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I’m going to talk about something potentially suicide-related, so watch out.
Music can’t save you.
I keep seeing that all over the place—seriously, all over the place, not just from actual musicians— and I feel like someone needed to say it.
All you’re really claiming when you say “music saved me” is:
Music has a powerful effect.
During a time in my life where I felt like giving up, that powerful effect changed what I was feeling so that I did not give up.
Okay those two things are true, but let’s take a step back for a second.
If you’re lost in the woods and considering giving up, sitting down, and letting yourself starve or be eaten by wild animals, a bird could have the same impact. You might look up, see a colorful shape flying through the trees, and decide to follow it. Now you’re moving. Now you’re doing something, instead of giving up—regardless of whether or not you can keep up with the bird, regardless of where it’s leading you. So sure, that is a good thing. But it’s only temporary, a bandaid solution to your problem. Even if it leads you to water, or shelter, you’re not “saved.”
You’re not “saved” until you’re no longer lost, no longer in the woods. You have to get back to your home. You have to get back to a place where you know where you are in the world, and how to get what you need, and everything makes sense again.
It is the same way with music. Or any art.
Art can remind you of what’s good, and beautiful, and yes, true. But it is not the art that saves you. It is the truth that does the saving. The art just had a hand in reminding you of it. So it would be way more accurate to say “music helped me.” But you still have to deal with whatever it was that got you to the place where you felt like giving up. And part of that is making sure that you know what the song is saying has truth in it, and that truth actually applies to the problem you’re having, because you can lean on truth, and it’s what made the music worth anything in the first place. Otherwise, the music is just a distraction, and distractions end.
In that sense, it’s more like a tiger is stalking you through those woods. You can get away from it briefly, especially if something beautiful or good or true distracts you from the thought of laying down and letting it take you. But eventually you have to kill the tiger, or get out of the woods where it lives.
Truthfully—truthfully—a song can get you out of, or into, a state of mind and emotions. But those emotions have a source. And if you don’t get rid of the source, or neutralize the source, your songs are only going to be bloody bandages on a wound. Worse, the songs might make you start to love the sight of bloody bandages, when what you really need is disinfectant and actual healing.
I do know this from experience. I’m just saying, think about it.
#Soap box#personal#personal post#for my followers#suicide#suicidal thoughts#music can save you#music has power#the power of music#music#mental health#trigger warning#suicide warning#twenty one pilots#Tyler Joseph#kings kaleidoscope#Chad Gardner#Clancy
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The musical episode.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#jin guangyao#nie mingjue#Remember jin guangyao: If you do any treachery you will face the wrath of five horses.#When are the horses going to come into play? You'll see.#s2.ep8 had beautiful music... I listened to it on loop while drawing!#Good music to chill out to before you fly into a rage.#This episode really cements how JGY's mind works - It is a matter of long-term outcomes at the sake of nearly everything else.#Morals do not matter to him if the outcome is more favourable.#and at the center of it all - he has learned that the only person he can truly trust is himself.#In turn - the only person his actions benefit are himself.#He will do anything and everything it takes to reach a position of power - not just for the power. But because it means safety.#Because it was something he was denied and the idea of not having control in his life again is unforgivable.#'Happiness' isn't a goal. We are looking at someone still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.#Everything and everyone is a piece in a game. Bonds and friendships are assets. People are dispensable.#He wants to climb for the sake of climbing. He wants praise and recognition because he feels it is deserved. It's all so hollow.#We could go deeper into his psyche on this.#But these are also tags under a comic in which 'evil penis music' is the punchline.
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Unpopular opinion but Wouldn’t You Like is really good and people should pay more attention to it
#epic the musical#epic the underworld saga#epic the troy saga#epic the circe saga#hermes#odysseus#this song has me in a chokehold#Hermes is a dick I love him#wouldn’t you like a taste of the power#like yes sir I do#the horse and the infant#monster#wouldn’t you like#don’t get me wrong#I still love the other ones#but goddam I love wouldn’t
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And coloring based on @thegunnsara 's sketch
#OKAY I FINALLY GOT A DAY THAT DIDN'T SUCK ALL MY MORAL POWERS AND I COULD DRAW FOR MYSELF ENJOYABLY#I gotta note that I just... can't find how to draw Prowl the way I will not hate it... Something in the face that I can't find right at all#I don't know how many time months years it will take me to draw him and just all transformers the way I will like XDD#Okay anyway gah tired sleep if I had such a free soul like right now I ohh I wanna come back on tumblr ;;~;;#Also ehgfehge did read Megatron's origin and there was Prowl and if I'm not wrong. Jazz somewhere behind being all bored of the meeting XDD#To be more precise Prowl was making a presentation and giving infor and Jazz looked like he has music in his head#THERE WAS RUNG. AND HIS NAME WAS FORGOTTEN RIGHT AWAY#Anyway I wanna blablabla about plenty of details there but gah#cockroachdoodles#transformers#transformers idw#tf idw#prowl#jazz#rung
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he's asserting dominance
#epic the musical#epic the vengeance saga#he has the power of friendship on his side#spent 30 whole minutes on this let's go#cat art tag
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Idk if anyone's talked about this before but the Wisdom saga made me think about how Penelope isn't just being a loyal wife. I mean, there's loyal, and then there's "Your Majesty your husband is almost definitely dead by now we really really need a new king can you *please* legitimize someone to rule who is actually old enough to do that" the Ithacans probably think she's delusional for insisting that her husband is coming home after twenty years.
Penelope's not stupid, she hopes beyond hope, but she knows the chances of Odysseus making it home dwindle every day. Things happen, out at sea, ships never make it home. She knows there's a much greater chance that she's faithful to a ghost.
But it's not just loyalty. These men courting her would kill her son.
He's Odysseus's heir. All the men who trusted and followed Odysseus, well, Telemachus is his son. He can call on those other kings' friendship with his father. He has Odysseus's legacy behind him. Odysseus's friendships. He's young, but if he's inherited half his father's cleverness, half his father's strength, he's on the way to becoming a powerful king in his own right. A threat to his stepfather's rule.
And the suitors know this. If one of them became king, Telemachus wouldn't be likely to survive-- and if he did, it'd probably be in exile.
And Penelope knows this. So as she watches her son grow up, she says Odysseus must be coming home soon. She says she's waiting for him. And when that won't hold water, she stalls, and watches her son grow into his father's son. Anything she can think of, to give him more time.
She's ruled well, alone, but Ithaca must have a king.
She doesn't tell anyone why she's stalling, not even Telemachus. He's like Odysseus- he needs someone to protect, and right now that's her. Let him defend her virtue against the suitors, and she'll keep stalling, keeping them away from her son's throne until he can claim it.
#epic the musical#the odyssey#this is mostly from listening to legendary/little wolf#and thinking about pen#just#gah#she's not letting anyone like antinous get in a position where he has that kind of power#not if she can help it#penelope of ithaca#fanfic#kinda?
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もう一回、もう一回
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk fanart#jujutsu kaisen fanart#jjk art#fushiguro megumi#yuji itadori#itafushi#ryoumen sukuna#megumi fushiguro#jjk spoilers#jjk manga spoilers#gomen its hina posts self indulgent art hours#this is fr me first and foremost. any1 else liking it is just a bonus in my eyes#i may not be able to animate but i am so happy with these regardless i think they turned out great :') treat fr Me#rolling girl megumi u mean so much 2 me suddenly#fun fact ! actually the first vocaloid song i ever listened to. stumbled across an audio post on this very tumblr dot com#and it forever changed the course of my taste in music#so it alr has a soft spot in my heart fr tht reason but Also the lyrics Also th whole deal w wowaka and Now w megumi.....#rolling girl u have become too powerful#anyway in th context of canon n megumi choosing to live i am choosing to interpret the song the less depressing way#where the boy represents a saving grace rather than being a personification of miku's char's demons convincing her to end it#n the ending being her deciding to stop fighting on her own n instead accept help from those around her#but i did also want to pay homage 2 the interpretation of him representing her inner demons#so i have redraws of both yuuji And sukuna as the boy#choose ur own adventure if u will#clutches heart why does it fit so WELL what cosmic force decided tht miku and jjk should overlap at all i just wanna talk#clearly something has it out fr me
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Eddie who goes to the same supermarket cause they always play his favorite music and he promises himself he will befriend whoever is in charge of the music cause they have the best taste.
Steve who works at that same supermarket, has an embarrassing crush on Eddie and gets in trouble for putting on metal music every time Eddie comes to the store.
#gimme gimme gimme#the costumers are enjoying their day until Eddie comes in#suddenly it’s just screams and music they don’t like at all#some Karens even think Eddie has some satanic power and he’s putting the music himself as he comes in#meanwhile Eddie’s like 🥰 I love this song 🥰 wheres my fav cereal#steddie#steve harrington#eddie munson#stranger things#steve and eddie#steve x eddie#bi steve harrington
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Alive Beetlejuice AU that I am rotating in my brain rn. He is so so bad at acting human, he doesn't even bother looking the part and he has no idea how much money is worth.
#beetlejuice#beetlejuice musical#betelgeuse#art#digital art#fanart#The Whole Being Alive Thing AU#He doesnt give out his real name to randos cause its annoying when ppl talk about him behind his back and he can feel it#Hes known as the weird 'demon' guy whos always in costume for some reason and apparently has absurd amounts of money to spend#(Hes literally just conjuring up money its terrible for the economy but great for the minimum wage workers hes overpaying)#Sometimes he will visibly use demonic powers in front of people but when they ask about it he just says they're special effects#Eventually he gets the FBI called on the house and I can only imagine things go very poorly from there
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Ponyboy’s reaction to Darry hitting him is always mildly funny to me. He’s all offended like, “I can’t believe Darry would hit me!” when that’s just…normal sibling behavior. You mean to tell me there has never been a time when Ponyboy was being a little shit and Darry just socked the son of a bitch??
#darry the guardian may never have hit ponyboy#but darry the older brother sure as fuck has#and obviously child abuse is not okay#and i know that when darry does hit him there is a power imbalance that was never there before#but seriously#ponyboy#that is your older brother#i can guarantee he has done worse than slap you across the face#the outsiders#the outsiders 1983#the outsiders musical#ponyboy curtis#darry curtis
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Warrior!Penelope Wisdom Saga in a nutshell:
#epic the musical#warrior!penelope#role swap au#epic the wisdom saga#ares#don't mind me making memes to ignore my unfinished assignment that's due TOMORROW-#use humour to cope#there are other ways of procrastination~#but yeah tele in little wolf was essentially: I HAVE THE POWER OF GOD & ANIME ON MY SIDE#also kudos to ares#bro thought he'd only need to communicate with (1) person but nope he has to talk it out with MORE PEOPLE
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a concept. to consider. what if. what if there was a Remember Them reprise after the Thunder Saga. "We are not to let them die in vain" except he's the only one left so it's "I am not to let them die in vain." and there's no backing chorus of his men. because. they're all dead.
and the line takes on a whole new meaning now that he's the one who chose to let them die.
(not in vain. it can't have been in vain, it can't have been for nothing. i have to see her. i have to see her, because if i don't make it home, those men died for nothing. the ends always justify the means. i can justify anything as long as it ends with Penelope and Telemachus both in my arms again. but if it doesn't-
but it will. it will. it has to.)
and our- ... -and my comrades will not die in vain...
#epic the musical#epic: the musical#epic: the thunder saga#epic the thunder saga#do i actually think this would happen? uhhh.....idk. probably not? maybe? but do i think this could be a neat concept if it did happen? YES#i love the idea of odysseus using the deaths of his men as further reason to get home because he thinks that will make it worth it.#“the end always justifies the means”#and at the first obstacle he faces it's like. oh. what if there is no end- NOPE. NOT THINKING ABOUT IT. I'M GOING HOME AT ANY COST.#because if it was all for nothing then the guilt would crush him!!! he has to believe he'll see penelope again!! she's all his power!!#and. and his comrades will not die in vain....#in other words: HA. Local Tragedy Protagonist Believes Attaining His Goals Will Absolve Him Of The Blood He Spilled To Attain Them.#who's gonna tell him that the man who gets to make it home alive is no longer him...... oh? he was already informed? oh okay i guess.
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Epic the Musical AU where post-vengeance-saga Poseidon becomes mortal because he got tortured so hard that he lost his godhood temporarily (I imagine it lasts til Ody dies). And then he ends up in Iythica, and Odysseus is entirely too done with this shit and doesn't want to be dealing with this. Poseidon doesn't want to be dealing with this either, frankly, and Penelope isn't exactly delighted by the situation, but none of them really have other options at the moment.
There's multiple myths where various gods (including Poseidon) lose divinity and live a moral life, so I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility, and also it would be REALLY FUNNY. Or angsty, if you're more into that - I can see some really sad drama and hurt/comfort from Odysseus having Poseidon even more at his mercy than ever before, and also from Poseidon being lowkey forced into having open arms.
This also could totally be ship or not, I don't really have a preference either way. On one hand, the drama works well without romance and Poseidon being forced to third wheel Ody and Penelope is hilarious, but on the other hand... god made mortal and the canonical torture and the reversal of power dynamics is REALLY HOT.
#epic#epic the musical#epic the vengeance saga#epic odysseus#epic musical#epic the musical au#epic poseidon#vengeance saga#the vengeance saga#feel free to build on this one#mainly I just want a scene where Poseidon has to beg Ody. for what? when? with what context? idk you tell me#I'm just really into powerful men being forced to kneel for those they see themselves as better than
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Ohh Shin Tsukimi, we're really in it now (the holiday spirit)
#my art#yttd#described#your turn to die#shoutout to the caption for being one of the funniest captions I've come up with#shin tsukimi#I needed a holiday icon like the Halloween one I had before so with the powers of Art I granted my wish#the caption is true. everyone in my neighborhood has holiday lights up and the radios are playing Christmas music#And it's getting really cold and my college has decorations up eeeeeverywhere and I only have one more full week till finals#it's all coming together (winter break) (the end of the school semester)
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I drew Ted from the wonderful @nabwastaken ‘s Time Bastard Au! The original design is by the talented @midnightnautilus , and was so very fun to draw!
#it’s a very fun au#I enjoy it quite a bit#I mean it’s hard to go wrong when making hatchetfield characters superheroes#although nobody should ever give Ted super powers#my man would wreak so much havoc#he's just a silly guy tho#I loved drawing him in this costume#drawing horns is so much fun#and I got to do a little comic book type halftone moment that I don’t get to do in a lot of my drawings#I love the halftone effect so much so when I find a drawing I can use it with I get very excited#anyways yall should go check out the au#Midnightnautilus has got some awesome art for it and the concept is so very good#let’s see what’s a fun fact for this one#fun fact: the person who created the early version of the Polygraph (lie detector) test also came up with Wonder Woman!#It's really interesting especially when you remember that Wonder Woman has the lasso of truth#Ted spankoffski#hatchetfield#time bastard#time bastard au#hatchetverse#team starkid#starkid#hatchetfield au#tinky#tnoy karaxis#the guy who didnt like musicals#nightmare time#my art#others idea
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im like 90% convinced that the Doctor is of the same species that the Toymaker and Maestro are
#doctor who#doctor who spoilers#they can hear the music of the show itself#the fourth wall breaks#they were found by a portal that could've led from anywhere#in a season where theyre outright saying EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED#why else would we suddenly be seeing the Toymaker again#and now Maestro- his child#both of whom exhibit the same fourth wall breaking powers#this also isnt the first time#10 broke the fourth wall- thinking specifically of his staring into the camera in Family of Blood#and 12 implied he could hear the show's music when he played the intro on the guitar#the big question for me would be what is the thing the Doctor has power over#what does the Doctor personify#if Toymaker = play and Maestro = music#what does the Doctor equal?#workshopping the idea that its memory#stay tuned I may elaborate after I think this over some more
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