#How to Sing Better

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[kate-cosette-vocals]

What are Singing Vowels?

Singing vowels are the mouth shapes we use while singing to make sure you have great sounding tone (think Ariana Grande!) and to stay on pitch, make singing physically easier, and lots of other good stuff.

We don’t use a proper amount of space for good tone while speaking, so learning these mouth shapes may feel a bit foreign at first, but it makes a world of a difference! :)

[yhwcomeback]

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road! bonus:

[puppppppppy]

(guy who has never played cotl) haha au time

[sysig]

You're still standing off to the side. Somehow, center stage has shifted from under your feet without you realizing, and you're standing in the wings, performing to no one.

Starring Role (Patreon)

[dear-ao3]

”i’d like to be my old self again but i’m still trying to find it” is such a baller lyric. like people don’t talk about that part of a break up enough. you can be over it all you want but the accepting that things are now different and you are not the same person you were at the beginning is sometimes the hardest part

[tmos-time]

he is likely wrong here <3

[petricorah]

lee from the tea shop boutta get it (wip) [id in alt]

edit: completed illustration here

[muffinlance]

Read "Suki, Alone". Liked it in general. But can they please, please hire someone who knows both the show's actual events and how to follow through on a character arc? Because guys. Guys. That comic is not implying about Suki what they meant it to be implying, and all because of literally one line.

So like. From a writer's standpoint:

What they meant to do: show Suki as a community-oriented person who cares for her people, and believes in everyone succeeding together.

As opposed to (spoilers): the thief girl they set her up in contrast with, who's pretty upfront and consistent on primarily looking out for herself. She betrays Suki for one (1) corn chip to improve her own life at the prison, no surprise.

But the problem is: they give Suki an inspirational line to the effect of "we're all working together and we'll all break out together"

You know

The thing she does not do in the show

So if both the show and this comic are canon, then instead of setting up a compare/contrast with the thief girl, they've just set up a comparison. One were Suki is arguably worse, because she's been leading a significant number of prisoners on with her "we'll all fight and win our freedom together!" business, only to straight up cut them out of the escape loop and abandon them, whereas the thief is only leading Suki on in the sense that Suki keeps telling her what it's morally correct to think and confuses snide replies with agreement

My dudes. My fellow writers. You people actually being paid for this. There were so many ways to fix those awful implications against our girl's character, the simplest of which would be to not include that line. Or they could have, you know, made it canon compliant with what actually happens in the show, so that this comic doesn't set Suki up as a betrayer instead of a community builder. Like... just send all her good prison buddies off to other prisons in the wake of the warden finding out they're colluding. Have it timed to be right before the next new prisoners arrive, thus setting it immediately before the Boiling Rock episodes, so Suki didn't have anyone left in the prison she'd want to take with her on a breakout. For bonus points, include a page or two of her and her Kyoshi warriors opening up the cell of one of her prison friends post-war, thus implying she's tracking down and actually fulfilling her promises. Maybe even show her doing the same with thief girl, who was established as being imprisoned on false charges anyway, and also showing that Suki is A) the bigger person, and B) willing to acknowledge her own role in mistakes (because I cannot emphasize enough how much thief girl was not hiding her own priorities, and it was Suki who approached HER with all this, not the girl ever doing anything special to weasel her way in) (this would also open up an opportunity for paralleling Suki's earlier in-comic mistake of not listening to one of her friend's very valid thoughts and feeling, which lead to the girl leaving their island alone pre-canon; a "seeing people as they are, not what you want them to be" moment)

Anyway yeah enjoyable enough for a quick read but another one for the "this can't be canon or the characters are So Much Worse than they were in the actual show" pile

At least Aang didn't promise to murder anyone in this one

[karliahs]

I tried to give myself a little break from writing because I thought that's what I needed, but turns out the writing is load-bearing at this point. what I really needed was a break from writing stuff that I ever intend to polish up and show anyone. tapping out random comfort daydreams full of square brackets and 0 context is vitally necessary in fact

[burningfunobject]

Am I the only one worried for act III??

Like they have SO much to get through in just 3 episodes and with the way the other two acts have gone (leaving certain characters for just one big segment in one episode instead of spreading their scenes out) makes me kinda worried

Like how are we going to get through all the stuff with viktor and jayce, get mel back, find ekko and the rat, caitvi, vi becoming an enforcer proper, jinxs everything AND noxus in just THREE episodes

Maybe they'll be longer??? I kinda doubt that tho

[pavlov-sdog]

an argument could be made that today (February 23rd) is Bell’s birthday, In fact i am making that Argument, Everyone wish Bell a happy birthday they deserve one too 🎉🎉

[flapmemelord]

Since end of the year approaches decided to redraw the bad touch trio to see how I've improved.

Been thinking, I think Francis and Gilbert are the type of people to call others by names they think match their language's "translation" (if there's one they can come up with) and/or with their language's pronounciation despite others telling them it's not their name (calling Gilbert (Jeel-Bèr) or Antonio Antoine (An-toa-ne) or Francis Franz respectively) But I think Gilbert calls Antonio, Tonio all of the time.

Also yeah, can't get over that precise performance of Les rois du monde SPECIFICALLY because i think they match my hcs for french France, Spain, Prussia VAs (Damien Sargue, Olivier Dion and David Bàn, in that order, if you'd like to listen to them singing, it's here) (they play in a les 3 mousquetaires muscial as Aramis, D'Artagnan and Porthos respectively which I think is perfect really....) (Sketched the fighting with the actors matching each, it was fun)

[pink-sheep-obey-me]

Ok I rewatched Alien Stage for like the millionth time and might I just say, Ivan singing Black sorrow is unbeatable. The part at the end specifically where he's singing Black sorrow the second time and breaking character you can HEAR a slight scratchiness because of how passionately he's singing and it ALWAYS get me. Like I've listened to Mizi's version of Black Sorrow and it just didn't compare. That one part means so much to me and I love it.

[casualavocados]

Why not consider he might be waiting for you?

Winny Thanawin as Q and Satang Kittiphop as TOEY WE ARE, ep7