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idk how many of you have taken a linguistics class but this is literally what it is. teacher goes “make this sound” and for the next hour it’s just a bunch of people having existential crises about their own mouth sounds.
simply put, linguistics 101 is making the most unattractive noises humanly possible for extended period of times and then being amazed and surprised by it.
#image description in alt#this is what we do#us linguistic bitches#and it’s the best#like so many sounds are the exact same sound but one is voiced and one is voiceless#like phil said labiodental fricative#but there are 2#one is /f/ and one is /v/#they are the exact same sound#but /f/ is voiceless and /v/ is voiced#which basically just means your vocal chords vibrate#so whispering is basically just making all voiced consonants voiceless#so if you were to say#do that very quickly#and whisper it#it would become#to that fery quickly#with a different th#dnp#yeet my deet#dan and phil#phan#lingblr#danandphilgames#amazingphil#phil lester#english language and linguistics#yeet my deenp#pp42??
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c'eri nei giorni neri quelli che piove troppo forte per stare in piedi e fottevamo anche la morte volando leggeri mi hai chiesto dimmi cosa temi in che cosa credi la mia risposta sei tu
ricordi by pinguini tattici nucleari
#hello simi community how are we doing???#simi posting in italian time hell yeah#also in the alt text there is the translation btw!!!#i love this whole song and the band and these lines struck a big chord in me tbh#so so so happy to combine simi and italian together :D#ps: the flowers have meanings!!!#pps: this is a lil treat while i try to rest and find some energy back!!!#hope you enjoy!!!#simi#sebastian vettel#kimi räikkonën#kimi raikkonen
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#tryna strike a chord but it's probably A Minor#these hoes don't be mad at Megan#these hoes mad at Megan's Law🤝#kendrick lamar#drake#Youtube#ALT#View on Twitter#… shit is wild 😮💨🤣🤣🤣#Not like us#aubrey graham#drake diss#kendrick#kdot#kendrick diss#megan thee stallion#meet the grahams#family matters#Kendrick lamar#rap#hip hop#dreamville#metro boomin#rick ross#diss tracks#euphoria#6:16 in LA#music#💀💀💀#More from @kcyars9
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bruce foxton is one of the greatest bassists oat, no i will not be told otherwise
#like he has no song where he needs to be doing allat😞 i struggle to play basic chords at school☹️#icl i think he overtook my number 1 bassist spot😨 no way he replaced john deacon#the jam#bruce foxton#music#alt indie#bands#bass#bass player#basist#british music
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Small Spotify Artists* That I Think Deserve More Publicity
*<1 million monthly listeners, >100,000 monthly listeners
Each artist has a brief description using tags that spotify uses, so if you have recommendations with these kinds of tags or it was on your Spotify Wrapped, that artist would be for you :)
Richello - pop edm, scandipop
iamnotshane - singer-songwriter pop
Nico Collins - pixel, alt z, social media pop
Sail North - shanty, pixel, deathgrass
angelbaby - dark r&b, weirdcore
Robert Grace - singer-songwriter pop
Jordan Clarke - alt z
Jake Daniels - dark r&b
Shayfer James - soulful rock, pov: indie
Survive Said The Prophet - j-poprock, japanese alternative rock
Aero Chord - bass trap, gaming edm
Tape Machines - scandipop
City Wolf - boss beat, rebel blues
Devon Cole - singer-songwriter pop
Di Young - meme
Feel free to reblog and add other artists!
Even Smaller Spotify Artists That I Think Deserve More Publicity (<100,000 monthly listeners)
#spotify#music#music recs#richello#iamnotshane#sail north#nico collins#angelbaby#robert grace#jordan clarke#jake daniels#shayfer james#survive said the prophet#aero chord#tape machines#city wolf#devon cole#di young#dark r&b#alt z#singer-songwriter pop#scandipop#pov: indie#pop edm#gaming edm#shanty#weirdcore#pixel#nashville indie#boss beat
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Trying somethin different with a new tuning I learned
#music#musicproducer#garageband#electric guitar#independent music#epiphone#gretsch#bass#electric bass#punk#punk music#rock#alt rock#creating that chord progression was fun#hope to try style of music more
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Me waiting for Dylan Griggs to release the basement song album
#AND THE CHORDS FOR ALBEDO G-D DAMMIT#dylan. dylan please. please dylan#woe.begone#id in alt#rome.rambles#2024
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Re: indie rock/indie folk, which I cannot meaningfully distinguish between because I attended SUNY Purchase: Jenny Owen Youngs, Kiss Kiss, Langhorne Slim, Regina Spector, Joanna Newsom, and O’Death come to mind on the “folkier” end. On the “rockier” end: The National, Arcade Fire, Waxahatchee, Japanese Breakfast, Vampire Weekend. I enjoy a handful of records from a handful of these bands/artists and openly disdain others but for the most part characterize the “indie rock” that I prefer to listen to — louder, dumber, angrier, hornier — as “alternative rock.” I wouldn’t classify myself as a hater but I regard the labels with admittedly ungenerous suspicion.
As for indie classical: uhhh Max Richter? Jack Treese?? Zero real reference point here for what that means. I asked my husband and he went, “…like NPR shit?” LOL
this is super interesting! thanks for sharing!
i definitely find myself distinguishing between "indie" and "alt" as signifiers (both supposedly shorthand for "non mainstream") along the lines of "how obvious is the guitar distortion," which seems super specific and/or arbitrary but then so are many learned associations and it's interesting that this one is shared. i also feel like the music i associate with the terms in my op generally does not "do" anger in the way mainstream or even "alt" rock does anger as a primary or comfort-zone subject matter / affect, like you mentioned. this may also just be the word "indie" having a diminutive feel; idk; but it's interesting to note
"npr shit" is also evocative, lol. max richter absolutely checks the boxes of "classical crossover" and "new music" for me while somehow not being on my radar of what those things connote which is interesting! same deal with ólafur arnalds for example. for me "indie classical" brings to mind discourses on artists that are “rockier” & more bang on a can-ish, ie more self-consciously "not easy listening," but that's strictly from a u.s. perspective too and my own perception of it is maybe more about self-marketing than sound anyway. thanks!
#carol replies to things#power-chords#hm. now i am wondering about indie vs alt and the additional binaries that get mapped onto those#obviously a lot of / most indie is amplified in some manner irl but there's sort of an acoustic/electric mapping#different expectations around timbral 'transparency' maybe as well#re: the national - bryce dessner is (was?) also very involved in a subset of new classical music around this time
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We shld probably change the sysnames on our about
#Decayed Collective is actually an alt name that we used cuz it sounded cooler + its shorter/less of a mouthful#our “official” system name is The Umbrella System#god.. we have so much to do#proxy: 💊#decayed vocal chords !!
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Brennan Lee Mulligan and Sam Reich on the exploitations of capitalism and the love of work on Adventuring Academy S5 E1
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Brennan Lee Mulligan: "[I hit a chord] where I was like, well, work is not capitalism. Capitalism is the exploitation of another's labor. The exploitation is the bad part .... Like things do need to be created .... Like food needs to move from Point A to Point B. Like work is beautiful.
Sam Reich: For sure, for sure.
Brennan: And it's the fact that we denigrate certain kinds of work and don't celebrate all the work that is, like, so painful and hurtful and that it gets exploited.
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the twelfth doctor’s one of those guitarists that doesn’t sing. he just refuses to. it’s not his style, he doesn’t do well to express himself in words when melody and chords can do the trick. you know who *is* the singer of this imaginary all-nuwho-doctor band though? ten. he has all the vibes of a cheeky lead vocalist from some 90s alt-pop-grunge band. i mean, he’s literally jarvis cocker. thirteen’s the drummer, nine is on bass and eleven’s on keys. fifteen i don’t know yet, we’ll have to watch the devil’s chord to decide
as for the master’s rival band, saxon is, in a tragic twist of irony, on the drums, but he can only play in 4/4, so they’re a shitty punk band. missy’s the obligatory Hot Goth Female Bassist — fitting that stereotype plays right into her intense performance of gender. spy is the vocalist and rhythm guitarist: dramatic and theatrical, he makes a show of every phrase…
thinking about this as an au now. that would be cringe. i don’t write aus i don’t write aus i don’t
#doctor who#dw#nuwho#the master#the doctor#thoschei#doctor who au#twelfth doctor#tenth doctor#thirteenth doctor#eleventh doctor#ninth doctor#missy#jamie.txt#eardrums
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so, there's no official place im aware of that's compiled the names of every music track in rain world which includes DLC, unused tracks, alpha tracks, and includes every location those tracks can be found, so! i made one :) mostly just for my own fun bc i love cataloguing things.
sadly i cant include links bc there's a limit on tumblr, but these should all be pretty easy to find with a quick google search. to find the rooms listed here, since room names aren't necessarily very descriptive, you can use the interactive map!
black text = track plays in vanilla game (these songs may appear additional times with blue text in other sections)
purple text = track is unique to the downpour ost
orange text= unused vanilla track, from the files or james' soundtrack albums, which was added in-game in downpour
blue text= track used for a new location in downpour, but also appears somewhere in vanilla (these songs also appear with black text in their original vanilla locations)
all in-game tracks are sorted by the regions they appear in. some tracks play in multiple regions- these will appear on the list multiple times, sorted into each region they play in.
Trailer and promotional music (Can all be found on Youtube)
RW dayns: promotional material (Remix of Sundown)
Threat - Superstructure (Trailer Remix): Switch trailer
What Fate A Slugcat: Release trailer (Alt version of Urban Jungle)
Together: Co-op trailer
Overskog: Downpour launch trailer, creatures teaser
Downpour: Downpour teaser trailer
Triptrap: Downpour regions teaser
Landmarks: Downpour lizards teaser
Task: Challenge mode teaser
Unused threat layers (can be found on Music page of RW Wiki)
Threat - Outskirts: with unused layer SU_4
Threat - Farm Arrays: with unused layer TH_LF - CHORDS
(note: listed on the wiki are two additional unused layers for Threat - Garbage Wastes and Threat - Heavy Industrial, but listening to them I can find literally zero difference from the original release. maybe it's just my ears idk)
Alpha tracks (from the original Alpha release of the game, called Alpha_8, later added to Alphas, Gems and Junk)
RW_2: Alpha_8
RW_3: Alpha_8
RW_4: Alpha_8, Alpha Trailer Music
RW_5: Alpha_8
RW_6: Alpha_8 (titled Deathpit in James Primate's Soundcloud)
RW_11: Alpha_8
Album Exclusives
RW_12: Alphas, Gems and Junk (titled 3 Moon Sunset on James' Soundcloud)
Illegible Neon Signs (RW_17): Alphas, Gems and Junk
Beat (RW_21): Alphas, Gems and Junk
Beat (RW_22): Alphas, Gems and Junk
Beat (RW_23): Alphas, Gems and Junk
Sky Islands (RW_24): Alphas, Gems and Junk
Night City (RW_25): Alphas, Gems and Junk
Free Mind Loop (RW_30): Alphas, Gems and Junk
Sub Sub Sub (RW_31): Alphas, Gems and Junk
Frost Reaper (RW_98): Downpour OST album
Threat - Rubicon (TH_HR): Downpour OST album
Arena music
Noisy (RW_10): Arena
Action Scene (RW_13): Arena (titled Breakbeat Bonebreak on James' Soundcloud)
Weyuon (RW_33): Arena
Slaughter (RW_34): Arena
Wired (RW_68): Arena
GREY CLOUD (RW_32): Arena
Rooftops (RW_7): Arena (titled Skyline in James' Soundcloud)
Menu and cutscene
Sundown (Theme I) (RW_8): Main menu and credits (Technically combination of Sundown (no rain) and TitleRollRain) [titled Adagio for Rain World on James' Soundcloud]
Pictures of the past (RW_Intro_Theme): Survivor and Monk intro cutscene
Passages: passage screen
Reclaiming Entropy (RW_92): Saint end cutscene and credits (Was formerly named Theme V - Credits pre-Downpour)
Outro Theme (RW_Outro_Theme_B): Survivor, Monk, and Gourmand end cutscenes
Satellite (RW_72): SI_A07 (Spearmaster end cutscene)
BM_SS_DOOR: Saint intro cutscene
Train Tunnels (RW_27): Expedition menu
Garden (RW_65): Expedition loss screen
Halcyon Memories (NA_19): CL_AI, RM_AI (Music pearl), Rivulet end cutscene and credits (Spelled Halcon Memories in OST album)
BM_CC_CANOPY: Artificer end cutscene
Deep Light (Theme IV): Ascension end cutscenes (Technically combination of Deep Ghosts/VS_E_DEEP_GHOSTS, The Core/VS_F_THE_CORE and Outro Theme/RW_Outro_Theme)
Game Music
Outskirts (SU)
Threat - Outskirts (TH_SU)
Unseen Lands (NA_40): SU_A53
Urban Jungle (RW_1): SU_B04
Proxima (NA_01): SU_A07
Frosted Festival (RW_80): SU_A53 (Saint only)
Distance (NA_30): SU_PUMP03
Drainage System (DS)
Mud Pits (RW_09): DS_B02
The Wet Moist (RW_38): DS_B04
Old Growth (RW_15): DS_B01
Swaying Fronds (RW_51): DS_A26
Breathing Hyometer (RW_81): DS_GUTTER01
Industrial Complex (HI)
Threat - Heavy Industrial (TH_HI)
BM_HI_GATE: HI_B04
Bio-Engineering (RW_43): HI_B04, HI_A07
Mist Engine (RW_50): HI_A18
Sheer Ice Torrent (RW_91): HI_A07 (Saint only), HI_B04 (Saint only)
Garbage Wastes (GW)
Threat - Garbage Wastes (TH_GW)
Garbage Worms (RW_52): GW_B01, GW_TOWER02, GW_TOWER03
Lack of Comfort (RW_39): GW_D02, GW_B09_PAST
Garbage City Shuffle (RW_37): GW_C02, GW_C04, GW_TOWER15
Albino (RW_43): GW_E01
Stone Heads (RW_19): GW_C03
Overcast (RW_79): GW_A25
Accidented Condition (RW_83): GW_E01 (Saint only)
Eyes of Iron (RW_90): GW_C03 (Saint only)
Shoreline (SL)
Threat - Shoreline (TH_SL)
BM_SL_SHORE: SL_B02, SL_D05, SL_F01
Lonesound (RW_46): SL_D06
New Terra (NA_21): SL_A06
The Captain (RW_18): SL_A05
Moondown (Theme II) (NA_11): SL_AI, SL_WALL06 (also called Digital Sundown)
Vast Unlife (RW_89): SL_D05 (Saint only), SL_F01 (Saint only), SL_TUNNELA (Saint only)
New Else VIII (NA_42): SL_WALL06 (ECHO) (Saint only)
Veiled Northstar (RW_93): SL_TUNNELA
Shaded Citadel (SH)
Black Moonlight (RW_26): SH_D01
Demonic Riser (NA_25): SH_B17
Dripping Time (NA_17): SH_A05
Lantern Mice (RW_58): SH_C10, SH_A21
Floes (RW_40): SH_E05
ELSE III (NA_34): SH_A08 (ECHO)
Dark Sus (NA_08): SH_B05, SH_A24
BM_SH_CRYPTS: SH_B12 (Vanilla, patched out)
The Exterior (UW)
White Lizard (RW_55): UW_D02
Underhang (BM_UW_UNDERHANG): UW_C03
BM_UW_WALL: UW_D07
ELSE IV (NA_35): UW_A14 (ECHO)
Stargazer (NA_28): UW_H01
Pictures of the Past (RW_Intro_Theme): UW_J01 (Inv only)
Passages: UW_A14 (Inv only)
Five Pebbles (SS)
Threat - Superstructure (TH_SS)
BM_DS_GATE: SS_B01
Interest Pad (NA_09): SS_A09
Drastic FM (NA_16): SS_F03
Energy Circuit (NA_26): SS_D03
Random Gods (Theme III) (NA_41): SS_E07, SS_L01, SS_E06
Chimney Canopy (CC)
Threat - Chimney Canopy (TH_CC)
Threat - Chimney Canopy (The Gutter variant)
BM_CC_CANOPY: CC_A02, CC_H01 (Saint only)
Wind Chimes (RW_48): CC_B06
Sky Sprite (RW_55): CC_C11
ELSE I (NA_32): CC_C12 (ECHO), SB_A14
Cracked Earth (NA_39): CC_OUTPUT
Sky Islands (SI)
Threat - Sky Islands (TH_SI)
Lovely Arps (RW_29): SI_D03
Kayava (RW_42): SI_D01
Speaking Systems (NA_23): SI_C06
Crystalline (NA_20): SI_B11, SI_D05
ELSE VII (NA_38): SI_B11 (ECHO)
Silicon (NA_04): SI_B12
BM_SI_STRUT: SI_B13, SI_F01
Chillblain Grace (RW_84): SI_C02 (Saint only)
Farm Arrays (LF)
Threat - Farm Arrays (TH_LF)
All Thats Left (RW_14): LF_A14
ELSE V (NA_36): LF_B01 (ECHO)
Distance (NA_30): LF_D01
Nest in Metal (RW_49): LF_A01
Maze of Soil (RW_47): LF_D08
Raindeer Ride (RW_54): LF_H01
Emotion Thread (NA_24): LF_J01
Subterranean (SB)
Ferrous Forest (RW_28): SB_G02, SB_G03
Leviathan Cave (RW_53): SB_J02
Grumblebum (RW_41): SB_A03, SB_H02
Deep Energy (RW_45): SB_F03
ELSE II (NA_33): SB_A10 (ECHO)
Silent Construct (NA_27): SB_D04, SB_F02, SB_I01, SB_B04, SB_E07
Gold Swim (VS_A_GOLD_SWIM): Upper void sea
Big Open (VS_B_BIG_OPEN): Central void sea
Worm Inferno (VS_C_WORM_INFERNO): Central void sea
The Ride (VS_D_THE_RIDE): Void sea
Deep Light (Theme IV): Bottom void sea (Technically combination of Deep Ghosts/VS_E_DEEP_GHOSTS, The Core/VS_F_THE_CORE and Outro Theme/RW_Outro_Theme)
BM_SB_FILTER: SB_J03
BM_SB_SUBWAY: SB_C10, SB_F01, SB_H03
Orange Lizard (RW_62): SB_TESTB, SB_TESTC
BM_SH_CRYPTS: SB_D04
Else I (NA_32): SB_A14, SB_D03
ELSE VII (NA_38): SB_D01
Pipeyard (VS)
Rooftops (RW_7): VS_A01
Rain (RW_61): VS_B02, VS_B10, VS_C13
Veiled Northstar (RW_93): VS_A09
Fragments (RW_96): VS_F01
Threat - Pipe Yard (TH_VS)
Metropolis (LC)
GREY CLOUD (RW_32): LC_GIRDERWALK
ELSE VI (NA_37): LC_highestpoint (ECHO)
Dustcloud (NA_02): LC_TEMPLEENTRANCE
Phasing (NA_06): LC_C08
Lost City (RW_59): LC_ENTRANCEZONE
Threat - Metropolis (Day) (TH_LC)
Threat - Metropolis (Night)
Train Tunnels (RW_27): Can play when cycle ends
Outer Expanse (OE)
Sparkles (NA_05): OE_RAIL01, OE_TOWER09
Reminiscence (NA_11): OE_TREETOP
Bloom (RW_60): OE_JUNGLE05
Wandering Cut (RW_63): OE_RAIL02
Daze (RW_64): OE_RUIN14
Ancient (RW_69): OE_RUIN02
Open Skies (RW_97): OE_RUINBACKHALL
Threat - Outer Expanse (TH_OE)
Threat - Outer Expanse (Night)
Pictures of the Past (RW_Intro_Theme): OE_CAVE02
Waterfront Facility (LF)
The Coast (RW_16): LM_D06 (also called Shoreline)
BM_UW_UPPERWALL: LM_WALL01, LM_WALL02
Metal Canopy (RW_66): LM_TOWER09
Trusted Component (RW_82): LM_BRIDGE02, LM_BRIDGE03
Threat - Waterfront Facility (TH_LM)
BM_SL_SHORE: LM_D05, LM_F01
New Terra (NA_21): LM_A06
Veiled Northstar (RW_93): LM_TUNNELA
The Rot (RM)
Wormpad (NA_03): RM_GSB1
Qanda (NA_07): RM_D02
Sparkling Pendulum (RW_71): RM_B04
Flicker (RW_73): RM_I03
Not Your Rain (RW_76): RM_ROT01
Threat - Superstructure (TH_SS)
BM_DS_GATE: RM_B01
Interest Pad (NA_09): RM_A09
Energy Circuit (NA_26): RM_D03
Looks to the Moon (DM)
Glass Arcs (NA_18): DM_I02, DM_I05
Flutter (NA_29): DM_WALL06
Scapeless Doubt (RW_70): DM_LEG01
Obverse of the Old Wind (RW_78): DM_ROOF01
Reflection of the Moon (RW_95): DM_ROOF04, DM_MOONCHAMBER
Threat - Looks to the Moon (TH_DM)
Underhang (BM_UW_Underhang): DM_LEG07, DM_U09
Silicon (NA_04): DM_VISTA
Silent Construct (NA_27): DM_CROSSOVER02
Random Fate (RW_67) DM_I11
Undergrowth (UG)
Past Echoes (NA_06): UG_C02 (ECHO)
They Say (NA_22): UG_B02, UG_B10
Breathing Hyometer (RW_81): UG_GUTTER01
Weathered Steps (RW_94): UG_A05
Swaying Fronds (RW_51): UG_A26
Submerged Superstructure (MS)
Garden (RW_65): MS_BITTERENTRANCE, MS_SPLITSEWERS
Random Fate (RW_67): MS_LAB14
Aquaphobia (RW_74): MS_I06
Onto A New Dawn (RW_75): MS_FARSIDE
Fragile (RW_77): MS_BITTERAERIE2
Ascent (RW_85): MS_ENTRANCE
Flux (RW_88): MS_I02, MS_I03
ELSE IV (NA_35): MS_COMMS (ECHO, Saint only)
Silent Construct (CL)
Fading Light (RW_87): CL_D01
Demonic Riser (NA_25): CL_B17
Dark Sus (NA_08): CL_A24
ELSE IV (NA_35): CL_D05
Rubicon (HR)
Pulse (NA_31): Saint ending
The Cycle (RW_86): HR_M01, HR_M02, HR_M03, HR_M04, HR_FINAL
ELSE II (NA_33): HR_C01
#text#rain world#the wiki only includes vanilla tracks atm#and theres a reddit post which has the locations of vanilla + downpour tracks but is missing unused tracks + cutscene music#so i figured id just make this myself#if im missing anything or made any mistakes lmk!
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tips on how to title your ao3 fic
my tips for trying to figure out a title using some titles I've used before as examples
a short phrase that someone says that is repeated, verbally or in their head (ex. only friends)
something like a phrase or word(s) that encompasses the vibe (ex. phases of the moon, chord crush, or even my favorite color is triangle)
something said or used that is heavy hitting or notable in the story (ex. save a spot for me, let me take care of you, or honeybees, i'm home)
a metaphor (ex. moth to a flame)
the struggle and/or an object close to the plot (ex. (not) just a costume, fireworks, needles)
blank & blank (alt. blank and blank) (ex. helixes & abalone shells, festivals and ferris wheels, or fidgets & flower shops)
puns, silly things and/or references (ex. zombabe or canary wings and pronouns)
lines from lyrics or poems you like (ex. know that all my love will be your breath or all is fair in love and war)
A title can be any combination of these or more! If you have more ideas on how to name something, feel free to reblog this and add to it :D
If you want to learn tips on how to tag, click on this!
#rain rambles#rain’s tips#ao3 writer#ao3 author#ao3#ao3 help#archive of our own#fanfic#fanfiction#title suggestions#book title#idk how to tag this#fanfic writing
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Guitarist Gaz x reader
2k | fluff, teenage crush, late 90s You were in a band with Gaz
“You’re pulling my leg,” Kyle deadpanned.
“Really. My mum said I should be studying for my A-levels.” Jack hung his head as he tried to smear off the crusty mud from the side of his sole.
“But the gig is this weekend!”
“’m sorry, Gaz. She’s holding my guitar hostage. Said she’s going to sell it if I’m not home right away after classes.”
“You know we can’t do with only three members,” he said exasperatedly.
“There’s still a few days, I’ll help you find someone.”
After band practice sans Jack “mum-said-I-can’t” Wilshire, Kyle hopped onto the local forum with a grumble.
This was stupid. It would take a miracle for him to find a replacement for Jack in mere days. Regardless, he punched the words into his keyboard.
Sixth Form alt band looking for a stand-in guitarist for a birthday gig this Saturday
Later that night, his PC pinged with a notification.
Hiya, I’m interested in the gig. Where do you practice? I can meet tomorrow to see if I’m a good fit.
He breathed a sigh of relief. There was still hope. He didn’t have to cancel and embarrass himself.
Sweet. Here’s my college. See ya at the bus stop at 2 mate
The next day after classes, Kyle and his two bandmates waited at the bus stop.
“Gaz, how do you know he’s not a no-show?” Tim sat on the bench, twirling his drumsticks.
With his foot, Owen toyed with the overgrown grass under the bus stop sign. “We’ve been waiting forever.”
“Come on, lads. We need him, yeah?” He turned to them, trying to cheer up his mates. ”Let’s just hope he’s decent.”
Across the street, a bus alighted with a screech and a loud hiss. A few seconds later, it departed, revealing you behind it. You wore your college’s uniform, hair lightly tousled from the weather, your gig bag on your back.
“It’s a she?” Owen straightened up.
“Well, I assumed-“
Tim stood up, slipping his drum sticks in his back pocket as he walked over with a smile.
“No,” Kyle stood in front of him, trying to bite down his smile. “She talked to me. I go.” He marched towards you, ignoring Owen’s ‘or we could wait for her to cross the street’.
“Kyle?”
“Hiya.” He smiled, the most charming one he could muster. “Thought you were a bloke.”
You cocked your brow. “I thought the handle was obvious.”
Was it? He was too focused on the fact that he got a candidate (the only one so far).
He rubbed the back of his neck. “Okay, well let’s go meet the lads.”
You followed as he made his way towards his mates.
“This is Owen, our bassist.” He pointed at the tall bloke with the blond buzzcut. “And this is Tim, our drummer.”
He nodded at you, his dark fringe bobbing in the air.
“And me, I’m the vocalist and lead guitarist. You’re going to be Jack’s stand-in as the rhythm guitarist. Is it okay if you play us something here? Apparently, we’re not allowed to bring non-students onto the campus.”
“Yeah, no worries.” You sat on the bench and took your guitar out. “Anything specific?”
“Nope, whatever you’re comfortable with.”
The familiar intro of Wonderwall wafted in the air. You were a little quiet at first but encouraged by the approving nods and smiles of the lads, you opened up. Kyle watched the way you strummed, fingers expertly dancing across the fretboard, chords held precisely. Your clean notes did the classic justice. They all sang the last verse together.
“Wow, that was real sweet.” Owen said.
“Watch out, Gaz, you might be the stand-in by the end of this.”
He gave Tim the side eye before smiling at you. “Should we start practicing today?”
Practice was at Tim’s the days leading up to the gig, as it always was. His spacious room was cosy and soundproof, plus his mum baked the best cookies.
How obvious was it that Kyle always wanted to sit next to you on the bus? Or let his mates walk ahead of the both of you, so he could have a little moment with you to chat?
But it was the next day that he only dared to make his move.
“It’s getting late. Would you like me to walk you home?”
You looked up as you zipped your gig bag close.
“I live closer to you than her and you never offer to walk me home,” Owen chided, making Tim cackle from the other end of the room.
He pretended not hear anything, his eyebrow rose instead as he rapidly lost his cool.
You stifled a laugh. “Okay,” you said.
Kyle beamed, flipping Owen the bird before he shut the door on his way out. He left his guitar because ‘we’ll be back tomorrow anyway’ and helped you carry yours instead.
“You hungry? That chippy is good.” He pointed at a busy shop on your way to the bus stop.
“I am, actually.” Your steps slowed.
After a bit of queuing, the both of you sat in the cramped corner of the shop.
You took small bites of your piping hot chips. “What are you doing after Sixth Form?”
“I’m enlisting in the army,” he said with pride.
You smiled. “Your parents must be so proud.”
“They are. I’ve always wanted to do this and I’m glad they’re supportive.”
“I wish you the very best, Kyle. I think you’d be a wonderful soldier.”
He beamed. “Thank you.”
The conversation continued to what you were going to study in uni, and how the both of you got into music. He told you all about his heroes and seeing how you lit up in recognition of the names made him gooey. You get me.
After the meal, you waited at the deserted bus stop, pedestrians passing occasionally.
“Can I play?” He gestured at your guitar.
You nodded and he took it out of the bag, skilfully picking the strings to Iris. You smiled in recognition of the song and couldn’t help singing along. Engrossed in the little concert, none of you registered the bus was approaching.
His hands slowed, and you turned behind you.
“Oh, need to go, need to go!” You laughed, grabbing the bag beside him, scrambling to the edge of the pavement.
He smiled behind you as you boarded. The bus had no empty seats left, and the both of you stood there facing each other as he held your guitar, resting it on his shoe.
You didn’t seem to want to meet his eyes, but he found it cute. You had a sweet smile and an even sweeter laugh. He appreciated your openness to spontaneity, loving the twinkle in your eye as you sang with him just a minute ago. You were a breath of fresh air.
The next day, Kyle offered to walk you home after dinner again. You let him, even had his hand brush against yours a few times. The next, since he finished his classes early, he asked if he could pick you up in front of your college.
He waited at the bus stop, head on a swivel, worried that he’d miss you among the sea of students. But you soon approached with your friends who giggled as they eyed him.
He smiled at the refreshing sight of you, hands pulled out of his pockets. “Hiya,” he breathed, barely glancing at your friends.
You stood in front of him as you chewed on your lip, smiling but not meeting his eyes. “Hi,” you mumbled.
One of the girls nudged you with a teasing smile before walking along.
“Oh, uh, see you on Monday, babes!” you called out to them.
“Good luck for your gig!” the blonde said.
“I hope I’m up to par for tomorrow,” you said to yourself.
“You are, trust me. We don’t need Jack anymore.”
You laughed.
“Here, let me just…” he grabbed the strap of your gig bag.
“You’re the sweetest, Kyle.”
He smiled, pulling the straps over his shoulders. I’m trying! “I got you this.” He pulled out a packet of gummy bears from his pocket.
“Thank you so much!” You tore the packet open, popping a bear into your mouth, before offering him some.
At the bus stop, he sat next to you just a little closer than a friend would.
“Oh, one of my girls let me borrow Jagged Little Pill for the weekend.” You grabbed your Discman from your bag, handing an earphone to him. “I wanted to listen to it with you.”
How did you not expect him to melt at that? When each of you had an earphone on, you hit play and he wouldn’t be mad if the bus never came. With you, this was the perfect afternoon.
He should have got more gummy bears.
You and the band played through the setlist flawlessly as the party went on. It was the most fun Kyle had had at a gig that he didn’t realise the hour was up. When Owen and Tim went off to grab food, without missing a beat, he strummed More than Words.
Kyle barely took his eyes off you as you sat across him with your guitar throughout the gig, a sweet smile on your face. If he kept playing, this would never have to end, right?
Your arms paused in the air as you took your guitar off before setting the strap back and smiling in recognition. You sat back down, your foot tapping to the gentle rhythm before joining him in singing. The crowd gathered and sang together, and you both couldn’t help dueting a few more mellow songs as Owen and Tim cheered on.
By the end of the night, Kyle was holding your hand. It was nice to not be insecure of his calloused fingers. Yours were too, like a shared secret. As you neared home, his arm grew stiff. Was this his last time walking you home?
“We don’t have anything else coming up, but you’re always welcome to swing by anytime.” He handed you your guitar. He insisted to help you with it even when he had his too. “We can just jam together.”
“What’s going to happen to Jack?”
“Like I said, we don’t need him anymore.”
You laughed. “Yeah? I should probably study for my A-Levels too.”
He scratched the back of his neck. “We can always meet at your college if you want. Or somewhere else. Wherever you want really.” I just want to keep seeing you.
You smiled. “I’d love that.”
Since then, he picked you up after classes almost every day. If not to jam at Tim’s, it was to study at your dining table. He caught the teasing looks your mum shot you that made you look away with a shy smile. He didn’t mean to, but his grades were better than ever, baffling his mates, including Jack.
Thinking of the distance that was to stretch between you was like looking up a mountain too tall to see its peak. It was irresponsible of him to ask for more as he was leaving for the army. With a heavy heart, he allowed himself to enjoy the last weeks he had with you, forced to be content with the fleeting touches and bashful gazes before they, eventually, fizzled out with time.
At the park, he played Lovefool, one of your favourites. You sat facing him, knees pulled to your chest wearing his hat he plopped down on you when you squinted at the sun earlier.
“Love me, love me, say that you love me…” He looked up from the fretboard to your pretty smile as you hummed along, hair swaying in the wind-
His strumming screeched to a stop as his heart lodged in his throat. “D- do…”
Bloody hell, Gaz, why are you stuttering like that!
You blinked. “You alright?”
“Doyouwanttobemine?”
Your smile brightened.
Oh, he was going to serenade you every chance he got, even when he was a thousand miles away from you. He hoped you didn’t mind.
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@pscentral event 19 → music ↳ Beyoncé + music genres
"It is hard to think of a recent album that feels more commanding and imperious than Lemonade, not just in its lyrics – where defiant woman-scorned wrath meets righteous social anger – but in its music. […] “Country, alt-rock, left-field electronics, hoary Jack White blues-rock? I can do the lot.” That seems to be one of its messages. […] The sense of an artist being pulled uncomfortably in two opposing directions reached its peak with [I Am…Sasha Fierce]: one disc full of self-help-motto power ballads […] and another that suggested…a willingness to experiment – the percussion battery and oddly doomy minor chords of Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Video Phone’s minimal fusion of crunk rhythms, sampled groans, and needling synthesisers. […] 4 built on its predecessor’s more experimental aspects, and introduced the I-can-do-anything musical expansiveness that you hear on Lemonade. There were influences drawn from Afrobeat, dancehall and alt-rock; […] the Sleepy Jackson’s Luke Steele contributed the psychedelicised Philly soul of Rather Die Young." — The Guardian
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WE GOT THE OG 5 IN THE HOUSE!!! This is part of my Inside Out punk au. Their band name is Harmony! So let me introduce their roles and how they came to be. PART 2
Our 3rd member is Fear! He joined Joy and Sadness’s clique way back in their 7th grade year.
He is the only band member who didn’t join already knowing how to play an instrument. In fact he actually started at the artist and would often make designs for the band’s potential logo and was very keen on staying out of any potential limelight. Although during the 8th grade talent show Joy and Sadness needed someone to play the guitar as Joy was planning to do some acrobatics/dancing choreography while singing and didn’t have the stamina to play and sing at the same time. Fear knew how much this meant to the two and had seen them practice for weeks and with only 2 weeks left he pushed his own fears aside and offered to learn the chords to the song to help the duo out. In the end he liked playing so much that he continued even after the show and with enough practice later on joined as the 3rd member.
During their time on the tour Joy forced them all into. He was the first to deny and the most out of it while on the trip. In fact he it got so bad it would interfere with playing which would upset Joy and the others but as time passed on it only seemed to bother Joy in the end.
He missed home and he didn’t ask for this but didn’t want to start conflict so in an act of desperation to feel heard he confided in Sadness about his true thoughts on the matter which sparked the ignition for Sadness to really have a talk with Joy about the stakes this whole music career dream has gotten them into. Once it was announced by Joy that they would be returning home he was ecstatic he didn’t care why he was just glad they were. Right? I mean what does it matter if the reasons are known…
Next is Anger he’s the teams killer drummer and owner/designated driver of Bing Bong! (The giant mini van the crew uses to travel in, who Joy named Bing Bong because of the silly sound the horn makes).
He was the fourth to be recruited to the team. After getting sent to detention for one of her senior pranks Joy met Anger in detention where she over heard the accidental killer rhythm he had going with his shoe and pencil tapping. Joy asked if he played he gave a simple eyes roll, which was good enough for Joy. She begged him to join and he proposed she couldn’t do anything in the world that would make him join her crazy idea. In the end Joy proved him wrong by breaking both if them out of detention and also returning the item he had stolen from him that he fought trying to get back (the whole reason which got him into detention his drumsticks). Reluctantly out of the honor system and due to a possible charming face he caved and became the band’s official drummer.
He may or may not have had issues with the whole unorganized and possibly dangerous on the road tour trip but he had faith in Joy’s judgement and the strength and bonds of the rest of the group. However the more and more the trip dragged on the more and more he started to realize just how far apart they actually were…
Last but certainly not least is Disgust! Although not a band member she is still an important asset of the crew as their manager. She handles finances,bookings, and how their brand is presented and NO, She will not be dressing in rags (aka how she refers to the punk/alt aesthetic) but she will deck herself out in her own uptown style.
She was the last to join the crew. Although friends with everyone since sophomore year she never partook in any of their “rough housings” she called it. She never saw the appeal in getting all sweaty and lugging around heaving metal equipment but one day Joy asked for her help to organize the flyers for the show they were doing for the Senior Festival.
Getting to talk about how amazing her friends were and how she’s affiliated with them and getting to look pretty while doing it. Now that was something she could do not to mention managing the funds for new equipment and getting to style them with awesome costumes for when they started doing shows outside of school. She loved everything about it the generosity, hanging out with friends, and the popularity…
During the trip she was the second to snapping, Fear obviously was the first. During the trip she did her best to manage the finances with the best odds she could, it started off alright but of course later on their lack of funds lead to more cramped nights sleeping in the van. It came to a point where she started to up-sale some of their merchandise in hopes of allowing the everyone to eat a full meal or have enough gas. After the fateful night Fear confided with Sadness, Disgust, overhead their conversation and grew livid, she could live with Joy’s delusions but blind ignorance towards other people’s own well being was not on the table. She swore that night that if Joy couldn’t see that this was beyond hopeless she was gonna knock her around and make her see it. That fateful evening when dinnertime arrived Disgust did more than just expose Joy’s selfishness but also how morally and emotionally taxing this dream of hers has been on all of them and what she’s had to resort to doing to meet ends meet for everyone. In the end Joy stormed off which is what prompted Sadness to have that heart to heart later on in the night.
In the morning after Joy announced about them going back to Anderson Falls a huge relief was lifted off their chest. Well some relief she still felt horrible about how Joy had treated them. However she wasn’t going to apologize for what she said to her, you don’t say sorry not for being right at least. So she vowed that until Joy owned up to her mistakes back home they’d keep the pleasantries to a minimum and distance herself as far as she could. It’s not like she had to try very hard as Joy had already began to stop talking or listening to her. Which is fine she can wait till Joy’s ready to be a grown up, she can patient I mean that’s all she’s ever given anyone. She can keep waiting, it doesn’t matter how long it takes…
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