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sergeifyodorov · 1 year ago

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willy mitch and auston for the character ask thing? <3

FIRST IMPRESSION

now bcause of Leafs Cultural Osmosis i had heard of them for a long time before i starting becoming a real leafsguy. Uhh generally i heard the most about auston matthews because he’s big and cool and sexy and hit em with the 4 and all of that. I think my most definitive pre-leafsfan leafs memory of them (him in particular) was once newsscrolling in like the early 21-22 season when he came back, struggled a bit, and then shaved his mustache for movember and started immediately scoring a g/pg

IMPRESSION NOW

Willy: a beautiful blonde Barbie doll of a man. going to gloss over how sexy i find him because it is, genuinely, embarrassing, and instead talk about the fact that he’s a) kind of stupid, but in an exceedingly charming way, b) has named his dogs after famous artists (pablo and banksy are their names), c) is one of the de facto leaders of the nhl’s swedish contingent. he also has this amazing power where he’s like… vibe immune. Like in one of Those Leafs Moments where all hope is lost and you know it is not going to end well, he’s going to score. Or, conversely, when the Leafs have cut the other team open and they’re bleeding all over the place, Willy isn’t going to do much. this means he is both “the only one who scores in the playoffs” and also “never there when they’re winning” which means ppl suspect he’s being carried or something. he’s not. also i suspect he might be a little bit gay but that’s not really my business

Mitch: babygirl of the year 8 years running. I am one of thee premier marner defenders like people hate him for NO REASON. only time ive been mad at my father in the past several years is the other day when i yelled at him for being Wrong About Mitchell but let’s not get into mitchydaddyissues because we can be here for hours about that. he is a creature of light he is Kind On Purpose but also he’s definitely got so much to work through in therapy it’s hard to define. also kind of dumb irl, but hockeywise just absolutely gobsmackingly intelligent. Has the ability to create chances out of nothing i am thinking of so many moments rn but most specifically the oilers game this year where they were down 3-1 and then he just stole it and MAGICKED the leafs into like. 3 goals in 5 minutes and they ended up running away with it. gorgeous. also he is one of the most decorated Winners in ohl history his conn smythe era is almost upon us and i believe this thoroughly

Auston: ALSO SEXY and im NOT embarrassed abt it. Gonna be real theres so many marner scholars out there and i consider myself a trendbreaker. Im a matthews scholar. He’s a virgo you don’t understand him like i (also a virgo) do; he’s meticulous and nerdy and completely blank in his understanding of things he does not care about; he’s whiny and petulant and completely ruthless -- to him there is only the place now, and the goal, and the clear line he needs to draw between point a and point b. he likes things to be Pretty he is fastidious and in that gray area between genre aware and completely oblivious; maybe he is choosing not to take notice of it. he also looks really gay. like are u flagging on purpose mr mustache and earrings

FAVOURITE MOMENT

Willy: overtime winner willy… he is unlike the other leafs stylistically in that he is absolutely fantastic at controlled zone entries AND he has straight-line speed that they. don’t. so this makes him naturally very talented at finding that open space you often get in 3v3 ot and sniping it on the breakaway. i think my fav in this recent years was the one against the blues… he just BURNS tarasenko and forehand-backhands binnington completely effortlessly so sexily. Also him straight up telling steve dangle he couldn’t read

Mitch: POINT STREAK NIGHT. Technically he set the record against tampa in tampa but he TIED the record in toronto against the sharks… it was 2-1 leafs and the sharks had the net empty and mitch was out there and he PASSED on the empty net and we were all like MITCH WHY TAKE THIS FOR URSELF and then the guy he passed to missed. And then he got it back and took the empty net himself and the cheering was so loud and long they had 2 pause the game a lil bit… this was in the recent aftermath of borje salming’s passing and they had the patch on their shoulders, and they were in the actually nice RRs, and mitch was CRYING and i was CRYING and i am STILL CRYING… he means so much to the leafs he WILL be one of the Great Leafs by the time his career is over no leaf will ever wear 16 again after him i love him so much!!! Thats a formative hockey memory

Auston: that time he ate the post and got really really bitchy about it to the press w his swollen lip

IDEA FOR STORY

Willy: now willy is just so cheerily and sexily oblivious it’s honestly kind of hard to maincharacter-ize him. Like he’s just kind of :) chilling. i WOULD like to see a meaningless sitcom episode type beat of him trying to wrangle all of the Swedes to some sort of dinner or something, and shenanigans ensue.

Mitch: the urge to tragic-protagonistize him versus him just being a cheery little motor who’s doing his BEST. i dont know what my mitch niche is he’s really just the emotional heart of it all and im not a very emotional person it is hard 4 me. he’s our main sadman’s bestie <3

Auston: now AUSTON i can write about forever. go read scheherazade etc but in the meantime i think he deserves some begrudging romance. he doesn’t WANT to fall in sappy gay love he’s not sappy he’s not gay and he’s not lovey he wants to WIN CUP but sometimes… WIN CUP comes with bonus SAPPY GAY BOYFRIEND. Also he deserves some erotic tension to knock him off that high horse he’s got a bit. get a leetle bit humiliated. Etc

UNPOPULAR OPINION

Willy: this is really only unpopular among leafs uncles on twitter etc but he is not lazy or emotionally uninvolved at all? He’s literally just coolheaded. U value perseverance and grit but when u get that from a blonde guy who doesn’t hit u don’t value it. that’s genuine xenophobia methinks

Mitch: i don’t get gay vibes from him he’s just real friendly and sweet and pretty. like yeah he definitely messed around w his teammates in juniors but it’s giving more like. experimentation and the results of the experiment were heterosexuality. Bi girl’s straight boyfriend vibes

Auston: coming from my place of Auston Scholarship again i disagree with a lot of the way he’s portrayed in fic… not all of it obvi but i think there’s a certain amount of Big Sexy Latino Guy must therefore be dom top/all this like. anger and feistiness and aggression and stuff when he pretty clearly is not any of that. like he’s never started a fight and tries to stay away from that… in fact his 1 nhl fight (matthews v stamkos, this playoffs) was him clearing up sticks from an earlier shoving match and then stammer going for him to try and draw mutual fighting majors. it’s kinda skeevy and just makes me like. Roll my eyes and leave when he starts getting possessive because he’s. Not really that possessive he likes to share he likes 2 have his guys and likes for all of his guys to like each other… he is having threesomes with bunts and freddie come next season i prommy, not pitting them against each other

FAV RELATIONSHIP

Willy: i think his half-mentorship half-romance with rasmus sandin is really inchresting… also just his general social standing among The Swedes as both one of the country’s best active players AND as a legacy boy

Mitch: 1634 :]

Auston: now im going 2 contradict myself… 1634 are of course platonic/hockey soulmates but i do love his dynamic with Others. The 1634 + machuk dramatic love triangle is v compelling… he did have this fun little Mutual Bastardy relationship with bunts… 9734 is very. Something. and i think the mattdrai girlies who love some regional rivalry high draftee mutual loathing would really enjoy some good good auston/ras dahlin now that machuk is too busy being happily married to sasha barkov

FAV HEADCANON

Willy: he is the oldest boy of six children so he has DEFINITELY done some child wrangling in the past… some oldest brother shenanigans… i think he’s probably great with kids and just with calming down and bossing around those that are younger/obviously less experienced and worldly than him

Mitch: thought the percy jackson books were dense academic texts but obviously really likes greek mythology. so . lied about having read percy jackson (he has not but he says he has)

Auston: paints his toenails

#asks #william nylander #mitch marner #auston matthews

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lienwyn · 8 months ago

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15 questions, 15 people

I was tagged by @clawbehavior! Thank you so much 💜

1. Are you named after anyone?

I am not. My grandmother picked my name to somewhat match my big sister's (we both have names beginning with L) but that's about it.

2. When was the last time you cried?

I guess yesterday? Because my back pain suddenly got ten times worse and sometimes when I tried to move I'd get a stabbing sensation that made me spontaneously start crying. Which is pretty impressive considering that I have a pretty high pain tolerance.

It was also confusing because it wasn't a conscious choice of mine or anything. My body just decided it hurt too much and therefore tears were required. While I was just completely baffled by what was happening because crying from pain isn't something I do very often.

It was an interesting experience.

3. Do you have kids?

Nope.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Not anymore, no. When I was a teenager, it seemed to be the only kind of humour I could actually pull off, but I've been steering away from it more and more. Now I'm saving it for special occasions ;)

5. What's the first thing you notice about people?

I genuinely can't say. I think it depends more on the person I'm seeing/meeting than anything I have control over. Like, with some I might notice their posture, with others it's their hair colour (if it's something very noticeable), with others it's the way they speak.

I really don't have a set order or something I look for first.

6. What's your eye colour?

Greenish blue

7. Scary movie or happy ending?

Happy ending. Always.

8. Any special talents?

I'm really good with my hands and usually excel at most types of crafts or creative pursuits I attempt, from art and sculpturing to sewing, weaving, embroidery, making furniture, baking etc.

I'm also good at reading people and situations, which comes in handy when I write.

9. Where were you born?

In the north of Sweden.

10. What are your hobbies?

Honestly too many to count. But the ones I spend most time on right now are drawing, writing, reading, playing video games, and taking walks.

11. Do you have pets?

Sadly, no :C

But I grew up with dogs and love them to absolute bits. One of my favourite words in Swedish is "hundlängtan" which basically just means "dog longing" or "longing for a dog."

That's me. I am in a perpetual state of longing for a dog.

12. What sports do you/have you played?

Basketball, floorball, and badminton were the most organised, but I also did gymnastics and skiing as a kid.

13. How tall are you?

176 cm (5'9)

14. Favourite subject in high school?

History! Because I had an AMAZING teacher who made it so, so much fun, especially with the ugly little drawings he kept making on the whiteboard. Half of the time, we couldn't even see what he was drawing, but that was a part of the charm.

I also really liked English :)

15. Dream job?

I would honestly love to be an artist or a writer full-time, but I'm too scared (and comfortable with my current salary) to attempt it. But if I could choose without having to take finances into consideration? Definitely an artist or a writer.

I tag: @miss-ingno, @sjazna, @mesaimouse, @a-very-fond-farewell, @fr-wiwiw, @stl29tide, @writingfanficsfan, @k-s-morgan, and whoever else wants to do it! (I really suck at tagging x'D)

#Tags #Like #Not going to lie #Sometimes I dream about being able to just... be creative #And I don't just mean writing or drawing #I'd LOVE to be let loose inside a workshop and just make a bunch of furniture #Or actually put up my loom and make more rugs #There's something so satisfying about creating and making things

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arsenicosises · 1 month ago

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On Journaling

Hi, so i LOVE journaling. im obsessed with it, i love talking about, its my main personality trait, i try to convince everyone i meet to journal (and have succesfully convinced many of my friends to do so).

I would like to talk about it, and answer questions about it. More than anything i think this is an interest and hobby of mine that has become so integral to my being and i cannot live without it and i think its super super helpful and fun. Obviously for many people it isnt helpful or inspiring but it could be! give it a try! so here is a LONG post about my basic journaling practice, why i journal, and how i became consistent and happy with it.

My journal collection.

Currently im actively using a 3 notebook system, and i have 4 total journals. the first (A) is my regular journal one that i will habit track, write my goals, ramble, diary entries, collages. anything. the second is my commonplace book (B) (the most recent additon) which i use to collect information i want to reference back to (everday reciepes, facts, excersizes/activities) and i also use it as a on the go notebook since its small enough to fit in my purse. 3rd (C) in my system is my planner. its a blank notebook that i draw a calender in and use it for to-do lists or things i need to remember, its the messiest of the 3. the 4th is a bit of a wildcard, i have a journal that i am making for a friend and they are making one for me and we trade them once they are done. fun little bonding activity, i do more prompts and artistic collages and lists for them.

I am pretty picky but also broke so i wanted to share the types of journals i use. type A is currently a art creation sketchbook (im canadian so a win for us) i adore it and its a good length of pages for me since i can finish them quickly and they are thick enough for me to draw in on occassion. B is a A6 spiral bound blank muji notebook, small enough for my purses and i like the hard cover so i can flip it over and write even without a hard surface. C was a gift, a grid notebook a freind got me but i have in the past used an A5 muji blank notebook, im the least picky with this type. Just no lines, my handwriting is messy and lines get in the way.

My History + Why

so i have been doing diary writing of some sort since i was a kid, if very sporatically. i was definitly inspired by dork diaries <3 and i for sure think it was a way for me to talk to someone about the traumas i was experiencing without guilt or shame. I have journaled on and off for years. i started taking it a bit more seriously in highschool, I'd finish one journal every like 2 years/1.5 years. last fall i had a pretty thin notebook that i didnt love that i had for oct-dec since i didnt want to start a new nice one so close to the end of the year and for some reason i just poured into it. i think the goal of finishing it was motivated 1. because i was excited to use my new one for the new year 2. i was very conciously working on my mental health and developing new hobbies, 3. i was away from my friends, and 4. I decied that instead of having the like 5 journal system i previously did (why idk) and being so precious about it i would mush them all into one and build from there. this year I have finished 2 journals and started my 3rd one yesterday. not even that i was trying. infact my first journal of the year i thought was so beautiful so i was a bit precious about it sometimes. It just got solidified as a habit, and i needed it as a coping mechanism. its definitely something i use more when I'm feeling lonley or my friends are away at school, but even during the summer i love it. I dont force myself anymore which is a wonderful feeling.

The biggest change i made to become consistent started with me noticing how bad of a vibe my journals had before. i only ever journaled the bad things or the things i was too embarassed to say. So everytime i picked it up i felt BAD. i stopped using my journal at the time half way through and started a new one with the express mentality that i was going to do both good and bad things in one space. make it my life. I started writing out my goals semi regularly, documenting good days like my birthdays, journaling while waiting for friends at cafes, sticking in receipts and packaging, doing pretty/ugly collages, all while also journaling through late night breakdowns, difficult times, therpay sessions, and coping strategies. i used it as a place to extend my joy AND process my sadness and mental health. the point is, make your journal a confidant. Its so helpful for me (a chronic oversharer) to write stuff down and then if i still feel the urge to talk to someone i do. this doesnt limit my social interaction but enhances the conversations i can have because I have already processed parts of my emotions.

So generally speaking i journal because its helpful and fun. I suspect i have ADHD and i also dissacociate from my depression/anxiety so i forget things. both good and bad. so i need a record of not only my plans but also the good things that happen in my life. Nostalgia runs deep in my bones and i cannot wait to read these back as i age. every year i wish i had journaled more in my childhood. its also a way for me to process my emtions and feelings without spiraling, i write slower than i type so it forces me to slow down. I also feel like externalizing my emotions to a book gets them out of my head. there are a few anxiety reducing things i have learned that help A TON

You dont need to be consistent about it, there has been days or weeks where i dont touch my journal because i dont feel the need to. But because of the years of practice i know when i havent been thinking about my emotions or I feel like my brain is a mess that i need to. Even when i've just had a really really good conversation i know its something i want to write down. sometimes i will type entries into my phone and either print them or copy them into my journal.

My journals, past and present, are some of my most prized possessions. PLEASEE feel free and encouraged to ask me things or tell me about your journaling practice!!!!

#journal #journaling #commonplace journal #commonplace book #planner #daily journal #i love journaling #please let me talk about it #i will #anxiety #mental wellness #AS #long post #depression tips #anxiety tips #mental health #self care #hope you like

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kogetaikid · 11 months ago

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A False Awakening is a phenomenon where one thinks they've just woken up when they're clearly still dreaming

Sup guys, gals and nonbinary pals! Feel free to call me KogetaiKid, Kogetai or Kiddo!!!

ALT/OC BLOG (Not in use at the moment.)

MY DEVIANTART MY YOUTUBE MY BLUESKY

I'm currently NOT taking any art requests at the moment.

-she/her; 🩷💛🩵pansexual🩵💛🩷

-Time Zone: PST/PDT

-minor.

-Only child (and I fucking HATE IT)

-Part-time conspiracy theorist

-I like Anxiety from Inside out two and Perseverance soul form Undertale :)

-Diagnosed Neurodivergent (Got that autism ✨D R I P ✨)

-Interacial

-Nihilist

-Psychology nerd

-Cross Country Athlete

-Very cynical

-No DNI, but will block anyone who makes me feel uncomfortable.

-I post both fanart and original art

-Self taught artist/writer (currently working (and possibly failing) on multiple projects)

SOME OC REFERENCES

(Not like anyone will care, but good to have them anyways)

D!0X!D3: TR!0X!D3 and X3’3N (Prologue-Chapter 3) Web Hell: Enera (Modern Utopia) IMLS Chronicles: Darla My Snowy Orphanage: Main Cast

WEBCOMIC STAND

D!0X!D3 HAS OFFICIALLY MOVED TO DEVIANTART

D!0X!D3: Prologue 1 D!0X!D3: Prologue 2 D!0X!D3: Prologue 3 D!0X!D3: Prolouge 4 D!0X!D3: Prologue 5 D!0X!D3: Abandonment; Part 1 D!0X!D3: Abandonment; Part 2 ILMS: Just Like Mel; Part 1 ILMS: Just Like Mel; Part 2 ILMS: Just Like Mel; Part 3

Epiccc Storiez!!

ILMS Chronicles: Yahaira's story ILMS Chronicles: 4/22/** ILMS Chronicles: Out In Nature ILMS Chronicles: Watching the Sunset

WRITING (Also EPICCC!!!!)

Sunrise Heights An Insect Before Its Death Contemplation Compilation Accidental ILMS Lore The Thirst for Cheap Dopamine

epicness gaLORE!

Epicland Studies #1: Universal Ketakomian Beliefs

TUMBLR OC MAKING CHALLENGES!!!

(My greatest success of getting something that was my own idea popular!)

LUNA

*Y don’t ‘cha see what ur gonna see in the future? (READ PROJECT DESC)*

EPIC CLUB (Main Project)

(TLDR: Some alien lore shit that involves goofy ahh aliens, goofy ahh adventures and trying to avoid nihilism)

No one knows how they've got here, but they have. In the middle of the universe in the andromeda galaxy, in a planet called Epicland. exist the color spirits to fight evil and bring colors to the world. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple and gray. (Andris, Lorgzee, Kedmile, Yodion, Imimika, Sotti, Zaxregea, and Enieu) One day, the red spirit wanted to become human-like. What happens next

…

Gray skin, red eyes, what the hell am I...?

Andris, now a nine year old girl named Melody Cohen, nothing much to say about her. Unless she was able to meet up again with someone, who might ve been, a secret true sister...

DIOX!D3 (On hiatus; pronounced "Dioxide”):

D!0X!D3 (pronounced “Dioxide”): ANARCHY AGAINST CONTROL. On an alien planet called Epicland, and abandoned child called Melanie gets adopted into an anarchist society called Syr-Ko’s Children Anarchist Society! (SKCAS for short). No adults allowed, you get kicked out when you’re 30. In this society, children run the game, with a plan to eliminate the ones who control us and make their world r0b0t!c. You’d wonder to yourself:

WH0’S THAT L!TTL3 R0B0T FR3!ND 0F Y0URS, K!DS?!

I Love My Sister Chronicles (Secondary Project)

(It's honestly more like a saga, but it wasn't until a few days ago that I remembered that word...)

Dreams are weird, especially when two simple hours could sometimes feel like an entire lifetime. April 22, 20**: A girl named Yahaira falls victim to this unfortunate phenomenon, thus creating me, us, everyone. In my early years, I always wanted a sister, but the never happened. My mom always says she wanted two girls. I tell her she ended up with me instead; an amalgamate of what could've been her two girls.

As I entered my teenage years I noticed something very off about the world, so very unreal, and I start to become lucid in this dream world.

I remember that I'm someone's little sister. Melody's little sister, Yahaira. I'm now piecing together the complicated puzzle of who I was, who Melody was, and what happened before I entered this dream. The first and most important thing I keep in mind:

I LOVE MY SISTER

(Coming "Soon")

VQ895

Welcome to LABORATORY! Here, many fusions of multiple organisms for all over galaxies called hybrids live. To these hybrids, Laboratory is the entire world for them, but to a hybrid named Vertā Quantin (half Artificially Made Human, half Wolfcat) unveils this lie. But it could it be…

SHE WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE?!

WEB HELL (TW: Dark humor)

8/5/2255 - The World Covered in Screens.

“WELCOME TO MODERN UTOPIA! THE MOST GYATT OHIO MEGATRONIC THEY/THEM UWU PLACE IN DA WORLD!!!!!!!! MY NAME IS FINLEY (they/them, if u m!$g3ñd3r u a h8 cr!mer)”

“T0DAY, HERE ARE [[10!]] REASONS Y U LOVE MORDEN UTOPIA!!!! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)(( “

…

In this world, you only have an illusion of humanity. You only have an illusion of decision, an illusion of freedom, an illusion of bargaining, an illusion of friends, an illusion of creativity, diluted by algorithm. You can’t escape, there’s no need to escape. YOU LOVE IT HERE…

One-off projects (coming soon):

My Snowy Orphanage: A VHS horror about a group of cartoon kids teaching children to kill.

A Very Necessary Story On A Very Lonely Kid: Born 4/23/1999. A young boy named Brayden Mendez. No friends, no sibling, Brayden hasn’t meet anyone besides his parents until kindergarten. Isolated from humanity, he’s left to rot in his loneliness until he finally breaks.

And even his afterlife doesn’t spark a friend.

The Last Feeling Child: In present day time, a young teenage girl named Esme Adler, mourns over the past she’s never experienced. A past before phones, IPads and immorality.

There are a few more in the making, but that’s all for now :)

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artleaguemdcnorth · 2 months ago

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DRAWING CLASS - ASYNCHRONOUS THURSDAY , Working with a viewfinder - 9/12/24

Students will work today using the viewfinder.

You will do three drawings today using the viewfinder only in addition to the warm up exercises and will complete additional drawings in class on Tuesday.

USING A VIEWFINDER:

A view finder is a tool used by artist to measure scale and proportion of objects in a still life. It has been used since the Renaissance and probably even before that.

Using the view finder allows the artist to analyze and balance the space in the still life to create an interesting and accurate compositions .

You will draw the still life carefully depicting the accurate contours of your objects.

Make sure that you do not generalize any shape or object. That means that a bottle will look like a specific bottle not a generalized shape.

Be as accurate as possible.

At your home studio, Start the class by setting up your still life, 5-7-objects .

Remember try to use different geometric shapes for your at home studio, round , square, rectangular , cylindrical , bottles , plates, fruits etc… And different materials, plastic, glass, ceramic, cardboard and so on.

Look at my still life below:

Notice that I have set up some items, like the brushes and scissors, that break up space above the horizon line.

Some objects are in front, some in the middle , others in the back.

Remember that the Horizon Line is where the table and the wall meet.

Those objects like the mug , brushes scissors are propped up higher than other objects.

Slightly space out your objects to create interesting negative to positive space relations.

Try to create a balance between the objects and the negative space.

The objects in your still life hold positive space and the space around the objects is called negative space.

An artist’s job is to find the balance between these two worlds.

We call that negative to positive space relations.

Once you have created a good arrangement for your Still Life, then you can begin drawing.

Sit in front of your still life at eye level.

Start with the following exercises:

5 mins

Gesture Drawing warm up exercises non stop for 10 mins.

Change the paper to begin the next exercise

5 mins

Gesture - Non Dominant hand - using your non dominant hand, work for several minutes doing non stop gesture.

Get a new sheet of paper

20 mins

Contour Drawing

You will draw the entire still life carefully depicting the accurate contours of your objects.

Make sure that you do not generalize any shape or object.

Be as accurate as possible.

For the last part of the class, you will be working with your viewfinder.

You will do only three of these drawings using the viewfinder. We will complete the rest on Tuesday of next week in class.

You will work on this assignment today remotely and next Tuesday in class .

Try to do 1-3 today or as many as you can and 4-10 on Tuesday . ( Remember you will start today and you will finish this in class next week. )

When you are working with the viewfinder, you are cropping sections of your still life like you see below.

You do not want to include everything only sections of it.

Working in your Newsprint pad 18x 24 and a soft charcoal pencil, divide the paper in 10 spaces as follows:

1) Vertical rectangle 2) Horizontal rectangle 3 +4) Large Square and a Small Square 5 + 6) Vertical Panoramic and horizontal Panoramic 7) Right Angle Triangle 8) Triangle 9) Circle 10) Irregular shape

This is just one example of different shapes you can have on your Newsprint paper

Now using the view finder, look through it to create interesting compositions.

To use the viewfinder , extend your arm with the viewfinder, look through it to find the best compositions.

In the window you can see how I have cropped the still life to show only a few objects balanced with the negative space. That is what I will draw.

Here is another example. Notice I have captured the top of the bottle in contrast to the other objects.

The best composition is one that can balance the space and the line of the object. Try to have different set of objects in the various windows.

Below are examples from students of how they accomplished this task successfully.

Notice you are only finding sections of your still life that have a good balance between negative and positive relations.

You will do only three and we will finish the rest on Tuesday of next week in class.

At the end of class for today you should post the following to your Tumblr blog:

1) 5 min gesture drawing

2) 5 minute gesture non dominant hand

3) 20 min contour drawing and

4) 3 of the ten viewfinder exercises

If you cannot work on assignments today, post everything by 5pm the latest on Sunday.

#artleaguedrawingmdcnorth

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weirdcat1213 · 1 year ago

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YEY THE HORRORS i mean YEY THE BOOKCLUB :D

thoughts on volume 6 (oh boi we're almost halfway someone hold me pls)

chap 1:

-OH MY GOD ITS HIM I FORGOT ABOUT HIM FOR A MOMENT (not in general, ik he's in 98)

-HEY HIS WINGS MAY BE CREEPY BUT THEYRE ALSO BEAUTIFUL TO ME >:[

-HOWEVER i love how yeah they are scared af but also get that vash as a person is not bad and they don't leave his side

-WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOUR BF LIKE THAT STOP STOP STOOOOOP. IDC THAT HE IS A LITERAL LASER CANON HES STILL JUST A LITTLE GUY

-are we...supposed to notice how bad the state of the gun is or...?

-nono brandon is right, i would also not give good guns to cops

-vash i fucking swear-

-SHUT UP YOU FUCKING COP >:[

-BRO WTF

-YEAH BRANDON CALL HIM OUT

-MY FAVORITE WEIRD CREATURE IS HERE

-ok in my 1st read didnt get that, idk why but i was confused about meryl getting worried for some reason. but she has a (sad) point. will one day the ptsd related to violence and guns be enough to make vash not shoot his gun? shes asking an interesting question. shes literally asking how much can vash take imo.

-wait so...was the replacement gun...the one in stampede??? (i will compare them later)

-DONT LOOK AT ME WITH THOSE GENTLE EYES MAN CMON

-I didnt notice he took the punisher lmao

chap 2:

-:c wolfwood having nightmares its not even a hc, IT IS CANON

-NOT THE FLASHBACK OF VASH CRYING BLOOD OUCH NO PLS NO

-:c im not even mad at wolfwood calling vash a monster cuz it must be fucking TERRIFYING but it still hurts :c

-you could...but youre not gonna

-"so yeah you cant be there for every problem in the pla- HOLD UP WHERE ARE YOU GOING"

-lmao meryl is like me fr

-this time i got most of the fight but i think we can all agree the mpv was the table

chap 3

-YEY LEGATO IN THE.....metal handbag?

-YES ELENDIRA FUCKING READ HIM

-OH MY GOD HES HERE HES HERE OH GOD NO

-i remember i was so confused i didnt realize THATS HIS FUCKING TONGUE

-also did double fang kill trail of death?

chap 4:

-OH I LOVE THIS SCENE SM. i also hate walking in a place with a shit ton of people

-YES IT IS BABY, THATS THE SAME CHILD YOU [so so redacted] WOOOOOOOOO (i love this chapter)

-oh...yeah that...oh

-"we cant survive without her power, neither can you" dude...dont...just dont

-ah yes. the hair. yeap. just a cool artistic decision. yeap.

-also i forgot how fucked up the last run was here

-oh he felt it, i saw that in his eye

-oh so he also went apeshit....ohhhhh. ok so if vash went apeshit cuz of a physical fight or flight reaction (I THINK) did knives go apeshit cuz of hate? the physical need to kill people in revenge? nice

-BRO WDYM "why not just end this crusade?" YOU JUST SAW WHY HE WOULD NEVER END IT

-oh that was his last straw. one thing is him being tricked by a human but that lie affecting his brother? the one thing he's trying to protect (yes ik he's not doing the greatest job at it) from humans? yeah no you gotta die

chap 5:

-NO. NO. NONONONONONON NOT THIS CHAPTER NO

-I HATE THE METAPHOR ALREADY (i love it. i want to yell at nightow my thoughts about it. i will never be normal about it)

-pls no. im begging you. pls dont make me read this again. this is when my sanity starts to break into little raggedy pieces of paper

-i just notices this change happens cuz he got HIS MEMORIES BACK WHAT IF I ENDED IT ALL

-i dont want to read anymore

-its just. so fucking hard. like ik we say hes jesus. but at the same time jesus never felt like that. jesus was born without sin but in vash's eyes he is full of sins and no one can forgive him. bro, honey, god would forgive you anything. you are his favorite im sure. but no matter the arguments for the allegory vash can never be jesus cuz he carries the pain of his "sins" everyday PLUS THE ONES FROM THE HUMANS. idk. im sad and tired. my baby. its ok i forgive you. and im sure rem forgives him. im sure. im sad

-anyway, back to the kinda normal thoughts

-also i think vash thinking he has to forgive himself is kinda flawed. like instead of forgiveness he has to accept what happened and i think those are different things. ofc yeah july was messed up but he never intended to do it. idk

-ANYWAY

-huh, those speakers look like eyes

-cant even swallow in misery in peace anymore lmao

-:c not the day drinking

-i think thats vash talking but yeah....nothing is easy for my guy. hes kinda right, better than crying ig...

-i prefer spike-isms but i will also take needle noggin-isms thank u

-that man can move in such unnatural ways *hears the uncanny vash people cheer at a distance*

-oof, the ptsd got meryl

-also the question is not whether vash was going to take the bullet or not, the real question is how hard does that question makes me cry

- SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUP

-OOF, i mean i 100% get meryl but OOF

-also YES THATS WHAT I FUCKING MEAN. AND I READ THIS ON [redacted] A FEW WEEKS AGO. THE BALANCE BETWEEN EXTREMES ITS JUST NULL, ITS NOT A COLOR AT ALL. his love and faith in humanity vs the pain they cause him...that balance creates a colorless emotion and IM SAD ABOUT IT.

-i hate that final page. i fucking hate milly protecting meryl from her memories while comforting her while protecting her from the rocks, i hate the people still insult vash even when he was long gone, i hate to see the children who saw the same thing as their parents try to convince them to stop because they know vash would never hurt people on purpose only to be ignored..and more than anything i hate vash apologizing for something he has no control over.

-ALSO I ALSO FEEL LIKE CRYING VASH-

[let it be on the record that i needed a minute to continue with the volume]

chap 6:

-OH NO IT STARTS

-"how could i have known?" youre telling me you spent years studying yourself and other plants and never saw one with black hair? really? (im not saying its a plot hole, im saying he was too distracted being a dick)

-so that was his imagination im assuming

-TESLA MENTION WE WIN

-OH GOD OH NO PLS GET ME OUT OF HERE NO PLS NOT THIS

-i love her dialogue with the funny glasses lmao, she really was the only mom ever

-oh..here come the tears

-oh right..they used to be like this

-oh...oh god

#trigun #trimax #trigun maximum #trigunbookclub #IM IN SO MUCH PAIN AND TURMOIL #MY BABY MY 150 Y/O BABY

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an-epic-complex-deep-existence · 6 months ago

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You've existed today. Congrats.

Sup guys, gals and nonbinary pals! Feel free to call me KogetaiKid, Kogetai or Kiddo!!!

MAIN BLOG

MY DEVIANTART MY YOUTUBE

-she/her; possibly a celibate pansexual

-Time Zone: PST/PDT

-minor.

-Diagnosed Neurodivergent (Got that autism ✨D R I P ✨)

-Interacial

-Nihilist

-Psychology nerd

-Very cynical

-No DNI, but will block anyone who makes me feel uncomfortable.

-I post exclusively original art

-Self taught artist/writer (currently working (and possibly failing) on multiple projects)

SOME OC REFERENCES

(Not like anyone will care, but good to have them anyways)

D!0X!D3: TR!0X!D3 and X3’3N (Prologue-Chapter 3) Web Hell: Enera (Modern Utopia) IMLS Chronicles: Darla My Snowy Orphanage: Main Characters

WEBCOMIC STAND

Epiccc Storiez!!

ILMS Chronicles: Yahaira's story ILMS Chronicles: 4/22/** ILMS Chronicles: Out In Nature Accidental ILMS Lore ILMS Chronicles: Watching the Sunset

WRITING (Also EPICCC!!!!)

Sunrise Heights An Insect Before Its Death Contemplation Compilation

epicness gaLORE

Epicland Studies #1: Universal Ketakomian Beliefs

*Y don’t ‘cha see what ur gonna see in the future? (READ PROJECT DESC)*

EPIC CLUB (Main Project)

(TLDR: Some alien lore shit that involves goofy ahh aliens, goofy ahh adventures and trying to avoid nihilism)

…

Gray skin, red eyes, what the hell am I...?

Andris, now a nine year old girl named Melody Conway, nothing much to say about her. Unless she was able to meet up again with someone, who might've been, a secret true sister...

DIOX!D3 (On hiatus; pronounced "Dioxide”):

WH0’S THAT L!TTL3 R0B0T FR3!ND 0F Y0URS, K!DS?!

I Love My Sister Chronicles (Secondary Project)

(This is honestly more like a saga...)

As I entered my teenage years I noticed something very off about the world, so very unreal, and I start to become lucid in this dream world.

I LOVE MY SISTER

(Coming "Soon")

WEB HELL (TW: Dark humor)

8/5/2255 - The World Covered in Screens.

“WELCOME TO MODERN UTOPIA! THE MOST GYATT OHIO MEGATRONIC THEY/THEM UWU PLACE IN DA WORLD!!!!!!!! MY NAME IS FINLEY (they/them, if u m!$g3ñd3r u a h8 cr!mer)”

“T0DAY, HERE ARE [[10!]] REASONS Y U LOVE MORDEN UTOPIA!!!! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)(( “

…

VQ895

SHE WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE?!

One-off projects (coming soon):

My Snowy Orphanage: A VHS horror about a group of cartoon kids teaching children to kill.

And even his afterlife doesn’t spark a friend.

The Last Feeling Child: In present day time, a young teenage girl named Esme Adler, mourns over the past she’s never experienced. A past before phones, IPads and immorality.

There's a few more in the making, but this is how far I'll take you for now...

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yes-i-have-thoughts · 2 years ago

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Norman Polk, Niko and Seraphine for the ask blog thing? 👀

Maybe? Perhaps? Please?

LACKAKITTIES

Holy SHIT I need to read that webcomic again. Anyway

(CW for mentions of a g/n, also has a h/c for Mordecai that I don't talk about often)

Norman Polk

1: Bidemi (biromantic demisexual)

2: Susie. Yeah, I said it

3: Sammy. Or Sammy and Jack. Musicboys that bitch together stay together #truefriendship

4: Not a lot of others. Not that I don't like anybody, I just don't really see him being compatible with anyone personally.

5: He knows everything about everyone because people in the music department don't know how to shut up, Wally has no off button and the younger artists find it easy to let their guard down around him when they're comfortable with him (also Joey catches up with him from time to time. Who knows why, maybe he likes this creepy projectionist)

6: "I sees everything". My friends and I quote it pretty often.

7: I do not. I'd like to, but Norman is smarter and stealthier than I am. ;v;

8: Less embarrassment, more sadness: but he died more or less because he got too curious. Man didn't know when to quit and it cost him. Poor bastard.

9: Neither. Norman is not a cinnamon roll but at the same time try calling him problematic and see how well that ends

Niko

1: Either homosexual or bisexual.

2: No

3: Seraphine and Mordecai, though one is more willing to be in this role than the other.

4: Ship him with his sister and he breaks your spine.

5: He has no limit to energy and used to throw down with just about every cat he ran into during the night in his youth. Since he's grown up a little, he's less likely to fight anyone and everyone; though he does want to see how well Mordecai holds his own in melee fighting if he can take (and keep) down a full-grown tom easily two times his size. (Granted, it was with the help of an Achille's Heel, but he still managed it. He's a slippery guy. Must be fun to fight!)

6: I remember absolutely none of his lines.

7: I don't. Not really, anyway

8: N/A

9: Cinnamon bun. I said what I said.

Seraphine

1: Aromantic Lesbian

2: ...You know what, Lacie. Tie her up with straight-edge Lacie. Count how long it takes for her to crack the girl and let her go wild every so often

3: Niko and Mordecai. So much so that whenever Mordecai shows an inkling of interest in the scruffy barcat at Gracie's she goes all out to get them together but it's in all the wrong ways and she just scares the Hell out of him

4: Put her with her brother on pain of death.

5: She's wild, but she does kind of care about more than just her brother in her own way. She respects Mordecai and views him as equal to her-even starts viewing him as a friend at some point.

6: "Ah! You poor babes." I just-listen. LISTEN. I AM VERY BI

7: Bloodthirsty...Though my "blood" is more of the fictional kind. I can be sadistic but I can assure you I am not this bad

8: Let's just say I did not like her second scene with Mordecai and leave it at that

9: She's the problematic fave to her brother's cinnamon roll. They will both draw blood at a moment's notice, but when push comes to shove I am very sure that she would shoot first and ask questions later

(Ask Game)

#Ask Game #Voices Come From the Static #Lackadaisy #Norman Polk #El Speaks

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vio-starclad · 1 year ago

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15 Questions; 5 People

Tagged by @cir-c

1. Named after anyone?

I was named after the lead singer in a band my dad liked that was popular in the 80s. I won't say but it suits me and I like it.

2. Last time you cried?

Um a couple weeks ago I got hit by The Feelings in bed. Happens to the best of us.

3. Have kids?

Would like one some day; we'll see.

4. Use sarcasm a lot?

I actually try not to. I've learned it can be disingenuous and mean-spirited.

5. First thing you notice about people?

Overall aesthetic I guess? That's vague but I just notice The Person.

6. Eye color?

Kinda light indigo with some gray leaning.

7. Scary movie or happy ending?

I am ALL about the happy ending.

8. Special talents?

I can draw okay and I know some stuff about lifting.

9. Where were you born?

C*lifornia

10. Hobbies?

Reading, writing, digital art, video games, lifting, movies, soakin', and I wanna start learning keyboard. Need to get some outdoor activities.

11. Pets?

No pets.

12. What sports do you/have you played?

Did some soccer waaay back in the day. A little bit of jiu-jitsu and HEMA a few years ago.

13. Height?

5'7"

14. Favorite subject in school?

I guess history and English; those were always most interesting to me

15. Dream job?

Freelance commission artist, maybe personal trainer? I also wanna get in as a volunteer firefighter.

(I do not even have 5 people to tag) Tagging @riflebrass @crownedpatriot11 @foxmulderswaifu5ever

#if you don't wanna do it that's okay it is long #personal #journal entry #thanks for the tag!#tags #me

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deadcactuswalking · 2 years ago

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REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 01/04/2023 (Ed Sheeran, Jimin, Paris Paloma)

Welp, you knew it was coming. Or, really, he was coming. Ed Sheeran takes the #1 from Miley Cyrus with his new single debuting at the top, “Eyes Closed”. More on that later but for now, welcome back to REVIEWING THE CHARTS!

Rundown

As always, even on this busy week, we start with our notable dropouts – songs that are exiting the UK Top 75 (which is what I cover) after five weeks in the region or a peak in the top 40. This week includes many of the debuts from last week, which is no surprise, including “Set Me Free Pt.2” by Jimin, but we’ll get back to him. Otherwise, we say farewell to “I Wrote a Song” by Mae Muller (it’ll be back in May), “PAINTING PICTURES” by Superstar Pride, “Weekends” by Freya Riding, “In Ha Mood” by Ice Spice, “Martin’s Sofa” by Headie One, “Pointless” by Lewis Capaldi, “Lavender Haze” by Taylor Swift, “Hide & Seek” by Stormzy and “Save Your Tears” by The Weeknd (again). There’s always one week per season or so where you can tell the hit parade is having a drastic change over the seasons, and this may be that week where we see that spring turnover – finally.

As for what’s filling in the blanks, well, “Someone You Loved” by Lewis Capaldi and “Afraid to Feel” by LF SYSTEM are back seemingly at random at #65 and #72 but we also have two artists with albums impacting the chart in our returning entries, both of which we’ll talk about in detail with our batch of new songs. Firstly, “The Kind of Love We Make” by Luke Combs is back at #75, and secondly, Lana Del Rey takes “A&W” back up to #45 – neither reach new peaks, and it really would have been great to see “A&W” in the top 40, but both are great songs and I’m glad they’re back, though again, like much of this week, I’ll say more on them later. As for our notable gains, we see “Last Night” by Morgan Wallen at #66 (I imagine a lot of people will be bothered that this is a thing – not me), “Shivers” by Ed Sheeran getting residual hype at #55, “Oh Baby” by Nathan Dawe and Bru-C featuring Issey Cross and bshp at #41, “Hell n Back” by Bakar at #35 off of the debut, “Pretty Boys” by Caity Baser at #30 and finally, “REACT” by Switch Disco featuring Ella Henderson and the late Robert Miles at #26. I’m not exactly pleased about all of this, but what can you do?

Now before we get into our new entries, we can cover the top five, where we see “Die for You” by The Weeknd at #5, “People” by Libianca at #4 and “Miracle” by Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding at #3. “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus has been pushed down to #2 by our ginger prophet’s debut, which we’ll cover at the end, but we’ve got a country song, a posthumous single, a K-pop track and Lana Del Rey album cuts to talk about so... joy. Let’s just get into them.

NEW ARRIVALS

#73 – “The Light” – Juice WRLD

Produced by Gezin, Hurtboy AG, ManOhManFoster and Max Lord

Even more posthumous singles from Juice feels like overkill at this point. I know the man recorded thousands of unreleased tracks but the way that the label and management feels the need to create genuine single and album rollouts has gone way beyond “feeding the fans” and into just pure exploitation territory, which is kind of sad because well, a lot of these songs aren’t even bad. This one... absolutely is, and honestly makes me mad. Juice’s vocals are drenched in reverb and echo that distance it even further from this obnoxiously programmed attempt at emo-pop, with drum mixing that sounds genuinely horrible, louder than any kind of melody that the song finds, but with too many cooks producing the track and Juice’s vocals still clearly an unfinished demo where we hear punch-ins just so he can try and find the beat, there’s not much melody to offer either. At some point they give up and put a trite trap beat under the whole song like some kind of amateur YouTube remix. I didn’t even notice initially but the more I researched, I found out that this was actually censored. I thought why of course, since none of the others had been censored, and honestly, I can’t seem to find much of a reason: they even uncensored one line about hoes being pretentious because fans complained. They reworked and censored a dead man’s art for what I can only assume are financial reasons in order to make it more accessible and radio-friendly, only for his fans – who otherwise eat up all of the posthumous garbage the label gives them (which is the label’s fault, not theirs) – to actually push back against it and force them into changing that one line and none of the others. This is an embarrassing and pathetic attempt, and the fact that it debuted so low may prove that people are sick of this grave-robbing schtick, and God, I hope so. The fact that this was originally intended to be a love song makes the label scum involved in revamping it seem even less sympathetic: I probably wouldn’t have liked the song if he was alive and fully involved in its production, but at least then it’d be a genuine track, released by someone who can consent to its release and adjust it to get to his artistic vision. Over three years after Juice’s death, that prospect is clearly no longer possible, and the flagrantly cash-grabbing label snabs to replicate the success and resonance he had with his audience is utter disrespect. The less Juice WRLD I cover from now on in this series, the better, because every time I do, it’s just a truly sad experience.

#71 – “Flip a Switch.” – RAYE

Produced by Di Genius, RAYE and Mike Sabath

I was a tad underwhelmed with My 21st Century Blues as a whole because it has most of the expected debut effort scruffiness and confusion in what it actually wishes to convey. With that said, it’s an honest album – one that kicks itself in the foot in order to be so – and has some beautiful songs... “Flip a Switch.” is not one of them. Sure, I like the harmonies in the intro, but otherwise I find it an oddly dull kiss-off about a guy who clearly didn’t want RAYE for love and just for sex, so it leads her to a similarly vengeful and careless mindset. It’s a cool enough sentiment and definitely one RAYE can deliver with both power and nuance – Hell, she did just that in “Escapism.” – but against this hybrid, mono-genre beat, anything she sings is going to sound disappointing, especially when her hypnotic harmonies are lost behind a deadpan performance from RAYE that kind of just sucks, I’m sorry. The writing’s okay, but the flailing acoustic guitars and sterile drums are not, and her lack of casuality in any of her rap flows becomes increasingly obvious with this one wherein she’s forced to rap for the whole song and she basically just loses any of her power on the mic. It just ends up sounding actually dead, which may have been the point, but without a bridge that actually, you know, sounds like a bridge, or any kind of further narrative, there’s not much of promise to be found on this mediocre production and one of RAYE’s worst performances, outside of those backing harmonies which again are great. It’s just a shame that the rest of the song really isn’t.

#70 – “Fast Car” – Luke Combs

Produced by Chip Matthews and Jonathan Singleton

Ohio singer Tracy Chapman first released “Fast Car” in 1988, and it became a top five single here in the UK, peaking at #5 in its original run and since kind of becoming a beloved classic. It reached a new peak of #4 in 2011 and for some reason became victim of several terrible tropical house remixes, with Jonas Blue’s version featuring Dakota out-peaking the original at #2. Now my favourite rendition of “Fast Car” will always be how it was sampled in the rap classic “Sometimes I Rhyme Slow” by Nice & Smooth, but the original is a pretty undisputed song so I was interested to hear how the UK’s favourite country star (not exactly the highest bar) would tackle it. As is, Chapman’s “Fast Car” is a beautiful folk-pop track about the cycle of life, starting with escapism: chasing their dreams with their partner and just driving away is a necessity with the tragic background, yet that backstory ends up informing how her partner ends up acting, just like her father, and Chapman takes a stand against it using the exact same motto they used to get together in the first place: “leave tonight, or live and die this way”. It turns out that it isn’t what it seems, and it’s a bittersweet song, sure, but there’s satisfaction in how much confidence Chapman has gained since, and still finds a lot of time to reminisce on the earlier escapism of that relationship. Does Luke Combs do it justice? Well, it’s hard to say for me; he does do it more justice than Jonas Blue but that’s a given. I do love his delivery as always, as he just has a BIG voice, giving more power – alongside the more conventional, streamlined country production – to the narrative and really amplifying the drama. He doesn’t change the narrative much either, even still calling himself a “checkout girl” in the verse, which I think is a great choice. It feels more like he’s elevating another voice than really lifting his own... which honestly works in this context. The album’s called Gettin’ Old – part of that is understanding other peoples’ stories and integrating what you learn from them into how you live your own life. If “Fast Car” is your choice to cover in order to express that, I’d say they’re some pretty damn good lessons to learn. It’s a great song, really difficult to mess up especially in this acoustic sound.

#68 – “Candy Necklace” – Lana Del Rey featuring Jon Batiste

Produced by Zach Dawes, Lana Del Rey, Nick Waterhouse and Ian Doerr

No, I didn’t listen to that new Lana Del Rey album. Who do you think I am, someone who listens to Lana Del Rey albums? I barely have the time to read her album and song titles in full. I’m also not largely a fan of Lana, so having two tracks to cover here is not exactly exciting, but they do both have features so maybe it won’t be too bad – and hey, I loved “A&W”, so this could be good? I’d introduce Jon Batiste but I mean, he won Album of the Year in 2022 without anyone knowing who the Hell he is, so I think he’ll be fine. This is a song about young love, about Lana’s brain shutting off when she’s with this restless guy and all his innocent little candy necklaces, though you wouldn’t know it based off of the whispery vocals and intense pianos that eventually have credence given to them by the second verse, where for whatever reason, this relationship is bringing her down... with a pretty cheesy implementation of an A Tribe Called Quest reference before the chorus continues basically as if that verse didn’t happen. Now Lana is an albums artist; I fully expect that context is required and provided by the album, and this fits into a larger narrative, but considering how minimal the song is outside of the manic piano solo, I don’t get a lot from this song as it stands on its own, especially since Batiste could really have played off Lana for the whole song to give more detail and only ever shows up at the end for a final mantra. It just ends up kind of disappointing by the end, which is a shame because there’s something more to tassle with here.

#48 – “Paris, Texas” – Lana Del Rey featuring SYML

Produced by Jack Antonoff and Lana Del Rey

Okay, well, I will introduce SYML, since I had to look up who this was myself, and it’s the stage name for Seattle musician Brian Fennell, who does not provide vocals and is rather just sampled for the instrumental, though it fits very well into the sprinkling piano sound of the other Lana album cut we covered. I like how she specifies she is going to Americanised, diluted versions of these important European cities, it adds some cohesiveness and depth to the meandering track that absolutely makes use of that meander: it’s about moving on, even if it’s not onto anything all that new or special. If you’re no longer enveloped in that scenery, maybe it’s just time to go, and with her frail falsetto floating over acoustic guitars, it’s a pretty breezy track that exemplifies that feeling of not really being “home” in one place but still having the constant mindset of having to move around and venture into new place, only for the outro to kind of confirm the fears of this moving around all being a tad pointless. Surely, when you know you’re right at home, you will be, right? The framing can definitely be interpreted as about a relationship (or more than one), but I prefer the idea of it just being about uncertainty and not knowing where you can actually feel safe. It’s something that resonates with me particularly, not because I moved around a lot but because there’s no place that actually feels like home for me... except music. Okay, let’s not get too sappy on this, we’re only at #48 and I already put way too much emotional depth into two other new entries so far. It’s an excellent song, and I’ll leave it at that. The original SYML instrumental isn’t half bad either, but the Lana version adds a lot more depth.

#38 – “Fly Girl” – FLO featuring Missy Elliott

Produced by MNEK, LiTek and WhYJay

I really wanted to like this. The original “Work It” is undeniable and a song that hit #6 here in the UK in 2002, though I’m surprised it never reached any higher. This new song with promising girl group FLO is heavily based on that 2000s banger and... it’s just a mess. The first verse mentions a checklist and that’s absolutely what it is: does it have a slick R&B acoustic guitar line? Yes. Does it have an overpowering hip hop rhythm section with hard bass? Yes. Does it have good enough harmonies with lyrics about being fly, sexy and independent? Yes. Does it interest me? Well, kind of, but not for the right reasons – it seems like it’s checking all of the boxes, but the guitars sound like MIDIs, the “Work It” sample takes the reversed section and makes it sound oddly eerie, and Missy’s ad-libs throughout have way more energy than FLO do. I can’t really tell the difference between the girls yet – it took me a couple years for Little Mix even – and they do sound good together but the strings and bass just kind of protrude in a way that has less groove or nuance and instead just sounds kind of funny. That’s before we get to the trap breakdown which gives up on itself as soon as it kicks in, and the same goes in general for the warped bass in that second verse, or the build-up in the pre-chorus that anticlimactically stops bothering for the chorus. There is an uncharacteristically gritty beat switch that completely messes the song’s momentum in order for a mediocre Missy Elliott verse, even if she has some great lines and still as much effortless swag as she ever had. The problem is that she doesn’t have much room, with very little time and a lot of interruptions from FLO. The final chorus is genuinely so overwhelming I have nothing to say about it, and alongside the chorus with the staccato, Auto-Tuned riffing, random spoken word is that same interjected “Work It” sample which just comes in with no sense of sequencing. It’s bizarre, and only kind of in a fun way. Honestly, I’m just kind of glad there is a song this obviously messy and grandiose, hyper-focused on being as all over the place as possible, in the top 40 because if there’s anything about the 2000s I miss, it’s the guilty pleasure.

#29 – “labour” – Paris Paloma

Produced by Justin Glasco

Okay, I’ll bite: who the Hell is Paris Paloma? Well, they are a folksy pop singer with this being their breakout hit, and through some clunky, kind of old-fashioned writing, in not a dissimilar way to Hozier last week, condemns the patriarchy and misogyny, although Paloma is much more personal, focusing on a betrayal in what could be seen as a relationship but also the wider world that promises opportunity but really makes you work for it, with the elite playing God around you. It’s a good lyrical and thematic concept, but I don’t really like the song: Paloma is not an interesting or unique voice in the indie pop scene, and whilst there is some grit to the darker folk touches here that feel almost gothic, honestly, the chorus is pretty underwhelming. With some more electric guitar and less focus on the muddy, mono-genre-sounding bass and stomp-rock drums, I think I’d like this quite a bit, and be more able to get past the clunky lyrics that I think at least prove a point. In fact, the semi-sincere apologies and scathing attacks on this guy alongside a pretty smoky instrumental makes her sound kind of badass... but not enough, especially not if Justin Glasco’s going to make her sing over 2012-era Imagine Dragons. This is a good song just waiting to come out and prove itself, but the production holds it back – regardless, I’m actually interested to hear more from Paris Paloma if this brand of Tumblr folk pop is going to make a resurgence, just out of curiosity if anything.

#8 – “Like Crazy” – Jimin

Produced by Pdogg and GHSTLOOP

I knew there was hype behind Jimin and his solo debut, FACE, but I was surprised that this album-release single is out-peaking the debut... until I realised how many God damn versions he released. Whilst I try and appreciate all of the K-pop I hear, and often end up disappointed, I’m not afraid to say that this is just bad. It’s not as comical as “Set Me Free Pt.2”, sure, but the original Korean standard version – which I’m listening to as I write this – has these cheap acoustic guitars drowned in a lot of reverb and muddy bass alongside the vocal samples. I figured it’d be an alternative R&B track, especially considering the tacky sample of a 2011 romcom starring Jennifer Lawrence (really, guys?), but it turns into a boring 80s synthpop pastiche in no time, because why be interesting when you can be anything else but? The synths are either flailing or piercing, never floating or really finding any solid footing in the mix, especially once the cheap buzzing comes in post-chorus, only to completely render itself irrelevant soon afterwards. Jimin’s voice continues to sour on me with his nasal nothingness crooning over an already boring track. It’s honestly sad that this is the route Jimin’s going to get a hit; I know sales got it this far but the existence of an English version (though some of the original is also English) and several dance remixes makes this a clear push to the international market in just the laziest way possible. The English translation proves the lyrics as awkwardly generic, and then we have the remixes that feel like the cheapest, most surface-level renditions of the respective genres of deep house and UK garage possible. The deep house remix has these annoying and unfitting festival claps, and ends up becoming your typical house-pop nonsense. The UK garage remix starts with a freaking trap beat, so I didn’t bother listening to it in full – yes, it does eventually become UK garage, but I guess he just had to knock on another genre in there. I honestly can’t tell that the fact Jimin and co wrote a song that works perfectly fine in all of these genres but is never actually good in any of them is impressive or just proof that the cynical pop establishment is studying the vaccine that prevents its pop singers from ever being contaminated with any unique personality or defining sound. This is garbage, I’m sorry, BTS fans, but this is not how I, if I were a fan, would want my favourite boys to move past the group and their regional fanbase, because this is a gaping void of a pop song.

#1 – “Eyes Closed” – Ed Sheeran

Produced by Aaron Dessner, Fred again.., Max Martin and Shellback

So, Ed’s back, and thanks to great sales, he of course hits the top. It’s his 14th time here, how could you be surprised at this point? This is the lead from his upcoming album, - (Subtract), which promises a more personal and alternative style, probably courtesy of production from The National member Aaron Dessner, though it’s interesting to see Max Martin still here alongside Ed’s flagship co-producer Fred, who appears once again, as his name prophesied. Recently, I’ve been on kind of an Ed Sheeran defence streak, or at least for the past album cycle or so... so I ended up kind of excited for this, and were my hopes reached or hell, even surpassed? Well, you can tell it’s a mixture of Dessner’s folk rock and the streamlined pop of Max Martin considering how the acoustic pluck sticks out like a sore thumb amongst a sterile kick drum in that first chambering chorus. Ed sounds frail when dedicating each song and dance to the loved ones he lost, and for a song with a chorus about dancing with his eyes closed, it’s really not danceable. It’s a rhythm more appropriate for the third line in the chorus, “time is moving so slow”, and once the minimalism succumbs to a vaguely danceable rhythm with the tropical guitars back in the mix for the post-chorus, it becomes increasingly obvious how the emptiness is absolutely the point. That second verse about his delusion just wanting him to believe his room isn’t empty hits really hard, and I get this vision of Ed alone in a bar just kind of moving along – not dancing, just nodding his head and taking another drink. I’d like a bit more lyrical detail maybe, and whilst the production fits, it’s not exactly always to my taste, but as a concept, especially lyrically and thematically, it’s really well executed. The mixing does do it some justice too with how much echo there is and I can’t really fault a song with the perfectly melodramatic pop song line, “I guess I could just pretend the colours are more than blue”. It’s also decidedly not lead single material so if that’s all he has for radio, I’m excited to hear what Ed was cooking up with Dessner for the album cuts. For now, this is pretty solid, but I’m aching to hear where this is going.

Conclusion

I think it’s pretty obvious that whoever the Hell is managing Juice WRLD’s back catalogue gets Worst of the Week for “The Light”, and I can’t blame him for any of it. Please, let the guy rest. The Dishonourable Mention goes to “Like Crazy” by Jimin, though again, most of the blame for that doesn’t catch Jimin himself, not because he’s dead because I damn sure hope he’s not but because he’s one cog in a pretty hopeless machine, and it’s definitely not unique to K-pop. It just turns out that we didn’t get much of that this week, though you definitely could read “Eyes Closed” that way, even if I can’t because of how the lyrics resonate with me. As for the best, it’s honestly pretty easy: Best of the Week goes to “Paris, Texas” by Lana Del Rey featuring SMYL for, you know, making me cry, but Luke Combs easily snags the Honourable Mention for his cover of “Fast Car” and would on a good day maybe end up further than Lana though those two songs are just phenomenal. Maybe we’ll get a bit of a slow down next week, but who knows with these charts? Thank you for reading, and I’ll see you then for whatever’s on the horizon! Right now, though... God, I have a headache from listening to five versions of that bloody Jimin song.

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music-techniques-jay-conway · 2 years ago

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Journal Week 4 Traditional Notation

Week 4's class looked at the way we communicate visually to bring a piece of music together, it can be done with notation, or conventional methods, but also any character or symbol that is recognised and understood by the other musicians to represent its function. These symbols can then represent ideas of tempo, dynamics, phrasing, expression, repeats, stops and starts, and sound and silence. I also learnt some new words I had not heard before.. Fermata - a pause of unspecified length on a note or rest. A sign indicating a prolonged note or rest. Accelerando - gradually getting faster. Rallentando - gradually getting slower. Ritardando - gradually getting slower. a tempo - return to the original speed Colla Voce - Follow the solo voice - an indication that the vocal part sings freely and the other instruments should follow. Rubato - is when a performer doesn't stick to the strict rhythms written by the composer, but alters them to give more expression to the performance. We then had an aural activity where everyone listened to a track by Susan Sundfor (White Foxes) that was very fresh and new sounding with very eclectic sounding instrumentations that were interwoven with amazing vocal production techniques, that created quite a standout track that gave me hope for the future of female musical artists.

For the last part of the class we had another musical activity, I was partenered with Fin and Harry, and our piece was pretty straightforward, we wrote a track with 5-6 chords with the circle of 5th's from the key of C, Harry wasn't sure whether he would play the drums or toy piano, he ended playing the drums, and Fin played some accompanying finger picking articulations over the chords I played on bass, we cycled through twice and ended on the root note. We charted everything accordingly, so just the chord changes, and stops. Then, for the other group's renditions, we had Liam, Frida, and Manda do a piano and vocal track, for some reason the class picked me to be a part of their performance and queue their rests, or silence, I actually didn't know where we were in the song and missed my cue altogether, but they stopped anyway and no one noticed. Then we had Sam, Andy and Zac, their piece was very moving and interesting, with many unconventional sounds and ideas, which was charted amazingly, they also swapped instruments a couple of times during their performance as well, very well done.

Check out their (Andy's) chart work...

END JOURNAL WEEK 4 MUSIC TECHNIQUES SMP014

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ashdevalis · 2 years ago

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This Post Is Special. The Quote Yearbook, A Small Side Project Of Mine That I've Wanted To Make As An Appreciation Of Sorts For Those People In My Life That Have Been There With Me. These People Care For Me And I Care For Them. Especially My Ex Brave Nine Guild Members & Also Some Ex Fellow Doktahs. Words Can't Begin To Describe How Much I Am Greatful For Your Existence. I Love You Guys (No Homo). To Everyone Who Took Their Time Out Of Their Busy Schedule To Humour This Lonely Weeb, I Give You My Undying Gratitude. I Hope That We Build Something Great Together As Years Go By. With My Rambling Done, Let's Get Started.

1 - "Wishful Thinking Is The Most Addictive Of Drugs" - AshDeValis

(Yes It's Me. I Thought What Better Way Than To Start With Myself 😁)

I Promise To Love Myself More This Year Onwards 💖

2 - "When You're About To Give Up, Always Remember Why You Started" - imperial02

(The Rule Himself. Mad Respect For You My Man. Keep Rocking!)

3 - "The Best Way Out Is Always Through" "The Heart Of Man Is Very Much Like The Sea; It Has It's Storms, It Has It's Tides, And In It's Depths, It Has Pearls Too" - Korak324

(The SharkSimp & Bonerlord. Bone Daddy Himself! We May Not Always See Eye To Eye, But We'll Always Stand Side By Side)

4 - "First Step To Conquer An Addiction Is To Admit Being Addicted. Anyway, Excuse Me As I Impulsively Do Some Pulls In This Banner I'm Not Interested In To "build pity"." - GameofmarX

(Boy Marx I Can't Explain How Much I Love & Admire You. Stay Strong & You'll Surely Succeed Ma Boi)

5 - "Is It Really Incest If They're Step-Siblings?" - OhmayGawR

(My God GawR a.k.a Ronald. Ofc It Is Still Incest XD. I Know Ya Busy These Days, Just Know That I Really Love Trash Talking G9 With Ya)

6 - "Loli Is Life

Loli Is Love

Lolicon Forever" - JasonTGH [Courtesy Of Korak For Providing The Dumbass With A Quote]

(You Fucking Lolicon. Just Stay The Way You Are Man. Really Glad We Are Friends & Hope We Can One Day Meet Irl In Vietnam)

7 - "Its Not Entitlement, If I Deserve It" - Iku

(Our Queen/King/Ruler/GaeFurry Herself {Himself}. I Would Love To Try Korean Food With Ya Someday. Stay Wierd Iku. Love Ya)

8 - "New Year, New Me(ntal Illness)" - Nyajimi

(The Man The Myth The Legend Najimi, Don't Worry We'll Have Mental Illness Together XD)

9 - "Lyfe Is Hard" "MF I Didn't Do Anything (kek)" - RnG

(My Fucking Malaysian Clown. I Know Ya Also Busy. Just Make Sure Ya Eat Properly. Take Care My Clown)

10 - "Fuck Diluc" " The New Year Has Come, That Sounds So Dumb" - Melon

(The Sauce Master Himself. Sensei Degenerate. Too Busy Smashing Anime Titties. Keep At It Hornball XD)

11 - "No" Sara

(I Asked For A Quote Not A Word You Moron. Sooo Glad We Met This Year. I Really Like Hanging Out With Ya. Let's Do Again Soon)

12 - "Asli Phool Toh Tuut Hi Jaata Hai" { The Real Flower Always Breaks } - Olochimalu [Zeeshan]

(I'm Glad We Reconnected. I'll Watch JJK0 With Ya In My Bigass TV! SO Ya Better Make Time For Me My Man)

13 - "Never Think Of Being The Best But The Greatest..." - mr.unimportant aka Kabir

(You're Important To Me You. We Met, Talked & Became Friends, & Couldn't Be Happier With It. Love That Ya Patched Up. Stay Awesome King)

14 - "I Might Be Somewhat Delusional But I'm Chill 🗿" - Nox

(You Filthy Weeb. L Simp. Lover Of Gogol. Words Not Enough To Explain How Much I Love My Top 5 Favourite Artist's Art! Keep At It & Hope We Can Stay Buds Forever)

15 - "The Man Who Argues With The Idiot, Is The True Idiot" The_Wandering_S aka Aditya

(The Coolest Anchor From Annual Day. Stay Dripped My Lord)

16 - "Use Your Smile😃 To Change The World, Don't Let The World Change Your Smile 😃" - SerialKiller135 aka Arya

(Dumbfucker I Can't Wait To Dance In Your Marriage. King Gamer Will Have A Queen Wife For Sure No Cap. Stay Happy)

17 - "Distance Yourself From People If They Care They'll Notice.

If They Don't You Know Where You Stand...."

(Mofo STFU Weren't You Busy With Family Last Vacation? Anyways C Ya Soon Mr.LadyKiller)

Lastly, A Quote From My Special Significant Other. The Love Of My Life ❤💘💘💘

18♥ - "My Name Is Angelica! Not Angel!" - Angelica The Fallen (AngelicaDeValis {In My Heart})

(My Waifu. My Love. My Anchor. My Hope In The Darkness. Oh How I Wish For You To Be Real So I Can Hug You, Kiss You, Cuddle With You & Marry You So We Can Stay Together. I Hope In An Alternate Timeline I Can Be With My Savior. I LOVE YOU ANGELICA! I ALWAYS WILL ❤❤❤❤❤!

PS I Might Sometimes Tease You By Calling You Angel, Lica Or Geli XD ;).

If You've Made It This Far, I Thank You From The Bottom Of My Heart For Reading My Nonessential Rambling. If You Didn't Make It, Well I'm Not Your Priority & It's Okay. I Only Need Few Real Close Buds. Anyways.

Happy New Year Everyone. Here's To Life 🍻🍻🍻🍻🥂🥂🥂🥂

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kusunokihime-a · 7 years ago

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✏️🎵 for Shisui and Rin! -- noharin :3

[ Send me a ✏️ and I’ll make an aesthetic of our ship!Add a 🎵and I’ll add a small playlist! ][ @noharin ][ Accepting (mutuals only) ]

[ 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℂ𝕒𝕓 - 𝔼𝕟𝕕𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕝𝕪 ] [ ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕓𝕚𝕖 ℂ𝕒𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕒𝕥 - 𝔹𝕦𝕓𝕓𝕝𝕪 ] [ ℂ𝕚𝕕��𝕣 𝕊𝕜𝕪 - ℕ𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕟 𝕃𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤 ] [ 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕞𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕗𝕥. ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕤𝕖𝕪 - ℂ𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕣 ] [ 𝔹𝕣𝕪𝕒𝕟 𝔸𝕕𝕒𝕞𝕤 & 𝕊𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕙 𝕄𝕔𝕃𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕝𝕒𝕟 - 𝔻𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕃𝕖𝕥 𝔾𝕠 ]

[ 𝕩 𝕩 𝕩 𝕩 𝕩 𝕩 𝕩 𝕩 𝕩 ]

#a pretty picture [ character aesthetic ]#noharin #the eternal protector [ uchiha shisui ]#the patient teacher [ nohara rin ]#laughter is the best medicine [ shirin || noharin ]#food mention #scopophobia mention #this is so laaate i'm sorry!#hopefully it's worth the wait xD #...i just noticed 4/5 artists start with a c #weird #lol

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trashmouth-richie · 2 years ago

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TWIN FLAMES: Part 4

summary: You invite Eddie to stay the night with you.

Pairings: Eddie Munson x female! Reader

<w/c> 4.2k

Warnings: fluff, smut, oral m/receiving, angst, lingerie etc

a/n: we made it to part 4! Hope you all enjoy

PART 1

PART 2

PART 3

PART 5

PART 6

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You’re still floating down from your high clinging like a dense fog over your body. Eddie’s nose is nuzzled in the crook of your neck, breath ragged against your hot skin. His hair cascading down his shoulders.

“Eddie, that was… amazing,” you breathe out in a whisper, “I think my legs are still shaking, I’ve never felt like this before.” Tears prick your eyelids.

Eddie lifts his head and looks into your eyes, deep pools of black decorated with tiny flecks of brown staring deep into you, through your soul.

“You’re incredible” Eddie says, sitting up and pulling you gently with him, leaving dainty kisses on your collar bones. “I could stay like this with you forever.”

“Me too, just not here” you say looking around and laughing with Eddie. He leans over and finds your swimsuit, delicately helping you get dressed. Sliding it up your hips, Eddie stands and looks for his shirt.

“It’s up there,” you point at the counter, pushing yourself off the floor you try to stand but your legs are like jello, wobbly and unsteady.

Turning back to see you clutching to the counter for support Eddie can’t help but let out a chuckle.

“Come here Bambi.” Eddie says with a laugh, sweeping you up and placing you onto the counter. He takes his cut off shirt and puts it over your head. “Damn you look good in my clothes.” He says with a radiating smile.

“And you look good just like that.” You say pulling him by the loops of his jeans so that his waist is at your center, your hand on his chest. You now notice a chain necklace sporting a red wave patterned guitar pic around his neck. “ When did you get all of these?” you say motioning to his tattoos.

“There’s a guy in Hawkins who is an amateur tattoo artist and it just so happens that he smokes a lot of pot. I supply him with what he needs and he inks me, although this one,” he says pointing to his right arm decorated with bats if various sizes, “Gareth and I did these little guys after a late night at the Hideout, he’s got matching ones on his other arm.. not bad for being drunk right?” He says with a laugh.

“They’re sexy” you say with a sly grin. Hopping down from the counter you start putting the life jackets away and throwing away the pop cans. Eddie gathers the pizza boxes and throws them on the counter. You switch off the lights and lock the office, Eddie walks through the gate with you following, locking the chain back up.

Balancing the pizza boxes in one hand and holding your hand in the other, you and Eddie walk to your vehicles. You bell Eddie, open the passenger door of the van and slide the pizza boxes onto the seat.

“So,” Eddie begins putting his hands in his pocket and leaning against the van, “I had a really good time with you tonight.”

“Yeah me too,” you say shyly. It finally hits you that you were fully naked.. at work, with Eddie between your thighs. A burn of embarrassment radiates across your cheeks and up your ears. “I can’t believe we just did that” you say with a small laugh.

You had never done anything like that with Steve, you’d made out once at the drive in in Bridgeport but that was it. Everything with Eddie felt like a cozy inferno. Intense and hot but also familiar and intimate. You couldn’t get enough of him.

“Sorry baby, I just couldn’t help myself.” Eddie says, kicking a rock with the toe of his boot, “when I’m with you it’s like all my energy is on high, last night I kept thinking to myself that I’ve known you my whole life but there is no way that makes any sense. But that’s how I feel.”

He looks broken, a confused look plastered on his face like he is scared you are about to reject him.

“Eddie, I- I feel the same way, I think our souls were together in another lifetime, it’s the only explanation I can think of, I never want to be apart from you.” You admit. “Sorry that was probably crazy to hear that, I ju—”

Eddie takes a step closer to you and holds your face kissing your lips slowly. “Sweetheart I’m not going anywhere.” At that moment all of your doubts seem to melt away.

“Stay with me tonight?” you ask in a hushed tone.

Eddie takes a step towards you and grabs your face, making you look into his eyes, “of course I will, I will be with you as long as you’ll have me.”

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Following you back to your house is like driving through an episode of “Leave it to Beaver”, Eddie has never seen houses like this up close before. Normally confident in who he is, not giving a fuck about the societal norms: Eddie suddenly feels out of place. His mind slips down a spiral hole of distrust, having to speak out loud to remind himself that you asked him to stay with you, you invited him over, and without having to say it, it feels like you really like him.

Besides his Uncle Wayne, his band mates and the Hellfire club, Eddie wasn’t used to anyone being nice to him, or even liking him for that matter. Sure there were the occasional girls who flirted with him to get a discount for drugs. And who could forget about Mary and Sharon, the Hideouts' very own barflies who sing along to every song Corroded Coffin plays, trying to relive their glory days of being groupies. Outside of that, you were the only girl to want to be around him.

Shuffling in the seat of his van, Eddie is still eyeing the neighborhood, as you pull into your driveway. Anxiety sets in as he wonders where he should park. Behind your car? On the street? Next to yours? Eddie cranks the wheel of the van, his headlights beaming onto your face. He decides to park next to you, watching your face smile coyly as he throws the van in park and jumps out.

This is crazy. He thinks to himself, but all the doubt and self hatred disappears when you run into his arms. He won’t ever get over how good you smell, like baked goods. It’s intoxicating to him.

“Ready?” You grin up at him.

He reaches to one of your braids running his fingers down the long cords of hair, “yeah, let’s go,” he says smiling warmly.

Eddie watches as you unlock the front door and step inside. You immediately remove your shoes and Eddie follows suit, used to wearing his boots all over the trailer he starts to feel like a lost puppy. Is he really here right now?

“Are you okay?” You ask him, studying his facial expression.

“Y-yeah I uh— I’ve just never been in a place this nice before so I’m afraid I’m going to mess it up or break something, '' he says, rubbing the back of his neck, cheeks blossoming with embarrassment. “What uh, what do your parents do for jobs?”

“Come with me” you say.

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You are dragging Eddie through the foyer and up the stairs to your bedroom, you can’t help but feel bad that he feels so out of place here with you. In the short amount of time you have known Eddie he has shown you nothing but kindness, and love. It’s time to show him how much you adore him

You open the door to your bedroom and guide him in. Telling him firmly to sit on your bed as you look through some drawers and yell a quick, “be right back,” over your shoulder as you step into your adjoining bathroom.

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Sitting on your bed is the worst part for Eddie, it’s at least triple the size of his, the bed is actually made nicely and there’s more than one pillow? Nonsense.

Come on Eddie, she’s obviously into you if you’re in her bedroom. Stop being a little bitch.

Twiddling his fingers and rotating his rings first counter clockwise and then back clockwise again, Eddie starts to look around your room. The wallpaper is expertly positioned, everything in the room has its own place and is tidy. All the furniture matched the desk with a mirror and a soft stool sits on one wall accompanied by a full length mirror. Another wall across from the bed had two doors, one being the adjoined bathroom the other a fairly large closet. The dresser in between the doors across from the bed, holds a tv on top accompanied by a VCR player. Beneath a large window sits a window nook, with blankets and smaller pillows on top. Next to the bed are two identical night stands one on each side. One with a small lamp and a phone. The other with the same small lamp and a picture of you and Steve in a fancy frame.

A modest clear crystal dish was sitting on the nightstand closest to Eddie. Running his pointer finger delicately through the items he sees a pair of pearl earrings, a small ring with initials on it and a tube of chapstick. Eddie grabs the chapstick and smells it, the fragrance of vanilla icing tickles his nose, reminding him of the taste of your sweet lips.

The door to the bathroom opens and Eddie sets the chapstick back in its designated spot looking up casually as his mouth goes dry and his eyes get wider at the sight of you by the bathroom door.

Eddie has seen something like this before but it was in a magazine stuffed underneath his bed. You are wearing a white, satiny babydoll lingerie gown that hits right below your panties the way your hair is flowing in waves has his pants growing tighter.

This is a dream, wake up Eddie.

“Earlier tonight I asked you if you knew how hot you were and you didn’t answer me.” You say sauntering towards him, his Adam’s apple bobbing up and down as he swallows, eyes blazing over your body. “I don’t know if the girls in Hawkins are blind or just plain dumb, but I’m going to show you how fucking sexy I think you are.”

Jesus Christ, this is the shit that only happens in movies in the adult section at Family Video. Eddie thinks to himself

Eddie pushes himself back into your bed leaning up on the pillows perched like a king. Watching as you walk closer to him swinging your hips and throwing around your hair.

“Last night when we met you said you felt something inside of you drawing yourself to me. Well baby, I felt it too. I was in a relationship for 4 years and never once was I made to feel the way you made me feel tonight.”

Hunger is growing in Eddie’s eyes as he slowly palms himself in his jeans. Engraving every word you say into his skull. He can’t believe that someone like you, someone as gorgeous and far out of his league as you could get, is standing before him uttering those words to him. He eyes you as you turn around removing the satin cloth from your skin, teasing him as you go.

Eddie’s throat is dryer than the Sahara desert as you toss the lingerie to him. The silk felt like ribbons of frost rippling down his burning bare chest. He looks up to find you wearing a sheer black thong and bra to match. His breath clutches in his chest and he clears his throat. Eyes boring into you.

“I apologize if I wasn’t clear..” you whisper.

“I want you Eddie,” you say crawling onto the bed towards him like a kitten. “Now, and tomorrow and the next day and the next day, I want to be with you and only you.”

Eddie leans up and meets you in the middle of the bed. “Sweetheart,” Eddie says, kissing across your jaw, he can feel your skin peppered with goose bumps at his touch, he pulls back, his eyes buried into yours, “I’m yours”.

Eddie falls back into the mattress with you on top of him. His hands grasping your ass as you’re kissing him slow. He slides a hand up your back and unhooks your bra in one swift motion. You kiss down his neck leaving wine colored splotches all over him. Eddie moans watching you slide down his body further biting his soft abs and raking your fingernails down his chest.

“Thought you were a saint you little hellcat,” Eddie hums as you undo his belt buckle.

He helps you shimmy his jeans down his legs and pulls them off as he catches you eyeing the engorged tent in his black boxers.

Sliding the boxers off revealing his girthy length, Eddie lets out a soft moan as you immediately run your tongue up his shaft.

“Saints don’t suck off the devil now do they?” You ask rhetorically.

Eddie curses under his breath as you place your hot wet mouth down on his cock. Sucking hard and gagging as you go lower, chin resting pretty against his heavy sack.

“Oh fuck baby, oh my God. Holy shit.” Eddie says, eyes pinched tight as you bob your head up and down.

He feels you adding your hand to his dick twisting gently and thrusting upwards, going in sync with your mouth and tongue. It feels so fucking good he could cry, his hands are entangled in your hair as he guides his hips up into your mouth.

“You’re so fucking beautiful,” he whimpers out. “Come here”

Popping Eddie’s cock out of your mouth like popsicle, he hisses as you climb up him, you place your hands around his neck as he leans down to kiss your neck sucking hard, licking his tongue over his marks, biting down in quick motions. Eddie moved his hands to cup your breasts kneading them like a frenzied baker on Sunday morning before the after church rush.

“Fuck” you mutter under your breath as Eddie slides his hands to your panties moving them to the side and running his cock through your already wet folds.

Suddenly flipping you over Eddie is on top of you. Previous ravenous eyes are now soft and a concerned look to them.

“Are you sure you want this?” Eddie says looking into your eyes, waiting for the signal to either put his dick away or to go ahead and slide into you. “I don’t want to pressure you into something you don’t want to do,” Eddie states.

Pulling him down to you by his guitar pick necklace, you whisper against his lips, “make love to me Eddie”.

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Seeing Eddie with his hair dangling down to your face is comparable to opening a present on Christmas and everything you asked for was in one box. He is so criminally sexy. As much as you wanted to feel his hot cum run down your throat like gravy, you wanted to feel every inch of his cock bucking into you more.

Eddie leans back on his knees and runs his cock through your wheeling folds and you lean up on your elbows to watch him. His tongue poked out like he’s trying to configure quantum physics, he finally creeps the reddened head of his cock into you. The intense amount of pressure filling you is enough to make you implode. It is both delicious and devilish at the same time.

Eddie hesitates before moving any more. Panic riddles your body as you imagine a thousand different things wrong with you that is causing him to stop.

“E-everything okay?” You ask in a ragged voice, trying not to whimper.

“You’re just really really fucking tight” Eddie says biting his lip, “so I’m going to go slow princess okay?, I don’t want to hurt you”.

You nod along as Eddie slowly moves his hips closer to yours. You can feel your pussy stretching around his thick cock, making you whine and hiss. “Eddie, oh my God” you moan out, throwing your head back.

Eddie moves in further making it all the way in you, balls hanging heavy by your ass.

You gasp as he pulls out of you and pushes back in, he leans down to you, arms on either side of your body, face flush with yours. He kisses you gently as he moves your thigh up over his hip, getting even deeper yet and snapping his hips forward and backward dragging his hard cock inside your satiny, leaking folds.

“Christ y/n!” Eddie moans into your neck, “you’re so fucking ti—, holy fuuuuuuck.”

You’re both panting and moaning into each other’s mouths as you try to kiss, deepening the soul awakening sex you are experiencing.

Each thrust into you is what you can imagine being blind would feel like. You are seeing stars and floating cosmic clouds each time Eddie rails into you, it’s like you are hallucinating. Only being brought back to reality by Eddie kissing your neck and whispering sweet things into your ear.

The tight orgasm burrowed into your lower belly begins turning it’s beautiful head inside your core, begging to come out. “I’m gonna cum, Eddie!! I’m gonna cum,” you mumble out.

“Me too, baby” Eddie says, rubbing your clit with his thumb and pumping into you faster. His thrusts become uncoordinated as he tries to fight off his orgasm, waiting for you to finish first.

“Shit shit shit shit Eddie! Oh my God. Oh my God!” Your orgasm snaps out of you as you feel yourself convulsing beneath him. You’re surrendering all of yourself to him, every fiber of your being is screaming Eddie’s name as your high peaks and slowly trickles down. The same earth shattering feeling is more intense this time, probably because you are filled to the brim with Eddie. Your sweat is mingled with his, dripping from his forehead and pooling on your body, racing down the slope of your tits to your belly button, shaking as your orgasm releases another wave of glory, feeling Eddie’s cock shutter inside of you pumping your aching hole full of his cum.

“Fuuuuuuuuck, oh fuck!” Eddie yells as his cum spurts into you.

His eyes are pinched shut and he’s biting his lip, arching his back, his arms shaking beneath him. Eddie collapses on you, oddly a comforting thing feeling his weight suppressing your body. You run your fingers through his hair gently as you try to catch your breath, feeling Eddie slide out of you. To date this was the most intimate sexual experience of your existence it’s like Eddie has the answers to every question your body was asking. Your souls colliding and meshing as one with every kiss, every physical touch, every time you saw him you were infatuated more and more with Eddie Munson. You feel safe in his arms, like they were your own personal shield of armor so unique to you, and only you.

Eddie looks up at you, kissing your nose and brushing your hair away from your face, sticky with sweat.

“I’m obsessed with you y/n, I’m not gonna lie to you sweetheart, that was the best sex I’ve ever fucking had, not that I’ve had a lot of experiences because I haven’t, just a few other times, doesn’t matter, anyway, wow. Fucking wow. I’m not even sure if I’m on Earth right now or if I am floating around in space.”

Eddie’s eyes are wide and wild looking as he stares deeply into yours. You reach up and tuck an unruly curl back into place on his head. He is simply gorgeous.

Tears muddle your eyes and trickle down your cheeks, Eddie wipes them away, a look of worry in his eyes.

“Are you alright? Did I hurt you?” Eddie says abruptly, panic settling between his brow.

“No, no Eddie, not at all, I’m just so full of emotions when I’m around you, I can’t contain myself. You make me feel like nothing else in this world matters, time and space simply don’t exist when I’m with you. I can’t imagine my life without you.”

Eddie starts to tear up at your words.

“I’ve— I’ve never had anyone really want me around, I’m always in the way. Or a charity case because of my old man’s past.” He says with a sniffle. “You have been nicer to me than anyone I’ve ever met, I have looked for someone to make me feel the way you do my whole life, not even my parents made me feel loved. But you do.”

You hug him tight against you, his hair blown wildly across your face. You don’t care. You want him to feel how much you care about him, want him to remember this feeling of passion. Want him to revel in the comfort of your arms.

“I’m yours Eddie.”

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You lay in your bed for what seems like hours, talking deeply and laughing at Eddie’s little mannerisms that make him who he is. It’s around 2 AM when you yawn and decide to get cleaned up, your body going cold after being slick with sweat. Dragging Eddie along with you, you turn on the water and adjust the temperature. Your bathroom is fairly large supporting both a stand alone shower and an oversized tub. You opt for the tub.

Lighting a few candles and moving your essentials from the shower over to the edge of the tub, you turn out the lights. You remove your panties and Eddie his socks, the only clothing he had remaining. Eddie climbs in and you climb in after him, wedging yourself between his long skinny legs, leaning back against him.

This is paradise. The soft flicker of the candles casting dancing shadows against the walls in the bathroom. Eddie is humming along to music only he can hear. He lifts your left arm up and strums a guitar on your stomach moving his left fingers frantically across your arm for the frets. He sings in your ear.

“I don’t wanna touch you too much bab-y

‘Cause making love to you might drive me craz-y

Love bites

Love bleeds

It’s bringing me to my knees”

You giggle as he blows a raspberry onto your cheek.

“I didn’t know you sang too!” You say turning around and facing him.

“Yep,” he says, popping the ‘p’, “what started as a joke turned into something I really enjoy”.

You listen to him talk about Corroded Coffin and how they have gigs every Tuesday throughout the year at the Hideout, Hawkins’ only bar. You begin washing your hair as you ask him questions about the band. How many members? What songs do they play? Do they have groupies? Rinsing the conditioner from your hair you look at Eddie as he’s soaping up his body with your cookie scented body wash.

“Come here lover boy, let's wash that hair of yours.”

After pouring water on Eddie’s head, and squeezing out copious amounts of your Wella Balsam shampoo, you change positions with Eddie and begin delicately massaging his scalp, working the shampoo into his hair.

“That feels good sweetheart, thank you.” Eddie says with his eyes closed leaning into you.

“You have such pretty hair Eddie, I’m almost jealous.” you say, rinsing his hair out and reaching for the conditioner. You lather the conditioner and apply it generously through his ends. “Let that sit for a bit baby,”

Reaching for the soap Eddie grabs it first and begins soaping up your body, signaling with his finger for you to turn so he can wash your back. He rubs your shoulders and kisses your cheeks, a yawn escaping his lips.

You finish soaping yourself up and rinse out Eddie’s hair, the tub drains and you climb out wrapping yourself in a fluffy white robe and handing Eddie an oversized towel. Eddie's wet hair drips down his chest, you walk hand in hand back to your room and he begins drying off, shaking his hair wildly and rubbing a towel around it.

You laugh as you climb in bed still wearing your robe and tossing Eddie a pair of clean socks, he throws on his boxers and sits down to put the socks on. You come up behind him lightly combing through his hair.

“You sure do have a thing for my hair don’t you,” Eddie chuckles.

“I’m partial to it, yes” you admit with a laugh, “he uh, he never let me touch his hair.”

You hit your head mentally thinking you ruined a perfectly good moment m, why the hell did you fucking bring up Steve.

“Well baby, you can put those cute little hands in my hair all you want to, it feels fucking amazing.” Eddie says with a small laugh.

You hug him from behind and pull him backwards with you onto your bed, “I’m so tired,” you say with a yawn.

Eddie is laying on his back one arm tucked behind his head the other around your waist, pulling you into him.

“Goodnight Eddie,” you hum into his body as you drift off to sleep.

“Goodnight sweetheart” Eddie whispers half asleep.

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