#below the waste

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // Goat Girl - Motorway

From the album Below the Waste, out June 7th on Rough Trade.

[mmepastel]

J’avais déjà repéré des chansons de ce chouette groupe dans leur album précédent, mais j’ai un vrai coup de cœur pour leur dernier.

Je l’ai écouté plusieurs fois depuis sa récente sortie, mais j’ai du mal à préférer un morceau, car je trouve les morceaux assez difficiles à différencier, pas parce qu’elles se ressemblent toutes, mais car les mélodies et l’instrumentation sont assez complexes au final.

J’aime beaucoup celui-ci, je le trouve sombre et dramatique et la présence discrète mais cruciale d’une flûte apporte de la beauté, une sorte de touche organique à un ressac de guitares saturées. Et la voix, ou les voix, superbes.

Il y a d’ailleurs des morceaux avec des chœurs, un peu étranges, un peu incantatoires en même temps que cinématographiques.

Je peux vite saturer quand j’ai l’impression qu’il y a un boucan gratuit, mais là, quand le son se brouille et s’intensifie, ça me paraît cohérent, bienvenu.

Je n’ai pas exploré les paroles, je ne sais pas quoi elles causent, mais quelque chose me dit que ce n’est pas hyper feel good, pourtant je sens aussi de la douceur, aussi de la lumière, des trouées, dans quelque chose de plutôt mélancolique et « dark ».

Ce qui est chouette, c’est qu’on a envie d’y revenir, de le réécouter, on y découvre à chaque fois un truc nouveau, et on peut changer de titre préféré au gré de son humeur.

PS : JADORE LA POCHETTE.

PS 2 : le dernier morceau est également assez génial.

[reckonslepoisson]

Below the Waste, Goat Girl (2024)

A perfectly nice and well-crafted indie rock record, a bit pretty and a bit noisy and with a stellar number of highlights (‘Ride Around’, ‘Words Fell Out’, ‘Sleep Talk’, ‘Wasting’). 

Pick: ‘Sleep Talk’

[spilladabalia]

Goat Girl - ride around

[coachbeards]

the average human mind cannot comprehend the three of them in a room together

[glittergroovy]

[kingkatsuki]

Specifically thinking about long distance relationships today.

So tell me how you and your f/o would first meet online?

[ganondoodle]

struggeling to draw anything for the totk rewrite bc i know the most popular stuff is some cool cutscenes or something and me working on detailed mechanics is mostly a waste of time :/

like i have alot of stuff worked out by now but it would take ages to draw concepts for all those new menus and mechanics when few people are interested in that- and while making a giant text post about it would be more efficient ... who the hell would read all that ._.

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // Goat Girl - Ride Around

From the album Below The Waste, out June 7th on Rough Trade.

[punkitt-is-here]

One of my design goals with Susan Taxpayer is that there should always be a smooth way to transition from one moment in the level to the next, in the room-to-room gameplay. Like, secret breakable walls that allow you to keep your momentum or adjusted platforms so that they're just low enough so that you can chargebounce onto them if you know exactly what you're doing. I want speedrunning the levels to be fun and rewarding while still making the basegame beatable by being slow and methodical. trying to cater to both types in a way. You are rewarded with extra health and coins for scouting out every single area in a level and taking your time, but if you're speedrunning, you probably don't need that, so there's always little alternative routes you can take that blast through sections at the expense of a safety net.

[adracat]

GWitch: As Above, So Below

Hermes Trismegistus is the syncretism of the Greek god Hermes(Roman Mercury) and the Egyptian god Thoth. His name means thrice great, an epithet shared between both figures. Their combined worship was observed in Hermopolis and spawned Hermetic philosophy;  personal ascension from the constraints of physical being.

"As Above, So Below' is paraphrased from a Hermetic text known as the Emerald Tablet and gained great relevance in the occult, astrology, and alchemy-- All domains of Hermes/Mercury

Quod est superius est sicut quod inferius, et quod inferius est sicut quod est superius.

That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which is above.

"As above, so it is below. That which has been, will return again. As in heaven, so on earth." - Helena Blavatsky

In the occult and witchcraft, it's taken to mean there exists a balance between the cosms. Macrocosm, the universe, and microcosm, the human body. That which happens as above, so it is below. They are one; a perfect union

Symbology

What is happening, has happened, and will happen again. As I've observed in my Cycles of GWitch analysis, this theme is very prevalent. Cycles themselves are a sign of As Above, So Below. The World Serpent and World tree are symbols of this principle, along with the sign for infinity 8, the caduceus, and circles.

One major sign is the Magician from the Rider–Waite tarot deck

The magician is signaling with his hands As Above, So Below and is haloed by the sign for infinity above. A pentagram lies to the left, depicting the tie to the mystic world. It's no accident that we have Prospera referred to as a magician with her gentle words; hinting at her significance through Mercury (god of communication and trickery) and the hermetic principle. She is the Magician. And an argument can be made that Suletta is also a magician (witch) who inadvertently influences rather than manipulates. But that line of thought is for another day

The Sabbatic goat Baphomet is another Symbol of As Above, So Below

They are a sign of a perfect union of opposites; Man/Beast, Female/Male, Dark/Light, etc. All while bearing Mercury's caduceus and mirroring the magician. Note the pentagram and torch pointed to the sky as the Magician does. As Above, So Below. The words on its arms are Solve (dissove) Coagula (coagulate). An alchemical principle that means to create something new, you must dissove what came before. The End must come before the Beginning. The Beginning must come before the End. A connected cycle.

Ragnarok is an obvious use of this concept but it also exists in Greek myth; Cronos who overthrew his father Uranus who was overthrown by his son in return. What has happened will happen again.

Notrette, the Hermetic Alchemist

This is more on the speculation side of things but considering ep23 and soft confirmation she resides in the GUND nexus and even more of a genetic genius than expected; let's assume she's the one who created Suletta, the 12th key.

In Alchemy, there exists something called the philosopher's stone. FMA fans are very familiar but in layman's terms it's the holy grail of alchemy. And one of the boons is the ability to create a clone/homunculus. Considering QZ, the ability to unnaturally extend life is similarly on the nose. The 12 keys of Basil Valentine is an alchemical text by which you can create the philosopher's stone

This is the image for the twelth and final step. Twelfth Key. Inside a laboratory an alchemist stands with tongs in his left hand, while with his right he points to a triangular crucible on a bench behind him, with two rose-like flowers growing out of it and the symbol of Mercury above it. On the left is a barrel-like furnace from the top of which flames emerge. On the right a lion devours a snake. Through an open window behind, the Sun and Moon are seen.

Mercury's symbol and 12th key are undeniably Suletta but the Snake and Lion are Shaddiq and Guel. The Moon is Nott (Notrette) and the Sun is her child Dagr (Miorine)

We are meant to associate both Notrette and Prospera as Hermetic Alchemists, and the pursuit of their craft has led to the events of GWitch and the perpetuation of numerous cycles. As Above, So Below.

I do find it intriguing that the stone is said to be not one, but two. A red stone and a white stone. It's not hard to equate our girls to both. After all, they too are a perfect union of opposites

[tj-crochets]

Crafting update: I had the day off work, so I ran some errands and overdid it enough that my heart rate was acting up, so I decided it was a "sit and crochet" kind of day, except I overdid that too so now I have an almost-finished crocheted cauldron and a blister attempting to form on my finger, so no more crochet for me for a few days lol

[cocteautwinslyrics]

fucking drives me up the wall seeing american transport projects be like 'our stations take ages to complete and theyre expensive :(' meanwhile theyre massively oversized in ways that dont increase capacity/throughput and make poor use of the space theyre using. if youre building with TBM/NATM and your station looks like it was built cut and cover that is Not a good thing. Looking at you Second Avenue Subway

[eyluvu]

Listening to fix you and SOBBING. thanks tom hiddleston😭😭