#JOCO

[p0kern1ght]

redraw of simmons as my favorite promo image of jonathan coulton 🍊

[theneptunenymph]

Me chilling in the jacuzzi on my vacation 🏝

[geekysteven]

[skullcrusher-mountainn]

OOH MY FUCKING GOD I JUST FOUND THIS GOES INSANE..... . .

[thegentlemancollects]

[kuiperror]

some more of my homemade blinkies ! credit is not necessary but appreciated

[occultbooks]

friend searching; here r some things I like

movies (comedy, horror, and sci-fi specifically)

animal crossing

the monkey island franchise

rock collecting/geology

primates (namely gorillas)

musical theater

filmmaking (I'm going into my film major next month)

homestar runner

smiling friends

smosh

music gets its own category

they might be giants

system of a down

fall out boy

jonathan coulton

weird al

ben folds/ben folds five

barenaked ladies

paul simon/simon & garfunkel

the aquabats!

bob dylan

CAKE

and lots more.

meow sorry for annoying post I just like meeting friends

[8bitandbey0nd]

Happy First of May to all the Jonathan Coulton fans out there

[good-morning-tucson]

You like Jonathan Coulton? His early work was a little too rock for my taste. But when Thing A Week 1 came out in '06, I think he really came into his own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Paul & Storm, but I think Jonathan has a far more sad, geeky sense of humor. In '06, Jonathan released this; Thing A Week 2, his most accomplished album. I think his undisputed masterpiece is "Re: Your Brains", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about a zombie trying to eat his former coworker's brains. It's also a personal statement about Jonathan Coulton himself. HEY, ASPEN!

[zaizaizain]

Meet my 5 personalities

[earthisgreat]

I'm not usually much for posting my face on tumblr, but I love how silly this photo is.

[rilin]

Hello obscure JoCo fans!

As promised in this post, I'll be sharing a couple WIPS for some of my Jonathan Coulton Tarot Card project! :D

I've currently got about 10 wips done of the 22 in the whole major arcana, so I'm pretty stoked about that!! I'll share a couple of them here for starters! (I also don't want to reveal the layout I've designed for the cards yet either as it's all still a WIP - I'm not a graphic designer at heart, so it's been a struggle, but I think it's more or less there! :O) Tarot meanings below are pulled from BiddyTarot! -------

The Fool UPRIGHT: Beginnings, innocence, spontaneity, a free spirit

REVERSED: Holding back, recklessness, risk-taking Song Choice: Wake Up (Solid State)

The image is referenced from the Solid State graphic novel and shows a view from the 'safe' zone, looking out onto the barren but free landscape. The album as a whole details a semi-hopeless future where technology and social media values have dominated, with both the two protagonists learning to break free in their own ways. The values of The Fool card definitely hold especially true to the protag in the song Wake Up - Future Bob has such a strong sense of innocent curiosity about what lies beyond the walls IMHO! -------

The Hermit UPRIGHT: Soul-searching, introspection, being alone, inner guidance

REVERSED: Isolation, loneliness, withdrawal Song Choice: I Crush Everything Now if ever there were a JoCo song choice about loneliness and withdrawl, it'd be about the poor Giant Squid. He desperately wants to touch and admire the boats that float above him but keeps destroying them, so he's learning to let go and hold back, even though it hurts. Poor guy! I tried to incorporate some of the classic lantern theming in the OG cards with the boat light and Mr Squids giant yellow eye too, as well as of course the moon, which seems to crop up in a good many tarot.

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Death

UPRIGHT: Endings, change, transformation, transition

REVERSED: Resistance to change, personal transformation, inner purging Song Choice: Blue Sunny Day Oh I can't tell you how much I love this song, tarot or no tarot, lol. I went through a GOOD number of choices for settling on BSD! (Spoilers, one was 'Still Alive' because it fit well and it was funny in an ironic way, but I ended up using that for a different card!) The themes fit so perfectly - the song is about a lonely vampire who is living in the past still, but ultimately the world ends up being too much for him and he has one final look at a beautiful blue sunny day... I also had a really strong visual idea in my head for it that I think I managed to get out okay in the WIP! It doesn't really include many of the OG tarot design motifs, but I find both the sun and moon to be heavily incorporated in a lot of em. ----- I'm looking forward to sharing more WIPs soon, and sharing my thoughts on my choices! :O

[skullcrusher-mountainn]

also. i know a lot of joco fans also like tmbg, so just a heads up the 17 year old who talked about nsfw every day with me when i was 12. her account is called @/boys-restroom

yes you can DM me for the document of course, but its a pretty rough subject for me so just. try and be patient with me ^_^ again this was over two years ago at this point, but i still feel it should be said.

[thegentlemancollects]

[bells12]

I saw JoCo last night!

[puppybearuniverse]

hm. i think not only are Shop Vac and Alone at Home related. i think Ikea plays into it somehow too. something about the praise of chain stores (Applebees&Ikea&Starbucks) but also the being alone while being together in the first two songs, and the candle significance in Alone at Home and Ikea. then the little line about divorced men and small apartments with the overall absent veneer, the refusing to think about or talk about whats going on.