(decided today that one of my favorite things about ten reasons is the absence of time in it.
like theres the understanding its a Modern AU given that they text and there is one football reference in there to a more current player but that is...the extent of it.
theres almost no contemporary references in the fic that give the reader an idea of what year it even is, or time period. 2000s? late 90s? 2010s? 2020's? WHO KNOWS!
and i think thats very taylor swift/1989 of me.)
7 notes
·
View notes
very strange how mentioning anything about china on the internet gets some people so fucking violent and hyper aggressive about china that the entire post is derailed about whatever it originally was about and gets turned into sinophobia city. Many such cases
8 notes
·
View notes
not to be about opera again but to be about opera again. as an art form it has the reputation of being super stuffy and something for snobs who don't know how to have fun only but honestly this was one of, perhaps even THE main theatrical entertainment for centuries. i wish people knew how hard these things can go and how engaging they can be. like characters kill and die and fight wars and (almost) commit human sacrifice left and right. characters fall in love they mourn they're ecstatic they cry they're furious it's an extremely dramatic and emotional art form! and i understand that opera does not appear approachable bc of the general conventions of the art form but i promise old works can be fun and engaging if you go watch them with some preparation beforehand (reading the libretto helps) - not to mention not all operas are old bc there are so many modern operas which engage with topical events! also the music slaps.
14 notes
·
View notes
some more ocs because i don't really have anything that i can post
i've been trying to do some animatics and i MIGHT have a kinda big commitment to an animatic so i might not post much
so, uh, if you wanna see one of those 3 animatics of my ocs i have made send an ask and i'll show one (2 of 'em are memes and one is 11 seconds of related to one of my oc's storys)
not to say i won't post but just incase i DO end up not posting, that's why
3 notes
·
View notes
I love your point about maximalism and embracing the spectacle being backbones of kpop and part of what sets it apart from other genres because I think that’s very true. I don’t listen to kpop expecting some heartfelt authentic song that I personally relate to. If I wanted that, I could go listen to any singer at almost any bar in my city sing about their depression or something. I want like an insane fantasy unattached from my regular life that isn’t about girls/cars/money, which is the only alternative reality you find in most western pop. Bonus points for insane production to go with the insane lyrics rather than just more of the same 2-4 measure instrumental motif repeated for an entire song.
(Also, gotta say - SM had serious confidence showing up in America with lyrics the level of cringe of Jopping, because a lot of Americans have way too many mean opinions that they shout confidently, especially at non Americans. But honestly SuperM’s unironic embrace of the cringe made me like Jopping even more. It’s also a crime they didn’t promote their full album in 2020 more. I know it was the early pandemic and they couldn’t figure out what to do if they couldn’t come to the US, but that album was 100% bangers and it deserved more)
exactly! even within the k music industry you can find musicians that make 'authentic' music, it's not that hard to find at all. but you cannot expect it from idol music, because idol music is a specific form of performance. idol music is engineered to be about spectacle; you cannot separate the visual element from it because it was essentially formulated for television and large scale broadcast. expecting idol music to forgo that element is like expecting the same from an opera. the point of an opera is that it is every art form combined together to make the greatest spectacle story possible, and kpop has exactly the same function, just crammed down into four minutes instead of four hours.
8 notes
·
View notes
For some reason TTRPG books are really hard for me to read (maybe i just have a hard time with PDFs?) SO i've been reading the VTM fandom wiki (are there any good non-fandom affiliate wikis for VTM?) and I'm glad I have bc its clarifying a lot of lore things I didn't like and I actually like them now :)
3 notes
·
View notes