#Pay to March

[pasharuu]

two braincells each

[kore-cryptid]

"oh wah cant belive spiderverse is doing a cashgrab and just making another movie for mone-" NO SHHHH SHUT UP!!!

This is how trilogies are SUPPOSED TO WORK!

Think abt the first 3 star wars, lotr, hell even hungergames!!

First movie is your introduction to these characters and world, and might cap off with its own small self contained "happy ending", the death star is destroyed, katniss wins and saves peetah, they stop kingpin and miles feels confident as spiderman

movie two is ALWAYS where shit hits the fan and we end on the *lowest point*, Han is frozen and luke looses his hand, frodo is led into the spiders den, the games fall apart and katniss looses peetah, Miles is Trapped On Earth-42 with no escape and the multiverse is crumbling

its been so fucking long since weve gotten a proper film Trilogy not trying to weave itself into an expanded cinematic universe where you gotta watch 2 seasons and another movie before part 2 dont Forget that Three is the magic number and this is how trilogies Work

[bonefall]

BUMBLE TIME

BUMBLE TIME

[whalechief]

haha hehe a dragon's first mortal experience of an existential crisis

[itsc]

the government should send $2000 for every day i have a migraine

[mariposaminako]

Dog stelle a bnuyy march :)))

[st-peculiar]

I remember earlier this year coming across a fanart with someone’s tmagp character line up designs and there was a little doodle in the corner with little versions of Colin and Teddy saying that they should kiss and I think about it sometimes and yeah. They should kiss. Doomed by the narrative core

[reality-detective]

March Madness? 🤔

[doctorcanon]

"In all three of his lives, he never had anyone to honor him, I wanna change that."

So I was thinking about funeral dances. And about Legend dancing, as per usual. And about the fact the Downfall!Time probably never got a funeral and per Zelda canon. I also needed an excuse to work on profiles. So this is Legend and his Zelda (Fable, I think?) paying respects to their predecessors after LU, I guess. Not an actual funeral dance btw. I used Florence and the Machine's Big God video as a reference.

[frenchcurious]

François Cevert (Tyrrell Racing Organization - March 701 Ford-Cosworth DFV) devant Graham Hill (Rob Walker Racing Team - Lotus 49C Ford-Cosworth DFV) Grand Prix des Pays-Bas - Zandvoort 1970. © Rainer Schlegelmilch / Motorsport. - source Carros e Pilotos.

[genericpuff]

girl math is making $670 for the week and then spending $650 of it on a credit card bill and now you're excited because you made a profit of $20 in your bank account and $650 more of free money

[delullu]

years of trying to find an okay and affordable apartment came to an end: I was finally able to close the sad stack of tabs with apartment listings after signing my contract today🎉🎉🎉

[vampiregokudera]

YoungJusticeFashionWeek2024 day 4 - Uniform. Any kind from anywhere

It is required by law that Bart be put into a cheerleading uniform.

Greta is wearing my local national railway worker uniform which i always think looks sooo pretty 🥰

As for Kon... ahahahahaha *puts the blorbo into retail work*

[aryomengrande]

heavy is the head that wears the crown

[heycerulean]

forgot i was going to yap about the cowboy au here goes SO Your name is Renée Minkowski. you have one dream; own a saloon and pay someone to bartend so you can play piano for the rest of your life. However, that dream of yours never worked out right, and after a certain job offer from that store owner down the road to "help protect the town after the vacancy in the security areas" you find yourself as the sheriff. It's not like it's a bad gig. It's actually fairly enjoyable, most of the time. You've got time alone, the pay is good- and, of course, the station's office radio that started talking to you your first night here. She says her name is Hera, and that she's a gift from Cutter, the guy who offered you the job and your technical boss; neither of you like him very much, but she's nice, and she's better than Eiffel and Hilbert. Eiffel's one of your staff, the improv repairer of your ever decrepit jail cells. He's reckless, but he knows what he's doing- most of the time- and he's nice enough. Hilbert's technically the town doctor, but with the amount of strange emergencies that happen around the town, he's become a first responder of sorts. You've almost started to enjoy your job when the attacks start. A criminal gang, harassing the people you're supposed to protect. It's late nights, long days, and a hell of a lot less peace than you're used to; but you're close to something, you can feel it. You say goodnight to Hera, and since Eiffel and Hilbert have gone home, you walk out for the night. You lock the doors, walk out under the stars, and look down the road. Sitting up on a horse that looks golden in this light is a stranger. They're tall, well dressed, yet look like they're about to kill someone; they sling a revolver out as they step off the horse, and just as you're about to pull out yours, they drop it on the ground. They introduce themselves as Isabel Lovelace, the sheriff of this town. You tell them that's not possible, because you're the sheriff, and they scoff. "That's what they want you to think," they say. They tell you that they've got things you're going to want to hear, and that they'd like to talk. Curiosity beckons you forth, and even though protocol is screaming at you, you ask them what they mean. That's when things start getting more complicated.

[seaofreverie]

Sparkstember Day 21: Exotic Creatures Of The Deep (Strange Animal)

Some of you might already have some idea of how absolutely abnormal I am about this album and have been for several months, without fail. It's... perfect? And you know that personal relevance will also often be a total game changer in deciding what your ultimate favourites are and such. It's personal relevance of my own doing anyway, if I can call it that, you know those memes that go something like "it's MY mental breakdown and *I* chose the soundtrack!!". Oh yeah, that's what happened here. But even that aside I might never get over how much ECOTD is EVERYTHING I might want from an album and it has not lost its power with passing time even one bit. I'm wary to call anything a number one definitive favourite most of the time, but if I really had to choose... yeah, this is my favourite album of all time, there's absolutely no denying that.

Where do I even start with this... Well, coming back a bit to the LB - HYL - ECOTD series as a whole, I love how all three of them have so much in common and each one is some sort of natural development on the previous one, keeping its core elements but also adding new ones that are unique to the new album. And I guess the style of ECOTD is the one that ended up speaking to me the most. Toning it down a bit on the repetition aspect, adding more fancy synths, heavy drums, more guitar-based stuff continuing from HYL... And its still edgier and more electronic and darker and theatrical than the previous ones. Maybe I could even call it straight up COOL sounding (at least at times) in a way that the previous ones aren't (or not quite as much). (And that's not to say that they're all not icredibly cool in their own way anyway, but, you know.) None of these three are definitely better than the others for me by the way, but. Still, love the whole evolution here a lot.

And now, of course, a word on the craziest and most ambitious idea of the century, the 21×21 shows. I spent about a month, if not more, earlier this year going through what I'm quite sure must be the majority of what's been recorded from these shows, and I have no regrets. And yeah, one of the most impressive feats in the history of music, playing 21 albums in full day after day, but also can we please talk about the visualisations they put there to go with the albums. Catching glimpses of those album covers being comically stretched or rotated and such was a very important part of the whole experience. But yeah, Sparks Spectacular, it really is so spectacular.

I actually do have specific favourites on this album rather than being obsessed with it all the same amount, but I think it deserves special treatment just like Lil' Beethoven, so, let's go, going over all of them now. And I think it's better to just dive straight into them now anyway, in order to get a better hang of this whole album and why it's so brilliant and special to me.

Intro + Intro Reprise

I love you leitmotifs that reappear throughout the album and tie it all together. Such a good touch on what is imo the most cinematic of Sparks albums

Good Morning

This happened a couple of times to me with Sparks, when I first hear a song and I'm quite intrigued and delighted but that's mostly it. And then I hear it once more after a while and I'm never the same again from that point on. THIS!!!!!! SONG!!!!! I was so right that I would love all of ECOTD even more than anything before it based just on this. This is the Russell falsetto album by the way, that's important to note. I'm very impressed by this song in many ways. I like that it starts with this specific synth sound that's VERY characteristic of this whole album. And the fake ending... This song has LB and HYL all over it but it's also its own beautiful thing

Strange Animal

This song has an effect of "stopping in my tracks the moment I hear the first note" on me to be honest, another one of my forever and biggest favourites. Right up there with all the other rocking epics to the likes of Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls, Dick Around and As I Sit Down To Play The Organ. Sparks going meta on music & being a musician is also always very cool to see

I Can't Believe That You Would Fall For All The Crap In This Song

My first impression of what would become my most listened to Sparks song was a "wait, this was supposed to be a Sparks-only playlist, am I still listening to Sparks??" But a couple more months passed and what can I say, I'm obsessed now (and have been for over half a year now). The Maels saying "fuck you" to love songs & pop songs cliches will always be one of my favourite things about them... While they're also actively alluding to and using those cliches to create something very effective. I'm sure that it being so similar to the type of electro pop songs that were getting lots of radio play in the late 00s is why I'm so drawn to the sound here. It's always all about that nostalgia effect, huh (and this album is the absolute PEAK of "oh god why are all these songs so nostalgic to me I've only known them for this relatively short amount of time")

Let The Monkey Drive

This song ends what is probably my favourite 4 consecutive songs run on any album ever. Each is so mindblowing but in a different way. Best thing about this song to me is its atmopshere. It's just SO tangible. Like, this IS driving past the speed limit on a highway in the middle of the night (we can ignore the rest of what's happening in the story here for a moment). Obsessed with Russell's voice here and also it's so great to me how such a minimalistic approach can be so effective in creating this whole very specific mental image. Just unsettling strings in the back and two notes (or repeating chords) on the piano that are sort of the most prominent "melody" here and that's all you need. The suspense, the understatedness of it all, I love it

I've Never Been High

One of the most Sparks-like of Sparks songs in a way? And another one where I could probably start coming up with lyrical interpretations for on the spot. Lots to think about regarding all of these songs to be honest. And I like how the rising piano notes at the end lead into the descending flute (?) melody at the start of the next song

(She Got Me) Pregnant

Honestly, I absolutely love this song, it's one of my favourites on the album, maybe top five material. And it somehow sounds exactly like how I could have imagined it to sound, based on just its premise, I don't really know how that works but it does, lmao. And who else would give you this sort of song if not Sparks, no one

Lighten Up, Morrissey

Glam rock bliss that does not clash with the rest of the album despite being pretty stylistically different from the rest of it. Quite saddening that it's the only song here that has a music video, when there's SO MUCH potential here, seriously, again, this whole album is so cinematic. I do quite like what we got here though, love this era of Sparks ALSO when it comes to the visual side of it all (I keep saying this over and over), but still, there's so much more we could have had, y'know

This Is The Renaissance

GOOD GOD, I LOVE THIS ONE, in love with it from the first listen. It's everything that makes this album so grand and one-of-a-kind in a nutshell. Among the top 10 Sparks songs that should have had a music video also. I have a pretty elaborate painting idea based on this song in mind, so I hope I'll be able to make it into reality at some point in the future

The Director Never Yelled 'Cut'

List of Sparks songs where movie-directing is used as an allegory of sex is somehow at least two songs long I've noticed (this + Love Scenes). Anyway, this one's a pretty heavy one to unpack so I don't think I can really do it justice today. Love it just like every other song on here though

Photoshop

Another one that could have had such a killer music video. Again, stripped-down arrangement that's just enough to hit you with the right amount of feels and overall one of the most killer Ron piano master moments overall, now that I think about it. The plea of "photoshop me out of your life" sounds pretty... on-the-nose out of context? But again, Sparks magic makes it work anyway! And the 21×21 performance is in my top 10 Sparks live moments of all time (I don't actually have a list like this but, maybe I should make it now)

Likeable

...This is the song of all time to me. Honestly, give me any song pondering the nature of what it means to love vs what it means to like someone and things of such nature and you have me hooked forever. But even that aside, musically speaking, it's just... perfection. Most cinematic Sparks song overall maybe, it's really just like a little movie, every moment is so perfectly timed and measured, I have no words honestly, for just, how incredible it all is. The melodic aspect now, it makes me so emotional, one of the most likely of Sparks song to make me cry, for real. I could start going over every different part of the song now but honestly, they're all just, equally amazing. Special shoutout to the waltz parts though, and the bridge. Oooohhh the bridge, when it all gets so intense, and then the main melody reappears with an acoustic guitar, it's just, peak of it all. And then the intro leitmotif comes back again and it's just?!?.?? My feelings on this song might even still not be fully comprehensible and clear to me. All in all, couldn't imagine a better album closer than this, hands down. And this song also closing the Sparks Spectacular series of shows, yeah (not counting the encore). Oh man. Oh maaannnnn. What a freaking ride.