#i miss 8tracks idk how people even share mixes these days

small sketches inspired by one of my favourite squid game fics, Reachby@jimblebird

(also ended up making a playlist to cope below…)

on spotify // split in two parts, thematically around Sang-woo and Gi-hun’s complicated relationship during and after the show. tracklist and details:

part 1. katabasis
a descent into the underworld – in search of understanding

▴calling all skeletons // alkaline trio
(I thought we were friends, I guess it just depends who you ask
These feelings tend to leave me with a hole in my chest)

▴i bet on losing dogs // mitski
(I know they’re losing and I pay for my place, by the ring)

▴whatever you want // vienna teng [sang-woo centric]
(He’s a company man, your right hand
Thirteen years and counting)

▴paper rain // andrew mcmahon in the wilderness [gi-hun centric]
(I’m gonna turn our luck around, gonna take this town
Gonna walk these flooded streets like a king with my umbrella out)

▴somebody that i used to know // gotye feat. kimbra
(But you didn’t have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing)

▴never take friendship personal // anberlin
(If you can’t hold yourself together
Why should I hold you now?)

▴every you every me // lisa mitchell (placebo cover)
(Like the naked leads the blind / I know I’m selfish, I’m unkind
Sucker love I always find / someone to bruise and leave behind)

▴hourglass // the hush sound
(This is how it ends
We believe every lie and say we’ll be friends)

▴degausser // brand new
(When we were made, we were set apart
Life is a test and I get bad marks)

▴ocean of noise // arcade fire
(You’ve got your reasons / and me, I’ve got mine
But all the reasons I gave / were just lies to buy myself some time)

▴kill // jimmy eat world
(I know what I should do
But I just can’t walk away)

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part 2. anabasis
an ascent – journey out of the underworld – catharsis

▵when you were young // the killers
(You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to save you from your old ways)

▵on your shore // charlotte martin
(When I was melting in your hand / you didn’t understand
You slip through me like grains of sand / you still don’t understand)

▵house on fire // rise against(acoustic)
(So I’ll just hold you like a hand grenade / you touch me like a razor blade
I wish there was some other way right now)

▵castle of glass // dave winkler (linkin park cover)
(‘Cause I’m only a crack in this castle of glass
Hardly anything there for you to see)

▵achilles come down // gang of youths
(The self is not so weightless, nor whole and unbroken
Remember the pact of our youth)

▵time after time // quietdrive (cyndi lauper cover)
(Then you say, “go slow” / I fall behind
The second hand unwinds)

▵shake it out // florence + the machine
(Tonight, I’m gonna bury that horse in the ground)

▵watch the sky // something corporate
(And then your frequency is pulling me in closer till I’m home)

▵comeback // carly rae jepsen feat. bleachers
(All those traveling years / 'til we said our goodbye
And I show up to your place / you don’t even ask me why)

▵soul meets body // death cab for cutie
(And I do believe it’s true
That there are roads left in both of our shoes)

▵eric’s song // vienna teng
(For we don’t realize our faith in the prize
Unless it’s been somehow elusive
How swiftly we choose it
The sacred simplicity, of you at my side)

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fin.