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Interests Tag

Rules: Tag 9 People to learn about their interests

Tagged By: @stars--above​ (thank you Olive!)

MUSIC

fave genre? Punk. Or anything of that sort

fave artist? Green Day. Always has been, always will be

fave song? Depends on the artist, I don’t have a singular favorite song of all time. Considering I listed Green Day as my favorite artist it seems only appropriate to pick Basket Case for this question

most listened song recently? Looks like that would be Small Talk - Briston Maroney or at least that’s what Spotify says

song currently stuck in your head? None at the moment which is surprising. Last few days though it’s been songs from Bo Burnham’s Inside

5 fave lyrics? Now this is completely random and based on me picking random songs but:

1. “Waking up this time to smash the silence with the brick of self control“ - She - Green Day

2. “Someone who'll help me see things / In a different light / All the things I detest / I will almost like” - Somebody - Depeche Mode

3. “It's not a miracle we needed, and no I wouldn't let you think so“ - 1901 - Phoenix

4. “The passion that makes me feel alive again / It's gonna be the death, the death of us” - AWOL - Every Time I Die

5. “If dreams came true i might have been a better man. / If dreams came true you might have set me free. / But god is kind, for you he had a better plan / And saved you from the pain of loving me.” - A Tale of Two Cities Musical Cast

radio or your own playlist | solo artists or bands | pop or indie | louder or silent volume I slow or fast songs | music video or lyrics video | speakers or headset | riding a bus in silence or while listening to music | driving in silence or with radio on

BOOKS

fave book genre? Fantasy or Science Fiction

fave writer? I have no idea. I love a lot of writers but I don’t think there’s a singular writer I would call my all time favorite 

fave book? Venomous - Christopher Krovatin

fave book series? The entirety of The Shannara Chronicles (like every book and individual series combined)

comfort book? Venomous isn’t just my favorite book. But also if I had to provide something else maybe The Child Thief - Brom

perfect book to read on a rainy day? It would have to be something that could stand alone and not be a series so maybe The House of Tomorrow - Peter Bognanni

fave characters? So many. 5 choices are: Peter Pan (The Child Thief), Ender Wiggen (Ender’s Game), Walker Boh (The Shannara Chronicles), Katsa (Graceling), and Cadel Piggot (Evil Genius)

5 quotes from your fave book you know by heart? - I have a notebook filled with favorite quotes from books I’ve read. Here’s a few

1. “The only stupid man is the one who doesn’t know he’s ignorant” - Pathfinder - Orson Scott Card

2. “It was written I should be loyal to the nightmares of my choice” - Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

3. “There is more to family then shared blood. There is trust and friendship and committment” - The Gypsy Morph - Terry Brooks

4. “She was trying to construct a life that made sense from things found in gift shops” - Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

5. “The truth will set you free, but not until it is done with you” - Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

hardcover or paperback | buy or rent | standalone novels or book series | ebook or physical copy | reading at night or during the day | reading at home or in nature | listening to music while reading or reading in silence | reading in order or reading the ending first | reliable or unreliable narrator | realism or fantasy | one or multiple POVS | judging by the covers or by the summary | rereading or reading just once

TV AND MOVIES

fave tv/movie genre? Anything if I’m being honest. It just has to interest me plot-wise

fave movie? Tie between Spring Forward and Velvet Goldmine

comfort movie? At the moment I’d have to say The Sword in the Stone

movie you watch every year? The only ones are holiday movies so Jack Frost (1979)

fave tv show? I don��t have one, at least not one I’d watch all the time over and over again. I suppose I could say something like New Girl mainly because I’ve not tired of that yet

comfort tv show? Again I don’t think I have one although if I had to choose I would most likely say something like Halt & Catch Fire

most rewatched tv show? I don’t rewatch shows a lot only because there’s so much tv to catch up on that it’s hard to find time for something new and a rewatch. Truthfully though it’s probably an old cartoon or something like Looney Tunes, Rugrats, Powerpuff Girls, etc.

5 fave characters? Nick Miller (New Girl), Frederick Chilton (NBC Hannibal), Eames (Inception), Randal Graves (Clerks), Shawn Hunter (Boy Meets World)

tv shows or movie | short seasons (8-13 episodes) or full seasons (22 episodes or more) | one episode a week or binging | one season or multiple seasons | one part or saga | half hour or one hour long episodes | subtitles on or off | rewatching or watching just once | downloads or watches online

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TDROTI Minecraft Headcanons

I know Cody already did these for the original cast shut up >:( I’ve been super into Minecraft for a few months now and now it is time for me, someone with a fuck ton of Minecraft knowledge, to make Minecraft headcanons with an overall pretty neat cast.

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Anne Maria

Spends all of her time finding texture packs and the prettiest skins and then making them prettier. Gets into those “who’s skin is the prettiest?” competitions and almost always wins.

B

Makes moving houses and towns, MumboJumbo style. Somehow always manages to find redstone, iron, and gold, but like, nothing else? Has about forty iron golems. He’s named them all, but his favourite one is Georgie, the one that is always holding a poppy.

Brick

Mines at night because he doesn’t know any better. Probably accidentally goes to The End with just a stone sword. Can’t bring himself to harm cows because he finds them too cute to kill, so he eats bread instead. All he has is bread.

Cameron

Progresses normally until he gets killed by a creeper. Then he stays inside his house all the time and only goes out once every three Minecraft days or when he runs out of food. Has at least thirty cakes in his inventory in case he ever decides to mine again.

Dakota

Found a mod that puts Giants back in the game. Originally installed it because it reminded her of when she got mutated and so she had friends but then they started attacking her and now she can’t get rid of them. Someone help her please.

Dawn

Lives on jungle forest canopies and only plays in creative mode. She has about twenty parrots, a few dogs, and a few cats. It’s literal hell when one of the animals woofs or meows because then all the parrots copy them and all she hears for the next fifty minutes is “MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW”. All her roofs are just glass.

Jo

Plays Hunger Games and the Assassins mode in Murder Mystery. She doesn’t actually go for her target she just kills everyone and wins by default. On the rare occasion she plays Bed Wars she goes for the centre and gets all the emeralds she can before doing anything else and then buys all diamond tools.

Lightning

Lives in mines. The only time he’s on the surface is when he spawns and when he needs more wood. He just beats up all the mobs, he doesn’t even mine anything. Says bows and arrows are for cowards. That’s why he hates skeletons so much. Not because they’re the only mob that has ever killed him.

Mike

Loves Minecraft but is absolute shit at it. His alters are pretty good at it though.

Chester

He’s really good at building and always talks about Minecraft back in its “old days”, meaning 2009-2012. Mike always gets him to front on the first night and is like “hey can you please build me a house thx” and then Chester digs three blocks down and puts one block on the top.

Mal

Is an asshole and blows everything up. That’s kind of obvious.

Manitoba

An absolute GOD at mining. Whenever diamonds are brought up he fronts and goes absolute apeshit. He can practically SMELL diamonds through the screen.

Svetlana

Plays on parkour servers and does parkour when waiting for her party on Hypixel. Her party is just all the ROTI girls. Well known around Hypixel for completing every one of those parkour bits in the waiting rooms.

Vito

Doesn’t play Minecraft cause he’s an absolute fool.

Sam

Minecraft is a religious experience for him. He’s been playing since Alpha and in every single save he MUST defeat The Ender Dragon. Also plays Minecraft: Story Mode and has done every single route possible. Taught both Dakota and Sam how to mod their games.

Scott

Sam taught him how to put in mods and so he downloaded Harvestcraft. Plays in hard mode (not to be confused with Hardcore) because he thinks it makes him look cool. Dies of hunger a lot since he only planted cobweb trees until Sam gave him a peach tree. Now he only has peach trees. God help him.

Staci

Keeps dying from fall damage. She talks to the villagers because she thinks they’ll talk back if she talks to them enough. They never do.

Zoey

Spends the majority of her time trying to find a flower forest to put her house in. When she finally does she gets a pet pig and names them Blossom. Kept killing skeletons and so she used all the bones she collected to tame wolves. She has so many dogs now that she has run out of colours to die their collars.

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Yo if you guys want some for other seasons I’ve already thought some up for Pahkitew and Ridonculous Race. They’re the only seasons I could possibly get away with making posts for without accidentally copying Cody lol.

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hi guys. sorry for the long absence. i've had various r/l things going on, including a new job -- but tbh i’ve also found it hard to have fannish feelings about anything except the end of the band of my life, kent. the following is an incredibly tl;dr explanation. please don't feel obliged to read it; i think i wrote this mainly for myself.

i. origins

there are two stories, i guess. one begins in 2003 with teenage!jan discovering a curiously-labelled song on file-sharing software. someone had frontloaded the filename with familiar bands: REM, radiohead, the smashing pumpkins, etc. so i downloaded what turned out to be the english version of kent's 747, and realised i had to listen to more of their work.

i soon discovered they were a swedish band, and that their english experiment had been short-lived. but their swedish songs were fantastic (both before and after i looked up the lyrics), so i kept listening.

and they say the town's become silent and ugly and deserted, darling that it's going to be a long cold winter i've learnt that longing is worst when one's slept like a child through an ice-cold winter

you're my hero for you dare to be honest you're my hero for you're just as weak as me come and help me, i need you -- again, again, again (x)

i ordered all their albums online -- you know it's love when you stop pirating. for most music loves, it might have stopped there. except for the other story, which starts in the late 1980s (or officially in 1990).

i read about the band's origins, and there was something compelling about that, too. how they grew up in a small grey industrial ghost town, where music was an escape. how they had lofty dreams and moved to stockholm and tried and failed and kept trying for years, until they got their big break. how they went from strength to strength after that, winning awards and a devoted fanbase, and eventually being called "sweden's biggest rock band". (but also how, after two english-language albums and gruelling international tours, they had to give up on that front.)

i loved them with the intensity teenagers are capable of. i read all i could find in english, and then (back when machine translation was poor and google translate didn't even exist yet) read more with the help of a swedish-english dictionary and what grammar i managed to learn.

kent also had a close relationship with their fans. their frontman, joakim berg, frequently hung out on their official forum. ahead of each album release, the band took questions directly from fans and answered them (often hilariously) on their website -- which, incidentally, was a fansite that the band noticed and asked to become their official website.

in 2005, they released their first new album since i'd started listening to them: du & jag döden or 'you & i, death', a masterpiece from the irresistible opening track all the way till the magnificent album closer, which remains my favourite song ever. i pre-ordered the album online and played it on loop for days and have never recovered.

do you remember our blood-oath, our law? our stupid crusade against an equally foolish town i remember everything like nails against glass but you just laugh at me, reduce everything to a joke yet i see in your anxious posture, your hunted gaze that it feels that it's a long way home (x)

ii. journeys

in the autumn of 2007, kent released their next album, tillbaka till samtiden; i went to the UK for university, on a scholarship. that december, i went to sweden and saw kent live for the first time -- something i'd never imagined would be possible, back when i first discovered their music. it was magical. they were magical. that energy, those songs i'd loved for years, the crowd roaring along on all the classic lines -- singing but darling we’ll all die someday with thousands of other fans, not in sadness but in triumph. but also: jocke's incredibly dorky dancing, the band's camaraderie on stage, how they connected with the crowd. i fell a little in love with their guitarist, sami sirviö, and his dramatic guitar-playing -- something from which i have never recovered either.

the next spring, i travelled alone to sweden to see them again, three times.

kent wasn’t just the soundtrack to my ~formative years; they’re linked inextricably to the start of my uni-era travels, and to trips i’ve taken since. they were also a constant, of sorts: one could always expect another album within a couple of years. there was always something to look forward to.

and the thing about kent -- and being a kent fan over the years -- is that they have always moved forward. unlike some bands which retread the same sonic territory, kent saw each new album as a musical departure from the next (often to their fans’ dismay; but kent always said that they made music for themselves, and i admired that kind of integrity, too). their lyrics also evolved: from adolescent anxiety and desperation, to urban isolation and middle-aged middle-class angst (not least given their working-class origins), protesting against a society that seemed to be losing its old ideals of solidarity and kindness.

in late 2009, during my final undergraduate year, they released the album röd. in the easter vacation before my final exams, i went to sweden and norway for four concerts. i didn't know when i would get to see them again.

(just half a year after röd, they casually released another album, en plats i solen. other things they’ve done: released songs for charity, from a quietly devastating song about domestic violence for Save the Children, to one for the National Organisation for Women's and Girls' Shelters in Sweden; released a song for free online as a christmas present for fans, without the knowledge of their record label, and laughed with fans on the forum about that; taken shoe-selfies on a couch together.)

darling, that we want most of all is something that can never be ours november is a wall of wet concrete where a naive dream of escape is born to crash and then die but heroes and heroines stay standing they spit hard into the wind and they warm our hands so we don't lose our grip on the love we have a right to (x)

i returned from the UK and started work in 2011. in 2012, kent released jag är inte rädd för mörkret, which opens with one of their most beautiful songs. (instead of doing promotional interviews, they held a press conference and invited fans and forum regulars and bloggers, not just the media.) i flew alone to stockholm that summer, for a concert on a sprawling green lawn. the setlist was incredible and included one of my favourite songs, which i'd hoped for years to hear live. there were fireworks at the end. the forty-minute walk back towards town, amongst other fans, felt like it took no time at all.

2014 started out tough for me for various reasons, and kent's new album tigerdrottningen was very welcome, though i didn't manage to see them live that tour. they were more political than ever before. their first single was a blistering critique of sweden today; at a summer festival they held (yes, they held their own festival, and invited artistes they loved -- mostly women, incidentally, something the media noticed but the band themselves never pointed out), they exhorted the crowd to vote the right-wing SD party out of parliament. my favourite track off the album describes stockholm as a "guaranteed solidarity-free New Moderate desert" -- but also contains a verse that gains a lot of poignancy in retrospect:

i hear the bass from the car at the red lights, i know that song like a knife to the heart -- i wrote it 200 summers ago i stand as if frozen at the crossing, and regret (x)

iii. endings

on 13 march 2016, kent posted a video full of references to previous albums and songs.

after 26 years together, they were calling it a day.

their final album, då som nu för alltid, was a summary and a farewell. they said goodbye with a final tour: 28 gigs in four months across four countries.

i used half my annual leave to catch five concerts in october. each one was amazing. from the breathtaking introduction and epic visuals, to the setlist, to -- of course -- the band themselves. how much energy they poured into their music. the smiles they traded on stage, how they’d play while facing each other. how jocke presented his fellow band members to the audience, night after night, and told stories from their earliest days together; how, night after night, he told them he loved them.

the band members' love for each other, how they call themselves a family and have always felt it was them against the world -- that's one of my favourite things about them. and i have a lot of feelings about the stories jocke told: how he and sami went from disliking each other at first sight to sharing a rockstar dream; how he and bassist martin sköld spent hours talking about everything in life; how important their drummer, markus mustonen, was in making them feel like they were finally a real band.

the farewell tour was also filled with love between the band and the fans. how jocke bantered with fans near the front. how, in setlist staple jag ser dig ('i see you'), the fans got their moment on the big screen. how the fans have always taken jocke's cue during set-ender 747, turning stadiums into seas of waving arms, right after jocke sings to us, repeatedly, you keep us alive -- additional lyrics only present in live renditions of the song. how, after each concert, the band came down and gave out roses to fans in the front row.

in december, i flew out again for their last three concerts in stockholm. during the first two, for which i had standing tickets, there was just such a pure joy and euphoria at being there, in the moment, with fellow fans, amid their music. they performed a completely new song, because kent is the sort of band which does that sort of thing during their last three concerts ever.

at their final concert, on dec 17, i had a seated ticket for the only time this tour. i watched their farewell from a distance, but that also allowed me to grasp the scale of this: being there amongst 38,300 fans, saying goodbye together. during the ironic political ballad sverige we held up our phones, as we'd done throughout the tour, and the arena was full of stars.

the day after, the band released a final video, a beautiful summary of the farewell tour which included the voices of fans. it was a music video for the song which ends their last album, and which also closed every concert that tour: den sista sången or 'the last song'. just to make the message perfectly clear, the song (and by extension, every farewell concert) ends on these lines:

this is the last time, the last time we're meeting the last song, the last song i'm giving you (x)

iv. epilogue

on dec 26 and 27, a two-part documentary on the band's final years was released. it's a very well-made documentary, from cinematography to its on-point song choices, filled with interviews and amusing moments, giving a summary of the band's history and a look at the long farewell stretch. the documentary also contained some sad revelations about why the band had chosen to call it a day, and i spent january and february processing this, basically.

on feb 28, kent won their final two swedish grammy awards. they gave cute thank-you speeches and joked around in the backstage interviews. it provided a kinder sort of closure, compared to the documentary's bittersweet ending.

i still have far too many feelings about these guys and their journey. but it's now been a year since the farewell announcement, and though i'll never get over this band, i should really move forward too.