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betterlifeinoverall-rethabilep · 1 year

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Favorite Song Connected To Untold Story

To break the ice, we all love music. Hence, different flavours of Music. Likewise, to the different dishes we would choose in Restaurant on the Menu. Nevertheless, in all the songs we love despite how varied they are, we receive beats which makes us jolly and jubilantly happy. Actually, they ensures we are happy and create memories which gets labeled with the sound of the same songs. Exclusively,…

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#Being Jolly And Jubilant In Music #Flavours Of Music #How Beats Can Make You Dance #How To Create Memories In Music #How To Dance To Music #How To Keep Favorite Songs Listed On Playlist #How To Let Music Be Your Solace #How To Listen To Music #How To Tell Story In Song #Love For Music #Music As Our Culture #Music Blogging #Music Essays #Music Quotes #Sorrow Complications #Strong Language Stories #Untold Stories

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ovaruling · 8 months

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something to be said for the fact that people have enough self-control to write a full thesis on why it’s still ok to listen to misogynistic music but cannot themselves go a single day without streaming the misogynistic music. we uphold the culture of misogyny every time we stream it or add it to a playlist etc even if we don’t agree with the lyrics. like. how is this not clicking. it’s direct support. most likely no one is ever gonna tap dance out from behind a bush and ask you for your nuanced opinion on it, and it wouldn’t even matter if they did if you’ve already given that artist and label uncountable reasons to keep making this kind of music cuz we keep telling them with our purchasing and streaming and editing and trending power that as long as it’s catchy enough for you they can say whatever they want about women

#there are licherally songs abt wanting to murder women like #there has to be more of an effort here #or at least an acknowledgement??#music is so so so influential and it has a chokehold on our culture #and most of what is popular is misogynistic #and female artists involved are probably not in control of their content atp #music needs an audience to be successful. we literally have that power. it could not be easier to do

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metamorphesque · 6 months

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Ari I'm Sokhak (Արի, իմ սոխակ) Come hither, my nightingale

Come hither, my nightingale, leave our garden and come, With your psalms bring slumber to the eyes of my son. But oh, he’s crying! Nightingale, don’t come, Tis not a deacon he wants to become. Come hither, skylark, leave your pastures and fields, Rock my baby gently, he’s longing for sleep. But oh, he’s crying! Baby bird, don’t come, It is not a monk he wants to become. Leave your hunt and come, you brave-hearted hawk! Tis your song, perhaps, that my son shall want. As the hawk drew near, my baby grew quiet, Fell asleep to war songs, his own silent riot.

(translated by metamorphesque)

#one of my favorite armenian folk songs #a lullaby to be exact #in our culture “hawk” is considered the bird of war #music #armenian culture #translations

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tomthebassoon · 5 months

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Ok listen. I'm dying. Reading the hunger games, I was vaguely aware that district 12 was supposed to be located in my homeland, but I didn't fully feel it till I read tbosas. Like, that's Appalachian folk music, baby! The music of my people! Lucy Gray talks like me!! The humidity Snow can't stop bitching about? That's my summer!!!

And then the movie came out and let me tell you, the joy I felt hearing the covey speak. That's my accent on the big screen!!! And of course, the music was just how I imagined it!! Straight up, The Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird was *the same* melody I thought of when reading the book!!! (musicology is my passion ok). Every single song killed me I swear. And the cinematography of district 12! I can imagine my home town like that. I know meadows and lakes just like those. That's my home.

#the hunger games #tbosas #anyways i wish thg movies had given us the appalachian accents. ik they forgot that detail & thats ok #then again maybe it was on purpose to show that the culture faded. like how katniss is unique for knowing the old songs and hunting #most peopke in 12 don't have access to their culture at that point bc of the oppression of the capitol; live music was shut down #access to the woods was limited. so while some people might have been able to keep their accent #that piece of our culture was lost to katniss.#idk im probably rambling #katniss everdeen #district 12 #thg series #tbosas movie #thg movies #thg

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todayinhiphophistory · 7 months

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Today in Hip Hop History:

Timbaland and Magoo released their debut album Welcome To Our World November 11, 1997

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queenlucythevaliant · 6 months

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We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

#the visual depictions are lovely #but what really gets me every time are the little cultural details in the music #music that tells the story of the Nativity while placing it in a world that's familiar to the listener #fur robed moujiks on snowboard plateaus in place of middle eastern shepherds #bark lodges instead of stables and rabbit skin in place of swaddling clothes #wandering hunter and chiefs from far off places instead of shepherds and wise men (man i love the Huron Carol)#and little french girls running to gather the village to come see Jesus #it's easy for an excess of historical concern to make Jesus feel distant and far off #/I know/ that Jesus was born in the ancient near east and have had my fill of books and sermons and the like unpacking the implications #I've laughed with my friends and family at the wild inaccuracies of Nativity sets and tellings #the crazy blonde mary in the kids nativity set at Walmart #what is that alpaca doing at the living Nativity don't they know those are south American?#yada yada #and then i look at these carols and think. it's okay not to get mired in the history. good even #yes Jesus entered into time and space in a very specific manner #but he also came for all of us #as another carol says: we see him come and know him ours #i just think this practice is lovely #that the impact of the Incarnation was such that it send little french girls running to their villages #and drew algonquin hunters and russian peasants to the manger to see him #it's the great crowd of witnesses in a way #all of us together preparing him room throughout all the corners of the earth #in Bethlehem that night it was only the shepherds who got to see him #but in spirit it was all of us #because it's just like the angel said:#good news of great joy which will be to all people #to all people #starting with the shepherds and going out to all the earth #unto us a child is born #intertextuality

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 3 days

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What I don't understand about certain "discourses" is:

the whole point of writing fan-fiction is to get your own headcanon out of your head on paper / the screen in order to share it with the people who might have the same headcanon. Or who just like your headcanon. Who can see it.

And it works the same the other way around. You are looking for fan-fiction that supplements and supports your headcanon. Your interpretations. And then you read it.

In which case the writer has succeeded in sharing what's happening in their head with someone who feels the same way, and the reader has found someone who made a thing that totally works for them. Everybody is happy.

So why would you go reading fan-fictions that are clearly not a match and then complain about it?

What you do instead is: first you set your search parameters to filter for the things you like or dislike*. Then you check the tags and maybe the summary for anything you might dislike. And then you start reading.

And chances are that you, more often than not, will indeed, in your head, go "he would not fucking say that". Because in your head, he doesn't.

In which case, you hit the "back" button of your browser or close the tab and keep searching the other fics for one that might be for you.

And if it is something that squicks you so much that you don't ever want to see it again, you always have the option of preventing that by blocking - the work, the author, the artist, whatever works.

What you do NOT do is bang the writer's door down just to tell them how much you dislike their work and disagree with their take on things, and you absolutely do not assemble your herd to collectively judge them for it. In a fanfic that they wanted to share, for free, with likeminded people. Which means a fanfic that wasn't even for you.

Don't like? Don't read.

There are always going to be headcanons and fanons that are further off the mark than others. There are always fan-artists who are going to project things onto characters to deal with stuff. There are always going to be fanworks based on misremembered stuff, or misinterpreted stuff, or non-canon stuff. There are always going to be interpretations you disagree with. But all of these, too, will find their people. People who, unlike you, want it. People who might even need it.

I am not talking about meta or analysis or canon discourse here. If someone starts a fight insisting that their complete misinterpretation of a character or scene is the only correct one, they're gonna have to deal with upset people answering back.

But fanworks? Fan-fiction, fan-art, filk, that is stuff someone put a lot of work and heart and sometimes tears in for themselves and for anyone who likes it, too. It often comes from a place that is deeply personal, that makes the artist vulnerable, and that they then gift to anyone who might feel that pang of recognition. It is not just free content to consume.

The same goes for complaining and arguing about why some genres, some tropes, some fanons or pairings or fandoms are more popular than others. Which is always going to be the case.

You have no right to demand a quota from the fan-fiction writers community. You have no right to demand that someone else sacrifices their precious free time to write your headcanon or fulfills your personal needs or includes your specific minority. Fan-fiction writers are not free content creators, they don't work for you. They work for themselves. And then they gift their work to the people who might want it. Anything they do or don't do is out of their own volition and they only have to answer to themselves for it. And that is exactly how it should be.

And if you're unhappy with what you are getting, there is always the golden rule of fan-fiction:

If no one has written or wants to write the fan-fiction YOU want to read, you're gonna have to write it yourself.

(Or find someone who actually takes commissions. In that case, you would even be entitled to complain if it isn't what you paid for.)

*=thankgod for the AO3 search function!

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megamindfandombookclub · 2 months

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From our very talented @berrymarais !

Thanks for sharing, Berry!

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antisocialpostsposts · 26 days

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araneitela · 1 month

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Me staring at test results: It makes so much sense for her, but if I don't specify or elaborate, then we end up with the fanon take. Ugh, how do I easily explain that if you look at the word 'sex' through a much more old-fashioned lens instead of the modern one, that you'll get a vastly different picture of it?

/takes angycat.png typing to my tags

#[ ooc. ] don't try to make it logical or edit your soul according to the fashion. rather; follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.#[ post-it. ] in a way; you are poetry material. you are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out.#[ i'm so tired. i need to write a post on this or something. and somehow add it to my pinned. in some way. ]#[ 'sex' and 'seduction' are /not/ wrong in my opinion. HOWEVER-- they are /very wrong/ if we go by modern labels and perception. ]#[ god the horror of writing a muse that is so interlaced in a modern world; setting and culture but seems to /ooze/ something archaic. ]#[ this level of refinement isn't of our times in my opinion. these things that she loves aren't commonly loved nowadays. ]#[ there's so much about her that is old-fashioned to me and it's so in my face. and yet fanon doesn't see it. ]#[ i can't believe i'm an old millennial who's screaming boomer or older things. ]#[ but like can we acknowledge that sex in today's age isn't the same as it used to be? not /always/ but more generally so. ]#[ can we acknowledge that /seduction/ didn't always mean what people see it to mean now? ]#[ can we acknowledge that the FEMME FETALE TROPE HAS CHANGED /LEAGUES/ since the 2000s? ]#[ which is my biggest beef actually. and maybe all of my frustration plays into this most. it's that the femme fatale now is sexualized. ]#[ while that is /not/ what the femme fatale used to be. kafka plays into the old school femme fatale so well. film noir days. ]#[ i had this same struggle on yelan where they make VERY OBVIOUS draws to it by her music in her trailer. god; the jazz. ]#[ but kafka suffers from this so very much as well to a point where i don't dare to call her a femme fatale because then it's fanon. ]#[ the fanon i hate so much. ]#[ but just uuuughhhh. UGHHH. it's so much to explain. ]

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juneibyou · 6 months

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i cant stop fucking laufhint i found out that radiohead is british not through normal means. but a fucking pooltoy tf shitpost.

jay kay of equally british band Jamiroquai was right. this is some virtual insanity

LMFAO

#ask #one of our few treasured pieces of cultural identity: our 90s music scene ended up with the bends and ok computer

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x-heesy · 2 months

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Dᴇʙʙɪᴇ Hᴀʀʀʏ (Bʟᴏɴᴅɪᴇ) — Oɴ ᴀ ᴛʀᴀɪɴ (ʟᴀᴛᴇ 1970s)

Oᴜʀ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇ sʏsᴛᴇᴍ ɪs ᴠᴇʀʏ ᴠᴇʀʏ ᴡʀᴏɴɢ 😑

Rᴇᴀʟ ᴍᴇɴ ᴀʀᴇ ғᴇᴍɪɴɪsᴛs, ᴘʜᴜᴄᴋʜᴇᴀᴅᴢ

Rᴇᴀᴅɪɴɢ ɪs sᴇxʏ

Dᴀᴍɴ Gᴇɴᴅᴇʀ Wᴀʀ 👉🏾🫵🏾🖕🏾👈🏽

“Hᴇ ᴄᴀʟʟᴇᴅ ᴍᴇ ᴀ ᴅʏᴋᴇ: I ᴄᴀʟʟᴇᴅ ʜɪᴍ ᴀɴ ᴀᴍʙᴜʟᴀɴᴄᴇ“

Eǫᴜᴀʟ Rɪɢʜᴛs, Eǫᴜᴀʟ Lᴇғᴛs ʙʏ Oᴛᴇᴘ 🎧

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bubblyaquarium · 4 months

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Shout out to the introjects that are basically sleeper agents and switch forward when they hear Their song

#-chloe #we have v strong ties to music #it's collectively our biggest pos trigger #sysblr #introject #introject culture #plural #plurality #plural system

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halalgirlmeg · 5 months

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Also I feel like some Muslims heard 'don't mix religion and culture' but like somehow turned that into 'we all should act exactly the same and erase any instance of cultural differences in the name of Islam'

#like calling people's cultural dress haram is not it #same with cultural music #say what you will but music is cultural and taking it away is erasing people's identities #like we're not all arab nor south asian and we shouldn't have to lose our identities bc we're muslim #I really love seeing differences amongst different islamic ethnic groups it's like seeing history #and it's like people being racist misogynistic and homophobic and transphobic in the so called name of islam #when that's the opposite of what you should be doing but policing people's clothes or something #you worried about the wrong thing #random

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andthebeanstalk · 7 months

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Favorite part about Death Note is that Light gets the Note and IMMEDIATELY becomes a serial killer fascist with a god complex.

No build-up, no Fall From Grace, no slow corruption of a good boy gradually becoming a monster. Just-- SPEED RUN STRATS. And I love that for him.

Tbh, I think there are a lot of folks (especially boys) from my high school days who would have immediately become monsters if given the power of life and death over every person around them.

It's kind of like how when people have apparently casual ableist beliefs, and you push them to elaborate on that just a little bit, they'll often end up openly saying stuff like "well, some people are just too disabled to be worth the resources it takes to support them." - Which is... eugenics. It's just eugenics, justified by the myth of scarcity. Now these folks almost certainly won't call it eugenics, or even think of it that way. But that doesn't make it NOT a core belief of the Nazis.

In a similar way, Light seems like a nice and well-adjusted boy with strong beliefs. No harm in that.

But to paraphrase Lindsay Ellis in her analysis of the Game of Thrones ending, "Power doesn't necessarily corrupt. Power reveals." [I think she was quoting someone else when she said this. It was someone who wrote a biography on LBJ. Whatever. Lindsay said it and she's smart as hell and I recommend her videos.]

And 15 minutes into the Death Note musical, I'm already thinking about how so many beliefs "casually" held by well-adjusted, nice people immediately reveal their monstrousness when talked through to their natural conclusion.

And I wonder how many of those people, given the power of life and death over everyone around them - the power to take their ideas to their natural conclusions - would also immediately reveal how their lack of self-reflection has laid the groundwork for them to become monsters.

#original #ableism #ableism cw #eugenics #nazis cw #death note #Death Note the musical #light yagami #death note musical #there's not really such a thing as casual ableism. because it all feeds into the same evil machine at the end of the day #because ableism done with hate and ableism done with love and ignorance have the same exact effects #there's no such thing as casual racism either. even if other white people would like to think that #so they don't have to actually call out people around them for holding heinous beliefs or doing horrible things #white culture #is basically the group agreement that we are /simply not going to talk about what we've done/#and we most /certainly/ are not going to talk about what we are currently doing. even bringing it up is considered rude.#it's bad is what I'm saying it's a bad culture and I don't think the world would lose anything without it #maybe then our churches won't feel like places God has abandoned. I'm an atheist. but I remember what white Mass felt like.#frankly I might not have become an atheist if when we sang stuff like ode to joy in church it wasn't the most joyless sound ever #our words flew up. our thoughts remained below. songs without thought never to heaven go. <3 #man I gotta make some excellent art about that so I can stop talking about so much. but heavy excellent art takes time! so it'll be a while #nice is different than good #niceness can sometimes be incredibly unkind. it's nice to be agreeable. but in the face of injustice this becomes a cruelty.#back to watching the musical. LOVE how Light convinces himself his actions come from a place of love 💘#'we just have to kill all the bad guys!' taken to its brutal and horrifying conclusion #and the way so many people are FANS of Kira is so brilliant. i wonder if this musical's ending is better written than the [÷>%>#*than the original

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khihi · 8 months

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imo joker out are balkan kpop men

this made me laugh but i cannot tell if this is (derogatory) or (affectionate)... also i dont know enough about kpop to actually draw any similarities, sorry :( other than the fact they're in their modelling era at the moment

if u meant this in an affectionate/funny way pls come back and explain the similarities lol

#dont bother if u meant it in a (derogatory) way though #but i'm choosing to read this as (affectionate) so hell yeah!#it's about time the balkans got a good brock (balkan rock) band in the rest of europe's public eye #to show off balkan music and language and culture!#at least our fav balkan boys can smoke and drink and cuss etc without (much) judgement so thank god for that <3 #joker out

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