#both are absolute bangers

[qrichas]

completly unrelated to anything happening but i had a revelation at 3:30am. brazilian qsmp community see my vision. qforever and qpac coded music

(songs 1 /2) and context in tags

[weareantipaladin]

This is by far the hardest poll I've ever come across.

FFXIV Stormblood Trial Music Poll

Once again you can choose either or both for a multi-phase fight.

AND I MADE SURE I REMEMBERED THEM ALL THIS TIME!

feel free to reblog for visibility

[brainlessbaguette]

Linktober Day 29, Aquatic/Water

Sometimes I forget about how dark Twilight Princess actually gets. And then I remember their Zoras, where the very pretty queen was murdered to send a political message, all of the people in the domain were turned into one big ice cube, the pretty queen's son passes out from a lack of water miles away from his home, all while the Zora at lake Hylia are stranded downstream panicking over the decreasing water level. Thats some Game of Thrones level of dark drama in a children's game. I love it.

[appleteeth]

Note, I tried to think of the songs that are actually hated, not just overplayed.

Don't forget to share to widen the reach!

Edit: For the people saying I missed out [popular overplayed Christmas song], this was made in response to another poll with the sort of songs you'll hear on hard rotation throughout December. (If you do have to regularly listen to any of the songs I've listed, I am so sorry.)

[gearchronocle]

this OPENING man. THIS OPENING. GOES SO INCREDIBLY HARD. FOR NO REASON. it should be illegal to have a song this good in a funny haha silly little comedy anime. I'm going crazy why is it so good. kaidou why r u going so hard on the vocals for NO!! REASON !!!

the fact that it's kaidou singing keeps me up at night. you go lil chuuni boy. eat that up like a full course meal and leave no crumbs not even the plate

[symeraid-s]

Watched the new episode of Alien Stage. I'm in pain.

[littleoddwriter]

just watched The Substance and I'm so happy I decided to go and watch it, after all! it was so good!!! the body horror was spectacular, the acting was superb, everything was just right, honestly. it was horrific and hilarious at the same time (especially toward the end), which made me feel terrible for laughing as hard as I did, because on a deeper level, none of those scenes are funny, but on a movie level, they were hilarious (and had genuine comedic elements, so in a way, you're supposed to laugh, and you're most likely also supposed to feel bad about that). truly, I love Coralie Fargeat's style! her movies are so incredibly stylistic in the best way, I love it so much! <3 (please also watch "Revenge", if you liked The Substance. that movie of hers is amazing as well! but make sure to read the warnings or short plot summary of it because it deals with triggering/sensitive subject matters!)

that was a pretty solid 10/10 for me, honestly! <3

[empty-movement]

I remember seeing a post floating around on Tumblr about a 1980s anime movie that had some strong parallels to utena (especially with the rose bride and rose related imagery I think) but now I can't remember the name or find the post. Since you're the resident utena expert I wondered if you have any idea about what movie that could be or if you knew of any other stuff that might have had influence on utena and would be worth checking out. If not no worries and thanks for all the great work you do.

I'm going to guess the movie you're thinking about is Belladonna of Sadness, though that's much older, at 1973. Note: EVEN THE TRAILER HAS EXPLICIT NUDITY AND STYLIZED BUT HONESTLY PRETTY SHOCKING DEPICTIONS OF RAPE.

I honestly can't recall if anyone in Be-Papas ever brought this movie up specifically, but I cannot stress enough how obviously it is part of the DNA of Revolutionary Girl Utena. This was a film absolutely all of the creative team would likely have seen. Not only is it a major work of animation from the era, it's very much adjacent to the world of 70s ass musical theater abstract rage art that Ikuhara ate up so hard that alumni of it ended up working on Utena. (Seazer doing the duel choruses, there's even a lost musical by Ei Takatori, more on that another day.)

This isn't one of those 'lol check out this shot to shot comparison it's identical' kinds of things. While Ikuhara makes explicit references more often in later work to pop culture of note, Utena's vibe is more about digesting those inspirations, instead of decorating with them. Belladonna of Sadness is a film that feels like Utena content when you watch it. Visually, it's so much its own thing, but the shocking delicacy of Utena's most explicit scenes, the way rape is depicted, those sensibilities definitely have their origin in this film, in part.

It's not an easy watch, definitely look into content warnings for it, but those pass for you, it's probably one of, if not my top, recommendations for what to explore to find Utena's inspirations.

Another film with similarly deeply obvious vibes:

Lost Highway: This David Lynch film came out while Utena was being produced. I saw it before seeing Utena because I was Smashing Pumpkins trash as a teenager and they did a bop for the OST. I can't stress enough how much the Akio Arc is inspired by this film. Don't believe me? Listen to this:

The work of Shuji Terayama is very obvious as inspiration spiritually for Utena, especially Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets. However, I caution anyone interested in that end of the Utena universe to tread *very* carefully, this content gets honestly fucking horrifying sometimes. Explicit abuse and rape will be depicted in much of this content. Themes Utena shares, but depicts very differently, for a very different audience.

Anyway, hope that helps! Or at least is interesting!

-Vanna

[silvermoon424]

Me: I just don’t have the time or ability to focus on new series, as much as I’d like to

Also me: *Drops everything to watch Wendigoon’s 5 hour video on Blood Meridian and Contrapoint’s 2 hour video on JKR*

[bobosbillionsknives]

Rem named an infant Knives and was surprised when he grew up to have an identity crisis and violently lash out at the world around him 🤣🤣🤣🤣‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[driftingballoons]

Remembering in BW I had these two on the same team

they’re getting on so well :)

[skitskatdacat63]

Lone Ranger Gunslinger! Fernando (context)

[steelthroat]

I may not speak Deutsch. HOWEVER, the random gods of the internet have graced me with Mozart das musical so...

*seeks the musical on YouTube*

WAIT THE FRENCH MADE ANOTHER ONE? ROCK????? DUDE SAID FUCK THE HIERARCHY?????

Ahem anyway:

Mozart, das musical

Mozart, l'opera rock (eng sub)

[gravehags]

bought a pearl rosary inside st. ignatius and i didn’t spontaneously combust lmao

[wurmwizzard]

@happidragon has CHOSEN ME ! To blast 10 tunes from 10 different artists I love So Here's some of my most recent musical journeys:

1: WASTE - KMFDM

2: Dark Lady - Cher

3: Little Horn - Marilyn Manson

4: Cumulus - Imogen Heap

5: NUMBER NINE - Osamu Sato

6: Sound Check - Gorillaz

7: Tribute - Tenacious D

8: C'mere - Interpol

9: H - TOOL

10: The Fog - Kate Bush

im just now realizing the insane genre jumping and I wear it with pride baby. C'mere and The Fog have had me in their emotional CLUTCHES

also I tag uhhh @batbrainzzz @writhe @garlicmybeloved @the-winter-punk @jalordahedorah @pbscore @hydrathermal @ghoulgoon @naggingatlas I need new sounds feed me if you'd like 🚬🎲