#THERES A LOT OF SHIT IN HERE I FUCKED UP 😭😭 BUT ITS TOO LATE TO GO BACK AND FIX IT NOW IM TIRED scheduled in advance post

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IKUUUU and the kagamines i guess

bonus: look at the detail on htis fucking cake i spent so long on it 😭

[mellotronmkll]

Whats your favorite TMBG live tv appearance. If you had to pick one

You mean besides the one that was posted last night ??? Lol

Aaahaahahhhhhhh thanks for asking this it's so hard to pick one actually I don't think I can im gonna end up having to name honorable mentions 😭

But honestly for number 1 well im gonna have to go ahead and be basic and say NICK ROCKS!

Like I think for sure gun to my head if all tmbg videos are gonna be deleted I have to save this one its too good. Sooo much to love about it ....

honorable mentions kinda in chronological order cos im just going through my own youtube playlist I'm favoring mostly just like Musical Performances over like interview segments for the purposes of this questions because if the questions is what are my favorite tmbg interviews it will take me a long time to answer

I don't know if this counts but it did technically air on TV but this is probably just my favorite video ever period literally everything to me

Pretty sure this requires no introductions

this one because it was my gut reaction as soon as I read the question I've just always loved it and it's so special since it was their network television debut! I really like it a lot

Oh on letterman again but I've been really digging this lately

I fucking love this song and this performance of it flans is killing it as always and I love linnell swagging it out in that wrinkled and ill fitting dress shirt so awesome

This one literally made me realize I wanted to be a boy real and not an exaggeration they're so awesome man

THERES NOTHING BETTER THAN THIS flans ripping out the guitar strings at the end of til my head falls off omfg... and I love the interview the interviewer is really good and it's fun

You already know. His 44 year old ass went crazy on that stylophone

I just think linnell looks very handsome and nice here that's all I have to say really

FUCK I had more but I hit video limit. I was gonna say the seven performance on Conan next cos it does do some cocomelon shit to me. Ahhhb sad I hit video limit before I could get some old man johns in here but this already went way beyond the one you asked for

Ummm oh now that I'm finishing this list I'm realizing does jbtv count because . Then that would be the obvious answer for me but I kinda forgot about it until now

[spiteless-xo]

Im so sorry this ramble is so long but here u go🙁

The absolute terror that came over me when i saw the email notification for the new chapter😭😭😭ok before i read im gonna put my final insights here,, ive literally been scrambling around my house procrastinating reading it bc im TERRIFIED and honestly im so sad its ending,, ive been reading since like february??? I think???Idk atp but i cannot express how much ive loved this story i wish it couldve just continued forever🥲🥲

Ok my predictions are that this will not be a one way path ik tiff is evil and likes to fuck w our feelings😞 i think smt twisted like reader picking eren but eren not picking reader could happen BC HE REALISED HIS SELF WORTH MAYBE😭😭but im not intricate enough to actually use that to decide but i honestly am at a loss i have no clue,, its an honest gamble but i do think eren is endgame??? Help i have no clue😭 but i do remember someone analysing the smells? Vanilla is more home and comfort so like a foundation? And citrus was for summer and things but i was thinking how summer is a temporary thing where people live out crazy activities for the sake of it but the whole thing abt it is that its temporary like we always have to go back HOME to our foundation aka vanilla aka eren????

Thing is ive been eren for endgame since DAYY ONEE i only almost switched up once during the arc with erens confession (idky😞) but other than that ive stayed loyal LMAO idk if im just being delusional tho convincing myself I think she'll end up with eren but

ALSO my other point right

I wanna take this back to tiff bc she IS the author😋 from what ive seen in her tumblr,, a lot of the reader owns resemblance to tiff?? She's mentioned a lot how the readers job is based off her irl experience in an office and some of the readers habits shes claimed to have herself i remember she was saying how people bashing the reader made her think like 'wait thats kind of me tho’ i remember it too vaguely to quote but ANYWAY off the basis that the reader is in some aspects (not all) a projection in some ways?? Its gonna influence,, we ALL know tiff is a strong jean girl😭 we love that and so u'd think jean would be picked BUT in between chapters i saw a few tumblr posts abt her growing liking for eren? I wont deny that she is DEFINITELY still a jean girl but i think for some form of variation in her work bc i think as far as i know she only has one other eren story on her ao3 and so i think her growing crush ok eren may be enough to win her over for just this fic even if jean remains her favourite?? I have like ten million other theories but i need to read the chapter now i will be back😋😋 (im so scared im shitting my pants)

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Im back!! its been like 6 days since i read it but i just didnt have time to write out my reaction after bc i was so fucking immersed i lost track of time and was late to meet up w my friends💀💀💀anyway it was such rollercoaster omd😭 the letters from jean we’re honestly so cute and i think the year time skip made everything all the more realistic in her choice bc she frl needed that break😭 OMD AND THE WAY I WAS PANICKING when that girl came out the elevator istg i thought it was mikasa,, with all generic eren fanfics if theres ever a third party to make the reader jealous theres some unspoken rule to never use mikasa for some reason and i was dying thinking it was gonna be her😭😭 commonly people use historia so when even a mention of eren having a new gf came up my mind shot to historia i swear i was worrying just as much as the reader💀 anyway back to jeans letters i was honestly like getting a bit swayed that i wouldnt even be upset if reader ended up w jean and especially considering how offstandish eren was when reader went to see him at first he was like not following up on anything like he was rushing to see his stupid gf (it was armin🎉🎉🥳) AND THE READER WAS SO CUTE FOR THAT GUNDAM (tysm tiff its such a silly headcanon that eren collects those and builds them i can see it HELP) and i think it was so cute seeing the reader and sasha as bsfs more bc i think there was long periods of time that that relationship w sasha wasnt as strongly shown so its so nice AND OMGOGMOGM LEVI????? U made the dynamic w them so well how he has that small bit of warmth telling her she can work there whenever she needs its the cutest thing ever i love it more than ever and the way levi talks abt petra UGH u made everything so endearing, and istg the reader has never been real until this chapter bc she is so right saying that a bunch of paper doesnt change him bc I KNEW AS SOON AS HE SAID HE NEVER LEFT TITAN AND BECAME BASICALLY HIS DAD that he was not gonna be endgame,, i always had the theory that titan and the kirstein status is a metaphor for the status jean has from the reader bc shes loved him for so long thinking hes someone that hes really not,, jean was painfully aware how he could make any mistake at work and have no punishment similarly to how even if he hurts the reader she will always forgive him so if he couldnt avoid reaping the benefits of his kirstein status then it means he’d continue to take advantage of the reader but thing is this status dissolved when she took that year away from him which is why I appreciate how realistic it all is logic wise,, Eren evidently changed and omg i wanna know abt the pictures on his wall bc when reader was first there there was mention how there were no family pictures or any sign of him really living there but when she came back there were pictures,, i was trying to figure out the meaning but i cant get my finger on it😭 my guess is that he found more purpose in life?? Idk bc that seems so vague and farfetched i was wondering what ur intentions were with that🙆‍♀️ and i had a theory AGES AGO that piecks ‘bad bf’ before jean or smt was zeke?? Bc knowing how zeke was in that gc and stuff like that it sounded like smt was gonna link together? I just think the added details abt piecks past was left unfinished so i was also wondering abt that😋 anyway ugh the ending was also so cute usually i hate when characters dance in fanfics but it was so cute and fitting for the moment like THEM AT THE POINT omg i loved it i love u thank you SO MUCH tiff for an amazing story i hope u have a good day bb❤️❤️❤️

omg thank you for a such a lovely message 🥰💗🥰💗 i’ll hide my response under a cut here because it’s long

reading since february!! omg that’s like the beginning! i think i dropped the first chapter on valentine’s day

“tiff is evil and likes to fuck with our feelings” 💀💀💀 yes.

ugh the smells!!!!! that was my biggest slip up frfr 🙈 i said way too much when i responded to that ask because i was so excited someone asked!! and you guys were all right of course. eren was home and jean was just temporary (like the summer season)

lmao ok literally. i was still a hardcore jean girlie when i started writing tbaw and even after i decided it was gonna end w eren. so throughout writing tbaw….. i literally fell in love w eren jaeger 🙈 and i almost fell out of love w jean!!! tbaw!jean is so awful he almost ruined jean completely for me

hehehe yes yes you’re 100% right w jean. he’s so used to taking advantage and never getting punished (w reader and titan) that he doesn’t really see a point in changing because tbh his life is pretty good?? but then when reader spent time away from him, her blind infatuation w him wore off and then when he tried to pull that same shit again, she’s like nah bro.

ok this is probably not clear at all, but the deal w eren’s apartment is that in the beginning it’s very sanitized and show-homey because he feels distant and detached from his friends/family after the death of his mom and becoming close w zeke. he’s like internally ashamed of the way he’s acting because he knows he’s in the wrong so he’s almost punishing himself by distancing himself from everyone.

and then after a year when he’s changed and the pictures are on the wall, its because hes worked his way out of that hole of self loathing and is happy with the person he is now. so he’s able to feel more comfortable, even in the privacy of his own home, and having his mom “watch over him” in a sense, and cherishing his previous relationship w jean and his ongoing friendship w armin, etc etc.

yes!! pieck’s bad bf was zeke! i was originally going to have her have a bigger role in tbaw to show like how eren’s past behaviour can affect people, since she was a victim of that treatment when she dated zeke. but i scrapped it because it would’ve extended the story so much and also i didn’t really like writing pieck lol

so there are like lil bits and pieces about the pieck/zeke relationship and how the way he treated her makes her seek validation in men, but it’s super underdeveloped in tbaw.

thank you again for such a lovely comment!! i’m glad you enjoyed it 🥰💗

[pumpkinsy0]

ok TWO THINGS 1) happy late birthday @minty-bomb this ones for u, baby💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 2) HAPPY HALLOWEEN :DDD i love halloween and i had to pull this art together in like 7 days, it was hell, pls like it, BUT YEA HERES SOME HCS TOO

•curly loves scream (specially the first movie) and watches it like its the inly entertainment on earth

•this halloween pony planned on just chillin at hom eating candy and watching movies but nope ding dong bitch ur bf wants to hang out🗣🗣

•now curly wasnt gonna b in a ghostface costume and just have his bf in normal clothes SO the plan was to make pony a like victim????

•like a last minute matching costume kinda thing :)))

•so they had to go to curlys house and get his fake blood

•why does he just have it lying around?????he wont say

•so after that the plan was to go to this party and just hang out, BUT soda wasnt gonna let pony go to a party w curly until the late hours without a fight

•fight ended pretty quickly bc pony has blackmail of stevepop in action (shhh they werent out as a couple yet)

•dont worry it was a brotherly joking type of blackmail, ponys not actually gonna tell anyone and soda knew it

•but hey if pony was willing to bring up the photo he must’ve rlly wanted to go so soda just let him go

•OHOH curly wanted to rlly sell his costume and fucking cut a telephone out of this rlly old telephone booth

•nothing of real importance happened at the party sooo TIME SKIP :DD

•now the trick or treaters r out and curly is scaring the poor kids and ponys apologizing for him

•curly kept stealing the bowls of candy ppl left out😭

���sometimes a kid would drop their candy and curly would get to it and the kid would ask for it back only for curly to fucking eat it in front of them and run away

•pony would b lying if he said he didnt take some of the stolen candy curly had

•okok it was a pretty cold halloween and pony was wearing short sleeves and the ghostface costume curly had was rlly fucking long n what not, so curly had his arm wrapped around pony a lot bc he was pretty warm

•curly had this fake knife and at some points he would like pretend hes about to stab pony and pony goes “dont stab me mr ghostface, i wanna be in the sequel :(((“

•OH YEA when pony opened the door for curly, curly went “whats ur favorite scary movie”

•BASICALLY they were just quoting iconic lines from the movie

•this also includes curly scary poor ppl in their houses, knocking on their door and saying “u should never say ‘whos there?’ don’t u watch scary movies???” to them when they ask “whos there”

•just taking absolute advantage of dressing as ghostface

•ok im talking about curly a lot but tbh pony was killing it too

•”hey pon can u pass” “im dead, cant”

•theres a photo somewhere of curly fake choking pony

•as a lil game pony would just b running like he was actually being chased and curly would try to find him

•so basically u would see this pretty boy w fake blood all over him booking it and minutes later theres this kid in a ghostface costume asking if youve seen his bf

finished this shit at 12:05am

[sorikkung]

omg why are you up so late you need Rest 😭

firstly i want to say i hope that didnt all come off as me tryna tell you why you should keep writing reader inserts instead of mxm fic, god no - the conversation simply got me thinking and i wanted to add my own two cents on the topic. by all means do go crazy and do what you think is best for your writing and your own enjoyment! even if you needed to put natgig on hold, i dont want to discourage you oml

you definitely don't write a total blank slate, because frankly, i straight-up do not read them SDHGJKDFJKGD i will click off a fic if the reader bores me more than the love interest captures me. it happens fairly often. i too tend to write mcs with personalities similar to mine cause its the easiest to draw from LOL but yeah if thats not how it works for you thats totally fine

that actually is a really big part of it - the audience already liking the character, or at least, the idea of the character, and thus being invested in them from their first appearance, rather than having to build that up over time. frankly, that's the main reason i read more fanfic than original content in general; my adhd is severe as fuck and its hard enough to focus on things i Am invested in, let along things that im Not (yet.) fanfic means less effort for me as a reader into processing new characters and getting a grasp of them. though, that also begs the question - are the original characters youre writing Intended to be liked? do you Want them to be liked right away? sometimes its helpful, especially when writing reader-insert romance, cause if theyre there theyre likely already in love with the character of interest, but sometimes making a character mysterious is harder to do in fic cause we already have a general idea of what theyre like, and anything outside of that could easily be read as just ooc writing. theres pros and cons, i suppose. you're right about the former being rather limiting, though.

for the record, imma just throw it out there that i Love in-depth character building of any kind so if you ever wanted help fleshing out a character you can hit up my dms anytime and id be happy to bombard you with questions abt them that could help you flesh them out. if you dont have an answer, that just means its something to think about!

yeah i also dislike y/n greatly LMFAOOO i just use "y/n fic" sometimes as a shorter way of writing self/reader-insert fic bc i am Lazy and that is a lot more letters. LOL i went through such lengths to exclude it from my latest oneshot that it actually stumped me numerous times, but i figured it out in the end. i honestly think i hate it more as a writer than a reader as well, but for different reasons - more just bc its clunky to write/looks kinda wrong?? and i associate it with the very typical fanfic "y/n" personality i despise so much, but to be fair, ive yet to have anyone refer to my mcs as y/n outside of my social media au, where y/n looks more like a username/online nickname and is less jarring to see than in prose, at least to me, to which i literally just read phonetically as yin. LMAOOO i see why it would be frustrating though, to feel as though the majority of people would only ever see the character as a stand-in for themselves and ignore any effort you put in them. which is really sad, considering i feel like 2nd person characters can be some of the most compellingly-written characters of all, with how deeply and personally you can get into their head - people brushing away all that depth honestly just feels wasteful, in a way. like theres just so much to work with there, and it just happens to be most popular in the genre were the audience wants you Not to work with it??? 😭 its hell in here.

but yeah dont worry you dont sound "incorrect" lmfao theres no right or wrong here really, and thats kinda the beauty of writing your own shit, you can just write whatever the fuck you want! so write whatever compels you, and if thats gonna be 3rd person for a bit, then knock yourself out! i cant promise i will read it as well bc frankly, i cant even read all the 2nd person stories im wanting to, but yk. if i do get around to it, i dont doubt ill be there for a fun ride <3

ok coming into ur ask box this time so we dont have to be confined to the comment limit LOL and dont apologise for rambling i Wanted to pick your brain abt this!! sdhfgjksdfk i see… misbelief about the world driving the plot forward rather than their own motivation, that actually Is a very common plot device in y/n fic now that i think abt it. whenever i try to make my mcs Intentionally vague, it's usually their appearance, or anything regarding their gender. like now that i think abt it i dont think ive ever even tried writing an mc that is vague as a character itself? bc to me, a vague character, a "blank slate", is still a character, just one that lacks any life to it. like, among the writers i like interacting with on here and typically enjoy reading most, the general consensus seems to be that most dont actually read y/n as themselves and see them as more of a vague oc anyway, even as a reader, as they don't actually have any interest in inserting Themselves into a story in the very self-inserty, projecting way y/n fic is known for, and thats why they prefer a really fleshed-out mc.

personally, as a reader i seem to be the niche in between where i Do like projecting myself into the story as a character, but i Don't like blank slate mcs - because theres nothing to project On. i project onto self-insert characters the same way i project onto fully-fleshed characters in regular media, or hell, the same way i sometimes project onto an idol's image themselves. a reader insert being in second person just kinda helps enable the projection, and of course im gonna feel More seen by projecting onto characters that are More similar to me whether that be in gender/pronouns/appearance/personality/etc, but like... i dont go into it expecting to see the Entirety of Myself, written by someone else. i go into expecting to see someone else, in their wholeness as a character, and have them written compellingly enough that i can slot myself over them because even if i wouldnt do things the same way they would, i can still understand them and get in their head enough to "be" them for a while, in a way? like, even if i dont Personally relate to them, if theyre written well enough i can relate to how theyre feeling. kind of. i dont know if this makes any sense. i guess i just like feeling like a part of the story as a reader rather than Watching a story happen, kind of like playing a story-based video game with a preset ending - i get to play out the story as if im a part of it, and im gonna enjoy it even more if the character im playing as is similar to me, but even if theyre not, it still feels like im them for the duration of that story. and playing as a character that has no lines or backstory just isnt Nearly as compelling as playing as a character with a motive. yk? like with video games a blank protag is more forgiving bc you can create your own, but thats what fic is for. thats intentional. but you dont write fic of fic to fill in the blanks like that, so those blanks needa be filled already, imo.

as a writer i like the focus to be on the relationship dynamic the reader has with any of the given love interests, and i don't know how to create a relationship dynamic between two characters when only one character has a defined personality. bc the first question i ask myself is "what are these two characters like together? how do they play off each other/whats their interactions like?" so at this point im like ok x is a snark and y is a sunshine so x teases a lot and y just eats that shit up and gives contrastingly wholesome responses. or something like that. just for a vague idea of what they look like interacting. n then when i start working on the actual Plot, the question is "what made them fall in love with each other?" and This is what i base the entirety of the plot around. i pinpoint the specific traits that theyd like in one another, then i craft the perfect situations for them to experience those traits and fall in love with them. to do that, i need traits for the love interest to fall in love with, and i need a criteria for what the mc will be looking for in the love interest, and such a criteria comes from personality. theyre such closely intertwined concepts to me that i cant separate one from the other, hence why my mc's are all closer to faceless, nameless oc's than a blank slate. the only thing making me hesitate from following melty's lead and straying directly into named oc 2nd person fiction is the fact that i as a reader do like inserting my own name as y/n lmfao on my pc i even have a browser extension that does it for me. but i can use that same extension to change an oc's name in someone elses story so its not a big deal to me as a reader, but i just wonder if there are readers similar to me but that would be thrown off by having a different name instead.

this is really long and rambly unprompted so i apologise SKDFJGSKDFK but ive been itching to get my thoughts out on the matter with all this talk abt how we approach writing mcs. i didn't realise how many longfic writers put so much effort into writing a character so intentionally vague for the purpose of making someone that "could be anybody." but then again, considering im personally alienated from 95% of the fic i read just as a non-woman polyamorous person (among so many other factors), i guess other readers are a lot more used to actually being able to see a perfect carbon copy of themselves in self inserts without having to squint too hard at the lines. huh. wonder what thats like. SKDFGJSDFKGKDF

adding the break as to not horribly flood the dash

i really like what you said about feeling like a part of the story rather than watching it. i’ve been extremely negative all night about this, but at the end of day, i obviously enjoy 2nd person pov. i would hope so, after the shit-ton i’ve read and written, and continue to read and write about it. there is something nice about stepping into the story and experiencing something in such a different way. i enjoy it as a reader, it’s a different kind of experience. it’s really neat.

to be clear, i don’t think i write a total blank-slate. like, to give myself a bit of credit i think all my mc’s have a personality for sure. relationship dynamics with people surrounding them, definitely. they’re usually headstrong and maybe a bit cocky, bc that’s what i like to read and frankly, am generally like LMAO. i by no means take out lines or subject matter bc it could be too much unlike someone reading it. but idk, i feel less inclined to spend as much time as i should creating a completely fleshed out character when i don’t even have an image for them in my head, and majority of readers are going to imagine that it’s themselves anyway (which frankly, as they should, it’s literally called reader-insert). it’s definitely not an everyone problem. like from what you said it definitely seems like reader-insert has helped you develop characters and dive into them, but i just don’t think it works the same way for me.

i’ve been thinking a lot about character building lately. fanfiction itself is one of the most helpful tools and greatest liabilities for character building. on the one-hand, you learn to bring an idea to life. you learn how to really embody a character or person, especially in rpf where you sorta can do whatever you want with no canon, but everyone has a sort of idea or interpretation anyway. but it also relies on the fact that your audience already loves the characters you are using, instead of you having to start from scratch to make them love them.

maybe that’s why my original oc’s feel flat in my personal writings. when people read “y/n” obviously they already care about them bc well, to a lot of people it is them. which is the literal point of reader insert, so i think it would be extremely stupid to discourage that. but for me it feels a bit limiting.

speaking of which, there’s this idea of “y/n” and god… GOD do i hate it.😭not reading wise, bc i understand the appeal and literally throw my name in there and have since i was a pre-teen, but writing wise. i stopped using y/n in my fics as a name holder bc i didn’t like it in there anymore and i couldn’t place why for a while, but i think it’s bc when people call my mc “y/n” it’s just like… in the end that’s all she is. i can put as much planning and shit into this character but she’s not really a character, she feels like a placeholder. at least when we refer to her as mc it’s like, she’s her own thing. she is the main character™️ but when people are like, i love your “y/n”! it’s like she’s compared on this scale of reader-inserts compared to an actual breathing complicated protagonist. it’s hard to explain and i think i’m doing a horrible job, but that’s how i feel about it.

you’re also someone who like, does not do this whatsoever, and comments and discusses the mc as an actual character which i really appreciate. bc you do also write, and i think you share perspective on that even if also inserting yourself into the story. i sorta do both too. you get it. i think this is in a lot of ways a me issue more than a collective issue, which is why it probably sounds a bit messy and maybe just incorrect lmao. but idk, the bottom line of what i’m feeling is if i really want to work on protagonist building and that’s my number one priority that i need to improve upon, why would i do it a genre where a lot of readers (and thus those giving the feedback that i try and use to improve upon) are going to often judge the mc solely on the level of relatability, imagine that it is them and thus view it as such rather than an actual character, i can’t (and shouldn’t) flesh out mannerisms / appearance, and overall just causes an extra level of struggle compared to a third person character that i can fully embody with none of these limits.

especially if i’m starting to realize how much i really like writing in third, it just seems like that is what’s probably the right path for me as a writer. i’m still going to write natgig because i love it and it allows me to do a mixture of all these things, i’m still going to write reader-insert. but if i’m working on individual character building and embodiment revolving around the protagonist, i think a necessary step for me is to redirect a lot of my energy into writing some third-person non reader-insert pov.

[jejciu]

I've been listening to them ever since late 2017 so these are combined both first impressions and the retrospective... Not including their very first album "bad latitudes" from 2014 bc it's not on spotify or youtube and not even their bandcamp 😭 they deleted it from all platforms (except their website which u can - and should - check out here) after signing their first label bc they wanted to focus on pushing new music BUT IT'S SUCH A SHAME BC IT'S SO AMAZING....... anyway

Floral canyon from 2017

GOOD! Great even, I think. I have a weakness for like this garage indie rock (? Lacking a better term for this but it feels fitting) and this hit that spot so perfectly. The album has such great vibes of like "this band you've NEVER heard before but they come from your hometown and they happen to be playing at this bar you're at rn with friends" and I really love that. All the fucking reverb in this too, I just can't help but adore that. Raw (in terms of the sound, not the lyrics or whatever) and familiar-sounding in the best possible way!!!

Best song: plugged in. Feels like Edgar Wright's Scott pilgrim song if sex bob-omb was just slightly more acoustic

Weakest song: girlfriend..... its their most popular song ever on spotify with like a 3 million listens and I CANNOT understand that. Every time I come back to the album I try to give it another chance but its just so..... meh. They have so many more MUCH BETTER songs!!! Even the very first track on the album is a million times more fun.

Glazed from 2019

Well........ Its not very good. I mean like this is obviously very subjective but..... There's none of that garagey vibe from floral canyon. NO reverb!!! :-( now it's just, you know, indie rock. It's not BAD bad, I'd enjoy it as a soundtrack to a fun movie, or if I went to their concert, I feel like then I'd be like yeah that's good! But unfortunately it was suchhhhhh a disappointment for me back when it got released. At that point I've spent the entirety of 2018 listening to FC and then the first single got released in early 2019 and I was like..... Oh. Oh, no. Oh, nooo..... FC raised the bar too high, I'm afraid!!!!!

The thing that bothers me the most about this one was that it just feels like some after-breakup music... Not exactly sad mind you, but it feels like someone still really salty and frustrated tried to express their feelings. It's not really liberating in any way, you're just listening to it like... Hm. Everything else is there, so what's up with the outcome? Did a white instagram witch curse this album?

Best song: apocalyptic/pressure (both are fine, not a huge fan of either but they're more than alright for casual listening)

Weakest song: city of stars. I'm sorry but it legit sounds like a song Hillary Duff would be singing in a sad moment of her 2003 movie while sitting on the windowsill watching the rain!!

Live from home from 2021

When this was recorded, few of their new singles from the upcoming album was released (I'll talk about that in a second), so this one is a mix of different releases. Theres not much to say about it, I like it but don't prefer it over the original versions. The fact that Allie X also released a live recording album about a month earlier didn't help, I think. Hers was truly breathtaking ("love me wrong" was just.... Holy shit!!!!! The superior version), so my expectations for "live from home" might have been a bit too high, sadly.

Best song: not the one (live).. It's just great honestly!!!!!

Weakest song: girlfriend (live).... Well!

Song(s) for a nice drive from 2021 (EP)

Very different from their other releases. Came out last November and although its not my favorite, it is good. Better than previous two releases for sure! Reminds me of Aly & AJ newer songs and I do like those a lot. A very sweater weather EP!!! Good for long drives indeed.

Best song: your after

Weakest song: NONE!!! like not that I think this is the best album of all time or something but all songs are very pleasant and there's no skipping around bc when I'm listening to it im already in like this calm, soft mood so everything is great.

NEW RELEASES (2020-2022)

For an upcoming album that I don't know a single thing about (what's the title? When's it coming out? The singles are pretty spread out in time so are they all gonna be in the album?)...... Its all SO GOOD. STUPID GOOD ALMOST!!! The very first two singles that got released summer 2020 - wind in my sail/hold tight - I was kind of like yeah that's fine. I'm not super hype yet but it sounds good! And THEN they released "for leaving you" and I KNEWWWWWW I was already in love. And then I also discovered they released two track single for Halloween 2020 and it was even better than I hoped for (why is it not on spotify? Hello?? It DESERVED to be on my 2021 wrapped).

The garagey feel of it is back and it's even better than in FC!!! The cover art of the singles is great as well, the retro vibe works soooo good with it. Almost all songs are upbeat and feel like summer. I love that.

Best song: paranoid or pulling the strings. Both are amazingggggggggg but unfortunately paranoid is only available on bandcamp! :( I really really hope it'll get released in the album as well bc otherwise I'm gonna die.

Weakest song: hold tight!, so far. It's kind of more mid but not bad either really?

To sum it all up, my ranking of above releases:

1. The new upcoming album singles

2. Floral canyon

3. Song(s) for a nice drive

4. Live from home

5. Glazed

Go listen to *repeat repeat!!!!!!!!!!!! Overall I really do love their sound, it's such a shame they're not more popular.

I'm gonna rank *repeat repeat albums because I can and want to