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for context, because a lot of people here probably don’t understand why this is significant:

E1331 was an active member of the Silksong subreddit. Everyone there knows who he is. The short version of it is that he consistently posts funny memes, but his importance goes deeper than that. He’s often regarded as the single most important person on the sub, the one who keeps the Silksanity alive, the one stopping the sub from falling into despair with his memes.

Originally, his memes were about Silksong itself, but as time went on and Silksong material wore thin, the focus of the memes shifted to Team Cherry themselves. And, well… the screenshot tells the rest. A member of “a certain group” (which is obviously Team Cherry) reached out to him and asked him to stop posting about them. And he obliged.

This is the most Team Cherry has communicated with their fanbase since the infamous “Hey gang” announcement well over a year ago.

Unbelievable.

holy crap

they actually killed E1331

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holy crap

they actually killed E1331

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i love noise-cancelling headphones to death but i wish there were headphones that could cancel the noise in my brain

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not to alarm anyone but is anybody else worried about how everybody is fucking stupid

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i don’t have the motivation to make a full animatic for a 3 and a half minute song, much less two of them, so here are a few things that would happen in my hypothetical animatics for Get in the Water and 600 Strike.

also Vengeance Saga spoilers, putting a readmore under this so as to not spoil that one mutual

Most of Get in the Water would go about as you’d expect, and fairly close to what was in the stream animatic, but there are a few minor details I would change:

Poseidon’s entrance would have him surface, absolutely enormous, making waves that flip over Ody’s raft. After Odysseus gets back on the other side of the raft, Poseidon gets RIGHT up in his face for the “There you are. Coward.” line

When Poseidon threatens Odysseus between each “Get in the water,” he demonstrates exactly how he’d do each thing using constructs made of water.

The beat drop where Poseidon yells “GET IN THE WATER” is accompanied by him raising his trident into the air and slamming it back down, causing large columns of water to shoot up on either side of him. Their crashing down is timed to the crash of the waves in the music.

Odysseus literally gets down on his knees and begs during the second verse.

After Poseidon has Odysseus deep enough in the water, the calm part of the song has him stop thrusting Odysseus down (since there’s realistically only so far he can stab him). Once Ody stops moving, the Polites jumpscare happens.

When the rest of the crew appears, they (along with Polites and Eurylochus) reach out their hands, welcoming Odysseus into death with them. He takes their hands, closes his eyes, and…

600 Strike is where I’d make the most changes to what “canonically” happens.

Picking up from the ending of Get in the Water, the song opens similarly to the stream animatic, with a dramatic eye open from Odysseus, grabbing onto the wind bag with his other hand and rocketing up, still holding onto his crew and dragging them up with him. No jetpack though, he just holds onto the bag.

Odysseus’ eyes still glow here, but it’s more of a blue-green color to represent the ghosts backing him up, because him just straight up transcending mortality was kinda stupid.

When Odysseus surfaces, Hermes is there, and gives him a little nod to signal that he was, in fact, intending for him to open the bag if something like this happened. Then he flies off. This is to fix the issue of “why would Hermes give Odysseus the bag instead of just hiding it” because that bothered me just a little bit.

Odysseus has to be in constant motion during this part due to the nature of the bag. He would incorporate this into his strategy.

There would be some fighting during the instrumental part. Seems obvious enough but I don’t think it was there in the stream animatic. Poseidon defends himself well at first, but eventually gets overrun by the sheer number of crewmen, along with some clever maneuvers from Odysseus causing him to drop his guard.

The actual “600 Strike” move involves each of Odysseus’ crewmen landing a blow on Poseidon in rapid succession (yes, even Polites, he fought in the war and presumably at least tried to fight Polyphemus) followed by a blow from Ody himself (backed by the whole crew). This is enough to wound Poseidon and knock him down.

During the line “You released my storm when you opened that bag,” the camera would focus on a shot of the storm with the bag in the foreground. The focus shifts from the storm to the bag halfway through the line.

Poseidon being huge in this hypothetical animatic raises the question: “How does Odysseus lift the trident to stab him?” The answer is that his crew helps lift it— just like they did in Remember Them when they were stabbing Polyphemus’ eye. This scene would be a very intentional parallel to that scene.

Each stab causes Poseidon to decrease in size, along with his trident. By the time it gets to the last stab, Poseidon is human-sized, and Odysseus is holding the trident by himself, like in the canon animatic (though of course his crew is standing behind him this whole time as well). Bonus points if Polites and Eurylochus are on either side of him during this sequence.

After Odysseus walks off, the crew stays there to make sure Poseidon doesn’t try anything funny until Odysseus reaches Ithaca. Once he’s sufficiently offscreen, they fade away.

and yeah that’s how i would fix about 80% of my problems with the Vengeance Saga (plus a few extra things that aren’t really fixes but they’d still be cool.)

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you know who this whole Silksong thing is probably really hard on?? Christopher Larkin. man has been waiting to drop one of the best video game soundtracks of the decade, for an entire decade, but can’t because the game’s not out yet.

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It’s official: I’m composing for @malrightnao’s game Failboat Has Been Murdered! This is one of many tracks I wrote for the game, so expect more once we get closer to release!

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isn't this the plot of Kirby: Squeak Squad

The shackles have broken, the cage has come undone. The creator has broken loose and their insanity takes hold of reality. However you are in the middle of eating the best damned ice cream you have ever eaten and you won’t let anything ruin that for you.

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prometheus: hot take,

the greek gods: no give that back

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VENGEANCE SAGA SPOILERS i know one of my mutuals still hasn’t watched it yet so im gonna put a readmore under this

am i the only one who thinks that Get in the Water was a bit underwhelming?? the best part of the song was the stuff we already had seen in the teasers, and i went into it expecting a second chorus that would provide us with something fresh. instead we got a poorly-timed and poorly-placed ripoff of Zeus’ part in God Games, and the instrumental that followed it was definitely supposed to be cooler than it ended up being. and then the Polites jumpscare was just… there. Odysseus didn’t acknowledge or respond to it, which was what made the other two work so well (i know he was underwater but still)

also why were the crew’s vocals in 600 Strike non-diegetic. the ghosts should have showed up physically and helped Ody out it would’ve made the thing so much better.

anyway about half of my problems with the Vengeance Saga can be fixed with visual cues absent in the canon animatics so i’m waiting on some fanmade animatics that fix them and then it’ll be PEAK

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can we go back to ancient greece when they had like 6 different words for love that all meant different things? please? i wanna tell my friends i love them without having to add “no homo” and then going through the whole song and dance of pretending the other person thought it was homo

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we’ve all seen the meme where Apollo chucks the gift of prophecy at people in the form of a dodgeball

but since he’s also the god of archery i just imagine him stringing the dodgeball onto his bow and SOMEHOW perfectly shooting it and landing the shot.

everyone is baffled by this, except Artemis, who just goes “yep. that’s my brother.” and then moves on with her life

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also while i’m posting about SMG4, i’d like to point out that i have never once laughed at the old SMG4 episodes.

like yes i’ve only seen like five episodes of the show total, but the only episode that actually made me laugh was one from the PuzzleVision arc. the only jokes in the old episodes were “hey guys, what if MARIO… said a SWEAR WORD / was NAKED / had a PERVERSE ATTRACTION TO SPAGHETTI” which. isn’t funny.

i’m aware that there were story arcs and whatnot in the earlier episodes, but my understanding is that people gathered to the show at first for the “humor”. in which case what is wrong with you people

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i love that Mr. Puzzles has just been used to take shot after shot against Disney, meanwhile the fanbase reception to him is near universally “heeheehoohoo new tumblr sexyman just dropped and i love him” like DUDE THAT’S HOW WE FELT TOWARDS DISNEY TOO, THEY ACT ALL CHARMING AND WE ALL LOVED THEM DESPITE THEIR EVILDOINGS (for a time at least)

also i’ve only watched like five episodes of SMG4, most of which were not recent. everything in this post i gathered from the songs lol

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it’s ok they just have the average deltarune secret boss speech gimmick

Thought you might be interested to know but I was able to su((essfully use the latest page as bait to (onvin(e my friend to start reading your web(omi(

that's very cool but also is. is your keyboard okay

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more pencil art :D

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so are we all in agreement that Berdly is autistic or do i need to convince people