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catboymoses · 10 days
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the men in falsettos are literally the four children of passover but y'all arent ready for that yet!!!!
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sunachilles · 2 years
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thinking about charlotte’s “saving lives I feel invincible” in a day in falsettoland vs “bachelors arrive sick and frightened, they leave weeks later unenlightened” in something bad and “I feel more helpless than I have in years” during jason’s bar mitzvah… thinking abt this woman who prides herself on being able to solve every problem she comes across not knowing what this virus that’s spreading is and having to watch her patients slowly die as she’s helpless to do anything except make the process as easy as possible….
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rocknrollinbitchforu · 8 months
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I love musicals that are about or by Jewish people. unironically they usually are the greatest shows with underlying layers and amazing plot. yes this is about cabaret. and falsettos. and oklahoma. and chitty chitty bang bang. and fiddler on the roof. and wicked. and west side story. and 25th annual. and little shop of horrors. and rent.
notice a theme here?
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fishcat3 · 24 days
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I feel like not enough people bring up the Jewish part of falsettos. I've seen some people completely ignore the fact that they're Jewish. I've even seen someone say that them being Jewish has nothing to do with the story so it's ok to hc the characters as being Christian (this happens with whizzer mainly). Which is wrong, them Jewish, is the whole second act. It's also really important to have queer Jewish representation. I feel like a lot of these takes tend to be on Tiktok for some reason. But idk that's just a few things I've seen.
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toxicyaoibeliever · 3 months
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Idk i dont want to like, make a character or media analysis bc i do not think I'm smart enough for that but i do have thought that feel like i HAVE to share Falsettos is my favorite musical of all time and so of course i seek fanfic and fanart and fanworks in general of this piece of media. And while Modern!AU are not my thing i do like the occasional fanart. BUT
I just do not think that Mendel and Trina would be together in modern times. I do not believe they are the perfect pairing and i do not believe they are this super healthy super cute ship. I'm not even sure Trina truly loves the guy at first
I think, musical-wise, she was attracted to him, maybe she even liked him, but she married him because she felt like she had to.
Its literally spelled for us in Trina's song (reprise)
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And for doubts that I've been feeling, I'll ignore them when I can
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Loving our lives (Mendel) vs Liking our lives (Trina)
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Our hands were tied. My father cried "You'll marry!" We married! (abt Marvin)
It's hard to put my thoughts into words, especially bc English is not my first language. But what i want to say: Trina married the first time because she had to. She was maybe pregnant by then or had lost her virginity or something. Then, she was a single Jewish wife in 1788. Can you imagine how hard that probably was? not only that but her ex-husband is also gay. So the second time she also had to marry. She was raised to want the perfect life
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She was raised to want this. And so, when another man appeared, who wanted her despite being divorced, already having a child, and having STDs, why would she say no? Even if she didn't quite love him, even if she wasn't sure about the marriage, she knew chances like this would be hard to get again. So she left her feelings aside and said yes. What other choice did she have?
And sure, i do believe she learned to love Mendel. Maybe not the same way, i do think Mendel will always love her more, but i think she learned to be happy with what she got.
But i don't think is fair. I think in modern times she would either not have married Marvin, and if she had then i don't think she would have married Mendel, even less that quickly
I like to imagine modern Trina being happy single. Being a working woman, having friends she could confide with, being content with herself, and taking her time. And having good sex. Because my god, that woman deserves good sex. Not even in her second marriage did she get the sex she deserved
idk, this was a rant, obvs, and not a super well thought and shit. i just wish people would be more into Trina. I just feel like people think way more abt Marvin and Whizzer and leave the women to be basically their cheerleaders
Don't get me wrong, Whizzer is my fav character but... i just wish the fandom would at least put a little bit more thought into the women on the show
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the-joker-of-musicals · 10 months
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dj propaganda
gay and homophobic. wears a long vest. monokuma but actually charismatic. kills for fun. loves a good eye motif. dies to the power of gay love and autism. like really. has a good southern accent. moans once. the actor who originated the role was on buzzfeed. torments teenagers. has a banging malloy song. has the same energy as grifter’s bone from tma. jumps off of tall platforms. half the fandom simps for him. comes in two flavors: elegant markiplier tumblr sexyman or angry blonde twink in a gamer chair. he is the moment.
marvin propaganda
marvin is a man who wants it all and rarely gets what he wants. he's a greedy patriarchal selfish bastard who grows into an openly loving, funny, charismatic father and lover. he tries so so hard all the time please god someone give him a break. he cheats on his wife and then leaves her for a pretty young thing. he's a gay jewish man in the 70's trying to make sense of how he fits into the world around him. the two seconds of unadulterated joy he feels in the musical are bracketed by everyone hating him in act 1 and fuck-you levels of tragedy in act 2. he's a dick. he's lovely. he's rich. he's not but hell he's smart. he's sweet. he's mean. he is marvin falsettos lastname, divorced, doomed by the narrative, gay and mad about it, a cringefail old man loser. he is the love of my life and the tumblrman of my heart.
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hecksupremechips · 6 months
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Lines from falsettos that fuck me up every time
Think of me around, sleeping soundly in our bed
I was sure growing up I would live the life my mother assumed I’d live: very Jewish, very middle class, and very straight
We can’t be sure when he’ll get better. When or if he’ll ever get better
“I’ll let you win Whizzer” “Don’t let me win” “….I’ll let you win!”
Do I love him? No
I love my dad. I love the things I never had
I’m staying here in this spot, whether you want me to or not, I’m staying
Once I was told that all men get what they deserve. Who the hell then threw this curve?
Do you know all I want is you? Anything you do is alright, yes it’s alright
We had fights and games. Marvin called us funny names
Don’t know why, but he looks like Marvin
You’ll be, kid, a man, kid. If nothing goes wrong
“Love is pretty often debris when you find what you find, then never, never, never, never, never do it over again” “I’d do it again. I’d like to believe I’d do it again and again and again”
You’re the only one. One, out of a thousand others. The only one my child would allow
All your life you wanted men, and when you got it up to have them, who knew it would end your life?
Homosexuals, women with children, short insomniacs, we’re a teeny tiny band
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chipadequeso · 1 year
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i found a 2022 spanish production of falsettos. um here's comments because i don't like it!
IT'S NOT FULLY SUNG-THROUGH?? why!!!
jason's too over-acting and whiny i don't like him.
trina's amazing!! her voice is godly . every trina i've seen is so well-casted... whizzer is in my heart too and marvin is pretty good
they broke mendel's character into ... two separate characters..... i dont understand why they chose that??? i dont really like it
took me very long to realize but THEY ARE NOT JEWISH!!!! WHAT!!!!!! I HATE THIS PRODUCTION SO MUCH BITING AND KILLING
1. mendel like the psychiatrist that appears from song one is a woman?
2. after im breaking down this guy appears (he's mentioned in everyone tells jason to see a psychiatrist) and he's trina's new boyfriend ... it's an interesting choice i guess?? i just really dont care about him during a tight-knit family reprise like who are you!!! your conflict with marvin makes no sense you dont know the guy you just tell him it's your family now without no previous stuff the obc gives you!!!!!!
marvin at the psychiatrist bad bad hate it. part one turned into a conversation . like literally practically word by word . part two is replaced (bc this mendel is not trina's gf ...) with a two sentence thing about gay sex ??? part three is ok . it's not a mini-opera if you only sing in 1/3 of the thing!!!!!!
"just because you failed as parents" ".....GET THEE TO A PSYCHIATRIST" became "BECAUSE YOU ARE BAD PARENTS!!!!" "you will go to the psychiatrist!!!"
also they dont say psychiatrist they say psychologist . those are two different jobs guys
in the this had better come to a stop coreography marvin is fucking going through it man he's suffering it so bad . it's expressive and all but i like the more subtle "im repressing it because im stubborn" things c borle and michael rupert got going on
AGAIN ... "smile trina ill help you mend!" BECOMES "trina, live and let live!" where's the psychiatrist having a relationship with his patient soo disappointed
no jason's therapy . THERE IS NO TRINA'S SONG / MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS. you just go fucking straight from i'm breaking down to tight-knit family (reprise) to trina's song reprise. huh
after the chess game it goes directly the games i play. i genuinely really like this whizzer
marvin hits trina is fine? no i am so dumb. also NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOU NEW BOYFRIEND!!!!! STOP COMMENTING ON STUFF!!!!!! after the hit there's like ONE second and there's no tension and we're already starting with i never wanted to love you.
act 2 starts with "2 years later" and miracle of judaism. huh!!!!!!! and they dont tell us who the lesbians are!!!
there's some cheerleader girls in miracle of judaism cheering for jason he's distracted by them
the pace in the act 2 is all off!!!! there's missing songs just like in act 1 but here there's no high building up that breaks when whizzer falls sick . it's just uhhgh
no bar mitzvah . just a birthday. hate hate hate
the you gotta die something coreography is amazing ngl . there's a guy in black acting as the death and he dances with whizzer and throws him around leaves him on the floor when he tries to grab him just woahg . it's similar to the thrill of first love one too ..
marvin carries a crying whizzer to the hospital bed and what would i do? is him sitting down to him next to it .
no jason's bar mitzvah though bc no jewish people no bar mitzvah...
someone threw roses at marvin and whizzer and i agree
thats it i really really dislike this. good voices and all but the story is all over the place and it's by far the worst production i've seen bc of EVERYTHING they removed..
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shewantsitall · 2 years
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Falsettos brainrot hours continue so like...
Headcanon that Jason's Torah reading at his bar mitzvah is just randomness (Bill said it's one line from his own bar mitzvah mixed with random words in Hebrew that he retained from Hebrew school) because either ...
He's been so wrapped up in The Situation and confusion of Whizzer being in the hospital that he hasn't been studying like he says he has, OR
There's just too much going on and he's understandably distraught and distracted so he goes blank in the moment
But no one says anything to him about it, since...
Cordelia Isn't Jewish so why would she clock it?
Mendel is not good at being Jewish (at least on the religious side of things, since he thinks it's a trap and all that)
Marvin is focused on Whizzer, who just barely makes it through, so neither of them are paying that much attention
Charlotte is in Doctor Mode and On The Job.
Trina is too nice
I feel like Trina would definitely notice this. I get vibes that she's the most devout of the bunch, so she would almost have to catch it. She doesn't say anything though, because that's her baby and she thinks that maybe he doesn't realize he messed it up as badly as he did? Plus, he's going through so much and she just doesn't want to make it worse. So she doesn't say anything.
But, actually, Jason knows he messed it up. He just thinks everyone else missed it? And it makes him incredibly anxious bc, like any kid who's been raised by people (or...a person) with strong religious convictions, regardless of if they believe the same way the family members do, it's been so instilled in him that he's really worried about the consequences of his bar mitzvah flop. He gets it that it's not a requirement but like what if God hates him and that's why Whizzer died and Marvin is declining?
And so he's plagued with that guilt and anxiety and fear that it's his fault on top of the grief of losing Whizzer and knowing that Marvin's next and it just compounds and makes everything even worse.
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bestmusicalworldcup · 11 months
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Who Could Win the Best Snubbed Musical World Cup?
Most people, myself included, would put Great Comet as the tournament favorite, the bookmaker’s pick with the highest chance of winning, the obvious choice that most would lean towards. However, that didn’t turn out so well for Les Mis in the first Best Musical World Cup, so one must be careful not to declare victory too early. Great Comet nearly tying with Little Shop some rounds ago may also signal rough waters ahead.
If Fiddler on the Roof’s victory in the Best Musical World Cup is indicative of a general preference for musicals about Jewish families, then Falsettos certainly has a fair shot. Falsettos has also continued to outperform my expectations throughout the tournament.
However, Fiddler on the Roof also earned the top seed in the bracket after a shocking group stage result, which Twisted has also achieved, so things could be looking up for Twisted.
Apart from being the oldest semi finalist, Chicago has no other parallels to Fiddler that may grant it luck, but Chicago being the most famous of the four may prove to be useful. It is worth noting that Kander and Ebb’s other famous musical, Cabaret, got fourth place in the Best Musical World Cup after losing the Bronze Medal Match to Hadestown.
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catboymoses · 5 months
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Falsettos fans will really just Google "____ in hebrew" "jewish ____" and post the first result as a 'headcanon'
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vixkirksleftballsack · 8 months
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Me when I lie (i never commented on Jewish Mischa, i did however comment on a falsettos comment the Jewish Mischa thing and a comment saying “awkward”)
Anyways ethically Jewish but atheist Noel cannon 😝😝
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sunachilles · 1 year
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hihi you seem to know things about Falsettos, and I cannot for the life of me find an answer and am so confused: do you know where Marvin’s last name being Cohen comes from??
it’s just something people in the fandom decided by googling jewish last names lol. there are a few others people use but cohen is the most popular. I personally don’t care for it and just ignore the lack of a last name. some people just call him marvin falsettos. etc.
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theiloveyousong · 1 year
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olive listens to the second act of falsettos for the first ever time on a plane very tired and slightly loopy: a liveblog (ish)
my not entertaining, very pathetic thoughts on falsettos. not proofread or edited for typos. read at your own risk.
okay before we begin let me preface by saying im finally just taking a bit to just LISTWN to this shit and trinas song emotionally destoryed me okay. okay
why is the first line just homosexuals. i mean yeah but still
oh this goes
weirdly happy though isnt this guy gonna die
BAR MITZVAH
YABADAVA THE EIGHTIES
ooh speed mode march of the falsettos
the lesbians!!
of course shes a shiksa
WHEEEEEEEEE! WOOOOOOO!
this gooooooes
oh its marvin
“two years” are you NORMAL now
good for trina
ezcept on tje jewish holidays
WHAT NO WHIZZER???
bring him back
HOMOSEXUALS
i wanna go to falsettoland except not really cuz ot would probs suck
yeah. grow tje fuck up
MARVIN. PLEASE.
wait how is he twelve and a half i had my bat mitzvah three months after turning 13
elaborate william finn.
jason stoooop butchering the hebrew. stooooop
im gonna give him a pass simply because ive heard worse
aww the tallit belssing. i think
WALKERMAN
“the last loving thinfh we’llprobably ever do together” noooo youre so emotionally intriguing aha
the whole things WHAT now man who i think matbe js whizzer but i cant tel marvin snd whizzer apart very well is that bad
good for fucking jason
this is my mom literally
hes gonna be a jewish adult
i cant tell wahts gping on (too zzzy)
omg a lesbian
“nouvelle bar mitzvah cuisine” cordelia i love you but please do not do this. just have fucjing bagels you cant go weong with bagels
CONGA
so proud pf jason
i am NOT dxcited for when my brother starts bar mitzvah prep
this song is titled miracle of judaism it has to be good
oh hes being a little straightboy
invite none of them just be a frienless loser like i was lamoo
no i had like four people there
you are TWELVE. DUDE.
you’re not swinging a goth gf you are TWELVE YEARS OLD
oooh baseball
ooooh JEWOSH baseball
same maevin
marvin stop calling your sona pussy
oh eitght its the Eighties
jason cannot play baseball
baseball ⚾️ ooh empji ⚽️ 🏀 🏈
WHIZZER
go off trina. love her
of course he love sbaseball
the lesbians are silly
oh my god. middle aged man core. hes so fjcking pathetic
jason *not 2 fiture penny put photo of cat kn box head here. no service on this plane*
even bald he looks good
stop thinking about your gay love and focus on your fucking sun. loser
i would love to watch jason play badebll (loe?
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me when i hit the ball
this bitch gets SIX parents at hsi baseball games and my brother gets my mom and me not paying attention because soccer is boring as sbit sorry soccer lovers who also follow penny dimeshee on timblr pkay im rabong RAMBING
me when im in falsettoland
mendel is so bad at his job
this bitch sucks ass.
disgrace to the name of caroline fr caroline abbott would NEVER do such a thing
reagan and pagan as a rhyme ks genius
STOP SLEEPING WORH YOUR BOSS?!??
trina. thag is NOT how you prnounce it
sorry what.
just qhitnyour FFUCKIGN job. you cant do it anyway 😊☺️☺️
god i love ❤️ emojis
wbat a shock marvins back with whizzer
trina be normal please 🙏 i love you
trina calm your shit
yeah why CANT u let goe
as spon as they said that i know everytknhg not gonna be alright
i watched like half of a short clip of this from tje tonies and then went to bed becaus eit was like ten pm and i sleep early because i am a loser if any lf you compare me to bakugo my hero academia i will actually cry anyway the clip was good they were #exercising wby dod i go pn thos tangent
charlotte!!!!!!!!
me when i stick a lightbulb up my ass
okay shes being self important
aww
was that the first eff bomb
what aee they laying
whizzer my man marvin has matured stip raggingi kn him!!!!!!!!!’
god
i cant see anything out this plane window its like 10 pm. past my bedtime
OOH i lvoe me a good musical motif
anyone here watchind minions the rise of gru and know what the FUUCK goes on in it my brothers watcing jt and im so confused
THAGS NOT. WOAAAAAAH
HE DID MATURE!!!!!!!!!!!! “i want it all” “all i want is you” CHARACTER DEVEIPMENT GO OFFFFFF!! i want to write an essay about this man
they gave us quinoa chocolace crunches on the plane
theyre in the coty? damn i would jot think that. they feel like sone sort of pseudo-idyllic suburban lifestyle bitches
REPEATED LYRICS. AHHHHHHHH
Damn this shit is long
this sonf is incorrect i do not hate my parents
thag wasnt funny
jadon. honey. you are so lucky your parendes dotn involve you in bar mitzvah prep. do you want to pick out tablecloth swatches
jaosn i feel like you’re misunderstanding the purpace of the bar mitzvab
what kinda a name ks apple bum
SAUL
better call sa- he WHAT???? HWTA????? HIH????? WH?????? REELING
HE HAS PAITBJNGD OF WHAT NOW???????????????????????
matbe i should have done this while lucid
gonna take a wuick pause sk i can play shitty united app games
okay i got a high score of 0. om back
HE DOESNT yeah i thoight that
what the fuck was that mendel is thag ilatian. we are JEWISH. why did you top it off with dayeinu.
i did bate my paewnts at 12
jason dont you want to be counted in a minyan….
it is not in the torah
god did not say thag
sigh
jason do the fuckingn bar mitzvah.
HELP
even ykkur wife knows you cand do your hob correctly mendel…
one hour left onthe flogh ti can do this
can mtbrother turn his screen birghtness fown
sorry marvinim sore your love os wuite sweet but im gonan catch about four min of sbuteye
“try to stay both kind and young” okah thats powerful
okay marvin. good love ballad.
OH NO.
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OH NOOOOOOOOOOO
“something so bad that words have lost their meaning”
whizzer soumds so tired
MARVIN. god i love him
everything is not gonna be alright
oh and now trjnas gonna make me sob
YEAH. 🤧😿
i have things to say about the repetition of everything will be alright and they will be said. eventually
“hahaha… not funny… okay”
gonna bawl my eyes out
“gefiltee fish” “gefilte fish?”
i need to watch this on stage
god he’s just a KID!!!
im not crying you’re crying
the fucking. camaderie.
i am crying on the plane and im trying not to be weird about it
JASON.
heart breaking
i am getting tje implications here bit the thing is i dont like the implications
ive heard this song on character playlists o think
points i SAW THAG LYRIC IN A COMPARISON TO WOE IS ME!!!
i just know jason bar mitzvahs gonna kill me
he brought tje prayer shawl!!
yeah this si. augh. making the best out of a horrible situation <333
would this ever work logistically? no. where is the rabbi? where is the torsh? but emotionally? i am crying my eyes out as i drscend over salt lake city utsh and im not even ahsmwed
MARVIN. GOD. im a marvin fan now not ashamed
they are NOT doing this bar mitzvah right
thats not an actual parshah. or actual trope. i need to stop pointing out inconsisternces
🤧🤧🤧 MARVIIIIIIIN.
ID LIKERO BELIEVE THAT ID DO OT AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN:(
waiteajtwait dont they say that thing in this has better come to a stop. OHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
like wine
WERE JUST GONNA SKIP THAT STAGE.
there ar no word sor emojis that can express th e utter fucking heartbreak im going through rn
OH GOD ITS OVER.
PLEASE. PLEASE. PYU CANT DO THIS TO ME.
A REPRISE??? AS A FUCKING FINALE????
whoo boy.
hi its airport olive. thanks for getting this far! if you read this all you’re now legally obligated to marry me!
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transbakerswife · 2 years
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Trivender au headcanon masterlist
Trina Mora: first of all her last name comes from a sims 4 falsettos game file i hsve where i just tried to randomize her a last name and this is what i got. She's bisexual and has depression i don't think anyone ever doubted that. Also a lot more chaotic in this au than canon? That's just the effect Lavender has on her ig.
Lavender Baker: MY LOVE!! I already explained her name's origin in the pinned post. Like my url implies she's trans and she's also bisexual. Girlboss. Polyamorous but thankfully no longer a cheater we don't talk about that storyline in the original. It didn't happen. How did she get pregnant if she's trans you may ask? I don't fucking know how did Cinderella talk to a tree by that logic. There's no logic in the itw universe <3
Baker Baker: he's a baker if you couldn't guess. Transmasc bisexual wet cat of a man. Malewife. Left handed. Severely traumatized. Daddy issues. Also both him and his wife are jewish, naturally.
Bread Baker: Baker and Lavender's child. His name is Bread. I don't have much to say about him.
Jack: gay gay homosexual gay. Autism. Zero braincells whatsoever.
Little red riding hood: non binary icon 😌. because i said so. Also lesbian. You can't tell me what to do. Also autism but a different genre of autism than Jack.
Cinderella: also a lesbian with the worst case of comphet I've ever seen.
Milky white: bigender icon.
Marvin Gardens: just my regular headcanons for any incarnation of him. ADHD, bpd, being a weatherman. Controversally i did go with the Gardens last name. I'm sorry.
Whizzer Brown: autism, and demiromanticism. Also photographer Whizzer since everyone seems to love this headcanon. And he's from Omaha Nebraska just for the fun of it. He and Marvin have two cats btw he bought both of them which Marvin initially didn't approve of but accepted later on. They're named Chess and Racquet because I'm uncreative.
Mendel fucking Weisenbachfeld: BISEXUAL!! Bi Mendel real!! He canonically didn't earn his diploma in this one 0/10 worst psychiatrist ever
Mr Bungee: not actually homophobic, he himself is gay, but he is a capitalist. Cis white rich gay man. He's also an absolute loser. Frogs.
Jason Gardens: I'm so sorry for making him get the gardens name too. AUTISTIC as hell also aromantic and possibly aplatonic i'm projecting too hard probably. Jack, Red, Cinderella and Bread all count as his siblings and i would love to make content of these kids in the future
Charlotte and Cordelia: idk how exactly they fit into the au except Trina definitely did talk to them first thing when having her sexuality crisis. Charlotte probably has anxiety idk. And some level of non binary.
The witch/Luna: lesbian. But also arospec. And asexual possibly. And autistic now that i think about it. One look at the baker's father was what made her realize she's not attracted to men. She's mostly just done with everyone's bullshit. Her name is Luna i don't know why i decided that. This is my au so my rules. She somehow ends up dating Dot i have no clue how that happens.
Dot: local she/they. Token neurotypical. Some flavor of queer. Idk how she became part of the story. Louis the baker she dated is not the same baker as Baker Baker our local baker, they're actually rivals since they work in the same business.
George Seurat: JUST TO CLARIFY I'm talking about the musical version i wouldn't make headcanons for a real life person!! Autistic. He/she pronouns (don't ask just don't.) doggirl in the same way catgirls are catgirls. As I'm writing this I'm regretting all my life choices.
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rootlessneopolitan · 1 month
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i watched the first like 15 minutes of falsettos and one thing it manages to get right on is jewish misogyny
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