#absolution muse

[sunburnacoustic]

Muse on Tour!

Scandinavia will be the first to see Muse's new material live, later this year, when the band will start their extensive tour around Europe. Dates have been booked starting in October, to be posted on this site in full as soon as all are confirmed. Live dates already pencilled into the Muse diary are set to start in Helsinki for two nights, then on to Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, into Italy, France, Belgium, Holland and back to Britain in late November. Many more cities and countries shall be added to this early tour schedule so check back soon for more updates.

Muse In LA!

Having returned from the beautiful surroundings of Grouse lodge in Central Ireland where the band have been recording indoors, outside, in swimming pools and using instruments that don't even have names yet, they have gone over to the West Coast to polish off a few tracks, lay down the vocals and mix the album with Rich Costey.

New Activity Page!

Check out the new page on the site with some video clips of the making of the new album, as well as photos of muse from the last year and a tour archive too! This page will be frequently updated so stay tuned for more bits and pieces updated in the very near future.

Muse album in progress

Muse are currently in the middle of making their third album with the producer Rich Costey. Having spent a few weeks in Air Studios (London), as well as a stint recording in Sawmills, the band are presently organising where to finish off the rest of the record. L.A., Vancouver and Ireland seem to be the current possibilities. Expect to hear some new tracks during summer with the release date of the album set towards autumn.

From the archives: muse-official.com, the old Muse website from April 2003, during the recording of Absolution with Rich Costey in LA (16/4/2003)

#there's a nicer version on Musewiki thankfully. what on earth is that background image on the archive of the muse website! #Surely a placeholder image #from the archives #Muse lore #recording of Absolution #Muse band #Muse #Absolution Muse

[mjulmjul]

XXII. THE IDES

#artists on tumblr #ides of march #julius caesar #art #i cant emphasize enough this is a complete shitpost #have felt absolutely uninspired lately ig tumblr memes are my muse now #yeah idk

[melverie]

let it out, babygirl 💚

#satan: *absolutely mauls some poor little d #me: he's so silly <3 #obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me satan #mel's starry musings

[forged-in-kaoss]

🦋Fights and battles have begun Revenge will surely come Your hard times are ahead 🌀

#one piece #roronoa zoro #luffy #monkey d luffy #mugiwara no luffy #zolu #lyric edit #gif #muse #butterflies & hurricanes #absolution #muse band #red hair shanks #shimotsuki kuina

[dustykneed]

i saw a post that was like "the reason bones is always frowning is bc whenever he smiles, everyone in a 3 mile radius falls madly in love w him" and i think that is so true tbh

(anyways bonus spones scribble. ur welcome:

#star trek #star trek tos #tos #leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #spones #spock #spock/mccoy #deforest kelley #by god i have like 3 reasons left to live and de's smile is a good 2.5 of em #ok like all jokes aside im fine?? generally lmao #but i have a KILLER headache #and i spectacularly screwed up a midterm but im avoiding prepping for my next one tmr out of pure spite #jfc #ive been on an art and writing kick for the last few days it is absolutely DIRE #hell of a first post really #but yeah deforest kelley is so so pretty #ow my head #im being puppeteered via my hair by the muses and i have no control over my creations but damn wish me luck tmr im well n truly screwed #but hey DEFOREST KELLEY<3333 so worth it

[wildwoodart]

Finally made a Muse version!

#muse band #muse #canva #album poster #i know the absolution one is a different format but I originally made it for the 20th anniversary and kept it for this #this is what kept me from making a oddly specific collection this week. i'll be back at it next week i promise.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

nervously holding out & rattling a Little Tip Jar

#entirely voluntary no pressure i appreciate anything including just your presence here #i am gentle nudging the jar out of the door to be ignored or noticed At Your Leisure #that weird guilt is upon me! so! Insert Unnecessary Apology Here #i dont have any 'exclusive' stuff as of right now #in the future... probably! maybe tutorials! or behind the scenes things! #im thinking and ill continue to consider and Muse #suggestions are welcome! #absolutely unprompted #none of it will feature welcome home tho #i dont want to put it in a space where its like... for money #one-off comms are one thing and Allowed! kofi and such is a different beast entirely #ive been hesitant on making a ko-fi #but then i saw a post where someone described it as just a tip jar. #its like street artists leaving out hats or open instrument cases for people to choose to throw a buck into or ignore #and that. took a lot of stress off! more people should have tip jars. we all deserve it i think

[ride-a-dromedary]

Since you know like 10000000x more about the elven language than me, what are your thoughts about the meaning of the name Halsin?

I like this question, because based in interpretation*, the name does suit him! We're going to use what we have access to in DnD elvish, as Tolkien elvish is a different language entirely and they don't have much overlap.

We'll have to break his name into pieces, and that can be done a variety of different ways, depends what you choose to do. I figured easiest ways are: Hal - sin

Very cut and dry.

or

Ha - l - sin

With the "l" being an adjoining tonal letter. In both cases, "sin" would likely be broken up into a combination of "sy"or "syy" + "-in"

Now the meaning of the pieces:

Hal/Hol: "pale, weak" OR "precious" (Side note: Astarion's "The Pale Elf" might be said "Hal'kesir/quessir" - very close to "Tel'quessir")

Ha: "free, freedom"

Sy: "wild"

Suffix -in: "brother, sister, sibling"

So, directly, it could mean:

Hal-sin = "Pale/weak or precious wild brother"

OR

Ha-l-syin = "Free wild brother" (Which I would phrase more like "Brother of the free wild" or just "Brother of the wilds")

I am inclined to lean towards the latter definition/meaning, as I believe it suits him very well, and aligns with the relationship between him and Thaniel. Naming himself as a sibling of the free wild indicates that his relationship with nature is the forefront of his personality (nature being his very first friend), and indicates a closer connection than others might have. Judging by how Halsin speaks of his connection with Thaniel shaping who he was as a person, this may imply he's named himself after how intertwined it all is to his being. Familial familiar and inseparable.)

(It also sounds more in line of what he would name himself than the alt. - I wouldn't really assign the words "pale" or "weak" as something Halsin would name himself...

...unless he is implying, as he was most likely at the point where he was the last of his kin and the only child left, that he was the "weaker" choice of sibling to be left of their line. So "weak brother of the wild". Pales in comparison. But I feel like that's a stretch.)

FUN BONUS, in elvish, Halsin could have written his name like this:

Or like this (A variant of Espruar, the alphabet of the moon elves that was used to transcribe elvish, used around 1372 DR - since retconned. And since Halsin would have likely learned to write between 1147 DR and 1152 DR, probably not used by him, but possible he learned as he would have been around 120 by then):

*Disclaimer that DnD elvish, at its core, has had a very contradictory lexicon over the many years, and most words are drawn from 2e and 3e materials - elven also has several words for singular things, single letters that can change the meaning of a word or sentence entirely/thrown in to make a word flow better and have no meaning otherwise, and is a very tonal based language in that you could physically be saying one thing, but another elf would hear something entirely different in the intonation. Therefore, everything I write here is interpretive based on the materials we have access to, with a little extra HCing and logical assumption.

#BG3 Musing #Halsin Posting #Jemi gets asks #autistichalsin #sorry i just word vomitted #a side note: in regards to how halsin's name is pronounced #Rath (and a little Wyll) pronounces Halsin's name as “Hol-sin” which is absolutely a result of how the accent pronounces the short “a” soun #which could suggest that's an alternate way of saying it - but as Halsin pronounces his own name #with the 'a' sound i'm taking his pronunciation as how it's meant to be said #source: if you listened to anyone else about how my name is pronounced you would be pronouncing it incorrectly so tend to trust #the being named #basically dnd elvish is homebrew fuck it we ball but using the scraps we had access to in like...maybe four or five collections #and books - and how much of that is 'canon' is debatable - honestly take with a grain of salt

[ahli-stuff]

Radioapple could be better

Back in the old days radioapple was my fan favorite crack ship . How the times change

Before we got our official depiction of Lucifer as we have now, I imagined him to be condescending, sly, manipulative character who would go on to be Alastor’s foil. Now, the only thing of that remains is that he is Alastor’s foil but the subversion of the sexy and powerful Lucifer of pop culture into sad-awkward dad Lucifer is amazing and I’ve grown really fond of it.

But for how popular it is now, there’s still a big itch that fan content for radioapple (or maybe just Lucifer) fails to scratch for me. This isn’t an issue I have that’s exclusive to Lucifer either, I nearly lost my mind about it in Tv series Lucifer(2016) too.

it’s the fact that there’s barely anyone seems to depict Lucifer’s sheer knowledge. If we are going by the finale, 10,000 years ago is when Lucifer first fell. He is at least 10,000 years old.

10,000 years to learn from the millions of stories (in passing and directly) who have fallen into hell. The wars, the disasters, the movements, the people!!! Age does not equate to wisdom, but you cannot live that long and fail to pick up a certain degree of separation from petty grievances of people who have lived only a fraction of the time you have. That’s doesn’t mean you’re immune to doing irrational things or having childish flaws, but those should coexist with the sheer weight of your knowledge. There should be a certain novelty that an immortal feels in being grounded around very young people who treat them like they are human. Because the knowledge and experience that comes with being immortal can be very dehumanizing, and that is especially so for a figure who has been maybe the most demonized in myth and religion ever.

Give me a Lucifer who knows thousands of different writings, religions, traditions, languages. Give me a Lucifer who contemplates the cruelty of some of the most infamous sinners in real life that have fallen into hell. Give me a Lucifer who becomes lost in ancient levels of nostalgia—his halcyon days with Lilith when humanity began to rear up and he was still hopeful.

Give me an Alastor who, beyond his resentment and ego, is deathly curious how Lucifer works. As a kid who likely went to church every Sunday and listened to pastors caution against the devil so many times his ears may fall off, to meet the guy himself? To meet the entity whom the entirety of the god fearing south wanted to scare him to sleep with? To finally meet the dealmaker of dealmakers?

Give me a late night conversation between the two where they discuss the what alastor has heard about Lucifer topside, Lucifer’s genuine curiosity of Alastor’s morality as a human, and the overall smallness of their existences in the largeness of their myths.

#Hazbin hotel #radioapple #lucifer morningstar #alastor #musings #meta #im on my lunch and thinking . things #this is a hill I will absolutely die on I complain about it all the time #the sandman spoiled me on larger than life characters I crave. immortals who act their age #that noncomprehending apathy that sometimes gives way to realizing . that yes you are present in your own life #despite it all you were young once and excited and the people you so look down on now are experiencing the same

[tinystepsforward]

just to clarify, the article said the data was not confirmed to have been sent anywhere (eg to ai companies). do you have a source (even if you cant name them directly)?

i do not have a source who is directly involved with this deal, as you can imagine.

an indirect/observer source passed on, well before that article was published, the impression that this data had already been sent. i think the staff member's quoted use of "unfortunately" leans toward that implication.

that said, i'd love to think that my sources and i are all misinterpreting badly worded internal info! and i don't think the staff member in question should have been named, given it's clear that this was not their choice and given what tumblr can be like. (andrew spittle, on the other hand.)

this was kept intentionally quite out of view for most automatticians including most tumblr staff, i think. the company's usually relatively open internally (or used to be) about most of its business operations, though lately there's been more and more evidence that things are being drafted out of sight then edited for company view.

#tony answers #i tried to answer this on mobile then accidentally tapped a notification and it wiped it so i had to go get my laptop #tony muses #tumblr meta #this is not super conclusive! but i think almost everything cannot possibly be super conclusive #the people who know for sure absolutely aren't going to say so

[jacketpotatoo]

// atsv spoilers

I’m in love with the fact that Gwen looks absolutely devastated post-Guggenheim assemble where she successfully saves the people in the art museum and receives a nod of affirmation from Jess. The victory and the validation isn’t on her mind. I love the drums disappearing and leaving a ringing trill of her synth before she collapses on the floor in pain and exhaustion.

The drums are associated with intense focus and intense emotional turmoil. This is set up by the opening scene where Gwen “beats her feelings with sticks” while drumming. The drums represent the momentary ability to express her pent up emotions through action. So when the drums leave and the synth rings, musically, her adrenaline has run out. Spider-Woman did what she needed to do and Gwen Stacy is left. The synth extends to the next scene where she faces her father but it takes a soft, wavering tune. There are no drums to back it up. She is not spider-woman right now, she is Gwen and she needs her father to understand.

The drum returns like a heartbeat when she reveals herself and it goes badly. She’s Gwen but she’s Spider-Woman and the lines between the two blur. Her dad’s rejection of that part of her is as much a rejection of her, emphasised by the fact that in the background, the paint is dripping down in rapidly changing colours, reflecting her turmoil.

I love that Gwen looks devastated because, right from the start, we’re made so brutally aware of the suffering she goes through and has gone through. And this informs every interaction she has with miles - how he makes her feel okay. How when she’s Spider-Gwen with him, she’s inspired. So much depth added to her character with just one expression. I love this movie.

#her theme is my absolute favourite #this movie. #across the spiderverse #across the spiderverse spoilers #atsv #spider gwen #gwen stacy #spiderverse #Spider-Man #meta #analysis #jp musings

[n0brainjustvibes]

every day I wish for a Taylor Doesn't Turn Herself In AU simply so she can interact with Accord. I want Taylor "raised by an English professor" Hebert to bond with Accord over ruthless supervillainy for the greater good, the importance of public infrastructure, and respecting good old English grammar.

#I think Accord would afford her grudging respect #she's disorderly but he can generously attribute that to the Folly of Youth #she's got the spirit #he leaves with distaste for most of the Undersiders but a vague hope that The Kids Are Alright #taylor muses about the arrogance of imposing your idea of a perfect world upon others through conquest #this is of course covering the fact that her distrust for authority is screaming at her and she does not want Accord controlling HER #she then is like “gotta go! I have civilians questioning my absolute rule and black widows to put on their balls” #taylor hebert #self aware queen #worm #worm spoilers #skitter #accord #parahumans #wormblr

[stafsar]

It's time for something biblical to pull us through

#I be putting light on album covers #but absolution is absolutely a lawlight album sorry #my art #light yagami #death note #death note fanart #yagami raito #muse band #muse #absolution

[characterssaythedarnestthings]

Did you know that "video killed the radio star" was actually written about that one case in ace attorney where a radio gets presented with a video tape and freaks out and threatens to kill the guy who hired him

#its absolutely true #Ace attorney #De killer #Matt Engarde #Justice for all #Justice for all spoilers #aa #Phoenix Wright #Adrian Andrews #Video killed the radio star #Musings #Can you tell I'm obsessing BC I'm obsessing

[kkildeer]

what do you mean. mom what do you mean

#ffxiv #ffxiv wol #kiril tag #a/n time LOL #building up little mundane things that don't matter to the main plot is just!! #its like im playing dnd with. myself. giving Kiril bits n pieces is so much fun!!! #ive been in such a creative rut im so happy to have found a muse again #that being said #unless absolutely necessary i will not be making canon typical dialogue youuuuu can't make me. i have to be funny above all else

[figsandphiltatos]

okay i've started watching fantasy high: junior year and it's . So Good so far. but i just have to take a moment to gush about how exciting riz is as aro rep???

like this is junior year, all his friends are applying to colleges, and he wants to make sure they stick together. i really hope they develop this further (and i'm kinda sure they will, given the way they've handled riz's romantic orientation in seasons past) but already this is leagues above any aro rep i've ever seen?? like yeah, a really common fear for aro folks is that their friends will get into relationships and move on.

amatonormativity kind of demands that people prioritize romantic relationships, and also sets getting married as an actual step someone has to take to fully grow up. and, ofc, once people are married it's the expectation that they spend most of their time with their partner. and i've had aro friends who have said that this societal expectation is so upsetting and anxiety inducing, because it essentially means that eventually they'll be left behind by friends as they get married and move onto the next arbitrary developmental stage of life. and the fact that riz is already grappling with that fear makes him feel so fucking real. he's not just a guy who happens to be aro, his aromanticism affects his fears and priorities, etc.

which is so real!! being aro and/or ace absolutely separates you from some huge societal assumptions many people take for granted and it feels refreshing to see people approach an aro character with that understanding

#this is. absolute nonsense sorry it's 8 in the morning and i'm still so eepy gleepy sleepy #but i'm gonna be insane about this dnd show for a bit sorry to all who follow me :) #anyway this is all coming from a guy who probably isn't aro 😬👍 #(<- guy who is not as certain about that as they'd like to be tbh) #please enjoy my early morning caffeine brain musings #and also please please someone talk to me about fantasy high i am not being normal enough about it for a guy who doesn't have fh mutuals #figs sillies #fantasy high #fantasy high: junior year #riz gukgak