#lio rambles

[mayatuks-catastrophe]

"the fans not only have taken to inventing their own romantic pairings, but also fantasizing about a theoretical reality where the characters are friends, and they like each other" okay which fandom is this about

[moonrat95]

lio genshinposting ?? its more likely than you’d think

[alanbates]

A guide to Aphrodite's Child's debut album, if you even care

666 is Aphrodite's Child most known and appreciated album — rightfully — but I feel like people are sleeping on their debut album "End Of The World", which is a gem of psychedelic music.

The record was published in 1968 and it's a mix of folklore and innovation. As Vangelis once mentioned in an interview at the time, the band was profoundly influenced by Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and the intent was to recreate psychedelic sounds which also included themes of greek folklore as well. You may notice how the guitar is barely present throughout the album — it was due to the absence of the band's guitarist Silver Koulouris, who was forced to join the military services right before leaving Greece.

The album addresses different topics — most of them were still considered taboos as the time — such as depression, mental illness and pollution. I'm not going to analyse every single song, but I'd like to talk about the album's highlights imo :)

End Of The World has often been described as "the acceptance of the end". The lyrics are about a man who asks his lover to join him to the end of the world, which is inevitable. However, he is aware that he'll go by himself eventually, dying alone. The heart of the song to me is in Vangelis' dramatic piano solo at the end of the chorus, which almost seems to announce the incoming catastrophe.

The Grass Is No Green has to be one of the first songs to be so outspoken about the problem of pollution. It has numerous psychedelic elements, starting from the mysterious intro, going right through the confusing effects used on Demis Roussos' voice in the middle of the song, which starts accelerating its tempo until it reaches its climax at the end.

You Always Stand In My Way is the heaviest song on the album, speaking of both music and lyrics. Despite the lack of guitar here, Vangelis' synths and Demis' rough singing take the song on another level, making it exceptionally heavy at the time! I mean I wasn't expecting THAT when I first heard this song.

And my personal favourite, Day Of The Fool, is the most peculiar song. It deals with mental illness and tells the story of a 30 year old man named Benji, who's often treated like a child and ostracized by his peers. On his birthday though, he thinks that people will be nice to him for once, which of course did not happen. The man also mentions his friend Candy, who according to him "knows what's up with his mind" and "sees what he sees, she makes him happy" (not sure if the friend he describes is an actual friend or an imaginary one, though).

The line "But today is my birthday / And they will be nice" is also repeated at the very end of the song, this time with a much hesitant and surrendered tone. This is like the saddest song ever to me it's just :(

[oddquake]

love it when character are so aggressively transgender that you can’t tell if they’re transmasc, transfem, genderfluid, nonbinary, all of the above, none of the above, some of the above, etc. you just know that they are absolutely not cis

[cerasus--flores]

close enough welcome back lio fotia

[fcb-mv33]

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[writingintohell]

IM CRYING WTF IS THIS PLEASE TELL ME ITS AN APRIL FOOLS-

[mossy-rot]

I very suddenly remembered promare and i wanna make a fic of the afterword where everything is starting to settle and mad burnish are trying to yknow. live regular lives but for the moment housing is limited to burnish still and they can only afford one apartment between them so they're trying to move in only for galo to up and decide that He Would Like To Live Here Too they're like dude we have like. one mattress and a couch and he just says oh don't worry I got this then leaves for a couple minutes then just. brings up 2 ikea sets of bunk beds

[notebookpapers]

I hope you guys know that even if I’m not always posting the promare brainrot. it’s here. it’s always here. it’s in the walls it’s under the floorboards it’s hiding under the bed okay do you understand me promare is my haunted house and I’m the side character who cannot escape it

[apollumihelios]

as a second generation immigrant, it's weird and a little frustrating to try and create a world inspired by my culture when i feel so disconnected from it in the first place. it feels like something is missing from my life and I don't think any amount of research and studying will fill that void. but im trying. everything I am revolves around this world I've created and it's been a good start for me to reconnect with my greek roots after being denied it for so long.

I've been writing on and off for years, but only properly began this endeavour about four years ago when I was really questioning my life. to cope with everything I began making maps of a simple fantasy world, and creating small towns with insignificant lore in minecraft. but I became bored of creating standard medieval stories, I longed to see my culture within a genre I loved so much.

ultimately what pushed me to commit to writing was the lack of greek characters that were actually greek and well written, and not just used as a joke or to push a personal agenda (see literally every 'retelling' made by non-greeks).. not to mention if anything greek happened to be in fantasy media, it's either an extinct culture with the classical aesthetic or the focus is only on bastardizing the olympians. that's all we're seen as; a dead culture whose only value comes from the gods. and that's just not true.

I wanted a world where the focus was on the people and their way of life, rather than the gods and epic wars. I wanted stories about families, friends, and lovers who didn't have any divine power at their behest. I wanted to read about the intimacy of the mundane, the beauty of being, and the tragedy of trying. I wanted to see my culture represented in a way that wasn't through the western eyes -- which even I have been tricked by. I want greek stories told by greek people.

I don't know if my work will be any good, or worth anything to anyone. maybe I'll get scared and none of it will see the daylight. I know this won't bring me any closer to understanding what I've missed out on, but being able to learn and create something is enough for me.

[outeremissary]

Best and most endearing character trait is sucking so so bad. Please understand

[mayatuks-catastrophe]

[moonrat95]

i miss narukasa,,,,,,,, can they come back please

[ellibean-icecream]

so i just crossed 10k words with my first fic, and i feel like that's a bit of a landmark. i'm both impressed and surprised by this. this whole thing started just cuz i really really enjoyed octopath ii and wanted to see more of it, even if that more was in my head.

like i said, this was my first fic. i've written a lot of characters and stories through play by post rpgs, but this was a whole different thing. something where i have to choose how i want to portray everything in the world, who will be my point of view, how to engage with that as a writer.

and it is all so different from what i've done before. i've taken lessons, bits and pieces from the stories i've written before for rpgs. i've written 10k words for this story, and that is something i hadn't expected. and i'm only just scratching the surface.

i have no idea how long this will last, before my interest fades and i struggle to find the words i need. but for now i am proud of the work i've written thus far, and thankful for the support and response i've gotten from people along the way.

this eagerness for writing is something i didn't fully expect, but i find myself wanting to pick up the metaphorical pen again and again. i even find myself considering resuming the original short horror story i tried writing ages ago. i've no idea if i will, but i don't think this joy for writing will fade.

thank you all for the encouragement

[ghastimart]

some doodles of my (favourite characters) promare-xiv crossover. i have thought about it a normal amount (asks in my askbox asks in my askbox) if you see trans galo & trans lio yes the fuck you do

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[jesterrosa]

Happy Disability Pride Month!

From right to left: the woman in greens is named Serena, a blind healer. The teen in yellows with a red leg is Lio, an artificer. The teen in blues with a red arm is Red, an apprentice Ranger with amnesia. The man in blues with a white outline is Zeke, a famous war hero and general.