#this is one of the songs on the piano!

[happy-lemon]

FIRST SORROW THEN HOPE

[lushpeonies]

I can't believe how wrong I was about you. Most people are.

NICHOLAS GALITZINE as HRH Prince Henry of Wales

Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)

[arthur-lesters-middle-c-key]

I’ll forever be annoyed that Malevolent doesn’t stop to recognize the significance of a PIANIST choosing to bite off part of his PINKIE FINGER. No matter the hand, the pinkie is maybe the second most important digit for piano playing, behind the thumb. (Second and third fingers, SIT BACK DOWN.)

Your pinkies are hyper-attuned to hit the right notes in a root chord, pick out an overall melody while the rest of your hand is playing a harmony, hell, it’s the start of most scales. As a pianist, I’ve put years of procedural memory into training just my pinkie fingers to do their jobs and if I lost part of one I would be devastated, even as a hobbyist.

There’s so much symbolism potential there, too! I love that John in general has control of Arthur’s left hand, which on piano controls the low notes, the accompaniment to the melody, and the root and stability of almost anything you play. It mostly supports, though can sometimes intertwine with the right hand or branch off into cello-like melody of its own (chopin does this a lot it’s great). That conceptually fits John SO WELL. Not to mention the idea of Arthur being so guilt-ridden with Faroe’s death that he distances himself from being a pianist at any opportunity, only to be reeled in by an Eldritch force that explains EVERYTHING to him as piano… the possibilities make me scream.

…Unfortunately though, I don’t buy the ‘the symbolism is there’ argument for this one, it’s FAR too niche to expect the average audience to know what exactly a professional pianist would value (besides the ~oooooo no don’t break my hands~ beat that every pianist character in a thriller/horror/action story ever seems to have gone through at some point), and malevolent goes out of its way so often to explain symbolism.

I think my frustration is that Arthur having trauma surrounding piano, losing direct control of his left hand, and losing/replacing his top pinkie joint, doesn’t have many narrative consequences. (Didn’t even talk about how a wooden pinkie would probably fundamentally change the sound/timbre of your playing, which would be cool to see reflected.) Arthur seems to be able to play piano fine even with John controlling his hand, and enthusiastically does so at several points post- starting to process Faroe’s death in the dreamlands. It’s fine as a narrative choice, there’s a story to tell after all, but I’ll always miss the character intricacy that could come from exploring these consequences and backstory specifics.

[arthur-lesters-left-arm]

guys. guys in part 21 arthur walks up to the bar and says “blood” almost instinctively because his typical order is a blood and sand !!!

[onebizarrekai]

♪ blue's theme - ALL OF THEM (mostly)

mr. character development's tangible rehab from a stupidly evil power hungry bastard who has committed treason against every country to an idiot pacifist with a zebra print fedora, a moped and a license to teach yoga

( note: the 'mostly' comes from two things; one, the very very first version of this song sucked, and two, there are versions that are mostly identical )

[evermoredeluxe]

Taylor performing it’s time to go/Better Man as the surprise song on piano

- The Eras Tour in Gelsenkirchen, Germany (N3) on July 19, 2024 (x)

[titsthedamnseason]

HAPPY LONDON N1 YALL!!! i can just feel this run of shows is going to be CRAZY. also if you haven’t realized hi it’s me juli titsthedamnseason and yes even under yet another new url i am hosting the surprise song game! the rules are simple: leave your guesses in the tags or replies and if you’re right i will give you a shoutout <3

i’m personally about to give the worst guesses ever but i already submitted them to mastermind so i feel like i have to stick with it. so im going imgonnagetyouback / better than revenge and robin / never grow up i definitely should be going with a london song or the black dog but hey. whatever

[royalarchivist]

Guaxinim: [Singing "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran] "I'm dancin' in the dark with you between my arms, barefoot on the grass while listenin' to our favorite song–"

My heart is a puddle of emotions right now– I had no idea Guaxinim was a pianist, so when he sat down to play piano for Gris then played an actual piano and started singing, my jaw was on the floor. 🥹💕

[toastereno]

i said i would post my piano covers here, so...what better song to start with than the iconic one from psmd? :'^)

this was all done by ear (except for the beginning where i used bespinben's score because those chords are tough to figure out, so shoutouts to them)! this song holds a special place in my heart for many reasons: it's the reason i played psmd and restarted playing the piano, just to name two!

by the way, there's a little surprise at the end 😊

[cherrycurlsvanillapearls]

My roommate is humming some melody to himself and I can hear him through the wall. I get to fall asleep to this safe, joyful, calm sound every night and in exchange, I wake him up with my own music.

He is better at reading Hebrew than I am, and we sit often together to read a page together, of the autobiography my grandmother sent me on Google docs. It is too much for me to read alone, but he sits and listens to me try, and he reads to me when I get tired.

We sit and study in the living room together, me doing my homework, him designing a synth for fun. He gifted me a shirt from his mother's charity and I wear it with pride. He taught me to cook a soup and we ate it together on the porch.

Sometimes, I get out of the shower, and hear him fiddling around on the piano in the living room. It's a wonderful thing.

There is no point to this post. No romance, I promise. I'm just soothed and calm and happy to have such a lovely roommate.

[simgerale]

after the country club closes, gwen likes to pluck the piano keys. the sounds remind her of home.

⏳ Master playing at least one instrument.

[koifsssh]

oh! he's a hopeless romantic i don't know what to tell you!

he is so! bah! he will play you love songs on the piano regardless if you know of them, and sing such! oh! i cant with him!

he daydreams, he writes poems, oh he draws little hearts over his "i"s instead of dots...

[en-chi-la-da]

danganronpa rarepair week 2023 DAY FIVE: favorite book/favorite song feat: kaede/maki

i have so many songs that i associate with the more popular dr ships, but none of them really applied to the rarepairs i wanted to do, so i just settled for kaede showing maki one of her favorite piano pieces to perform! that counts right? lol

[liliennacht]

I imagined that the Taylor Household Pre-Worm was full of plants, cause i headcanon Taylor as having a hobby of painting Plant Pots, as such!

A lot of Plants.

also Taylor is wearing my fit from when i was 7. Butterfly and Ruffles.

[whenthegoldrays]

I’m sorry but no one will ever embody “invisible string” like Se-ri and Jeong Hyeok do. They can come close, but nothing can top “the song you played as an expression of your grief over your deceased brother was the piece of music that made me want to keep going and live another day”

[evermoredeluxe]

Electric Touch and performance at The Eras Tour in Tokyo, Japan (N2) on February 8, 2024 (x)