#saltfield

[saltfield]

Seasonal Grays

Spring is dead... Spring is dead...

Winter stings white and summer burns red.

Together we fall into the extremes,

To border the expanse of nightmares and dreams.

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Winter lily maiden of the starry nights,

Melt like the eves of holiday ice.

Summer-bright peony of blinding suns,

Burn like bonfires of lost vacations.

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I remember you, always so fondly,

Like an argument won in imagining,

So wary, scary, lost and contrary,

A beast of a devil in the form of a fairy.

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You are the grappling wrists of abuse,

And numb to the pain, I have no excuse.

For a taste of the vigor, for want of a meal,

I discard utensils, wielding blades of steel.

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No growth remains over the crest,

Freeze, burn, and rot into rest.

As the time of motley seasons decay,

Spring is well dead, and we all fall away.

[saltfield-of-the-earth]

Conceptually, "Descent" by VNV Nation comes to mind. https://youtu.be/rgPGuDq-cJU?si=rt1tWSHqu7H0T1WV

Obsessions with "force of will" seem to be a masculine trait, most often realized as violence. That same will carries the capacity to create entire universes. A man gassed thousands in the 40's, but a man also created Middle Earth, the internet, and landed on the moon.

In scripture, this is shown by the Pharaoh of Egypt during Moses' proclamations (Exodus), the arrogant Belshazzar at the fall of Babylon (Daniel 5), and king Rehoboam (1 Kings 12).

Violence is but the simplest application of will given destruction is easier than creation. Build the tower or knock it down? Kindergarten philosophy. You want power, to make a name for yourself, and to be respected and admired... So domination of other's wills is the easy route to a false version of that spark of creation.

Saw an op-ed the other day that I can’t get to link properly talking about how men are lost and the responses to men being lost are a kind of malevolent indifference from the left and bizarre dangerous caricatures of archetypes on the right and one of the things I have dimly perceived for years but only recently managed to articulate is that the conversation about men is almost only ever concerned with men’s capacity for violence. From this principle the left will by turns ridicule, lecture, or ignore in the hopes of disarming, while the right will insist the male capacity for violence has a valuable place in society when properly aimed.

Both accept, however, that the essential characteristic of a man is violence. What happens when there is no outlet for violence? I will go a step further and enter theological territory: in the Kingdom of God, where there are no more battles to be fought and the enemy is extinguished for ever, what happens to male souls, having lost what made them essentially men? Souls are not “men” and “women” in an earthly sense but are they masculine and feminine? Does the former pass away and the latter go on, as I have read at least one theologian suggest?

I don’t quite have the means to unpack this yet but the TL;DR is that man and woman are made in the image of God and as God is our creator and the creator of all things I think that maybe men could find a way to lean into being creators and embrace that aspect of their nature that they share with their Father

“women also create” yes women are also violent but we are talking about gross generalizations

The popular image I see is that Zoomers and I suppose a few younger Millennials are embracing that they are the “strong men” that have been created by hard times, understood, again, mainly to be about their ability, or willingness, or desire, to be astonishingly violent. We’ll see how that goes, but there are always a lot of things to build and to repair.

“I have no outlet for creativity” you also have no legitimate outlet for violence and yet here you are seeing that as your main purpose in life

[oh-hools]

my underscoares cover

[snipdoodle]

what’s you fav underscores song

Del mar county fair 2008 hits me in a way very few songs do. So that one

I also love Gunk and Heck and Saltfields (I think boneyard is my favorite project of hers. Just so good)

[kingmystrieart]

There's nothing we can do!

[Image ID: My anthro snail/cobra oc Arniela standing in front of a sky that has giant brightly colored unnatural flowers, there's backdrop shadows and white text along the length of the image proclaiming: There's nothing we can do! /end ID]

based on the song Saltfields from Underscores

[turnleftaticela]

i love this song

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

"Everybody's dead!" • Girls and boys—but secretly, you’d love to know what it’s like, wouldn’t you? • Heck, I’ve Become the Grim Reaper’s Housewife?! • Gunk, or, The Notorious Salt Water Party Trick • Loansharks aka Spoiled little brat II: Dying in the Northern Hemisphere Somewhere (feat. gabby start) • Tongue in cheek: S*nny, I Think the Girl Next Door has a Crush On You! • Saltfields (The Layman's Ultimate 7-Step Guide to a Life of Poserdom: There’s nothing we can do!)

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[breadboylovin]

2, 11, and 46 for spotify wrapped 🤲

2. Quadeca - EASIER

I FUCKING LOVE THIS SOOOOOOOONG oh my god every time it comes on i have to loop it like 3 times. its a really good representation of quad's way of mixing genres like... (paraphrasing hivemind riley here) its got a very chill bossa nova ish instrumental and then he throws in a rap verse near the end and it WORKS? LIKE REALLY WELL? WHO ELSE IS DOING IT LIKE HIM!!!! put this on on a cloudy day and youll experience something beautiful TRUST ME

11. twikipedia - paper planes

discovered this song pretty late in the year (i think september? while studying for my first physics 2 exam). but oh my god. this song has gone triple platinum in my car. its another one that i have to loop like 3 times when it comes on. twikipedia used to be a hyperpop artist and then switched to shoegaze (a surprising trend in the past year) and im very glad she did bc i think shes a lot better at shoegaze. yippee!!!!

46. underscores - Saltfields (There's nothing we can do!)

omg this song! i had been meaning to listen to this EP for a while cus everyone said it was good and i finally got to it dis summer. its preddy good. i dont have much to say about this particular song but it does get stuck in my head a lot LOL

[dragirlinstall]

17:A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

you’re gay

17:A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

fuuuuck the music i’ve been listening to recently doesn’t entirely lend itself to being duet music tbh. but fuck that it’s my askbox i get to answer how i want!

i’m saying Saltfields (There’s nothing we can do!) because it’s just a good song to sing with people i think! & i have experience with such a phenomenon :3

now watch this chat she’s about to say that i am gay as fuck

[saltfield]

Nursery Rhyme

Once upon the merrily days,

Our conspiracies were nursery tales,

Egg shaped people fell from walls,

Wisdom sang till sadness lulled.

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But arms are closed and doors are sealed,

Cryptids stalk us from the creakings,

While I return where sunsets fall,

And reckon with my spoiled speaking.

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Vibrant reds turn so burgundy,

Wise men lost, wandering and worthless,

Old king Midas touched his heart,

Golden fires burn wild and hearth-less.

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When dawn breaks new, will mankind live?

So merrily lost and long erased.

The Crooked Man walks crooked miles,

His wisdom burned in gold, effaced.

[chaosmenu]

more thoughts on boneyard aka fearmonger that im kind of struggling to word. but i really appreciate that the album manages to balance speaking from the perspective of an unreliable narrator with a clear sense of purpose. which is usually like.... writing 101, but obviously a lot of songwriters arent really thinking about that sort of thing? especially not when the album is viewed within its full context. but like. the contrast between "everybodys dead" and "saltfields (theres nothing we can do!)" shows this very plainly. like, in "everybody's dead," the narrator shifts between talking about their own self-absorbed guilt complex where they believe every political issue is Their Fault and also their relationship problems with someone else whos very self-absorbed. which is a great way to craft dramatic irony. but then saltfields inverts this by saying "oh, sure, everything sucks and i, individually, am not a huge deal, but also theres nothing i can do about the state of the world and we should all just give up :)", and then the song slowly like... destroys itself from there. i like how violent it sounds, like theres such a huge gap between the joyful apathy of the narrator and how fucking angry the song is at them by the end

to use an example of an album that deals with similar themes and is Not as self-aware as boneyard, hypochondriac by brakence. which i love dgmw. its hands-down my most listened to album Ever which is kind of incredible considering it came out this year. but it also talks about environmental & political anxieties among specifically youth living in the imperial core, but it doesnt have anything interesting to say and feels obnoxiously self-centered. and i feel comfortable saying that here considering brakence will never see this. but like. ok lets take this line from uhh. i think it was 5g iirc?

when i die i hope im buried in a forest, that is if any of its left, this shit is torrid

like. ok aside from the fact that "torrid" is a really random word to use here and was obviously just used to fit the rhyme. this is the literary equivalent of a tedtalk. the artist is just straight up telling you their thoughts with no creativity or anything. its boring, okay?

at risk of sounding repetitive (i need to get back on subject somehow, sorry), boneyard manages to avoid the very easy trap of "tell, dont show" through the satirical implementation of an unreliable narrator and a clear arc throughout the album. there are some lines that feel too expository, but theyre sparing and they have a clear purpose. i think i just love underscores bc their ability to make fun of a specific Kind Of Person while also creating an interesting character (ie all of fishmonger) is so good. i love you underscores

[monriatitans]

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[turnleftaticela]

i 💜 this song

[soi-photography]

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[ritokaizen]

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