#talk about perfectly timed music

[fallout-lou-begas]

well i don't think that's normal, part 2 (part 1)

[andthesunwillalwaysshine]

FUCK IF THE TOUCHED SPEECH MADE MY HEART COMBUST THEN WHAT DID THE END OF DAYS ONE DO ???? such a perfect whole scene with the comedic greeting to the awkwardness to buffy basically calling him an idiot in 3 different ways (and using one of his made up words back at him) and then actually being real with spike and telling him their moment wasn’t just nothing but meaningful to her to spike telling her it was the best night of his life (twice he says this) and how he finally felt close to someone (and to her) and he is terrified (because he has loved her for so long and is used to it going nowhere and doesn’t want to push her after what he did) to buffy reassuring him he doesn’t have to be terrified to them actually starting the first real convo about THEM 

this scene is full of love but it rips my heart out and it is so angsty still because with the big battle incoming neither one of them knows who will end up alive after this (if they win) and if they will be both be alive after this  AND BUFFY’S FACE IN THE END (AND WHILE LISTENING TO SPIKE AND HER SOFT ’’SPIKE’’ WHEN SPIKE SAYS HE CAN’T DO THIS BEFORE OPENING UP TO HER)

[brynn-lear]

I never got too deep into enstars but there are days where I miss Mama 😔

[bandzboy]

there's this post going around on twitter of someone giving their opinion that idol's dance skills are the least important to them and that they are artists first and they don't hear the squeak of their feet on the track so why does it matter, which is something to also unpack in itself, but then someone quoted that tweet being like "idols... are...artists?" and.... i just can't help but stare because if this doesn't show how people don't take idols artistry and talent seriously and only see them as content and not people then i don't know what does.... so you are telling me this WHOLE TIME... you thought they couldn't be classified as real artists even tho they spend years and years training to debut and spend days practising for performances and recording and doing wtv else but you still THINK... they shouldn't be called artists like?? if you genuinely think that it means that you don't actually like the music they produce and the performances they do which also begs the question: if you don't like it... WHY TF ARE YOU HERE THEN??

[volivolition]

Yoooo Voli I made ya a Electrochemistry × Volition playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/19Au6o98AzOf4hEGLMHKtB?si=7kBYYWAhSR-TuLPYicpgYg&pi=a-iR4K2sFbQsWA

also I can't DM you bc you don't follow me, LEMME IN PLS :3

oh hi hello! oooh, hold on, lemme add the link so its clickable. some cool songs in here, thank you for sharing :D!!

also yeah, sorry! :'3 DMs make me nervous and uncomfortable unfortunately, and i much prefer communicating through asks and comments if thats cool!!

[thatsgonnaleaveamark]

people who just.. have full conversations at concerts. why

[fleroveeum]

I did not know there's a pro-shot of Heathers now!! :o

[aaronstveit]

one of the top 10 most shocking facts about me is that i only started listening to sam fender's music today

[tricoufamily]

i knew patrick was coming i was physically bracing myself for it and his voice still jumpscared me

[g3othermal3scapism]

if ur making a collection of good dance scenes in cinema and u dont include rain man, jojo rabbit, or moonrise kingdom, you will start to cough in 2 days.

[luxpenumbra]

ugh ohmygod so I saw this post and it made me so mad that I simultaneously wanted to reblog it just to rant in the tags and to not reblog it so that I could avoid sharing it with /more/ people

listen. music is universal. when a singer, songwriter, producer, lyricist, musician, team puts something out into the world, there may be emotions that they are trying to put into it. They will draw on these emotions as they perform and edit and refine this thing they are making. There may be a story they are trying to tell, an experience they are trying to communicate, and this may not be straightforward; there is a level of abstraction between conceptualization and realization that I am convinced exists to some level in all pieces of art like this. This is not a flaw; this is marvellous. When I the listener interact with a song, or an album, or an artist's entire body of work - the emotions that I feel and the story that is conveyed to me may be just. absolutely different from the artist's intentions and their own experience. It may resonate with me in an entirely different way than intended; it may resonate with someone else in a separate, distinct, discrete way. My and others' awareness of the artist and any context they have made clear may play a part in this or it may not; it depends on how I interact with music and how readily available this information is.

All this is to say: the only fucked up thing with this whole gaylor shit is the part where people are convinced that their interpretation of her music and the way it resonates with them indicates some fundamental truth about her identity. The only person who knows that is her and frankly it's none of anyone else's business and it's probably not that interesting anyway. But!!! this does not mean that her music cannot resonate with someone's experience of queerness!!!! It is story and song and a vehicle for emotion, and the details that make something sing true to someone's life and values are not pinned to the artist's "true identity" like a fuckin. butterfly to a corkboard. there is VALUE and DELIGHT in being aware of some additional dimension of queerness by virtue of the singers intentions or identity or whatever but that's a fucking BONUS you NIMRODS the only thing you need is a heart to feel things and a song to feel them about it's about YOU and how you interpret things. you change things just by existing!!! the only person to experience a song the way you do is YOU!!! "if I wanna listen to gay music I'll listen to gay ppl singing about gay sex" good for you!! but what a sad and limited life you must lead to need the significance and meaning of art spoonfed to you by author bios.

AND THEN. fucking condescending ass AAAAAAAH listen. christian rock can slap. i say this as someone who is markedly not christian. and even if you don't think it slaps that's fine. but the fact that someone's out here going "oh poor limited babies who've never listened to real proper good music before projecting sasanaru onto christian rock because they've never known anything else" grow uppppp!!! first of all!!! nobody. NOBODY. is out here saying 10,000 reasons by matt whatever is about sasuke and naruto kissing. you know this in your heart of hearts, just like you know deep down that there is VALUE in eking out meaning in places where you don't expect to find it, and in places that have some connection to the earliest parts of you. (and even if you aren't doing this, aren't interacting with the context of the music and its genre, see above re:universal fucking language). you've probably done it before. it's tumblr, land of transformative works and webweaving of course you have. how limited in scope must you be to think that people who listen to a genre you don't value but who are also queer or something must be just poor deprived children, limited in resource, waiting for that next evolution i'm gonna weep. anyway listen to relient k cowards

[augustsails]

My college’s music department is doing a really good job of making me not want to join. They’re disorganized as hell, kind to freshmen but incredibly rude to upperclassmen and going so far to literally tell me I shouldn’t join their program. I literally did not ask, I was just trying to get information on the audition I apparently don’t have to do!! Or maybe I do because I’m about to have another long email chain of email forwards because no one knows what they’re doing.

Like I don’t want to let a couple of rude people beat me, but wow my passion for music has been crushed so fast.

[mangobubletea]

losing my mind over the latest jjk opening and ending

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

So I guess it’s time for me to advertise to the entire neighborhood how insufferably neurodivergent I am by blaring a very specific playlist on a portable speaker while I ride my bike around the neighborhood, wearing very specific clothes — holding my hands, face, and posture in a very specific way — and pray to Satan (not really… I’m agnostic just like someone else, unironically) they understand what I’m trying to tell them with the music, and make the connection between the name I’m alluding to and exactly what that name means, and put two and two together that the name will happen to them if they take any pamphlets from my father seriously and decide to convert to the path of “everlasting life on a paradise earth” ahahAhAHAHAHA I AM MAD SCIENTIST! (sunuvabitch)

[no-thanks-bro]

RE4 REMAKE IS A MASTERPIECE AHHXJCKVKELCKEOCMEOFNEFOENDNFBWMDSNFKEKCKWKSKWKSKKW

[roughlytwentytwofrogs]

I have a lot to say about the Casting of Frank Stone. This is going 100% into spoilers territory, so read at your own discretion

It's a game that both fails to live up to DBD's lore and to live without it. It doesn't build an identity for itself, yet it still manages to completely miss what makes DBD something you can pull narration out of.

The references are unending. Collectibles, decor, statues, names, generators, imagery, DBD is everywhere and it's jarring. Every single reference is entirely unexplained. Why do we find dolls of the killers? Why is there Hillbilly statues? Why is there a Trickster music box? Why do we find Huntress' mask and Wraith's weapon in a shop? Why the statues of Oni and the lore about Druanee? Why the fuck is there a generator minigame in the middle of a chase scene with a monster apparently on your ass, in a situation where it makes no sense to have a generator there, that takes way too long to complete and breaks the entire buildup of tension?

It feels like the game relies on people playing while already knowing DBD lore. It just refuses to explain itself. Beyond the ridiculousness of the props themselves, they are absolutely irrelevant to anything that happens. The game comes just shy of explaining why Augustine even collects these, when DBD lore already has a wholeass plot about having a cult around the entity sacrificing people to it. It feels like it wants you to invent your own explanation and refuses to separate itself from the base game and work on its own.

Even if I know your lore already, explain to me why Augustine collects these things. Show me the repercussions of those monster stories and disappearances on the world, how she came to understand they're all linked to the same entity she's trying to summon and why she decides to sacrifice people to it. That's what's interesting about making a story game out of a live service game that doesn't have the time to stop and think about so few of its characters for more than a biography and maybe a bunch of written blurbs and a cutscene.

Why would someone venerate an entity that doesn't seem to offer anything in return??? Augustine was too busy monologuing about something that the game already shows you for no reason, in a way that completely breaks the immersion, to explains why she does anything. Why would I even be interested in your villain if she sits me down 5 minutes into the first bit of gameplay and explains to me her deeds and intentions. I know she's corrupting Frank! You showed me in the introduction, when he looks up at her as he's about to kill a baby! She doesn't need to be telling me! Let me discover the why through gameplay, not monologued explanations! If she has to explain herself, let it be about why! Not what, not how, you're already showing me that!

They had a prechewed, predigested story to follow with 9 whole years of worldbuilding, antagonists, villains with motives and a setup already worthy of horror media. They instead chose to rely on superficial references to the other game to hide how superficial their own plot is and to avoid explaining anything deeper than what already explains itself: Augustine is the mastermind, and the film is cursed because Augustine made it cursed. Why? IDK, she thinks the stranger things villain coming out of a portal ripoff is cool, I guess? Also, because she wants the crab in the sky to destroy stuff. Why? Uh, well, she's British. There you go.

You could forgo the whole time-fuckery plot entirely, and skip the 2024 or 1980s parts to focus on one or the other. A simpler plot about a bunch of kids making a movie in an abandoned mill discovering that the serial killer that killed people there 20 years ago still haunts it because an eldritch entity has taken interest in the despair he caused is good enough. It gives you more time to explain stuff that needs explaining. A plot about a bunch of people invited to a manor because said eldritch entity is interested in yoinking them, so it asks its cultists to set them up be used to revive the ghost of a serial killer through rituals is also good enough. If your game feels like it has too much shit going on and at the same time explains none of it, it's not a good plot!

Look! Scary monster in 3 different timeskips! Yay, we're nailing this horror thing, right?

TL;DR: This game had a huge target full of already storyline-worthy lore less than a meter away and it still managed to trip on its own feet and land face first in the shit game pile.