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Listening Highlights: Episode 001
August 13th to 20th, 2023
Hello! Just as soon as I've started a new series, I've decided to put it off and make a new series! (Expect this.) Trying to keep up with daily posts was simply not worth it. Much as I was so excited to kick that series off, I thankfully decided to turn it off before it became too much of a chore for me and I'm glad that I did. Because now, we have a different format to substitute it!
Welcome to Listening Highlights, where I go over what I've been listening to as of recently! There's no set time for each episode, I just talk about music when I feel Autistic enough to do it. I also wanted to be more selective with what I talk about this time around; for the most part, that didn't happen, I'm just so Autistic that I went over pretty much all of the past week. So let's go!
Drake – If You're Reading This It's Too Late (2015)
The first thing I listened to after the last Today's Listens episode, I spent that morning with the 6 God himself, the man behind such classics as Way 2 Sexy and that one line where he calls himself a lesbian. He's one of the most popular figures of music right now and it's to the point where either you detest his trajectory as one of the most bland musicians going or you're LosPollosTV. I'm in the former camp and I do not look forward to having to try out his latest records any time soon, but at least I have this mixtape to fall back on whenever I need a reminder that Drake can spit. This turned out surprisingly great & consistent. I especially loved most of the beats on here, especially the ones that were sampled on I'll Try Living Like This (a cool album & also vaporwave). The energy is great and Drake even has some touching vulnerable moments as well. I highly recommend it and probably no other Drake release.
7.8 / 10
Highlights: Legend, Energy, Know Yourself, No Tellin', Madonna, 6 God, Now & Forever, You & the 6
The rest of that day was not too interesting. I listened to Western Digital's lost signal, which was a decent vaporwave and broken transmission EP. I bring it up because its closing track, glowing (disintegration), is one of the most haunting, harrowing and almost hopeless pieces of plunderphonic music I have ever heard. I highly recommend it for that alone, it sounded like distantly watching the world burn and collapse in front of you while bunkered away. I then finally gave a listen to lilien rosarian's second album every flower in my garden, which I didn't care all too much for. As much as I appreciate the production & the pretty soundscapes, they felt much less like songs than her 2019 debut. After that, I took another very slow step in conquering waterfront dining's monotonous discography with the FEELS 感じている EP, which was actually his first release in general and not his debut album that I rated before. I cared for it even less; it was a much rougher batch of vaporwave that was particularly underproduced & repetitive.
billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (2023)
So I decided to go through with another 2023 release and this one I wasn't too particularly excited about. Abstract Hip Hop has been hit or miss for me most days and that's usually to do with the production, so when I heard that billy woods was joining up with producer Kenny Segal again after 2019's Hiding Places, I was even less thrilled at the idea, because I did not like that at all at the time and I only now think that album was okay. But holy shit, Maps blew my expectations way out of the water! The beats are far better here, by miles, the samples are awesome and the beat drums are consistently excellent. billy woods continues to be a great rapper but it's not usually the lyricism that sells a hip hop record to me. It's the production that helps make me wanna look into the lyrics and this album handily succeeds at letting billy shine like that. I came out of this record with so many favourites, way more memorable highlights across the board than on most other billy records I've heard so far. Extremely high recommendation, genuinely makes me feel like I've been missing something from billy's records all this time.
8.4 / 10
Highlights: Soft Landing, Soundcheck, Blue Smoke, Babylon by Bus, Year Zero, Baby Steps, The Layover, FaceTime, Houdini, Waiting Around
Skimming through some more albums here, you'll notice one of them is home to one of the biggest vaporwave & future funk songs of all time, Private Caller. This is SAINT PEPSI's split album with ショッピングワールドjp titled Winner's Circle. I wanted to give this another fair shake, just in case SP's overshadowing of JP's side comes off as undeserved. But no, that first side is genuinely some weak & weirdly produced mallsoft-ish vaporwave. Not my cup of tea in comparison to the great second half. Speaking of giving lower vaporwave albums a fair shake, when christtt tells you this is one of the best vaporwave albums of all time, it's always a coin flip as to whether that's even close. Careless Messenger Recordings✆ (division under Comtex)'s sole album Suddenly Mega is not close at all. It's one of the slowest & most lethargic listens I've had in a vaporwave album and some of its many cuts are especially poorly produced.
Skymmr – your new home (2017)
Back in 2017, there was this group of very tiny vaporwave & plunderphonics producers who were given the password to a Bandcamp page and told to run wild with it. It was a practice that, in many ways, was horrible in hindsight, with how shoddily it was managed and how toxic some of the people in the group were. But underneath all of the gunk they shoved out, one record by fellow Aussie Skymmr stood out as not only a captivating example of the extremely abstract ethos of the music released there, but also was great & conceptully fascinating. your new home is a 7-minute 7-part suite of experimental plunderphonics & vaporwave sound collage and it's very cryptic about this theme of entering a new home and it not being at all what it seems. The result is probably the only record of that collective I ever regularly came back to and it even held up for me today. It's not my highest recommendation, this is definitely a more personal thing to me, but if you're curious, do check it out.
8.4 / 10
Highlights: gazing through the window, the man in the bathroom pipe cleaning (he isn't what he says he is), isn't this your new home?
The next day, I felt like kicking off the morning with some metal and one of my girlfriend's highest recommendations was Between the Buried and Me's Colours. It was a damn great time with some incredibly high energy throughout. After that was Ariana Grande's Sweetener, not my first full-length experience with her music, but one that I decided to rate first here anyway thanks to my favourite discog diver. That evening, me and my girlfriend decided to do a discog diving listening party ourselves by listening to every song netbooks.WRLD publically released to Bandcamp, which amounted to only two and a half hours. It was an excellent time and constantly high energy & fun. I recommend his debut album ENDLESS STAIRCASE for getting into his currently short but incredibly promising catalogue.
The day after that, I slogged through DJ VLAD's frankly exhausting Hardvapour. double mix. It was an okay time with some highlights, but it frankly served as a reminder of why that submovement of vapour burned bright & fast with toxic fumes. A few months back, I was recommended You're Doomed. Be Nice. by Rob Crow's Gloomy Place and to my pleasant surprise, this was a genuinely great indie rock record. The riffs & choruses were shockingly well-written and pretty catchy, through my only gripe was how understated the majority of it sounded. Still, I fully loved my experience with that album, unlike Facade by one of vaporwave's earliest come-and-go producers Psychic LCD, which I only loved about half the time. This was a full detour into progressive electronic ambient music and hoo boy, it sure sounds like it. It's definitely an ambient album with hints of progressive electronic music. It's decent, but I just don't think it should necessarily be noticed.
stab something – the art of copyright infringement (2014)
The end of that day, I tackled the final multi-track release by the early 2010s duo of stab something, which comprised of then-upcoming vaporwave legend christtt alongside then-upcoming beloved trans songwriter & producer Jamie Paige. They went on their separate ways after this particular EP, but my god, at least it still they had the magic in them together. Their full-length self-titled album is frankly astounding; it's some of the creative, upbeat & fun glitch hop / plunderphonics records I have ever heard and while this EP is much more small-scaled by comparison, it continues what made the duo so good. It's only 15 minutes, 5 tracks but it's just as creative, upbeat & fun with glitch hop & plunderphonics as that album, albeit without fully-fledged cohesion, which is kind of in its nature. I dearly recommend both of these records, at least the sole album itself.
8.6 / 10
Highlights: in and out, cheesecake
What else have I heard this week? Well, there was this one time two vaportrap icons VAPERROR & COCAINEJESUS collaborated under the Love Potion duo moniker with their album XXX. That was amazing at the time and even now, it's still an incredibly consistent and great wave album. I also listened to non-canon by Late Arcane after hearing their great album PreQuel from this year. This was more of the same punchy and creatively chopped together vaporfunk that was provided there, although on first listen, it's a lot lesser for me by comparison. There was also the first of a series of EPs by Street Sects, Gentrification I. It was mid. Whatever magic they were forcing through on their debut album End Position might just be a fluke after all these years.
There's about five more records that I heard after that, but at this rate, I kinda don't want to say much about any of them? Not because they're bad, not really, I just cannot say any notable things about each of these records, not even as much as I already did the rest of these. I adore Everything Everything as a band, but A Fever Dream is easily one of their weakest efforts, even if it's still a bit great. This weird STAR GIRL alias I heard many years ago put out the weirdly fascinating RNBW EP almost a decade ago (what the fuck) and I decided to finally listen to its predecessor, STAR. It was much less captivating & interesting despite being kinda similar in concept.Rebecca Peake was another side-project of death's dynamic shroud members, but even when compiling songs from the first two months of recording a song every day for a year, The World's Strongest was so inconsistent that I can hardly tell you what to make of it. Bladee & Ecco2K's Crest was just not a good listen to my ears. There's a 9 minute song that felt like 6 different tracks, I had to check what I was listening to multiple times. Plus, aside from Ecco clearly singing the higher passages, for the most part, I could not tell these two apart. Call me a not-member of the Drain Gang, I guess. Finally of this batch, I checked out bodyline's ファンタジーモニター、which was another healthy serving of really deceptively simple but clearly well-produced vaporwave. I do love what they're often going for, but this was just barely my least favourite so far; still very damn good.
I wanna close out this retrospective with two albums. First being Anderson .Paak's Oxnard, which is in my opinion, one of the most underrated albums of the past decade. Not that .Paak is not popular, he clearly is, that Silk Sonic album was excellent, but before that, people were dying for another Malibu from this guy and while they ended up getting that in the form of Ventura, it was not before the music community got "let down" by Oxnard and they dragged the album for it. I think it's a great album with some excellent singing, rapping, songwriting and producing across the board. It was really slept on. Lastly, Blank Banshee just incredibly recently dropped his fifth mainline album 4D. I have a lot of thoughts that I don't even think are cohesive yet on just one listen of this brand new thing, so that's why I've decided to give it its own review on RateYourMusic that you can check out right here.
There you have it. Where I've been with music for the past week! Will I do something like this again? Hopefully! Will I talk about a full week's worth of music again? Hopefully not! Until then, stay safe and tie your shoes!
#listening highlights#music#music review#music recommendation#music community#hip hop#rap music#vaporwave music#electronic music#experimental music#plunderphonics#vaporwave#indie music#underground#pop music#r&b music#rock music#indie rock
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Found out this Saturday that if you make a PowerPoint to summarize one piece in over 24 hours on not-very-good-wifi, you can only summarize up to the end of Marineford and it will take about 2.5 hours
Also apparently if you speak nonstop for 2.5 hours your voice Will Go Hoarse. Who knew
#very glad I had friends willing to listen to me yap LMAO#part 2 happening supposedly sometime after the summer#whenever they’ll let me yap for 3 hours again….#This was a Fun event lmao#my friend who went before me gave an hour long presentation rating every kind of pasta#and I mean every kind.#I think he ended up with 150 some slides in the end#another highlight: my roommate gave a very unhinged presentation on Sanji and Greek mythology parallels
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Tried to explain my love for Maedhros to my dnd group and they just didn't get it :/ its pretty clear that he is a Poor Little Meow Meow
#amber rambles#maedhros#silmarillion#lotr#listen i may not be posting much about Maedhros anymore but please know he is rotating in my mind at all times#ive picked up poetry books for thr sole purpose of reading and picking out poems#that are Maedhros and russingon coded#half of my emily Dickenson poetry book is highlighted with little hearts and notes about how maedhros Would Write That
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And that's a wrap! Ford happily dies right by Bill's arms :D
Creator: @honeqq
7/7
Pt 1 | Pt 2 | Pt 3 | Pt 4 |
Thanks for all the support and tears you all have supplied, it fueled my motivation to finish this comic! XD
This idea came to me in a dream one day and I couldn't stop thinking about it, so after days I finally decided to make it. This is my interpretation of how Ford died and the before events of Route #9 in the Mr.BillPines AU! I really love that au and it's potential for angst, so definitely props to Honeqq for inspiring me :3 (Go check out their AU if you haven't yet 🫵)
#gravity falls#bill cipher#book of bill#billford#the book of bill#stanford pines#If you listen very closely. you can hear me gushing over every reblog and comments I get HAHAHA#I had fun making this comic and sharing it with you guys!#it's genuinely the highlight of my day. after classes I make sure to post each new part on time and await for you reactions XP#I hope you guys don't find the comic confusing? it's actually my first try on properly making a comic :'P#also! Idk if y'all noticed..... there's a very obvious code im the comics (very simple cuz I can't come up with complex puzzles)#there's a bonus piece if the code is cracked :3#though it will take a while since Midterms are coming up :'))#I promise it isn't angst anymore. this comic hurt me as well guys 💔#endlesspaint#delicioustarong
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James Hall & Clara Clemont in... Swing Time!
#swing time#movie musicals#art#artists on tumblr#clara clemont#james hall#ocs#original character#film#highlight reel#fred astaire#ginger rogers#hollywoods finest#illustration#HAHA WHY DID THIS COME OUT SO GOOD. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SOMETHING I TACK ONTO AN ASK#BUT NOW IT NEEDS TO BE ITS OWN THING#technically a redraw but we dont talk about the old one lmfAO. i matched the hair styles this time :)#i didnt mean to draw so much hollywood stuff lately. i drew clara and then i went on a james kick and now This#i'm almost sick of listening to their playlist! almost.
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I'm wondering about games watched period, whether it's live or delayed. if multiple options apply, just pick whichever fits best. feel free to expand in tags, I'm curious!
#inspired by a dm conversation & also that multiple teams poll sjgjd#*the how many teams do you follow poll#i used to only watch highlights when i was a baby fan 👀 and this season i was... definitely over half but idr how many i missed#bc i worked late weekdays a bunch. I'll say close to all tho skfjdf i would listen on the radio a lot if that was the case#hockey#nhl#eta i take it back i voted missed a solid chunk bc i didnt care enough to watch a lot of them back SMFKSJF
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“Haven’t You Noticed (I’m a Star)” from Steven Universe works so ridiculously well for Leo
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt headcanons#rottmnt leo#rise leo#listen it’s morning now and I haven’t slept so bear with me for the sudden unwarranted lyric analysis haha#a lotttt of the lyrics work so well for him#not even just the overall theme the words just work great#first lyric is literally ‘I can’t help it if I make a scene’ which is one to one with ‘Leo’s makin a scene’ from the rottmnt opening like-#‘I’m turning heads and I’m stopping traffic’ -> Leo has not made it a secret that he values his looks a LOT#-not just his looks but also his ability to get people’s attention#‘when I pose they scream when I joke they laugh’ -> I feel like this speaks for itself#-posing and joking for the crowd and himself#‘I’ve got them dazzled like a stage magician’ -> works both with Leo’s canonical love of magicians and his aptitude with tricks in general#‘well everybody needs a friend and I’ve got you and you and you’ -> I just think it’d be cute to imagine his friends here just as his bros#‘I got you and you and you’ = ‘my brainy guy my smashing guy and eats peanut butter with his fingers guy’#‘haven’t you noticed that I’m a star?’ -> Leo loves attention and especially loves when his feats and efforts are acknowledged#+ he loves glam rock and sci-fi and being a champ and - listen he has a LOT of star symbolism with him#‘haven’t you noticed I made it this far’ - Leo is well aware of how dangerous situations get and thinks himself only a part of a whole#-so hey it’s notable that he’s survived this long yeah?#‘now everyone can see me burning’ -> self-sacrificing with his family bearing witness + all his star and flame symbolism in general#+ how attention naturally goes to him - including bad attention where his mistakes are highlighted and burn bright#also even the limo lyric-#obviously this boy has never and will never own a limo but one of his main secondary colors IS pink so even that#okay that one is just a joke but he would#(on that note though I think the other colors the boys gravitate to outside THEIR color are fun to notice)#I don’t actually know too much about Steven universe beyond the songs and some eps but I like the music#and this just came to my tired mind so here you go anyone who’s interested#may draw something with these lyrics dunno yet#it’s a good song in any case even though it’s super short
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BELLARKE PLAYLIST: season 1 (template) (season 2)
#the 100#bellarke#my gifs#my edit#bellamyblakepositivity#spotify#i will be making a gifset series with highlights from my blarke playlist 😌#bc nothing makes me feel more like narcissus looking at his reflection that when i look at/listen to my blarke playlist lol#the100daily
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I appreciate people adding alt text to images that don't have it by reblogging with a description below the image. that's great. love that you're picking up the slack. but if you are the original poster. and you are uploading an image and adding a description. please put it in the actual alt text of the image. you can put it in the actual alt text and also in a paragraph in the caption if you really want but please attach it to the image itself properly.
and this may not seem like a big deal to you if you can see. I get it. a description is a description. surely it must help people regardless of where it's placed.
and my response to that is how the fuck is someone who can't fucking see supposed to know that your long caption is alt text when they can't fucking see
#i said this on discord and it annoyed me enough that im saying it again here#alt text attached to an image properly is read out when the image is highlighted with a screen reader on most modern devices#so it is easier to discern what is image description and what isnt.#a long caption could be Literally Fucking Anything and how would anyone know what paragraph to highlight to know the id#without listening to Every Piece Of Text There. think about it. please and thank you#patch me through to palaven command
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Broken Roofs and Fixed Perspectives
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#xue yang#xiao xingchen#Lots of cut content notes on this one. Lets all have a moment of silence for all the cut A-Qing's in each perspective.#particularly ripped and buff 'Daozhang Defender 'A-Qing (her perspective)#funny but poor layout#XY also had a red arrow pointed at him in his own POV that said 'just troubled' but it made the panel too cluttered.#He does see himself as troubled and uses that to justify his actions#but I also think there is room for him to not really know exactly how to feel about himself in this situation#Yi-city is such a fantastic tragedy for so many reasons and you will bear witness to me rambling about it in the tags as this arc continues#Helping a blind man fix a roof? A manipulative act of building trust or genuine display of wanting to collaberate?#XY and A-qing have experience of the cruelty of the world where as xxc has blind (haha) faith that kindness prevails#These three simultaneous know each other more than the other's think and *yet* completely miss the mark.#the stories they tell in the blizzard (and the reactions they have) so perfectly display who these characters are#Both xxc and xy tell stories about unfair cruelty. To xxc it is others who's suffering is highlighted. XY highlight's his own.#A-qing understands xue yang more that she wants to admit. She predicts the twists in xy's story and empathizes with the hurt and anger#A-qing is also taking advantage of xxc! She is also lying to survive!#Though shes mostly benign in her intentions. She really did vibe check the rank stank on XY's soul on the spot#Alas...no one listens to teen girls....
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EVERMORE by taylor swift (feat. bon iver) — “and i was catching my breath, floors of a cabin creaking under my step. and i couldn’t be sure, i had a feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn’t be forevermore.”
my #swiftiegiftexchange2024 for @lovesickallovermybed!!!! 🫶🏽🫶🏽
#HIII HII HII how are you <3333 SO sorry for being slightly to the party but HII#i saw that you are currently recovering from surgery and i‘m wishing you all the best and =a faster recovery 💗💗 i hope you’re okay and#are feeling and getting much better every day 💗💗💗#i’m your anon swiftie and it was really nice to get to know you!! 🫶🏽 you’re super super talented and your gifs are so so STUNNING#it was such an honor to be your anon for this event and i had such a fun time making this !#i was SO excited when i saw that some of your favorite ts songs are evermore and idsb. really really sorry i didn’t have the time to make#something for both because my laptop went dead for sometime and i ended up only having the time to make this 😭#evermore the song is something i hold and cherish deeply in my heart too and it was something that has seen some of the worst of my days#and so i decided to do this song for your gift instead!#i can’t really gif much and couldn’t even try#because my laptop in which i had installed ps in went rip so i decided to make you this#(slightly messy sorryy) scrapbook of my view of the song! i tried to incorporate some of the descriptive lyrics and the objects mentioned i#the song and i hope you like it 😁!#and because i think evermore is also something that IS meant to be incredibly personal to the people that listen to it#i decided to include some photos (+added highlights on every lyric that has ever touched me which is almost everything as you can see 😭)#of some of my journal pages on which i rewrote the entire lyrics (except bon iver’s addition 😅) in ‘21 when the song meant to me the most!#i hope you're having a great dayy love 🫶🏽🫶🏽#SwiftieGiftExchange2024#taylor swift#tswiftedit#evermore#*my edits#nadine.mp3
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im certain, it must be holy
to feel something so pure
#juice art#osc#payjay#payjay ii#paper ii#ii paper#oj ii#ii oj#inanimate insanity#inanimate insanity fanart#caption song is jupiter by flower face#which is what this art is inspired by! i always get this kind of visual when listening to it#was just going to doodle it but i got carried away#some details are that paper's blue lines and limbs are the same colour as oj's glass#and oj's highlight is paper's base colour set to a soft light blending mode#the yellow light right behind them is a translucent version of oj's highlight#because it's a pure mix of both of their colours#i usually implement most of these details in my usual coloured payjay art i just wanted to point them out now
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so i may or may not have printed out the entirety of @anonymousalchemist's amazing fic like a bird, like a stone onto three Very Large pieces of paper.
you might be asking, why, fay? why did you print out an entire 53k fic for a video game you've never played? well you see, if you read it, you would understand.
#bg3#tavsilkpax#for real though i'm going to do some Analysis#literary. artistic. statistical. character. all of those.#listen i can't draw and can rarely write. so my contribution to fandom is gonna be whatever weird shit my job enables me to do#and sometimes that is printing out an entire fanfiction so you can highlight names in different colours and look for Patterns#Publisher is a little bitch and tried to crash so many times while i was formatting this to print#didn't want to render a measly 54 000 words at once#astarion#tavstarion#bg3 fanfiction#i may never be free of my Silk Derangement Disorder#something about this boy just Grips me
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i love shiny things :)
#my art#wip#ten#wayv#nct#ten work in progress ! ! ! like 90 min in bc i keep changing my mind abt things ! anyways i haven't stopped listening to nightwalker#it's like a parasite in my brain eating me alive from the inside out ! ! !#normally i do highlights at the end but i couldnt wait ! the weird sickly skin color combos n violent highlights r making me so excited !!!#the hand pose is so weird tho he looks like hes picking his nose hahaha
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HAZBIN HOTEL (2024): 1x04 - "Masquerade"
#hazbin hotel#angel dust#niffty#sir pentious#hazbin angel dust#hazbin niffty#hazbin sir pentious#requested#hazbin hotel edit#masquerade#THIS IS NEVER NOT SO FUCKING FUNNY LMFAOOOOO#also if ur here: @ the person who requested the saint peter greeting set i'm still working on it!! it's just taking a long ass time lmao#my gifs#genuinely i think niffty is the only one who will always say yes to watching angel's movies with him#they'd both have a blast - niffty enjoys the violence/depravity and angel gets to brag/talk about his performance#and she'd listen!!#they'd share popcorn :]#then she'd say something completely off the hinges like ''last time i dommed a guy like that i had to bury him in five different locations'#ep highlight: subtitled
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Quackity: There's also a button to toggle, so in case you're talking to people in English, you can toggle it.
Slimecicle: I'm never gonna speak to anyone in English again
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Slimecicle: I feel like a baby that has learned how to speak! Bababa, bababah.
Fit & Maximus: Baba, baba, baba, baba, babah -
Slimecicle: I like that we've gotten a thing to translate all languages, and now we speak none.
#Slimecicle#QSMP#Quackity#FitMC#Spreen#This is not a full transcript I would go insane trying to transcribe this full thing#Also I would HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend wearing headphones when listening to this this is NOT family friendly audio#GOSH I love Slimecicle he's the best#these are all highlights from QSMP Day 13 (yesterday's) VOD#Queuing this because I'll be at work....missing all the streams today.......................#Me a hybrid worker: Hell yeah I can listen to stream while working#Me when I'm actually in the office: *misses 20 different streams*#ITS NOT FAIRRRRRRR#Anyways that bit at the end where Charlie says he feels closer to the Spanish streamers than anyone else was so sweet :')#That really touched my heart
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