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[suuho]

also, another note on the use of in-ear monitors and their function, i think it is incredibly impressive if you manage to perform really well and live on stage without wearing them. musical performers do it all the time, by the way, which is why it is the gold standard for performers and a huge honor if an idol is cast in a musical and earns accolades or rave reviews (highlight's yoseob and btob's eunkwang as well as exo's junmyeon are known as very good musical performers). but anyways, i think the one group i will always think of in that regard is actually seventeen. they used to perform clap on music shows without wearing monitors which is crazy considering how tight that choreography is and the sort of vocal gymnastics especially dokyeom and seungkwan had to do. (this performance of clap is done entirely without in-ear monitors except for dk, and in this performance of aju nice! no one is wearing a monitor.) that is something that is very difficult to achieve especially considering just how high seventeen's performance standard is, which is, after all, partly due to the fact that they have gone through stages like this. they simply had to learn how to sing and perform without these monitors and without the advantage of a backing or click track in their ear. seventeen is a group that is as good as they are because they took the time and effort and dedicated themselves to be that way, which is so admirable.

and yes, it sucks when there actually is an in ear malfunction and you cannot hear yourself on stage. in concerts or on music shows there is a crowd and a track or a band that plays simultaneously while you are supposed to sing and if you take out an in-ear due to malfunction, you will be usually attacked by a wall of sound that makes it near impossible to even parse where your voice sits right now. either you are a super solid vocalist or you have to check in manually to see where you at (when you see idols holding their ear closed, it is to listen to the sound of their own voice (usually done when you harmonize with someone but also in cases like these bc lots of different sounds.)) neither of these things are easy. and it takes a lot of hard work for many to even get to the point to hear the discrepancies in your voice and if you are flat/off key, and even then, sometimes it is impossible to tell when all there is is people screaming at you. another factor is the fact that you can decide what channel to raise in your monitor so a singer, for example, will opt to either hear the guitar or the piano louder than the drums or the bass to be on key. because those are usually the instruments that give you musical cues.

that said, if you are a professional singer you should be able to stand on stage and sing and it should sound fine, because that is literally your job and what is expected of you. and i don't think that is too much to ask for.

[apollos-boyfriend]

shoutout to C418 (one of minecraft’s composers) for just fucking snapping recently on twitter

[quietwingsinthesky]

im a fucking sucker for the “character gets so badly injured that they can’t think clearly and start calling for help in a distressingly vulnerable way.” characters who start using nicknames for their friends they haven’t used since they were kids. characters who start begging for their brother they haven’t seen in years to be there. characters who would usually use their parents’ names or call them mother/father/etc crying out mama when they go down. u understand.

[bizarrebazaar13]

what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

[theres-rue-for-you]

my brother works on a boat so when he rants about his job I can’t take it seriously because he keeps angrily referring to his boss as “captain”. like sorry ur having 19th century sailor problems my guy

[scramratz]

[hattersarts]

kiss me goodbye, I'm defying gravity

[sabertoothwalrus]

let's get ✨vulnerable✨

[h0lahey]

I don't think that Viktor swears often but I really like that people sometimes write him swearing in Czech. Also I think that it was a little traumatic for Jayce when he heard Viktor swear for the first time.

I just had to draw it.

The thing is that czech swearing often contains more than one word. The bigger fuked up, the longer you swear. And it's…let's say…very rich xd

I was thinking about translating it but it's imposible

[love-byers]

bisexuality demons were kicking his ass

[drizzledrawings]

Only you

[yeagrave]

two birds on a wire

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[stargoyle]

"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.

[mariorsomething]

moments right before daisuke saves the day and gets all the love and praise he deserves and rescue comes just in time and everyone lives forever the end