#puppet loosely strung the correspondents

[quotes-and-lyrics-i-think-about]

“ Where have you gone? I am calling on you Your alarm call's on and I'm coming to your rescue When I'm the person by your side, I'm your mentor, I'm your guide, upon me you can rely when you're high and when you're dry. The irony is that my recovery is always slower than yours You're back on your feet in no time when I'm left floored, haunted by the sound of your alarm call, living in fear of your next fall. „

- Alarm Call by The Correspondents (Ian Bruce and Chucks), from their album Puppet Loosely Strung (2014).

[mulletsg]

Puppet Loosely Strung

based on the album by the same name, by The Correspondents

[trevisos]

nothing but teeth

pairing: nb!Tav/Astarion rating: G word count: 4,030 description: Astarion is lying about being a magistrate - that much is obvious. Xarrai intends to find out what it is he's trying to hide. more context: Xarrai is a tiefling bard and courtesan with the charlatan background, and an escaped Banite cultist. Any pronouns are fine (though I stick with they/them here for clarity.) ao3 link: here

It's high summer on the banks of the Chionthar and the woods are alive with it, birdsong and sunlight on every breeze. The air is warm and bright and smells of fresh grass and clean water; the sun sends rays of light like long fingers between the branches of the trees and spills them across the worn dust of the road. It’s the kind of thing Xarrai could write a shallow ballad about, a song to be debuted in a room of drunkards at the Helm & Cloak to raucous applause. Or perhaps a poem, one they could whisper into the ear of a patriar in the facsimile of affection he paid for, wrapped in his silken sheets. It’s beautiful. 

They hate it.

keep reading on ao3

[thermodynamic-comedian]

i am actually so insane about arkayne in a way i have never been insane about jonelias in and i don't know why. i don't know why

[ampersand-counter]

You should go listen to Fear & Delight!

..fear & delight? all the way through the night? with a little derring-do? ill fall in love with you?

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Ampersands: 2

Beats Current Record: No

[heinrix]

thee oz/enver song

[riddled-priest]

this fucks harder actually

[tache-noire]

Hi

Puppet Loosely Strung is a Hookhausen song from Hook's perspective

They just couldn't see

That it was me needing you, not you needing me

They just couldn't see

That a puppet loosely strung is how i now want to be

[gaycactusscoundrel]

Song of the Day 05/01/2024

[s0ng-of-the-day]

Todays song of the day is:

Fear and Delight by The Correspondents

“I’m a young boy tickled to death in your arms,

Your kisses taste like bitter almonds,

It’s wrong but I want you tonight”

[the-craftsman-and-mover]

Let me put myself in your shoes, as a puppet loosely strung.

- Keeper.

[quotes-and-lyrics-i-think-about]

“ Now I face up to losing you - one thing I thought I'd never have to do. And still, I stare at people walking in the street, and think some must have done worse than me. Those who greet their wives with booted feet, or those who steal from the elderly. Why couldn't this hand be dealt to them? In an eye for an eye for an eye? Rather than giving me this I cannot understand no matter how hard I try. „

- What Did I Do? by The Correspondents (Ian Bruce and Chucks), from their album Puppet Loosely Strung (2014).

[bluecrowsfly]

song of the day today is:

Fear & Delight - The Correspondents

[johndoe-lesbo]

Why didn’t anyone tell me this album was a whole breakfast, lunch and dinner??

[brokuma]

[always-just-down-the-street]

INANIMATE INSANITY 16 SPOILERS AHEAD!

ALSO EYESTRAIN WARNING!

Also this fan-art is based on the theory I made here, so please read this before checking out the fan-art below!

You beg MePhone to say he's lying. That you're real, that you were never supposed to win, that your conquest to save everyone from themselves hasn't been anything short of the only lie bigger than your continued existence. You try to think back to who you used to be and you can't, it hurts so much, she's dead and it's your fault, you knew you were unsalvageable but you didn't know it permeated so far into your being. The gilded cage you lost the key to. You feel yourself crack again and you pray it'll be quick but no, you just sit there, broken, crying, screaming. A winner forced into the role of the villain, the liar, the freakshow.

The only grace you can hope for is that if you go completely insane, maybe you'll finally be more like her again.

You stare at her. You see every day you had fun with her back in the first season, when things were simple and the world felt like it actually made sense. When you weren't burdened by the knowledge of what you really are. You can't help but laugh- why should you be so surprised? You were only ever meant to take the shape of the vessel you were given, who cared if it was a physical one or not? You think back to every day you saw her in the corner of your eye, watching you prance around in the hotel you stole from her. In the life you stole from her. She missed that and she missed them but she definitely did not miss you. You wouldn't even be surprised if she hates you, and the worst part is she has every right to. MePhone wanted you to be the villain, the person everyone hates, but things went wrong and she was forced to take that role instead. But now the truth is out. Her last good deed was saving you from yourself. You're still the villain.

And somehow you're the most surprised of them all.

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The joy of being an artist and a theorist is that sometimes I get such a cool idea I can express it in both ways.

Yes, this is a sequel to my Netflix Trip picture with Knife and Suitcase, this time featuring our season one finalists OJ and Taco and Kikuo's Hole-Dwelling! (Originally it was Puppet Loosely Strung by The Correspondents but Hole-Dwelling actually goes INSANE with the theory.) It's based on the theory that I had posted of last, which (and I might go back to the original post to add this) I have now given an official title: The Misremembered Lanes Theory! Or AU, if this gets deconfirmed. You never know! But yeah, it is named after the Season 1 finale.

Just like last time, the models were done in Blockbench, this one was a lot harder because I had to wrangle with stuff like OJ's transparency, trying to pick the right face/expression for Taco- there was a version of this image where Taco had just gone. Completely mad/feral, but it didn't look as good as I wanted it to...but, I think I finally got around to a fun result in the end. Speaking of fun facts, my favorite little design thing I did for this: OJ and Taco's strings are colored like each other! Puppets literally and helplessly ensnared in each other's role. :)

Plus I already have an idea of who I might do a piece of next, so that'll be fun! So I hope you all enjoy this piece as much as you did the last piece and the theory itself, all fan-art is appreciated, and thank you for reading this far!