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chalupacabras · 6 years ago

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(1)it's actually not 'in razorblade stores' it's just 'razorblade stores' and it's said completely separate from the 'money we made' part. they are meaning stores of razorblades not actual shops/stores. some parts of the song are referencing to not self-harm/commit suicide (save your razorblades) and they are talking about that they can only do so much to create a distraction from it. (hence, 'we'll win but not everyone will get out.' the fight against suicide...) that's my interpretation of it.

(2) if you’ve listened to them for that long, you know everything in their music has a meaning. as you’re aware, a lot of it has references to depression, suicide, self harm ect. i can’t see them now just being so careless with words and it holding no meaning. it’s fine that you’re not a fan of them anymore but give them a little more credit here. none of this is meant as an attack. just trying to maybe clarify the lyrics some..

Well, I’m not the OP of the post that got the lyric wrong, but for your convenience, I’ll put the lyric here. This is how I interpreted it.

Since this band is always singing about their fans and this community they’ve built, this community of the depressed, the few/proud/emotional, it’s a reasonable inference to say that “we” doesn’t represent Tyler solely. It represents We, that communal We he always mentions, the people who Relate To The Song.

This just doesn’t sit well with me at all because it reinforces what I’ve come to believe–not only are they capitalizing off of mental illness and depressed youth, they’re fully aware of it. I feel like this lyric is acknowledging that they’re helping popularize cutting and self-harm at worst, and at best it’s just another tactless opportunity to slip a reference to cutting in a song that they know millions of youths will sing the lyrics to.

In a general sense, I think it’s really irresponsible for a band whose whole brand is Depression and Mental Illness, who is aware of the demographic of their fans (troubled youth, vulnerable youth), to:

-write in self-harm and suicidal themes into poppy songs kids will sing

-use the tower of silence?????? as a theme for this album which is so FUCKING nasty of them like do not start me please i could go off like first of all it’s a religious zoroastrian practice about treating the dead and tyler himself is highly religious and has proven himself now to truly have no respect for anything that isn’t christianity (which we already knew. he’s a nasty man you can ask me about this i’ll give examples) and will happily take historical religious ceremonies to turn into theatrical metaphors for his high school depression

-do NOTHING to help the demographic of vulnerable troubled youth they claim to care SO MUCH ABOUT, that they made all their money off of. They don’t donate, they aren’t overtly vocal about anything related to mental health–the best i have ever seen them do for mental health is say “stay alive” or make the Trees speech during concerts that thousands of their fans payed to attend, or give some corny “I’m glad you’re alive” message at some point that’s so empty and meaningless with how many times they’ve repeated it. Are you glad? How about not moving to a millionaire mansion in the woods in ohio and disappearing off the face of the earth for a year? Celebrities do the absolute LEAST, like even the lowest tier fundraising was too much to ask of the band that mental illness made rich. They can’t donate $1 per ticket sold to a mental health foundation, they can’t even tweet #lovewins or whatever the fuck because tyler has his own dick shoved so far past his tonsils that he’s peering behind his thighs to release another meaningless .;*8?????:.,…..I-/ instagram caption

You’re right though, they aren’t careless with words. Every word probably has a meaning to Tyler, but that’s just it. It only means shit to Tyler, or it’s part of an intricate and bizarre puzzle for the fans to string together. That’s objectively fine and fun, but the problem is that the fans will bend over backwards to convince themselves that every song is for THEM, that Tyler cares about THEM, gay, trans, depressed, and weird kids that he’s never met and will do the most (disappearing into his remote cabin on his hiatus, dropping off social media) to avoid at all costs. We the fans and ex-fans made them rich as fuck, lined their pockets, all for them to give not a single bit back to the community that did it. I get that everyone has to make a living, even a lavish one, I get that, but even the most selfish asshole will give a carrot to the horse who carried him up the mountain. Tyler and Josh were carried up the mountain, got off, then gave the horse not a single drop of water and disappeared, and then when they returned, they hopped onto the bare bones of the dying animal and gave radio interviews about how they were Worried the horse wouldn’t have waited.

#also i like that you emphasized that everything they say has meaning but is also up tointerpretation #if that's true like how you say it is--#then my interpretation is every bit as valid as yours or anyone else's #also you're all joking yourselves if you think tyler isn't SO conservative #tyler voted absentee for trump i will bet you my fucking ass #i would stake my mother on that claim. he's rich and has clearly shown he wants to keep every cent and loved them tax cuts probs #also can we all think about tb saga. can we think about his demographic. can we just think please #y'all will be like Fuck Terfs fuck Trump fuck Republicans #and then stan the whitest//most christian//richest//straightest man on planet earth #and then say he's a poc because he's 1/10 lebanese #edit: also another new lyric i see doted on a lot is 'i'll be right there'#but that full lyric is #'i'll be right there--but you'll have to grab my throat and lift me in the air'#or how you have to first tie him up and break his hands before he'll be there when you need him #he's so aware of his selfishness i could scream #the lyric is literally 'if you need me i'll be there but you have to fucking force me to do it'

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mrsrcbinscn · 5 years ago

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BDRPWriMo Task #21 -- A list of 10+ characters you’d like to see in the RP

Any fc ideas I put are ofc hypothetical lmao

SO HEEERE is a list of 10+ characters I selfishly want to see here! Yes a ton of the open Elena of Avalor characters are on the list but! That’s not all!

1. Olivia da Silva (fc suggestions by McKala: Marina Nery, Bruna Tenorio, Barbie Ferreira, Cierra Ramirez)

I made this skeleton woowoo! Come play an Avaloran character! A young sorceress honing her craft! Worldbuild Avalor with me, yaaaay! I put Brazilian-preferred on the skeleton for fc suggestions because the Avalor we’ve crafted in game is a bilingual society in South America with Portuguese and Spanish influence about equally. It’s not requiiired, like you can change her last name to be Spanish and not Portuguese, but! I tracked down a ton of Brazilian fcs with resources so you don’t even have to hunt! Below the list of Brazilian fcs, I also have non-Brazilian fcs listed.

2. Professor Guadalupe “Lupe” Mendoza (fc suggestions by McKala: Gina Torres, Charo Bogarin, Jessica Alba, Velina Hsau Houston, Lana Parrilla)

COME PLAY A COOL AVALORAN WOOOO

Join me in Avalor world! Lupe Mendoza is so cooool, she’s a professor, a scholar, a genius, a really cool lady forced to flee Avalor because of the new dictatorship.

4. Jasmine (fc suggestions by McKala: SO MANY. including Claudia Doumit, Njoud Al Shammari, Dalal AlDoub, Adila Sedraïa, Sonita Alizadeh)

I’m honestly shook Jasmine’s not taken yet y’all! She’s a great character, you can go so many diff directions with her and HEL-LO worldbuilding!

5. Aladdin! (fc suggestions by McKala: Derrick Monasterio, Toni Mahfud)

Y’all again! Think of the worldbuilding you’d get to do with Agrabah!

6. Li Shang (fc suggestions by McKala: Shawn Dou, Lewis Tan, Osric Chau)

Y’all how do we not have all the Mulan characters yet??? But I would pay someone physical money for a Li Shang ahhhhh

Free URL for you - thetimes-theyare-ashangin

7. Jafar (fc suggestions by McKala: JOHN ABRAHAM omfg, Omar Lofti, Adrian Pasdar)

Swynlake needs a new evil sorcerer! And it’s a chance to do some cool worlbuilding for Agrabah, like Team Avalor’s done with Avalor!

8. Star Butterfly (fc suggestions by McKala: Prilly Latuconsina, Kiana Lede, Rola, Liza Koshy, Normani Kordei, Anastasia Tsilimpiou, Zara Larsson)

Y’all, again. The worldbuilding! Potential! Here! you can make her a magical princess from a another dimension how DOPE

9. Alonso Cordoba (fc suggestions by McKala: Taylor Zakhar, Diego Tinoco, Maluma, Rafael De La Fuente)

Come play the snobby Avaloran noble turned refugee, childhood frenemy/pain in the ass of Princess Elena! Join Avalor Squad and get a piece of Avalor worldbuilding. Help me develop the Avaloran nobility, the pop culture, the youth culture. Being from Avalor is a cool enough plot, with the coup and civil conflict now, but being nobility? With a potential connection to the princesses? Woooo!

10. Armando Salinas (fc suggestions by McKala: tricky, bc he has to be Latinx and body diverse, but I have three possible ideas in mind and I can make gifs for them! They’re Harvey Guillen and Erik Griffin.

Wow there HAS to be more body diverse Latinx men out there. But!!! Join the Avalor party y’all!

11. Cristina Elizaga - FCs by McKala: Tamara Mena, Annie Elainey (non-binary, so must be non-binary), Kallyna Sampaio

I actually made the gif packs for 2 of 3 of these suggestions! Since Latinx fcs who use wheelchairs are very sparse, I went ahead and made gifs for two potential fcs. Join team Avalooooor!

12. QUEEN CLARION, Y’ALL. FC ideas by McKala: Deborah Mailman, Otsuka Nene, Gabrielle Union, Kulap Vilaysack

I canNOT believe Queen Clarion is still open y’all

who doesn’t wanna be a nearly immortal fairy queen!

13. Hay Lin!!!! (fc suggestions by McKala: Janice Wu, Lauren Tsai, Jelly Lin, Lai Meiyun)

Play a Guardian! Travel across diff dimensions, weeeeee! Have the power of WIND, WOW

14. Taranee Cook!!!! (fc suggestions by McKala: Karidja Touré, China Anne McClain, Sammi Maria)

H O W are the guardians still open omg.

15. WILBUR ROBINSON !! (fc suggestions by McKala: Aedy Ashraf, Yoon Sanha, Laïs Salameh, Boo Seungkwan, Odiseas Georgiadis, Anuarbekov Nurgisa, August Vachiravit, Đoàn Thế Lân, and more)

someone bring me and Mary our SON omg! Wilbur’s adopted so literally any ethnicity works - I think his skeleton says he has to be POC so as long as he’s POC!

ADDITIONALLY, just fcs I straight up am DYING to see

tbh anybody my dear friend Natalie has made icons or gifs for

anybody in this tag

Pisay Pao [Cambodian]

Maika Harper [Canadian Inuit, tattoos, just a cutie!!!]

Chella Man [deaf, Jewish, Chinese, genderqueer]

Gil Birmingham [Comanche, age diverse]

Odiseas Georgiadis

Đoàn Thế Lân [Vietnamese]

Elfira Loy [Malaysian + Javanese, I made dang near 400 gifs of this cutie and someone else made almost 60]

Naomi Watanabe [Taiwanese, Japanese, body diverse!]

Jaz Sinclair

Ashley Blaine Featherson

Gurung Diipa [Nepalese]

Jewelliana Palencia [Afro-Guatemalan]

Noel Wells [ quarter Mexican, half Tunisian, a quarter Unspecified]

Efrain Ruales [Ecuadorian]

Natasha Liu Bordizzo [Chinese-white]

Kulap Vilaysack [Lao - she was almost my Franny fc, she was gonna be Lao, but I went with Elodie Yung and made her Cambodian instead ]

Liv Hewson [ginger, AND nonbinary!]

Angel Chow-Toun [ ¾ French Guianan [Afro French Guianan, Chinese, Indian, Italian, Possibly Other], and ¼ Puerto Rican]

Ziruza Tasmagambetova [Kazakh - she was my Lena de Spell fc, but thankfully she was picked up by Ashley before I could get her so that knocked one character off my miles long list of ones I want!! thank goodness!! And I don’t really have another muse for her. So!!! I wanted to share her with all y’all]