HELLO FROM THE HALLOWOODS!!!
ROARRRR WHERE DO I EVEN START WITH HFTH??? its the queer horror podcast ever!!!
IT HAS SO MUCH REPRESENTATION OF ALL KINDS AND IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY :D like its. a horror podcast yes. but its not BAM JUMPSCARE kind of podcast (those are fun too though!!) this post from the hfth tumblr explains it quite well
ALSO LOOK AT THE COVER ART. LOOK AT THAT. THE WAY EACH EP IS NAMED TOO!!
I am unable to describe how comforting it is listening to nikignik describe the horrors like its all okay and everything matters because despite how small and insignificant human life is to them they care and are watching until the end of all days and did you know i love hfth
okay okay so other podcasts have really cool sound design and different voices WHICH I LOVE and hfth doesn't have As Much of. BUT ITS STORY?? ITS WORLDBUILDING?? THE CHARACTERS??? THEY SO MAKE UP FOR IT A THOUSAND TIMES OVER it's my favourite podcast ever i can't recommend it enough
I've never been so attached to so many charcters from one piece of media THEY'RE JUST ALL SO FLESHED OUT. ALL OF THEM. EVEN THE FUCKING INSTRUMENTALIST. and and the character development for EVERY CHARACTER especially mort and family (MY FAVOURITES)
they all feel so Real. even the background characters. the differnt povs are SO EVERYTHING. and like u get invested in storylines but each one is intresting wherever nikignik takes me i want to be
I ALSO think im especially attached bc of the
universe its set in.
ITS JUST. SO COOL. EVERYTHING I LOVE. a spooky forest with starwolves and demons and revenants and ghosts and beings made from birds and eyes and rats and indescribable creatures! once again. the worldbuilding
(LATER EDIT)i actually TAKE BACK EVEYRTHING I SAID ABOUT THIS SHOW BEING COMFORTING I HADN'T LISTENED TO TEH SECOND PART OF S3 YET MISERY MISERY MISERY MISERY ON 134 GENIUENLY AFRAID TEHRYE ALL GONNA DIE I AHTE TSHSI WOORROLDLDD I GOING SOB (love u hfth) MISERY MISERY MISERY
LATER UPDATE ON THE MISERY AT S4 NOW IM SO IM SO. MISERY MISERY MISERY NEVER BEEN SO WORRIED ABOUT NIKIGNIK IN MY LIFE AND and where. is my found family. WHERE IS IT (love this show)
IT HAS SUCH A GOOD SOUNDTRACK AS WELL because its not as audio drama-y it gets to have cool music. i really like these tracks:
. Fly me to the Hallowoods(Rat Grimes) - STARCROSSED GODS I CANT I CANT I CANT DO THIS. STARCROSSED GODS IM. ROAOOROROR
. Redemption (Ben Winwood) - OKAY THIS ONE MAKES ME EMOTIONAL IN TEH OTEHR WAY. THE FUCKING I AM DEVASTED NEVER GOING TO BE OKAY EVERY AGAIN. it reminds me of. episode 73. after the fight when yaretzi falls asleep ( "we love you mort. you are brave. and you can do whatever you want" ) that. entire scene
. The Sky Above (Borrtex) - THIS ONE MAKES ME SO EMOTIONAL but like. happy emotional :D it reminds me of the movie scene with polly and yaretzi
. Monster Within (Quinten Coblentz) - ROARRR THSI ONE IS CRAZYYYYY THSI ONE IS SO CRAZY theres this bit where The Pig appears AND NIKIGNIKS VOICE SYNCS UPWITH THE DROPS AND ITS SO. fear. fear. fear
. Keep Your Head Down (The Magnetic Buzz) - REALLY SETS THE S4 VIBE I LOVE IT
. The Day Before (Maya Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat) - THSI ONE. FUCKING INSTRUMENTALIST IMMM IMMMM this one is insane. THE FEAR AFTER HEARING THIS START TO PLAY. ESPECIALLY AFTER THAT FUCKER IS DEAD.
. Vintage Toys in the Attic (Alon Peretz) - LADY ETHEL MALLORRYRYYYY her theme. shes awful hope she dies i love her. sometimes i feel bad for her. AND THEN SHE SAYS SOMETHING HORRIFIC or kills someone. and im like. Nevermind.
. Dreaming Lucifer (Dan Ayalon)
- ROARR THSI ONE IS SILLY!!! barb theme. which makes me cheer whenever i hear it and also. want to cry ( "wolfie, you're missing your moment here." ) FUCK but anyway silly theme ALSO A BANGER
THERE ARE definatetly others too. like chasing horizons (fun sounds), metomorphosis, sun up, run with the wolves, revolution AND OF COURSE forest overture (opening theme)
CONTINING WITH MUSIC. i also have a bunch of hfth coded songs!! which are in this playlist but im explaining them here:
. Fly me to the Moon (Olivia O) - Sobbing crying dying falling. I CANTTT STARCROSSED GODS I LOVE YOU STARCROSSED GODS
. Great Vacation (Dirt Poor Robins) - THIS IS SO HFTH. it literally starts with "awaken sleepers" LIKE. it also has one of the few hfth animatics ever!1! i love the artist so much too THEY DRAW MORT AND FAMILY SO WELL i will put the animatic below somewhere ITS SO
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Run Devil Run (Haunted like Human) - YARETZI. YARETZI. YARETZI. IT JUST FITS. IN EVERYWAY. LOOK AT THAT. i can imagine the first bit as her hunting polly (or MAYBE other devils in the past) and then like. rick rounds ENDING WITH 93
. The Horror and the Wild (The Amazing Devil) - THIS AND ALSO LIKE any other the amazing devil song especially inkpot gods and secret worlds
. Be Nice To Me (The Front Bottoms) - MIGHT BE BIASED HERE bc im making a hfth animatic with this song!! also this bit (which im not animating) is so diggory to percy s1
. Hell's Comin With Me (Poor Man's Poison) - LITERALLY RICK ROUNDS. ITS ACTUALY SCARY "they said you ain't welcome 'round here anymore" ?????? "I'll be back when you least expect it" like "I am the righteous hand of god" ERMMM "first there was fire, then there was smoke, then that preacher man's hanging from a rope" HELLO??????? DID HE WRITE THIS??
ANIMATICS!!!!!!!! (there aren't many and it hurts me everyday)
THIS ANIMATIC IS SO. EVERYTHING EVER. i think about it Often... and this diggory one too. THEY ARE SO.
i also made an animatic as well to hit song be nice to me because i love the front bottoms
AND i made this mort and family one as well :D
MORT AND FAMILY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
okay so. I love so many hfth characetrs but these guys THEY ARE SO SPECIAL TO ME. quite possibly my favourite group of characters ever
Found family has always been one of my favourite tropes ever. AND THESE GUYS? THEY ARE ACTUALLY THE DEFINATION. found family with angst and fluff and now im deneranged and dying. all of my friends know about these guys. all my family
"a demon and a hunter of demons take their undead ward and start a hotel"
stolen from hit tumblr mutal honeydewmelan but love the dynamic of Mort figuring out how to Person and Polly figuring out how to Person (in a different way) and Yaretzi figuring out how to person (in a different different way) (but also her being the most connected to her humanity and teaching the others)
"my life was taken from me, and you and mort have barely begun to walk on your own. Let us all remember how to live together"
AND ALSO YARETZI BEING WITH THE COUNTESS WHILST STILL HAVING HER OWN FAMILY IS SO. polly coming back s1 and like one of the first things he says after running away from hell is teasing her about the countess is so funny to me.
also yaretzi in general. SHE IS SO COOL. WHY IS SHE SO COOL she says a lot of things that are very comforting and it makes me feel so very happy ily yaretzi
Everytime they tell eachother then love eachother part of me explodes and dies I am so full of love for them
gonna talk about some moments and epsiodes that make me Die to Cope with the end of s3 hahahahahah
(this is mostly just me going THIS EPSIDOE MAKES ME SO HAPPY :D over and over again) (I could honestly put all their epsiodes here. FIGHTING TO RESTRAIN MYSELF):
EPISODE 29 STRANGERS:yeah so. THIS IS WHERE I LOST IT. I liked them Before (i know bc I drew mort fanart at like 26) AND I REMEMBER BEING A LITTLE NORMALER??? ABOUT HFTH and then. 29 happened AND EVERY EPISODE AFTER and i became so Deranged.
Just this. THIS WHOLE SPEECH. "Were you never just a person, Apollyon? Did you not get to make a choice?" IM DEAD IM DYING IM GONE. the way he just decides he's done crying at the end is so real love u polly
EPISODE 41 WATERS: THIS ONE MAKES ME SO HAPPY :D when polly came back I was jumping up and down like mort EXPECT I WAS ALSO RUNNING AROUND THE ROOM AND YELLING. theyre so stupid "unhand me! You're ruining my grand entrance" hhaha I love reading fics of this bit where POLLY DOES NOT RETURN SO GOOD. THEYRE SO STUPID.
EPISODE 59 FRIENDS:THIS EPISODE. everytime yaretzi calls polly apollyon i Die. Yaretzi would have been able to smell his Constant Fear at all times in this (Polly just spends this whole podcast trying to show he's not afraid actually) THE MORT "i don't want a prize. I want you two to stop yelling at eachother, it's not nice" AND THEN ENDING WITH THE "everything is fine" from polly and the little paper bert i might pass away
EPISODE 64 STATIONS: MOVIE EPSIODE. took me so long to get through the first time BECAUSE I WAS JUMPING UP AND DOWN UNABLE TO REMAIN CALM and had to keep. stopping and restarting to gather myself I was so happy (now why couldn't jarthur malevolent do this.) I THINK. this epsidoe is probably one of my most listened to ones. or at least up there.
"It says there's a New York Welcome Center." said Mort. "We should go get welcome"
"I dont't think any of us will be welcome the way we look presently," Polly said.
"We do not hide ourselves for the comfort of others." Yaretzi said.
"It's Destiny," Polly replied.
"Say that one more time and your destiny may become my lunch"
EPISODE 66 MORALS: THIS EPISODE MAKES ME SO HAPPY ROARR!!! everything yaretzi says is so comforting and it makes me want to Explode. "it is a little good, for when i see you both i smile" and morts silly "i smile too" THEYRE SO. THEYRE SO. AND AND AND "My life was taken from me, and you and Mort have barely begun to walk on your own. Let us all remember how to live together" I CANT WITH THEM THEY MAKE ME UNWELL (also crane and tulip introduction i Love Them) (later edit but I'm actually making a comic of this scene I'll put it here somewhere when im done)
EPISODE 73 RETRIBUTIONS: If there's ever The Episode. this is The Episode. GOD GOD GOD ID NEVER BEEN SO DISTRAUGHT IN MY LIFE. ive memorised Alot of it (heelep i was playing hit endless very broken board game Pokemon Master Trainer with my family and listening to it on loop. i think i have a problem erm.) BUT THIS EPISODE. IM. i think if I was up to date at this point i would have Passed Away
Polly smiling at Mort before he was taken away. I CANT I CANT CAN HE STOP BEING KIDNAPPED FOR LIEK 5 MINUTES AND AND AND FUCKING
"we love you mort, you are brave and can do whatever you want" IM GOING TO CRY
"if you turn a little i can carry you" "if i turn a little I will die. I just need to sleep. sleep and I will be fine" IM SO IM SO. Redemption is playing whilst im writing this nothing is okay i cnat do thsi
EPISODE 82 FAILURES: failures. FAILURES. EVEN THE EPISODE TITLE IS MISERY. the story title is "as if they were free" LIKE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK and the barb intro pov ITS SO. (i did enjoy omen polly interaction though BUT MISERY MISERY MISERY)
"Somewhere out there is a highly visible heap of metal named Mort," said Polly. "Red deep-sea diving apparatus. You can't miss him. And you should tell him that I love him. And that he's got to grow up now, very fast, and I'm sorry about that. And that I wish I'd been a better f..." HOW DO I LIVE THROUGH THISSSS. I've recited that paragraph to so many people its actually so embarrassing
He could have asked for anything. but the final thing he wanted to do (before being killed and then tortured by the industry) WAS TO TELL MORT HE LOVED. YARETZIS "WE LOVE YOU MORT" BEFORE FALLING ASLEEP AND THEN THIS. NOT OKAT NOT OKAY NOT OKAY
EPISODE 83 HOPES: HOPES. HOPES. GOD THIS EPISODE. BARB. mort put it in great words actually "I thought he was my friend. Then he wasn't. Then he was again. Then he wasn't. Now I think maybe he is again." Barbs whole speech. and the insight into his thought process from the patreon bonus stories... GOD GOD GOD
"Wolfie," he said quietly, and crumpled to his knees, leaned against her stupid skull for support. "You're missing your moment here. I did my line and everything. This is the part where you eat. This is the part where you wake up. Come on, this is the one good thing I'll ever do"
EPISODE 89 TERMINATIONS:THEYRE BACK TOGETHER THIS EPSIODE WAS SO. and royalties. i havent written about that one but yaretzi was SO FUCKING COOL IN THAT. death is named yaretzi
MORT FALLING OUT OF HIS SUIT WAS SO STUPID AND FUNNY TEHRYE SO STUPID. this bit directed at rick rounds was also funny. "Have you considered, that they did that because you are cruel and insufferable and have a bit of a masochistic streak?"
And of course polly's "You've forged your chains. Carry them far away from me" AND THEN HE GOES AND SPLASHES AROUND IN THE OCEAN WITH HIS FAMILY THEY ARE SUCH FUCKING LOSERS I LOVE THEM
EPISODE 99 SENTRIES:Listening to this makes me smile so much. MORT HAVING GLOW IN THE DARK STARS AND HIS HAT, HIS CONVERSATION WITH POLLY ("i love you. im glad you're my family" "I love you too, Mort. Have a good night at work") yaretzi and the countess. I LOVE THEM. the amount of Dread I felt at morts last lines I WAS SO WORRIED I WAS SO AFARID. and honestly for good reason
EPISODE 133 LIBERTIES: I HATE EVERYTHING I CANT DO THIS I CANT DO THIS I CANT DO THIS APOLLYON WHERE ARE YOU IM SCARED IM SO SCARED. I should have a seperate bit for predictions but. nikignik. is not. doing well. AND TAHTS TERRIFYING. my only consolation.. is he doenst really age the same. and mort. i dont know. how much of mort. is mort anymore. APOLLYON COME BACK TO ME. im so scared yaretzi got relaly depressed and decided to have a long fucking nap (edit ITS STILL MISERY BUT AT LEAST MORT AND YARETZI ARE TOGETHER. this is for a way later episode but when mort called yaretzi his mom i. IVE STILL NOT RECOVERED.)
EPISODE 137 SNARES: This. killed me actually. GOD I HAD MISSED YARETZI TAALKING TO MORT SO MUCH THIS. JUST THIS ENTIRE CHAPTER. yaretzi going to hug him.. mort asking if polly came too "yes but he is being stubborn so he is back there a little ways"
THE SPEECH. SHE GIVES TO MORT. "Death is not the end for your friends, it is not the end for anyone. Just a changing in their purpose" THE FORSHADOWING THAT I DID NOT PICK UP ON AND NOW I JUST FEEL SO. the next time they meet.
"Thank you for coming to check on me," Mort said, and held his metal glove in a fist, and stood straight. "I love you. I love Polly. I'm glad you're my family. And I was really missing you so I'm glad I got to see you. But I can't go. I have a job to do. It's my job. And I need to finish it" IM GOING TO DIE
EPISODE 140 SACRIFICES:HAHAHAHAH ITS ALL. OKAY!!! HAHAHAH!!! EVERYTHING!!! IS FINE!!! (i cant i cant i cant) hahah so ahah what happend this ep is. Mort and Diggory drop some explosives into the sea. Marolmar Reborn and Unreborn goes BOOM and then Yaretzi goes gets Polly and then they take their son home
Starcrossed Gods. Oh god. Starcrossed gods
EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS. i think its my favourite epsiode alongside 73. ITS SO.
okay so listening to it i accidently saw spoilers and already knew marolmar was manipulative BUT I WAS SURPRESSING IT SO MUCH. every time i thought about it I would like. start making sounds. singing a song I DID NOT WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT UNTIL I HAD LISTENED
nikignik sounded so much younger and happy (erm for the most part) in it AND I CANT. nikignik loved him so muhc. but marolmar just wanted someone to see his work "you are all i long for, all i worship and adore"
The whole thing that xyzikxyz implied that marolmar lured him away from the gates so he could attack the council IM SO. AND ALSO THE THING about nik's job endlessly guarding the gates. like. a guard dog. wanting to be important and nobody even noticed he was gone. this is s4 but before I listened I accidently played a later hfth episode and thought it was the council of heavens and nik had got in trouble and been summoned there. But instead it was an auditor. Because nikignik still isn't worth their time in their eyes. Hasn't entered the Council chamber. They're just gonna torture him until they deem him guilty (end of s4 edit. WELL.)
speaking of s4. I CANT BELIVE. HE WA SLISTEING THE WHOLE FUCKING TIME. WHAT IS WRONG WITH TAHT GUY
fanfic time BECAUSE THEY MEAN SO MUCH TO ME!!! ily fanfic writers YOU'RE SO COOL love u guys.
Playing House (kingdomchain):
UNABLE TO WORD HOW MUCH THIS FIC MEANS TO ME. it's a modern au where polly and then yaretzi adopt mort AND IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY like its a modern au. but it feels so like the show AND THE CHARACTERISATION IS PERFECT. The yaretzi and polly qpr (and polly struggling with his feelings and yaretzi telling him that they just are whatever they want to be stop worrying about it) IM GONNA SOB THEYRE SO SWEET. Polly angst... polly drowning in his shitty job as usual... yaretzi doing her best to hold them together as usual SHE HAS A MOTORBIKE IN THIS AND LETS MORT RIDE IT (polly is very reluctant to let him) AND ITS SO SWEET
Happy Birthday, Mort by FruitViking: THIS ONE MAKES ME SO HAPPY :DD i refernced it in my Very Real summary of 140! the idea of them going to an aquarium and seeing nightmare fish for morts birthday :D AND THEN MORT GETTING UPSET THAT POLLY AND YARETZI DON'T HAVE ONE AND AND THEY ALL AGREE TO SHARE A BIRTDHAY. yaretzi putting a magnet on him... AND THE PLUSHIE FROM TEH GIFT SHOP. i'm filled with so much Joy reading it
Working from Home by starspangledbread: I SMILE SM READING THIS ONE. their stupid fucking hotel I wish they'd got more time together there gonna sob. BUT THIS FIC DOES IT PERFECTLY yaretzi and mort drawing.. AND THEN POLLY FRAMING IT PROUDLY IN HIS OFFICE. the silly presents polly brought at the dry market.. AND MORTS SILLY PAPER BIRDS. the end... THE END. WITH MORTS NOTE. IM GONNA CRY IT WAS SO FLUFFY AND SWEET AND TEHN RUNS YOU OVER WITH TEH ANGST
"The message on it stares at Polly as he tries and fails to concentrate on his work. B home soon." and its been 14 years and mort isnt mort anymore I CANT DO THIS.
A Smoother Pebble by goblincore: THIS ONE IS ALSO SO SWEET early mort and family where polly deals with emotions at having mort bring him rocks (which he'd so do) I really love the bit where mort gets all sad becayse he accidently breaks the rock and then they're like its okay! there's one for both of us you made art! and then mort's like "I made art? I am art?" and Polly is like "yes mort you are" and Yaretzi gives him such a look like youre a giant sap THEY'RE SO STUPID
keep my body from the fire by HirilElfwraith and The Shattered Path home by Dathen: THESE ONES ARE BOTH DIFFERNT FROM EACHOTHER but putting them together as they are both about Polly being exiled from the industry after 36 instead of running away AND GOD. GOD. GOD. that au idea is so. it makes me insane. i do love angsty polly content. (slight worried hes actually gonna get blinded and tortured in canon though)(hahaha what)(who was that)
with bloodied feet (across the hallowed ground) by HirilElfwraith: ANGSTY FUCKING WEREWOLF FIC BUT THEY'RE ALL WEREWOLVES oh polly. you're so. POLLY. I would love to see more in this universe gives me big flashbacks to the creature found family fics I used to read NEED TO DRAW FANART SO BAD. yaretzi why are you so Cool
