#and then... soon... Etho's playlist

[shepscapades]

Hello I might be be completely missing something but is there somewhere I can find an updated masterpost? The one I found is definetly missing some story stuff lol

HI hello! You're not missing anything! I get asks about this a lot-- that master post is very very old, and I have a new one i've been keeping in a word doc and yknow what i'm going to freaking post it tonight if its the last thing i do so I can stop putting it off!!!!11!

I'm saying it now and here so that I can hold myself to it tonight after i get done with rehearsals and whatnot haha

but yes!! New masterpost on the way :]

[fountainpenguin]

Etho sending Joel a letter in the mail telling him to take down the giant statues of Etho at the entrance of his base... "I know you hold me in high regard, but maybe your obsession has gone too far and I think it would be for the best to take those down-"

Joel, sending a letter back: "Wasn't me. Someone worked really hard on them though so I moved them to your base."

crying. they are so silly.

[the-harvest-system]

Hello! We're the Harvest system, welcome to our blog/public system journal! 

Our collective name is Harvey (very creative, we know /sarc) you can call us Nico too though! Please use he/they(plural) pronouns on us! 

Keep in mind, we're bodily a minor, and while we may make some dirty jokes, we do not want to have an nsft interaction/view nsft posts.  

Both our simply plural and pronouns.cc are a WIP however, they'll be linked as soon as we finish them. 

Autism, adhd and possibly social anxiety - so talking to/interacting with people is hard. 

We're a traumaendo/mixed origins system of around 100 (member list is unupdated) We form new headmates easily. Like, very easily. Fictive + nonhuman heavy. Disordered, probably DID.

We won't be sharing everything about our system, since we'd still like to keep some privacy for safety reasons. (You never know on the internet, it's even worse as a system)

ASK GAME ASK GAME ASK GAME

Collective interests include: hermitcraft, empires smp, life series, the magnus archives, danny phantom and folklore

Most of us are dogkin/caninekin, almost all of us are non-human in some way, and we're collectively foxkin.

Follow our spotify for amazing music recs and playlists ;3

Spotify - CitrusBrew

Stances, DNI, tagging system, blinkies/userboxes and system members below the cut.

STANCES:

Pro endogenic (we're critical of the community but think that endogenics do exist)

Anti Radqueer

Anti TransID

Anti proship (we won't harrass people, we just find the whole proship thing very weird and uncomfortable personally)

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

Pro good faith identities + we're mspec mono ourselves (pansexual gay)

DNI:

anti-endos

Proshippers/comshippers

Radqueers/TransID

MAPs, Zoophiles, etc.

Israel supporters

Singlets that can't be normal about systems 

Anti-alterhuman/nonhuman

TERFs

Transphobes, homophobes, racists, ableists etc. (Surprising there's any on this site but...)

TAGGING SYSTEM:

harvestposting - original posts

harvestinfodump - system infodump

harvesthottakes - opinions, mostly syscourse

*emoji* writing - the headmate that wrote the post

harvestfandoming - fandomposting

harvestsillies - stories from headspace + quotes

SYSTEM MEMBERS

note: updated barely at all, not all headmates are featured here, "neos" stands for neopronouns

🍁Maple/Harvest - they/fox/He, gatekeeper and the headspace personified

👁️Xel/Cyrus - they/neos/it/he, protector

🌞Grian/Sunny - he/sun/other neos

🌈Neon - they/neos/it

📼Tubbo/Tobias - he/neos, archival assistant

💥Inni/Tommy - he/him, adhd holder+social headmate

🪻Ranboo/Cranberry - he/they/neos/xe

🦷Lennox/Lynx - he/they/neos

🔑Karl/Grayan - he/him

🔪Wiktor - he/him

❄️Scott - he/aer/neos

🐟Jimmy - he/him, memory keeper

🏺Kaian/Joel - he/him

🫧Lizzie/Meri - she/sea/they/any

🌻Peril/Pearl - she/neos/they

🍄Shrub - any/all

💐Katherine - she/neos

🎆Gemini - she/they

🧨Fwhip - he/him

🌙Pearl - she/they, junior gatekeeper

🔦Grian/Elliot - he/they, archivist

🪦Cleo - she/they/it, protector

🌲Gem - she/neos/it

🐺Ren - he/paw/neos, caretaker

🌱Bdubs/Oakley - he/neos/it

🎙️Etho - he/neos, no role

📻Oscar/Scar - he/xe

🌿Jellie - she/xer, sassy shit of a cat (affectionate)

⚙️Mumbo - he/they/it/neos

🔥Tango - he/flame/it

🍃Joel - he/him

📟Doc - he/any

🧊Cub - he/ve/it

🪽Angel/Halo - they/he/she, comforter

🐅Cassian - they/he, protector

🌼Will/Finn - he/star/shark/bloom/⭐️/🦈/🌼

🥕Brownie/Arvey - social anxiety holder

🕯️Kit - he/they/it, traumaholder

⛓️ Icarus - he/it, comforter

📀Cyn - xe/they, mood booster

✨Milo - they/them, former host

🐾Alex - he/they/it

🦴Amaranthus - he/they, traumaholder

🪵 Cedar -they/them

✴️Felix - he/neos

🐾Alex - he/they/it, therian identity holder

🕓Bdubs - he/him, gatekeeper

🌸Lizzie - she/they

🎀Minx - he/she

🌊Raffy - he/it, animal headmate

🫚Ginger - he/him, animal headmate

🥀Valerie - she/her, protector, caretaker

🕊️Ophelia - she/her, caretaker

🎸Xavier - he/him

🦝Bastian - he/it

🦅Phenic - mirror pronouns, protector

🧸Scout - he/paw/it?

🐕Cody - he/him

🦊Fern - they/them

🍄Faye - they/them

🃏Finley - xe/ve/fizz

💻Alistair - they/them, social protector

🪶Grian - he/him, architect

🌳Scar - he/him

   + Jellie - she/her, non-fronting

♦️Max - he/him

🧪Zedaph - they/he

🌷Stress/Sylvie - she/her

👾Xisuma - they/he

🪓Fallon/Faolan - they/she/he

🧳Antique - they/them

☁️Ghost - she/hxr

+Two littles we'd rather keep private

[tunastime]

HI @galaxystt SORRY YOU HAD NUMBER LUCK SO BAD but I really like this song I think wilbur soot puts something in his songs that makes it impossible not to listen to them. I had a lot of fun coming up with an idea for this one!! this one's on my d&d character's playlist, so less plays than normal but still a few :3

(632 words)

You know how this story goes, don't you?

You know Grian, and you know how this game starts. Grian stands in a field full of people, each of them friends, associates, known by acquaintance, known amongst each other, and explains the rules. The rules are very simple—you know this too. And Grian knows them just as well. 

He doesn't mean to kill Scar. Not the first time, and he means to turn him away the second time, but he can't bring himself to. There's a look somewhere in there, from his friend. His friend? Was he certain, then, that Scar was just his friend? Or was even his friend at all? There was sand in Scar's bed so they cleaned together and when Scar ached too much to continue he slept in Grian's bed. The desert night was sharp and windy on the cliff and a fire was only so big and Scar was warm enough to sit against without an issue. Grian can't have him though. You know this. Scar is a foil. Much like Jimmy is a foil. Much like Ren is a foil. There is a red and a green, and none of them can be together. Does this look like love, to you?

Scar apologizes when he dies. It's like he forgets that he knows how to hit back—like he forgets that he's larger and stronger and that he could push Grian to the ground with much less force than Grian has to muster to even slam himself into Scar's chest. There's a point where tears are indistinguishable from spit and from blood. You know this—you were there. This story is told many times, again and again. This is not the first time this story is told.

What you might have forgotten is the aftermath. The next try. The way Scar lingers in the frame of Grian next time. The way he tries to come close and holds back, as if he's afraid Grian will sink his teeth into his hand when he extends it.

Grian will see this again. You know this.

When Mumbo trusts enough to reach, he too will find sharp teeth. Grian will ask and beg for companionship and clamp down as soon as he can. Again, and again, and again.

Grian sharpens the edge of his sword.

"Are you thinking about something?" Etho asks, sitting next to Grian on the grass. Grian blinks, coming back into stark reality. He hears Etho's jacket shhf in the breeze as he sits, leaning back against his hands. In some ways, he thinks he wishes he was Etho. The blood on Etho's hands is from a wound he refuses to close. The blood on Grian's hands is from a wound he keeps opening. Does that make sense?

Grian pauses sharpening. The whetstone sits on his knee as he examines his sword, how it glitters just a bit.

"A little," he says, shrugging his shoulders. Etho hums quietly.

"Anything you need to talk about?"

Grian shakes his head, sighing. 

"I'm worried about the next week," he says. "I'm worried I know what's coming and I can't stop it."

Etho hums again. 

"If it makes you feel any better," he says, reaching out to pat Grian's shoulder. "I think everything will be fine. I trust this."

Etho's hand pulls away from his shoulder as Etho rises. Grian is going to sink his teeth into his hand when the time comes. He can feel the urge tickling the back of his neck. All eyes on him. But you know that, don't you? Somewhere, in the back of his mind, Grian still hopes that this will be different. But doesn't it feel so good to play a role that fits? Don't you know no one gets what they came here for?

(spotify wrapped ask meme)

[wardsbackpoet]

THE MUSIC YOU HAVE IN TWEEKS PLAYLIST IS SO 🤭🤭🤭 LIKE IVE NEVER MET ANYONE THAT KNEW BLOOD FOR BLOOD

I honestly don't remember when I discovered Blood for Blood, but I think I might have my former boss (he'd get annoyed and say he wasn't my 'boss' 'cause he doesn't like 'bosses and never wanted to have nor be one; For context, he wasn't really my boss, I was self-employed, but working at his tattoo shop) / fill-in father-figure for a bit, a longtime friend of mine, to thank for that. That man is honestly 100% self-made and has an ethic and ethos I can really look up to and respect. We're also both into Madball, and I recently went to one of their shows. He couldn't go, due to ongoing cancer treatments.

Me and another friend of my former boss (actually, the co-owner of that shop I was working at), spoke with the band, got them all to sign a shirt for him and we brought it to his house the next day. He was super touched. Great group. We'd only asked one band member to sign as the rest were busy packing up gear, and he suggested he could go and get the rest to add their autographs, we were super grateful.

Also, I 100% get that frustration of never meeting anyone who likes/knows what you like and know. When I was a teen, the definition of 'hardcore' had slipped, and to me, it was still bands like Blood for Blood, Madball, Biohazard, Agnostic Front, Fugazi originating from the movement started by 7 Seeconds, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Sick of it All, etc. I saw Terror (which I like) as like, the band bridging how I defined hardcore to how kids of my generation defined it.

To the kids around me, it was this stuf with like, a lot of 'Woah-oh-oohs', in the midst of screaming. My whole view of it was 'it's a'ight, but that's not my scene', and I was often disappointed (and eventually disillusioned) when kids were like, "oh, I like hardcore too!". Over the years, my follow-up question changed from an enthusiastic "Oh awesome! Wanna go to a show? Wanna obsess about this Bad Brains album with me" to a bored, "Oh yeah? So like, what bands?" To which I'd hear Stick to your guns, Underoath, Silverstein or whatever else was popular at that time.

I ran into the same problem with kids saying they liked punk too. They weren't talking about Discharge or Subhumans, or Thulsa Doom, or Conflict, Descendants or NOFX. They meant The Used and Blink182, Rise Against and whatnot. I was utterly confused and felt born 20 years too late for real.

I was just...well, I longed for a more precise vocabulary to become more widely-used so I'd stop getting my hopes up/getting frustrated about the fact we really weren't talking about the same thing. I was a teenaged musical elitist, yup. A real fuckin' snob. I'm more open-minded today but it was disappointing and disheartening, only really finding like-minded musical peers among people at least a decade older than I was.

So, in contrast, meeting people who actually liked what I liked was always so exciting and felt really validating at a time when I felt as though there was always a barrier to being understood by my peers, and to connecting with them on a less than superficial level.

You didn't ask for that full analysis and I regret having overthought and rambled, but I typed it so you're getting it, I guess. Sorry?

& Thanks for reading the fic & I promise to update soon. Life's just been kicking my ass recently but it's okay, 'cause I just remembered I can kick back.

Also, I just realized maybe I rambled so much because the upcoming chapter explores some of those themes with Tweek finding it hard to find common ground with kids his age as well. So, maybe?

Anyways. THANKS FOR READING IT AND BEING PATIENT ON UPDATES.

& HMU if ever you wanna chat music or whatever else.

[citrus-swirls]

I have a playlist for Something About Blood Feeding the Garden. I associate music with books/fics a lot of the time and would love to hear if anyone has any songs they associate with my fic, or what songs you associate with other fics (parx or not!).

The order to this playlist is not in order of how I see it in the fic, but rather how I like how it sounds lol. There is a lot of my thinking behind plot points and behind the scenes stuff below too if you are interested :) I never want my author's notes to be very long so hopefully someone out there is interested in these rambles.

Pesticides Remix - Moselle & Matt Hip. This is where the title comes from, and is the ethos of the fic. Even though it's from Geoff's POV, to me I feel like Awsten is still responsible for the inciting actions and this is Awsten's song. I was interested in writing about the grief process, and how that differs from person to person and how we handle how other people mourn. I heard this song for the first time when V and I were outlining the story, and this just felt like fate and really shaped the story I wanted to tell.

my tears ricochet - Taylor Swift. This is Geoff's grief song. I think he feels very stagnant, especially in part 2 and most of part 3. This song also was a good theme for when Awsten and Geoff weren't speaking to each other.

Are You Really Okay? - Sleep Token. This song comes mostly into play in parts 2 & 3 as well. "And I cannot fix your wounds this time / But I don't believe you when you tell me you are fine".

This Empty Northern Hemisphere - Gregory Alan Isakov. This song inspired the radio station, with the lines "While you were sleeping I was the turning the dials / And I walled up your kingdom with radio wires / And the bells of the choir came in low and rumbling ". Fun fact there was originally going to be a radio station at the Zoo; I had imagined Great Uncle Joseph as this very eccentric old man with a million hobbies, and I wanted Awsten to start running the station and Travis & Jawn hear them and try to find them. But I quickly ran into the issue of...how would Travis & Jawn know where to find a random radio station in backwoods Texas lol.

Something in the Orange - Zach Bryan. This song is for right after Otto and Geoff's kiss in part 1. "If you leave today, I'll just stare at the way / The orange touches all things around / The grass, trees and dew, how I just hate you / Please turn those headlights around"

The Prophecy - Taylor Swift. Ugh, what part of this song ISN'T perfect for this fic? This song is mostly for part 6, with Awsten desperate to change the tides.

Gilded Lily - Cults. This is Aria's theme song actually. I was hoping someone by now would comment on it but nobody has haha, Aria and Owen are meant to be a direct mirror of Awsten and Otto. Desperate, crazy, stupid, with ill conceived plans but enough love to make it worth it.

Dinner & Diatribes - Hozier. I'll be honest this one is mainly because it sounds good audibly with the rest of the playlist and it helps when I listen to music while writing. Take that as you will.

Mylo Xyloto and Hurts Like Heaven - both by Coldplay. This entire album (also called Mylo Xyloto) has influenced this fic so badly I had to include it. Mylo Xyloto is an intro song that flows into Hurts Like Heaven, and Hurts Like Heaven is the first song they hear in part one on the CB radio. I wanted them to have something joyous and magnificent and hopeful and loving. I love listening to this album full blast driving down the highway with the windows down.

Who'll Stop The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival. This song has been on every zombie apocalypse playlist I've ever made, and it's never named but it is the second song they hear in part one on the radio. This song is included mostly for vibes.

Button On Brown - Alan Gogoll. Another song for vibes/background for writing.

Soon You'll Get Better (feat. The Chicks) - Taylor Swift. This will come into play......later. :)

As the World Caves In - Matt Maltese. Another vibes song that works for apocalypse/dying romance setting.

Spiral - Flyte. This album (The Loved Ones) is one of my all time favorites. This is Geoff and Awsten in the sunflower hut in part 3, kissing for the first time.

Killing Me - Conan Gray. I feel this is part 3 when Geoff & Awsten aren't talking. Originally there was going to be a huge part where Geoff feels jealous how Awsten has been mourning Otto, and feels he can't compete for his love. And then I was like well that is stupid. But the song stays because it's great.

The Very First Night - Taylor Swift. This is like Geoff and Awsten's love for Otto basically. "I wish I could fly / I'd pick you up and we'd go back in time / I'd write this in the sky / I miss you like it was the very first night"

I Know The End - Phoebe Bridgers. Classic apocalypse playlist song, really.

Polarize - Twenty One Pilots. I'm not sure I realized how long this playlist is until right now. This song is very Geoff to me.

Swim - Maggie Miles. This song was at V's request for Otto. It's a banger. "Roamin' through a dream with an unfulfilling motive / Say you're better now but your mouth fills with poison"

Swimming In The Glow - Joywave. Another song at V's request for Otto. This kind of feeling of perpetual waiting.

Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons. This song just sounds good with the rest. Filler. I suppose you could argue this is another Geoff song but that was not its purpose to me.

Vignette - Twenty One Pilots. THE Zombie Otto song. This song inspired Otto having an inner world, this and the movie I Saw The TV Glow which honestly is not a movie I enjoyed much but it did remind me of a fanfiction I read on Livejournal when I was maybe thirteen of a similar plotline, where someone was sick and had an elaborate ongoing fantasy to cope.

Pink Skies - Zach Bryan. This song comes into play in part 6. :)

You And Whose Army? - Radiohead. Vibes song.

Jesus From Texas - Semler. A friend recently recommended this to me and I sobbed thinking of Geoff in this au.

Fable - Gigi Perez. Another very recent add. It reminded me of Nick, strangely enough, which is a perfect segue into my OCs. I love these OCs I have created. I know OCs aren't everyone's cup of tea, and to be frank I normally despise OCs in fics and think they are annoying and filler, but I needed a better balance to make this world truly feel like an apocalypse. I needed a family we didn't know for the Zoo so Awsten & Geoff could mourn safely, I needed a compound of migrants who settled around a military base because that is something that would happen. I needed a matriarch, I needed children, I needed characters who are coping just fine and others who haven't coped at all. So I hope you love them, because I do. And if you don't, well. The fic is almost over haha.

I hope you enjoyed this! Would love to chat if you have any thoughts or suggested songs, or if you have your own fic playlists. Also sorry for the numbering issues, Tumblr made me break them up for character limit reasons.

[stariisv]

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Doc has to continue to pause in his building to roll his shoulders back and forth. Every time, the mechanical right one clicks. It’s aching where metal meets bone, and he knows eventually it is going to turn into a sharp pain. Hurtful enough that he won’t be able to move it much.

Between all the Decked Out runs, Doc tries to slip into some building as well. He needs to work on the village and water pipe system he is interpreting into the perimeter, after all. But this does mean that he doesn’t spend a lot of time resting, which causes more pain than he would prefer. The thing is, he knows how to deal with it. Mostly with ice, rest, and pain killers. He’s just been so busy lately that he hasn’t had the time to properly care for it. Sometimes it seems like he is in pain more often than not, it’s exhausting.

“You can rest,” A voice chimes in his head, but Doc just ignores it and keeps going with placing his blocks. He wants to finish this build soon and that immediately triumphs over anything else that needs to be done. Doc has always been like that, finish what he needs too and then he can rest.

The village he is building is almost completely wrapped around the base of the perimeter. Doc needs to finish closing it in, and then he has to do a few Decked Out runs in order to better his deck if he wants to even be close to Etho or Hypno’s level. Plus he likes running Decked Out. Tango did an amazing job, paired with the competitiveness in him, and the means to admire a friend's build, Doc enjoys playing D.O.

His arm clicks and hisses near the beginning of his shoulder and Doc sighs. He steps back from his build, taking a moment to think of what to do before he fires off a rocket and heads to his normal resting area. He lands swiftly and marches in, mumbling to himself the whole time. Doc stops to sit down somewhere and turns his attention to the metal arm.

His shoulder really does ache, it’s turning into that sharp pain now. But he refuses to take a genuine break, if he can help it. So Doc gets to work on clicking what needs to be clicked in order to take the arm off of himself. It’s helpful to have, for sure. He’s not left handed, it’s easier to build with both hands, but Doc needs to get it off so the aching stops. He can put it back on when he does his Decked Out runs later.

The metal ticks and pops as it detaches. Doc’s reflexes are a little behind so he doesn’t catch the arm before it falls onto the bench he is sitting on with a loud clunk. He rolls his shoulders back again, enjoying the fact it doesn’t make annoying metal sounds.

“Tired. We should rest.” The voice from earlier sounds again in his head.

“We have things to do,” Doc replies because he knows even if he ignores them, they aren’t going to go away. He’s tried.

Doc’s balance is a little off when he flies off again but he knows how to make up for it at this point. He doesn’t normally take his arm off if he is still working, knowing when to take breaks, things are just busy lately. At least the chilly wind on his face is enough to suppress Doc’s fatigue a little more.

“You’re crazy,” A different voice than last time chimes in.

Doc chuckles as he lands again. He turns to his shulkers, easily grabbing what blocks he needs to place.

A few hours later and he’s just a little closer to finish wrapping the build around. It’s taking longer now that he is an arm down, and the fatigue is getting to him enough that Doc keeps misplacing blocks and not catching it until he steps back to look. Then he has to break them and place them in the correct place. It’s getting tiring at this point.

But, it’s getting near the time where other hermits start doing their runs. And Doc wants to be able to do a few in a row without interruption, so he should finish this first and do a few runs. Then, and only then, can he actually rest.

“Hey dude!” Someone says behind him and Doc feels like he jumps a foot in the air. It’s just Ren though, smiling at him a bit worriedly after Doc’s reaction. “You good?”

Doc’s beating heart calms slightly and he sighs. He turns around completely to have his full attention on his friend. “Yeah, I’m good. What’s up?”

Ren smiles and nods. He clicks his tongue and looks around, eyeing the village he’s currently building. “Just wanted to say hi. The building is coming along nicely!”

“Thanks man. It’s killing me a bit though.” As Doc speaks he stretches out his back. A bit of relief comes from the few pops he hears.

“Yeah, ‘cause we need rest.” He ignores whoever is speaking in his head, so Ren doesn’t witness him talking to himself.

“Why’s that?”

“Well,” Doc starts and he turns back around to look at his build so far. There’s another block to the left that’s out of place that he had missed before. “Only got one hand at the moment. Needa to Decked Out runs after this too.”

Ren hums, “When’s the last time you slept?”

Doc shrugs. He hasn’t been keeping track, but he does know that if he did check his phantom kill count it would be up a few numbers.

“And the last time you took a break?” Ren questions, raising an eyebrow as he crosses his arms.

Again, Doc just shrugs. It’s easy to lose track of time, especially when building.

“Dude,” Ren says, an exasperated laugh tilting his words. “You gotta rest. Not good for you to be working so hard continuously.”

Doc knows this, obviously. Still, he huffs and rolls his eyes as a response.

“I know that shoulder of yours is killin ‘ya.”

Curse Ren for knowing him a little too well. The voices in Doc’s mind begin to agree with Ren, somehow it turns into a chant of sorts to try and get him to go and rest. Doc isn’t the kind to fall into peer pressure, but, well. He’s tired, sue him.

“Fine, fine. I’ll go and rest. But I’m coming back in an hour!”

Ren laughs at him, “Sure dude. See ‘ya soon!”

Ren takes off in a blast of fireworks. He disappears over the edge of the perimeter and Doc watches until he’s gone. Definitely not to procrastinate having to go back and rest. No, no.

After a minute or so of just standing around, Doc unloads his blocks back into the shulkers and flies back over to his home. He unclips his elytra from his back and shrugs it off, hanging it on the wall near the entrance. As soon as his eyes fall onto his bed, Doc’s fatigue hits him a little harder. He decides to not put it off any longer and goes to lay down.

It doesn’t take long before he falls asleep. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on who you are, he does not get up and back to work after an hour. Doc ends up sleeping through the whole night and wakes up feeling more refreshed than he has in awhile.

<3

hopefully i did okay! this is my first time writing doc, and i don’t watch much of his content so i hope i wrote him well enough :3 it was rlly fun to write tho!

[megabuild]

HIIII LAST LIFE ETHO PLAYLIST . VERY NOT NORMAL 👍 pls braindump abt 2-3 songs (u choose) ^_^!!!!!!

HAI lets not be normal. Together 💙

hate me soon - yellow ostrich this is the one song on the playlist that i think is the most etho specifically rather than etho's feelings on ethubs and surrounding stuff. i think a lot about how the alliances he was in during 3l were kept very at arm's length and then jump to ll where he teams with bdubs instantly and then lives with team best until their collapse... with any alliance etho is in for the life series i think there is that constant feeling of "this wont last", not because of the way the game functions, but because he won't allow himself to get close to others and expects to be cast out or leave before the alliance gets the chance to crumble. this tied with "i'm gonna love you soon when you're out of reach" / "just kidding bdubs, i love you" like cmon

every night my teeth are falling out - the antlers i fear this one is my own personal "this probably doesn't fit i just like the song a lot" pick but i have a vivid pmv in my head to the end where it keeps going "try it, try it, get your jaw off the floor". because like. that is so etho to me. he's the survivor bro!! even if he doesn't want to he just keeps getting back up and trying and trying and picking his jaw off the floor!!

true love waits - radiohead this one is in here for very very personal reasons that i shall not disclose BUT iwdo think it's quite llethubs in the sense of like. the admittance that it's not going to work and it's probably going to be horrible for you both but you also don't want to go... it's just got the exact sort of spacey and horrid feeling where someone is leaving and you know it's for the best but also you can't picture your life without them. that's late stage llethubs to me condensed. mwah

[trenphimdang]

SỐNG SAI by The Flob 

i have already spotlighted one of the flob's songs but i would be remiss to not write about this one as well (perhaps, i should have made an artist spotlight post instead, but in the spirit of this song, no regrets!).

"SỐNG SAI," or "wrong way of living," is a song about rejecting social standards and embracing the life you want to live. in the true ethos of pop punk, this song questions the role of authority in the making of a societal norm. the song is tongue and cheek, playful yet, as the lyrics will soon reveal, the song is also hypercritical of normality, an all encompassing "right way of living," and restriction to social standards.

the song starts, "Sáng nay bước ra đường sao trong lòng thấy lạ, Tóc tai chẳng vuốt keo xem trong gương như tổ quạ," or "This morning I woke up and felt weird, my hair is messy and when I look in the mirror it is like a crow's nest." these lines evoke a hyperawareness of self, a self-consciousness of how one presents themselves. it evokes the all too relatable sense of wanting to fit in and "present well" to the world. but what i love is the line right before the chorus: "Miễn sao con thấy vui thì cuộc đời thấy nhẹ," or "as long as you are happy then life will feel light." it is this liberation from feeling restricted by society that is so rich. i want to live freely, i want to express freely, i want to present freely. the chorus is repetitive, repeating the title of the song: Mặc kệ họ bảo mình sống sai, sống sai, Vì cuộc đời mình chẳng của ai, của ai, Mặc kệ họ bảo mình sống sai, sống sai, Nên quan tâm chi nhiều nè?," or "Who cares if they say I am living wrong because my life is not anyone's but mine. Who cares if they say I am living wrong, why do I have to care?" when i listen to this song, i am reminded of my own free will. it is difficult navigating this busy expansive world, where you at times feel drowned out by so many people. the world is unforgiving and the world is unsafe. the world will judge and the world will hate. but the life i wish to live, does not harm anyone, it is a life i was given to use and i will use it freely.

i end this post with a question: what will you do with your life?

afterword

i hope this post encourages you check out The Flob. if not, i hope this post offers you some insight into the diverse musical landscape in viet nam. 

as always, thank you for reading. i greatly appreciate your time and attention. 

with warmth,

phim

p.s all these songs can be found under the “phim’s playlist” tab on the homepage. the link will redirect you to a youtube playlist :)

[doomedandstoned]

PDX Sludge Beast VIRAL TYRANT Cuts Loose New Music Video

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Billy Goate

There's a new voice of doom echoing from dank halls all around the Rose City. Met VIRAL TYRANT, dubbed "a new breed of sonic, sludge-laden force from the mixed temperate rainforest and concrete jungle of Portland, Oregon."

Tapping into the Dungeons & Dragons and horror films, extreme metal and video games for inspiration, the band rails against "dehumanization and group think" with a potent blend of doom, sludge, thrash, grunge, prog, and even black metal. Let's be clear: this isn't an album covering different genres, but one unique strain of metal "woven cohesively together to forge a sound of complex, yet grounded blackened, psychedelic sludge."

Today, Doomed & Stoned brings you the third single from the band's upcoming album, 'Vultures Like You' (2023). "A Savage, Ensnared" introduces us to a place where there's no justice, no peace, no mercy, and is so beautifully accompanied by a music video from Dark Sprite Video

Viral Tyrant bassist Casey Martin reflects on the meaning of the song:

When I approached the idea of lyrics, I started with the way the song sounded. It reminded me of this lone warrior/gunslinger sorta character trope and ran with it. It was approaching the elections at the time and the BLM protests were winding down here in Portland. I wanted to take the opportunity to write a protest song.

I always thought that we need more messages of revolution and catharsis interwoven into our popular culture that reveal the truths of the world and not just a bunch of songs so focused on ego and shallow ethos. I wanted to instill a mood of pessimism and angst. Of frustration and anger. Of cathartic vengeance for freedom and human rights.

I imagined a disembodied narrator like in the Conan The Barbarian film telling a tale that keeps repeating time and time again. The Everyman character of the song is inspired by the struggles of the disenfranchised and the working class from whom imperialism keeps the truth buried.

Viral Tyrant's brand of heaviness pierces deep into the modern psyche, with razor sharp riffs, gruff vocals, and tales not soon forgotten. Vultures Like You comes out July 21st on multiple formats via Ripple Music (pre-order here). Stick it on a playlist with High on Fire, Phantom Hound, Serial Hawk, and Cough.

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[shepscapades]

"because [Tango] is not well after Double Life"

hold up did i miss something??? the Life Series is canon??

[screams in brainrot]

HEHE yep!! You can look through the [#dbhc tango] tag and find a few drawings/comics I did for double life! There's also a lot of last life stuff for ethubs in etho and bdubs' tags :>

[epicfranb]

6, 8, and 10? :D

6 - favourite server event?

Idk about event but when i saw this question, i thought it also includes story lines - and if that's the case, it's gotta be Bdubs and Doc being neighbors in the beginning of season 7 :D easily the funniest arc ever

8 - what hermit’s building style do you like most? and does it influence/resemble yours?

Etho! Etho!! Etho!!! I like how analytic he is about building. He has a way of doing it, he thinks it through but he also improvises, and he can explain it like an instruction ‼️‼️ that's so awesome of him. I like his way of building in "patches" (i think that's the word he used?) but also how his buildings largely consist of patterns. And ofc the "a useful building can also be pretty"

Honorary mention to Pearl, i really like her color palettes and awesome shapes :D i wanna build interiors and terraforming like her!!!

10 - how do you go about watching hermitcraft? (do you wait until the end of the week and binge everyone’s eps? do you use youtube’s speed settings? do you listen while doing something else? etc.)

I try to watch episodes as they come out, especially cuz i watch like 15 hermits. I have an organized mcyt watching playlist so i always know how much i need to catch up on. I stopped watching hc almost altogether lately, and there's a MASSIVE backlog of Cub's videos that i have there... Scary stuff. I like watching them while i pay Minecraft, especially Cub and Doc (but i think i might stop watching Cub cuz that's just too much 😭😭) I almost never put Bdubs's and Etho's videos in the background, THEY REQUIRE MY FULL ATTENTION. Whenever these two have new videos, i watch them as soon as possible. I started using speed setting only very recently, and i use PipePipe so i have a lot of control over the exact speed :3c 1.2x is the most comfortable for me, i now watch pretty much everything with this speed. I used to watch recaps weekly but i haven't watched them in a while.

Hermitcraft asks hiiii :3

[foxeroni]

Hi op I am here to infodump :D here are some fun highlights of the season so far (kinda joel centic cause he's my favorite). Categorized into big events, individual hermit stuff, and running jokes.

Events:

-Shops now require hermit permits. Basically the right to sell stuff in a shop, everyone got 5 semi random ones. However, some hermits wanted changes to theirs or new ones altogether, so grian has created the permit office to resolve issues. This has not worked, as it mostly just causes problems on purpose and makes people angry. (Exept on April fools where most stuff got resolved)

-the hermits (well. Most of them. And jimmy and martyn) met up IRL to do a charity stream with gamers outreach (which provides portable videogame carts to children in hospitals). They raised like? 800k? There were two days of streams and hermits auctioning off various items (from old merch to custom commisioned paintings to grians pottery). They were also given nerf guns halfway through (also autioned off). Most went home afterwards, but some went on a roadtrip (discussed on the imp n skizz podcast)

-pearl, tango and etho have set up a postal service using extremely complicated Redstone. Each hermit now gets a mailbox where they can send stuff to each other, using shulker boxes and custom designed stamps.

Hermit episodes:

-grian is obsessed with fishing. Man took like 10 episodes trying to fish a mending book and became obsessed. (And acquired a snail)

-gem is also ocean themed, but is going for a spooky costal town theme. She's already built a really cool lighthouse and skull-mountain thing

-joel smallishbeans has joined and has already built like 10 buildings in his Japanese inspired cyberpunk city.

-bdubs is at it again with his absolutely beautiful landscapes and buildings. Full custom forest already, it's amazing

-mumbo has become somewhat of a builder lately. His new formula is drawing concept art of a build and then building it, while adding in some lore.

-cub is still doing insane experiments like spending 20 hours mining to see weather strip miming or caving is better. He now sells fireworks (the regular kind not even the rocks) and is making a custom one for every hermit

Bits/running jokes:

-Joel and etho being in denial of their obsession with each other

-Joel releasing a spotify playlist titled 'neck kisses' (bit from the decked out 2 stream) and then telling tumblr to stop 'overanalyzing' it

-grian being obsessed with fishing

-gem not knowing what the Death Star was and describing it as a 'big circle' (scar was very disappointed)

-a large pixel art statue of perry the platypus has been showing up in random places on the server (I think stress was the initiator)

-we don't talk about sword fight club, which is a club stared by joel where he pvps people under his base (soon to be added: trident fight club at gems base)

-that there will inevitably be a war between joel and bdubs over either horses or ethos love

Hope this helps! This was fun to write lol (I can also clarify stuff or answer questions)

tryyyying to watch hermitcraft s10 recap. PLS I WABT TO GET BACK INTO IT SO BAD!!! but i have such bad attention span....

if anyone sees this, feel free to dump some lore on me :)

[tunastime]

I request…. 68! Also hai :3

hello!! :3 you got feels like a lie, which I really love because it's on Tango's SEN playlist!! it's for when he decides he wants to finally experience emotions. which is a lot for him! ummm, so here!

(425 words)

Tango blinks.

His vision fuzzes with update notifications. He dismisses notices he recognizes: firmware, firewall, bits and pieces of data collection packets. He briefly skims the update on his tactile sensors before he lets the room come into full view. He feels different in a way that was entirely expected given the precedent. Heavier, maybe, or more solid. There are new components beyond just the emotional core—new programming, linking touch to emotional capacitors, the capacitors themselves, new eye ducts, new facial recognition. Each came with their own quirks that would settle with time, with repetition, but Tango sits slowly upright from where he was resting, feeling the weight of the world settle over him.

He doesn’t realize his face is damp until Etho’s hand squeezes his shoulder. Etho’s face swims into view as he feels the firm, warm touch, Etho’s eyebrows furrowed in concern. Tango’s eyes search his face. There’s an impossible weight in the center of his chest, much too heavy to be anything mechanical. He tries to inhale a cooling breath and finds it does nothing. The space of his sternum hurts. It aches, it burns, like live wires, like he can’t possibly wrench the pain from his chest.

He’s crying. His hand comes to wipe his face, and it only makes the tears come faster.

“Tango,” Etho says, soothing his thumb over the crest of his shoulder.

“I don’t know why I’m crying,” Tango says softly, voice barely hitting a whisper. “But I can’t seem to stop.”

He tries to blink through them, watching Etho’s eyes search his face, mouth curved sharply down. 

“Must’a had something left over, huh? Maybe a lot?” Etho asks. Tango nods, blinking hard. “It happens sometimes. Your regulators should start managing that first wave soon.”

“Right,” Tango says, sounding much smaller than he intended. He brings his hand up to wipe his face, feeling the tears trickle over nonetheless. 

Etho sighs, face softening as he does, and the warm hand on Tango’s arm squeezes once more before Tango feels himself tugged forward. He falls limply against Etho’s shoulder. Etho wraps his arms around Tango as he does, hands drawing down his back, and Tango thinks he gets it now. The comfort is an immediate seize on his heart that isn’t a heart. He sags into Etho’s arms, face pressing into the hollow of his shoulder as he does. Etho squeezes, holding him tightly.

“It’s hard,” Etho says softly. “We’ll wait it out until then.”

Tango nods into his shoulder. He’s hoping this will get a little easier, soon.

(spotify wrapped ask meme)

[majickth]

Hermit's Hollow Masterpost

What is Hermit's Hollow?

Hermit's Hollow is a mysterious small town AU centered around the titular town of Hermit's Hollow. It's is heavily inspired by works such as Twin Peaks, Welcome to Nightvale, TAZ: Amnesty, Gravity Falls, and other similar media. The story, while not always in chronological order, is told through transcripts, recovered photographs, journal entries, and -- occasionally -- strange puzzles strewn about. Basically, there's weird things in the trees, the town may be almost be literally alive, and the weirdest thing at the local tourist trap is its owner.

What's the story?

Grian is a former journalist with a tarnished reputation. With nothing else left to lose, he accepts an invitation from his sister to start anew in the sleepy mountainside town of Hermit's Hollow. What appears to be a peaceful escape quickly reveals itself to be far more, however, as soon Grian is embroiled in the mystery of a missing scientist, a charming tourist trap owner, and a town that's far more than it seems. Now, armed with only a Polaroid camera and his intuition, he's determined to uncover the town's secrets -- for better or for worse.

Find the AU here: #hermits hollow au.

Official Playlist

Got some art/writing/anything you wanna share? @ me and be sure to tag it! I love seeing all the cool stuff people make :D

Art:

Grian + Pearl (Official Character Sheets)

Scar + Cub (Official Character Sheets)

Grian and Pearl Reunion (Comic)

Dead is Better - Ex and Cleo (Comic)

First Time at the the Diner

Strange Things Happen For No Reason

Take a Picture

Scar (Doodles)

Etho (Doodles)

Gem (Doodles)

Scarland [by @fadedandromeda]

Doc [by @rainoftime3]

Cleo [by @rainoftime3]

Welcome to Hermit's Hollow [by @suffer-my-beloved-mutuals]

Etho at the Pass N Gas (Comic) [by @domithekingoffools]

Fics:

Not Very Ideal, Is It? (Tumblr) [by @roxie-roo]

Day 2 (Tumblr) [by @roxie-roo]

Inbetween - Etho (Tumblr) [by @eagle-warri]

A Hollow Mystery (AO3) [by @myths-gay-and-random-bullshit]

Cosplay:

Grian [by @myst3ry-pl4nt]

Info:

General Character Overview

The Hollow is Weird

The Lunar Express

The Diner, The Facility, and The Past

Doc

Joe Hills

Impulse

Bdubs

Keralis

xB

Xisuma/Ex

Mumbo

Etho

Tango

Zedaph

False

Wels

Hermit's Hollow Recap (KHHR)

NOTE: this masterpost is incomplete. If I am missing anything, lmk and I will add it as soon as I am able.