#so i had to buy the song

[izpira-se-zlato]

As heard on Val 202

#joker out #everybody's waiting #sorry but I'm not down for gatekeeping this #Joker Out knew what they were doing by releasing it early #and that's presumably creating hype #and you know what? The more I listen to it the more I like it #so let's give others the same chance #and before anyone says that -- you cannot “steal streams” from a song that isn't even ON streaming services yet #how about we don't exclude people who for whatever reason weren't able to catch the stream this morning #It's making the rounds on discords ANYWAY #like maybe if mp3s were still the main point of sales? #but lbr we're all brainrotted and those with spotify will start streaming it as soon as it's released there #(I am a basic iPod Girlie (gn) and will thus be buying the mp3 #just as I did with Ruoska after having had it on repeat from the moment it dropped in Australia)

[darlingsart]

I LOVE your patrochilles family. If you're up for it, would you draw Achilles and his bump?

Aw, I’m glad you like my patchilles family, they mean so much to me so thank you!! 🥹❤️

Here you go!

+ A Modern AU shitpost bc I didn’t know which AU you’d want to see ^^

#tsoa #the song of achilles #patrochilles #angies art #asks #a peaceful life au #You and I AU #I just finished writing the first chapter of the modern au so I’ll be posting that new series on ao3 either tomorrow or Monday <3 #also I forget that in my story they had their first kid pretty young like right after the wedding these two could NOT wait lmao #they just look young in that first picture I think Achilles is supposedly to be 20 and Pat is 21?? I don’t remember 😭 #and you can’t tell me that Achilles wouldnt buy those corny maternity shirts as a joke bc he does lmao

[pink-flame]

You're my neck of the, neck of the woods Leave you, babe, I never could Ginger and gestures of goodwill go forth, let go Of sorrow and sadness and spite I'm somebody taller tonight

Neck of the Woods - Maisie Peters

#juke #jatp #julie and the phantoms #my gifs #my edit #jatp edit #maisie peters #neck of the woods #new jatp gifs in 2024 #why not #don't tell me how to ghost #you guys have no idea #I had this idea a full two years ago and could not figure out how to do it #and even now I'm pretty sure I did this the hardest way possible but still #I don't have photoshop ok #I'm a video editor scraping buy with the skills I can carry over and making gifs in final cut pro with the occasional assist from canva #annnnnnyway #I know they're. not perfect but I'm so proud of them #also I want to make like three more sets for Juke with this song because ALL the lyrics fit them so well #but I just loved the idea of all the shared memories they have in that house #they're home for each other in both a literal and metaphorical sense #and that makes me unhinged #so here you go

[uncanny-tranny]

Don't talk to me; I'm still recovering from the fact that the first computer-synthesized voice to sing in 1961 - the IBM 704 - sang Daisy Bell, a love song.

#positivity #do the computers know i love them #sometimes i watch the recording of the audio and it blows me away that i can do that #like yes daisy bell was a very popular song from 1892 but the point still stands #there were a million simple songs to give the computer to sing and the one that was chosen talked about enduring love #so yes you can be apathetic about it and say that there's no point in thinking about it deeper than a proof of concept for 60s tech #but i say nonsense to that - nay i will not stand for it here. everything is deep. everything is significant #to teach a computer a love song is the highest form of humanity and i don't care if that's dumb #hot take (semi-related): computers have humanity in them. humans made machines. we gave them purpose and existence. #(that's not saying that computers are 1:1 human BUT that humans made those machines - everything out there originated because of us) #(and i think that's why i don't buy that machines are more neutral than a human especially in judgement) #(a machine has whatever judgement their people had while making it. it isn't neutral at all based on the technology we have today) #i'm not obsessed with machines but i've learned to respect and admire them for what they are #i'd say that i would want to learn about tech for fun but i'm not enthused by it like other transsexuals are

[feroluce]

When Al Haitham dreams, it's in shades of sandy blonde and red, metallic gold and feather-blue. His nightmares are colored much the same.

Kaveh leisurely strolls ahead of him, shoes leaving deep treads in the soft desert sand. He keeps a careful distance, arms length, and in return Al Haitham keeps an eye on him, the other man's back dead center in his sights.

He curses the sand in his boots and the long line of footprints he steps into, already the exact shape of the soles of his shoes.

They aren't lost. Al Haitham knows where they are. They've been here before. They are still here.

Kaveh doesn't watch their feet. His head is constantly tipped back with his eyes on the stars and their constellations (of which Al Haitham only knows two, Vultur Volans and Paradisaea). He'll walk right into a cactus like that. Al Haitham yells ahead for him to watch where he's going.

Kaveh reaches up to touch the side of his head in a strange motion, but otherwise there's no acknowledgement. They press on into the dark of night.

Something squelches beneath Al Haitham's boot.

It stops him short, pulls his attention like a magnet and as much as he wants to, he can't ignore it. He doesn't want to lose any more ground. But something won't let him move on. Al Haitham watches as red seeps into the golden sand, spills beyond the border of his bootprint until he slides his foot aside.

It's an ear.

It's a human ear, and there's a heavy earring attached, metallic gold, gems red and green, a familiar shape, a familiar shade-

Al Haitham opens his mouth to yell. Chokes. Swallows the lump in his throat as he quickly restarts his pace. Tries again.

"Hey!"

Another squelch under a hurried footstep. He doesn't stop to look. Al Haitham is pretty sure he knows what it is.

"Kaveh, hey!"

The path becomes littered, little slices and small pieces, fingertips and knuckles, Kaveh's arms once held casually behind his back now strewn along the sands. Every time Al Haitham extends his hand to him, reality warps and bends like the twisted image in a broken mirror, lines mismatched and edges jagged. Kaveh flits just beyond his grasp, fleeting fae, no longer able to hear him or to reach out to him. Al Haitham can only grit his teeth and follow.

His right foot marches forward. His left follows. His right again. His left suddenly doesn't follow, and Al Haitham is thrown off balance and pitches forward, swinging his arms outward to land on his palms and keep his face off the ground, because he's been in the desert enough times to know what a foot suddenly being stuck can mean.

Quicksand.

Al Haitham curses and swears in just about every language he knows as he tries to spread his weight as evenly as possible, stay afloat at the top of it because if he sinks, he knows he'll be done for, and shit, Kaveh.

His neck cranes uncomfortably in his search, Kaveh had only been a few feet in front of him, he can't be sunk much further, and he's in the desert much more often than Al Haitham anyway, he'll be familiar with what to do-

Kaveh stands in front of him, empty sleeves fluttering loose. Still just out of his grasp, still watching the stars. The quicksand is already up to his calves.

"Say, Al Haitham..." It's the first he's spoken this whole time. His voice resonates somewhere deeply nostalgic in Al Haitham's chest, produces a ripple that momentarily stuns his heart.

Kaveh is sinking.

Al Haitham stretches out on his belly as far as he's able, it's quickly up to his knees, Kaveh isn't even trying to redistribute his weight or pull himself out, it's at his thighs, Al Haitham sucks in a breath and yells for him, his hips, yells louder, his waist, Al Haitham's trembling fingertips can almost reach, his chest, Kaveh drops level with him, quicksand about his neck like a noose.

Kaveh's head tips back, back, impossibly far back, until it hangs, angle awkward, and he's looking right past Al Haitham with his tired smile and gouged, blinded sockets full of starlight.

"Do you believe in karma?"

The quicksand swallows him entirely and Al Haitham dives, shoves his arms deep and pushes off with the one foot he'd had left on safe ground, because he can't, he can't, it's not the same without Kaveh, not anymore, he needs him, no one else keeps him sharp, no one else challenges him like Kaveh, if he can just grab him, if he can just pull him back up-

Al Haitham thrashes, against the sands, against gravity, against the hardwood of his bedroom floor. Clumsily scrubs the back of his hand across his face to rub the grit of quicksand and sleep out of his eyes.

Sometimes he thinks he preferred it when the Akasha was still harvesting his dreams.

He pops his head out from under his weighted blanket and lays where he'd fallen out of bed for a moment, blinking blearily against the lamplight shining from his desk in the corner. Deep breaths. His consciousness shifts along the blurred line of nightmare and reality, crosses over the slow transition into wakeful awareness.

He's home, Kaveh is home. It's dark out. The house is dead silent.

He's just going to go check, he tells himself as he peels himself out of his sweat-soaked shirt and roots around for a replacement. He's already losing memories of his nightmare, the details spilling away from him like wet ink, but he knows he needs to see Kaveh. It'll feel better to do something, anything, than try to go straight back to sleep.

He's quiet when he slips out of his bedroom door, because they both keep late hours but their bedrooms are right next to each other, and Al Haitham will never hear the end of it if he wakes his roommate up.

Lights off, door shut. Nothing conclusive. He moves out to the main room.

Kaveh sits on one of those ridiculous sofas he'd ordered three of for some reason, back to him as he tucks a lock of hair behind his ear. A mostly-empty wine bottle stands tall on the table, next to the cobbled-together remains of an architectural model that's been picked and fussed over for four days straight now.

"Kaveh? What are you doing?"

This earns him an exaggerated startle, but Kaveh doesn't turn to look at him, preoccupied with whatever new sketch or blueprint he probably has in his hands. "Ohhh, nothing," he slurs cheerfully. "Just working. Just thinking."

Kaveh has always been the world's chattiest drinker. Al Haitham waits for the rest of it.

"Say, I think...I think I asked you this years ago, back then, but you never answered me." Al Haitham feels all the blood drain from his face in ominous familiarity, drip cold down the length of his spine. Kaveh sinks into the couch until he can tip his head over the back of it, looking up at him with a tired smile and exhausted eyes.

"Do you believe in karma?"

#genshin impact #haikaveh #al haitham #kaveh #kavehtham #these two have had me chewing concrete lately god #3.6 got me frothing at the mouth #something about al haitham trying to save kaveh from himself and his own guilt complex and self-sabotage wheeee my heart #and he's normally so self-assured but he fucked it up spectacularly the first go around- good job baby- #and now it's years later he's trying again but it's something he's barely chipping away at not to mention Kaveh not wanting his help lol #and so some of Al Haitham's nightmare is objective fact and some of it is his own subjective pov #Kaveh loses his arms and ears bc al haitham is frustrated that he won't hear him out or reach out for help #and he keeps his eyes up and eventually blinds himself bc al haitham thinks of him as too idealistic and blind to reality #and kaveh does all this to himself bc when you ask al haitham about his troubles he talks about people who cause trouble for themselves #kaveh pondering the concept of karma in relation to his bad luck and misery and guilt about his father's death in the quicksand *fans self* #al haitham starting to get just a little nervous that maybe he really he can't do anything about this #or that one day it'll be too little late ough. love when I can whump character by whumping the other. #two for one special buy one get one two birds stoned at once type of deal #i have a Vision about them and their stupid dumbass relationship dynamic that I need to yell about later but for now: this #written while listening to A Sadness Runs Through Him by The Hoosiers which hilariously was introduced to me as a pla Emmet song #'but here was a man mourning tomorrow; he tried to finally drown in his sorrow' #'oh he could not break surface tension; he looked in the wrong place for redemption' #'don't look at me with those eyes; I tried to unheave the ties; turn back the tide that drew him in' #'but he couldn't be saved' #'a sadness runs through him' #extremely kaveh and haikaveh song for me ough #my fics #gore #body horror #I mean it's pretty unrealistic but still just in case

[sudoscience]

So true, video game from 2003

#yeah yeah. it technically released in japan in 2002 but 1) december 2002 and 2) NA release was in 2003 #but if you want to be really technical about it this is actually a screenshot from the legacy collection released in 2023 #mmbn #mmbn3 #mega man battle network #megaman #videos game #video games #i remember playing this game in like 3rd or 4th grade #replaying it now on the legacy collection and... i don't remember any of this! #granted. it *has* been ~20 years but you'd think at least SOME of it would feel familiar #i mean. the music does. but i meant the plot #got recommended one of the songs on youtube and was overcome by such a powerful wave of nostalgia #that i had to immediately impulse buy the legacy collection #the only thing i DO remember about it is that i never beat it #got very close to the end but just couldn't make it past alpha #and then i guess i gave up on it for the next two decades or so :P

[quarterprioritymidnight]

Happy 10th Birthday, Pompeii (by the band Bastille)!

#mine #bastille #musicedit #bastilleedit #blogmusicdaily #popularcultures #usermusic #bandsdaily #i truly cannot tell whether this is ugly or not LOL #apparently nothing above 720p existed in 2013 so that is unfortunate :/ #i have such a love hate relationship with this song #i love that its let dance myth buy all they ugly jackets and keith haring merch he could ever want #i hate having to sing it every time someone asks what my favourite band is #anyway i hope this helped everyone learn one new pompeii fact today <3 #this is how i found out bastille has never had a number one single #but together we can change that

[mossiistars]

lifetime achievement award

#this was for a school project #we had to draw smthn based off of a song #and i did #lifetime achievement award #uhhh #tw gore ig #art #lemon demon #hello this is me niel cicerega #aka lemon demon #im on my side account because i got locked out of my main account #please give me your credit card information #so i can buy a new microphone and continue making music #mossiistars

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

I know UMG is garbage with the merch orders generally but they replied almost instantly to the two orders I just cancelled and refunded immediately and I'm very impressed right now.

(Now I'm trying to decide if I really do want to re-order them with combined shipping or if I should take this as a sign to be fiscally and environmentally responsible and not order additional variants after all lol)

#on the other hand that means my orders weren't even close to being processed #which means i wouldn't have been getting them anywhere close to release day anyway lol #to clarify: I usually just buy one vinyl with my favourite cover #and sometimes one CD to play in my car if it has the songs I want and I love the artwork #(e.g. I bought 1989tv on cd but i didn't get midnights because my favourite songs are on 3am which aren't even on any physical copies #so i just burned it instead lol) #but i love the packaging of ttpd so much! #trying to tell myself the trinkets don't matter and the photos will all be online soon enough #but this is the first time i've legit wanted all the variants #i think if i had to choose i would have gotten just the manuscript deluxe cd and the black dog vinyl #i have 20 hours to think about it lol

[edwardshundredyearoldspunk]

the only way to watch tv shows the way they were meant to be watched is through DVDs isn't it? I keep hearing of tv shows that netflix has made major editing/aspect ratio/music changes, once again cementing netflix as my archnemesis. yes I'm pedantic, it's my only talent

#I remember trying to watch tos on netflix once and #well first of all they had the og unaired pilot listed as the first episode which #kirk isn't even in that episode imagine how confusing that is for general audiences #it just heightens the barrier of entry because you would watch the first episode and then the second is kind of a completely different cast? #and then they also changed the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 #which is just? inconvievable to me??? #you basically end up with a bunch of shit cropped out #and I've heard of other shows where netflix didn't bother getting the rights to the music #so they just replaced the songs?? #as if the songs are just interchangeable and the creators don't put crazy amounts of thought into the song choices?? #and watching the (initial release) dvds is probably the only way you can guarantee you are getting the viewing experience as intended #(besides watching as they air obviously) #because streaming makes it so easy for shows to be altered without the viewer having any idea #and i guess that just doesn't sit right with me #so anyways i guess if you are able to then buy dvds of your favorite shows and movies because there's no guarantee they'll be there #and if they are there's no guarantee they'll be the version the creators intended for you to watch

[pasta-pardner]

electronic indiepop songs involving cowboys and horses 🐴

spotify

#pardner playlists #yehaw aesthetic #cowboy core #cowboy aesthetic #this playlist is mostly indiepop but theres also some bedroom pop and neofolk #tbqh it's basically a reject pile for all the (catchy-- very catchy) songs i cant put into my other cowboy playlists #because theyre too modern and/or electronic sounding to fit with 1800s settings #(ex: i desperately want to put the lyrics of 'cowboy hat' onto an rdr2 playlist-- #--but i cannot stomach the idea of associating y2k bedroom pop music with my grimy gruff outlaw blorbos) #'cowboy dreams' is a really fun cheery playlist ! i listen to it when im tidying up my house or doing laundry #its also smth i listen to when i go on morning walks bc its optimistic and energetic #im proud of how i handled the graphic design on this one ! #the glittery cowboy hat is a good visual representation of the sort of Vibes the music has. #its the audio equivalent of a plastic glittery cowboy hat that you can buy for $5 at party city. #its not so much about real cowboys as much as its about the idea of them. the campiness. the artifice. #these songs play around with the cultural icon of the cowboy as a costume #ex: ''the real clint eastwood / the real lee van cleef / ended up in a bar in hull / minus all of their teeth'' #if i had to connect this playlist to a western movie i'd probably link it to #zachariah (1971) #or something else similarly camp and absurd #anyways ! enough of my rambling. enjoy and lmk if you found this entertaining. #🤠 #pardner posts

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

lonan and harrison fanfic where all they do is watch movies & throw popcorn at each other

#my brain NEEDS THIS NOW #all of this is prompted by me seeing the ‘ppl who say why are you buying a physical copy just stream it need to jump into a hole’ post #<< paraphrasing I can’t remember what it said exactly lol #a couple days ago #AND SINCE THEN IVE HAD AN INSATIABLE NEED TO GO TO A THRIFT STORE AND #BUY A WHOLE BUNCH OF DVDs #anyway does anyone remember how I discovered that something loner & harrison have in common is a love for movies #WELLLLLLLL now that I need to write cute fluffy scenes of them actually being functional I need to figure out which #they are canonically into film noir BUT WHAT ELSE #last week I decided I wanna watch every single movie referenced in current joys songs (not an autisric choice at all) #so 80s & 90s here I gooooo #BUT RECOMMEND I NEED TO LIVE LIKE THEM #but also why is them having something in common so cute to me like are they not a COUPLE?????? #also I’m tired & been watching movies instead of writing because my brother left me his GIANT TV #BUT I CANT FIND ANY THAT ARE MY VIBE PROBABLY BECAUSE IM BAD AT LOOKING #AND QUEER MOVIE RECS PLS IM IN DESPERATE NEED OF GAY

[localravenclaw]

#today may be the day i impulse buy a new guitar #excuse my moment of conceit but i literally had to walk in the rain while listening to this song #that don't matter tho but the feels in this song just made me crave my old guitar #quasi-face reveal?? #this song is totally not about my delusional au again. definitely not. #but why does maneskin give me so much feels?!?! #catch me regressing to this song for the next 48hrs #do you ever just. crave an instrument?? no? just me? okay. #personal #Spotify

[seokwoosmole]

Pro tip for any fantasy still recovering from the reality of this whole sf8 situation: what you DONT want to do is turn on YouTube at 4am and watch their entire Kpop Nation Warsaw performance, followed up by the music show performances of the songs they sang, and finish up by watching the video where they get their first win.

Consequence: Bawling your eyes out over a bowl of Count Chocula

No, I don't speak from experience. Absolutely not...Just giving sound advice.

#imma be honest #watching/listening to scream was so easy #but any other song #OOF #Without fail every single time I was like #oh that's Rowoon's part :( #and this isn't a knock to the other members at all #taeyang & dawon covered most of his parts and they did it so well!! #sf9 is one of the few groups where each member is so special & talented & integral to the group #yet if members are missing the other members have no issue filling in the gap #like they make u FORGET there is a gap like if I've never heard of sf9 & saw them perform I wouldn't think they were incomplete at all #like idk why it makes me so emotional cuz I went thru scream era fine & saw the delight tour and was SO FINE #like during that concert was I thinking boo hoo this would be so much better with rowoon here? NO! #I SAW THE 6 MEMBERS IN FRONT OF ME & IT WAS THE MOST PERFECT EXPERIENCE & I HAD NO ONE ELSE IN MY MIND #but in the back of my head I was like NEXT TIME they'll be complete...but ig now I don't have that to cling to #was it a bad idea to put myself thru that? probably #but I WILL be streaming their fancon & binseong will be back & idc that they won't see me #but I will not be a sobbing mess crying over a member who's not there anymore when 2 members who've been gone for so long just came back #that sounds harsh but its the truth so I needed to warm up #anyway buy ur tickets to fandora!! #sf9 #youngbin #inseong #jaeyoon #dawon #rowoon #zuho #taeyang #hwiyoung #chani

[psikind]

hey so. childhood friend of mine commited suicide late july and his dad’s trying to fund the money for his funeral service - if people have the money to donate please do the service is in 3 days (august 5th) and he’s very close to the goal but otherwise it’d mean a lot if people spread the link around -> https://gofund.me/f04d9bf0

#gofundme #suicide #donations #idk what else I would tag this with but. yeah #sorry to the people that're gonna get jumpscared by a blocked tag I just felt liek this was important to share #he was like. the one irl friend I had consistently that never bullied me because we were both so different from everyone else #we fell out of touch but I always talk about him fondly and then my mom told me this morning and just. god #I'm really glad I'm gonna have a lot of support and love this month I already know that but what a way to start it huh. #I hope everyone's doing okay. if you're in a hard place right now take this as a sign to do something nice for yourself #talk to a friend go buy some chocolate listen to your favorite song anything #and if it feels like nothing's making you happy #please trust me when I say it will some day #I know everyone says that I know but I've been there I've been through some horrible fucking shit #like anime anti-hero/rival/love interest-to-die levels of trauma #trust me. trust. me. #it will get better. wake up another day. this too shall pass #sorry for the ramble I just feel Very Strongly about this

[black-and-yellow]

I’ve Got Your Number

New tablet, new Loudspeaker.

#recently remembered Passion Pit exist so that's your problem now #I don't know if anyone actually checks out the songs I link in my headings so it could very well not be anyone's problem at all #bnha #mha #present mic #bnha au #Loudspeaker au #hizashi yamada #last night I dreamt there was a shop called What Pigs Buy (it was pig themed for some reason it was pretty cute) #and it was like a social commentary on buying products marketed as being for a specific race #I'm not sure whether like deodorant for specific races of people exists in real life I'm 99 percent sure it doesn't #but in my dream it did and this shop had something to say about it #so all the products were labelled normally but with 'for pigs' at the end #cornflakes for pigs. bar soap for pigs. courgette for pigs #I enjoyed the theming #they were also selling Barbie dolls for £1 #not for pigs or anything just normal Barbies #the only explanation I have for this is that my brain was trying to think of the expression 'when pigs fly' and got dreadfully confused #but if there's a pig-themed shop anywhere I'd like to go and visit it #sorry for telling you all about my dreams but I can't suffer alone I have to make it everyone's problem