#that’s what I’m tryna say

[fluffyleg]

this is gonna sound awful but through all the years of being an am stan I’ve never really listened to miles kane, i missed out on so muchh

[aspennntree]

hello phandom i come bearing gifts please enjoy

[scramratz]

Why do anime girls run like that? are they autistic?

[darlingod]

Jude in QoN: “Of course it was a trick” That’s what you said.

Cardan:

[rikustarlight]

When the kids are away, the adults will play

Neji 🐦 : 👀 👉🏼👌🏼

Tenten 🐼: 😝

[ohbaby-here-we-go-again]

Discovered a big part of why I like sleep token comes down to ‘echos,’ repetition, and layering.

Hear me out guys !

Ok so I’m probably going to be bad at articulating this, but I feel like a big part of sleep token’s sound comes down to them playing with the concept of echos and the use of repetition in music.

Some of it is pretty bog standard, like as a general rule you’re going to have things that repeat in songs (chord progressions, choruses, melody etc) because that is their nature. But there are other things where I feel the repetition is a deliberate choice or deliberately emphasised (I’m going to dot point, because my brain is so full and idk how else to structure this)

- when you listen to a lot of the piano vessel composes, it typically contains a lot of repeating phrases, usually 2-4 notes that he either repeats exactly or progressively shifts up or down in pitch

- similarly (and probably even more so) the digital sounds, included to help build the layering within songs, are very repetitive in nature. They even sometimes have an echo-y distortion to them

- on that note, the layering is such an important part of sleep token’s sound. They build up phrases steadily, and while theses aren’t technically canons, to me they have a similar feeling when you hear everything together

- also because of the repetition of shorter melody phrases, and the complementary repeating sounds cushioning them, I feel like you really get that atmospheric vibration/hover that you sense when you hear real echos irl which is neat (this is also aided by that atmospheric droning sound they tend to make use of)

- what’s also cool is ii has literally said when writing the drum components, he listens to what else is going on in the song (digital parts, guitar, piano, vocals) and mimics certain rhythms present so everything fits together cohesively

- vessel has like a set of themes and words he uses throughout his songs (post I did on that here tho I do want to do an updated one at some point) so when you’re listening to ST you do get a lot of déjà vu (not in a bad way) from lyrics

- this echoing in lyrics was taken even further in the last album with Euclid

- another neat thing is that while ST obviously uses a lot of repetition they cut things up into segment, either by stripping back the layered sound, changing the pacing, implementing a new melody segment, seemingly switching up genres etc. but it’s all interspersed in such a way that key element resurface again later

- they’re also really good at knowing when to do this too, like just when the repetition of a segment might start to lose listener’s interest they change it to something different but still at least a little adjacent

-edit: also the layering of vessel’s vocals and the incorporation of the espera for live performances. And vessel repeating certain key phrases in songs

idk I’m kinda rambling at this point but yea, the way the music sounds to me feels a lot like rocking back and forth ya know, or like listening to an echo or waves, it’s soothing in alot of ways - even the heavier/more intense songs (also I noticed you can sometimes see vessel rocking while he preforms when he doesnt have the zoomies)

And before anyone goes “ren that’s just song structure,” “ren most songs have a beat you can move too” I know ! and i know I’m articulating this badly. But I’ve been listening to ST’s whole discography on repeat minimum 8 hours a day for at least two week (this is not an exaggeration) and I don’t know how to make you understand, other then to make you listen to them for 8 hours min a day for two week while I gesture wildly and shout “rocking back and forth ! echoes ! Push and pull of waves !”….

[lithth]

pains me how kusuke was very excited about having his younger brother back and wanting to play another game with him BUT THEN KUSUO JUST LEFT 😭😭. like after 3 years he finally got to see him and all he did was wanna play a simple game with him and it wasn’t one of those crazy games he has too

[giddlygoat]

Points at you. LUIGI FUCKER (is also that) (is too afraid to reveal myself off anon) (respect)

come off anon i’m begging you. this could be the start of a beautiful friendship but only if you step into the light my friend. only if you embrace this

[kaninchen-reblogs]

I’m not entirely sure how to word this correctly cuz brain currently scrampled egg but I feel like being on the aro/ace spectrum as a transfem is incredibly frustrating when the majority of online transfem spaces are very hypersexual

Like on one hand, trans women are constantly told by society that they’re undesirable except when they’re objectified and chased, so the act of taking their sexualization into their own hands is super important and I’m legitimately glad that trans girls can find spaces online where they can be unabashedly horny in a liberating way.

On the other hand, you can’t look up “transgender” on this site without getting 80% porn bots and 20% discourse, I can’t share [animal]girl[bodypart] blogs to my ace friends without them being jumpscared by the most recent post being uncensored explicit imagery, and a big chunk of the online white anglo-centric transfem culture now is being super horny, alongside NEET-posting, blahaj, and striped socks.

Like I’m on the ace spectrum but I’m sex-positive and not bothered by the horny stuff so it doesn’t affect me too much. But I cannot imagine how alienating it must feel to be aromatic, asexual, and/or sex-repulsed as a transfem and your only other option is the sanitized, infantilized “uwu im anxious eepy baby with shark plush” meme-space. And I’m aware that HRT affects libido — ever since I started it, it’s definitely gone up, so I can’t blame people for needing an outlet.

I mean I guess that speaks to how you can never be “truly” inclusive in a space because something will always be exclusive to another person. Idk I just wish the world was safer for transfems from all walks of life, and there were more spaces for us to be proud of ourselves without it falling into “super horny”, “discourse”, or “ultra-sanitized”.

[armanisluv]

okay so. lemme just say. the fact that andrew went from not being able to remember anything at all in all the previous drafts to andrew remembering literally everything in the final published draft is like- it does something to me.

cuz like- it brings up the question. would andrew have been genuinely happy? i don’t think nora mentioned it in this section of the extra content, so i’m kinda just going off on a limb here.

but the thought of andrew feeling true happiness before having met neil takes me down to depths that i can’t get myself out of.

i think it was @thisonetothatone that asked if andrew would just forget neil over and over again so he’d just keep falling in love over and over again and that just- *internally screaming, externally screaming, crying, throwing up, punching a pillow, kicking my feet, etc.*

i’m not sure if that would be the case? idk how it would work. but the andrew we know now hasn’t forgotten a single thing all of his life, which makes it near impossible to be happy and to physically express any happiness whatsoever since everything in his life was negative.

AND EVEN THOUGH THE DISEASE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FATAL. andrew would have ended up dying from this. it was inevitable. but despite that, perhaps he could’ve known true happiness. but we don’t know that to be the case either. with a disease like that, it can make life difficult to live, especially since we don’t know to what extent andrew’s forgetfulness was gonna go. would he forget everything down to his own name? or just people he meets? physical things that happen to him? events that go down in his life? we know for sure that he would’ve never remembered any of the abuse. nora confirmed that.

but despite that… there’s always that lingering hope that andrew joseph minyard could’ve been happy even before meeting neil abram josten.

I’M SORRY THIS PROBABLY MAKES NO SENSE AND I’M PROBABLY READING INTO THIS ALL WRONG AND I KNOW I’M MISSING A LOT OF THE POINTS I WANNA MAKE BUT I SUCK AT CONVEYING MY THOUGHTS PROPERLY I’M SO SORRY Y’ALL-

anyways if you have sum to add to this to make it better pls add it!

[jamrroll]

Caelus speaking the truth once again. I love him.

[billfarrah]

As much as I’m gonna miss this universe and Darby herself, I actually think the ending of the series completely negates further hacking/detective stories from her.

Her entire character arc exists around how her obsession with solving mysteries completely blinded her to anything real and tangible around her (namely, her relationship with Bill) and her dealing with the consequences of her inability to be emotionally available. The entire thesis of the show is firmly anti-AI, anti-hacking, anti-modern technology; the fact that the only way they were able to destroy the villain at the end was through physical means and not through hacking.

Darby’s character arc feels complete to me and I truly feel some of the best stories out there would be better if it was limited to one instalment.

[wroteclassicaly]

I’ll warn y’all nasties tryna pull some shit rn, that I won’t be baited by rude/nasty anon asks. I’m doing my thing, I’m having fun in my space - STAY in your lane, because I’m not gonna pay attention 😚✌🏻

[lunar-alden]

Zayne… I thought u were bae… turns out ur just fam 😔

[starlooove]

Oh. Sad

[gen15gg]

so jackie died in 1996 right? n u could argue that it was partially shaunas fault (though ik they r two sides of the same coin)

what’s rlly freaking me out rn is that their football assigned numbers r 9 and 6. jackie died in 96”. as a result of her argument w shauna who is ‘6’