#I still think about it sometimes

[starbiology]

im not in this fandom anymore but this is still by far my favourite comment ive ever gotten on AO3

it was followed by 4 gifs of explosions

[crashlapine]

"people just don't seek out music anymore and that's why spotify is such a vital service in helping artists get discovered and paid"

hey. buddy. listen 2 me. my fixation on the band sElf is because twenty seconds of a song of theirs was backing a monster hunter world gameplay clip someome posted to a now-dead twitter account. A hand-curated music playlist for a VRChat world I accidentally typo'd my way into introduced me to Superorganism's "It's All Good" a few years ago. Crumb's two albums Jinx and Ice Melt are among the highest number of full-album playthroughs in my library because i caught a shitty recording of Locket playing in-car over a snippet of someone's dash cam footage audio that was lifted for a youtube clip compilation channel someone else runs. back in 2011 my high school forced my entire grade to watch an anti-bullying PSA that ran on for 40 minutes but the credits had Dabrye's "Making It Pay" playing over it and that set me on the path to exploring all of Ghostly International's available music releases i could get my paws on at the time.

like. i've discovered music in the most obtuse places, often via the most unlicensed conduits those tunes could've possibly accompanied, and i can say with one hundred percent sincerity that the $9 i've spent just once on a digital album or two so i could listen to it again and again has probably put more food on the table of these musicians than spotify's "minimum one thousand streams annually per-song before payouts" discovery playback ever could achieve across a decade for many of these folks. i promise this isn't a brag, I just don't know how else to explain that spotify really isn't the only viable path forward when music permeates every facet of this world and all you have to do is take note when something catches your ear. the only thing truly making it harder to discover new music is licensing restrictions, automated Content-ID matching, and the universal/sony/warner music trio regularly leveraging both of the former to ensure your favorite song has an expiration date by tamping down on all of this, and unless you can hunt down a copy to save locally, a time will come when you'll never be able to hear that favorite song again. this isn't a threat; you and me both are going to outlive this service, as we've outlived many other online-only services before it.

(and i say this with complete sincerity to those not in a financially viable place to buy albums on the reg: just slurp the .wav off youtube homie. compared to spotify, the net gain to the individual artist is exactly the same. who knows, maybe you'll be able to inadvertently pass it along to someone else who's able to go and make that purchase, as others have unknowingly done to me. word of mouth alone is a /very/ powerful discovery tool)

[chipistrate]

Do y'all still think that the Crying Child Guess The Sketch saga means anything in relation to HW2

[pebblysand]

J’ai l’honneur, au nom du gouvernement de la République, de demander l’abolition de la peine de mort en France.

Robert Badinter (30 march 1928 - 9 February 2024)

[advanced-procrastination]

>Be me, camo-zamboni

>Makes a post about roommate’s sex life

>Post goes viral

>Roommates find post, then blog

>Change URL to camo—zamboni (extra dash) to try to hide from roommates

>Roommates inform me that that didnt work, bc the post’s OP link auto updates when my url does so they can always find me

> Give up hiding and try to return to camo-zomboni

>”URL is already in use”

>wtf its been like 2 days

>checks URL and sure enough, somebody snatched it up

>Now that guy is pretending like he was the one who made the viral post

>Wow what the fuck dude

[theshatteredsilhouette]

were you traumatised by the Jekyll and Hyde song from Arthur as a child or are you normal

[mitsukuri]

i found the mtkr isshinfuran mmd

[pvssykill]

one time I had a guy friend come over and we ended up experimenting with choking by having him grab my collar by the back of it and sharply pull it towards him so it's even tighter around my neck...I imagine kind of like you would to a misbehaving pet. 10/10 recommend.

[ottos-art-stash]

I signed up for shenanigans with shenhe, not liyue finale round 2

[moonlightdancer26]

Me when I remember the friends I’ve lost:

Me when I remember that one follower who used to always like my posts despite not sharing a lot of my opinions who randomly unfollowed me a year ago:

[sundere1181]

Little me: so like if someone murdered someone while they were sleepwalking and regretted it theyd still be arrested?

my parents: yes

little me: but they didnt meant to do it? they were sleepwalking, they themselves didnt do it, at least not on purpose

my parents: theyd still go to jail

little me: they dont even try to help that person get rid of their sleepwalking? just straight to jail?

my parents: yes

little me: thats fucked up. im going to be an anarchist when i grow up.

[eynnwwyjth]

Shoutout to the little girl who asked me (when my hair was dyed teal) if I was born with teal hair or did Jesus make it that way

Made my day

[damn-daemon]

How did you got the idea for the character of Myra at first?

It was the season 3 finale and our lord and savior Ramin Djawadi gave us one of the best tracks from Game of Thrones: Mhysa.

I listened to that song endlessly, and from it came a vision of Jaime Lannister riding away from The Twins with a young woman in his possession. It was a highly romanticized version of events and definitely is not how it went down, but it stuck with me for an entire year until I finally decided to start A Vow Without Honor.

[mx-melancholic]

One of the most cursed Trans™ moments of my life was being on Zoom call for my German class and, parallel to that, scrolling through this hellsite, noticing someone's name on their account was Galahad, and then contemplating naming myself after an Arthurian knight of The Round Table for 30 minutes, with my class serving as German ASMR in the background, and a group chat of my closest friends attempting to stop me

[doodle-buggie]

a bunch of stuff from @eternalglitch 's infamous fic, Like Father Like Son, because I will never forget the experience of reading it for the first time. never.

[youareinlove]

the absolute chokehold this outfit had me in during the rep tour-