Just wanted to run something by the rest of the team real quick.

[xaq_the_aereon]

Specifically pertains to davidn and kjorteo.

You remember those Dr. Seuss parodies we did back around Christmas, right before HolidayStar came out? I was thinking some of the folks who watch our videos might enjoy those, so I was considering putting them up on Tumblr.

I wanted to make sure you guys were okay with it beforehand, though...that, and I honestly think it might work better being put on the Team Hatoful blog that mine; if nothing else it gives more of that "group effort" feel that they'd rightly deserve.

EDIT: CURSES, TOO LATE.

2ND EDIT: Okay, so apparently the reason folks were able to find the audio recording of How Shuu Stole Christmas is because, after a 4-comment long chat with one of our viewers, I gave out the link to it.

*repeated facebeaks*

Comments

[kjorteo]

I actually had the idea of turning that into a full-blown special one of these days. Like, slap some skits around it as a framing device and just ... you know, do it, like an episode. The plan was:

* Scene wherein Kazuaki gathers everybirdy else into the library to read them a Christmas story (naturally, the personalities being what they are, this is a lot more oversimplified--think the astronomy club rooftop scene for what can happen when you actually try to assemble the whole cast for a special event)
* Eventually they calm down and he can start reading, and of course that's when it slips into How Shuu Murdered Christmas and/or "You're a Mean One, Murderbeaks." The question at this point is how or whether to break that up; the song gets a little repetitive if you just have the entire thing interrupted, and there's a very good reason why the actual original source material broke it up and put a verse or two here and there as punctuation for story scenes. The problem here is that, given the ending, this story is ... shorter, and leaves us a bit less room to figure out what parts of the song would go where.
* Probably some sort of conclusion skit, back in the library after the story is done and everyone is dismissed?
* Close with a little moment of sincerity speech because the team is awesome and our fans are awesome and I wouldn't have done any of this without you and I love you guys :D And whoever else wants to add to that is very much welcome to do so, of course.

I even wrote an extreme rough draft of the introductory skit and sent it to davidn a while ago, but I'm not sure how good it would do us now. For one thing, it's old, and I pretty much always want to completely overhaul any piece of writing I've ever done that's old. For another, it's old enough that I made it before Holiday Star, and it almost seems heretical to exclude content from that now that we've made it to this point. (There is no way, and I mean no way you can have a Team Hatoful Christmas Special without Miru and Kaku. None.)

But yeah, basically I came up with that as something we could do while waiting for Holiday Star, and then Holiday Star came out and we immediately dropped everything else and flocked to that. I still think we could do something with it, though.

Edit: I realize that was a really long answer that didn't actually answer your question. D: So, um, I guess I'm a bit concerned about releasing those early if we do end up going back and doing something more full-fledged with them? But if that's not going to happen then go for it. So I guess my answer to your proposal depends on everyone else's answer to mine. :o

[xaq.livejournal.com]

...I like your idea much better, actually. That would be absolutely beautiful once it gets polished out.

[kjorteo]

Hmm, I see the story part has hit Tumblr already ... but we could probably say "oh well" and proceed with putting the rest of it together anyway, assuming everybirdie else is on board. :D

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Yeah, true. I'm still kinda confused on 2 things, though...

1) How they found it in the first place.
2) How they found it over a month ago and we never noticed.

[davidn]

I can't really offer an explanation either, considering they were in locked posts...! This is beginning to get a little frightening.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Well, I got the answer, and now I'm thoroughly embarrassed...

I gave out the link in the comments to one of the videos.

[davidn]

Hah - that would do it!

I'd still be interested in tying them all together through a wider scene of our own, too...

[xaq.livejournal.com]

That would definitely be fun to do, yeah.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

.... I may be open to putting together the couple of verses of "I like big beaks and I cannot lie" that I have written, though it might disrupt the christmas theme :P