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chlo3sevigny · 2 years

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thoughts on antonoff's ubiquity in the pop music industry and 'midnights'

imo his synth and reverb obsession works perfectly with this album. to me the whole idea of sleepless nights spent on overthinking has the feeling of blurred perception of time and space, while the only sound you hear is your voice echoing inside your head with no release. so in my terms, this was the best stylistic choice for this album, but of course it's not the case with some music he's produced in the past.

like 'sling' and 'solar power'.

first of all, who even let him enter the production room? he should've stayed away from those projects and let other people guide clairo and lorde on those albums bc he just doesn't have the ability to work well within certain music genres. also i think he produced too much music in last 3 years – excluding 2022 – and got too repetitive with no room left for experimenation.

but from what i see, he didn't really do much last year and in 2022 we only got the minions soundtrack (lmao), 'midnights' and the 1975's album. imo all of them turned out great, so i'll just stick with the theory jack shouldn't produce too much within a certain period of time.

since i've mentioned 1975 i can't just leave it like that and i HAVE TO say jack's done an AMAZING work in reviving their old sound, without making it feel outdated. the 1975've been heavily influenced by the 80s since the first eps, so jack's input here is unquestionably appropriate. he helped them find the balance between the sound that essentially helped them get into mainstream and their following exploration of their own voice. imo this was the greatest move they could've pull rn – marketing- and music-wise.

current tumblr revival and 30-year-olds quarter-life crisis of og tumblr girlies is the perfect moment for bringing back the memories of carefree teenage days spent on the internet and listening to the 1975's self titled album. and i think it wasn't on accident – matty's too self aware to even think he didn't expect the new album to become fans' new favourite. he knows his listeners thanks to being chronically online. calling a song a continuation of 'robbers'? yeah it's no coincidence.

so did they do a right thing by bringing antonoff to this project? absolutely. i can't imagine anyone else helping them get back to their best.

but did taylor do a right thing? imo – yes. jack's one of her best friends, which probably helped her touch on so many triggering themes. all in all, the whole album is about topics that didn't let her sleep at night. is it repetitive? somehow. there are many melodies that bring to mind some of her older songs, but to me it's a good thing, because i feel like 'midnights' is not an era on its own, but more of a glue connecting her previous albums and kind of a closing chapter for taylor.

lyrically, themes on the albums are not new to us. musically, we can pinpoint to the specific album a song remind us of. and that's why i don't think any producer would work here. it had to be someone, who taylor trusts. someone who knows her and views her as more than just a music sensation, because this album wasn't meant to be a new era for taylor. she's happy, she's healing and she just wants to make music. and this time it felt like the music was supposed to serve as the closing door to her nightmares of the last 10+ years.

even though both the 1975's and taylor's album are filled with antonoff's synths and reverbs, it's not a bad thing. these exertions work great for both artists and their current music motifs. but should antonoff work with every single mainstream indie pop artist? obviously not. imo he should say no more often and focus on projects which would benefit from his distinctive music likings, and not just every mainstream pop albums that's trying to flirt with indie influences.

anyway. antonoff fed me good these last two weeks. i feel like i'm 17 again and never want to die.

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foo1ishheart554 · 2 years

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ok, im not sure if you "do" asks but figured id send anyway,,, do you think in the next half of the season, charles and carlos are going take strategy into their own hands more, even if it means disobeying the team?? bc rn that's the only way i can see them getting any wins - ie silverstone. wouldn't really consider myself tifosi so just wondering what you think :)

Hi :'))) My asks are always open 🥰

That being said, I feel like I'm the wrong person to be answering this as I only just started following f1 and Ferrari since the start of the 2022 season so I am pretty much just repeating what other tifosi's said.

From the races I've seen, Charles seems to put a lot of trust in Ferrari's strategy (to his own detriment). And I don't blame Charles at all for this.

There's a certain prestige when it comes to racing at Ferrari. It's almost cult-like and it almost seems like the team is in their little weird, delusional and out of touch bubble. It's even weirder because in the past seasons, Ferrari did not have the fastest car and now when they do, they don't know what to do with it. Mattia is still blaming the car because they're so used to it. I don't know if it was to save face or they are just that delusional.

But I am sure Charles is not blind to the criticisms of his team. As drivers they'd definitely be reviewing their past race data. Who gave the call to change to hards, who asked Carlos to box when he is mid battle with Checo, whose strategy they used during the French gp quali that actually worked. The clear solution is a complete reshuffle of the strategy team.

Charles and Carlos are close teammates despite it all. And I am sure they already had their discussions between races. And with the summer break commencing, they will have plenty of time to rethink their own approach to the race as drivers.

If the reshuffle doesn't happen, I am hoping for scorched earth. Charles is a lot smarter than people give him credit for and he will take things into his own hands. Ferrari needs a wake-up call and this race is hopefully the one.

#my asks #scuderia ferrari

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emcscared-whumps · 2 years

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WiJ 2022 - 11: What are Your Favourite Flavours of Whump?

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Pre-ramble Since I feel the Need

Ok, 1) it's really fucking cold outside rn, and the most I can do is close my windows and huddle up, and 2) I am sick of the way Tumblr keeps fucking with my paragraph spacings when I go from draft to post.

CONTENT and WARNINGS: nonhuman whumpees, discussion of dehumanisation/animalisation, captivity whump, pet whump allusions, mentioned ab00se-- mother to adult kid

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Actual Whump Shit Let's Goooooo!!

As I keep mentioning in my off-topic rambles, my favourite flavours of whump include non-human whumpees, secrets relating to the non-human-ness, captivity whump, and all manner of illnesses and accidents that can often be brought about as a result of the nonhuman's species status! Oh yes, and recovery whump and secrets!

I'm taking this oppourtunity to really go into detail about why I love these things so much :D

This post is getting ridiculously long, so I'm gonna slap a "Read More" on it :)

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Nonhuman Whumpees!

Oh yes I love them, they are a staple of my whump diet. I'm talking shifters, mer, vampires, demons, all sorts of little critters (specifically the more human shaped ones, they need human enough faces/bodyplans for me ;-; otherwise it edges into animal whump and that is a personal line I'm not gonna cross).

With that out of the way, there is so much you can do with a whumpee like that. They'll have specific weaknesses, like sunlight, silver/candinium, and species specific diseases, and you can justify catching, torturing, and killing them because they're not human, they're monsters, and they're dangerous <3

I love it when said whumpee couldn't hurt a fly. Not wouldn't, couldn't lol

It opens up so many avenues. You can take hospitals and doctors off the list of people to ask for help, and while being hunted down for existing, whumpee can't afford to trust the wrong person, so they don't trust anyone at all.

There's just, so much you can do!

Like hurt specific nonhuman parts of them and exploit them for it! Scale a mer, harvest a vampire's venom, steal feathers, steal fur, hurt tails, and wings, and ears! They're so sensitive!

And the rest of my taste in whump stems from what I can do to non-humans :D

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Secrets!!!!!!

Goddamn, a good secret reveal gets me every fucking time.

I've noticed that it's always the non-human's secret about being non-human getting out though, so I'm specific with this one ^-^'

Anyway, I love it when the secret is kept not for the welfare of family and loved ones, but for whumpee's own safety. Bonus points if that safety is from said family and loved ones >;3c (see pretty much every Danny Phantom fanfic ever, and also cannon Danny, shit man that's fucked up lol "they want to tear me apart molecule by molecule" is a real, canon line id diaglogue).

Pete would get shunned and rejected by his mother if she ever found out, and if he was in front of anyone else, he would be reported to the hunters by an informant.

He can't afford to let that secret get out.

I just adore the emotional stakes of a whumpee being scared of their own friends and family, and literally everyone because everyone might kill him (or help) under certain conditions, and I love what they stand to lose if it got out.

Is it a metaphor for being any flavour of queer? Not for me, and I don't write it with that intention.

Could it be read that way? Sure, if you want, but I personally am not interested in that flavour of whump.

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Dehumanisation >:)

Put them in muzzles, blindfold them, gag them, give them an ear tag like they're cattle, drag them around on a leash, tie them up, treat them like a beat and like they're a threat.

Especially when they're not.

Anyway, this one's more of a seasoning, like chilli. I sprinkle it over the top of the whump to make all the other flavours sing :D

Need I say more?

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Captivity Whump >:3c

Captivity whump my beloved <3<3<3

I love a whumpee who's had hope and free will stripped of them. I like it when the light leaves their eyes, but they're not dead... >;)

They are tired, so very tired. And they'll never be strong enough to escape on their own, and if they did manage it, what do they have to look forward to? They'll never be the same. They'll never be able to function to even a fraction of their previous standard. Their family/friends/loved ones will never look at them the same way again. That's if they're still around.

They can kiss their life goodbye.

It has been destroyed by years and years of torture, conditioning, punishment, dehumanisation, and objectification. And then when they inevitably survive through that hell, not aging enough for their body to give out, even after decades, they are discarded like they are merely a toy their owner had grown bored of.

If the whumpee has even a shred of hope left, I want to crush it.

And then save them when they're on death's doorstep for real. A caretaker-type character could swoop in and scoop up the whumpee when they're cold and alone, and a mess of a broken shell, and nurse them back to health, leading to messy recovery whump.

Short term captivity can be fun too-- inescapable torture without totally ruining whumpee's mind. This happens to canon!Pete :) he gets to live with permanent injuries, trauma, and paranoia :DD

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Recovery Whump!

Recovery whump!!! Everything can go wrong, no recovery will go smoothly. Perhaps caretaker is really bad at caretaking, perhaps they're new to it, perhaps they don't care enough,or are just unable to cater to whumpee's specific needs.

If whumpee is a vampire, caretaker struggles to provide enough blood. Maybe they're squeamish or have trauma themselves. Maybe they just don't know what the whumpee needs, like with Pete. He barely expresses anything about his needs, so it's very easy for him to starve or end up moon-deprived.

Even if the caretaker is good, they know what they're doing, no one is perfect. They could slip up and shout, or accidentally hurt whumpee when they don't mean it.

Wounds heal messily too, and whumpee is ever-so fragile, both physically and mentally. All it can take to spur a breakdown or panic attack is one wrong word.

I just love all of the aspects of recovery whump, but I'm sure I'm forgetting some, like wound treatments-- cleaning them, stitching them up, dressing them, changing the dressings, infections, reopening of wounds, tearing of stitches...

There's so much lmao

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Sick Fic/Illness, and Accidental Injuries/Predicaments

These are always fun! Can include general sicknesses like the cold or flu, or any other fun painful things, and also any accidents, like tripping and falling, perhaps even down the stairs and breaking something for whatever whumpy reason. Then you have the ones that creep up on everyone, like chronic malnutrition.

What I love doing to Pete, because he's a belunae shifter, is moon deprivation (compromising his immune system, healing, and ability to shift), an virus specific to shifters (high fevers, coughing, weakness, and compromised shifting), and injuries (head or a jab to a specific part of his abdomen) causing a partial shift in a sudden wave of pain (giving him his webbing between his fingers and toes, funky ears, improved light sensitivity, fins, and weakness in his legs), which can only be reset by a full shift. Until then, he gets to endure waves of pain, and constant aches, and deal with whatever consequences suddenly collapsing and having fins and funky hands and ears entails.

Then I love for him to get kicked out (roughly, dragged, and dropped down the few stone stairs) onto the cold street for being that way in front of Kate/in her home, and to not come back until he's back to normal. Poor thing wants to grab his coat, but Kate snarls that he's belunae, he doesn't need it. Pete just shivers on the ground crying and trying to drag himself away to anywhere remotely warm, to Timmy's place preferably.

ANYWAY, perhaps, there are even diseases and illnesses that affect the whumpee's species specifically. Oh, and everything going well, they can't go to hospital unless they'd like to be killed or kidnapped :DDD so they're stuck at home taking longer to recover.

There are so many possibilities, even if they just break their arm or something, all of the above can apply! Throw in other illnesses and infections while they're week and you've got a great time!

Also, severely weakened whumpees my beloved <3

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Anyways, I think I'll leave my entry at that, good on ya if you reached the bottom lmfao

@whumpmasinjuly

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isitidakpenting · 2 years

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10/2022

It's just ridiculous to look at the past and compare with what we are now.

I've been trying to survive with all of these shits going on rn, through tears and pains. Not even close to loves and relationships. I'm talking about life here.

It feels like a nostalgic thing to experience, while in fact it's happening again. It's the same feeling againㅡof being cornered on top of the cliff and you have no more path to step on behind you.

Back in old days, I used to blame the world for giving me such an unfair life. But I keep refusing to think that way these days. I really try the hardest to think that someday we all can make it through, you know.

It's supposed to be easy to think that way, right? But trust me, it's notㅡwhen there are some people who keep pushing you to run when the roads are full of spikes and your bare feet are bleeding. It hurts a lot.

I also really hate to feel like I'm in a rush competition for nothing. What can I get for being a winner anyway? Or how am I supposed to feel after all of it? While in fact I still need to pay the bills for them too in the near future.

Sometimes it's just sad when there's no one who can support you when things start to get heavy and rough. All you can do is shutting your mouth, hiding your angry face just to resist your tear from falling.

I don't know what hurts the most than holding your tears with a really sore throat just to look strong and still. :)

I've been thinking about everything in my silence. It's not like I'm not thinking about you all, okay. I really know my place. You don't have to worry about it. I really know what to do.

Don't bother to be ashamed of me. Because I am ashamed of myself already before you.

I don't know whether I'm depressed or something, it's just that I'm surprised that I lost a lot of weights in a significant time. My normal weight was 40kg, and the last time I checked, it was 32kg. What a living skeleton.

I wonder how it is now, I haven't checked it since then. But it's just sad when I tried to wear some jeans, they are all still too big for me. :(

Does it cost happiness to gain some weight? When will I be happy ever after anyway?

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phoenixiancrystallist · 2 years

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I should probably post an updoot today, huh? Hello, I am an airhead! Anyway, welcome to day 71 of Arting On A Prayer, I fixed the shading that got goofy when I adjusted the wonky arm, updated the scars because they were kind of disappearing on her face, aaaand... what else did I do... Oh yeah! I hid a couple of the shading and highlight layers just to see what simpler shading looked like, and damn if I don't think that looks better, actually! XD

I'm debating on if I want to adjust the angle of the back arm there, because I'm not so sure that's anatomically correct/would be visible like that with the pose and angle I was going for. I mean, it was in the reference? But that doesn't necessarily mean it's the right choice to make for the composition of the art piece. Idk, still thinking about it. Also in that thought pile is the decision to flip that knife, because Mizu wields her daggers back-hand and I drew it the wrong way like a dingdong.

I may also decide to not make any changes and move on to something else ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Idk, we'll see!! It's an adventure, I tells ya!!!

#the great artscapade of 2022 #bobbi's being weird again #art #my art #oc: mizu #kingdom hearts original character #my roommate has this weird habit/super power where he'll be like ''what do you want to do for food?''#and I'm like ''I'm not hungry so idk''#but because he MENTIONED IT two mintes after we're done with that conversation I'm suddenly hungry #anyway I've been sitting on a rumbly tummy for like an hour because I'm mad about it XD #not like mad as in angry but mad as in humorously grumpy #also because I don't know what I want to eat #I'm hungry but nothing sounds yummy you know?#I think I want sushi but it's like 10pm nowhere that serves sushi I trust is open rn #*checks Grubhub anyway* waaait shit that Chinese/Thai place I like is open til 11:30????#y'all I may have made a decision #you'll never know bc I'll forget to update you :P

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silentxxsoul · 2 years

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The “2022 Red Sox suck atm and have an off day so so I’m ignoring being sad about them losing a series to the gd Orioles for EDDIE BEING BACK IN THE FRAY AAAAHHHH” reaction dump:

This has literally been me since the ep ended last week:

Claudette I know you might die but respectfully stop being a dick for no reason jfc

Oh hell nah seriously, and look at Josh being all in awe because his character has been reduced to being obsessed with her

Anyway, domestic Bathena is giving me life and now Bobby being a protective dad ahhhhhhh

"You mess with my kid, you mess with me."

Chim and Albert bonding over apartment hunting ♥

Wait--Chim I don't think those are to really eat lol

I'm sorry, marine algae noooooooo

GO MAY GO

TELL THAT BITCH

DO IT

WE'RE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU

I don't trust this fella, but I also want Josh to have a meet cute that doesn't end with him getting robbed so that someone can break into dispatch for a heist

Man Claudette shut the fuck up you are the middle school bully jfc

Oh is this dude gonna electrocute himself and start the fire? Fuckin tragic

Well, he didn't do it to himself so there's that.

Oh shit Terry no

Eddie doing fireman things has no right to be this sexy I mean come on now

FIREFIGHTER Eddie Diaz, don't think I didn't hear the emphasis boo

You know I was sad to think Claudette may die but she's really testing me tonight

I don't trust Jonah, I don't I don't I don't and it's all y'alls fault lmao

itshappening.gif

"Eddie get some turn outs" oh yessssssss! ! ! ! !

Eddie gearing up shouldn't make me this emotional

"Eddie you're with Buck."

HOW IS THERE STILL A HALF HOUR LEFT?! SO MUCH HAS ALREADY HAPPENED AHHHHHHHH

"Today you're a guest in this house"

Eddie I fucking love you ohmigod

JOSH YES HE HAS LMAOOOOOOOO bc I've been waiting for months for that ahahahaha

Oh fuck I forgot about Albert pls don't die pls pls pls pls pls

I'm a nervous wreck rn omgggggggggggg

My buddie babes saving a life ??? in this economy ?

Buck babbling with Eddie at his side, tales of the old 911 and I love it so much

I've missed this duo so damn much yall

oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no

OH DAMN OH DAMN I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING

with may??????????? under the rubble ?!!

While we're at break can we appreciate how Buck and Eddie were practically glowing while working together? It was like they never missed a beat

them un-burying Bobby and May I'm sobbing yall

He was protecting her so well oh my goddddd

HE LOOKED AT EDDIE BEFORE SAYING 118 IM LOSING IT

Linda ♥

"God has spoken" meanwhile Buck contemplates life

"I have two dads and you're one of them" - sobbing

♥♥♥♥Chim and Albert ♥♥♥♥

I get the feeling they're leaving the door open for JHK since he's booked up so much, but I love this between Chim and Albert so much

I love this "not standing down" version of May y'all

Oh wtf Taylor, really? Being the jealous/kinda threatening GF after knowing your dude cheated? Where was that energy when "I didn't really need to know" came out of her mouth? The writers/showrunners need to figure out her character for the love

HEN KNOWS WE KNOW

but also I am sad she died because damn, they're killing left and right rn

holy shit yall this episode was incredible, it just never stopped and there's so much to unpack ahhhhhhh

#911 fox spoilers #911 fox #this has been a rollercoaster of emotions holy god #how tf am I supposed to stay on for LS after this?#i need a breather and a stiff drink #especially with judd being next on the whump train

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j0shy · 2 years

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Sun, 6 march 2022

i swear to god intermittent fasting is just anorexia for people who don't want to admit they have a problem. like, you don't eat for 20 hours and then you only get to eat within a four-hour time frame what you'd normally eat at that time? you might not be counting calories (which i seem to have fallen back on) but you're still low-restricting.

anyway. this morning when i woke up i first showered, because i felt disgusting, and then i packed for america a bit. i’m really, really getting nervous about going. i feel so out of control. i don’t know what’s going to happen and i hate it. so much could go wrong. i don’t think i’ll trust i’ll get there and it’s safe until i’m actually there for a while.

and yet there’s not even a part of me that wants to stay home. like, i’ll miss gyzmo. i’ll miss here. but i want to at least try this.

today was a big worried about food day. i’m sitting here typing this at almost 6 pm and even though i know i stayed below a thousand calories today, part of me feels like it’s too much and wants to walk it off. i also want to binge, which is weird because again: i’m below 1000 rn. ordering pizza or eating a pack of cookies or whatever isn’t going to make me feel any better. it will in fact actively make me feel worse. it would absolutely not be worth it.

i started a new fic today. i wrote two chapters and posted them immediately. now i think i should have waited because i already have so much to be stressed about, but also what can i do if i can’t write?

i wish i could breathe again. i wish mum hadn’t left me alone, because the urge to eat when i’m alone is huge. once she’s back here i won’t wanna eat so much bc i’ll be embarrassed.

i don’t know what else to write today. i’m tired and worried and stressed and sad. and i can’t eat again until tomorrow and it’s only 6 pm. but also why do i feel the need to always be eating?

breakfast: skipped

lunch: cracker (65), low cal jam (50), melon (50), coke zero (4)

dinner: pumpkin soup (200), feta (100), coke zero (1)

snacks: eierkoek (174), cookie (46), bread (85), spread (100), hagelslag (100)

total: 975

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