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[girlthingswirls]

thinking about being a robot. a well-built and compact machine. buzzing electronics in place of anything fleshy or fragile. an OS with countless useful little tools to help whatever human i'm with. a modular body with bits and bobs i can switch out for bells and whistles. letting out a comforting hum when i'm plugged in. feeling gentle hands in the upper half of my chassis, brushing against very important wires to get all the dust out. the mind-melting ecstacy of a magnet just close enough to jumble my thoughts without frying them completely.

thinking about being a robot.

[schnanko]

this is all theoretical BUT

i think i've picked up not just on bea's motif, but also motifs that represent her parents. and it's so fascinating, because all these leitmotifs - bea's and her parents' - are present in "ol pickaxe," the song that plays in the family store

and the two parts that weave together outside of bea's motif (like in the intro) - one of them can be heard in "mrs santello's old records" (hence why i associate it w her) and the other one can be heard in "dinner at bea's," which centers around the interaction between bea and her dad that mae witnesses when she comes over for dinner (so i associate it with him).

fascinating to me because at the start of the "ol pickaxe" it's just her parent's leitmotifs, and then just bea's, and then somewhere along the way they start gliding together

going to look more into her mother's leitmotif specifically - curious about if it's present in any of the songs from the ghost hunt with bea.

so far i would guess that her mother's leitmotif communicates that her mom was the river water slowly eroding bea's and her father's sharp edges, and now she's gone, but they haven't been smoothed all the way out

[jonasiegenthaler]

njd@tbl | 11.01.24 | bench cam for nate's goal :)

[where-the-water-flows]

AND ANOTHER THING, I say, coming back into the tag with an unrelated question for the fine minds here in MLC fandom: how the fuck did baby li xiangyi afford to even found the sigu sect. He's like seventeen! max!! shan gudao presumably has built up a cushion of funds from fucking about on his lonesome in the jianghu for (mumble) years and probably doing some sketchy shit while unsupervised (and also fathering fang doubing, because the timeline of MLC is even more nonsense otherwise), and, I assume, the other people of sigu sect helped bankroll it, but still!

li xiangyi is seventeen? max?? somewhere between fifteen and seventeen?? and sigu sect is fucking big. that is a lot of very fancy land and buildings, and also a lot of very fancy stuff in general, where did this orphan street rat raised on the side of a mountain get the money for that? I assume he was sent out with like. some money to Not Starve, but I don't think he was sent out with 'found a rich ass sect' money.

like I guess bounties? rewards from grateful people he saved??? very explicitly not the imperial court, I think, given he's like 'we have nothing to do with them we cannot compromise our ethics' argument with shan gudao, so...???

I know it's Not That Deep, but also, blease, things cost money, how do you afford your fancy boy hair crown and robes.

[indelicateink]

i am not getting over the set design for their bedroom, they were like LET US MAKE ONE THING CLEAR lmao ??

also the fug chunky brutalism continues apace and though i like that in architecture, as an interior design concept it is grating to me. and i respect it and am intrigued. what the actual weeping christ is that monstrous HEADBOARD from satan's unwiped asscrack lmao

[squishosaur]

first year heart stickers !!!

[theborzoiarebackintown]

“What growling bitch is in the tunnel?? It’s Vex!”

[boycritter]

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

Majexatli -- The Forsaken Faithwarden

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[stephaniedola]

desperately want to buy a 90s geo trackerrrrrrrr i saw one on the street fell in love instantly and now i dont want any other car ever

[ardenrosegarden]

In England, English and Norman barons kill each other to seize the throne and in France, the Carolingian unity having been shattered, the little Capetian king managed his meager possessions under the vigilant and hostile eye of the great feudal lords who watched over over their strongholds and control his every move. Brittany, if it wished, could finally spread its wings. Conan III is careful not to do this and is content to govern peacefully, only too happy that the English and French ropes which hold him by the neck are suddenly so weak. A good duke, good husband, good Breton, he has everything going his way, but was unfortunately a bad father; on his deathbed he disowns Hoël, his son, and chooses as his heir Conan IV, a little boy of 9 years old, the son of his daughter Bertha.

Gilles Martin-Chauffier, Le Roman de la Bretagne

[all-or-nothing-baby]

MY DUDES WE ARE ON THE REBLOGGING ARTWORK/FIC/CREATIONS WEBBED SITE AND CALL ME CRAZY BUT MAYBE WE COULD GIVE THAT LIKE BUTTON A CHEEKY LIL COMPANION EACH TIME WE MINDLESSLY SMACK IT BY ALSO NOT-SO MINDLESSLY SMACKING THE REBLOG BUTTON ON EVERY TRULY INCREDIBLE AND COMPLETELY FREE PIECE OF ARTWORK/FIC/CREATION THAT WE ARE SO KINDLY TREATED TO WHEN WE BROWSE HERE BECAUSE GUESS WHAT A MISTAKE WAS MADE WHEN THIS WEBBED SITE WAS FIRST BIRTHED AND THE REBLOG BUTTON WAS NAMED INCORRECTLY AND ITS REAL TITLE IS ACTUALLY THE LOVE BUTTON SO GET LIKING AND LOVING BY PRESSING BOTH OF THE BUTTONS IN SUCCESSION MY DUDES LIKE OMG JUST DO IT BRO AND BE A MOTHERFUCKING CUPID BY MATCHMAKING LIKE A BADASS AND HELPING THOSE GUYS BECOME A CUTE COUPLE AND THEN MAYBE EVEN I DUNNO HIT THAT COMMENT BUTTON TOO AND LEAVE THE CREATOR A NICE MESSAGE OF APPRECIATION AND IN THE PROCESS SMOOSH ALL OF THOSE BUTTONS TOGETHER 1! 2! 3! INTO A BEAUTIFUL POLYCULE OF LIKE AND LOVE AND APPRECIATION AND OMG MY DUDES THEN YOU'LL JUST BE SPREADING ALL OF THAT LIKE AND LOVE AND APPRECIATION AROUND LIKE THE MOST BADASS MOTHERFUCKING MATCHMAKING CUPID THERE EVER WAS AND SHIT DOESN'T THAT JUST SOUND LIKE THE ACTUAL BEST TO YOU LIKE COMPLETELY ACES BECAUSE WOW I THINK IT ABSOLUTELY DOES NOW LET'S GO LIKE/REBLOG/COMMENT LIKE IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD BUT EVERY! SINGLE! DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gender-euphowrya]

successful internet personality constantly feeling the gaze of the "THE RISE AND FALL OF ___" video essayists just waiting for them to slip up and crash for content for their next 4 hour video

[birdthatisbored]

Btw my first thought on finding out how early he died was "oh Clements Markham would be absolutely crushed if he knew"

[pasdetrois]

Rebecca (1940, dir Alfred Hitchcock) // Vievee Francis, "Apologia" (Excerpt) // Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

[californiaquail]

i really do admire what some of you have done with star wars