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I write video essays and songs about video games.
The Homestuck Album (A Work in Progress)
Happy Homestuck Day! I’m writing a Homestuck fan album (currently operating under the extremely original title, "The Homestuck Album"), specifically an original concept album about the beta kids during Acts 1-5 of Homestuck. No, this is not a joke. This whole video is music I have written for the album, and this is what I have so far. It's unpolished and missing a few songs and a bunch of vocals, but dear Skaia, this is really happening. I say this for my sake, not yours. I slept two hours last night and am a complete nervous pile of terror, exhaustion, and excitement, but making this video made the album feel real in a way that nearly a year of anticipation did not.
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Creator REACTS to I Read All of Homestuck in Nine Days (And Here Are My Reactions)
Просмотров 2 тыс.Год назад
Commenters said that they wanted more Homestuck reactions SO I HAVE DELIVERED. IS THIS ENOUGH? WHEN WILL IT BE ENOUGH? Here's the link to the original video: ruclips.net/video/5IG9Q79ZDYg/видео.html Here's the link to my Bandcamp: playheadnorth.bandcamp.com/ Here's the link to my twitch channel that I ended up pushing weirdly hard (and ironically, I skipped my stream this week to edit this vide...
Sleep (A Pathologic Fan Song)
Просмотров 9 тыс.2 года назад
I wrote another song about Pathologic. It's from the perspective of the plague. Don't trust the plague. Link to my bandcamp: playheadnorth.bandcamp.com/track/sleep Lyrics: There’s something about this place Something so magical Something you can’t replace Something you want to call home You come to this little town This middle-of-nowheres-ville You might wonder if it exists If it’s really real ...
Introducing the Deadliest Butt on Alternia (Friendsim Vols. 1, 2, & 3)
Просмотров 6512 года назад
Read down in the description for CW since I forgot to post them in the video. I played Hiveswap Friendsim, which is a semi-canonical adventure set before the events of Homestuck! It was upsetting! Ostensibly this is a let's play for Ardata Carmia, Diemen Xicali, Cirava Hermod, Amisia Erdehn, and Skylla Koriga. What it actually is, however, is me having an emotional breakdown for a full three ho...
Too L8 (Cover from Homestuck: The Musical)
Просмотров 2,7 тыс.2 года назад
This is a cover of the big Vriska number "Too L8" from Homestuck: The Musical. Songwriting credit to lumistarlight.tumblr.com. You can listen to the original cast recording version here: ruclips.net/video/qZ4gumoPmQU/видео.html. Intro - 0:00 Verse 1 - 0:30 Verse 2 - 0:49 8ridge 1 - 1:01 Chorus 1 - 1:13 Verse 3 - 1:53 8ridge 2 - 2:05 Chorus 2 - 2:17 8ridge 3 - 2:31 Chorus 3 - 2:44 Outro - 2:57 E...
I Read All of Homestuck in Nine Days (and Here Are My Reactions)
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Happy Homestuck Day! Despite what I claim in the video, not clickbait. Title is pretty much self-explanatory. I speedran all of Homestuck in nine days, and my reaction was making this hot mess of a video. Come for the outrageous claim, stay for the ensuing Karkat-esque mental breakdown. UPDATE: So many of you asked for it, and I have delivered. You can read my Alternate Unionverse (still a WIP)...
Plague Is Here (A Pathologic Holiday Song)
Просмотров 3 тыс.2 года назад
I recorded a holiday song for Pathologic. It's possible it's just a rip off of "Jingle Bells". Yes, I realize that we're in the middle of January. Thanks to SulMatul for letting take some clips from her Pathologic Let's Play videos! Background music credit to "Jingle Bells (Instrumental)" by Jingle Punks
The Male Gaze, Agency, and Coping with Trauma in the FFVII Remake
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Or, men will literally blow up energy plants to try and overthrow a tyrannical corporatocracy instead of going to therapy. In this video essay, I discuss my complicated thoughts about gender and trauma with respect to the Final Fantasy VII Remake. I literally said "trauma" 99 times in the script. Link to the reference sheet for video: docs.google.com/document/d/15eXgWED3w0a92OSOTnL3o9U8GMv1CVk6...
Horses ARE Real (Phoenix Wright meme ft. ShmowderTube)
Просмотров 8273 года назад
The discussion may have gotten a little out of hand. Featuring some of your favorite Pathologic RUclipsrs and more! Starring (in order of appearance): @SulMatul as Phoenix Wright Yours truly as Miles Edgeworth Bantz Ferdinand as Viola Cadaverini (ruclips.net/channel/UC2_6DzoDYSxJaycT-mHtmFw) Matt Prime as Dee Vasquez (ruclips.net/channel/UC-fGbe5sxZKwNjaJ1bYU3-A) @LastMinuteEssays as Wendy Oldb...
Let's Play Shadow of the Colossus: Part 2
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More of my blind play of Shadow of the Colossus. Half of this video is not embarrassing. The other half is extremely embarrassing. If you want to catch my future streams, you can follow me on twitch: www.twitch.tv/playheadnorth. Finding the Third Colossus - 0:00 Fighting the Third Colossus - 12:08 How to Fight the Third Colossus - 35:52 Finding the Fourth Colossus - 39:51 Fighting the Fourth Co...
So I turned my Pathologic fanfiction into an audiobook...
Просмотров 3,5 тыс.3 года назад
Happy channelversary to me! Otherwise, I think the title is pretty self-explanatory. I wrote an (unfinished) Pathologic fanfiction last year. I decided to turn the first two chapters of this Pathologic fanfiction into an audiobook/bad visual novel (again, please, please, please be kind to me and my limited art skills). 0:00 - Intro 3:44 - Chapter One 27:03 - Chapter Two 39:04 - Outro Here's the...
So Fast (A Fast and Furious ... Fan? Parody? Snarky Tribute? Song)
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So Fast (A Fast and Furious ... Fan? Parody? Snarky Tribute? Song)
Let's Play Shadow of the Colossus: Part One
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Let's Play Shadow of the Colossus: Part One
So ... Which Pathologic Ending Is Best? (There Will Always Be Sacrifice in the End, Ep. 3)
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So ... Which Pathologic Ending Is Best? (There Will Always Be Sacrifice in the End, Ep. 3)
The Haruspex & Changeling Endings Explained (There Will Always Be Sacrifice in the End, Ep. 2)
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The Haruspex & Changeling Endings Explained (There Will Always Be Sacrifice in the End, Ep. 2)
Pathological (A Pathologic Fan Song)
Просмотров 13 тыс.4 года назад
Pathological (A Pathologic Fan Song)
Pathologic & The Bachelor Ending Explained (There Will Always Be Sacrifice in the End, Ep. 1)
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Pathologic & The Bachelor Ending Explained (There Will Always Be Sacrifice in the End, Ep. 1)
i am SO glad to hear you mention the bathroom thing because it's something that's been driving me crazy and now i know im not the only one
that aside i loved your videos and how in depth and nuanced they were, probably the best i've seen about pathologic, thank you so much for making them!
Karkat is the best character in all of fiction
also read homestuck in a little over a week. exact same thing happened to me. 10/10 would recommend.
I know this video is old, but i rarely see people talking about how Haruspex's route is about the cyclical cycle of fatherhood/the inversion of fatherhood. Despite Isidor being Artemy's father, Artemy is having to time and time again take responsibility for Isidor. Artemy obvious loves his father, but he hadn't been back to the town in 10 years. Artemy knows there are faults with his father, and yet at every turn he has to contend with the fact that he has to live up to a semi mystical image of his father that he knows is not the reality of the man for the sake of the kinfolk. Like you said of his ending, while he preserves the town, there's no guarantee that it won't happen again. Artemy may as well have became his own Isidor, having nto constantly live up to an idea of a man, becoming simulacrum of a simulacrum of a simulacrum, until he returns to Artemy, the ripper. And even that is just a simulacrum of an idea of a man. It's 4 am and I can't fully flesh out my thoughts on the matter, but just smth about Haruspex's route resonates with Blood Meridian to me. Slavic Blood Meridian, if you may. Either way, as an Appalachian man, I resonate a lot with Artemy. I too am educated and yet still cling to the silly appalachian superstitions of sweeping under feet and knocking on wood and ignoring the supposed voices in the woods. Daniil will always be my emotional support white boy tho. Or transmasc. I don't know there's no way that guy isn't lgbt bc no one wears snakeskin duster and black platform boots unironically and isn't a fruit
Is the Homestuck brainrot still going strong?
I would really love to see your thoughts on the upcoming installment in the series. Pathologic 3 is focusing on Daniil and knowing how special this character is to you I would really find that to be a super entertaining video. Considering the game isn't even out yet, I'm sure for a fuller length video you'll need more content to actually review it. Nonetheless I'm sure you're equally as excited as the rest of us!
Homemade vegetarian sushi, stacks of them.
I brought pumpkin curry with chicken. The curry is not a puree because im not a monster (jkjk) i just really love this dish
I only played pathologic 2, and the herb brides and the way Eva dressed irked me. Not in a way that ruined the game, but more reminded me that I'm playing a video game. There is no scantily clad male counterpart. A tutorial with an herb bride shows her completely topless, and all i could think is "ah yes, any excuse for bewbs." Because if you're writing lore for a game, you can write any justicification for boobs. There are no even any topless men in this world. I was so entranced by this world, but the herb brides reminded me it was a video game and gently took me out of the experience. It wasn't a deal breaker by any means. I really love playing pathologic 2 and am looking forward to pathologic 3. But I was always surprised no other reviewer mentioned how weird it is to see people fully dressed for cold weather and then just Eva and the Herb brides dressed for hot weather.
I keep mumbling 'this is so homestuck coded' during the intermissions bc im lowkey forgetting just exactly im watching LOL
I love this for you haha
Thank you for this!
amazing work!
i bring chicken and dumplings with some added carrots, green beans, mushrooms, and corn. the dumplings look a lot more like biscuits but it's quite good! i also bring a punch bowl of a light green drink that i swear is lemonade and after cautiously taking a sip it does indeed appear to be just exotic lemonade. (it is actually just several bottles of calypso kiwi lemonade dumped into a bowl with some lemon slices to be fun and goofy)
I have never read Homestuck, but it is impossible to verbalize how much I love this video
My twin introduced me to this video close to a year ago and now I am fighting tooth and nail not to get dragged into the fandom after her (I am loosing. Badly. Tumblr mutuals keep posting intriguing and enamoring stuff about this webcomic......)
i love this. finally, footage of someone else having the psychotic break that homestuck made me have. also yes, i would read your unionization fanfiction
This is sooo fucking good. Well done. I felt like I was going through Homestuck again ❤
Your text and arguments area great, thanks!
As a player I've found Batchelor's ending gloomy and unsettling. The music, colors and overall tone of the ending roll felt like he was being played by Kains and their lust for power. The image of Town's ruins and Polyhedron, rising from the ground like a giant wasp nest, was utterly frightening. I feel like idealistic young people like Daniel, Eva and Stamatins are often being manipulated by powerful elites, who pretend to match their ideals but ultimately want immortality for themselves. In Changeling's arc, Stamatins even say that Polyhedron doesn't make sense without people of the town. Peter build it to be a Utopia, but it was used as a body for a one aristocrat fearful of his own death.
A year later and I still find this to be one of the best video essays I have ever seen
Awww thank you so much!
Ik really curious aboutbyour thoughts on the kin and herb brides depiction in patho 2, will you everaje that video? I love this video btw
I have really complicated thoughts about how the Kin and the herb brides are treated in P2. I think the game does really well in some areas and really poorly in others, but I’m not sure if I’ll make the video-partially because I’m not sure that me, a white person, is the greatest candidate to talk about all that and partially because I’m not sure if I want to deal with the bad faith comments that I’ll inevitably get after it.
@@PlayheadNorth I totally understand ❤️ thanks for touching on it in this video anyway. I just finished patho 2 and I also have mixed feelings
I really like this video thank you for making it
It's shitty game with amazing story and atmosphere
Its been 3 years... but hell a continuation wouldn't be bad
I brought raisins. For the kids.
Reminds me vaguely of Low Roar. Love it :)
Surgery. Surgery.
is meaning not enough for you...
Sorry all. demons possessing me.
I'm only at the beginning of the video but goddaymn I think you've actually pronouced Burakh better than anyone else in the english community?? I'm not about to laugh at anyone about the pronunciation of a foreign name, of course, but AYO WOW?? Also I'm not sure why P2 has the "r" pronouced in a ?French? way, in P1 it's a hard sound. Boo’-rahh.
Its crazy going from pathologic 2 where Artemy can be a very progressive force for the Kin and then seeing his thoughts on stuff in 1.
Yeah, Artemy in P1 is a completely different character. I know that’s something Codex Entry plans to talk about when she finally gets around to the Haruspex storyline.
@@PlayheadNorth I still need to play 1, I really enjoyed pathologic 2 and how artemy at least in that interpretation seems to be the only sane person in the entire city (willing to embrace weird magic shit if it turns out to work but having a healthy skepticism and being against the kins more messed up practices). I have some time free soon so I may start playing 1 just so I can get the whole picture through my own eyes. These games really need your own personal feelings through playing them to resonate I feel.
55:45 Oh i didnt get that 1:05:12 Oh that hasnt happened yet 1:24:10 classic scottish accent
I would love to see a very literal Union Jack :3
I love this. I like the interpretation that Peter is either too depressed or never took care of himself before that he made a dish that’s inedible lol. I would also love to imagine that one day he mustered enough energy and made a “utopian creation” dish that just defies all laws of the universe. Like the donut in everything everywhere all at once. And turns the potluck into a lovecraftian abomination of a party. And Andrey will be like that’s my brother what a genius
4:13 amazing homestuck reference! Also wow I paused at 4:13 19:42 This is like karkat talking to future karkat hahahah 28:41 sleep deprivation lol 29:31 ok that definitely feels like something I would say while sleep deprived 30:23 hypothesis: purposeful memory loss in order to create this, probably just by recording late at night, perhaps also editing, or maybe even getting blackout drunk, but then relying on residual memories to carry the flow of conversation. 31:13 lies from past north pretending to be future north or this is actually acting which I guess makes this funnier 36:57 I'm gonna have to disagree with that one 1:12:41 * north being a bad auspistice*
The start of the second intermission had me worried for a sec lol
mmmmmmm dont like this one
chicken and dumplings... its comfy!
The Bull House
neil banging out the tunes..
Hello, I found your channel through the song featured in Sul's KotoR 2 video, and after listening to it, and being rattled emotionally by it for a multitude of reasons, I noticed you had a RUclips channel as well. I am only partway through this video right now as I listen to it at work, but so far it's very well done, and I love the passion behind it. Thank you for the incredibly moving music and this very well made essay.
Thank you so much! I’m working on some new stuff rn since I have a new (much better) computer I can edit on, so stay tuned!
@@PlayheadNorth With baited breath
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Everything i could say has been said by others here but i cant help but say it again This is exactly the experience, whether you read it in 9 days or over a period of years, whether it was as it released and you dropped it during a massive hiatus and never returned, followed every update religiously to this day with homestuck beyond canon, or only picked it up years later with no idea about its history. This is how it feels everytime
I brought Peanut Butter and chocolate chip cookies!! >:DD
this is the most homestuck-esque homestuck video ever edit: ur #1 is amazing, it gives off the same vibe as ._. and i love it
I found this game, and rebirth to be some of the best artistic depictions of what my own ptsd experiences have been. And your analysis of it was really moving to listen to. Thank you. I hope you are well.
if homestuckies get mad about you making stuff up they havent read the epilogues
unsure what you mean by this?
Homestuck is so BAD, when I was reading it (for my sister) I was waiting for it to stop, i hate it so much, start (act 1-3) was pretty good but then, oh no
a video with directors' commentary on a video with acts, intermissions longer than said acts, and time travel shenanigans? very homestuck of you
Watching this is what it feels like to reading homestuck. 10/10
I brought bottles of kefir because I love to see the opinions on it and we needed more beverage options. Algorithm boost aside, I love love love the character analysis potential when it comes to food. Clara's felt perfect because I feel similarly about her the way I do puppy chow- indifferent and a bit unnerved about the affection towards it.