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carlyraejepsans · 8 months
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other artists have made a point of being like "stop saying you hate the pairing but like the art. it's annoying and still insulting" which is fair, but honestly every single time that's happened to me that person eventually came back to say they like them unironically now so. it doesn't even annoy me anymore, lol. oh, so you normally hate this ship? that's nice do tell me more. ignore the crosshair btw
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hptx7777 · 1 year
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As much as I love seeing depictions of Canary Jimmy with large expanding wings, it’d fit so well if he just had small puny little wings that he can’t even fly with to show how much of a wet paper bag he is
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blueiight · 1 year
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we need to talk about louis slapping damek's throat to get the vein to surface. who taught him that?! our baby girl would be gentle and would never be that aggressive. although it's very hot and sexy as he does it. it's giving playa 😈
is this what he's been learning in that penthouse or in the 70s? lestat wake up. your baby girl is turning into a macho man again. insert td jakes wake up video.
https://www.tumblr.com/losingbenni/712272651367989248/jacob-anderson-as-louis-de-pointe-du-lac
side note wassup w ur struggle ebonics my baby?? im struggling to get what u even tryna say here
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might be a long shot but does anybody have a good canary embroidery pattern? the way I picture it it's like falling but I can't put that on paper and it's stuck in my head because jimmy solidarity and his canary curse yaknow I want one on my bad boys jacket
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this is SUCH fucking bullshit why do i WRITE like this oh my GOD
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cosmik-homo · 1 year
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Urgh the chameleon arch thing is officially a wip file kill me.
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Wait, did something happen with Timmy and/or tango? I know they died for the last time this last session, but I don't watch either of them super often so what's going on with it? I know the whole "canary and the coal mine" metaphor with them but idk what's going on Now, are people being shitty?
oh i just think the metaphor is bullshit because no one in this fandom understands what it means to be a canary in a coal mine, and they've fundamentally warped the understanding of the metaphor to force it to fit jimmy.
a) the canary does not have a choice. the canary is trapped, and its only purpose is to die. calling jimmy a canary removes his agency in the death game he willingly signed up to play and actively participates in. calling jimmy a canary implies that everyone else is forcing him to be there, and that he doesn't know what's going on. even if the rest of the metaphor fit, and to be clear, it doesnt, thats still such a shitty way to refer to the guy. the fandom completely robbed him of his agency.
b) the people holding the canary know the situation is dangerous. a coalmine is dangerous. the canary's death isn't a wakeup call that the place is falling apart- they already know that. the canary is meant to show when its gotten too bad to stand anymore. you could argue that being a first death mimics that, but i think its a weak point that doesnt meet the other criteria because
c) this is where i think the whole metaphor falls apart. the purpose of the canary is to get everyone out alive. the canary's death does not signal something worse. the canary's death does not signal that everyone else is a goner. the canary's death is meant to protect people. at no point after jimmy's death does the server realize it as a wakeup call to get out, which fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of a canary. canaries die so that people can live, which is antithetical to the life series, where people die so people can die.
you could treat jimmy as a subversion if you really wanted to stretch, but no one is treating it as a subversion. a canary in a coalmine is a VERY specific metaphor and the fact that its been warped to fit this story is something i think is dumb as fuck. fandom has, in my opinion correctly, realized that when jimmy dies things start to pop off, but they misattribute it to being a canary when that's not what a canary does and that's not how coalmines work. jimmy is more akin to a turning point or a harbinger than a fucking canary.
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angstmonsterwrites · 2 years
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When my mother was first dating my father, and into the early years of their marriage, she'd wanted to get into commercial art. A little later, she tried her hand at writing romance novels. She had a lot of energy for it--I remember how she filled up stacks of yellow legal pads.
But on both occasions, my father discouraged her--he constantly nitpicked at any small mistakes he could find, or otherwise just insulted her as not being sufficiently intelligent or talented.
Fast-forward to my late teens. It's my senior year of high school, and I'm looking at getting into culinary arts. I was constantly baking goodies up at home, and my mother's coworkers ate a lot of cookies as a result. But when I told her I might make a career of it, she told me it was a bad fit because it would be disastrous to my health and that I'd probably fail as a result of the teamwork required. So, I chose psychology instead. Again, she discouraged me--more or less told me that anything interpersonal would be a sure route to failure--and insisted that I stick to the neuroscience side of things.
Both what my father did to her, and what she did to me were dead wrong.
So now, anytime I hear someone say a parent or significant other is discouraging them from creative passions and pursuits or from doing things that might actually help them overcome anxious shortcomings...to say I get angry would be putting it very politely.
Panicked outrage is probably a more adequate descriptor. Because it's criminal for those who are supposed to support you the most to turn around and sow doubts instead, which will later in life sprout and blossom into full fledged regret.
And the reasons for that discouragement are almost always terribly selfish, if not an outright precursor to even worse treatment.
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tainbocuailnge · 6 months
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my favourite metric for evaluating gacha games is the eizen scale. eizen is a character from the game tales of berseria who is essentially cursed to always lose the coinflip, which means that "can eizen play this game and not have a horrendous time" is a very easy way to determine how "generous" any given digital casino actually is and how robust its rng safety nets are. for purposes of the eizen scale this is how eizen's luck works:
1) eizen has the worst possible luck that statistics allow for. if he flips a coin a million times he will get tails a million times. if he has a 99.9% crit chance he will not crit. if resource gathering involves random drops he will always get the lowest possible amount of drops. he will roll the worst most useless possible result from the gacha every time. eizen's only path to obtaining anything useful in the game is through guarantees, handouts, and pity mechanics. going by his actual canon luck the game would crash repeatedly the moment he hits pity and then his account gets banned for suspicious activity before he gets to see the result but for purposes of the eizen scale we assume the game itself works properly.
2) eizen’s bad luck does not affect his friends’ luck, and he often relies on his friends to push through his bad luck. you can get caught in the fallout of eizen's bad luck if you throw your lot in with his (like going on a sea voyage with him and inevitably getting caught in a storm), but just having him around doesn’t keep you from getting heads on your own coin flip. this means ease of access to luckier friends’ resources is one of the metrics on the eizen scale. combined with point 1, if a game for example has a support unit system that shows you a random selection with no guarantee that at least one of those will be your friends, it's completely useless to him because it will only show him randos with trash units.
3) eizen’s bad luck does not affect the choices other people make. this means the game’s content release schedule will not contort itself into ridiculous patterns just to deny eizen the chance to obtain game resources, because its run by people who have other goals than making eizen specifically suck at their game.
some video games are fundamentally unplayable to eizen because the core gameplay premise is about performing and then working around feats of rng, like roguelikes for example, so a bad eizen score is not necessarily a bad game. but this man is the canary in the coalmine of exploitative monetisation, and if he can't play the game then maybe you shouldn't either
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tarotwithlove · 21 days
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PICK A CARD ⭒ who's keeping secrets from you? what are they?
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reminder that this is a general reading and messages found here may not apply to everyone. take what resonates, leave what doesn't, and don't force anything if it does not fit.
BOOK A READING WITH ME · LINKTREE · 18+ PATREON · SUGGEST A PAC TOPIC · TIPS ♡ tips, bookings, and feedback are highly appreciated!
GROUP ONE
cards · knight of swords (reversed), strength, nine of pentacles, eight of pentacles, the world, four of pentacles. 
channelled songs · love for life by whitney houston. grasshopper by tkay maidza. element. by kendrick lamar. 
my dear group one ♡ the person keeping secrets from you is someone fairly close to you. this may be a friend or someone you live with.
this is someone who projects onto you. someone who feels like their life is unfulfilled, wasted away, while you have the world at your fingertips. this person wishes they could live a better life, that they could change their life completely, and, thus, they are constantly comparing themselves to you. 
the secret that they are keeping from you is complex. it’s not that they are praying on your downfall, but they are somewhat envious of who you are, and of who you are still becoming. 
i heard “i love you, but i don’t like you” -- and that may be the biggest secret they’re keeping from you, especially if they are a family member. they just can’t stomach you at times. 
if you ever notice things falling through or failing right after you mention something to this person, it is the effect of this person’s (often subconscious) envy and desire to bring you down.  
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GROUP TWO
cards · ace of swords, six of cups, ten of wands, eight of swords, nine of cups, strength. 
channelled songs · playboy by exo. the fears of a dilettante by kilo kish. beautiful things by benson boone. 
my dear group two ♡ the person keeping secrets from you is someone from your past, but not your recent past. rather this is someone from childhood -- even as far back as pre-school, daycare, or kindergarten -- or your early teenage years. 
this person remembers you while you may not remember them. you may have reconciled or your paths may have crossed, and while they recognised you, so long has passed that you don’t recognise them at all. 
and, now, they feel as if too long has passed for them to bring up this past connection. they wonder if they’ll come across as a creep or a stalker, even though your paths crossing was entirely coincidental. 
it’s honestly making them feel really guilty to keep this secret. especially as they may have done a slight against you in the past -- though this is something harmless in the grand scheme of things, such as having stolen your lunch money once or pinching you once while playing or dropping your lunch on the floor once or making fun of you once. just something that happens between children. 
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GROUP THREE
cards · ace of swords, seven of pentacles, page of swords, nine of pentacles, queen of wands, king of pentacles
channelled songs · tasty by nct 127. motor city by lausse the cat. canary in a coalmine by the police. 
my dear group three ♡ this is not a person keeping a secret from you, but rather the divine. they are seeing your hard work and efforts. they hear your affirmations, yor prayers and your pleas. they hear your cries, too, and laugh, fondly as you ask why they have abandoned you when they have not abandoned you at all. 
your message is going to be short. because the divine is being as cryptic as ever. literally nobody keeps their secrets better than the divine.
but they are hiding from you how good life is about to get for you. how you are about to blessed, in unimaginable ways. 
you will look back at this time of your life and wonder how you could ever have been so blind to the blessings unfolding around you. do not doubt it, my dear, because they are coming towards you.
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GROUP FOUR
cards · king of pentacles, nine of wands, ace of cups, nine of pentacles, the world, seven of cups 
channelled songs · how to be a heartbreaker by marina. cover me by stray kids. gun kontrol by bbymutha. 
my dear group four ♡ the person keeping a secret from you is a father figure, or much older friend of partner. 
this is a strong male energy, and this man may be one who is either physically large (towering over most people in a room) or highly charismatic. someone who you can’t help but pay attention to.
this person is keeping a secret about their finances and their wealth. this person may either have much more money than they let on or they may be spending more money than you know about.
though the aspect of spending money is coming through much stronger, with this person likely keeping a gambling addiction a secret from you. or a secret partner or family who they are also financially supporting.
if you are interested in or dating someone new, you may think this person is just financially stable with a fairly good job when they are actually incredibly rich. they just want to know if you like them for them, instead of for their money. 
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somuchlikeme · 8 months
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Obsessed with how in the short term while they're still in the wilderness, Jackie's ghost is punishing, belittling, seductive and harsh. but in the adult timeline, after Shauna has been able to put (some, barely, but some) distance between herself and the rage and resentment, Jackie's ghost only ever shows as a warning, gentle but firm, a canary in the coalmine trying to tell Shauna to slow down, to breathe, not to go too fast or too deep or to be reckless.
Someone is going to get hurt. In other words, the Jackie that haunts Shauna at some point morphs away from a way for Shauna to pour salt into her own wounds and back into the Jackie that Shauna loved, the one that loved her. I'll never have another friend like you. We were kids, and it was awful.
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genericpuff · 4 months
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What are your thoughts on LO Krokos and LO Ampelus (Psyche) ?
These two male mythological figures, who had a gay relationship with gods, turned into female characters ! If they weren't included (especially since Dionysus is still a baby here), I wouldn't mind. But just using those names like that TWICE is strange, right ?
It's also weird how LO turns two virgin goddesses into lesbians, but don't even implement the canon gay relationships.
Can you find an explanation?
I mean I can't really offer an explanation because obviously I have no way of really seeing into Rachel's head, but it's definitely a choice that she's taken so many gods and characters from Greek myth and turned them into something else entirely, it feels very random and, in the case of the gods who were canonically gay/queer/etc. ... it's hard to ignore and give benefit of the doubt.
Another example is Persephone's therapist, Chiron, who's not just gender bent, but also put into the role of being a therapist ?? Which is like, okay, fine, but like... what is this accomplishing besides vaguely referencing Chiron's affiliation with medicine LOL
(this wound up turning into a bit of an essay so I'm including a jump to make it easier for scrollers lol)
To me, it just feels like it really cements Rachel as not being as well-read in Greek myth as she claims to be, because so much of the actual Greek myth in this comic is either taken directly from first results on Google (see: Zeus' definition of xenia which is taken straight from a Princeton study guide from 2004) and slapped haphazardly into the comic where it's convenient, OR it's just vaguely referenced at even if it's not being properly utilized (like she saw 'Chiron, wise centaur' and went "yeah cool she can be the therapist character!"). I have zero explanation or even assumption as to why she'd turn Crocus, a male lover of Hermes, into Krokos the flower nymph, or why she'd choose to use Ampelus as the name Psyche adopts after being turned into a nymph (which also didn't happen in the original myth). These are "creative choices" that come across as less creative and more just random attempts to make her seem smart.
Like, to a surface level reader or someone who's new to the series, it might seem neat and subversive (it definitely did to me back when I started reading and fell in love with it), but then you actually get further in and peel back the layers and go, "wait, she's just grabbing Greek names that are affiliated with real Greek heroes and gods and characters at random-" and it gets especially ick when it commits queer erasure in the process.
Don't get me wrong, I think having fun with character designs and swapping them or changing them up is perfectly fine, that's the fun of re-interpreting old stories, it's not that on its own that's the issue. It's just that these re-interpreted characters have literally NOTHING to do with the characters that she's basing them on. At least in Punderworld where Charon is a woman, she's still a psychopomp who ferries souls to the Underworld, her being gender-bent doesn't change much because her character and role in the story is still largely the same. Or like in Hadestown how the Underworld is more of a coalmine with Hades running it as a business, instead of the River Styx being a literal river it's a brick wall that protects the Underworld from outsiders ("and they call it freedom"). In both of these examples, they're taking the source material and making it fun and new, while still respecting the source material they're taking it from and keeping it on theme with that source material.
By comparison, Rachel just creates these character references and that's where it ends, they're just references and they don't do anything new or interesting with them, they're not even adjacent to what they're referencing. So we wind up with Chiron being a therapist, Ampelus being the nymph version of Psyche, the Fates looking and acting the exact same as each other even though they had different roles to play between Past, Present, and Future, and Aphrodite's children who... are literally made up from scratch, instead of pulling from the actual real children that Aphrodite had loads of in the original myths.
So many of Rachel's writing choices feel like attempts to be "subversive" when they're not, they're just random. Nothing about the things she changes from the original source material does anything to further explore that source material, it's just yoinking things at random to try and seem more Greek while also further separating her work from legitimate Greek culture. Even when you THINK something is about to be retold in an interesting way, it's very promptly either swept under the rug or veered off in a whole other direction that makes zero sense for what it set up (ex. Echo, what the fuck happened to Echo-)
It's very "ideas first, structure never" writing, she comes up with standalone ideas that sound good in isolation, until she actually tries to execute them and connect them and you realize they have no through line or reason to exist the way they do. It's giving real hard "first draft" vibes, so much of what Rachel chose to do should have been left on the cutting room floor (meanwhile the things that supposedly did get left on the cutting room floor SHOULD HAVE BEEN KEPT IN THE COMIC, ex. Hera's coat prophecy, Hades and Persephone having a date in the Underworld where she decides she might want to go into law, etc.)
Ugh. This got longer than I intended it to. It's just frustrating. I have inspiration to write that essay about queer erasure in LO now, at least. So yeah, hold on tight for that one LMAO
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grain-my-beloved · 5 months
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OKAYOKAYOKAYOKAY. ALTERNATIVELY.
Jimmy DID fulfill the canary curse. Technically, he was the second out, but the end- the void- is a separate domain entirely to the coalmine of the canary. Lizzie tried to utilize a power that wasn't her own to fulfill mortal goals, and she faced the consequence of a will beyond that of the players on the server. But Jimmy still died next, the first death in the domain of players, the canary in the coalmine dying to symbolize the danger of red chaos approaching, completely separate from Lizzie's mishandling of a world she holds no power in. A canary can't protect you if you leave the coalmine.
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irradiatedsnakes · 2 months
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btw in the tmagp launch celebratory stream alice's voice actor said her favorite scene that'd been recorded by that point was "alice and sam go to a place". so i suppose we'll be getting that next week :]
other notes. this statement (hey! actually a statement this time! what the fuck) was SOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
the cursed dice angle is so good, the way the statement giver took on that role (roll), played the part, UGH it's so fun. the theme of choice that was brought up is also so good- just. ONE more roll for old time's sake :) especially given that this is a TMI statement and how HUGE IMPORTANT of a theme choice and free will were in tma, felt very fitting. fantastic, loved that.
continuing on my stuff about the entities in tmagp- once again some things here feel very on the nose, particularly the statement giver literally calling himself a mysterious stranger. this feels like a fun little red herring to me, for people a bit hung up on the entities stuff. that's how i interpreted it, anyways. i wanna know more about this world so fucking bad, dude.
also, the institute's in manchester in tmagp, not chelsea/london. which means no milbank prison, no panopticon. interesting. (though soemthing that was known from the arg already- i really need to deep dive on that. tomorrow, maybe.) statement taking and artifact storage are still a thing, evidently, but noting that there's no mention of an archivist or anything like that. and the subject/agent/catalyst stuff, that's Very interesting.
once again, chester bringing up a magnus-related statement, here in obvious reply to what sam was talking about- just when he was considering to celia about dropping his investigations- clearly (imo) to goad him into not leaving it behind. excellent. and fun given the first TMI-related incident with redcanary had the obvious conclusion of THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE IS WEIRD AND DANGEROUS while also having enough mystery to draw sam in further. sam's seen the canary die in the coalmine and has made the decision to keep digging and that's fantastic.
now! characters! sam's paperwork :) VERY intriguing that he's getting all this stuff and celia's got none of it- he said it was due to that box about the response department, but i've got my doubts about that being the reason he's being saddled with all this weird stuff. also the questions on the thing made me laugh, very good. sam and celia have such good interactions, i love how they bounce off each other. also, with regards to the paperwork- i think there's a connection to be made about the statement giver's continued rolling of the dice (it always felt like my choice.) and sam filling out all this creepy, utterly pointless paperwork to "refuse to give it the satisfaction of giving up".
GWEN AND LENA. nigel dickerson, you know, from tv? possibly. i don't watch television. i do hope we'll be seeing exactly what gwen is being told to do next episode.. delivering something, keeping calm, recording the detailed reactions to what's being delivered. maybe we'll get a bit more of a clue as to what the oair is actually for. i do like that gwen's not become one bit less indignant, skeptical, and disrespectful towards lena now that she's got this job. i'm very excited to see her on her fist job she's gonna suck at it i think
i'll admit i was a little surprised to see teddy again. i was worried for a sec he might be going in the direction of getting dragged back to the oair, but nah. not yet, at least :) and ALICE. ALIIIIICE auaaaaagh!!! i don't know if i have much to say baout this part that isn't just (shaking a plushie in my mouth like a dog). very neat that she has agreed to help sam investigate this and actually go to the institute when she's been so staunchly don't get caught up in the creepy stuff! leave the magnus institute stuff ALONE you don't want to get into this spooky shit! like.. she does not want to get involved with spooky shit and she doesn't want sam to get involved with spooky shit but she cares about him and their friendship a lot and this is obviously important to him. so. (plus, the thing about alice's brother having been at the institute alongside sam and gerry..) i like them both so much. i am so excited for next weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
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taxi-boi · 5 months
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you know, given the fact that most people are pretty consistently drawing jimmy this season with dog features instead of canary/bird features, (and i mean "instead of," i dont think ive seen a single fucked up dog bird hybrid thing like i had originally expected. and ive seen very few exclusively bird designs) i think it would be fairly fitting if jimmy straight up DIDNT die first this season.
maybe he still dies second or gets farther or whatever IDC. but the fact that the team persona jimmy and martyn have attributed to themselves (big dogs WOOF WOOF) have usurped their fandom designated creature types (canary in a coalmine and the short-lived wet cat respectively)... to the degree that the audience (who are the watchers) themselves consider them as such.
after all, if there's one way to break a curse... I mean, what kind of canary would you be if you barked instead of sang?
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hptx7777 · 4 months
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I drew these yesterday out of pure boredom (Inspired by mostly Genshin’s TCG but I also did my own celestial title/tarot cards thing so I don’t confuse myself XD, I then added songs that I thought would for them, I had more thoughts with some more than others.
I’ll try and add more songs for Scott and Scar ^^
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Ouroboros; The wolf • Joel
•Sleeping Giants (Crane Wives)
•Killer Queen (Mad Tsai)
•Take me to war (Crane Wives)
•Alien Blues (Vundabar)
•Portrait of a blank slate (Lovejoy)
•Partners in crime (Set it off)
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Starborn; The preservation • Scott
•Unravelling (Crane Wives)
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Canary; The fallen • Jimmy
•Canary in a coalmine (Crane Wives)
•Unravelling (Crane Wives)
•Easier (Crane Wives)
•Partners in Crime (Set it off)
•The well (Crane Wives)
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Moon; The Hunt • Pearl
•I ain’t done (Crane Wives)
•W.I.T.C.H (Devon Cole)
•Killer Queen (Mad Tsai)
•I love you like an alcoholic (The Taxpayers)
•Alien Blues (Vundabar)
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Sheep in wolfs clothing; The Butterfly • Lizzie
•Pity party (Melanie Martinez)
•Volta (Crane Wives)
•I ain’t done (Crane Wives)
•October (Crane Wives)
•Shallow River (Crane Wives)
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Sun; The Watcher • Grian
•Tongues & Teeth (Crane Wives)
•Icarus (Crane Wives)
•Steady Steady (Crane Wives)
•Glacier House (Crane Wives)
•Partners in crime (Set it off)
•Hayloft 2 (Mother Mother)
I remembered the title wrong lol
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Scar; The trader • Scar
•Friends on the other side (Princess and the frog)
•Curses (Crane Wives)
•Killer Queen (Queen)
•Metaphor (Crane Wives)
And my favourite part, linking songs /j
Joel+Grian+Jimmy: Partners in Crime
•Bad boys Bad boys!!
Scar+Joel: Killer Queen (Queen) (Mad Tsai)
•Magical Mountain and just,, being the villains in different ways in their respective seasons
Pearl+Joel: Alien Blues (Vundabar)
•Lonely reds who were outcasted and turned insane as a result, unhinged and mad crazy. Also lone wolves (Figuratively and literally) “I only talk to dogs because they don’t understand me” is literally 3rd life Joel and Double Life Pearl
Scott+Jimmy: Unravelling (Crane Wives)
•I’m not a Flower Husbands fan but this song feels just right for them ‘I once loved a ….’ ‘But now my love is gone’ is just,, so fitting
Grian+Scar: Icarus, Tongues & Teeth, Glacier House, Steady Steady (All Crane Wives)
•It’s just Desert Duo, these songs are only in Grian’s thing since Grian’s the one that vocalises his frustrations
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