@nothingrhymeswithciircus was the matt, tord, and ken !!
if you know anyone's @'s in the photos other than me and my bf id love to know themm, forgot to ask :(( same for the booth we got the dog ears from!
huge shoutout to the digidestined cosplay group we ran into RIGHT as we walked in as Ken and Daisuke, they were all so freaking cool and totally hyped us up for the day!! got a Joe CD signed by Daman Mills too, long story but live love Joe Kido
had a lot of fun being N, got called John Pokémon from Fortnite was pretty stoked abt that
eddsworld was also SUPER fun and something ive wanted to do since i was really young, really healing experience to get to walk around as them, huge thank you to my bf for letting me indoctrinate him before the con :3
i was BEYOND honored to be chosen as a finalist in the voice acting competition held by Adventures in Voice Acting, everyone there did amazing and it was so so exciting to be in a space with other people who were so accepting and encouraging over this passion! biggest congratulations to the winners, and everyone else involved for getting out there >:00
giant thank you to everyone and anyone who complimented me and my bfs cosplays and took pics with us!!! id LOVE to see any pictures or just hear if you saw us around :]]
everyone was super chill and nice, had a blast and absolutely can't wait to go again
I FINALLY DID MY MATT COS REDO!! i wanted to do a design heavily inspired by the wonderful @ryemackerel s design for matt!!
attending a con as him was so fun, and was very happy to get recognised a few times!! me and @encorific went as matt and edd on the last day together, and had an absolute blast!! he was also my photographer soooo thank you bf !!!
Me infodumping about my headcanons of musical themes for the Eddsworld gang, specifically the ships!!
Get ready for me to go absolutely silly over TomMatt’s music because AGAHHAHhh I love them so much.
For context! This is based on my TomMatt Spotify playlist @starrixle helped out with!
Pictured above: Two gay guys, who are very stupid silly, take a selfie together, circa 2017. Original post!
First things first: This goes for all of my character playlists, but I always go by a certain genre, mood, and/or instrument I associate with each of them!
For example: I see Edd with a lot of songs from the mid to late-20th century! He loves artists such as The Smiths, Tears For Fears, and Beach Boys. Outside of that, he even loves a lot of Indie genres, like Mac DeMarco and Vacations. I generally describe his music taste to be very calm and easygoing like his personality, and a lot of guitar or keyboard songs, since those are the instruments I generally see him playing.
In this case, for Tom and Matt as individuals:
Matt’s songs are very lightweight, romantic, and daydreamy. A sort of echoey, floating feeling amidst the clouds. He’s the kind of guy who expresses his love upfront to the people he adores and cares about, and a good amount of his playlist has songs with the main theme being love and romance. Some of his songs can be rougher and louder, reflecting more of his love for rock when he was a teenager, but as he got older, he’s generally more lighthearted. I associate a lot of his songs with guitar since he’s the guitarist for The Creatures, and the guitar fit his personality a lot to me. :-] He has a good amount of Soul and R&B. His playlist has artists including Thee Sacred Souls, Common Saints, Steve Lacy, Ginger Root, Frank Ocean, and TV Girl.
Tom’s songs are generally heavier, rougher, louder, and harsher, with a lot of metal, rock, and grunge genres, though with the occasional ska, which shows more of his sillier side, and hip-hop and rap. Tom is usually very concealed and closed off when it comes to expressing his true emotions, but compared to his playlist, his music is very loud and outspoken; either it’s a weighed down feeling in your shoulders, or calmer and more relaxed, yet rough. I highly associate Tom with the bass (also a bassist for Creatures), and there are a good amount of bass-heavy songs in his playlist. I associate him with artists like Deftones, Whirr, Alice In Chains, Type O Negative, SOAD, ATCQ, MF DOOM, and Radiohead. (THANK YOU STAR for introducing me to Deftones and Whirr LOL)
Tom and Matt are almost opposites of each other, with Matt being more upfront and lighter, and Tom being concealed and heavier. And it’s clear that, yeah, evene though their personalities contrast each other, and their main music tastes are different, I still LOVE seeing how this works thematically, and specifically how they get along in the first place.
Tom and Matt together:
A TomMatt song I associate with this segment :) Listening to it right now as I’m typing this!
I associate a lot of what TomMatt is with harmony. This warm, soft embrace, quieter and calmer, but full of rhythm and energy. You feel like flying into space, and the guitar echoes and sustains throughout the air, flying skyhigh, but the bass settles it down, keeps it grounded to make sure it doesn’t fly too far away. They both play together, a melody of highs and lows, both intertwined into one.
Tom and Matt have kinda almost this harmonious relationship with each other, where one of them helps the other realize their own qualities that they never realized before, and helps one other realize things that the other loves about them. They love each other dearly, and as they’ve grown older, they’ve learned to love themselves.
Tom doesn’t open about his issues a lot and closes them off out of fear of burdening others. He insists he’s able to manage these issues on his own without anybody’s help. He doesn’t see himself as anything special, a nobody or “just another problem for someone to deal with.” Especially as he’s grown into his 20s and started taking on harmful coping habits, he’s constantly beaten himself up.
And you can imagine how Matt would react knowing all of this. He never saw Tom as a burden, a nobody, or a problem, but someone that he just genuinely loves to be around. He sees Tom as his whole entire world, and constantly expresses it multiple times, over and over again.
“You’re everything to me, Tom, and you mean so much to me. I just want you to remember that, okay? I love you.”
Tom doesn’t always express his happiness out loud, but being around Matt has helped him realize that “Hey, maybe there’s some good things about me that people love about me. Maybe shit isn’t all so bad.”
Sometimes, there’s moments where Tom slips back into that mindset. Sometimes, he doesn’t understand why Matt would love him for simply “being himself.” The things he hates about himself feel so much more amplified than the things people appreciate him for. Tom sees Matt, who loves every single part of him, and he asks Matt, “Why do you love me so much? Don’t I just stress you out more?”
“Well, you feel hurt, right? I can’t just leave you be when you feel hurt all on your own.”
“You should be spending time with else. Don’t put all of your energy just on me, man. Go with Edd or Tord, maybe they’ll make you happier.”
“But what if I want to spend time with you? You make me happier.”
“…
Do what you want.”
Sometimes, Tom never understands Matt. He sometimes accidentally says things that hurt her, and he sometimes stresses her out with his issues, so why would she want to spend more time with him? But you know, no matter what, he appreciates how much someone is willing to stick around and never give up on him.
Even Matt has her own shit. She can be really fun to be around and loves talking to other people as much as she can, but there’s times where being out overwhelms her. Whenever she’s out in public, her anxiety can skyrocket. She picks up on every little conversation others say around her, and she constantly thinks about what others feel about her. She can have a good day, but as soon as she feels like her surroundings overwhelm her, she shuts down.
Tom doesn’t always know how to help or what to say, since he isn’t someone who uses a lot of words to help others. But during those quiet moments, the best he knows what to do is take Matt into his arms, and embrace him, so so tightly.
“(Hugging Matt) …Had a bad day today?”
“…”
“Hey, hey… It’s okay. You don’t have to say anything. Just breathe.”
“Today could’ve been a good day.”
“It’s okay to have a bad day. We all get those sometimes.”
“I missed you a lot.”
“(Hugging her tighter) I missed you a lot, too.”
I love how well the guitar and bass work together, just like Tom and Matt together. A lot of their music I associate with Steve Lacy, BADBADNOTGOOD, Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, and Piero Piccioni. Some of the songs I’ll list below shows a lot of bass and guitar, and also some orchestra, which I associate with Matt. :)
Some by Steve Lacy was the very first song I thought about when I imagined what Tom and Matt's duo theme would sound like. A lot of Steve's discography is what I see being TomMatt's genres :-) Lots of bassline and very funky guitar tunes. Again, very lightweight and enthusiastic, but also relaxed and calm. I imagine them playing together in almost all of these kinda songs. <3
Some other songs I absolutely ABSOLUTELY love and associate with TomMatt:
I'll end off this post for now because I don't want to make it TOO long HAHAGAA But this is just a little insight to my TomMatt brain! This is solely based on just my headcanons and roleplays of them with the help of my partner. Been wanting to talk about my thought processes behind all my other Eddsworld playlists, so hope you enjoyed this super long one! GAHHA
Projecting my disabilities onto my fixated characters because I love making my favorite characters awesome YAAAAWAAHAGAA!!! I always wondered how Tord being T1D like me would be like. :-) evil guy with his funny machine thing.
I don’t usually see a lot of diabetic representation art, so I thought it would’ve been cool to try this out, being a type 1 diabetic myself! I will say it is SUPERR difficult finding diabetic rep in art, and it’d be really cool to find more. :-]
I’ve had T1D for almost a decade now, and it means my body can’t really make insulin to control my blood sugar whenever I eat food. As a result, I have to rely on an automatic, artificial insulin pump, and an automatic blood sugar checker.
SOMETIMES it’s annoying to have to change to pump every 3 days, and the blood sugar checker every 10 days, but I’ve gotten used to it HAGAH!! Sometimes I forget I have diabetes because of it LOL.
Dealing with constant alerts whenever my blood sugar goes wrong can be annoyingg as hell and I have to stay up sometimes because of it. I can imagine how aggravated Tord can get from it HWLEDK! It’s usually for low blood sugars though. Whenever I get low blood sugars, I take it as an excuse to eat all the candy I want HAGAHHAAA
So just imagining Tord having it is pretty fuckin cool, especially since I don’t know much characters who do have it, or headcanons of it. I see him working with robots and mechanics too, I wonder if he configures his own insulin pumps.
I love talking about cool ass shit that I know a lot about HAVSHHE if anyone’s curious about anything else T1D-related, ask away! Will take a bit to answer, but I don’t mind giving a bit more insight into it. :-)
ALSO Tord has been OBSESSED with My Sharona. This guy really badly wants to make a drum cover of this song and I’m being deadass this is probably going all the way at the top of his On Repeat.
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