Waxing crescent moon over Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Photo: SG Photography (Feb 13, 2024)
(Robert Scott Horton)
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If you’re sick or injured and healing or growing a new life inside you or just worn out, please notice that that thing known as ‘doing nothing’ is when you’re doing the utterly crucial and precious work of growing and healing and restoring, and this also goes for everyone who’s just worn down, exhausted, dispirited, and who’s not that right now? I’m not the Nap Ministry but I’m for the power of rest and the holiness of respite and the you that is your cells and circulatory system and all those inner workings that are so mysterious and necessary and regenerative if we let them be. The psyche too does most of its work out of sight, and the imagination, and so creative work too benefits from rest and respite.
Take refuge in that beautiful stillness in which everything is happening in all the ways that nothing is happening in busyness. Everything happening in the depths, like deep water under a reflective surface. A pond reflecting clouds with schools of fish doing their things in the depths. Sitting still as zazen or just daydreaming or watching clouds is an act of outright revolt against the shouts that we should be doing something/do more/do more faster that are all around us. This might be another face of peace in our times with stillness the ceasefire in which spring comes again.
[Rebecca Solnit]
[via "alive on all channels"]
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True, TedBecca is not canon. But it’s also not-not canon. Like. We’ll never know. Rebecca is not that tight with Mr Creepy Pants in Ted’s dream (I say it’s a dream. I do whatever the fuck I like. If the writers want me to think any differently, those dingdongs need to change the edit and MAKE IT MAKE SENSE). Anyway. Mr Creepy Pants. Not tight at all, whether it’s at the garden party or at Beard’s wedding to the psycho. Tish predicted Rebecca would be a mother and the pub lads consider her as such. So technically that dumbass prophecy was fulfilled. And both Ted and Rebecca were sad muffins when he left. They were both devastated. And they clearly could not say everything that they wanted to say to each other. And Rebecca BEGGED him to stay. That’s more potential than a lot of non-canon ships out there. I’ll take it. 🤣
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Lily Orchard still acting like her opinion on story driven/lore driven shows is a fact and not just what I called it, her opinion? Not even surprising at this point with her.
Seriously, the day Lily learns she can just not watch these shows is the day pigs will fly, I swear, because this is the thousandath time she's gone on about this and each time, its the same take from her: her trashing all the story driven shows she dislikes and trashing the creators of the shows and acting like her thoughts are all facts, all the while demanding shows cater to her interests and her interests only.
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The funniest thing the Murderbot tv show could do is go REALLY hard on the references in the serials MB watches. I’m thinking bringing back the Stargate Atlantis cast for WorldHoppers. Getting a snippet of a Sanctuary Moon episode and it’s the « Rebecca it’s not what you think! I won’t hesitate bitch! » vine. The « Mmmm watcha say » song plays at least once.
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what do you think of the English fan covers of papermoon and which version do you like the most if you do??
Yeah, I've listened to several.
I won't go into which ones I don't like and why, which...is most of them. Because I don't want to insult people's awesome efforts. But I'll say that generally the reasons I will end up disliking a cover are a collection of a few reasons: bad mixing; melody and/or rhythm departs too much from the original (I'll go into this more), translation that departs too much from the original.
That said, so far my favorite English cover is Caleb Hyles. And it's funny cuz I don't usually go for his stuff. But, it's a great mix, it sticks to the song overall, the translation does its best to use the actual translation where it can... Words such as "degraded" that you just wouldn't really see, for example. He kept in as much as made sense, I felt, and didn't poeticize it too much; he really tried to stay true.
And of course, his surprise switch to Japanese at the end was great.
Do YOU have a favorite cover??
And what I said about melody/rhythm departing too much... We have to remember, it's often the case that the songwriter wrote those specific notes/melody for a reason and so changing them can in fact change the entire feel of the song.
I'll give an example.... "Comet" from Steven Universe. Every single note and rhythm she wrote very precisely.
Some say I have no direction
That I'm a light speed distraction
But that's a knee-jerk reaction
On that last word, reaction, the melody drops an interval of a fourth and the drop there in combination with the lyrics is meant to show Greg's dejection. Also the initial word of the second and third lines there, the melody starts an octave below before rising. This adds to the anchoring feel of those lyrics, of negative things that have been spoken over him.
Still, this is the final frontier
Everything is so clear
To my destiny I steer
The initial melodic notes of the second and third line here stay in the same octave, making the melody sound more confident (ironically the same note though... makes you wonder if there's a subliminal doubting in Greg of his choices) but with that confidence added from the constancy of the initial melodic notes, each conclusion sounds more certain, more hopeful, even though the chordal structure is the same.
So, melody matters. Don't change it. (Like every single cover of Comet out there... I like none.)
I could go into the importance of the super-triplet rhythm of Comet but...this was supposed to be about Papermoon. 😅😅😅
Sorry sorry sorry, Comet is just like...one of the best songs ever written in terms of how the music represents a character... It's a modern Wagnerian approach and boy does it succeed.
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