I really like when people write and hc Ace as the next housewarden recommended by Riddle himself when he'd be so against it, but I also find it funny to think that he probably remembers most of the rules just because he's broken almost all of them at some point
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On one hand, there's so many things I wish I could say, but on another hand, I'm aware that no amount of words can fix things this time, or make them more simple
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ok but imagine ur an afc richmond player and u go to ur boss' dad's funeral as an act of team solidarity and then ur boss fucking rickrolls u during her eulogy
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the app was called... yourtunes? ourtunes? i think it was ourtunes— it was a program that tapped into the local networks and allowed access to the mp3s in any computer that was logged into the ethernet network. in 2005, in the dorms at the art institute of chicago, there wasn't wi-fi. everyone was logged into the ethernet. so, depending on what floor you were on, you could access hundreds and hundreds of other student's mp3's, and since it was 2005 and it was art school, everyone's music collection was manicured and hopeful. it wanted to be stolen over this (in hindsight horrifically open, but at the time who would have dared do something wrong with it?) program. i got so much over it— yo la tengo's discography, i filled gaps in my sakamoto, i got some clor, some death cab, i think maybe a residents album i was missing, every Broadcast album (tender buttons became the unofficial soundtrack of every freshman at saic in 2005— you saw it on everyone's computer). and there were tinier songs i didn't really get, like this— a tv on the radio song from a compilation i do not remember that wound up being my soundtrack to freshman year (until my roommate found an early leak of animal collective's feels on oink and i heard "banshee beat" for the first time). it's a simple song, but it's effective. it's a midway point between the first two albums, so it's important on that level, sure, but it feels so of the time in a way that actually matters. a lot of indie rock from that era feels like, well, "indie rock from that era," it's easily quantifiable, it's boring. i've never felt this way about "dry drunk emperor," even if it's clearly, obviously, annoyingly about george w bush. there's some weird magic there that works despite it. but maybe that's just me. obviously for me the magic is also the exact hallways it transports me to— the dorm hallways, or the visits home, making my friends listen to it on the mix CDs i burned with the song on it specifically for the purpose of driving around our hometown (knowingly, unknowingly for the last time) to show my friends that "hey now i talk about even weirder songs than last time."
i remember one high school friend, during the first summer break back from college, saying "dang, you're just not as wild as you used to be, you're not, like, jumping on the table and pulling your ass out, man, what happened," and i froze because i had to remember that "well, yeah, maybe i would have done that once," but i definitely didn't do it now, and how dare you imply that i'm some kind of adult now, man. but i said "i don't know, i'm just tired." and there's a little bit of that in this song too, that realization that you're older and maybe not wiser but wizened and that just isn't as illuminating as you thought it would be.
in 2005 there had been so much george w bush and so much iraq war and that was just kind of life for a while and it was so stupid and so boring in its atrocities that it made growing up ridiculous. so i guess that's also why the song resonates with me still because what the fuck else is "being alive in 2023" other than living through a time that is so stupid and so full of atrocities that it's just what life is. the march keeps going, the flutes keep blowing, and you hit repeat because that's just how it is.
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Thinking about how Diavolo’s feelings transcend time and how in the Nightbringer UR+ card Demon Lord’s Castle Tour this conversation happens.
When asked, “Do you wish to see your father?”
Diavolo responds:
“I suppose I do . . .” isn’t the typical reaction to how a child would feel about wanting to see their parent. Especially when said parent has essentially been in a coma for a year.
Along with how Diavolo describe his father.
It makes more sense why when you learn in Lesson 56 how Diavolo was treated by him growing up.
Diavolo can tell when others are lying but is unable to understand his father’s intentions.
Diavolo mentions that he lived a very sheltered life growing up. That from a young age his father never allowed him a chance to talk to anyone outside the castle.
His childhood friend was Mephistopheles. A demon literally RAISED to be his friend. Putting a barrier between the two because Mephistopheles would put Diavolo on a pedestal.
The isolating childhood he experienced riddled with his strict father constantly scolding him.
Despite everything MC is so important to him he wants to see his father again so we can meet.
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