#Jasper Dona

[the-lightless-flame]

'dolls are changing our society beyond recognition' is a statistical error. societal changes jasper, who has directly caused four separate major changes in the social structure of new albion, was an outlier and should not have been counted

#iam well aware i am probably not making sense anymore. humour me tho #jasper dona #dolls of new albion

[fivesevenseveneight]

haha what if i sang your motif decades after you died to show how much you changed me as a person for better and worse… jkjk unless… 😳

#dona #the dolls of new albion #jasper dona #paul shapera #annabel mcalistair

[belle-pepper-23]

omg i love dolls of new albion!!

#dolls of new albion #byron mcalistair #Jasper Dona

[jaedoesart]

Day 29: Annabel's Lament

#my art #shaperaverse #dolls of new albion #annabel mcallistair #jasper dona #huevember #huevember 2022 #huevember day 29

[starz-collide]

no cause pls jasper an d priscilla from the dolls of new albion is soo s5 jmart coded like what if i cried

eurgrhhhhh and and andn jon/jasper is all like ill sacrifice mysefl so u dont die 🥺🥺 and martin/priscilla is like like nope thats not gonna work but they both end up dying togetehr in the end wwuidgshskfjdskjgdskjhd

jon: the game is gonna end right here.

martin: They'll kill you, too.

You're alive so/ I'd help you to die

I can die/ if I could, but...

It's wrong and you must know that's true.

/I'd help you to die

Ghosts of love, /if I could, Love.

Ghosts of lives,

I've watched fall

And pass me by/ Some sacrifice!

#help i cant stop listening to dona its like in my soul now #oh btw i am NOT shipping them 😭😭theyre jmart core in the most platonic way possible #the magnus archives #the dolls of new albion #tma s5 #jasper dona #priscilla dona

[soadscrawl]

Representation win!!!! man is in love with the ghost of his grandfather in an inanimate robot body which makes him both queer and incest representation/J /J /J /J /J /J /J /J

#byrons a sick freak but im also kinda obsessed w him #runs in the family... hi annabelle #the dolls of new albion #dona #shaperaverse #paul shapera #new albion #my art #byron mcalistair #jasper

[raydioactivegeorg]

sorry about your boyfriend. yeah, he died but we brought him back and put him in the body of a doll. he can’t communicate except for a song. yeah he doesn’t really want to be here anymore in fact he’s singing his song about the afterlife. sorry.

#tdona #dona #dolls of new albion #jasper dolls of new albion

[project-catgirlpillar]

Hey so i brought your Boyfriend Back from the dead but He kinda came Back wrong. Yeah, he's incapable of experiencing earthly pleasures and kinda Just longs to Return to the peace of the grave so i rekilled him sorry

#annabelle mcalistair talking to jaspers widow #idk man #shaperaverse #paul shapera #the dolls of new albion #dona

[vadvivon]

very very very special rare shaperaverse art from vadvi (me) 😡

#dolls of new albion #shaperaverse #paul shapera #dona #new albion #annabelle #edgar #jasper #byron #priscilla #amelia #fay #soldier 7285 #saul #kate #the narrator #mcalistair #the dolls of new albion #dont get used to it

[tabouret-des-champs]

#new albion #paul shapera #shaperaverse #dona #priscilla mcalistair #dolls of new albion #the dolls of new albion #jasper #illustration

[nightofthelivingdollsofalbion]

Hello DoNA fandom

~Devon

#dona #dolls of new albion #jasper

[keepthisholykiss]

This weekend I saw a production of The Dolls of New Albion and I have a lot of conflicting thoughts on it but I’m gonna dump some of those thoughts out here. I am not going to name the specific production because I personally took a decent amount of issue with it's depictions of the story and I don’t want anyone to feel bad if they happen to come across it. I am not a reviewer I just like to put my brain places to look back on later. The cast did the best they could with what they had but I think a lack of budget, musical background, and warm bodies (I guess?) was the biggest pitfall of this thing. However, I’m writing about this show in general because after I watched it I was so frustrated with what I saw that I sought out other versions. I am a rock opera kind of bitch, I’m a slut for a concept album, Repo! is one of my biggest musical loves, I was READY to love this thing. So I want to dump my brain out and talk about it. 

TW: suicide, violence, racism (specifically against those who practice vodou)

A Disclaimer: I have been looking around and I know the fans for this show and the entire tetralogy are very devoted. If you are upset that I do not like parts of your Thing or that I have opinions on the racist tones in parts of it I challenge you to engage with that and process it and also to block me. I do not argue with people on the internet I will not reply to anyone who is mean to me, thanks! This is not a review I am just a person who studies art and literature and theatre and I like to throw my thoughts on things I watch online. Also there’s gonna be spoilers in here because idc nothing is earth shattering enough to matter as a spoiler.

My favorite parts of the entire story are the Narrator and Jasper. Both are so interestingly interpreted by various productions I watched or skimmed over the weekend. Now that I have listened to the album I am even more intrigued and personally I would love to direct a production of this. I am seriously considering it because I have a lot I love but I have a lot that I would fix. The Narrator in the production we went to STOLE the show they were amazing and I love the presence so many Narrators have in other versions of this I have looked over. Also I am obsessed with how so many people portray Jasper, I think it’s really cool to see how much creative expression comes out in these productions. People really run with some fun themes and ideas and I think anything that can bring that creativity out of casts and stage teams is great! 

Anyway this story for the first two acts is largely really cool. The first story of Annabel had me GRIPPED I was ready to CRY I love her hopeless pursuit in creating Jasper and I just think it’s a very well laid out portion of the story. I also love the second act, I hate Edgar because he is garbage but I think his story is so well told and amazing. I really felt for Fay and for the society at large that he was influencing. 

The third act I am the most conflicted on. Byron is a FASCINATING character and so is Amelia, I love how Byron’s speeches are displayed. I love how Amelia is integrated in the plot and her suicide really gripped me. But the third act features such blatantly offensive depictions of vodou that are incorrect, inappropriate, and represent a lot of issues with how steampunk treats tropes it has “created” surrounding BIPOC folks. Goth, punk, and steampunk are all areas that owe SO MUCH of their history to black folks who worked their asses off only to then be harmed by stereotypes like this. Not to mention the way these themes are integrated is stilted, does not fit the story, and drags the act out entirely. I want to love this act and I have found the only way I can enjoy its incredibly important story is to skip the songs that promote this trope. 

Also important of note is that I am not black and I do not have familial connections to vodou. So its not my theme to forgive but I am uncomfortable with it knowing people who have been negatively impacted by things like this.

The fourth act is really good! Priscilla makes me want to CRY and Jasper’s character development arc is haunting when displayed here. I think the story of the fourth act is brought down swiftly by the cop/soldier/grifter. I don’t need a cop redemption story in my steampunk technology revolution where just 20 minutes ago a character was giving impassioned speeches about how to take down oppressive governments. But if I skip the soldier dude then I am still having a good time.

Overall I think this is a really good concept and foundation of a show. The songs are hit or miss but still very fun. I am still obsessed with the first two acts and all the Narrator songs and I would kill and die for Jasper. But it has a lot of issues and if I were to put it on it would need a lot of edits for me to feel comfortable with it. 

#dona #dolls of new albion #shaperaverse #musicals #rock opera #michelle does theatre #narrator my beloved #jasper my other beloved

[chtozaepta]

Annabel McAlistair, human Jasper and my uncertainty about whether I deserve any rights as a person and an artist

What have I even created-

#shaperaverse #paul shapera #new albion #the dolls of new albion #dona #annabelle mcalistair #jasper shaperaverse

[jaedoesart]

Day 4: The Day They Come

#my art #shaperaverse #dolls of new albion #jasper dona #priscilla mcallistair #soldier 7285 #huevember #huevember day 4 #huevember 2022 #tw: gun

[babysoftstims]

"In the movement,

Jasper, love is why I do;

In the movement,

The love I never get from you..."

I could not resist the temptation to make a Byron/Jasper board 👉👈

(1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9)

#they should kiss so sweetly #stimboard #stim #dona #dolls of new albion #byron mcalistair #jasper #steampunk #originals

[technovillain]

What do you think Dion's mind is like?

Okay so first I'm gonna analyze Dion a little because his situation sets it up pretty well...

Raz mentioned how his family has always moved around a lot, and we see how quickly they make themselves at home in some random location. I think Dion is probably affected by this fast-paced lifestyle a lot, especially since he's been doing it the longest of any of the Aquato kids. He probably wanted to run away like Raz did when he was younger, but he always had this weight of responsibility on him. Dion wanted to be carefree as a kid but that oldest sibling problem hit him so hard and he bitterly accepted from a young age that he'd have to be super helpful and responsible to his parents all the time else he'd be some sort of burden on them. And he didn't want to be a problem child. There were already too many children, one of them was bound to out themself as a problem child any day now. So Dion became a real mama's boy. It was easy to win every argument or win favor when you do everything your mother asks. It doubles up when in the circus, your mother is also like your boss.

When Raz ended up being the "problem child" by running away, Dion became extra resentful towards him because Raz had just done the exact thing that Dion had been holding back on his whole life because he cared about the family. Dion is obviously just extremely jealous

Okay now the actual brain description. So I was just thinking about what I think non-psychic brains are like and I think they're classified by the absence of the person in question within their own mind... So different parts of Dion's personality are represented by mental figures instead of his actual self, sort of like how Gloria and people in her life are represented by Bonita and Becky and Jasper, etc.

I can see his mind being a giant moving caravan, with the outside environment being completely insignificant moving scenery. It is moving very fast. The weight of his responsibility of the oldest child is represented by lots of heavy luggage on the back of the caravan. Since he isn't a psychic but his issues are so family-tied, I would represent each family member by a circus animal version of them. The caravan is led by a fleet of tiny ponies, and Raz, who is definitely a monkey in his mind, is riding Sugarcube alongside the caravan and taunting the family with his "psychic tricks". The place where Sugarcube has been removed from the fleet is making the caravan shake rapidly.

The mental figures representing Dona and Augustus are holding the reins of the caravan, blissfully unaware to the fact that behind them, the mental figure of Dion is struggling to hold all the shaky luggage on the caravan. The mental figure of Frazie is constantly poking at Dion and criticizing him, trying to make him mess up. Queepie and Mirtala's mental figure animals are crawling all over the luggage, unknowingly threatening to mess everything up for him as well. Nona is sitting on the back of the caravan, her feet hanging off the edge, despite how fast everything is going. (He worries about Nona and her poor memory. How fast everything moves around her and how she has no familiarity in her life outside of her family.)

So yeah. Dionysus Aquato your brain is the world's worst family road trip: furry edition.

#um yeah i made this up as i went #dion aquato #hcs #ask #anonymous #.txt #reminder to self to draw this maybe #bc my mental image of this slays majorly