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Long ass opinions / critiques on milgram under the cut before t3 actually hits
Im not even that mad / hateful of mlgrm at all tbh & I think & hope you can tell that from the fact that my main gripe with it isnt really "This project was awful from start to finish it never should've happened" but rather "There were better (& Arguably easier) ways to tell this story & get the point across"
i understand 100% why they thought, on paper, why this would've been a cool project to work on and It Is!! They did their best, i really love how it takes inspiration from the vocaloid community from the abstract symbolism filled MV's, the deco covers, how theres an interconnected story, and the potential of community guesswork & discussion of what this song and/or MV means. I might be a bit biased bc i got into it after being dissapointed in how lacking the virtual singers / vocaloid [community] feels in project sekai besides the commissioned songs but overall i think its really cute, even if its technically just what art as a whole is about 😭 You know, making you engage & think about The Implications. Getting the inspo from the voca synth community allows the project to stand out bc of how its presented. Its unique, its fresh, it keeps you on your toes.
I love how it (tries) to tackle well known & relevant issues in japan (& tbh the rest of the world), like ableism, misogyny, child abuse, call-out culture, homophobia, the entire prison system, etc. and how the victims and perpetrators react to it. Its very interesting. Its very clearly trying to humanize & sympathize even the "worst of the worst", and i appreciate how its one of the main themes in the story even if some of the audience didnt quite catch it. Its showing how simply punishing people who did wrong isnt the answer. Like theres SOOOO much nuance to unpack both in universe with the crimes & prisoners and in a meta sense through the way the story is presented, the way the audience reacts, the discussions, thoughts, developments, etc. Its so cool. They've clearly put a lot of effort into it.
At its core the Milgram Project has always been less about solving the crimes and more about asking the audience "Why do YOU think X happened?" Its basically a bunch of character studies!! You're peering through their hearts, examining their own version of the truth of their crimes, and drawing your own conclusions based on that raw, intrusive data that the system has given you. Aagh.
Unfortunately in my own humble opinion all these elements combined is exactly why it doesn't work as well as it could've And arguably should've for a project all about seeing the good or at least understanding eachother.
It asks "Why did X did it?" but it doesnt give us a platform to actually state Why they did it in any way, only to answer & play into the prisons b&w thinking, and you cant in any way reverse any of their verdicts once its been casted. And thematically it works. I mean its about a warden in a prison full of people who have taken lives, its doing its job to mirror the reality of real life Innocent (No punishment or otherwise legal consenquence) vs Guilty (Punish) verdicts, legally or non officially, as it should. But idk it doesnt really Help us understand why a character comitted their sin. It only introduces downwards spirals, which only makes the characters less willing to provide their actual motive(s) as time goes on. I get that the main thing its criticizing is the legal & prison system but its getting in the way of sympathizing with "Bad" people. Which again IS the point, thats EXACTLY what the prison system does and why its so harmful, it dehumanizes people to hell and boils down their entire personhood to "Guilty" but like???? It doesnt really provide an Out, or anything more Productive to think about. WHICH IS THE POINT & I KNOW THAT BUT IT KINDA FEELS LIKE IN THE END THERES REALLY NOTHING YOU CAN DO WHICH IS PRETTY NIHILISTIC???
Its like "Theres no point in examining why these people are the way they are bc everyones gonna suffer no matter which button you press in the end!! No you cant gain deeper optional insight either bc we're permanently rolling with THIS now." and what doesnt help are the extra contents like the voice dramas & interrogation questions where the characters themselves add more fuel to the fire by threatening eachothers or the wardens lives??? and it leads to people discussing 'Which Verdicts to Vote [to minimize the in universe damage so these fictional definitely-not-representatives-of-real-life-issues-&-its-consequences characters can be safe]' instead of 'Actual Insightful Character Analysis [to help eachother find our own conclusions no matter what it is & to improve ourselves as a person through examining fictional scenarios]' and it leads to COMPLETELY unproductive discussions and flame wars and its so upsetting to see.
Its fucking tearing itself (& the fandom) apart by making ITSELF perpetuate the black & white "Theres a CORRECT answer to this EXTREMELY morally gray & heavily nuanced situation!!!" thinking for the sake of criticizing (More like making a parody of) the prison system. Like wow who would've thought that the system designed so that literally everyone in it is turned into mere "GOOD" VS "BAD" caricatures of themselves would be a good sytem to EXAMINE PEOPLES COMPLICATED LIVES with. Does that make sense. Like isnt it ironic how what we call "Meta voting" is, in the end, more about these fictional characters lives than it is about us, as the actual living breathing audience who are capable of accepting things outside the dichotomy and are able to self reflect before its too late? us, the humans whos lives are more fragile and thus require more care from eachother than mere 2d drawings? Isnt that so ironic
AND I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR I GENUINELY, WITH ALL (or none in this case) OF MY HEART, DON'T AND CAN'T EVEN BLAME ANYONE WHO META VOTES. BECAUSE THE PRISON. THE PROJECT ITSELF. ENCOURAGES IT. AND IN THIS TRIAL AND EVEN THE PREVIOUS ONE WITH KOTOKO'S BEATINGS, PROVES THAT IT HOLDS WATER. MORE THAN ANY CHARACTER ANALYSIS. MORE THAN GENUINELY UNDERSTANDING WHERE THESE CHARACTERS ARE COMING FROM.
And the beautiful thing about it is that theres ALSO a discussion to be made about this, intentional or not, about how our actions weigh more than our thoughts / feelings which is ofc correct. This also ties in it with its theme, of taking people's lives and under what conditions is it considered something "Neutral" (even "Positive / Good") vs "Punishable" and ofc also the punishing & restraining that comes with getting a guilty verdict part, an action that leads to someone else's forced in-action.
Still though, in what way does this really help support the Actual Main Theme, which is understanding eachother / the prisoners, people who youve seen arguably the worst of? Its grappling between wanting to make the audience GENUINELY THINK and self reflect vs a show about people going through hell and you CAN be both but again!! with way milgram is run, because of the active audience participation it needs & encourages & the way it boxes the audience into these 2 choices, it was always going to snowball & sway more to the latter. Its becoming less of a thinkpiece & more just a shocking spectacle where everything is in "Superhell"
"Oh anyone can die in this prison if the audience messes up badly enough" do you think thats a good way to send your message. Just kill off a character whos arc wasnt even finished yet. When their deaths only serve to make things worse and thus more shocking and "High Stakes"? When their deaths are only punishing the audience who wanted to understand everyone in the prison by
1. forever 'Locking' said dead character(s) out of any new developments
2. Possibly make things more muddy & unclear in the trial, as the rest of the characters would be affected by the death(s) and would most likely close themselves off even more to cope with the trauma?
And. Like. Again I cant even get that mad bc can you blame the writers when theyre all forced to write shit on the fly based on OUR unpredictable reactions??? Ex. Did they expect Amane to get a guilty in the 1st trial despite the sympathetic MV which features a child repeatedly being abused?? They also have to choose and try to balance between making the horror of the situation clear while also providing a way for these present horrors to bring out the characters past crime. Its so complicated.
I really really hate how this happened. Please. If milgram had no audience participation and if it was instead just a linear story or 2 this wouldn't have happened.... everything would've been in the writer's control and thus we would've been guaranteed a more fulfilling story even if it lacks the explicit audience complicity to the violence & abuse. See: come on man, THE OFFICIAL PREQUEL NOVELS.
Alternatively, seeing as the trial 3 curtain call is LITERALLY called 'Route: Your [Curtain] Call,' implying that there were other routes we could've went on, it could've been a video game or better yet a visual novel. Then we'd be able to fully explore the characters as much as we want, even if, by resetting the game multiple times to get the routes to FULLY understand these charaters, it lessens the emotional impacts the deaths will have.
I dunno man i just wish it didnt get this complicated I just wish it was presented better....
"So what do you think happened? Was this justified or not?" I dont know man we're busy making sure people dont die so we dont miss out on any new info even though the act of 'making sure people dont die' is making us Waste the opportunities we have to get said new info. WE'RE in storytelling superhell.
#rememberrrr. Critique and even hate still comes from the act of caring.#Im sorry if i come off as harsh & like someone who only exists to hate on things online but i swear i only do it because i still love it#I can ramble about everything I hate as much as I can ramble about everything i love okay ❤️❤️❤️#i needed to lay out & examine my own opinions & thoughts on milgram#especially now that t3 is bringing out everyone's raw emotions towards the project and the community surrounding it#LET THE ROSE TINTED GLASSES OFF LETS SEE IT FOR WHAT IT IS#im not very good at analyzing or wording things though thats why its incoherent 😁😁#sorryin advance if any of this is incorrect these are just my own very very very long winded opinions#i say opinions but rlly the only opinion here is ''Milgram's storytelling devices contradicts its own self in a meta way''#nillas#vanili powder
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Biggest red flag is when people start calling people in their life (who are not actually diagnosed, ofc) narcissists. "Oh yeah my mom is a narcissist, my dad is a narcissist too, my boss is totally a narcissist, oh your ex boyfriend sounds like he's a narcissist" yeah you are getting the fucking boot sorry. If your response to people acting badly is to decide that there is a category of Evil Mentally Ill Freaks and another category of Humans Deserving Respect and to just arbitrarily sort people into one or the other category based on your own whims or a reddit post you read, I think you need a lesson in humility and human decency. And a lesson in being less of a heartless piece of shit to real actual people with personality disorders
#if you have npd or other cluster b disorders i am sending you sooooo much love right now stay strong ❤️❤️❤️#people are so fucking shitty i swear to god#incoherent rambling#if you do this. please jesus christ step outside your echo chamber and talk to people with cluster b disorders
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What r ur thoughts on people who twinkify samuel seabury…like when his only personality is being soft uwu boy who gets bullied by hamilton and king george is his protector!!1!1!1!
I HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THIS I HATE IT SO MUCH
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okay first of all I’ve said this before but i feel like the only reason people see him like this is because of “chaos and bloodshed is not a solution” which caused people to be like “omg he doesn’t like violence such innocent baby protect him 🥺🥺” WHEN HES A GROWN ASS MAN (45 - 47) AT THE TIME OF FARMER REFUTED ☹️ also about the king george thing there’s lots more to his character than just being a loyalist he was a priest / bishop fcs 😞 how about jesus being his protector!!!!! /j another thing about him is that i feel like people tried babying him to make him seem less of an antagonist maybe…??? like ive seen people say “poor sammy he was trying to express his opinion🥺” ok well we’re not rooting for his opinion in this musical ARE WE?? like idk maybe we should let antagonists be antagonists and be in the wrong 🤗 personally i dont agree with samuel’s opinions AT ALL but that doesn’t make him any less kissable in my eyes!!! can we let characters be pathetic without infantilizing them PLEASE i just see him as this annoying snooty man who sees the revolutionists as childish and immature / sees him + other loyalists as above these “barbaric patriots”. also i recall thayne sayinf something on the hamilcast podcast about seabury trying to “save everyone from the king” (i pray the king shows you his mercy) before its too late and i dont know how this aligns with what im saying but i think it tells us a bit more about him (at least thayne’s version) and i just find it a silly detail 😁 btw you guys im only talking about all this from the musical perspective and this has barely anything to do with actual history or the characters’ historical counterparts 🤗🤗🤗🌈🌈🌈🌸🌸🌸
#jade shut up he was on the stage for almost TWO MINUTES#yeah the fans who did this to my guy in the absolute peak of the hamilton fandom ruined him and im here to fix the damage ❤️#if you interpret him in that way its not too late to change i used to be just like you guys 🤗#if you wanna know more about his character i suggest reading the farmer refuted annotations on genius i love them#next level yapfest#i love spewing out all of my ideas on tumblr i can just rant incoherently and people will eat it up#<- hopefully….this better not flop i put my blood sweat and tears into this#is it obvious i do well in english class ❤️/j#samuel seabury#hamilton#hamilton musical#the mischaracterization crisis of 2017#<- that’s what im calling it now#lin manuel miranda#thayne jasperson#watch this flop so hard
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hello my angels 😚🩷 happy new year's eve (or happy new year's to those already in 2025 🥳🙊) so......this year has been Something and also a huge nothing burger, and also a year where i have come to many realizations 🤓☝🏽 and it has just been incredibly dull and i was truly fighting for my life (in my Mind 🕳️) but! i just love you guys for making my dash and my days much better ☀️😍 yes i do have a parasocial relationship with y'all. 😼🌚whether we've spoken before or not, and whether we're mutuals or not (i see y'all and i love you 🫶🏽) thank you for making my boring, lonely, and incredibly mundane year a little brighter and magical each day 💖💖💖 i really don't know what i would do without y'all.......🧍🏽♀️ something drastic, probably. Anyways. i hope y'all will stick with me into 2025 and also we got this! i am holding your hand and i love you 🫂🥹🥳✨💫💖💐🌹🌈🐥🦧🪩 🪩 🍾🍾🍾
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#wrote this at like 1am while i was In My Feelings#but i mean every word of it#even if it's a little incoherent...#i love you all so so much ❤️❤️❤️#and hope we all have a safe and happy new year. we can do it 💪🏽🫡#lisa.txt
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*sneaks in,
Gives you this*
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Dude you went SO HARD on this like I—THIS IS AMAZING????? I WILL BE THINKING ABOUT THIS ALL WEEK
#you ask skye answers#and screams incoherently#lovely l3ominor#HOLY FRIGGIN HECK#Hero of Shadow#HE LOOKS SO GOOD 😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️#I DO NOT HAVE WORDS I’M????#EEEEEEEE#fan art for my fics#*DECEASED*#I love him so much oh my gosh#AND THE MALICE?????#AND HIS ROBE?????#*screaming*
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im lowkey happy 2024 kinda unanimously was a horrible year for most of us 😭😭😭
#like if it was just a bad yr for me id be upset 😭😭 like happy for y’all but disgruntled 😔#but tbh it gave me the ability to put into motion big things that I kno will make 2025 my best year yet#& I feel like that’s also something I’ve been seeing that other ppl feel like 2024 has helped position them to#have a much much better yr next year#so it’s a give & take I guess 😭❤️#super ramble lowkey incoherent but anyways#!!!#hope y’all have a super happy#healthy joyful enriching new year 💓💓💓💓💓❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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i think addison and meredith are so so similar in a lot more things than people usually think/give them the credit for- the only difference is addison has such a strict impulse control compared to meredith
#they make me. insane❤️#derek shepherd try not to have a type challenge (failed miserably)#this is also related to their bi4bi agenda but i don't know how to word it exactly. maybe something like the way meredith talks about women#vs the way addison doesnt quite do whats expected around certain women#also also relates to their preferences the percentages of bisexuality. like meredith 50/50 and addison 70/30#i'm rambling into incoherence. does any of this even make sense outisde of my own brain#meddison#meredith grey#addison montgomery#grey's anatomy#thea talks
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Wtf Is Shock Treatment’s Deal? (Or, Local Critic Discovers Escapism and Having Fun In The Midst of Late Stage Capitalistic Dread)
Watched Shock Treatment for the first time this week, and I am a changed man lol. Here are some disorganized thoughts:
I think something that makes Rocky Horror so special is that it can be as deep or not-deep as you want it to be. Like, if you want to think about the cultural implications of the themes portrayed (hedonism, gay & trans liberation, gender roles, the Invasion-of-the-Body-snatchers style infiltration of outside queer forces, the downfall of the safety contained within a collective identity), you can absolutely do that! There’s so much to be interpreted there!! But if you are just here to see Tim Curry looking incredibly sexy and violently thrust along to the Time Warp at a midnight showing with a bunch of cool strangers, that is absolutely awesome, too. Slay!! Take what you want.
BUT SHOCK TREATMENT MANNNN??? Shock Treatment is a whole different ballgame lol. Like, it is also a thematically rich goldmine, if you’re willing to squint a little— in terms of content included, not necessarily how it’s portrayed within the narrative. In the words of Barry Bostwick here, “it was a statement about the future that we weren't quite ready to explore. We didn't really even have the mental emotional vocabulary to understand what Richard [O’Brien, the creator] was trying to say.” I think this is spot-fucking-on!!! It’s absolutely frighteningly prescient, especially today in terms of the commodification of mental health. Like, woah. Janet being crowned “Miss Mental Health” felt like such a Gwyneth Paltrow moment. Cultural prophet Richard O’Brien saw the dark cloud of Betterhelp and wellness culture galloping over in the horizon in the distance of the American landscape, and he set out to warn us.
I still don’t quite understand what happened in the movie. I still don’t know what my takeaway was supposed to be. And I guess if you’re a little insane and love having fun doing thematic analysis with weird media (like me), taking Shock Treatment seriously may be right for you, lol. But thematically overall I think it’s safe to say: it’s a lot less coherent than its predecessor. It’s messy. It’s not interested in being flawless. It’s not interested in appealing to an audience. It’s barely interested in being a sequel. Shock Treatment is lowkey pointing and laughing in the face of those who showed up expecting a masterpiece— which admittedly was me, because I take Rocky Horror pretty seriously. (I put off watching Shock Treatment for a while bc I wasn’t sure about how it would affect the Rocky Horror Universe I had in my head.) If not for the internet reviews prepping me, I would have walked in completely expecting another nuanced perfect symphony of a movie to measure up to Rocky Horror’s magic.
But the thing was? Watching Shock Treatment, it ended up I did not really care!!!!! I was having the time of my life!!!!!
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Wtf was going on!!!!!!!!!!! Who knows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still don’t quite know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I loved it!!!
This reaction of such joy, just letting myself vibe out made me think because when did I start getting surprised when watching a movie is more pleasurable than not??? Isn’t that the entire point of media??
I think with the modern commodification of media analysis and examining pop culture up close, I’d argue that Fun Media without a message is actually pretty hard to come by— at least in mainstream culture. Even stuff as sanitized as Disney movies are now digging into like generational trauma, appealing to what seems to be a collective search for depth (or at least the appearance of depth.) Modern neo-nazi brands of fascism wields power like never before, horrific images of violence follow everyone left and right. Sometimes it seems like this open secret, that everyone knows there’s this looming darkness at the forefront of our minds at all times.
So this transition from Rocky Horror to Shock Treatment felt actually sort of powerful to me. Rocky Horror’s generation-long reverberations of shamelessly depicting sensual revelry are so powerful; it’s bold even for today! (Of course, we all know transvestite isn’t a term commonly used today, but looking at it through the lens of its time, it becomes clear what a miracle the movie is. Knowing what it must have meant to queer people at the time it became a phenomenon— giving them a real space to be themselves in a hostile world criminalizing who they were, in a time of oppressive pressure to stay silent — that is the type of brave blatant acceptance hard to come by in any era.) Rocky Horror is something I don’t know if will ever happen again, and its sequel seems to concur.
Shock Treatment has been called a cash grab but I beg to differ. If you’ve seen it, no offense: but does this seem marketable to you??? It seems like it’s a Richard O’Brien project (already wacky) that went through several levels of development hell and heavy modifications through the creative process. Said with the utmost respect… it may have got away from them a bit. Put lovingly, Shock Treatment lowkey kinda sucks a little at times. It’s silly, it’s got a huge cast and musical fun galore. It’s serving B-movie realness. I don’t say this to bash on it, I say this with a bemused respect— I think the existence of Shock Treatment is as much a miracle as Rocky Horror (aren’t all creations???)
So in the first iteration, we have advocacy and fighting for freedom for those long silenced… but also, Shock Treatment seems to allow the creators to just let themselves have fun. Aren’t they both revolutions in their own right? Does everything have to be lasting cultural milestones or does our enjoyment matter in the moment? I’d argue we need both as human beings to thrive. It comes back to that Rocky-Horror-experience philosophy I covered where you’re taking what you feel you need most from the media you consume: a message or a celebration of just being here.
In conclusion, sometimes shit doesn’t have to be that deep. More movies should just say “fuck it, we ball” and give you the most absolutely incoherent fun time of your life. I love not taking things seriously, and I love creators willing to not take their work seriously. Perhaps Richard O’Brien also had a premonition with Shock Treatment in the sense of how he just had fun with it! Maybe we need less attempts at masterpieces and more attempts at just creation for the joy of it— or both, because joyful creation makes masterpieces!!! I’d love to see more creators of every skill level and every background, known and not known, say fuck you to capitalism and expectation and marketability and just say, we’re gonna do it anyhow, anyhow!!!
#this got away from me#just like#shock treatment#may have for#richard o brien#media studies#hey janet. i’ve got something to say#this is so incoherent but I’m okay with that ❤️ love and light ❤️❤️#written while I was so so sleep deprived pls only discuss if you are nice and kind abt it lol#love me writing a whole essay on how cool it is to not take things seriously - taking it Very Very Seriously#mamma mia#<- this is also abt her in a. way#Farley flavors call me
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lmao i asked bc, as you said in your tags, there was a certain way that it comes across as with how you’re talking about it, so i genuinely wondered bc i was gonna listen to it as well. i’ve been reading plenty of comments about it as well that mostly just lean on “aoty” “soty” “best album ever” and i get that these are (hopefully) exaggerated claims by stans, but i was seriously yet to see a decent comment about its musicality. it’s either about his face in the mv or his voice or the aesthetic of the mv. nothing on the lyricism or the instrumentations or its creativity or depth, so i was hesitant. i get liking it, but i doubt its being “the best”, so when i saw that your comments were the same, i began to wonder if this is another case of exaggerated praises and it’s just... meh at best. nothing new and all that. i am still gonna listen to it on my own ofc but, i guess, since i’m not really his fan, i’m not all excited. amazing debuts usually create tractions of their own, and i don’t hear much for this, but i ain’t judging based on that ofc. anyway, no need to feel attacked. as i said, i was genuinely curious so i asked. i’m well aware that i have ears. i was just genuinely curious about what you actually thought about it, what with your unhinged tags and whatnot. that’s all.
hard to gain traction when ur company announces ur album 2 weeks before it drops!
i was thrown by your wording and i still kind of am but i don't listen to music i don't enjoy and that's across the board for any artist bc....why would i do that lol and maybe ur not in the right circle being a casual fan/non-fan bc I've seen most ppl talk abt the musicality along with everything else 🤔
ik u said u were genuinely asking and i appreciate the explanation but im picking up on an overall unimpressed tone ("hopefully exaggerated" "doubt it being the best" ?) and it feels like u've made up ur mind about jaehyun and his music and ur asking me to give u a reason to change ur mind/care/be impressed but that's not my job ur free to make ur own opinion to me it seems ur going in with a half formed one already but it's music so like it or leave it either way is okay! ur under no obligation!
I'm sorry if being a kpop stan (im assuming...?) has made u feel disillusioned by solo releases tho i understand bc ppl are often overhyped by fans but jaehyun is a music enjoyer who did his homework and worked with artists he himself is a fan of and the payoff is really good music
overall ur ask is very uninformed which if ur not a fan is understandable but as a native english speaker myself listening to an album that is almost entirely in english from a nonnative speaker i have to say the lyrics are very well done they make sense create good metaphor and aren't superficially about balling or making a lot of money (i loathe to hear this often in eng versions of kpop songs lol) and jaehyun is credited as a lyricist on almost every song afaik
the production value is solid "can't get you" has an entire band accompaniment (the trumpet >>>>>) he wrote/worked on "flamin hot lemon" with emotional oranges (one of my fave artists actually <3) so that one is Excellent in every regard esp for a song inspired by cheetos lmao I've said numerous times that none of the songs sound like they were created with the intent of 30 secs going viral on tiktok (a very important differentiation for me) and one of my favorites parts about the title track "smoke" is the outro it's soooo good there's an unexpected bit of piano that he adlibs along with >>>> and the ballad "completely" has a Gorgeous piano backing to it (the lyrics on this one are also so beautiful)
my excitement about the release may have overwhelmed me so i might not have broken down each song beat by beat but rest assured i'm not wasting time on music i don't enjoy
in summation the album is good and on a separate unrelated note he just happens to be really hot ❤️
#i think ppl having commentary on everything else is valid considering he had a part in all of it#theres a lot of discussion about the aesthetic and mv etc etc bc he was in creative control#and it was well done#i dont think theres anything wrong with having that conversation bc it's art it should be all encompassing there should be a stunning visua#u can listen to music for so many reasons so i encourage conversations like that! ppl are excited!#and that doesn't deminish or take away from the quality of the songs#listen to the music u want to listen to u don't have to like or even listen to jaehyuns album but i did and i liked it for the music itself#replies#u caught me before i'd gone to sleep and now right when i woke up with this so i apologize if it's incoherent#i hope u do listen to it and enjoy it but if not thats okay ❤️
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I am having a much needed good ass day over here y'all and to top it off MY SON IS NAPPING!!! So I'm drooling over Owen in Boardwalk now 🙌🏻
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bad for suspense but I have a migraine and I can't be arsed, but ive been thinking about it a lot and maybe there's something there about my mother insisting I was never beaten as a child (untrue cause I have a few memories of that, and considering how little I remember of my childhood it's a small miracle. plus it's italy, so you know) and my father, who'd be the one doing the actual beating, continuing to put a hand on or under my thigh every time I ended up sitting next to him. not near the knee, high up enough to grow uncomfortable with the years, and I dont think there was anything worse, but I'm lead to believe many people have more than ten memories from before age 12 so who knows.
this might not be the lowering rent gunshot you were looking for afterall. i can say that my mom's a milf and honestly would tho.
parents love nothing more than denying they ever laid a finger on you when you demonstrably know otherwise it's their favourite thing in the whole world. honestly i think even if there was nothing explicitly sexual going on and it was "just" physical abuse it would be cause and trauma enough for your sparse memories, i don't necessarily think holes in your memory are an inherent indicator of childhood sexual violence so much as general indicators of childhood trauma — but provided nothing more than what you recall happened (which i obviously can't know for sure), i think that physical abuse on children can lean sexual very easily regardless the intention of the abuser, especially when the beating or physical punishment is given on a sexually charged area.
as someone who also got beat by my father, the awareness that he could inflict that kind of pain and abuse on me made me much more sensitive to other kinds of abuse he could inflict, i was paralyzingly uncomfortable with him touching me in even the most innocent way because i was incredibly aware of the threat of incest so to speak, and his more questionable behaviours only solidified my belief that he would one day rape me the same way he beat me. im certain he never did, mind you, but it's still a horror i had of him that was caused by his "purely nonsexual" physical abuse, i would never have had that discomforting idea if he hadn't been awfully violent to me in the first place. i think your situation might be similar to mine, but then again i have a good amount of memories from my childhood, so something might've happened to you that didn't happen to me 🤷 it's anybody's guess, but i really hope you can find closure either way.
#thank you so much for sharing love ❤️❤️ i hope your migraine gets better#confession session#apologies if this is utterly incoherent but tldr. same anon
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hi from finals week stomach ache fog to say i apparently did not leave the group omegaverse convos bc guyssss omegaverse is lowkey fun to work with. like ESPEC for me atypical dynamics like… alpha dan alpha phil w phil power bottoming and dan developing a healthier relationship w his instincts & feeling safe to let that out and the fun ! consensual ! aggression.but also omega dan omega phil sooooo fun always i’m a lifelong sucker for omega dan. and omega phil OBVIOUSLY like. obv alpha x and omega y always good and a ton of fun dynamics there that have been beautifully explored but i’m just so into same designation stuff in my mind rn. i’d write stuff but i’d spend years worldvuilding and i’d have to explain it to my best friends it’d be a whole thing but likeeeee
#astra.txt#sorry if this is a crazy post to make it’s been a long year ❤️ hope this helps#alpha top d & alpha bottom p is on my fucking MIND like incoherently#i am also personally not the craziest about (though this isn’t a dealbreaker most of my fave fics-#-do this so i still like just me on a writing level) omegaverse designations directly-#translating into like IRL sexuality politics. like i think primary gender & secondary gender#can be soooooo interesting tho also it can do so much else.… i’d worldbuild FOREVER#ugh don’t tempt me <- nobody wants me to write this except me so i’m tempting myself#like GUYSSSSSSS ……… ok bedtime now Yay. brain a mess a bit finals. yeah ok Gn!
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A soft moment of vulnerability & comfort between mine and @mommacomms Tav’s; Aywin & Muse (he/him & she/they)
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#bg3#Aywin#Muse#bg3 tav#oc’s#i have a lot of feelings about these two#cass’ oc makes me wanna cry and hold them for eternity#she’s so well written#i have a lot of feelings#❤️💗💙💚❤️💗💙💜❤️💜💜💛❤️💜💜🧡❤️💙💕💗💚❤️💚💛💙#more thoughts but incoherent#artbart#digital art#i hope the read thing makes sense#i try and write out the order theyre read in cause i dont want to panel or use arrows
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It had to be him in the end. A long time ago, back in 2016 when I first started playing, I didn't like him very much. It was due to the way other people played him and abused him in-game. I much preferred other team members such as Soldier or Scout because they were easier to play as and easier for me to understand as a newcomer. However, when 2018 to 2019 rolled around, I began to change. My feelings for Demo picked up, although he was nothing more than a second choice to me at the time. Soldier was my main for the longest time, but as I played and got to experience what Demo has to offer, I ended up enjoying him a lot and that is what caused me to change my thinking.
This all ended up coming to a peak in late 2023. I was going through a major shift (without knowing it at first), a lot of things were fixing to change in my life and so was my identity in the context of the game. My memory is skewed due to all of the traumatic events of 2023, but I believe it was around the spring months that I began to spend more and more time with Demo, and I eventually ended up becoming decently skilled with him. Although I did love Soldier, I still do, I knew in my heart that it was time to hang up that title. I had found myself choosing Demo more, I found myself enjoying him more, and I even broke every single record I ever had by playing as him. When my breakup came along about a full year ago today, Demo was all I had. I became so bonded with him in those rough months, and when February eventually came around, I was able to recognize that I loved him dearly.
He's my beloved sweetheart. He helped me to get through things, he was all I had in my times of isolation and all of those cold, desolate nights deep in the war, in the trenches of heartache and isolation. It was incredibly easy for me to love him and care so deeply for him, he is the one person who drives me to do better and to be better, because if he can somehow find it in himself to be an optimist despite the hardships he's faced.. I want to learn that ability, too. It is because of my love for him that I've been working so hard to build myself back up, to allow myself to be gentle and sincere. He is someone worthy of adoration in my eyes, and I want to be the one lucky to adore and appreciate him for who he is..
#🔐|| private;#❤️|| him;#💌|| love letters;#I know this is a long one and will likely be annoying to read because my ramblings are sometimes incoherent#but I don't think anyone genuinely knows how much I have come to love adore and cherish this man#he was really the only comfort I had for the beginning months of my heartache#I just love him#his smile and his grinning and the way his voice sounds#how silly he can be amidst the emotional depth I know he has#he is my everything#I could say so much more but I will stop for now
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every time i think about that fucking Oye Primos disney channel show i shake with rage like i hope it never sees the light of day i hate gringos with latino grandparents so fucking bad
#those showrunners can eat my ass they LOVELOVELOVE TO PRETEND THEYRE LATINO ACTUALLY but cant be fucked to learn their family’s own language#theyre making a show to represent latinos ❤️ with the only lines in spanish in the intro being grammatically incoherent ❤️#and one of the character’s name literally meaning vagina (AND penis! Such a meaningful word) ❤️ like that stuff is in la RAE bro#if your show for latinos would need to change a characters name for the latin spanish dub like theyre huey dewey and louie-#-because itd be actively offensive to multiple regions then maybe its not for latinos!#if no one in your crew caught those mistakes then its probably not made BY latinos either right#but you knew that dont you? No show runner gets on instagram to ‘clap back’ to the people correcting you by saying that#actually the language we speak isnt even ours and it was enforced on us by the colonizers so really its anti-latino to defend it#Theres no way you can speak such disgusting shit like that and not be self aware right?#The show isnt for latinos its for white people whove never set foot in latam and refuse to learn the language of their grandparents#who LOVE to slap that label on themselves to feel special and oppressed#que coman mierda todo ellos#aquellos que se burlarían cruelmente de un latino hablando con acento y solo hablar de como la inmigración y los mariguanos-#-se están robando sus empleos o yo no sé que mierdas#Me dan ganas de ranchar pensar que disney mando a hacer un programa solo para aquellos hijueputas#en vez de para los niños que viven en latinoamerica#Ooh but look guys heres a latina princess isnt she lovely? She doesn’t live in latam either tho ptff are you kidding thats stupid#princesses dont live in 3rd world countries yuck. She lives in fantasy land obviously#Mátense
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