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cinderellas castle was really good
ill probably draw the fairy queen of sweet dreams next cause i really like her design too
Quick Ella drawing while waiting for the digital ticket ✨🐸🐭
Close up under cut
Okay everybody, this is your reminder to not pirate or bootleg Cinderella’s Castle
So what if you need to wait an extra week or two for digital tickets? Starkid posts all of their shows for free regardless, you can be a little patient
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Do not pirate from the small theatre company
Some people have already posted pics of them at the show tonight for Cinderella’s castle, and apparently there’s what looks like a playbill or just a card. But either way HOLY SHIT IT LOOKS SO GOOD? OH MY GOOODD.
I can’t this is beautiful. I love the passion Starkid has for this show, they really went all out!
CUZ I WISH NOTHING FOR YOU BUT DEFEAT YEAH I WANT NOTHING FOR YOU BUT THE LEAST 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️
Now that Cinderella's Castle is out, I can finally say that Angela has a Starkid
"I'm THAT BITCH" Song
I.E.
Lauren having - "Queen Bee" & "Adore Me"
Mariah having - "Latte Hotte"
GROSS GIRL SUMMER MAY BE COMING TO AN END BUT THAT MEANS FOREST FAE FALL IS COMING SOON
GROSS GIRL SUMMER MAY BE COMING TO AN END BUT THAT MEANS FOREST FAE FALL IS COMING SOON
friend shaped half-fly/half-man
Im no better than a butcher and a guard....
Angela did so well im speechless
BEST LINE
had to screencap the funniest part of the show
Ok- so I have been scrolling through posts for Cinderella’s Castle like a crazy person. Like you do.
Most of the posts are people squealing over their favorite bit currently, or just in general how much they loved it.
However-
Every one in 20 posts has someone expressing disappointment, and finding it lack luster.
It seems like you either are salivating over how good it was, or bored, and annoyed no one else was.
The main complaint seems to be “the characters are flat compared to other shows.”
As someone obsessed with fairytale fantasy, I just needed to come on here and say…
No duh.
Fairytales are not about the character as a person. They are about the person as a symbol/theme. Any detail about them suddenly humanizes them and makes them that much more relatable. But they are never, I repeat, NEVER, a fully realized person. Even in more modern fairytale adaptations, you don’t come for the character, you come for the story as a whole, and stay for the character’s “vibe” that allows you to create elaborate back ground details in fanfiction. The whole appeal of a fairytale is “less is more.”
Ella was raised as a Lady. She likes to paint. She sees herself as brave and tough, and wants to stop evil even if it kills her. She is clever and kind and has dreams. She is utterly practical in accomplishing her goals. She loves her family and friends deeply.
That is all we know.
We don’t know her favorite color, or if she’s a jazz girl, or even what she wanted out of life before this all happened, only that she misses her family.
That is the POINT. Ella, the cinder girl, the girl of ashes, is EVERY YOUNG GIRL WHO IS RAISED IN ABUSE. That is why the tale of Cinderella exists. So grandmothers and mothers could instill in children the deep knowledge that they deserve more, can survive, and do it without letting it break them.
Cinderella is someone you know because she is not pinned down with details. She just is.
Every character in a fairytale is that.
The stepmother is the abuser.
The Troll is a ruling class not from here.
The Princeton a fairytale is an escape and a stamp of approval of your morals. Not his own person. He is Deux Ex Machina. The fact that he HAS a personality here and it is awful is a subversion and holding up Ella’s personal determination over higher approval. She doesn’t need someone else’s approval to prove she is doing the right thing- she knows it, and holds it like the starlight in her hand. And that is GLORIOUS.
The Griswald sisters are a show of how even when you are utterly destroyed by evil, the fact that you were bright, and good, and true MEANS SOMETHING and still helps make the world better.
The frog knight is kindness repaid, and to not judge by appearances.
The mouse squire is that willingness to do something, even if you don’t have the skills, is important. Is worth something. (I saw someone talking about Crumb serving no perpose because he did not effect the plot. Of course he didn’t. The point of him is that he was WILLING, and that alone made her life better. And whimsy. Sometimes in genre, a thing is just for “vibes” and that’s what makes it genre. You cannot have fantasy without whimsy. He be whimsy.)
Even Tadius is a newer symbol of the “faithful servant.” Who does he serve? The Prince? The people? By following orders, or by using his wits?
And the Fairy Godmother. There is so much happening there, I could do a whole TedTalk. But basically, the fairy godmother is Help. It is offered help. She offers it because Cinderella was kind and had an anger in her screaming for justice. The fairygodmother in any story shows up to reward a virtue that the mc takes for granted. They don’t feel worth of the help, are even inclined to turn it down. The point of Cinderella is you TAKE THE HELP. Pride be damned, self worth be damned, you take it and you USE it to make things RIGHT.
The point is this:
A fairytale is about the themes. It is ABOUT the message. It is ABOUT how older themes get changed to fit modern understanding and turn into new themes.
What they did with ash and fire and starlight was incredible. The fact that they brought Fairy Godmother back to the Fairy who is a Mother Goddess was breathtaking because it made Cinderella’s quest for justice holy, not just empowered.
These characters are not flat. They are given thier depth by their role and themes rather than by the plot or personal details.
If you were bored by this, you don’t like fairytales. You may enjoy some of the trappings, but would like it better in a fantasy styled romance or drama, which is not the same thing.
This is not “connecting to humanity by connecting to a character not you.”
This is “connecting to something deeper and more than all of us put together through the use of symbology.”
Maybe that ain’t for you. Maybe you prefer to explore all this plane has to offer. That’s totally an acceptable preference. But don’t come in here and call it a bad show. It’s just not your genre.
(Also, since ya’ll seem to call out Hatchetfield stuff too- maybe you just don’t like genre centric stories 🤷🏻♀️)
I see you, Rancilda-defenders. I love you, Rancilda-defenders.
But I just need to say how cool it is that it's not part of Ellas story to forgive her. A lot of people have pointed out the unapologetic revenge story but I need to put emphasis on this point. Rancilda is someone you could expect a hero to forgive. She was just following her mothers orders. She's a child. She stands up for herself in the end.
But she's not forgiven, and I love that. You can headcanon that she survives, and lives happily ever after under her favorite bridge. I do like that, too.
But it's not part of Ella's journey to forgive. She doesn't have to forgive this troll, who's wearing the skin of her murdered friend, who bullied and threatened her for what's possibly years, who held her down as her feet were sawed off, who laughed when she died.
I just think that's crucial. I just think that's awesome. Ella could have forgiven her. But it's not required of her. Her being a hero has nothing to do with her forgiving her abuse. I like that.
it's called ✨✨range✨✨
Open your eyes, daughter of fire.
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Starkid’s new musical is HERE and I’m already OBSESSED!!!
ghghhhhhh all the starkid puppets look so soft..... I wanna pet Snarl..... I wanna hold Crumb........ I wanna have a starkid puppet......
Listen I knew that the Jafar beard was bad, but Jesus I forgot just how awful the Sherman Young wig was 😭
And yeah the wigs might not be perfect, and the shows aren't perfect, but that's what makes them Starkid shows imo. Hot take maybe, but sometimes I'm lowkey afraid of Starkid getting TOO perfect that they lose some of their charm. Because part of their charm and what makes them so good is in their imperfections and their mistakes. And they're getting better and more polished and "perfect" with each show they do. Tbf I don't actually think they're losing their charm all this was just to say that seeing the wig lace is not that big of a deal basically lmao.
Like you said: Enjoy the ridiculously good performances they put online for free!
(I know this discourse is like a week old at this point but I'm making this post anyway 😤) Seeing people complain about the wigs in Cinderella's Castle was insane like y'all wouldn't have survived og Starkid fr. I mean in AVPM, Dumbledore's beard wasn't even on his face and you're complaining about seeing some of the wig lace on one of Bryce's like 5 wigs??? We used to have this
and you're complaining about this??
Please guys it's a stage show! With costume changes and wig changes! The wigs need to be easy to put on and off, and I honestly don't know what else they could've done to make it look better. They couldn't exactly cut the lace super short and glue the wigs on her head or anything because again, she has multiple wig changes throughout the show.
Anyway, I loved Cinderella's Castle and the costumes and wigs were some of the best Starkid has ever had
(I know this discourse is like a week old at this point but I'm making this post anyway 😤) Seeing people complain about the wigs in Cinderella's Castle was insane like y'all wouldn't have survived og Starkid fr. I mean in AVPM, Dumbledore's beard wasn't even on his face and you're complaining about seeing some of the wig lace on one of Bryce's like 5 wigs??? We used to have this
and you're complaining about this??
Please guys it's a stage show! With costume changes and wig changes! The wigs need to be easy to put on and off, and I honestly don't know what else they could've done to make it look better. They couldn't exactly cut the lace super short and glue the wigs on her head or anything because again, she has multiple wig changes throughout the show.
Anyway, I loved Cinderella's Castle and the costumes and wigs were some of the best Starkid has ever had
Cinderella’s castle spoilers
I managed to get the digital ticket for starkid’s Cinderella’s castle
and all I can think about now is Angela as the evil stepmother using a bone saw to cut off Elle’s foot, and basically singing about dismemberment and for some reason that unlocked something in my brain and it was so attractive to me that I wish that she would cut off my foot now, but anyway it was so great and I love Angela’s voice when she sings especially when It gets deep at times, and I would die for crumb, he’s just a little guy, and I’m not kidding when I say that I got tears in my eyes just because he was so cute, I wanna adopt him, he is now my son, I wanna feed him cheese and rub his tummy.
also Angela as the evil step mother kept on giving me lady dimitrescu vibes, especially when her and her daughter’s said man blood
I firmly believe that the next show in The Lands That Are is going to be an adaption of Snow White, likely called Snow White's Castle. Here's everything I've figured so far:
I think Ragweed will return. In CC, he mentions "six sturdy dwarves", which would make a total of seven dwarves. He also mentions slaying goblins, and I definitely think making the seven dwarves a Tolkien-inspired adventuring party would be a fun, dark fantasy twist
Furthermore, on the map of The Lands That Are, we see "Rockhammer's Hut", likely Ragweed and the other six dwarves' home. The Hut is situated close by "The Witch Queen's Castle", which I believe will belong to Snow White's wicked stepmother.
I have further cause to believe the Witch Queen is the stepmother from the livestreams during the CC kickstarter campaign. One of the tier levels is Witchglass
Now forgive me for not knowing the exact stream name, I'm going off memory here. But Nick went on to explain the Witchglass is a special material created by witches to trap demons. He then hinted "think of a fairytale that has a witch talking to glass". I believe this means the magic mirror in the story will actually be a demon trapped inside glass.
Speaking of the kickstarter, we also have these fellas from the original launch video. These puppets weren't in CC, but bears a striking similarity to Ragweed. It's most likely these were just early versions of Ragweed, but they could also be other dwarf characters we haven't met yet
And my final piece, which is pure wild speculation, is the Grizzwald girls' brother. I think he may be the Huntsman. Now, I know this is a bit of a throwaway line, probably just meant as joke, but having the Huntsman be a troll/monster hunter would be exactly the kind of dark fantasy twist I can see in the Lands That Are
So that's everything I've gathered. I expect to be either vindicated or completely wrong when the next show is announced.
—cinderella's castle puppet appreciation post ☆
This musical has me on a chokehold