i got tagged to pick a song for each letter in my url by @mithli but i wanna do it for albums, since they are basically songs. to me.
a- awakening:sleeping, mass of the fermenting dregs, a heavier entry into their discography that I only recently took the time to sit down and listen to, and i want to go back to it a couple more times, it feels at first quite different to their other albums with its intensity (and almost clarity compared to how dreamlike a lot of their work is) before returning to form in the final tracks in a way that brings greater cohesion to the dissonance in the beginning and makes me want to relisten to it a lot. also im v excited because mass of the fermenting dregs is doing a NA tour and is at 600% their kickstarter goal, hopefully they stop in my city T-T
s- super champon, otoboke beaver, another delightfully irreverent album from otoboke beaver that continues their amazing energy they have together as well as their unified message: fuck you
p- paramartha, psychic tv, it feels cheapening to characterize the album as such but it feel like a psychedelic parallel to throbbing gristle and i love that
o- omoide in my head b sides, number girl, great album and also foundational to a lot of the other alternative Japanese bands i love.
o- Organism_evolution, porya hatami & arovane, a much gentler noise/ambient album than i usually like but its pleasant, and feels organic as it is intended to
p- petals for armor, hayley williams, this is more lyrical than i usually go in on, but a robust and textured album that i enjoy
a- another fine tune you’ve got me into, gilgamesh, a nice jazz album on the smoother lighter side of things
l- loveless, my bloody valentine, this is the album that made the rest of mbv’s discography click better for me
y- you will never know why, sweet trip, i like how this album contrasts velocity design comfort in being enveloping yet placid where velocity lands more frenetic, while still having both albums feel stylistically quite far apart
p- pulse demon.
s- sirens and satellites, SPC ECO, all around solid experimental shoegaze album that very evidently plays up what i like about the genre
e- exploder falls/two airships, candy claws, a really neat concept album meant to pair with a documentary and it feels appropriately cloudy and rough while still quite upbeat, also i should watch that documentary with this scoring it
im gonna tag @anightlikethis1985 @triifid @marxism-transgenderism @post-brahminism if they wanna do this (tho maybe just with songs not whole albums)
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they want to talk about mental illness and acceptance and how everyone is a little ocd it's cute and quirky and their "intrusive thoughts" are about cutting their hair off and you say yours are about taking a razorblade to your eye and they say ew can you not and everyone is a little adhd sometimes! except if you're late it's a personality flaw and it's because you are careless and cruel (and someone else with adhd mentions they can be on time, so why can't you?) and it's not an eating disorder if it's girl dinner! it's not mania if it's girl math! what do you mean you blew all of your savings on nonrefundable plane tickets for a plane you didn't even end up taking. what do you mean that you are afraid of eating. get over it. they roll their little lips up into a sneer. can you not, like, trauma dump?
they love it on them they like to wear pieces of your suffering like jewels so that it hangs off their tongue in rapiers. they are allowed to arm-chair diagnose and cherrypick their poisons but you can't ever miss too many showers because that's, like, "fuckken gross?" so anyone mean is a narcissist. so anyone with visual tics is clearly faking it and is so cringe. but they get to scream and hit customer service employees because well, i got overwhelmed.
you keep seeing these posts about how people pleasers are "inherently manipulative" and how it's totally unfair behavior. but you are a people pleaser, you have an ingrained fawn response. in the comments, you have typed and deleted the words just because it is technically true does not make it an empathetic or kind reading of the reaction about one million times. it is technically accurate, after all. you think of catholic guilt, how sometimes you feel bad when doing a good deed because the sense of pride you get from acting kind - that pride is a sin. the word "manipulation" is not without bias or stigma attached to it. many people with the fawn response are direct victims of someone who was malignantly manipulative. calling the victims manipulative too is an unfair and unkind reading of the situation. it would be better and more empathetic to say it is safety-seeking or connection-seeking behavior. yes, it can be toxic. no, in general it is not intended to be toxic. there is no reason to make mentally ill people feel worse for what we undergo.
you type why is everyone so quick to turn on someone showing clear signs of trauma but you already know the fucking answer, so what's the point of bothering. you kind of hate those this is what anxiety looks like! infographics because at this point you're so good at white-knuckling through a severe panic attack that people just think you're stoic. even people who know the situation sometimes comment you just don't seem depressed. and you're not a 9 year old white kid so there's no way you're on the spectrum, you're not obsessed with trains and you were never a good mathematician. okay then.
mental illness is trending. in 2012 tumblr said don't romanticize our symptoms but to be fair tiktok didn't exist yet. there's these series of videos where someone pretends to be "the most boring person on earth" and is just being a normal fucking person, which makes your skin crawl, because that probably means you are boring. your friend reads aloud a profile from tinder - no depressed bitches i fucking hate that mental illness crap. your father says that medication never actually works.
you still haven't told your grandmother that you're in therapy. despite everything (and the fact it's helping): you just don't want her to see you differently.
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happy new year Ego!!! Just wanted to let you know that I absolutely adore your twst fanart and the tags are just an absolute pleasure to read! You are my greatest inspiration for my personal twst art and I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful masterpieces <333 if possible, may I ask what are some of your headcanons for the diasomnia family? If not for diasomnia then any other characters are fine as well!
thank you, and happy new year! 💚💜💚 that is amazing to hear; it's always a little bewildering but super flattering that other people like my silly little doodles so much!
I don't think I really have any really solid headcanons and also canon keeps validating me left and right (FLUFFY DOMESTIC DIAFAM IS REAL). mostly just kind of...impressions and general thoughts, if that makes sense! lately though I've been kind of obsessed with thinking about Lilia's hair, and specifically when/why he ended up cutting it. (l-look, we're bouncing around the timeline and I gotta make decisions about these things when I draw, it's relevant) (I mean I would probably be weirdly fixated on this anyway, but.)
I think I've settled on the idea that he kept it long until he went to NRC, partly because 1) I like drawing The Ponytail, and 2) I think he thought of NRC as a chance to reinvent himself a bit! he gets to go and be a wacky carefree teenager for a few years and have fun! (officially he's there to keep an eye on Son #1, but how much trouble could he get into, really.) so he gave himself a Cool Teen Haircut to go with his fresh new Cool Teen Persona!
also maybe he had some reflection on his hair's troubled past with three kids...
...and had to weigh his vanity versus the fact that he was going off to be around hundreds of kids on a daily basis, and. the choice suddenly seemed obvious.
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