#still singing that tune

[onewomancitadel]

I actually have a lot of (well-documented) beef with styles of textual speculation and I really enjoy identifying a lot of errors that shippers in particular make mostly as a point of reflection myself. Parallels/foils = romance is a very common one and is something I see absolutely everywhere, to the point of sometimes being the only argument for a pairing. That one is interesting because I'm interested in this idea it's either sameness or contrast which open the door to romance, which is even funnier when foils are treated as parallels and the tonal distinction (and the motivation for that) between the characters is discarded. If parallels/foils = romance, then everybody would be fucking each other in R/WBY. The question is to what end do these characters answer each other's character arcs and, more specifically when it comes to R/WBY, how does or doesn't the romance answer Ozlem. The parallels/foils view is not a holistic view and tends to be superficial even outside romance.

Another very common to fandoms which rely on allusions/intertextuality as motivation is where it's often assumed the references in the story will play out exactly the same as it does in allusion material with absolutely no response or transformation. This is a pervasive issue with the R/WBY fandom for obvious reasons, particularly when it's lacking any tonal resonance with R/WBY whatsoever (and this is partly instinctual, to be fair), but I see it everywhere. It was even in the mainstream with prestige television and part of it is unfortunately a consequence that reference = super duper smart, which I have written more about under my Jung tag and more specifically my issue with this idea that textual reference exists to elevate a text as opposed to situate what it's contributing.

A common pattern which begins to emerge with these styles of analysis is the step following observation being missed. What does it mean? Why would they do that? I'm not saying it needs to be sterile, and yeah the interpretive point is honestly pretty hard. Honestly, I think I just want to demonstrate my own approach because I find all of it really interesting. You can see in real time how people engage with a text and what their takeaways are. I think the fact that most people can pick up on parallels/foils is telling that these techniques are useful, it's just it can sometimes be used for the wrong conclusions (particularly like... to justify fanon ships).

When it comes to something like Jaune/Cinder, discussing the romance included in their allusions (Ozlem, Rhodopis, The Indecisive King) basically itself already acts as its own transformation given the status of enemies. The twist itself is that change referenced in the allusion material, but further to that, the way it would be portrayed in the show is probably going to be more painful and complicated than The Indecisive King, and when it comes to Rhodopis, Jaune's not literally going to buy Cinder's freedom. It's taking place in the R/WBY context. That material connecting Jaune and Cinder in the first place suggests something subversive about their relationship is the remixing element beholden to the story... and when it comes to Joan of Arc? Well I'm not gonna repeat that tune, you've heard it before. Everybody knows Jaune was connected to Cinder from the start. There was literally speculation over his death by her back during V1; part of the shock at Pyrrha's death had been that it wasn't him. Go figure.

#knightfall #still singing that tune #my evolving beef with textual speculation

[aurantia-ignis]

Interest Check: Community Choir for Grand Fonic Hymn (Cover)

This project has been on the backburner for a couple of years...... But since I've been sick this week and unable to art properly, I dug this out to continue arranging, and I managed to finish the first draft today!

I'll still be refining it for a bit, but I was wondering if there are other Abyss/Tales fans out there who might be interested to come join me and sing as part of a virtual choir? For those who don't read sheet music, I'll be doing demo tracks so you can learn the parts by listening to them!

It's a 3-part SSA choir arrangement, so I'll be looking for voices that can sing between E3-F4 for the lowest part, A3-C5 for the middle part, and C4-F5 for the highest part. The song is quite slow, with fairly simple rhythms, and the demo tracks will also act as a pronunciation guide. also don't worry if you're not perfectly in tune, there's a magic tool I use sparingly called pitch correction

Leave a reply or pop into my inbox or reblog with a comment if you'd be interested to have a look when the parts are ready!!

#tales of the abyss #tales of #tear grants #luke fon fabre #music cover #choral arrangement #my music #trying my luck to see if anyone is still loving and singing this old tune from this old game

[edge-oftheworld]

just reminding you that luke can sing p!atd songs with very little effort and makes the vocal range required seem a lot easier than it actually is and has such a smooth transition between his chest voice and head voice that it’s hard to tell the difference and this makes a lot of 5sos songs very difficult to sing actually but you wouldn’t realise it til you try

#5sos #5 seconds of summer #luke hemmings #still can’t for the life of me sing efyts in tune #tbt the death of a bachelor cover

[rb19]

#max verstappen #f1 #gif #there’s this erroneous idea that max is just into edm/pop music or doesn’t like music at all #but i am here to tell you that the man LOVES his CLASSICS #billy jean and thriller was listed as some of his favorite tunes back in 2016 #knows the words of SALT-N-PEPA’s let’s talk about sex #caught singing LIONEL RICHIE’s say you say me #PRINCE’s purple rain #NEIL DIAMOND's sweet caroline #in between media duties #in one of his COD nights with lando he put ELTON JOHN’s i’m still standing to play #i'm dead serious

[weaselle]

wake up in the mornin' my mind kind of stormin' i sit 'n' sip delicious brew- no time for mental thunder with the deadlines that i'm under fist grippin' this list to do hip holster full of laughter draggin' this boulder after baby take it to the top of the hill where it's never stayed yet but i place another bet sayin' maybe this time it will

#song #has a sort of dark but boppy blues feel to the tune #been singing it in a lower register on my way to work #i had a chorus but i don't think i like it so i removed it #lyrics #i like to pack in the inner rhymes #like hip holster and this bolder #baby and maybe of course - to cliche to use at the end of a line but adds a nice flavor to the middle bits #and of course the little runs like sit n sip delicious/ fist grippin this list #still letting the next couple of versus percolate in my brain #poem #poetry

[miku-meeku]

do yall remember my raw audio of me singing mafumafu song that i posted before-

my part got tuned and i sound heavenly- (ITS THE FIRST TIME I EVER GET TUNED!!!!)

PLEASE LISTEN, I SOUND SO KRAZI AND 10 TIMES MORE BETTER TUNED THAN MY VOICE WHEN RAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#mafumafu #まふまふ #after the rain #hatsune meeku #i still have no shame #but i sound so good for the first time singing tuned so-

[getting-butterflies]

thinking about how fucking tone def Gary is

his ass can NOT remember melody or rhythm to save his life

#i mean he can play guitar still but he CANNOT hold a tune if hes singing #i love him dearly and long to have him serenade me anyway #henchman 21 #venture bros #gary fischer #gary venture bros #the venture bros

[izzy-b-hands]

every time. every time without fail, that i go on a Dethklok/Brendan's music overall binge as I have been lately. I find myself looking at my guitar like. If only i knew how. if only i could do it right. I could hold her and shred and have fun making music.

alas. my skills are too lacking*

*to clarify, I struggle to read music & learn by ear, but my memory also struggles with remembering chords/finger placements/tabs so even tho i can usually hear how a song should go enough to identify notes & whatnot, and can, with enough time spent noodling, eventually recreate it on guitar. That is not conducive nor useful in actually playing and getting better at it and makes it feel like an Impossible Task lmao.

#text post #tbh it probably is actually impossible bc like #i briefly got a few heavily discounted lessons re: voice guitar and piano w/my old hs choir teacher #and we had some heavy talks abt brains & things and #eventually he was like. u can *technically* play music and sing #ur voice is *unique* like tom waits or bob dylan (read: bad or considered bad by many at least lmao) but u CAN sing #and u can play piano & guitar *in theory* but not with enough understanding to get good at it #his concern kept coming back to my maths learning disability bc he thought that was also fucking up how my brain parses certain music things #and tbh? he's probably right lol #but still. i look to her my shining axe with strings in need of tuning but eager #and then i look away bc it's a nice dream. but im probably never going to be able to achieve any level of skill let alone mastery #I've tried so many times and my brain just can't keep all that info in & parse it all consistently. & it sucks but also it's ok #someday I'll pick her up again and attempt to play and let myself suck at it & b content with that #not today lmao but someday

[zerodaryls]

was asked by my friend to cover this song, so,, here's the best my broke ass could do with a shitty headphone mic and the worst editing software known to man. :')

[instrumental track credit]

#young & beautiful #lana del rey #please be kind or i will cry actual tears #this took me hours to edit because my shitty fuckin mic distorted the audio so much #i am nOT a trained musician at ALL so #be fuckin nice :') #i'm literally just some guy and i'm still recovering from my high school talent show #when i gathered the courage to sing and play guitar in front of my classmates and my guitar was out of tune :') #thus i will nEVER PERFORM LIVE FOR ANYONE EVER AGAIN #this is as close as it'll ever get lol #my posts

[stellarspecter]

help i watched the new doctor who specials and now the middle school hyperfixation is back i spent all day reading fanfiction and now i'm relisting to nostalgic trock do i really put chameleon circuit in my spotify likes now is that who i am

#idk if the trock/whosic/whatever it was called was like. as popular to everyone? #i didn't really interact with the wider fandom much ig idk #but it was pretty much all i listened to in middle school #like standouts are chameleon circuit (obvs) president romana and legs nose robinson #and a bunch of other random ppl playing guitar in their bedroms on youtube lol #me included #me and my friend sang a chameleon circuit song at the sixth grade talent show #the one that was a doctor/amy duet. end of all things maybe? #no everything is ending!!! #and i still remember the tune i bet i could sing it right now #*speaks

[werewolf-transgenderism]

listen I am trying not to start the whole thing off by being a hater but there is only so much loud out of tune singing a guy can take in a single day

#spent half the day with the good kind of communal loud out of tune singing which alas does still put the sensory overload on me #but the live music next door again with the guy who is incapable of not singing a half step flat at all times at an incredible volume? #pushing me over the edge babes! #pairing the ear plugs with melatonin in the hopes that it knocks me tf out 👍

[losticaruss]

mm i really hope sea shanties made a huge resurgence in the l&co world for agents. that's make me so happy

#just thinking about a team of agents #all young #all scared for their lives #and one of them begins to hum a familiar tune #and the rest of them join in the chorus #and it gives them strength and confidence #and they face the ghosts still singing that song #lockwood and co #lockwood & co #just cause. sea shanties work so well for solidarity amongst people who all hate what they do #but don't have any other choice #also i'm thinking of 'one more pull' by the wellermen/the longest johns #as one of those shanties #i love this idea sm

[bmpmp3]

style savvy styling star went OFF with the fact that you could replay the idol music sequences with your own character and outfit lipsyncing to it. every game with character customization and in-engine music videos NEEDS to let you do this

#thats one thing thats a bummer about a lot of rhythm games with 3d MVs. they often have too many restrictions #stuff like ll all stars (rip) and some other games were decent in that they let you put anyone in anyone else's spot #like you could have maki sing a rina song or whatever you want. but i still um. kinda wish they let u put clones #i think it would be funny to have 9 of the same girl singing start dash or something LOL #but i get why they restricted it. realism and all. maybe some technical issues with calling the models and their costumes #but i do hate that sifac doesnt let you switch out the girls like you can ONLY play like a printemps song with printemps #its so sad you can only alter the costumes 😔😔😔😔😔 #tbh i think all games with in-engine music videos should go all out. let you put any character in any outfit to any song #hell even let you mess with maybe ambient lighting and filters and backgrounds a little too. go full mmd with it #realism shmealism i want to see CARTOON CHARACTERS dance and sing to a TUNE hjkfdsjfds

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 25

"Groovy Little Summer Song" by James Otto

#song of the day #it's not at all summer yet but it is spring!! #it's chilly when the wind blows and the dew-damp sticks around until noon but the sun is out and the sky is maybe not clear but close! #spring!!!! #I put my first early plantings in the garden today #I had planned for a bunch of marigolds but I got a different batch of flowers instead #so now what's down is rootings for a bunch of perennial flowers #sea holly and red-hot pokers and butterfly weed and hollyhocks #and then my little pea plants #I told Kelly I'd share pictures but for today it only looks like a square of dirt--I'll definitely share pics when my sprouts come in!! #beautiful beautiful garden times #summer of 2010 when this song came out was the first time in three-ish years I'd spent much continuous time with my family #my littlest siblings were old enough to be away from Mom for a while and still young enough to be lulled to sleep by the car #and Mom was very eager to be left home alone to sleep (and play this weird chicken bowling game she was briefly addicted to) #and so we went on a lot of long leisurely pointless car rides and we listed to a lot of #(I will never not hear this in my head) 96.9 The Kat! country music radio #and this got added to the short list of songs I sang to myself #it's so catchy!! cute fun moderately-bouncy little earworm and my voice cruises up and down it so easy #'when the days start gettin warmer / the sun starts sinkin slower / weekends go by faster / and beer starts tastin colder #wanna tune into a station / takes me on a soul vacation / hey there mister dj / come on won't you please play' #and crucially Dad did not mind this song--which could not be said for 'There Is No Arizona' by Jamie O'Neal #or (after I sang it approximately ninety million times) 'Just What I Do' by Trick Pony #we also had--this was very fun for me--we had exactly one CD we could play in the car (because it was stuck in the disk player) #and that was Joe Diffie's 'Third Rock From The Sun' #so many songs of absolute joy on that album. lucky as hell that Dad agreed because it meant we'd crank it up so loud #close my eyes and let the sun shine all red through my eyelids #sing some real dumbass enjoyable-as-all-getout songs at the top of my absolute voice #Dad laughing and singing along and the littles sleeping through the all of it like the precious babies they were #these are the songs of sunshine and pointless happiness! it's not summer but it will be! my garden doesn't have plants yet but it will! #sing a song!!

[nopeferatu]

i like to beieve that, unlike jake gyllenhaal, jack twist could not sing a note right even if his life depended on it

#was watching jake in the rly small production of little shop of horrors bootleg on yt and *sighs dreamily* #thats my wife alright #i forget jake can sing bc of the way he mangles that water walking jesus song in brokeback #but like in a lot of behind the scenes interviews and stuff the bbm cast always talked about how jake would sing show tunes to #the cast and crew and it just makes me real giddy inside #he has such a beautiful voice too #alas its not something that i believe he shares w the character he played #still brokeback posting

[actualbird]

i got drunk as fuck last night during the after-party for our company's teambuilding and it was rlly fun, tho the next morning my copywriter head told me that last night, among many other things i did, i opened the karaoke song book and read through all the pages picking no songs at all because—and she allegedly quotes me here—"i forgot the alphabet"

#my voice now is VERY SCRATCHY. i love karaoke but i cant sing so i just yell to the tune #so now everytime i speak it feels like a cement mixer #dootdootdoot #anyway oF COURSE TOT DECIDED TO DROP NEW SHIT WHILE I WAS GONE!! IM STILL NOT COMPLETELY 'BACK' EITHER IVE #GOT STUFF TOMORROW TOO. TOT PLEASE AJHSFOSIFHAVSOFA #why is this october so jam packed with events/announced events....tideborne romance ssr...mMMMM I WANNNNTTT #GOSH. AND THE MAIN STORY INSPECTION UPDATE TOO HHHH i feel like the meme of the woman being handed too many pancakes