#this song is also just cool

[honourablejester]

Right. Completely random interlude. My sister was trying to match a piece of music that got stuck in her head (Dance of the Nutcracker) and we went on youtube to find it, and from there we wound up watching various versions of Der Hölle Rache from The Magic Flute. As one does. And I’m just …

Okay, so we watched the famous version with Diana Damrau:

Which is incredible. And terrifying.

And then we watched this completely new-to-me Danish version with Susanne Elmark:

And the thing is, I always find different versions and performances of the same piece to be fascinating. The difference choices, the different tones different performers give it.

With these two, particularly, it’s so cool how Diana’s Queen of the Night makes those wordless sections sound like … I’m not sure there’s a non-operatic equivalent, but it’s threatening. She’s just wordlessly hammering at her daughter in this scene, using those notes to just club her daughter repeatedly around the head until she does what she wants.

Whereas Susanne’s Queen acts and makes it sound like cackling. It feels less pointed directly at her daughter and more just giddy at the thought of Sarastro’s death. Maniacal laughter.

IDK, I’m just tickled by the different interpretations of what those notes are. What the Queen is actually doing as she sings them.

Also I completely love that little staging flourish at the end of the Danish version. I mean, don’t get me wrong, Diana’s Queen storming out of the room is dramatic as all hell, but Susanne’s crossing her arms and vanishing into the floor is just perfection. ‘You’ve got your job, girl. Mother out!’

It kind of helps that, costuming-wise, she really looks like she should be a villain on Power Rangers.

Anyway. Random interlude. I’m just tickled by the acting and staging choices between versions.

[laviejaguardia]

personally victimized by this show's soundtrack choices

[babblingbonnabel]

🥁 | hurray for Imp and Skizz!!

Other Hermitcraft x Soul Eater designs: Stress + Iskall

[hyolks]

thank u god kim jungsu is not a guitarist i wouldn't survive it

[shimmershy]

Chara Week Day 5: Ghost

Every time I see that machine in the True Lab, I wonder if it could possibly be Chara's soul in there? Probably unlikely, but not impossible... It's interesting to think about what the implications of that would be.

A version with no text and then a version with just the machine, because I think it looks pretty cool and ominous alone as well.....

[deluludarcy]

binary boyfriends season 6 anthem?

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Thinking bout Kid Icarus... man I miss this game

bonus:

heres the sketch for this, normally i don't post sketches but i like the vibes of this one so ill show it off, especially cuz i accidentally changed the color scheme for the final version oops

[seungs]

stray kids - sherlock cover (orig. shinee)

[speakofcompersion]

240712 NeverNever Fanmeeting - Taemin Guilty ♥︎

[sysig]

I think the world is so wonderful... (Patreon)

[thewhizzyhead]

So like one common theme when discussing bullying is the tendency for bullies to project their insecurities on their victims right? like them taking their own shit out on the people they bully?

so i know that may not be exaaaactly the case with Max Jagerman in Nerdy Prudes Must Die like the dude even in the afterlife just really fuckin likes terrorising the shit out of people due to his god complex BUUUUT what I found very interesting was when in the Nerdy Prudes Must Die sequence, he was telling Richie to repeat after him: "Who will pray for me when my body's gone or until another Richie comes along?" And mind you, this song comes directly after another musical sequence about all the teens in that high school being so fucking happy that Max was gone. And like, well yea you can't blame the kids for being happy that Top Terrorizer #1 is gone and that they don't have to abide by his social strata anymore - but then again, having nobody pray or give a fuck about Max after him being mysteriously missing for 2 weeks is,,kinda fucked up for Max no matter the kind of person he is. So, to see someone he victimised get the attention and appreciation I would assume Max would've wanted from his team especially after being missing for so long - it really does seem to me that he was projecting onto Richie when he was about to kill him and making him feel how little he will matter to other people when he dies - like what he could've felt after literally everyone considered the high school "objectively better" now that Max was gone.

Which makes things a whole lot more interesting when Max snaps out of his WHO WILL PRAY FOR YOU solo when Richie belts out I'M NOT A LOSER - henceforth defying the idea of worthlessness Max was projecting onto Richie. So damn.

[demaparbat-hp]

Yoi is a babe 🫶

A diva, is what he is.

[hedgehog-moss]

French TV journalist having a hard time trying to get woman in the street to comment on Macron's latest speech yesterday

Protesters organised casserolades (aka banging on pots and pans) in front of city halls across the country at 8pm, when Macron was speaking, to symbolically drown out his voice. Later that evening, Macron was filmed singing a song with some 'random people' in a street in Paris, trying to show he can go out and meet people and have fun because protesters don't exist. The people he was singing with (members of a choir, some of whom are 'alt-right-leaning') were using a folk song app created by far-right activists that was criticised a few months ago for hosting a Spanish fascist anthem & Third Reich military marches.

The government's response was that the President "couldn't know the background of the people he met that night." Maybe if he wants to avoid being associated with the far-right (that's a big if, I know), Macron should keep in mind that with the kinds of strategies and positioning his government has adopted lately, people in the street who welcome him with open arms and are proud to be filmed with him have a higher than average likelihood of supporting fascism.

[princeson]

Vampire Money

Reigen Week - Day 1: Costume/Fashion

knowing reigen's luck, he'd dress up as a vampire only to be mistaken for a real one by some random vampire hunters that just, happened to be in the area, and end up about to be staked in the heart or something, smh...

@wings-of-scarlet-light

[aroaceleovaldez]

doodle thinkin about chthonic demigods going off the shits <3 they should get to be spookier. happy halloween. inspired by me making a jasicobaster playlist lmao