Idk about anybody else, but "Old Me" makes me cry so frickin hard. They've done so amazing all these years, and Ik it's 2023 but I feel like I needed to say it.
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Several months ago I was watching old YouTube videos that I'm nostalgic for. One of these was Lindsey Stirling's "Lindsey Stirling - Crystallize (Dubstep Violin Original Song)" released in 2012. In it, Lindsey Stirling's dubstep violin original song plays as she navigates a frozen landscape, equipped with only her violin and her funky little dance moves. As she traverses, she performs sweeping, exaggerated (and to me, fucking hilarious) gestures of awe and wonder at the world.
While watching, I gave her a silly phrase in a silly voice to match her expressions.
"Beautiful Strange World...!"
I said it with a really specific inflection. It carries the same cadence as when Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood goes "Full, Metal, Alchemist." but with a lot more whimsy, wonder, and curiosity. Either way, sounding like a corny anime dub is important.
"Full, Metal, Alchemist...!"
This was (and still is) some of the funniest shit in the world to me. But as I kept repeating it, the phrase accumulated power.
Full, Metal, Alchemist.
Beautiful Strange World.
Let's break this down:
Her world of snow and ice is beautiful and strange, but so is our world. Everything about it. Everything is so weird!
Giraffes? Why do they look like that? There's generally evolutionary explanations for stuff like this, but evolution is bizarre.
Spiders? They know how to make webs. They just do that.
Grocery stores? There's a bunch of food in a big box with unimaginably complex supply chains, and people depend on this big box to provide them with ingredients for meals.
Those little sponge capsules that soak up water to become little dinosaur sponges? What the fuck?
Beautiful Strange World.
I've gotten into the habit of saying it whenever something amazes me, whenever I take a step back and take the time to appreciate something that we take for granted, or if I'm interacting with a piece of media that does, in fact, take place in a world that is strange, and beautiful because of it.
It makes me feel like the move she does about three minutes and sixteen seconds into the video.
Beautiful Strange World has legitimately affected the way I perceive the world, due to Lindsey Stirling's "Lindsey Stirling - Crystallize (Dubstep Violin Original Song)".
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sorry about that last rambling post, i didnt mean to sound like its worse than it may be, but i got no ... lense to view it through but my own, and the main reason i wrote it out anyway was bc i needed to get it out (even if posting it might be not the greatest idea) .. and bc it kinda showcases, i think, how my stories kinda write themselves, involuntarily in a way? its not like im not putting in any effort- but its like .. i cant STOP it always keeps going and even the dumbest idea stays in some form, its very hard to get everything in place bc theres so much going on all the while i am very slow at making anything, writing or drawing anything, especially anythign coherent is very hard bc not only do i get constantly distracted, i get distracted by my own thoughts suddendly skipping to a certain scene and me having to go throguh imagining in detail NO MATTER how many times i have done it before for the same scene that i already decided on how it goes, when theres a new idea it can take over my entire day bc i cant let go of it-
not trying to sound either like im the only that has that sort of problem, but i think its a big part as of why i start tso many projects without being able to finish them, or even start them bc i constantly have to fight my own thoughts from derailing into another daydream session, thinking of too much too fast than i can ever draw or even write about and not knowing what is worthwhile and what isnt (im telling you i have no idea what is good and what isnt, idk why but for all i know all things i do could be trash, or they all could be bad, maybe the one i thinnk is decent is actually worse than the things i deem not good enough and once i start to think no this isnt good enough i stop having fun making or thinking it bc im trying to do better
honestly its kind of impressive that i can get anything out at all, not to pat myself on the back there but even if i hate how long it takes me, considering how much im having to work just to start working on something at all, the fact that i could post stuff coherent enough for some people to understand AND LIKE is something i should be a little more proud of
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little purge march cover thing. it's been a while since i touched jummbox. also, amane art. they go together ! how sweet.
(edit 2023.11.07: i decided to ditch the video format (this is tumblr !! we have audio posts!! wowie!!!) and make it less of a hassle. i also took the opportunity to fix various details that were bothering me. hooray! i don't mind people listening to this now. also, here's a link if you wanna play around with it. customize your experience if you will.)
i know this may seem like a little weird jump in fandoms ... its all hlvrai hlvrai hlvrai and then BOOM milgram. but i wanted to expand my horizons a little bit + i just think there isn't enough milgram fanart in the world. i really really love hlvrai, and i want to continue making art of it, but i wanna start posting stuff about other things i like as well.
i **HEAVILY** recommend headphones ... i am not the most experienced ( ~ --- ~,)
anyways. sorry to my hlvrai followers. and potentially to the milgram fans who come across this and don't know what I'm talking about. i hope strangers can find this as enjoyable as my friends have made it out to be :}
2023.11.05
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