Whiff City

I… Wh-when I'm recording I have uh- I have a picture in my head of… who I'm recording for. That- Thats… As you kind of find you voice, um…

When- as you're recording, as you slowly find your voice talking to literally nothing 'cause everybody knows thats initially like a weird thing, like when you hit record and you're talking to nobody…

Thats a weird thing for several months.

Until you- you mentally form a picture of- Who's this person that I'm recording for? Who am I recording this video for?

Sometimes I'll go through a whole video- oh you guys will love this- sometimes I go through a whole video and I'm thinking, "I'm making this video for Etho"

i feel like i should also say while i love and enjoy both ccs, im more of a bdubs fan than an ethogirl so i might be biased in some of my interpretations !

^tbh i don't see the connection right away. i'd love to hear your thoughts on it though! here are mine.

"is there a word for bad miracle?" "but could we please pretend this won't end?" "we could cry a little, cry a lot ... we'll cry later or cry now." "you know its heartbreak ... heartbreak feels so good"

^i see this as them doing a sort of back and forth. will they continue, knowing it'll end in tears and heartbreak? but even though they know the ending, it's not set in stone. they don't know the specifics.

"it's open season on blue moods, light from a screen of messages unsent, it was an uphill battle"

^oml do NOT get me started on unsent messages... how many times did either of them start typing only to close the window..

^okay wow i love this song, actually. i'm adding this to my ethubs playlist. it fits so well!

"i wasn't dumb enough to say it, but i have to admit it. barely heard any of the words coming out of your mouth, 'cause i was thinking 'bout you naked laying out on the couch"

^i think they 100% will zone out and think about things they shouldnt (both mundane and nsfw) while on call with each other)

"and i know this confession is a waste of time. you've got your picket fence and i have mine. there's no attachment, i don't need you, it's really not that deep."

^this seems like its from etho's pov, thinking his confession is a waste of time because bdubs already has a family and a picket fence. don't bother worrying about it, he's not that attatched. its not that deep.

"you're just heavy on my mind when i'm falling asleep. it's not, it's not that, it's not that deep, just a shot to the chest every time that we speak."

^i love how this can be seen as specific to either of them. like on bdubs' side its a shot in the chest BECAUSE he thinks about etho as he falls asleep. on etho's maybe he's fine with the late night thinking, but he has Feelings every time they speak.

"wanna know everything about you and tenfold, but who am i kidding. so does everybody else, like. i guess it's fitting that i want you to myself when i'm not special in my love for you."

^back to it generally fitting either of them. they're both content creators so neither of them are special for loving the other and wanting to know more.

actually bdubs has more irl content on his channel, so i would argue that this is more from his perspective since he wants to know more about etho. and he's definitely not special in his love and his want for more, theres plenty of people on the server who are fans of etho, along with every ethogirl ever lol

"blow up my world if you asked me to, burn bridges down and get stuck with you. but you're tired now and you're leaving soon, so i shut down my thoughts of you."

^i think this is so interesting because to me its "ill do anything for you" and then someone logs off the server and you kinda just have to shut that down as soon as they do, if that makes sense?

"if there's something underneath, will you come with me when i sink? far away, somewhere at sea, just you and i, down in the deep."

^this reads to me as "i acknowledge that we have something, are you willing to explore this vast ocean of unresolved feelings with me?" type thing.

10/10 song!

^i haven't heard this song in a hot minute. it totally fits!

"theyve always been so kind, but now theyve brought you away from me. i hope they didnt get your mind, your heart is too strong anyway. we need to fetch back the time they have stolen from us."

^this was a little bit of a challenge, but i see it as either their mindcrack or hermitcrack servermates (or even guude ((curse his name)) during the ooge days) stealing the other person away, as well as stealing time from them.

"and i want you, we can bring it on the floor, you've never danced like this before, we don't talk about it. dancin' on, doin' the boogie all night long. stoned in paradise, shouldn't talk about it."

^i see this as them dancing around each other, something they've never done before (with another man, probably) and its something they don't talk about. something they /shouldn't/ talk about. dancing is a metaphor for whatever they have going on, in this case.

"the only thing i feel is pain, caused by absence of you. suspense controlling my mind, i cannot find my way out of here. i want you by my side, so that i never feel alone again."

^i feel like thats pretty self-explanatory. no further elaboration needed.

^this one is pretty easy. they've been in orbit around each other since 2011. thats pretty much a thousand years.

^to be honest i feel like its also pretty self-explanatory (i hope thats not just me being lazy..!)

but in all seriousness, its talk about domestics, which is a sort of a taboo for ethubs in mind. i see it as a back and forth between them.

someone saying "can i get your number? can i get you into bed? when we wake up in the morning will you give me lots of head?" and instead of personal reassurance, (ex. "/i/ will") its a generalization. "/everybody/ wants to love you," is the response that comes repeatedly, walls up a mile high. if that makes sense?

^ooou i like this one. its interesting.

"good god, you're in my kitchen. it's been so long, don't we look different? you said, "lets go dancing," fall asleep in my room, is this habit or something i shouldn't do? yeah, that was a close one."

^okay so my first thought was that ethubs met up a long time ago, and this is set in the future after that, but the more i think about it the more im leaning towards this is the first time they're meeting, they're just so different from their old 2011 online selves. also dancing as a metaphor for something else? again? possibly? anyways, who knows what they got up, dancing and falling asleep in the others room.. that was a close one.

"we were really going through it, guess we dodged another bullet. we know that we're happier."

^maybe they got close in previous years, but didn't pursue anything due to _ reason, and they dodged a bullet. now in the present time, its the right time, and they're happier.

"careful, dont come any closer. you should go home... or stay on the sofa. fuck it, lets go dancing. fall asleep in my room, this can't happen. guess i'll just see you soon."

^still cautious around each other, but fuck it lets go 'dancing' <- whatever that means lol

"that was a close one. we were really going through it, guess we dodged another bullet. we know that we're happier on our own. (lets go dancing) on our own (lets go dancing) on our own."

^WRONG its not the right time. and it probably never will be. they keep getting close to making it official but its /never/ the right time, and they always dodge the 'bullet.'

^this one strikes me as an etho song, weirdly enough. he's either very heavily aroace OR just inexperienced.

for the aroace argument, ive got "give me an inch, ill postpone it," "any chips or nuts for the hostage?" "so what the fuck did i miss? why the fuck did we kiss?" "i got weird when we made out, clearly i've got shit to figure out. baby, baby, please don't hate me." "babe, whats the deal, do you like me? why do karma and girls love to bite me? i still wait for that pressure to ripen." "no one told me." "wheres the reference?" "hyped it up through a dream." "held your hand, suppressed a scream." "lets not make it deeper than it needs to be." "yeah, just sit there, tell me i'm attractive. is she a date or a captive?" "i don't know why, makin' out just made me cry."

on the inexperienced side, "it'll feel like a movie (maybe)" "a pep talk in the bathroom, do i down gin, stick to water?" "what a goddamn kiss to think about, poured a drink al over my wiring, short a fuse, all cylinders firing." "guess 'hot goddamn mess' is your type then." "call me up again, i won't get weird." "thats the old me, god forgive her."

to be honest, i think aroace wins here, but thats my opinion. i'd be really interested to hear your opinion on this one!

^i'm going to state the obvious here: transfem etho.

"all dressed up and nowhere to go." "another night you wish you could forget, making yourself up as you go along." "yet to be born, you're already dead." "oh, you should've been a mother, you should've been a wife." "you should be living a different life."

yup all i'm hearing is validation. i'm curious which way you think it goes though! etho or bdubs? transfem or transmasc or nonbinary or other?

^to be honest this one strikes me as more of a hermitcraft characters ethubs song, than an ethubs rpf song. i'm actually going to switch it up and interpret this through the lens of the characters.

"we've been looking for a chance to be alone. honey, kick off your pants, we're living in the future. there's no need to do the dance anymore."

^so they're definitely living together on the server. they've stopped dancing around each other, and gotten together.

"be my warrior, my loving light. be my warrior, and i'll be alright. be my warrior, just you and i."

^this is in reference to the life series, i think

"i've got eyes for anything moving, fell in love with a tumbleweed. you gotta say goodbye, drop whatever it is you're doing." "morning of my execution."

^also in reference to life series. nothing is permanent like it is on hermitcraft.

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alright its getting kinda late and i've got stuff i need to finish before bed. looks like nine is all im getting done tonight. let me know what you think of my interpretations, as well as your own! i'd love to compare and contrast :D