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[bihet-dragonize]

Seeing people choose jazz and call it boring is horrifying...y'all have been listening to smooth jazz for too long you haven't experienced the pure chaos of the good shit. The dissonant chords, "odd" time signatures, syncopations on syncopations...Jazz is so full of life and love and energy oh my god

Edit: I'm making a correction to my opinion on smooth jazz. It's a VERY calming and nice sub-genre and I think paired with vocals or a quiet corner, it can make you feel like you're reaching heaven. I grew up listening to smooth jazz. I even remember the lil radio jingle for the smooth jazz station we'd listen to. Smooth Jazz has the sound of a really peaceful sunrise. The reason I denigrate it is because of how much people view it as True Jazz and either call it boring (what inspired this post) or call regular ass Jazz too noisy.

Tl;dr: it's perfectly fine to like smooth jazz it has its place but unfortunately it's viewed as a "more refined" jazz because it's (generally speaking) "simpler" in sound.

[atomeja]

we're all feeling so normal about this guy right now

[dreemurr-skelememer]

keep fighting

[kaereth]

Got a kofi to draw what I want so I decided to do a comic! I always really loved this scene from Nona the Ninth for some reason (I love Wake) and so here’s an interpretation of it. I challenged myself to only take the same time on it as I would a single page kofi (tho I still went over a bit) so it’s more painterly than usual, but it was a cool thing to try and do :>

[lifemod17]

He's singing this more gentle than usual. I need to go lie down. I am unwell 😭

Kia Forum night 1 || 09/17/2024

[fortjester]

everyone PLEASE take a look at these tlt pieces I got commissioned by @b1cr1ptic for my dead cav club au and please also weep for how awesome they are

[royalarchivist]

One last time, trust me, everything will work out, everything will make sense at the right time. This is not a goodbye this is a: "See you soon."

I haven't been able to keep up with a lot of Arkanis lore, but the cinematic from Matt's lore today was very cool (but also very very sad).

[nikki-tine]

do not perceive me /////

(ft. @xsunnysoftx's own Doctor Kia Lockhart in the foreground,,)

[ufoki]

the steven redraw meme on twit

[smeagles]

10.17.22 • 📸: Steve Rose

[bihet-dragonize]

I think that person saying to reclaim "reject modernity, embrace tradition" "gayly" is a great example of how too many lgbt people on this site don't understand the function of reclamation and give it way too much weight in terms of revolutionary politics and thinking. The same can be said about representation, but that's another convo this site (especially the lgbt whites) isn't ready to tackle.

For now, understand that there are certain concepts and ideas that cannot be reclaimed because they don't function as a way to describe a marginalized group but as an ideology with the sole purpose of keeping those groups marginalized if not outright eliminating them.

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

what if it was fang pushing ed to be blackbeard again? how would my opinions change if ed did this to another character?

bold questions indeed.

for starters, if it was fang in 1.10 who confronted ed in his cabin and said “be blackbeard or else. you being soft and singing a song is a worse than death and i think you would be better of dead” i would mostly be very confused bc nothing abt fang’s prior characterization would suggest he thinks those things or has a problem with ed not being blackbeard. i would probably say something like “why did they suddenly make this friendly samoan character deliver these incredibly cruel lines when it would make more sense for that one short mean white guy to say this stuff. i don’t understand why this writing decision was made but it feels kinda racist to me. i thought they were building towards something with izzy’s character this season but it’s like they suddenly swapped his personality with this side character who didn’t really have a lot of screen time this season but who seemed really on board with the whole talent show idea”

and then if ed proceeded to cut off fang’s toe and feet it to him i would wonder if maybe the writers/showrunners didn’t want to show that violence happening to a white masc character for some reason, and that’s why they suddenly changed the characterizations around so drastically. i would definitely be pretty critical of this very strange writing decision

but if we’re discussing “what if fang took izzy’s narrative role in the story” i probably would also be squinting at the choice to cast a fat samoan man as this asshole antagonist killjoy guy who’s a dick to everyone around him and whose job in the story is to push ed into being a racist caricature of himself. ed’s perception of himself/blackbeard as a hyperviolent monster is deeply informed by the colonial society he lives in. the nine gun smoke head picture of blackbeard that stede showed him was printed in a book published by colonial society, the art of himself that ed stabbed against the wall at the end of 1.10 was produced by racists in colonial society. i would feel really weird about fang holding that drawing up to ed and saying “this is blackbeard” and i would feel even more weird abt this casting decision when the toe scene happened

so yeah i guess technically to answer the questions of “what if ed did this to another character?” and “what if he did this to fang?” i would not feel the same way about the toe scene as i do watching it in canon. i would probably not have the same “he fucked around, he found out” opinion if fang took izzy’s place in the story bc i would mostly be critical of the choice to make fang’s job in season one to uphold toxic masculinity and racist colonialist depictions of ed.

[dreemurr-skelememer]

quick little latte warm-up for @ask-lattes-cafe!

[comic-sans-chan]

cursed modern human garashir au where ds9 is an old ruined resort that was built by some evil rich motherfuckers years ago and was recently seized back by the native people whose land and economy it had destroyed. it's since been converted into an affordable apartment complex sort of situation (just... with a pool, bar, restaraunts, spa and tennis court built into it lol) and is run by sisko and kira. since it is rundown, odo gets hired back on to keep kids from further vandalizing it and o'brien's team gets hired on from the nonprofit organization sisko works for to fix the place up best he can. dukat is the old overseer of the property who drops by sometimes to remind them he and his hospitality business still exist, and my, what a fine job they’ve done renovating the place! it’s actually nice again. sure would be a shame if someone bought the property out from under them (lmao jk kardasi hospitality and starfleet are friends! no hard feelings. they should collaborate on some future projects, actually).

garak's a sad bitch who just lost his amazing morally dubious nepotism career at obsidian corp. (which absorbed kardasi hospitality) and moved into the complex just for the comfortingly familiar architecture. even tho he's not on the payroll for his (secret) dad's evil exploitative company anymore he's still vital to its continued efficiency and is an absolute sucker who still does unpaid shady work for them from time to time. so no one in the complex likes him, but also he's a very pleasant and fastidious queer man who pays his rent on time and has completely taken over the laundry room, to the benefit of everyone, because all the machines actually work now, it's always tidy, and there's a variety of forever-stocked detergents and soaps available, plus an iron?? there was not an iron before garak moved in. which is how it eventually becomes public knowledge that garak has an online tailoring and fashion design business, and he's actually pretty good at restoring clothes that get fucked by the washing machine or eaten by rats, soooo. yeah. they let him stick around.

meanwhile julian's a hot doctor who works at the local hospital and is absolutely buried in student debt that he refuses to let his moderately-wealthy family help him with because they're awful people who had him on illegal drugs without his knowledge since he was a little kid. they were afraid he had something wrong with him, apparently. he was too far behind in his class or w/e. they couldn't handle having a kid with special needs, so they pumped him full of dangerous experimental stimulants. only reason he found out is because he snuck off somewhere to start transitioning and had some tests done that revealed all the crazy shit in his system. he's insanely lucky he didn't end up in the hospital with seizures or fall into a coma or worse. not to mention his parents still dead-name him left and right over a decade later. it's a whole mess and a huge secret, because he technically has a history with illegal drug abuse, and it's a partially ongoing history because going cold turkey off drugs he's been on since he was six is Not A Good Idea, so??? fuck his life, actually. he lives in the apartment just down the hall from garak's. 

garak hates the country his dad's company expanded into and would like nothing better than to move back home, but it's not really logistically possible. especially since everyone there hates him cuz his (secret) dad's company is a mega-corporation that's completely taken over everything p much and is a complete monopoly nightmare, and he did... kinda... work there for decades. no one would hire him if he went back. it would be an extreme conflict of interest, since everyone wants to stay on tain's good side, including garak. but starfleet is interested in him, so he does some begrudging contract work for them sometimes, but he really has no desire to join them. he just wants to resume his old career and reclaim his assets.

julian's hospital is owned by starfleet, tho. his scholarship into medical school was also from starfleet, in fact--they're the only reason he was able to (sort of) afford becoming a doctor at all. so he's a big fan, even tho they are pretty hardcore anti-drugs in a way that's made him have to forge medical records and risk serious legal charges and prison time. julian comes across as a squeaky clean medical professional and an adorable idiot, but he's intimately familiar with back-alley dealings. which is kind of how he ends up helping garak with his drug addiction, and keeps said addiction off the record.

but basically, how it begins is julian likes to support the local restaurants in the complex and garak finds him there and thinks he's gorgeous, and it proceeds as expected. they fuck nasty and become codependent. ten years later, julian lives in a modest house with garak in his home country and garak irons all his old university hoodies.

[incomplete-ruler]

Ok so I'm sort of late to the visty BoU mini-comics, but I'm absolutely living for Toma in a blankie.

[drifting-wreckers]

Ok, um…got a little closer and actually center stage tonight…

Which means I 100% saw Aurora shoving Swiss’s head between her legs with her foot on his shoulder at the start of Cirice and I have feelings.

Also means I saw the skeleton dancers swing up onto the others shoulders and grind on their face during Dance Macabre.

…also…Papa yelled at Kevin to get him “a new pair of fucking shoes”.

…and a new challenger entered the chat - Ashley - brought him a new pair of shoes and fucking changed his shoes on stage.

I’m starting to feel like these two shows were just fever dreams and can this footage be out like yesterday????