#obli

[lilystargazerwhite]

Lily actually cosplaying eiki. Plus a little comic

[groovesnjams]

"Dancing" by Betsy · obli · Elizabeth Humfreys

DV:

Even after a decade, Betsy's online presence remains at best enigmatic - her YouTube page not only directs you to a lapsed personal site, but to Vine. Her songs occasionally pop up in various recommendations, but more often I discover them when I think to actively look her up. This year she's dropped, without fanfare: a trance remix of a single from her 2017 self-titled, a feature on a beachy house track by Holiday87 and The Knocks, and this, which is credited as a solo track or her and one of the producers or her and both of them, depending on where you look.

This relative invisibility matters because I just want more of Betsy, and I want to know when and how I can hear more of her, and the way Betsy's work seems to resist promotion or visibility makes this maddeningly difficult (her mononym does not help, admittedly.) "Dancing" may not be an instant classic, but it's filled with neat touches in the production - percussion flourishes, vocal effects like bubbles popping, a strong sense of dynamics - that make it compelling. And the song punches way above its weight class because this isn't just any singer, it's Betsy. With her voice irresistible, full of pain and power, lush and overwhelming. No one else sounds quite like her, and each time we hear from her it seems like discovering a treasure all over again. I'm sure there must be a better way to run a career, and I'm sure there are reasons why hers looks like this. But in the end I'll take what I can get.

MG:

Well, this is children's music, which, admittedly, is hard to reliably discover outside of massive hits and tie-in soundtracks. I don't mean to heap more on the plates of over-extended and well-meaning parents but, truthfully, I also think more could be done to make non-branded children's music accessible to its audience. I also think more children's music could be about, like, anything other than dancing, but I spend enough time around kids to know they really do a lot of dancing and they need a lot of dancing songs. To that end, "Dancing" is wonderful. Its lyrics are instructive and sensitive listeners will intuit the connection between movement and the release of tender emotions. It feels like there's a missed opportunity for Bleep or some arm of NTS to host a kid's mix dance hour because, wow, how glorious would "Dancing" be as the shimmering denouement of 56 minutes of wiggling?

[wurm-food]

songs of the day! ✨

[ooobli]

blender render that i ruined with csp for the spotify playlist icon. still trying to figure out the playlist though......... so hard..

[faerie-goddess]

woooosahhhh

recharge station

[spitblaze]

Tumblr users stop making serious American politics about Ao3 challenge

[slime-sandwhich-nom]

Imagine you're a middle aged woman with most likely brain damage and this 13 year old kid is talking about changing the future

[artemistorm]

Silly Game Time: What was the most recent internet search you're comfortable with sharing?

Slickensides! Slickensides are rock races that are polished smooth by rubbing against another rock at a fault line (source of earthquakes). We found one on our field trip (and I looked them up online to see what other look like).

This polished surface was so smooth and hard that it felt like porcelain. It's just crazy to think that this was caused by rocks rubbing against rocks.

[ymsnrr]

fleeting glances, missed chances

[a-literal-toaster-wtf]

FINISHED!!! god i love lister he is actually the character ever

[ffverr]

Teleporting team WIP

[r1z3n]

Okay the angst of batkids worrying about Bruce finding out about things they think he will hate but when it happens, it Bruce finding out and going to say something only to be undercut by Alfred telling a story of Bruce doing something similar.

[judehatesmaths]

More pictures from the episode of them in the 70s

[kirksbignaturals]

"ohh what a jolly show i've come across, i do like these funny fellows innocent mischief! i shall browse the interwebs to see what funny memes have come of this-"

those whispers two scrolls down : hey

[satancopilotsmytardis]

I just got the wildest thought

Shigaraki that mentors other doms in a club, Dabi who becomes his mentee, Dabi who has an epiphany during one of the sessions and understands that he doesn't want to be in Shigaraki's place, he wants to be in the sub's place

Sorry I just thought it was funny to share

Hot!!! Sounds 100% plausible! Dabi realizes how responsible he has to be if he's in the position if the Dominant, he understands that he can't just treat people the way that his dad treated his mom because that was just abuse, and he figures out that he's Tired. He doesn't want to have all that responsibility and when he goes to the previous partner and tries to explain this and ask if they could try switching, he gets dumped so hard and ends up back at the club because that's where he's made the only friends that he has independent of the previous partner and Shig tries to cheer him up and Dabi explains the hard scene his previous partner wanted him to do and how he just couldn't imagine enjoying it as the one in control, he just kept imagining how good it would feel to be in the other position. Tomura offers to essentially be his rebound and let him experience being a sub and they go off and have absolutely mind-blowing sex 💕

[palskippah]

Writing on the au of the gay dads au where Ballister carries nimona, and he's so excited to learn she's a girl after months of not knowing [(bc she didn't show. The lil mf (based over my college friend whose mom never knew her gender while pregnant and had to buy only yellow neutral clothes for her during that time JDDJ)] and goes to the nearest supermarket to buy a bunch of baby girl clothes bc he finally knows what he can buy and he makes me so sad Ballister why are you like this (I wrote him)

[he's internally going like, yeah this and that, and of course this! With reasoning behind every purchase about how she's going to need all that (and refers to her as 'her' and not 'his baby' during all of that little bit of writing, just because he now knows her gender and is glad about that). And there's onesies and bibs and little baby shoes and this mf is still so worried if he made the right decision of keeping the baby but he's so obviously excited about having her 🧍]

(when sometime later he expresses this worry to Ambrosius, the guy is like stfu what are you talking about, look at all these clothes we're folding) (he doesn't say that but it's something like, relax, you love her and it shows)

I like this fic so much it has everything I'd like to read (I wrote it)