This playlist is on Spotify! › open.spotify.com/playlist/7dK... Just a Tommyinnit exile playlist. Song titles and artists are in the video Background art is by Altostratus_6 on Twitter.
Dayum, people are still coming back to the Exile playlist? I'm chuffed! I never thought that it would be so popular, I mean - Almost 200K VIEWS? that's bananas!! Seriously, I'm so grateful to you all. I love reading back through your comments and seeing those awesome stories that have been written as well as many personal takes on the story arc. I am honoured that my content is seen as nostalgic, and I hope my playlists give you that memory fix! Happy listening everybody, I may start uploading again if I have the time :) - Asyluminnit
I feel as though the exile arc shouldn't just be referred to as the "exile arc" in fandom. This makes it sound like much less than it actually was. c!Tommy was told he was only going to be exiled from L'Manburg, but then c!Dream dragged him away from all civilization, and wouldn't let him return, setting strict rules, and manipulating and abusing him in nearly every sense of the words. c!Tommy was kidnapped and abused, and it was written well. I as the viewer at times wanted to believe c!Dream, and found myself falling into traps, and became unable to finish watching the exile vods for my own safety. Rarely ever have I found media explore extreme abuse in a way that I can relate to, in such an unfiltered way that I physically can't watch. It was written well, handled seriously, and is what really made differentiating between the content creators and their characters so important in conversation. Even afterward, c!Tommy was obviously traumatized, and this is evident not only through his numerous triggers and how he wasn't immediately over the trauma after some quick montage, but also through the fact that almost no other characters _really know_ what happened in exile. It's just too painful and far too difficult to explain and relive. As someone who has gone through a similar experience, any time I try to explain things that happened, no matter how much I think I'm ready, or how much I rehearse, or how long it's been, my mind always draws a blank, I forget everything, I freeze up, I physically can't speak, and just end up powering down. It doesn't help that I have frequent memory issues and minor hallucinations. These characters' troubles feel real, because these things haunt you day after day, and most of the time it doesn't really knock you down until you start seeing it again, hearing it again, feeling it again because of some everyday object or action becoming triggering. Later edit: I also want to bring up the blooper when c!Dream blew up Logstedshire, and accidentally blew himself up, leading to an overall hilarious moment of insisting that it wasn't in the script. After laughing about it for a minute, Dream and Tommy immediately got back into character, and didn't later make jokes about that moment or bring it up in canon as funny, they immediately went the serious atmosphere, and clearly took what was happening seriously. It would've been so easy to laugh during the rest of the stream, and joke about what happened, but the two knew that the situation they were portraying was serious, and they treated it as such. Another incredible thing I've noticed is the fact that they don't treat these characters and things they're portraying as if they're made of glass, like if anything too big were to happen, they would break entirely. These characters are dragged through hell and back -- both figuratively and literally -- and they suffer from it, we as the viewers see them at their worsts, and we see them struggle to climb back up to normality, and it's messy, and it's brutal, and it's *real.* I've already stated this quite a bit, but I love that this is uncensored and unfiltered, and it doesn't need to be put through a Hollywood lense that glamorizes or glorifies what's going on within these characters. Because mental health and trauma and recovery are messy and painful and so so hard to dissect and portray in media in a way that the viewer can understand. We can see this in c!Wilbur's spiral in Pogtopia. During the Pogtopia era, we as the viewers didn't see how serious things were and how awful c!Wilbur's mental health had become until his self-destructive demise. Only after c!Wilbur's death did people realize that this was serious and real. A character that we had watched grow, and that we had watched create and fight for something he believed in, and then go down a different path that he had us convinced was the right thing to do, we had watched that character die, and only afterward did we see how bad his mental health had become, which in my opinion is one of the best portrayals of a mental health spiral in modern media. A round of applause to the members and the writers of the Dream SMP. /gen /srs /lh
Definitely agree on the writing and Tommy's acting. Personally I have only joined up recently, but as I started watching either live streams or clips watching c!Tommy have a flash back to the final control room and I think there was one with a creeper I remember seeing on tik tok. There are probably more, but I haven't seen most of the vods. The writting for the Dream SMP is incredible. The characters feel so real.
@@coralia.i9702 i hadnt so intently kept up with streams since the l’manberg days, i think i only missed one exile stream and that was cause my internet was out
I'm OBSESSED with the amount on thought that was put into dsmp lore. Like how they used the famous idea from way back in the Elizabethan era that Shakespeare used in his play writing which was that if you said something 3 times it would almost cast a spell or curse on the person/thing it was said to/about - back then they were into supernatural stuff. This is seen in the use of the 3 crosses on the lmanburg flag marking it's 3 lives before it's crumbling defeat and the 3 times "it was never ment to be" was said in an establishing way, linking back to its downfall - like foreshadowing! I LOVEEEE it 😭
I’ll be honest I remember watching every single exile arc stream, I was going through an intense time, very very deep in depression and these streams where the only thing i related and looked forward to, it’s weird to think back on now. I remember seeing how C!Dream would take all of C!Tommys stuff and the how I related due to some things people have done to me, I remember crying during certain moments cause I felt like these streams where the only thing kept me sane but also understood my pain and know what they did. They did amazing writing on the exile arc and hope something as angsty as this happens again. 100000/100000 experience, even if the entire time I was sad.
Same. I still go back to it whether through fanfiction, reddit, Twitter art or vods. Because somedays i feel a person ive never meet nor could ever meet is the only person that'll ever truely get it. I know thats not true. But sometimes it feels true.
Long comment ahead, click "read more" at your own risk. I remember watching every single exile stream in December. I was in a really shitty place back then, and the streams were really the only thing that i looked forward to when getting up in the morning. I remember getting up at 3-4pm, eating and waiting for the lore to start at around 8pm. The angsty, familiar feeling every time his character would sigh seeing the "Dream joined the game" in the corner of the screen. After the stream, my depressed routine would continue throughout the night. Those streams were sadly relatable for me, in a slightly different context though, but seeing some bits of ptsd representation in the lore really made me feel less lonely. Later in the story, c!Tommy was still triggered by getting damage, memories from the exile, Dream himself (obviously). He scheduled a talk with Puffy, which made me seriously think about getting a therapist myself. It might sound sad that I decided to get help because of some 17yo Minecraft youtuber, but I don't think there's any reason to be embarrassed for watching someone like Tommy. Still, sometimes when i struggle, i remember that some random streamers, sitting in there gaming chairs, miles away, would like me to not skip dinner. For anyone wondering, I'm doing better now, working on getting help, eating well. I hope you're taking care of yourself as well. And the playlist is so good oh my god. I don't know how you people do it, but I'm so glad you exist. Can't wait for more
I absolutely adore the exile arc. It has to be my favourite in the entire series. Sorry if this comment is a bit long lmao, I have a lot to say lmao The exile arc was the perfect way to show the views that this was a new season, a new and brutal beginning. No longer was this just a story about small nation of freedom fighters defending themselves against tyranny, it was a fractured group of individuals fighting to keep their heads above the water while those more powerful than themselves watched their every movement, waiting for moments of vulnerability or weakness to exploit, after everything they knew and loved came crumbling down. Post Wilbur's death, which also showed how the series was going to shift to a new and more dark storyline, I honestly didn't expect too much more to happen. I mean, how do you beat THAT?? The Pogtopia arc was brilliant and thrilling to watch, like nothing I'd seen before, but that was *before* Tommy got exiled. I mean, I *voted* for it, in the hopes that it would bring back something that we'd lost when we'd lost Wilbur. I was *not* expecting the next few weeks to be filled with grueling abuse and practical torture for the character I'd come to find comfort in. I've never felt myself sympathizing with a character more. Every time I saw the words [Dream joined the game] I was filled with as much dread as Tommy was, and every stream I internally begged for someone, anyone, to come and help this poor kid out of Hell. In the end it was TOMMY who pulled himself out of Logstedshire and dragged him to safety. There was something so *empowering* about seeing a victim of abuse not being the "perfect victim", weak and defenseless. Cc!Tommy found ways to accurately portray the side effects of abuse while putting his own spin on the idea in relation to his character's personality, which is an INCREDIBLY difficult thing to do. Even after exile was over, cc!tommy didn't just drop the trauma and pretend it didn't happen. Even now, months later, his character is still showing the after effects of escaping that situation, for example, he's shown multiple instances of being suicidal, or having suicidal thoughts, despite the fact that he doesn't have the option to die, he still craves the idea of what death *used* to be to him. An escape from himself and the pain he'd been through. Tommy is my favourite character because he is so incredibly complex and yet simple at the same time. It's so *easy* to boil down his character to just "a teenage kleptomaniac who just wants to do what he wants without consequence" but he's so much MORE than that. He's a kid who loves with a fire passion and all his heart, who clings to the things and people he cares about, who wants to get better but doesn't know how, who wants to stick to his morals even in the face of adversity, who has an undying and unwavering loyalty that can often be suffocating or mistook for selfishness. Sorry for rambling, but I just love this arc, and Tommy's character with all my entire being. He deserves BETTER lmao
something i love about animators in this community is they don't just look at the character and what they think they body language would be, they look at the creator as well because *most* of them have a web-cam on for lore streams and because they are in character their body language will show what their character would be like if they could move like normal humans can.
TIME STAMPS :] 0:00 - 4:38 Suck it up ; maretu [ft. hatsune miku] 4:39 - 6:53 j^p^n ; bloom 6:54 - 10:42 my time ; bo en 10:43 - 15:03 mind brand ; maretu 15:04 - 18:14 nanã ; polo pan 18:15 - 21:31 oh ana ; mother mother 21:32 - 24:57 lies ; lil xan [ft. lil skies] 24:58 - 28:11 rät ; penelope scott 28:12 - 32:22 love me, love me (cover) ; meychan 32:23 - 36:11 everything black ; unlike pluto, mike taylor 36:12 - 39:41 babooshka ; kate bush 39:42 - 43:57 the calling ; TheFatRat, Laura Brehm [da tweekaz remix] 43:58 - 48:46 my ordinary life ; the living tombstone 48:47 - 52:54 nice boys ; TEMPOREX 52:55 - 57:10 lone digger : caravan palace 57:11 - 1:03:11 the other side of paradise ; glass animals 1:03:12 - 1:07:05 hit the road jack ; 2wei 1:07:06 - 1:10:57 suicide ; midnight to monaco [whethan remix] 1:10:58 - 1:13:56 losing my mind ; mystery skulls 1:13:57 - 1:21:23 coture ; elypse 1:21:24 - 1:25:04 silence ; blazinG 1:25:05 - 1:30:14 chirp ; C418
I didn't think I really related to c!tommy when the streams were current, but looking back.. I don't kin him or anything, but I relate to the arc. My own trauma wasn't quite that intense, or quite the same, but seeing clips or animations of c!tommy getting triggered (especially by explosions/loud noises and arguing/yelling) I really relate to. When c!quackity and c!wilbur started arguing with eachother, half about c!tommy but more just eachother, in one of the more recent streams I felt really seen when Tommy started sliding down in his chair like he was trying to hide and be taken out of the situation. The one thing that has effected my everyday life (not sure where it came from, exactly, but I'm assuming parents arguing didn't help) is getting my anxiety triggered by loud noises, especially yelling, and seeing c!tommy have similar triggers is honestly kind of comforting. I don't know anyone who understands that feeling of having a trigger like that but not knowing why, so seeing someone, even if it's a character, who gets uncomfortable and scared in those situations like I do, even if it doesn't make the most sense, is.. nice. Okay that's all, thank you for reading
When I think of Tommy's exile arc I think of Chamber of Reflections by Mac DeMarco. It's perfect for conveying the overwhelming loneliness that he felt at the time and also maybe the exhaustion that came with Dream's relentless abuse and manipulation.
i was really zoned out and laying in my bed listening to this, then when chirp finally began to play at the end, i mentally returned and began to sob and i have no idea why lmao /pos
why did I feel something [kind of needle thing] rubbing my back after listening to 1 second of this? Edit: it felt like something was trying to calm me down. Definitely coming back here more often :]
what the fuck what the fuck i read this and now im feeling a tiny pinpoint of pain in the back and a bit to the left of my skull what have you done to me there is a WITCH AMOGUS
Funny how I never got myself to even watch a full exile stream. It was too much for me, I couldn't handle it. I avoided the streams as much as I can. Idk why. But the way how people described it and the fanarts, it broke my heart. Watched clips and saw what I didn't see Exile arc was really really sad and just, lordy lord lord, very heart wrenching. Somehow, this playlist gave some comfort and relaxation while sketching :> ty for creating it
The second song is definitely the song that plays in my head on repeat in exile, (that either me or my "character" would be humming out loud constantly) slowly going insane
i come here to spend time and "suck it up" starts playing and my brain's first thought is "Oh great, I didn't come here for a kin playlist but whatever"
This has to be my favorite exile/angst playlist. Its honestly so nice, not all cry/songs but also uneasy vibes songs, idk how to explain it other than its just good good soup 👌
Seeing people relate to the exile arc and go into real detail of it hurts my heart to hear people say they went through stuff similar it makes me want to just hug all of you. Me however i do not relate to the exile arc However i do relate to ranboo’s lore, the memory problems, the voice telling you all the stuff you’ve done wrong, the spirally insanity wanting to be hidden somewhere (e.g ranboo wanted to be locked up in the prison) I relate to the panic room, him going to the panic room the smiles on the wall the voice played by dream manipulating him into thinking he’s done all the things dream has done. I don’t know how i relate to it i can’t put my finger innit but i just feel the sense of comfort thinking abt it I also relate to the black outs memory problems and that one stream where ranboo went to the prison for dream to say “I’m not even real” and then everything blurry out I experience dissociation not too extreme, it’s rather zoning out but sometimes it’s all blurry memories are blurry, sometimes it’s like I’m teleporting around, i lived through it i walked around but then the sudden realisation “wait i don’t remember walking here” it’s almost like how ranboo blacks out i forgot the word for it tho i do live through it and i remember partially not all the time and memories are just blurry. I relate to the prison stream where dream says “I’m not even real”, i experience depersonalisation-derealisation disorder tho it’s barely connected to what dream said and the stream the “I’m not even real” hits me hard, because sometimes that’s a daily thought of mine tho i experience more de realisation where the world looks fake, it’s all living in a video game, if you’ve ever played VR it’s like a VR game. Sometimes i feel like I’m not even in control I just i find comfort and somehow relate to the ranboo lore, everything’s so *blurry* and *fake* and it also gave me a hyperfixation on smiley faces but due to trauma i now hate smiley faces specially these ones: :) Anyways if you’ve read my random ramble that doenst even have anything to do with exile arc thanks ig i need somewhere to rant abt this
So first of all I actually have short term memory loss, I sleepwalk, I am being manipulated by voices in my head, I have Paranoia & anxiety, I always feel a loss of reality sometimes. I zone out sometimes, I have a memory book (Like actually-) I have trauma of SOMEONE I LOVE BEING HURT, I speak sometimes without control. I g my mind is on it's enderman arc
Hit the road jack gave me chills like listening to sadists animations one more time. The pure horror when I realised you added to the voices had me shook! I'm so happy people are still coming back to this playlist surprisingly. This is the best playlist ever!! Edit: The last songs brought me chills especially since Tommy listened to Chirp music disc during exile...
@@kikiduck6253 ITS RARE TO FIND THEM Yes, some of creators I don't necessarily support but that doesn't keep me from watching other creators! I normally keep to three of them because the others have had a few... Things behind them and I want to stay away from the fights I've seen the fandom have. But I love the actual SMP though!!!
@@gail_lays9760 Yes the Fandom is crazy and the fights and exposing is crazy so that's why I cut my self away from it because I just want to watch my content creator in peace and I figure out my self rather there good or bad plus most drama is just people just twisting there words to stuff they don't mean. I don't see why some people think they have the right to discipline them when you as a person do just as many mistakes. I feel people these days just have a entitlement these days thinking everything they don't like has to change for them or has to do this for them because they interpret this way. Cancel culture is so toxic because it gives people power that most people don't deserve. I just hope people really do see both side of the story and not to trust everything you hear without evidence because oh boy I've seen some rediculous things people would believe and Its honestly really sad.
@@gail_lays9760 you don't have to read that mess I typed but I'm glad your sticking to the content creators your comfortable with. 👍🏻 you seem pretty poggers
@@kikiduck6253 You too seem Poggers!! Yeah, the fandom has some crazy fights but I tend to avoid them. The only ones I get into are when I'm sharing a message with proof and usually, it's a proshipper in the Omori fandom. I usually only interact with people in bigger fandoms too when I already know them; The bigger the fandoms, the more likely it is the person in it could be toxic. Thats why I talk to my close friends about the fandom and that's about it. I do watch the minors cuz they make me the most comfortable + I've heard the least against them.
*_NONE OF THIS IS CANON! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. TW: SWEARING_* You find yourself waking up on the cold, hard ground of your exile. You had been dreaming of home, once again, and wished you were there. The beauty of it all. _"You have hiraeth, y/n."_ You remembered the man whom you claimed your friend, Dream, told you. _"No matter what, you can never, ever return to L'manburg."_ _"But, I'm here."_ _"Do they ever visit you? Wilbur, Tubbo, Techno? No, they don't. I'm your only friend in the world." At first, you didn't want to believe him. You wanted him to be wrong. Running a hand through your hair, you sat up. You stretched, you sighed, and you got to the tedious, unexciting routine you'd built for yourself. Cook breakfast, get as clean as you could with a lack of soap, and start writing. All you did these days was write. A quill and an inkwell that you'd fashioned from wood, you sat at your makeshift desk and began to scribble down scenarios of what you wished could happen. The soft sound of someone knocking on wood rung in your ears. How long had it been since you'd started writing? Hours? You didn't look up. "Hello, Dream." "Heh, I'm touched," A British accent told you. "But, I'm not Dream." At this, you looked up. Wilbur, having long left his L'manburg uniform behind, stood before you. The scars you'd gained from having to fight mobs away from your camp constantly startled him. "How'd you like to join a revolution?" Happiness glittered in your eyes as you pounced at the man you'd refer to as "brother". "WILBUR!" You shouted, tackling him in a hug. "Wilbur, it's been so long!" "Well, well, well. So, the ex-president has returned to find his vice." An American's voice struck your ears like a hard slap compared to Wilbur's. "Good to see you, Wilbur Soot." You got up to grin at the homeless, green teletubby you called Dream. While he claimed to be your friend, you were still wary around him. You didn't... completely believe him. "And you too, uh... greenscreen." Wilbur smirked at his insult, it was quite clever. "Shut the f*ck up, I'm here for y/n." "Damn, okay-" You chuckled. "Hi, Dream." After many an hour of chatting with Wilbur and Dream, Wilbur brought up his proposition again. "y/n, would you like to join a revolution?" "Of... oh! You wanna take down Schlatt?" "No sh*t, Sherlock," Wilbur chuckled. "But, yeah. I wanna take that half-dead freak-o goat man out. He... isn't the kind of Satyr you'd find in 'Chronicles of Narnia'." "Hell. Yes." You told him, eyes lighting up with excitement. "But... can we leave Tubbo alone?" "Awe, y/n, he's on our side. A spy on the inside!" "Epic. Let's go!"
as a c!tommy fictive in a DID system this playlist is amazingly accurate-- thank you :]] also its weird as fuck to see people talking about exile-- ~tommy/tom/thomas
It’s 1 in the morning. I’m vibing to this playlist because even though the exile arc more like the stockholme syndrome arc was such a low point for the c!tommy it was one of if not my favorite arc. Sure I may not have gone through the exile arc but I’ve been stuck in a toxic friendship where the other person wouldn’t let me leave the friendship and it felt mentally trapped aswell as being abused though I haven’t been abused mentally but I’ve been abused by a friend to say the least and it’s kinda hard to trust people now and I’m loosing my friendships so it makes me feel less alone. I vent to my friends too much becuase I can’t bottle up my emotions because I’m fucking weak. But it made me find a character that I could finally understand. When I found the dream smp I found bad and skeppy first and it wasn’t my cup of tea but I saw a video of the shall I say “pity party” then was sucked into his character completely cause I’d finnally found something I understood and felt. Which is why I miss the arc but atleast he’s not being tortured anymore by dream. Also fuck off wilbur tommy doesn’t feel safe around you anymore 🙃.
That would've been a good addition - but I have a feeling I'd get copy striked for it unfortunately. All songs like that seem to be copyrighted to such an extent
