#they both listen to pop

[composeregg]

edit (10/23/2024) now that the poll is over: Original version, with 10 questions, from April 2023 here

And, given that the original is from April 2023, that means I can very easily say:

No, this was not an ISAT reference!

Just because I use parentheses and 2nd person pov and love the same concepts of what a time loop can do to a person doesn't mean it's ISAT

(Yes, I like ISAT, the original poll is why I was recommended the game! But if you look at the original, you can see all the origins of the options to choose from, including what spurred me on with the moss option from the replies)

If I were going to make something for ISAT, I would never be so vague, you can simply look at my ao3 for proof of that

[soosoosoup]

Funk branch au

Au and branch design by @bbc-trolls

[weirdocat83]

Ooh! I like that idea but also part of me thinks he also listens to Nicki Minaj or Cardi B or Doja Cat because he 100% is a pop fan cuz he’s very romantic and petty but also because we all saw that incense burner chapter. He has the most straight face while thinking and listening to the dirtiest shit imaginable. He’d listen to so much Taylor swift from the sappy stuff to the inspiring to the more heartbroken and angry ones because he has a lot of emotions that need an outlet but don’t really have one so… music!

Additionally:

Hua cheng 100% listens to Taylor swift (although less than LWJ) and pop/sappy music in general. I am not taking arguments on this. Because what the hell are you gonna argue? You going to tell me that this man who is head over heels for his bf/husband isn’t listening to “wildest dreams” by taylor swift while pining and “valentine” by laufey while thinking of his gege? You’re going to tell me that the man who became a ghost because of his devotion to Xie lian and proceeded to wait 800+ years for him wouldn’t listen to the most sappy romantic shit ever??? He’d listen to pop and romance music and nobody would suspect it. And he’d probably get away with it too because Xie Lian is probably the one who listens to alt music. So Hua Cheng probably learned about a lot of alt music because of him. So whenever anyone asks him about it he knows exactly what he’s talking about but when nobody but yin yu, black water, and Xie Lian can hear him he’s probably singing “love like you” or something.

Hot take: If lan wangji listened to Taylor swift he would be a hardcore swiftie and his favorite albums would be lover and speak now

im too hungry and tired and shriveled up to explain why right now bc its a long story

may elaborate later

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

this is. so Indulgent. i have no excuse!

[raayllum]

i'm a "callum and rayla get engaged within a year of the war being over aka on callum's next birthday (and that's them having restraint)" type of person

[which-item-poll]

[hers-underwraps]

I feel like these two would be k-pop stans

(Also sorry about the shitty image I need more dashi and peso images)

[fairyofshampgyu]

no one gets fairy of shampoo the way I do ⋆⭒˚⋆<3

[edge-oftheworld]

pop punk 5sos6 this heavier 5sos that summer brothers country 5sos ‘when will they give us a rock album that shows off ashtons drumming properly’ believe me I want all of these things too but hear me out: folk 5sos

[elbiotipo]

I still think it's so funny when I said vampires are unsexy (ideologically correct) and people talked to me "but what about the hunger what about the instinct" when werewolves are right there. I mean it would make sense if I didn't mention them but I was comparing them.

[pink-glitter-gel-pen]

jumping around between seasons really makes you realise how hard they leaned into the pastel colours fake tan bright blue sky colourful sets this is a BEACH town goddamnit part of their setting in early seasons

like both the upgrade in camera quality and the visual darkening of the wardrobes and set pieces is so apparent as you move through the seasons and sometimes i miss the young more colourful version of psych

[kineticallyanywhere]

"I shouldn't take up all the emotional space"

Normal I am BEGGING you to take up emotional space

[escapesdefinitions]

19th hour, griff // bsc, maisie peters

[bittersweetresilience]

say hi to me i don't know, i just remembered being so much brighter, i guess

cigarette ash like wildfire burning holes in the nighttime open scars feel like barbed wire white lies flying high like a ceasefire dropping flags on the shoreline this is as far as i can feel right 'cause what you don't know can haunt you

and all we ever wanted was sunlight and honesty highlights to want to repeat let's get away from here and live like the movies do i won't mind when it's over at least i didn't think for a while

don't drag it out living like that doesn't mean a thing

so let's, make a great escape and i'll be waiting outside for the getaway it doesn't matter who we are we'll keep running through the dark and all we'll ever need is another day we can slow down 'cause tomorrow is a mile away and live like shooting stars 'cause happy endings hardest to fake

and i wanna let you know i wanna let you go but i just can't bring myself to speak but this is how it goes the end credits, they roll this bridge was built over kerosene but we can watch it and all i ever wanted was sunlight and honesty highlights to want to repeat let's get away from here and live like the movies do i won't mind when it's over at least i didn't think

so let's run, make a great escape and i'll be waiting outside for the getaway it doesn't matter who we are we'll keep running through the dark and all we'll ever need is another day we can slow down 'cause tomorrow is a mile away and live like shooting stars you can wish away forever but you'll never find a thing like today

[ckret2]

When I'm making a "what songs a character would listen to" playlist rather than a "what songs make me think of the character" playlist, I start with two rules:

In order to prevent myself from making 200 playlists that all sound like my tastes instead of the characters' tastes, I start with the assumption that I'd probably dislike what the character likes and the character would hate what I like, and then only start making limited exceptions to this rule when I have a damn good reason to. (For instance: if I'm making a playlist for an emo kid, it can over lap with my tastes because I was an emo kid. But that does NOT give me the right to stick my symphonic metal preferences on them. Unless I've been given a damn good reason to think otherwise, they'd listen to My Chemical Romance, not Nightwish.)

In order to prevent myself from constructing muddy indistinct musical palates that, again, drift toward sounding like my tastes rather than the character's tastes, I assume that the character has very narrow tastes, and rigidly stay INSIDE that box, so that I can't fall into the trap of going "oh well this is sorrrrta like what they listen to, and it's such a good song that surely they would like it even though it's outside their typical tastes—" That's the devil talking.

There's no such thing as a universally "good song" and your personal "this is SO good that it TRANSCENDS genre and EVERYONE would like it" is somebody else's "this is so bland." What songs resonate with you is a function of how YOU'RE wired, NOT how the song's wired; the character you're making a playlist for is not wired like you. Stick to what you've chosen as their genre tastes or you're just gonna have yet another playlist that sounds like YOUR TASTES with 2 or 3 token songs that sorta fit the character's actual tastes. And if the playlist ends up sounding like your tastes instead of the character's, you might as well have made a "what songs make me think of the character" playlist.

[shesmore-shoebill]

Even with the fun of the entire Beyonce ranking section aside, the "Love on Topp" and "Say My Nayme" editing jokes got me more than they should have.