’s probably major.

Examples of episodes that would get a major content warning for mind control or memory manipulation:

WandaVision, of course. D spends most of the episode as Wanda’s meat puppet. 

Encanto, because even though Abuela only whammies D for a minute, she sees all the NPCs who have been whammied and is disturbed.

Toy Story. D doesn’t spend much time believing she’s a toy, but it’s thoroughly milked for horror potential.

Moderate: D experiences or witnesses it firsthand but it isn’t played for horror, or she reports on something that she heard secondhand with a level of detail.

Examples of episodes that would get a moderate content warning for mind control or memory manipulation:

Spirited Away. D loses her name and her memories, but both she and the listener know from the beginning that there’s a plan in place for her to get them back, and she doesn’t dwell on the horror of the experience. 

Home Alone. D gets a brief dose of the McElminster House’s “silver tuna” power, but shakes it off almost immediately and treats it as an annoyance rather than a violation.

Tron: D never sees any programs being rectified and doesn’t know for sure whether that fate befell the program who helped her, but it comes up frequently and unsettles her.

Minor: D mentions it in passing but doesn’t dwell on it.

Examples of episodes that would get a minor content warning for mind control or memory manipulation:

The Jungle Book. D’s guide warns her about Kaa, but they never meet him or share detailed stories about his victims.

NOTES ON SPECIFIC TRIGGERS

A few specific notes on common triggers, so you have a sense of how far they’ll go and whether you need to check for them every episode. If there’s ever an exception to these boundaries, we’ll put an announcement at the beginning of the episode.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT

For sexual harassment and assault that doesn’t involve any charm spells or love potion nonsense, D has already experienced the absolute worst that this will ever get in Beauty and the Beast, which boiled down to “Gaston got fresh in an unspecified way and continued getting fresh after I told him to buzz off, so I eldritch blasted him in the cajones.” She will never experience anything worse than that. Full stop. 

Secondhand experience with sexual harassment and assault will only come up if it’s baked into the setting, like it was in Beauty and the Beast and Hunchback of Notre Dame, and D’s going to be euphemistic about it because she doesn’t want to talk about it any more than we do. (I honestly don’t know if this is ever going to come up again, because who would it come up for except Gaston and Frollo? But just in case we get an oddball Listener’s Choice or April episode or something, there it is.)

Writing out the extended Labyrinth journal made us realize that we need a special caveat for charm spells and love potion nonsense, since D got sucked into a World Falls Down bubble and kissed Jareth while she was in there. If there’s any kind of enchantment that leads to D being in a romantic situation that isn’t 100% consensual, we’ll put a warning at the beginning of the episode, the written content warning will detail exactly what happens, and it will never go any farther than the bounds of a PG-rated podcast.

RACISM, QUEERPHOBIA, ABLEISM, AND MISOGYNY

Any racism D encounters will be fantastical. That said, there may be strong parallels to real-world marginalized groups, especially if it's part of the source material (Roma for Vistani and Travelers, immigrants for Runes, etc). If that's the case, we’ll let you know in the content warning along with the general racism warning.

Unlike some other phobias and isms, there’s no Disney property where pushing back against queerphobia is an overt theme. That means we don’t have to engage with it, so we’re not planning to do so. If we can get through this entire podcast without D having the faintest idea that anyone would care what genders anyone else identifies with or is attracted to, we’ll call it a win.

Ableism may come up, and misogyny already has, so please do check the content warnings for details if you’re concerned about those. 

ANIMAL CRUELTY

If it isn’t intrinsic to the setting or character (looking at you, Cruella), it’s only going to come up in passing, like the mention that there are no pets or livestock in Arendelle.

The exception is animals with human levels of intelligence, since they’re basically NPCs. Sorry, Iago, you’re not safer than an aarakocra just because you’re pocket-sized.

CHILD ENDANGERMENT AND DEATH

We’re parents. We check “Does the Dog Die?” for this one every time we watch a horror movie with a kid in it. When Tom runs Curse of Strahd, there are no dead kids involved with Dream Pies. If we recommend horror novels or movies to each other and don't warn each other about any dead kids first, someone's sleeping on the couch. We freaking hate it when child characters die or suffer permanent harm.

That said, there are some settings where Very Bad Things happening to children are thoroughly baked in, so it has to come up sometimes. Part of the horror of Neverland is Pan’s disregard for the Lost Boys’ safety, and it’s going to be impossible to do a horror setting of Monsters Inc., Pleasure Island, or Hocus Pocus without traumatizing or killing some child NPCs. There will be content warnings when that happens, and our utter distaste for it is a good indicator that it won’t be graphic or gratuitous. If it isn’t baked into the setting, though, it’s a safe bet that any time a child is endangered, they’re going to be rescued and come out without a scratch (like Ratigan kidnapping the kids in Great Mouse Detective).

Just Learned of Nick Lang Emma/Emmanuel:Bi Paul Confirmed

Nick Lang as Emma Rehearsal - YouTube