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onereallygoodlambonastick · 4 years

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1, 2, 7, 8, 9 and 10 please

finally some good fucking food, thanks anon;

1. What themes would you like to write about that you feel don’t get explored very often?

Generally speaking, I think the in-betweens, the casual time-skips, and the quick intermissions are the things that get glossed over the most. The “missing scenes”, if you will--the hours after a squabble between a team, the morning before the battle, the months where a child sat idle, the dreams that turned into prophecy.

I also think the theme of re-connection is not often explored--its always “love on first sight” kind of deal, but what about the enduring kind of love, the kind that stays like an ache in your bones? the one you remember and miss? the one you long for like a phantom limb?

2. What are some common elements of stories you are tired of seeing? What would you avoid writing about?

This varies wildly between fandoms, but probably the thing they all have in common is: mindless smut. Just straight up down and dirty fucking, with no motive or prompting or characterization. Just the author smashing two guys (usually) at the hips and being done with it.

That’s fine; we all love to see it. It’s just so dull sometimes.

I need some intricacy, some intimacy, some ache, some angst, some destructive lines and some ruthless gut-punches, you know? Not a guy coming for the fifth time.

For the AFTG fandom: I’m tired of seeing people being fine with the way Sakavic treated her characters and coddling Neil & Andrew in the face of it. I don’t hate Andreil, I feel like I should say, but so much of it relies on one or the other sticking people with their knives or fists and that’s such a toxic love, a misconception of what a “good” relationship should be. Now, there are some brilliant fics I’ve read that are just gorgeous with the concept of Andreil--that was what I wished Sakavic had the ability to achieve in her series, while giving dignity to Kevin Day and the rest of the characters that were there and LIVED despite the romance.

So, obviously, I would avoid doing any of the above I just mentioned, and pray that you will too. Just let these ppl breathe, alright?

For the AoT fandom (yeah i dabbled cuz the manga is just. depressing man): same issue---too much fucking, not enough talking and emoting. Why are there so many goddamned high school AUs? My god. I need a fic that gets down and dirty with the shit going down in the manga and take me through it so I can stand to continue. What about the grief and mourning and the betrayal of it all? Can I get me some of that? Lord, don’t go near the Levi/Eren tag. Y’all just don’t even knock it. Go to Levi/Erwin or something. Or just don’t. Don’t.

For the BNHA fandom (lol. a staple): actually, there’s quite a bit of diversity here so I geniunely can’t complain about much. The sheer magnitude of the English-speaking fandom helps on that end, I suppose. I do think there should be more fics looking at the Shit n Grit of Hero’s society tho, Stain-style. The people the heroes couldn’t save or didn’t want to, the forgotten bodies and the cooling hands, the victims that never got closure, the heroes who got maimed and multilated and couldn’t get back on their feet once the limelight left em. Those sorts of things. I think the fact we see thru the rosy-eyed worldviews of a bunch of green-eared kids deludes people to the fact that People Are Fucking Bad and Disgusting almost all the time. So exploring that, I think, is far more worthwhile.

But I will also take injury aftermath. I’m not a monster.

For the KNY fandom: EYYY we talk about grief and suffering a lot which if you haven’t noticed, is kind of my Jam! Actually, this fandom prob hits a lot of my sweet spots: role reversals, grief/mourning aftermath, SabiGiyuu, Sabito Lives, the usual! Can’t really say much abt this. Except, there’s a lot of Demon Sex and Rape and, uh. Guys? Can we go back for a hot sec?

For the Code Geass fandom (*rubs hands in glee*): SO this is the fandom I’m most active in aside from AFTG at this precise moment. It’s pretty dead, tbh. My favorite two fics in the AO3 archive was published in 2014 and the author hasn’t written for my fav pairing (Suzaku/Lelouch) since. So. There’s that. There’s also a lot of fucking here! And gross cishet dynamics, but, uh, whatever. I think the Emperor Lelouch/Knight of Zero Suzaku has been overused and abused for rough sex and just general Angst-ing it out. I wanna see how their dynamic plays out like that for sure, but what about when they still had secrets between them a mile wide and had to tell each other half-lies and half-truths? How about them coping with the fact of their betrayals and the death of their loved ones at the hands of each other? Where’s the hardcore shit?

Think this fandom doesn’t want to dig their fingers in too deep. Shame.

Another thing: CC is not an immortal seductress. My god give her pizza and some fucking DEPTH. She’s a walking encyclopedia, not some mysterious slut machine! Get your stereotypes and fetishes outta here!

Final thing: TALK ABOUT THE SHIT SUZAKU HAS BEEN THROUGH! He’s not just Lelouch’s boytoy or knight! Stop that! Examine his abuse, his time with the military, his span as a pawn! Look at his motivations and his internalized disgust for himself as a Japanese that was ingrained in him by an oppressive fucking system! Why does he bow? Why is he silent? Speak for him!

7. Favorite description in your wip? (If asked more than once, respond with a new piece each time)

Suzaku watched him watch the discoloring, and Suzaku watched the stillness change into the bare bones of animosity. It was almost kind, the way Lelouch turned his face away and shifted his grip to snatch up the antiseptic.

Neither of them spoke as sharp hands dabbed at the slightly split skin and wet bruising. It stung, but only a little. Long minutes passed like this, Lelouch exchanging swabs for cloths, Suzaku sitting still and watching him work.

Neither of them mentioned the scatter of old deadened skin, puckered across Suzaku’s build like a migration of mutilated fish.

8. Favorite dialogue in your wip? (If asked more than once, respond with a new piece each time)

"You know I can't be seen with you two."

"And I just warned you to not be a coward." Lelouch's eyes gleamed. Again, the challenge was there, and like a fool only Lellouch could make of him, Suzaku took it, open-mouthed and open-palmed.

"Fine," Suzaku said, not knowing what he'd promised himself to: a dinner or a duel. Even though the last time Lelouch picked up a sword it was wooden and he was tiny and cute and clumsy. But Lelouch didn’t need blades to cut. "I'll be there. Does Nunnally still enjoy a good scone?"

"Bring the blueberry ones," Lelouch said, extending the comment like a plank between them, and leapt off the wall, into the white sun. "One for the bastardly son and one for the disowned daughter."

Suzaku followed him out into the blaze of heat, feeling the crude perch of his laughter at the base of his throat. He was so fucking dramatic. "Which one of us do you mean?"

9. What scene was the hardest to write for you and why?

From the same wip fic from above--I’m stuck on the “light” kind-of crackish scene where Suzaku is literally just exasperated with Rivalz and his porn mags. Like I just can’t write it. It’s too.....friendly. And “nice”.

10. What scene was the most fun to write for you and why?

Out of the same fic as above: probably the scene from #8. It was fun to see how coy and rough-mouthed Suzaku could get once he’s together with Lelouch. Just to see them fool around with each other whilst keeping secrets but also somehow be honest was very satisfying and interesting to write out. They are just boys, there. Just boys. In love.

#aftg #all for the game #code geass #suzalulu #bnha #aot #kny #my writing #my fic #soy replies #asks

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m-u-n-c-h-y · 4 years

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RDR2 Eliza Hot Take

I decided to put in my personal ramblings/theories/headcanons here for Red Dead because it’s easier to organize them here for myself, but there might be a few people that would like to read them.

Anyway...

So recently while perusing thru the RDR2 tags, I saw a particular hot take about Eliza (Arthur’s old... well baby-momma for lack of a better term) that I just didn’t jive with very well.

The post described Eliza as this all loving perfect partner for Arthur (and a better one than Mary) because she knew about the gang and what he did and had done and still let him do all of that, and... yada yada, etc.

Now I’m not one to dislodge personal interpretations about other people’s headcanons and theories, especially about characters as vague as Eliza. But, there’s a limit to how much you can do to a character without making them, and excuse the old terminology, a Possession Sue. There’s also the character bashing, which, quite frankly, is unnecessary. Because here’s the underlying thing I have a problem with in regards to that particular take on Eliza:

I don’t think Eliza romantically loved Arthur. Like... at all.

I think the two of them, as stated by canon sources, became good friends after Isaac was conceived. We know that, yes, she knew about Arthur’s less than honorable background and where his loyalties lied, but she didn’t care, but I think she didn’t care as long as he kept it away from her an Isaac. But I don’t think she loved him, and I’m even more unclear if Arthur romantically loved her either. I think Eliza was just a random fling that ended up turning into something else later on when Arthur discovered she was pregnant.

Why do I think this? Well, Lenny’s mission, A Quiet Night, might actually clue us in:

Now as far as theories go, I think Arthur wanted to marry Eliza out of obligation, and not this isn’t meant to be taken negatively. I think he genuinely cared about her, but felt guilty over the fact that he got a 19 year old waitress pregnant and now had to practically be a single mother, living on her own. He wanted to do right by Eliza and Isaac.

But I think Eliza denied that from him. Not out of hatred/revenge/pettiness/etc, but because she didn’t love him like that, and that Arthur didn’t really love her like that either. That Arthur’s guilt and sense of obligation was not something to build a marriage on.

Now, we can say that she refused him because she didn’t want Arthur feeling split over the gang and her, and she would have obviously known where his loyalties lied, they were good friends after all. And that’s not a bad headcanon by any stretch of the word. But I also think his loyalties towards Dutch and the gang became a contention that probably strained whatever chances they may have had at a romantic relationship. I do think that Eliza did have a similar viewpoint as Mary, in the sense that she would have prefered Arthur to get out of the gang, that she didn’t want anything to do with the otherside of Arthur’s life. And she certainly didn’t want it around her son. But unlike Mary, Eliza knew that it was a losing argument no matter what Arthur said, because if nothing else, Arthur’s loyalties would always go back to Dutch.

So, she just took his feelings of guilt and obligation and threw them out the door before they even had a chance to affect Arthur. She closed that metaphorical door that had all this potential pain and suffering behind it and slammed it in Arthur’s face. Because I do believe Eliza cared about Arthur enough to know that them marrying wasn’t gonna solve any of their problems, nor was it going to make them a happy, loving couple.

They weren’t even that to begin with.

But I don’t think Arthur really understood that. Which is probably why, later, those feelings would only intensify when he came across two wooden crosses in front of Eliza’s house.

#rdr2 #red dead redemption #red dead redemption 2 #arthur morgan #RDR2 Eliza #Isaac Morgan #Headcanon #fan theory #ramblings #fandom ramblings #rdr2 headcanons #got the munchy's?

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pinkykitten · 5 years

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Say yes

Harry Potter

Young! Remus Lupin x potter! female reader

Warning: none

Specifics: romance, angst, fluff, potter reader, one-shot

People: remus lupin, james potter

Words: 1,164

Requested: By anon Helloo hun! So, I am in love with ur blog, and I've been wondering if you could right 10 and 19 from the angst prompt list with young!remus x potter!reader, like they are engaged and then he says he changed his mind but it's because of his furry little problem, and the reader knows but he won't admit it, it ends in fluff and all that lol. Anyways, I understand if ur not comfortable with that, but thanks anyways! Keep going with the good work!!;)))

Prompts:

10 - “change in mind or change in heart?”

19 - “don’t say that.”

Authors Note: im sorry i haven’t been posting for a while my peeps its just ive had a lot on my plate atm and im just trying to sort thru that stuff now. but i will keep trying to write all the requests its just you guys pls be patient with me i rlly do appreciate u guys and ur kindness thank you. hope you guys enjoy this!

It was always killing him. That feeling inside where he had to make a decision. Let you suffer and give in to the temptations and selfish deeds of your love or take that all away so you wouldn’t have to endure the painful life of being with Remus. It made him heartbroken to have to think of calling the marriage off. All he wanted in life was to be with you for the rest of his life.

He would lie awake at night, fighting with himself as he stared at your sleeping form. His heart rate quickened as he would glance at your chest, rising up slowly and then down. The way you mumbled in your sleep and clutched onto nothing. He adored the way your eyelashes kissed your cheeks a thing he too would like to do. He had to leave, but he didn’t want to. Yes, no. This was an ongoing thing day and night until he finally made the decision.

You would catch yourself day dreaming about paradise with Remus as you looked at the ring Remus got you. The day was magical and the thought of declaring your love for one another sent you over the moon. You would call him yours one day.

You gave a sigh as you looked at the delicate ring once more. “Oh Remus, what am I to do with you?”

Remus was sitting in his favorite chair reading a book. The room fell silent with no answer. As you looked at him you saw that he was tremendously focused in whatever he was reading, he was truly captured.

“Love...love...Remus!”

Remus shook startled and blushed shyly, “yes darling?”

You chuckled lightly at his actions and smiled, “I was just saying how beautiful this ring is. It really is. Its so perfect, so dainty. Thank you.”

Remus felt bad. He felt guilty that he would have to drop the terrible news on you, especially that you were so excited for something like this. Remus stood up, closing his book and brushing his trousers. “Love?”

“Yes?”

He rubbed his hands and bit his lip, “I have to tell you something.” You were sitting as he motioned over to you. You felt odd and could sense something was wrong. You knitted your brows, worried. “Remus, dear, is there something wrong?”

Remus so badly wanted to tell you, “yes there is something wrong! With me!” but he didn’t have the courage. He didn’t have the guts to tell you that he was insecure and worried you wouldn’t really want to spend the rest of your life with him because of his issues with being a werewolf.

“Yes y/n...I regretfully hate to tell you this but we cannot get married.” He uttered the treacherous words as he took a hold of your hands.

You were shocked, thinking you heard wrong. You stood up suddenly and look confused, “what? Remus, why not?”

Remus didn’t think of an excuse or anything. “Um because I’m not ready to marry you y/n.”

Tears were starting to appear in your e/c eyes, “No, please, don’t say that. Did my brother and his dumb friends put you up to this. If so its not funny!”

Remus gulped and tried with all his might to hold back more tears, “Its true y/n. We cannot get married. We cannot be together no longer. I don’t...I don’t love you anymore.”

You had to take a seat and fell down on the couch. Your heart split into two, but your mind was racing with a million thoughts. “I , I don’t know what to say. I thought you loved me, I thought you wanted to get married. We’ve been through so much together! Even when you hated yourself I was there for you, always have! Why would you say this?”

Remus tried to hold back the tears. Biting his lips to stop them from quivering. He clenched his fists, trying to fight the black hollow feeling in his chest. All he wanted was to be with you, to hold you, to love you from now to forever. “I just...can’t y/n. I can’t.”

You were feeling so many emotions. You shook your head and just gave him up. Your voice was rough and shallow, almost a whisper. “You need to decide Remus do you want to change in mind or change your heart?”

You were about to leave him a when Remus blurted out, “wait!”

“What Remus? What more can you say? What else do you want to tell me to break my heart more?”

Remus finally let the tears come out and he sat in his chair, pulling his locks and hating himself. He sobbed quietly, softly almost to himself. You just looked at him, irate but then realizing what the issue was.

“The problem isn’t me...is it?”

Remus shook his head as he bit his lips.

You then realized it, he was trying to brake the engagement off because he was insecure. He hated himself more than anything.

“Its because you are different.”

Remus didn’t want you to know this. He thought it would make him seem weak and you would hate him more. He shot up and looked all over your face, “no love its not what you think, its just-” He was a loss for words.

You motioned to him and cupped his face, “I know you Remus, but you need to tell me. You need to open up to me, tell me the truth.”

It took Remus a little while and then he finally gave in, “I hate myself y/n. I hate what I am and I’m scared about frightening you or even worse hurting you. I can’t let that happen. You need to stay far away from me.”

You kissed him harshly, closing you eyes, feeling your eyelashes meet your cheeks. Your warm hands squished his cheeks to get him closer to you. Your tongue touched his for a moment. You felt complete and utter love for him. You didn’t care what he was, all you felt in that moment, all along was love.

“I don’t care what you are Remus I could never hate you. I don’t mind that you are a werewolf. To me you are special and important. There of course will be trials along the way but together,” you laced your fingers with his. “We can do it. I just know it.”

Remus whispered, full of love for you as he rested his forehead against yours. “I’m scared love.”

“Its okay darling, we’ll go through it. We’ll make it.”

Remus kissed you again, sweetly. You tasting cinnamon twists danish on his tongue from breakfast.

“I love you so much y/n. Please forgive me for ever making you cry like that.”

“I do, but you gotta make it up to me.”

Remus got on his knees and grasped your hand in his, “my sweetheart, will you do me the honor of being my wife?”

You chuckled ans grinned, “I would love to...husband.”

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dealingdreams · 4 years

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Okay TROS thoughts...here we go. I’m putting them all below the cut in case somehow you’ve avoided spoilers

so general thoughts...i didnt hate it nearly as much as i thought i would so thats pleasant but im gonna break it down more

things i liked:

Adam Driver. just Adam. Fucking. Driver my dudes. This is like a backhanded compliment because JJ is so fucking lucky Adam was cast because the emotional depth of the film rested literally all on his shoulders for me. I only felt the weight if he was acting in a scene.

I’ll admit im biased but I did adore the interaction between Finn and Poe. Their bickering amused me and the tenderness between them was wonderful...I think Oscar played Poe a bit jealous as well which i liked.

the Reylo scenes to me where beautiful. Ben never lied to her, she tried to deny it but she knew he never did. I loved that he was kinda guiding her, protecting her, loving her, and antagonizing her all at once. I loved how soft their kiss was, their smiles are literally the light of my life. Rey’s face when she healed him. Ben just staring at her as she tells him she did want to take his hand...just chef’s kiss

I loved the saber fights. Ben’s fight at the beginning was hot as fuck...and his fight as newly redeemed Ben Solo was even hotter somehow.

I enjoyed the fight scenes between ben and rey! how often ben just let her walk away, and despite that one scene which i will mention below...i like i even tho rey was rather aggressive idk...it didnt really feel like she was trying to hurt him much either? i just think they had a lot of chances to kill each other and didnt take it...so i like that

i knew she was looking at ben in that clip i knew it...she only makes that soft face at him

I always enjoy stupid ass C3PO jokes for some dumbass reason

Han and Ben’s scene was heartbreaking and beautiful. Again tho JJ is fucking lucky to cast Adam cause recycling dialogue from TFA wouldnt have worked at all had Adam not been so fucking amazing

the save chewie hall blaster scene was fun

i liked how fucking dramatic children ben and rey were with that damn ship lol...no im gonna force pull it...no im gonna...what dorks

while i didnt like the entire way the force bond was used i did enjoy seeing it still strong and growing

confirming canon soulmate reylo was a highlight

ben’s hair looked bomb

finn’s outfit was cool

Jannah was beautiful (please correct me if i misspell her name)

dark rey was glorious tho

that new little droid is literally me so i adore it

that sith cave thing was really fucking cool looking

the visuals of the film were most of the time stunning

sooooo...now to what i didn’t like:

I think this first one is the most obvious for those who know me but...Ben’s death just feels so utterly useless to me. especially when they gave him a metaphorical death earlier in the film. i feel extremely hurt and betrayed. Disney has gone out of their way to make us sympathize with Ben Solo. They’ve revealed more and more of his past...how alone he was, the abuse he suffered from snoke and palpatine. just fuck...they just kill him...the moment he realizes he’s free and loved they end his life....literally WHAT THE FUCK. it’s a chicken shit way out of a redemption arc honestly. Not letting u just breath after his death was also so horrible. We barely got to see Rey mourn, we got a split second of it then it jumped to another scene...another second of her looking sadly at her sabor to have the moment interrupted

tag on to above but...they didnt have him as a force ghost cause Disney is intentionally keeping where he is ambiguous so they can sell more shit which pisses me off so much

thats not how the force works

there couldnt have been that many sith could there??? cause like there can only be 2 at one time....fucking rule of 2 so how the hell were there that many

palps being like...see i actually want you to kill me...is ridiculous

rey palpatine is the most idiotic thing i have ever heard. Rey being a no one from no where was such an amazing thing. Just anyone can be strong in the force...you dont need royal blood to make you worth something....then they just retcon that??? the fuck I MEAN THE FUCK.

Finn does nothing but worry about Rey the whole film. I know folks dont like his storyline in TLJ and while i understand that and do think it could have been written better i still adore it because Finn grew. He grew from just caring about a small group of people to caring about an idea to caring about something bigger than him. I didnt see any growth in his character in this film. His heroics were beautiful to see and I enjoyed seeing his heart but that was John’s acting more than the writing it think.

sidelining rose was fucking disgusting

the trio felt forced to me

the leia scenes didnt work for me honestly and they mostly just made me sad

bringing in lando now felt weird

ive wanted force sensitive finn for a while but didnt feel right

why the fuck have finn want to tell rey something but never do...ugh i hate storytelling like that

they never explained how palps is back...he just is

rey stabbing ben felt odd to me. i loved the moment when she healed him, and i know technically her anger and darkside was coming out and she acted on instinct...nevermind that even before leia called out to him ben coudnt follow thru with the killing blow.

....i’m sure i’ll think of more as i get angrier

anyways over all...id be lying if moments didnt make me laugh or smile...if i didn’t feel a sense of nostalgia and enjoyment for 80% of this movie. The thing is that even with so much of it being enjoyable to me it still felt void. An action movie, with new characters, a confusing plot and very minimal emotional depth.

The emotion hinged soooo much on Adam or me. The biggest reason for that aside from that fact that Ben Solo is one of my all time favorite characters, is that the things Rey is dealing with in the film are directly related to her being a palpatine...and i HATE THAT. Like straight up wanna fling it into the sun.

Rey never needed to be related to a force royal bloodline. She should have been allowed to remain strong because she was just strong. Kylo’s equal in every way, not because she was the granddaughter of a sith which btw you can’t inherit force powers. Retconing something so touching and unique from TLJ was just...fucking idiotic. All to please the loud but small misogynistic fandom that thought a woman couldnt be that strong on her own so she must be related to someone

The biggest thing....tho is killing Ben. it felt so unnecessary and just...i feel so betrayed. The interviews leading up to the film got my hopes up that i was worried for nothing. I always thought they’d kill him, because cinema seems to not know what to do with characters has tragic as him without just killing him in the end. we already got a redemption = death plotline in this franchise...why couldnt we get a redemption = life instead??? My friend who doesnt even like sw that much...tros was actually the 2nd sw fim she’s ever seen...thought it was unnecessary as well and agrees with me a lot about my feelings despite not having the same intense emotional attachment to him as me. She for a moment thought they’d be together at the end but nope. Its just...pointless to me now, the sacrifices han, luke, and leia made to reach Ben are for nothing. Their deaths...pointless...Ben means so fucking much to me. I’ve never felt such an intense emotional bond with a character before so im just hurting so fucking much right now.

Rey taking the name Skywalker isnt hopeful or cute its a slap in the face honestly...and it’s just weird!

The last Skywalker died loved and held by the woman he loved and that is beautiful to me. He died happy and a hero thats a balm at least...but to not let him be the one to kill palpatine...after everything EVERYTHING he put him and his family thru was another just fuck...i wanted justice for him and he just got thrown away

Ultimately...Ben and Rey are soulmates and their force bond was severed. Palpatine didnt take that from them because he couldnt have...again not how the force works....but JJ used that bond to be a battery???? the fuck...but ultimately hes forcing Rey to live the rest of her days with a gaping wound in her soul. a wound unable to be filled and will be with her for the rest of her life...thats so fucking tragic to me. you give rey someone who is her equal, who understands her, and you take him from her and force her to be alone for the rest of her life?? and we are supposed to not see that as a tragedy? Her being fineishness at the end of the film seemed like direction from either the writing or in the moment, but just further proves he didnt bother to even understand the lore he was using. Force bonds were considered i quess legends in the current SW canon but Rian brought it back...so it’s back. and well

"A bond between two living beings is not something easily broken. It is not a choice… it is like breaking a feeling. Like turning away from the Force. To break a bond, your feelings would have to change, or one of you would have to die—but even then, the bond wouldn't go away, it would simply… it would simply be empty, a wound."―Master Zez-Kai Ell[src]

and .... the only way to break it was to turn away from the Force, as Surik did on Malachor V. So basically it all came down to creating a wound in the Force”

sooo yeah...im pissed i’d give this movie a 1 1/2 out of 5

thank you for those who have read my rantings! I hope at least some of this made sense

#tros spoilers #ben solo #kylo ren #reylo #musing

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jindongdongie · 6 years

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I was tagged to do this about me tag by @jungnoir 50 years ago here goes nothing

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Mama, Jinju, JJ, etc

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Libra~

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October 16th! #OctoberBabies

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Bruh ru talking about kpop groups? if so scroll thru my blog.

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Pempe- Sean Tizzle (PLS LISTEN OMG)

Last movie I watched

Uuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhm Last movie i watched was on the plane coming back from Korea and it was fabricated city<3 (IF ANYONE HAS ANY LINKS PLS LINK ME BC YA GIRL NEEDS TO FINISH WATCHING IT)

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Let’s eat 3!!!

When did I create my blog

January 16th, 2016<3 ( i think, lol)

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WELL

I’m splitting this blog into two, but for now i post writngs and drabbles occasionally, while also posting rants, kpop ish, songs, just kinda everything.

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Active

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No, sadly. I’m inactive and busy and so i suffer TT

Why did I choose my URL

Jinju = my Korean name + Dong = a nickname for donghyuk + Dongie = a nickname I call Donghyuk = Jindongdongie

(Some extra explainations)

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one and a sheeet

Dream job

building millionaires their dream homes (i’m also interested in designing yachts)

Dream trip

Japan, Morocco and Hawaii

Favorite Food

Liberian-Korean-mexican-jamaican- I like too much food.

Nationality

american (unfortunately) (placing another unfortunately here)

Favorite song now

gosh that’s kinda hard i’m listening to all kinds of music rn..

Rmvnt- Ghana boyz <3

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raggywaltz1954 · 6 years

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It’s another soggy grey day here in north Alabama, and as such, out comes the reflective music. Here’s a record I found during my cross-country tour this summer. To the music!

The Music

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The Tune: “Festive Minor”

Recorded: 15 January, 1959 in New York City

Personnel:

Gerry Mulligan- Baritone Sax

Art Farmer- Trumpet

Bill Crow- Bass

Dave Bailey- Drums

The music on this album is near-perfect. Continuing his fruitful explorations in the piano-less quartet format, the music is clean, paired-back, and all-business, representing some of the better ‘cool’-toned jazz being made in the 1950’s. Gerry Mulligan was always a reliable swinger, and his full-bodied bari sax perfectly fills in the cracks in the music, providing a harmonic foundation here, a lyrical solo there. Art Farmer’s beautifully warm, malted trumpet serves as a wonderful foil to Mulligan’s baritone sax. Art Farmer is one of the only examples of breathy trumpet I can think of, quite a difficult thing to accomplish on a brass instrument. Bill Crow, former bassist with Marian McPartland’s trio, flourishes in the spare arrangements and instrumentation. His bass lines are impeccable, swinging, and melodic. In the drum chair is long-time Mulligan collaborator Dave Bailey. Half of the tracks find him tastefully knitting away with brushes, the other half keeping time with sticks. He was a perfect drummer in the context of Mulligan’s smaller combos, keeping things moving without getting to busy, in the great tradition of solid time-keepers like Kenny Clarke.

The music flows smoothly in the well-programmed sequence of tracks, opening with the unusual choice of a ballad, the title tune of the album. Arranged by Mulligan, as were all the tunes on the album, the song features some great ensemble writing, with some improvised solos throughout. “Just In Time” has some tempo changes (fittingly) and trading solos where Mulligan and Farmer alternate choruses. There’s some great blowing here. There’s a couple of tunes written by Mulligan with a nod towards the Newport Jazz Festival. The cleverly titled “News From Blueport” is a lazy blues in waltz time, while “Blueport” is a straight-ahead blues with a quicker tempo. “As Catch Can” has the fleetest of all the album’s tempos, with some excitingly driving solos to match. Of course, there’s a few throwbacks on the album, too. “My Funny Valentine” was established as a jazz standard at the hands of Mulligan’s earlier treatment of the tune with Chet Baker, and gets a fresh examination by Art Farmer here. “Utter Chaos” is another old tune from Mulligan’s partnership with Chet Baker, often played as a set closer during club dates.

The best tune on the album, however, is slightly noir-ish original by Mulligan entitled “Festive Minor”. With Farmer’s cup mute firmly in place and the simple yet effective melody taken up as a round between the two horns, the piece conjures up images of a rainy, dark day in the city as a suited man in a trench coat slinks down the sidewalk. It’s like the opening of a black and white detective movie from the 1940’s or 50’s. Farmer’s muted solo sets the mood with a bluesy, spare opening. His use of space and silence heightens the mood while Mulligan’s languid sax purrs rhythmic accents in the background to provide a harmonic framework as well as some propulsion. After Farmer’s solo, Mulligan blows some of the most lyrical, achingly beautiful bari sax on the record. The title, “Festive Minor”, is at first a contradiction. How can one be festive and happy yet minor and slightly dark? The tune proves how. The fellas are obviously enjoying themselves, playing some inspired and hip jazz, all with a slightly dark accent. Bill Crow has a chorus to blow some bass, then the horns come back sans mute to restate the beguiling theme.

You know an album is good when our friend Scott Yanow over at Allmusic gives it a full five stars. While tempering his 10/10 rating by pointing out the album’s brevity, he conceded that the music was significant and noted that “[v]irtually every selection is memorable..” Which is true. This is one of those rare albums where you can play it through without feeling the urge to skip a tune. Absolutely superb jazz laid down by four men with the sparest of instrumentations. Like Don Draper once said, it’s simple, but significant.

The Cover

Raggy Waltz Rating: B-

An artistic, posed cover shot of an artist looking pensive and reflective isn’t new, but rarely does it actually match the mood of the music on the record. It succeeds here, capturing both the album title and the music on the album. The famous if not ubiquitous Burt Goldblatt is the photographer. It’s a nice shot, utilizing light and shadows expertly to create a moody photograph. The spare artwork on the cover is another way the cover art acts as a harbinger to the uncluttered music contained on the record’s grooves. The album has seen better days, though, or hasn’t, to be more accurate. It’s a victim of being stored in tight quarters with other records, without a protective album sleeve, and as a result has a worn patina with a faint ring of record wear.

Unfortunately, I suffer from a condition where things that should be serious are funny to me, and the longer I look at the cover, the more comedic it becomes. Perhaps it’s because he looks like he’s on time out, perhaps it’s because he appears to be trying to figure out what else there is to say. Either way, it makes me chuckle.

The Back

The liner notes, written by Gerry Mulligan, are quite entertaining and expressive. This in spite of their succinctness. In his brief essay, Mulligan mulls over the purpose of liner notes and what really needs to be said on the backs of albums. After saying what he thinks is the only info really needed on albums (tune titles, personnel, and the dates the tunes were recorded), he makes some valid points of which most are still as valid today as they were in 1959 when he wrote them.

“But I notice a lot of jazz albums these days…whose notes go pretty far afield, with hardly a mention about what’s inside (sometimes no mention at all).” I always hate that. People who treat the back of albums like a college textbook, discussing all manners of the polemics of jazz and art and blah blah blah with barely a discussion about the music itself. Mulligan goes on to indict those jazz writers who engage in such prose:

“But some of the people who do the most talking about jazz (that may even be the basic problem, right there!) don’t seem to get any real fun out of listening to it. It seems to me that all the super-intellectualizing on the technics of jazz and the lack of response to the emotion and meaning of jazz is spoiling the fun for listeners and players alike. So if the critics haven’t got everyone scared with a lot of high-flown technical talk and Jack Kerouac hasn’t got everyone impressed with the beauties of numbness and hipness for hipness’ sake, maybe we could launch a little enthusiasm and restore fun to its rightful place in jazz.”

Well-said. He closes his liners by saying that he, his band, and the good people at Columbia put a lot of work into making this album, and how much fun it was. What follows is a track listing with the recording date directly below each track. The way it should always be. More people like Mulligan should’ve written liner notes for jazz albums.

Because of Mulligan’s brief notes, there’s space for a gloriously large photograph of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet at a recording session in Columbia Record’s legendary 30th Street Studio in New York City. I’m not sure what the brown smudge at the top of the album is, and I think it’s best that I don’t. I tried to take the price tag off, but it began to take some of the cover with it, so it stayed. The delightfully dated note about the mono record being able to be played on stereo equipment and thus never going out of commission is cool. I mean, it’s not lying. Almost 60 years later and it’s not obsolete yet!

The Vinyl

When done right, Columbia’s sound was unparalleled. Their beautifully crisp, sonorous and life-like sound was famous even then in the 1950’s and 60’s. Mono, stereo, 6-eye, 2-eye, it doesn’t matter. Well, it kind of does, but that’s splitting hairs. Pressed originally in 1959, the album used Columbia’s classic ‘6-eye’ labels, used for most releases in the mid-50’s thru the early 60’s. My copy was a later pressing, as indicated by the runnout matrix codes of 2AH and 2AF, meaning a second master tape was used and was on its 32nd and 34th run. All that means really is that this isn’t a brand-spanking new pressing. The lack of a deep-groove shows it was probably a release from the early 1960’s. Neato bandito.

Perhaps this is an indication for my increasing interest and fanaticism in collecting jazz records, but I actually like the mono pressing of this album more than the stereo version. After having heard the stereo version online on Pandora and YouTube, the monaural version has more body, more bite, and more character, than the airy stereo. Of course, this isn’t a very fair comparison, since I’ve only heard the stereo version online and not on a record. At any rate, this record sounds fantastic, with barely a crackle or pop to be heard, and the fidelity is excellent for a 59-year old piece of vinyl. The group is front and center, with the blessed acoustics of Columbia’s church studio giving the music some space and reverb. Bill Crow’s bass and Dave Bailey’s drums are miked to perfection, and on my sound system it sounds like the fellas are in my room. Amen and amen. So where did I find an album in such great condition, anyhow?

The Place of Acquisition

After a cross-country drive originating in Ohio, my friend and I arrived at our destination of Salt Lake City, Utah. An avid thrifter, my friend found a thrift store in town, so we checked it out. I searched for the record section and eventually found two and a half stacks of records in the back corner of the store. I didn’t expect to find much, it being Utah and all. Buried among the Lawrence Welk, Percy Faith, Ray Coniff, and other typical thrift store vinyl detritus, I was shocked to find this record as well as two other solid jazz albums. For only 50 cents, I felt like I was robbing the store. Once I got home and played the album, I knew I had robbed them. For being my first time in the state of Utah, this is the kind of souvenir I like to have to remember my time spent there. Luckily, the “rebirth of vinyl” craze hasn’t struck out there yet (I was at a thrift store that thought it was ok to charge $5.00 for a record! The nerve!). Thanks, Salt Lake City!

A cool-tinged album from one of the originators of the cool jazz sound. What Is There To Say? // Gerry Mulligan (Columbia CL 1307) It's another soggy grey day here in north Alabama, and as such, out comes the reflective music.

#Art Farmer #Columbia #Gerry Mulligan

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leevanqueef · 7 years

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rules: if ya tagged you’re supposed to write a post with eighty-two truths and then tag twenty-five people. now I'm a cheap person so if ya see this, consider yourself tagged

name: raymond

blood type: who knows

nickname(s): ray

r/s: single

zodiac sign: cancer

pronouns: he

favorite tv shows: bob ross painting

long or short hair: short

height: 5′5??? idk height doesn't matter to me

do you have a crush on someone: lmao i got crushes on everyone if i see u walkin down the street u better know i gotta crush on u

what do you like about yourself: ,,,idk i’m pretty chill

right or left handed: right

list of three favourite colors: honey??? uh orange juice? thats yellow-y orange an uh,,,, cherry red

 eating: naw

 drinking: nothin

i’m about to: gonna write some outlines for a fanfic

 listening to: day is done by peter paul n mary

 kids: i like kids but noo i don't want em

get married: naw

career: i’d love to work hands-on with lizards n mammals n insects

recently

drink: gatorade…

phone call: mum

song you listened to: things happen by dawes

have i ever

dated someone twice: boi i aint dated

been cheated on: naw kissed someone and regretted it: no  lost someone special: people have died but no one really special  been depressed: yea been drunk and thrown up: naw  kissed a stranger: naw man i aint kissed a friend u think I'm gonna kiss a stranger?? had glasses or contacts: yea but i don't wear my glasses v often had sex on the first date: aint been on a date an dunno if sex is right for me  broken someone’s heart: naw  turned someone down: I'm always the one asking so i usually get turned down lmao but naw cried when someone died: yea,,  fallen for a friend: i feel called out,,

past year

made a new friend: nah Fallen out of Love: uh,,,, sure??  laughed until you cried: maybe laughed super hard but naw met someone who changed you: naw found out who your true friends were: yea found out someone was talking about you: naw,,, I'm unpopular in these good christian suburbs  kissed someone on your fb list: lmao i aint kissed no one

which is better

lips or eyes: eyes cos eyes are pretty af hugs or kisses: hugs!!!! shorter or taller: boi if ur nice that’s all that matters romantic or spontaneous: spontaneous combustion??? sensitive or loud: hell both hookup or relationship: relationship troublemaker or hesitant: hesitant, cos i stutter a bit

first

best friend: this lil boy named ben,, he's beautiful surgery: yea i split my lip an i had to get surgery

sport i joined: basketball vacation: idk california probably. i love it there tbh

do u believe in

yourself: yea  miracles: those cats n turtles that give u good luck are neat! so yes! love at first sight: maybe??? heaven: naw

extra

how many people from your fb list do you know irl: Facebook is for mums n dads to reconcile with each other do you have any pets: aw man i got 2 beautiful cats named kiki n kia

do you want to change your name: idk if a man can be named elisabeth,, so yea what did you do for your last birthday: suffered had a party w my friends  what time did you wake up today: six thirty am but i stayed in bed till 7:20 what were you doing last night at midnight: i was sleepin something you can’t wait for: ok my school takes us older kids out to virginia so thats gonna be amazing af cos we’re gonna go see monticello n d.c. n sfjheia its gonna b rad last time you saw your mom: i said hi a few minutes ago  what is one thing you wish you could change about your life: idk,, my mum married a “bad” guy (mentally unstable) an then got a divorce which was hard for us kids,,, so maybe if she didn’t marry dad??? have you ever talked to a person named tom: yea tom nook lmao what’s getting on your nerves: people who lie blatantly an people still believe em like don't man i can see right thru ur pasty ass

#again if u see this post ur automatically tagged

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