Just finished playing Talanah's route and my goodness I cannot even fathom the amount of effort that y'all must have put into this visual novel. So, so grateful to the team for putting it together!!! Thank you so much!!
I am curious about something, though! I don't know if this has been asked, but is there a plan to put out guides or something like that to show players how to unlock all the images in a character's album? I'm missing the very last one for Talanah and am so very curious!
Thank you for the kind words!! We're so happy you've been enjoying the Talanah route, Meg and Foibs poured so much love into the writing and art for our favorite Sunhawk!
We do have plans for Route Guides for how to unlock all the special art/ what the good, neutral, and bad options are for all the flashpoints, sometime in the future. Until then, we hope you'll have fun working out what choices affect the script and possibly unlock the CG before then!
We also have future plans for a proper thank-you and showcase of the special art per route to all the external artists who pitched in to help, so stay tuned!
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u ever think about how the kids aren’t alright is a love song to friendship and pete said favorite record is a love song to the fans, when talking about it he said ‘my favorites always feel a bit off and out of place- maybe that’s why i love you so’ and twin skeletons is a love song to him too, where he said ‘the world doesn’t make sense to me but i’d rather it not make sense when i am lying next to you’, and maybe abap is an album that sings of all the devastation of love but is also bursting at the seams with the potential of love and love that comes to us in unorthodox ways, with all of its possible imperfections and deep devotions. maybe it is our time now if you want it to be, maybe i’m yours when it rains it pours, i spin for you, we could be immortals, if you just hold on. like maybe abap is one of the best most important albums ever do u ever think about it??
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Only God Was Above Us is jam packed with political metaphors and calling out the institutions in place and putting truths above all else, and WOW, it's poignant. It's the perfect blend of nostalgic kick drums and strings, of traditional choirs and piano solos and Indian trap and 90s hip hop. I cried when they sampled Mansard Roof. I cried when they referenced Diane Young. I sobbed when I realized how the singles fit into the bigger picture of the album's themes of class division and anti-imperialism and creating and sharing art. Sometimes you just need someone to give you permission to let go of the things that are out of your control and put your hope into things you can actually change. Sometimes you need music to give a voice to the emotions that are too hard to articulate. What a triumph in every sense of the word. I am broken and pieced back together all at once. Thank you, Vampire Weekend.
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I'm gonna cheat because I don't listen to TS but you know how much I love our pair from Maroon. can you tell us which of her newest songs you most associate with them right now. any tidbits you feel like sharing
^ it's me pleading for special treatment because I love you
abi babe i will always give you infinite special treatment always. however i apologize for how long this is because, uh, this is the couple who i specifically think dominates my brain while listening to TTPD.
i've already covered "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart", so that one 100%.
besides that, though...
Down Bad. the entire premise of the song being compared to being abducted by aliens and when you're returned to earth being like "actually i liked it better up there take me back" as a metaphor for love feels very much like when you had a good relationship, something you expected to last forever, and it just gets taken from you. however, to spice things up - i think it works better applied to how eddie feels. the whole 'fuck it if i can't have him' is exactly how he feels as he's completely destroying himself in the aftermath. and just for fun, so you don't necessarily have to listen to the songs if you don't feel like it my love, i'm adding the specific lines from each song that i feel apply the most.
"how dare you think it's romantic, to leave me safe and stranded? 'cause fuck it, i was in love. so fuck you, if i can't have us."
^ it applies to both reader/sugar and eddie. first half feels very her, because he left her behind to not risk exposing her to a life that had begun to decay him. but second half feels very him cause... fuck it, ya know?
So Long, London. this one is about just being sad and mad about the end of a relationship, and that's where both eddie and sugar still are mentally. to build something so sacred up only to watch it be burned down by the other person. sugar is far angrier than eddie, though, since she's not really taken the time to work through how she feels with the end of it all.
"i didn't opt in to be your odd man out. i founded the club she's heard great things about. i left all i knew, you left me at the house by the heath. i stopped cpr - after all, it's no use."
also.... honorable mentions to the entire goddamn bridge, but specifically "you swore that you loved me, but where were the clues?" and "i'm just mad as hell 'cause i loved this place for so long"
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can). it's a bit of a spoiler, and a bit of a reach, but i think it's a good perspective from the others looking in. the media, but also specifically corroded coffin. this really only applies to post break-up them story-wise, too. he's wrecked himself, destroyed all that he was, and sugar is the only one seeming capable of bringing him back to what he once was.
"i can fix him - no, really, i can. and only i can."
loml. i guess what i'm saying is basically every single song where taylor got very vulnerable and terribly sad about the end of an important/long relationship. this one speaks for itself quite a bit because of the theme of the guy saying "you're the love of my life" repeatedly, only to leave. which is exactly what eddie did, in the grand scheme of things. and taking it a step further? the small implications of a breakup and attempt at rekindling? yeah, yeah that's them alright, your honor.
"who's gonna stop us from waltzing back into rekindled flames, if we know the steps anyway?"
^ literally what they are doing as we speak ^
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. this one i would mostly apply to all of sugar/reader's anger pre-reunion. that anger of a man who simply ghosts you. she didn't let herself feel the 'breakup' much, but she did go through some of the stages of grief - and she got stuck at anger.
"you kicked out stage lights, but you're still performing. and in plain sight, you hid. but you are what you did."
^ all his self-destruction when she sees it at surface level :) just seeing him as doing nothing more than throwing a tantrum :)
this is getting a bit out of hand now, but when it comes to the double album bit, there's even more. i don't want to bore you to death so i'm just going to list those songs but. yeah. this album felt very maroon coded to me. the losing and the anger and the sadness and the clinging to what once was. should've expected it, in all fairness.
from THE ANTHOLOGY, i'd say that 'the black dog', 'chloe or sam or sophia or marcus', 'how did it end?', 'i look in people's windows', 'the prophecy', 'peter', and 'the manuscript' are the ones that fit best for maroon. some are a stretch, some it's solely based off of one line that i couldn't get over, and some i just simply think it's the vibes. a true matter of the illness that is "they're my blurbos so i'll apply whatever song i want to them".
i'm sure we'll see a few of these as chapter titles going forward, including the anthology ones, so that'll probably be when i dig in a little deeper about specific lyrics. or when i post ominous music posts.
anyways if you made it to the end (especially you abi) i love you so fucking much and thank you for enjoying my absolutely insane ted talk i just basically did on how TTPD is very very sugar x eddie coded <3
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hrgmghk, because- because- uhhrrgkk.... yeah. I don't know how to show appreciation like a normal person, so please take this instead
(。• ᵕ •。) ♡
it's a mix of "thank you" + "i hope you feel a little better/well-wishes"
and a bit of "if i could fist-fight depression and life itself, i really would"
IM?!???????!?? I?!??!!!??
TEI!?;!:!/?/!
ITS THE!! THE SONG!! THE SOMNG I WAS TALKING ABOUT!!!!!! AAAAAAAGGHHH!!!!!
this is genuinely so beautiful and gorgeous i cant. i cant 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
also- THANK ME?!?? THANK YOU!!!!
TYSM!!!!! i had to take a second to just stop myself from screaming when i saw this 😭😭
I DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY IM SO BAD AT WORDS I JUST. FEELS. FEELS ARE TOO STRONG
everything about this is so 😭 like are you kidding!?!!! ARE U JOSHIN ME
ur art is as beautiful as ur writing and everything abt this makes me so SOFT and WEAK AND AGHHHHH
HOW DO I PUT HAND FLAPPIES IN WORDS AND THIS BIG OL SWIRL OF LIGHT IN MY CHEST IN WORDS HOW DO U ;; HOW DOES- *dies*
this made my day- truly 😭😭
ur such a peach for making this, thank u so much 💙💙💙💙💙
and the lil turtle and bird in the corner- im gonna collapse. i cant;;; 😭😭
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7, 10, 19, 21 and 30 for the music asks <3
Thank youuu rena 🫶🫶
7. three songs you didn’t expect to like but eventually loved
cold - the cure
everybody's fool - evanescence
mary on a cross - ghost
10. three favourite Halloween/spooky songs
she's gone away - nine inch nails
rain of brass petals (three voices edit)- akira yamaoka
living dead girl - rob zombie
19. three songs that are your guilty pleasure
greedy - tate mcrae (i think it was big on tiktok or smth?)
the reason - hoobastank
teenage dirtbag - wheatus
21. three songs of your childhood
lake of fire - nirvana (originally by meat puppets. also the first song i ever remember liking! still one of my faves)
yellow ledbetter - pearl jam
man in the box - alice in chains
30. three songs you really want your followers to know (for reasons other than all those above)
is it really you? - loathe
wolf like me - tv on the radio
petrichor - cassyette
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