#the songs about it all falling apart

[bearsintreesofficial]

ooOOooOOOOoo you wanna use bears in trees songs in your edits so bad!! ooOOoOOOo you know the Perfect song for that moment!!! ooOOooOOooo you can picture it in your head right now!!!!!

[copia]

THIRTY-ONE DAYS OF GHOST ⛧ DAY ONE

first song you heard — Mary On A Cross

September 1969; Papa Nihil and the beginning of the Ghost Project take to the stage at the Whiskey a Go Go club in Los Angeles, under the watchful eye of Sister Imperator. Fifty-three years later, in Tampa, Florida, Papa Emeritus the Fourth performs Mary On A Cross, unaware that he is singing the story of his parents—and that of himself.

[edge-oftheworld]

'shallow hearts for shallow minds that ache to be alive' the chokehold you have on me

[anxsity]

okay well first of all ill never soften my grip dont want cash dont want card want it fast want it hard dont need money dont need fame i just want to make a change

i just wanna change

i just wanna change

i just wanna change

i just wanna change

i just wanna change

i know exactly what i want

and who i want to be

[phoneybeatlemania]

sometimes a girl thinks about maxwells silver hammer and

[the-acid-pear]

I love thinking of Jack's relationship with Fredbear as catholic devotion esp when his relationship with him is Bad. Something about having met god and being an atheist because you hate him, you know? Also so I have more songs to think of Jack to, yeah.

[trash-bin-ary]

O_O act 5 somehow this has gotten more depressing

[skiddlecat]

anyway on a different note. uuhhmmmm. say we take what had been torn apart say we mend any patchwork discord turning eyes to the trypo-puppeteer waiting for the world to burn

SO

ONE 1️⃣ TWO 2️⃣ THREE 3️⃣ AND WE'LL TIE ➰ THE TOURNIQUET 🦴

LARVAE 🐛 EATING 🍴 AWAY AT EVERYTHING

WORD GOES ROUND 🗣 I'M THE TRYPO-PUPPETEER

LAUGH ALONG 🤣 I'M SPREADING HOLES 🕳🕳🕳

🔊🔥🔥🔥🔥🔊🔊

NOW I KNOW 😢 THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY FAULT 😭

🔊🔥🔊🔊🔥🔥🔊🔥

AND I CAN'T ❌ INHALE 😤 ANYMORE

[hecksupremechips]

Time for me to be completely changed as a person! *just watched falsettos*

[ansy-tea]

Y'all ever stopped listening to your favorite bands for about 2 years for reasons you don't even know yourself. Maybe it's because you're busy. Maybe it's because you thought you've acquired new tastes. You really don't know. But then suddenly you listened to one song of theirs again and now you're sobbing over how good the songwriting was? And now that you're not a dumb High Schooler without much experience you understand the lyrics even more?

Anyways that's me with Fall Out Boy right now lmao. It's high time I listen to their new album later.

[dreamaboutwhathappens]

if we know that you're losing me was written over two years ago, and this album is the secret she's been keeping for two years....... i wonder if you're losing me was when the dam burst. i've seen so many people talking about how already, this album seems like the gloves are coming off in such a different way than ever before. i wonder if once she realized that he was losing her, she started to realize the harsh reality of other parts of the situation -- that protecting him was killing her.

[magicicephoenix]

me, listening to a new song centered around losing who you are: huh, i really like this song but i dunno what character it could apply to. oh well! i still like it :)

my old DCA hyperfixation, lunging out of the shadows with killing intent:

[kazoosandfannypacks]

1989 is so ScarletQueen coded and I will die on this hill.

[captainswan618]

it feels weird to identify so strongly with a song that's ostensibly about Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. but like...if they didn't want neurodivergent people to identify with it they shouldn't have written this FUCKING CHORUS

I want a new brain, I want a new heart I'm sick of feeling, failing, and falling apart I want the courage to make a new start Time after time, I flip from fine to failing and falling apart

[voxiiferous]

**| Interesting revelations of the evening!

I’m not certain Vox has ever actually fired a gun. He’s certainly never owned one. Most of the time if he needs to cause pain his just sort of… goes zappy on them. Flesh doesn’t take kindly to massive amounts of electricity!

Hah! Now that I have drawn you in with fun hc there’s the more serious examination of themes. A consequence of when I started writing Vox is the fact that I could not turn off the university part of my brain that’s just like “if you were to write an essay for him what are the themes you would focus on? What DEFINES him???” And the answer was performance, because clearly right? He’s TV man.

And this had the unintentional side effect of earning him the “not as bad a person as you could have been” award because if he was a really bad boss, and I leaned more into the corrupt businessman aspects of him, then that core theme would have been less performance and more consumerism and capitalism. Which I decided was not thematically relevant and would have just detracted from the overall character I wanted to write.

If I had to pick his main three vibes it’s: performance in big bold letters (more on that in a sec), modernization (not capitalism or consumerism, but specifically that transition of technology and opinion), and a very sci-fi concern of what is a human? Is he still?

but but but going back to the performance. It’s so key to how I write him. Like there’s the literal performance aspect on screen, but it’s more than that. As Vincent he performs a veneer of, if not heterosexuality, than at least… not queerness. But otherwise he’s still very much him. Sure his charm was taught, but he made it a part of himself, it’s not a performance anymore, he has things he enjoys and doesn’t, and is, more or less, honest in that. Vox is… not that. It’s why in the 1946!Vincent content, the fun is forcing Vox to acknowledge himself. He has to step beyond the performance, he has to see backstage essentially. He has to be vulnerable.

And vulnerability is something that cannot exist in the Overlord Vox persona, which he is constantly inhabiting. But at the same time that’s not who he actually is, but it’s who he’s performing as, even to himself. He’s always on this knife’s edge of self reflection and juuust missing the point, because if he goes to close to the truth, the masquerade falls apart.

There’s this line from the song All for Believing by Missy Higgins that’s great here, and it’s “But I see you painted your soul into your guard”, and it’s super true for Vox. Overlord Vox is the face of every new product, he derides the old as outdated, he’s ruthless, and powerful and confident. Nothing gets under the skin of Overlord Vox, not even a broken screen, see him laughing in Voxtagram? Laugh with him. It keeps him safe, it’s the image that’s given him power and control and the successful end result to all the ambition that is still a core part of him.

Vox however??? Vox is a bit of romantic, and he loves swing music, and black and white game shows, he’s an insomniac and a bit of nerd. It’s not that Overlord Vox isn’t him, because like the lyrics says, it’s been painted into. Overlord Vox is the strongest parts of himself people take seriously and made into a living, breathing part of himself. It’s a shield and a half truth.

Money does play a role, but it’s a tertiary one at best. He has more money than God, he owns everything under the sun, great, great, it plays the role it needs to and is otherwise vague. What is he doing with his money??? Uhh, I don’t know, who cares?

The modernization works in with the performance, though that’s another post of its own. So please enjoy this somewhat rambling roundabout examination of why my Vox is, all things considered, not that bad a dude. It’s about the pretentious English major themes, and that being the least interesting thing to explore for me. (Just see his playlist, it’s basically all “look at me, look at me, look at what I’m showing you, don’t look over there behind the scenes).

[the-acid-pear]

Also while Jack and religion posting these lyrics from Belle's Palsy by Reverend Glasseye just felt so him.