Filk Broken Telephone 2024

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We highly recommend listening to these by starting with the first work in each chain and going in order!

Chain 1

campaign don’t start til I Walk in [A filk about D&D] (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game))
written by Dr_Fumbles_McStupid, performed by crackfics_georg
Summary: A filk about fantasy tabletop roleplaying set to Ke$ha's tik tok written for Filk broken telephone 2024

[Filk] I wanna wreck the realm (Tortall - Tamora Pierce)
written and performed by ChaosKiro
Summary: What if Roger, instead of just monologuing at Alanna at the end had broken into song?
Set to the tune of So what by P!nk, because he is kinda acting like a vindictive ex about it.

Rise a Corpse Army [Filk] (魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV))
written and performed by esbielle
Summary: After the second siege of the burial mounds, while gathered in Lotus Pier, the sect leaders realize what Jin Guangyao was truly like. They turn to Wei Wuxian hoping he's now on their side. And Wei Wuxian has something to say.
A filk set to "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles.

[Filk] Say Goodbye (七爷 | Qi Ye - priest)
written and performed by minnabird
Summary: Scatter all my memories
Like petals floating in the breeze
I'll say goodbye
This road I walk will take me out of sight
(Jing Beiyuan puts away his love for Helian Yi, to the tune of Nina Gordon's "Tonight and the Rest of My Life")

[Filk] This Time (คาธ | The Eclipse (TV 2022))
written and performed by Wereflamingo
Summary: Akk marvels at how Aye refused to give up on him in spite of everything he's done.
A filk based on No! by Bukahara (which is an excellent anti-fascist anthem, so if you don't know it, please listen to it too!)

Chain 2

Please note, the second work in this chain has lyrics but no audio, which we've noted right below the summary. When the audio is added to this works, we'll take the note off! You can wait to listen to that chain, or you can read the lyrics for that one and listen to the rest.

[Filk] Costume Party! (Original Work)
written and performed by legonerd
Summary: A re-imagining of Hell is Forever from Hazbin Hotel.

fun house [filk] (The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Original Work)
written and performed by fan_ficcer
Summary:
looking twice before you leap in faith is wasting time
naught left below to catch us but traps of their design
we are nothing more than pawns that are meant to be used
your choices were made for you before you even tried to move
lyrics only—audio not yet added

[Filk] Sounds of Carl (Llamas with Hats (Web Series))
written by wilfriede0815, performed by carboncopies and wilfriede0815
Summary:
But my goal is achieved, forgiveness is so near.
Can't you hear?
First the screaming, then silence.
A song about Llamas with Hats from Carl's POV. Based on "The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel.

[filk] A Herding Dog's Lament (If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio)
written and performed by ShakespeareStoleMyURL
Summary: "Judge me, you gods!
Wrong I mine enemies?
And if not so, how should I wrong a brother?"
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
or, James grappling with everything that happened during everyone's time at Dellecher, in a thought spiral and accusing an imaginary Oliver in his mind.

Your World (The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells)
written and performed by bluegeekEM
Summary: Murderbot grapples with the conflicts and realizations that come with the events of All Systems Red.

Chain 3

Answer Me [lyrics and audio] (Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan)
written and performed by farkenshnoffingottom
Summary: Nico's POV from after he leaves camp to the end of Battle of the Labyrinth, set to Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party"

You’ll stay with me? (Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling)
written and performed by mangotart_reads
Summary: Music: “there is a light that never goes out” by The Smiths
Context: (major spoiler alert) Harry has to die by Voldemort’s hands to destroy Voldemort’s horcrux inside himself.
They’re in the forest while the “battle of hogwarts” is happening at the castle.
But before that, he summons his dead loved ones with the resurrection stone.
His mother Lily, his father James, his parents’ friend Remus and his Godfather Sirius. They’re younger and happier than Harry has ever seen them.
“He was not really fetching them: they were fetching him”.
Lily’s death and, therefore, act of love protected Harry so far, but now his selfless death will protect everyone else with his love.

[Pod_together Broken Telephone Filk 2024] I'm Tired (Original Work)
written and performed by Mangacat
Summary: Hey, villains get depressed too, you know?
To the tune of "I'm Tired" by Labyrinth feat. Zendaya - from the soundtrack of "Euphoria"

Rule the World (Original Work)
written and performed by Ceewelsh
Summary: A villain's reflection

Everything I Wanted [Filk] (Original Work, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
written and performed by ssleif
Summary: Filk for when you got what you wanted.

Chain 4

[filk] you ate my soul already (The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir)
written and performed by olive2read
Summary: stuck in a hidden pocket of Harrow's mind, Gideon urges Harrow to unpack her shit embrace her lyctorhood

[Filk] Sacrifice (陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù)
written and performed by irrationalpie
Summary:
What do I do with this poisonous gift?
Finally knowing the cause of our rift
You've got my head spinning, no winning, how did I miss this?
Jiang Cheng reacts to the golden core reveal.

Try (Original Work, Fandom - Fandom, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV))
written and performed by mahons_ondine
Summary: Love can make you do crazy, impossible things. Like give up a life of crime. Or come back from the dead. A loosely Wei Wuxian coded song about getting what you didn't know you wanted.

[Filk] Meant to be Yours (Our Flag Means Death (TV))
written and performed by horchatapods
Summary:
I hear you both now run an inn
Out of a fucking shack
HA!
Ha!
Ha.
Is this what I helped you win,
Trading your sails for pillows and flapjacks?

[Filk] On the Rise (Our Flag Means Death (TV))
written and performed by nonplussed
Summary: Post-canon, Ed is haunted by Izzy's ghost (or perhaps just a dark figment of his imagination)

The Inn of Three (Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling)
written and performed by SerenaEW
Summary: My Filk Broken Telephone submission for pod-together 2024, based on Schubert's Das Wirtshaus from his Winterreise.