#“Good music” is subjective

[evil-andr3w]

I will never understand people who hate on Tally Hall (or any other media) cause like, what are you gaining from this? Why are you even doing this? Did the Tally Hall members break into your house and kill your family? Did the entire fanbase corner you and laugh in your face as they shouted insults at you? What??

[anemonet]

pro tip: you can always put the bugs in little outfits :thumbsup:

[agentc0rn]

🏮Happy 1st anniversary teal mask!! 🏮Thank you for the many cool memories, awesome mons and characters that we met along the way! Ogerpon the iconic 🙌 I’ve met many cool people on here through shared interests in the story, expressed in many fun arrays of art, writing, memes and etc.

[rabbitsinwonderland]

okay so this may be incredibly obvious and someone's probably already said it (in a way less convoluted way than I am about to) BUT I think for most of Cool As I Think I Am (Reprise), Steph and Pete have entirely different understandings of the context.

like, we as the audience know that Wiggly wants Steph to shoot Pete because she's in love with him, but man oh man, Pete has no fucking clue.

He opens the song with this:

and then tries to convince Steph that she should shoot him.

I fully believe, that for majority of this song, Pete thinks the sacrifice Wiggly wants him to make is having to no longer live in a world with Steph. the emphasis on "one" person being in love - he believes Steph doesn't like him back, that this way it's easier for her.

^^ like. he thinks this is beneficial for her. she gets to live on. she can move on from his death! she wouldn't care, why would she?

After all, it's his sacrifice.

[t00thpasteface]

i really love hearing about the random reasons why any given person loves/hates any given song. my mom has an insane grudge against Smooth Operator by Sade because once, decades ago, her neighbor was throwing a party (or maybe just getting drunk by themselves) and passed out with Smooth Operator blasting on loop from like 2am well into the morning. one hyperspecific scenario resulted in one person bearing a decades-long grudge against Smooth Operator. i love that kinda stuff

[littelestvic]

I might be killed for saying this but there is something so smart about opening your (arguably worst) new album with "this isn't rock and roll, this is music for children"

[anxiouspotatorants]

Fiyero Tiggular did not sing the entirety of Dancing Through Life — fear infested depression disguised as nihilistic warts and all — for so many to just write him off as the handsome but shallow popular guy

[asleepinawell]

saw a video on twitter of a pld using cover and invuln to save a smn from a tb set to my heart will go on (academy award winning material right there) and it gave me the galaxy brain idea that all tank mit should have its own soundtrack. I want to use tbn and have the whole raid blasted by total eclipse of the heart. rampart? another brick in the wall. superbolide? killer queen. passage of arms? holding out for a hero. bloodwhetting? every time we touch by cascada. in this formal request letter to square enix that includes a mix tape I will--

[icewindandboringhorror]

I've referenced before how I have a big google document to keep track of every media I've ever seen in my entire life (just for reference because I like to track everything possible lol… I am the Data Collector), but recently as I was updating it, I thought of actually evaluating them to find out random percentages (like for example, out of Total Shows Watched, what percentage did I finish vs. stop watching, what percentage did I like or dislike, etc.)...

Evaluating these things is made easier by the fact that I already place everything on each subsection of the list into 6 broad ranking categories, so I don't have to go back and guess to figure out how I feel about them or anything. The categories are: Ranking 5 - overall best* (despite some criticisms of course because I'm too much of an Analyzer to ever find anything Perfect lol) Ranking 4 - more positive than neutral, but not good enough to be 5 Ranking 3 - either the good + bad negate each other, OR it's just not memorable/interesting in any way enough to be ranked higher or lower (this is the Default category ALL things are placed in if no other rank applies) Ranking 2 - maybe a few redeemable elements but largely more negatives than positives Ranking 1 - So bad that it circles around to being fascinating to observe in some way (not necessarily Funny, or Good, but just interesting somehow) Ranking 0 - Bad in a genuinely frustrating or obnoxious manner

*("best" primarily defined here as most interesting, rather than most good in a technical sense, or some other measure. I tend to value more highly whether there's something novel or thoughtful about the worldbuilding, tone, writing, base premise, etc - than about whether it's actually executed perfectly.)

And here's the amount of shows that have so far been placed into each category -

TV shows ~ Rank 5 (highest) - 20 shows ~ Rank 4 (mid-high) - 28 shows ~ Rank 3 (neutral/default/meh) - 114 shows ~ Rank 2 (mid low) -33 shows ~ Rank 1 (low low but intriguingly so) - 14 shows ~ Rank 0 (iredeemably low) - 2 shows

This would make for a total of 211 TV shows overall. However, there are 57 shows within these list marked as "didn't finish" (typically meaning I quit on the very first or second episode - but log them still to keep a record that I at least had a brief view of them).

So my total of genuinely fully watched shows would be more 154. 211 Total, but a More Accurate Total of 154.

Counting them all and using the Total Number Of The List (211) -- that means roughly 9.5% of all total shows I have ever watched (or at least attempted to watch) have been Mostly Good, 13% have been Moderately Okay, 54% have been either entirely Forgettable or some mix of good + bad that lands them right in the Neutral Middle, 15.6% have been Mostly Bad, 6.6% have been Bad (but in an interesting way), and 0.9% have been Terribly Bad.

Additionally, I didn't even get past the first two episodes of about 27% of the total.

Sooo, discounting ones I didn't finish, my total TV shows ever watched in my life would be about 154 (maybe give or take a few, assuming I might have forgotten some from very long ago).

But instead of entire life, let's just say this is the total for 'About 20 Years' (so, not counting very early childhood when I likely wouldn't remember things I saw/have no detailed recollection of them (like for example, I'm sure at some point when I was like 4yrs old I must have seen an episode of Spongebob or something, but I have zero distinct memories of it, can't quote anything of it, and barely recall the premise - so I don't count it on the list, etc.)).

In that case, 154 divided by 20 would be roughly 7.7 shows a year.

Which is actually surprisingly low considering that I often have stuff on in the background for hours whilst I make sculptures and do costumes and stuff (maybe I should have also marked some distinction between 'things I fully paid attention to' and 'things I kind of half listened to whilst sculpting', but that would further split the categories too much probably lol), but I guess a lot of that is youtube videos or random documentaries, so .. eh.. maybe I get it being lower.

Now, doing the same thing for movies-

Movies ~ Rank 5 (highest) - 4 movies (3.4% of total) ~ Rank 4 (mid-high) - 12 movies (10.3% of total) ~ Rank 3 (neutral/default/meh) - 91 movies (78.4% of total) ~ Rank 2 (mid low) - 8 movies (6.8% of total) ~ Rank 1 (low but interesting) - 1 movie (0.8% of total) ~ Rank 0 (irredeemably low) - none in this category (0%)

That makes 116 for a Total (Actually Remembered) Movies Watched In Lifetime (Or At Least In 20 Years).

116 divided by 20 is roughly 5 or 6 movies a year (I feel this has probably been skewed though by adding everything since like elementary school onwards, as I remember a lot more movies from child/teen years.. Whereas, the past 3 years I feel like I've barely seen maybe even 5 movies?? lol). I also have "Didn't Finish" marked on 18 of them. Which means I quit halfway through about 15% of the total movies.

So, a for broader summary stuff..

I seem to be less forgiving to movies than tv shows, by far. Which makes sense to me, I guess, because I love elaboration and details, so "short form" things that only last an hour or two are often lost on me a bit. My biggest complaint with movies is indeed usually walking away just wishing there had been more exposition, more scenes where characters are doing nothing, more "mindless bantering" conversations, more Quiet Downtime and Lore Elaboration and so on lol, so... of course most 1-2hr films end up feeling a bit Not Enough To Draw My Interest/Nothingy to me.

If you count 5 and 4 as "like" and rankings 2 to 0 as "dislike", then for TV shows I at least somewhat liked 48 of them, and at least somewhat disliked 47 of them.. So it's almost exactly the same lol. I'm just about equally as likely to find something bad as I am to find something redeeming about it. But overall, the largest chance is that I just won't really care much for it at all and it will be tossed into the 'neutral' pile, forgotten forever. Movies have a bit better of a balance, "liking" 16 of them, and "disliking" only 9 of them. So I'm slightly more likely to enjoy a movie than to find it annoying - though still VASTLY more likely to just not find it anything in particular, possibly not even finishing it.

ANYWAY.. this is vague and literally pointless, but like I said, I just really find information fun. Like my document where I've rated every apple flavor I've ever tried (like 40 of them now?), or reviewed every oreo flavor (32?), or ranking data from my entire 10 years of Trying To Make Friends process (out of 100 people, roughly 8% chance of a moderate compatibility, 3% chance of high), or etc. etc.. I love to have random pointless things to analyze I suppose lol.

I doubt anyone tracks things in their life in this same exact way, but I'd be interested in hearing any at least somewhat similar data !!! (like, how many TV shows you watch a year on average, and what percentage of those you like vs. dislike (if you keep track of that sort of thing), etc.)). I guess it might be easier with movies, since I think some people use those websites where you curate a list of movies you've seen and you can rate them or something, so maybe the numbers are already available on those places. :0

[droodlebug]

i'm for sure not finishing veilguard. i set it down a while and tried again and ahh i'm just not enjoying it. the characters dont have a depth im looking for.. the insertion of a writer's white guilt onto the elves that are based on real life indigenous people and have been in-games enslaved and treated horrifically and are the ones who don't have "real" gods that are actually just blighted tyrants. everything with taash and the qunari. the gameplay was fun for a while but then it made my hand so numb i couldnt do anything for a week. the last straw was taash's gender talk that suddenly turned into picking a cultural identity for them to align with out of nowhere and then soon after learning that Another antagonist is of course an elf. starting to feel like their implying that all elves become evil when given power jfc. i think i'm actually done with it it started making me feel gross and bored. i don't care if you enjoy it or not, everyone's got a different threshold it just crossed mine.

[lesbiheon]

mx songs i wasn't that big of a fan of when they were first released but then later grew on me like moss (aka i was a hater & so wrong):

lone ranger - felt it was extremely repetitive

gasoline - the beat wasn’t working for me but then later I realized it’s so good

chaotic - it was too loud at first but later it played while on a road trip & I nearly hydroplaned

stealer - didn’t like the chorus

x - thought it meh

incomparable - didn’t like the melody

oh my - lied to myself about liking it bc I didn’t vibe w the beat at all but then later saw Kihyun’s stage presence while performing it & fell in love

ride with u - I have no clue why it just didn’t interest me

destroyer - I wasn’t into the lyrics/theme at all but realized it’s gorgeous

aura - melody wasn’t doing it for me

carry on - too too TOO poppy but then I grew up & now I love poppy af songs!

any of their english songs - not written/produced by any of them (except a few like play it cool) so I was more cautious than anything but they’re good…

[nympippi]

Griffin Blake!! Is up next :D

Griffin in this au, is well…finally being seen. He has the friends he’s desperately wanted, the family that he’s dreamed of (sorta), and he gets a second chance at life.

Griffin also really likes books, specifically books about nature, and space but he’ll also read the occasional fantasy fiction book like the Magic Treehouse or Junie B. Jones. He just loves reading and learning new things, Griffin is also very perceptive, he can go unnoticed for a while and can watch people to see their patterns or even their secrets.

Out of all the boys, Griffin is the most happy with his situation. However he still does have trauma from his kidnapping,

He has reoccurring nightmares about him still being in the basement and still being dead. He has nightmares about Finney and the other boys abandoning him, and making him go back to being the kid nobody knew.

He refuses to go anywhere alone, if its not any of the boys or Finn walking beside him, he’s not going until they are. He’s a 10 year old kid, he’s clingy and anxious about dying again and losing everyone he loves and losing the life he has now.

Finney is almost always with him, never fully leaving unless Griffin isn’t trailing close behind because he knows that fear all too well.

Griffin also is a little self conscious about his big neck scar, so he asked Robin for a bandanna to cover it up and of course Robin obliged because he also tries to cover his up so he’s not going to deny Griffin that. Gwen made them all bracelets, for her, Finn, and Griffin. Each of their corresponding colors matching them.

[jolalibrary]

🎶 username song game 🎶

thanks for the tags @whocaresstillthelouvre @sawymredfox @schnarfer.

jackie and wilson by hozier

options by doja cat

little of your love by haim

am i dreaming by metro boomin

professor x by dave

enjoy the dilence by depeche mode

nothing matters by the last dinner party

one for the road by arctic monkeys

*this is the only time i wish my name was longer so i could see how random the rest of this list could be. no pressure tags beneath... sorry if you've done this, beauts x

@moonlitbirdie @goodwithcheese @javierpena-inatacvest @wordywarriorwrites @prolix-yuy

[banqanas]

onion time again :)

[t00thpasteface]

the most insane thing about so many people not caring about rap and hip hop on this site is how many of them are in my approximate age group. like i KNOW you grew up being spoonfed some of the best and catchiest and most danceable rap EVER. you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing something you could move and jump and bump and grind to. the only other age group that had that many hits handed to them on a silver platter were those latchkey kids in the 70s who biked around town with their radio in the handlebar basket from 3pm through sunset. i KNOW you heard nonstop 50 cent even though you were too young to be in da club. you bastards. how could you turn your back on our cusp-zoomer heritage like this

[cwcthzl]

au where richie and stan are both teachers at a high school and they are always annoying the shit out of each other in breaks or when they need to work together. also talking shit about each other in their classes (in a way only they and their students can understand of course) and have their students deliver their snide remarks and sometimes visit each other's class because of 'project related things' when they just show up to pick on everything the other does (richie starts that one of course). and some day their superior laughs at them during a teachers meeting and cut their argument off in half about some dumb decorations (richie is requesting to be the dj and have the mirrorball above him and stan is rejecting because 'what do you know about being a dj? this isn't like hosting a house party like you're familiar with') and ask them how long they have been together for which COMPLETELY catches them off guard because they had no idea to that point everyone thought they were in a relationship and even married when they thought they made clear to everyone they HATED each other's guts. and now that being together was brought to their attention, they actually start thinking each other in a romantic perspective and they realize the stinging in their stomach when they heard the other's name was not because of the rivalry but because of the crush they had on each other and they start having a breakdown about it because do i really fucking like that asshole!!???????

i just think it would be the funniest thing.