:)

@neutronbutt in episode 21, he finds miner’s clothes in the cabin and changed out of his old clothes. (He put on ‘as many layers as would fit’, so he probably looked like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man) Even before that though, if anything remained of the suit, it was absolutely fucked. I took notes on a relisten, and it is remarkable that Arthur is still physically intact. If you want injuries to incorporate into fanfic, I got you

Do you ever think about how unsettling Arthur must look at this point? He’s this pale, emaciated, grimy(he splashed around in dirty bath water *once* in 5 months) guy in ill fitting clothes who looks like he took a spin in a rock tumbler. One of his hands looks diseased and the tip of the pinky is just blackened bone. Worst of all, there’s something wrong with his eyes but you can’t put your finger on what.

YES i am ready to be destroyed emotionally

Cold? ✅

In the dark? ✅

Not requiring mental stability until monday? ✅ ✅

Love them with my entire heart and praying to god that they’ll one day be able to have a conversation whithout insulting/threatening to kill each other..

It’s a pity the characters we meet in malevolent are so limited. I know it’s supposed to be a one man show, but also, it’s a one *man* show. I feel like there’s wiggle room here.

Brian David Gilbert is a gift to humanity and a curse on mankind.

I just had to get that off my chest.

No little german boy, don’t open that eldritch tome!

“Mein Gott, es gibt ein schmexy Dämon in mein Kopf!”

An old photo forgotten (or left) in some drawer...

Also

“They aren’t our friend”

EXCUSE YOU john. Ur just mad someone’s coming for ur throne. They are our soulmate our bestie the bro we kiss goodnight. I would die for them i would kill for them i am adopting them and we will be together forever thank you very much

…was my reaction in the moment. Before…y’know

He has synesthesia? That’s so cool!

:O I have a garage band file playing around with combining the two on my phone. Well, it’s mostly just the first song with music box’s melody sprinkled on top. Oh and I tried to mash some of Faroe’s Waltz into it too. I mean, it’s not good, but still- [theres supposed to be a readmore after this. Pls tumblr im begging you]

I… never noticed the final iteration was different🙃

Malevolent soundtrack is like “I live with minor, but I visit major on the weekends”

I’ve always wanted to hear a more complex version!! Oh man, when you want to create a thing but don’t have the skill, then someone else does it 🤌

Edgy and pretentious is the name of the game lmao. There’s a kind of …camp? to the podcast that makes it so fun to listen to.

Did you transcribe these from the actual podcast? I salute you sir(ungendered). The bandcamp version of music box/lullaby has some more chords and such in it and, listen, I can transcribe one note at a time and that’s it asfjbejfks

faroe's song and faroe's music box transcriptions (themes from malevolent)

google drive link for the PDFs: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/4/folders/1mxV-rkZCAHuHTNVeMoiOc91PIsW6CEp2

EDIT: i made some errors in the music box theme, they've since been corrected!

composed by the incredibly talented harlan guthrie, transcribed by me! for the music box theme, i've included instructions for both playing it as the original music box version as well as kayne's solo variation. i used musescore to notate these.

some thoughts below the break!

i agree with harlan in picking b minor as the flagship key for this podcast; it's always struck me as a particularly black and morose key in colour, even if i don't have synesthesia myself. i think it's worth remarking that he chose b minor for both of the themes. it really makes me want to try and meld the song and the music box themes together (and makes me wonder if harlan already has that idea in the wings).

i find the structure of faroe's song to be especially compelling, the way that the first two iterations of the theme's second half meld together in the third and final iteration. it makes me really wonder about the narrative structure of malevolent—if we'll see john and arthur merge and hybridize in similar ways, perhaps...

i really have to commend harlan for communicating something so distinct about arthur's musical voice. these themes are very simple, very repetitive, and yet they carry within themselves this kind of understated melancholic beauty. i want to try my hand at doing a more elaborate and reharmonized arrangement of these, but it'll be difficult to do so without losing sight of the core of the piece, i think.

i also took some stylistic liberties with how i notated some of the expressive directions. i know you're not supposed to add periods to the end of everything, but it felt appropriate? it looks cool. maybe a bit edgy and pretentious, but who gives a shit.

With all this talk about “ram-like” people, I think we have neglected the potential of Sheep Friend. I want a Sheep Friend for Arthur (maybe even John too)