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unboxt · 1 day ago

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this JUST IN local man forgets cavetown always makes him feel sad and thinks he can handle it (HE CANNOT!!)

#artists on tumblr #art #digital art #artwork #box’s doodle diary things #smellias posting 🔥🔥🔥#cavetown #doodle comic #that moment when you’re anxious autistic and trans #this song is a critical hit to me #put it on and i will enter a catatonic state mentally #well. Yk what that means #60 hours of the trust ceremony album by artist jhariah to counterract this!

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shorthaltsjester · 4 months ago

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i’m having normal feelings about tlovm perc’ahlia and (long-standing classic on my perc’ahlia playlist) liar by paramore

#the comedy of me almost making one of my gay little edits with these lyrics for campaign perc’ahlia #especially the like. ��when was the moment it’s hard to say’ and vex’s vows.#but i planned to do it for perc’ahlia week and just did not have time between work stuff .#then it came on while i was walkin this morning and . alas i was hit in the chest by the realization that the show has only made this a Mor #vex ass song #i’m normal and okay 👍#vex’ahlia #percy de rolo #percy + vex #perc’ahlia #tlovm spoilers #tlovm #cr1 #critical role #anyway i'll undoubtedly have a more rotted version of this after the full season is out but GODS

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waltwhitmansbeard · 3 months ago

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i made this post yesterday, before the last three eps of tlovm s3, and now that i've watched those episodes, i find myself more or less in the same place. there are a number of things about this season that i did not enjoy. the pacing. the attack on whitestone. percy's attempted redemption of ripley. the lack of the bard's lament. there are a number of things i loved. the vaxleth developments. keyleth's next step on her aramenté. that sick-ass fight on the boat. the perc'ahlia fwb shenanigans. i don't begrudge anyone who was disappointed by s3, or by tlovm as a whole, and i don't begrudge anyone who loves this show.

i think one thing that i am relieved by when i see other critters' posts about tlovm is that it's so clear to me that everyone is approaching this show wanting to love it. no one's coming into this expecting to hate it, looking for things to shit on. being disappointed sucks, but i do think it's better than going into something expecting to hate it. i didn't expect to hate s3, and i don't. i like it. it's fine.

but i like how it got us talking. i like how it reminded me of all the things i loved of c1. i like how, when they had the time and resources and foresight to do so, these people whose creative brains i envy created a story that i believe and hope they're proud of. they didn't create the story the way i would, but that's okay. i still like seeing what those nerds did, and what they're gonna do next.

as i said in yesterday's post, i simply cannot expect this handful of half-hour episodes to do for me what hundreds of hours of c1 did for me. it's a ridiculous ask. i can only ask this show to be entertaining, which it is, and to tell a compelling story about characters i love, which it does. it doesn't do so perfectly, and the large majority of the storytelling critiques i've seen (why the FUCK is percy attempting to redeem someone who slaughtered his hometown for the SECOND time less than twenty-four hours ago???) are valid and worth talking about. i hope that some of them make their way back to the cr/tlovm team, and changes can be made for s4. but i am still choosing to like the show as a whole, and to have fun with it. it is fun. it's messy and clunky and weirdly paced, but it's still a good time, and i'm grateful for it. more than that, i'm glad that this thing that i love has gotten to reach new audiences, and that the people i admire are getting the recognition they deserve as unparalleled storytellers. so, i'm happy tlovm exists, i'm looking forward to s4, and i'm hoping they stick the landing.

#me #tlovm #tlovm s3 #tlovm spoilers #critical role #also unrelated but sorry the music just did NOT hit this season #talking about the songs #not the score #the score slapped as always #but the songs were........not great #except for the chateau one which was a banger

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inkperch · 1 year ago

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...Lucifer's involvement in the finale would be a lot more satisfying if it was Charlie Angel leapt to protect.

#Like. Angel sees Vaggie struggling with Lute and Charlie about to get hit #Jumps in guns a blazing against the guy who beat Al and killed Sir Pentious #Adam's taken aback enough Angel has time for a cool one liner before the fuck you beam #Charlie screams Angel's name #The smoke clears.#Lucifer's there Angel unscathed #Fight ensues #During the 'hell you've convinced me' bit of the last song there's a quick camera pan to Angel Dust #Do you see my vision?#angel dust #lucifer hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel #hazbin critical #I guess? Idk it's not a cutting critique but Hazbin's definitely not perfect

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become-a-robot · 10 months ago

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God. I really love the overall soundscape of Here Comes Science. It does an amazing job combining whimiscal science themes with childlike curiosity through theremin, stylophone, toy piano, mellotron, etc. I especially love the intrumentals for My Brother the Ape, Science Is Real and Electric Car.

#ive seen plenty of criticisms of weak songwriting or flans' falsetto being obnoxious or whatever #and yeah a couple songs really don't do it for me i'll admit #but MAN when they hit they HIT #they might be giants

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oswlld · 9 months ago

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oswlld's monthly wrap up: april

note: i am trying something a bit different this year, so bear with me as i figure out how i want to format this. i wanted to spend more time sharing what i consume, beyond what i rb, and put my thoughts in one place. these posts are okay to rb

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This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone [started 04/04, finished 04/09] *drags my hands down my face until the end of time* I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. I WANT TO MEET YOU!!!! IN EVERY PLACE I EVER LOVED!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4.75⭐️ in storygraph. — Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell [started 04/12, in prog] I am about 100 pages in and still not sure if I want to keep going or DNF it. idk what isn’t sticking because the writing is beautiful and the pacing is great. And I do care about the characters, I really do. I love the way the author borrows from future grief, it’s what I am enjoying most about this read so far. Maybe I’ll give it 50 more pages and see if it finally sticks.

23.5 Degrees, GMMTV [started: 03/08, ongoing] As mentioned, I am caught up on eps 3-8. I’ll likely not be able to watch it live in may but I will be keeping up with the series til the end. It’s so lighthearted and charming! Not sure how they managed this, but I am constantly surprised by the character group dynamics. It’s def due to the great chemistry everyone has with literally everyone. I need NEED to discuss the score of this show because it’s IMMACULATE. The celestial themes, from the props all the way down to the music, is so rich. I’m so excited to see how this story unravels. — Devil’s Plan [started: 04/23, ongoing] This is a bestie pick, a show my best friend chose to have us watch on our facetime calls. We are 1.5 eps in and it’s a grower. The first game is hella complex and we’re slowly picking up on what’s happening. The people on this show are incredibly intelligent, so I feel like I have to work extra hard to keep up. It does feel rewarding, I’m hooked.

Oppenheimer, Peacock [watched on 04/05] I am a self-proclaimed Nolan girlie, I’ll admit it. I do enjoy his work and the many ways he translates time into film. When I wrote this, it had been a few days since I watched it and I still think abt the little moments that blew me away. Moments like the accentuated dust particles, how the coloring of the movie can be an unreliable narrator, and the utilization of a crowded hall stomping their feet to create tension. The last eight minutes still haunts me. I find more value in the technical side of film, but I will give credit when credit is due: every award Cillian Murphy got this season was so well earned. He carried all three hours of that film with such powerful quietude. And lastly, my heart now belongs to Jennifer Lame. Upon seeing her accept the award for Best Film Editing for Oppenheimer, I have come to learn that she also edited Tenet. HER MIND!!! She has such a bright future ahead of her, to be up there with the minds of Thelma Schoonmaker and Anne V Coates. — Yellow Door: ’90s Lo-Fi Film Club [watched on 04/14] This film needs to be studied in film school. It’s incredibly meta in some ways, having renown directors be the subjects, talking about their passion for film. The production being so stylized and the editing feels very reminiscent of Our Beloved Summer, with the way the found footage and the aspect ratios are intertwined with current day quality shots. This film will hit everyone right in the millennial. A true surprise for me is discovering that Bong Joon Ho and I are more alike that I had originally thought. The way he speaks in casual conversation and his story of setting strict rules for their film collection had me hollering because SAME. The most jessi thing he recounted was how all the VHS tapes were labelled. Yellow Door is somehow the opposite of the "doesn’t take itself too seriously" mentality; it’s actually so great that they made the film like that. By fully immersing us with gorgeous cinematography, cheeky editing sequences, and lush music to tug at your heartstrings, it bewitches you into loving film as much as they did. And still do.

Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé [relisten] I’ve given this several good cycles to confirm my first impressions: it’s def one of her most cohesive albums to date and still stands as a spectacular album. This passion project of hers takes such great care and attention to the voices she amplifies. I can feel the hunger, the innate need for her to make this album. If you haven’t heard how this album came to be, I insist you take the time to educate yourselves. It makes the listening experience so much more empowering. Good for her… GOOD. FOR. HER!! Current favs: Ameriican Requiem, 16 Carriages, Bodyguard, Jolene, Spaghettii, Ya Ya, Desert Eagle, II Hands II Heaven, and Sweet/Honey/Buckin’. — Older, Lizzy McAlpine [first time listening] Coming off the heels of my Five Seconds Flat hyperfixation last year, I haphazardly went into Older hoping its a natural progression in production value. I was shocked that it turned out to be a completely different sound. I soon learned that she actually didn’t really like how Five Seconds Flat was produced because it didn’t feel true to her as an artist. Tbh I was feeling a little lost after the first listen but after digesting this new info, I went back into it and appreciated it a lot more. In fact, the third listen was when I realized that it gave off the same energy as Laufey. I’m excited to listen to it again soon. — Stick Season: Forever, Noah Kahan [first time listening] Having stumbled on all the collabs on Alexa earlier this year, Forever was the only new song for me from his latest release. I’m OBSESSED with this song!!!! The way his voice carries the entire weight of every hurt inside me and just takes it away. Something healed in me. I play it in the car every time I leave the house. I cry in the car every time I leave the house. — The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift [first time listening, standard vinyl ed.] I am going to get this out of the way and say that this album is great. Just great. I understand more than ever why she felt the need to make this album. Having only listened to the standard version a couple times and the anthology twice through, I sit here in this kind of… discomfort. And I’m kind of okay with that feeling. But… it pains me that I can’t share this album with some people in my life and it’s largely due to how she depicts her struggles with people with mental illness/addiction. It’s one, if not the biggest, strike I have against this album and by extension, her. Songs cycling in my head: Down Bad, So Long London, Guilty as Sin?, Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?, loml, imgonnagetyouback, Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus, How Did It End?, I Look in People’s Windows, The Prophecy, Peter, and The Manuscript.

EXPO Chicago [attended 04/13] Yes, I am doxxing myself a bit if you didn’t already know. During college, I used to attend EXPO yearly and occasionally went back long after I finished school. I haven’t attended in a long time, so I made it my goal to attend this year. And I had a blast! My mother tagged along and she’s not one to attend shows like this or art museums in general. It was a beautiful day trip to the city and it was nice to have her company. She mostly trailed behind and took pics of me as I floated around the exhibition hall. I have 50+ artists I tracked on my phone to actively research in my spare time. I sat in on one of the panel talks (ON COLOR), discussing color theory in today’s bipoc landscape. I took so much away from that conversation, it was very charged. I'm kinda obsessed with Alteronce Gumby, I need to do an artist deepdive on his work. — Coachella [watched from 04/12 to 04/14] I work for a big tech company and one of the biggest events to be on standby for is Coachella. I had to be on call for Friday and was backup support for Sunday lineups. Thus, Saturday was the only day I could sit back and relax while watching. My first time lineups included: Hatsune Miku, Peso Pluma, Late Night Drive Home, Jon Batiste, Ateez, le Sserafim, Purple Disco Machine, Bleachers, No Doubt, 88rising Futures, and Latin Mafia. Of all of the performances, I want to take a full deep dive into Ateez and Peso Pluma’s discography in the near future.

#oswlld 2024 wrap up #mine: edits #long post #this is how you lose the time war #23.5 degrees #devil's plan #oppenheimer #bong joon ho #yellow door #cowboy carter #beyonce #lizzy mcalpine #noah kahan #taylor swift #alteronce gumby #ateez #peso pluma #ive been tackling ttpd as though it was folklore/evermore #it reads more like sister albums for me it gives length and structure like musical theatre cast recordings #i dissect the narrative in acts #and im enjoying the writing and narrative more in ttpd standard #but i LOVE the production and variety of topics in the anthology collection #this level of vulnerability and info dumping is not for everyone #and tbh it might not even be for me but it doesn’t make it a bad album #it’s like… i get why there’s criticism about how it needs to be edited down or polished or that it needed ‘more time’#i do get it and a part of me buys into it #imo she’s prob too big to fail. she can get away with almost anything at this rate #im still enjoying it tho. she's a grower #i have the rest of time to have it grow on me. there will be songs that will hit harder in a week/month/year #sorry about the tangent see yall in june

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sieglinde-freud · 1 year ago

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ohhh timerra not even in the top twenty for women i hate you fire emblem fans i really do

#freudian slips #like slash j but not really actually #theres only so many ‘well shes just not that interesting compared to the other royals’ i can take from people #before it becomes straight up racism #if she was a pale light skin blonde/ginger girl you’d eat her up #ik that bc annette exists!!! yall love her ass!!!#and i do too but when a good chunk of timerra criticism is ‘her songs are annoying’ or ‘shes not that serious’#hmmm… ok. so then why do u like annie. quickly #obviously thats a discredit to annette. shes got a lot going for her right #but so does timerra!! but ppl wont read her supports bc why??? hmmm… gee!! its a mystery. isnt it.#also dont give me the ‘bad unit’ excuse when alfreds up there. be so real with me #her and alcryst have the same fucking niche except hes ranged and she can eat hits. come on.#whatever. anyways i got both of my solm picks wrong looks like panette is leading #luckily i didnt cast a vote for pandreo yet i went with timerra first soo #lesbians getting all my votes this year!! and inigo.#though i might still proceed and give m!alear a vote bc i need him to beat diamant #he probably wont. but i REALLY want him to beat diamant #no hate to diamant hes cool i just love my little guy :3

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mvffinhamster · 9 months ago

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ttrpgs fuck you up

everyone says “try out dnd”, including me but dude believe me, dnd fucks you up, ttrpgs fuck you up

there’s this person in your head and you can only scream about them to the other five idiots with their own little guys in their heads

and sometimes you can’t even scream at them because first you have to reveal the backstory you came up with and you don’t want to do that immediately

ttrpgs fuck you up because they make you daydream about your little guy and what happened with them AND YOU CAN’T STOP THE THOUGHTS

try out dnd (or any other ttrpg), they say… but what they don’t say is that it’s all emotional damage

and the worst part of it is that you enjoy every fucking minute of that emotional damage

ttrpgs fuck you up.

#last night’s vtm session was a fucking rollercoaster #i can’t stop thinking about it #we started with a tattooing session andit was absolutely cute because the npc was a sweetheart and my character got a tattoo #a little line art #based on her pet rats #and then shit hit the fucking fan #we owed an npc and she asked us to investigate why her runner guy haven’t got back yet #he was supposed to get back with the fugitives hours before #and shit really hit the fan when we got to the meeting point #the guy was dead #the fugitives too #they were fucking massacred #and the runner guy was burned to final death #and my character saw them die in a vision #and the vision was like a fucking epilepsy attack #because i had to roll a rouse check and it was a fail #which meant that cassandra (my character) was bleeding from her hand and feet and forehead because she’s a fucking stigmata #and then the other roll was a messy critical #she saw the whole thing in all red #and then one of the hunters who killed the three of them throw a fucking molotov cocktail on us #one of us almost died #we fought him and i drained him so he died #my humanity level haven’t changed but the thought that cass killed a guy was there #and then the secret kindred radio announced simon’s death because he was also a malkavian the host played a song for his sister #cry little sister by chvrches #i cried and i’m still thinking about it and crying a little because it really fucked me up #vampire the masquerade #vtm #san antonio by night #i am not okay

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bredforloyalty · 8 months ago

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the last few years have been a nice detour* but i think it's time to get back to being cringe

*: not that i wasn't cringe recently just that i need to crank it up and lose followers also

#as in become shameless and earnest as soon as possible #and i've been thinking about this recently with the release of clancy and with me going cuckoo and with me having watched an interview wher #tyler said something after being asked about negative responses (this was after the mtv movie awards i think).. what he said is he doesn't #understand how anyone could listen to a song that someone honestly wrote and say it's bad. and it hit me in that moment‚ the contrast‚#like when i come across a man who loves animals. because‚ i grew up with a man around‚ always around‚ who criticizes everything incessantly #everything. all the time. and doesn't know what it's like to love an animal and take care of it btw. he judges everything and never #makes anything. so maybe that's why i liked them so much‚ as individuals but as musicians too. and tyler as a songwriter. and let's say it.#let's say it. and the clique. and before that i liked vocaloid and etc etc i've been thinking that to me there is a real appeal to things #that many would describe as weird or unconventional or annoying.. i will find the beauty and the authenticity at the heart of it (if there #is some) and i may even cherish it.#and i like soft things too. i like disgust and fear and being shaken up by art and it's been a huge turning point to recognize all that #but god do i need a different dimensions sometimes. like let's be on a different axis let's move sideways #+ let me like something just because #that's what i mean by cringe ig! i am who i am and sometimes i find new ways to be uncool or get back to the old ways #and it's fine #kata.txt

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itspileofgoodthings · 8 months ago

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tags continued from prev post.

#and all of this is true while it is ALSO true that her songs age incredibly well #even debut or random soundtrack songs or endgame #whatever song people try to put on the worst Taylor songs list NEVER QUITE BELONGS #it doesn’t feel right. and to some extent occasionally in mercurial flashes I feel the same about her BEST songwriting list #I can never rank anything of hers ever because she can write better than she has written #if anything finds her own songwriting dead it’s what her future self will be able to achieve #and I think sometimes even the public can SENSE this about her and it’s part of why people are sooooo hard on her in a brutal way #and in a way they never are with other artists. who have reached the limits of their potential #Taylor has not reached the limits —that’s the simple way of saying it #in some way she is still figuring out the artist she is going to be #and I really do think that it is going to be absolutely astonishing #because in some ways (this is going to sound crazy) she is still distracted by her success and her tour #she’s NOT but I mean. the canon hasn’t been fully set free #there are still somehow things holding her back #and we’ve watched her outstrip so much of those early confines that fame and the business of the music industry strapped around her #we’ve seen her say ‘that doesn’t apply to me’#but actually she’s going to and she needs to and I believe she WILL continue to move into rarefied air #my mom helped me give me the final piece of this feeling (and it’s just a deep gut intuition/brain chemical thing for me)#when she said one day almost in mild exasperation: maybe one day Taylor will grow into a Dolly Parton #and something CLICKED #in my brain. and I don’t agree with my mom in terms of her non-interest in Taylor (as much as it has pained me to do so)#I think she’s worth loving and paying attention to now #but that gap that exists between people who love her and people who don’t (full time haters internet trolls do not interact)#I think it’s going to close with time as her work stretches out and out and grows and changes #like I think by the end of her career we are going to have something so astonishing #and to loop it back for a second to a previous thought. I think that’s why sometimes a taylor song can sound disjointed to me. because it #will hit the Depths of the Depth for a second. it will transcend and then it will go back to merely being an excellent pop song #those flashes are everywhere in her work but I think she is going to work and hone them into being conductors of light in a more steady way #the older she gets. does this sound INSANE. idk sometimes I think it does and then sometimes I think it DOESNt. so who knows. but yeah #it’s hard to say because I know it will read as more critical of Taylor than I mean it to be. when really I mean it with so much awe

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shion2nd · 10 months ago

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why is lost time memory like a comfort song for me.. i feel like it should be the opposite

#when i was 12 my friend and i would always go back to her place #when a new kagepro song came out..#to listen to it #summer time record however.. nothing but pure pain when i listen #nando demo egakou / so ill draw it again and again..#a critical hit for me

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jichanxo · 2 months ago

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actually criminal that there's still no studio recording of the english version of 'the way things are' from the death note musical. god please i need a miracle