#overgrown garden by beetlebug

[once-more-with-anxiety]

i hate getting sad over character deaths because I. what the fuck do you mean I'm literally sobbing and clutching my chest over a fucking npc

[gumy-shark]

they find each other at their lowest point and decide to team up and stick together- not because they want to, but because neither of them trusts the other to not hurt people.

aria is hurting and lonely and eager to do the right thing. she is vulnerable because of her lack of memory, mourning a past and friends and family and relationships she doesn’t even get to remember, and dislikes anith because anith is nothing but rough and dismissive and bitter towards someone who is just trying to reach out.

and on the flipside, anith is hurting and lonely and lashing out, seeking revenge because it’s the only thing peb can do. peb is vulnerable because of emmyn’s betrayal, and protects pebself from that vulnerability by becoming bitter and closed off. anith dislikes aria because here is this person who is just a Bit too much like emmyn, who casually messes around with powers no one understands, who prods and pokes trying to get around anith’s walls, and who can honestly be pretty annoying!

but then neither of them leaves the other. first it’s out of distrust. then of spite. but slowly they grow to respect each other, learning more about each other’s pasts (or lack thereof).

anith envies aria’s easy openness, the way she can make friends wherever she goes, and be terrifyingly vulnerable with people she barely knows. peb wonders at how aria can carry so much weight and still be so free, when anith is still so weighed down by pebs past.

and at the same time, aria admires anith’s determination and drive- but also pebs growing willingness to help people, the way peb fights back against the lumina’s corruption even while being part of it. she is amazed at how anith could have gone through so much and still not crumble, when aria’s strength of will ends right about when she doesn’t want to do something.

as they continue on, they become true friends, able to really lean on and help one another heal. and it’s just. augh. my ocs man

thinks about aria and anith again.

[ennaku-sirri-da]

Smile For Me Week 2025: Day 4: For You/ For Me ( s4m AU X RGU )

[ ID: Traditionally painted fanart scanned digitally and edited. Its a reference to Adolescence of Utena the anime movie but with Smile For Me game characters, again from my AU of it, Roseverse. This piece has Tiff Webber and Jerafina Tabouli as Anthy and Utena respectively.

Tiff raises an axe over Jerafina, who lays at her feet, eyes closed. Tiffs eyes are obscured by her pink glasses. Her hair flows slightly in the wind. There is a red outline of a fallen body under Jerafina. The background is black, with white patches everywhere showing lyrics in various sketch colors from Overgrown Garden the song by beetlebug. The background and lyrics have a slight grainy effect.

Tiff has dark brown skin here, and wears her hair in box braids with curly strands added in. She also has red lipstick. A yellow crown rests atop her head, and she has round epaulettes with teal tassels. She has yellow earrings. Her dress alternates in red and very light pink, almost white color from top to bottom. An extra transparent layer poofs out over the sleek dress like a ball gown, in the same pinkish white color. Jerafina is shorter, also fat here, and has lighter purple skin made up of scales. Her hair is an imitation of jellyfish tentacles and look like purple and red curls. She wears a black and white blazer that has red lines outlining at certain points like the shoulders and legs, with brown shoes. The silver ring with the rose sign rests on her clawed finger. End ID]

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Built up from a mash of two screenshots:

[ ID: Screenshots from Adolescence of Utena with Anthy raising the axe in the first one and Utena laying on the floor in the second one. End ID]

And the red outlines of the fallen duellists from the Black Rose arc, representing inevitable failure(?)

Mostly I just wanted to draw something edgy bUTTTT

I interpreted this scene as basically Anthy wanting to hurt before she can be hurt herself-- maybe in the context of the other part of the prompt " For You ", it can mean "saving" the other person from your innermost ugly messy self too? You can take your own interpretation, I mean that's what this anime is all about.

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This is probably the cleanest painting I've ever done HA.

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@smileformeweek

[cornbreee]

one of my favourite comfort songs!!

song is "Overgrown Garden" by Beetlebug

[selfspinninglies]

Random lftpd d sketch that I'm not gonna do anything else something something slowly becoming used to the atmosphere of the prison dimension conveyed by grey tones while their physical form degrades and their brain tries to adjust something something

[that1randomnerd]

"I am the righteous hand of God. I am the devil that you forgot."

"Get a load of this monster, he doesn't know how to communicate. His mind is in a different place can everybody please give him a little bit of space. Get a load of this train wreck, his hair's a mess and he doesn't know who he is yet. But little do we know the stars welcome him with open arms."

"You placed a crown of marigolds on my head. And then you said as you tried to pull your bloody hands away, "I'm never gonna leave you behind someday. With the daisies and the bluebells weeping by the way. Because I love you, and I would do anything. I would do anything, anything at all."

"Hold my hand tight, we'll make it through another night. I still get a little scared of something new, but I feel a little safer with you. Falling doesn't feel so bad when I know you're falling this way too."

Props to whoever reading this if you recognize the songs. Note I am including names and artists in the tags, but I think this'd be a fun little game

do you ever get attached to like one line or phrase from a song and it holds so much meaning to you but no one else understands how powerful those few words are to you

[meatshoelace]

Todays song of the day is... overgrown garden by beetlebug!! this is such a silly and sweet song i love it so much <3

[spectrophobiia]

You placed a crown of marigolds on my head And then you said As you tried to pull your bloody hands away

“I'm never gonna leave you behind someday In the daisies and the bluebells weeping by the way Because I love you, and I would do anything I would do anything, anything at all”

I wonder when you left me behind that day Asleep beneath the willow withering away If you were okay Because I would do anything for you

[forsaken-headcanons]

the sheer speed in which the inbox filled up again again.. I guess Forsaken really took after Roblox’s old slogan: ‘Powering Imagination’ 😅

but erm

songs I think fit some of the characters 😅

007n7 - ‘i wish i had more time with you’ by ‘far’ and ‘It’s Been So Long’ by ‘The Living Tombstone’ (coughs and nervously side eyes all the ‘Now That You’re Gone’ 007n7 animatics 👀)

Noob - ‘Overgrown Garden’ by ‘Beetlebug’

Azure - ‘Feelin’ So Matryoshka’ by ‘The Scary Jokes’ and ‘Honey I’m Home’ by ‘Ghost and Pals’

Two Time - ‘Lower One’s Eyes’ by ‘Nuyuri’ (and flower) and erm… ‘Two Time’ by ‘Jack Stauber’ 😅

Azure & Two Time - ‘Through Patches of Violets’ by Mili

Betrayed 1x(^4) - uhh… ‘Necromancin Dancin’ by Bear Ghost and ‘Shadow’ by Livingston

BSOD - ‘Writing on the Wall’ by Will Stetson

Chance - ‘RISK, RISK, RISK!’ and ‘BAD LUCK!’ by ‘Jhariah’ as well as erm… ‘Roll or Die’ by Rockit Music (shhh, it’s definitely an original choice, coughcough)

Taph - ‘Imaginary Friend’ by ‘Antony Kos’ (definitely not based off of their parasocial right hand person view of themselves nope nuh uh no sir-ree 😥)

Elliot - uhhhhHhHh… ‘Baby Hotline’ by ‘Jack Stauber’ and ‘Top of My School’ by ‘Katherine Lynn-Rose’ ?

I sadly do not know too many of the characters that well 😔

(also, good job on getting the asks as low as you have 👏👏👏)

-BSOD Anon

We here at Forsaken Headcanons strive to provide an outlet for those wanting to express their creativity. We are in fact, powering imagination!

That was weird. Anyways. All of these songs are so strangely fitting for each character. Make this a playlist, now!!/silly

[oobbbear]

May I offer the song Overgrown Garden by beetlebug for OK?

Song seems, to me, about abandonment issues and using 'love' as a pretense.

Very telling in the call back from the chorus, instead of 'I would do anything for you', the one loved victim says 'I would do anything at all'.

Sorry for the ramble

This song is so Worm and Ok coded (sobs) I know you suggested this song for Ok but I can only think of worm humming it to her she would so do anything for her literally anything

You’re going onto my character playlist

[youngmanwithaskull]

ANTHONY RAPP & ADAM PASCAL AS MARK COHEN & ROGER DAVIS (RENT OBC) // RENT (RENT) // EURIPIDES (ANNE CARSON TRANSLATION) // ANTHONY RAPP & ADAM PASCAL AS MARK COHEN & ROGER DAVIS (RENT 2005) // GOODBYE LOVE (RENT) // TV (BILLIE EILISH) // ANTHONY RAPP & ADAM PASCAL AS MARK COHEN & ROGER DAVIS (RENT 2005) // OVERGROWN GARDEN (BEETLEBUG) // SLOW, SLOW DEATH (LOS CAMPESINOS!) // WHAT YOU OWN (RENT)

MARK COHEN & ROGER DAVIS

[anxietygremlin7]

Among the Wildflowers and the Lilies

So maybe Scar missed a few punches, a few hits. Maybe he stumbled a bit over a mound of sand and lost his balance. So what? He knew Grian was going to win anyways.

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The Cactus Ring; we all know it and we all have a love-hate relationship with it. So here's my take on what went down inside that prickly round shape (can you tell I'm having trouble disconnecting from the comedy for this very not-comedy fic?)

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Hello there! Welcome to my first Desert Duo fic :)

This is not to say that they haven't been consuming my brain for an excessively long time, I've just never really written anything for them before this. (I wrote a very rough draft of this months ago, but with Wild Life and one of my friend's watching Third Life for the first time, I was brought back to this thing so I polished it up and here it is!)

Anyways, this fic (if you couldn't tell by the slightly strange title) is a song fic! I listened to Overgrown Garden by Beetlebug (you should totally listen to it while reading this fic) and just couldn't get the first few lines of this fic out of my head; so I wrote 'em down and (after much editing) here we are!

Ao3 link if you'd prefer:

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So maybe Scar missed a few punches, a few hits. Maybe he stumbled a bit over a mound of sand and lost his balance. So what? He knew Grian was going to win anyways, even if he claimed it was a double victory they both knew it couldn’t be, only one of them could win this game, he just wanted to make it easier. It was better this way. For both of them. Maybe Scar had known, some small part of him had always known, that if it came down to it, a battle between the two of them, that Grian was going to win. So what, if from the moment they met in this new world and Grian promised his first life to Scar, Scar had also, without saying it, pledged his last two lives to Grian? So what.

Maybe Scar had always feared that Grian was going to go back on his promise, that he was going to leave. Especially after his first death in the ruins of the desert, his vow then fulfilled. But Grian stayed, despite his joking protest, despite what should have been fear around a Red Life, despite something that should have meant nothing. Despite everything, he stayed. And Scar could only hope it meant more than nothing to him too.

And hope he did as he punched and dogged and backed into a cactus. As he missed and stumbled and fell. As he smiled and laughed and joked. As he slowly died for the third time and for the first time.

Grian laughed too, tears running down his face, his eyes shining, black glinting almost purple in the bright sunlight. He smiled back at Scar, even though it seemed to hurt, jaw clenched and teeth grinding. Scar’s smile brightened, as much as it could at the moment, as he tried not to hope too much. Hope for things he wasn’t sure he could ever have. But he had had them; a hand in his in the dark of the night, a feathery wing shoved in his face in the morning, shared laughter while laying traps. So maybe it wasn’t too much to hope. Just this once. To hope for something that he could maybe have.

 And as Grian cried and Scar’s health bar declined, he began to cry too, smile never leaving his face, sliver of hope never leaving his heart.

Scar was lucky, he knew that. He had been given time and space to build a life with Grian, however strange it was, to spend time with the man who was his whole world. He didn’t regret any of it, not the killing, not the dying, not the betraying, nothing, because he got to do it all with Grian, side-by-side as they ran through a desert, tripping on piles of sand and laughing as they fell. Though, maybe Scar did have one regret, but even that wasn’t too bad. He just hadn’t said those three words to Grian, those three little words that can mean so little but also so much.

Now there was no time, or at least very little of it, so Scar planned to make the most of what he had. As he became weaker and weaker, red tinting the edges of his vision, blood dripping off the backs of his knuckles, he tripped over a rock, falling onto the ground. Grian fell to his knees beside him, tears falling from his face dampening the sand around them. Some of the tears landed on Scar, tracing darker paths through the dust coating his skin, tiny little lines like cracks in the untouched ground of a desert.

“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, Scar,” Grian muttered, voice cracking, sounding just as broken as Scar felt. Everything hurt, his limbs felt heavy with lead, his cuts and scrapes brushed painfully against the sand, and yet he felt numb to it all, eyes focused on Grian’s own scrapes and bruises littering his beautiful face, creased in pain.

“I’m sorry too,” Scar replied, voice weak. He still smiled through the pain, looking up at his Grian. At his world. At the man he had devoted his life too; all of his lives too. 

Grian just cried more, shuffling to bring Scar into something like a hug, his clipped wings wrapping around them; his head buried in Scar's shoulder, muttering apologies between tears.

Grian’s red sweater was in tatters, draping across his body like poorly wound bandages. It was hard to see the blood on it, red blending together to the point where it was hard to tell what was clean and what was stained. All of it was stained. Scar knew, he knew what each drop of blood on that once pristine red sweater was. Each new stain a step closer to victory and whatever that meant–whatever came with it. 

Scar was only sorry he couldn't get to be there with Grian. To help him take off the tatters of his sweater. Maybe he would try to mend it, but Scar had never been very good at sewing or knitting, so maybe they would get him a new one. One without all the stains and the blood and the pain that had sunk into these few tatters Grian had left.

“Hey, Grian,” Scar’s voice was weak, barely a whisper, as he struggled to get the words past his uncooperating lips, but Grian still heard him, Grian always heard him, “I never got the chance to tell you this but I think I can now.” 

Grian looked up and their eyes met. Scar reached up with all of his little remaining strength and cupped Grian’s face with his hand. The touch was gentle, Scar always tried to be gentle even if he wasn’t sure he could be. Grian deserved it, he deserved gentle after everything he had been through. The blood on his palms stained Grian’s cheeks, though neither of them cared, red had become their life. Another tear fell from Grian’s eye and landed on his cheek; Scar brushed it away with a barely-there touch of his thumb.

 “I love you,” the emission made Scar feel lighter, or maybe that was just the blood loss. It felt like he had finally done what he had been meant to do. Three little words, a few movements of the mouth, nearly nothing, and yet to Scar, it meant everything. 

Grian seemed to break at his words, holding Scar even tighter and turning to cry into the hand still gently resting on his cheek. “Please-please…don’t make this harder,” he said through tears. Scar just did his best to hold him as his life slowly drained.

“Just…just thought…you should…know,” Scar forced himself to speak one last time, cracked lips pulling apart, pain consuming his entire being.

And as Scar’s hand fell from Grian’s face, and his breath stopped, and his heartbeat slowed to nothing, he barely heard Grian mutter something through his growing sobs.

“I love you too.”

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Hello again, so nice of you to drop by! (totally not like you just read smth else written by me lol) :)

Hopefully you enjoyed that, even if it did make you wanna punch me in the face (please get in line, I have a few friends who would definitely need to go first (you know who you are, love you guys<3))

I love Desert Duo and I love Third Life; it has my heart (even tho Wild Life is shaping up to be an amazing season and Desert Duo is so back!)

Anyways, thanks for reading!

[emocabin10boy]

drew the OG doomed yaoi instead of making animations :D

[i-got-poisenality]

OK OK I SHOULD PROBABLY CALM DOWN WITH MY NEWSIES AU BUT ALSO I REFUSE TO DO THAT

ON THIS TOPIC: CRUTCHTRACK CENTRIC APOCALYPSE AU

(the idea for this came from a) a dream i had, b) overgrown garden by beetlebug, and c) current political events in the united states)

idk what kind of apocalypse this is, whether it’s zombies or what have you, but the main point is that things have gone to shit and the newsies are one of the groups trying to survive

fair warning, most of this is raw material from my dream so it’s gonna sound strange

basing the first plot point off the strange dream that i had last night (i was Race in this dream btw lol), the newsies are camping out in an abandoned mansion. i’m gonna say this was Pulitzer’s mansion but he’s dead now so Kath claimed it in the name of newsies. anyways, somehow something happens that starts a countdown to the mansion blowing up (i’ll refine this later but i liked the idea of dramatically splitting the party), so people booked it, everyone was shouting to get out and three main groups form based on who goes through which exit. one is lead by Davey, one by Sarah, and the last (our pov group) is lead by Jack and notably contains Kath Race Crutchie and Les

our pov group ends up needing to use this weird tunnel system to get out, Race is taking up the rear of the group mainly because he’s trying to make sure Crutchie stays with them and doesn’t fall behind (not in an ableist way, he’s just concerned that his best friend/love interest isn’t the fastest and that could result in actual death)

anyways, they get outside and run to some shelter behind the walls of a ruined house

but Les isn’t there

Crutchie ends up rushing back to the tunnel that’s gonna explode soon on pure instinct to try to save Les

all that the rest of the group can do is wait

then the blast comes and neither Crutchie nor Les is back (don’t worry! they’re both alive! but they do get separated from the rest of the group and everyone thinks they’re dead for a little while)

Race refuses to believe they’re dead and frantically digs through the rubble of the tunnel to try to find them, he can’t and Kath Jack and Race hold a small funeral

HOWEVER!! jumping back to when Crutchie runs back into the tunnel for Les

(and please bear with me this is such a rough draft i just need to split the party)

he finds him a little while back in a more solid and natural looking branch off of the tunnel but the main tunnel is already shaking with the impact of the explosion and beginning to collapse, too far back in the tunnel to definitely make it out, they take the smaller, hopefully more solid tunnel as quickly as they can

they do make it out but they’re pretty far away from where the rest of Jack’s group is

by the time they make it over to where Jacks group was, they’d left

the first main objective is to reunite Crutchie and Les with the rest of the group and eventually to bring all three groups back together

then it’ll be surviving and finding a new, safe place to live

also i promise that i’ll clean up the details of this, most of this came from a dream and you know how those are so i have to make the plot more solid and believable

send me asks if you wanna know anything else about it or any specific character details (please i’m begging you)

[odd-underscore-soul]

what the fuck was i on holy shit /pos

versions with lyrics under the cut

song is overgrown garden by beetlebug

[shinymoonforest]

okay bet lets see how much spotify explodes me toni-

CHAOS CONSTRUCT - AZALI

i found a weird piano let me know if you like it - AZALI

Serendipity - Laufey

H.S. - Tom Cardy

Mama's Boy - Dominic Fike

I Wish You Love - Laufey

Kodoku no Syukyo - syudou

overgrown garden - Beetlebug

Dolls - Bella Poarch

EVE'S ALTER EGO - AZALI

@bucketfullofstrawberries @comfortventure @shackspossum staress at u guys...... hey, ( /nf )

rules — shuffle your “on repeat playlist” and list the first ten songs, then tag ten people

Thanks for the tag @friendly-jester !!

New Genesis – Ado

Mortal Reminder – Pentakill

The Whole "Being Dead Thing" – Beetlejuice Original Broadway Cast Recording

That Beautiful Sound – Beetlejuice Original Broadway Cast Recording

Prologue: Invisible – Beetlejuice Original Broadway Cast Recording

Rell, The Iron Maiden – League of Legends

Money – Mystery Skulls

Dead Mom – Beetlejuice Original Broadway Cast Recording

Backlight– Ado

A Pizza the Action - The Stupendium

No pressure tagging: @digital-gargoyle @thatonegreyghost @astudyinpanda @astralalmighty @foxxxtransformer123 @seth-shitposts @never-ending-fanfic @ahsoka-its-all-of-us and anyone else who wants to play