#intentional music

[wakaanbaby]

✌🏻 ❤️ & Wubs by LSDREAM

One of my favorite producers. IDM is my favorite genre of music.

[catmask]

does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.

[thelucidduchess]

Hey… Gigi?

[tawnysoup]

(You nod furiously.)

[hymnoeides]

can we have some tiresias,,,

maybe some tiresias-hermes ship,,,

What the hell, sure (/lh.. sillies…)

[princehoneytea]

i love you WEIRD SCIENCE MIKU!!!!!

[codemerything]

a song everyone MUST hear!

[thatnununguy]

I guess better late than never, right?

[dayas]

This post contains spoilers for Wicked (2024) and the Broadway musical!

A word on Cynthia Erivo’s performance as Elphaba in Wicked: Phenomenal.

In regards to the critique that she plays her too timidly: in my opinion, she plays her exactly as she is meant to be played. Watching Elphaba navigate Shiz University was so clearly a parallel to how Black women have to operate in Predominantly White spaces. Every single time her powers went out of whack, she was labeled as dangerous, and at the end, the Wizard and Madame Morrible immediately painted her out to be monstrous, vicious, and angry. Seeing her poster produced a visceral reaction in me — not because it was terrifying, but because it reminded me of those old fashioned racist posters 💀 which! Isn’t a bad thing, I think it speaks to the larger message of making Elphaba out to be the Wicked Witch, despite her only crimes at that point (that we know about) being attempted Animal Liberation and further Civil Rights movements. To me, watching Elphaba at Shiz was watching another Black woman try to fit in despite knowing she will never truly be like those around her, and to not draw any more of their ire and to not fly off the handle and be labeled as ‘angry’ or further outcast. When she sings I’m Not That Girl, it hits harder having been in that position and truly understanding what it means to not be desired or considered pretty or beautiful by anyone around you while your friends are. Honestly, it adds more in my opinion. I think Cynthia Erivo’s performance carried an excellent nuance that speaks specifically to Black women and our experiences. While it is perfectly okay to have a differing opinion, it would be a major disservice to overlook that very intentional lens painted by the film. As many have noted, having Elphaba be played by a Black woman adds so much depth to the character. It also shifts and adjusts how she presents herself when her Broadway and Book counterpart may be considered bolder (which begets a whole other essay on White Women, oppression Olympics politics, and needing elements of Whiteness to appear in oppressive narratives for the sake of ‘relatability’ despite them coming off, in my opinion, more disingenuous than not). All of this to say: Elphaba is still fierce in her own right. She stands up for herself, sets her own terms, but she does so within the realm of what is socially acceptable for a reason. I’m gonna need y’all to think a little more critically ❤️

[liam-summers]

BtVs 3.07 | AtS 1.03

Bonus🎶

[sciencegothic]

the things is, hyde is an embodiment of jekyll’s evil. he is jekyll, just without the parts that make hime good. and isn’t that so scary? the person who takes over your body sometimes, who does these awful things - he may give himself another name, but he’s still you. i think that’s what makes jekyll and hyde so interesting and so devastating to me, the thought of jekyll having that crushing realisation that he is hyde, and hyde is him. and he can’t undo that

[silna-pdf]

Leaning with Intent to Fall

[ophii]

i <3 we'll be fine. first one is young ody and athena, the second is telemachus and athena1!!!

[ghostinthetumbchine]

One of the chief reasons i find mairon/sauron so deeply fascinating is that he is one of the few characters where the author explicitly says that something that was a positive and admirable trait was the chief reason for both his initial fall into the darkness and his relapse.

His positive traits in collision with the deeply flawed world led to this. He was too perfect for an imperfect world, at the start, and so he broke to fit it.

And didn't even notice.

[superbellsubways]

autism heaven babey

[anbaisai]

Happy birthday to @crystallizsch and the lovely Yuusha! May you have another wonderful year full of happiness and currynoodles💜