Ode to the Ouroboros Playlist

Photo Credit: Leo Reynolds

This playlist comprises songs that motivated me to continue onward despite the Eldritch Abomination-level horrors we faced during a global pandemic. There is an undercurrent throughout this playlist that highlights feelings of isolation, hints of the call of the void, cabin fever, grief, acceptance, and resilience. It is very human to empathize with that unmet need for social interaction. For so many of us to one day be in a packed bar, the home of a family member, or an event with friends, where we were just laughing, singing, playing, living our best lives, to then suddenly be unable or unwilling to have those face-to-face interactions is devastating. Globally, we experienced a traumatic event, and some of us might be better for it overall but nobody came out the other side scot-free. Though we may also argue that we are not "out the other side" yet. We were forced to sink or swim in many ways when it came to work, education, and our relationships.

This is the first song in my playlist because it provided a sort of solace for me during a time when many of us felt isolated from our loved ones. My friend and I had a heart-to-heart about the call of the void and he introduced me to this song as something that helped him, in-turn providing me with a zeitgeist of pre-Pandemic times.

Early on during lockdown my cousin retweeted a video where the song was used that reads, "Day 17: morale is weird" (I've included an embed of the tweet also).

There is a different version of this song used for a scene from The 100 that I was looking for when I found this. The 100 was one of many post-apocalypse world shows that I binged in 2020 during the lockdowns.

 "I'm so happy because today I found my friends, they're in my head." always hits me pretty hard, Lithium by Nirvana holds a special nostalgic spot in my heart with my friends from high school, and I loved this version when I heard it in Marley & Me. 

This song has made several cameos during the campaign with my friends in our D&D group.