#someone more talented than me should use this song to make something 🥲

[incidentale]

friend who hasn't watched suburra but has been subjected to my endless wailing and exposed to the crucial scenes to suffer with me, just decided to take her revenge and showed me stupidi ragazzi by achille lauro, saying she couldn't stop thinking about spadino and aureliano when it came up. I'm compromised now.

i mean

I MEAN

I MEAN

#someone more talented than me should use this song to make something 🥲 #did i manage to hack the spotify link and it now shows the full song instead of just the preview??? i spent a lot of time trying #suburra #suburræterna #~ #lyrics #achille lauro #alberto anacleti #spadino anacleti #aureliano adami #borghi limited edition #Spotify

[spaceofentropy]

tag game - stranger things edition

The lovely @dragonflylady77 and @harringrovest tagged me so here I am!

ride or die ship (your otp): Harringrove

most annoying ship: it's a tie between Steve/Nancy (those two don't work together in canon, they are like soap and grease, why even try to put them together AGAIN?!) and Byler (because Will deserves way better than Mike Wheeler, and he should realize it soon for his own good! T^T)

second favourite ship: Metalsandwich. There's something so fun in the ways those three interact and interconnect...

favourite platonic relationship: Stobin all the way!

underrated ship: Mungrove

overrated ship: Byler (again, free Will Byers 2023!)

one thing i would change in canon: ONE?! I get only ONE and I even have to choose which one?! How can I decide?! [Sadie Doyle voice] The utter inconsistency in how the UD works! No, Troy the little bully almost killing a kid and getting away scot free! No! El needing to be re-traumatized to get her powers back! No! Karen Wheeler noncing around unpunished! No! Eddie's stupid death! No! The rest of the party being shitty friends to Lucas again and again and him just going along with it in the end like it's no big deal! No! Nobody actually trying to pull the mindflayer out of Billy! No, just Billy's death in general!

something canon did right: quoting @harringrovest's answer, lifeguard!Billy. And Steve in that silly silly sailor outfit. Season 3 was a weird beast, but at least it gave us those two things!

a thing i'm proud of creating for the fandom PLEASE BRAG ABOUT YOURSELF I WANT TO SEE/READ YOUR ART: my metalsandwich long fic Of soulmates and colors and also my oneshots Come close and Amok which were banged out in a couple of hours each but I love a lot. And also What doesn't kill you makes you a monster, because writing demobat!Steve Harrington was fun as fuck! Yeah, basically I'm proud of each fic I published, thank you. And I'm also very proud of the shark glasses that led to THIS! beautiful, perfect edit by @imsodishy 🥲❤️

a character who is perfect to me (wouldn't change a thing): Billy Hargrove

the character i relate to the most and why: Billy Hargrove, because... well, personal reasons.

character i hate the most and why: Dr. Martin fucking Brenner, because he kidnapped kids, manipulated and tortured them, tortured El's mom until her mind broke, and the narrative wants us to... not hate him, not really, because after all he was right? He re-tortures and re-traumatizes El but it's for the greater good? Well, fuck that shit, fuck the Duffers and their whole writers' room, and fuck Brenner with a rusty pipe!

something i've learned from the fandom: as with anywhere else, there are lovely talented people in fandom that make great stuff, and there are also not great people (looking at you, assholes who wish harm on others because they like one character you dislike!), so the block button is your best friend. Also, squeeing in happiness at good art and fics is even sweeter when done in group! ❤️

three tags i seek out on ao3: I don't really have an answer, since I don't usually look for specific stuff; I more go with the flow or jump on fics that someone recommended/mentioned that sound interesting.

song i strongly associate with my otp/favourite character: Desire by Meg Myers is so Harringrove it hurts; and while Wolf by Yeah Yeah Yeahs is pure "Billy Hargrove after basking in Steve's love a little too long", Like You Better Dead is my favourite Billy-coded song, because, yeah, he can be as angry as he wants to be, just watch him burn!

I should tag someone, so... uh... argh! Hoping you've not been tagged, and begging preemptively pardon just in case... @salthat @destroya2005 @ariesbilly @suometar and anyone who sees this and wants to do it! :P

#tag game #stranger things #tw fandom bullshit #just in passing but it's there #very important post #me

[chickawah23]

Hello! You're my favorite kaylor&gaylor blog. And I have to ask: ​in your opinion what's the most likely reason she had to give toe a grammy??? I thought she really valued grammy but this sleight of hand....😭😭

Thank you for those kind words anon! 🥲💜🎄

Your question is one many of us in this corner of the interweb have wondered. I have two rambly theories that intersect.

Theory 1: this was part of an artist-wide plan to expose the hole in the voting process. I feel like we have watched for years (decades even) as the recording academy snubbed various artists. We also saw a huge shift in the industry over fair compensation and recognition for all those who worked on an album. I think Taylor agreed to be part of a plan to expose the recording academy’s flawed system. And choosing someone like her to do it when she has benefitted so much from that award show is smart pull. It’s one of the reasons why I think Taylor sharing the Beyoncé floral arrangement was something more than what it was. Beyoncé stopped supporting the grammys years ago but she came literally just for her and Meg’s award then left. Whatever is going on behind the scenes I think it was major artists and top producers planning to taint the public’s view of the award show more explicitly.

Theory 2: now Taylor doesn’t do anything career-wise just because someone asked. She and her team work hard to make sure whatever comes of it it is a mutually beneficial arrangement. I think she saw crediting JA as a pr move for solidifying her fake relationship as well as a way to show how easy it is to credit people who don’t deserve it so they can get a trophy. But mostly it legitimizes a relationship when she can’t pap walk during a pandemic. There was also probably pressure from JA’s team who realized that this arrangement wasn’t benefitting him either. For the record JA still isn’t credited on the copyright. So most of what Taylor did feels like it was for public perception rather than reality.

These theories intersect in a weird way because from the outside looking in all taylor did was give people like scootscoot the right to throw their name on an artist (they basically own)’s song credits when they did absolutely nothing artistically to deserve it so they can get a trophy and maybe even cut into the royalty distribution. This to me runs completely counter to her position during her billboard woman of the decade speech. In that speech and in many discussions she has said private equity is killing artists and we need to find a way to credit creators fairly. Because without artists there is no money for the private equity folks to take. But maybe it is part of a long game to show that it’s never been about art or talent it’s about who has enough money and power to get the recording academy to ignore everything else. The grammys is an award show. Most of it is about ensuring viewership. And many major artists don’t go unless they are guaranteed a win because they know the Grammy’s use their appearance to boost viewership from their fandoms. It’s a weird power dynamic. Maybe this is all just a way to open the public’s eyes so they realize they have the power to change this kind of stuff. As the consumer you are what all these rich people need in order to stay rich.

This is very rambly because I really don’t know. All I know is that her reason for doing it really messed up my entire view of her pr and the value of her art to her. She gave it away to a non-artist like it meant nothing to her. Maybe folklore and evermore really meant nothing to her. Maybe it was just a fun little pastime she didn’t care to lose. Idk. But for someone like me who can laugh at all the pr because I love the art and the artist, it made this tough.

Idk what is happening behind the scenes but we saw taylor swift and friend’s nominations for Olivia Rodrigo’s song removed after it was announced. So it definitely feels like it’s still a work in progress. Maybe they should cancel the show all together. Lol Idk.

But yeah that’s what I think. Sorry this is so long. I hope it makes some sense lol

#anons #they are called the scammies for a reason #scammies