#it’s 24 and sunny

[wtfuckevenknows]

The thing about me living on the patio for six months a year is that I never want to clean up my mess inside 😂

[salsascribbless]

watched some fitpac date today

[viquipo]

I'm late AND this is lame wow🔥🔥🔥 anyway Kenji and Ben move to the suburbs

Day 6: speckles

[qtubbo]

Pac asking about Sunny’s frog plushie, so cute.

Pac: Oh btw I have this for you Sunny you might like it!

Sunny: ITS FOR ME BC IM A PRINCESS AND ITS A FROG

Pac: Ohhhh, that’s so sweet yeah you’re right. So if you kiss the frog it’s going to become a prince *Sunny nodding* kkkk

Pac: But don’t do it Sunny don’t do it, not now, maybe in 25 years *Sunny nods* you know? From now oh- you know you got it. Oh look I have this for you as a gift!

Sunny: OH THANK YOU TIO PAC

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

Not me realizing I only need to get like a 65 on this test to darastically improve my grade???

[charmac]

[thescooponsorbet]

Teasing

[dailyfelid]

27/10/24

[hoss-bonaventuree]

thinking about Charlie. thinking about Dennis. thinking about Mac. thinking about Dee. thinking about Mac. thinking about Charlie. thinking about Dennis and Mac. thinking about Charlie and Mac and Dennis and Charlie and Mac and Mac and Dee Dee Dee Dee Dee sweet Dee. ever wonder what I'm thinking about? assume it's them.

[ethosiab]

HAI PHOENIX ^_^ trick or treat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SUNNY HAIIIII !!!! TREAT IN THE FORM OF ONE JOEL SMALLISHBEANS FOR YOU

[klaudia2646]

Haven’t been active in the last month. Keeping pretty busy and keep getting sick. We didn’t do much for Labor Day weekend, KJ spent the day with us and David gave all of us a ride in his little MGB.

A couple of weeks ago o took Lou walking, I went out the front door with him, I usually use the back door, and as soon as I went out I got stung by something, I didn’t see anything when I turned around but it hurt like hell. Exactly a week later, last Wednesday, it started itching and it got infected and swollen, so I went to the doctor on Thursday. Doctor said it was an allergic reaction which was weird as it took a whole week. Antibiotics, Benadryl and a cream, no problem there. I got a fever about 3 weeks ago and now this last weekend I got this nasty cough, couldn’t sleep last night from it so called my boss today, told her I couldn’t go. Don’t know what’s going on with me but enough is enough. I have too many things to do to keep getting sick.

Also David and I started taking sign language classes at the beginning of September. He’s loving it, I’m not doing that well. Most people have some knowledge about it, I know nothing. So I’m barely surviving. David wants to take the second class that starts in October, I told him I’m not. I’ll take the first level again when they offer it.

Meanwhile today, I’m reading Spare by Prince Harry and drinking tea.

Oh and I’m so excited with my orchids, I usually kill them but these ones are doing just great!

[bitseventimes]

thing about sunny is when you take the stuff they do for each other seriously you start seeing how much they truly care about eachother, they would die and kill for one another, they all have some appalling codependency problems but at the core of it it's all love and care, and i'm enamoured by it bc it shows that you don't have to be perfect or beautiful or have your life all sorted out for someone to care about you, or to take care of someone.

it's like. you see this gang of assholes shunned by society who barely know how to stay afloat and who seemingly hate each other but when you look through the façade you realize there's some deeply fanfic trope level love behaviours in there and you go oh so it doesn't have to be perfect, I don't need to make my life the perfect scenario, to construct beautiful aesthetics or thought out meet-cutes, it's all in the grit of real life. sometimes you spend your days fighting with your best friend but he still peels apples for you and makes you tea, sometimes he offhandedly encourages you to keep trying to read and you don't even have to acknowledge it, but it's there! it's not always the focus point, almost never is, actually, but at the core of it all, it's always present.

[russellius]

2024 CANADIAN GP : Thursday

[izpira-se-zlato]

Why Sunny Side of London Should Not Be The Opener

I've been listening to my recordings from ESNS 24 a bunch (because I don't have any streaming services and currently have my work laptop plugged into my speakers), and what really struck me is – SSOL is Not A Good opener.

A small essay, under the cut, because I still have not learned how to keep my ramblings short and somehow wrote around 800 words. Yeah. I tried not getting too critical, but it does talk about why I think something they're doing does not work, so proceed with caution if that is likely to upset you.

ETA: Added a bit about ESNS and Platosonic

Before we get into this, a bit of info about ESNS and Platosonic: ESNS is a music showcase festival – not a competition, as Bojan claimed, but an event where during the day, music industry people go to conference-style panels and in the evenings/night, "breakout artists" from Europe play showcase sets of 40 minutes. So there's a pretty decent chance there's like, critics and producers and god knows who else from the music industry in the audience.

Platosonic is an event set in the Plato record store (and the neighbouring coffee shop) where artists who also play festival sets play smaller, special sets in a more intimate atmosphere – JO with their half-acoustic set (i.e. Kris was on an acoustic guitar), and another artists from the band AySay played a solo set with her saz, to name two).

Okay, and with the stage set like that, back to the original essay.

I've been thinking about it for a while (ever since first hearing it live, really), that it works better at the end of the set, when they play it as their encore: the crowd is hyped, we've been partying, we've been partying together, and then it's just a release of emotion that feels good.

At the start of the set though? It hasn't worked for me ever since I first heard it live in that spot at Stožice. I put it down as, oh, I don't like this song that much anyway at first, but it's more than that, and the ESNS version really drove that home. They weren't playing to a home crowd there – Bojan remarked upon the familiar faces in the front row, and I got the vibes that he was a little glad, but for the most part, the crowd was pretty dead at first. They hadn't yet won them over. They needed to put the work in.

And SSOL does not put that work in. Instead, it already expects to reap the rewards, but if you don't know this band, and don't know this song, then having the first song suddenly put you on the spot and demand you scream... What for? They haven't yet done anything. They haven't yet played, they haven't yet shown their skill, and yet they demand you cheer for them?

And Bojan clearly recognised that something was off – he yells you guys suck, after the first scream bit, which is relatable but feels jarring and awkward every time I listen to the recording. It's unprofessional: the crowd didn't suck, you just expected adoration and engagement without having built it up.

It reminds me a bit of the Stožice recording. Now of course, Stožice was them playing in front of a literal home crowd, which adds another layer of complexity: a Slovenian crowd for a Slovenian band, and the (rightful) fear that in their bid for international stardom, they would abandon their Slovenian roots.

But it's what we have a professional recording for, and the change between SSOL and Gola is noticeable. Where SSOL has the scream bits that are loud (and imo better mixed in than in the studio version, which is jarring with how suddenly it switches between music and the screaming), Gola has the crowd just getting into it in a way that's missing from SSOL. SSOL feels like the prelude while Gola is the opening.

And, as many problems I have with SSOL, I think it's a decent live song! It's fun, it's easy to sing along to, it's a way for you to let out the emotions that built up... if they've been built up. Which is why I think they're doing themselves and the song a disservice by using it to open. It's a celebration of their fans and the atmosphere at their concerts, but the audience needs to be in that atmosphere. It does not work very well to build that atmosphere because it expects you to already be in that mindset.

And the ESNS set really underscored that. The crowd was silent, because why would they scream? Because the singer asked them to? Why would they? The band hadn't yet done anything except introduce themselves; they hadn't yet put the work in and yet expected to reap the rewards.

There was another bit that fell flat – when Bojan did his usual Anatagaski/Watashi mo spiel – and it was less jarring, but I think he could have done with more confidence there. And I do wonder whether he might have had more confidence if they hadn't started with SSOL.

Because I think they can win "fresh" people over, even with a full set in Slovene (hell, they did it to many of us). I'm pretty sure they won over a good chunk of that crowd. They have charisma, the songs are catchy, their stage presence is fun. But SSOL and demanding audience participation before they've earned it really hurt them.

And of course the Platosonic set the next day was different – smaller, more relaxed, less pressure from "industry people in the audience" – but Bojan seemed way more relaxed and way more in his element there, and if he'd been like that at Maas on Wednesday, and if they hadn't started with SSOL but ended with that, it would have been a much stronger set.

[qtubbo]

춘식: It’s very festive! Carnival!!!

Tubbo: ‘It’s very festive carn-‘ YEAH you’re enjoying it! Hell yeah bro! Hell Yeah! -what’s this? Oh thank you for the lily of the valley Bingle

Tubbo: I’m glad you’re enjoying it boss! I’m sure your father will be around soon!- Sunny what’s up? *Sunny hits him* Ow my feelings ‘Someone stole my diamonds’ I think that’s part of the game.

춘식: I miss him D:

Tubbo: aww mate, I’m sure he’ll be here, I’m sure he’ll be here in no time. He’s off being his crocodile self forging in the swamps for tasty treats, I don’t know what crocodiles do BUT I’m sure he’ll be back soon. *춘식 bounces* YEAH..! yeah..!

[sinnabee]

women want me but i’m only thinking about her (the 19 cans of dr pepper in my fridge)