#10 week rule

[nympharmacy]

im sorry i dont think u get it. i dont think any of u get it and i just want to explain my thoughts because goddamn it 10 week rule is so genuinely just my favorite song off of mammalian sighing reflex and no one else seems to like it. i think its bc of the abortion line and i just

its not literal to me. its not an actual being-pregnant type of abortion. its the kind of abortion where u want to rip something out of ur body that is also so inherently entwined w ur sense of being like. it is you. you are killing yourself by purging yourself of yourself. you become this hollow shell just so you can fill yourself up again tomorrow with everything you love and everything you have loved and everything you want to love. you hack every strand of pain out your body and replace the need with love

its the perfect ending to the album and i love it

[m0ther-of-p3arl]

reblog for greater sample size if you want :3c

[jugheadthelesbian]

my fav lines from each mammalian sighing reflex song

[fadeawaywithyou]

immediate first reviews of the (non-nightcore) Mammalian Sighing Reflex album from Wilbur!

spoilers below if you haven't listened to his album! I really like it! Also, I'm not looking into lyrics online just yet, it's very late and if I do that I won't sleep cause it'll just consume my mind for hours.

-Amazon Standing Lamp: I love the guitar here and I laughed when it took me about 5 seconds to realize the higher voice isn't a woman, but actually Wilbur Soot singing alongside himself. He's sampling something at the end I don't know.

-Mine/Yours: The lyrics about kissing like a job and tongue and teeth *mwah* and the last line ohhhhhhh boy. The beat reminds me of a beating heart.

-Around the Pomegranate: the instrumental at 30 seconds in is SO GOOD the beat with the distorted voice is so fun. i can make out the lines "no one else can save you" and "nowhere you [can?] return to". This whole song is very fun despite the lyrics and meaning. It's just a very experimental. I like when the music gets very loud. Speaking of the lyrics the ending where Wilbur says he wants to feel normal again is just...I'm gonna go lay on the floor.

-I Don't Think It Will Ever End: Again with the experimental music! It kinda immediately reminds me of that part in Bo Burnham's Inside, the song "All Eyes On Me" where he has a mid-song monologue. It is very interesting in a meta-sense due to the comparison I can't help but make between this and Wilbur's streams. Where he's got a "chat" or audience responding to him in a cheery voice no matter what he says.

-Glass Chalet: I like the scratchy feeling in the instrumental. He's throwing stones in a Glass Chalet, which according to google is like a fancy type of cabin found in the mountains (the alps, specifically?). Also, I love the sampling he's doing with the talking at the end.

-Melatonin 130: I like the distorted voice at the end. He's really experimenting with this album and I'll keep saying it because I love it! I love the ending lyrics about everyone hoping you fail and the apes with coloring books, I think he said?

-Oh Distant You: The music takes up most of this song, instead of the lyrics, but what is sung is very nice.

-Eulogy: One of the lyrics hits very close to home. Not in a good way, but not in a bad way either. I guess it'll depend on the day I listen to the song. It's a good song. I like it a lot.

-Dropshipped Cat Shirt: The distortion kinda reminds me of those hyperpop songs that went viral on tiktok back in 2020 and it's very new to hear it used in this way with these lyrics and the general tone of the music. The last line! God, what is it with this album and the final couple of lines that hit me upside the head? I just need someone to tell me I'm tired???? God DAMN. shit...

-The Median: Very good. I like these shorter songs in between full-length songs. It's just a minute long but I really like it.

-Trying Not To Think About It: The lines about romance and marriage...man that's relatable. this is probably gonna be my favorite song. And then the rest of the song just.../pos but ooooooof

-10 Week Rule: It's a good song. Was NOT expecting that line in the chorus, which I'll let people reading this find out themselves.

Overall, this is an excellent album! I really love it and I will be listening to it constantly. This gives me the same feelings that YCGMA gave me, while still staying very distinct. It's not more POLISHED than ycgma, but it's clearly made with Wilbur's more improved skills in music making. (there is a word for this i can't remember rn)

I'm gonna commit to picking a favorite song after a couple more listens, but so far I really like Trying Not To Think About It and Around the Promegrante. This is a very creative album and I'm glad he's experimenting here. This doesn't sound like Lovejoy, and I'm super happy. It's unique, it's fun, and it's sad!

[edgarallanpoestan]

WILBUR SOOT ABORTION?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!

[hollenka99]

I have GOT to stop saying "abortion time!" in a cheerful voice every time I click on 10 Week Rule.

[itsnotmystic]

Nothing is more dangerous than having "I'm going to get an abortion" play in your ear at a catholic school

[yeah-this-is-my-username]

Last song ....... off to an interesting start

[namchyoon]

day 221/547 until joon returns cr. namuspromised

[xx-poetry-witch-xx]

okay but no but actually let's really talk about how at the end of 10 week rule wilbur very softly sighs and goes "okay" AND THEN THE ALBUM RESTARTS AND IT GOES RIGHT INTO AMAZON STANDING LAMP it's like a mini here we go again which is INCREDIBLE story telling through his music based purely on the thought that this album is about all sorts of cycles (depression, exhaustion, burn out) AND THE ALBUM ITSELF IS A CYCLE guys you just don't fucking get it i'm on some other plane with this fucking music

can we talk about how all the songs blend together like one big depressive spiral please please please let me talk about this i could talk about this for hours please i'm begging you can we talk a-

[moteldogs]

also I got a lot of thoughts on how eliot having that fight with his dad and then immediately shipping to basic training meant he ended up isolated in a way that made him highly motivated, highly trainable, and also extremely easy to fuck in the head in useful ways. which worked out great for the US military and later on, for moreau.

[melit0n]

I'm so done with him

[autisticlee]

sometimes I think about how when I went to college for a year before I dropped out (basically failed out,) the counselors/dean told me they can't help me at all or give any accommodations unless I have an official autism/adhd diagnosis. that might sound logical at first, but when you think about it more, it's actually quite fucked up. if someone is struggling really bad, what's the harm in helping them? why do they require a paper to get even the smallest amount of help? people who don't need help aren't going to be failing miserably without help! even NTs could benefit from some adjustments to the horrible school system! (but changing the entire system is a whole other conversation that the school system isnt ready for)

but even if you do agree to jump through their hoops, you realize it's even more fucked up that the diagnosis process requires YEARS in most cases (in my case it took 4 or 5 years, can't recall exactly now, for autism/adhd diagnosis, which would have meant i finished school before getting it if i managed to mot fail out, or i wait that long before going back, which is a whole struggle itself) and they also tried billing me for THOUSANDS of dollars because of insurance issues!!

so you put a ton of time and money into this, and then get told the only accommodation they are willing to give you for autism and adhd is "a little extra time on tests"

....

my test scores were the best part of my whole class experience. that was NOT what I struggled with!!!!! those tests were all online and could be done in the comfort of your home where you can accommodate yourself and have plenty of time left over when you finish them because you are comfy in your own space, (and also, no one was stopping you from having your notes/books/google open to find the answers,) and you don't even need a time consuming, expensive diagnosis for that!

SO WHAT'S THE POINT!!!!!!!

[skitskatdacat63]

Boy King Seb :D

[supernovaa-remnant]

something about wilbur's long personal update message (where he talked about taking a break and doing better and all that) being shared roughly 10 weeks after he dropped the album is just..

"In about 10 weeks from now it will all be fine" <- last lyric in the entire album

[hollenka99]

Thanks to recency bias, the only thing I can remember clearly about the new album is that Wilbur Soot wants an abortion and is going to have a breakdown in 10 weeks.