#i forgot how much i loved bardcore

[kawaiijellymonster]

@homosexual-having-tea I love your version too but look at this version I found last week its insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPe0NKr1Cg4

For spooky season darlings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjKLV63rBP0

[mother-love-stone]

I was tagged by @louder-than-love thank you so much! I missed doing these kind of things💖💖💖

Favorite band: there are a LOT of bands that I love, but if I had to pick just one, it's probably System of a Down or Ghost atm

Favorite Musician: I don't really have one

Favorite Song: at the moment? Can't stop listening to Space Man from Sam Ryder. I'm still under the Eurovision influence :))

Favorite Genre: bardcore

Favorite Instrument: the hurdy gurdy is amazing and cool

Favorite Era of Music: there's good music in every era

Favorite Years of Music: again, every year has good music and bad music. I don't really focus on years when I listen to music, but I think these past few years have been amazing for some artists that I follow

Least favourite genre: I can't stand cabaret music, sorry

Been To Any Concerts?: yes I have, and it was amazing :') Mostly Romanian bands, but I have seen Metallica and Ghost in 2019

Favorite Brodcasted Concert?: Pearl Jam Unplugged

Favorite Album?: Prequelle by Ghost, Hypnotize & Mesmerize by SOAD and Simulation Theory by Muse are the albums where I never skip a song

Any Upcoming Concerts?: I will go see Iron Maiden next week, and I'm VIBRATING with excitement

In A Band? (In or out of school): nope

Play Any Instruments?: i used to play guitar and bass a looong time ago, but I forgot almost everything about how to play

I'm tagging @spreadthecurse @noezappl @stonesponytail if you want to, no pressure😘😘

[theda-rison]

Thursday Night Link Roundup - July 23rd

I CAN’T BELIEVE I ALMOST FORGOT TO PUT TOGETHER THE LINK ROUND UP THIS WEEK. I watched so many good things, way too many for a roundup. 

So, I normally put my longest video first. Originally it was going to be the second one in this week’s round up, but this one kind of takes precedence on length alone.

So I’ve been watching the Majority Report for about 5 years now, and one of the commentators died this week. I don’t normally feel really sad or cry about celebrity deaths, most of the time it’s more like “Oh yeah, I’ve seen a bunch of their movies, that’s sad,” and that’s it. Like, I don’t know them, you know? 

But this guy - Michael Brooks - I’ve been watching MR with my breakfast for years (and then not looking at any news for the rest of the day because it was making me too depressed >_>) and this guy really broadened my mind as to what’s going on in the world, he let me know that it’s okay to care about other people (which, I live in a really red area and it’s not red because of communism), and that I should care about other people and want to know what’s going on around me. I naturally am curious about everything but it was amazing to hear someone who’s the same and who talks with such passion about wanting to help people. 

I think watching him has turned me into a better, more informed person. I had always hoped to meet him just so I could tell him that and pick his brain for a bit, but they stopped doing live shows because of covid. So I’m sad about that too.

Anyway, here’s the memorial stream the show did and all of their friends called in and his sister showed up and it was good. 

I somehow made it almost all the way through without crying… until one of the callers told a story where Michael was at a silent meditation retreat and called into the show and beeped the phone buttons to communicate (which I can’t figure out if I saw when it happened. Someone let me know if someone puts it online.) Once he told that story I started laughing and then just was bawling for like 10 straight minutes.

I guess I don’t really expect anyone to watch that. I put it there for me.

In the spirit of wanting to make the world better for people, Canadian youtubers The Serfs and Marxist economist Richard Wolff take a look at how the future could be made brighter and better through ditching capitalism like the abusive boyfriend it truly is.

Let’s keep the ball rolling with a video by Hakim, discussing how rich countries routinely ransack poorer countries (which are normally made poor and kept poor by rich countries). “In order for there to be a reduction of misery at home, there must be an export of misery abroad.”

This is another one from  MelinaPendulum about how GOT completely fucked up when it came to race. I’m still mad that D&D turned Daenerys into a White Savior trope when she wasn’t one as much in the books. #stopwhitemenfromwritingeverything2020. 

I’m STILL pissed about what they did to Dorn.

And some good ol’ fashion nonsense from my sister.

My sister: You’re doing a lot of squats to get a bigger butt? Me: Glute bridges and kickbacks, but, yeah. My sister: What about… this! Me: … what the fuck is happening?

I have to say… it seems like my way involves more work at least…

Songs of the Week

One Winged Angel 세피로스 / 편익의 천사 (파이널 판타지 VII)

In high school I played about 30 minutes of final fantasy 8 at my friends house and was so confused. We were playing it on a little CRT TV while her parents' new gigantic LCD (or plasma?) TV was next to it. I was super confused and then when it wanted me to do something with cards I was like, “I have no idea what’s happening and I hate this game.”

Anyway, One-Winged Angel was stuck in my head all week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh6V1zMmbuU

Oumi Janta Skater Girl from Berlin with Music

I am absolutely in love with Oumi Janta, the Berlin roller dancer who’s randomly became popular on the tumbles. I like the song, n Deep We Trust - Ba:Sen (Pool Party Dub Mix), but could do without all the cheering that’s in the song for whatever reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STMZsfAhxwc

I wonder to what we can attribute the rise of Bardcore. Was it the popularity of renfaires? Skyrim? Dragon Age? The Witcher? Or like, all of them together as a rolling snowball that’s just been going downhill and gaining more snow and getting bigger as it goes on? Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.

I lied, it’s Toxicity - Medieval Style - by Agal the Bard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5d8bnvO2JQ