#colors of sisterhood

[idleminds]

[sillybillylulu]

Sisters 🥹💗 @missaccuracy here's a little colored sketch of them fire bending together + kiyi idolizing azula 💗

[orallech]

Games Played In 2023: Part 1 of 2

[muppet-lurker]

Kin Prayers

Lurk | 10/30/24 | Pen and Marker

[marshvlovestv]

In honor of me having so much video game music downloaded on my phone that I ran out of storage and had to buy a new phone. My favorite track from each video game OST I have!

Bastion: Brusher Patrol (Such a bizarre clash of styles, I can't help but love this one. Shout-out to the part that sounds like Darren quietly scatting in the background.) (Also special shout-out to Build That Wall, probably my favorite vocal track in any Supergiant game)

Celeste: Scattered and Lost (I am such a normie for this choice but face it this track absolutely slaps.)

Chicory: A Colorful Tale: Song of the Wielders (I love how this song has actual lyrics but I still prefer to sing along with the Simlish version that Pizza and Chicory sing.)

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood: Illusion (First of all I love how every character in this game has their own theme I go feral for that kind of thing. Kurielle is probably one of the characters who stood out to me the least but by god is her theme gorgeous. I love the vocals and how a later track includes a sneaky reprise.)

Cuphead: Dramatic Fanatic (Tap dancing :D)

There are literally thirty of these so I'm doing a read more

Death's Door: The Grey Crow (A heartbreaking boss fight scored with the appropriate amount of anguish)

Deltarune: Cyber Battle (This melody is so underrated and ya know what, so are the characters associated with it. Sweet Cap'n Cakes forever.)

Elsinore: Donne, The Boat Boy (I love this song because it's associated with Lady Guildenstern, aka the best character in gaming full stop, but it's also just a fun little sea shanty that I think they made up for this game so I love that. Also has a lyrical version.)

Evergate: Police (Okay so the level with the police drones is one of the more frustrating ones in the game but the music is hauntingly beautiful so I give it a pass)

Going Under: trust fall (Marv is easily one of the most hateable video game antagonists of all time but damn if his boss theme doesn't slap)

Hades: Last Words (The rolling and the tolling of the bells bells bells bells bells)

Harmony: The Fall of Reverie: Reverie Ascendant (Lena Raine does these medley tracks so good man)

Hollow Knight: Dung Defender (By far the catchiest song about poop on my entire phone)

Ikenfell: Rose Thorns (So the insanely long final boss fight against Oxley overshadowed Aeldra's boss fight in my memory for a long time, but when I watched another playthrough and bought the OST I realized "Oh her theme bops SO much harder than his ever could")

Inscryption: A Final Duel (A hardcore remix of The Scrybe of Magicks, aka one of the only melodic tracks on the album and therefore the one every YouTube video about Inscryption uses in the background. I prefer the epic version just a bit more because honestly that Magnificus setpiece is the best moment in the game)

Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass: Fun, Sunny Day (A fun and silly track as the title suggests, elevated even more by the context in which it plays in the game. The area music alternates between this and the more somber Rainy Sunday to illustrate that Jimmy mother is bipolar [very cute and silly game])

Omori: Bready Steady Go (Like the absolute dipshit I am I actually completely missed the optional Orange Oasis when I played this game myself. Every Let's Player finds it somehow, though, and when they fight the Unbread Twins I invariably stand up and dance along to the boss music.)

One Step from Eden: Perpetual Motion (It's just a good-ass track y'all)

Ori and the Blind Forest: Conundrum (In a soundtrack of sweeping orchestral pieces, this more subdued version of theme that only plays during one small puzzle section might seem a weird choice. But I've always really liked it)

Ori and the Will of the Wisps: Kwolok's Malaise (Kwolok's leitmotif is perfect for a giant frog and the boss remix takes it to it's logical conclusion)

Paradise Killer: Go! Go! Style (This track makes me feel like I'm having a sugar rush. The whole OST does actually but this one especially)

Pyre: Path to Glory (It's just got a really unique vibe to it. I like it)

Scarlet Hollow: Avery (Chill and really beautiful. Avery themself is kind of a sleeper character at this point but I can't wait for Brandon to remix their theme when they get assimilated into a giant plant monster)

Slay the Princess: The Princess (Okay full disclosure I've only played this game once so I don't have the full context for a lot of the tracks on this OST. Maybe hearing them alongside their respective princesses will make me like them more, but for now the title theme is too iconic to beat.)

Sounds of Sympathy (the OST for the game anthology Essays on Empathy): Zen and the Art of Transhumanism (In the Essays on Empathy documentary, fingerspit talked about how she prefers writing obscenely long tracks so the loop doesn't get annoying. Unfortunately for her my favorite track on this album is only three minutes long. It's a lovely little bop.)

Spiritfarer: Mind Palace (I played Spiritfarer before any of the character updates were released, so I didn't get Daria's mind palace sequences in my game. And I mean, they look very platforming-heavy so I'm okay with that, but god this is a gorgeous piece.)

Transistor: Impossible (I think this is Royce Bracket's boss theme? I don't know when any of the tracks on this OST specifically play in game. Regardless of all that this one gets me pumped.)

Unavowed: One Man's Power (I couldn't find a video of this one, but it's gentle saxophone solo that plays when Logan Brown is introduced. I think it fits is character really well and just sounds really nice)

Undertale: Death by Glamour (Best song for best character, enough said)

Wandersong: Moonscape (God knows this game gave me a lot of great options to pick from, but I settled on this one because it's so uplifting.)

[moonhedgegarden]

“I share with you, under the moon, my heart, my soul, my friendship. Through bittersweet and joyous love, together, we take on this trip.”

[auriannaventiwithcaramel]

i watched cinderella's castle a couple nights ago and i must say the girlhood song made me tear up something FURIOUS

[nobodys-nothing]

My beautiful little sister on 35mm, back in June, when she was showing me around the wee world she's made for herself while she's away at university. I'm so proud of her.

[tani-b-art]

The Color Purple — Miss Celie’s Blues (Sister)

[quidditch32]

Today, I read how natural history has been made an unwilling participant in shoring up the primacy of heterosexual reproduction.

I learned that reproduction beyond the vertical and heterosexual takes place regularly : liver grows and heals, intestinal lining is shed, cells die and we grow new skin.

Our understanding of species perpetuation and animal biology ( have only recently been unseated by epistemes borrowed from vegetal and fungal biologies) reinforce and strengthen ideas about: sex as the logical, teleological endpoint of courtship and romance; a deterministic mechanism hardwired into our biology for mating and multiplying.

I think so many people still believe that, like we have a genuine responsibility to procreate and perpetuate the species; as if it is something we shall be remembered by throughout the vast geological time shifts and scale.

For the longest time, nobody seems to have imagined otherwise. Even today, when most of these foundational beliefs have been picked apart, we continue to believe that love, romance and intimacy are pure human inventions, as if we started it and we never stopped.

Even queer love is weaponized to cement the understanding that only human beings can love, across time and space and testify to that sweet lie that Interstellar likes to tell you: love is what survives time and space, even bends laws of physics and makes us really exceptional.

I am not sure of that anymore.

But I am woefully ignorant and confused about a few things. I do not actually think if love is or if it is at all, then if it is the practice of humans alone. I do not think love can set us apart from other species in the world. Having said that, I would really like to know :

1. What is love?

2. Why do we kiss?

3. Is love neither platonic nor romantic?

4. Love does not have obvious reproductive benefits, so why does our biology ensure channels and circuits for its impression?

5. If it is mere biology does it make it any less real?

6. Were we not meant to love at all?

7. Do trees, birds, crocodiles, ants, aphids, toads love as well?

8. How did we learn to love? How did we separate it from hunger, anger, fear, terror, exhaustion, curiosity and the rest?

Please help me understand.

[idleminds]

[questintheskies]

[sadnessdeath69]

sisterhood

[wsewmn]

navagating womanhood is no easy endeavor, and we shouldn’t have to go at it alone.

[area51-escapee]

Actually the very funny thing about being an autistic girl who grew up into an autistic man is that I spent my childhood and part of my teen years just having it constantly reinforced that I was distinctly Different from allistic girls, I was doing it wrong and no matter what I did I would never actually be accepted into the supposed sisterhood that allegedly all girls are part of (this is false).

But as soon as I became a dude, all of a sudden I have this inherent and unbreakable bond with womanhood (according to other people), all of a sudden I’m supposed to understand all women on an emotional and spiritual level (according to other people), all of a sudden that “sisterhood” and bond with other women isn’t a club I’m denied access to but actually something I was born into and will never escape (according to other people). Like goddamn. Both things can’t be true at the same time I feel like.