#philosophy and lyrics

[lucidloving]

D. Alan Holmes, Enlightenment // Signet Amenti // @cryptonature // Alan Wilsom Watts // Evan M. Cohen, "Oceans" // Nikita Gill // @pauladoodles // Julian Gough, "Minecraft End Poem" // Sleeping At Last—Saturn

[y2kaee]

[creoastra]

This was made for an art trade with @draws-danny !!!! Go check out what they made!

I have loved this song for years!! And just recently I began to associate it with Danny!

I would write a whole other essay about how it connects to him, but I don't think I know enough words for that lol

[itriedsohard]

“Maybe I was destined for philosophy Leading leftist ideologies at the Paris-Sorbonne Dreaming up the splendid demise Of the societies we despise, at Cafe de Flore” - Love In The Time Of Socialism (Yellow House)

[suigenerisstuff]

Excerpt from the song 'Flor do Mal' or 'Flower of Evil", 1915

"Hypocritical, pretended soul, heart Of granite or ice, curse Oh, satanic and perverse spirit Titanic jackal of evil In a submerged mire (...) Christ was betrayed too, so why can't I be?"

Domingos Correia

[therulerofallpotatos]

If you find yourself stressing over every action to be the most moral and going to debilitating lengths to make sure you're daily life never negatively affects someone in any way or..say, your favorite artists are "good" people before enjoying a song or a movie or something, or even treating other people badly for not going to those same debilitating lengths then remember Chidi Anagonye who literally made himself and everyone around him miserable and ended up in the bad place for having moral OCD when the reality was that you have no choice but to participate in your society no matter how flawed it is and while that's not an excuse to not try, you should not expect yourself or anyone else to be "perfect".

[eternaloptimistsphere]

i feel like bursting into tears

[likesdoodling]

Kind of spoilers? But also not really? Eh. If you've read the last volume you'll understand more of it.

*shrugs

This idea was stuck in my head, so I did something about it :D

[daydrinking75]

who am i to give a fuck?

[madnessbypoetry]

December 16

A sprint isn’t a marathon

A see you later isn’t a goodbye

Sometimes life gets easier

The less you try

[ultraviolnce]

“I wouldn’t know what to do with another chance, if you gave it to me”

-The Way Things Are (Fiona Apple 1996)

[step-and-pen-bu]

I tried to translate "Mekurume" (Sublime) by Frog96!! (Idolm@ster Gakuen)

フロクロさんの「メクルメ」���拙訳でございます！

Translated Lyrics:

Leaf through it, Gaze into it, Softly chant it Touch it, It falls apart, It unfurls a bit It falls away, It ever wavers, Something flashes to mind Consciousness revolves, Wondrousness sleeps

That is The Sublime ¹

Ever deluging radio waves ² Preliminary match, Experimentation in a miniature garden (aah…) The repetitive sine wave ³ Is softly lowering the numerals With a worldview that towers over skylines The reverberating cries of a newborn

Lead me out of this puritanical cage!

After all My sweet sweet melted delusions are insoluble This old old ripened instinct won't splay from me But I want to expose my deep deep hidden urges

So it's Bright ⁴ Fervent Painful Faraway

I'm growing sick of waiting and waiting For seasons I'm left wanting something more All alone here Spring, Summer, Autumn I journeyed through them again With growing somnolence, ⁵ another world Waiting for its eclosion, β(beta)! ⁶

Still without seeing, somehow I'd like to commune again Standing up my nails against the window Intoning Even a shattered mirror is precious The world / My self Which one appears to be broken?

It's a lovely exile colony, isn't it? Here is the blank white planet (aah…) My right handed sketch is ⁷ A potential for a new interpretation Even commonplace worldviews The cross-section of their shapes are to be questioned Shed and emerge from within your narrow skin

More distant the body as it moves You blur and cascade and settle but If you became positively vacuous You could still link with your open palms

Y'know

I sang to defy the beat of my heart I danced to defy the beat of my heart I laughed to defy the beat of my heart I screamed to defy the beat of my heart ⁸

Indivisibly Because I want to melt alongside you Trace the lie with your finger Look over your shoulder Whenever you blink The scenery like the rise and fall of breath Is another world I was waiting for my eclosion…

The seasons said They grew tired of waiting Now a drawn out din The unfastening secret of Philosophia ⁹ Spring, Summer, Autumn I journeyed through them again Piercing my retinas, a whole new world Leaving the chrysalis/Unfurling in a flower is a galaxy Scents, forms, light, Everything that touches me echoes Fluttering Even the returning cascades are resplendent The world / My self Sounds like we can have stories left to share

Translation Notes:

A Philosophical or Literary term that implies a kind of overwhelming splendor or dazzling-ness that is beyond normal human means, has been in use since Ancient Greece (See Translators Comments)

Radio Waves, or Denpa, is a style of Japanese Literature but also a characterization term discussing someone who is out of touch with reality, as in, it has a similar affect to "Tinfoil Hat" or someone who believes they hear voices from electromagnetic radiation. The singer, Shinosawa Hiro may be described as "denpa"

Sine waves can be used to describe the frequency of Radio Waves

Literally translates to, Blue, though has a youthful connotation so bright seems to fit better

Somnolence is often a symptom of an underlying condition or a result of someone's physical health. Hiro responds to the question of "How do you spend your off days?" with "Just recovering. I'm doing my best not to die." Her general constitution & sleep nature suggests this sort of underlying need for sleep at all times

Beta, the Greek Letter, is borrowed from the Phonetian word *bayt; meaning, "dwelling, house", the Beta here might suggest an emergence from one's home & perhaps calls upon a sort of Shut-in or cut off from reality imagery

Hiro is left handed, this refers to how she is navigating the idol world, something which she finds herself not apt for which is akin to using one's non-dominant hand to draw. Yet, she sees the potential in practicing what one is not good at.

This stanza may represent each of the potential stats for training in Idolmaster Gakuen; respectively, Vocals, Dance, and Visuals. Shinosawa, the singer, believes she is not particularly talented in any of these fields, though she trains to "defy" that expectation that she is no good at being an idol

The Ancient Greek word that "Philosophy" is derived from; meaning, "The love of wisdom"

Translator's Comments:

This song depicts a sort of interplay between the speaker's dreamlike innerworld & perception in contrast to the strange reality they find themselves in. The song also discusses the great joys & wisdom of experiencing things in the world & the mysteriousness of knowledge. The singer leaves their body & enters, not the real world, but another fantastical world through their daydreaming fantasy. There's a distinct throughline of engaging with Hiro's weak physical condition, & her dissociation from that within this song. "Mekurume" is translated here as The Sublime which is an Ancient Greek philosophic term (Popularized in Modern Literary Criticism by Emanuel Kant) which describes when things are so vast & beyond human perception that they are overwhelmingly dazzling. The name "Mekurume" is a shortening of 目くるめく (mekurumeku) which is a verb which means "To dazzle, to blilnd", though, is a kind of confusion or overwhelming produced by vision or fatigue. Such is a common symptom of Hiro's physical condition. Yet, the Sublime fits this meaning as well, as it is the visual perception of things considered "Sublime"; for example, the vastness of the universe, or the beauty of a mountain range which surpasses the horizon, illicit the same sort of "Mekurumeku" sort of feeling. This in tandem with the Ancient Greek references throughout the text suggest a meaning like "The Sublime".

to speak uncritically, Hiro is such a silly denpa girl i love her this song fits her eerie vibe perfectly !! thank you Furokuro-san!!

in a personal comment! i drew a little fanart for Hiro's birthday on my other account @syaruru so if you're at all interested i'll be reblogging it & the whole nine yards but happy birthday hiro wahoo!!

[theallstore]

my beautiful princess with a disorder <333

sources under the read more!

lyrics on white background ['the horror and the wild', album by the amazing devil']

lyrics on light grey background ['jenny from thebes', album by the mountain goats]

lyrics on dark grey background ['the moon will sing', song by the crane wives, alt title the most shadowheart song ever and what inspired this whole thing]

background image of crescent moon [luke stackpoole on unsplash]

background image of sunrise [lenstravelier on unsplash]

all other images are either screenshots from in game or taken from the bg3 wiki! https://bg3.wiki/ because boo hiss fandom.com always and forever

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Lyrics to a 🎻Traditional Irish song🎶 that (in my not-so-humble opinion) are pretty much Punk:

I'm a rambler, and a gambler, And a long way from home. And them that don't like me, They can leave me alone. I'll eat when I'm hungry, And drink when I'm dry. And if whisky don't kill me, I'll live 'til I die.

[suigenerisstuff]

Excerpt from the song 'Castelos de Areia' or 'Sandcastles', 1932:

"My poor heart watches the plot Of love that intimate tears foretells Since God doesn't hear screams of the lovers Tears are the protest of the unfortunates. (...) Love's longed-for misadventure That leads me to the portico of death It is given to the miserable to have in the grave Love symbolized in a cross."

Cândido das Neves

[underachieverse]

I love song lyrics that contradict each other