#my music choices lmao

[necesitotequila]

Why was I listening to Nancy Ajram while writing a Western WIP? 😭

[hellspawnmotel]

remember when I did this?

well I did more

[king-candybug-backup]

[WARNING FOR FLASHING LIGHTS]

OOPSIE DAISY, MADE ANOTHER TURBO AMV, BUT THIS TIME IT'S CURSED 😂

I blame @simpingforcys for this one because one of my friends dared me to make a King Candy thirst-trap(??? IF YOU COULD CALL IT THAT LMAO) after seeing the last AMV and also browsing a bunch of your thirstposts, so thanks for the roundabout inspiration, fam. 😂😂😂

I'm supposed to be writing. Instead I'm indulging the simps with VERY cursed content. But I am also a simp, so I guess I still win??

[u3pxx]

yesterday my friends took me to see that deadpool wolverine movie and there were like a lot of moments in it that were definitely a "hold for applause" or "HEY HEY LOOK!!! DONT YOU RECOGNIZE THIS HERO/ACTOR?" and it was just so funny to me as someone who is both a superhero and actor unknower cuz no .. i really don't .. 😔 DFDGH

[ragnarokhound]

Ooh what about...Teacher au, actor au, and pokémon au. Ships open to whatever but jason in them preferred 👀

For the AU ask game!

THESE ARE ALL SO GOOD, YOU ARE CRACKING ME OPEN LIKE AN EGG (like with a previous ask i might answer one and then maybe circle back with a reblog or smth to answer the others fjdlsaja WE'LL SEE IF I HAVE TIME TODAY) and I'm jaytim til i die so that's what i'll be speculating on for the most part lmao

Teacher au... oh the hot gossip that would fly in that staff lounge...

Five fun facts about a teacher au I'd write:

Jason teaches either english or drama. Or maybe he would teach drama IF admin hadn't fucking cut the drama program last year and left them to organize a club instead. "there's no funding" they say, and yet the basketball team is getting all new equipment, all new buses (not even district-assigned! their OWN BUS), a whole new fucking facility--

Tim is the basketball coach. (He teaches math/comp sci/engineering). Drama ensues.

(The basketball team went to state last year Mr. Todd, sorry if success means getting more interest and therefore funding from the community, but maybe there's a lesson to be learned here) (>:0 he did NOT)

Principal Wayne doesn't play favorites (except he totally does, Principal Grayson at their sister school in Blüdhaven applied for that job specifically to get away from the bullshit. He wishes he could have sniped Babs as his office manager, but she's too entrenched. RIP) but Tim is obviously Bruce's newest, shiniest hire and after Jason came back from medical leave (motorcycle accidents suuuuuuck) he's extremely miffed to see what's been changed in his absence

Real conflict would take place when one of Tim's star players tries out for the school play and gets the lead role because Jason can see that this kid has talent AND THEY NEED THAT. (Drake is, unfortunately, correct; if they can take their production of Chicago to the National Drama Festival, then maybe they'll get the support they need to reinstate the drama program. Or whatever. UGH) Tim is pissed because this kid has a shot at playing professionally and this could fuck his chances if he's not giving his A-game during championships this year. Cue no longer passive but rather outright aggressive arguments between Mr. Todd and Mr. Drake BOILING with sexual tension while, idk who, Jon Kent probably Does His Best to be a teenager lmao

(BONUS FUN FACT: they 100% fuck in their hotel at Dramafest, because of course the drama club made it, and of course Mr. Drake came along. To support his student, obviously. And not at all because Tim saw the play that winter to support Jon and saw how good he was and Jason got in his face about it after the show and all the tension from the whole semester boiled over and they made out backstage like they were teens themselves again. Not at all. That would be unprofessional and irresponsible.)

[fluffyposting]

Has anyone talked about the implications of Riku’s music in Symphony of Sorcery (DDD) being from the Nutcracker and how that relates to him and Sora?? Or perhaps I’m reading too much into it.

[mattpearson]

@pscentral​ event 26: minimalism

SILICON VALLEY (2014 - 2019) TOP 10 RATED EPISODES ON IMDB insp (1, 2)

[yujeong]

The Score of 4 Minutes - Episode 8

Well. It happened folks. The show ended. I'm still in shock I got to watch this show, that I was lucky enough to get it. I'm so happy with it and now, it's time to close this chapter by sharing the music of Episode 8. (Posts about Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6 and Episode 7) - Learn Through Play by Dream House: When Tyme examines the woman at the beginning - Reaching the Sky by Epsilon Wave: When Tyme examines Great - A Monsters Feeling by Hampus Naeselius: Tyme's clock changes to 11:03 - Team Six by Hampus Naeselius: Tyme's last minute sequence - Hostages in Love by Hampus Naeselius: When Fasai and Korn end their agreement - Engage by Hampus Naeselius: When Korn finds the hidden stuff at the warehouse - Just Get It Done by Hampus Naeselius: When Korn finds out Tonkla killed Title on the news - Out of the Dark by Jon Björk: When Korn and Tonkla meet - Steep Dive by Hampus Naeselius: When Win gets ready to chase after Korn and Tonkla - Cluster One by Hampus Naeselius: When Korn and Tonkla run away after seeing the cops - The Slow Tick of Time by Alfie-Jay Winters: KornTonkla's end - Frail by Joyspring: Tyme and Great make merit together - Moving Clouds by Heath Cantu: When Great "gave" Korn the lighter - A Place to Call Home by Hampus Naeselius: When Great visits the exhibition - Sweet Baby (K-POP Version) by Collin Lim: When Great serves food - Whatever Rocks Your Boat by Hampus Naeselius: When Great meets with the politician - Time to Target by Hampus Naeselius: When the politician gets exposed and arrested / When Warit is found in critical condition - Byrðr by Hampus Naeselius: When Tyme sees Warit and almost kills him

[asofterepilogue]

the very first song of epic is about how the gods just really want odysseus to have blood on his hands, and the only choice he has is whose. odysseus tries to think of other ways, and he's told they're not available to him because that's the will of the gods.

poseidon pretends to give him a choice between dying and apologising, and then destroys his fleet anyway. scylla's lair is the only way to go home, and scylla has a cost, and the cost must be paid, and all odysseus can choose is who will pay it. zeus comes down to punish odysseus and his crew for slaughtering the sun god's cattle and tells odysseus someone has to die, all odysseus can choose is who (and anyway zeus already knows who it'll be, doesn't even actually wait for odysseus' answer).

he's never given a third option. he doesn't even try to come up with them after circe - what would be the point? the gods have made it clear they're just toying with him and what he wants doesn't matter, what he would attempt doesn't matter.

and then poseidon finds him on the shore of ithaca, when he's almost done, almost home, after 7 years of having no choice whatsoever, not even the illusion of one. and poseidon tells him to choose between killing himself and watching all of ithaca be destroyed.

and somehow, this time, odysseus will choose another way.

[murdleandmarot]

The gang’s all here!! They’re on the case!! And there’s no ghost that they wouldn’t chase!!!!!

@mysticalcats’s Foxglove, @toki-toro’s Chaumet, @emimii’s Clownaire, and my own Bluebelle :)

[kindahoping4forever]

HUFWULF acoustic (kind of lmao) via Ai FM

[curiosity-killed]

objectively one of the best moments in this show

[theneighborhoodwatch]

speaking of things that remind people of welcome home, i updated my main playlist for it. swapped out some songs, plugged in a few new ones, etc etc. you know how it is. share with your friends! share your own playlists in the notes! i love a good playlist.

[gingermintpepper]

I hear the original Odysseus and Epic the musical’s Odysseus are pretty different to the point they’re sorta their own characters- how do you feel about this?

Hello beloved Anon!! Thank you so much for the ask <3

Generally, I feel like a very big part of the appeal of adapting stories, especially myths, comes from seeing what these stories and characters mean to the author and how their interpretations of the themes and conflicts in a piece of classical literature are expressed in their interpretation of the story as a whole. This, naturally, means that I fully expect and look forward to unique interpretations of well loved figures whenever I hear that something is going to be adapted! I love being able to see what aspects of a character has stuck with an author, I love being able to trace said aspects back to the original myth and see what other places the author has picked up inspiration from along the way to inform their interpretations! A big part of the appeal of reading and interacting with a whole lot of different mythical media comes from my genuine excitement and anticipation in seeing how a favourite figure of mine has been adapted or how a moment from a story that I really like has been handled!

With respect to specifically Epic and the Odyssey, my opinions on how the characters have been adapted are somewhat mixed. Putting aside my general misgivings about the current writing of the musical, I really like the directions Herrans has taken with the theming and the broad strokes of Odysseus' character and consequent arc. I like the idea of Eurylochus as a well-meaning but still very fallible second, I like the idea of Odysseus and Athena's close-knit mentorship that completely goes to shit after the Cyclops Incident, I even really liked a lot of the representations of the gods - from Hermes' carefree and relaxed kind of power to Aelous' frivolous cruelty to Zeus' power and command prior to God Games. A lot of the interpretations in the Wisdom Saga are things I feel much more neutral-negative about though. While Telemachus' ingénue-esque naivete and enthusiasm in Legendary and Little Wolf is endearing, I much prefer the Odyssey's slight desperate but unfailingly politically apt Telemachus - the wily son who helped his mother with her staling schemes and who was praised for his wit by his father. Telemachus is a young man and while he's technically characterised as such in EPIC, he's also treated in the same way a Disney Princess is where she is technically a young woman but must still appeal to very small children and I'm just not a big fan of that. I'm also not a big fan of Antinous' characterisation though that was something I was originally intensely excited about in the early days of following EPIC! Hold Them Down is a song I'd been dying to hear a full version for because I felt like it captured the quiet menace of Antinous so well - his charisma, his vile motivations, his absolute disdain for the strong-willed Penelope who has thwarted his attempts to take Ithaca for himself and the way his mask has slipped from barely cordial but socially correct visitor to absolute monster who is willing to do anything to get that crown. Just, UGH, Hold Them Down had me HYPED, but the Antinous we got in Little Wolf was... inelegant. Not subtle at all, crass with his intentions - the kind of guy who would've gotten kicked out ages ago for contempt against the queen. The whole political aspect of why they couldn't just kick the damn suitors out is that technically they'd never done anything punishable that would justify rejecting them and sending them on their way. Antinous was the head of that malicious compliance - the one who had the intelligence to be menacing but not so much that his words could be blatant insults or threats. That was part of the whole point of Odysseus striking Antinous down first! Little Wolf's Antinous,,, was not that and I found myself intensely disappointed by it considering that he was that in the earlier versions of Hold Them Down.

My other misgivings in terms of characters just have to do with Apollo, Hephaestus and Zeus in God Games tbh. I'm someone who is generally more concerned with the portrayal of gods in a work than I am with the humans and EPIC has a super unique take on all of the gods that accompany and inhabit its world. I've made a separate post voicing my misgivings about Epic's Apollo but I don't have a long laundry list of issues with EPIC's Hephaestus, I just wish he had more time to shine and that there was more to chew on with respect to his argument. Zeus however is in a similar boat to Antinous where in the first half of the play he was perfect - literally the perfect neutral god-figure who was simply doing his job and obviously not personally swayed one way or another when it came to Odysseus and was maybe having some fun at his expense in Thunderbringer. His violence in God Games then was not only greatly surprising and seemingly out of character, it was also completely unsubstantiated in the story of EPIC itself. Zeus had nothing against Odysseus, he has no particular reason to bar Athena from rescuing him. Likewise, he is the one who offers up the proposal of a game, why would he have a problem with losing it? The reason of 'he doesn't like to lose' doesn't cut it for how extreme his reaction was and it completely undermines what was a genuinely super enjoyable and different take on Zeus in a modern Western-based greek myth inspired piece of media. Absolutely such a tragedy to me.

Of course, to me, the biggest actual crime of adaptation that EPIC's committed with respect to its characters is that we only have about 10 songs left based on Herrans' original outline for the musical and Penelope still has not had a single song or showing or meaningful reference apart from "I am Odysseus and I miss my wife (her name is Penelope)". The Odyssey was a twofold story split between Odysseus vibing on the way back to Ithaca and the political bullfuckery that was awaiting for him when he inevitably returned to Ithaca. The center of that aforementioned political bullfuckery was Penelope and Telemachus. Considering Penelope has been Odysseus' guiding motivation for the entire play, the fact that there has not been a single solid piece of real characterisation that can be attributed to her this late in the story is uh! Criminal actually, and it's the only thing for which I hold some level of genuine disdain over.

In conclusion: I generally quite look forward to people doing adaptations and interpretations of myths and such! I generally think EPIC's done a good job with the adventure and exploration part of the epic but the political and domestic aspect of it really isn't where Herrans shines as a writer and it shows.

[sapphicflower-ao3]

i just finishing listening to your "songs i think deku/bakugou would listen to" playlists and i now can officially say that you are the only person who is allowed to make character playlists for those boys (i really loved the playlits, tysm, loved that chapter too, tysm)

hey do you wanna get married

[nerdieforpedro]

Music Shuffle Poll Game

I was tagged by @magpiepills and @maggiemayhemnj I think. 🤔

Shuffle your Spotify and have people vote on the song the like based on this question:

My shuffle did not have to inform me how often I listen to Hozier. I know. 👀 🤣🤣🤣

I choose you to tell me your songs! @megamindsecretlair @soft-persephone @soft-persephone @saturn-rings-writes @inept-the-magnificent

@doscharolastras @tinytinymenace @angelofsmalldeath-codeine @schnarfer @connectioneverywhere

@sin-djarin @mysterious-moonstruck-musings