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silverior968 · 9 months

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You know what's half upsetting half pretty funny? There's this song I absolutely love and I've always wanted to put it in a character playlist, but it is just so bleak that I've never been able to justify putting it in a character playlist. Keep in mind I have a playlist for Anton Shudder, the guy who is so depressed he can turn it into a literal physical weapon. He's like the king of bleakness but the song was just too bleak. Well, I've finally found a character whose playlist I can put that song into -- and it's a fucking TFP character. I checked the song, counted all the lines in it (44) and all the lines out of those that don't fit him (9). As a percentage that means that 80% of the lyrics of one of the bleakest songs I know fit a guy from a show I watched when I was 11. Life is absurd.

#not art #text post #I'm not putting this in the tags because it is literally 10% fandom content 90% me rambling about a song #if you really want to know the song in question is “The Alien” by Manchester Orchestra #and when I say it's bleak I mean it. Content warning for attempted suicide and mentions of child abuse and traffic accidents #the lyrics I discounted weren't even because they were too bleak! I had to discount all the ones that mention biological family!#it's such a pretty song though #the singer of that band has such an incredible voice it's like he's harmonizing with himself #also me saying this song is bleak also means a lot when you know what type of music i listen to #all I'm saying is that one friend had to stop listening to my playlist because it was too sad #and that was the anton playlist! the playlist that this song was too bleak for!#another reason it can't go in the anton playlist #is because the main character of the song says he didn't mean to hurt anyone several times #and that's just blatantly not true for anton #he doesn't like hurting anyone but sometimes he has to and he does it intentionally #meanwhile dr. blorbo over here only has like 1 person on his hitlist #i love making posts where the tags are longer than the post itself #this is like the secret club for all of you in the audience who got curious enough to read my ramblings

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