#Sitting To Know Your Collection

[akwardlyuncool]

Sitting To Know Your Collection November (24) Round Up

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Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 45 (November 4th - November 10th)

Album: Revolution Radio (2016) by Green Day Play Count: 3 Top 2 Tracks: - Outlaws (Track 5) - Ordinary World (Track 12)

I promise I didn’t spend my whole 2024 listening to Green Day, but I did allow more than I probably would have otherwise (in regards to this project) simply because these are special times. Honestly I probably would have spun again for this week, but since I didn't know this one too well, it was okay to spin them twice this year. When I first heard Revolution Radio back in 2016, I thought it sounded the most like American Idiot, but now I think it just a progression of the band, with elements of the past. It sounds a lot like Saviors or Saviors sounds a lot like it. All that tells me is that although things can sound like the past, we shouldn’t hold bands or records to that, because then all we’d do is compare forever.

It sounds like a Green Day album and fits right in line with the rest of their discography. I think this was a good time to dive into the album anyway, because I skipped seeing them tour it in 2016 since I thought the tickets were too expensive and didn’t want to go to an arena show and now that I’ve done both of those things in the name of getting to see Green Day live, it just made sense. Anyway I liked it just as much as I’ve liked any of their other releases from the last decade, Revolution Radio us probably heading that list now.

Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 46 (November 11th - November 17th)

Album: State Champs (2024) by State Champs Play Count: 4 Top 2 Tracks: - Clueless (Track 3) - Hell Of It (Track 6)

I didn’t wait for the wheel to spin this one, I bumped it to the front of the line shortly after getting my copy in the mail. This album is so good and I had such a nice time playing it during it's week, that when I ended the project for 2024 in December, it was the one that remained in my car well into January. They have the formula for solid pop punk down and the band just keeps getting better. This is the album where the binge just kept going and I imagine will continue down the line, deep into 2025.

PS: Clueless is the perfect teen movie track and I’m saving it for if I ever get to make the soundtrack for a coming of age, teen movie.

Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 47 (November 18th - November 24th)

Album: White Blood Cells (2001) by The White Stripes Play Count: 2 Top 2 Tracks: - The Union Forever (Track 7) - We’re Gonna Be Friends (Track 9)

Don’t get me wrong I do enjoy The White Stripes, but as I was listening, I felt like I wasn’t cool enough for this album. That happens to me from time to time, where the music sounds too cool for me, so I kinda feel out of place with it, even though I’m really into it. It has that hard folky rock sound that attracts me, so I think that just means I just need to continue listening to them and get more comfortable. It for sure sounds like a White Stripes album, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, they know what works. There are good songs on this record, but to be generic We’re Gonna Be Friends, does what it needs to do every single time. Only got a couple runs, but it was enough to catch the vibes.

Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 48 (November 25th - December 1st)

Album: Aquarium (1997) by Aqua Play Count: 1 and some change Top 2 Tracks: - My Oh My (Track 2) - Be A Man (Track 7)

This is the last album I listened to as part of Sitting To Know Your Collection 2024. Although it didn’t get much more than a single run, I feel like I’m okay with that because I had put it on a few weeks prior while I was cataloging things. I love this album. The whole thing is true 90’s electric, dance-pop and I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of revisiting it, even though I’m not big on dance/electronica music. My Oh My hits harder now that I’m an adult, cause he’s like “I don’t want to rule, I want to be Robin Hood” and I’m like sucks for love, but I support that lol. A fun way to close out this project, challenge, whatever you want to call it for 2024.

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The Playlist!

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I really enjoyed this challenge and want to make a whole post talking about my favorite albums of the year, what I leaned and even talk about what's next. That will have to wait though, cause I got Akward Class Favorites 2024 to run through real quick first. I'm glad I saw it through and I thank you for checking it out.

[aquanutart]

I absolutely LOVE the Squirtle/Wartortle illustrations by kantaro in Pokemon 151!

The Squirtle jumping so joyfully from the rock into the ocean, the colors are STUNNING! I love the contrast of the Squirtle's aqua blue framed in the vivid orange sky, the soft bit of blue reflecting in its shell and its tail just catching the sun, how little and squishy its body looks as it launches itself towards the water with such tremendous excitement!

The lineless style of the background gives me the feel of a travel poster and I sense the tropical environment around it from the rocks and trees framing the corners, the waterfall splashing with as much energy as the Squirtle!

The layered blues on the surface of the water and the bubbles rising at the corner make me FEEL the liquid rising to meet the Squirtle--I can just feel how the next moment it's going to break through and be immersed in a cool island swim!

And the Wartortle running along the sunset beach, this is somehow everything I always imagined for Wartortle! I adore the way the rich purple melts into the warm red/orange sky, the matching purple clouds and shadows in the foreground, and how the dimming sunlight glows red on Wartortle's deep blues!

I love how the yellow and orange of the sky illuminate the lapping waves, I can just feel the gentle motion of the sea at dusk. The aqua color of the ocean matches Wartortle's ears and tail and sets off the red-orange sand, I just love how the colors are here!

Wartortle looks so round and squishy, I love its happiness as it goes frolicking through the shallows, chasing the bubbles caught in the setting sun! The shine and deep shadow on its shell give it an almost jewel texture like real tortoise shell; I love the silhouetted splash Wartortle leaves as it goes running across the shore. It's so full of energy and delight at the end of a gorgeous day! The colors in these are SO vivid and harmonized and the style is so cute and bursting with energy and joy. I just LOVE it (also Squirtle is my starter)

[girlivealwaysbean]

i think growing up is just life repeatedly sucker punching you and saying bitch you thought things were gonna better lmao no you're so naive and stupid for having hope in 20 years the world will be flaming bag of garbage and no matter how hard you work you'll get eliminated at some point

[orcelito]

Had a moment of listening to music I liked back when I was a teenager (& still like) and having a whole. Realization . That I like myself as I am now sooooo much better than I like teenage me. And I started thinking about Why.

There's a lot to it I'm pretty sure, & most of it centers around the fact that I just... didn't really know who I was as a person. I didn't really have hobbies outside of what I did in school (aka orchestra) and like. Video games + anime. I did creative writing in middle school, but dropped off in high school for... some reason? I still made original characters and played around with them a lot, but it was mostly just in drawing and thinking about them. I never actually *wrote*, and I in fact didn't get back into creative writing at all until I was 23 years old. I was someone who had spent so long hiding behind others and just doing what I was told that I just... didn't have any real direction. I didn't know what I even *wanted*. I thought I knew, but in hindsight, I can confidently say that I didn't. I was just an insecure teen drifting through life and not thinking about things beyond what was immediately in front of me. Which is pretty standard for teenagers I guess, but not all of them. Not at all.

Compared to now, where I have Many hobbies, most notably being writing. As I am now, I am just Intrinsically a writer. And it's weird to remember that I wasn't even really *writing* before 5 years ago (besides text rps, which did a lot for developing my writing skill! But still aren't a replacement for writing individually). As a teen, I wasnt into dnd, I was incredibly out of shape, & I was a lot less aggressive and focused. I was the type to avoid sports!!! I hated them!!!! But as I am now, I Love biking and can easily bike for an hour+ no problem (I remember being a teen and trying to go on just 10 minute bike rides in the summer and just *dying* from it), & I love working out. I wanna be strong!!! I LOVE being strong!!! And I was an absolute mess with things like public speaking & working in groups, vs now where I can do an impromptu presentation no problem & I'm often the unofficial leader in group projects bc im typically the one who does the organizing and allotments of work. A side effect of working as a supervisor and then assistant manager for so long. I have a lot more confidence in my perceptions and judgements, & I have the self-assurance to assert these things. And this is only really the tip of the iceberg with all the differences.

I just feel like an entirely different person, almost. The cores are the same, or at least damn near similar, with the things I want out of life & the sorts of things I enjoy, but it's like. The difference between finding a random rock off the side of the road & then that rock when it's been sanded and carved and decorated to be something individual and unique. You look at them side by side and it's something dull vs something shiny and intricate. The origins can't be ignored and dismissed, & I certainly would never resent younger me for just doing the best with what I knew at the time. But it's just astounding how much difference time and experience will have for growing and developing as a person. Things I consider integral to my personhood weren't even thoughts in my mind back then. We are almost entirely different people.

[prince-liest]

!!! 👀 you’re on the dragons website? uh by which I mean, hello, greetings fellow human (?). may be a weird ask but your fics are the kind of shit I just read on repeat because they’re so goddamn good for my brain in every single way BUT I haven’t sat down and wrestled my brain into submission in order to comment on them yet, so could I buy you something nice on FR to show my appreciation in the meantime? my old account and everything in it has just been rotting lol I keep telling myself I’ll go spend it all on art or something but I just.. never do. thank you for the gift of your writing, it’s kind of making my tentative foray into this fandom more bearable ❤️

GASP!! You're amazing, and that's such a lovely offer for you to make! <3 I'm always genuinely so delighted when people enjoy my stories enough to give them more than one read, so thank you so much!!! This is not a weird ask at all, I genuinely appreciate it! And hey, I get it - comments can be hard, I also can often have a hard time leaving them despite being a writer myself!

I am indeedy on the dragons website, and I am in fact a filthy dragon capitalist who is very invested in their underground designer dragon mill (read: I run a hatchery) but has recently gone broke buying too many genes for a specific project, ehehehe.

I actually just finished my Cupid and Psyche breeding project!

Cupid is still a baby nocturne who, tragically, is going to need three gem genes (iridescent, butterfly, and koi) because despite having four separate breeding pairs to nail the colors on him, I couldn't get one that also had the genes I needed! So if it's something that is within your range, I would be genuinely very appreciative of one of those gene scrolls! If not (they are Pretty Expensive), I also have a wishlist over here! Aside from retired fest items I'm slowly collecting from the years I missed, it's mostly a few scene backgrounds! :)

Haha, I hope it's okay that this basically became a chance for me to show off the latest breeding pair. x) Thank you very much again, and it's always fun to see other folks that play(ed) Flight Rising!

[akwardlyuncool]

Sitting To Know Your Collection October (24) Round Up

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Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 41 (October 7th - October 13th)

Album: Madboy (2019) by UnityTX Play Count: 2 and some change. Top 2 Tracks: - Ruckus (Track 1) - Piece Of Mind (Track 6)

This one hit the spot as soon as I put it on. Sometimes one just needs heavy music that you know was meant for the melanated hard core folks. I’m not a fighter but listening to this on my way to work really gave me the right kind of attitude. Some tracks were better than others, but overall I’m just saying that I had a good time with it.

Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 42 (October 14th - October 20th)

Album: Songs About Jane (2002/2003) by Maroon 5 Play Count: 3 Top 2 Tracks: - The Sun (Track 6) - She Will Be Loved (Track 4)

Say what you want about the modern version of Maroon 5, but “Letters To Jane” Maroon 5 is not the version to be mad about. (Generally speaking, I don’t know the 2003 lore and don’t want to know lol.) Anyway it’s more sensual and more jazzy than I remember it being. It’s a a solid vibe in the background, kind of album. Another one that is nice to revisit from time to time, where you’re not going to hate having it on or at least I didn’t.

Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 43 (October 21st - October 27th)

Album: Acoustic Volume 2 (2018) by Bayside Play Count: 3 Top 2 Tracks: - It Don’t Exist (Track 3) - I Think I’ll Be Okay (Track 10)

I’ve been trying since Steven’s Untitled Rock Show to get into Bayside and finally found a song that I really liked. When this CD was on its way to be recycled, I decided to take it and give the rest of the album a solid try. I will say that it ended up being better than I thought it would be, however I still gravitated towards the track I knew and loved, more so than the rest of the album. Overall the albim was rather decent and I’m glad I gave the band a better shot. Don’t know that I’ll reach for this one often, however it does make me want to try their Acoustic Volume 1 record to see if I’d be into that one as well. You know, just to see.

Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 44 (October 28th - November 3rd)

Album: Jonas Brothers (2007) by The Jonas Brothers Play Count: 4 Top 2 Tracks: - Hold On (Track 2) - Kids Of The Future (Track 14)

I spun this album on the wheel picker right after I had just got done binging Camp Rock 1+2 a day or so prior, so it very much fit the moment. I had a lot of fun with it, granted that was before they were joking around on Twitter with the bad folks hahaha. It also works as a soundtrack for me trying to beef up my DCOM DVD collection. Just fun high school pop times, no pressure.

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The Playlist!

[caffeinatedopossum]

People that hate polyamory are honestly the weakest link

[mythvoiced]

hiatus 🥺

saw Ferre's post from a few days ago and felt WELP might as well make it official on my end as well~ no worries or concerns, i am merely either working or completely devoid of any creative juices, truly, i stare at my fingers and dramatic music starts playing as i wonder where my writing has gone

i plan on cleaning up around mythvoiced while i take an official break from invading y'all's notifications, and that will probably entail a drastic cut on muses. DRASTIC! my deepest apologies to the people who i might impact like this (yknow, our lil threads 🥺) but i just think it's?? better to put those folks on ice that i can't wring anything out of anymore, those damn idiots DAMN IT gosh i haven't posted anything in here in what feels like ages i have lost TOUCH with the VIBES

but yes, thank you for your patience & pls have a lovely timezone TELL ME IF SOMEONE'S MEAN, I'LL FIGHT

[midnightwind]

I love Dragon Age companion quests, but sometimes I wish we had more that didn't culminate in fighting a Big Personal Bad, you know

[airenyah]

Hi, I came to report to you that your ql music research is rubbing off on me 😅 I was watching ep 2 of Ploy's Yearbook (for Joong and Namtan 😍), when suddenly I recognized a piece of music!! But I couldn't place it, so I tried to remember which series have I watched so many times that I'm familiar with the music. I reached the tentative conclusion that it must be from SIMM or possibly from Hidden Agenda (but I definitely connected it to JoongDunk). Maybe I need to do a complete rewatch of both series to confirm, what a hardship 😂 I just wanted to tell you that maybe aside from being a JD vampire bl truther, this will be your other legacy

oh my god, that's amazing!!!!!! i LOVE to hear that!!!!! i'm actually planning on making a side blog focused on shared royalty free music in thdramas, but that's something that is earliest going to happen in the summer if not in the winter. i wanna work my way through some of my fave shows first, because those are the soundtracks i'm more likely to recognize and i just wanna have them on my google doc before i go put everything in tumblr posts (which is also gonna take forever bc my google doc is currently at 100 pages worth of entries sjkfkjsfdj)

aaaaanyway, re: music in ploy's yearbook

was it by any chance desert caravan by ludvig moulin? i haven't watched ep2 yet (i was actually about to go watch it when your message came in and i couldn't help answering it first kjdkfdg), but i did see a clip of it earlier in jimmy's insta story and the scene had this music in the background. it has come up in episode 1 already as well. if it was this, then good job on connecting it to a joongdunk show because it actually has come up on hidden agenda a couple of times! i'm still missing the last 3 episodes on my music collection, but these are the time stamps so far:

ep1 pt1 - 0:13

ep3 pt2 - 0:20

ep4 pt1 - 4:32

ep8 pt4 - 8:08

And here are the time stamps for ep1 of ploy's yearbook:

ep1 pt1 - 11:10 / 17:41

ep1 pt2 - 1:50

ep2 pt1 - 9:38

ep2 pt2 - 0:27

ep2 pt3 - 3:09

ep2 pt4 - 3:07

you might also have recognized get up on that horse by spring gang as the music that plays in bad buddy at the beginning of ep7 when pat is in the car (ep7 pt1 - 1:20) or also in ep12 when patpran claim they broke up (ep12 pt3 - 3:45). oh but wait, it's definitely connected to joongdunk, you said? well, as it turns out this one has actually come up in star in my mind a lot. like. A LOT:

ep1 pt2 - 5:55

ep2 pt1 - 4:00

ep2 pt4 - 1:02

ep3 pt2 - 1:15

ep3 pt3 - 1:55

ep3 pt4 - 1:17

ep6 pt2 - 1:23

ep7 pt2 - 1:48

ep7 pt4 - 0:48

ep8 pt1 - 4:33 / 5:41

ep8 pt3 - 5:07

and here are the time stamps for ep1 of ploy's yearbook again for reference:

ep1 pt1 - 13:00

ep1 pt2 - 2:26

ep2 pt1 - 8:37

and here, have a bonus because why the fuck not: moonshiner's turn by martin landström. this one has shown up in ep1 pt4 of both bad buddy as well as 23.5 degrees. also found in ep1 of ploy's yearbook at:

ep1 pt1 - 18:53

ep1 pt3 - 6:16

ep2 pt1 - 0:35 / 17:30

well, i'm gonna go watch the new episode now! feel free to check back on this post in a couple of hours, i might edit it or add a reblog with all my findings about the music in ep2 😂

edit:

i've added the ep2 time stamps to the aforementioned ones! and i found new music as well!!

maybe the one you recognized as a joongdunk series music in ep2 was winning hand by ealot. it came up in star in my mind a couple of times:

ep1 pt4 - 3:00

ep2 pt2 - 2:20

ep4 pt2 - 9:16

ep8 pt3 - 4:17

it featured in ep2 of ploy's yearbook at following timestamps:

ep2 pt1 - 16:58

ep2 pt3 - 3:45

and there was some more bad buddy music as well (diggin' the drama by the new fools) and it amazes me that my brain immediately went "we know this!!" considering it showed up in bad buddy exactly one single time (ep7 pt2 - 13:45). bad buddy really has wormed its way into my brain in every single aspect in the last two years huh djkfkjdfg. anyway you can find it in ep2 of ploy's yearbook at:

ep2 pt1 - 11:10

apart from these, there were also two pieces of music that sounded increeeedibly familiar to me but neither shazam nor google could come up with any results! i'm gonna have to click through my "not found" list at some point, maybe they're already there. here are the time stamps if you're curious:

first one i can't find (ep2 pt3 - 2:06)

second one i can't find (ep2 pt3 - 7:09)

this is gonna bug me for a while....

[0809sysblings]

it is always a little funny to me when people try to make psychologists and psychiatrists out to be the only people ever capable of being able to accurately diagnose mental illnesses and disorders and that their word is law as a way to criticize self diagnosis when like. once i was hospitalized and the psychiatrist there who i had not even known for more than a day tried to diagnose me as bipolar despite me having No history of mania because he.. couldn't really understand why i acted the way i did i guess???

[icewindandboringhorror]

I'm so heavily anti-advertising that all pitches sound goofy silly to me/I can never take them seriously, so I have no idea how I'll manage to to advertise my game even if I do finally finish it soon-ish lol...

[iniziare]

Tag drop: Guizhong (don't mind me re-dropping this with the fixed ones, shh)

[vetometo]

Milestones

Strange, how you just keep existing

How life offers you little to no pretty bows to wrap your stories with

Does everyone live this way I wonder?

Do they also divvy it all up into deadlines and important dates

Manageable chunks

And flounder in between?

Do some people live continuously?

Am I the outlier with my intermittent springs?

And I'm awake and aware through all of it, that's the thing

There's respite to be found but no sleep in the spaces I've created

So I stay, thinking, turning, examining

And await the new milestone to greet

[akwardlyuncool]

Sitting To Know Your Collection September (24) Roundup

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Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 34 (September 2nd - September 8th)

Album: Public Warning (2006) by Lady Sovereign Play Count: 1 and Some Change Top 2 Tracks: - Public Warning (Track 4) - My England (Track 6)

Fun, but you can tell she’s doing what they do currently, which is talk a bunch in hopes that someone will say something to try and get her “canceled.” Or the other more common one of the 2000’s , “I’m not like other girls.” It’s not every song, but they are themes that exist across the album. She’s just being cocky and getting a little bit in your face. It goes on my imaginary list of unofficial music that gives me UK Skins or Misfits vibes. I liked it more than I thought I would. The beats are actually pretty good and she does have some decent flows tucked in there, the album as a whole just might be much for some folks.

PS: It’s gonna be a long 4 years and if you use humor and music to cope add the song Tango to the playlist lol. 😂 🍊

TW: A lot of use of the M-word, in reference of herself.

Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 37 (September 2nd - September 8th)

Album: There’s A MOTH In Your Chest (2007) by Mason Proper Play Count: 4 Top 2 Tracks: - The World Is Smaller Than You Think (Track 8) - Blue Lips Eternal Inquiry (Track 18)

I got this album from my boss in a pile of CDs she was giving away. I took the chance, not knowing anything about it and I will say it wasn’t bad. The bottom half of the album gave real indie-sleaze vibes. After the song The World Is Smaller Than You Think, I would look up and realized that I am paying attention now. Like it was background music until that point and then my ears were there and very interested. It’s a cool little album that I’m glad I took the chance on and will now check out their second album.

Sitting To Know Your Collection: Weeks 38+39 (September 16th - September 29th)

Week 38 Album: North (2003) by Something Corporate Play Count: 4 Top 2 Tracks: - She Paints Me Blue (Track 8) - Space (Track 2)

Week 39 Album: Everything In Transit (2005) by Jack’s Mannequin Play Count: 2 and Some Change Top 2 Tracks: - The Mixed Tape (Track 2) - Rescued (Track 9)

Note: I combined these two because they bled so closely into one another during their binge time.

September was my concert month and Something Corporate was the 2nd show I was going to. Since I needed to beef up my knowledge, I chose North first and added in Everything In Transit just in case they added in any Jack’s Mannequin into the setlist.

It was a great binge that first week, even if it was for a “homework” assignment. I was falling in love with the pop punk, piano rock that I had no doubts about. It just worked. That second week however took a little bit of a dive.

By that second week for EIT, I had consumed so much Something Corporate that I was a little tapped out. It was running through my Spotify on loop as well. That was also the week of the concert, so it was truly just a lot. Don’t get me wrong, the album is great and the show was fantastic, I was just ready to listen to something/someone else by the end of that two week period.

Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 40 (September 30th - October 6th)

Album: I Wish We All Could Win (2005) by The Afters Play Count: 2 Top 2 Tracks: - Beautiful Love (Track 1) - Until The World “Theme from Beautiful People.” (Track 2)

This album was so youth group that although decent, was a little heavy handed for me. This is the second “Christian Rock” album from “the scene” that I spun this year. When I was more actively listening to The Afters, you know around high school, I was more into their MySpace stuff and didn’t realize just how religious it all really was. It wasn’t bad by any means, but if that’s not your vibe, it can feel like a lot. Not saying I didn’t know, just that I wasn’t aware of how much of it was actually a feature cause I mostly played the hits all the time. The re-listen left nothing to vibes though. Even if this wasn’t your thing, go check out the lead single “Beautiful Love” and you’ll probably be reminded of something from your past, whether MySpace or a TV show and that’s enough for me.

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The Playlist!

[lesbiansanemi]

The fact that I’ve found someone to sublease over a week ago and contacted the landlords OVER A WEEK AGO about needing the application forms and they still haven’t given them to us… please they want to move in on June 1st and I also want that so I don’t have to pay rent by myself I hate landlords I hate them so much