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theoldaeroplane · 7 months

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worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

#writing #art #music #games #things i have to remind myself of daily #anyway ive found those things you're worried about sharing are often the most powerful things you CAN share #i hope you write #<- i would like to replace that tag with something that is less conversational #it makes reblogs awkward #anyway good morning. i have so many things to do today but instead i am crafting a memorial to my partner's best friend in my fanfiction.

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emilyaxford · 7 months

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#i thiiiiiink it was probably mary poppins for me but i have stronger memories of singin' in the rain and west side story #also i don't personally consider the wizard of oz a musical but i know that's a controversial opinion so i've included it anyways #polls #also also because this is tumblr i just want to caveat that these are based on my childhood movies and not a best-of list #my mom was predominately a dick van dyke/julie andrews/audrey hepburn/gene kelly kind of girl so that's what i got

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kidcore-nostalgia · 7 months

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#sandylion #stickers #vintage #kidcore #cute #nostalgia #nostalgic #retro #childhood #animals #1980s #80s #80s kid #instruments #music #eighties #childhood memories #nostalgiacore

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luthienne · 1 year

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Reginald Dwayne Betts, from Felon; “Night”

[Text ID: Listen, who hasn't waited for something / to happen? I know folks died waiting. I know / hurt is a wandering song. / I was lost in my fear.]

#reginald dwayne betts #felon: poems #night #words #poetry #typography #to be human #…#desire is no light thing #all that is musical in us is memory

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sadmages · 6 months

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Finally found a bit for my Durge

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 dark urge #bg3 durge #my art #okay so Rogier. duelist sword fighter before the nautiloid. wakes up there with no memory and barely a sense of self #sees himself. finds a broken flute. decides okay okay. so im a musician. devotes himself to being a bard and doing things bards would do #shut up dark urges he needs to create!!!#ive been informed the durge run is uhm a lot so ill see if i can weave this into his story #gale romancer methinks.completely taken by his words. full of wonder for his control of the weave. the poetry of it all. like music to him.#any mechs followers i have left who see this devastatingly informed by my friends i have made jonny dville #rogier-posting

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henry-fox-biggest-stan · 3 months

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DEAD POETS SOCIETY AND THE OUTSIDERS????

Coming back to my roots and editing dps again

#i learnt how to edit for dps btw #HE WAS JUST TOO DAMN GOOD FOR GROWING OLD #AND IN YOUR MEMORY ILL STAY GOLD #neil will always stay gold in the poet’s memory always #dps #dead poets society #dead poets #neil perry #dps edit #todd anderson #charlie dalton #mr keating #john keating #the outsiders #the outsiders musical #anderperry

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nevereverywhere · 6 months

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The Beatles promotional projections for Now and Then in Liverpool

#this is making me really emotional #all those places and memories #now and then #new beatles music #the beatles #paul mccartney #john lennon #george harrison #ringo starr #liverpool #penny lane #strawberry fields #cavern club

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 8 months

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I was *not* longing, I swear.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wen ning #If you have not listened to this scene in the audio drama I am *pleading* for you to #It's so funny. Oh my god the voice actors nail the part. Plus the music cutting out abruptly #Genuinely incredible comedic timing.#WWX voice: 'I was almost caught having an (unidentifiable ) emotion. How embarrassing. It will never happen again.' (lie)#wwx has unlocked: aesthetic attraction. He is now starting to develop emotional attachment.#This is a incompatible program with the current version of WWX. He requires an additional update #Please note that the actual countdown is *eight* seconds before passing out. My memory was fallible when I did my blocking #pd-mdzs lwj gets an extra 2 seconds. One for each bunny ear.#This comic kicked my ass a little. Normally I don't re-do comics unless its pertinent #but I struggled with getting this one 'just right enough'. And I'm happy with it! B*)

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lightscamerabitchsmiile · 7 months

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karma is HER boyfriend🩵

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iwillnotreturnyourrecords · 2 years

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This is an incredibly moving story about mix tapes as they relate to capturing time, place, grief, joy, soul.. the very essences of life itself.

#media as memory #so much encapsulated #mixtapes #music as memory #timeplaceaxis

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goddess-of-alchemy · 5 months

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#alchemy #music #made of memories #quotes

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angstics · 1 year

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TOUCHED. BY. ANGELS. THOUGH. I FALL. OUT. OF. GRACE. I DID IT ALL SO MAYBE ID LIVE THIS EVE. RY. DAY. ANOTHER-KNIFE-IN MY-HANDS A STAIN THAT NEVER COMES. OFF. THE. SHEETS (CLEAN ME OFF) IM SO DIRTY BABE!!!!!! IT AINT THE MONEY AND IT SURE AS HELL AINT JUST FOR THE FAME IT'S FOR THE BODIES I CLAIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#IM GOING CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY IM GOING INSANE #REAL FUCKING MUSIC REAL MUSICCCCCCCC 😭😭😭😭😭😭#/ly #mcr #NOT EVEN LISTENING. JUST THE MEMORY OF IT...

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wilwheaton · 2 months

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I have a small part in the 1987 television movie (failed pilot) version of The Man Who Fell To Earth. Lewis Smith played the titular character. Beverly D'Angelo played my mom, his love interest. (Fun Star Trek connection: Bob Picardo is also in it).

My character was a Troubled Youth, which I gotta tell you was not a stretch for me at all. I was deeply, deeply hurting at the time we made it. I was struggling not to suffocate on all the emotional and financial burdens my mom put on my shoulders, and fully aware of just how much my dad hated and resented me. You need a kid who doesn't want to be an actor, whose eyes can't hide the pain? I'm your guy.

Anyway, one of the scenes I was in took place in a record store, where Troubled Youth steals some albums, before he is chased by the cops and saved by the Man Who Fell To Earth, who uses a glowing crystal to save his life from ... some scratches on his face.

We filmed the interior of the record store at Sunset and La Brea, in what I think was a Warehouse, and at the end of the day, I was allowed to buy some records at a modest discount.

I was deep into my metal years, on my way from my punk years to my New Wave years, so I only bought metal albums. I know I bought more than I needed or could carry (I was making a point that I was allowed to spend my own money, mom), but the only ones I can clearly remember are:

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Judas Priest - Turbo and Defenders of the Faith

W.A.S.P - The Last Command

(I know this was in March of 1987, because Turbo had just come out.)

Of those, Piece of Mind is the only one I never really stopped listening to, even through all the different it's-not-a-phase phases. I still listen to it, today.

Ever since I became an Adult with a Fancy Adult Record Player And All That Bullshit, I have kept my records in two places: stuff I want right now, and stuff I keep in the library because of Reasons.

Generally, records move in one direction toward the library, even if it takes years to happen. I just don't accumulate albums like I once did, because I'm Old and set in my ways.

Earlier today, I decided that I wanted to listen to an album while I cleaned up the kitchen, and because I wanted to make my life more interesting, I opened the library cabinet for the first time in at least five years.

There was the very same W.A.S.P album from that day in March, 1987. I don't have any of the others -- I looked -- but The Last Command was right there.

Before I really knew what I was doing, I put it on the Fancy Adult Record Player and dropped the needle.

I watched four decades of dust build up with a satisfying crackle, and there was something magical and beautiful about hearing all the skips and the scratches, realizing I remembered them from before.

The title track was just as great as I remembered it. It struck all the same chords in me that it did in the late nineteen hundreds. The rest of the first side was ... um. It just didn't connect with me, and for the few moments I spent trying to find a connection, I don't think it ever really did. I would remember.

But I did remember how much I loved making those mix tapes, and what a big part of them that song was. I did remember how empowering it felt to not just spend my own money that I earned doing work I didn't want to do, but to spend it on music my parents hated, right under their noses. I did remember how impressed Robby Lee was, when I showed him my extensive heavy metal album collection.

Remembering all of that, in one of those cinematic flashes of rapid cut visuals and sped up sounds, told me why I kept this record, while I gradually sold or replaced the other records I bought that day with CDs, then mp3s, then lossless digital files, before finally coming all the way back to records, where I started.

I didn't listen to the second side. I didn't need to. I took it off the Fancy Adult Record Player, and put it back into the library, next to the George Carlin records.

#music #memories #records #Youtube

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luthienne · 5 months

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