Rating Your OC Playlists

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I want to listen to your OC Playlists

Now that I have your attention. Haiiii.

About this blog: I want to know more stuff about people’s OCs. I like music. You can see the overlap.

Profile picture is my current blorbo OC. You can learn more about him @whereisyourrider

Submission Rules

Please send your playlist as an ask. Preferred playlist hosts are Spotify or YouTube, but tbh you could just send me an actual list of songs and that would work just fine.

Types of OC allowed: fully original characters, fandom OCs, self-inserts, TTRPG characters. Types of OC not allowed: AU versions of canon characters. Now, I’m not in every fandom, so I won’t necessarily know. That being said, I would like to focus on original characters.

I will also do OC ship playlists.

You do not have to send me anything about your OC. If you don’t, I will be going in blind. If you do want to, I’d prefer you to send me a link to information (Toyhouse, google doc, tumblr post, etc) rather than just yap about the character.

You do not need to defend your song choices. I think joke songs are a valuable part of a playlist. I am also not here to go [Band] is bad/bad people. This is generally not something I keep up with, so there is a large chance I don’t know.

I reserve the right to not respond to every ask.

“Rating” Rules

I interpret “OC playlist” as “songs that make me think about the character”. Other interpretations are valid, but for the sake of this blog, this is how I will be analyzing the playlists.

If I am going in blind to the playlist: I will tell you what vibes the character gives off. If you give me information about the character: I will attempt to engage with what I know about the character and draw connections.

I am not going to tell you “this is a good playlist” or “this is a bad playlist”. I will tell you what I like about it. I will give you commentary about it. I may ask questions about it. If I am feeling compelled I may give recommendations based on vibes.

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Hello! This is the playlist for my OC Sun Reed Kemp

He's very silly and dear to me :]

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3NFVPiLJvOSQ5XQCENPhTi?si=v4FTnrCjQra9UjWtm0ChJQ&utm_source=copy-link&pi=Tq_P7C0mRgSZW

All caps mentally ill blond man as the description is so funny. Paired with the terrified expression in the image is just *chefs kiss*

I am right off the bat entertained by the songs that make some very bold statements about the things this guy likes. Verbatim by Mother Mother, Bitchboy by The Oozes, The Masochism Tango by Tom Lehrer, and Take a Slice by Glass Animals, especially with the first 3 on the first half of the playlist is very fun to me. Adding I / Me / Myself by Will Wood and Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl by yeule later on in the playlist definitely gives this guy some VIBES of being queer, though how much he’s realized it I think is still up for debate.

Based on some of the songs, I get the vibe that like there is some sort of unfulfilling/unfulfilled relationship Sun has? Drift Away from Steven Universe, Blah Blah Blah by the Oozes, Empty Bed by Cavetown, Not Allowed by TV Girl, Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High by Arctic Monkeys, ARE WE STILL FRIENDS by Tyler the Creator, My Love Mine All Mine by Mitski, Blue Over You by Mason Ramsey… honestly the list goes on, though I do gotta say I love the Hozier cover of Do I Wanna Know?

It’s very funny that both Karma by AJR and Father by the Front Bottoms are both on this playlist because if I made an OC playlist for myself those would both me songs on there to make people realize *I* am mentally ill lol. But I also think there is something to be said about Better Than Me by the Brobecks also hinting at him being mentally unwell, as well as the line in Better Than Me “Today I even thought I’d wear a dress” inter playing with I / Me / Myself and Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl for a very interesting sort of dichotomy? As well as Better Than Me, …And To Those I Love, Thanks For Sticking Around by $uicideboy$, and Problems by Mother Mother both sort of portraying this very self-deprecating figure.

The tail end of the playlist being Someone New by Hozier and Can’t Go Back by the Crane Wives almost gives this sort of feeling of Sun almost coming to peace with himself? I think it’s kind of a nice counterpoint to the rest of the playlist!

I am never going to say no to a playlist with The Masochism Tango. I love that song. I will (light-heartedly) say no to Take A Slice, but that’s more because I made it my alarm for a little while so it now induces panic in me whenever I hear it. Overall I found this playlist to be fun!! I feel I understand the core of the character over the course of his story, even though I have absolutely no idea what that story looks like.

[spaghetti-doodles]

YESSSS OH MY GOODNESS YOU ATE HIM UPPPP

Giggling with joy and glee

(some art of Sun for those interested. HOH stuff + a cowboy AU )

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Hello! This is the playlist for my OC Sun Reed Kemp

He's very silly and dear to me :]

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3NFVPiLJvOSQ5XQCENPhTi?si=v4FTnrCjQra9UjWtm0ChJQ&utm_source=copy-link&pi=Tq_P7C0mRgSZW

All caps mentally ill blond man as the description is so funny. Paired with the terrified expression in the image is just *chefs kiss*

I am right off the bat entertained by the songs that make some very bold statements about the things this guy likes. Verbatim by Mother Mother, Bitchboy by The Oozes, The Masochism Tango by Tom Lehrer, and Take a Slice by Glass Animals, especially with the first 3 on the first half of the playlist is very fun to me. Adding I / Me / Myself by Will Wood and Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl by yeule later on in the playlist definitely gives this guy some VIBES of being queer, though how much he’s realized it I think is still up for debate.

Based on some of the songs, I get the vibe that like there is some sort of unfulfilling/unfulfilled relationship Sun has? Drift Away from Steven Universe, Blah Blah Blah by the Oozes, Empty Bed by Cavetown, Not Allowed by TV Girl, Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High by Arctic Monkeys, ARE WE STILL FRIENDS by Tyler the Creator, My Love Mine All Mine by Mitski, Blue Over You by Mason Ramsey… honestly the list goes on, though I do gotta say I love the Hozier cover of Do I Wanna Know?

It’s very funny that both Karma by AJR and Father by the Front Bottoms are both on this playlist because if I made an OC playlist for myself those would both me songs on there to make people realize *I* am mentally ill lol. But I also think there is something to be said about Better Than Me by the Brobecks also hinting at him being mentally unwell, as well as the line in Better Than Me “Today I even thought I’d wear a dress” inter playing with I / Me / Myself and Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl for a very interesting sort of dichotomy? As well as Better Than Me, …And To Those I Love, Thanks For Sticking Around by $uicideboy$, and Problems by Mother Mother both sort of portraying this very self-deprecating figure.

The tail end of the playlist being Someone New by Hozier and Can’t Go Back by the Crane Wives almost gives this sort of feeling of Sun almost coming to peace with himself? I think it’s kind of a nice counterpoint to the rest of the playlist!

I am never going to say no to a playlist with The Masochism Tango. I love that song. I will (light-heartedly) say no to Take A Slice, but that’s more because I made it my alarm for a little while so it now induces panic in me whenever I hear it. Overall I found this playlist to be fun!! I feel I understand the core of the character over the course of his story, even though I have absolutely no idea what that story looks like.

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Hi! So here’s a playlist for my character Joan.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uHLMvgx9rBa2cPraCnP9v?si=ON0flxCpRAK4bp4X7cmoWg&utm_source=copy-link&pi=Al_R8jmmTFS0O

I won’t go into lore stuff here, but I hope you enjoy!

Well the description being “The narrative wants to save her so bad” is a great start, so let’s get into it!!

Ribs by the Crane Wives as the first song is suuuuch a strong choice, especially paired with the description I think gives a very strong feel for who this character is: fighting against the tragedy that has befallen her.

I am willing to guess this is a character with a strong familial tie to at least one sibling, just based on some of the other songs: The Crooked Kind by Radical Face, Second Child Restless Child by the Oh Hellos, and Two Birds and Call Them Brothers by Regina Spektor.

Back to the rebelling against her own tragedy sort of theme I’m picking up here from Ribs, the other songs that add to that theme to me are Run Boy Run by Woodkid, Rockslide by the Crane Wives, and Crown by Gigi Perez.

Coyote My Little Brother by Mitski, Hawk in the Night by Madds Buckley, and Goodbye by Ramsey seem to touch on both the family and the rebelling against the tragedy theme in very interesting ways, but they are also sort of almost resigned in a way that the other songs aren’t.

Actually side tangent. I do like the original of Coyote My Little Brother by Peter La Farge if you wish for same lyrics but slightly different vibe.

Dead Women by Mitski being on the tail end of the playlist forms a really nice counterpoint to Ribs. It feels like the tragedy catching up to her! Hey Girl by Norma Tanega almost feels like it’s eulogizing her, and the two make a really nice sort of ending to the playlist.

I love a good tragedy. I loooooooove a good tragedy. I almost wish I knew more about the character?? So I’d be able to go through and point out all the fun little niche details.

I think if I had a recommendation for this playlist, it would be Family and Genus by Shakey Graves? I’d also recommend Wild West by Gregory and the Hawk. I really enjoyed the playlist!!! It was good!!

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I'm so glad you liked it! Joan holds such a special place in my heart and you really did pick up a lot of her story and vibes so well!

She is rebelling against her own tragedy, but it takes a while for her to do so. She gave up for a while, (who wouldn't) choosing the status quo even as it restricted and hurt her. The playlist isn't really in order, so the last few songs aren't really the end of her story, which does end happier, but I haven't really fleshed all the ending stuff out quite yet (One day I might actually turn this into a full story, once I have enough stuff to work with).

Oh if you love a good tragedy you might like her twin brother's playlist. If you want I can send that in an ask, and or the animatic I made about them if you want more of the actual story stuff. His playlist has a lot of overlap with hers, they're so tied together that a lot of songs fit both of them, but there are some fun differences.

Oh those were some fun songs, I really liked Wild West! Thank you for the recommendation.

Also: two fun pieces of info for her that maybe you'll find interesting when thinking about her stuff: 1. Joan is not her birth name, she matches with her brother, Heather and Hyacinth. She gave up her name and crown when she left home. And 2. The reason she left home. She was bitten by a werewolf while defending her brother and couldn't go home without risking her own life. She never would have left him otherwise, but she was scared she would hurt him. She fled the country and became the squire of another "Monster" in hiding, who trained her to be as human as possible. They also have a very interesting relationship that is pretty much summed up in Hawk in the Night.

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Ok I am actually a sucker for twins (the guy in my pfp is a twin himself!!!) I actually have an additional song rec that I think would fit her as well, being Unlucky Skin by Shakey Graves.

I would love to see the animatic of the two of them, and if you want to send in Hyacinth’s playlist as well, I would love to see it! I am also glad to hear her story ends happily, as much as I find tragedy does have a place in story, I also am a big hurt/comfort person, so I like my angst to have a happy ending lol

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Hi! So here’s a playlist for my character Joan.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uHLMvgx9rBa2cPraCnP9v?si=ON0flxCpRAK4bp4X7cmoWg&utm_source=copy-link&pi=Al_R8jmmTFS0O

I won’t go into lore stuff here, but I hope you enjoy!

Well the description being “The narrative wants to save her so bad” is a great start, so let’s get into it!!

Ribs by the Crane Wives as the first song is suuuuch a strong choice, especially paired with the description I think gives a very strong feel for who this character is: fighting against the tragedy that has befallen her.

I am willing to guess this is a character with a strong familial tie to at least one sibling, just based on some of the other songs: The Crooked Kind by Radical Face, Second Child Restless Child by the Oh Hellos, and Two Birds and Call Them Brothers by Regina Spektor.

Back to the rebelling against her own tragedy sort of theme I’m picking up here from Ribs, the other songs that add to that theme to me are Run Boy Run by Woodkid, Rockslide by the Crane Wives, and Crown by Gigi Perez.

Coyote My Little Brother by Mitski, Hawk in the Night by Madds Buckley, and Goodbye by Ramsey seem to touch on both the family and the rebelling against the tragedy theme in very interesting ways, but they are also sort of almost resigned in a way that the other songs aren’t.

Actually side tangent. I do like the original of Coyote My Little Brother by Peter La Farge if you wish for same lyrics but slightly different vibe.

Dead Women by Mitski being on the tail end of the playlist forms a really nice counterpoint to Ribs. It feels like the tragedy catching up to her! Hey Girl by Norma Tanega almost feels like it’s eulogizing her, and the two make a really nice sort of ending to the playlist.

I love a good tragedy. I loooooooove a good tragedy. I almost wish I knew more about the character?? So I’d be able to go through and point out all the fun little niche details.

I think if I had a recommendation for this playlist, it would be Family and Genus by Shakey Graves? I’d also recommend Wild West by Gregory and the Hawk. I really enjoyed the playlist!!! It was good!!

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OP Playlist: Bill Whateley

I figured I’d kick this off with an OC playlist of my own. You can find more stuff about Bill @whereisyourrider

Playlist link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/36PgScS7WEjn7hBcMSlSdl

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Some personal traits that I tend to put into my OC playlists is at least 1 wordless song (usually by the Oh Hellos), a Planet Sleeping at Last song and an Enneagram Sleeping at Last song (note: the enneagram song does not line up necessarily with what I think their actual enneagram type is). For Bill, this would be Danse Macabre, Mercury and Three.

This is a character with a lot of self-worth issues, with some of that being reflected with song choices such as Notches by Crywank, Canary in a Coal Mine by the Crane Wives, and Santa Monica by the Front Bottoms. He also has a lot of family issues, with his family wildly and entirely being the one in the wrong and abusing him (they made him have a fight to the death with his own twin brother, that he wasn’t supposed to win, BUT HE DID), uh and also a daughter he doesn’t know about yet who is seven when he finally meets her, which brings us to song choices like Saving Face (Early Version of Roll the Bones) by Shakey Graves, Passerine by the Oh Hellos, and The Family Jewels by Marina. He’s a criminal, like genuinely, which is why he gets Late July (Early Version) by Shakey Graves and Renegade by Styx. He’s actively dealing with an eldritch monster for power, usually to save his friends lives, but he was forced into it because of family tradition and so he’s getting overloaded with magical power, which brings us to The Mystic by Adam Jensen and It’s Called: Freefall by RKS. He is generally considered off putting because of his lineage which is why he gets People are Strange by the Doors. He’s been cheated on which brings us to the joke song on his playlist, Mr. Brightside by the Killers.

Now, the song on this playlist that I think truly and I mean TRULY gets him, is Unlucky Skin by Shakey Graves. If I were to boil him into one song it would be that one.

Anyways I love my guy so much.