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comradekatara · 8 months

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modern au katara reads books “for fun” that are “engaging” and “enjoyable” and sokka (big finnegan’s wake head) is like “weak. i only read books that exacerbate my suicidal tendencies”

#i too only ever want to read books i find enjoyable fwiw but because i find most pop lit unbearable i do sound like sokka to people #who do not understand that reading shakespeare to me is like comfort food #sokkas hobbies much like everything else are filled with self inflicted struggle and anguish #he only wants to read the densest least acceissble literature (fiction & nonfiction) he can get his hands on #if he’s not in pain when ostensibly reading for pleasure then something is WRONG #modern au #katara #sokka #katara&sokka #i do think katara is also a big reader though #she’ll read anything and everything #nonfiction romance sff ‘classics’ etc etc #but then sokka is like ‘well audiobooks are cheating. actually’#and she throws a rock at his head killing him instantly #(he doesn’t even believe that bc he reads aloud to toph constantly he just wanted to provoke her into throwing a rock at his head.)

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one-bunny-a-day · 6 months

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30/11/2023

what're they dancing to?

#daily bunny #334 #standalone bunny #dance fucker dance man they never had a chance #safdg I filled a flash drive from work with music to play when there's noone to connect to spotify #of course you're gonna go far kid is on there along with a bunch of weeb music game and anime osts #also obscure indie stuff pop music classic rock etc etc etc #I work in the kids section of a bookstore so we gotta be a lil careful what kind of music we put on #but I think we can have a little bit of acdc and rolling stones and the sound of silence #as a treat #sifting very carefully tru my downloaded songs for stuff to puyt on the flash drive #so I don't accidentally throw on there somet like #gallery piece or sick bitch (anal house remix) or wap dsgfhgk #everyone please share your favourite songs I wanna listen to stuff

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paulic · 6 months

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ok so apparently “Sweet Nothing” by Taylor Swift is about Paul and Linda? And he might have worked on it with her? She credited someone (an alias, “William Bowery”) on the album who she said was Joe Alwyn, her ex partner, but for multiple reasons there’s always been rumours that it wasn’t him

Taylor uses the lyrics “on the way home // I wrote a poem // you say, “what a mind” // this happens all the time”

Here’s a quote from Paul: “I would go out for a run, think of some words, get home from the run, write them down, and make a cup a tea for Linda. I'd make a little tray, and go up, and then I'd say, 'Hey, by the way, do you want to hear some poetry?' She'd always … she'd say, 'Yeah.' And so I wrote that poem. I would come back from a run. With lines of poetry to tell. And having listened, she would say 'What a mind.'”

A Paul archive account posted this quote (an abbreviated version) the weekend Taylor’s album came out, which seems…not accidental. Taylor just randomly liked the tweet, which is a year old, after it was revealed that one of her saddest songs about difficulties in her relationship with Joe wasn’t written during the breakup or shortly before, but in 2021, which makes people doubt very much if a song like Sweet Nothing could have been written by the “happy couple” in 2022.

Additionally, Paul was spotted in Wicklow more than once in 71, which would fit the theme of the song, as it’s about coming home to a partner’s love after the world outside tried to rip you to shreds. Crying screaming throwing up btw

#I listened to the song and tried to find Paul in any of it #‘outside they’re push and shoving’ sounds like something he would say #the kitchen humming thing would fit so well #the trombones in the last third of the song sound like he would like them #but to be honest it’s hard to tell if he’s in there somewhere #paul mccartney #the beatles #john lennon #george harrison #ringo starr #classic rock #beatles #richard starkey #brian epstein #george martin #Taylor swift

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jonesyjonesyjonesy · 10 months

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Out of all Jonesy photos, which one is your favorite? 🤔

I have many favorites but this is the photo that launched a thousand ships:

life forever changed.

#thank you for asking!#like that sounds dramatic but it fully isn’t #john paul jones #led zeppelin #jonesy #classic rock #jimmy page #robert plant #john bonham #jjj #ask

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mazzy-rockstar · 7 months

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The last Beatles song

Now and then is the Beatles’ official swan song. It was written and sung by John Lennon, but never fully finished. Thanks to AI, the Beatles can reunite once more 40 years later

#the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #blues #classic rock #60s rock #70s rock #Spotify #it sounds more like a John Lennon record than a beatles record #and i have mixed feelings about the AI #but it’s beautiful #mazzy listens

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macbethz · 1 month

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when people get mad at others on the internet for being pretentious they always make it sound oddly desirable. saw someone say "maybe if you didn't have such a throbbing superiority complex-" THROBBING?just fuck and get it over with

#maybe if you dint have a rock hard superiority complex with a vein down the middle #hey everyone. sorry about that one #this is also about the tiktok that was like people act like theyre intellectually superior bc they dont like booktok books #like the way youre describing this hypothetical pretentious nerd who loves philosophy is making them sound very cool to hang out with #or the classic serbian pigeon film bro post #warlock wartalks

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xx-emowarz-xx · 5 months

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one thing about alt stuff is that the barrier to entry to being "goth" is truely so fucking low and yet people constantly limbo under the bar instead of stepping over it and wonder why they get called posers. like we're not asking you to move mountains here we're just asking you to find even one band under the umbrella that you like and to engage with the community a little bit. The fashion has truely so much overlap between goth punk and emo so very few people will care which one you call yourself based on your look and you just have to find a band you like. Dashboard Confessional screams a bit too much for your taste and Dead Kennedys is too loud? Guess what you're in luck the goths listen to something a little softer and weirder they call it dark wave or ethereal wave depending on the phases of the moon. Try out Clan of Xymox or Switchblade Symphony. Like truly the alt music scene is so fucking diverse there's gotta be something in here that you like. If not and you truly are a pop girlie then don't call yourself punk it's very easy.

#listen don't at me I do think that dark wave ethereal wave and new wave are all basically the same music genre #but I also don't think that emo isn't even a real music genre because it's all either punk pop punk or screamo #I don't like labels when they become entirely too niche to be helpful xoxo #the only music genres to me: Punk Metal Wave Industrial Electronica Pop Punk Screamo Grunge and Goth #and then the other ones which are rock hiphop folk country pop jazz soul blues R&B ska and classical but those r less relevant here #don't make it more complicated than that it doesn't need to be #this is not contradictory with the scene being diverse btw Mitski and Kesha are both considered pop yet their music is distinct #so too two punk bands are allowed to sound different and both be punk without a whole new genre getting made up

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wallisninety-six · 10 months

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The Bittersweet Tragedy- and Triumph of The Beach Boys' "Sunflower" (1970)

Pet Sounds and the collapse of Smile in 1967 is often seen by mainstream critics and some fans alike as *the* defining moment where The Beach Boys lost the script, lost their knack for quality album-making and started a creative downward spiral for the band and Brian Wilson himself. Things *were* far from rosy, but this is also far from true. In reality, that exact moment occurred with the release, and total chart failure of Sunflower in 1970.

The truth is that Brian, while definitely ceding his leadership role slowly, was still writing tons of music for the band and remained heavily involved (with the exception of the album 20/20 in 1969, when he was in a psychiatric hospital) with the creation & production process of the band's albums from 1967-1970, and Sunflower was no exception. This time though, he wasn't alone.

Since Brian had taken a firm leadership role since the band's early days and practically cemented his position with Pet Sounds & Smile- the group's unease with his direction grew, tensions rose considerably, and infighting at times got really heated- and after Smile's collapse, the rest of the group emerged to slowly & gradually offer their songwriting talents and make music more as a collective than ever before. Although very fragmented- 20/20 represented a new peak for the band actually working *as* a band together.

With the band in a severe amounts of debt, depressed, struggling to find their footing in a practical power vacuum, plus submitting album after album to their new labels (with nearly 40 tracks) and having them constantly be rejected- the fact that Sunflower exists as it does is nothing short of a miracle. Not less because the Boys- even if it was for a fleeting moment, found harmony and could work together effectively as a true collective, making a unanimous statement about the power of music and love, each in their own way. It's seen by some as the band's Abbey Road, and it's not hard to see why.

Each and *every* single member showed off their music chops and in their own way- with so many moods and feelings, a variety of vocalists plus different (and even groundbreaking) instrumentals. The stars aligned for this extremely hard-fought and incredibly genuine album. But it wasn't enough.

When it was released, critics liked the album fine enough, but most questioned the need for anyone to listen to the Beach Boys anymore, throwing them to the wayside. Sunflower *peaked* at 151 at the Billboard 200, their worst showing ever at that time- *this* was the defining moment that started the downward spiral.

Just like with Pet Sounds, Brian was absolutely devastated by the commercial failure & lukewarm response of Sunflower- only now his psyche was much more damaged and rattled than it was in 1966, and he retreated further and further away from the band, famously staying in bed for over 2 years, overeating and abusing drugs, and barely appearing in later albums until 1976, and even then he wasn't as involved thanks to the extremely toxic relationship between him and his abusive, controlling "therapist" Eugene Landy.

The rest of the band started to drift apart in a major way, with acrimonious and even extremely bitter tensions hitting a fever pitch- with individual members traveling to concerts *separately* and with Carl Wilson being the one single thread that kept the band from completely collapsing. Fellow Beach Boy Bruce Johnston would leave the band in 1972 and wouldn't return many years later. Dennis Wilson would chart out his own solo career, but his promising rise was tragically cut short by drug & alcohol issues that would eventually kill him in 1983. Carl Wilson- the youngest member, would die from lung cancer in 1998 at only 51 years old, and the band completely fractured virtually for good. Creative and fully collaborative songwriting would end as the band became an oldies act cashing in on their past success.

Sunflower has seen a bit of a resurgence since around the 2000s, not only slowly but surely becoming a cult classic with a devoted following, but it's also finally received recognition from the types of major publications that once shunned it (and the band)- with the likes of Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and AV Club ranking it as one of the greatest albums ever made. Perhaps the biggest tragedy is that the rest of the band members' individual hard work and legitimate talents for music weren't recognized for decades- and for Carl and Dennis Wilson, they never would in their lifetimes.

The history before and after Sunflower makes the listening experience much more emotional and incredibly bittersweet- not less because it still feels so tragically timeless and genuine- the band came out of some of the darkest years of their life to make an incredibly gorgeous work of love. Unlike many of their much later albums, there was more of a broad, positive reception to Sunflower among the band members- with lifelong rivals Brian Wilson and Mike Love coming together in agreement to sing it's praises.

It just wasn't made for it's time- but with the band members getting older and as the past fades away, it's about time to give it a shot, and realize (as much as i admire him) that The Beach Boys was not just Brian Wilson- it was filled to the brim with talent, and that even in the darkest times, setting aside differences and working together can truly create something beautiful.

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aphony-cree · 2 years

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PSA: Classic Rock doesn’t mean “rock song that’s old.” It’s a genre of music that applies to the rock sound that was popular in the 1960s. The term was coined in the 1980s by a Cleveland radio station to distinguish that they were playing songs with the 1960s sound instead of the rock that was popular in the 80s

The Rolling Stones create classic rock, even the songs they released this year are classic rock because that’s the band’s genre. But a band like Nirvana is never going to be classic rock, they’ll always be alternative/grunge rock no matter how old their songs are

#supernatural #I'm tagging this supernatural because we have a lot of younger fans #and I've seen a lot of posts talking about songs people think should have been in the show #and it's great when fans talk about songs they like and associate with a show #but I think it's important to know #that when the show says they use classic rock #they're talking about a specific sound

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encrucijada · 6 months

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person writing guy whose thing is Music and whose mum is literally a rock artist from the 80s realises they have to actually research 80s rock/music in general (not just 80s, in General, i'm supposed to know how guitars and singing works and also probably what it's like for this to be Your Job)

#✍️ research female rock artists for candy #✍️ probably listen to maná because we also need latam inspo for this #i'm gonna have to learn how guitars work.....#see the thing is i Know retro music. not by name or artist or genre though #i call it “my parents listen to all the time i grew up with it”#i want to find candy's sound. like what would her music sound like #and then adam's. is he more classic rock leaning or alt rock a la nbt #my first thought for candy was blondie....#adam female rock artists son covers. no pronoun changes he's bisexual #pia.txt #( wip ) greek tragedy!

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thegroovywitch · 1 year

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🎑 spinning records with dee dee: day 2 🎑

Jimmy Page – Baby I Miss You So

recorded august/september 1981 — released march 6, 2015

Jimmy wrote, recorded and produced this track with the intention of including it on the soundtrack for Death Wish II. At the end of the recording process for the album, however, he decided not to include it, favouring other more useful material. The song remained in the vaults until its official release on 6 March 2015 as part of Sound Tracks, a special edition box set bringing together Jimmy’s compositions for the films Lucifer Rising and Death Wish II along with additional rare, never-heard-before sketches and unreleased recordings.

#i feel like jimmy's promoter #buy 'sound tracks' by jimmy page!#🥴🥴#i think it's sold out on his website tho?#and like #he only sells this kind of stuff on his website cause he wants it to feel 'exclusive'#i hate him (not so affectionate bc i always have to go through the pits of hell to purchase his stuff)#grrrr i hate u jim #spinning records with dee dee 🎶#jimmy page #led zeppelin #classic rock #80s #rock

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deadwerewolfgirlfriend · 1 year

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SPN + classic rock - Simple Man (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose, 9.23 Do You Believe in Miracles?, 5.13 The Song Remains the Same, 8.17 Goodbye Stranger, 4.16 On the Head of a Pin, 10.03 Reichenbach, 10.22 The Prisoner, 2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be bonus: this cover by Jensen Ackles

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asherasgayagenda · 6 months

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alkaloid vocals stands out because each voice is so specifically unique that although they blend well with each other, it's also distinctly easy to tell who is who, which makes the music more inherently varied. it's why i think the vocal music is a lot more distinctive, because you can have two voices at the same time (even if they are) that may be singing the same line, it has enough natural variation that it doesn't just fade into the background and actually gives you something to fall back on if you try to re-create it from memory later (contributing to the overall aspect of how catchy it is). if you take another unit for comparison, valkyrie (sorry about that valkyrie), for example, the similarity in tonation for both mika and shu's voices don't give it as much vocal fluctuation, particularly if they're not trying. i won't argue that valk vocals are bad; it's very impressive and definitely reminiscent of how they've trained to work together and harmonise well, but at times i feel it does just blend (and sometimes get overshadowed) with/by the background instrumental. alkaloid is not as perfectly balanced, probably in part due to their 4-member getup, but it also lends to the diversity that makes it memorable, and from other units as well.

#ALKALOID #valkyrie #enstars #first of all i swear im not trying to sound like an academic professor it just happens #secondly ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AGAINST VALKYRIE PSA #i love valk music i have been listening to shukufuku no library the entire day and it's so good aughhh #their like. mildy rock classical music (?) its just a nice juxtaposition of two things i like #analysis #wrote this last night but also everyone was freaking out last night

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hewasanamericangirl · 30 days

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🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

OKAY

I KNOW IM LATE

BUT HERE WE GO

this is all recent stuff:

1. Been Down So Long - The Doors

2. Skeleton Appreciation - Will Wood

3. It Girl - Aliyah’s Interlude

4. Shout - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

5. Station To Station - David Bowie

#thank you!! :D #i know this is such a mix #but im very erratic with music #and to those classic rock girlies modern music can be good too #you just have to find what sound you in particular like

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stergeon · 1 month

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for the writer ask

💭🚦💛 💌

💭 What inspires you and your writing?

this is a real marketing major-ass answer (from your local marketing major), but i love sharing knowledge and telling stories. writing’s one of those things that’s a bit of a compulsion for me—i’m always writing something. i took a five-year break from fiction writing before i stumbled ass-first into fanfic last year, but even in those years when i was focusing on my career, i was writing guides and trainings and a ton of other stuff—just not anything fun, lol.

writing is also so cathartic. sometimes i set out to tell a specific story, but at other times, a particular emotion gets me in a vice grip and i have to put it to words before it’ll go away. my stories tend to wind up as emotional dumping grounds as a result.

i don’t write things pulled directly from my own life, but there are bits and pieces of myself and things that have happened to me scattered throughout stuff i’ve written, and usually when i’m about 75% of the way through a piece, i’ll realize it’s absolutely related to something i’m currently going through. funny how art works that way, even when you don’t intend for it to.

and occasionally i just have a fire lit under my ass about an issue and i get so hot about it that i gotta compile my thoughts. looking at you, silver snow

🚦 What sort of endings do you prefer to write: ambiguous, bad, happily ever after, etc.?

look, i would love nothing more for them girls (pick whichever girls you please) to have a happy ending where they kiss and are stupid in love for the rest of forever. i love reading those kinds of stories. but in my heart of hearts, i love an ambiguous ending. i like when there are still questions after the story ends. i like thinking about where things could go or how the characters will go on after the events of the story. like, shared space could be read as having a happy ending, but i don’t really think it is. and with the victors; the vestiges, well. you’ll see :0)

come to think of it, i’m not sure i’ve ever written a happily-ever-after, but i don’t think i’ve ever written a 100% bad ending, either. i read too many bury-your-gays stories and watched too many sad european queer coming-of-age films in my youth to ever be happy putting that kinda thing out into the world. i want to write about love with all its ugliness, but not despair or hopelessness. i think what most appeals to me about an ambiguous ending is that lingering feeling of hope. it’s not the same as the kind you get from a happily-ever-after, and something about it speaks to me.

💛 What is the most impactful lesson you’ve learned about writing?

honestly? how to take criticism. i took a creative writing class in high school where we had to read our work out loud and then receive feedback on it from the other writers in the class, and that did a lot for me. going into that class, i’d already been writing for forever and had won some little local writing contests and such, so i was a wee bit of a pretentious douche. but i’d never gotten real critique before beyond, essentially, spelling and grammar checks. it humbled me lol. it made me grow so much as a writer, and i could see where i needed to improve or where my head was wedged way too far up my own ass for others to follow. it also helped me recognize strengths i didn’t know i had, and that was huge. it’s easy to get into a self-doubt spiral when making creative work, and good, constructive criticism can do so much to help avoid that.

to this day i love critique. i like knowing what worked or didn’t work so that i can continue to improve as a writer and do better next time. did my themes land? did something really work, but another part fall flat? i’d love to know!! i try to treat everything i write as practice for the next thing, and frankly that’s helped take some of the pressure off so i don’t go into total Perfectionist Mode.

i know critique is kind of a sensitive topic in fan spaces, but i think that’s because a lot of people have gotten unsolicited criticism that is purely critical and isn’t constructive. but getting good, constructive criticism will do so much to help a person grow as a writer. it’s scary, and sometimes it hurts! writing is very personal for most people, and it stings when things aren’t received the way you think they will be. but i know i’ve grown more from having my failures pointed out (and, very importantly, having the good things about those efforts acknowledged) than anything else.

💌 Is there a favorite trope you like to write?

actually Just answered this in another ask!

#sterge.eml #foxyjeongin #thank you for playing my little game and letting me talk about stories (and about me lmao)#sorry this is kind of a long post #i talk too much #i think i sound pretentious in this ask whoops. sorry #unfortunately i kind of am. i’m working on it.#… i guess the short answer to that first question is ‘emotions and mental illness’ lol #if you follow me on twitter (not recommended as it’s just me complaining about the weather and not being able to ride my motorcycle)#you know that every time i bring up my writing in therapy my therapist rocks my shit by revealing the story is #in fact.#NOT about what i thought it was about #or more accurately it’s ALSO secretly about whatever’s going on with me in real life lmao #y’know what’s really fun? looking back at something you wrote in a manic or depressive episode and going ah. hm. interesting.#the signs were. in fact. there.#(this is in fact not fun and i don’t like it. but it always happens.)#everything i write is accidentally Also about being bipolar. no getting around that #i tend to have issues organizing my thoughts and feelings to even figure out how tf i’m feeling #(forget making any attempt at doing so verbally. i have chronic foot-in-mouth disorder and accidentally say shit i don’t mean all the time)#but writing stuff down has always helped me sort through whatever mess is going on in my noggin and i love it for that #learning how to take critique is my no. 1 piece of writing advice but no. 2 is to read #read the classics. find out why they’re classics. read weird shit. read shit you don’t like. find things you like about em anyway.#and importantly: figure out WHY you do or don’t like it #it’s funny to re-read a book i haven’t read in a long time and discover OH. that’s where i get that technique from.#or that’s where i got that idea. or that’s why i had X thing happen in this story.#or why i like this type of character or scenario #nothing’s truly new and original #we’re all an amalgamation of influences and that ruuuuules #celebrate it!!!

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invinciblerodent · 6 months

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it's really funny how differently my partner and I approach and feel about music.

like here i am, making themed playlists left and right (for moods, characters, and generally everything I can think of), looking up lyrical analysis, translating lyrics for myself just for fun, while this man was just asked what his favorite music was right now, and he deadass responded "Spotify Daily Mix #3".

#which as i'm looking at it on our shared account seems to be primarily bardcore???#even though i know for a fact that he's normally a very “classic rock 2010's pop-rock and anything that sounds like retro SF feels” person #but get you a man who's an enigma to you even after 6 fucking years together i guess #personal #i love him very dearly

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