#I can’t speak for artists since I’m not one but thats why reblogs are so important to them cuz it’s sorta like views and just likes don’t do

[thisstableground]

I love music asks! 1, 4, 8, 11, 12, 17, 20, 23, if I may?

1. your favorite album opener

left uninspired by the crust of railroad earth  that touched the lead to the pages of your manuscript  i took my thumb off the concrete and saved up all my strength to hammer pillars for a picket fence 

hard to pick a favorite album opener because i often listen to songs on shuffle (i would have gone for the in the heights opener but i feel like thats too obvious.) but we have the facts is a deeply underrated album and i love the simplicity of this song and it’s a really good example of how death cab (especially in their older discog) can utilise non-rhyming lyrics in a really beautiful way.

4. song that reminds you of your favorite season

remember me with a smile on my face replace the tears in your memory with two heroic arms that twisted lids from jars and dragged you home after drinking in the park

my favourite season is the in-between point where summer’s startig to cool a little but isn’t autumn yet. nights still long but not as hot. cherry ghost is the first band i ever saw live and they remind me of getting ready to go sit in the garden at the pub with my high school friends on a warm evening.

8.  a song that speaks the words you couldn’t say

the ocean machine is set to nine i’ll squeeze into heaven and valentine my bed is pulling me, gravity daysleeper

this sort of encapsulates my lifelong insomnia far better than i’d ever be able to - not just the lyrics but the sound and the atmosphere of it.

11. a song from an international artist 

i couldn’t think of a good one to put here because there are too many options, and generally when i can’t think of what i want to listen to i listen to ratatat, and since they’re from brooklyn they’re international so why not put them here too? i listen to them a lot while studying.

12. a song you can scream all the words to

all alone in space and time there's nothing here but what here's mine something borrowed, something blue every me and every you

i can sing along to most of my favourite songs, im good at remembering lyrics, and i dont know that i scream any song because that aint no good for your voice, but i feel like i sort of have a scream on the inside when i’m singing this. especially because i used to listen to it walking to a job i hated so i was definitely screaming at that time. also it’s a ruben during DNH canon song.

17. a song that reminds you of a good time

answered here!

[doing the other two in a reblog cus it won’t let me add more videos]

#im sure people won't listen to them anyway but whatever i'm having fun #todays tunes #ask meme answers #belphegor1982

[lisboy]

@goldenvarnish thx for the cool questions it was rlly fun answering !!! sorry for taking so long haha

Rules: Answer the 11 questions / Add 11 of your own / Tag 11 people 

    1. If you could live in a book’s universe, which one would it be? Why? uuuuuuh i actually have No idea wow it’s kind of sad to think i mostly read school stuff for the last 5 years and definitely wouldn’t want to live in these universes lol. Hmmm i guess i’d like to live in a... fantastic universe ? Something familiar but where there would be stuff to explore.... ancient worlds.......... where magic existed............ i unfortunately don’t have a book example for that

      2. Do you have a painting or an artwork that resonates with you? There are too many pretty things in this world, i can’t choose !!! (This probably means there wasn’t one particular striking artwork for me i guess. if anime counts then i’d definitely say the Tale of princess Kaguya by Takahata ! it was the first movie to ever make me cry, it’s so beautiful i love it so much !! Not only the images but the animation, the music & story aah. so beautiful)

      3. Is it better to be feared or loved? Loved !! being feared sounds cool in theory but in practice id feel kinda lonely

     4. Did you ever stopped consuming an author/artist’s work because their actions were not to your liking? Ya ! if someone does bad stuff i don’t want to promote their work & show others that u can be awful but still successful !! (I’m usually the last person to know about people’s actions though, pls tell me if i reblog/consume bad stuff)

    5. Which book’s villain do you like the best? For which reasons?  I don’t think i actually like her, but the monster mom from neil gaiman’s Coraline is a super good villain !! She starts off as an odd-looking version of the protags mom but keeps looking weirder and weirder until shes an actual monster... Plus according to the cat she’s some kind of ancient being thats always been there and loves playing, which is fascinating & makes me want to know more ! The most frightening thing to me is what you can’t properly define. Stuff thats just familiar enough for u to know something’s off, but you can’t really name what... it’s scary bc you can’t clearly prove somethings wrong aah

    6. If you had to summarize your current mood with a song, which one would it be? i’m in no particular mood tonight but i feel like listening to Used to be by weyes blood ! first listened to this song a few days days ago, it’s nice

      7. If you could dress exactly like you wanted, what kind of outfit would you pull together? I already dress 85% like i want to ; but i’d definitely add like, fairy wings, witch hats or other socially unacceptable stuff to my usual outfits !! Also i want magical girl clothing

      8. Did you ever cry while reading a book? If yes, which one and why? I cried in high school reading the fifth child bc i had been partying the night before and i was really tired lmao does that count ? I may also have happy-cried about the perks of being a wallflower, in hs as well ! sorry i don’t often cry while consuming media i only cry for dumb stuff

      9. Which article of clothing do you cherish dearly and wish you will never lose or damage? A pair of secondhand overalls my mother bought when she was my age, which she gave to me ! They’re so comfortable and go with pretty much anything, i love wearing them !! But they’re old, since she bought them decades ago and were already old then....... kinda hope they last as long as i’m alive, but nothings eternal... thats life i guess

    10. What is your current obsession? eating lots of good stuff lmao.. i often dream about seeing lots of delicious food but not being able to eat as much as i want to, which leads to situations such as dream me breaking into a restaurant’s kitchen to steal awesome-looking pizzas and quiches and doing backflips on the tables to catch food while fleeing the police...... so i guess that counts as an obsession lol should i be worried

      11. If you could speak and write perfectly 3 languages which ones would you pick? probably uh japanese cos i kinda stopped studying it even though i love the language (i still can’t talk/write it properly even though i studied it for years so yea thatd be an achievement !) ; maybeeeee... idk swedish bc it sounds pretty ? And....... hmm probably spanish bc i used to be good at it but forgot everything !

My questions ! (sorry they’re far from being as interesting as Valentine’s) ; ofc you don’t have to answer them all or at all etc, do whatever you feel like ! you can even answer goldenvarnish’s questions if u prefer, whatever’s the most fun to you ⭐

1. Write down the last dream you remember having ! (if it’s not too personal ofc) 2. Rainy weather or sunny weather ? 3. Do you have some kind of special talent ? A specialty thats not necessarily useful but can be, like.. to give an example, mine is finding 4 leaf clovers 4. Would you rather live in a house or in an apartment ? Why ? 5. What makes you feel at peace ? 6. What is your favorite food ? Is it attached to a special memory ? 7. What is the oldest dream you remember having ? 8. Are you afraid of the storm ? 9. Do you like swimming / being in the water ? If so, what kind of water do you prefer (pool / sea / lake / river...) 10. Is there one thing you are proud of ? It doesn’t have to be smth important at all, it can be kinda dumb like.. knowing the latin name of [X] plant or, being able to climb 3 stair steps at a time lol idk 11. Do you believe in the supernatural ? Is there a particular reason why ?

tagging @planetyardium, @x3carlyx3, @no2da, @button-button-button, @mononoke-maiden, @livinka-n-diland & anyone who wants ! as usual don’t feel obligated to do it if you don’t feel like it, etc 🌟

#i know i'm a coward for not wearing fairy wings in public but in my defense i don't like standing out #i would've worn them in high school though i was wild and shameless back then LOL #long post #pers

[carmenlire]

So i love your shadowhunters stuff. I see people like you and others talking alot on my feed about stuff like BTS and like - whats the big appeal about some of this stuff? Genuinely curious. With BTS I see alot of people stanning them and reblogging stuff on tumblr or posting on Twitter and like - why stan people whos native language is different therefore lyrics need like translation? Whats the appeal in something thats a completely different culture? I just want to try to understand

Hello! I know you sent this-- god last month? And I want to apologize for not responding sooner. I wanted to take my time to answer seriously and my inbox has just kinda slipped from my mind recently.

I’m glad that you like my shadowhunters stuff and that you haven’t unfollowed me because I’ve pretty much switched fandoms recently (Though since you sent this several weeks ago and I hadn’t answered yet you might never even read this rip) and thanks for asking! My answer might be kinda ramble-y and will totally be subjective but I’ll do my best to give you a good response.

Okay. So. I was super into a band called 5 Seconds of Summer back in 2014-2016. They went on a hiatus in 2016 and lowkey fell off the face of the earth. I noticed my entire dash at the time turned into kpop land, seemingly overnight. Everyone switched from the 5sosfam to stanning bts (I vividly remember Jungkook was one of my old mutuals faves). I didn’t understand at all! I was like you lol--how did people even find these bands? How did they fall in love with them when they spoke korean? You can’t understand what they mean without translators! How could their music be as meaningful as 5sos/english music when you can’t /know/ what they’re saying. The banter 5sos is famous for had to fall flat with other kpop bands because it’s just not that same level of connectivity. I really didn’t understand the appeal of kpop when it was so-- well, foreign and different and seemingly unrelatable.

But, in 2017 I saw this show all over my dash lol. Skam. I started watching it and I watched all 4 seasons in less than a week. I had to use subtitles (It takes place in norway) and i actually loved it! I don’t think i lost anything because i couldn’t like,, fully immerse myself in that show. I think that was my first real, real inkling that it was okay?? to like and enjoy something not in english and not feel deprived in any way.

So. In 2018, I start seeing a lot of bts on my dash. I’m in a bit of a music funk (I’ve kinda abandoned my pop punk phase and the shadowhunters/malec playlists have gotten a little stale after listening to them nonstop for almost a year.) There were a couple shadowhunters mutuals, actually, that switched to bts accounts and I was on my way home from somewhere one July evening when I just. put bts’s latest album on shuffle. And. I. Loved. It.

It sounded so new and fun and fresh! I seriously felt like I’d just taken a deep breath. Their music made me happy and i just wanted to dance when i heard it. This mutual recommended a few music videos to watch and so when i got home, I watched them and I was amazed! I have to admit, full disclosure, that I was-- well, a little surprised, maybe even a little taken aback by the fashion of bts. They were men and were in full, noticeable makeup! Their clothes were fun and extravagant! But it worked! They looked really, really good. Their looks were a clear aesthetic and fit into the music and their talent, my god. I remember very clearly thinking that they must work so hard, that their talent and sheer work ethic had to be so goddamn admirable because their singing! the dancing was incredible, so intricate but they made it look so easy! doing both at the same time! They seemed so perfect and as someone used to western performers, it was just. like wow! I can’t even imagine how much must go into their songs/performances. I was utterly enthralled. So, I fell in love with the music and aesthetic and effort first. I didn’t know exactly what they were saying at this point but I was drawn to them,,, almost like a magnet lol??

And, like a lot of westerners.... I’ll admit that I had the thought that they look all the same. I’m not proud of that but I’ll be honest about it. I had wondered how people knew who was who. I wanted to educate myself though? and so I started looking up videos introducing BTS and I learned more about the members and it took a few weeks from when i very first listened to them to when something finally clicked and I just,, knew who jimin was by his fucking posture and i could name the member singing by voice alone. Watching those videos-- first the introductions and then performances and then they have a few shows and watching episodes of that where I could see their personality and not just their music added so much to the experience that BTS became. I grew to love them just as much as I had loved the 5sos boys. I saw their serious sides when talking about music and their goofy sides during RUN! episodes and every interview or whatever that i watched just made me fall deeper. They became more than just an image or surface level feel-good feeling and became more like Real People to me.

I’ve always loved traveling and learning about new cultures/places. You ask what the appeal is about stanning something I can’t understand in its native language, something that is in a completely different culture to me. Well, I think that is part of the appeal! Because of BTS, I’ve grown interested in learning more about Korea in general and other Asian countries. I might have to rely on translations but it’s not nearly as messy or inconvenient as I had always thought it had to be before falling into it myself. I’m so appreciative of the fans who take the time to translate and disseminate BTS content for people who don’t speak Korean. I enjoy losing myself in researching lyrics and watching videos breaking down BTS songs and theories and explaining things that could be lost in translation. I actually have a goal to learn Korean this year-- at least enough for a basic conversation lol. I want to visit south korea next year!

I think that’s part of the fun and beauty of enjoying BTS or Kpop or anything from a different culture-- you’re broadening your horizons and challenging yourself. Like I said, I had some initial thoughts that I’m not proud of and that I actively tried to tamp down. but. they were still there. BTS challenged me and confirmed some things I believed but hadn’t really tested.

Just because something has to be translated doesn’t mean it isn’t good or worthy of your attention. It might take a little more effort but it can be a really fun, enriching experience. Speaking for BTS in particularly, I love the guys. In the surface level fan way, yeah, but they speak to me in that fan/artist relationship. Their music fucking slaps. once you research the lyrics, they are fun and clever and often fucking poetic and deep and just so meaningful. The guys themselves are talented and funny and seem to be very genuine-- something that had initially caught my eye with 5sos back in 2014. They are on top of the world but at the end of the day, they’re still 7 guys making music because they love it and just because it is an insane amount of work doesn’t seem to diminish their enjoyment of it. They really have such an accepting ‘love yourself’ message and i love that inclusivity and it does make me feel better to listen to their music or interviews. It’s a break from the real world and relaxes me, gives me a sense of peace. They make me happy.

I don’t know if this has helped you at all, if this has made sense but I hope you understand, at least a little, why i think it is so easy to fall in love with bts. They are fun and talented and the ARMY itself is so much fun to be part of! people are so funny and passionate about the members and their music and it’s so fun to throw yourself into that mix and enjoy the ride.

Thank you for taking the time to ask me this. thanks for not dismissing kpop outright even if you don’t understand it. I guess at the end of the day, it takes all kinds and people just have wildly varying interests but. speaking for bts, people go absolutely feral over them because the members seem genuine and they’re such hardworking, smart, talented, engaging people. their music just pulls you in and, at the end of the day-- they make you think and they brighten/expand your world just that little much more:’)

if you read this and have more specific questions, feel free to ask me! I will do my best to give a good, thoughtful answer

#thanks for the thoughtful question and not being hella judgmental or condescending! #i hope this was helpful #i of course speak just for myself here #i really love bts for a lot of reasons #bts #bangtan seonyeondan #about bts #asked #answered #anon #happy things #about me