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[alabasterplasterart]

I think one of my absolute favourite things about the Edge of Midnight campaign is how interconnected all their stories are, deliberately or otherwise. Each of the six have themes of their histories that allow them to understand and even resonate with the others and it creates such interesting moments of teamwork and camaraderie and comfort.

Spoilers for Avantris’ Edge of Midnight campaign below:

We get to see a lot of this very directly during the ritual beneath Keziah’s hut but moments like these are all throughout the campaign.

When Farryn is asking the others/Jericho whether they think she did the right thing, Jericho has zero hesitation in saying she did. Even after the reveal of how wrong it went. He of all of them understands the desperate willingness to do anything for love.

Though they stand on opposite sides of faith, it is Lethica and Marius who most understand the other’s devotion and the importance that their respective gods hold to them (even if Lethica’s is performative in a sense).

Yorgrim assures Jericho that he isn’t at pure fault for what happened to him. Of course Yorgrim would understand the pain and guilt of finding out you’d been used for evil by someone you thought you could trust.

Briggsy, though generally less eloquent or gentle than the others, does his best to give Marius some sense of solidarity about his current state. Briggsy knows what it feels like to lose your self to a trick, to lose what made you feel alive and real and worth a damn. How they got here were a set of vastly different circumstances, but in the end they’re the same: they’re both monsters, creatures of the night, left alive for way too long for a single mistake they made.

It’s just,,, the crew does such an incredible job showing the progression of the closeness between these folks and how their stories and troubles intertwine. They all share so much more in common than their ransom note appearance as a group would suggest. Plucked from places around Avantris so distant from each other, none had ever been to (or even heard of) the homelands of the others.

But here they are, fighting together and growing closer and forming, as self stated by a few of them, a sort of family. They’re as mismatched as could be yet overcame that through the similarities in the things they’ve endured. In the comfort they’ve offered each other. Every “you’re not the only one” and “we’re all in this together” symbolises that.

And it’s a dynamic I’m so so excited to see return once Neon Odyssey is wrapped up. Selfishly, I hope EoM comes back sooner rather than later. It’s the one campaign I miss so so dearly and need to see resumed.

[banishmentplanet]

Í DARÉ ASK AGAIN

and by ask I mean say that

YOUR PLAYLIST ROCKS I HAVE TONS OF THOSE SONGS IN MY LIST AS WELL AND IM ORETTY FUCKING SURE HALF OF THEM ARE FROM THE YT ANIMATIONS MWEHEHEEHEH

(btw imma still keep it thank youuuuuu)

Khkhk thank you for the enthusiasm and interest!! :DD And yes yes a good many of them have YouTube animatics that I initially got them from (Spaceships by Art Sorority my beloved, Nothing Left to Lose my beloved)

This second ask is also a good opportunity to say that I realised after initially answering you that the full doc is actually full of spoilers for both of my main AUs lmao so I’ll post parts of it up to the current updated place in either AU, then add to it as I add new chapters ^3^

I can’t promise a date when I’ll get to that as I’m leaving the country for a vacay in two days but!! I’ve got it noted down in a reminder so I’ll get on that when I’m back! :D

[banishmentplanet]

Hello, I have very shit memory and I don’t know if I asked you but um do you have any songs I can add to my invader zim /ZADR playlist?

OH BOY DO I

For an immediate answer, here’s my Spotify Invadercore playlist (Invadercore made by theothernamewastaken if you’d rather search it up than use a link). That’s ten hours, 177 songs of bug antics for ye.

Now, mind, this is the playlist for my AU timelines. The first 2/3 or so are in chronological order to my timelines (yes plural), so include character arc themes, AU themes, scene specific tracks, stuff for supporting cast, etc. Plus a few joke songs or unsorted ones near the bottom, so if a few seem really out of place then that’s very likely why.

Now if ye want a specific answer with some of my top bug song recommendations, here’s a few I come back to time and again and have animatic ideas for:

- What’s Going On by Elio Mei : A theme for my Zim’s whole childhood on Earth, up to the start of my primary AU, Treading Open Water. A really fun and emotionally raw song that to a T encapsulates how I write his inner struggles.

- An Unhealthy Obsession by the Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra ; Stalker’s Tango by Autoheart ; I Love You Like An Alcoholic by The Taxpayers (and several other songs of this ilk) : I have a whole myriad of obsession songs ranging from these variety, applicable to their early lives, up to more healthily mutual (as healthy as these two can get lmao) for the end of the AU.

- Alright by Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards : A really really good track perfect for any AU that gives them a growing pains period where they’re treating each other more like friends and finding comfort in that, but fighting that feeling and fighting officiating that. Which iiiis most of my AU! :D Especially on Zim’s side. A song very specifically about loving someone’s company but hating that you do.

- Beautiful & Brutal by Plested : The title is pretty self explanatory lmao. Same same but different to Alright, this is a track about being wholly aware of the negatives of this dynamic you’re a part of but wanting to stay anyway. See also- Red Flag by Natalie Jane, though that one is specifically for my Boarder AU.

- Final Bow by Us The Duo : One of my Zim arc songs for the very end of the AU, with the ‘you’ in this song referring to the Tallests and the Empire as a whole, for his whole relationship with Irk and Irken society. Specifically, about how he’s come to grow past it and knows how much better off he is without it.

- Emperor’s New Clothes by Jan : My main theme for my interpretation and writing of the Irken Empire, and a theme for my Tallest Et (yes Et like ET like extraterrestrial khkh). The lines throughout this song apply to certain Irken OCs of mine that are to be present in the part two of my AU, but the song as a whole can just generally fit Irken society and its relationship with its leader(s).

- The Red Means I Love You by Madds Buckley : A relationship song from Zim to Dib for my AU Boarder, but a good song for them regardless for their more violent and fucked up tendencies :)

And there ya go!!

I could go on and on, I’ve got a 50-ish page document where I just lay out all the songs in chronological order and dissect the lyrics as applied to my AUs lmaaaoo I’ve literally prepped for this kinda question. But these are some of the big songs I’ve had set for a while that have strong ties to how I write these chucklefucks. I hope you like a least a few of these, have fun listening! :D

[alabasterplasterart]

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