#which is not incredibly descriptive

[lightspren]

portal message to my doctor tomorrow: eyyyyyyyyy my good bitch, I still feel like i have a rod thru my skull, pls fix me or put me in a coma, byeeeeeeeeeee

[azaisya]

@just-another-linguist and @melestasflight both requested Fingon which was v exciting. Fingon is one of the characters that really stuck with me the first time I read the Silm, but I’ve never actually drawn him. In my mind this is like a Valinor-era Fingon!

[despazito]

Тувинская овчарка (Tuvinskaya Ovcharka/Tuvan Shepherd)

The Tuvan Shepherd is a very old native dog from the Tuva region of Siberia bordering Mongolia. They are an endangered breed that declined during industrialization but is currently being revived and shown by conservation breeders. The dogs come in heavier and leaner types for different work, the Tuvan is noted as an excellent watchdog or hunting dog that is extremely cold tolerant.

[catastrxblues]

EVERMORE by taylor swift (feat. bon iver) — “and i was catching my breath, floors of a cabin creaking under my step. and i couldn’t be sure, i had a feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn’t be forevermore.”

my #swiftiegiftexchange2024 for @lovesickallovermybed!!!! 🫶🏽🫶🏽

[kirby-the-gorb]

[stone-stars]

Transcript:

[Unknown Tome builds ominously in the background] Murph: But you also see, facing away from you, looking out on the city below is a moving gargoyle. His huge, bat-like wings flap to keep him steady. You see, as he turns to look at you, he's got gray skin and a hunchback. His long neck is slouched forward. He's got this long black and white beard that grows out as if it's just really long sideburns. It's a bad beard. [The players laugh.] Uh-- he has massive claws that sit at the end of fists like boulders, and long talons at the ends of his feet. He is standing atop a large black and gold chest, um, like a treasure chest, his talons are clinging to it. Uh, there is a two-foot wide circle in the middle of it, through which you only see darkness. Um, and-- Emily: In the middle of the chest? Murph: In the middle of the chest. It's just black. It's just dark. You can't see what's inside, it's just dark. Um, and he turns, and he addresses you guys, and he goes: Akarot: Oh. You again. Ruining another one of my rituals! Moonshine, cheerfully: Ah! So we did categorically ruin your other ritual! That's good. 'Cause for us it felt like a pyrrhic victory. But I'm glad to know that it was a ruin for you! Akarot: Oh, it's-- it's-- it's a pyrrhic victory for you overall. [The other players laugh] Moonshine: Okay, so I win? Akarot: What? No! I mean. Okay, look-- Moonshine: I mean, I assumed best case scenario was gonna be a pyrrhic victory. Akarot: Shut up! Hardwon: You really shouldn't go at her when she's wearing the Thinking Cap, bud. Akarot: Shut up! Everyone shut up! Moonshine: Yeah, sorry dude, I'm just like at-- Akarot, speaking over her: Take that hat off! Take that hat off and debate me! Moonshine: Yeah right! You take your vest off! [The music cuts out. The other players and Murph start laughing.] Akarot, confused: Do I have a vest on? Murph, laughing: Yes, you see he has a little vest. [Everyone laughing in the background.] Hardwon: You have a tactical vest and there's nothing in the pockets. Moonshine, through laughter: Yeah, it looks like a-- it looks like a photographer-- a photographer's vest. Apple: Absolutely Donald Duckin' it. Nothing on the bottom! Akarot: I haven't had a ton of time to get used to this body, I'll be-- I didn't notice the vest when I first put the body on. Moonshine, still laughing: Really? It's like all I see! Murph, laughing and slightly unintelligible: He does-- He does see-- vest-- Moonshine: Are there like holes for your wings in it? Akarot: Yeah. Clearly! My wings are out. Everyone's focusing on the vests. Everyone's focusing on the vests. Hardwon: Including you! Apple: It's very distracting. Is there stuff in those pockets? Akarot: Um. Okay. Everyone relax! I'm taking-- I'm gonna take off the vest! Murph: He takes-- he takes off his vest-- Moonshine: NO! Nonono! You can't take off the vest! You committed to the vest! Akarot: Fine. Murph: He puts the vest back on. [Caldwell yelps in laughter.]

another emily moment of all time, to me

[pumpkinrootbeer]

ogfoofodoxx thinking about how the most defining character trait of haymitch is how protective he is. not in the sense it's the most obvious, but how all of his actions are fueled by this desire to protect. how hard he works at keeping katniss alive in the first games, him fighting to keep them from augmenting katniss's body, him yelling at plutarch to keep finnick from having to share his trauma, him being so involved in peeta's recovery and being the one to bring katniss home. him holding mayslee's hand as she died, fighting for plutarch to stay and rescue peeta, being the one to find katniss and finnick when johanna had an episode, begging coin to believe peeta's warning. it being heavily implied or either outright stated that he was one of the people who fought to protect effie.

makes me physically ill because no one does that for him. everyone who would of, died.

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

I've also been thinking a lot about closeted pop stars (including Harry) in the time of Chappel Roan. Mostly unformed thoughts but very eager to see what's next for all of them

You sent this a while back anon - and I keep thinking of answering it and each time what 'in the time of Chappell Roan' has shifted slightly and so my answer has got more complicated and the fundamental differences between Chappell Roan and Harry have become more obvious.

I think there's an emotional landscape question about what it means to be a closeted pop star in this moment. I don't know if we can imagine the complexity of this answer - and when we try it's important to include the push back against the fan gaze that is coming from queer artists.

The other side of this question is what it means for his career. And here I think it's worth asking what does it mean that Harry is going to be making pop music in this moment. It's been a time of these massive, interesting, female pop acts. All of whom in their own particular ways say something about themselves and something about pop with their art. It's been a time that Taylor Swift, who has baked cookies for her fans in the past, has told fans to fuck off in songs.

None of this is very Harry Styles. One of the things that has been really interesting to me watching the pop landscape shift this year - is that has really made me define what Harry does. These are I think the key elements to his proposition:

With each album he has had a very big song that spoke to the moment we're in

His aesthetic is striking, interesting and playful (thanks Harry L - but also thanks to hiring strong artists with a point of view for key tasks such as album photography)

In his music there's a lot of space for people to project onto, with particular space for fantasies

The core of the fantasy is the live show and its place of joy

And certainly there's a huge gap between that - and what we've been seeing from other artists recently.

I was listening to a recent episode of Every Single Album and Nora and Nathan were talking about Harry Styles for a while (I can't remember which one and would welcome pointers, because it's not clear from the episode description). And Nathan in particular was suggesting that Harry would need to think carefully about how he presented himself in this space and it wouldn't be enough to be projected onto - he needed to share something of himself. Here Dua Lipa is used as sort of a cautionary tale of what happens if you don't have enough Lore.

It's not that I entirely disagree. I think there's a lot that Harry address in his music that would be thrilling, if he was interested in sharing. When you think of songs like 'But Daddy I love him' or the 'Girl, So Confusing' remix - and imagine what would happen if Harry was interested in playing even near that playground - that's something I'd look forward to. I also think the most effective way to address the way people do and don't talk about his sexuality - would be a song that had an element of fuck you in it.

But I think there are multiple dangers here - and not having enough lore is only one of them. I also think there's a worry of losing what people want from you, by trying to be what people love in other people. (I think this, far more than anything, has been Katy Perry's problem. She's trying and failing to be a more relevant version of herself - but she'd be far more relevant if she'd kept doing what people love from her.

I really think the 'if he's interested in sharing' is the key point. If he has any interest in writing any music that comments on his life in a way that is intelligible to listeners - then I think there's real potential. But I think nothing could be more fatal than doing it for the lore.

To come back to Chappell Roan - I just listened to the popcast episode about touring, and read Jon Caramanica's review of Chappell Roan's show in Tennessee. In that he compares the show with the on-line discourse - and basically argues that the way forward, the way to build a career that matters - is to ignore the people who want to talk about you and focus on those who want to be part of the collective experience when you make music.

I hope that this, more than anything else, is the message that Harry takes forward. If he has anything to say, then I'm all for him saying it (although I think the response to Chappell clearly shows that people don't really want popstars to say things). But I think the most important thing for his career will be him continuing to do what he does well.

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

I gotta say, anyone who has never read any Discworld is missing out on some absolutely stellar and evocative writing. Just saying.

[emily-mooon]

SCOTT PILGRIM CHARACTERS AS ALVVAYS SONGS PT 3: LISA MILLER + PHARMACIST

I know I never crossed your mind…

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[bylrndgm]

summer 1985, hawkins.

byler week 2023 | day iv: summer love song used

[dragonsdendoodles]

I need y’all to know I am going to be insufferable about this book when it comes out

[lunarcry]

read tsukasas GOOD MORNING!!!!!!!!!! area convo. excellent. emu should join him

[a-gaime]

Every time I see bull red son an angel (me) loses it's wings (gets mildly annoyed)

[famewolf]

shaking crying throwing up because there's no d&d today

[venacoeurva]

Sorry 2 open a can of worms potentially but sometimes I think about how there are people out there that took the 36 lessons as literal and truth and questioned nothing about them and don’t view them as carefully tailored propaganda and metaphorical and symbolic in many instances, and uh