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Various Artists - Guild Wars 2: End Of Dragons | iam8bit | 2023 | Clear with Green Splatter

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Song: A World Without You Artist: Joyce Kwon, Maclaine Diemer, Jason LaRocca From: Guild Wars 2

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Songs that make me want to melt

[luckybyler]

Which Olympic sport would each Stranger Things character represent? Part 2:

Steve: Tennis. Steve isn’t equestrian or yachting rich, but he’s “tennis at the country club” rich. Plus it’s an upper-class sport that still requires athleticism and merit, which Steve would appreciate.

Robin: Indoor Volleyball. She’s tall, slender and plays band, so she knows how to be part of a team. She wouldn’t be caught dead using a tiny bikini as a sports uniform, so indoor is her choice.

Argyle: Beach Volleyball. He’s a tall stoner living near the beach. Chill matches with friends between blunts, good times at the end of the day.

Eddie: Archery. A metalhead/ DnD enthusiast would not pass the opportunity to practice the most medieval-Celtic type of sport.

Joyce: Table Tennis. A sport that can be played by a short woman, which requires quickness y et focus and stubbornness, which is Joyce’s specialty.

Hopper: Discus Throw. Hopper is big and tall, but still he’s not a complete brick. He has the strength and agility to throw really heavy things really far.

Murray: Judo. Karate’s no longer an Olympic sport, but judo and Tae Kwon Do are, and judo allows you to grab your opponent by their clothes, which is pretty useful.

Karen: Trampoline. She was a cheerleader, she now does jazzercise. Jumping and tumbling on the trampoline is the most direct translation of her skills.

Ted: Golf. Obviously.

What do you guys think?

PART 1

[ofallingstar]

List of books I read this year

The Summer Children by Dot Hutchison

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Kink: Stories by R.O. Kwon

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

The Vanishing Season by Dot Hutchison

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Nana by Émile Zola

Poesía completa by Alejandra Pizarnik

Hija de la fortuna by Isabel Allende

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes by Seamus Heaney

The Complete Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien

The Likeness by Tana French

The Gathering by Anne Enright

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The Plague by Albert Camus

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen

Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Dale

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

Graveyard Clay: Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories by Annie Proulx

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

As Normal as Possible: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in Mainland China and Hong Kong by Yau Ching

The Black Phone by Joe Hill

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

Firelight of a Different Colour: The Life and Times of Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing by Nigel Collett

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

How Now, Butterfly?: A Memoir of Murder, Survival and Transformation by Charity Lee

Santa by Federico Gamboa

Farewell My Concubine by Lilian Lee

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Temprada de huracanes by Fernanda Melchor

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files

The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities by Flora Rheta Schreiber

The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Posion for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations by Rainer Maria Rilke

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5 Character Associations - Colette

EMOTIONS/FEELINGS:

Anxiety and terror, held first by a martyred hand, and finally by strange and belonging chaos.

Understanding beyond reason. Obsession beyond reason.

The depths of compassion unravel into tears.

Shame; the sharp sting of pain alleviating a feeling so rotten. It is crimson red. It is trapping.

Her. Her. Her. Her. Only her. Devotion. Freedom.

COLOURS:

Garnet (strands of hair against the sun).

Ashen (a village razed by cruelty).

White (clinical purity that terrorizes her).

Golden (like a crescent sun in her eyes).

Pale pink (at last home).

SCENTS:

Fresh grass and warm dust.

Alcohol to tend to minor wounds.

Spices and herbal blends.

I hope I smell like her.

Sweet berries that she so loves to eat.

OBJECTS:

A journal where she keeps all her memories. She doesn't want to forget a second of her.

A well-loved bag of assorted healing ointments.

A necklace with a moon-shaped pendant; it glows ethereally at night.

An ornate jug filled with spring water for traveling.

A ring that shines like a sun-kissed song, just like her eternal love.

BODY LANGUAGE:

Gentle and soft-spoken, fiddling with her layers of clothes. A warm smile filled with something deeply sorrowful.

Eyes fogged up with desperation, a twisted sense of self, and a need to be owed. Completely and utterly captured.

Resting her head against the Arisen's back, her hands hug her middle. It's safe.

Closing her fists as hard as she can, drawing blood when her emotions overtake her with shame. Pain eases the fear.

Blushing too easily, her breath taken away, stumbling over her words like musical notes. Fistful of her robes, it doesn't feel like shame anymore. I love you.

AESTHETICS:

Religion and martyrdom.

Candlelight dusk in an abandoned cabin.

Dried flowers between pages.

Forgotten words on a mural.

Red thread of fate.

SONGS:

1. Moonflower by Blackbriar

Beautiful moonflower Wandering under the night sky Your nightdress lit up A strange and enticing sight

2. The Obsessive Devotion by Epica

I feel only misery for myself when I Look through the eyes of someone else

3. A World Without You by Joyce Kwon

Step by step we press on t'ward tomorrow Head up high we face all that's unknown A life of service that's our code to follow So we may honor your great sacrifice

4. A Million Miles Away by Belle (movie)

Come back to me, and stay by my side I feel my heart shake Come, ease this ache I'm standing over here, reaching for you A million miles away, come back and stay

5. Until the End by Xandria

While the world keeps, turning around me I don't know when it's all over and gone So please let me have just one more chance

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last song: A World Without You by Joyce Kwon

currently watching: I watch so many things in parallel. In the interest of brevity today I watched several episodes Dispatches from Elsewhere

three ships: (idk ship names don't @ me)(I am also not that big of a shipper) (I guess I generally just accept the canon pairings, so theres not really shipping going on) Parker+Eliot+Hardison (Leverage), Laranthir of the Wild+King Palawa Ignatius Joko 'The Inevitable' (because I am a menace), me+the moon (from real life. he is so pretty)

favourite colour(s): Green, except as nail polish where blue is objectively the best

currently consuming: water

first ship: Barrisoka

place of birth: germany

current location: also germany

relationship status: The Moon (He is my Boyfriend)

last movie: Air Force One Down (a bad movie we watched explicitly because it was bad)

currently working on: surviving

tagging: @just-eyris-things hiii

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my 2022 reading wrapped 

non-fiction

black bull, ancestors and me by nkunzi zandile nkabinde / didn’t rate

canberra by paul daley / ☆☆☆☆

all about love: new visions by bell hooks / didn’t rate

how the pill changes everything: your brain on birth control by sarah e. hill / ☆☆☆.5

I’m glad my mom died by jeannette mccurdy / didn’t rate

policing desire: pornography, AIDS and the media by simon watney / didn’t rate

notes of a native son by james baldwin / didn’t rate

women race and class by angela davis 

come as you are by emily nagoski / ☆☆☆☆☆

slouching toward bethlehem by joan didion / didn’t rate

classics

the house on the strand by daphne du maurier / ☆☆☆

wide sargasso sea by jean rhys / didn’t rate

brideshead revisited by evelyn waugh / ☆☆☆☆

fantasy

iron heart by nina varela / ☆☆☆☆

elantris by brandon sanderson / ☆☆☆☆

spinning silver by naomi novak / dnf

babel, or the necessity of violence: an arcane history of the oxford translators' revolution by r.f kuang / ☆☆☆☆

a gathering of shadows by v.e schwab / ☆☆☆ (reread)

the city we became by n.k jemisin / ☆☆☆☆

come tumbling down by seanan mcguire / ☆☆☆

the wolf and the woodsman by ava reid / dnf

the atlas six by olivie blake / ☆☆☆☆

in deeper waters by f.t lukens / ☆☆

science fiction

middlegame by seanan mcguire / ☆☆☆.5

magical realism

lakelore by anna-marie mclemore / ☆☆☆

mystery/thriller/crime

in my dreams i hold a knife by ashley winstead / ☆☆☆

good rich people by eliza jane brazier / ☆☆☆

the anatomy of desire by l.r dorn / dnf

portrait of a thief by grace d. li / ☆☆

anxious people by fredrik backman / ☆☆

boy parts by eliza clark / ☆☆☆☆☆

contemporary fiction

i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston / ☆☆☆☆

no hard feelings by genevieve novak / ☆☆☆☆

everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily austin / ☆☆☆☆

norwegian wood by haruki murakami / ☆☆☆.5

ophelia after all by racquel marie / ☆☆☆.5

historical fiction

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid / ☆☆☆☆☆ (reread)

the remains of the day by kazuo ishiguro / ☆☆☆☆

a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini /  ☆☆☆☆

carrie soto is back by taylor jenkins reid / ☆☆☆☆

pachinko by min jin lee / ☆☆☆☆.5

romance:

the spanish love deception by elena armas / ☆☆

saving the star by rachel bowdler / ☆☆ 

love and other words by christina lauren / ☆☆

crazy rich asians by kevin kwan / ☆☆☆

book lovers by emily henry / ☆☆☆☆

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert / ☆☆☆

beach read by emily henry / ☆☆☆

the viscount who loved me by julia quinn / dnf

open water by caleb azumah nelson / ☆☆☆☆

translated fiction:

beauty is a wound by eka kurniawan (indonesian) / didn’t rate

childhood by tove ditlevsen (danish) / didn’t rate

lemon by kwon yeo-sun (korean) / ☆☆☆

things we lost in the fire by mariana enríquez (argentinian) / didn’t rate

kim jiyoung born 1982 by cho nam-joo (korean) / ☆☆

short story collections

dubliners by james joyce / ☆☆ ½

a thousand years of good prayers by yiyun li / didn’t rate

her body and other parties by carmen maria machado / ☆☆☆

total books read: 58 total pages read: 12, 331 total hours listened: 181.58

[otherpplnation]

Garth Greenwell on Style, Opera, Kentucky, Mentors, Poetry, Bulgaria, Prose, Good Art, and Magnetism in Language

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 626, my conversation with author Garth Greenwell. The episode first aired on February 26, 2020.

Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into fourteen languages. His second book of fiction, Cleanness, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize, and France’s Prix Sade (Deuxième sélection). Cleanness was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, a New York Times Critics Top 10 book of the year, and a Best Book of the year by the New Yorker, TIME, NPR, the BBC, and over thirty other publications. It is being translated into eight languages. A new novel, Small Rain, is forthcoming from FSG in 2024. Greenwell is also the co-editor, with R.O. Kwon, of the anthology KINK, which appeared in February 2021, was named a New York Times Notable Book, won the inaugural Joy Award from the #MarginsBookstore Collective, and became a national bestseller. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written nonfiction for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and Harper’s, among others. He writes regularly about literature, film, art and music for his Substack, To a Green Thought. He is the recipient of many honors for his work, including a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Grinnell College, the University of Mississippi, and Princeton. Greenwell currently lives in New York, where he is a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at NYU.

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12th - 18th of June

"be free" by KB

"Glimpse of Us (gf's perspective in Korean)" by Rita Kim

"hitmeup" by TAEWOO

"thursday mornings (after ur therapy)" by juno roome 🖤

"be mine" by JunJi

"Burn Like A Star" by Ahn Ye Eun, Woo Ye Rin 🖤

"For Them" by Ashmute

"The Butterfly Effect" by Before You Exit

"aphelion" by No Signal

"Skiffle Song" by ROTH BART BARON

"ComE dOWn" by WOOSUNG 🖤

"-" by The Rose

"羡云" by HITA 🖤

"You" by Yu Bin

"FLARE" by ASHWARYA

"FAVORITE" by HUNJIYA 🖤

"In the Kitchen" by Mree 🖤

"Hug" by suggi 🖤

"NEVERLAND" by Holland 🖤

"As The World Falls Down" by Aaron Richards 🖤

"Conspiracy of Silence" by The Swoons

"Cold" by Austin Blue 🖤

"Good Boy" by zai.ro 🖤

"I Won't Need To Dream" by Jude York 🖤

"A World Without You" by Joyce Kwon 🖤

"but I'll wait for you" by BLOO 🖤

"A Car Crash For Two" by Gia Ford

"Fairy" by harukoube

"Esmeralda" by Adriel Genet 🖤

"Стой" by В Чё�� Дело 🖤

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1 and 28!

Ohoho we're getting the video game music! 1. Outer Wilds by Andrew Prahlow 28. A World Without You by Joyce Kwon

[samfrancis94]

This is such a beautifully haunting song. A bittersweet lament. 

And they even manage to quote the Guild Wars main theme at the end! Glorious!

[nonoboymusic]

Joyce Kwon For Thriving 2020

Joyce Kwon is a talented singer and gayageum player from Los Angeles. The gayageum is an incredible instrument. The craftsmanship and engineering of the wood, strings and bridges, a work of art unto itself. Joyce centers the traditional Korean instrument in her recordings which are decidedly not Korean, traditionally speaking. Her songs are written in a more singer/songwriter vein with nods to classic American popular music, but the gayageum is seamlessly placed into a mix with tasteful percussion, keys, bass and vocals, blending in but also creating a unique blend, which is sort of Joyce’s M.O. 

Here is someone who isn’t Joyce playing Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile” on it:

That was fun.

As you can hear in “Little Bird,” Joyce’s lyrics are often located somewhere between wistful and encouraging, singing to her songs’ subjects but also to us and to herself as well. There’s some self-care marketing potential, which I mean in a good way, and have recently asked myself, why I don’t aim to do more of that. On my guitar case, I have a bumper sticker which reads “Joyce For Thriving 2020″ -- I also just saw that she has a T-shirt with that slogan which I’m hoping that after reading this nice post, she will give me one next time I see her... 

Her excellent solo album DREAM OF HOME was written during a time where she was contemplating home as a concept and searching for it as a reality. Her songs ask us what "home” means for someone who, like myself and many others, is of two places and because of that, might feel that they belong nowhere. Although it was written between Korea and the States, this album was truly authored from an in-between place, an artist’s island of sorts, a place where I’ve written most of No-No Boy from. Dream of Home sweetly and sometimes bitterly works through these core ideas of belonging, home and hope through music, blending her Korean Gayageum with her American musical self.

As one of her many album adjacent projects, she took her “Little Bird” video and set out to include lyrical translations by friends who speak many different languages and who she notes are “American.” If you click on the settings in youtube for the video, you can choose to see the captions in any number of languages, including my 12 year old level French. By including these translations, she is obviously gesturing towards inclusiveness and solidarity, but also making a move off of that in-between cultural place and making a case for Americans and America broadly defined by its many sounds, including Joyce music and her friends’ languages.

I met Joyce at the DisOrient Film Festival in Eugene, OR in late winter of 2019. She was showing a music video for the song “Dream of Home” and performed a house concert. I was going through a really tough period in my life, maybe the toughest. I had come off two months of touring the world’s most depressing songs and having panic attacks during and after almost every concert. My long term relationship fell ended and many other important relationships fell apart. I was in the midst of personally reckoning with some deep, ancient personal stuff. I felt really exiled and depressed, completely lost. 

At this house concert, Joyce’s stripped down performance, just her and her gayageum, really touched me. I got to hang out with her a bunch that weekend at the film festival, along with a whole bunch of awesome film makers and actors. We ended up talking a lot at the staff party and not doing karaoke together despite my urgings. A couple days later, Joyce even helped me make field recordings of objects at the Japanese American museum in Portland, old suitcases and trunks, nic nacs, bells, stoves, objects which were at the Minidoka WWII internment camp and which I turned into percussion instruments for my next album. She was one of the first new friends I made after this really dark period.

After we parted ways and I went back to Providence to wait for summer. I’ll write candidly, not because I like sharing, but in case you the reader has been dealing with any kind of depression, anxiety or mental illness. Sometimes it’s nice to know you’re not alone in that... Anyways, my depression deepened that spring until the summer allowed me to make a life-saving change of scene. But one thing that kept me going during that cold New England thaw, aside from the couple of true friends I had in town, was Joyce’s song “Why-Go-Round.” Give it a listen, especially if you’re having a rough time, or are just feeling extra human, which is to say messy, sad, and really down. Put this song on your phone and walk through a park or to a nice cafe you like, or just look out a good window. Let Joyce Kwon remind you that, even on your worst days, there’s a pretty green field around the corner, or a good friend to meet you at the corner bar. At the very least, there is a beautiful song to lift you up, dust you off and say, hey “you deserve to be happy.” Because you do. We all do. Thanks, Joyce. 

http://www.joycekwon.com