Paul Matthews - Blog Posts
Are. Are we winning dikrats??
theyre a little stupid <3
also full size of the thought bubble
i'm sorry but this man's character has given me the worst case of brainrot ffs
sorry for the shit quality lol
Me at work: "I feel like I look really convincing when trying to sell newspapers!"
How I look trying to sell someone a newspaper:
Inspired by @inkwell-illustrations ' post!
And I feel I'll live on forever
With Satan himself by my side!
- yes. Paul Matthews and J&H once again. do you all want more?
- this piece was mostly for experimenting on how to color, I'm not used to shading. Let me know your opinion about it!
anyway heres some close ups
i havent drawn em before yet so im still figuring out how to but i saw this post from @strivia (hope it's ok to tag) and wanted to do a thing xD
Bonus paerhaps
Fucking obsessed with this picture. Its so haunting and yet so beautiful. Paul looks scared and confused but almost accepting of his fate. The piercing blue eyes we always joke about pure black. He looks so alive because of the imperfections but also not real because of the lighting. He is staring right at us like its our fault. Or maybe its us that he's scared of. This is art.
Y'all I just thought about Jon singing Let It Out and Inevitable almost 7 years later after all that vocal training and his vocal improvement?!? HE'S GONNA SOUND SO GOOD!! š©
Is this version of tgwdlm Paul being stuck in a time loop??? Or is he already infected??? Like how does he know what they're about to say and that he's being watched?? I AM THINKING ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS
RAHHHG I FORGOT TO PUT THE POSTER VERSION WITH THE OG POST
PAULLLLLLš©µš
If you missed out on my insta stories, long story short Iām in a musical rn and havenāt acted since middle school so Iām getting fully immersed in my old theater hyperfixations in real time so then I decided to watch all the hatchetfield stuff again and am going insane over this anxiety ridden man all over againā¦ middle school me would genuinely be so proud, I gotta find some of my old drawings of him
Without filters under the cutā¬ļø
THE APOTHEOSIS IS UPON US!
Thought it would be fun to mix two of my current hyper fixations.
TGWDLM x TDI
In light of some... Recent events
literally screaming at everybody āpete and ted canāt ever interact with each other, theyāre played by the same actor : (ā DO YOU FORGET WHO WEāRE DEALING WITH HERE??
there are the insane quick changes of which we have: joey richter himself playing what i can only assume to be the entire population of independence (plus an ox) in one song:
and then, of course, the master himself, brosenthal, playing frankly 80% of the cast, but ESPECIALLY in this one scene. ONE SCENE:
āoh but joey left the scene for some of the quick changes in tto, he canāt do that if the spankoffski bros are supposed are supposed to have a conversationā FINE, the other option: just play two characters at once. which starkid has done before.
exhibit one, twisted. these two are not the same:
exhibit two, tgwdlm, a hatchetfield show. this already happened in a hatchefield show:
(also, it is two different characters, do not fight me on this. this scene is too confrontation from jekyll & hyde-coded to be the same character) SPEAKING off confrontation:
joey did already. play two different characters at once. iām not here to argue the semantics or implications about personhood of saying confrontation and let it go has two different characters each, iām just saying, acting-wise, thereās two distinctive characters in both songs. like. guys. absolutely joey could just simply play both of them simultaneously. they literally do this all the time. whatās your excuse now
Just Learned of Nick Lang Emma/Emmanuel:Bi Paul Confirmed
Nick Lang as Emma Rehearsal - YouTube
As a fan of both. Yes.
I guess the guy likes musicals now
with emma version on the bottom!
I want a Hatchetfield musical crowd song where Paul is present, he has lines, thereās a very clear space in the choreo that heās meant to fill, but he just speaks his parts normally and stands perfectly still. When everyone else is dancing across the stage, Paul very calmly walks along to his next mark, turns to the audience, says his line in a deadpan voice then just stands and waits for his turn again
TW: Body Horror (lots of eyes)
The Lords in Black "dressed up" their Blorbos (:
BillPaul doodles based on this idea <3
they're a little fucked up but it's fine they're gay buddies <3
Preface (please read!):
This one's pretty fucked up gang. TW for UNNATURALLY BENT/BROKEN/DISLOCATED LIMBS.
This is based on a one-off phrase by Jon Matteson in his TGWDLM watch party during Let It Out where he said "Was that bones breaking?" I'm assuming he meant bones cracking, as in the sound, but this got me thinking of an interpretation of Let It Out in which Pokotho breaks Paul's bones to make him pose and dance.
Sure, Paul might be Pokey's trophy, as he's the titular guy who didn't like musicals, but Emma is the one Pokey hates the most.
The opening number (and Emma's presence in it) points to the entirety of TGWDLM being an in-universe musical to lure new members to the hive (in the form of us, the audience). So Emma and Paul are only being puppeted to echo their resistances, over and over and over.
Paul is distressed the whole time, but he's also a hero, he tries to save everyone (and fails, of course), while Emma is left to bleed and limp and scream. She's puppeted in a mockery of her fear and agony. Other deaths are bloodier, but hers is drawn out.
And this makes perfect sense for Pokey. What's the main thing we know about him?
He hates any voice that isn't his own.
Paul is outspoken about disliking musicals, but otherwise is a pretty passive guy. He doesn't make waves or stand out, he's too shy to even ask Emma out until the end of the world.
Emma is loud, opinionated, defiant. She has a very distinct voice.
Paul escapes Pokey for so long because he just doesn't like musicals, helping him avoid the traps that probably caught most of the townsfolk early on. If he liked musicals, or even tolerated them, he'd probably have been consumed by the goo pretty quickly.
Emma actively defies the hive. She starts the story in a job where she is literally required to sing and dance, and instead of just going with it she says fuck you and quits. She even clarifies that she could do it if she wanted, but she just doesn't want to.
Pokey has constructed the entire show to lure in new victims and also torture Emma specifically. In this essay I will
what if you HATED MUSICALS and everyone wanted to DANCE AND SING and then you got INFECTED and your girlfriend fucking DIED
My desire to see the foster girls happy + my soul-deep need to put paul matthews in situations have collided in a cataclysmic and frankly irreversible way and i've decided i'm going to make it everyone's problem. what you're telling me this man doesn't deserve a "world's okayest dad" mug ???
i've fine-tuned the lore to this incredibly silly au yapping abound under the cut
the gist is pam is both lex and han's mom but only paul is hannah's father. it was a one night stand which didn't go well (that's the last time paul ever gives in to ted's goading to "loosen up" and "do something crazy"). paul eventually takes lex in and adopts her because of the few times he's seen the way pam treat her + he wants the sisters to be able to grow up together. Normal Man went from a recent college graduate in a brand new job with no immediate plan or intention to have kids to a seasoned father of two in the span of like a year. idk but if u ask ME this is the universe's way of saying paul matthews was meant to be a girldad he's just unlocking his full potential
INCREDIBLE GIVE ME TWENTY MORE
I guess the guy likes musicals now
with emma version on the bottom!
my favorite poor little meow meow
LOVING that the meteor now has Pokeys' face, hopefully that means he'll be a bit more involved in the story and we get to see more of Corey playing him cuz he rocked it in NPMD
Why do I have the sinking feeling I've done all this before?