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guavagyal · 20 days ago
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the people mad at Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl performance
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oregano-stars · 7 months ago
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My favourite thing about this fandom is that the canon story has so many characters that are just bad guys - no explanation, no questions, they’re just bad. But this fandom takes those characters and loves them and adds backstory and reasons why those characters mad those “bad” decisions because no one is born a “bad guy” right? Not Reggie, not Barty, not Bella, not even Tom :) And the idolized and well-renowned characters like Dumbledore? We take them down a notch, because no one is born perfect either. I love that. It makes it all feel so much more human and approachable and accepting.
Reblog if you feel the same! I feel like this aspect of the fandom needs some love :)
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the-breath-in-air · 1 year ago
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9 Queer Movies from the 1990s You May Not Have Heard Of
It's New Years, which means it's time for lists. And while everyone else is doing 'top X of 2023,' I've decided to list 9 queer movies from the 1990s. Why? Because I wanna. Plus, in discussions of representation, I often see folks talk about it with a heavy focus on mainstream 'Hollywood' produced movies, which leads folks to talk as though progress has been linear. As if, in the past there was no/'bad' queer representation and now there is 'good' representation. But of course it's not that simple. Plenty of amazing queer movies were produced in the past decades...they were just indie movies and thus difficult to find in a world prior to Netflix and Mubi and whatnot. But now we have streaming services, so allow me to share some of my favorites from the before times (specifically the 1990s).
Without further ado....here is an alphabetical list of queer movies from the 90s you may not have heard of (especially if you're under 30).
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Beautiful Thing (1996) (dir. Hettie Macdonald)
Before there was Heartstopper, there was Beautiful Thing. It's a story about two gay teens, one sporty and one very much not sporty...and about how they deal with pressure to come out and pressure to hide who they are. It's a very sweet coming of age story, really. However, unlike Heartstopper, in Beautiful Thing the economic class of the protagonists plays an important role in the story (the characters all live on a counsel estate in London). The characters stories are nearly as much about them being working class as it is about the two main character being gay. It's one of the first movies I ever saw about gay teens, and I loved it. I still get a wistful smile every time I hear Mama Cass Elliot's "Make Your Own Kind of Music." (cw for parental abuse)
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Edward II (1991) (dir. Derek Jarman)
The real Edward II was King of England for 20 years in the 14th century. At the end of the 16th century, Christopher Marlowe wrote a play about Edward's reign and eventual downfall. In 1991, Derek Jarman streamlined Marlowe's play and brought all the homosexual subtext between Edward and Gaveston way out front. In the film, Edward II is in prison and reflects on the events which have led him to that point. The trouble begins when Edward takes the throne and brings his exiled lover, Gaveston, back to England. All around them the rest of the aristocracy (including Edward's wife) conspire to bring Gaveston down. The movie itself is anachronistic (set in 1991), with minimal sets and costume, and staged a lot like a play. A lot of the dialogue is right out of Marlowe's play, though there are some changes to the story (notably at the end). It's honestly my favorite Derek Jarman movie, and frankly one of my favorite movies, full stop. (cw for blood, animal corpses, violent death)
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Fire (1996) (dir. Deepa Mehta)
Fire is the first film in the Elements Trilogy written and directed by Deepa Mehta. Each film in the trilogy is about different characters in India, with the connection between the three being thematic rather than plot or character. Fire is about two Indian women, Radha and Sita, who form a bond through their struggles living within a traditional "joint-family" (i.e. a family where all extended family live together and all money and resources are shared). The women in this family have very little agency and this film explores how the two main characters navigate through it. The men in this film are also repressed by the social structure in which they live, and this film spends some time looking at that as well. It's a film about queer desire between women living under patriarchy. (All the movies on this list are available on streaming services in the US, except Fire. However, I was able to find it uploaded to a random YouTube channel) (cw for someone catching on fire, brief domestic violence (a slap), and non-consensual kissing)
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Happy Together (1997) (dir. Wong Kar-wai)
In Happy Together, two men from Hong Kong travel to Argentina and eventually get stuck there when they run out of money and are unable to return home. The relationship between these two men is very tumultuous, with a lot of arguing and breaking up and getting back together. It's one of the first movies I saw in which queer folks have, just, regular ol' relationship drama - exasperated by the regular ol' struggles of life. (i cant remember if there are any content warnings i should put here; it's been a few years since i've seen it)
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Lilies (1996) (dir. John Greyson)
Lilies is a Canadian film in which a prisoner requests a bishop come to the prison to hear the prisoner's last confession. It quickly becomes clear, however, that the prisoners have something else in mind when they begin staging a play. It turns out the bishop and prisoner knew each other as teens, and the play is about the events in their lives that led up to the prisoner being put on trial. So you end up with a play-within-a-play (or rather a play-within-a-movie). The film weaves between the production staged in the prison and the memory of the events in a really fluid way. All the prisoners portray their characters in the 'memory' sections, which lends itself to some really great moments in the prison sections. And at the heart of this memory/story is a queer love story. (cw for parental abuse, murder, fire, and suicide)
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The Living End (1992) (dir. Gregg Araki)
This is a film about two young gay men who are diagnosed HIV positive. Unlike more mainstream films about HIV that came before (and after), The Living End wears its anger and pain on its sleeve. The entire world is entirely fucked up, and so these two men turn to a nihilistic outlook. The acting is just okay and some of the dialog is a bit ridiculous...but what draws me to rewatch this movie is the way that it conveys the emotion of the time. It's a ball of rage manifest on film. (cw for attempted suicide, rape, murder)
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Love is the Devil (1998) (dir. John Maybury)
One of the problems with the average biopic is that it attempts to portray a person's entire life in a single movie. Thankfully, Love is the Devil doesn't have that problem; it focuses on only 8 years of Francis Bacon's life - the time he spent with a man named George Dyer. By this point, Bacon was already an extremely famous artist (and, at least in the film, a bit of an asshole). Bacon meets Dyer as Dyer attempts to burgle Bacon's studio - and thus begins an extremely dysfunctional love affair. If you want to see Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig portray this dysfunctional relationship, then this is the movie for you. Also, if you want to see a biopic that lets the subject of the film be portrayed as a shitty person, this is a film for you. (cw for bdsm, drug use, untreated mental illness, and suicide)
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Orlando (1992) (dir. Sally Potter)
From right out the gate, Orlando announces its queer themes by having Quentin Crisp portray Queen Elizabeth I, and Tilda Swinton portray Orlando (a man). From the first scenes it becomes clear that gender is going to be a main theme in the movie. Orlando is a young man who will never grow old and never die. He begins life in the 1500s, during Queen Elizabeth's reign, and we see him (and later, her) throughout the centuries between then and 'present' day (1992). The film is broken into thematic chunks (poetry, politics, society, etc). In each of these chunks we see Orlando's life as it reflects the social norms of the time (especially gender norms).
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Swoon (1992) (dir. Tom Kalin)
Like Rope (1948) and Compulsion (1959), Swoon is a film about the Leopold and Loeb murder. Unlike the earlier films, Swoon makes the gay relationship between Leopold and Loeb explicit. Their relationship in the film is fairly uneven, with Loeb being characterized as more of an explicit manipulator. Leopold, on the other hand, is driven more by wanting to please Leob. Complicating this dynamic is the way that Leopold is the one more interested in their sexual relationship. Is Loeb exchanging sex for help with his criminal activities? Or is Leopold committing crimes in order to elicit sex from Loeb? Or both...something a bit more complicated than either/or? The film, especially the latter half, eschews and lampoons the sensationalism of the reporting of the crime from the time. (cw for murder, blood (in black and white), and animal corpses)
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Honorable mention goes to more well-known movies I didn't put on this list, such as: But I'm a Cheerleader, Velvet Goldmine, Bound, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Birdcage, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, My Own Private Idaho, Bent...there are actually a whole lot of queer movies from the 1990s, now that I think about it.
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starcroyance · 11 months ago
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WIP Riddle gang :'D
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ajearthlinggg · 1 month ago
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Annotation on the new Tom Macdonald song that made me giggle
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ruleof3bobby · 9 months ago
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HOW I LIVE NOW (2013) Grade: C
Felt messy, the plot was all over the place. Felt like they squeezed in 3 different movie ideas into 1 w a narrator trying to make sense of it all.
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xxxsimplyhookedxxx · 2 months ago
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"Goodbye Joe" - Tom MacDonald ft. Nova Rockafeller
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renee-writer · 5 months ago
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thecraggus · 8 months ago
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In A Violent Nature (2024) Review
Tension-free and tedious in the extreme, In A Violent Nature could have, with very few tweaks, been a marvellous comedy. #Review
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dosesofcommonsense · 9 months ago
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Tom MacDonald on Memorial Day and deep love for the country.
His weekend special brought in over $135k for veterans and their families.
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creatively-storm · 1 year ago
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I still can't get over the fact that Ben Shapiro -BEN SHAPIRO- rapped. I've listened to this dozens of times, but I'm still getting so much enjoyment from this. The lyrics are so good, and it has Ben Shapiro TROLLING. I can't get over this- I don't usually like rap either! I think this is the first rap song I've liked. I'mma send this to my cousin, if he hasn't already heard it since it is -or at least was- a #1, 'cuz he's a fan of the rap style but hates most of the lyrics.
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itsafuckingfairytale · 2 years ago
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I've seen things I swear to god
That I still can't explain
I've been way too drunk and way too high
Been dancin' in the rain
I've seen butterflies and babies cry
And still until this day
Ain’t seen nothin’ that's quite like you
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moonyeyedstar · 1 year ago
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Masterlist
Kinktober 2024
Ao3
Patreon
** is smut
Remus Lupin
*Be Mine- V-day*(Professor Lupin)
*First-Time*(Marauders Era)
*Thigh-riding*(Professor Lupin)
*Punish You*(Professor Lupin)
*Extra Help*(Professor Lupin)
*Forgive Me, Father*(Priest Remus)(pt1)(pt2)
*Hide*(Professor Lupin)
*Daddy's Girl*(Stepdad Remus)
*Full Moon*(Professor Lupin) (pt2) (pt3)
*Experiment*(Remus Lupin x James Potter)
*Kinktober Day 25: Sensory Deprivation*(Professor Lupin)
*Caught*(Professor Lupin ft. Professor Snape) (Audio)
*Vice*(Professor Lupin x Snape's Daughter Reader) (Audio)
Sirius Black
*Skinny Dip*(Marauders Era)
*The Order*(Older Sirius x Harry's Friend Reader) (Part 1)
*The Order*(Older Sirius x Harry's Friend Reader) (Part 2)
*The Order*(Older Sirius x Harry's Friend Reader) (Part 3)
*Relax, Love,*(Stepdad Sirius)
*Truth*(Stepdad Sirius)
*Lap Dance*(Older Sirius)(Kinktober Day 14)
*Kinktober Day 22: Daddy Kink*(Stepdad Sirius)
*Kinktober Day 29: Phone Sex*(Older Sirius)
Wolfstar
Under the Mistletoe-Wolfstar Xmas(Remus POV)
*Attention*-(Wolfstar x F!Reader)(Marauders Era)
*Starved*-(Wolfstar x F!Reader)(Post Hogwarts Marauders)
*Kinktober Day 17- First Time Anal/ Praise Kink*(Older Wolfstar x Younger f!reader)
*Crawling Back to You- Hozier's Version*(Older Wolfstar)(Post Azkaban)
James Potter
*Cheer Up*(Marauders Era)
*My Brother's Best Friend*(James Potter x Y/n Black Marauders Era)
*Distraction*(Marauders Era)
*Experiment*(James Potter x Remus Lupin)
*Tit Fucking*(Marauders Era)(Kinktober Day 1)
*Body Worship*(Marauders Era)(Kinktober Day 9)
*Invisible*(Marauders Era)(Valentine's Day)
Marauders
*I Want You Both*(Remus Lupin x James Potter x Reader)
*Happy Birthday*(Poly Marauders x Reader)
*Orgy*(Poly Marauders ft Lily Evans, Mary Macdonald , Marlene Mckinnon x Reader)(Kinktober Day 2)
*Kinktober Day 31: Creampie/Cum Eating*
Marauders Girls (Lily/Marlene/Mary)
*Galentine's Day*
Marlene Mckinnon
*Victory*(Marauders Era)
*Face Riding*(Marauders Era)(Kinktober Day 12)
*Kinktober Day 27: Oral/Fingering/Hair Pulling*(x reader ft Lily Evans) (Marauders Era)
*Insatiable*(ft. Lily Evans)(Marauders Era)(Top Marlene)
Lily Evans
*Kinktober Day 15: Breast Worship/Nipple Play*(Dom Lily)(Marauders Era)
*Kinktober Day 27: Oral/Fingering/Hair Pulling*(x reader ft Marlene Mckinnon) (Maruaders Era)
*Insatiable*(ft. Marlene Mckinnon)(Marauders Era) (Switch Lily)
Severus Snape
*Virgin*(Professor Snape)
*Cockwarming Parts 1+2*(Professor Snape)
*Valentine's Day*(Professor Snape)
*Detention*(Professor Snape)
*Meeting*(Death Eater Snape ft. Lucius Malfoy)
*Good Girl*(Older Snape x Younger Reader ft Older Narcissa Malfoy)
*Kinktober Day 5: Threesome w/ Prostitute!reader*(Older Snape x Younger Reader ft Lucius Malfoy)
*Kinktober Day 7: Catches you masturbating*(Professor Snape)
*Kinktober Day 10: Being Recorded/Whips/Glove Kink*(Professor Snape) (Audio)
*Kinktober Day 24: Bondage*(Older Severus Snape x Younger f!reader)(ft. Lucius Malfoy x Narcissa Malfoy)
*Caught*(Professor Snape ft. Professor Lupin) (Audio)
*Polished*(Snape x Maid Reader)(Valentine's Day) (Audio pt 1 pt2)
*Inexperienced*(Virgin Prof Snape)
Lucius Malfoy
*Assistant*(Older Lucius x Younger Reader)
*Meeting*(Lucius Malfoy ft. Severus Snape)
*Kinktober Day 5: Threesome w/ Prostitute!reader*(Older Lucius x Younger Reader ft Severus Snape)
*Kinktober Day 24: Bondage*(Older Lucius x Younger f!reader)(ft. Severus Snape x Narcissa Malfoy)
Narcissa Malfoy
*Toys*(Older Narcissa x Younger Female Reader)
*Good Girl*(Older Narcissa x Younger Female Reader ft. Older Severus Snape)
*Touch Me*(Older Narcissa x Younger Female Reader)
*Restless*(Older Narcissa x Younger Male Reader)
*Picture You*(Kinktober Day 20)(Older Narcissa x Younger f!reader)
*Kinktober Day 24: Bondage*(Older Narcissa x Younger f!reader)(ft Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape)
*Stuffed*(ft. Tom Riddle)
Regulus Black
*Thoughts and Prayers*(Kinktober Day 6)
*Kinktober Day 18: Cock Worship*
*War is Over*
Slytherin Skittles
*Share*
Tom Riddle
*Teacher's Pet*(Professor Tom Riddle)
*Kinktober Day 11: Gun Kink* (Mafia AU)
*Kinktober Day 23: Exhibition*(Lord Voldemort)
*Stuffed*(ft. Narcissa Black)
Draco Malfoy
*Fooling Around*(Male Reader)
*Stress Relief*(Draco Malfoy x Female Reader) (Part 2)
Minerva McGonagall
*Fantasy*(Professor McGonagall)
Barty Crouch Jr.
*Kinktober Day 19: Corruption/Training Kink*(Older Barty x Virgin Reader)
Oliver Wood
*Kinktober Day 16: Shower Sex*
Bellatrix Lestrange
*Kinktober Day 30: Knife Play*
Evan Rosier
*Kinktober Day 21: Hunter/Prey*(Death Eater Evan)
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rad-roche · 1 year ago
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Pulp Covers And How To Paint Them
With the rise of cheap printing in the early twentieth century, mass-marked paperbacks swept the world, each offering lurid thrills for obscenely low prices. Sex, sadism, and incredible violence for as little as ten cents. An easy purchase to slot in between fifty cigarettes a day and enough bourbon slugs to kill a small garden.
Pulp fiction is where some of the greats of American literature cut their teeth, including the big three, Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald and Dashiell Hammett. The contents of these stories, both the dizzyingly good and astoundingly terrible, have been absorbed and digested and remixed and regurgitated in nearly every permutation imaginable, fuelling pop culture some one hundred years on. This isn't an essay on that. Nobody likes to open a tutorial and be greeted with a wall of text. The history is for another time.
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But it is about how to paint it.
Don't let the pre-amble intimidate you, it's not as hard as it sounds. You will need:
Painting software with some image editing capabilities. You don't need all the bells and whistles of Photoshop, but I wouldn't recommend something like MSPaint, at least not to start with. I'm using Clip Studio Paint.
A really beat-up paper texture. The grungier, the better.
A lightly-textured brush. Here are the specific brushes I use, 99% of which is the well-named rough brush. Try and avoid anything with any impasto elements.
Go to your colour-picking tool and use the 'select from layer' option. Doing all the painting on a single layer is going to make your life easier.
A complete willingness to make mistakes and, instead of erasing, painting over them. It generates much more colour variation and interest! Keep your finger off the E key.
Good reference! That painting is a master copy of Mitchel Hooks' art for Day of the Ram. Find a style you really love and want to learn? Have no clue where to begin? Do direct studies!
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Let's not worry about whatever is happening in the background. It's probably fine. Let's get started! Pulp magazine art is a lot more varied than you might first think, so don't agonize over having a style that 'fits' or not. I'm also specifically aiming for something you'd see on the cover after printing, not the initial painting they would use for printing. The stuff I'll show here is a pretty narrow band of it, but here are some general commonalities. This is a painting by Tom Lovell.
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Let's dig into this.
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The colours are very bright and saturated, but the actual values, the relative lightness and darkness of them, are actually grouped very simply! You can check this by filling a layer full of black, putting it on top and setting its mode to colour. If the value of a painting looks good, you actually get a lot of leeway with colour. But here's what I think is the most important thing to keep in mind.
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The darks aren't that dark, and the lights aren't all that light! Covers are paintings reproduced on cheap paper. Anything you wouldn't want to happen in the printing process, you lean into. Value wash-outs, lower contrast, colours getting a weird wash to them, really gritty texturing. So let's get painting! Here's my typical setup.
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That bottom folder is the painting itself. The screen layer is the grungy paper texture. To get the effect you want, put it down, invert its colour, then set it to screen. That washes out your painting far, far too much, so to compensate, I put a contrast layer up on top. Fiddle around with the settings, but this is where mine ended up sitting.
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Note I'm saying this before even starting the painting: you want to do this as early as possible. This is where the 'select from layer' colour picker comes in handy. You can paint without worrying about the screen or contrast layer. Something not looking right? Enable your value check layer and keep painting. When you turn it off, it'll still be in colour. Here's a timelapse so you can see what that looks like.
And when you check the values...
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They're pretty simple! This isn't a be all and end all, but I hope it serves as a decent primer. I want thirty dames on my desk by Monday!
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vyl3tpwny · 2 months ago
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genuine question: why is genesis so low on ur topsters?
also, if you can: could i hear why hawaii: part ii is rated 3.5 on ur rateyourmusic? (as opposed to like. anything higher)
(p. s. your music inspires me to be the sincerest version of myself, and for that i thank you. the impact you've had on my life is unforgettable.)
genesis isn't rated low. my number one album of all time is genesis' "the lamb lies down on broadway", for about 16 years running. my topster is organized by relative colour, it's not perfect but it just looks nice!
when it comes to talking about music, what i like and like about it, almost 100% of the time i NEVER want to discourage people, talk down to artists, or claim my opinion as fact. the only time i will actively talk down about art is if it's purposefully harmful (see artists like: Tom Macdonald, etc).
with that said, music by miracle musical - and by extension tally hall - often does this thing where there are a handful of really impressive, well written songs that just blow me away. but then the rest of the album outside of those handful of songs are either just ok/catchy or don't interest me very much. the tally hall gang's highs are very high, and equally their lows are just sort of pace-killers for the albums.
it's dynamics like these that prevent me from liking some of my other albums for similar problems! i think albums like queen of misfits and glitter are bogged down by an absurd amount of boring filler that could have just been left out or reworked to be more interesting, it makes it hard to ever listen to those albums front to back. ironically i don't feel that way about fairytails, my 40-song long ass album, almost everything in it still feels rather purposeful to me. i listen to my own music a lot, and once i've finished a project i tend to try and listen to it and enjoy it from an audience perspective rather than an artist one.
while i'm on the topic, i don't necessarily agree with even rating hawaii pt. ii 3.5 because in the past few years i've completely lost interest in the idea of weighing albums by arbitrary scores. nowadays i like to just give 4-5's to albums i like and then ignore anything else. it doesn't really make sense to me to assign a number score to something with good faith, other than to show that score to other people. interfacing with art is not a black and white process. despite the so-called 3.5/5.0 score i gave hawaii pt. ii whenever that was, the reality is that record has influenced me and i've enjoyed it. honestly that's what matters the most. we can sit here and talk album dynamics, technicalities, compositional proficiency, lyric profundity, and """""consistency"""""" (which is a word music critics love to throw around without actually realizing what the fuck they're talking about) all day, but what matters the most is:
Did you like the music? (Yes/No)
Did it inspire you in some way? (Yes/No) [Optional]
Does it seek to do harm? (Yes/No)
Do you respect the efforts and goals of the artist? (Yes/No) [Should always be the inverse of Question 3; i.e; if you answer No to 3, then you should answer Yes to 4]
honestly if you answer yes, yes, no, yes, then it's a good album. i really don't care. not every piece of art has to push the envelope to new heights and be the most innovative thing in the world - i mean wouldn't that be extremely fatiguing and overwhelming? everyone wants to be a critic and tear down shit that doesn't click with them within the first viewing/listen these days, i don't know why, it's probably an ego thing, bred by the echo chambers in the corners of the internet. but a lot of music criticism can be COMPLETELY discarded in favour of "this just isn't for me", and a lot of people go leaps and bounds, doing mental gymnastics over internal compensations, to just avoid saying the dreaded phrase of "this just isn't for me".
trust me, i'm someone who has immense experience with tearing other people down to compensate for my internal insecurities, it happens extremely often which is why a lot of art criticism makes ZERO fucking sense. it's never about making meaningful commentary about anything, it's always just trying to justify in the format of a dissertation - the subjective experience of "this just isn't for me".
so. do i like hawaii pt. ii? yep. is it a perfect album? no. why did i rate it 3.5? probably because at the time i wanted someone somewhere to perceive me as Very Articulated and Well Educated In The Realm of Discussing Art In Front of Other People, in Order to Appear Superior in Intellect and Refined in Taste, Because I'm Insecure Just Like Everyone Else.
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discokicks · 4 months ago
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series masterlist! AO3!
EXTRA, EXTRA! - ROY KENT.
PROLOGUE OF ACES AT THE WATER'S EDGE,
author's note: fun little article intro bc retrospective context is so lovely. and it gave me an excuse to graphic design is my passion this fic. let's pretend this was always a part of the masterlist, okay? love ya -mags
AFC Football Club West Ham just made the shocking announcement that they will be no longer working with their newly acquired, American assistant coach.
The Coach, affectionately nicknamed "Mean Fourteen" due to her record-breaking performance that led the United States to win the Women's World Cup in 2015, made history just three months ago, being the first woman to ever join an AFC coaching staff. Now, before the season even begins, it appears we'll no longer be seeing her on the sidelines.
West Ham did not detail the circumstances of this departure, citing only "unfortunate leadership differences" in their press release to the public this morning.
This comes directly from West Ham Chairman Rupert Manion, who released a statement on behalf of the Club.
"We are deeply saddened to announce that we have parted ways with our new assistant Coach," said Manion. "This was [. . .] an amicable decision reached by both parties. Despite her only being with us for three months, her contributions to the team were invaluable. While we are still reeling from this loss of talent, we have full confidence in the abilities of our coaching staff, led by the Wonder Kid himself, Nathan Shelley. We look forward to seeing their hard work, as well as the team's, pay off going into this exciting season."
This has come as a surprise to all, as Fourteen's positive reputation as both a teammate and a coach has proceeded her thus far, and made her a prime candidate for breaking into the Men's League.
"It's what made me so excited about her," said West Ham star and Captain Tom MacDonald when asked about his former Coach's legacy. "Not many people can do what she did as both a player and a coach. It's a shame she won't be around. I'll miss seeing her every day, but I suppose everything happens for a reason."
Fourteen, who left her mark on Women's Football as an integral part of USA's gold-medal win at the 2012 London Olympics and the notable, and memorable star of the 2015 Women's World Cup, also managed to coach her NCAA Division I team to four victory titles within the span of six years.
With such an impressive resume, it's left football fans scratching their heads as to what "leadership differences" could have been at play here, especially with just under two weeks to go before the regular season starts.
The Standard has attempted to reach out to Fourteen and her representatives for a comment, but they have not responded at this time.
This is breaking news, and we will be updating this story as we learn more information.
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