#I'd hoped to have this done by Halloween but eh I'm not actually on a deadline

[sheliesshattered]

I have owned my sewing machine (Husqvarna Viking Emerald 116) for more than fourteen years now and I've only just finally figured out how to use the blind hem stitch. And damn is it nice.

[acaplaya-musings]

VoicePlay hopes/predictions for 2025

So it's very extremely hard to guess what songs VoicePlay will cover, because they can and will do basically anything and everything, and Geoff is relatively diverse in his solo stuff as well, but in terms of more general video/song concepts, I actually had a few wishes that came true in 2024! I wanted more of the guys (or at least just Geoff) wearing eyeliner, and we got Be Prepared. I wanted more of Geoff playing piano in a video, and we got Imagine as well as Wicked Game. I wanted more choreography stuff, and we got Thriller and Party Of Your Lifetime. And so with that in mind, I have just a few humble requests of things I would enjoy seeing/hearing on either channel in the new year! (And after reading through this list, I've realised that most of it is to do with Geoff specifically, oop-)

Another "Disney Princess Geoff" moment, like in We Don't Talk About Bruno or Christmas Don't Be Late. I'm not fussy on specifics, but please, let me have this, I know Geoff would be up for that kind of thing, and it would be the best, whatever it turns out to be *cough* Geoff in a dress *cough*

And for that matter, more of Geoff having some more colour in his outfits, please! Like yes of course he always looks fantastic in black, but I want more stuff to make fanart of where I can actually use colour in my art, dangit!

I would love love love to hear more of Rock Tenor Geoff. Doesn't have to be anything super high/dramatic, even if I just got to hear more of him singing like he did for that one bit of In The Air Tonight (you know the bit), please and thank you.

Another Disney song cover or Disney medley from VoicePlay! 1 because well I love Disney music, and 2 because they've done at least one Disney thing per year since at least like 2017 now? So I feel like this is a fairly reasonable prediction to make.

Geoff singing an actual proper love song, PLEASE! Like okay yes sure Till Then does count, and you could maybe count Way Down as well, but still, I want another! Anything swoon-worthy plz, it would live in my head rent-free for months and I'd be okay with that!

And speaking of Geoff solo stuff, I might as well make note of my hope for a Geoff original song! Multiple of us Patrons have been dreaming of the day, and maybe it'll come in 2025, and maybe it won't (it probably won't, but eh), but someday, surely! (But if/when it ever happens, it might easily become my favourite song of the year, and perhaps favourite ever?).

Oh and also not technically related to Geoff or VoicePlay's channels, but I'm also really hoping that Pattycake Productions finally completes and uploads the Halloween video that got delayed for two years! It's likely gonna be another Layne & Tony original song, and it's meant to be featuring Geoff! It was originally meant to happen in 2023, but it got postponed, and then it was gonna release in 2024, but it didn't happen again! So like for Halloween 2025, please let us see it!

WILDCARD: VoicePlay superhero video. Because the Patrons were talking on the Discord a handful of months ago about "gimmicks" that VP haven't done yet, and the concept of superheroes got a decent bit of discussion.

[textingtroublesanswers]

[Lore attachment: The concept of ghosts in tf2 always confused me. You can go to heaven or hell but also the Mann brothers ended up as ghosts (and eventually tried to drag the other to hell in a previous halloween map) and there were ghosts with rocket launchers in the halloween maps. My theory is that it's like usual ghost rules where theres unfinished business that needs to be done, meaning someone else can conplete that business to let their souls be free to go to heaven or hell.]

To all of the mercs, if a bomb were to drop on all of you while everyone was in the base, destroying all your possessions (which will remove the "unfinished business is an object" unless they didn't bring it to the base.) as well as destroying the respawn machine, rendering all of you true and permanent deaths, where would you all end up? Would you go to heaven? Hell? Or would you haunt the living?

(Have fun with this one! You can even mix it up a bit with other people being in the base with them as it happens! Like the babies, Zhanna, Miss Pauling etc. etc. This is all hypothetical so maybe even the characters themselves would bring it up! This is why its a bomb and not just that every merc dies.)

-🤡 (made this in french colors for fun hehe)

Before you're even done talking, Ludwig is already gone from the room. No one knows where he went, no one even noticed him leave, not even Misha. He is just gone, & everyone realises this very quickly.

"Do you think doc left an experiment on the bunsen burner again?" Tavish asks while scratching his beard. He & Mikhail were the first to notice Ludwig's absence, & Tavish was the one to bring it up to the others.

"He usually doesn't leave them on when we get questions," Dell says, scratching under his helmet. He's just as confused as the rest of the team, "But, going back to the question, I'd hope I'd go to heaven, although I'd probably end up as a ghost. I have a lot of blueprints to work on, & I'd hate to leave them all unfinished, even if I never get the chance to build them."

Jeremy shrugs, "Eh, doc's weird. He's never really been on board with the whole heaven & hell thing. See, one time Bug & me were talking to him, & he says that he grew up Christian, right, but his family was actually Jewish, so he grew up with a weird mix of ideas, but then as a young adult he stopped believing in god cause what sorts god would force him to live through all the bullshit he lived through." The rest of the mercs stare at him for a moment, wearing matching looks of confusion.

"Vati said that?" Bug squeaks.

"Yeah, when he was drunk. All three of us were, but you the most, so you don't remember it."

"Oooh, right."

"Anyway," Jeremy continues, "I'm going to heaven, duh. I'm god's gift to humanity after all."

Mick is shaking his head, draping an arm around Jeremy's shoulders, "I'm not getting into all that with doc's past, if he knew you knew he'd probably dismember you. But, I know for a fact that I'm going to heaven." There is a chorus of mumbles from the other mercs, ranging from Mikhail & Tavish saying they'd hope they get to heaven, to Jane claiming he is immortal & could never die, to Bug saying she'd prefer hell because of all the fire.

"You've been rather quiet, French toast." Dell says, coming over to Jacques.

Jacques takes out a cigarette, & looks down at Dell, "With all of my sins, I thought it was obvious I was going to hell. However, I can't shake the thought that Ludwig is not telling us something."

Dell wraps his arms around Jacques, standing on his tip toes to lean up for a kiss, "Ah, when is doc not, not telling us something? You know how sensitive Lu is about his past, he hasn't had an easy life."

"No, but this is different, labourer, I'm telling you. That man cannot be stealthy to save his life, & yet no one noticed him leaving," Jacques sighs, "He is hiding something from us, & I simply hope it's nothing bad."

Dell smiles sadly, "He hides a lot of stuff from us, Spah. A lot of stuff, trust me."