#and mainstream success

[crinkle-eyed-boo]

Here’s the thing that makes no sense about the Louis hates One Direction narrative that solos try to purport: Not does Louis include two 1D songs in his setlist when he now has a catalog that could easily fill a setlist without them, but he sat down with his music director and REARRANGED THEM to fit his solo style, from the vocals to the instrumentals.

That takes a lot of thought and effort like those arrangements of Night Changes and WDBHG just didn’t appear, you know? And while Night Changes was a single known to the general public, WDBHG was not. That was Louis thoughtfully looking at their catalog and being like this one (not even written by him) is a banger. I want it in my show.

No amount of wearing or not wearing a hat will change that, especially when it’s not in his show style to put things on, ESPECIALLY when we ALL KNOW how vain he is when it comes to his hair.

One band One dream ONE DIRECTION. THE END.

#and OF COURSE the 1D songs are the ones #the crowd goes feral for #it’s why we love him in the first place #and also #Harry’s shows are STILL THE LOUDEST for WMYB #even after all his Grammy wins #and mainstream success #SAME FOR NIALL #they love their roots #and they love giving #their long time fans #that moment #it’s showing their gratitude #for being able to do what they do #on their own #this is not hard to understand #I am seeing tweets from solos being like #if you go harder for 1D songs #you deserve to be beaten in the parking lot #like WHAT #truly unhinged behavior

[nativehueofresolution]

i think there's an interesting connective thread between sarah snook saying she thinks shiv just reads whatever's currently popular and got people talking ("everyone's reading this? all right, fine."), and alan ruck saying he thinks connor only reads books that are very old and considered classics - that way he doesn't have to decide if it has literary merit, because everyone else has already decided it's a seminal work. like, it takes them in the opposite direction when looking for materials, but in both cases they're being driven by a desire to not have to have original artistic tastes or opinions and just defer to someone else's judgements. which is just so telling?

shiv can be a bit of a black sheep politically, but she arrived there by just trying to define herself in opposition to her family; it's an indirect way of having someone else decide for you to keep trying to do the opposite of what's expected. it requires little in the way of genuine beliefs, which is why she flips very easily when it's convenient. connor meanwhile just wants any scrap of attention he can get, which is why he brings up random trivia or collects bizarre historical items. he likes to be able to just say or have something that gets people's attention, without having to provide any real explanation or show understanding. and i think it's interesting how that carries over into things like entertainment or art - the lack of self conception makes it hard to do things like pick up a random book you've never heard of because it looks interesting.

#succession #connor roy #shiv roy #roman meanwhile has never read a book. his reign of terror in la i think had more to do w him being difficult #than him having genuine artistic opinions about kids movies #though i'd love to know more about that era of his life #kendall i think is similar to shiv but with more of a pop culture movies/tv slant #and i think he is probably hipstery in some ways and tries to act above the mainstream #but he's just getting his recs by going off of who everyone says is an auteur #he is also incapable of just like sitting and having a reaction to a work of art #kaitlin speaks

[gold-pavilion]

Reminder that this is coming up to air in Tokyo Revengers:

Reminder that this is how this shounen takes the leap and puts a LGBT storyline between two prominent, main-cast characters on screen. A messy storyline about overcoming confusion, letting go of old attachments and facing new feelings that remains relevant through to the end of the story, worked out as any other plot point. Not implied, but expressed in in-story written word and unambiguous visuals.

Again: in a shounen anime. 

In a mainstream, dudes-punching-dudes anime series that airs on TV.

Regardless of whether one enjoys Koko and Inui as characters in particular, or the ship in itself, the fact that this happens / is able to happen (god, I hope it's not censored out) is important.

I can't stress enough how rare these things are.

I'm nervous, not gonna lie, these things hardly ever make it on-screen for reasons, but at the same time I trust Liden Films and how much care and respect they've put into Tokyo Revengers so far. Can't wait to see how it goes.

#tokyo revengers #inui seishu #kokonoi hajime #koko #inui #kokonui #inukoko #tokyo rev #i feel like im going insane with how much i care about this #but its just #shonen and seinen and other mainstream genres dodge this so much #i think its super super important for a mainstream action shounen like tr to have the content it has #which may not be the perfect rep blah blah but it is there #and genuinely giving what it intends to give #it also helps that tr is a successful series with on its third season now #handled by an animation studio thats not huge at all and clearly loves the material #so they might be able to keep everything as is #hmmmm #thoughts and talk and so #feel free to talk to me about it cause ohhh man

[h-i-raeth]

Feels like there needs to be more fics where Corroded Coffin is successful but not fucking. Rockstar levels successful. Successful as in they're well known within their niche and not at all outside of it. Successful as in their early albums are coveted but you're not going to stumble onto them on any mainstream radio station. Successful as in they're doing enough shows on a fairly active circuit that they can quit their day jobs but they can't buy a house off of the profits.

#stranger things #eddie munson #corroded coffin #unfortunately I do not know enough about niche metal bands of the 80s or the minutiae of 'making it' as a moderately popular band #to write this fic #so I can't fill this need #but I do feel very strongly about it #is this opinion heavily influenced by being a fan of filk? : yes. Yes it is. #listen it's just. there are levels of success outside of 'virtually unknown (except by locals)' & 'mainstream celebrity'. y'know?

[saga-star]

TODAY I FOUND OUT THAT DUNGEONS AND DADDIES IS THE SEVENTH MOST SUBSCRIBED TO ON PATREON????? I KNEW MY SILLY LITTLE POD WAS WELL KNOWN BUT NOT THIS WELL KNOWN

#dungeons and daddies #dndads #dndaddies #anthony burch #idk why but i always thought that naddpod was more successful?? #since i feel like it’s more mainstream????? #for me this is like finding out a niche celebrity is on forbes 100

[sexygaywizard]

what gets me riled up about Victoria Monet is that she’s been in the game for 15 yrs and they gave her new artist like thats crazy im happy for her but bro what the fuck

The academy has weird standards for what they consider new, I think technically Jaguar II is her first studio album so it's technically her "debut"?? idk I'm just glad she's finally getting some recognition

#the recording academy is all bullshit anyways but i hope this causes her to finally get some more mainstream success #she deserves it #i answer

[heystephen]

no literally one of my many pop music roman empires is how natasha bedingfield’s career tanked because her label told her to neglect her success in europe to focus on maintaining popularity in the United states with upbeat feel-good songs like unwritten and pocketful of sunshine which did work! until it didn’t! and then she no longer had her european success to fall back on either!!!! </3

#scooter braun did something quite similar to carly rae jepsen #but rather he tanked her chance at mainstream success by demanding more call me maybes #and then stopped putting in the work when she couldn’t break the same success as call me maybe did #this has been a post*

[sugarcarnation]

i so badly wish i could just walk into a store and buy bsd merch

#theres a whole anime store here but they mostly just have the very mainstream stuff 😔 #once!! once they had little wan key chains and it was amazing #but yeah i haven’t been able to recreate this tale of success 😔 #at least it’s good for my wallet i guess

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

if you want to know how the lines started to blur between YA fantasy and adult bodice-rippers, and how TikTok catalyzed the market shift, look no further than middle-aged women writing Harry Potter fanfiction in the early 2000s

#- HK #there are plenty of YouTube videos about internationally famous YA authors and the fanfic communities they created #amongst EACH OTHER. many of them go back decades together and you never knew about it because they got great PR reps #like. bet y'all don't think of The Mortal Instruments anymore. I knew Cassandra Clare had a bad reputation for plagiarism. #but I didn't know she first earned success writing incest fanfic. (and was I surprised? no lol) #and it was through that fanfiction that she grabbed the attention of Holly Black (of Cruel Prince fame) #who connected her with publishing professionals #and think about the very term 'smut' #it's gone mainstream too. a once-obsolete word you pretty much ONLY encountered in a fanfiction context along with words like #'slash' or 'squick' #x #I saw someone refer to Maggie Stiefvater as 'clean teen' and I was like 'you mean. you mean YA? YOUNG ADULT? WYE-AYY??'

[ghostsontelevision]

one of my favorite things about apocalypse keys is last session one of my players hit a point where the rules said “one of two bad things happen to your character” and she said “... can both bad things happen?” and i said “you know what? sure!” because it’s the kind of game where even when your characters are in peril, having a bad time, in a bad place, it’s still fun to play, and sometimes when your characters lose, it’s actually more fun than if they’d done perfectly

#posts by me #ttrpg #apocalypse keys #i think a lot of mainstream ttrpgs - or at least the culture around them - fail to make losing fun #when imo the point is even if the characters are in peril the players should still have fun telling stories about those characters in peril #i think when checks are either 'you get what you want or you don't' you can fall into that trap of not making failure fun #and i think a lot of pbta games - apocalypse keys included! - do a really good job at making both failure and success engaging

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

unless canon disproves it, the earliest i'm willing to accept that izzy met ed is when blackbeard was One Of the greatest pirates of all time, but not yet THE greatest pirate of all time. the earliest izzy met ed is when blackbeard was already a household name but he wasn't like, britain's #1 most wanted. he was tied for britain's #1 most wanted but he wasn't yet the undisputed king of pirates

#og #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #izzy hands #dizzy izzy #edward teach #ofmd edward teach #edward teach born on a beach #blackbeard #txt #meta #mine #like the only thing i'll give izzy partial credit for is MAYBE making blackbeard's name more mainstream. MAYBE. #but for that last bit he was there for i give him like 1/4 of the credit. the rest is all ed and his genius #so like. izzy is responsible for 25% of the last 10% of blackbeard's success. someone do the math how much is that overall #ok i did the math that's 2.5%. izzy is 2.5% responsible for ''creating'' blackbeard AT MOST. that's all im giving him #unless the show explicitly contradicts this im not budging. unless it's to lower that amount lmao

[ispyspookymansion]

brother! trust me! i am logging movies on letterboxd you have never even heard of! but if your response to “widely released, successful movies now are way less heartfelt, varied, and technically interesting than they used to be” is just “well you need to be watching smaller movies then” youre missing my point

#80s horror was my inspiration for the ppst and it wasnt by any means all cheap diy indie film stuff. #like. a lot of these movies were wildly successful but still had the traits i described as lacking from modern mainstream movies… #kora.txt

[alwaysbewoke]

"Benjamin Netanyahu has been prime minister for longer than other Israeli leaders since the country’s birth in 1948 and is increasingly unpopular, but many of his policies in Gaza and the occupied West Bank enjoy huge Israeli support. The problem in Israel isn’t solely Netanyahu. He’s the symptom of a major larger societal shift. Replacing him with another carbon copy will change little for the millions of Palestinians who live under a brutal military occupation. One possible successor, Benny Gantz, has spent his career proudly promoting the destruction he’s caused in Gaza in previous wars. There’s long been a western obsession with Netanyahu, wrongly believing that he’s the impediment to a more humane "Jewish state". It’s the same mistake recently made by US President Joe Biden and Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, who argued that Netanyahu was blocking any prospect of peace in the region. It’s his belligerence, we’re told, that makes ending the Gaza onslaught impossible. When cautiously questioned by CNN recently, Netanyahu said that he wasn’t some fringe player in Israel but a leader who spoke for many Israelis, pursuing policies in Gaza with broad mainstream backing. He was right, and ignoring this reality doesn’t make it go away."

#benjamin netanyahu #israel #occupation #west bank #gaza #palestinians #military aggression #political succession #societal shift #benny gantz #western perspective #peace process #mainstream support

[iedolon]

aphelios using emojis to communicate rather than typing out words ;___; he finds it difficult to say exactly how he’s feeling, especially when so many people are watching the debut of their band. he’s a perfectionist to a fault and doesn’t like for there to be any room for miscommunication or for his words to be construed any other way. it’s much harder for him to put his own thoughts into words, whereas songwriting, his emotions flow freely. as always, though, he’s a bit of a meticulous soul and holds himself to an extremely high standard. his anxiety is something that he’s learning to manage but with so much riding on the success of their group, not just himself but everyone else’s careers that were revitalized by their joint efforts, he’s rather not put himself in a position that could cost the others. so emojis he stays with for the time being. alune likes how they look, anyways.

#tbd. #i need to reformat this there are like 3 ideas at once that i smashed together #1) aphelios’ difficulty verbalizing his feelings in conversation at times vs the steady process of songwriting #2) his pressure as their songwriter to put their passions into words as well as something that he’s proud to stand behind but also #is palatable to the general public; a balance between personal touch and mainstream sound for highest chance of success #3) his reliance on his group mates to pull him out of his shell and find comfort in the unknown / accept the openness of the future #4) aphelios’ anxiety and depression disorders (not just for boyband but consistent across all verses) #will type this up tomorrow

[atldiscourse]

mind when the worst thing we had to deal with as atl stannies was them signing to FBR and dirty laundry/LYR as a whole sounding so different (or bad) and not them being assholes or whatever the hell is going on now

i yearn for the days that their departure from hopeless records was the worst thing anyone could possibly imagine happening in the atl sphere

#nostalgia tripping for sure but god damn their hopeless records .. chef’s kiss #fbr is so blegh if ur not one of the few bands who gets mainstream success

[melodiesofmidnight]

I think if we started letting ourselves make weird, whimsical, and dark fantasy movies with killer soundtracks like Labyrinth, Legend, or Neverending Story again, something fundamental would be restored to humanity

#not everything has to formulaic carbon copies of other successful mainstream franchises #not everything has to be a marvel movie #give us some whimsy back dammit