#but it also kinda sounded a bit generic

[theroguequeenaniki]

Billboard changing the rules so artists can't sell digital singles on their websites to count towards the charts anymore is really annoying b/c what do you mean it force opened iTunes and then I also had to change my password because I couldn't remember it just to buy one stupid song I ended up streaming on Spotify anyway

[vimbry]

random sparks recs for tmbg fans who want to get into them (based on general lyricism/instrumental energy):

wonder girl (if you like: unreleased dial-a-song demos, pink)

fletcher honorama (if you like: unreleased dial-a-song demos, then/misc T, pink, factory showroom, the else, nanobots)

B.C. (if you like: then/misc T, flood, apollo 18)

talent is an asset (if you like: then/misc T, pink)

those mysteries (if you like: lincoln, factory showroom, long tall weekend, join us)

goofing off (if you like: lincoln, factory showroom, join us)

beat the clock (if you like: then/misc T, pink, mink car)

angst in my pants (if you like: then/misc T, pink)

eaten by the monster of love (if you like: then/misc T, lincoln, flood, the spine)

funny face (if you like: pink, mink car)

national crime awareness week (if you like: mink car, indestructible object)

dick around (if you like: john henry, factory showroom, long tall weekend, the else, glean)

lighten up, morrissey (if you like: john henry, the spine, the else, glean)

strange animal (if you like: the spine, the else, join us, nanobots, BOOK)

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

Ive just had an insane au idea: so you know how fontaine has alot of human trafficking for some damm reason? Well what if it got so bad and the fontaine goverment is doing nothing to stop it or even supporting it (this part would require either furina and nuevillette bashing or for them to not have as much control over fontaine as they seem to) that mondstat and venti catch wind (heh) of it and basically invade to take control of the situation (assume varka pops back up due to hearing about this aswell) possibly even working with the house of hearth who havve trying to deal with the problem.

interesting idea but this would indeed necessitate shafting furna or neuvillette's control over fontaine. furina i can see but neuvillette? might be easier to just make part of the reason why shits fucked is bc something happened to both of them and the phantoms and maison gestion are trying their best to manage the city on their own without a leader

this would ALSO necessitate either a) varka turning out to be an actually competent man and good leader (which with jean's situation it'll have to have some sort of explanation to be believable) and that all the men he took with him being actually also competent and good at their jobs or b) that you magically make the knights of favonius actually good at their job. like they couldn't get rid of a handful of fatui, i can't imagine the amount of concessions and au exceptions that'd need to happen for them to succesfully tackle a disaster of the magnitudes you're proposing. so like- unless you want to make a 'the knights are actually competent' au, you'd have to bring varka along and you'd have to necessarily make him and his men hypercompetent.

this would also somehow need to factor in fontaine even wanting to collaborate with mondstadt in specific about this. like i know the proposal of mondstadt being the ones is bc of freedom and whatnot, but like

realistically, mondstadt would be the last nation fontaine turns to. do they even share borders? plus sumeru's corps of thirty and eremites and the canonically-superior-combat-force millelith are literally right there on their doorstep. mondstadt would be like. not their first option AT ALL hahah

and the venti argument of him spearheading the operation in the name of freedom doesn't even work because chances are venti is gonna sleep through all that. again, you'd have to somehow justify venti being awake for this whole mess, either bc something happened in mondstadt (in which case why'd they go deal with fontaine's stuff if they themselves have problems? it'd have to be like- ok we got our shit sorted out, lets send our already tired men away on another mission and unman our possibly fresh-off-conflict ie vulnerable nation), or because... he just decided to wake up? i'm p sure he doesn't get to choose that, else any respect i have for him would just vanish. when he does wake up i think it's implied it's bc shit is happening in mondstadt? so why'd he wake up for fontaine??

anyway- interesting idea, but you'd have to do some real legwork to make the au believable. in the end, though, an au is an au and what do i know about believable aus. cyanide narwhal is literally right there LMAO

[defiledtomb]

Being tipsy on gin lemonade on a sunday literally just feels like this

[raposarealm]

Here are the quest victory quotes for Toyo! I took the screenshots myself this time.

Top: The people are okay, right? Middle: No matter how many times, victory’s a great feeling! Bottom: I hope the rice fields aren’t falling to ruin...

As always, friendly disclaimer that my Japanese isn’t the best, as I’m still learning. If you spot a mistake, please let me know, and I’ll fix it!

[vicsdeangelis]

i love you torna a casa. i love you l'altra dimensione. i love you le parole lontane. i love you lasciami stare. i love you morirò da re. i love you niente da dire. i love you zitti e buoni. i love you vent'anni. i love you la paura del buio. i love you coraline. i love you in nome del padre. i love you lividi sui gomiti. i love you la fine. i love you il dono della vita. i love you mark chapman

[designernishiki]

well. finished yakuza 5.

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

ngl it's getting rly annoying seeing people say "remake of x game!" constantly. people are so obsessed with the idea of remakes lately. they don't wonder what the next new game will be like. they just want remakes (including in franchises that don't do those often. not every franchise is Tales, where they've been doing remakes actively throughout its lifespan and not just during this Uwu Remake Era).

with FE, remakes make me a bit eh bc they've all sold poorly or just barely made a profit. Marth's games' remakes on top of the failed Tellius sales almost sent FE into its grave. SoV is just... there. it happened and the fandom moved on, save for the Alm and Celica alts in Heroes.

but like, it was so annoying watching VA interviews and just seeing the word "remake" thrown around so much from the chat. people want "remakes" of games that just don't need them. updated ports is one thing, but entire remakes?

there's more to FE than remakes, but it's all people seem to talk about. I'd like Tellius ports as much as the next girl for people's accessibility (and specifically bc IS' lack of marketing destroyed those games' sales and now they're so rare they're super expensive), but a remake? it's not necessary. even with quality of life features added, those games only need ports. I play them very regularly and frankly have way more fun with them than I do with modern day Menu Emblem.

also, I don't want the fandom wank carrying over into remakes of games that never even had wank. the biggest wank Tellius ever had was the Ike vs Micaiah wars in the fandom, which were not only a fraction of what happens now post Fodlan games but also weren't anywhere near as aggressive.

idk I'm just tired of remake this, remake that. it's also because of the rampant remakes in the industry that I'm tired of it, but it's also tiring to see it constantly in this fandom. I'm glad that FE7 is coming back, but as a port on the Switch and still as a GBA game. FE4? super glad it came back as a port (JP eShop only). remakes though? too tired of the concept (especially when FE remakes have not only almost killed the franchise from lack of sales but were otherwise just mediocre and moved on from pretty quickly). I also don't trust the FE fandom with remakes at this point. character hate is so rampant in this fandom that for the life of me I don't even want Tellius ports if it's going to save me the headache and aggravation from people's lack of character comprehension. :') that shit will turn me into a hard stan and my blog will have to be painted in my blorbo just to keep haters away. :'''')

[newcronomicon]

Fav song/album by them? o7 I THINK I'VE ASKED BEFORE BUT I FORGOR

CRACKS KNUCKLES fav album will ALWAYS be bombardiranje srbije i čačka, favourite song changes constantly BUT. a top 5

mazi

ženu varam

rijecke pičke

tišu

ero s onoga svijeta

[unhingedselfships]

Yakuza/RGG/Like a Dragon (but not that much it turns out) Ship Ask Game

(romantic, platonic, familial. Some might be more clearly one over the others, feel free to skip or alter any (✿◡‿◡) A chunk (read: most) of these work as just, standard general ship asks tbh. Oops?)

1. Who are your ships, and what kind of ships are they?

2. How did you meet?

3. How long have you known each other?

4. Would you say you have a pretty good relationship?

5. What are some struggles you have being together?

6. Are you involved in their canon storyline? If yes, to what degree?

7. Do you ever end up in danger because of them?

8. What does the average day look like for you and your ship?

9. Any super notable events in your history together?

10. What canon 'faction' do they belong to, if any?

11. Are you also in that faction, or kept out of it? Or a different faction entirely?

12. Your day out turned into a substory! What happened?

13. Are you accepting of their lifestyle, or do you wish they'd change? Would they change for you?

14. Would they want you to change your lifestyle for them?

15. If you're involved in any of the factions, how do they feel about it?

16. How does your story end? Is it a happy ending, or a bitter one? A little of both?

17. What would a co-op heat action look like for you two?

18. How would your relationship/story differ in Ishin or Kenzan?

19. What would they need to do to raise your affection/trust? Mini games? Fetch quests?

20. What is the most convoluted plot line you can come up with centered around your relationship? Go as wild as possible.

[angelamontoo]

So I just finished listening to the radio version of Mask of Dimitrios and like.....

Script writers for the Lady Astor face cream mystery screen guild or whatever the fuck you're called....what did Sydney Greenstreet do to hurt you??

Not only is this the second time these big bullies changed the ending of a film Syd was in so his character dies when he didn't originally, but why the hell did they make Eric a significantly less sympathetic and dignified character for no real reason?

•He says that he never intended to give Cornelius his share of the money anyway when there was nothing in the film that explicitly suggested he was planning to use him like that.

•When he tells Leyden to leave the room in this version, he's yelling for him to get the police instead of trying to protect him, even though getting the cops involved seems like a really stupid idea all things considered

•They make Leyden all squeamish about the idea of blackmailing dimitrios for some reason, thus making it seem like Peter's was forcing him into it when that wasn't the case at all

•Ofc since Eric dies in this version, we don't have the touching ending where he realises the money doesnt matter to him and then when the police show up, he takes full responsibility for Dimitrios murder. This part is especially frustrating since my other gripes with Eric's character wouldve been mostly forgiving if they kept the films ending in since his other flaws could then be dismissed as a slightly heavy handed way to show how his bond with Cornelius changed Eric for the better. But nope!

•And finally, idk why this one bugs me so much, but something about the dopey lil reveal at the end that the champagne Eric bought was just shitty, 5 Frank wine really pouts my lip. Like, he has a million Frank's, why the fuck would he be a cheapskate about the champagne??

Boy! I did nooot expect to have this much to complain about with this one. In fact, for the first half of the show, I was getting ready to call it my favourite radio adaption of one of Peter's films. Tbh its still my second favourite, but that is not saying much considering how hostile I am towards the radio adaption of TMF

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[sketchymoray]

mutuals tell me which beasties you think you resemble personality wise and I'll make a bigger creepier combo beastie out of it

[valra-pr]

So kinda last post for the day before I’ll do my usual random reblogs. I just felt like making another one. This have bit of an actual name at the very least, called “what the point of adding tiny bit of funky? Cuz I wanted to and nothing stop me.” I don’t know what else to call it as.

With a minor nightmare of a random error I left out that I somehow got during process of using the recording feature of the app.

[natypinkns]

What kind of art do you consider to be good? I want to make my art better so other artists will like me more and i can maybe make friends. How do I make my art more appealing to other splatoon artists? What is the secret thing that makes splatoon artists think your art is good? I've been drawing splatoon for 6 years and still haven't made a single friend and I wanna know what's wrong with my art.

oh god art is SO subjective. i can’t just define a "type" of art that i consider "good"...

on the friends thing, having "good" art is.. probably not the way to go about making friends..? it could be a starting point for a friendship, but that alone might not sustain it (and personally, i don't have any friends from the splatoon community, or that i made because of what i draw)

i know it's easier said than done, but your main motivation for making art shouldn't come from a desire to appeal to others, because then you'll never be happy with your work. it really is like they say,, you can never please everybody! and even though i know that, i still tend to overthink a lot and worry about how others perceive me/my art. something that personally helps me is to look back at my journey and see how much i've learned so far :> you can only compare yourself with... yourself. it's not fair to compare your progress with anybody else's

i could also go into a rant about how social media is awful for artists but. yeah

[jewishvitya]

A pro-Palestine Jew on tiktok asked those of us who were raised pro-Israel, what got us to change our minds on Palestine. I made a video to answer (with my voice, not my face), and a few people watched it and found some value in it. I'm putting this here too. I communicate through text better than voice.

So I feel repetitive for saying this at this point, but I grew up in the West Bank settlements. I wrote this post to give an example of the extent to which Palestinians are dehumanized there.

Where I live now, I meet Palestinians in day to day life. Israeli Arab citizens living their lives. In the West Bank, it was nothing like that. Over there, I only saw them through the electric fence, and the hostility between us and Palestinians was tangible.

When you're a child being brought into the situation, you don't experience the context, you don't experience the history, you don't know why they're hostile to you. You just feel "these people hate me, they don't want me to exist." And that bubble was my reality. So when I was taught in school that everything we did was in self defense, that our military is special and uniquely ethical because it's the only defensive military in the world - that made sense to me. It slotted neatly into the reality I knew.

One of the first things to burst the bubble for me was when I spoke to an old Israeli man and he was talking about his trauma from battle. I don't remember what he said, but it hit me wrong. It conflicted with the history as I understood it. So I was a bit desperate to make it make sense again, and I said, "But everything we did was in self defense, right?"

He kinda looked at me, couldn't understand at all why I was upset, and he went, "We destroyed whole villages. Of course we did. It was war, that's what you do."

And that casual "of course" stuck with me. I had to look into it more.

I couldn't look at more accurate history, and not at accounts by Palestinians, I was too primed against these sources to trust them. The community I grew up in had an anti-intellectual element to it where scholars weren't trusted about things like this.

So what really solidified this for me, was seeing Palestinian culture.

Because part of the story that Israel tells us to justify everything, is that Palestinians are not a distinct group of people, they're just Arabs. They belong to the nations around us. They insist on being here because they want to deny us a homeland. The Palestinian identity exists to hurt us. This, because the idea of displacing them and taking over their lands doesn't sound like stealing, if this was never theirs and they're only pretending because they want to deprive us.

But then foods, dances, clothing, embroidery, the Palestinian dialect. These things are history. They don't pop into existence just because you hate Jews and they're trying to move here. How gorgeous is the Palestinian thobe? How stunning is tatreez in general? And when I saw specific patterns belonging to different regions of Palestine?

All of these painted for me a rich shared life of a group of people, and countered the narrative that the Palestininian identity was fabricated to hurt us. It taught me that, whatever we call them, whatever they call themselves, they have a history in this land, they have a right to it, they have a connection to it that we can't override with our own.

I started having conversations with leftist friends. Confronting the fact that the borders of the occupied territories are arbitrary and every Israeli city was taken from them. In one of those conversations, I was encouraged to rethink how I imagine peace.

This also goes back to schooling. Because they drilled into us, we're the ones who want peace, they're the ones who keep fighting, they're just so dedicated to death and killing and they won't leave us alone.

In high school, we had a stadium event with a speaker who was telling us about a person who defected from Hamas, converted to Christianity and became a Shin Bet agent. Pretty sure you can read this in the book "Son of Hamas." A lot of my friends read the book, I didn't read it, I only know what I was told in that lecture. I guess they couldn't risk us missing out on the indoctrination if we chose not to read it.

One of the things they told us was how he thought, we've been fighting with them for so long, Israelis must have a culture around the glorification of violence. And he looked for that in music. He looked for songs about war. And for a while he just couldn't find any, but when he did, he translated it more fully, and he found out the song was about an end to wars. And this, according to the story as I was told it, was one of the things that convinced him. If you know know the current trending Israeli "war anthem," you know this flimsy reasoning doesn't work.

Back then, my friend encouraged me to think more critically about how we as Israelis envision peace, as the absence of resistance. And how self-centered it is. They can be suffering under our occupation, but as long as it doesn't reach us, that's called peace. So of course we want it and they don't.

Unless we're willing to work to change the situation entirely, our calls for peace are just "please stop fighting back against the harm we cause you."

In this video, Shlomo Yitzchak shares how he changed his mind. His story is much more interesting than mine, and he's much more eloquent telling it. He mentions how he was taught to fear Palestinians. An automatic thought, "If I go with you, you'll kill me." I was taught this too. I was taught that, if I'm in a taxi, I should be looking at the driver's name. And if that name is Arab, I should watch the road and the route he's taking, to be prepared in case he wants to take me somewhere to kill me. Just a random person trying to work. For years it stayed a habit, I'd automatically look at the driver's name. Even after knowing that I want to align myself with liberation, justice, and equality. It was a process of unlearning.

On October, not long after the current escalation of violence, I had to take a taxi again. A Jewish driver stopped and told me he'll take me, "so an Arab doesn't get you." Israeli Jews are so comfortable saying things like this to each other. My neighbors discussed a Palestinian employee, with one saying "We should tell him not to come anymore, that we want to hire a Jew." The second answered, "No, he'll say it's discrimination," like it would be so ridiculous of him. And the first just shrugged, "So we don't have to tell him why." They didn't go through with it, but they were so casual about this conversation.

In the Torah, we're told to treat those who are foreign to us well, because we know what it's like to be the foreigner. Fighting back against oppression is the natural human thing to do. We know it because we lived it. And as soon as I looked at things from this angle, it wasn't really a choice of what to support.