#bee gee three posting

[bragganhyl]

Gale's and Lae'zel's reactions to Berci becoming a squid evoke emotions in me that feel like they're on the opposite ends of the same spectrum

[ruvviks]

already getting annoyed at posts and the game isn't even out yet

[vengerberg]

hii i made a bsky

[spicy--meatball]

ranking 550+ music genres: PART 5

been very exhausted lately so the next few posts might be shorter.

(13) Afro Funk

yes. this is already much better than the last three genres. thank you afro funk.

as a kid (middle school age?) i listened to a lot of disco and funk, but i dont think i specifically listened to afro funk. the sort of disco and funk id listen to were the really mainstream stuff like the bee gees. nothing wrong with them but i enjoy this departure from the same 20 or so songs you regularly hear or think of when hearing the term "funk".

once again i am hit with interesting rhythms. these songs are groovy but still lax enough that i can chill out while listening to them. overall a pleasant and relaxing experience, but some of the songs were a bit boring. going to put this in "hit or miss".

Afro Funk song recs

(14) Afrobeats

im hearing two conflicting definitions of afrobeats; one is what i would expect to hear on a car speaker as someone drives by (this flavor of afrobeat tends to sound very similar to one another). the other flavor is a lot more interesting in my opinion, and the flavor i will be judging this genre based on.

this genre is reminiscent of the afro funk that i just listened to. these songs seem to be a bit of a higher BPM than afro funk, or maybe just more upbeat.

the last song is closer to the first afrobeat definition i heard. "acceptable" tier.

Afrobeats song recs

(15) Afro House

some of the songs what similar to the first "flavor" of afrobeats i was hearing, and others are closer to the definition of house music that i had in my head going into this.

i feel like i have slowly climbed the liveliness ladder during the duration of listening for this post. these are definitely the liveliest songs ive listened to today. i have basically no energy right now despite the caffeine ive had, but these songs give me a little bit of that energy back. afro house is going into "acceptable", as something im happy to hear but probably wouldnt listen to regularly (as with most house genres nowadays).

[edgepunk]

I'm probably swinging a bat at a hornet's nest, but some of the posts circulating on here "criticizing" Cyberpunk were straight up stupid. Some popular post on here said that it's bad the game has huge 50GB+ updates and that it's unheard of when,,,, no? lol almost every game has huge updates? That doesn't make it a bad game?

It's also bad that the developers kept updating the game to fix the issues, apparently leaving it in its piss poor state is better than keep working on it. (note: I am not defending the "eh we'll fix it later" mindset that's been prevalent in the AAA industry)

By all means, criticize the horrific development and the way the investors/execs were treating this whole thing, but these are stupid complaints that aren't exclusive to Cyberpunk. I'm not defending how the game was handled, I fully agree that update 2.0 is what the game should've been like at launch, but these are not good arguments. And the fact that those posts get thousands of notes shows that these people know nothing about these things.

Like, I'm still flabbergasted by the "the game is bad because it has a big update" argument when you compared it to Bee Gee Three in the same post which also has huge 50GB+ updates.

[leopardmuffinxo]

seeing the tags in that "which bee gee three companion are you less likely to romance" poll yesterday had me wondering how many of my moots roll their eyes at some of my ship posts jkffdjghdk.

[70smarauderz]

marauders favorite artists and other music-related headcanons totally not based on me being obsessed with late60s-70s music

james potter: yes, jethro tull, steely dan, donna summers, billy joel, the kinks, van halen

i think james would listen to anything and everything tbh, he’s he epitome of eclectic music taste to me, he has his faves obvs but he honestly enjoys all of his friends' faves too totally didn’t put billy joel there because of only the good die young...

sirius black: the rolling stones, queen, led zepellin, ac/dc, black sabbath, KISS, judas priest

i imagine sirius loving black dog by led zeppelin and saying that it’s his song even b4 completing his animagus transformation and it only gets worse after that

remus lupin: elton john, the beatles, david bowie, the who, the doors, boston, joy division

remus lupin would f*cking love people are strange FIGHT ME. post-1981 remus would listen to a lot of joy division, and i swear im not just saying that cause ian curtis gives off remus vibes to me

peter pettigrew: alvin stardust, the rubettes, blue öyester cult, genesis, squeeze

putting blue öyster cult for peter and just picturing sirius saying something like he's shocked peter finally developed some good taste 100% did not put BÖC for peter because of career of evil idk what ure talking about

lily evans: fleetwood mac, marvin gaye, the beatles, creedence clearwater revival, ABBA, neil young, barry manilow

this is 100% a stolen hc from a microfic but lily thinks something by the beatles is the peak of romantic lyricism (btw if u know what microfic i’m talking about pls tell me, cause i can’t find it anywhere) lily and remus like the beatles because it reminds them of their moms

mary macdonald: the beach boys, bee gees, fleetwood mac, nina simone, stevie wonder, eric clapton, diana ross

i think mary and lily had a pretty similar music taste and gave recs to each other when they discovered new songs lily and mary saw eric clapton live in 1978 and ABBA in 1975 (i wanted them to see fleetwood mac live but the dates of their UK concerts just don't really work, unless i put them going to a concert in 1980 which seems a bit weird to me cause yk the war)

marlene mckinnon: the clash, heart, sweet, thin lizzy, pink floyd, the damned, x-ray spex

marlene listens to psycho killer by the talking heads non-stop and everyone groans when she puts it on; sirius gets it because he does the same with killer queen marlene introduces thin lizzy to sirius and james and the three of them saw them live on the 1977 Reading Rock Festival

[spirits-having-flown]

hello all!!

(i’ve never really done an introduction post since i’ve gotten back here a couple or so years ago so here is a very late introduction post-)

my name is rebekah and i am a music nerd. my pronouns are she/her. i make mostly icons and sometimes gifs. (requests are open!) i also post pictures that i find of my favorites as well. i am open to making friends. i am sometimes shy and do suffer from anxiety, but outgoing once i talk more.

my interests include (bold = current favorite):

bands: wham!, bee gees, fleetwood mac (saw live on 10.16.18), goo goo dolls, inxs, the beatles, tears for fears, steely dan (saw live with the eagles on 03.09.24), hall & oates, talking heads, the monkees, the jacksons, oasis, the cure, abba, bon jovi, def leppard, the doors, the rolling stones, & more!

singers: liam gallagher, george michael, harry styles, janet jackson, james taylor (saw live on 06.11.24), kylie minogue, madonna, michael jackson, paul mccartney, prince, stevie nicks (saw live on 06.23.23), george harrison, aaliyah, whitney houston, & more!

movies: back to the future, the breakfast club, pretty in pink, sixteen candles, funny girl, purple rain, under the cherry moon, bright lights big city, 10 things i hate about you, the princess bride, saturday night fever, & more!

tv shows: family ties, seinfeld, friends, arrested development, curb your enthusiasm, that 70s show, new girl, gilmore girls, three’s company, community, grace and frankie, ted lasso, home improvement, veep, the office (us) & more!

actors/actresses: michael j. fox, julia louis-dreyfus, robin williams, audrey hepburn, river phoenix, rita hayworth, ralph macchio, jennifer aniston, matthew perry, molly ringwald, robert redford, jane fonda, heath ledger, & more!

other: classic rock, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, vaporwave, 70s & 80s fashion, nature, autumn, summer, tennis, collecting vinyls, cassettes, and cds, rose gold, disney, drums, christmas, & more!

my other blogs are @elaine-marie-benes (julia louis-dreyfus appreciation blog) and @round-are-way (oasis/liam gallagher appreciation blog), my spotify can be found here, and my vinyl collection instagram page can be found here.

thanks for reading and stopping by, rock on!!

[alessiathepirate]

I was tagged by @meri-meri-mwah and @angi-writes-filth. Thank you, I appreciate it! :)

Rules: Pick a song for each letter of your URL and then tag that many people.

Also, my music taste is a mix of everything.

A - American Idiot - Green Day

L - Legendary - Skillet

E - Empty Wallets - 5 Seconds of Summer

S - Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees

S - Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash

I - I Am Machine - Three Days Grace

A - Ain't No Rest For The Wicked - Cage The Elephant

T - Temporary Fix - One Direction

H - Hip To Be Square - Huey Lewis And The News

E - Emperor's New Clothes - Panic! At The Disco

P - Per Aspera Ad Inferi - Ghost

I - Into The Mind - Miracle Of Sound

R - Ritual - Ghost

A - Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

T - The World Is Gonna End Tonight - Dan Romer (Far Cry 5)

E - Ex's And Oh's - Elle King

Tagging sixteen people is a bit of a challenge, but I'll try my best.

@emberstoriesandtales @onlyyourone @charliedawn @hackettquarrys @jessy-the-martian-girl @lonnit-entertainment @yesimwriting @thewrathfuldeputy

/No pressure at all. If you don't feel comfortable doing it, then just ignore this post, but if want to then I'm excited to see what kinds of songs you'll pick. :) /

/Also, I'm a girl of culture, so I can't just go and leave without a bit of rambling.

The song called Should I Stay Or Should I Go is from the game called Far Cry 4, and I gotta say I have a special relationship with that part of the game series and with the series itself.

I first heard Stayin' Alive in BBC Sherlock, one of my favourite TV shows to this day. It's definitely worth a watch.

I know Ain't No Rest For The Wicked from the TV series Lucifer, a show I enjoyed, but couldn't find the time to finish.

Hip To Be Square is a classic, it's mostly known from American Psycho. (I mention this movie in one of my one-shots) Also that movie is still golden and if you haven't seen the clip where the song is played, shame on you; go and watch it! :)

Into The Mind is a song from the video game called The Evil Within, the game that got me into the horror genre and with that into the more complicated backstories.

The World Is Gonna End Tonight is a song from Far Cry 5, the first Far Cry game I ever played and with that it's my favourite from the series to this day./

Once again, thank you for the tagging and sorry for the rambling! :)

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Welcome to the weekend!

Wow! Here we are again: Friday! Where did that week go? No, seriously, where did that week go?

Next Wednesday, it will be March. Two months gone already! Naturally, it’s impossible to slow down time and, to be honest, I’m struggling to deal with these sands of time slipping away at an alarming rate. Don’t want to sound too morbid but I’ll be dead soon! No, I’m not ill but this is a fact. I’ll become a memory that becomes more distant by the day. You’ll have to read somebody else’s status. Or write your own. Now you know why I do so much. Now you know why I try to stay in contact with so many people.

My Instagram hacker got busy last night. Sending out begging letters to everyone that is STILL on that old profile. (Why are you STILL on that old profile?) People were sending me messages, “I think you’ve been hacked.” I was hacked LAST YEAR and told everyone to unfollow my old profile. The new profile is “wesker.lindsay”. If you don’t unfollow my old Instagram profile, you will continue receiving messages from the beggar. I told Instagram about my account being stolen and they did NOTHING!

Apologies for talking about race again but, yesterday, a black guy told me that his black friends weren’t interested in the ‘Elvis’ movie because of cultural appropriation. Wow, then they’d better stop listening to Adele, Ariana Grande, Teena Marie, Justin Timberlake, Robin Thicke, Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, Bob James, Jimmy Messina, Van Morrison, Average White Band, Boz Scaggs, David Bowie, The Doobie Brothers, Ed Sheeran, Eminem, Mac Miller, Post Malone, Lewis Taylor, Lisa Stansfield, Manhattan Transfer, Yvonne Elliman, KC & The Sunshine Band, Joss Stone, Moonchild, Marie Dahlstrom, Louise Golbey, Jacob Collier, Jon B, Michael McDonald, Ned Doheny, Paul Simon, Simply Red, Robert Palmer, Stevie Winwood, Talking Heads, Elton John, The Style Council, Bobby Caldwell, Amy Winehouse, Kenny Thomas, Level 42, George Michael, The Bee Gees Toto and every song written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David. Yeah, they’d better take those acts out of their playlist immediately! In fact, show me a white act that hasn’t – in some small way – been influenced by black music.

Really hope you can join me tomorrow for the final part of The Letter L. Once we finish The Letter L, it will be three years until we get there again. On March 4, we start The Letter M. My executive producer for M (Pt. 1) is The Very Generous Jen Kyriacou. (You are in for a treat.) The Letter M (Pt. 2) is on March 11 and then there is no ‘A-Z’ on March 18 as The Trouble and I will be down on the French Riviera! (Can’t wait!)

Have a fabulous and funky Friday! I love you all. You’re probably thinking, “You don’t even know me!” but, if people can hate for no reason, why can’t I love?

[molloytheboy]

Fic asks: 3, 8, 15, 17, 30

3. Do you write fics from start or finish, or jump around?

Start to finish. I do a lot of figuring things out as I go and end up straying from my original vision for a scene often, which usually affects everything after it. Like dominoes. Having to rewrite an entire section because something didn't go as planned can be discouraging for me and that happens more when I write non-linear.

8. Do you listen to music while you write? If so, share a song that’s been inspiring you lately.

Yes, usually something from the time period I'm writing in or that just fits the vibe. Most of my writing lately has been for a Devil's Minion era Danmand fic so I've been listening to a lot of disco for that. I don't know about inspiring, but Too Much Heaven by the Bee Gees came up on a playlist while I was writing a particularly gruesome bit so that was neat

15. A Hollywood producer tells you that they want to film just one of your fics. Which fic would you want it to be?

Can't believe you're asking me to pick a favorite child like this. Ok I literally can't pick just one so I'm gonna cheat.

The Lion and the Lamb is my real answer. Nickistat are my otp and this fic in particular is my most cinematic I think

Against All Odds is the runner up. Set during the most compelling part of canon for Loustat imo and I actually titled it after the Phil Collins song I envisioned playing over the end credits

The Salvation of Man as Oscar bait (especially when I get around to finishing it)

17. What fic are you most proud of?

Glory Be Everything about this one just worked exactly the way I wanted it to. I managed to hit all the character beats and get the build up to the confrontation just right. I love the balance of comedy, romance, and drama that I ended up with.

30. Tell us an idea for a longfic you want to write in the future.

Not quite a longfic, only planning on three chapters for it but could end up being longer. Valentine's Day at Chateau de Lioncourt post-canon. A chapter each for Loustat, Danmand, and Thorne/Antoine with Cyril as wingman (which I'm pretty sure no one has ever done before. Antoine deserves his happily ever after too for everything he's been through). lighthearted shenanigans as the gang prepares for the Valentine's Day ball and plan romantic evenings for their partners <3

[bragganhyl]

possibly controversial take about bee gee three romances below the cut

honestly more of the mid-to-late game romance scenes could've and should've had a friendship version like Ga*le's starry night scene, and (maybe with the exception of Wy*ll's proposal scene bc like... that's a proposal scene ofc it's pure fluffy romance stuff) they wouldn't even need a lot of rewriting given that they don't really start out as romantic scenarios, they segue into romance/sex territory

like Kar*lach wants to go out and have dinner to do something normal for once, As*tarion visits his own grave to say goodbye to his past lives, SH wants to learn to swim with the PC's help bc she wants to prove that she can rely on people outside her old sha*rran circle and that she doesn't need to be afraid of the unknown, L'Z watches the sunrise with the PC and tells them she grew to love fa*erun, Wy*ll visits an allegedly magical tree that grants wishes

you're telling me they wouldn't do this with their supposed bestie? only with their romantic partner? especially given how some of them treat a friend PC?

[puellafuriadarkmagica]

Chapter 3

Chapter 3: A Tree in the Storm Like the Breath of a Child

I remember this title is from something by the Bee Gees, but honestly I don't care about them enough to remind myself which track it actually is. My very own father attests that the Bee Gees are the greatest disco band of all time, and frankly, I think he's nuts for it.

"Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; / Goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow." - Sappho of Lesbos

This was about Thalia, obviously, but now I'm not even sure if I'd call her strictly "good" either. If I had to sum up where she's at in a word, it would probably be more like "bewildered".

I'm getting into reading the chapter proper now, and it feels a little strange to do so. I want to stress that I consider chapters 1-3 one "episode" of PFDM, if you will, so to do this days apart from when I read the first two feels quite unlike the intended experience. Yes, I released it weeks after chapters 1 and 2 in real time as well, but that's because (as I hope is obvious by now) PFDM really has a target audience of one, and that one is me. Your collective experience doesn't matter to me at all, and in fact, doesn't exist.

That's the sickest twist of all! PFDM is stored entirely on my computer! I never at any point actually published any of this, and you're all just vividly dreaming up what I would have posted. Your dream sucks, by the way. You think that's the best I could write? I promise you, the real PFDM, which you will never see, is actually much better.

wait where was i going with this

Right, so chapters 1-3 are one whole sort of thingy to me, and I actually wrote all three simultaneously. I would have roped chapter 4 into the mix, but this was the best I could do before New Year's/ In a sense, this was the pilot. So I really had to refine the tone and style. I think I missed on some of the finer details, but there were a lot of jokes these chapters had originally that ended up cut because I didn't think they really felt like PFDM, you know?

Thalia winced beneath the hood of her jacket as yet another firework let out a deafening flash too directly overhead for her liking. She wasn't the type to fit in.

Completely forgot how long I kept her physical appearance under wraps for. Not long in the grand scheme of things, mind you, but back when the chapter count was still knocking single digits it felt like an eternity. I guess you had to be there. Now every chapter individually feels pretty minor, all things being what they are. Well, in hindsight. When it comes to forthcoming chapters I'm kind of raving madly at how to arrange them, especially since part 3 is nearly [REDACTED] of the way done, and there are only [REDACTED] chapters left after that!

Thalia shivered when she locked eyes (or eye, in her own case) with the girl who had just tapped her shoulder.

I've gradually come to imagine Hope as a fair way shorter than I originally did, which makes this more difficult to imagine. Is Thalia slouching? Are they going down some stairs? Is Hope actually tall? I don't know. Send your answers to 4 Mianga Avenue, Engadine, New South Wales, C/O puellafuriadarkmagica.tumblr.com.

The Incubator took this as an opportunity to butt in with an explanation. "Phoebe stepped in to stop two enemy magical girls from killing each other. She wanted them to understand each other's point of view. To make a long story short, all three girls share the same body, gem, and for the sake of convenience, name now." "…Wow. What's that like?" Phoebe laughed. "I suppose it depends on which one of me you ask!"

So I'm pretty sure I plural-coded a character here without actually intending to do that, understanding that this was what I was doing, or being aware of the ramifications of doing so. If she comes across as pretty two-dimensional rep for that, I apologise. That straight-up wasn't even my plan.

"It's cool, it's so cool you could hold it on a swollen eye and numb it,"

This line I can mark up to the fact that I think I was showing my partner Hitchhiker's at the time, and it ended up coming out like one of Zaphod's chronically uncool quips. That's probably good, actually. I don't think Phoebe is very cool very often.

I also want to point out that the name Deckard is an obvious hat-tip to Do Androids Dream and Blade Runner. The Attendants all calling each other by last name but the citadel residents being on a first name basis is also very Blade Runner-y, but I don't remember the book well enough to be able to say that they do that in there too.

Though it was growing late and he found himself accosted by the looming inevitability of sleep, Bill stayed as awake as he could. He was an artist, as it happened, and though she couldn't muster a single cent, the attentive looming of his biggest fan spurred him on to make manifest the visual abstractions of his thoughts and feelings he had set out to make. This, he believed, was his duty as an artist. This was his raison d'être, and even if he was only doing it for a penniless, quiet teenage girl with a tattered coat and a face only a mother who was looking at something else could love, then he was doing it nonetheless!

No joke, Bill Campbell was introduced here because I originally planned for him to have a part in a climactic moment in part 4. I've since decided that that's pretty fucking stupid. He might be another one-off character, I'm afraid.

Unbeknownst to Bill, this was the second time a complete stranger had shouted this at his sole fan in the last twenty minutes, and the second time that stranger had been a magical girl. It was, perhaps, just as well that he didn't know, because learning this would have had no bearing on his life whatsoever and completely wasted his time.

Where did the early-game jokes like this go? I kind of miss them. They don't feel like they're around so often anymore. Maybe they are and I just don't notice.

"Her?" He spluttered. "She wouldn't hurt a fly!" "I'd be impressed if she could, though." "How's that?" "Insects don't feel pain, sir."

Genuine contender for a top ten spot in a list of PFDM jokes, I think.

I don't think Phoebe's transformation sequence is very strong, because I hadn't got my bearings yet. I'm glad if anyone got the dud one, it was her.

Thalia crept out from behind a concrete pillar. She wished she knew some curses so that she could whisper them to herself. She had been hunting the collector witch, and along came these happy-go-lucky hotshots and claimed the battle for themselves? How despicable.

Once all this is over, I might post all the witch names and titles somewhere. They probably won't all fit in the story (the important ones still have so far, and will continue to, however).

I've said it before, but the labyrinth sequences are based on the mid- and late-career works of the playwright Sarah Kane. Those are definitely worth a read if you've got the fortitude for them, but they get heavy like nothing else I've seen. Particularly 4:48, for reasons which I hope are obvious.

Now that I think about it, I guess I can't let that one sequence from Evangelion episode 22 not crack a mention. Best episode of the show, quite frankly. One of my beta readers is going to very very strongly disagree with me for this, but it's better than End of Evangelion. But what would they know? They're not writing PFDM.

Crucial addendum: I am being tormented.

A smile on her face and the usual dose of nightmare fuel in her mind, Marie turned and left at what happened to be precisely 11:59:50 P.M.

This sequence is a bit cliché, but it's still a personal favourite of mine. It was really meant to be one big sign off to this kinda-sorta pilot, and I wanted that to be a grand cross-section of where PFDM has the potential to go. I hope it works?

Ruth sat forward in her armchair, as if sheer force of will could clear the picture quality on her television. She cast her mind back to this day twenty-two years prior, before Sarah had wound up in that fight that left her in her current state. Before Graham - the right proper piece of shit - had announced that he couldn't love his own daughter anymore and run away. For sixteen years, New Year's Day had cemented itself in her mind as a family occasion, and it had never quite stopped feeling that way. Then again, her daughter sitting silently by her side had always been the only family she ever needed.

Take for instance our first look at Ruth here. You get next to nothing about her, and were it not for the narration's mention of her in chapter 2, you might be forgiven for thinking she has nothing to do with the rest of this story. But I've established that (very tenuous) link already, so it should be pretty obvious that all of these are interconnected. Again, I don't know how effective this actually is, because I already know everything that's going to happen. But I remember being pretty shitting pleased with myself at the time, and I pretty much still am.

Lara stood up the back of the crowd by the Harbour Bridge, still grinning with relief. The countdown had been timed perfectly. Her sister had just asked her why the back of the jacket had said what it did, and she was mortified by the possibility - the All-Permeating Abyss in all its infinite dark majesty forbid! - that she would have had to provide an answer! Life wasn't about answers, in her opinion. Life was about a black leather jacket with "Do Not Resuscitate" stitched on the back. Life was also all about flirting with Madeleine, she supposed, but at least Sisyphus took breaks to let his boulder roll down the hill. She could wait.

I'm really rapid-firing these nods to characters you haven't met yet, and there's so much for you to chew on. You already get mentions of Lara's thoughts falling to Sinead Macquarie and Madeleine Whitman, without - and this is crucial - ever once exposing the fact that Lara is the Macquarie that Marie was thinking about in chapter 1. Then I go ahead and name drop the Abyss for funsies. I'm on a roll here.

Hours later, on the other side of the world, Margaret leaned back in her diner chair whose creak in response suggested that it was the elder of the two. The look on the face of the girl across from her said she would really rather be anywhere else, but if she had any intention of speaking as much aloud, it was cancelled out by her embarrassment at the absurdity of her situation. Besides, the two of them had a very important job in the days ahead, and work only became more pressing in the festive season. "You could at least get your feet off the table," she telepathized. Margaret pretended not to hear.

I don't think anyone picked up on the fact that this scene probably takes place in the United States as given by the fact that it uses American spelling rules, but it was there. Wait maybe Americans say "canceled"? I don't understand how they treat double Ls.

Wai-Fong braced herself a mere fraction of a second before she burst shoulder-first through the seventh-storey window and hurtled toward the street below in a shower of glass and blood (mostly not even hers!). Time slowed in freefall, and a jet of flame from the explosion spewed forth from her impromptu escape, very narrowly missing her head. As she turned to look, three enormous, bony arms clawed their way out of the building's exit wound. She winced. No doubt the witch that used to be the girl she was just fighting. As she readied her weapon, she felt a small degree miffed at forgetting until now that she said she would be studying for her finals tonight.

And back to British spelling rules! Plus a character with a Cantonese name. I really don't think guessing where this one was set was anything resembling a challenge. Also Wai-Fong was a character I really didn't have any direction for at this stage: I kind of winged her early chapters. Which honestly surprised me, because now she is, in my opinion, one of the characters with the biggest personality in the story.

Hüriye's eyes snapped open. She stumbled backward into her turntables and stopped them silent. Instantly, all eyes in the room were upon her. She grinned. Her mind swam with the infinite possibilities self-realization brought. She knew the way to a joyous and fulfilling life. She loved herself, and she knew that the corner of the universe she called a self loved her back. She knew that when she woke up tomorrow, it would be to the first dawn on a perfect life, one where she could- Huh? Oh, shit. The music.

I think Hüriye's pronouns here versus in the rest of the story serve as a pretty big hint for what their realisation might have entailed before they outright say it soon after their proper introduction. Honestly, if I were you and I hadn't figured this out, I'd be kicking myself a little. Just saying. Not even to be rude or anything, I'm just saying.

The youngest daughter of an eons-ancient force of destruction stirred from her sleep, woken by the counting down of the humans ignorant enough to believe themselves her parents. For a moment, she thought she saw a shadow by her doorway - poised like a cat, but with longer ears and a bigger tail - but when she rubbed her eyes and blinked, it was gone. She was hungry. Hungry in a way she didn't know other people weren't. She didn't understand what the urge really meant she wanted. This feeling was normal to her, but she had never quite satisfied it, and she assumed it was something that would come and go as a standard part of growing up. In a sense, it was. Every child on the path to becoming a teenager wanted to destroy the universe. What made her so special was that she could actually pull it off.

Now you're probably wondering, "Hey, DARKMAGIC313, why are we seeing this kid whose relevance still hasn't come into play, and not a character I actually care about, like Adia Musyoki?" Well, first of all, that's not my real name, but it would be sick as hell if it was (were?). Second, patience. You'll like this kid, I promise. Third, as I hope is obvious by now BUT IF IT ISN'T DON'T READ THIS BIT, STOP READING THIS PARAGRAPH AND SKIP AHEAD TO THE NEXT ONE, countdown numbers six through three are all showcasing a tangentially relevant character introduced in parts one through four respectively. And fourth, and perhaps most embarrassingly, I hadn't come up with Adia at the time. Yeah, go ahead and laugh. This is a self-parodying, over-the-top political thriller, and I didn't even plan for it to have a hacker character from the very beginning. Shame on mother fucking me.

Beyond the limits of the universe as all of the above understand it, untouched by the white lies called time and space, a brilliant deity draped in a flowing black cloak writes by the deep blue light of her soul gem. Her words are inert as she pens them, but their meaning is alive and dynamic, shifting into the shape of a cosmos. This cosmos, too, is filled with life where she wills it - or does it will her to write? Which one informs the other? - life which understands itself through the words she builds them from. She is the speaker-god, and her words and the universe are one and the same. And she's mighty humble, too.

I do like how quickly we dropped the title of speaker-god. I've been doing a lot of this thing where the narration strips a character of their titles when it becomes apparent that they're undeserved. Maybe I'm not doing that as much as I think I am, actually. I can't think of any other example except for the bit in the most recent chapter where the narration takes to calling Whitman "Madeleine" when Marie starts humiliating her. Still, even if that's only two points of data, that's something.

PART 1: UNTIL THE DARK

The part names are also lyrical quotations, and in fact, all are connected to the titles of their first chapters - part 1 shares an artist, part 2 an album, and part 3 an actual song. The logical conclusion is that part 4 would be exactly the same as the title of the first chapter in it, but for some reason I'm a little doubtful I want to do that. I have a much better name for it in my head anyway. Maybe even a few much better names.

PRETTY OBLIQUE SPOILER ALERT: I also want to point out something I deliberately kept hidden in my part retrospectives - PFDM actually draws a lot of parallels to Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (for more or less the same reason PMMM proper draws a lot of parallels to Goethe's Faust - it's pretty emblematic of an entire artistic movement whose vibes PMMM is jacking). The first that I make apparent (to my recollection, anyway - I may have missed something) is the part titles loosely paralleling those of Gravity's Rainbow. Until the Dark : Beyond the Zero The Champs-Élysées is a Busy Street : Une Perm au Casino Hermann Goering (really naming a location in French is the only connection here, but I only had so much to work with to keep the part title-chapter title connection working. I did say the connections were loose.) A World of Twenty Thousand Girls : In the Zone (this one pretty much only makes sense on top of how otherworldly Gravity's Rainbow's Zone actually actually is.) I feel like me telling you all this is maybe a pretty hefty giveaway about the trajectory of certain narrative threads and framing devices, but I don't know how much you guys actually investigate this kind of thing. Maybe I can say all this and get away with it just fine. Maybe I was overly cautious in neglecting to point any of this out in the part writeups, and/or maybe where this plot differentiates from that one is enough to keep you thrown off the tail, and/or(!) maybe even if I give you this hint, theorising about where I'm taking things will be no less, or maybe even more rewarding! Again, the curse of actually writing this is I have no way of knowing for sure how the audience feels.

Dark magic has been a phenomenon observed among magical girls since before the evolution of the modern magical girl (Puella Furia)

I am pretty sure that this was a hell of a bombshell to drop though. I think we're still dealing with the ramifications of these magical girls being further along the evolutionary chain than their counterparts in the source material.

Dark magic, true to its name, does not interact electromagnetically, and thus cannot be observed by an individual who is incapable of perceiving their surroundings without a body's sensory organs. Typically, this restricts observation to magical girls (in the various stages of their life cycle) and those similarly aware of their souls as in, for instance, the Incubator.

I deliberately avoided also saying wraiths here, even though I'm pretty sure that this early on I knew that they were going to be showing up in part 2.

As advances in the understanding of dark magic continue, the phenomenon's discovery is misattributed to significant contributors to the study of magic. These include Penelope of Skyros (310 BCE - 291 BCE), for her use of it in elaborating on the Aristotelian conception of a "fifth element", Aisha bint Hassan (703 - 739), the first person to write the equations for dark magic stability and its relation to emotional energy usage when her trail of thought became derailed while she was trying to figure out how to fit a rolled-up rug through the front door of her house, Anneliese Holzknecht (1828 - 1871), whose extensive writing on the matter had resulted in the SI unit for dark magic being named the Holzknecht (abbreviated as Hk), and who had invented both the time paradox and being found dead 7000 kilometres from the last place you were seen, and Rachel R. Parker (1981 - 2002), who had actually coined the term.

The saddest part of writing PFDM is how short I have to make everyone's lifespans. Except Anneliese Holzknecht, who I hope is pretty obviously a pet favourite of mine at this point. Actually, a very VERY early version of the story plan (i.e. before Macquarie and all that) was going to have her be part of the main gang, and also immortal. I since decided that was patently ridiculous, and that I ended up finding her more interesting long-dead than alive (although she did live for quite some time!), so I kinda-sorta moved her immortality across to Whitman, and changed it more to an immunity-type power. More recently, I've started reading You Bright and Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann, which incorporates centuries-old immortals into its main cast much funnier than I would have anyway.

Parker's coinage of the phrase came about in 1998, in response to the discovery of "dark energy" named to suit the nomenclature established by dark matter. She had come up with it during a game of table tennis, wherein she had joked that if the name ended up sticking, the entities whose bodies were comprised of dark magic would have to be renamed to "witches" and "familiars" and was shocked to discover the following week that this was exactly what had happened. What she was not shocked to discover, however, since neither she nor anybody else ever knew this, was that mere days after she made this joke, a woman in another country altogether was giving birth to an immaculately conceived child. Had she known, her entire understanding of consciousness and free will would have been thrown into question and it's entirely possible that this would have made her feel less bad about the joke in comparison.

I have no doubt in my mind that the name "witch" only being a decade old has caused hella plot holes in the historical sections. If it has, I'll probably patch these up. Not entirely sure if I care enough to, though? We'll see.

Anyway, that's all for now. See you next time for chapter 4, the first chapter I wrote live as we were updating!

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Best opening songs (in my opinion)

You know what they say, first impressions are everything. If I turn something on to watch it, and I am not immediatley entertained, im turning it off. You got to know how to captivate an audience! Opening a movie is hard. Opening a tv show is hard. A good soundtrack can make or break a production. Look at saturday night fever, a godawful movie. I dont think people actually know the plot of the movie, just that they had the bee gees gong crazy. Anyways. Please enjoy this list I have curated of my favorite opening songs in various TV shows and movies.

Real Gone By Sheryl Crowe - as heard in Cars (2006)

Everybody already knows Cars is a genuinely good movie, and its soundtrack is a big part of that. The opening scene of the movie is one of the best I have ever seen for an animated kids movie. Mcqueens opening “I am Speed” monologue, followed by his entrance to Real Gone (which somewhat foreshadows parts of the movie in the lyrics) is electrifying, and welcomes the audience into the movie. This is such a good introduction to a movie I am not even kidding I highly recommend a Cars rewatch.

Kids in America by The Muffs - as heard in Clueless (1995)

Clueless is another iconic movie. I think everyone should be legally required to watch it, at least once. The movie opens with a montage of the amazing life of Cher Horowitz, with a cover of “Kids in America” by Kim Wilde. The song is the perfect backdrop for the totally normal, noxema commercial-esque life led by our main girl Cher. These truly are the kids of America!

Stayin Alive by The Bee Gees - as heard in Saturday Night Fever (1975)

As mentioned above, nobody really cares about Saturday Night Fever aside from its soundtrack. The only reason you would want to watch this movie is for the soundtrack. You might get hooked into thinking "wow, this seems like a genuinenly good movie" as it opens swinging, John Travolta sashaying around as the Staying alive plays, but trust me, the only good part of this movie, is the opening. Source: I have seen it twice.

All Star by Smash Mouth - as heard in Shrek (2001)

What would a radio show of iconic opening songs in movies and shows be without shrek? We live in a PS (post shrek) world, so its hard to imagine a world without this movie. Shrek was released at the end of the disney renaissance era, and was meant to parody the cliche fairytale movies. If you didn’t know this before watching the movie, maybe the opening scene featuring shrek reading a fairytale, before ripping out a page to wipe his ass, and the bursting through his outhouse door, as Smash Mouth plays in the background, might be a tip off. All Star is the perfect contrast to the perfectly polished soundtracks of the fairytale that the movie was parodying. And you know what? Sometimes, the years start coming, don't stop coming.

Perfect Day by Hoku - as heard in Legally Blonde (2001)

The opening of Legally Blonde is quite similar to the opening of Clueless, probably because Elle Woods is like the slightly more grown up version of Cher Horowitz (Minus the whole stepbrother/boyfriend thing). We are introduced to Ms. Woods in a montage of Blonde, pink, and sorority girls. The background song of choice is a bit on the nose - it IS the perfect day, Elle is going to get engaged! But that's fine, because it's catchy, and fits the vibes of the movie perfectly. 

Don't Trust Me by 30H3 - as heard in Pretty Little Liars (2010-2017)

When most people think about pretty little liars, they think of the trainwreck that was the last couple of seasons, which is unfortunate, as the first three seasons of the show were 2010s teen drama perfection. Nothing is more 2010 than the opening scene in the barn, with the girls blasting 3OH3. If only they knew what was in store. This song is so funny, what do you mean “Do the Helen Keller, and talk with your hips”? What does that mean? Maybe it's fitting that they chose a song with baffling lyrics to begin a tv show that would end with twelve million baffling plot lines.  

One Week by The Barenaked Ladies - as heard in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)  

Before somebody tries to argue with me that the movie was opened with Bad Reputation by Joan Jett, We see the Seattle skyline with One week in the background. So I consider this to be the opening song. Was there a movie geared towards teens made in the late nineties that didn’t feature this song? The barebaked ladies had the teen movie soundtrack curators of the nineties in a chokehold. While I do absolutely adore this movie, the fact that they try to pass off Stadium High School as being located in Seattle grinds my gears. It's in Tacoma!!!!!!!!!!!

What's A Girl To Do by Bat for Lashes - as heard in Scream Queens (2015-2016)

I think Scream Queens was underrated. I was hooked on the show immediately, especially after the haunting first drum beats (A sample of the drums originally heard in Be My Baby by The Ronettes). The tension created with the ominous tone of the background music is crazy. The song is just eerie enough to fit the mood, and adds a very haunting ambiance.

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have not played Bee Gee Three but based solely on posts & gifsets I've seen on my dashboard: what's with the vicious and thorough character assassination of my girl Mystra, holy shit