#Array of light

[thepartyishere]

WHAT THE FUCK

no one was going to tell me about array of light?? spotify I hate you, you're supposed to shuffle ALL the artist's songs there SHOULD NOT be bears in trees songs I havent heard

how do they write music directly to my heart? are they listening in on my therapy sessions??

"I used to think I only had two states

forcibly yellow or the default grey"

oh my god. my heart. my soul. these people know me better than anyone and we've never met. I think I owe them everything.

"and I know you're filled with an emptiness

so are the speakers before the bassline kicks"

hello!!?? how am I just supposed to go on with my day?

bears in trees are the best at making me want to be alive. my number one coping mechanism. where would I be without them? I dont think I'd be the same person, they've built so much of me. they've changed so much of my perspective on life and mental illness and friendship.

[drop-of-infinity]

bears in trees mean so much to me because they are writing songs about things no one else is writing about and they are songs I need to hear. love you guys

[corvcall]

when bears in trees said “cope without ropes around your sounding throat. my weekends used to consist of loosing nooses, but the truth is you’re stronger than you think.” they wrote it for me and me only

[nyxtalksmusic]

Cope without ropes around your sounding throat My weekends used to consist of loosening nooses But the truth is, you're stronger than you think

[library-faery]

BUT TRULY I CARRY YOUR HEART IN MY HEART

[snowychicken]

AND I KNOW YOU'RE FILLED WITH AN EMPTINESS

SO ARE THE SPEAKERS BEFORE THE BASELINE KICKS

[angry-kid-with-no-money]

Array of light is so very andrew minyard coded, this has been a PSA 🙏

[sir-gwaine-my-man]

Forget whatever the intentional meaning was behind a song and start relating it to your own life

Because when Bears in Trees said ‘you didn’t want a boy to free you, you just needed a confidant’ and I realised that I only liked that guy because he was the only one that ever listened to me, and when Bears in Trees said ‘my preferred disposition would be for you to break my heart’ and ‘this love feels weird so I simply won’t believe it’ and I realised how complicated and confusing my relationship with my parents was, and when Bears in Trees said ‘I used to think I only had two states, forcibly yellow or a default grey’ and I realised that I had been living my life on autopilot, refusing to let myself feel because I was terrified of breaking, and when Bears in Trees said ‘would anyone listen to this, the ramblings of a lunatic’ and I wanted to scream because I’d felt ignored by everyone and everything for so long, and when Bears in Trees said ‘you won’t remember these lines in the morning, let’s just forget about it’ and I thought about how I can never express my true feelings because I was scared of change, and when Bears in Trees said ‘we used to be so pure, so fragile and raw’ and I realised how different and hopeful and innocent I was just a couple of years ago, and when Bears in Trees said ‘when my identity is entirely the maniac you see, if I became healthy would I stop being me’ and I knew that I was refusing to process any pain that I went through in case I changed who I was, and when Bears in Trees said ‘screaming hold my hand but please don’t touch me’ and I realised how much I wanted comfort but refused to be vulnerable, and when Bears in Trees said ‘put down the blades and swim to the shoreline, well oh god I’ve tried’ and I wanted to scream because I couldn’t understand why everyone around me could do the basic tasks that I couldn’t, and when Bears in Trees said ‘heaven sent is the way you say you’re proud of me you’re unconditionally loved’ and I wanted to be loved purely and completely without a fear of being seen as wrong and different and broken, and when Bears in Trees said ‘but I left at 2am to catch the first flight away from you (don’t touch me)’ and I considered how much I struggled to open up to the ones I love, and when Bears in Trees said ‘I must possess the thought that progress is a process’ and I felt such an intense fear of failure and refusal to commit because of it

Because music and art is so important in understanding how we perceive ourselves and the world around us and it is there to be looked at and admired and used and related to because we are all living in such a ridiculous world and this is what we were made to do

[bestbitsong]

please ignore the mistakes in the past posts :3

[kitkatbar5]

bears in trees. what good times we had, and all the love from the fans pours through my veins. y’know, if i could, i would travel to every city to see you perform, but alas, i have $2.61 in my bank account.

what i really want to say is this: Truth is, you are stronger than you think. those words have stuck with me since And Everybody Else Smiled Back came out, and i got those lyrics tattooed on my arm when i turned 18. i do plan on more tattoos featuring bears in trees, but for now, i’ll stick with the one i have. i remember being in treatment and only being able to listen to the radio so i forgot about the silly little band i love. and then i found my discord account and remembered the band i loved so dearly, only to find out the fanbase had shot up so much! congrats, and thank you.

[mayasaura]

one problem with a theatrical adaption of tlt is htn, where the reveal that Gideon lives on works because of the change of second person to first.

the only way i can think of it working is that the actor playing gideon works backstage, like the lights system (but is hidden from the audience aside from subtle hints)

the biggest hint is when when wake breaches pal's river bubble she 'breaks' the lighting system and the stage goes dark. harrow is ushered into the wings by pal so she doesn't see anything, but the lights flick back on just before the curtains drop for a scene change, and pal looks directly up at the light box in surprise and smiles. if the audience is quick to turn around they can see a flash of a black robe.

Oh boy my friend, have you come to the right place!!

So, fun fact about ninja. Bear with me, I am going somewhere with this. The image of a ninja covered head to toe in black, with a hood and mask, comes from Kabuki theatre. It was originally a stagehand uniform. Like stagehands in modern theatre, stagehands in Kabuki would wear all black to signify that they were not really there, and whatever effect they were causing (carrying a prop, creating a breeze, ect.) was to be taken as happening on its own. Basic stagehand stuff, a lot of productions in many styles around the world do it, especially if they don't have fancy rigging systems.

Someone (I don't remember who now, or in what play) had the idea to dress the ninja in a production up as a stagehand. In the convention of the theatre, this made them invisible. The audience was already so used to ignoring stagehands, they didn't know any more than the characters that the ninja was present, despite the actor being clearly visible on stage. Which meant when the ninja struck, it was as if out of nowhere. I can only imagine the uproar in the theatre the first time it happened. It worked so well as to become commonplace, and the rest is history. The popular image of a ninja is still a kabuki stagehand.

So, back to the stage play of Harrow the Ninth. I think you've hit almost exactly on how to incorporate the Gideon twist into a theatrical production. But not as a lighting tech. Gideon is a stage hand. Maybe there would be more than one stagehand, maybe she would be the only one, but she would operate in full view of the audience, literally setting the scenes. I think it works best if she's the only one, but if the production needs more, she should subtly stand out in some way. As the play went on, we would notice that this one stage hand... increasingly interacts with Harrow, though Harrow never acknowledges it. At first it might look like she's playing Harrow's necromancy, because that would be the main special effect she would need to help with. When Harrow is unconscious at the end of a scene, it's always the same stagehand carrying her out. But we all know she's not really there. Until Palamedes acknowledges her. Turns to look right at her, and speaks to her. I can see the scene clearly. He would look at her, stunned, until Gideon finally took off her mask. The line "Kill us twice, shame on God," would be addressed to Gideon, and then he would turn back to Harrow, kiss her on the forehead, and tell her to go. Gideon, always out of Harrow's line of sight, would guide Harrow away while Harrow looked back at Palamedes.

[raz0rvampire]

Where’s my janitor ghouls

Where’s my sound and light engineer ghouls

Where’s my ghouls that tend to the costumes and uniforms

Where’s my ghouls that work in the ministry food court

Where’s my garden assistant ghouls and child caregiving ghouls

[xenomorphicdna]

This is an on the string propaganda post

Brought to you, by me (with love)

It's time for machine comforts. Comforts we can't understand, or experience. Let them be happy, let them be at peace with their body.

Does a breath of cool water feel nice on their systems? When it's quiet do they listen to their own heart and feel the electricity pulsing? Does it remind them that they are alive and a part of this world? Do they have dreams? Hopes and projects they wish to work on, hobbies?

Why get off the string into the harsh and deadly world, fighting for survival and losing everything they've ever known to love about themselves?

What about the safety of their bodies? How scary would it be for a machine with thousands, maybe millions of throughs to suddenly have just a handful. The horror of everything going silent.

They have hundreds of eyes to see the world for all its beauty, they capture moments that would otherwise go unseen. Why blind themselves of such things?

[thatcatbasil]

projection

[loverboybrightsideghost]

they weren't kidding, those bears can be in trees

[library-faery]

I should not be allowed to listen to Array of Light this early in the morning. "but truly I carry your heart in my heart" and then I just have to go to class? What??