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#twisted the untold story of a royal vizier
princess-polls · 21 hours
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Round One: 2A
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karvevapen · 4 months
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"𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐'𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯"
Starkid dads!
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Starkid love song lyrics are honestly insane
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"He is at once familiar and unknowable to the frightened girl he meets along the way, and to the girl's surprise, something in his eyes beckons her to know him and inspires her to say "I want to know your story."
"Take me back in time to love you. Take me back when we were lost. Lost in love and lost in feeling, without the cost."
"She is at once a comfort and a mystery, to the callow man she meets that fateful day."
"I want to know how you see me, and if it's the same as I see you. With the colours of love on your paintbrush, paint how you see me."
"A thousand and one nights with you is not enough to spend, so let's make ours a story with no end."
"I wish that she could hear her voice, the way that I do when I go to sleep at night, and dream my life away, but she's gone when I awake."
"Take me back when things were light. Light my heart and light my shadow, one more night. Cause I already lost it once, what I already won. I've lost too much now to care, but I know that something’s still there. I'll never let you go."
"Even though I was blind before, I've realized there is so much more. And it was always deep down in the core of me. I know it now. And even though it seems too much to take, there's a feeling I can't seem to shake. I feel like I am reading the signs, 'cause I know that I'm coming around."
"They say you can't feel, with a heart made of steel, but you can't say that steel ain't strong. Well if that's who you are, just a meaningless star in the sky, tell me what is the meaning of what I am feeling if you are the reason why? Now I may be dumb, but where I come from, folks say they're fine when I know that they're blue. But you don't know you the way I do."
"Are we crazy, or did we just taste something sweet? Not sure what to think, but you helped me to see. It's not the outside of things that make them good, that make them bad, that make them anything. All you need is just a taste to start something good."
"This body's not gonna last, the air is cold and thick. I'm losing my last remaining hope for us. My hands are tied in knots and I can't come home. I wanna die in your arms in the evening glow."
"You and I were meant to be something more than a faded memory."
"Now, i still have troubles. I trip and stumble trying to make sense of things sometimes.. And i look for reasons, but i don't need 'em. All i need is to look in your eyes."
"What if I tried something new, and opened up my arms to you? I know we don't always agree, but they need you as much as me. What if I could promise more, than what I gave to you before?"
"I never cared for stories until you entered mine, and now my only wish is that our plots may intertwine."
"You look just like an angel and all I do is pray, that someday you'll hear my song and understand that all along, there's something more that I'm trying to say."
"The universe is infinite, and it’s definite, there’s an alternate reality, where it’s only you and me. Take me back in time to love you. Hold me closer than before. Heal my heart and mend what's broken, to feel you once more."
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queen-of-hobgobblers · 5 months
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Fuck it *unstars your kid*
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socially-anxious-frog · 5 months
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'Jesus Christ I don't know what's going on here' and 'What. The fuck. Is happening right now??' are spiritual successors
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Please, I need more friends who like Starkid!
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achillesisadreamer · 4 months
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me watching Nightmare Time Ep3 pt 1 ‘Jane’s A Car’
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aliceisaperson · 2 months
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It’s really funny to me that there’s PG versions of all the Starkid shows up for licensing… except Twisted. That one you have permission to edit the script to make it more family friendly. Like with all the other shows they were able to change things to make them work and with Twisted they were like, “nah nm this is too hard do it yourself.” Fair honestly. I can even begin to imagine what a PG version of that show would be
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its-to-the-death · 3 months
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Villain Song Showdown Bracket A Round 1
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We Don't Talk About Bruno (Encanto) - Villain: Bruno Madrigal (assumedly)
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No One Remembers Achmed (Twisted) - Villain: Prince Achmed
Mod comment: TIGER FUCKER
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statictay · 3 months
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twisted really is everything. it's an aladdin parody. it's a wicked parody. it's a commentary on the walt disney company and pixar in the early 2000s. it's a story about legacy and belief and the nature of societal change. it's whatever the hell is going on with jeff blim
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justarandombrit · 3 months
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Absolutely insane that the line "Many years ago... I took my finger... And I pushed it in my penis" is foreshadowing for one of the most emotional and climactic reveals in theatre history
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dragonflyace · 6 months
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Okay, but if I did do a video essay on the lighting design in Team Starkid shows, who would watch it?
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oh-theatre · 8 months
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And what if I rewatch every starkid musical, what’re u going to do
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inamindfarfaraway · 3 months
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Here’s a sad thought about Princess Jasmine in Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier, courtesy of listening to the soundtrack again and feeling the feelings about her and Ja’far: this version of the Sultan must be a really bad father.
We never see him interact with his stepdaughter. He already seems rather senile when he steals Scheherazade, and that’s sixteen years before the present day. His sanity may well have completely gone in that time. Even if it didn’t, he makes it clear in his one appearance that he considers everyone in his power to be objects defined entirely by how they can benefit him and remorselessly will torture, enslave and murder them on a whim. I doubt that he’d be sensitive or nurturing toward his child. Now, I think Scheherazade would be a great mother - but she never got to try.
The Sultan has evidently been very neglectful and distant, failing in his duties to teach the Princess how to be both a good person and a good member of royalty. Despite her being his only heir and old enough to marry and rule the kingdom, which apparently has no problem with a female sovereign, he’s let her grow up to be extremely sheltered and not at all adequately prepared for responsibility and politics. It doesn’t even occur to her that having her tiger assault a neighbouring country’s visiting prince might have consequences. The Sultan, and on his behalf the Captain of the Guard, don’t let her know important news and royal decrees: neither what a menace Aladdin is, leaving her vulnerable to him, nor the Sultan’s mass execution of the 2D Department, since for as insensitively egocentric as she is at the beginning, she’s still deeply sentimental and quick to empathize with the homeless peasant Aladdin, so I can’t believe that she wouldn’t be at least a little upset with the Sultan (or more likely Ja’far) over so many lost human lives.
More than that, her immaturity speaks to bad parenting on the most basic level. She hasn’t internalized the Sultan’s cruelty, but has learned his selfishness, entitlement, impulsiveness and poor emotional regulation. Her social skills are notably clumsy and underdeveloped (not picking up on Aladdin’s numerous red flags, “No high five”, “At least Abdul had a family who loved him!”, even cringing herself at the last one). The Sultan’s passed down absolutely zero wisdom of any kind.
Instead it’s Ja’far with whom she has a familiar father-daughter dynamic (“What’s up, are you mad at me?” “Where are you going?” “There she is!”). It’s him who shows concern when she runs away and gives the order to find her before all else, notices that she’s upset and talks her through her feelings, warns her about sexual predators, appreciates her idealism and effort. It’s him who provides the gentle but firm, healthy guidance and challenge that she needs to grow. Who sees her potential, respects and believes in her. Who loves her. However, he is ultimately in her service. Between the imbalanced power dynamic making him wary of treason (after all, the last time he had a stronger relationship than the Sultan with a woman the Sultan called his, it didn’t end well) and his other responsibilities taking away from their time together, he can’t be as influential a presence in his life as he’d like.
Maybe this why she’s initially so resentful of him. Subconsciously she does see him as a father all along, but he hurts her and lets her down sometimes. Like the Sultan, her only official parent, always has. That stings. The differences are that the Sultan hurts her much more, more consistently and without her best interests at heart… but Ja’far is the one she can lash out at and complain to and be a messy adolescent around, because firstly, he’s her subject instead of her ruler, and secondly, he’s actually involved in her life. He cares, and therefore yelling or halfheartedly trying to poison his wine will make an impact. The Sultan is untouchable. We know that she conflates the two in her head as unjust authority figures keeping her trapped and crushing her aspirations (“All the people who say I’m just dreaming, like Father and Ja’far”, one of the only times she mentions the Sultan). It’s easier to blame your problems on an employee everybody else hates than accept that your parent is a bad one.
Maybe this is the root of her discontentment as well, her yearning that she can’t articulate for something more than what the life she’s been given. The joke of “Everything and More” is that she doesn’t need anything besides what she has… but she does. She needs a competent, reliable parent. One who she can trusts loves her the person as her parent, not a servant of her bloodline, and she knows to love as such in turn.
No wonder she falls for “Orphaned at Thirty-Three” hook, line and sinker. She’s never known her mother. Her relationships with her paternal figures range from terrible to complicated. Having unconditionally loving, supportive parents and then suddenly losing them must be the worst thing she can imagine.
But in the end, the Sultan dies and her dad has to leave her. Although he found a way to live forever, it wasn’t enough to save her from the pain of being orphaned at sixteen.
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doyouknowthismusical · 4 months
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wax-statuette · 4 months
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alright Starkid fans, be honest, give it to me straight-
no Potter musicals or TGWDLM cause they don't have act 1 closers :P
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