I completely agree, though. The women who are in the play are wonderful, nuanced, fully realized female characters that are actually key players in the story rather than props for the men to use and be characterized by. It’s great. But, like…I still want to see women outside of the lover/wife/girlfriend/mistress roles. I want women who aren’t talked about by way of their relation to the protagonist. I want women who FIGHT and LEAD and DEBATE and CONQUER.
I want a female narrator in the musical who is never played for sexy laughs, who gets to be a force driving the story instead of just standing to the sides singing about it. I want a poor, immigrant, probably-queer woman to rise above her circumstances thanks to intelligence and determination and ambition that she isn’t ashamed of. I want a female president and a Queen that no one defines by their gender. I want young women who get to go out drinking and railing against the system. I want girls who pick up their guns and fight for their beliefs. I want a boy to be the one left helpless by love for once. And a boy to be floored and fall for a woman’s intelligence. I even kind of want a boy to be the temptation/home-wrecker/victim of bad marriage. These would be pleasant changes.
Give me Lady Hamilton or give me death, basically. Give me a woman who screams obscenities and gets too excited to keep her mouth shut. Give me another woman who has learned that the world will like her better if she talks less and smiles more. Give me the most powerful, respectable, rational, loved character being a woman that everyone looks up to and needs to impress – a female General in war at all! Give me a girl gang of revolutionaries who turn into the most iconic figures in our nation’s history.
I was gonna go to bed, but then my brain said nope, gotta draw Metta being the best worst friend ever! (j/k I feel like he means well, he’s just. really bad at not being hugely self-absorbed. plus you gotta get those ratings, darling)
Who’s ready for a Land before Time/Undertale crossover oh wait nobody is but here it is, regardless!
I love the Land before Time and I grew up watching the movie, and subsequent sequels (I was a stupid child) but the original has remained a staple of my childhood. So naturally sometimes I like to imagine crossovers of it and here we have some uncoloured drawings of some of the Undertale crew aged down to fit the roles of Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie and Spike.
Naturally we got Asgore as Littlefoot who, upon loosing his mother must put on his big boy pants and get himself safe. Also known as Home, I guess? Along the way he ends up being followed along with by Papyrus, a very chatty skeleton child, Napstablook a little ghost who is too afraid to fly too high so they only hover an inch off the ground at all time, and Undyne who is as abrasive as you’d imagine her to be as a child. And of course Papyrus happens upon another baby skeleton who is all alone and immediately claims him as his brother, Sans.
I drew up a few of my favourite moments from the movie, and I may draw more if the mood strikes me.
Guess you can call it Land Before Resets
Sans as Spike and Papyrus as Duckie is still my favorite casting.
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