#i love assigning music to characters

[callofdooty]

Okay Kip, I know you said it was Keegan who was "Numb" by Linkin Park, but it is SUCH a Logan song.

Don't know what you're expecting of me Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes

Is that not just Logan bitching about Rorke choosing him to be another exorcist? (What I've decided the name is for whatever the Federation made Rorke into. Yeah it's a play on words.)

All I want to do Is be more like me And be less like you

Hello? Logan wanting to be Logan again and not what the Federation tried making him?

But I know You were just like me with someone disappointed in you

Also this is just me adoring the HC that Logan reads motherfuckers like a book and does so with Rorke.

(Also: I Hc that Logan likes Linkin Park a bit too much, so that's why this is happening lmao. Motherfucker has an Mp3 player with all their songs.)

GOD you are so right. I was thinking that while typing the comment (tbh it's such a good song to fit so many characters LOL) but pairing it with Logan after the game.... The angst. THE ANGST.

Logan fighting for his own autonomy and freedom against all odds, the many ways such a concept can go is sooooo fucking fascinating. Many thoughts. Many. Many thoughts.

AND YES, I can see Logan being the kind of person to just. Observe. Looking beyond what most people take upfront.

And I very much relate HAHA, Linkin Park's music is so, so good. Honestly Logan + Linkin Park songs is such a good combination too. Like if I was to list a few (all from Hybrid Theory/Meteora bcs I'm most familiar with them):

Breaking the Habit (if he's rescued by the Ghosts after some time perhaps); In The End (Maybe for him, Rorke and Hesh?); One Step Closer; Lying From You; Figure.09; Hit The Floor; Don't Stay; maybe even Point of Authority.

AND HONESTLY THERE'S SO MANY OTHER SONGS! Even from different artists (Diluted and Override by Slipknot come to mind ESPECIALLY.) (Maybe even Purity if you want to get into some severe Horror elements)

Or even this bit from No Life (link will take you straight to the section I'm talking abt):

"I can't remember, I don't understand Is it malice that makes you this way? Carry it with you 'til someone forgives you I laugh 'cause there's nothing to say You can't begin to consider the palpable hate In the air when you're here None of us wonder what weather you're under You're making it perfectly clear"

The Exorcist thing also makes me think of No Nature by A Lot Like Birds (the pure seething rage in that song is delightful honestly)

If there's one thing I absolutely love doing, it's assigning songs to character LMFAO Got my brain buzzing like a beehive and I love it

[ghostboyhood]

i think more people should know about moritz stiefel

[ashertickler]

VINCENT AND CHASE ATLANTIC???

kinda the lyrics but also mainly the sound and the overall VIBE of chase atlantic feels very vincent to me

[changewingwentz]

Hello to who sees this answer and/ reblog what color reminds you of sleep token, as in the whole band in general (specifics with the guys & esperas/the choir are also welcomed)

[leotanaka]

jughead almost immediately removing himself from the musical aka the narrative the moment that someone else (kevin & clay) starts writing their own version of it and in turn, his removal from controlling the narrative ends up allowing the characters to take back control of their own narrative because when jughead writes and rewrites the story, it ends up trapping the characters deeper inside the narrative and the cycles they are desperate to escape until they are repeating the same behaviours over and over again but when kevin & clay write and rewrite the story, it ends up giving the characters back their agency because they're trying to help them which then allows them to break free from the narrative and walk away.

[givemeanaccountalready]

Musings on Deep Cover

So, I was fiddling with my ladies of Milgram post, and uh, I started thinking about Kotoko's diss track.

The lyrics transcribed on the Deep Cover video are:

UNDER Doltish 001 Parasite / UNDER Obscene 002 Slut / UNDER Incessant 004 Phony Queen / UNDER Doomed 005 Dissection Pawn / UNDER Concealing 007 Deceiver / UNDER Inept 011 Guard

My favorite is Ninjastic Cheetah's fan edit on YouTube which has these lines:

UNDER A worthless 01 parasite / UNDER A vulgar 02 slut / UNDER A stubborn 04 perjury / UNDER Unsalvageable 05 dissection / UNDER Lying 07 madman / UNDER Unloved 11 prison guard

Again, I love the psychic damage of "unloved" being Es's insult, but that's not the point I want to discuss before I turn in for the night.

Don't get me wrong. I love the diss track. I really do, but if I were Kotoko, I would have gone for the jugular and called out their insecurities when dropping names to emphasize how little I thought of how their justifications:

UNDER Fatal 001 leech / UNDER Lonely 002 little girl / UNDER Whiny 004 usurper / UNDER Short-sighted 005 savior / UNDER Selfish 7 manipulator / UNDER Misguided 011 pretender

Now, as fun as that was, this wasn't just a little aside. In Kotoko's diss track, she doesn't say anything that couldn't have been picked up from listening to voice dramas (if Kotoko did in fact eavesdrop on all the other prisoners' interrogations) or found within the timeline conversations. In their second trial interrogations, Yuno admits to being a sex worker and having an abortion, while Kazui laments the fact that he's lived his entire life as a liar and states that he should have kept lying for Hinako's sake. Shidou agrees with Es that his murders involved his work as a doctor and hints that pressuring families to donate the organs of their brain-dead loved ones wasn't the only murder he's done. I've kind of said it before when I said "Local man discovers empathy," but I think he pushed patients to undergo risky, new surgeries in hopes that it would treat their conditions, and it was only when his wife and two boys were in the hospital that he realized the terror those families felt when their loved ones went under the knife. Haruka admitted to killing things smaller than him to gain his mother's attention and his unhealthy dependence on approval from his "mother" figures is obvious in the second trial. Muu contradicts herself a lot when defending herself from what she perceives to be abuse and preens under the positive attention Haruka gives her. She does seem to think herself above approach like a queen would. With Es? I think it was Kazui who said it best back during the first trial: the only difference between Es and the prisoners are the roles assigned. Undermining their authority and implying they can't do their job is a surefire way to piss off Es. Why do I bring this up?

I think Kotoko may know less than we and Es do.

Mainly because it hasn’t really been explained how the song extraction device works. We know that it pulls memories from an individual’s subconscious and turns them into a musical number. We know that the in-universe explanation for the time gap between trial songs is that it needs to charge between uses. That’s stuff Jackalope told us back in the Welcome to Milgram video. From the voice dramas, we know the general procedure is that a prisoner is called to the interrogation room, Es arrives late as a power move and then interrogates the prisoner until the bell sounds and we can hear machines or something whirring and clanking in the background. Since it’s an audio, we don’t know what the interrogation room looks like before and after the bell tolls, but there seems to be an implication that the room changes and that the prisoners are belted into the chair. I’m not so sure if the chair is real but the first trial voice dramas have me an implication of the prisoners being restrained in some way.

If I had to guess, I would say that the round, bird cage like room we saw in Undercover and Deep Cover is the interrogation room. That would explain what the circular room on the map is (not the one with the numbered cells, the one opposite of that). Undercover implies that the song extraction device opens up to work, but we’re not told or shown how it pulls memories or how it depicts the music video. Es and the prisoner may very well be “asleep” while this process plays out mentally. Or it is projected somewhere within the interrogation room while the prisoner is “asleep” since none of them seem to remember what happens after the bell rings.

I have a thousand questions on how this device works. The only important one is how are the songs shown to Es, because if Kotoko knew exactly what some of the first trial Innocent prisoners had shown in their videos (namely, Haruka strangling his younger self and clearly bludgeoning something to death with a bloody rock, and Muu stabbing Rei), she most likely would have judged Es’s verdicts as faulty and attacked the prisoners based on how she views the crimes rather than relying on Es's verdict. I say this with confidence, because Kotoko has made it clear that her vigilante actives, both in Milgram and before, are a way for her to inflict punishment that others (namely the justice system) won’t dole out to the guilty. She has no problem with skirting the system to do that.

But, if the songs are only shown to Es and Es alone through some kind of mental link, then Kotoko is forced to take Es’s word on what they (and we, the audience) saw. Deep Cover made it clear that Es's refusal to condemn more prisoners is what ticked Kotoko off, since she sees mercy and compassion as weaknesses to be eliminated. Kotoko actually showed a remarkable amount of restraint when trying to sway Es back to her side. It wasn't until Es stood up to Kotoko that she lost her composure.

It also would partially explain why some say that Deep Cover is Kotoko’s musical version of a resume for the warden position. If there is stuff that Es knows that she isn’t privy to because of their warden position, then she needs to obtain either the warden status or an official deputy position to get that information to further influence how Es votes. If she is proving her worth to Es and Milgram, why wouldn’t her subconscious show her desire to be in control the way Es is?

[silusvesuius]

remade this list a bit in total silence while gripping my head

[cobra-wives]

if johnny’s favorite band is the eagles, i think kreese’s would be creedence clearwater revival. if we got a miniseries/backstory on kreese, i could see songs like run through the jungle or have you seen the rain being a pivotal part of the soundtrack!

[bbloveseevees]

*Points furiously*

THIS IS RAZ FFS

I DON’T CARE IF ITS A CHIAKI NANAMI FANSONG, ITS RAZ’S NOW

[sho-minamimoto]

did you play both the ds and port versions of twewy? and if so, what was it like adjusting to the mechanics outside of their intended game system? if you haven't, what versions are you familiar with and what do you think of the overall combat controlling two fighters at once?

yes ive played both!!! DS twewy is my life my soul and i played the switch port (not solo remix though). final remix's gameplay is pretty disappointing to me, i think the dual screen combat is really integral to twewy's identity in how it marries the gameplay to its themes of teamwork + cooperation and making neku's partners functionally the same as just another pin command in solo/final remix really takes away from it in that regard. but even that aside, i just think ds twewy is more fun. its very challenging to get used to but much more rewarding imo, and when you get a handle on controlling two screens at once the battles feel much more thrilling and exciting. that being said though i know its an acquired taste, and I've known people who quit DS twewy bc they just couldn't jive with the battle system, which is unfortunate. So im glad solo/final remix exists as an easier and more accessible alternative to gameplay even if i don't really like it.

[thedevotionaltour]

thinking about daredevil yellow again im not. going to make it Guys.

[meandmypagancrew]

Okay, awhile ago, someone asked me how I felt the West End version of Death Note compared to other versions, but I couldn't answer because I hadn't watched the other versions and they sent me a link. Now that I've watched them, I feel like I can give a fair answer.

The West End version is a lot more serious, and I think the reason for this is twofold - the first being that the main comedic relief (Ryuk) was played by someone who I don't think was familiar with the source material. I think Adam Pascal just knew he was playing a God of Death and took that at face value, not realizing that Ryuk isn't a serious character. The second being that the secondary comedic relief, L, didn't seem to realize that either. L's comedic bits are a very deadpan sort of humor, and Dean got the deadpan part, but when he says things like "I am also childish and hate to lose" it doesn't really feel right, because Dean is playing it as serious as a heart attack, pun intended.

However, a lot of this comes down to the director, and I don't think it comes down to his lack of understanding of the original content. I think it simply comes down to wanting to be a success, and looking at what has done really well on the West End, and those are shows like Les Misérables and Phantom of the Opera - dramas. And while it is possible to have a drama with riotously funny moments (see the recent Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd), those are far and few between and I think he was trying to emulate that, because he expected that an average West End audience member wouldn't know Death Note.

The Korean and Japanese versions let themselves have a lot more fun with it, while still hitting the serious beats, and it truly shows. Also, their casting looks a lot more like the characters. Especially the Japanese L - they look like they took a screenshot of L from the anime and then put him into an AI photo generator and said "make this look like an actual person". Like my mom watched it with us and afterwards she was in my room and looked at the L figurine I have and was like "I finally get who this is! He looks just like him!"

Dean, on the other hand, looks exactly like what he is - a buff guy in a shirt that actually fits. Which I think does take away from the Light and L dynamic. When L looks spindly, you do see it as an intellectual battle, but when he's built like a tank, you kind of wonder why he doesn't just beat the shit out Light. I do think Carl, who was the alternate L in the second run, was definitely a better L.

However, while I do think that, of the three versions I've watched, the West End version is the weakest, it is still really good. Frances (and later Jessica) is a fantastic Misa, Rachel Claire is so damn cute as Sayu that I loved every second she was on stage, and Aimie remains as my favorite Rem, despite the fact that I still don't think she should have been cast. And Joaquin was great as Light! I also really liked Christian as Sochiro. It really says something about the quality of a show when even the worst version still kicks ass, and I am really excited to see the future of the show, as well as how Your Lie In April will do.

[bee-in-a-box]

Enchanted is my favorite movie so I kind of already knew Disenchanted was never going to meet my standards, but bro omg they could have at least watched Enchanted a few times :/

[yuukei-yikes]

ratio + ayano and haruka finish hs going to night school together + takane falsifies her documents and never finishes + shintaro also never finishes and doesn't even have documentation. #slay

[stillgotme]

🎶✨ When you get this, you have to write down 5 songs you actually listen to and post them. Then send this (ask or tag) to 10 of your favourite followers cool ppl✨🎶

tagged by @rebelangelsims and @ellemant, thanks for giving me a reason to shove my music taste into everyone’s faces 😘

Backburner by NIKI

VHS by Lolo Zouaï

See You Soon by beabadoobee

Prophecy by Magdalena Bay

MARGARITA by Quelle Rox

i tag @cautiously0ptimistic, @romanticsims, @fadingfatesimz, @veinsinneon, and anyone else who enjoys my elite music taste <3

[fandom-trash-xl]

Character Mixes Part 1/?: Frost and Cabba

SIDE A: FROST Liar boy, once the heroic apple of everyone's eye. A bit of spunky.

Ghost Rule - DECO*27 (Hatsune Miku) Oh No! - MARINA Bubblegum B!tch - MARINA Eighth Wonder - Lemon Demon Michelle - Sir Chloe Suck It Up - MARETU (Hatsune Miku) Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart - Mitski

(A/N: Honestly there was a lot in the MARINA discography that could work for him. "Toxic" would be too predictable, but don't think it wasn't considered. The Mitski at the end is a bit soft comparatively for his vibes, but oomph it was too good to leave out.)

SIDE B: CABBA Playing hero prodigy isn't the easy road, especially when your heart gets toyed with along the way. Burnt out protagonist syndrome.

despair - leo. Sweet Hibiscus Tea - Penelope Scott Hey Kids - Molina Turn Off the Lights - Panic! At The Disco Rose-Colored Boy - Paramore Juliet - Cavetown Stay Soft - Mitski

(A/N: "Stay Soft" was one I was iffy on including. I know the intended implications of the lyrics, but, aside from the one line near the beginning, I felt I could use a secondary interpretation for this sort of context. Now that I'm thinking about it, it could work for Kale too.)

PART TWO: FRABBA Hearts have been stomped on, but why do they still beat for each other?

Never Ever Getting Rid of Me - Waitress soundtrack (Christopher Fitzgerald and Kimiko Glenn) House of Memories - Panic! At The Disco Lies - MARINA Judas (80s Version) - Gemyni (original by Lady Gaga) Duvet - bôa Masterpiece - Motionless in White (thanks anon!) Mary On A Cross - Ghost Fairytale - Alexander Rybak

(A/N: I've had many variants of the good old Frabba jams, but this is the current combo I've been vibing with lately. Got a lot of other stray songs in my playlist that hit the vibe to different extents, sparking animatics/edits in my brain. Might share later. However, I will give you that All That Matters from RWBY Volume 5 goes with their reunion in "Shattered Ice".)