#and i love those songs a lot

[scribefindegil]

As much as I adore conlangs, I really like how the Imperial Radch books handle language. The book is entirely in English but you're constantly aware that you're reading a "translation," both of the Radchaai language Breq speaks as default, and also the various other languages she encounters. We don't hear the words but we hear her fretting about terms of address (the beloathed gendering on Nilt) and concepts that do or don't translate (Awn switching out of Radchaai when she needs a language where "citizen," "civilized," and "Radchaai person" aren't all the same word) and noting people's registers and accents. The snatches of lyrics we hear don't scan or rhyme--even, and this is what sells it to me, the real-world songs with English lyrics, which get the same "literal translation" style as everything else--because we aren't hearing the actual words, we're hearing Breq's understanding of what they mean. I think it's a cool way to acknowledge linguistic complexity and some of the difficulties of multilingual/multicultural communication, which of course becomes a larger theme when we get to the plot with the Presgar Translators.

#imperial radch #also a great example of the 'you don't have to be Tolkien' phenomenon #if you want to think about linguistic differences by building all the languages in your setting #and being able to explain what those differences are through actual texts in the language in question #that's AWESOME #but it's not the only way to do it #it's also interesting because of course this style only works in book form #everyone's speaking different languages but in a written account they're all 'translated' for you #but of course if it was a TV series they would all have to be speaking a language the audience understands #(or you *would* have to go wild with conlangs) #and i think that's really cool as well-- #how for a series where song is so central we don't actually hear any of the actual in-universe words or any of the music #it's all been filtered #and again you know this is happening but seeing the examples of how real songs--the shape hymns and 'L'homme Arme'--are presented #makes you a lot more viscerally aware of how limited your perspective is #it's good #ann leckie i love you

[little-pup-pip]

Elephants!!

#elephants #!!!! #no one asked for this #i love elephants #when i was a pup i had this elephant stuffie that played lullabies #i was often awake at night so i played those songs a lot #anyway #this turned out more blue than i thought it would #but i like it #so i hope you enjoy #sfw interaction only #sfw agere #moodboard #agere #age regression #sfw littlespace #agere moodboard #age dreaming #babyre #baby regression #elephant moodboard #elephant #i saw the cutest elephant shaped bread when looking for pictures #i wanted to include it but it didn't fit the vibes

[goingtochurch]

i am completely and utterly in awe with him

#tfp #art #digitalart #churchshitpostssometimes #churchpostsartsometimes #cyberpunk aesthetic #transformers #tf idw #transfromers #maccadam #tf soundwave #tf earthspark #soundwave #he reminds me of a fennec fox with those ears ngl #although i do also accept the phrase cat boy soundwave that ive been seeing a lot #i love him okay #song inspo: End Of It - Friday Pilots Club

[amugoffandoms]

"It's all for making something-Toks to sell your name. (Just for all your vanity, it's the worst, good night.)"

"No way I'm okay with ending it like this! I'm sure what we truly want isn't the money."

Cyberpunk Dead Boy Fuuta!! The second I heard the song, I was like I need to draw him in it right now. Here are the original shots!

Here are some banger versions of the song I listened to!:

English Cover by ami!

The PJSK Cover that I took the shots from!

The Original Song!

Under the cut is the original screenshots!

#mug draws #milgram #milgram fanart #fuuta kajiyama #kajiyama fuuta #should i ramble about my art in the tags uhh yes yes. #this song is so fuuta i dont even know. #the cover was the particular inspiration for making me draw this #IT'S BULLSHIT SO SAY BYE BYE TO THOSE MELODIES!! FUCK EVERYONE WHO LIES LIES FOR VIRALITY!! #this both looks and does not look like my art style. #PEN FADE TOOL IS A GOOD SHADER FOR HAIR ODDLY???? #UM also the lyrics #there was spraypaint in the back of the second drawing and i was like. IT'S BACKDRAFT REFERENCE TIME. #DO YOU SEE THE FUUTA SILHOUETTE SPRAY PAINT?? WRNT CRAZY FOR THAT. #AND THE GUILTY ARROW YEAHHH #ohh i love this a lot :D

[toastybugguy]

“Once I had a child He was wilder than moonlight He could do it all Like he'd been here before” — Vashti Bunyan, “Here Before”

For @scottappreciation’s Scott McCall Week 2023 — Day Four: Relationships

#I GOT IT DONE !!! #had to do mama McCall for day four #and also add my fave mother-child song. go listen to it rn it’s so soft and beautiful #looking at this makes me so happy #this felt semi personal to make bc they remind me a lot of me and my mom at times so. augh they just give me all those good warm feels !! #watching her boy grow up.. #more of me projecting onto trans Scott because it just fits SO well #also I FINALLY GOT TO DRAW MELISSA LETS GOOOO i love you melissa mccall you’re one of the moms ever #teen wolf #scott mccall #scottmccallweek23 #melissa mccall #trans scott mccall #teen wolf fanart #fanart #toastytag

[rotisseries]

tired of people who want pjo movie references in the disney+ show. "logan lerman should've been-" i don’t care. "poker face in the casino-" actually i hope ms. gaga keeps her entire discography miles away from it. i don't care move on

#peace and love🫶 #this isn't even to say I didn't like those parts of the movies or that I can't see the appeal in having references in the show #I'm just tired of HEARING about it oh my god #the pjo movies are getting all of the loving looking back they could need #just in the fact that people's opinions of them are clearly shifting #like people look back on them more fondly now they were VERY bad adaptations but fun movies overall with some good scenes #I think the shift in public opinion is also due to the d+ show btw I think the fact we have a good adaptation now #means people no longer feel the need to spend energy publicly and viscerally disavowing the movies anymore #but we still don't really need references to it!! especially when it's shit you're so clearly not getting I'm sorry #they're not putting logan lerman anywhere in there you know this look inside yourself #and they're DEFINITELY not putting poker face in the lotus hotel scene COME ON NOW THAT WOULD JUST BE STUPID #the lotus hotel scene is already going to undeniably get compared to the pjo movie version #and they. kind of have a lot to beat. the lotus hotel scene was so much fun #there's already going to be a bunch of “which was better?” discourse about it #using poker face would honestly probably not help. also then it's not gonna be a fun scene in it's own right #it's gonna be a fun and good scene to people just cause it references some bad movies #anyway I hope they pick a different song I saw some people say hotel room- #pjo #pjo tv #pjo disney+

[alexanderpearce]

#shut up ulrike #steeleye span #folk music #there are about a million other categories of songs these are just ones ive noticed mostly on parcel of rogues and now we are six bc those #are the ones my parents and thus i listened to most #other categories could include: 'the fields! the harvest!' and 'He Died' and 'my love is oh so far away/he Died' #and lots of magical narratives that could all have their own subsections #and a hundred other niche themes im sure you could find at least two songs for each #anyway #popular

[late-night-vocaloid]

wait wait put your favorite vocal synth songs that you don't necessarily know if people would know in the tags (any level of popularity dw too much about it), the kind you can't stop replaying. what would you tell people to go listen to right now.

#I don't necessarily mean obscure because the thing is vocaloid is Huge so there are massive songs I've never heard. #Also if you're answer changes and you remember this post you can always rb it again. I wanna million songs #(I was just sitting here like 'ohh there's so many songs I don't know' #'when you find a song and you can't stop listening to it. I wish I could ask everyone what those songs are for them' #then I realized I CAN #it may seem like I do a lot of these and that's because I love vocaloid and I love love for vocaloid let's get some recs going) #I can't put down butcher vanity atm #thoughts #vocaloid #cevio #synthv #synthesizer v #utau

[keniaku]

do u ever get mad when a song u like get popular on tiktok or instagram reels or whatever

#txt #i love my love mine all mine with all my heart but i started seething when i heard it on those platforms ToT #like good for mitski that her song is loved by a lot of people but also a lot of mitski fans are just #where's that post that says mitski DOES make very good songs but her fans that are just insufferable like hell

[murdleandmarot]

The gang’s all here!! They’re on the case!! And there’s no ghost that they wouldn’t chase!!!!!

@mysticalcats’s Foxglove, @toki-toro’s Chaumet, @emimii’s Clownaire, and my own Bluebelle :)

#this was indeed the project I was working on lmao #WHY DID THIS TAKE 17 BILLION YEARSSSSSS #I actually rly like how the actual paint turned out #ESPECIALLY FOR FOXGLOVE SQUEEEEE #he looks so cute….and I got all the colors mixed for Chaumet #watercolor oc painting: 1 #back paint neck pain headache pain: 0 #no but sketching this took such! a long! time! #I just straight up could not get foxglove and bluebelle right it was maddening #but I persisted and I beat the odds‼️‼️ Yipee‼️‼️ #I love all of these guys so so so much I’ll prolly never stop thinking about them #please never stop talking about your ocs ever #and I am working on being coherent about Bluebelle as we speak!!!! #I got an idea and now I’m trying to make my brain not be mean about it #literally just chanting to myself ‘YOU! CAN MAKE! IT AS WEIRD!! AS! YOU WANT!!!’ #shoutout to my fairytales throughout that ages book for inspiring me #100 points and a drawing of your choice if you can figure out the story Bluebelle’s backstory is based on lmao #ANYHOW #I just be rambling in these tags I perhaps need to calm down lol #I LOVE YALLS OCS FOREVER AND EVER!!!! #clownaire was literally perfect from the start I NAILED his pose first try and then he was very supportive the rest of the way through #live laugh love 🫶🫶🫶💐💐💐🩰🩰🩰 #next up: Jemima painting!! with two special guests!!! #oh shit those are a lot of tags uhhhh I’m done now i promise 🫶🫶 #cats the musical #cats musical #cats oc #jellicle oc #sorah’s silly scribbles #(also the text right under the drawing are a Scooby doo song LMAO it’s called Dig It Scooby Doo it’s insanely catchy)

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

The closer we get to TTPD the more I wonder if the eventuality of releasing rep tv down the line kinda gives her the ick lol

#first of all: I am not saying rep tv is imminent #I’m just saying the thought of singing love songs about that person probably feel really gross lol #and I know she’s a pro and she’s done it before #like red tv and jake and 1989 tv and harry #but she was nearly a decade removed from those relationships when she released the TVs and time had tempered a lot #and there was a lot of water under the bridge #I don’t think the same will be said about this one anytime soon lol

[oishartmani]

flowa

#LOTS of headcannons here.. #clarification idk anytbing about msi and iron maiden #for msi i know like three songs. one of my friends loves them so i got to hear a bit from them #my dad loves iron maiden #heart emoji. #she's so gender to me :) #she dresses like a teenage boy #she wears a binder for fun. a MIKU BINDER #she uses all pronouns #shes nonbinary :3 #she has rbf. shes one of those girls that look scary until they smile #she has a soft side! #haha okay at this point im judt rambling #thank you #oish scribblz #vflower #vocal synth #doodle #traditional #headcannon #shld i tag miku? #hatsune miku #miku binder #.... lmao #queueko aioi

[thatonebabybat]

Hey btw having depression is not a requirement for being goth and if you think it is I don't like you. That's a whole chronic illness, not a part of your "goth mindset"/"aesthetic". Please reflect on that.

#“depression makes you introspective and deep” no it just makes you periodically think everyone wants you dead for varying amounts of time #and makes it hard to get up and go to work and eat and sleep and talk to people and do literally anything #if you have depression and you're goth I'm proud of you because being an active part of a subculture is dedication and time and energy #shit's hard. love yall #I understand it usually comes from a place of misunderstanding but don't romanticize people's disabilities pls #mentally ill ppl have it hard enough without you Doing That #goth #goth subculture #gothblr #gothgoth #gothic #I'm mentally ill btw I should clarify that. wont go into details abt it but #I'm speaking from a place of not wanting people to treat my trauma like a fun afternoon activity that you have to do to be goth #you can still relate to and enjoy plenty of goth music without being diagnosed with a chronic illness like major depressive disorder #like a lot of songs are just about concepts like heartbreak or periods of grief or introspection but those are things most people experienc #disabled ppl might experience them differently or more intensely but they're widespread experiences nonetheless. #you don't need a mental illness to “get it” it came free with your humanity actually. you can think/feel deeply abt shit without a diagnosi #I'll stop rambling though #goth music #goth aesthetic #gothcore #mental illness #mental health #depression #goth is about music

[charizardstolemynickname]

for those in the life series fandom but who aren't on tiktok here is what has been happening the last few days/weeks over there:

1. A music artist does a video on the names of playlists that their song is in

2. In the video maybe 2 life series playlists appear

3. The comments are full of "GOODTIMESWITHSCAR MENTION?!?!" or "NO WAY LIFE SERIES MENTION??"

4. So the artist makes another few videos with a few focused on specifically the life series and one specific song of theirs

5. The fans are still going wild in the comments AND CONVINCE THE ARTIST TO WATCH 3RD LIFE

6. It seems from other posts they have watched 3rd life from DESERT DUO POV

7. Today I see on their story that they are watching third life from the pov of FLOWER HUSBANDS

I am not dumb, I know this is a marketing scheme, HOWEVER worst case, if they are absolutely just watching bits of 3rd life, if not the full series, just to get more views, then that is funnier than any other explanation

I like to think they are ACTUALLY enjoying it, as its their 3rd pov watching

Evidence above ^ the artist is called Sparkbird and they go by they/them in case anyone is curious

#i cannot speak to how good the songs are as i havent personally listened to them (i watch a lot of tiktok with soundoff) #but the fans on tiktok are going wild over this so i thought i should update trafficblr who may not be on tiktok #chr post #life series #life series smp #cant believe we got desert duo AND flower husbands out of a music artist just by saying the playlists are scar or scott coded #the world is a strange place but i love it #flower husbands #desert duo #adding those so i can get reminded of this whenever i search through my blog #traffic life series #trafficblr #i hope you all find this as strange/confusing/cool as i do #for once tiktok isnt being toxic and instead being.... excited for someone? #and excited someone agrees with their hcs and likes their favourite youtube series? its odd but i love it

[myrxellabaratheon]

“And you, Theon,” she added, when Greyjoy lingered. He smiled and left then. […] “You might have given the command to any of them. Gods be good, you might even have sent Theon, though he would have not been my choice.”

Can we just admit Throbb is canon and Cat knew about them?! Because she didn’t have ANY reason to nominate Theon in that conversation except that she knew that if Robb had to chose someone else to relent the comment of his army to that person would have been the one he trusted the most, aka Theon.

They are sooooo boyfriends coded!

#throbb #theon greyjoy #robb stark #catelyn stark #got #game of thrones #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #every time I reread those books I notice something else #which makes it more evident that they were together #not to mention that there are more allusion to Throbb being canon than the ones about Renlas being canon #in the books I mean #they just decided to lean a lot on renlas being canon in the show and I love it because Loras and Renly are my babies #but the books are much more Throbb-coded

[synthshenanigans]

Chonny's very first song vs his most recent song

Instrumental Links:

backlit by moonlight. [There is no official isolated instrumental so you'd just have to listen to the song & ignore the lyrics. Blame CJ/j]

20XX

[Reblog for more of a sample size if you'd like]

#this is a horrible pairing for me dude these are some of my favorite songs #like overall of my music tastes #ough I'm dying #also these songs are SO different from each other its hilarious #like i think one of the only things they share are chonnys voice. the instruments/synths used are so different too #chonny jash #cj 20xx #moss polls #also can I say that like bro made such a good song for the very first song hes ever made. like bro started out with a banger #also 20XX tho??? those synth & 8bit noises are so damn good on my brain. & its got SUCH fun directional sound #also its got saxophone #not a lot but like. saxophone my beloved #love how he just adds saxophone parts to everything now #bro added it to THA & TWWAY then went ham in Fine I'm Fine & never stopped using the damn instrument #love the saxophone character arc 💛