#ask indigo

𝙼𝚢 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝙸𝚝/𝙸𝚝’𝚜!! 𝚂𝚘 𝙸’𝚍 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞’𝚍 𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚎. 𝚆𝚑𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚊𝚜𝚔 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝙸 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎? 𝙸.. 𝙳𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠.. 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗’𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛..

𝙰𝚗𝚢𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜..! 𝙰𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝…𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝙸’𝚖 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚍𝚍 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚊𝚜𝚔 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛. 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚊𝚜𝚔 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚖𝚢 𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚝, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛…

𝙲𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚕𝚊𝚋! 𝙸 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚎, 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑. 𝚂𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚊 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚎’𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎. 𝙷𝚎’𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙸 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛..

𝙸 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚊𝚋𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚁𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚋𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚁𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚋𝚘𝚠 𝙷𝚞𝚋 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚛!

𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚕! 𝙳𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚢! 𝙸’𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚜 𝙶𝚘𝚐𝚐𝚕𝚎𝚜, 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚢. 𝙷𝚎’𝚜 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚝 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜. 𝙰𝚗𝚢𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜, 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎!! :3 𝙰𝚠𝚠𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝’𝚜 𝚊 𝚌𝚞𝚝𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚔 :𝙳 𝙸 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗!!!

hello hello!! you are not a bother!! im actually kinda glad you asked this bc ive been meaning to address it.

(redraw of an old ch12 doodle!)

anyway…

The future of STAMPS: (be aware this may contain some spoilers)

oh my friend you have olled away the rock the tomb has been unsealed,

Chonny's Charming Chaos Compendium is a cover album of Tally Hall songs, in the same way Everything Everywhere All At Once is about a woman trying to do her taxes. the full thing is available on youtube and spotify. even solely superficially, it's super interesting, because it's not like, karaoke over the song's musical track, it's like. Redone. new sounds. same song, same tune, but still completely reupholstered. if you like jhariah or will wood, this is like tally hall if you seasoned it to make it sound like them.

HOWEVER.

the instrumentals are NOT the only thing that changed-- he also REWRITES THE LYRICS. he's a VERY clever lyricist, even if hes still definitely drawing from the original. but in doing so he's creating an underlying story, and in tying it all together it starts becoming clear.

CCCC is about Chonny Jash, the artist in question, going through such a bad mental health episode that he manages to split his brain in three. be aware, it's not explicitly anything-- it could be about plurality, it could be about depersonalization, or it could just be a metaphor about self conflict. but the bottom line is, where there was once one there is now THREE, and none of them want to be here.

the bulk of the album is the three of them singing and songwriting and arguing with each other. Mind Electric is the left brain, the logical side, and the only one with a distinctive voice-- he has a distinctly robotic, modulated voice. he also talks like a disney villain.

his counterpart is Heart Acoustic! the right brain, the emotional side, and the most visually distinctive of the three-- he's the chap with the blindfold and the wings and he's a bit of a miserable mess. if mind is the voice in your head who berates you for not getting things done, heart is the voice in your head panicking about the long term impact.

that being said: neither of them are inherenty the Good Guy or the Bad Guy. they are equals, and they cannot lives without each other, and they are constantly committing war crimes. the first thiiiird? of the album is the two of them bitching and bitching and bitching and

number three is my favorite and he shows up in like the last half of the album: the Soul Eclectic. you can't really argue if Heart or Mind are id or superego, but Soul is unquestionably the ego in the triad. he moderates and also keeps Heart and Mind from killing each other. and plays guitar. he's skrunkly

that being said. it is about a depressive episode. all three of them kind of want to die. Soul is absolutely not opposed to it. they have explicitly discussed this. i cannot emphasize enough, the entire album is about an absolute mental low, and that's kind of what keeps it interesting. the three of them are one person at his absolute worst, and they are so filled with loathing for the Others that is really just kind of... loathing of the self. take all of that on top of the fact they are in a time loop.

the three of them are trapped in an infinite cycle of dissolution and reconstitution. they will always eventually synthesize and make it out of the misery pit only to fall back apart into the same patterns and arguments and PEOPLE. they cant catch a break man!!!!!!

Also see if you can use this: Ɛ:

“ …𝙷𝚖𝚖 𝚊 𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚗.. 𝙸 𝚍𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎.. 𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚝 𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚜, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑. 𝙸 𝚊𝚕𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚊𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚊𝚛. 𝙸𝚝’𝚜 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜, 𝙸’𝚖 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔!! ”

aaahh!! thank you so much!!! here is a doodle of your tragic gay men!