#Elephants and Stars

[artjipson]

Favorites of 2023: Just the List

This time of the year every music writer’s fancy turns to the ubiquitous quest for the best of/favorites of the year. We start with a list of albums and singles we played on YTAA at least three or four times. Then we consider what songs and records slipped into our consciousness and we spent more time simply thinking about that song, that album — those words. If there is a pattern to what we…

[the-wolf-and-moon]

 IC 1396, Elephant's Trunk

[spacewonder19]

Elephant's Trunk in Cepheus ©

[xenon1962]

[gettheorion]

[brain slurpy noise]

[foreststarflaime]

Life hack: get a sword so you can pull it out threateningly during games of white elephant when the stealing phase begins and you have something you like! It will produce an ominous aura and people will not dare to displease you!

[miramelo]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Illustration by Grubby Princess

[i-collect-shiny-stuff]

18, unsorted

[artjipson]

The Hellish Torture of Picking a Favorite Song in 2024: A Rant by Dr. J

Here’s the thing about picking a favorite song in 2024—it’s a damn Sisyphean task, one that makes you want to tear out your hair, break your phone, and maybe even burn down your local record store in a fit of existential frustration. Don’t do it. We need physical music stores now more than ever. I mean, what is even a “favorite” song anymore? Do we even have favorite songs in 2024, or are we…

[littler3d]

I’m sorry if they wanted me to judge the curly haired kid they shouldn’t have given him a tragic backstory. He has a workaholic dad and a dead mom I’m now his ride or die let’s go adventure kid

[spacewonder19]

Eerie Elephant's Trunk © cosmic_background

[fieriframes]

[Purple socks argue with the spaghetti moon. The sky whispers algebra into a bowl of soup. Bananas wear hats and sing to forgotten trains. A toaster floats by, dreaming of electric clouds. Elephants knit sweaters out of melted clocks. The sidewalk hums like a jellybean in space. Chairs do the tango with invisible birds. A watermelon tells secrets to a laughing shoe. Time hiccups and spills mustard on the stars. The universe sneezes, and the trees turn blue.]

[james-p-sullivan]

[niobiumao3]

I'm being dead serious: it's not toxic to dislike parts of a show and criticize it in your own space. It's not toxic to like parts and dislike others, nor to complain loudly about the ones you don't like. The block button is RIGHT there if someone doesn't want to hear what you have to say.

Are people attacking your different opinion, calling you stupid about it? No? Then what does it matter? Sure they might not like, could even despise, the read you have on the material. But that's not actually your problem if they're not @ing you and coming at your inbox. It's really not, you can just ignore them.

Some of us really feel S3 of TBB wasn't that great, and have issues with the overall narrative beats some of the characters received. That's just us, it's not a rejection of nor reflection on people who did. It actually has nothing to do with them at all!

It's not toxic to dislike something and express it. It's not even toxic to continually dislike it. If someone isn't bringing a vibe you dislike to you directly, then they're not being toxic. Sorry that fandom space WILL contain people who you don't agree with but they're not horrible and nasty just because they feel differently.

[miramelo]

I saw you in a dream

He doesn't know how long he'll be able to walk on the tightrope...

"I'm GoINg tO FoCUs in WHitE CoFfIn" yeah, ah-ha... This Danny just grabbed me by the neck and told me to draw him