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ellemany · 3 years ago

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Thoughts and Headcanons about Valorant’s Agents Playlist

Font: Voices in my head

So, i ended my self challenge of listen every playlist of Valorant’s Agents. Very fun experience and i highly recommend if you wanna get out your music comfort zone.

Yes, i listened everything on youtube cause i don’t have a spotify account ;-;

I already even listened some of them more than one time. Jett’s one is my favorite for training in the Range.

Sometimes it was a torture to listen everything (Love you Omen, but that was hard) However, there was positive surprises too. Sova’s russian rap are pretty cool. Don’t understand a word, but the feeling is good.

Just give a chance for they, okay? Killjoy’s playlist can be boring and interesting at the same time so just go for it!

It get me inspired to work on some headcanons, so let’s go!

Words: +1000 (Good luck)

Musical Headcanons

First of all, i had to say that Viper has my musical taste in my emo phase, when i was 13yrs, specifically.

Knowing that, i am 90% sure that she listens to Green Day, Linkin Park and Evanescence too. I can see her chillin after missions listening to My Immortal.

Also, she and Breach are Pentakill fans. They enjoy the rock vibes. Don't tell Killjoy, but they shared messages while they was participating of the virtual show. And they was on Viego side, obviously.

Since Viper is basically me, i can say that her guilty pleasure (beyond a certain game band) is Taylor Swift.

Yeah, our “villain” is soft at some point. Specially when is about “You Belong to Me”

And the Folklore album? Pure art! *Chef’s Kiss*

Viper really cares about her bad reputation (A reference? Maybe). She makes this clear in her dialogues with Cypher, Raze and Brimstone, for example. She hate the mere idea of anyone discovering these things about her without her consent. So, even with earphones, she doesn’t listen to TayTay in public. And never uses the random option.

She only listen in her bedroom or lab, at midnight, when she is sure that no one is around. Them, she even sings a little bit.

Viper singing is like 😍 😍 😍

Cypher, as the main font of gossips in the Protocol, discovery this precious information once. He could use this information for blackmailing Viper (he will use someday, probably). But, he thinks is too adorable and decided to help her to keep her secret without her acknowledgement. (”Hey guys! What are you doing here so late? Want to see a movie?” *moves everyone away from Viper’s lab where she is singing Shake it Off*)

Shit, so fanfic

Yet about Viper, the youngest agents once make a joke on her using Toxic from Britney Spears. Every time she was getting close, someone sings a verse of the song, without any context.

She soon realize what was going on (”These kids think they are smarter than me??”) and elaborate a little revenge. She thinks is predictable poison their food, so she makes something more... Creative. Then, she put a somniferous on the ventilation at night. She alone takes every agent that make the joke (mostly duelists) and locked they in the training room. Then, at 5AM, she puts Toxic to play at the maximum volume, starting the combat simulation in the hardest level. While that, she observes everything with her black coffee.

Since them, even the name of Britney Spears is banned between the agents.

Going to the rest of the team, Phoenix and Yoru don’t have any problem in sharing their earphones. They like to listen each other playlist after missions for chillin. Yoru usually critic Phoenix’s british rap and Phoenix says that some beats are boring but, after all, they like it. Sharing songs is one of they favorite things as a couple.

Since Golden Brown and Undo are in their playlists, nothing changes my mind that they like The Weekend, Chasing Atlantic and Rosenfeld.

I promise I’ll love you if you do it so do it for me

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Btw, Reyna’s playlist is a sex playlist. No discussion.

“But, Sage, how did you learned Spanish so fast?”

“...Practicing, i guess”

Sage’s playlist is a peculiar mix of my mom and my own musical tastes. One time is that calm R&B and then is a cheerful Pop, i love this. She probably like Kehlani and Norah Jones.

One of Sage’s favorites meditates method is to careful listen to music. She stays in a comfortable position and focus on feeling what the artist feels while interpretates the song. She can make this for a long time.

Jett knows a lot of K-pop choreographies. I just feel this when i listen to her playlist.

Oooooh the playlists remember Just Dance kkkkkkkkkkkk I’ll make another headcannon’s post about the agent’s dance abilities. (One of the Sage’s music is in Just Dance 2020 which i have. I’m proud of being really good in that dance :3 )

Phoenix was the type of person’s that used to hate Kpop. Then, he meets Jett in the Protocol. Now, he have tons of Krap on his playlist. Probably some of Suga. Jett think that it is funny and adorable when he tries to sing in Korean.

Yoru gets like 🙄 but he deal with this.

In the au where he dates Jett, he accept making TikTok dances with her favorite musics. Very cute :3

Shit, so fanfic²

Brim and Skye have a good musical taste. They probably like songs with poetry lyrics, so i think they both like Cat Stevens, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.

Despite her trying, Skye isn’t a good singer. But she sings with her heart. After all, the girl is trying, mates!

The agents care about Omen humanity. This includes his playlist that is... Ether? I don’t even know how to explain that. So, everybody shares earphones with Omen for seeing if he feels something close to his past life. They encourage Omen to dance too, even if his moves are unusual.

They don’t really know if Kay/O enjoy music but he seems to have a positive response for Mii Theme. (Riot, give us a Kay/O playlist, please)

Now, at last, my favorite headcanons are for Raze!

Raze have a huge Brazilian music acknowledgment and her official playlist just show a little bit of this. That playlist show her eletronic and rapper side, but she knows forró, axé, funk, samba, reggae, frevo, pagode, sertanejo, MPB, Bossa Nova, etc.

She careful listen to everybody’s playlist, understand they taste and recommend Brazilian songs that most match with them. Soon, everybody in the Protocol have unless one music in Portuguese in their playlist.

Cypher as a sambista is my new dream skin.

Even she doesn’t understand Sova’s DUTS DUTS DUTS, she get some TUTS TUTS TUTS in Brazilian for him.

She really can’t deal with Killjoy’s playlist. She loves her girlfriend but it is hard for her.

For other side, Raze’s constantly energic playlist is very stressful for Killjoy. They maneged to get along deciding that Raze will listen to her calmer songs around Killjoy and Killjoy will give a chance for Raze songs.

In my heart, their special song is “Não quero dinheiro” from Tim Maia. Raze played this song when she asked Killjoy for being her girlfriend.

Now, i don’t really know how the base where the Protocol is work, but, i think they have a cafeteria where Raze choose every day a new playlist for play, depending of the moods of the team. Somedays she lets another agent choose the day’s playlist. It’s pretty cool.

And... I think that’s all! Finally! I procrastinated too much for making this! (Chamber’s playlist was released, i ended listen to it and didn’t finish this post! That’s my level of lazy)

Love ya all :3

#Valorant #Headcanon #Music #Playlist #valorant viper #valorant agents #me trying

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leossmoonn · 4 years ago

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Polar Opposites [Spencer Reid]

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pairing - spencer reid x fem!alt!reader

type - fluff

note - hey, guys! this was a request! hope you enjoy it!

summary - spencer takes you out to meet his friends and they learn how different you are from him.

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*gif isnt mine*

I looked at myself in the mirror, trying to decide if I liked this outfit better, or the one I had just tried on. Tonight my boyfriend, Spencer, was taking me out clubbing to meet his friends. And right now, I was looking for an outfit.

The one I had on right now was a long t-shirt that I sewed together to be a romper. Fishnet tights, a belt that went along my waist with chains hanging from the sides, a necklace Spencer had given me, and Doc Martens. The other outfit I put together consisted of red and black plaid pants, a regular belt that I put a chain through, a black cami top that had a rose on it, and a black jean jacket.

My style was... different to say the least. A lot more alternative than what a usual adult wears. But, I loved it. I was able to express myself better this way.

I heard Spencer and I’s apartment door open. Spencer called my name and I told him I was in the bedroom. He walked in and his eyes widened.

“Woah, who told you you could look that good?” He smirked.

I smiled and walked over to him. “I did.”

I wrapped my arms around his waist and pulled him in for a kiss. He put his hands on my back, pulling me closer. I pulled away after a few moments, wanting to catch my breath.

“Is that your final outfit decision?” He asked. I smiled as he knew that I probably picked a out bunch of outfits before this.

“Hm, I’m not sure. You like it?” I asked and twirled around.

“I love it!” He exclaimed and eyed my body and the curves that the belt accentuated. My cheeks burned slightly and I led him to the bedroom to see the other outfit.

“Well, if we are gonna dance you might get too hot in the jacket and pants. But other than that, it’s your choice,” he shrugged.

I thought for a moment. “You’re right. I’ll stick with this.”

“Sounds good! I’m gonna go get ready,” he said.

I nodded and he turned his head before he left to the bathroom.

“Have I told you you looked good yet?” He asked.

“Hm... not in those exact words, no,” I chuckled. He laughed, “Well, you look ravishing.”

“Thank you, lover boy,” I winked. He chuckled again and then left to go to the bathroom.

I sighed happily and sat down on our bed. I truly felt like the luckiest girl in the world to be dating Dr. Spencer Reid. Us two were so different and due to that, a lot of people wouldn’t picture us together. But we ran into each other on the street - five months ago - , me accidentally spilling my coffee on him. I apologized profusely, but he said it was his fault and offered to buy me a cup sometime. I, of course, said yes and the rest was history.

I think what made us work was, well, I found him incredibly attractive. His fluffy hair, soft eyes, inncocent nature, and intelligent mind. We also shared a similar childhood it seemed. I was bullied for being different and knowing every word to My Chemical Romance and Linkin Park songs. And Spencer was bullied for being a child prodigy. But in my eyes, I didn’t understand who would bully him. He was a true gentleman, best friend, and incredibly sexy fact-spitter.

While thinking, Spencer’s hands wrapped around me. I smiled and turned to kiss his cheek.

“Ready to go?” He asked.

“Mhm,” I hummed. We both got up and I took a look at him.

His hair fell around his eyes and his lips held his perfect smile. He was wearing a dark-purple dress shirt and black pants.

“You look handsome,” I smiled.

“Thanks, babe,” he said and entertwined his hand with mine. Butterflies flew around my stomach and my knees went weak. Even after being together for almost half a year, he still had the same affects on me as he did from the beginning.

He grabbed his car keys and we went to the car. As we drove to the bar, I sang along to my MCR CD. Even though Spencer didn’t like this type of music, I still found him mouthing the lyrics.

We arrived at the bar and my palms started to get sweaty. Spencer opened the door for me and I thanked him and slowly started walking to the door. A wave of anxiety washed over me as I saw his friends sitting and talking at the bar.

“Hey, they’ll love you,” Spencer said, reading my mind.

“I hope so,” I said and took a deep breath.

Spencer led me over, saying hi first.

“Hey, guys! This is my girlfriend, Y/n,” Spencer smiled.

They all looked at you with friendly smiles and wide eyes.

“Hi, it’s so nice to meet you!” I smiled. “You must be Emily, Derek, Penelope, and JJ?” I guessed.

“Spot on! I see Spencer has talked a lot about us,” Emily smiled.

“Yeah,” I laughed. “I wanted to be prepared.”

She nodded and then Penelope went to speak.

“I love your outfit and style!” She exclaimed.

I smiled and felt myself relax slightly. “Thank you! I’ve always been one for being different.”

“Oh, me too. Hence all the bright colors and green eyeshadow,” she giggled.

“Oh, awesome! And the eyeshadow looks great!”

“Why thank you. I think we are gonna be great friends.”

“Me, too,” I giggled.

“So, Y/n,” JJ started. “How did you two meet?”

“Oh, I spilled my coffee all over him and he offered to buy me another sometime,” I explained.

Derek smiled and clapped him on the back. “My man! You know, pretty boy here used to be all books, but now he has some game!”

Spencer blushed and muttered a ‘thanks’.

“Really? He’s always had game,” I chuckled.

“If you knew me a couple years ago, you wouldn’t have thought so,” Spencer chuckled.

“Well I would’ve loved you either way,” I smiled and kissed his cheek.

“Oh you guys are adorable!” Penelope gushed.

“Thank you,” I smiled.

“Do you want some drinks?” Emily asked.

“Yeah, sure!” I smiled.

“Great, what would you like?”

“Um, a Manhattan,” I answered.

“Sounds good. And an Old Fashioned for you, Spence?” Emily asked.

Spencer nodded. I got out my credit card but they stopped me.

“We invited you out. It’s on us,” JJ smiled.

“Oh, uh... you sure? We can split the bill,” I suggested.

“Yeah, we’re sure. Next time you can pay for all of us,” Emily winked.

I laughed, “Okay, deal.”

“Let’s go find a seat,” JJ said. We all nodded and followed Derek and JJ while Emily and Penelope ordered our drinks.

“So, what’re your interests?” JJ asked.

“Oh, I’m interested in art. I’m actually an Art Gallery Dealer, and I paint and draw, too. I love music, that’s also another big part of my life. I’m kind of in a band, too,” I answered.

“Oh, really? You any good?” Derek asked.

“Eh,” I shrugged. Spencer rolled his eyes and smiled. “She’s being modest. She’s the lead singer and guitarist. She’s amazing.”

I blushed and held Spencer’s hand under the table.

“Wow, mind if we see you sometime?” JJ asked.

“Not at all,” I shook my head.

“Great!”

Emily and Penleope came over with all of our drinks.

“So, what did we miss?” Emily asked.

“Y/n, here, is in a band!” JJ exclaimed.

“Oh, really? That’s fun,” Emily smiled and took a sip of her beer.

“What kind of music do you play?” Penelope asked.

“Alternative Rock,” I said. “Ah, I should’ve known,” Penelope laughed.

“So have you ever liked the alternative style?” Derek asked.

“Ever since middle school. I guess you could call it emo, too. But it’s a fun way to express myself. I was bullied, but I always knew that it’s good to be different,” I explained.

They all smiled.

“Wow, that really cool,” Emily said.

“Thanks,” I chuckled.

“Hey, there’s karaoke here! I know your band isn’t here, but we’d love to hear you,” JJ smiled, changing the subject.

I laughed nervously and Spencer squeezed my hand for support.

“Sure,” I said. I downed my drink and stood up.

“You’ll do great!” Spencer said and gave me thunbs up. I laughed and went up to the DJ.

“Hey, are you doing karaoke right now?” I asked.

“Yeah! Wanna be the first contestant?” She asked.

“Yeah, sure,” I smiled.

“What song, sweetie?”

“Helena by My Chemical Romance,” I said.

“You got it. Here’s the mic, good luck!”

I thanked her and grabbed the mic. I went on the stage and immediately looked for Spencer. My eyes locked with his and he gave me another thumbs up. I smiled at his support.

The intro started and I took a deep breath and put my hand on my stomach.

“Long ago, just like the Hearse you die to get in again. we are so far from you, burning on.” I sang.

As I went on, people came in front of the stage, crowding around. Spencer and his friends came up. Penelope and Emily were singing along even.

“Well I've been holding on tonight. What's the worst that I can say? Things are better if I stay. So long and goodnight. So long and goodnight,” I sang and loosened up. I moved my head and body with the music.

As I sang onto the next verse, almost the whole club was jumping around and singing the lyrics. I smiled and I felt my confidence build up.

“Can you hear me? Are you near me? Can we pretend to leave and then. We'll meet again. When both our cars collide,” I sang into the mic, getting louder with each word.

“What's the worst that I can say? Things are better if I stay. So long and goodnight. So long and goodnight!” I jumped around. “And if you carry on this way. Things are better if I stay. So long and goodnight. So long and goodnight!”

I finsihed the song and inhaled loudly, catching my breath. Everyone clapped. Derek, Emily, and Spencer whistled. I smiled and went off the stage. The group met me back at our table.

“Wow! You are talented!” Emiy laughed.

“Thank you. I took voice lessons for 12 years,” I chuckled.

“It payed off,” Derek smiled.

The rest of the night consisted of dancing and talking more. I felt myself grow tired and decided to go home with Spencer.

“Well, it was nice meeting you, Y/n,” JJ smiled.

“You, too,” I said and returned the smile.

“See you at work, guys,” Spencer said.

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The Next Day *2nd POV*

“So, you met Reid’s girlfriend?” Rossi asked.

Emily nodded and sat down. “They are like polar opposites, but she’s so sweet.”

“How so?” Hotch asked. “She’s more alternative,” JJ explained.

“Hm... wait, is that her over there?” Hotch asked and pointed to the conference room’s window.

The team saw you giving Spencer his lunch. You were dressed in a blue bad black plaid skirt, crop top, with tights and your boots.

“Wow, she is different,” Rossi said.

“But he looks happy,” Hotch grinned slightly.

“He deserves it,” JJ smiled.

They all looked at the two of you, smiling fondly.

“I’m glad he found her,” Emily said.

“Me, too, Em,” Derek smiled.

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inhibited-irregularity · 4 years ago

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EUROVISION 2021, personal favorites:

- Russia 🇷🇺

Manizha, Russian Woman: Absolute favorite. The sheer originality of the song! Her energy and the level of absolute badassery! She can sing, she can rap,and she's a bomb of energy. The way reggae and brass and hiphop and Slavic melodies overlap and it somehow works, the transitions between fun and "I'm bitter about the sexism and I'm mocking it unapologetically and making a stand" and the anthemic, emphatic and powerful message to Russian women; I was swelling with emotion while watching her. While to an American or a Westerner it may seem like performative feminism, I'm gonna remind you that in Russia and other Slavic countries that's very much not a thing and actually a very unpopular stand to make, and in Russia, The Balkans, and Eastern Europe in general, hundreds of women face domestic and sexual abuse on the daily, and those who do come forward rarely get support and are mostly dismissed. Let's not forget that Manizha got a huge backlash from the Russian government officials, and a big part of it was for her Tajik roots. The honesty of her message is real, and she's speaking from personal experience and the experience of women around her - nothing performative about her song, and you can tell from her delivery that the fire within her is true and she leaves her heart on the stage and pours it into the song. The staging and costumes are great as well, and symbolically well thougt-through. I would really like her to win, or at least get to the top 5. Most of all, I hope her message is heard and felt. 10000/10

- Italy 🇮🇹

Måneskin, Zitti e Buoni: definitely the closest thing to my actual music taste this year, so liking them off the bat wasn't a surprise. However, they're not just your regular Franz-Ferdinand-ish young alt rock band that wants to do rock "properly" - they have IT. The X factor, the Je ne sais quoi. I've been exposed to that particular genre, and I can confidently say that the song still manages to be refreshing and original (that bridge, those riffs!) The band has a great energy and no matter how much Damiano steals the show, they are still a unit and nobody is left in the shadows. They have the spirit of great rock bands of the previous century, and yet they don't try to copy anyone (khm,Greta Van Fleet, khm). Damiano's vocals are both powerful, seductive and provoking, and I'm still admiring the sheer amount of emotion he can pack into a single line and the nuance and yet rawness behind it. I'm not gonna state the obvious lol (the obvious being yes, I'm thirsty as well, he becomes yet another unattainable rockstar for me too,and yes they all look great) Anyway, great song, and maybe the clearest and most serious candidate for the number one spot, taking both the jury and the public into consideration. 10/10

- Iceland 🇮🇸

Daði Freyr and Gagnamagnið, 10 years:

What can I say about this masterpiece that hasn't already been said? A clear fan-favorite (hi, Valentina), but with the guns to back it up. The song is contagious, fun and campy, and unlike some other songs with said qualities, actually good from a musical perspective. Daði is incredibly charismatic and his sense of humor shines through, and even though he's the star of the show, the same can be said about the other band members. The synergy Måneskin has can be applied to Gagnamagnið as well, even though the energy is entirely different. They're serving us fun, sunshine, kitties rainbows sugar spice and everything nice, and manage to do it with zero cringe factor (plus those funky keytars). I'm one of those Eurovision fans that lament the golden age's (2004-2009) campiness (We'll never forget you, Verka), and Daði managed to bring it back, but modernised, polished and still sincere. I personally preferred the epic dad joke that slightly more commercial Think About Thing was (but that's one tough act to follow), but I'm always down for a husband adoring his wife and singing praises to their relationship. Since we're on tumblr, I feel obliged to use the term "cinnamon rolls" in describing Daði and the band. 9.5/10

- France 🇫🇷

Barbara Pravi, Voilà: She brought the theatrics, she brought the drama, and she brought the 101 in "that's how you perform". Her personality leaps through, and her voice is both beautiful and full of emotion and power. I'd hire her to star in a serious and artistic movie. Despite the fact that Voilà is from its melody to the singing style to the video to the vibe and the aesthetic hands down the most French thing I've seen since Amélie (do not come for that movie), it miraculously doesn't come across as a cliché, but rather an homage, and an individualistic one at that. It's not entirely my cup of tea, since I'm usually biased to songs that may come off as snobbish (I mean, the jury is going to lap it up), and are all about being proper and technical and oh how ~artistic~, but Barbara puts the soul into the immaculate. I'm not giving her the highest mark because I'm yet to see the performance, but I'm rooting for her. If she delivers the performance, we might have a clear winner. 9/10

- Ukraine 🇺🇦

Go_A, Shum: I'm a sucker for all things ethnic and mytological, so this was a no-brainer. I want that song played at every party. I want to go to the forest in the video and chant and summon the spring with flute and hard-bass. Kateryna Pavlenko has some unexplainable power over me, and her eyes are simply hypnotizing. The vocals are great, proper Slavic ethno right there (seriously, check out Slavic folklore and traditional music), and she has a subtle punk quality too(?). Ukraine came to save the spring and make us forget about the pandemic, and minus the Maruv fiasco (justice for her!), they always deliver and I expected nothing less. On the other hand, I loved the original version much more and couldn't help but be a bit disappointed with the revamp (yes, I know they had to), and while I personally love Shum, I think some other acts are more deserving of the higher placement. Go_A are not my winner, but definitely soon to be in my playlist. 8/10

- San Marino 🇸🇲

Adrenalina, Senhit ft. Flo Rida: You know that golden age of Eurovision I mentioned? THIS. I'm Serbian, so I can't resist a banger reminiscent of our horrible turbo-folk elements (and I say that endearingly,takes me back to 18th birthday parties (boy I'm glad that's over)). Let's just crown Senhit this year's Queen of Camp. The wild factor of Flo Rida...just?? Amazing. Can't wait to see how the performance goes (EDIT- it went great, I had a grin on my face the entire time and couldn't help but dance along). A certain refreshment after Serhat and Valentina Monetta endless loop. They didn't dial down the weird, but made it catchy af, and the vocal can rival any Balkan folk diva. While I think it's definitely the most entertaining entry this year, it's far from being the most original, and it's not really my genre of preference. Will vote for Senhit and root for her to qualify. 7.5/ 10

- Sweden 🇸🇪

Tusse, A million voices: As I mentioned before, I'm the first person that starts complaining about Sweden Superiority as soon as Eurovision season begins, and I'm with you all with being tired of Sweden qualifying just because they're Sweden and usually just bringing the same brand of MTV/Calvin Harris/American pop, or a successful and not-so-subtle imitation of the performances that did well the previous year,but listen: A million voices is a solid pop song and I'm going to die on that hill. It actually embodies the essence of pop - a catchy, pleasant melody sung by a good vocalist, with a short,sweet and uplifting message. It's not the same as previous years, it's not commercial, just good pop - good pop being something you immediately like and vibe to no matter how many common elements of the genre it checks. It relies on RnB rather than electronic sounds, auto tune or various DJ effects. Tusse is charming and charismatic af, and he's a 19yo kid doing an amazing job on a global stage. You don't have to like it, but there's no need to hate on it (ask Jendrik). Imo, Tusse deserved to qualify. Not winner material yet, but I wish him a fun time and a successful career. 7 5/10

- Switzerland 🇨🇭

G'jons Tears, Tout L'Univers: I saw the video first, and I HATED IT. It came across as a Duncan Lawrence-high-art wannabe, something technically perfect, but empty of soul or meaning, another soft boy with a sad falsetto, another jury-points bait. BUT. I changed my mind entirely after seeing him perform. Hands down, it was touching and epic. Reminding me of Hamlet aside, he DELIVERED, and made me love him, and actually enjoy the song. I still think the song is less original than Tusse's voices, but I enjoy the troubadour vibes of the pre-chours. G'jon is absolutely adorable, and I'm not gonna be mad if he wins. 8/10

shout-outs&honorable mentions:

- Serbia 🇷🇸 Yes, some national bias, but I'm proud of our girls. Ever Since we placed 2nd with Željko's Lane, we had that goddamn flute e v e r y year, and the same outdated scenography with a side of extra pathos (I'm sure that ruined Sanja's chances and her otherwise great performance back in 2016.) Finally something fun and actually representative of the music popular here. They looked flawless and the energy was off the charts. Go, Hurricane!

-Finland 🇫🇮 Yes, cheesy and corny and I cut my finger accidentally from watching the video on all the edge, but I'm biased because they're bringing emo and nu-metal back, and that's the music of my early adolescence (hello, Kaulitz brothers and Andy Biersack,hello Gerard Way and Linkin Park) Call me grandma lol

- Malta 🇲🇹 DESTINY CAN SIIIIIIIIING! I wasn't impressed with the song initially, but the performance blew my mind.

- Ireland 🇮🇪 A for effort, and so nice of her to try and give us something unique! While it wasn't good enough to qualify, it was super fun and she seems so nice. Also, we all know that she was out of breath an can sing much better than that. Still wasn't bad.

- Romania 🇷🇴, for being so young and brave enough to put on a show. The nerves got the better of her, but the song itself is good and no doubt she'll do well in the future

- Lithuania 🇱🇹, thanks for the memeries

- Croatia 🇭🇷, Not my cup of tea, but Albina gave a great performance

-Norway 🇳🇴, for embodying the spirit of Eurovision

- North Macedonia 🇲🇰, for the disco chest

- The UK 🇬🇧, for putting some effort

(Might edit later)

#eurovison #eurovision 2021 #rotterdam #the netherlands #russia #malta #italy #france #iceland #sweden #serbia #esc 2021 #switzerland #san marino #ukraine

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lovemesomesurveys · 3 years ago

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Do you take lessons for anything? No.

Has something really heavy ever fallen on you? No, thankfully.

If you wear makeup, what colors do you usually wear? I don’t wear makeup anymore.

Does your shower have curtains or a glass door/wall? One has curtains, one has sliding doors.

If you have more than one pet, do they ever get jealous of each other? --

Is there a room in your house that you don’t like going in? No.

Do you remember the last question you were asked? What did you answer? My mom just asked me a bit ago if I wanted to get back into bed and I said no.

Besides salt and butter, do you put anything on your popcorn? Nope, salt and lots of butter is perfect.

Are you lonely? I am feeling that way.

What’s your favorite magazine to read? It’s been quite awhile since I’ve read a magazine.

Do you like pineapple? Nah.

Have you ever seen fireflies? Yes.

Do you tell your parents where you are going? I mean, if I’m going somewhere it’s with them and/or my brother, so. Back when I had friends and a social life, and I wasn’t dealing with the shit I’m currently dealing with so I actually went out and did things, I did always let them know I was going out. They didn’t ask for a play-by-play; it was just common courtesy. We all let each other know if we’re going somewhere. If something were to happen then at least we’d have a general idea of each other’s whereabouts and if we were with someone.

Do you raise your hand or participate in class? I very rarely did. I hated the classes that required that.

Do you like visiting thee mall? Why or why not? Yeah, it’s fun to get out now and then and physically see what’s in stores and check out new stuff. I do a lot of my shopping online, though.

Have you ever purposely hurt an animal? Noooo.

Would you ever see a therapist? Absolutely. I need to.

Are you afraid of heights? Yes. When is your birthday? July 28th.

What are you listening to right now? An ASMR video.

Have you ever been caught doing something you weren’t supposed to be doing? Yes.

Are you still friends with someone from kindergarten? Nope.

What is the most important thing to you? My faith, family, and health.

Do you like whipped cream? Yeah.

Are you close to your mother? Yes.

Are you close to your father? We don’t have a bad relationship, but we’re not as close either.

Do you walk around bare foot when you’re at home? Or do you wear socks? I always have socks on.

Do you like chocolate popsicles? Nah.

Would you ever be your school’s mascot who wears that costume? No.

Would you rather see the Great Wall of China or Big Ben? Big Ben.

Have you ever written a poem? Yeah, I attempted poetry at some point as a teen. It’s so cringe lol.

Would you ever be a tornado chaser? Hell no.

What is your favorite thing to eat with bbq sauce, if you even like that stuff? Chicken tenders. I’ll dip fries in it, too.

Your parents tell you that this summer, you get to pick the vacation. Where do you plan to go? Somewhere beachy.

What do you think is a good theme for a prom? *shrug*

Have you ever had to do a class in summer school? Yeah, once I was required to and the other times I voluntarily did in college to get some classes out of the way quicker.

Do you get nervous when you go to the doctor? About what? Always. I just always expect the worst.

Have you ever been to the rainforest? No.

Have you ever created a website? Yeah, basic ones back in the day with like free webs or whatever it was called.

Ever thought about writing a book? Yes.

Have you ever had a dream where you killed someone? No.

Do you ever make up stories in your head and wish they come true? Yeah. I think a lot of people do that.

Which is worse: stuffy nose or runny nose? Ugh, both suck.

Which is worse: Sick to your stomach or sore throat? Bothhh.

Do you think your last relationship was a disaster? It was messy that’s for sure.

Have you ever solved a Rubik’s Cube? No. Not like I’ve ever given it much time or a real try, though.

Would you consider yourself to be emo? Yep. I may not have the look outwardly anymore like I did at 16, but I’m still emo.

Do you have a favourite metal band or do you not like metal? No.

What is your current desktop picture? Alexander Skarsgard.

Thick or thin blanket? Thin, generally. I rarely need a thicker one.

Who are your favorite bands? One will always be Linkin Park.

Have you ever sewn something? No.

What did you eat for dinner last night? Spaghetti and meatballs.

Ever been grounded? Yes.

Have you seen all of the Jaws movies? I haven’t seen any of them.

When was the last time you played cards? (not on the computer) It’s been several years.

Have you ever drank Cherry Coke? Yeah, it’s one of my favorite sodas.

Have you ever had a black eye? No.

Have you ever eaten a bug? Definitely not knowingly/voluntarily.

Do you like pranking people? No.

How often does your employer ask you to work overtime? --

Did you often read for fun when you were a kid? Yes. I’ve always loved to read.

#personal #text #survey #surveys

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hiccanna-tidbits · 4 years ago

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Hiccanna--100 OTP Questions, Part 2

So I said I would finish this OTP question meme someday--and I decided, entirely on random impulse, that “someday” is today!!! My Hiccanna-centered account has not been producing enough Hiccanna content lately, and this simply WILL not do.

QUESTION SOURCE: https://the-moon-dust-writings.tumblr.com/post/159857601812/100-otp-questions

LINK TO PART 1: https://hiccanna-tidbits.tumblr.com/post/635744326176129024/hiccanna-100-otp-questions-meme-part-1 51. Does either of them know how to fight? I mean...canonically yeah, they both do??? Lol I mean Hiccup has his fire sword and obviously would know how to fight with the weapons he makes/invents, and Anna literally just instinctively grabs a sword to protect her buddies in Frozen 2 and I mean we all really love Sword Anna anyways and also she PUNCHES A MAN OFF OF A BOAT so long story short yes they can both fight 52. What do they do for Valentines Day? Anna rents a rom-com and pulls Hiccup down onto their couch to watch it with her, and he kinda internally groans because he figures it’ll be something super sappy and cheesy and Anna will just be squealing with delight the whole time. Legit as soon as the first scene begins, Anna begins brutally roasting the main couple. Turns out it’s a really terrible rom-com and Anna rented it solely to make fun of it. Hiccup is like “aight this definitely wasn’t what I was expecting but I’m on board” Also Hiccup gets Anna like 3 boxes of fancy chocolate because...do I really need to explain? Anna gets Hiccup a particularly aesthetic floral arrangement for their kitchen table, something she knows damn well he secretly likes but would never admit XD 53. Who swears more? Anna, for sure. This tends to surprise people, but Anna is actually a notorious pottymouth when she gets comfortable XD Hiccup has a pretty big and borderline pretentious vocabulary, and so he tends to express his frustration in more...articulate ways when things don’t go his way. Like he’d stub his toe and just say “wow, I’d literally rather saw off my other leg than have to deal with this right now” while Anna, in the same situation, would let loose every curse word known to man XD 54. Who has the better comebacks? Hiccup, absolutely. His smart-ass comments to every conceivable situation on earth go absolutely unmatched. Anna can’t help but envy how he can almost instinctually pull out a near-perfect snide remark within seconds, whilst she, at best, thinks of the ideal comeback in the shower 3 days later. 55. Who would start a fight with another parent at a bake sale? I feel like Anna would seek out the most passive-aggressive, bitchy, entitled Karen and just wait with barely-concealed anticipation for her to say something super awful so Anna can just nail her in the face right in front of all the other moms Hiccup and their kids, meanwhile, can’t help but be awed at their wife/mother’s impressive Right Hook 56. Who reads buzzfeed? Anna. Hiccup keeps being like “you know half the stuff on there is total bullshit, right?” and Anna just shrugs like “who cares? It’s entertaining!” 57. Who is the hopeless romantic? Anna, good god, ANNA. After the whole Hans debacle I imagine she’s a bit more subdued about so openly showing this part of her personality, but at heart she just can’t stop being a romantic. Once Hiccup catches wind of this, he naturally makes a point of frequently surprising her with Grand Romantic Gestures and such, which makes Anna’s entire face go bright fuckin red as she cries out “NO STOP WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS YOU’RE TOO NICE” 58. Do either of them know how to do a handstand? Nope! They’d both fall on their faces and it would be hilarious. 59. Who can rap better? I love the idea of them both being looped into a rap battle somehow and Anna just dreading it immensely because she figures they both really suck and then when it’s their turn Hiccup comes out and busts out the BEST, MOST SAVAGE RHYMES Anna has ever heard COMPLETELY ad lib and the poor girl just goes completely catatonic with shock for like 10 minutes. 60. Do either of them want to go sky diving? See initially I was gonna say Hiccup definitely would not because it would give the poor boy an anxiety attack, but then I remembered he basically skydives in canon??? And Anna strikes me as a bit of adrenaline junkie too, so fuck it--yeah, I think they’d both enjoy it. 61. What do they usually text about? They talk a lot about movies, games, books, and shows they both like, I imagine--Hiccup especially likes to overanalyze them to ridiculous extents and Anna thinks this is adorable. The rest of the time, they send each other dumb memes and talk about random animal fun facts. Anna likes to brag that her boyfriend knows more lizard trivia than anyone else on the planet, and how many lizard facts does YOUR boyfriend know? Probably little to none, you big loser. 62. Who is the dramatic one? Anna is INCREDIBLY dramatic. Although Hiccup certainly does have a “dramatic flair,” as he puts it, I still think Anna can out-dramatic him, at the end of the day XD Although perhaps admittedly not by much. 63. Is either one confrontational? Anna certainly can be. She’s usually pretty friendly, but if she ever feels like she’s being challenged, demeaned, mocked, or generally not taken seriously, she’s ready to go to WAR. She certainly not as soft as she might look! I imagine there’s situations where someone is being a dick to either Anna or someone else and Hiccup has to physically hold her back to keep her from just decking them XD 64. What is their favourite cuddle position? Probably just good old-fashioned spooning. Hiccup actually really loves being the little spoon (because Anna just makes him feel so damn safe), but he is loathe to admit it. They also have one I like to call the “Needy Cat,” where Anna just goes and completely drapes herself over Hiccup when he’s sitting on the couch. He’s usually in the middle of doing something else, and is forced to find ways to play video games/read his book/watch his show around Anna XD 65. Who are their favourite musical artist(s)? Hiccup has exactly 3 music moods--pretentious classical stuff (to listen to while working on inventions), obscure underground 90s hipster bands no one’s heard of (to play air guitar to when no one else is home), and some more well-known emo/alt rock stuff (to sing along to in the car dramatically). I can see him liking Panic! at the Disco, The Killers, Fall Out Boy, Linkin Park, that kinda stuff. Anna, meanwhile, likes the trashiest, most generic-sounding pop music and refuses to apologize for dancing to it in the car XD She is most DEFINITELY a Swiftie, no question. She also likes some “edgier” bands like Paramore and Hey Monday. She went through a hardcore Avril Lavigne phase in middle school and she still totally listens to her but is embarrassed to say it. Also I feel like Anna would be into 90s/early 2000s boy bands??? She relates to the boys’ endless pining and just flips the genders in her head so the songs are about Hiccup (before they start dating obs) XD I AM DEFINITELY NOT SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE HERE, NO SIR 66. What are their parenting styles? Anna would probably be like...kind of stern, when she needs to be, but intensely nurturing as well, if her relationship with Elsa is anything to go by. Hiccup would be a pretty laid-back, chill dad who would probably try too hard to be cool and make no end of absolutely horrible dad jokes XD They both lowkey seem like the kind of parents who would end up letting their kids get away with a lot though lmao 67. Who would be the more laid back one? Hiccup probably. I mean, he IS the pacifist/diplomat guy, besides have you MET Anna??? Girl absolutely has NO chill. 68. Who listens to more vulgar music? Anna, surprisingly! Hiccup just kinda enjoys what he enjoys and doesn’t really feel the need to “prove” anything by listening to songs that swear a lot. Anna purposely listens to vulgar music to feed her hidden rebellious side and because it makes her feel badass XD She honestly kinda hates being written off as 100% wholesome and innocent all the time and will readily pull out the “I’M NOT A SWEET LITTLE FLOWER I SANG ALONG TO THAT SONG THAT JUST SAID FUCK SEE” line whenever given even the slightest chance XD 69. Do either of them have secrets even the other doesn’t know? Kind of depends on when in both their timelines they meet. If they meet in the middle of HTTYD 1 or Frozen 1, they probably wouldn’t tell the other right away that they have a dragon and an ice-powered supersister, respectively XD I definitely think they would as they came to trust each other, though. Also I read a headcanon that Hiccup has burn scars from the Red Death incident where he lost his leg, and that’s why he wears so much armor and generally long sleeves--and I kind of love that. So maybe Hiccup would be cagey with Anna about how he lost his leg and that whole incident for a while before he finally opens up to her about it. Other than that I feel like they’d be pretty honest with one another, other than maybe trying to hide the more embarrassing parts of themselves to impress the other person XD 70. Who is their go to couple for a double date? Jackunzel, obviously! They’d probably all go to an arcade or an amusement park or something else pretty fun and high-energy. 71. Do they tip the waiter/waitress on their date? I mean yes, they’re not huge assholes????? 72. How do they work out a fight? I imagine Anna tends to get more worked up and yelley and loud, while Hiccup doesn’t raise his voice much at all but can say some damn cutting things if he wants to. Since Anna probably gets angrier, I imagine she apologizes first, whether or not the fight was actually on her or not--it’s just kinda this girl’s default to apologize for everything XD She’d probably say sorry for yelling and probably overreacting, while Hiccup would also be EXTREMELY apologetic if he realized he crossed a line with one of his jabs at her. I imagine a lot of what they fight about is Anna doing some impulsive Dumb Shit^TM and Hiccup just being like “oh god DAMMIT that’s DANGEROUS you can’t just go WORRYING me like that!!!” and Anna getting offended because she kinda views this as him being a little overprotective and not trusting her to make her own decisions. Ironically, Anna occasionally also gets mad at HICCUP for doing Impulsive Dumb Shit, so he’s not always nearly as much the Voice of Reason as he thinks XD Hiccup also sometimes gets mad at Anna for not taking better care of herself (take it from a fellow ADHDer--we tend to Wallow in Despair sometimes, or straight-up forget to do basic care things like eat lunch XD)--I have an IRL friend who reminds me a lot of Hiccup and he’s ALWAYS getting on my case about not eating enough, not drinking enough water, constantly berating myself, stuff like that. I imagine Hiccup sometimes slips into Mom Mode with Anna when she gets in a bad spot, which she appreciates after the fact but kind of annoys her at the time because she wants really badly to be independent and all that. Basically TL;DR most of Anna and Hiccup’s fights can be resolved by Anna and Hiccup agreeing to next time Use A Brain Cell before they do a thing, or Anna agreeing to take better care of herself XD 73. Who brings home an illegal pet? In literally every AU possible I like to think that Hiccup brings home some variation of illegal pet XD I mean, it’s probably just a dragon (”just a dragon” is never a string of words I imagined myself using in that order like what do you mean JUST a dragon lmao) in a standard crossover timeline, which he basically does in canon, but I do love the idea of a modern AU Hiccup showing up to their apartment with some kind of weird exotic monitor lizard from Bali and being like “I found him in an alley, he’s gonna live with us now” and Anna is like “D: Is someone gonna arrest you???” And Hiccup is like “Nah, no cops followed me home” and Anna’s like “Okay!!! :D” and then goes to PetSmart to buy a big fluffy bed for her new scaled friend XD 74. What side of the bed do each of them sleep on? I honestly don’t think either would care much, and they usually sleep in a tangled-up mess anyways so by morning you can’t really tell who started on which side XD 75. What is their favorite photo of them two together? One from before they got together: I’m just imagining a big group photo with the Entire Squad (Rapunzel, Jack, Merida, Moana, etc.), and Anna has her arms laced around Hiccup’s neck and her chin on his shoulder and a GIANT smirk on her face. Meanwhile Hiccup is laughing and trying to push her off, but his cheeks are BRIGHT fucking red and he’s trying really unsuccessfully to hide it because he’s a pale boi. Anna loves it because you can so CLEARLY see Hiccup’s blush, and she loves to tease him about how flustered he got around her. Hiccup loves it because it reminds him of what was probably the first time Anna was THAT openly cuddly with him, and how exhilarated and giddy he felt the first time he had her that close to him. 76. Who takes longer in the bathroom? Probably Hiccup, if only because I HC him as a bit of a germophobe who is a tiny bit obsessive about washing his hands sufficiently. 77. Who has more songs on their ipod? Anna, mainly because literally every time she hears a song she likes she’s like “!!!!! Gotta download it!!!!” LITERALLY EVERY TIME. And she wonders why her ipod is always running out of space XD 78. What movie did they first see together? As of the Modern AU Hiccanna one-shot I wrote ages ago, Revenge of the Ancient Dragon Masters! XD If we’re talking movies that actually exist, I imagine it would be a Marvel movie, a Star Wars movie, or some super-fancy-CGI high fantasy epic. 79. What do they like to see each other in? You mean like...which of the other’s outfits would they find the sexiest??? Aight, I’ll take a stab at this. Anna gets literally SO fuckin thirsty every time Hiccup wears his dragon rider outfit (the one from HTTYD 2), like it shows off his cute skinny body in the most perfect possible way whilst making him look like a badass and oh how Anna DREAMS of feeling him up in that! (One day, she finally gets to! XD) She’s also very into the scale armor from HTTYD 3 when she’s in...a very different kind of mood XD As for Hiccup, his favorite outfits of Anna’s are probably her coronation dress and her queen dress, mainly because he loves how she looks in green. He also really likes her travel outfit from Frozen 2, mainly because it’s sexy AND practical and damn, he’s gotta admit, that’s a nice shade of purple and she absolutely SLAYS in it XD 80. Who makes jokes during inappropriate times? Honestly both of them??? Like neither are great at picking up social cues, and Anna canonically DOES do this in Frozen! (Remember her comment about ice-selling being “a rough business to be in right now”???) I can see both of them attempting to lighten a tense mood by making an ill-timed joke, hoping to make things less uncomfortable, and they end up making everything MORE uncomfortable XD Honestly sue me, I love the idea of these two idiots bonding over how terrible they are with social cues in general 81. At what age do they discuss the possibility of children? I imagine not til like...their early 30s, if ever. Like I mentioned in the first part of the questionaire, I actually am not sure if they would even want to have kids at all, but if they DID decide to, it definitely wouldn’t be until they’re older and have settled down a bit, and have (somewhat) gotten both of their lives together. 82. What do they love about each other the most? Hiccup loves Anna’s energy and optimism, and how she’ll basically cheer him on and believe in him with all her being no matter how high the odds are stacked against him. And oh boy does he LOVE how hard she can kick ass when push comes to shove, and how goddamn overprotective she is of him. The sword skills and the general willingness to punch problematic people in the face are definitely up there as well. She’s like the perfect blend of fun and badass, and there’s never a dull moment with her for him. Anna adores Hiccup’s connection with animals and general animal skills, especially with the more less-loved and “scary” of the world’s creatures (i.e. dragons lol). She also loves and admires the shit out of his intelligence and inventiveness, and wishes she could make contraptions half as cool as what he turns out. And, of course, she loves that he’s a pretty humble dude who's actually pretty insecure about his accomplishments, and isn’t some cocky guy wanting to shove them in everyone’s face. And, of course, she loves his sarcasm and his dry sense of humor, and few people can make her laugh as hard as Hiccup can. Before she met him, she had no idea pessimism could be this entertaining XD 83. Who is the one that sees the big picture, while the other focus’s on the small details? Hiccup is very detail-oriented--he has to be, in order to make any of his contraptions work! Anna is very much focused on the big picture and gets stressed and exasperated trying to keep track of details--she figures she’ll either sort through the details as she goes, or Hiccup will help do it for her XD 84. What would they write on their partner’s social media’s for their anniversary? One of my IRL friends wrote “Happy anniversary bro, you’re pretty great” on his girlfriend’s instagram for their anniversary, and she wrote back “Happy anniversary, you’re a good buddy, I love you” and I just XD That’s the EXACT kind of weird dorky nonsense I can see Hiccup and Anna doing for their anniversary tbh 85. Who is bad at math? Anna, bless her soul, needs a calculator for literally EVERYTHING. Hiccup kinda trained himself to be decent at doing math in his head, since he often has to calculate measurements for his inventions and whatnot, but Anna is absolutely atrocious at it and generally would like overly-complicated numbers to not be anywhere near her. 86. Who googles everything? Probably Anna, mainly because she’s pretty forgetful and doesn’t trust her own memory half the time so she feels the need to verify everything on the internet XD 87. Who does stuff on impulse? Anna 100% canonically does, although Hiccup has some shades of this too more than he would ever admit, in fact, for someone claiming to be the Voice of Reason 88. How do they comfort each other when they are helpless to do anything about the situation? Hiccup’s approach is probably just to try and distract Anna and take her mind off of it, which he’ll do by either trying to make her laugh, telling her a story, or explaining one of his inventions to her (which she never gets bored with btw, because everything that boy gushes about is fascinating to her <3). Basically he figures if he entertains her enough, it’ll take her mind off of whatever is freaking her out and she won’t fixate on it as much. Anna’s approach is more to accentuate the positives in a bad situation (although like I mentioned in Part 1, not really in a condescending “count your blessings, it could be worse!” kind of way, but more in a “I hope he’ll feel better if he focuses on happy things” kind of way, if that makes any sense?) and also focus on when Hiccup DID do great and utterly kick ass and tell him he’s always better than he thinks he is. 89. What is an inside joke they have? If anything, him calling her “Tiger” as a pet name (which I think I mentioned briefly in Part 1??? Can’t remember) is this, because in my mind it developed because whenever Anna is about to do some Dumb Shit, or punch someone she really shouldn’t in the face, Hiccup has to physically hold her back like “Whoa, slow down there, Tiger!” This happens so frequently that eventually it just gets shortened to him nicknaming her “Tiger” and all their friends are kind of baffled as to why XD 90. Who makes the other smile with almost no effort at all? Hiccup barely even needs to start talking in funny accents or imitating his dad before Anna is just DYING laughing. She thinks he’s the funniest damn person on earth. He honestly gets a kick out of her impressions too--she can do some pretty amusing ones, if that deleted coronation dress-up scene from Frozen 1 is anything to go by. So the feeling is mutual!!! They’re super good at making each other smile and laugh with little to no effort!!! 91. What is their favourite holiday? I feel like Anna especially would get REALLY into Christmas/Yule, mainly because of how much Elsa can spice it up with her powers. And judging by the OFA short, Arendelle gets very hyped for the holidays in general, so it’s probably hard NOT to have a good time. Anna probably also like Mayday a lot because the dancing, the spring cheeriness, and the flower-related festivities are definitely to her taste. Hiccup just likes the energy and general vibes, and would rather sit back and relax and watch Anna dance around and have fun XD Also dun best believe they BOTH get hella into Halloween, because they’re dramatic motherfuckers who loves to dress up, and it gives Anna an excuse to buy a shitton of chocolate and eat all the leftovers XD 92. Who is the one that is calm and collected while the other is angry and destructive? Lmao Anna is definitely the “berserker” of the two of them. She DOES tend to get destructive when she’s angry, if being ready to fight a giant-ass snowman and smacking a wolf in the face with a lute is anything to go by. Hiccup is definitely the calm and collected one, and very rarely gets genuinely angry. 93. What is their favourite board game to play? Does Dungeons and Dragons count??? I can totally imagine Hiccup being hyped up over that or some other super nerdy RPG game and being so enthused to show it to Anna, who just falls even more in love with him after seeing how EXCITED he gets about it. Of course he’s super eager to teach her, and TBH Anna has a really hard time getting it at first because DAMN these rules are COMPLICATED, but after she finally gets the hang of it, she realizes she absolutely LOVES DnD and RPG games in general (I mean...have you SEEN OFA??? Girl gets just a little TOO into reminiscing about her old play-pretend toys XD) and she and Hiccup constantly geek out about it together. 94. Who accidental sets something on fire? Anna, 100% also this is an ever funnier question if applied to Hiccanna in my Fire!Anna AU 95. Who has the car ready while the other is robbing the store? Anna is waiting while Hiccup robs the store, if for no other reason than that Hiccup is much better at Stealth Mode than Anna is XD Anna’s uncoordinated ass would probably knock over like 5 shelves’ worth of merchandise before reaching what they were actually trying to rob XD 96. What artist/group did they go to for their first concert? I M A G I N E D R A G O N S lmao Look what can I say Anna likes the Imagine and Hiccup likes the Dragons 97. Who sleep talks? Hiccup. He mumbles about dragons a lot. Sometimes he jolts awake randomly and just yells out “THE DRAGONS ARE IN TROUBLE!” and Anna has to calm him down after she dutifully manages to not burst into laughter at this. Doubly funny if this takes place in a Modern AU. 98. Who is the more social one? Anna! Hiccup generally prefers to either keep to himself or hang out with animals. 99. What are their karaoke songs? For some reason I feel like anything by P!nk??? Idk why, but I can see them like rocking out and singing along to p!nk songs together and getting really into it. Also basically anything by The Killers and, at Anna’s request, The Chainsmokers (Hiccup thinks this is very basic music indeed but goes along with it for her sake XD). AND “Whatever It Takes” by Imagine Dragons. And they sing it LOUD. 100. Who would get up on stage and make a fool of themselves just to make the other laugh? Highkey both of them??? I kinda feel like Hiccup moreso though, if his little comedy routine imitating his dad in HTTYD2 is anything to go off of. He definitely wouldn’t be averse to making an idiot of himself to amuse Anna, especially since she’s so damn cute when she laughs. Anna, for her part, loves returning the favor, and is all about trying to do all sorts of Goofy Antics to amuse her boyfriend. And she’s overdramatic af, so she gets WAY too into it XD

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ckret2 · 5 years ago

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feat. Sir Pentious on keyboards

So we know Sir Pentious plays the pipe organ. We see his organ on his airship in the bg during the pilot. (This isn’t a very good shot of it but it’s conveniently available on the wiki!) And from streams we also know he’s into modern music, with examples of things he’d listen to being Backstreet Boys, Blink-182, Linkin Park, Green Day, and emo stuff.

Like, bands that were big 15-20 years ago, sure, but how long does it take for new music to filter down into Hell anyway? A new song isn’t going to be heard in hell until someone who knows that song dies; plus the folks who listen to New Hot Music are generally younger and thus less likely to die soon, so it’s a while before someone dies who knows a song well and is capable of playing a decent cover of it, and even then their cover might be totally ignored until enough people who remember the song have died and started searching on Hell YouTube for somebody who’s reproduced this song, so yeah, I can totally see it taking about twenty years for a song that was a hit in the living world to become a hit in Hell—

That went wildly off topic. The topic I’m trying to talk about is “Sir Pent plays the organ” and “Sir Pent listens to modern music, particularly modern rock.”

Headcanon: Sir Pentious has played keyboards on half the metal albums released in Hell.

You'd be surprised just how many metal bands use organs. (Oh, go on, take another Ghost song.)

Sir Pentious, who’s always striving to be modern, has probably been keeping up with music trends since he died. He’s into emo when emo is one of the main counterculture music genres; he’s probably been drawn to other less mainstream forms of rock in the past as well: alt rock, punk, goth, grunge, metal, etc. There’s a decent possibility he’s at least passingly familiar with some of those musical scenes.

And he plays an instrument that, one, is in fairly decent demand in metal, and two, has historically been played by people who probably don’t listen to metal music, due to the fact that most pipe organ music is “classical” and “church (classical).”

If we’re going by the theory that Sir Pent is a well-known infamous villainous historical figure (I go by that theory hey), then if you’re a metal band and you put out an ad for an organist for your new album and you get an answer from Mr. Evil McWickedhat, you’re gonna go “oh holy SHIT that’s fucking awesome, having an actual super villain playing organ on our album would be so badass.”

Like obviously by now when compared to other overlords Sir Pent is something of a joke, but listen. From the perspective of Hell’s citizens, “current overlords whose actions impact our daily lives” are just local politicians. “The guy I learned about in frigging history class who was evil like a hundred years ago” is a historical figure of mythic proportions—not in spite of his lack of current influence, but because he doesn’t have any current influence to get him lumped in with the other “contemporary politician” overlords. A lot of metal is about the Aesthetic, especially when you get into the genres that go for ironic devil worship or epic fantasy or the like—i.e., the kinds of genres that will be more inclined to want a pipe organ—and “featuring: Victorian steampunk super villain on keyboards” is nothing if not aesthetic.

After he does keyboards on a couple albums for a couple bands, his name gets around the metal community like “hey you know that historical dude who tried to take over the world in the 1800s? if you want organ on your next album he’s the best session musician in the industry, no seriously, like don’t call him at the last minute in case he doesn’t have an opening in his pillaging-and-plundering schedule but if your recording schedule’s flexible you won’t regret hiring him.”

Half of Sir Pent’s social circle is made up of the various allies and equipment suppliers he’s networked with in his efforts to conquer Hell but the other half is all metal musicians.

The dorky “MUSIC BAND” shirt he’s wearing on the news in the pilot is from an actual band he’s worked with.

#sir pentious #hazbin hotel #headcanons

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emoboijk · 5 years ago

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myg | roses

“The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.” (John Boyle O’Reilly) Being with someone doesn’t guarantee that you know they love you. —hanahaki disease au, flora & fauna series

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The waiting room is beige with a dark brown carpet, the kind that has either always been that color or is that color as a result of years of use. There are paintings (ironically) of flowers on the walls, and potted plants stationed randomly between the chairs. A receptionist sits behind a counter, typing on a computer and answering the phone when it rings. Aside from her, there are seven people scattered about the room.

You're tucked into a corner by an end table that displays brochures for Hanahaki removal surgery alongside magazines with photoshopped celebrities on the cover. The ads for the surgery, as well as the photoshopped celebrities (one of which is Yoongi, actually), leave a bitter taste in your mouth.

Both the boy in the fetal position and the girl running to and from the bathroom get called before you. By the time the emo kid blasting Linkin Park (how is he not deaf by now?) is called, you feel like you're going to vomit.

The noticeable lack of texts doesn't help things.

The nurse only gets out the first syllable of your name before you rush toward her. You're standing directly in front of her, possibly too close, by the time she gets the full thing out.

"That's me," you mutter, tapping your foot anxiously as you wait for her to take you back.

The exam room is beige, too. There are more ironic flower paintings (in pastels, of course, disgustingly) alongside truly awful paintings of sunsets. Sunrises? Sunsets? Doesn't matter. You answer the nurses' questions before she can ask them and you can tell that you're irritating her. Doesn't. Matter.

Right as the door clicks behind her ("The doctor will be in—" "Soon, yeah, I got it. Would be sooner if you left.") your phone buzzes in your pocket.

It's a news alert. A picture of Yoongi, well, August D actually and a girl. It looks like Jennie. Another rapper from his label. They're both wearing shades and casual clothing. He has his hand on her back. They're lost in a sea of paparazzi.

You're surprised when a teardrop hits the screen. "Fuck." You drag your hand across your cheek. It's not even a big deal. It doesn't mean anything. Jennie is dating Kai, you know that. Yoongi wouldn't cheat, you know that, too.

But logic doesn't stop the intense pain as another rose blooms in your lung.

"Fuck," you say again. You drop your phone to clutch at your chest, the device clattering to the floor.

Just then the door opens to reveal a very put-together doctor; he's a bit short but clean-shaven. When he smiles his teeth are very white and if you squint you can see the cakey-muddiness from his fake tan.

You immediately dislike him.

The doctor picks up your phone, very obviously glances at the screen, and then clucks his tongue at you. "Pining over a celebrity, huh?" He shakes his head in disapproval.

You want to spit in his eye. Instead, you lock your phone and tuck it into your pocket.

"Where Dr. Park?"

"Rushed to surgery, emergency patient. I'm Doctor Choi." He offers his hand for a shake but you refuse to take it.

"I need more pills," you say.

"Excuse me?"

"Anti-growth pills. I'm out."

"I have to assess your case." He clicks his tongue again like a parent at a misbehaving child.

"I have roses in my lungs. I refuse to have the surgery. I didn't sleep last night and I haven't had solid food in days. I need anti-growth pills. I am currently out of them. Case. Assessed." You glare at him hard. You are not in the mood to mess around.

The doctor crosses his arms over his lap and looks at you like you're stupid. You are so close to slapping him; the only thing stopping you is your desperation for the prescription.

"And Dr. Park explained that your tolerance was going to build up? That at some point they wouldn't work anymore?" He says each word slowly as if you won't understand otherwise.

You mimic his tone, "And that I will eventually die. Yes. She. Did." You crack your knuckles anxiously, "But they still work and I still need them."

"Have you considered the surgery…"

"No," you nearly scream. You feel like a rubber band pulled so tight it will snap. "I have not. And I never will. I have discussed all of this with Dr. Park, my primary physician, I do not need a lecture from you. I have chosen my treatment plan and am well-informed that it will ultimately lead to my death. But I am very much alive right now and I need those damn pills."

The doctor sighs and you can see the image of himself he's crafted in his mind: the martyr, the self-sacrificing doctor. He writes the prescription. You snatch it and walk away before you have to hear any more of his diatribe.

The Linkin Park guy is at the pharmacy. He's three spots ahead of you and his eyes are glazed over in thought. He must have it, too. You hope his situation is better than your own, but you know it's not.

Hanahaki is universally shitty.

And anyway, at least you have Yoongi. Technically.

"Hey, feeling better?" the pharmacist asks when you finally reach the counter.

You stare hard at him. "If I were better, would I be here?"

The pharmacist rolls his eyes. You know that this pharmacist (Kihyun) is capable of customer service; you just stood in line for ten minutes and watched him be nauseatingly polite to every customer. He has given up being anything but authentically annoyed with you.

"Why are you such a bitch?" he asks, keying in the prescription.

You shrug and lean against the counter. Why are you such a bitch? You don't think anyone has ever asked you that before. "It's easier, I guess."

Kihyun looks away from the computer, "Isn't it exhausting?"

"Yes."

"Ten minutes," he says and you move out of the way.

Linkin Park guy is looking at snack food, then at toys, then at wireless speakers. He holds one up to inspect before frowning in distaste. You watch him walk the length of every aisle (twice) before his name is called. Jeongguk.

He still has that far away look on his face and you silently hope he'll be okay. Tears prick your eyes at the thought and you furrow your brow.

You glance at your phone. Still nothing.

When Kihyun calls your name he holds the white prescription bag just out of your reach. "You're dying, right?"

"Yes," you say, holding your hand out impatiently.

"How long?" he asks. His face is still cool and impassive but his voice is soft. For a moment he reminds you of Yoongi when you first met him, before the stylists and the publicists and the massive record label. Soft at the edges and warm.

"Couple months maybe." You look away from him. But even when you're looking at the spinner rack of reading glasses…your vision gets blurry.

"Don't you think…it's a waste to spend your last few months so angry?"

You snatch the bag from him forcefully, nearly crumpling it in your hand. "Yes," you spit. You don't look back as you leave.

You shouldn't be driving. That was clear two weeks ago when you splattered the inside of your windshield with blood and white petals. But you like driving because you don't have to think about anything but driving. You just have to focus on what you're doing. You're almost relaxed by the time you get home.

You click the garage door fob and suck in a breath, all of your tension coming back with it. Yoongi's sleek black sports car is tucked neatly into the left side.

You pull in beside it and sit with the garage door open and the car on, your knuckles turning white against the steering wheel. You know when you go inside that it's more than likely he'll be in his studio. He'll have on headphones and a cold cup of coffee on his desk, his eyes will be bloodshot and strained from staring at the screen. You know that if you don't duck your head in and say something it will probably be hours before you see him.

It's been two days since he's been home. Which isn't unusual—he keeps a cot and toothpaste at his office—but usually, if he stays at the office for that long, it builds. He's either gone from nine-to-five or for a week at a time. Two days is an in-between number that you can't wrap your head around.

Your anxiety traps you in the car for nearly twenty minutes before your chest pain finally pushes you out. You stuff the pharmacy bag into your pocket and climb out. You hesitate at the door into the house and listen for him; once in a while you'll come home to him making dinner or cleaning the apartment or watching TV. You crack open the door and breathe a sigh of relief when you hear the shower running at the end of the hall. Tiptoeing into the kitchen you swallow three pills with a gulp of water and stash the rest on top of the fridge.

You relax slightly now that the pills are hidden. You lean against the counter and can feel them begin to work. It's a weird sensation, the odd tingle that comes when the flowers wilt and the buds dissolve in your lungs. You asked once, when you weren't so angry, what was in the pills and how they worked.

"It's…" Dr. Park was reluctant to tell you, but you're nothing if not persistent, "Essentially it's acid. Like a pesticide that burns the flowers."

Talk about hardcore.

Yoongi emerges from the shower with a towel around his waist at the same time you turn the corner into the hallway. You tense up when you first see him, lean and toned and freshly showered. You have to remind yourself to decompress.

"Baby," Yoongi says softly, dragging his warm fingers across your neck and cheek and pressing his lips there softly.

"You're home," you smile. His hand moves down your back and you wonder if he can feel how rigid you are.

"Finally, huh?" he chuckles. Yoongi presses his forehead to your left temple and presses his nose into your cheek; a nuzzle. He smells like lavender soap and black coffee. His hand finds yours and he intertwines your fingers.

It's almost enough to convince you.

In your bedroom, when he lets the towel drop from his waist, your heart skips at the idea that something might happen. You haven't slept with him in...weeks? You've been doing everything you can to keep your distance since the disease began progressing.

You're relieved when he pulls on a pair of sweats. "How are you?" you ask and your voice is choked.

He catches sight of you in the mirror, his expression concerned at the tone of your voice. You smile at him, not very convincingly, and he lets it go.

"Exhausted," he sighs. He turns and presses his lips to the side of your mouth, "I'm sorry," he whispers against your skin.

"It's okay," you peck his cheek. "Get some rest; I have some work."

You flee from the room like it's on fire. Your chest aches with the absent words and lost touches. Yoongi watches you go and he aches, but he's not sure what for.

You sit at the kitchen counter staring at a blank page on your laptop. Your eyes go in and out of focus and you concentrate on your breathing.

"What's the point," you whisper, closing the laptop without working. You'll be dead in a month anyway. You hear the door to Yoongi's in-home studio click shut and it sounds like nothing more or less than the nail in your coffin.

You thought, after you were first diagnosed, that time would move slower. That somehow, with flowers infesting your lungs, everything would take longer. But it's all just the same.

You go to sleep at 10:30 and shift into consciousness when Yoongi's side of the bed dips around 3 or 4 AM. You wake up alone at 8:30. If he thinks of it, there will be a note from Yoongi on his pillow or the bathroom mirror or the fridge (Gone to work. Love you). You shower, brush your teeth, make some eggs and take your pills. Depending on how you're feeling you'll work or watch TV or scroll through August D fan sites. If you don't reach out first, you won't hear from him until the evening.

He always texts you by 7 if he's not coming home, 9 if he's going to be late, not at all if he plans on being home.

This is not a note-morning. You hadn't expected it to be. His album is weeks from being released; his brain is full to the brim with more important matters.

But your chest still hurts.

Your shower is cold and you're out of eggs. You gulp down three pills with the quarter pot of coffee Yoongi left for you and sit at the kitchen counter again. You spend too much of the day scrolling through celebrity Twitter, and you cough up bloody flower petals twice.

Yoongi texts you at 7:01 PM.

Min Genius: Still working on the album

Min Genius: Almost done just need another all-nighter

"And another and another and another," you whisper. Your lungs feel like fertilizer.

Okay - drink lots of water and remember to eat! :)

He sends you a black heart emoji and it's like your floating but for the tether attached to your lungs.

You climb into bed at 7:30 because you can't stop crying. Everything is so fucked up. When you told Dr. Park that you have Hanahaki and your unrequited love is your boyfriend...The memory sends a stab of pain through your chest and a fresh set of tears fall onto your pillow.

You're so angry and afraid and anxious. You feel broken and unfixable like a shattered vase on the kitchen floor. You feel stupid for not telling him and for suffering in silence and for not knowing what to do. You feel trapped, caged in by your disease and your mental incapacity to believe that he loves you.

You pass out two hours after you first lay down and you don't wake up when Yoongi slips into bed at 5 AM.

You wake up the next morning thinking the thermostat must be broken; it's like a sauna. You blink away the overnight crust from your eyes, wincing because they're puffy from all the crying. Your chest heaves but you can't get a full breath.

You flinch when you feel something sticky on your pillow, pulling away when you see that its blood. You gasp and then cough because your mouth is full of blood, splattering the sheets and the end table and the wall. You scramble away from the mess and find yourself practically sitting in Yoongi's lap.

"Fuck," you whisper and there's already blood and rose petals sitting at the back of your throat.

His voice is rough with sleep and he wraps an arm awkwardly, eyes still closed, around your torso. "Baby?"

You stiffen.

Yoongi squeezes your side gently and you can hear the smile in his voice, "Good morning."

Shit, shit, shit.

You cough violently and a spray of blood and white rose petals paints the wall. It looks like a violent slasher movie. You clamber out of his embrace, still choking and coughing and sputtering. You run out of the room and into the bathroom, crouched with your hands cupped around your mouth. You keep trying to swallow but it feels like your throat is blocked.

You fall to your knees harshly and you know they will be bruised. You grip the toilet bowl like a life preserver, you heave and cover the inside in red. Your lungs burn with the strain and you feel painfully lightheaded.

Once you can swallow again, you lean back and rest against the wall. You can hear Yoongi from the other room when he discovers the blood.

"What the fu—" he starts and then he's shouting your name. He stumbles into the bathroom, all adrenaline and urgency. His hair is sticking up in the back and his face has gone ghostly white from shock.

There's prickling in your chest and you know you have to move. You wipe your mouth with the back of your hand, flushing the toilet and standing.

You brush past him in the doorway and beeline for the kitchen with Yoongi at your heels. He's cursing under his breath, rapid-fire like when he performs. You stand on your tiptoes and retrieve the pharmacy bag on top of the fridge.

You swallow a couple of pills with water, wincing at the taste of blood that goes down with it. When you look up, Yoongi is staring.

You watch him impassively, refusing to be moved, trying to summon the anger and frustration you felt at the doctor's office or the pharmacy. You place the pill bottle on the counter. No need to hide it anymore.

"Are you," he starts, swallowing a giant gulp of air and gathering his thoughts, "Are you sick?"

You frown. "Yes." Duh. You wince; even in your head, disdainful sarcasm feels wrong when directed at Yoongi.

"How…" Yoongi yanks a hand through his hair in frustration. He looks the same as he does before the beat drops on a diss track.

Then, as you watch him trying to absorb this reality, it breaks through with a crash: the love you feel for him. It sends you to your knees and you can feel every thorn in the rose that blooms in your chest.

So much for impassivity, frustration, and anger.

Yoongi drops to his knees, too, wrapping his arms around you and squeezing. He tries to get you standing, but you resist. Your head hurts.

His fingers move up your arms and then your neck, cupping your face and making you look at him.

Your eyes meet for a long moment. You can see him searching your expression for answers. A frown cracks the perfect planes of his face. Yoongi's thumb presses gently against the corner of your lips before pulling away.

There's blood on his finger.

"What is going on?"

Your heartbeat is in your ears like drums echoing. You keep your eyes on the inside of his wrist. "I have Hanahaki disease."

Yoongi pulls away, sitting back on his legs. When you look up his eyes are closed and his frown seems permanently etched into his expression. His voice doesn't waver: "Who?"

Your chest feels heavy but every other part of you feels lighter. You're going to tell him and then he'll know. You won't have to keep it a secret.

Tears are spilling down your cheeks unbidden and you open your mouth to tell him, to relieve the pressure you've been feeling, but the words won't come.

Yoongi's eyes snap open. "Who is it?" he demands.

You're choking. "You."

Silence.

And blood in your mouth, petals on your teeth. Standing in a quick movement, clenching your jaw to keep the everything in, you storm past him in a rush.

You clutch the toilet bowl like it's salvation like if you just grip it hard enough you won't vomit, you won't die. The smell is awful, rancid and rusty and a layer of rose-scent that just makes it worse.

You press your cheek against the toilet seat and sigh because it's cold and your skin is burning. You wonder absently if this is where you'll die, hugging a toilet, suffocating on your own fucked-up-ness.

"I don't understand."

You don't move your head, can't move your head. It's exhausting and your body feels like dead weight. Is this what dying is like? You watch a drop of water plink into the bloody toilet water and realize that you're crying again.

"I love you," Yoongi says. It soft and a whisper, like a secret. The third time he's ever sad it out loud.

You frown because you don't believe him.

You don't think he's lying, of course, you just don't believe him. You don't think he really knows. You think that he's formed a habit of living with you and doesn't know any better. You think he's convinced himself that he loves you but it isn't true. You think…you think…you think…

"You don't think I love you?" he whispers from by your side. You don't know how or when he got there, but his fingers are weaving through your hair to get it out of your face. You can see a couple of strands with blood and bile on them in the corner of your eye.

It takes a few moments for the pain in his voice to get through to you. When you try to make eye contact, your vision blurry and hazy, he looks like he might cry.

"I love you," he whispers again, pressing his lips to the side of your mouth. "I love you, I love you, I love you." He kisses your whole face, rests his forehead against your shoulder, says it so many times you lose count. He squeezes your hand and it keeps you there with him, keeps you from drifting off, "Believe me."

Yoongi moves your head so that your forehead presses against his. You open your eyes tiredly and he whispers, "Say you'll try."

There's nothing you wouldn't do for him.

"Okay." And you breathed a little easier.

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necromancy-savant · 4 years ago

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Heavy/Alternative Music Genres Tier List Based Purely on How Much I Like Them

Taken from a YouTube video I saw today from my favorite channel, The Punk Rock MBA by Finn Mckenty - there was a link to this in the description to make your own. Full explanation of why I put what where under the cut.

It was a little bit of a challenge to place these because I like almost all of these genres to some extent. In order to decide how much I like them relatively, I had to consider factors like how frequently I actually listen to them, how many different bands in a genre I listen to/how much I really know about it, and how much of an impact it’s had on me personally. Also, I have an idea from watching this and every other video on his channel what bands Mckenty means when he talks about a certain genre, so I tried to go off that more than my personal definition since he made the chart. S TIER: - Best Music I’ve Ever Heard

Ska - I fucking love ska and listen to it most days, plain and simple.

Deathcore - same goes, really. Many of my favorite metal bands are actually deathcore.

Skate punk - possibly my favorite iteration of punk music. This is bands like NOFX, Lagwagon, and Pennywise. Can get as gnarly as RKL and as poppy as No Use For a Name.

Melo Death - I think most of my favorite metal bands that aren’t deathcore are melodic death metal. It’s a pretty broad genre if you ask me but includes The Back Dahlia Murder, Amon Amarth, At The Gates, and Children of Bodom. A Tier: More of My Favorites

Djent - if you’re not familiar with the term, djent is an onomatopoeia that refers to the sound of a low power chord on a guitar. Meshuggah more or less pioneered the sound, but a lot of newer deathcore at least has a djent influence.

Metalcore 1.0 - this is bands that sound like Killswitch Engage and As I Lay Dying. I listened to a lot of this in my late teens and early 20s.

Death Metal - gotta love it. I just wish some of the older bands had better recording quality.

Mall Screamo - so when Mckenty says “mall screamo” he includes mall emo in that; it includes Fall Out Boy, MCR, and the Used as well as, I’m assuming, bands like Senses Fail, Aiden, or Hawthorne Heights. I have fond memories of lots of this stuff and have branched out more into both the more pop punk and post hardcore flavors of it recently.

B Tier: I Like It

Easycore: The first time I heard an easycore song was when I heard Playing Dead by Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! on a Spotify playlist. It was such an aggressive mashup of metalcore and pop punk that I was immediately obsessed. Easycore is awesome but it is still pretty new to me.

Real Punk - in this context this means anything from The Sex Pistols to The Casualties to GBH. This sort of thing can be kind of hit or miss for me; I love the Casualties and Blanks 77 and bands that do this sound well, like The Exploited, do it really well. However, they have a lot of copycats, and the bands that aren’t so memorable (and even some that punk purists stand by) have a sound that I like but that all sounds exactly the same. Ultimately, a lot of the stuff that got put in this category often lacks the creativity and fun that my favorite punk music has.

Thrash Metal - I do really love Slayer, and I was always a fan of Kreator and Sodom. . Hardcore - Hardcore can be such a broad term, but to me it does have a pretty specific sound though, like The Gorilla Biscuits, Youth of Today, or Terror, though it can also include older bands like Minor Threat and bands like H20. I think hardcore punk to me is something older and slightly different that influenced both hardcore and other kinds of American punk, but maybe I’m just being picky and not paying as much attention to some bands’ later discography.

C Tier: I Dabble in It

Nu Metal - I love Slipknot and I like Korn (and I guess Linkin Park are considered Nu Metal) but I don’t really listen to any other Nu Metal bands. I like what I’ve heard but haven’t dug too deep into the genre. Maybe it’s time to go find a Spotify playlist?

Butt Rock - butt rock is Nothin’ But Rock: that sort of post-grunge radio rock that was popular in the 2000s. I think bands like Nickleback, Creed, Staind, and Puddle of Mudd exemplify this sound, but it also includes bands like Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace, and maybe even Disturbed, which I like. I remember a bunch of these kind of songs fondly, ngl. Crab Core - this refers to bands that played their instruments while standing in a crab like position. This is like the 2010s metalcore: Attack Attack!, I See Stars, Asking Alexandria, We Came as Romans, etc. I never got super into most of this stuff except for a few songs here and there.

Grunge - I do really like Nirvana and I like most songs I’ve heard by Pearl Jam, Alice and Chains, and Soundgarden, but I can’t say this is a genre that’s had a big influence on me or that I’ve cared to dive deep into, which is why I decided not to rate it higher. Like, I listen to it a little bit but it’s not my favorite sound ever.

TRL-Core Pop Punk - this is what I think of when I think of when I think pop punk as opposed to 90s bands that were considered pop punk at the time but are just punk now. It’s bands that were on TRL like Blink 182 and New Found Glory. I was just a little too young for this at its peak, and while I’m just starting to develop a taste for it now it’s always been a little too poppy for my tastes.

D Tier: I Can Take It or Leave It

Black Metal - believe it or not, this was one of the first metal genres I listened to and enjoyed, but over time it just got really overshadowed. A lot of these D and E tier genres have 1 band that I really like, and so I do love Watain but never found another black metal band that could match them for me. Many of their albums have way better production than what the genre is known for though, and in general I tend to like bands with a black metal influence more than I like black metal itself. Neo Thrash - both this and New School Old School Death Metal are bands that sound just like the old stuff but were started only a few years ago. The thing is, I like these but haven’t delved much into them because there’s just so many metal bands between that and the old stuff that I tend to only spend time on whatever strikes me as unique or exceptional.

Nu School OSDM - same as Neo Thrash.

E Tier: I Don’t Really Care For It (But I Won’t Mind If Someone Else Puts It On)

Power Metal - I’ve tried to get into power metal but I just can’t. It’s not my thing.

Grindcore - I really like Insect Warfare but other than that, grindcore is another genre that just strikes me as kind of boring and repetitive on the whole.

F Tier: I Hate It

Midwest Emo - I’d heard the term before, didn’t know what it sounded like, looked it up, and I hate it.

Emo Rap - this is a very new type of rap that sometimes has some guitar sounds and has vocal parts that sound like they could have come out of a pop punk song. It’s cool stuff musically but I just don’t like the way it sounds.

#actually send me punk genres so I can do one for just punk subgenres #get real specific

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johannesviii · 5 years ago

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Top 10 Personal Favorite Hit Songs from 2007

18 to 19 years old. Things were slowly starting to get better and better.

15 honorable mentions, but this is still only a top 10. What an incredible, amazing year for music. My favorite hit song for the entire decade is in there! I think everyone already knows what that is because I am, in fact, extremely predictable.

Disclaimers:

Keep in mind I’m using both the year-end top 100 lists from the US and from France while making these top 10 things. There’s songs in English that charted in my country way higher than they did in their home countries, or even earlier or later, so that might get surprising at times.

Of course there will be stuff in French. We suck. I know. It’s my list. Deal with it.

My musical tastes have always been terrible and I’m not a critic, just a listener and an idiot.

I have sound to color synesthesia which justifies nothing but might explain why I have trouble describing some songs in other terms than visual ones.

Second to third year of my History studies. Met a great guy. So great, in fact, that I married him in 2019 because we’re still living together 13 years later. Got my first summer job but spent my first pay on driving lessons, because, again, I needed to get out of my parents’ appartment and knowing how to drive would be good to find a job. I had a much better access to internet. I still had great grades. Things were getting much better.

I stopped making my personal lists of favorite songs that year, and I had an mp3 player, which really opened a world of possibilities even if you could only put something like 40 songs on it, at best.

I was still reading Rock Mag a lot. As you can see, the biggest controversy at the time was what was emo and what wasn’t.

We were alright.

As far as non-elligible songs go, well there’s I Still Remember by Bloc Party (and the fact I can’t put it on the list is a heartbreak and a half) and basically everything from Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails. Nightwish, Epica and Within Temptation all had pretty good albums too.

Here’s a metric ton of honorable mentions first!

Snow (Red Hot Chili Peppers) - Perfectly pleasant song.

D.A.N.C.E (Justice) - Never understood why this was so popular. Still good.

Love is Gone (David Guetta) - Heyyyy another repetitive dance track, perfect.

Miracle (Cascada), Smack That (Akon), Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol), SexyBack (Justin Timberlake) and Say It Right (Nelly Furtado & Timbaland) - Still elligible songs for that year. Still great songs. Still not making the list.

Butterfly (Superbus) - I didn’t like this band, but I liked that song.

Thanks for the Memories (Fall Out Boy) - Same here basically.

Who Knew (Pink) - Not her best, but not her worst by a mile either.

Walk It Out (Unk) - Stayed in my head for days, I swear. I have no idea what the general opinion about it is nowadays. Maybe that’s a humiliating pick and I genuinely have no idea.

Crank That (Soulja Boy) - I do, however, know that the fact this very nearly made the list IS hilarious.

Alive (Mondotek) - Laugh all you want about the tektonik phenomenon, this is still a banger and a half.

Sound of Freedom (Bob Sinclar & Cutee B) - Not as good as Rock This Party. That’s the only thing I can say against it.

Umbrella (Rihanna) - This is an edit because holy shit I forgot Umbrella. It very nearly made the list too. Sorry.

And now, possibly one of the best top tens yet.

10 - This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race (Fall Out Boy)

US: #32 / FR: #71

Almost everyone got the lyrics wrong. The title is way too long. I really don’t like this band of pretentious idiots; if you’re gonna be pretentious at least write about something more grand and epic than your own navel, and go all out (more on that later). Nobody ever really cared about their supposed feud with Panic! At The Disco. And, to make matters even worse, the singer looked exactly like the terrible ex I had punched in the face the previous year.

This is still a damn good song and it’s on the list instead of any of the honorable mentions.

RIP me.

9 - How To Save A Life (The Fray)

US: #24 / FR: Not on the list

You already know I loved The Fray. This song could have apparently also made the previous list but it’s on this one instead. It was overplayed. I still loved it.

8 - U + Ur Hand (Pink)

US: #29 / FR: Not on the list

In 2002, I bought Pink’s Missundaztood album and as you might remember this was the second album I ever bought in my life, right before the gigantic trainwreck that highschool was.

The fact that about five years (that felt like twelve) later, Pink was on the other side of that trainwreck, back in my earphones, just as energetic and fun as she was before, was nothing short of heartwarming.

7 - Je Suis Un Homme (Zazie)

US: Not on the list / FR: #43

I’m not gonna beat around the bush. This song is terrifying.

Here’s a translation. Yeah, it’s about humanity destroying the Earth and itself in various ways, and it’s preachy, but holy shit, how can something be so bleak, so scary and still so catchy. It’s a mystery.

6 - Double Je (Christophe Willem)

US: Not on the list / FR: #2

When I first heard this song, I genuinely thought that was also Zazie and I was like oh wow, she’s learned to have fun again after that bleak, bleak song.

But no. She only wrote it, and it’s sung by this guy. It’s relatable as hell (”When I grow up it’s gonna be easy, I’ll finally know what I am”, “Who’s fault is it? / I’m something and its opposite / Double me”). The fact that a guy had this kind of voice and that a ton of people loved it (enough for him to win a big talent show and make this the second biggest song of the year!) also did wonders for my dysphoria, by the way.

5 - Ta Meuf (Faf Larage)

US: Not on the list / FR: #19

This is a song applying the most obnoxious rap and hip hop clichés about gangsters (and guys in general) to a woman, and she ends up terrorising all the guys and they’re realising these clichés might, in fact, be really toxic.

It’s a great song about gender roles usually seen in this kind of music and instead of being preachy, it’s hilarious, and well-written (I mean, it’s Faf Larage, it’s a given, but still). Check it out.

4 - Relax Take It Easy (Mika)

US: Not on the list / FR: #12

All hail the new king of pop. He was here to stay and what a breath of fresh air he was. This was very much his year in Europe as soon as the album Life In Cartoon Motion dropped.

My significant other absolutely loved this album and we listened to it wayyyy, way too much, and even with all the radio overplay AND the overplay when we were together, I still can’t get enough of this album.

3 - Love Today (Mika)

US: Not on the list / FR: #39

Here he is again!

If this was any other year this would top the list very easily. What were the US even thinking back then to not let this guy chart. Why isn’t Mika a huge star over there too. What is your problem guys. Do you have something against fun or what.

Anyway, here’s possibly the best comment on the music video:

I mean. You’re not wrong.

2 - What I’ve Done (Linkin Park)

US: #38 / FR: Not on the list

Aaaaaaand they’re back. And they’re once again topping my list. Lord have mercy on me. I loved them so much.

This was the first step into their modern sound, less raw, more U2. A couple of years later, when Lacuna Coil released Shallow Life, I used to joke that Lacuna Coil was trying to sound more and more like Linkin Park, that Linkin Park was trying to sound more and more like U2, and that U2 was trying to sound more and more like boring garbage and. I mean. I wasn’t wrong there.

My absolute favorite part of the song is at 2:24, when the music calms down a bit and the lyrics go “I start again / And whatever pain may come / Today this ends / I’m forgiving what I’ve done” and then the guitar explodes again. So powerful. Love it.

And now you’re probably thinking “so... Linkin Park was back, and with such a top quality song and it’s NOT your #1? After you put a Linkin Park song or a Linkin Park remix at #1 for three years in a row in 2002, 2003 AND 2004? What’s going on, Jo? Are you okay?”

Oh I’m more than okay. Friends and enemies, here comes the absolute best hit song of the entire decade and possibly of my entire life so far.

You probably already know what it is.

1 - Welcome to the Black Parade (My Chemical Romance)

US: #59 / FR: Not on the list (shame on you French charts)

I know I keep complaining about stuff I love not charting, or charting but not high enough to make any year-end list, but... How was this even allowed to chart. Why and how did it end up on the US year-end list when so many more radio-friendly hits I loved couldn’t even scratch the hot 100.

I’m not complaining at all. I’m just baffled.

Play the first note on a piano and I’m already a wreck. Heck, I’m pretty sure everyone from my generation is. It was basically our very own Bohemian Rhapsody. It still is. Where do I even start.

Oh. I know. Look at this page from a 2006 Rock Mag, it’s gold.

Yep, they highlighted The Open Door by Evanescence and praised it, and were like “this is very risky and ambitious and we’re not sure you’re gonna like this” for The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance. Hilarious in hindsight.

A few months later, the same magazine was desesperately using double pages to interview them because everyone adored the album.

So in case you’ve never listened to it (I’m... not even sure why I’m doing this since I’m pretty sure even people who don’t like this type of music have tried to out of sheer curiosity), it’s a concept album about a guy (...possibly. I mean there’s a lot of trans and/or nonbinary hints in the lyrics and did you really NEED to make all of this more relatable? What the hell guys) dying of cancer, remembering all the good and the bad things that happened in his life, and since his fondest memory is seeing a marching band once as a child, death arrives in the form of a marching band. He then settles some scores with his friends and family, says his goodbyes, and... and doesn’t die in the end. He ends up surviving the whole ordeal, and the last song, Famous Last Words, is one the most incredible things I’ve ever heard. It’s so propulsive, uplifting and motivating. “I am not afraid to keep on living / I am not afraid to walk this world alone”. Holy. Shit. Sadly, it’s not elligible.

Welcome to the Black Parade is basically the centerpiece of the album, as you already know or might have guessed, but here’s the thing. It also works out of context because there’s already an entire narrative arc within this one song. It’s larger than life. It’s about death and the meaning of existence. It basically contains all the stages of grief, and the conclusion it reaches is that this guy will be remembered and therefore, he will transcend death. It’s full of rage and passion and triumph. There’s key changes. There’s tempo changes. There’s everything. It’s a rock opera in a single song. I put it on my mp3 player immediately after listening to the album, and it’s still on my mp3 player today. I never, ever removed it. I listened to it countless times and every single time, it feels like rewatching one of my favorite movies.

Best hit song of 2007 by a mile. Best hit song of the decade, hands down, and now that the 2010s are over, I’m pretty confident in saying nothing has topped it so far. I’d say “fight me” if I thought this was a controversial opinion, but it’s not even that controversial.

And that feels damn right.

Next up: Is... is this a list with actual filler? Are you telling us there was ONE mediocre year for music in the 2000s? Sounds fake but okay

#Johannes’ bad not good pretty terrible music lists #music #long post #flashing lights #eye contact tw

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thats-the-teen-spirit · 6 years ago

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Bring Me The Horizon - amo album review

I’ve been a fan of BMTH since the late-There is a hell era and obviously they surprised me once again. I’m gonna go song by song on the album because each of the songs have something in them that differs from the one before.

i apologize if you feel something, the first track is already a lot more different than the previous BMTH albums. It begins as a typical intro with long silences between the melody. Then Oli starts to sing on a really high pitched poppy autotuned voice. You can hear no instruments whatsoever except the synth that plays the melody. Then it changes to this ambient style that somehow suits the band’s music but feels awkward without the guitar and drums. When I first heard this song I already realized it was nothing special, just a little intro that might hype up the crowd before they start performing.

MANTRA, the first single of the album is a little less heavy than the That’s The Spirit era songs. A lot less heavy if you think about how Oli’s vocal style changed since 2015. It finally has drums and heavily distorted low tuned guitar and even screams in the background but it still feels like an alternative rock song just because of the verses and the high pitched bridge. The guitar riff is banging, the chorus is catchy, not a bad song afterall but it will still disappoint the old fans of the band.

nihilist blues is definitely the weirdest song on the record. It’s basically a trance/europop song that divides the listeners to two types: the first one would say: what the fuck is this shit, i’m not listening to this album anymore, and the second one would be: wow they’re brave as hell for doing this, I’m looking forward for the rest. I’m not a big expert on europop or trance or whatever electronic music genres there are but it really reminded me of an Armin van Buuren beat and apparently they copied a little from a relatively new Evanescence song as well. Grimes is featured in the song and her vocal style fits it really well. It has a creepy feeling that makes the song feel like you’re in a club full of drug addicts and the only thing left for you to survive is becoming an addict (for the music). Personally I think probably something like this was on the band’s mind when they wrote this. You definitely won’t like this one unless you like electronic music. You can hear the drums and guitars in it (they’re playing the electronic distorted thing with a tremolo pedal probably) but it’s barely recognizable.

in the dark, the next song has a really strange feeling. It sounds like a pop song because of the samples it uses but it still has the guitar (both clean and distorted) that reminded me of Doomed from the previous album. Both the guitars and the vocals are catchy as hell and after the first few listens you can hear what was the point of writing this song, here that “gateway band” thing begins that Oli mentions in a lot of his recent interviews. They want to be a gateway band that shows people the grand spectrum of music from electronic to heavy metal (or metalcore if you’re a genre-nazi) and do the same thing that Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit did for popularizing the crossover of rap and hip-hop and screamy, heavy rock music. It has the same experiencing feeling that got me into Linkin Park and even tho the song and its lyrics are kinda forgettable, the intention is clear and I personally like it a lot.

wonderful life, the second single of the album is without a doubt one of the heaviest ones on it. The intro seems like a classic BMTH style guitar intro with a little less distortion and a really weird, progressive time signature (for my ear at least). The main riff is simple, heavy and you can definitely bang you head to it. The chorus is catchy, the lyrics are relatable for the emo kids, it has a squealing scream from Dani Filth, which makes it seem like the metalcore days are creeping on the band. The outro chorus reminded me of their song ‘Oh No” from the previous record just because it’s so monumental but maybe that’s just me.

ouch is a cheap interlude in my opinion. It’s not even 2 minutes, the samples get boring in the end. It has a drum and bass kind of feeling to it. It reminded me of Cure For The Itch by Linkin Park, just because of the placement and the “drum” beats on it. The nanana thing that goes on in the chorus also gets boring really quickly. The lyrics are about Oli’s ex-wife Hannah Snowdon and it has a nice throwback to their 2015 song, Follow You with the “under your spell” lines, and it’s clear that he left that time behind with this song.

medicine, the song with the weird-ass video is the next one on the album. If you haven’t heard a single BMTH song in your life and you’re into the more pop-ish side of alternative you’ll probably say: holy shit this is a banger. The first couple of lines in the chorus are really far-fetched in my opinion, it’s the “we’re edgy and cool kids” vibe that is either cringy or makes you feel like the band got old and they still want to appeal to teenagers and young adults. The message of the song is the same as the previous one. The melody of the chorus and the vocals overall are not that bad, they’re catchy, but just like the intro of the album, it still misses the guitars, although this one has some really quiet clean guitars in the background. It’s clear that the vocals are in the focus and it’s stressed by shoving autotuned Oli’s voice down our throat.

sugar, honey, ice and tea is one of my favorites off the album without a doubt. The riff is heavy, the song still feels like an alternative rock song but this time the guitar tone for me seemed like an old HIM song that’s mixed with a That’s the spirit era beat, lyrics and melody. It has the same feeling when I heard Happy Song for the first time but this one has a Throne-like chorus with the samples going instead of Oli’s voice. In the outro Oli goes crazy and lets out Count Your Blessings-era styled screams which definitely help the song appeal to older fans. It’s gonna be played at concerts for sure.

why you gotta kick me when i’m down, oh boy where do i begin. Imagine Post Malone writing a song for a no name alternative rock band. Add overdistorted guitars and a mumble rap beat and lyrics. You’re done, you get this song. It shifts genres so fast that it seems like Oli went from ‘Lil Sykes’ and back to himself a couple times in just 4 minutes. It’s not a terrible song but if you don’t like the style of modern soundcloud rappers and the whole mumble rap mixed with guitars thing you’re gonna hate this one.

fresh bruises, after the mumble rap song the boys in the band were probably like: hmmm what’s the next popular thing in 2019 that has nothing to do with rock. That’s right:”lo-fi hiphop for sleeping and studying” radios. The lyrics are only 2 lines, the beat gets faster but it’s still boring, even for an interlude. Definitely the most forgettable song in the album.

mother tongue, is the last single before the album came out. It’s the most honest love song from Oli that he’s probably ever gonna write. For personal reasons right now I can relate to it but if you can’t, you’re gonna forget this song even after a couple of listens. It has a powerful chorus, a radio friendly pop beat, cute ass lyrics and the most important thing: it has the potential to infect the radio stations and get the band even more recognition. The chord progression is really popular, (has the same chords as Africa by Toto), the vocals (with the help of autotune) are great. It has the Follow You vibes all over again but here you get an impression of a happy Oli Sykes that is in a fulfilling relationship and has a stable mental state. This progression is really respectable even if you don’t like the song itself.

heavy metal is my most favorite track from the record. It’s basically a huge “fuck you” to the oldest fans who only play Medusa and Pray for Plagues on repeat to this day, 13 years after their release. It’s got that middle finger in the lyrics that makes you think: damn this band really wanted a change and nothing can stop them. The song made me feel like Meteora days Linkin Park once again because of its beatbox styled bridge and the dropped, heavy guitars. This song shows the new direction of the band once and for all: they wanna make all types of music for both new AND old fans (listen to the last couple of seconds for the Pray for Plagues style vocals from Oli) but still says that nope we’re not gonna change, we grew up, we still like our old songs but you’re not gonna hear them from us because we’re different people now. Big props to the band to be this brave and say: this shit ain’t heavy metal.

i don’t know what to say, the last song on the record for me seemed really off topic from the album until I read what it’s written about. It’s about a friend of Oli who passed away from cancer. Oli didn’t write a song posthomously but the lyrics make it seem like he did. The song itself would sound like an 80′s power ballad from a classic rock band for me if I wouldn’t notice Oli’s vocals and the modern drum beat at some places. It even has a damned guitar solo, an acoustic guitar throughout, and orchestra. (which again reminded me Oh No, the closing track of That’s The Spirit) The song is forgettable for me, even though the message is really touching and meaningful. For a closing track it’s good but since it’s really different from the rest of the album it seems that they only put this song on just to honor that friend that it’s written about.

The album is one of the weirdest concepts I’ve heard from any rock band since A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park. The band put their heart and soul in it, you can tell by the level of production. On some songs it’s really well executed, others seem cheap and boring. My summary is that old BMTH is dead, they’re still gonna play rock music as they did with their previous records but they’re gonna expand and experiment to other directions, making it as progressive as possible just to keep the music entertaining.

#amo #bmth #review #album review #record #bring me the horizon #excuse my english #song by song

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just-folie-a-deux-it · 6 years ago

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hey i rlly need some peterick angst rn (with happy end... of course). thinking about the boys being angsty in high school

Who wasn’t angsty in high school honestly? Ironically enough I’m listening to Linkin Park rn which was totally my angsty high school band

Pete’s the standard emo kid with his ridiculous bangs and black-painted nails and piercings and Patrick is the standard band kid who’s relatively quiet and surprises everyone by being best friends with Pete. Pete is convinced it’s him against the world (or maybe he and Patrick. Us against the world sounds better, less lonely) and Patrick has made it his mission to show him life can be better than Pete thinks. Pete’s mom thinks Patrick is a literal angel because he keeps her son from holing away in the Summers doing God knows what and never coming out of his room. There’s one night that Pete does go out, though, without Patrick. His mom wakes to an empty bed at 3 a.m and her first thought is to call the Stump residence because where else would her son be? The answer is anywhere else, because Patrick informs his mother he has no idea where Pete is, but he plans on finding out. When Pete answers the phone with slurred words and making little to no sense, Patrick knows something has gone terribly wrong. Through many, many demands of “No, Pete, just tell me where you re. No, I don’t care what song is playing, where are you?” Patrick is able to deduce that Pete has gone to some college party and is absolutely shit-faced in the worst way. He’s long since deduced that something is up with Pete’s mental health and that something should never be mixed with drugs or booze. His mom lets him take the car and demands he be careful and call her when they’re on their way back, and after wrestling Pete into the front seat (he really is much stronger than he looks) he does just that, and calls Mrs. Wentz for good measure too, informing her he’s coming to bring Pete home and will also be spending the night. The next morning Pete wakes with the worst headache he’s sure anyone has ever had, and worse, an angry Patrick. He doesn’t explain himself, doesn’t tell his friend how the noises in his head got too loud, how everything started moving too fast, how he was scared he would scare his mom, so when Gabe asked if he wanted to come to some party up at the university, he said yes just for the distraction. He doesn’t tell Patrick, but Patrick can put the pieces together pretty easily, so he just pulls Pete into his lap and rocks him for a moment before informing him if he ever pulls anything like that again and doesn’t try calling Patrick first, there will be hell to pay. Pete smiles, though, at that. Smiles because he believes him.

#peterick #alcohol abuse #drug abuse #tw:alcohol abuse #tw:drug abuse #Anonymous

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bernuviels-inspiration · 6 years ago

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My Top 20 Albums

So @jesuiskafka tagged me to list my top 20 favourite albums like forever ago. Thank you! I finally decided to put it out, even though it's kinda personal. This is quite difficult, since I usually only like a couple of songs by artists other than my all time favourite bands. But I tried to put some variety into this instead of just listing all Linkin Park and Green Day albums. It's mostly stuff from my childhood & teenage years.

Post Traumatic (2018) – Mike Shinoda: The album that got me through a very difficult time and helped me deal with my grief for Chester. It's like a dear friend. Whenever the darkness of depression creeps up on me again I listen to “Can't Hear You Now” and it makes me feel better.

Meteora (2003) – Linkin Park: The first LP album I ever owned. I love how energetic it is! Includes my fav LP song “Numb” and is just really nostalgic. I love their later albums just as much as the first two though!

American Idiot (2004) – Green Day: The first album overall I ever owned. Includes my fav GD song “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams”. It shaped my taste in music a lot, as it was the first thing I decided to listen to – not because my parents, sisters or anybody else did.

Technology (2018) – Don Broco: One of the very few newer bands on this list. I discovered them thanks to Mike Shinoda and really liked their sound, energy and stage presence. Their music kinda reminds me of my beloved pop punk from my teenage years. “Everybody” is a very fun song, even though it was written about the band almost giving up on music and dying in a car accident.

Still Not Getting Any… (2004) – Simple Plan: Call them emo or over-dramatic as much as you want. “Perfect World” actually saved my live when I was really close to ending it all as a teenager. Can't listen to that song anymore.

Dead Letters (2003) – The Rasmus: We discovered this Finnish rock band in a pretty weird way. The news here used to play snippets from music videos before they started. And my sisters and me loved “In The Shadows” with all the ravens and stuff.

Fallen (2003) – Evanesence: I don't like too many female singers (guess their voices are just too high and annoying for me), but Amy Lee is definitely one of them. There are many great songs on this album, but I especially loved “Bring Me to Life”.

True (2013) – Avicii: My sister really loves EDM and Avicii was one of the first DJs she ever listened to. “Hey Brother” will always be our “sister song”. Avicii's tragic death hit us pretty hard.

Made in Switzerland (2006) – Gotthard: As you can probably guess by the album's title, this is a Swiss rock band – named after a mountain. They are basically cultural goods here, so it's no wonder we even sang their “One Life One Soul” in school. They lost their lead singer Steve Lee to a tragic accident in 2010.

Under My Skin (2004) – Avril Lavigne: My sisters and me wanted to be like Avril, a cool “skater girl”. I still think “Nobody's Home” is a really beautiful song.

Good Morning Revival (2007) – Good Charlotte: Pop punk just was my favourite genre as a teenager and “The River” (featuring members of Avenged Sevenfold) rocks.

Underclass Hero (2007) – Sum 41: Another pop punk band I love since forever. “With Me” is a beautiful song.

Dark Light (2005) – HIM: Another Finnish rock band my sisters and I liked. “Wings of a Butterfly” is a really cool song - that guitar riff!

Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008) – The Offspring: My other sister liked this punk rock band. I remember driving around in her car when she first got her license and blasting “You're Gonna Go Far, Kid” – good times!

Stadium Arcadium (2006) – Red Hot Chili Peppers: When I was a teenager I often listened to music while falling asleep. “Snow (Hey Oh)” was the perfect calming song for that.

Automatic for the People (1992) – R.E.M.: My dad loves music too, so I got to listen to many different bands growing up. I always liked R.E.M. and their “Man on the Moon”.

Once in a Lifetime (1988) – Runrig: Another one inspired by my dad – a celtic rock band with a unique sound. “Protect and Survive” is a great song.

MTV Unplugged (2011) – Udo Lindenberg: This German singer is one of my dad's favourite artists. He might look strange but he has some pretty thoughtful songs. I was especially impressed by “Das Leben”, where he sings: “Take your own life – and never let it go.”

Secret World Live (1994) – Peter Gabriel: Of course my dad also introduced me to classics like this one. I really like “Solsbury Hill”.

Gold (Greatest Hits) (1992) – ABBA: My mum is the only member of our family who isn't that music-crazy. She does love disco though. “Mamma Mia” is a fun song that reminds me of my mum singing, laughing and dancing.

Feel free to do it too (you can just make a list without oversharing as much as I did ^^'): @harreki, @playdrawread, @linkinbert, @feelingsofaithless, @introvertedemotrash, @iwillruletheuniverse, @linkinparkfanish

#bernuviel's top 20 albums #music #personal

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musical-chick-13 · 6 years ago

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Okay, it’s Personal(TM) Time.

This has been on my mind for awhile, and since my url has the word “musical” in it, but I don’t actually talk about music in-depth a whole lot on here, I thought now was as good of a time as any to put this out there.

I talk about suicidal ideation and other ugly mental illness things under the cut, so I’m putting that as a content warning both here and in the tags.

So, as many people who regularly pay attention to my blog probably know, I have dealt almost my entire life with multiple concurrent mental illnesses, which has, to put it bluntly, been an utterly hellish experience that has made even existing as a person very hard sometimes.

There have been many times I have felt hopeless, incapable of moving, or borderline-numb to reality. There have been times I have felt angry at the concept of existence itself because mine was so hard for me. There have been times I have been so full of rage due to my brain hellscape and the inability to function the way I wanted that I was incapable of connecting with other people or doing my job or feeling any kind of positive feelings toward myself.

And there were, yes, a lot of times where I thought that killing myself might be the answer. I made a plan. I made a back-up plan. I fantasized about how I and everyone around me would be free from all of my gross, mental illness hell if I were no longer alive.

But the one thing that always got me through was music. Always. Whether it was me focusing on practicing or finding catharsis through songs that understood my feelings, that was what kept me going. That was what kept me from giving up performing, and that was what kept me alive.

I say this because there has been...a rather distressing trend I’ve seen in terms of how we view certain types of music. Although, in this particular case, I’m only going to talk about one band (or, I guess, more specifically, one person, in particular).

I know it’s probably way too late to talk about this, but I’m going to anyway.

The band in question is Linkin Park. The man, of course, is Chester Bennington.

For anyone who might not be familiar with this whole situation, Linkin Park is a rockish-metalish band (I’m not good at classifying genres of music and I don’t want people to yell at me) that has been around for a pretty long time. They were a pretty big deal when I was in middle/high school, and were actually one of my first positive experiences with music that was not Tchaikovsky or Mozart or musical theatre. They were known for making loud, emotional songs that were filled with pain, angst, and other unsubtle, ugly feelings. And then in 2017, Chester Bennington, their lead singer, killed himself.

I had seen so many memes joking about this band’s “overdramatic” or “wangsty” or “first world problems white boy” music. But...Chester actually felt all of those things. I felt all of those things. That extreme exemplification of pain and rage and sadness and emptiness and self-hatred was exactly what I felt all the time because that’s exactly how suicidal ideation feels.

And there were so many people talking about how “He’s singing about his youthful angst when he has no reason to have any, his life is fine.” But his life was not fine. His life was so not-fine that he decided he’d literally rather die.

I got that a lot, too. People who asked me why I was so upset all the time. People who told me they wished they were me, with my good grades and parents who were still together who loved me. There was nothing wrong with my life. I was just afraid and sad for no reason. I was “crazy.” “Overdramatic.”

But it was music like this, music that understood how I felt, music that I could use as an outlet that made me feel less like an ungrateful, melodramatic, bratty young person and more like a human being who deserved to be listened to, that got me through. This was what I listened to, and this was what I needed when I was having a mental breakdown at two am thinking about what would happen if I dropped out of school and lived as a dirty wilderness hermit at best and just never woke up again at worst.

And I see this all the time. People criticize so much punk or modern rap or “emo” music (and I’m not talking about genuinely unhelpful, counterproductive pieces like “Sad!” by XXX) for being “too needlessly sad” and “self-indulgent in angst” or “overly-loud whining about nothing.” They dismiss music like this as overly-glorified teenagers/young adults complaining about how their parents won’t buy them the newest iphone. And, yeah, inevitably, some music will be that. But so, so much of it is not.

You can’t listen to Chester Bennington’s entire personal, pain-ridden output and then tell me it makes no sense that he was suicidally depressed. There’s a reason his and the band’s music spoke to me. There’s a reason I still cry about his death on a regular basis. Because that very easily could have been me. And I hate to think about any other person dealing with this and coming to the conclusion that that was the answer.

And maybe, next time someone says they’re dealing with stuff, even if things seem “okay” on the surface...believe them. Don’t write them off as just having trivial, insignificant problems that aren’t real. If someone wants to listen to angsty teen pop or make angsty teen pop, just let them. Because that might be what’s keeping them from imploding. (Again, this does not excuse toxic, abusive, or ableist attitudes, and things like “Sad!” absolutely deserve to be criticized. This also does not mean we coddle people who think “white boy” is a racial slur or who feel insulted if someone calls them out for making rape jokes. I’m talking about the young people who listen to, like...Green Day and MCR and Linkin Park and all of the “angsty emo” bands that people typically think of.)

And, for the love of God, don’t ever, ever tell someone dealing with mental illness that they have no good reason to be upset, that they’re just being ungrateful, or that other people have it worse. If someone is is pain, accept that they are in pain. Don’t gaslight them, don’t shame them, don’t invalidate them, don’t mock them, and don’t belittle or take away their genuinely healthy coping mechanisms.

I’ve seen a lot of hate get leveled at Linkin Park and similar bands for venting their frustrations “overdramatically.” It’s time that stopped.

And for anyone struggling with this: you don’t deserve to feel like this. What you feel is real, and I’m sorry that is your reality. This is your sign to stay alive. To not give up. You are loved, and I can promise you that the world would be less without you. You are not alone, and you will get through this. You will come out on the other end, you will recover, and I will be standing to greet you. I am proud of you for making it this far, and please, please don’t give up on your dreams. Stay alive. I love you.

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