20230911 - 7:02am [🌼]
trying to psych myself up for work today/this week by remembering how far i've come and suddenly thought of a friend from my internship. he was a year ahead of me, went to a more competitive academic high school than me, and had been coding since childhood unlike me.
i ended up confiding in him about feeling so behind and what he said stuck with me ever since. (it was very simply put and maybe that's why i believed it.) he said, "we'll be taking the same degree, and in the end, we'll be working at the same job, so don't worry."
today, i'm a full-stack software engineer, promoted twice in two years WHILE STILL IN SCHOOL. i can do this. don't worry.
side note: this friend has great music taste and we used to take turns blasting playlists at the lab we worked at. build me up buttercup is one of the songs he introduced me to.
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Yall do not seem to understand the goldmine that are Hozier songs for those obsessed with Good Omens. Like, yeah sure, Take Me To Church is aziracrow coded, of course it is, but why stop there?? 90% of Hozier songs are applicable to the ineffable husbands (extremely so, in fact) and I ve shockingly not seen enough crossovers between these two fandoms. From Eden? Francesca?? Wasteland, Baby!??? I, Carrion (Icarian)???? Unknown/nth????? And these are only a few examples. I can't listen to Hozier and not think of Crowley and Aziraphale, it's too THEM for me not to. And I feel like people need to talk about it more.
Take Me To Church is great but it's far from being the only Hozier song that deals with religious trauma and the willingness to be damned to the eternal punishment of hell if it means adoring and worshipping your lover. We are dealing with the man who wrote lyrics such as "Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I" and "If I should fall, on that day I only pray, don't fall away from me" and "I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door", LIKE CMON PEOPLE. TELL ME THIS IS NOT AZIRACROW??
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“The universe sings,” Grian said.
He sounds vaguely distant- like he’s speaking from hundreds of blocks away rather than right next to Mumbo.
He turns on his bed, slow halting movements, to face him.
“Did you know?”
Mumbo can only stare.
“…Sings?” He asks. He shifts on his chair.
Grian seems to want to nod, but aborts the motion halfway, and hums instead.
“Yeah. The code. It sings, if you listen close enough,” Grian mumbles.
Mumbo opens his mouth, then closes it again.
Grian exhales a long breath, and his eyes drift close.
“Can you hear it?”
Mumbo watches the way Grian’s chest rises and falls, shallowly, slowly.
He closes his eyes, and strains to hear.
He hears- Tango out in another room of the house, pacing circles around the kitchen. Mumbo can tell it’s Tango by the shuffle in his walk.
He can hear birds outside, twittering. Wind rustling through branches. An animal- a pig, maybe, trotting along some grass.
It’s quite calming really- but he doesn’t hear singing. At least, he doesn’t think he does?
When he opens his eyes again, it’s to Grian staring right at him.
Mumbo exhales in one sharp breath- he didn’t realise he’d stopped breathing- and meets Grian’s gaze.
“Did you mean like, actual singing or- or was that metaphorical? Because I can’t hear anything other than trees, mate,” he says, only half-joking.
Grian huffs a small laugh, and shakes his head.
“Nah, it’s not really singing-singing. It’s music, though. You’ve definitely heard some of it- discs. That’s the easiest way to hear it. But that’s- so few of what’s out there. There’s more music, if you know how to listen for it,” he hums. His eyes close again, and he leans more into the mattress.
Mumbo pauses, and thinks on that for a moment. Music discs, huh? He supposes it seems plausible, that there’d be more music out there.
But then why has he never heard it? Mumbo doesn’t ever recall hearing ‘the code sing’. If it’s tied into music discs, then is it naturally generated? Is hearing it a ‘watcher thing’?
Mumbo glances down at his hands, traces lines of dirt under his fingernails.
He nods, though Grian can’t see it anyway. He makes some vague ‘see you later’ comment he can’t bother to think about, and carefully gets to his feet.
At the doorframe, he peers back.
Grian lies there, breathing steadily.
Mumbo turns and leaves, closing the door behind him.
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headcanon that the minecraft soundtrack can be heard in the code, but only if you're 'in harmony' with it. cue other headcanon of watchers being very aware of the code
HEY ANON. ANON. I ADORE THIS HOLY SHIT I FUCKING LOVE THIS HEADCANON???? The idea that the universe is constantly singing to itself, and you can hear that through the Greater Code if you really carefully listen, is something i lowkey want to canonize SO BADLY holy shit. And this is such a lovely snippet too, im always such a sucker for deeply layered conversations like this.... i adore how youve given so much depth to the sentence "the universe sings" and the implications of how and why Grian is hearing it so much right now. [THROWS UP BLOOD] IM OBSESSED.......
Also this Mumbo dialogue especially is on point youve done such a good job of capturing his little speech patterns :] STUNNING JOB ANON IM SO FLATTERED U WROTE THIS!!!!! I really think i might canonize this concept just for how absolutely amazing it is, im utterly obsessed with it
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The official Star Wars account on Spotify replaced the Cassian Andor Rogue One playlist with an “Andor Official Playlist” that’s just the soundtrack…AS IF IT COULD COMPARE TO THAT EXPERTLY CRAFTED CHARACTER FANMIX…I WANTED THE OFFICIAL ANDOR SOUNDTRACK BUT NOT LIKE THIS!!!!!! PUT IT BACK!!!!
Anyway, here’s the tracklist in order I recovered from Wayback Machine for anyone else that adored that playlist and wants to remake it themselves in the event that they leave it officially replaced going forward:
Ain’t No Man by The Avett Brothers
Gimme Something Good by Ryan Adams
Ophelia by The Lumineers
Lake Michigan by Rogue Wave
Man on the Moon by Zella Day
When My Time Comes by Dawes
Honey I Been Thinking About You by Jackie Greene
24 Frames by James Isbell
Human by Rag’n’Bone Man
The Girl by City and Colour
Down In The Valley by The Head And The Heart
Alone by Trampled by Turtles
Ends of the Earth by Lord Huron
Hold Back The River by James Bay
Man On Fire by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes
The Way We Move by Longhorn Slim, The Law
Babel by Mumford & Sons
S.O.B. by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Sedona by Houndmouth
Spirits by The Strumbellas
Even The Darkness Has Arms by The Barr Brothers
California (Cast Iron Soul) by Jamestown Revival
Only Son by Shakey Graves
All My Days by Alexi Murdoch
Don’t Carry It All by The Decemberists
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
Rogue One by Michael Giacchino
And the cover image too!
@ whoever made this playlist, I’m so sorry they tried to erase your great fanmix and I won’t stand for it❤️❤️❤️❤️
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20230912 - 5:32pm [☂️]
my day did a complete 180 in the best possible way! i was worried about the workload since we have a release deadline approaching for the project i'm coordinating, but the tests that were failing inexplicably at the end of the day yesterday magically passed right when i ran them this morning! 🥳
i'm just really proud of myself for stepping away and clocking out when i did yesterday 🥺 it might seem like a small thing, but in the past it had been my habit to go hours overtime until it either worked or i was one more keystroke away from throwing my laptop into The Inferno™️
i was also pulled into an investigation for a high priority bug report that seemed like it was going to derail my entire day, but when i looked at it, i noticed the issue had already self-healed! 🥰 so i was able to start another task which is going pretty smoothly~
and to top it all off, our team decided to move our meetings later in the day, so i have more time to sleep!! i feel i can study happily after such a good day at work! 😇
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