I heard about Night Vale while watching Hedgehog's nonsense video from months ago, so not really a fan or had listened to it before but the existence is known
"who even is cecil" get real
Winter Solstice special, so i made Jack Frost from Rankin Bass fanarts, the one with darker hair was based on the 2D animated iterion, while the light hair was based on the Stop Motion movie from 1979. I couldn't chose which one was better.
Wolfram after remembring what was like to live with many stepfathers that just meeted his mother for one day. Maybe he also passed this though how he views his relationship with men and he hopes he can live a stable and loyal relationship with his fiance. Here he is crying comfortably in bed.
This meme was supposed to be used in a fanfiction of mine.
Having white hair is cool, especially when it represents an old and wise person.
shadow the hedgehog is cool. gunblades are cool. vampires are cool. scythes are cool. white hair is cool. we need to stop lying about what is not cool
The fact that Cecil doesnt have a physical appearance means that technically his appearance could be reigen....he could be sans........he could be every tumblr sexyman imaginable............
Maybe i'm just a miserable femcel
Okay, let's talk about the Onceler
I'm not so attached to him as i was on the beginning of june, the first time a saw him was on the trailers back in 2012 but i never watched the movie until years later, i remember finding him weird and kinda creepy(both the young version and the older version of him), sometimes I had afraid of that man, specially when the scenes shots showed him from bottom to up, making him looking like a tall creepy person for me.
I came so late into this fandom that i didn't created a strong love/admiration connection with him, specially because of everything people sayed about his 2012 version and the fandom, and i familiarized with 1972 Onceler first, when i rewatched the 2012 movie, i felt indifferent towards him, although sometimes i felt bad and at the same time despised him. I will talk what were mine interpretations about the Onceler.
I admit, i kinda of liked him(as a familiar character), he still isn't a great character but he works very well in the movie, even though he's a twenty-something idiot, he is a very competent person.
We appreciate him for the wrong reasons. He may have charisma, it's multifaceted, knows how to deal with people (specially when he is old, he became a very mature person) and there's a lot of narrative possibilities to work with the Onceler, but the most important, he still committed crimes against nature("father nature" if you count The Lorax as the embodiment), against his well being, against his will and indirectly against another humans, he sinned against the world creation, regardless of his family pressure.
It's hard to get over the mental abuse of many years, especially if it's from family, he still kinda of had the choice to get over his family abuse and embrace the new world(trufulla valley) he discovered, a place that had the freedom to live a health life and have better companies, but that man still chosen to deny that world against his well being and the well being of others, that's not justifiable by any way, even if the cause it's that he can't break free from the toxic utilitarian mindset him was pushed his whole life. That man still denys another life, another choice just to affirm his power and pride, deluded with acceptance, and later on with greed.
This mister may feel guilt and grief for what happens with nature, he may be a good person but he felt so helpless to stop destruction that he started to embrace pride and greed, he embraced the meaningless and accepted his destruction for finalities, this mister is supposed to remind us that even if you care or cared about things, you still lose your head and starts to embrace your bad deeds and destruction, as the end looks to justify the means, greed starts to grow until consume you totally. That is better represented on the song Biggering (unfortunately a song which got cut).
The Onceler really speaks for the men(humans), he speaks for the human needs and wants.
Of course his design kinda worked at his favor(just kinda), even when his old, the fact that the he is tall and the movie used this visual element to tell the story by representing how powerful he can be and how he imagines himself as cool(this is very clear on "How bad can I be"), his simple and generic visual it's obviously because of lazy ideas but here it worked because he represents the ordinary and can be anyone, although i'm not saying the Onceler has a good design, not at all, what happens is that his visual and design works in a very ironic way.
He is an adult man that has the power to destroy and transform anything, what doesn't help is that his design and style is very teen or childish, it seems that he keeps re-labeling his childishly clothes and he isn't very conscious about his actions, I say that he is a man almost fully because he takes the role of every human when turns into an adult, get a new home, search for resources and a job that he could destroy and transform the resources into new things, so much that his final form is The Industrial Man, the man that takes as many resources as possible and massively transform these into human goods and manufactures, that's the final stage of a human, that's the pinnacle of humanity power, that's why he is so powerful.
If people want to fill the vacuum of deep relationships with the Onceler without fall into shipping, then we need to appreciate different relationships dynamics, the friendnemies dynamic with The Lorax that is complicated, and also the potential father-son relationship that The Onceler had with Ted. Sometimes i wish we had more fanarts or fancomics which The Onceler interact in a way where he acts like a wise man with Ted. While, with The Lorax, well, i feel bad that the Lorax saw his friend turn into greedy, it's sad that the Onceler always harms his friends who's were the only ones that cared about him, the Lorax not only cares about the nature but also with the own Onceler, the woods was not only home to the animals and the Lorax, it was a home to the Onceler in the short time he stayed.
Nowadays i also have more focus on other characters, but the Onceler is so important as a character that we can't ignore him, he made many impacts on many lives even without intention.
i say it all the time but i love seeing people draw old men when their style is obviously "20 year old skinny people" its great
It's good
Look, just assume that for this first scene, everyone is singing unless indicated otherwise. Also, listen to “Thneedville (Demo)” before reading, so you can know what they are actually singing. Btw, I didn’t write the song, I just planned out the stage directions and other details not related to lyrics.
Setting: Thneedville
(Lights slowly go up on an empty stage as the beginning of “Thneedville (Demo)” starts playing. On stage are the buildings and streets of Thneedville, or at least the basics. All the buildings are broken and crumbled, and everything is a slightly bleak color)
Ensemble
In Thneedville
It’s a brand new day
(As the ensemble begins to sing, they gradually enter the stage, acting out daily life. All are dressed in far too many clothes, and some are holding shopping bags filled to the brim with random objects)
Ensemble
Can’t see the sun
But we like it that way
(Ensemble pauses what they are doing before turning their heads towards the audience)
Ensemble
Here in Get-More-Than-We-Need-Ville
(All go back to what they were doing)
Ensemble
In Thneedville
Where the buildings are broke
(Where the buildings are broke)
And the streetlights drop
And the chemicals flow
Little Girl
(Standing front center stage) I just went swimming, and now I glow! (Runs offstage)
Ensemble
(All put their hands on over their hearts and face towards audience) Just one place has stayed the same
The hill that bares our founder’s name
A tradition we maintain
Random Man
Soon to become a pizza chain!
Ensemble
Pizza chain!
Pizza chain!
(Everyone goes back to what they were doing before Mr. O’Hare enters from upstage right and walks grandly over to upstage center, followed by a bodyguard. All turn to Mr. O’Hare)
Ensemble
(Cheerfully) Oh look it’s Aloysius O’Hare (Aloysius O’Hare)
The man who
Bottle up fresh air
And became a zillionaire!
(All lights on stage go off except for a spotlight on O’Hare, who has walked to center stage)
O’Hare
(To audience, as though telling a secret) Everyone round here works for me
I sell them something they should get for free
We’ll live in perfect harmony!
(All stage lights come back up and all surround O’Hare)
Ensemble
In Thneedville!
In Thneedville!
Hip hooray! Hip hooray! Hip hip hooray!
(All stage lights begin to go dark with the cast exiting the stage as a spotlight lands far downstage left, and Ted comes onstage to stand under the spotlight. Ted addresses audience for the rest of the song)
Ted
All I ever wanted is a whose-it
I would never flaunt it
Oh how I’d use it
Everybody has one
Like Jared and Julie and Jim
And even Ronald Shnook has one
And nobody’s lamer than him
(Lovingly) And I would play with it all day (Play with all day)
And never ever lose it (Never lose it)
Cause all I’ve ever wanted is a whose-it
(Hesitates) Except-
(Runs to downstage center, spotlight following him)
For the time that I wanted a scooter
A cell phone, a trombone, a laptop computer
A sports car, an SUV, robot that looks like me
A broadsword, a surfboard, a gas powered sled
Little pet monkey that danced on my head!
But this!
This is totally different!
Cause all I’ve ever wanted in my life
Is the stuff that I
Don’t have
(Stage lights come back up as the ensemble re enters stage and dance their instructed choreography. Ted doesn’t join them, instead staying in place as he looks straight at the audience or slightly upwards, depending on director’s instructions)
Ensemble
In Thneedville, it’s a brand new day!
Ted
All I ever wanted is the stuff that I don’t have!
Ensemble
Can’t see the sun
But we like it that way!
Here in Get-More-Than-We-Need-Ville!
Ted
Want it terribly!
Ensemble
In Thneedville!
Ted
Want it horribly!
Ensemble
You’re never alone
Ted
All I ever wanted is the stuff that I don’t have!
Ensemble
Because you always
Got the stuff that you own
Ted
Where is the stuff that I
Haven’t had?
Ensemble
Here in Spend-Until-You-Bleed-Ville!
Growing-Like-A-Weed-Ville!
Please-Don’t-Mention-Greed-Ville!
We’re happy here in
Thneedville!