#instant piano

[evandorkin]

Thanks to those who let me know that yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of The Eltingville Club's first appearance in Instant Piano #1 from Dark Horse Comics. I had no idea! Terrifying!

[spectraltenkai]

"Master Link... if you don't complete this trial, the fate of the world as we know it will be doomed... yes, I know you're terrified, but you have to go, you're the hero!"

Song: Din's Silent Realm

When someone says 'Guardians', most may think of the ones from Breath of the Wild, which is understandable. But I wonder how many think of the Silent Realm Guardians because LORD HAVE MERCY! These things made me scared of the silent realms as a kid, specifically Din's with how my brother and I found out the hard way that the one that floats and carries scythes can go through walls. Pretty music for sure, but the guardians will teach you what anxiety is in this Skyward Sword for sure

[skitskatdacat63]

Btw The Talented Mr. Ripley is the best film ever made. If you even care.

[neeko-system]

SIGNALIS SPOILERS AND WHATNOT~~

finished my second playthrough of signalis, was going for the artifact ending. then loaded my save and got the memory ending. such a good game aaaa

the memory ending made me cry, it was really heartwrenching when ariane said sorry i dont remember, i just crumpled. watching elster be so exhausted was a lot.

not really sure if i understand the artifact ending. i feel like either its really vague (on top of all the other vagueness) or if im missing something. it kind of feels like a burial of arianes memory? like elster dies and we see ariane thikning about her and elster dancing in the wrecked ship? i’m not sure. maybe someone could give me their interpretation of it?

i also found out that theres a difficulty setting and really wished i had set it to survival before my second playthrough. woulda been nice!!! I do have one more ending so i might play the game again but might also just watch it on youtube and play the game again some other time(gotta let it ruminate so i can go back in with different eyes), I wanna get all the achievements anyways.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

all in all i fucking love this game a lot. very rarely do i replay a game so soon after playing it for the first time. its really tragic i’ll never get to experience this game for the first time again, but, so it goes. its such a beautiful game i will be thinking about it for a longgggggggggggg time. ive been wanting to talk about it so badly for so long but none of my friends have played it yet kyaaa!!! >_<

its crazy to me that the game exists the way it does. the style, the mechanics, the story, the music, everything about it oozes so much passion and care and thought. very few games have made me want to stare at every part of it to figure out how they made it look the way it did (THE GAME IS SO STYLISTICALLY RICH LIKE HOIW DID THEY DO ALL THAT) and the game mechanics are so nice to my brain, everything is so tactile and clicky and inventory management and ammo management and horror stratgey and the flesh and rust and death and love and lesbians and robots and anime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

amazing game thank you rose engine, i hope they make more stuff because i really want to see it

edit:(thinking about the first time i played compared to the second. i was considerably less scared since i had a clue of waht was going on but the fear that i felt playing the first time was special to me. i really like games with stories about ‘time loops’ because the replay-ability is baked in in a cool way. especially with how the game throws information at you, viewing things again having experienced perspective shifts from information is really cool. seeing scenes again re-contextualized makes my brain go ^-^(hots quest ding sound) but going in completely blind and being afraid of everything (i especially remember being scared of the dream beach, i had literally no clue what to expect and it was nice) it all had a different flavor than the second time which is cool because i feel like i experience that kind of emotion change *with* elster. (girlie needs a FUCKING cuddle nap)

the way the game balances reality and the surreal i think is super neat. i love surrealist dream stuff a lot and i think that a video game is a super good medium for that kind of experiential stuff that really inspires me to wanna make video games. especially because then theres also this super nerdy sci fi stuff going on about robots and space regimes and magical tech(my favorite) and planetary systems and military systems and all that good shit. i similarly wanna get nerdy about stuff like military logistics while also telling a story about gay robots and girls that keep missing each other just barely in the space time continuum. i love that the game tells you a lot but also is vague and also says fuck you (affectionate) stop looking for answers and just feel it. it explains just the right amount to not feel esoteric while keeping enough vague to leave a lot up to interpretation/figure it out by playing it again/thinking about it. it plays with themes and reality and reoccuring symbolism and all that good shit that makes stories addicting to think about.) ((also one of the endings requiring beating the game once among other things that keep between playthroughs, yummyyy. games that know they are games/stories/worlds that are aware of themselves., thats good shit right there))

[gabrielachanel]

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[zvlastni-zena]

He musical???

[bio-stims]

kanade yoisaki stimboard! 💻🎼

credits: x x x | x x | x x x

[gojoed]

if you guys haven’t listened to the trigun stampede ost 1 & 2.. WHAT ARE YOU DOING ?!??!?!

[theramenrater]

oh?

[bloody-wonder]

3, 4 and 7 for the ask x

thanks for the ask!📚

3. What’s something you read recently and wanted to argue with (either with the book or the author or the fans)?

buckle up for a good ol' book rant!

so the dreamhealers series - a cozy slice of life scifantasy story about two neurodivergent individuals forming a queerplatonic partnership - is, it turns out, the origin story of the characters which the author mca hogarth has conceived a long time before as side characters in a completely different arc in her peltedverse. i assume she started developing said arc when she was a teen and wrote the dreamhealers when she was already an adult. the result is two stories that tonally and structurally couldn't be more different but that both feature these two characters which naturally resulted in characterization consistency problems. you can't take a weird lil guy from a pastoral novel where everyone just vibes and put him into a high stakes high fantasy plot without it taking a toll on their personality. now, this is not a problem if you finish the dreamhealers and just stop after book 4, however comma goodreads shows that there's this novella following the last book and you assume it's gonna be some sort of cute epilogue and you pick it up and it turns out it's not that but rather a short backstory of the characters mca hogarth wrote for her high stakes arc BEFORE she wrote the full version of their backstory aka the dreamhealers. are you still following? anyways i read the novella and was appalled at how jarring the difference is between jahir and vasiht'h in the series and this novella which, if you read in the order i'm reading in, basically serves as a link between the dreamhealers and prince's game. on the one hand, it's cool to see how much mca hogarth grew as a writer and how much more nuanced and relatable she made her characters in the course of their development. but on the other, it made me have unpleasant ruminations about what is canon and what isn't. this novella feels like a retcon designed to make jahir and vasiht'h fit a new narrative. however, it was written before the dreamhealers - does that then make dreamhealers a retcon and not as canon? both things can't be canon bc jahir and vasiht'h in the series would never do things they do in the novella. which makes it feel like a fanfic written by someone who doesn't understand the source material.

phew did it feel good to get all of this off my chest! tl dr please read the dreamhealers but under no circumstances read "family"

4. What are your top 3 comfort reads?

to be completely honest i don't typically re-read books for comfort purposes. that's what fanfics are for!✨ the top 3 i used to re-read the most (but not in quite a while tho) are lessons (aftg), astray (captive prince) and this unfinished theseus/the minotaur fic which i believe was called asterius und which, as i was distraught to discover, had been privated by the author😭 such tasteful monsterfucking literature i have never known before or since

7. What book do you love but usually not recommend because it’s weird or intense, etc?

i love aftg but i will rather bleach my soul by reading that fandom's discourse again than recommend it to anyone. and to be clear, it's not bc i think the seires is weird or poorly written or not good enough for general audiences - it's bc no one is worthy of studying the sacred texts except for me and a couple other initiated intellectuals

book ask

[skruffie]

completely different experience to watch Tori Amos Live From New York (1997) at age 33 than when I first saw it in high school

it is one of her most raw live performances I think ever and it hits different now at this stage of my life than when I was still a kid.

[madeinkorea-blbambeyond]

MCF: MADE IN KOREA

BYUN SUNG TAE

SHIN MYUNG SUNG

[Given Name▪︎aka: KIM GI TAE]

LEE DONG WON

[truckfreaks]

obsessed with how she sounds... like an echoing bell!!! ohh i love spinet pianos!!!!

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA Il Resto Del Carlino di Oggi lunedì, 11 novembre 2024

[minimatika]

Natur ⟷ Fragment

Vernissage 6.8.2023

Christian Gierden live // Schloßkapelle Weserrenaissanceschloß Bevern

[journeys-offical]

Decided to do one of those notes posts I've been seeing

20 notes - I'll try to post more often

30 notes - I'll drink more water daily

50 notes - I'll start drawing everyday

100 notes - I'll start cleaning my room everyday

150 notes - I'll start learning how to play piano

300 notes - I'll write the rest of my oc lore

500 notes - I'll fix my wretched sleep schedule

Only rule is no spamming! Let's see how many notes I can get :>

Edit: Time to get out my Ipad!!

Edit: WE REACHED ALL THE NOTE GOALS??

I should add more..

1000 notes: I'll show off my drawing progress (wasn't able to draw the first few days due to being busy and not expecting the goal to be hit so quick)

1250 notes: I'll learn a new recipe every week and actually make myself food everyday instead of just eating junk food and instant noodles

1500 notes: I'll aim to be a straight A student this year! (I'll still try my best academically, this would just be for some motivation)