#and then whatever the fuck the dj was there for???

[worthlessnepenthes]

So I reblogged this because it’s funny but then I thought about YQY for a second, and reblogged again so I could talk.

This isn’t going to be any new, profound thoughts for the fandom I’m sure but they’re new to me and I wanna talk for a minute.

I, personally, do not like YQY. I don’t HATE him, but I don’t like him. But I do feel sorriest for him, out of all the SVSSS and PIDW characters. I often forget that when he left SJ, he too was a literal child. Yes, he probably could have done better—told his master he needed help to save his brother, heck, told a fellow shidi or shixiong once he got to the peak. He was probably popular. I can’t imagine no one would have been willing to help him. But he was also a child, so I forgive him. He suffered and hurt himself, grievously, permanently causing himself a chronic condition in his attempts to get back to DJ. I don’t know that I think he did everything he COULD, but I do believe he did everything he THOUGHT he could.

And then Shen Jiu shows up, much like a feral cat, and constantly lashes out and hurts YQY. Their strained relationship is absolutely caused on both ends. It’s hard to say, ‘Well, YQY should have just KNOWN that SJ wasn’t going to the brothels to sleep with whores/didn’t kill LQG/wasn’t abusing Ning Ning/whatever other terrible things he was accused of,’ when SJ was, in fact, very verbally abusive and physically abusive to at least one disciple (lbh. Do we even get a canon reason WHY he hates him so much?), and verbally abusive to YQY, and to most likely many other characters.

However, maybe if YQY had actually stood up for SJ and said ‘No, this is a misunderstanding, this is not what happened,’ instead of just assuming that SJ had done whatever terrible thing and then covering for him in a sense of guilt, maybe things wouldn’t have been so bad. Or if YQY said, ‘take out your anger on me, it’s all my fault, but leave the others alone’. (It wasn’t, and SJ is wrong for acting this way.)

Honestly if they had ever fucking COMMUNICATED instead of just assuming the actual fucking worst of each other, while still deeply loving the other (in whatever romantic or platonic way they had, they loved the other) no matter whether they ever said it or not, a lot could have been avoided. Like PIDW YQY’s death.

Or hell, if Airplane had ever written about Xianxia mental health care instead of probably curing depression with papapa!

But the relationship between SJ and YQY is almost worse and more horrifying after SY comes through. YQY KNOWS it isn’t SJ, but every test they do show he isn’t possessed. So maybe it really is SJ, and all SJ needed to become happy was simply…to forget almost everything, but especially any time SJ and YQY spent together before they became Peak Lords.

So YQY is still trying to make it up to a person that he both thinks is there and thinks is not there, never knowing for sure. Every emotion he has towards this ‘new’ SJ feeling like a betrayal, ‘if only SJ could have acted like this before!’

Yeah. It’s really horrifying. He never gets the comfort of knowing for certain that SJ is gone, never gets to properly grieve and burn incense for him. But he also always feels just slightly off kilter with SY, and then feels guilt, because this is SJ! And even if it isn’t…what can YQY do about it?

YQY has many sleepless nights, wondering, after SY shows up.

I don’t like YQY, but I feel sorry for him. He is the most pitiful character in the book to me.

Shen Qingqiu, pissed off during a peak lord meeting: when I die I want Shang-shidi to lower me into the earth, just so he can let me down one last time

Shang Qinghua: bro c'mon

Yue Qingyuan, abruptly overcome by jealousy so intense that he's on the verge of a qi deviation: but I thought I was the one who let Xiao Jiu down the most...?

[xcziel]

well that was disappointing

i got out of work late so i missed hearing Come Back To Me on the radio :((((((

evidently i also missed them playing jimin and tae??? and an entire interview with enhypen? all in 15 minutes somehow?

because all i heard after that was mostly girl groups and very same-y

and literally 8 full minutes of ads - twice! and then the last ad break was *only* six full minutes long

other than ateez, and jackson wang's new single, (and the skz & cp track) the only bit of joy was that they did play standing next to you at like 9:50 and then closed the hour with yes or no

no idea what jimin they even played or if they actually did???? supposedly fri(ends) was the track from tae

also 15 full minutes of a "dj" playing essentially identical bpm tracks for idk what reason - maybe to cut up the songs? or because they don't have radio versions? but it's pointless because NOWHERE is there a track list for what they played? only song i caught for sure was antifragile

how the hell are you gonna introduce new listeners to kpop when there's no way to know what the songs even are, especially if you're not a kpop afficionado already since yes a lot of the lyrics are in korean????

edit: evidently they played Like Crazy and I MISSED IT 😤😡😤😡😤😡😤🤬🤬🤬🤬

[rokkazu]

is this anything. is this fgucking anything

[scatterbugged]

Benny and Garth marriage well isn’t that awesome. do u think if they had a kid they would still name it castiel. i think a werepire baby named castiel would be hilarious. also Benny would be the pregnant one of course.

[dreamin-gacha]

Phantom’s whole “human’s don’t like classical music anymore” pisses me off. Vinyl City is a music based city, you’re telling me there’s no old people living there? There’s no elitist music snobs in that bitch? They don’t have orchestras or ballets (which are common in cities like NYC, which…I think Vinyl City is based off) happening?

His story says he got kicked out clubs and bars for playing classical music but like wouldn’t he be more of a conductor? What is he playing fucking Tchaikovsky in a club? People who make and arrange classical music would be conductors.

[cutter-kirby]

haha wow they're wrapping things up nicely so far! what do you mean jay is staying in fionnaworld

[rockintapper]

also wait holy shit uh i know theres already a rhythm heaven × pjsekai au but can i show you my version

[cementcornfield]

fascinating (in a bad way!)

[cinnaminsvga]

actual conversation i had with my dental hygienist

hygienist: so what did you study at university?

me: chemistry...

hygienist: damn, no wonder you look so sad!

[bedforddanes75]

YUCK ! NOW U GOT ME BLUSHIN ! CHEEKS SO RED WHEN THE BLOOD STARTS RUSHIN !

[medicinemane]

I need to be clear about something, the reason I don't like mumble rap (or at least never have heard any I liked), isn't because they aren't saying words, it's because they never have any fucking flow

Like I can buy into not really saying anything, I can buy into not doing lyrics, that's fine. What I can't buy is not making pleasing noises

Maybe I've just been exposed to bad stuff, but the whole genre I've encountered is just people kinda mush mouthing, sounding like they're nervously giving a presentation and no one in class can hear what they're saying. It's having all the lyrical impact of presenting to the class that I'm complaining about

If you do something halfway towards beat boxing where you're not using any words but you're otherwise rapping... this I can get behind

Also, my other problem with a lot of rap is that it's just kinda... sometimes good instrumentals it feels like they use as a crutch, but plenty of times just a loud ass bass

Like what are you, the rapper, bring to this? Why should I listen to you and not just the instrumental backings?

That's what you have to sell me on

Listen, all my taste in music is old (Blinding Lights is the newest song I can think of that I like, and also that I know), so 100% of my Rap/Hip Hop I'm going to know is also old. We're talking like Public Enemy, that era of things. Occasional newer stuff, and I don't know the deep cuts from that era or older eras either (I don't dislike rap, but it's not a genre I listen to often), but that's what I can talk about

But you listen to something by Public Enemy, and they're going to have some musicality to how they rap. They're going to have good timings, they're going to have like... good structure (I don't have the terminology for this kinda stuff)

I'm not asking that people don't mumble, I like stuff in other languages I don't understand, nah... I just want them to mumble with purpose

(Bonus complaint I thought of, mashups as a genre. Some people nail it and marry two songs together, but too often I find that people just kinda... take the hooks from two things and rely on people liking... say... Take on Me and uh... Carry on My Wayward Son, so all they do is take the best of both without... integrating them at all)

(And as dissimilar as it sounds, my complaint here is the same. What are you adding to this? Why should I listen to this instead of just those two songs? Why should I listen to you rap instead of just listening to the beat you're rapping over?)

(All I'm asking is for people to add some fucking value and contribute or to step aside for the better musician that they're riding the coattails of)

(So in a lot of ways mashups and rap are the same for me, in that they're both genres I often dislike, but also have some truly talented people doing incredible stuff with... and I want more of those people)

[chipped-chimera]

Just gonna say as an old fart on this webbed site watching your very traumatic teenage years as a social oddity and it's entire aesthetic get swept up in this Y2K 2014? revival is certainly an ... Experience.

[sagethegremlin]

I need to finish my avm outfit designs these guys are driving me mad

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

DJ Lethal keeping it lit at the house party

"Sour" - Limp Bizkit

[noisytenant]

i have to make a calculator for how long my sets are gonna be because im like "aw yeah 23 songs surely it'll be a healthy 25 minutes" and then its fucking 20. SICK OF THESE GAMES

[demonsfate]

woah they just dropped zafina's trailer????