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[death2normalcy]

Since I’m officially done with the main guides to Stray Kids, I   figured I’d do a couple fun guides, just for, well, fun. I’m done with   the dynamics, but I didn’t want to stop making these, lmao. So, I   thought it would be interesting to kind of explain the boys music, kind  of like a summary of all the music they’ve put out. Not each song   individually, that may be too much. But maybe the albums/mini albums/   EPs, etc.

this post contains information about christmas evel, oddinary, and maxident.

Christmas Evel (2021)

Released in November of 2021

not a full EP, just a singles album, consisting of 4 songs: Christmas Evel, Winter Falls, 24 to 25, and the English version of Domino.

all 3 of the Christmas songs have a music video

each song is pretty different from the next, with a different tone and feel than the rest.

christmas evel is kind of seen as an ‘anti christmas song’ and is fun and chaotic. 24 to 25 is softer and more sappy, and is one of those songs that could be about a significant other, but was clearly written with stays in mind (and, specifically, was fully written by bang chan himself!) and winter falls is another han jisung song, so of course the lyrics are deep and thoughtful and is about trying to forget an ex

the actually won first place on a music show for ‘christmas evel’ and it was Music Bank, i believe.

personal favorite - again, a case of lyrics vs. what i actually listen to most. i think, lyrically, i prefer winter falls. but i listen to christmas evel more.

Peak position - 1 on South Korean Albums chat

Oddinary EP (2022)

released in March 2022.

consists of 7 songs: Venom, Maniac, Charmer, Freeze, Lonely St., Muddy Water, and Waiting for Us.

has music videos for: maniac, venom, freeze, and lonely st.

muddy water and waiting for us are unit tracks. muddy water is the ‘rap line’, consisting of Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, and Felix. and waiting for us is the ‘vocal line’ consisting of Bang Chan, Lee Know, Seungmin, and I.N. both songs have completely different feels to them. muddy water is kind of a 90s style hip hip song and waiting for us is more of a sweet, sappy ballad.

overall theme of the ep was definitely accepting your oddness and who you are and not following the crowd just because.

music show wins - from what i can tell, it was 3 wins for maniac. one for show champion, one for music bank, and one for virtual gayo top 10.

personal favorite - a tough one, as i think this is their best album to date. but i’m very fond of Venom, so maybe that one. i will also always hold a special place in my heart for Maniac, since it was the first song I ever heard from them.

Peak position - Actually hit number 1 on multiple charts: Finnish Albums, Polish Albums, South Korean Albums (Goan), US Billboard 200 and US World Album (Billboard).

Maxident EP (2022)

released in October 2022

consists of 8 songs: Case 143, Chill, Give Me Your TMI, Super Board, 3Racha, Taste, Can’t Stop, and the Korean version of Circus.

has music videos for 4 of the songs: Case 143, Chill, Give Me Your TMI, and Super Board

there are unveils for the 3 unit songs, but they’re mostly just clips from the concert where they performed them for the first time, plus a couple bonus backstage clips. still recommend checking them out, though!

there are 3 unit songs on this one, 3Racha, Taste, and Can’t Stop. as usual, each one has it’s own distinct feel and style to it. 3Racha consists of, well, 3Racha (Bang Chan, Changbin, Han) and is essentially a rap diss track, taste is danceracha (Lee Know, Hyunjin, Felix) and is a much more sensual r&b song (i typed that and realized after that it’s exactly how wikipedia describes it, lol), and can’t stop is vocalracha (Seungmin and I.N.) and is a much more fun and upbeat song.

music show wins - 2 on MCountdown, 2 on Show Champion, 2 on Music Bank (i think. wikipedia doesn’t list them for this one or oddinary, so i had to go elsewhere)

this album actually broke records for Stray Kids! they’re pre-order sales exceeded 2.24 million, which is at least 1 million more than Oddinary. it was also certified for reaching 3 million sales, making them the first JYP triple million seller. (i’m going off wikipedia here)

personal favorite - tough one, but probably can’t stop. honestly, all three unit tracks are phenomenal, in my opinion.

Peak position - Another one that hit number 1 on a lot of charts: Croatia International Albums, Polish Albums, South Korean Albums (Circle), US Billboard 200 and US World Albums (Billboard).

Update since I wrote that: THEY WON A DAESANG FOR THIS ALBUM. Specifically, at the 2022 Asia Artist Awards. So proud of them!

this album is also nominated for a few other awards, so hopefully, they get even more!

[cheatingtime]

[hotdyke-hardstyle]

GET UP BITCH! Shake Ya Ass!

[spider-man-2o99]

individual stills of miguel Scampering on all fours and showing off his more distinct individual movement style (that he has because of his spider-man's Similar-but-still-distinctly-Weird-and-unique powers as compared to the more-graceful Others) so that i don't have 2 keep rewinding the clip(s) to see it. im REALLY excited to see him scuttling and skittering all over the place in the film just like he does in the comics-- and, like, seriously, Miguel Specifically being just. made Massive for some reason in his atsv design will never NOT be funny to me hes SO freakin Bouncy why did they Do That.

don't be Weird on my post or i'll kill you for real

[artetass]

“It was one of my dreams, probably the biggest dream that I had, to connect again with the soul of this football club & our people. That makes me really proud & grateful to be part of that journey together.” “We want to deliver success & the destination has to be trophy success & enjoyment for this club, but we have to enjoy the journey together. Especially you have to enjoy the company.” “I said that today because we have a special group of people in this club, an incredible group of players & amazing support. That has to be enjoyed. In the end winning can be about the margins but you cannot underestimate the rest because if we don’t do that, we are going to regret it.”

-Mikel Arteta.

[marblerose-rue]

click for better quality!

the perched king / tigerstar I

[queerplatonicdiaries]

long!!! distance!!!! sucks!!!!!!

[captain-hen]

♡ 911 rewatch ♡

→ 5.07: 'Ghost Stories'

[theheroheart]

Finally got hold of the official Ted Lasso Barbie, and I need you all to know that he is in fact shredded.

Since this is not only highly inaccurate but also an affront to dad bods everywhere, I did pad him a little bit.

[riddlerosehearts]

i just recently read the last runway and taiyuki actually makes me so insane like first of all what do you MEAN taichi and yuki were childhood friends when they were 4-5 years old who didn't realize at first that they ever knew each other because they lost touch and were only reunited over a whole decade later after taichi literally just joined mankai company to be a spy at first?! what do you mean taichi's childhood crush, who he still thinks about and refers to as his first love, who he liked so much that he ran away from home just to try to find "her" when "she" moved away, was literally yuki?? the same person who he has to help make the play costumes as a punishment for destroying costumes when he was being a spy??

and also wtf do you MEAN the last runway came out exactly one year after mantou fist, the event that focused on taichi finally learning that the "girl" he lived next door to and had a crush on was yuki? the event where he lamented not being able to invite his first love, the only friend he had that knew the old him, to watch him play the lead role and see how much he'd changed... only to then discover that he could invite his childhood love to watch him because it was yuki, and get extremely flustered not about having had a crush on a boy but about the fact that yuki has seen him at his worst and has been spending so much time with him when they make costumes together?!

and what do you mean taichi doesn't even tell him they were childhood friends and then yuki has to figure it out on his own after literally going to taichi's house (AND GETTING ASKED BY TAICHI'S SIBLINGS IF YUKI IS HIS GIRLFRIEND!!) and finding out that he's still keeping an old tattered scarf that yuki had made for taichi--who he used to call "chibi" back then 🥺--and that taichi calls his TREASURE? what do you mean yuki also decides not to openly tell taichi he remembers their childhood friendship and instead just makes him a whole new scarf to replace the old one?? and that taichi immediately puts the new scarf on and doesn't wanna take it off even in the heat because it's his treasure?? what do you meeeeean both taichi and yuki finally realize that they were friends when they were little and neither of them say a word to each other about it 😭 taichi literally acts like his childhood crush on yuki never went away. they have a plotline that sounds like it belongs in a romcom. they're just insane.

[whump-card]

Collar 9 - NERVOUS

@angst-after-dark

[the-holy-ghosted]

*putting on a moustache and sunglasses*

So like what’s the deal with ghosted what’s that about

now see the deal with Ghosted is that it's not what happens within the events of the film that captivates me so much, though don't get me wrong i love this film to bits, but rather, it's the idea of what happens after the whole thing that makes me FUCKING NUTS

because the whole thing is relatively cut and dry in the sense that we don't have to guess about what happened before and we don't have to guess about how everybody is feeling in the present. we know (MOST) important characters backgrounds and what they're doing at Falkhill and slowly revealing Paul's context was pretty interesting if not a little abrupt at the end there but its the very last scene of this film down to the very frame that flips the whole hour and a half you just watched over on its head and prevents me from getting a good night's sleep because i can't stop thinking about it

ELABORATING WITH A LOT OF SPOILERS UNDER THIS

explaining the plot of this movie is hard without sounding like im writing a pretentious review and not just talking out of my ass on tumblr but for my followers who haven't watched this movie and dont care enough to: Ghosted (2011) is set in a british prison in which Jack (John Lynch) is a long time prisoner who's wife just dumped him apparently on the anniversary of their sons death (tough break) and is being advised by his friend and cellmate Ahmed (Art Malik) (who does NOT get HALF as much screen-time or plot relevance as he DESERVES,) to find something to put his mind to and be proud of outside of his failures Paul (Martin Compston) is a prisoner who was just transferred out of a Young Offenders prison AS FAR AS WE'RE TOLD... though its noticeable from the beginning that hes not a very good liar and his story is suspicious at best Clay (Craig Parkinson) is kindof The Guy of their prison wing whos dealing drugs to other prisoners and assumes the position of authority over everybody else, though compared to other inmates with bigger cliques, his foundations are shaky. the description of this film on letterboxd calls him "the wing beast" and i have never cried laughing so hard reading something in my life

Clay and Jack both hone in on Paul immediately for different reasons. Jack, after his pep talk with Ahmed, sees Paul as a source of "a little self belief, something to be proud of", but Clay scoops him under his wing for being relatively young and impressionable. This puts Jack and Clay at odds with each other. after some plot, Paul gets into very big trouble with Clay and after An Incident is promptly plopped into Jacks hands, who had requested Paul move into his cell earlier but didn't have a good enough excuse for it. Well You've Got A Bloody Good Reason Now ect ect

Jack and Paul buddy up immediately and its noticable that Paul is sort of filling in the empty space where a son would be for Jack, however we discover that Paul has been lying about his past to everybody, including Jack. he lied about his family and he lied about having only just been transferred from Y.O. and hadn't been telling the whole truth about his sentence. what the truth ends up being, in a nutshell, is that Paul is accidentally responsible for the death of Jack's son, having been the one who started the house fire he died in (we were never even told that Jack's son died in a house fire before this, we are only told this in Paul's flashback at the end of the movie and are supposed to act, like, surprised?? whatever). consequentially, Jack flips his lid and prompts my personal favorite scene in this film in which he beats the living shit out of Paul with his bare hands and immediately regrets it the second the adrenaline wears off, hitting an alarm button within the cell that alerts the guards.

the guards whisk him away and he is put in solitary confinement, which we find out was actually the first sequence of the film where hes shown with an absurdly long beard, and considering every other fucking scene he's in is of him shaving his face, i assume this is to show just how long he's been kept in solitary confinement, which quite honestly was kindof exciting to realize at the end of the film.

and then. the end scene.

after solitary, Jack is put in cuffs and brought to see Paul who looked Extremely Dead after Jack had him, but hes not dead! just almost dead. Jack is sat next to him and tries to apologize but starts to cry, reaching out a hand to hold Paul's but retracting it regretfully. Paul, having looked unconscious not five seconds before, moves his hand to place it over Jack's...

and then the movie ends. and i am left writhing on my floor in anguish BUT NOT BEFORE I EXPLAIN TO YOU THAT THIS

THIS is what the deal is with Ghosted

the pathetic gestures of "im sorry" and "its okay" are what kill me. sorry is nowhere near enough to justify anything that EITHER of them did, NOR should they be forgiven. AND YET.

and what gets my gears going is the thought of what everything looks like AFTER this scene. after they've bonded so close and after Jack already thought that Paul stopped lying to him, thinking that he could protect Paul from Clay now... after they started to fill the spaces for people they were missing in their lives... and after they've RUINED each others lives. They Have Ruined Each Others Lives and yet Paul probably would have had to DELIBERATELY ASK for them to bring Jack to see him because he just BEAT Paul within an INCH of his life and would NOT !! have brought Jack to see him upon Jack's own request!! Paul would have wanted to see him too!! after all this what does their relationship look like now... the image of father and son has been all but shattered in each other's eyes, one can assume, but are they still close... does the guilt and responsibility drift them apart or does it pull them inseparably together? Ahmed tells Jack that "there is no such thing as coincidence, only fate" but what does their fate look like... does it end here or does it mean that they're together indefinitely? the end of this film swings the door wide open and i think about it. way too often. unacceptably often, even.

all in all theres no reason that this should be my favorite film but it is. if nothing else it's made me look into the other actors involved and branch out with a to-watch list as long as my arm that will only get longer once i branch out from there. is it the perfect movie? no this film is mediocre at best. have i made a number of my friends sit down and watch it and listen to me yell incoherently about it? of course i have.

[66sharkteeth]

happy pride month from the walking ace flag, rex

[alchely]

This is catering to a very niche audience but the youtube reactor 7 Deadly Bananas is a couple episodes away from the S7 Gallavich reunion and I am Sooo excited to see it!

Idk I love this guy's reaction, I hate when reactors don't get on board with Shameless dark humour/ gallows humour, or just in general don't vibe along with a show's tone.

I am literally collecting scraps when it comes to Shameless reactions, it's so weird, like the show is definitely popular enough and Shameless reactions do relatively well on the few ppl who have reacted to it and yet...

It's probably cause it's too long 🙄

I really want to get a queer reactor to watch it cause Gallavich, but honestly I'll take anyone at this point.

This guy's commentary is also fun, but at the pace he's set for uploading he's almost doing a season a year, so no chance of getting to the juicy parts any time soon.

[modernbaseball]

inspired by this gif from like 2013 that I watch every morning

[greg-montgomery]

i think ollie doesn’t eat when i’m not home :(