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Warning! This was a lot of work so sorry for any errors and I do know that many songs could be moved to other categories, but I tried to balance everything and that's why the list looks like that!
No pics yet, but here are songs that:
Automatically go into The Ultimate NOT Another Song About Love Bracket (44 songs):
100 Gecs - I got my tooth removed (aka Dental Work Song)
Ado - Usseewa (aka Shut Up Song)
Bill Wurtz - At The Corner Store (aka Corner Store Song)
Bryant Oden - The Duck Song (aka Prank Song)
Danny Gonzalez - Bag Tho (aka Youtubers Song)
Maxwell Anthony - Aromantic moodboard (aka Aromantic Song)
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation (aka Bad Reputation Song)
Paul McCartney - Band On The Run (aka Band Break-Up Song)
Cavetown - Boys will be bugs (aka Boyhood Song)
ERA - Ameno (aka Dog Latin Song)
The Academic - Not Your Summer (aka Summer Song)
Dropkick Murphys - Rose Tattoo (aka Tattoo Song)
Psychostick - We Ran out of CD Space (aka What if? Song)
The Eagles - Hotel California (aka American Culture Song)
Kero Kero Bonito - It's Bugsnax! (aka Bugsnax Song)
Saint Motel - Honest Feedback (aka Criticism Song)
Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (aka The Devil Song)
Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards - Gestapo (aka Fuck Donald Trump Song)
Owl City - Fireflies (aka Insomnia Song)
Bo Burnham - Welcome to the Internet (aka The Internet Song)
They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (aka Istanbul Song)
Tom Cardy - Hey, I don't work here (aka Sudden Alien Invasion Song)
Lemon Demon - Spiral of Ants (aka Animal Metaphor Song)
Satellite High - The Bus Is Late (Waiting For The Bus In The Rain) (aka Late Bus song)
The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (aka Lucy Song)
sidney gish - persephone (aka Mispronunciation Song)
Jorge Velosa - La cucharita (aka Spoon Song)
Jhariah - DEBT COLLECTOR (aka Problems Song)
jimmy dean - big bad john (aka Sacrifice Song)
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (aka Regret Song)
The Narcissist Cookbook - Sugar In My Coffee (aka Food Metaphor Song)
Echosmith - Cool Kids (aka High School Song)
Car Seat Headrest - It's Only Sex (aka Asexuality Song)
Lemon Demon - Amnesia was her name (aka Amnesia Song)
The Doors - People Are Strange (aka Alienation Song)
Tally Hall - Banana Man (aka Food Song)
Jessica Law - This is Not a Place of Honour (aka Devastation song)
Mermaid Sisters - Galactic mermaid (aka Frustration song)
Pinnochiop - God-ish (aka Modern Culture Critic Song)
Owl City - Peppermint Winter (aka Christmas Song)
Green Day - Longview (aka Boredom Song)
Bastille - Daniel in the Den (aka Betrayal Song)
AsapScience - Periodic Table Song (... you get that one, I think)
Pete Seegar - Oh Freedom (aka Freedom Song)
Are part of Mental issues Song Bracket (8 from 75):
AJJ - Body Terror Song
AJR - Karma
Ashnikko - Panic Attacks in Paradise
awfultune - Redesign
Cg5 - Freak Out
Cg5 and The Living Tombstone - 4get
Chameleon Circuit - Nightmares
Creep-P - Exorcism
Danger Mouse, Daniele Luppe, Jack White - Two Against One
Eden Epinosa - Waiting in the Wings
Eve - Dramaturgy; Literary Nonsense; Tokyo Ghetto; How to Eat Life
Fin Argus - Ship in a bottle
Fish in a Birdcage - Fish in a birdcage
Florence + the machine - free; falling
Gabby Young and Other Animals - In Your Head
grandson - In Over My Head; Despicable; Identity
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Guchiry - Abnormality Dancing Girl
inabakumori - Lagtrain
Jack stauber - Dinner is not over
Jamie Christopherson - Only Thing I Know for Real
Jhariah - Flight of the Crows
Jhariah, Luis Chavez - These 4 Walls
Junie & TheHutFriends - The Consequence Of Imagination Is Fear
Kero KERO boni - toId rather sleep
Lemon Demon - I’ve got some falling to do
MGK - 9 lives
Miracle Musical - Labyrinth
mitski - a burning hill
Neru - Lost One's Weeping
Pale Waves - Noises
Patrick Stump - Explode
Qbomb - Everything is fine
Raghd - Pressure
Rainbow Kitten Surprise - It's Called: Freefall
Red Vox - In the Garden
Shayfer James - Your Father's Son
sidney gish - sin triangle
Simple Plan - Welcome to my life
Sufjan Stevens - I Want to Be Well
syudou - Bitter Choco Decoration
The Arcadian Wild - Tell It Like It Is
The cast of Next to Normal - Wish I were here
the crane wives - hollow moon; nothing at all
The Eagles - Desperado
the mountain goats - up the wolves
The score - Strange
This Could Be On Broadway - Just My Luck
Toh Kay - With Any Sort of Certainty
TUYU - I'm getting on the bus to the other world, see ya!
wilbur soot - since I saw vienna
Will Wood - Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave; BlackBoxWarrior
will wood and the tapeworms - red moon
half alive - What's Wrong
Wowaka - Rolling Girl
The Weakerthans - Plea from a Cat Named Virtute
Cavetown - Home
Marina and the Diamonds - Are You Satisfied?
The Amazing Devil - The Old Witch Sleep and The Good Man Grace
the police - synchronicity ii
Eminem - Stan
Tears For Fears - Mad World
Gary Jules - Mad World
Jessica Darrow - Surface Pressure
Katherine Lynn-Rose - Price of Perfection; Top of my school
Kimya Dawson - Tree Hugger
Are part of War/History Song Bracket (2 from 24):
10000 Maniacs - Gun shy
Don Mclean - The Grave
Dropkick Murphys - Green Fields of France
Sting - The Russians
The Amazing Devil - Elsa's Song
The Cranberries - Zombie
The Mechanisms - Rose Red; Our Boy Jack; No Happy Ending
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Thirty Seconds to Mars - This is War
Nena - 99 Luftballons
My Chemical Romance - Mama
Bastille - Pompeii
pigwiththefaceofaboy - Complete History of the Soviet Union, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris
the buttress - brutus
Ghost and Pals - Aura
Weezer - The British Are Coming
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Jayli Wolf - Child of the Government
Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Paul Brady - Arthur McBride, or The Recruiting Seargent
Sabaton - The Attack of the Dead Men
Charming Disaster - Radium Girls
Are part of Revenge/Confrontation Song Bracket (4 from 36):
100 Gecs - Sympathy 4 The Grinch
Alice Francis - Shoot Him Down!
The Decemberists - Mariner's Revenge Song
Ryan Scott Oliver - Leave, Luanne
Aviators - Red Water Dreams
Bring Me The Horizon - medicine
Da games - Moving up in the world
Dalton Deschain & the Traveling Show - Devil's Night
Death Note the Musical - Playing His Game
Fish in a Birdcage - Four Aces
grandson - Bury Me Face Down
dead end paranormal park - My Frankenstein
I don’t know how but they found me - Choke
Jeremy Irons - Be Prepared
Jhariah - Whose Eye Is It Anyway???
Miles Luna and Benjamin Zecker - Better Than You
Naethan Apollo - You’re Not Welcome
Nightmare Time - Yellow Jacket
Olivia Olsen and Ashley Tisdale - Busted
Poor Man's Poison - Hell's Coming with Me
Queen - Death on Two Legs
Scene queen - The rapture (but it's pink)
steampianist - black hole
The Crane Wives - Take Me to War
the living tombstone, eliemonty - die in a fire
Vane Lilly - Perfectly Sweet
Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
StarKid (Twisted Musical) - No One Remembers Achmed
Lord Huronthe - World Ender
Lestat the Musical - After All This Time
ponyphonic - the moon rises
Schell Games - I Expect You To Die
Set It Off - Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Martina McBride - Independence Day
Bruce Springsteen - Death to My Hometown
Gaelic Storm - The Night that I Punched Russel Crowe
Are part of Animal Song Mini Bracket (1 from 12):
DaniwellP - Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!
Djjack - Pink Elephants on Parade
GWSNRecipe ~ For Simon
Hullabaloo - Mama Llama
Kila - Howls the wolf
Subwolfer - Give that wolf a banana
Nickel Creek - The Fox
Lemon Demon - Jaws
Thurl Ravenscroft - Everybody Wants to Be a Cat
Jonti Picking - Owls
Will Wood - Tomcat Disposables
mewithoutYou - The Fox, The Crow And The Cookie
Are part of Family Song Bracket (4 from 40):
ABBA - Slipping Through my Fingers
AJR - Dear Winter
Alex Benjamin - If We Have Each Other
The Crane Wives - Never Love an Anchor
Belle - Gales of Song
birds of tokyo - my darling, my son
Brotherhood of man - Save your kisses for me
Cat Stevens - Father and son
Clyde Rabatel (from No Straight Roads Soundtrack) - DK West Encounter 3
Conan Gray - Family Line
Daði freyr - Think about things
Evelyn Evelyn - Evelyn Evelyn
Gregory & The Hawk - Boats & Birds
Johnny Cash - Boy Named Sue
Kacey Musgraves - Mother
Kodaline - Brother
lucy dacus - my mother & I
Of monsters and men - King and Lionheart
Starkid - When the World’s at Stake; The Power in Me
Passion Pit - Take a Walk
Phineas and Ferb Cast - Us Against the Universe
Radical Face - Always Gold
Set It Off - Dad's Song
Stromae - Papaoutai
Tayc - Qui
beetlejuice the musical - dead mom
twenty øne piløts - My Blood
MGK - Last November
Jessie Shelton (36 Questions Musical) - Our Word
Sasha Alex Sloan - Older
Marina and the Diamonds - The Family Jewels
Mitski - Class of 2013
The Amazing Devil - Welly Boots
Laura Shigihara - Jump
The Mechanisms - Once and Future King
Vienna Teng - Grandmother Song
Sleeping at last - Heirloom
surfjan stevens - should have known better
Rammstein - Dalai Lama
Are part of Friendship Song Bracket (2 from 28):
ABBA - Chiquitita
Ross Lynch - Can't Do it Without You
BB Bean - Two Best Friends
Bears in Trees - Little Cellist
Beetlebug - Overgrown Garden
Catherine Warwick - Bein' Friends
Cavetown - Lemon Boy
Conan Gray - Best Friend
concrete blonde - take me home
harumaki gohan - cobalt memories
Julie and the Phantoms cast - Flying Solo
Kimya Dawson - Loose Lips
Louie Zong and Brian David Gilbert - Breezy Slide
Madison Reyes, Jadah Marie - Main Thing
Peach Pit - Tommys Party
Radical Face - Summer Skeletons
Sea Wolf - Old Friend
Taylor Swift - seven
The Scary Jokes - Friends With You
Toby Fox - His Theme
Varsity - Krissy
Wicked - Defying Gravity
Laufey - Best friend
depeche mode - never let me down again
Ghost Mice - Free Pizza For Life
Taylor Swift and HAIM - No body, no crime
The Chicks - Goodbye Earl
Gang of Youths - Achilles, Come Down
Are part of Crime Song Bracket (2 from 28):
Anthony Warlow - Alive
Jhariah - Knives Are Dangerous, Kid, So Cut the Theatrics!
Creature feature - The art of poisoning
Crooked Still - Wind and Rain/Twa Sisters
Danny Gonzales - I'm gonna kill Santa Claus
Death Grips - Beware
Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks
Kanannon - The Riddle Solver Who Can't Solve Riddles
KuragePChururira - Chururira Daddadda
Lemon Demon - Sweet Bod
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Sodikken - people eater
steampianisti - feed
Teddy Hyde - Terry's Taxidermy
The Beatles - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
The Cranberries - The icicle melts
The Garages - Firewalker with me
The Protomen - The Hounds
Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Yugami-P - Alice human sacrifice
The Stupendium - Fiend Like Me
Eliza Carthy - Mrs Dyer The Baby Farmer
George Ezra - Drawing Board
The Mechanisms - Lucky Sevens
The Crane Wives - Curses
Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife
Panic! At The Disco - Time to Dance
Are part of Addiction Song Mini Bracket (1 from 12):
AJR - Weak
Linkin Park- Breaking The Habit
SIAMÉS - THE WOLF
Dresden Dolls - My Alcoholic Friends
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Florence + The Machine - Morning Elvis
Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
grandson - Overdose; Pain Shopping
Jack Stauber - Coffee
Ringo Starr - The No No Song
The Living Tombstone - Drunk
The replacements - Here comes a regular
Are part of Fame Song preliminary poll (1 from 7):
Albert Hammond - It never rains in southern California
Bug Hunter - Disco! in the Panic Room
Grand Commander - Fuck you im going underground
John Douglass aka jacksfilms - We're all just assholes talking to a camera
Måneskin - Gossip
The neighbourhood - Wires
Taylor Swift - Long Live
Are part of Supernatural Song Bracket (4 from 36):
Heather Dale - Black Fox
Lord Huron - Dead Man’s Hand
Alex Brightman, Sophia Anne Caruso - Say My Name
Lemon Demon - Cabinet Man
Ludo - Lake Pontchartrain
Alex Brightman, Sophia Anne Caruso - Say My Name
Bear Ghost - Necromancin Dancin
Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
Bobby "boris" Pickett - monster mash
Charming Disaster - Wishing Well
Creature feature - The Greatest Show Unearthed
David Bowie - Magic dance
Feuerschwanz - Untot im Drachenboot
Single File - Zombies Ate My Neighbors
The Darkness - Black Shuck
The Longest Johns - Moby Duck
Weird Al Yankovic - Jurassic Park
Periphery - Reptile
steampianist - to our colorful scintillating future
Nancy Kerr - Fragile Water
The Hush Sound - Lighthouse
Cave mouth - Hecate
Kurt Elling - Nature boy
S. J. Tucker - Cheshire Kitten
The Living Tombstone ft. BSlick & Crusher-P - 1000 Doors
Jessica Law - Raising the Dead!
the forgetmenauts - charlatan in red
Everything Everything - Leviathan
The Searchers - Love Potion Number Nine
Tenacious D - Tribute
Thoushaltnot - The Haunted Phonograph
Heather Dale - Changeling Child
The lab rats - Devil's train
The Mechanisms - The Riddle Of The Sphinx
S.J. Tucker - Song of the Witches
Bug Hunter - 2 Bed, 2 Bath, and a Ghost
Are part of Piracy/Western Song Bracket (1 from 16):
Fish in a Birdcage Rule #23 - Birds of a Feather
Alestorm - Drink
The Longest Johns - The Last Bristolian Pirate; Wellerman
Master Bones Jangle - The Derelict
Brillig - The old captain
The Arrogant Worms - The Last Sasketchewan Pirate
Stan Rogers - Barrett’s Priveteers
The Longest Johns - Off to Sea
Brian David Gilbert - Pumpkin Cowboy
glen campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy
Jim Croce - You Don’t Mess Around With Jim
Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Marty Robbins - Big Iron
Tom Cardy - The Ballad of Smokin' Joe Rudeboy
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
Are part of Positivity Song Bracket (4 from 52):
AURORA - Running with the wolves
Avril Lavigne - Here's to Never Growing Up
Bon Jovi - It's My Life
Brent Morgan - Gonna Be Okay
Caleb Hyles - Amber and Rain
Chip Skylark - My Shiny Teeth and Me
Colbie Caillat - Try
Death - Let The World Turn
Death Cab for Cutie - Grapevine Fires
Delta Rae - Dance in the Graveyards
dodie - Secret for the Mad
Elsa - Show Yourself
Florence and the machine - daffodil
Go! Child - Outro
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody
I Fight Dragons - Disaster Hearts
Jeff Williams - This Life is Mine
Jimmy Cliff - You Can Get It If You Really Want It
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Lord Huron - Until the Night Turns
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
Måneskin - Zitti E buoni
MARINA - Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land
Mother Mother - Infinitesimal
OR3O - Living on
Paloma Faith - Upside Down
Rachel Platten - Fight Song
Rhett and Link - I'm On Vacation
Rhythm Heaven - Beautiful One Day
Rise Against - Tragedy + Time
Something Else Yt - I’m Something Else
Sonic adventure 2 - Escape from the city
Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter
Steam Powered Giraffe - Malfunction
Steppen Wolf - Born The Be Wild
Surfaces - Sunday Best
Tamino - Indigo Night
The Black-Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
The Cog is Dead - Weird
The Crane Wives - Volta; Turn Out The Lights
The Crüxshadows - Quicksilver
The Mowglis - Bad Dream
Thomas Rhett - Be a Light
Vanessa Doofenshmirtz - I'm Me
Jack Johnson - Upside Down
VHS Christmas Carol - Christmas Electricity
Frank Sinatra - My Way
Tank and the Bangas - Black Folk
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
The Stupendium - Shine Through
Are part of Mortality Song Bracket (4 from 54):
AJR - Bang!
Bears in Trees - Doing This Again!
Beth Kinderman - Refusal of the Call
Bowling for Soup - 1985
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Dan Deacon - When I Was Done Dying
Dayglow - Junior Varsity
Death Cab for Cutie - Gold Rush
Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill
Eurielle - City of the Dead
House Phone - Drinking Song
Jeff Williams feat. Meredith Hagan - Contact Redux
Lord Huron - Frozen Pines
Lorde - Ribs
Madilyn Mei - Have I Outgrown Minecraft?
Megadeth - Time: The Beginning
My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade; The Foundations Of Decay
No, really - Beginning of the end
Oingo Boingo - Dead man's party
Rusty Cage - The Hearse Song
Orla Gartland - Souvenirs
Pale Waves - Act My Age
Peter, Paul, and Mary - Puff the Magic Dragon
Pim Stones - We Have It all
Radical Face - All Is Well (Goodbye, Goodbye)
Saintseneca - How many blankets are in the world?
The arcadian wild - The graduate
the cast of Adventure Time - Time Adventure
The Crane Wives - Keep You Safe
The Gregory Brothers - The Last Goodbye
The Kingston Trio - Where Have All The Flowers Gone
the mountain goats - pale green things; bleed out
the replacements - birthday gal
They Might Be Giants - Am I Awake?
Too Small the Limelight - Anatomy of a Car Crash
Will Wood - Cicada Days; Euthanasia
Yorushika - Say it
Alec Benjamin - Outrunning Karma
Anthony Warlow - I Need To Know
half.alive - creature
The Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr A
The Hush Sound - That's Okay
Judy Kuhn - Just Around the Riverbend
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
The Mechanisms - Losing Track
The Audreys - Sometimes the Stars
Eve - Fight Song
John Mayer - Waiting on the World to Change
Jukebox the Ghost - Fire In the Sky/Where are all the Scientists Now?/A Matter of Time
Jessica Law - Six Years
The Highwaymen - Highwayman
Are part of Morality Song preliminary poll (1 from 6):
Alec Benjamin - Outrunning Karma
Anthony Warlow - I Need To Know
Yorushika - Say it
Twisted the Untold Story of a Royal Vizier - Twisted
The Oh Hellos - Dear Wormwood
Tears for Fears - Everybody wants to rule the world
Are part of Alter Ego/Duality Song Mini Bracket (1 from 12):
Anthony Warlow - Confrontation
grandson - The Ballad of G and X
Eden Espinosa and Jeremy Jordan - Nothing Left to Lose
Brasma - Oh, Funny! (How The Sea Goes Round)
Jessica Law - Jekyll & Hyde 4eva
The Amazing Devil - Farewell Wanderlust
The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals - Let It Out
Will Wood - Dr Sunshine is Dead
Billy Idol - Plastic Jesus
Hozier and Bear McCreary - Blood upon the snow
NF - HOPE
Street People - Facade
Are part of Music Song Mini Bracket (1 from 14):
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Bob Seger - Old Time Rock n Roll
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Death - David's dream
Heaven Pierce Her - Altars of Apostasy
Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor
KEYGEN CHURCH - Tenebre Rosso Sangue
OMORI - not-so-empty house
Saint Motel - A Good Song Never Dies
Tally Hall - Welcome to Tally Hall
Wild Cherry - Play that Funky Music
Don McLean - American Pie
Sarah Bareilles - Love Song
Kenny Loggins - One Small Voice
Are part of Dance Song preliminary poll (1 from 7):
ABBA - Dancing Queen
Caramell - Caramelldansen
dArtagnan - Tanz in den Mai
Loosey Laduca - Let Loose
Miriam Makaba - Pata Pata
The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
The Spinners - The Rubberband Man
Are part of Sci-Fi Song Bracket (1 from 20):
Basset - Perfect Human
Brendon Small - The Ocean Galaktik
Bryce Dessner, Sufjan Stevens, James McAlister, Nic Muhly - Jupiter
Heather Sanders - Call the Navigator
Portal - Still alive
Qbomb - 1000000 ad
Steam powered giraffe - Brass goggles
Heather Dale - I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing?)
TWRP - Starlight Brigade
Brad Sucks - Lonely
Mili - String Theocracy
Cepheid - Goddess
The Mechanisms - Lost in The Cosmos; Alice; Redeath; Frankenstein; Gunpowder Tim vs. The Moon Kaiser
Train - Drops of Jupiter
The Killers - Spaceman
Alderon Tyran - Dawson's Christian
The Hound + The Fox - The Paradox
Are part of Social issues Song Bracket (2 from 44):
A perfect circle - Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drum
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire
Bo Burnham - Channel 5 News
Bob Marley & The Wailers - I Shot the Sheriff
concrete blonde - god is a bullet
Eddie Grant - Electric Avenue
Geoff Berner - Daloy polizei
grandson - Dirty; Is This What You Wanted; Bills; Blood // Water
Harry Belafonte Day OIskwe - Little Star
John Lennon - Working Class Hero
konstrakta - in corpore sano
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows
Les Misérables Cast - Do You Hear the People Sing
lovejoy - the fall
Megson - Generation Rent
muse - explorers
Newsies Cast - Watch What Happens
Poor Man's Poison - Feed the Machine
Shayfer James - Weight of the World
Shinedown - Planet Zero
Steampianist - Dream Eating Machine
Steven Sondheim - Another national anthem
Suzanne Vega - Luka
The Beatles - Black Bird
The Black-Eyed Peas - Where is the Love
The Crane Wives - The Hand That Feeds
The Strokes - The Adults Are Talking
Tikkle Me - Blow My Brains Out
Tom Morello, Shea Diamond, Dan Reynolds, The Bloody Beetroots - Stand Up
Arcade Fire - We exist
Vienna Teng - The Hymn of Axiom
Froukje - Groter Dan Ik
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
James Currier - A Fertile Wood at Heart
Bring Me The Horizon - Happy Song
Ralph McTell - The Streets of London
Ren - Money Game 2
Hozier - Eat your young
Greek Fire - A Real Life
Rare Americans - Love Is All I Bring
Penelope Scott - Dead girls
Are part of Biographic Song/Character Theme Mini Bracket (2 from 18):
Boney M. - Rasputin
Don Mclean - Vincent
TeamFourStar - Alexander Anderson
The Cast of Centaurworld - The Nowhere King
They Might Be Giants - Doctor Worm
Tom Lehrer - Lobachevsky
Sabaton - The Unkillable Soldier; White Death
Leonard Nimoy - The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Sonya Belousova - Toss a Coin to Your Witcher
Sabaton - Father
Mili - Salt Pepper Birds and the Thought Police
Weird Al Yankovic - The Jedi Song
The Doubleclicks - Wonder
Rare Americans - Brittle Bones Nicky
Jim's Big Ego - The Ballad of Barry Allen
The Mechanisms - Hereward The Wake
Sabaton - A Ghost in the Trenches
Are part of Creativity/Tropes/Games Song preliminary poll (1 from 7):
David Bowie - Life on Mars?
Foster the People - Best Friend
Waterparks - Mad All the Time
Nicholas Karr and Scott Wozniak - Stupid Nintendo games
Jason Charles Miller - Your Turn to Roll
the mountain goats - wage wars get rich die handsome
Will Wood - The Main Character
Are part of Faith Song Mini Bracket (2 from 18):
Arcade Fire - Here Comes The Night Time
concrete blonde - tomorrow, wendy
Eric Clapton - Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Ghost - He Is
Joan Osborne - One Of Us
K-modo - You will believe
Lemon Demon - Ask For Nothing
mewithoutYou - The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate
Moon walker - I'm afraid I'll go to heaven
the crane wives - the garden
the oh hellos - passerine
The Rare Occasions - Notion
Ben Caplan - Birds With Broken Wings
GHOST - Honey I’m Home
The Dear Hunter - Wait
The Narcissist Cookbook - Apple
Therapy? - Turn
Tub Ring - Impress Your Creators
Are part of Gender Song preliminary poll (1 from 11):
green day - king for a day
Mother mother - Verbatim
Penny parker - Metamorphosis
She/her/hers - Gender is boring
Shea Diamond - I Am Her
teniwoha - Villain
Will Wood - I/Me/Myself
Christine and the Queens/Red Car - Christine
the replacements - androgynous
Ezra Furman - Maraschino-Red Dress $8.99 From Goodwill
The Doubleclicks - I'm Winning
Are part of Womanhood Song Mini Bracket (1 from 12):
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
Emilie Autumn - Thank God I'm Pretty
Little Simz - Woman
LOONA - So What
Queen - Killer Queen
Florence + The Machine - King
Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money
The Crane Wives - Ribs
Veruca Salt - Seether
Alvan & Ahez - Fulenn
Reba McEntire - Fancy
Seanan McGuire - Wicked Girls Saving Ourselves
Are part of Travel/Journey Song preliminary poll (1 from 6):
The Beatlesøns - The Yukon Song
Byrds - 8 Miles High
The High Kings - The Rocky Road to Dublin
The Mountain Goats - Parisian Enclave
Shakushain - Wednesday Campanella
Hadestown Cast - Wait for Me
Are part of Greed Song preliminary poll (1 from 6):
The 88 feat. Lorax Cast - Biggering
Lemon Demon - Redesign Your Logo
Patrick Stump - Greed
Pink Williams - The Devil is Real
Dire Straits - Industrial Disease
The Oncler - How Bad Can I Be?
Are part of Dystopia/Propaganda/Preconceptions Song preliminary poll (1 from 9):
The Stupendium - The Fine Print
The Stupendium - Rest Employed
The Stupendium - And So We Fall
The Stupendium & Dan Bull - It's A Joy
Crusher-P - Propaganda!
Hadestown Cast - Why we build the wall
Encanto Cast - We Don't Talk About Bruno
Connor Spiotto - The Villain I Appear To Be
Raye Zaragoza - They Say
Are part of preliminary Nature Song poll (1 from 4):
S. J. Tucker - Firebird's child
Eddie Rabbitt - I Love A Rainy Night
John Anderson - Seminole Wind
Cosmo Sheldrake - The Moss
Are part of preliminary Marriage/Divorce Song poll (1 from 4):
Cécile Corbel - Le bal de chats
The mountain goats - No children
AJR - My Play
Cavetown - Devil Town
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Adrift 6
ROTTMNT Fanfic
Summary:
Leonardo isn’t rescued from the Krang Prison Dimension by his brothers, forced to flee from his cellmate in the void. The greatest ninja warrior of all time has to learn how to adapt to his new home, traversing low gravity, discovering the usefulness of spaceship corpses from worlds far beyond his own, and finding ways to survive such a harsh abandoned world.
Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
AO3 Chapter 6
Chapter Six: There's Hope in Our Hands
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Leo wound up taking shelter in a larger ship than the others he had found. It was in a much worse condition on the outside, but the inside was surprisingly unscarred. He was lying stomach down on some plush leather-like padding he had assembled together into a pile on the floor in one of the larger rooms in the ship, he was sure the walls didn’t need it more than him.
The room was dark, but there was a small amount of light leaking in from the doorway to the hallway outside where a hole in the ceiling allowed its entry. If he needed to illuminate the room all he had to do was use his sword. Right now he was happily lounging on his makeshift mattress, his sword in front of him as he rested his head on his arms.
His photo was laid across the flat side of the blade and his purple Krang juice bottle was sitting next to it, a dull glow emanating from it, lighting up the picture. Being in a desolate pocket of space for possibly the rest of his life didn’t mean he couldn’t make an effort to be comfortable when he could manage it. Granted this was nothing compared to Big Mama’s hotel or his own bed at home in the lair, but it was the closest he was going to get for now.
Anything was better than his plastron scraping against the floor. He wasn’t glad about his new shelter per se, but he needed to get adjusted to a long stay, even if in his heart he knew his brothers weren’t wasting any opportunity to save him. He wished he could do something to help them, they probably were running around thinking he was dead or near to it.
Granted that a few hours ago he would’ve thought the same, but his run-in with Krang, as bad as it had been, surprisingly led to a much easier stay here. With a source of food or whatever you wanted to call it, and a place to sleep, Leo was pretty set for however many days he needed to recover. He wouldn’t need to go out to scavenge until his bottle ran empty, but other than that it was just a waiting game for him now.
At least that was what a rational mutant would’ve thought. Leo knew that is what he should be planning to do, rest and play the long game. He didn’t need to take any unnecessary risks of running into Krang again.
Hiding from said alien for the rest of his life sounded like the only thing left to do. Maybe it was the part of Leo that didn’t like to sit still for too long, the itch in his legs that demanded that he got up and walked around to burn some energy every once in a while. All that pent-up energy used to be for bothering his brothers and for their missions, but now it was bottling up in him.
Long story short, he was restless.
He sighed through his nose, his eyes sliding over to look at his sword again in the dimly lit room. His mind began to work up a new idea as he stared at it. Where was his other sword? Could it still be in the prison dimension somewhere? It would make life here even easier if he had both katanas.
He wouldn’t have to worry about losing his balance or not being able to move fast enough through the empty spaces if he had both. If he got into another confrontation with Krang, all it would take was keeping his distance, a lot easier than hoping he was flying through space fast enough to slip away into a portal.
Leon felt like such a dum-dum, as Donald always claimed him to be, because how could he have not thought of using this sword to see if his other one was here too? And who knew, maybe his other sword was on Earth and he could bypass the mystic block on his portals and get a free ticket back home. Oh, he would be kicking himself if that idea actually worked, but part of him doubted it.
If he couldn’t make a portal home, why would trying to teleport to his sword be any different? Maybe because it was physically there? Leo shook his head, he had no idea, if it worked he would just ask Donnie to explain it after no doubt being chewed out for making them wait so long for his grand entrance.
Leo tapped his fingers on the sides of his arms, softer on the right arm, glancing around the room. If his other sword was here with him and he did get teleported to it, he could just as easily make a portal back to this ship and take a nice long nap with another advantage under his belt.
What was the worst-case scenario? If neither idea worked then nothing would change and he still gets to take his nap. Leo lightly chewed the inside of his cheek as he considered it, a swell of hopeful excitement bubbling up in his chest.
Screw it. Leo got up from his nest and picked up his sword.
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Donnie awoke with a start, his mind having gifted him with a nightmare filled with twisting tentacles and wet curls of flesh creeping up his shell and caressing it, begging for access. His whole body shivered as he recalled the sickly feeling of the Technodrome's command system, as amazing as it had felt after he got pulled inside it, he had never felt so disgusted and used in his entire life after the experience. He nearly jumped off the gurney when he felt a hand grabbing at his understandably sensitive shell but relaxed a fraction when he realized it was Mikey still cuddling up to him in his sleep. He was tense from the touch, gently reaching around to desperately pry his brother off of him.
He glanced over to the recliner where Raph had been sleeping last night, surprised to see that all that remained in the chair was the blanket Splinter had tossed over him. He supposed he shouldn't be surprised. Raph never did sleep in like the rest of them on normal days, although Donnie could easily do the same if he wasn’t always up so late. It was a consequence of his own actions.
Donnie threw his legs over the side of the bed and glanced at his wrist panel, shocked to see it was 10 AM. The audacity they had for allowing him to sleep that long! He only went to bed at three in the morning! He had things to do today, he should've been up at least two hours ago!
Donatello fumed as he rose from his spot, quickly turning to make sure Mikey was still swaddled in blankets and stormed out of the med bay. Either he was going to yell at Raph for not waking him, or he was going to leave that argument on the back burner and go to his lab to start writing out ideas for interdimensional travel. Whichever came first.
It didn't take him long to see Raph as he crossed through the lair, his big red brother was standing outside the mini dojo that none of them really used. His curiosity peaked a bit at the odd location, but it was irrelevant to his displeasure with his brother.
"Oh, Raphael, my large doe-eyed compatriot!" Donnie remarked a greeting in an almost sing-along tone laced with unbridled frustration, his brother turning to look at him with a smile on his face. That threw Donnie for a loop as Raph reached out to pull him closer, thankfully not actually touching him as Donnie jerked away from his hand.
"Look at this!" Raphael said with an excited glimmer in his eyes as he directed his brother's attention to the dojo. Donnie decided to humor his brother for some unforeseen reason, turning his head to look into the room. His breath caught as he saw the flash of silver and blue.
Donnie’s eyes widened as he spotted the blade in Casey’s hands, seeing him in that pose, doing those practice moves. His body moved on its own, his mind left at the door as he sped over and violently snatched it from him. Casey tried to protest as it was ripped from his grasp, but he recoiled under the look of rage on Donnie’s face.
The soft shell ignored the look in his eyes, he didn’t hear Raph and Splinter calling out to him, reaching out to pull him away from Casey as he growled in his face.
“This is Leo’s! You don’t get to use it whenever you want!” Donatello shouted at him, breathing hard as his anger peaked. He didn’t understand why he was so angry, why did his chest hurt so much? Raph’s arms grabbed him firmly, guiding Donnie by the shoulders and moving him away from Casey. He gave the human teen an apologetic look before turning his attention back to his purple brother.
“Donnie, he didn’t do anything bad, you need to calm down.” Raph tried to de-escalate his outburst, “I know you’re worried about Leo, we all are, but it’s just a sword. Casey was just-” Donnie stomped his foot as he clutched the katana closer to his body.
“It’s not just a sword! It’s Leo’s! Only Leo can use it, it isn’t meant for anyone else!” Donnie yelled as he tried to reason with Raph as if this was an argument. He needed him to understand why seeing Casey trying to use Leo’s sword upset him so much. He was not going to allow his brother to be replaced, he was out there, and he was going to come home.
He needed both of his swords when he got back so they could continue doing their missions just like before, so he could teleport into Donnie’s lab to annoy him, so he could use it to get pizza for everyone in a flash, so he could be the big dum-dum he had always been! Tears were streaming down his face as his body began to shake.
Raph didn’t say anything else, Donnie could feel him wrap his arms around him in a tight hug. Donnie let the sobs wrack through him, he felt safe in Raph’s arms as much as he normally didn’t accept his hugs, but he needed this. It’d be better for him later to get it all out now so he could dedicate all of himself to getting Leo back.
He crumbled in his big brother’s arms, Raph holding him up as he was sure his legs had given out. He had nuzzled his face into Raph’s shoulder, his tears overtaking him as he felt like he was drowning in it all. Leo was their brother, but as selfish as it sounded Donnie felt like it hurt him more to lose him.
They were the middle children, they had always gotten on each other’s nerves, called each other names, and pulled pranks on one another. When Donnie was confused or overwhelmed Leo was always there to help him, he knew him on another level that Raph and Mikey would never understand, no matter how hard they might try. Leo had always claimed they were twins, no matter how many times Donnie had pointed out to him that it was literally impossible since they were different species of turtle.
All their lives Leo insisted they were the twins of the family, that they were cut from the same cloth and that they would always be thick as thieves. They never tried to diminish Raph and Mikey, they loved them just as equally, but there was an undeniable connection between them that just felt right.
They were twins, but what happened when one twin lost the other? What happened when you lost your carbon copy? When it felt like a part of you was missing that you feared you would never get back?
What do you use to fill that empty void in your heart that felt like it was never going to stop growing?
Donnie’s body shook as he clung to Raph even tighter, his brother already prepared with steadfast affection, gently rubbing his back as he let him cry it all out into his shoulder.
Donnie felt a vibration in his hand, the handle of Leo’s sword growing warm against his palm. It shocked him out of his tearful fit, his eyes going wide as he forcefully pulled away from Raph to see what was happening.
It felt like his heart was lodged in his throat as he watched the sword light up with Leo’s undeniable mystic magic, the runes along the blade igniting with a blue intensity Donnie had never thought possible. The three others in the room gasped at the azure light slowly filling the room, the sword vibrating more and more as the glow grew. Donnie held it steady as he could do nothing but observe it, speechless.
“He’s alive.” He heard Raph whisper next to him. Donnie felt hope flood his heart as he kept staring at the blade as he registered Raph's words. Surely that was what this meant? Leo had to be doing this, somehow.
“Leo is alive! He must be trying to get home!” Raph shouted as he grabbed Donnie by the arms, lifting him into the air and spinning him around, a few tears sliding down his cheeks. Donnie wanted to encourage his celebration but he knew Leo wasn’t getting completely through to this sword, he would’ve appeared from thin air and fallen on top of them by now, it had never taken long for Leo to use them like that before.
He hoped his hypothesis was right as his heart sunk down to his stomach as the glow of the sword started to lower in intensity, the runes slowly going out as the energy dissipated. The atmosphere in the dojo stayed hopeful, but everyone’s faces held a reasonable ounce of worry.
“It’s still a good sign, right? Nothing else could’ve made it do that?” Raphael asked, lowering Donnie back to the ground. Donatello avoided his gaze as he watched Leo’s sword a moment longer, a small illogical part of his brain begged for it to activate again.
“It could be argued that this is a more positive than negative outcome.” Donnie settled on that answer as he kept a blank stare on Leo's weapon, the handle losing its warmth. He truly didn’t know what this meant, he didn’t know much of anything about how their mysticism really worked, but his gut said it was highly likely that Raph was right.
As uncertain as his answer may have been, it reassured everyone else in the room. His big red brother gave him another loving squeeze before letting him go and running for the exit.
“This is just the kind of news Mikey needs to wake up to!” Raph shouted as he disappeared into the lair, leaving Donnie with Splinter and Casey. His father walked into his peripheral, and he allowed his eyes to look away from the sword to his father.
“Well, aren’t your hands itching?” Splinter asked, his smile turning into the mischievous grin Donnie was almost relievingly familiar with. It wasn’t what he was expecting his dad to say, but he couldn’t fight his own smile pulling at his lips as he turned to follow after Raph, Leo's sword still firmly in hand.
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Leo sighed as he allowed himself to relax, he had pulled a full-body sweat from exerting himself. No matter how hard he tried, no matter how much energy he channeled into his sword, nothing happened. He did get a splitting headache during the whole thing, but he had endured it just to see if anything was possible.
Clearly, it wasn’t, but at least he wasn’t going to worry about what could have been if he hadn’t tried in the first place. Leo sighed in defeat as he placed his sword back on the ground, the runes dying out as his hand let go.
It was time for that nap.
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End of Chpt 6!
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