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KINGMAKER in with the NEW EPISODE!!!!!! IN WITH THE NEW EPISODE!!!!

Oh You know what time it is!!!! Knocks on your door with a plate of oatmeal raisin cookies and smiles. Kingmaker Newest Episode live react time!!!!! (SPOILERS)

Oh you don't like oatmeal raisin cookies??!? Hrm. That is too bad. Perhaps my Ice Mage will have something to say about that. (You fucking die). Listen to @kingmakerpod or my Ice Mage will get you!!!

I need to start using the simile of “(blank) attracted (blank) like a flock of sheep attracts mantelopes” in my everyday vocabulary because A. Its funny and B. when people say What the fuck is a mantelope, Im going to say oh. Oh haven’t you heard??? Of Kingmaker??? And then I get them hooked on Kingmaker. My scheme

LEONIDS BACK, I LOVE YOU LEONID!!!! I LOVE HIM FACING UP AGAINST SOMEONE (HOLZMANN) WHO IS OF MORE THREAT THAN HE IS!!!!! “I KNOW MY RIGHTS!!!! I KNOW MY RIGHTS!!!!!” “Leonid, who as it turned out, did not know his rights” I grinned

MORETZ. MY FUCKING FAVORITE. I love announcing character names when they appear. Im introducing them at the door. SO MANY ANTAGONISTS IN ONE PLACE IN THIS EP, so fun. (Im scared). But Moretz you were always my favorite. Is this the infamous homoerotic scene that was discussed online/through DM. I will update in a few minutes. Update: “MY crime boss” Yeah this is it. Its already happening

DIETER 👹 And actually, fuck Moretz........ I have another evil person who’s name starts with an M that I love even more. (Its Margot. Its Margot). She steals the show for me

“You know, it pained me to sign your death certificate this morning.” “… I beg your pardon, sir?” WHAT A FUCKING HARD SET OF LINES. Also keep Telesphore’s name out of your mouth Kruger, I hope you get cinnamoned again. I HOPE YOU BLINK AGAIN!!!! LOSER OF STARING CONTESTS!!! FUCK YOU!!!!

“Holzmannisation” Fuck that word. Evil! ALSO. LEIPZIG PAUL IS BACK. “MORETZ: You’ll be luckier if you see us leave. Awfully drab little shop you’ve got here, Paul. Clearly your talents for Artifice don’t extend to interior design. Boys? Remodel the place. SOUND: Moretz’s boys start smashing up the shop.” Oh Moretz is so Camp. “I’m already doing you the kindness of redecorating. Don’t force me to paint the walls, too” HES SO CAMP

LOU SUTCLIFFE IS HERE. STACKED CAST. Sidenote, it’s so eerie not hearing the main 3 appear in this ep..... and that’s how I know shit is going down Real Bad in Kingmaker lore land...

Not the ice mage missing ☠️ …. Second time within a year I’ve said a relative “How did you miss”

Best. Fucking. Death Montage. In the world. I remember hearing a preview of this and absolutely going buckwild batshit. Off the charts..... OFF THE CHARTS!!!!!! THIS IS A MONTAGE FOR THE PORTFOLIO @ EVERYONE INVOLVED, Henry, Meg, VAs, EVERYONE!!!!! I could relisten to it 182107219 TIMES!!!!!

“I wouldn’t advise that, Herr Rothbart. I’m a very good shot.” (cocks gun) Oh.... a pit in my stomach formed. That line went hard

Dieter enrichment (Thank you artifeast for saying Dieter Enrichment, if ur reading this. I saw ur live reaction and it made me laugh. Ur energy for the show is infectious. THANK U FOR BEING SO SWEET ABT KINGMAKER, ALWAYS, everyone thinks u are so kind and encouraging and loves your art so so DEARLY!!!!!)

Iyer, Winterlich and Co. vs The Treasonous Three. This isn’t canon I just love their group-of-3 names and I think they should meet. (Too late, the latter is in a precarious situation. Aka Dead). Fuck. Holzmann’s arrival scared the shit out of me. He is so scary

“YOURE GOING TO TAKE US BACK TO THE FKA–“ “No, Labelle.” ✋ Love the sassy little delivery on No, Labelle.

“Perhaps someday we’ll live in a perfect utopia, populated by automatons under the command of a perfectly logical machine mind” Holzmann pro-generative AI.......... Oh he So Would Be.

IM FUCKING TERRIFIED OF THE WITCH KILLER. WOW! WHAT A CALMING END TO THIS EPISODE!!! THANK YOU!!!!! THANKS GUYS!!!!

does anyone want to hire me to be their evil advisor

✩love is in the clown☆ 😍

hey have you heard

KILLJAM XXX ???

yet?? bc you should!! it’s so fun and horny and full of violence and deeply biting commentary and did i mention its fun? i’ve laughed out loud at every episode so far! it’s wrestling death games and contracts and cyberpunk it’s a delight you should check it out

A Barbers

Running in circles gripping my head.... Pointing directly at you threateningly Smiling menacingly.... Oh we are having a very awesome time...

About to record some very exciting things with @addisonthepeacock and @reignoftiramizu.

I will complete my trilogy of Hansel and Gretel stage adaptations of fascinating visuals with this piece. I made several posts about the Royal New Zealand Ballet's adaptation and its homages to Germanic cinema (and obscure carnival traditions). I reblogged something about the Hänsel and Gretel concert of Lindemann-Tägtren and its disturbing, horrifying but also darkly clownesque visuals... And now I bring you the San Diego Opera adaptation of the famed Hansel and Gretel opera, with quite impressive puppetry!

I will copy-paste here the content of an article by Beth Accomando, which can be read in its original form here.

It’s not every day that an opera singer gets to bring a cannibalistic witch to life.

"I lure children into the forest and I cook them into gingerbread cakes and then I eat them. It's delightful," said tenor Joel Sorensen.

But what’s not so delightful is having to wear a big puppetry rig to create a larger-than-life witch onstage.

"I am a puppet," Sorensen explained. "The witch is a puppet, a very large puppet. And I have a colleague, Iain [Gunn], behind me. He bears the bulk of the weight on his back. So I'm basically working with a puppet while trying to sing and convey a character. It's a real challenge."

The challenge for director Brenna Corner in bringing Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel" to the San Diego Opera stage was how do you bring a fairy tale to life?

"One of the things that I think is really tricky about 'Hansel and Gretel' is size. How do you make two grown-ups look like they're kids and two other grown-ups look like they're adults? And then someone else looks sort of even bigger and more powerful. And quite frankly, the best way I could figure out how to do that was puppets," Corner said.

So anything that was not human became a puppet. Like the witch.

"It's different in that it's not my physicality. So, because I'm manipulating her hands, her arms, and I'm working in tandem with [Gunn] so I can't move as quickly as I might normally or as sharply but facially and vocally, I'm trying to do the same things that I would do if I were performing it without a puppet," Sorensen said.

Now if you are thinking of puppets as something you put on your hand, think again. Imagine actors completely enveloped in layers of fabric with a large sculpted head or face high above their shoulders and an arm span that exceeds 10 feet.

"We had to really kind of blow up the notion of what a puppet is in order to successfully encompass the fusion of opera and puppetry," said Judd Palmer of Old Trout Puppet Workshop in Calgary. "Our inspiration was classic 19th century children's book illustrators like Arthur Rackham or N.C. Wyeth. We wanted the whole thing to feel like it comes out of a book and it becomes the illustrations coming to life like a pop up book."

Palmer designed the puppets for a production in Canada and Iain Gunn of Animal Cracker Conspiracy here in San Diego is now the puppeteer working with Sorensen to play the Witch onstage.

"I get to live inside this character that I'm helping to bring alive," Gunn said. "But she has her own voice standing right in front of me. I don't know how to describe it, but I feel like I am transported inside this imagination. It's like I'm in the 'Time Bandits' or something like that where … we're doing something magical and it's a magical character and the only reason it's alive is because we're in there giving it our all. So it's pretty cool."

The puppets engage the audience in a unique way.

"It's this agreement that the audience makes with the performers," Corner explains. "That we agree not to see the person who's obviously a person and instead we agree to look at what is fabric and some PVC pipe and a plaster-like face, right? But we agree to do that. So what's extraordinary to me about puppetry is that as an audience, we're continually investing our imagination in seeing the thing that the performers want us to see and then as the performers keep investing in that then all of a sudden they go away. They don't exist there anymore and it becomes something else kind of magical."

By not trying to fool the audience and instead asking them to play along in this game of make-believe, the audience becomes a co-conspirator.

Palmer pointed out, "You can see the puppeteer right there in a ridiculous outfit. They're sweating and panting from having to run across the stage and they're waving the puppet around. It lets us all in on the joke in a way but also in the kind of the dream. It makes it evident to everybody in the audience that they are going to have to invest imaginatively in this in the same way as the people on stage are."

It's recommended that you bring a child-like sense of imagination to this show.

"That joy that you had when you were a kid," Corner said. "And you could imagine what would happen if a stick was suddenly a giant scary monster. I think that's what you want to bring to this production because that's what this production creates is the sense of wonder and joy and mystery that's inherent in being a kid."

And inherent in a story that begins with the magical possibilities of once upon a time…

San Diego Opera’s production of Engelbert Humperdick’s "Hansel and Gretel" opens Saturday and will have three additional performances through Feb. 16 at San Diego Civic Theatre.

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Faustina is not having a very good time. A very very bad time one might say.

I also love how in the episode 3 end credits she sounds like she is on the verge of tears. Hugging her and telling her it'll be alright.