#bad times

[palatinewolfsblog]

Times are rough - let's remember: Fear is "what if". Faith is "even if". U.N. Owen.

[biotaillenaforaoise]

how do i even caption this

they got caught spreading misfortune and misery

[nobeerreviews]

The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.

-- John Green

(Konstanz, Germany)

[samhaft]

Hello Sam!!!

I was wondering wich was your inspiration for Badder Times and also wich was the hardest song to write?

Hi! Nice of you to ask!

So Bad Times - which eventually expanded into Badder Times - was really the product of my creative frustrations at myself as a music producer.

I felt somewhat limited, and in the capacity of my work as part of The Living Tombstone, I’d never really need to grow as a music producer, as Yoav does nearly all the music production (as he very well should, as his production style and taste really define TLT’s sound). So I did something I recommend for virtually every creative, and I took some master classes with producers I found interesting!

I had been recommended the classes on Studio.com (which at the time was called Monthly, as courses were 30 days) and took one that was run by tropical house producer Kygo. I took the stuff I learned there and made Rooftop, Okay, and Grow Up, and from there I felt like I had enough to expand the creative ideas forming into Bad Times, and used two more monthly programs - Charlie Puth and Ryan Tedder - to create accountability deadlines to write some more songs, which is what I used to ensure I could get Afterburn and Pretending done, as well as the songs I made for a little birthday EP for/about my son. I’ve got some pretty hardcore ADHD so without the deadlines it would have probably taken me way longer! I can’t say I really learned as much from the latter two classes tbh, but I actually found the Kygo course super helpful at filling out some gaps in my knowledge of Logic Pro, which is my software of choice.

And a fun epilogue to that - I now have my OWN class on Studio.com (at my linktree in my pinned post!)

I am now realizing I have basically not answered your question:

My inspirations musically were a lot of dark pop and alternative from folks like Joji, The Weeknd’s album After Hours, and elements of Mitski’s Be The Cowboy. I didn’t find any of them /hard/ to write per se, but Rooftop, the first one I wrote, which I wrote the lyrics to in the middle of the night on a Suzuki Omnichord, blew my mind open as a songwriter, in that I had never written something FOR MYSELF in the way that I had with that song, and that shaped the process of the songs that followed. So, Rooftop! If you include the live versions, that was also the most difficult to get right.

Fun fact - every song on the EP contains the sound of the Omnichord I wrote with!

[leifandthorn]

So I've been hearing some horror stories about Google traffic for personally-maintained websites falling off a cliff.

But it can't be that bad, can it?

Let's mosey on over to the Leif & Thorn statistics page, and see how the first half of 2024 went...

January: 15K pageviews, 18K hits

February: 13K pageviews, 16K hits

March: 14K pageviews, 17K hits

April: 13K pageviews, 15K hits

May: 12K pageviews, 15K hits

June: 2.5K pageviews, 5K hits

...welp.

(July is only half over, but in case you're curious, it's up to less than half of the totals June hit.)

[kuhulua]

Is that a threat 😶

[chronicillnesshumor]

Source: ColdHeatedQueen on Facebook

[cosmonautroger]

[soulinkpoetry]

If you need strength to carry on hang on to good memories. Those will keep you going.

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[sanewshimachal]

!! हीरों का हार !! Story of The Week

पुराने समय में किसी शहर में एक जौहरी रहता था, उसकी असमय मृत्यु हो गई। उसके परिवार में पत्नी और उसका एक बेटा था। जौहरी की मृत्यु के बाद उनके परिवार में पैसों की कमी आ गई। एक दिन मां ने अपने बेटे को हीरों का हार दिया और कहा कि “इसे अपने चाचा की दुकान पर बेच दो, इससे जो पैसा मिलेगा, वह हमारे काम आएगा।”

लड़का हार लेकर अपने चाचा की दुकान पर पहुंच गया। चाचा ने हार देखा और कहा, “बेटा अभी बाजार मंदा चल रहा है, इस हार को बाद में बेचना। तुम्हें पैसों की जरूरत है तो अभी मुझसे ले लो। तुम चाहो तो मेरी दुकान पर काम भी कर सकते हो।”

लड़के ने चाचा की बात मान ली और अगले दिन से लड़का अपने चाचा की दुकान पर काम करने लगा। समय के साथ वह लड़का भी हीरों की अच्छी परख करने लगा था। वह असली और नकली हीरे को तुरंत ही पहचान लेता था।

एक दिन उसके चाचा ने कहा, “अभी बाजार बहुत अच्छा चल रहा है, तुम अपना हीरों का हार बेच सकते हो।” लड़का अपनी मां से वह हार लेकर दुकान आ गया और चाचा को दे दिया। लड़के से उसके चाचा ने कहा, “अब तो तुम खुद भी हीरों की परख कर लेते हो, इस हार को देखकर इसकी कीमत का अंदाजा लगा सकते हो। इसीलिए तुम खुद इस हार की परख करो।” लड़के ने हार को ध्यान से देखा तो उसे मालूम हुआ कि हार में नकली हीरे लगे हैं और इसकी कोई कीमत नहीं है।

लड़के ने पूरी बात बताई तो चाचा ने कहा “मैं तो शुरू से जानता हूं कि ये हीरे नकली हैं, लेकिन अगर मैं उस दिन तुम्हें ये बात कहता तो तुम मुझे ही गलत समझते। तुम्हें यही लगता कि मैं ये हार हड़पना चाहता हूं, इसीलिए इसे नकली बता रहा हूं। तुम्हें उस समय हीरों का कोई ज्ञान नहीं था। बुरे समय में अज्ञान की वजह से हम अक्सर दूसरों को ही गलत समझते हैं।”

शिक्षा:- विपरीत समय में हमारे ऊपर निगेटिविटी हावी हो जाती है और सोचने-समझने की शक्ति कमजोर होने लगती है। ऐसी स्थिति में की गई जल्दबाजी से नुकसान हो सकता है, रिश्ते खराब भी हो सकते हैं। इसीलिए बुरे समय में धैर्य से काम लेना चाहिए।

[fluseven]

This brand for vegan gummies has partnered up with a German soap opera called „Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten“. The result is this delightful, bright pink gummy that just says „bad times“ in German.

It tastes vaguely of strawberry.

[barmy-owl]

Oh god! I've never felt so ill before in my life.

[potentially-a-poser]

Y’all I need to bitch. I’m not Christian anymore, but sometimes my dad drags me to church (he does not know I’m not Christian).

I have had severely fucked up feet that make my life a lot more difficult and painful basically my whole life, but it got really bad when I was 12-13ish. Every single church I went to (we were fundamentalist Pentecostals), I would go up to get prayer for god to help me with my feet. My parents wouldn’t take us to the doctors for a rly long time cause they were like “god will heal you 💖” and also they were conspiracy theorists who thought that if we entered a drs office we’d be forcibly vaccinated. Without fail, every time they would tell me that god would heal my feet because I was such a good little Christian girl and was so committed and faithful (side note: about this time I figured out I liked women and had started s4lf hurting, partially to punish myself for that).

Anywho, I recently got surgery for one of my feet because I was on the verge of genuinely not being able to walk at all anymore. We went to one of the churches i got prayer for my feet on. For the first 30 min of service, the pastor was talking about how if we prayed, god WOULD heal us miraculously. I was pissed but expecting it.

Then this bitchass old lady sitting behind me grabbed my shoulders harder than any old lady should be able to do, and she whispered “god told me to tell you knows exactly what’s in ur heart and he loves you” which is so fucking generic but I digress. But anyway she then proceeded to play with my hair and rub my shoulders for literally 3-4 minutes (which doesn’t sound long but oh my god it is). Keep in mind this lady had no permission to touch me and I was visibly uncomfortable.

The pastor also lied from the pulpit and said kids today don’t know what a pastor is. He’s also a bus driver and he said whenever he tells kids he’s also a pastor the most common response is “what is that?”, which I guarantee is a lie because we live in the Bible Belt and my school has FCA meetings before school twice a week that are always packed, and a good amount of teachers have Bible verses on their walls. We have 12 churches inside the city limits (the town has 4000 ppl)

Anyway, overall bad time

[samhaft]

hi, Sam! I literally have no idea if you'll see this since idk what I'm doing; that's my first time on tumblr, but I just wanna say that I've been listening to TLT for YEARS and that I am truly attached to your Bad Times EP! you have a LOT of talent and I sure hope to see more of your stuff in 2025 :) I hope you're safe, with all the fires in LA, take care of yourself :DD

Very kind of you! I’m always happily surprised when people have listened to Bad Times / Badder Times.

I hope you see more of my stuff too! And thanks for your well-wishes, I’m safe but the chaos and doom-vibes of this past week have been very mentally and emotionally taxing. Working on feeling better! 😅

[devine-acension-831]

After a girl gets out of a toxic relationship, she's single for a long time. At first, it's lonely. In the beginning, it's hard. For a little awhile, it even hurts. But after a certain amount of time, she embraces being single and finds it empowering knowing that she doesn't need a man to be happy. But once a girl gets comfortable with being single, it's hard for her to be mentally attracted to anyone. Once a girl gets familiar with being on her own, it's hard for her to be emotionally connected to anyone. Once a girl gets used to taking caring of herself, it's hard for her to be dependent on anyone. The reason behind that is, she's not trying to go back to that dark place she was in before, she's not trying to waste her time on a guy who's gonna turn out to be undeserving, and she's not trying to end up with the wrong one. She's spent a lot of time detoxifying herself and finding herself again and the last thing she needs is for another toxic guy to come along and cause her to lose herself again. So yeah, it may require extra attention, it may require extra effort, and it may require extra time but if you somehow manage to get her to not want to be single anymore, then you're gonna get a girl who's whole again, who's secure enough, and who's ready to love and be loved again. 🖤🤍

[skyloftian-nutcase]

A prompt: Four and a ghost

Four sighed in contentment as he leaned back against one of the logs they'd arranged around the fire. Almost everyone had settled to sleep, and he was getting ready to head that way too, when he glanced at Legend.

The veteran was going to take first watch and was gazing solemnly into the fire, a strange contemplative look crossing his features when he noticed Four watching him.

"You okay?" Four asked hesitantly. "You seem a little out of it."

Legend stared at him for an almost uncomfortable interval before he waved a dismissive hand and returned to his vigil. "It's just late. I'm fine. Good night."

The smithy watched him uncertainly, not really knowing how to push or if that was even needed. So he gave up on the venture, sighing and heading to his bedroll, already prepared and awaiting his arrival. As he slid under the cover, he gave one last look at the veteran hero, and his blood ran cold.

What was--that was--

Was that himself hovering over the veteran?! What the hell was happening?!

Four stared at his strange reflection, who watched Legend just as solemnly as Legend watched the fire. Then the image flicked its eyes at the smithy himself, making him forget to breathe.

Before Four could leap out of his bedroll, the ghostly image of himself disappeared into the night mist.