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saying smth in a message and then eyeing my brain suspiciously. “i suspect a murder plot” was that fucking lizzie

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WAIT 🫶 #Boy i forgot to psot

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gumybrain ritsu’s front triggers are, as far as we know:

someone being Wrong and he Needs to correct them

the maid outfit scene but only so he can make us stop watching it

occasionally, our shou going “pspspsps”

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update on gumybrain. since a lot has happened since we last posted anything here:

we’ve definitely switched hosts this summer

current frequent fronters:

our host right now is named alyssa, she’s our worksona who attained sentience. she’s enthusiastic, alert, and a little egotistical tbh. normally wears our hair in a ponytail. views ritsu and shou gumybrain as her Weird Little Brothers, and is aware this isn’t reciprocated. doesn’t really like our old host, or being seen as her (not that we can do much about that).

shou (he/him, mob psycho 100 fictive). 13 year old little bitchboy who is usually casual and nonchalant and annoying but then pulls out seriousness out of nowhere. likes writing. oh and he has a gayass crush on ritsu

ritsu (he/him, mob psycho 100 fictive). he’s been around since may, but was dormant for a while until we split shou. 13 year old little bitchboy who is usually a little Too serious, also very weird and sometimes just says shit. not a common fronter by choice but shou is very good at pulling him into front. not very good at sharing front and gives us headaches when other people are around, so alyssa and shou tease him by calling him Headache Boy. is aware of shou’s gayass crush on him and does not reciprocate.

cas (they/he, gumybrain original). burnout holder. they are like apathy personified- he doesn’t really care about anyone or anything all that much, more out of tiredness than anything else. keeps forgetting we have tits. normally wears a baseball cap.

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will’s so funny man. he’s a bitch. he’s mostly a gumybrain original but at the same time he’s definitely at Least a little bit of a factive of our sister. he’s the guy who Gets The Shit Done That No One Else Wants To Do Bc He’s The Freak Who Actually Likes Doing It. he named himself after the lead singer of lovejoy bc none of us are v creative with that and a song from that band was playing at the time. he’s a dickhead. he sounds like jonathan sims not for introject reasons, but because “In headspace I can sound like anyone. Why would I not choose Jonathan Sims?” he’s a massive dickhead (he’s really not i just personally dislike him). he likes world of warcraft

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we're aroace and plural and it's really funny because most of us are aro/acespec to some degree. we have:

romance/sex repulsed loveless aroace

hypersexual cupioromantic

demiromantic, plus demisexual for women

demi-cupio-grey-roace

plus 2 token allos

nice!

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o shit we’re a median system huh. each of us is our own person but also a specific facet of a whole. like. i’m the face and will is the part who Gets Shit Done and grace/THE CREATURE are survival instinct and joel is the part of us that desperately wants approval/validation and so on.

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i hate it when game devs put “fixed several issues” in patch notes 

no. tell me what you fixed. i wanna know what the glitch was.

you know those patch notes that are like “fixed an issue where if the player sat in a bush for too long, they’d become the size of a skyscraper” 

i wanna read those. tell me those. 

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Seen some people talking about Lovejoy and Wilbur Soot’s music and feeling very upset about letting go of those songs since they brought a lot of comfort and joy.

I’m not gonna tell you what you should and shouldn’t do. I think it’s ultimately up to you to decide if you want to continue listening to Wilbur’s music or not. What I am gonna do is list some alternative artists that I either think have similar vibes or I know Wilbur / Lovejoy had cited as inspirations so you guys can find some new tunes without stepping too far out of you comfort zone.

(Also feel free to tag on and add your own suggestions as well, the more the merrier)

Lovejoy

Arctic Monkeys — when Wilbur started the band he claimed he wanted to be like the Arctic Monkeys one day. I’ve also described a lot of their later music as being very similar to Arctic Monkeys, so if you like Wake Up and It’s over and Normal People Things then you’d love them

Los Campansino’s — Wilbur has stated before that this is his favourite band so.. very likely big inspiration for his music. Lovejoy did a cover of Knee Deep at ATP, their version is a bit more chill than the original. I’m a big Los Campansino’s fan honestly, but for stuff Lovejoy related I’ve say the albums “Sick Scenes” and “Romance Is Boring” would have the most appeal.

Wet Leg — just a good band that I think has a similar vibe, especially with themes and funky tunes. Also I’ve seen Wilbur list them in his personal playlists before so he enjoys them as well

Good Kid — not a personal favourite of mine, but their songs have similar vibes and they toured with Lovejoy as well so Lovejoy enjoy their music.

James Marriot — friend of Wilbur’s (do with that information as you will) excellent musician and would heartily recommend his music if you haven’t listened already. Also worked very closely with the band before, especially in the early days so I wouldn’t doubt they’ve influenced each others music quite a bit

MSR and YCGMA

100gecs and other hyperpop artists — admittedly not a genre I listen to a lot, but if you liked Dropshipped Cat Shirt, especially the ending, then you’ll vibe with this genre a lot.

Jack Stauber — Wilbur’s been a longtime fan of his music, it’s a bit weird and silly on a surface level but nice and miserable as well. If you like MSR I’d recommend.

Crywank — helped Wilbur with producing MSR, plus I think Wilbur took some heavy inspiration from them as well. If you like miserable music you’ll love Crywank. (Also Lovejoy did a cover of privately owned, so if you liked that go check out the original)

More Los Campansino’s — ok.. I’m repeating bands now, but I’m recommending different albums this time! “We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed” “Hello Sadness” and “No Blues”

Peach Pit — again, not a favourite of mine but they have nice chill vibes and the songs I’ve listened to are just as miserable as these albums.

Beabadoobee — once again, not someone I listen to a lot, but definitely got the same chill acoustic music as YCGMA especially, Lovejoy had done a cover of The Perfect Pair so if you liked that, and you like these albums you’d like beabadoobee.

E-girl Trilogy / comedy music

Bo Burnham — another favourite artist of Wilbur’s, someone else he’s cited as an inspiration and top tier comedy tunes! If you like Wilbur’s sadder music as well you’d definitely enjoy Inside. Otherwise his older music is great and very fun!

Lemon Demon — probably not an inspiration for Wilbur’s comedy music, but he’s definitely listened to it, it’s very fun and silly, also Ranboo highly recommends (as do I)

Other recommendations

Modern Baseball — found this band through Wilbur’s recommendations, they’re very fun and cool. Very Midwest emo, a genre that I think inspired MSR.

The Front Bottoms.. but with a warning — so I’m not super familiar with the story, but from memory a former member abused a fan, they aren’t apart of the band anymore but the current members handled the situation very poorly. This was another favourite band of Wilbur’s and I get why, very emotional and angsty. I find their lyrics hit a bit harder than Modern Baseball’s but they make very similar music.

AJJ — kinda similar to Crywank, another band I found through Wilbur’s recommendation.

Radiohead / the smiths / the cure / the strokes / just 70’s and 80’s alt rock bands — Wilbur definitely enjoys this music and took inspiration here and they’re all very cool and fun. I’m not super familiar with these bands but I know a lot from this time have good old controversies so be mindful of that, but yeahhh good music!

I don’t know how but the found me — alt/indie rock band with very fun tunes! Sits alongside Wilbur’s comedy music and Lovejoy in my playlists a lot of the times so.. if you like those two you’d probably like this band :) also Dallon Weekes deserves all the love in the world, all his former bandmates (Brendon Urie and Ryan Seaman) keep fucking him over.

Cavetown — not sadboy acoustic like YCGMA but very chill and good acoustic tunes nonetheless. Also a bit similar to Beabadoobee so if you like that you’ll like this :)

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wuh oh! i shouldn't have posted about THE CREATURE on main! now people think it is some type of enemy or adversary to us when in reality it's more like an extremely misguided and detrimental ally doing its best to help but in a really annoying way and whom i personally dislike!! it's a persecutor in the way where it's trying to help solve the problem of Super Bad Stress in the most efficient way xe knows without really being able to conceptualize Why it's bad. like i still hate that guy bc it's really frustrating to share brainspace with (oh we've encountered a minor inconvenience at a bad time, we should kill ourselves about it) but my personal opinion has little bearing on the role xe actually serves within the system.

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i should probably talk to my school’s counseling center abt some stuff like The Guys and the Passive Suicidal Ideations and the Struggling With Schoolwork but at the same time grace is vehemently against it. and i’m pretty sure grace is connected to/is THE CREATURE in some way so. that’s just awesomesauce

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THE CREATURE is. well. it’s certainly odd. it only shows up when i’m under extremely high levels of stress for a decent period of time, and it wants to die. or. maybe i do? THE CREATURE is a guy where. i can’t actually tell if it’s an actual other Guy or if i just bundled up a bunch of suicidal urges that i didn’t want to deal with and gave it a name because i didn’t want that to be me. there’s good evidence for both.

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joel might be in front right now bc i just saw scott smajor’s stupid little cubito face and was filled with two seconds of pure unadulterated violence

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joel you FUCKING loser (/affectionate)

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ethan and joel r so funny bc like. joel’s from empires s2 but he remembers the life series. and ethan’s from an unspecified season of hermitcraft with no memories of the life series. so it ends up being like. joel as a big overenthusiastic dog super excited to hang out with etho and then ethan’s like a weird small cat who’s confused and slightly offput by how excited this dog seems to be about hanging out with her

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@thinkingabout-girls hey oli look this video gumy took of our cat sounds just like lizzie lmao -joel

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ranking of The (confirmed) Guys based on how much i personally like them

grace: i don’t think it likes me very much but it did help me out during a rough time. also has the most survival instinct out of all of us and i respect it. 6.5/10

will: i don’t Ljke him. hes a bitch. begrudging 3/10 because he Likes doing the stuff most of the rest of us hate and is therefore a part time homie

joel: funny guy! he Is floppy and pathetic. guy who wants to be mean and bully people so bad but then says one (1) rude thing and immediately starts apologizing bc Being Mean Is Not Nice. 10/10

ethan: she is swag and adorable and i really want to be friends with her. 10/10

THE CREATURE: i’ve only encountered this guy once when i was running a 101 degree fever. they were really enthusiastic about killing ourselves, and i otherwise don’t know much about them. if i had to guess? i’d say they’re probably connected to grace somehow- same type of creature, and the other side of the coin when it comes to survival instinct. but it did feel really awful when they were in front so 2/10

martyn: i haven’t actually met him personally so i’ll be holding off judgement for now i think