#torch.letters

[rablers]

breach is really such a crazy album when you think about it….. like wow literally half those are love songs about Josh dun like full on naming incidents that happened to them and mentioning love connected to them…. drum show is literally the sickest song in the world I need to collapse and die

it’s so joshler. it’s so joshler. here is the song i wrote about josh where he sings and i talk about how strong he is and here is the song where my double begs ‘now i plead just take the deal’ while josh hands tries to get me to take the jacket and also that i’ll beg on my knees for during the live performance and here is the song josh kept on his computer for like fourteen years that’s about my struggle with god. and here is a song that samples a guy saying ‘josh dun’. and here is a song about missing someone that’s in a different city and feeling that it’s not worth spending time where they’re not that just so happens to parallel when josh was in la and i was in columbus and here is a song from the pov of my double after he betrays josh’s double that goes “still now, you believe in me somehow” that may or may not also be about how my bandmate has been my best friend for fifteen years now and still believes in me and loves me.

[rablers]

tumblr user rablers i have a request

a friend who has very recently gotten into the band wants me to compile as much joshler content as possible and, though i can find quite a bit on my own, i want to be as thorough as possible because when else will an opportunity such as this land in my lap?

so i ask of thee, do you have any screenshots/interviews/clips/pretty much anything that i can use in this eventual, delightful compilation of every joshler moment possible to compile in about a week?

ok hi anon. i was going to make this multiple posts however. i am good to make one post w my rab era moments because this is my specialty. if you find yourself i need of moments for a specific era feel free to ask me tho!!! i just got really frustrated w myself writing out the vessel era and i wanted to get this posted tn😭

i think in your presentation you need to include churchgate as in -> tyler saw a house of heroes show before josh had heard of tøp, josh listens to a tøp cd loves it instantly, meets tyler after a show (tyler saying “i know who you are”), they hang out later that week and stay up past 3am talking about their dreams, tyler follows josh to church, tyler switches churches for josh.

josh also at one point gave tyler his swimsuit? they talk about it in the vessel anniversary livestream

photos of josh at a tøp show before he joined:

ok now that that’s out of the way. there’s josh quitting his job to play for a twenty one pilots show that got shut down after one song

josh’s band contract:

they used to sit in a mall in columbus and wait for people to come buy tickets — there’s another one i can’t find where tyler says people need to come buy tickets or else it’ll look like he and josh are on a date

the regional at best web series is really important. both for rabler and as someone getting into the band.

for ode to sleep, tyler took a verse from a song off of his album no phun intended (just like yesterday), but changed it to include multiple lines including “i’m afraid to tell you who i adore / can’t tell you who i’m singing towards”. also the entirety of lovely is very. !!

2011 clip of them dancing together at another band’s concert:

in 2011 they covered alien by katy perry which is soo awesome considering josh’s interest in aliens and the x-files

they spent nye 2012 together and then josh posted the other photos on instagram after:

first two photos are the first photos they posted of each other on instagram, second two photos are just ones i like:

(links to posts w more photos they posted of each other)

happy wheels adventure is a MUST WATCH.

some awesome tweets from tyler:

also obviously there’s the whole. van thing. and the multiple photos of them sleeping in the same bed really close to each other that will not fit in this post.

some live show notes: josh would sing for anathema (a song he named) and they also had dual drumming <3

in 2012 they burned each other, saw grouplove for tyler’s birthday, and also broke up with their longterm girlfriends at the same time!!!

[rablers]

somebody needs to show tyler the poem about Jesus in a gay bar

yeah. @ tylerrjoseph come here i think i can fix you with the power of poetry and josh dun

[rablers]

"Tyler and Josh- I'm not sure if I had Josh over to the house at some point… I honestly don't remember […] but Josh was coming around- I think I had had Josh over to hang out and I'm the guy who always goes to bed early. They would call me the old man in the house. And so I remember going to bed one night and Josh stayed over and hung out with Tyler and so that was probably how that whole thing started. But Josh wasplaying music at a church - where I play music still - and he was just one of the drummers that played and so Tyler went to this church one sunday because Josh was playing there and I remember Tyler coming and he said "Dude, you have to go to this church with me, they're playing our Album." I said "What? They're playing our album in church on sunday morning?" He goes "yes, like before and after the service, they're playing our music." […] So Tyler ends up getting involved in that church. He starts playing music there. Josh became kind of a regular in our house." <- transcript from the podcast where Chris talks about Tyler and Josh meeting and Tyler going to Josh's church. So it's still very possible that they met at the Newport but Chris just doesn't remember that and their first hang out was at his house. And then Josh had apparently liked top enough to have them play the album at his church. OK. OK. they're both so normal and so are we :) (ok I'm listening to the next ep that has Nick on it now :) )

yeah i’m so sure that tyler and josh probably met at the newport before hand and made plans to hang out <- because theyre so crazy about that fact. and then chris was also around because they all shared that stupid big house . anyways. tyler switched churches… tyler follows josh to church to hear josh play and then switches churches ok. awesome!!! whatever. whatever whatever!!!

[rablers]

Im sorry to make you relive this because I agree spit is super gross. But the WHAT THING????!

uhm. so. in 2019 at the end of the bandito tour tyler said onstage that he hadn’t washed his hadn’t washed his hands all day. so he went up to josh and held his hand out and josh spit in his hand. and tyler rubbed it into his hands and then licked his hand. uhm

[rablers]

What do you think of the ET tøp cover, if youve heard it? I am unfortunately obsessed with it and its implications

it’s so crazy. so crazy. the implications are soo crazy like. what if your best friend was really into aliens and the x-files and you covered a song with these lyrics

[rablers]

devastating thought of rabler maybe wishing the other was a girl so this (gestures vaguely) was easier to deal with or something

NO YEAH EXACTLY i mean . well . tyler loves josh a lot, but he can’t love another boy so it’d just be so much easier if josh was a girl because then everything would be ok:) and he’d already have someone to marry and someone to spend the rest of his life with because josh would be there and it’d be perfect. but josh isn’t a girl (something josh reminds him of, often) and tyler couldn’t do that with another man . so . so sad !

[rablers]

I see pictures of the mattress and van on Pinterest and I go “oooooh my dear friend rablers would love this!!”

guys it’s such a small mattress. it’s so small. they were cuddled up. they were sleeping so close together. #rablervancuddles