#self-ish album

[tea-with-cinnamontoast]

did you lose yourself

[raisin-hater]

made an OC based on the best Will Wood song

their name is "Dr. Sunshine" btw if that wasn't clear

they're also HEAVILY based on this Bill Cipher design by minthaver (IT'S REALLY COOL FOLLOW THEM!!!)

[imalleyes0]

Made the dude from SELF-iSH!

Inspired by @tendonart but nowhere near as good as their's lol

[the-moons-not-haunted-you-are]

My brother: Do you know what "self" means?

Me, a will wood fan: heh.

[skelpiescool]

im aware its awful but in a dark room with no reference i think its decent :D

[mayrine]

So I’ve been listening to Will Wood lately and started to associate his song from the Self-ish album to tma. So here are some loosely connected things that i found    (spoiler warning btw)

Self fells like Jon at the end of s2 all defeated and stuff giving a sad song as he  sits on the floor in Georgis apartment. Here are some lyrics that express that: “We'll write history books from memories“ - trying to figure out what the hell is happening from the statements that people give “Well, they always ask you not to leave“ - Elias forcing very nicely asking his employees not to leave “No, I won't come back and be the same“ - Jon and everyone being change about the things they experienced

2012 is about Jon in s3 being scared about becoming an avatar for the eye, as in scared that he’ll lose himself. “I was an existential criminal, so innocently cynical Ignorant as fuck but a proud individual Originally meant to live a God-damned miracle Mighta’ve been metaphysical, but I think it was medical” - basically s1 Jon “Never finding a theory” - Jon not understanding how the statements fit together in a coherent way “Did you lose yourself?” - Jon is afraid that he is in fact losing himself

I dont really have anything on Cotard's solution so we’ll move on

Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity is the theme song of the not!them. I could go to every lyric and say how they related but that would mean that id have to copy paste the whole songs. Still, here are some examples: “Levitating off the ground“ - the first ep, the guy floating a few cm of the ground “Is another man wearing your face!“ - do i really need to say anything at this “Somebody to replace yourself“ - the not!them association with the stranger “Ready in your head and fed upon your memoirs” - again the not!them fit perfectly here

The Song With Five Name is my favorite. I imagine every  entity coming together and making fun of Jon “You can break a shovel when you break new ground You dig dirt up when you dig deep down” -this lyric is about Jon in s2 and 3 breaking every connection he has with other people while trying to uncover the truth “Don't you forget That all you project Is just to protect you from The void within the form“ - again this is about Jon trying to protect himself from the truth with skepticism in s1 “And we'll have nothing left for us to lie to No matter what we seek you'll never find truth” -t he entities telling Jon that he’s to dumb for trying to find the truth

Hand Me My Shovel, I'm Going In! this is kinda like self in the sense that it’s a Jon solo but this one takes place in the peak of his paranoia in s2. The whole vibe of the song is jon frantically doing anything in his power to figure out what is happening. “It just seems unlikely that it's me who was to blame” - i know i said that this song would fit in s2 but this line specifically remind me of the s3 climax when  i think?? it was Sarah Baldwin that used Gertrude and Leitner skin to make Jon think that the end of the world was his fault “This is not enough, this is not enough to prove it yet No, I need to hit the bottom                                                                              Gotta get to the bottom of this” - pretty self explanatory, Jon trying to find the bottom of things “"Don't look down! You'll fall and break your back!" But that just reminds me how There's more to be found beneath the black” - the “Dont look back” is Elias telling Jon to stop doing stupid thing but he doesn’t listen “Gotta get to the bottom of this Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Gotta get to the bottom of this If it kills me”  - the last bit of the son makes me think of when Jon got an axe and broke that table. The last chorus fits perfectly with that bit, it has that frantic energy and desperation that Jon is having while he understands how massively he fucked up

Dr. Sunshine Is Dead is just a song for the dark, point blank, so i will not go into it

ish is self part 2. Theres not much to say here, it again plays into Jons fear of losing himself “And if I change my self can I still stay me? Or did I just change my mind? No it doesn't matter who I am”

Now if you read all of that  first i must thank you for putting up with me for that long, you may be thinking that there is no connection and that im grasping for straws or that because the message of the album is about the fear of losing yourself it would obviously share that theme with tma since that is like a main plot point in the podcast and not everything that shares a theme is connected.

And you know what, you’re right. Im not writing this because i think that i found  definite proof that the album and tma are connected, I dont even thonk that the connections I found are that good. First of all, I wrote this because it was fun and it gave me a chance to talk about two of my favorite thing and because I find it really cool how the human mind can find connections between thing that arent related at all and this is an example of that. So, thats all i got. If your a tma fan go give this album a listen because its good and who know maybe youll also think that it fids with the podcasts vibe and if you’re a will wood fan go listen to tma because i said so.

Goodbye now, thanks again for reading and have a nice day :]

ps. Honorable mention of ok ultra from the normal album for kinda feeling like how i imagine taking and reading a statement feels like

[poppytheaxolotl]

I love how you don’t need to know Spanish to know exactly what he means.

[sunflowerangel16]

You guys know Will Wood has five albums right.

[justarat-man]

hhhhhh 2nd pressing of Will Wood and the tapeworms Self-ish album are out and I was so lucky to go check and get one <33

[trasho-pando2011]

me when I tell my friends to listen to will wood

[p-idiot]

Average SELF-iSH album experience moodboard

[jellymerit]

There are two flavors of white teenager

[willwoodsstuff]

“you’re wearing THAT?” ahh face😭

[eazy-peazy54]

will wood does NOT love his children(albums) equally

"i love you icimi!" "i love you normal album!" "self-ish, go get me another beer." "i love you eial!!

[ajearthlinggg]

everybody stop what you’re doing, put on both headphones, and LISTEN TO WHITE KNUCKLE JERK AT FULL VOLUME. THE FLUTE. THE XYLOPHONE. THE LOWER OCTAVES IN THE CHORUS. THE BASS IN THE PIANO SOLO. DEAR GOD THIS SONG HAS SO MUCH DETAIL IT TOOK ME ALMOST A YEAR TO REALLY APPRECIATE IT OMGGGGG

[palsqueerflagsblog]