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TW: Suicide mention. Worm Spoilers.
Reprising my Neil Cicierega post from before about how "Mullet with Butterfly Wings" is a skitter/scurry/chitter song.
Crocodile Chop is a Gold Morning song. The lyrics are all very slurred and drunken. She's lurching around. Amy's hands on her as she "Wake(s) up!". "Why'd you leave the keys on the table?" Who's just leaving Amy alone with Taylor. They had to know she was going to do something drastic. Lisa should've, and that's the tragedy isn't it? "Here you go and create another fable." The myth, making Taylor into a weapon. Maybe I'm reading a little too much into it, but this is supposed to be a fun little post anyway, it's not too serious.
Except "I don't think you trust in my self-righteous suicide." is just a dead on, straight between the eyes, punch to the forehead shining example of Taylor Hebert's character in this moment.
The scream for Fathers feels a little bit like Taylor's frustrations with Danny, and maybe a little bit of QA (who is currently in the driver's seat) might be feeling a little forsaken by her father Scion herself in this moment? "Father into your hands I commend my spirit." and the whole section there, is SOAD directly lifting words from Jesus' crucifixion. This one's not a particularly deep take from me, but you can see Jesus' crucifixion as a kind of self-righteous suicide, huh? And Taylor is also putting herself on the line, as usual, and sacrificing any other kind of future she may have had for herself in favor of the greater good, and the unity of humanity. It's a consistent, doomed worldview she's held ever since "Cut Ties, I'm Sorry." entered the picture. She put the Undersiders aside. She spent more time with the Chicago Wards than them, and her time with them wasn't even worth mentioning in the text. She sets them aside too. She trains Golem because they have a shared enemy, but there's nothing else there. There can be nothing else there when she has to go die on the cross, unknowingly, but still. The Simurgh, Contessa and Dinah all conspiring to put her in the right place at the right time.
My read of SOAD's lyrics seem focused on the 'right to die', about how nobody truly deserves to die, but we all will die, but there are some people who are condemned regardless of their circumstances for the method of their death. Serj Tankian brings up his potential for dying in a drug overdose as his example of someone dying in a shameful way, and therefore 'deserving' to die. (This is just me paraphrasing the wikipedia entry I'm not uncovering new ground here lol). There's also the very literal Angel-like being hovering over the battlefield to consider.
Choosing how you go out is more than some people get. Except Taylor doesn't get to choose how she goes out in the end, does she? Taylor doesn't really have a choice here. The Simurgh chooses. Dinah chooses. Contessa chooses. That little static burst as the song fades out to "Transmission" (a little bit where a numbers radio is played interspersed with the introductory rift from David Bowie's Space Oddity) sounds like her turning her head to see Contessa sitting there with her gun in her hand.
All of this is set to Elton John's Crocodile Rock, which I haven't really listened to enough to have thoughts on it. I don't really have any deep takes on his side of the mashup, other than the fact that the piano and Serj's "Die" is pitch shifted to Elton's "laa, la-la-la-la-laa" making it very unsettling.
I've been listening to too much of Neil's music while driving to work and it's starting to mix together with all of the other brain worms, creating intricate mental AMVs, and it shows.
anyone think Taylor ever cleaned her teeth with her bugs once? maybe she saw a snippet of a documentary about those dentist fish that other fish patiently line up and cause zero trouble in the area, a neutral zone if you will, while they wait for the dentist fish to clean their mouths of parasites and dead flesh and then she decided to try it (because she was inspired by the fish all co-operating together) and almost choked but then she locked in and went "this is easy as fuck. triumph is such a pussy. alexandria was probably faking. this is so normal. I can have as many bugs as I want in my mouth and I'm not gagging" and the other chicago wards never mention it ever because they value their lives.
Skitter Flow
We're so s-small in the end man.
She wanted pussy but I gave her trauma. Haha.
Opp was talkin crazy. Shot him in both timelines.
We're out here smokin the shit that'll send you to the birdcage.
I have no loyalty for anyone. Never did, never will.
My money longer than Pale. My money longer than a Grey Boy loop.
Popped a xanny and wiped out every op within the state.
Fed him spiders. Made his ass a statistical outlier.
The worms are back.
I'm on twelve vicodins smokin that shardspace bisexual warrior monk cultivated sidepiece myrrdin deluxe cauldron reserve hashish. Shit will send you into a trigger vision, it'll have you witness Crystal God Whales.
Shorty told me no tongue so I made her gag on it.
The opps cut up shorty's face so I took two thirds of his gang in the divorce. Sent his ass into a two year coma. Froze him solid in a whole other dimension. Turned that motherfucker into a footnote at his own execution.
I don't give a fuck if I go blind, I don't need to see the price tag anyway. [The Undersiders laughing in the background. Scapegoat expresses his disbelief.]
I'm wearin that darwin bark spider gucci. Haters in shambles, dressed in their mom's pantyhose. Everyone can see your gross dick son. Should get that checked out.
I love drugs. I love drugs.
This miasma got me making out with them butch puppygirls. Changed the trajectory of her life.
The bugs are back. [Long pause followed by howling laughter from the Undersiders.]
This fight was over the moment I stepped into the room, cunt.
These cops are interrogatin me about this S-Class gamer girl as if I hadn't left their new boss buried under a freshly poured concrete foundation not two hundred feet away.
I'm out here huffin those bakuda bomb brain blasters. Shit will give you a concussion. I'm numb to all forms of pain.
Ventilated that three year old nazi with the gold plated glock to spare her ass the torment nexus.
This zaza will turn your skin translucent and make your skeleton visible. This zaza will turn you into a teenage mutant ninja salamander with LSD spit. This zaza will turn you into solid carbide titanium.
I only handed back the free world cuz I was bored.
I'm eatin that premium challenger pussy juice marinated Fugly Burger meal. The Endbringers are all I think about.
All I need is a pack of newports and the touch of a woman, and I'll fight God.
AAAAH! The worms!
You keep talkin mad shit for someone who still has eyeballs. I don't fuck with warning shots, jit.
There are bugs under your skin.
I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!
Made her choke on it so hard they had to weekend at bernie's her ass.
Surrounded by pussy but I chose war. These lesbians screamin their hearts out. I'm sorry babe.
Fuck it, cut ties.
They forgot I'm her.
This shit's so small in the end man.
Really just pathetic
the look they give brian and lisa when they tell them they've maimed hookwolf and have restarted the gang war by rescuing puppies.
girls with big brown eyes
If Rachel was blonde she would pee herself a little every time she saw Taylor
Y’all remember when Taylor turned into a lobster bug for like 7 minutes? I think about that sometimes, wtf was that
I wish we had more defiant and Taylor moments. There should have been more father daughter found family moments with them, I feel like the fandom doesn’t even make stuff like that. Definitely a big missed opportunity
“i hate rooftops so much you guys. so much. you don’t even know. fuck rooftops” Taylor from the amazing wonderful life-consuming web serial Worm.
maybe 60 of taylor at her moms grave...
we ended up changing this to 69- 'Disappointment' so that they could have a color palette that no one else has used yet :). also. taylor at her moms grave. :(
top ten moments in worm
“i hate rooftops so much you guys. so much. you don’t even know. fuck rooftops” Taylor from the amazing wonderful life-consuming web serial Worm.
maybe 60 of taylor at her moms grave...
we ended up changing this to 69- 'Disappointment' so that they could have a color palette that no one else has used yet :). also. taylor at her moms grave. :(