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thesunsethour · 5 months

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my official ranking of (basically) every song by hozier

(ignoring some collabs/songs from soundtracks etc)

(this is just my opinion no one shout at me)

(he has no Bad songs, only Less Brilliant ones)

52) To Noise Making (Sing) (the sing chorus at the end goes on just *that* bit too long

51) Sunlight (slightly repetitive)

50) Nobody (maybe this is controversial? does however contain one of my favourite lyrics “it’s suicide Tuesday back in LA”)

49) Sedated (the lowest ranked song of his self titled album and it’s not because it’s not good it’s because his discography is fucking insane)

48) Someone New (only ranked this low because it was very overplayed in Ireland when it came out)

47) Almost (Sweet Music) (this was never my favourite song but who can resist “i laugh like me again she laughs like you”)

46) Son of Nyx (hozier made the best study music song of all time)

45) Wasteland, Baby! (sounds exactly like the album feels, if that makes sense?)

44) Swan Upon Leda (would be higher but i keep accidentally forgetting to add it to my playlist because it’s not on an album. also Free Palestine)

43) Better Love (hozier’s voice is so beautiful)

42) Dinner & Diatribes (ever since someone said he sounds like Count von Count in this song i can’t un-hear it)

41) It Will Come Back (so sexy. one of the sexiest songs in his oeuvre)

40) NFWMB (an under appreciated classic. i remember playing this in the car when my dad was dropping our friend’s kid to school and getting in trouble for the cursing)

39) The Parting Glass - Live from The Late Late Show (not only a beautiful rendition, but it was also performed during covid when everyone was feeling very hopeless and he just captivated ireland for a few short moments. gorgeous)

38) Anything But (we are reaching the territory of songs that are so goddamned good that it feels a crime they are so low down. he has dozens of such songs)

37) In the Woods Somewhere (eerie vibes which are beautiful and exacerbated when you find out he based this on a dream he had)

36) To Be Alone (again, CRIMINAL that this is so low down. blame hozier having so many good songs. don’t blame me)

35) Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene (a bop AND a banger AND a jam. triple threat)

34) Damage Gets Done (their voices are soooo beautiful together)

33) Be (“When Atlas acts the maggot” is one of Hozier’s best Irish culture lines)

32) The Jackboot Jump - Live (BUT THE JACKBOOT ONLY JUMPS DOWN ON PEOPLE STANDING UP!!!)

31) Shrike (this song made me cry when i first heard it and i am Not one to cry)

30) To Someone From a Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe) (GAEILGE MENTION!!!!)

29) Jackie and Wilson (one of my first ever favourite hozier songs)

28) Talk (i love the myth of orpheus and eurydice and i ALSO imagine being loved by hozier)

27) Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue) (blowjobs)

26) Eat Your Young (hozier wrote this for all first year trinity students who had to read Swift for their intro to irish writing lectures)

25) All Things End (don’t be sad. we begin again :). hozier said so)

24) I, Carrion (Icarian) (soft, sad, beautiful. like hozier)

23) Nina Cried Power (feat. Mavis Staples) (also very overplayed in Ireland but this time it really deserved it!!)

22) Cherry Wine - Live (one of the most beautiful and recognisable guitar bits of all time. yes i said guitar bits i don’t know anything about guitars)

21) As It Was (the drug the dark the light the flame…)

20) First Time (“anyway”)

19) Who We Are (makes me feel like my chest is being lifted to god)

18) No Plan (“As Mack explained, there will be darkness again” is one of the all-time great Hozier lyrics actually)

17) Would That I (it’s illegal for anyone to dislike this song)

16) De Selby (Part 2) (he wants to run against the world that’s turning!! he moves so fast that he’d outpace the dawn!!)

15) De Selby (Part 1) (AN ENTIRE VERSE AS GAEILGE)

14) Like Real People Do (once again, how is this so low? hozier is too good. “we should just kiss like real people do” lyrics of all time)

13) Butchered Tongue (i wrote an entire essay post about this song. with citations)

12) From Eden (time has maybe made us forget just how fucking insanely good this song is. IDEALISM SITS IN PRISON CHIVALRY FELL ON HIS SWORD INNOCENCE DIED SCREAMING. also reminds me of verse 2 of Human by The Killers)

11) Work Song (WHEN MY TIME COMES AROUND LAY ME GENTLY IN THE COLD DARK EARTH. NO GRAVE CAN HOLD MY BODY DOWN. I’LL CRAWL HOME TO HER. also special mention for: “in the low lamp light i was free” aka the name of one of my criminal minds fanfics. moving on)

10) Run (SOOOOO underrated. literally rare is this love keep it covered! run to me run to me lover! run until you feel your lungs bleeding!)

9) Movement (i played this song every day on repeat for 2 months when i was 17)

8) Arsonist’s Lullabye (wario of better love. don’t ask me how or why)

7) In a Week (feat. Karen Cowley) (the most gorgeous beautiful song of all time their voices are perfect for each other - I’D BE HOME WITH YOU)

6) First Light (BUT AFTER THIS IM NEVER GONNA BE THE SAME!!! AND I AM NEVER GOING BACK AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!)

5) Francesca (AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. URGAAAHHHHHHHH. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I’D TELL THEM PUT ME BACK IN IT!!!!!! DARLING I WOULD DO IT AGAIN!!!!!! IF I COULD HOLD YOU FOR A MINUTE!!!!! DARLING I’D GO THROUGH IT AGAIN!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)

4) Unknown / Nth (DO YOU KNOWWWWW I COULD BREAK BENEATH THE WEIGHT OF THE GOODNESS LOVE I STILL CARRY FOR YOU!!!! he had no right to sing this. and as beautifully as he does. makes me cry. sha-la-la)

3) Abstract (Psychopomp) (this wasn’t originally my favourite when i first listened to Unreal Unearth has grown on my heart and will not let go. did you know the memory hurts but does me no harm. and did you SEE HOW IT SHINESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

2) Take Me To Church (this being his debut single. DEBUT. SINGLE. no one else was doing it like him. the vocals the lyrics god the beautiful lyrics the MUSIC VIDEO!!!! ireland’s best living artist.)

1) Foreigner’s God (my favourite song of all time. no notes. utterly perfect in every way.)

#hozier #these are my OPINIONS no one ARGUE WITH ME #this took me an hour and a half i’m very sleepy now #sorry for any spelling mistakes it’s 00:42

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liesonthefloordramatically · 5 months

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A wild 2023 recap post appears!

Stuff I made this year:

Fiction: Nope. Work continues to consume me. I DID write like 33k that maybe will be publicly accessible in the future, but who can say.

Playlists: I think the only two I remembered to share were Oleander (a playlist for my Wickedness character) and the vast and the void (what it says on the tin).

RPGs: Also a nope.

Knitting: Made a shawl! And a hat, technically, that I forgot to take pictures of.

Other stuff: Taught 5 classes, 4 of which were new preps! Did fieldwork in Japan for the first time since 2019! Gave an hour-long talk in Japanese! Presented on two conference panels! Finished two academic book reviews! Survived somehow! The period between August and December sort of doesn’t exist in my memory? I was doing things but almost all of those things were work, so. The isolation has been wearing on me, but with the combination of A. not having any time to do anything other than work and B. for Various Reasons questioning whether I want to stay at this job, it's been really hard to build local community. I'm going to try to work on that next year, but also I'm going to have two new preps again in the fall and one of my spring classes is already overenrolled, so who knows how effective that'll be.

Media I enjoyed this year:

Books: I read 46 books this year apparently! Top picks in no particular order: The Singing Hills Cycle (embarrassingly my jam), The Southern Reach Trilogy (shocking that it took me this long to read this), My Own Devices (even MORE shocking that it took me this long to read this), Imperial Radch (so AGGRESSIVELY my jam), She Who Became the Sun (this was a hilarious accompaniment to one of my fall classes), Camp Damascus (read this on a plane back from Japan which was An Experience), The Tale That Twines (loved the first book; the second book is even better), System Collapse (yeah, no one is surprised that I loved this).

TTRPG: Wickedness! This was the only new TTRPG I played this year, but it was really good.

Video games: Mask of the Rose and Saltsea Chronicles, both of which I want to/should poke at more. Special nod to 13 Sentinels which we enjoyed 90% of a lot.

Manga/comics: I think the only thing I read was The JOJOLands?

Fanfic: I didn’t actually wind up reading that much fanfic this year again, in part because I was reading so many books. A few picks, in no particular order: The Gardener (CR C2), Keys to the Castle (CR C2), Whistle Song (CR C2), pieces of (you) me (CR C2), Descriptions of a River Flowing (CR C2), Slip the Blindfold (CR C2), Heart to Heart (JJBA: JJL--PLEASE read this if you care about JJL at all), riverside beatitudes (JJBA: SDC), Fully formed, ready to run (ExU: Calamity). Honorable mention to Asking for More (Stranger of Paradise), which is a WIP but made me laugh so hard I hit myself in the face with my phone.

Films: I actually watched like eight movies this year! All but two of the new ones on a plane, to be fair, but. Top picks: Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse and Shoplifters (『万引き家族』). Honorary mention to Suzume.

TV: Finally finished Stone Ocean! It was good! Rowan and I are also like halfway through catching up on TGCF and it is also very good.

Podcasts: Continued to listen to way too many of these. Top picks: The Silt Verses, Trice Forgotten, Within the Wires (hey can we talk about the newest season? truly wild), and Re: Dracula. Honorable mentions to The Evaporated: Gone with the Gods, 『なんかIWAKAN！』 (WHICH IS TRAGICALLY ENDING???? where am I supposed to get my chaotic Japanese gender and sexuality discussion now :(((((), Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later, Critical Role, and Worlds Beyond Number.

Music: Dessa's Bury the Lede was excellent, of course. I also apparently listened to Maisie Peters' The Good Witch a lot (it was in my grading rotation in October). And then this past month there's been a lot of Hozier's Unreal Unearth. But a lot of my listening this year was either albums on the bus (rotating mainly between Quiet Company’s We Are All Where We Belong, Bury the Lede, yorushika’s entire discography that I can purchase, Wednesday Campanella, and various soundtracks) or putting something on loop and falling into a fugue state. Apparently my top song of the year on Spotify was “Square One,” which I think I put on looping while grading in the spring. My Spotify top songs list was even more inexplicable than usual this year.

Anyway, あけおめ！！！良いお年を！！！ (or else!!!!)

#a wild annual recap appears #Queenie actually says something on this blog

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nomi--sunrider · 8 months

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Then, Now, and Always

Chapter 46: Then, Now, and Always

Summary: The end of the war and everything that comes after.

Image Credit: Screencapping-BadWolfKaily, Editing-Sel Queen's Courtesan

Author's Note below the cut. Contains spoilers for the chapter so read the chapter first.

Thanks everyone for reading Then, Now, and Always. My biggest creative project of the past year and as of now, my best work. This fandom has given me so much, from badly needed dopamine during my first year of grad school to a lovely excuse to go to London for my first ever con! I've discovered so much new music and so many new artists, developed crushes on a ton of great actors, and expanded my creative world so much. I can't believe the fic is finished. I'll sure miss it, but I'm excited to do other awesome things.

If anyone is interested, here is a link to an app/website called Lingvano. It comes highly recommended by deaf folks as a way for (hearing) people to learn ASL from deaf people. If I could write this fic again, I'd put actual deaf characters in it and maybe give Tally a deaf teacher. From research, I've learned it's better to study ASL from deaf folks, as they speak it as it's meant to be spoken and it's also their language in general. Unfortunately, Lingvano costs $9.99 per month after the free trial. Worth it in my opinion, as it's a very well-done site.

At the end of this post, there's a link to a playlist of music I listened to while writing the fic. I put liner notes of sorts below because I always get excited when other authors do that. However, you're welcome to listen however you like.

The Playlist

Chasing Twisters - Delta Rae : If Then, Now, and Always had a theme song, it would be this.

Salvation - LP : Honorable Mention

The Night We Met - Lord Huron : A guest commenter called Song Fairy recced this song to me in the Chapter 28 comments. You could listen to it anywhere in the fic, but Chapter 2 is reasonable enough to get a taste of what's coming.

X-Training - Henry Jackman : To be listened to during Chapter 11 during Tally's retraining montage.

Come to Your Senses - Alexandra Shipp, Vanessa Hudgens : It amuses me that this song is two women singing to Andrew Garfield because in my opinion, it's the best lesbian love ballad ever written for musical theater. Accompanies Chapter 12: The Twilight of Witchkind.

Say Something - A Great Big World, Christina Aguilera : I'm guessing it's obvious, but if it's not, this goes with Chapter 13: Say Something.

This is Me - Keala Settle, The Greatest Showman Ensemble : To be listened to with Chapter 15: Silent Witch, when Tally grabs the world by the nostrils and forces it to acknowledge her.

Ugly Heart - G.R.L : Could be listened to anywhere in the Chapter 16-19 realm where Sarah and Tally are both raging, both mad, sort of at each other, but mostly in general.

Evermore - Josh Groban : SpookyWitchling mentioned this song in the comments of Chapter 16: By Hand, specifically. I like it more as an Alder song, maybe at the end of Chapter 17: The Downside of Miracles, but you may do as you wish.

Laid Low - The Naked and Famous : This song has made Top 5 in my Spotify end of year playlist since 2016. It's a banger, it has anime AMV energy, I love it, and I think it's goes well with the Arc II finale, Chapter 25: Battle of the Goddesses.

If I'd Known I Loved Her - Delta Rae : I love this song so much. I first heard it in September 2022, back when TNAA was a mere twinkle in my eye, and I was like "Holy shit, this is Alder's half of the love story." Goes with Chapter 26: If I'd Known.

History Has Its Eyes on You: Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton : The main difficulty of writing the third act was Tally's character arc. At first, it was her overcoming her squeamishness and fear of getting hands dirty by killing Hearst in the finale. This felt supremely unsatisfying to me, and I realized this was because it was Tally's Arc II character journey, which was tied off in Chapter 25: Battle of the Goddesses. Readers might have missed it because it was an Alder POV chapter, but Chapter 25 is Tally's Arc II character climax. She takes control of Alder's mind during their duel, showing she's willing to fight dirty, punch below the belt, and do whatever it takes to survive, and she betrays Nicte to save the Spree, showing she can put her personal feelings aside to protect her people. Everything I'd planned for Arc III Tally, I actually gave to Arc II Tally. So I had to think of something else.

This song got me to where I needed to be to write Arc III Tally. At this point, it's not really about her personal internals, but about her journey as a leader and what she's going to do to change the world and lead witches into a future of peace. Yeah I know. It got really plotty and philosophical. But everything worked out! And I think it's way better than my original plan.

Stand by You - Rachel Platten

Human - Cher Lloyd

I like either or both of these for Chapters 28 and 29, Alder's Folly and The Seed of Revelation, Tally's POV which then slides into Alder's POV. They're ballads, bangers, and they work on numerous levels, which is cool.

All I Ask of You - Josh Groban, Kelly Clarkson : The song that led to me becoming a Kelly Clarkson stan. Her new album, Chemistry, is amazing. Listen to this song with Chapter 32: Past, Present, Future, when Tally is soothing Alder's fears and musing about their future.

Tally Two / What's the Plan / F-14 - Harold Faltermeyer : The main reason this fic is so aircraft-heavy is because I started writing it in October 2022, when Top Gun: Maverick came out on streaming. Listen to this song during Chapter 33: Into Darkness.

Zen Ball Master - John Powell, Hans Zimmer : It's not perfect, but I think the first half of the song suits the firefight scene in Chapter 35: Tally's Gift, when Tally, Sarah, and the Biddies are fighting their way out of the death factory.

I Am Moana (Song of the Ancestors) : I listened to this on repeat when I wrote Chapter 39: Nafssia. I knew what the chapter would be, I knew what Tally would do, and I knew I had to bring the fucking house down, which is why it took going to England, experiencing Witchbomb, and getting smiled at by Lyne Renee to pull it off.

One Less Witch in the World - Brandon Roberts : I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this, but the Motherland soundtrack is disproportionately amazing. Like...why didn't they spend that money on better writers? Or idk, a few more episodes in each season? Doesn't matter. This song is awesome, but I think it works well with Chapter 44: One Less Witch in the World, during the third section where they're diverting the Accords.

Dance with Everybody - Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors

Who Do You Love - Marianas Trench

Better Place - Rachel Platten

Three end credits songs. I like imagining Sarah and Tally enjoying a wonderful Beltane together with Dance with Everybody and/or Who Do You Love as the backing track. In my mind, if it's Who Do You Love, Tally runs over to the drums for heavy drums section during the bridge and uses her touch-empathy to play alongside the rest of the drummers. She doesn't have a voice, so I like imagining her learning to play instruments so she and Sarah can still make music together. Better Place works well as a fade-to-black song during the domestic bliss at the end of the fic.

#then now and always #Spotify #talder #tally craven #sarah alder #nomi--sunrider #motherland: fort salem #jessica sutton #lyne renee #i love you all #thanks for the journey

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freyaswolf · 1 year

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For years, I lived in bewildered befuddlement regarding the musical musings of Taylor Swift. I usually listen to rock or metal, so her brand of pop was not a part of my usual lineup. However, I gained lovely friends here on Tumblr who swear by our Lady TayTay, so I decided I should check out her stuff. But there was SO MUCH, I didn't even know where to start. Luckily, my dearest mutual and actual friend, @idontgettechnology , took pity on me and made me the most amazing playlist to get me started. She titled it Taylor Swift 101, with a description of "Class is is session bish".

I spent today working my way through it, and it was a revelation! I took notes, cause that's what you're supposed to do in class, so here are my highlights from the 56 song playlist. I know I'm missing out on years of lore regarding TSwift, but I'm eager to learn. After a few more listens I may even be ready for the 201 level of this class lol

Notes below the cut, to save your scrolling thumb 😜

Ok, here we go! (I'm pretty sure these are in the intended order, and mostly these are first impressions)

1. Fifteen: wow, this took me straight back to highschool!

2. Teardrops on my Guitar: yep, I'm already hooked

3. Fearless: UGH!!!!

4. Tied Together with a Smile: FUCK!

5. Whitehorse: Holy shit!

6. Cold as You: DAMN!!!

7. You Belong with Me: (SCREAMING) I'm officially invested!

8. Stay Beautiful: 😍😍😍

9. That's The Way I Loved You: FUUUUUUCK!!!

10. Come Back, Be Here: I'm dead over this one ☠️

11. Sparks Fly: EHRMEHGHERD!!!

12. All Too Well: DUUUUUDE!!! I think this is about Jake Gyllenhaal? Also, OOOUUUUUCCCHHH, I can feel her pain!

13. Dear John: EW! Girl, he's a toxic ass narcissist! Babygirl, you need to ditch those boys, get you a girlfriend instead. I volunteer as tribute, or I would if I wasn't too old and boring lol

14. I Almost Do: 🥺🥺🥺🥺

15. Enchanted: Oh the feels!!! Also, my personal head canon is that this is about Chris Evans 😜

16. Red: oh boy, have I been here!

17. Long Live: THIS IS SUCH A GREAT SONG! OH MY HEART!

18. Blank Space: HA! I love this song!

19. Out of the Woods: girl does not have normal relationships

20. How You Get the Girl: OOOOF! I mean come on, she's literally giving instructions!

21. Bad Blood: Fuck you song if ever I heard one! "You made this mess, you know that right?" Kinda vibes

22. Clean: (hand over heart in salute) I feel you sis!

23. Wonderland: Love this! Also, who is this green eyed boy she keeps mentioning?!

24. Look at What You Made Me Do: love this! "Fine, now I'm the bad guy" vibes 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

25. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! DUDE!!! LOVE THIS!!! 🤣

26. Gorgeous: Love this! UGH SHUT UP YOUR PRETTY FACE! Also about Chris Evans lol

27. Getaway Car: Damn, I've had a few of these, and yeah nothing good happens in a getaway car. Doomed! Lol

28. Dress: HOT!!!

29. New Years Day: Oh my heart!!!

30. The Man: FUCK YES!!!

31. The Archer: wow, exhausting/exhausted, this poor kid!

32. London Boy: FUCK. (This totally made me think of JQ) lol

33. Paper Rings: LOVE!!! ❤️❤️❤️

34. Cruel Summer: relatable lol

35. Cardigan: Sobbing 😭

36. Ivy: UGH! Made me cry!

37. Exile: FML. SOBBING. FR UGLY CRYING.

38. Champagne Problems: this girl needs a hug

39. Illicit Affairs: OUCH!

40. Coney Island: 🖤

41. Hoax: I am bereft. I feel like I just broke up with all of my exes at once.

42. Gold Rush: definitely about Chris Evans. Also the way I flirt, if you're too perfect, I avoid and ignore. And if I can't do that, I heckle.

43. Tis the Damn Season: FEEEEELS!!!

44. Mirrorball: she needs all of the hugs, and some real friends.

45. No Body, No Crime: I would absolutely hide bodies for her. I would die for her.

45. Betty: I have questions? Also, I 🖤 when she says fuck.

46: Evermore: I liked it, but I didn't have a definitive "note"

47. Antihero: HA!

48. Maroon: I really love it when she says fuck. It may be a new kink for me.

49. Lavender Haze: I really want her to get a girlfriend.

50. You're on Your Own Kid: SO GOOD!

51. Bejeweled: FUCK YES!!!

52. Mastermind: 😈😈😈 I've done this. This is me.

53. The Great War: bonded like war buddies lol

54. High Infidelity: Feels decidedly Hellcheery

55. Would've Could've Should've: DAAAAAMMMMNNN!!!!

56. Dear Reader: WOW

And I am SPENT! This was a rollercoaster of emotions, and I enjoyed the whole fucking time. I am now a ride or die T Swift fan. Dude, I had no idea. Thank you so much MJ for this guided tour, I had the best time today! 🥰

#my introduction to Taylor Swift #idontgettechnology #she loves me and she gives the best presents #taytay #tswift #taylor swift is amazing #and an angel #and we don't deserve her #i can't believe i just said that on the internet #i still also love Metallica though lol

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rollerskateingtea · 9 months

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For a week I have put sticky notes on every page that had a song in in from Alice oseman’s Solitaire to make a playlist for people who want to know what songs are in the book like me

The qualifications to make it into the play list are

1)it has to have the name of the song so no random classical song that they referenced with no name

2)it had to be a real song

3)it had to have the artist name

The most referenced song was Madonnas “Material girl”

The longest the book had gone without referencing a song was 100 pages from page 223 to 323

The shortest span was 1 page

And here’s some bands that I remember

1)Rage Against the Machine

2)Radio head

And a special mention to top 40 songs which she mentioned not likening on page 46 also to the beauty and the beast soundtrack, because she didn’t mention one particular song

In total there was 12 songs I believe feel free to correct me

Here’s some proof

I did sticky note other things to

#tori spring #books #heartstopper #Spotify

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falsebooles123 · 5 months

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Confessions of a Recovering Genre-phobic - 1/6/2024

Hey Whores, This is my first official attempt at being a music critic???? Is that what I'm doing IDK. Pretty much I'm listening to a bunch of music and we just gonna vibe as I talk about what I like and what I don't and thats what I do with my life apparently. Its almost like I enjoy writing or some shit. anyway lets find a fun gif to make this an eyecatcher.

That's All (1959) - Bobby Darin

Genre: Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz Length: 35:17 (12 Tracks)

As mentioned previous many of these albums were added based on a single song that I like from the creator. In this case this was most likely added for the A-side 2 Beyond The Sea. You know the one.

Considering that I thought this song was song by Dean Martin it goes to show I don't have a firm grasp on a lot of 1950s music and also this kind of crooning jazz style. I don't dislike it by any means but its also not something that sticks with me.

Trad Pop is a beautiful Over-Medium Egg and I am but a well oiled Teflon Pan.

3/5

Nevermind (1991) - Nirvana

Genre: Grunge, Alt Rock Length: 42:36 (12 Tracks)

Its kinda weird that I've never listened to this album all the way through. Growing up as a early zoomer my musical taste was, just like the musicians I grew up with, heavily influenced by the Alt Rock of the 90s.

I didn't grew up listening to Nirvana but as I have gotten older I realize how much certain bands have always permeated the culteral membrane. An osmosis of influence if you will.

Some songs are instantly recognizable 'Smells like Teen Spirit', 'Come as You Are', 'Lithium', and as I put this playlist on in the background listening to this album is almost vulgar. When I first heard these songs there were like a evocation. A mystical litany in a foreign script learning the grooves and connatations of there sound. It was mysteicism learning a small portion of a greater whole. and listening to the full album I almost shy away from it. Feeling unable to process the level of depth I have felt from these other songs.

That becomes the issue of music. Is that some music is too specific, too culteral, for you to have a rational mind over. Nirvana to me feels like home in the same way Jennifers Body does. Its a Core Memory that I had forgettin. A past life I have barely known.

To stop being esoteric there is something incredible about this music. Cobrain has such a distinctive voice, as if he is screaming and droning on at the same time, Checked out and locked in. The lyrics are sardonic and evocative, full of word-play and poesis. The Music almost feels subdued for something that is literally hard rock.

It like screaming underwater, its like the pleasure of moaning over a toothache, Its the savage beast making music. There is so much sadness and anger and self-rightousness that you want to scream the lyrics in your car because its the pain and pleasure of a loose tooth, of poking a bruise, of smashing a window. It is letting go and moving through.

And I just fucking love it. Big feels.

5/5

The Writing on the Stall (Original Soundtrack) (2022) - Caitlin Cook

Genre: Novelty, Comedy, (honestly low-key nerd folk) Length: 26:22 (7 Tracks)

Listened to on a whim and what a lovely time.

Based on varous Bathroom Graffiti, Caitlin Cook manages to make something equal parts funny, sincere, and surprisingly poignant. Do you like Bo Burnam cause that got that energy.

If anything it reminds me a lot of the comedy videos of the early 2000s, the type of silly songs that I watched as a child. Like the kinda problamatic People of Walmart.

This really pleasant to listen to it reminded me of a lot of the novelty music that I would listen to with my mom and also "Thank god for Sluts" is going on permanant rotation.

4/5

Fine Line (2019) - Harry Styles

Genre: Pop Rock Length: 46:37 (12 Tracks)

Technically Recommended by a friend from work, me listening to this album is a long time coming.

Fine Line, is the second studio album by Harry Styles and if wikipedia is to be believed tends to have quite a bit of genre blending in it.

I don't have a lot to say about it, Styles has a fantastic voice and his energy and styling in this era is pushing more torwards an androgynous rock star image very much in the vein of Bowie and similar. Which I actually kind of like. Styles has been purposely vague on whether or not he wants to fuck dudes which is fine. And also dare I say it I think that its healthy for us as a society not to gatekeep GNC as exclusively queer. That if a straight cis gendered man wants to put on a dress well baby thats praxis. But also like do you want to make out??????? 🥺👉👈 just asking.

The music itself has this kind of almost folksy pop to it. Gentle, meloncholic, also kinda horny. Its kinda a horny album still into it through. Ultimately this experiment goes to show that I need to work on how to describe albums. es muy difficil.

5/5

A Mi Me Gusta (1993) - Los Del Rio

Genre: Latin Pop, Flamenco? (more on that later) Length: 50:45 (12 Tracks)

Because I spent to much time figuring this out the english translation is 'I Like It (1993) - Those From the River. so do with that what you will.

Los Del Rio if you don't know are the one that made the song 'Macarena' you know the one.

(I'm trying to avoid using gifs stylisticly for these blogs but one for fun shouldn't hurt. we'll see how this evolves going forward)

and talk about a One-Hit Wonder. Its the only song that pops up when you search 'Los del Rio songs'. The album is listed as there first album on the wikipedia page for A mi me gusta despite the fact that they have at least 13 other albums before that (possible 20 i'm not going to spend 2 hours delving into there discography to figure that out). and I find this the most telling is that they include three seperate version of the song on the album. It both there opener and closer and you know what it absolutely slaps so I don't blame them.

They also are listed for this album as Latin Pop and Flamenco? I was a pretty big fan of Ricky Martin and Enrique Inglesias growing up, (hi I like fucking men alot) and I'm sorry but this is definetly pop music. This is folk or traditional. Los Del Rio almost exclusively seems to make traditional latin dance music which isn't a problem I'm a big fan of ballroom dance I grew up listening to this kind of music. Baby you can light *my* fire.

Flamenco is also an interesting descriptor. Discogs tends to list there albums in the sub-genres of Flamenco and Rumba. Which seems accurate but if you played a song by them for me It wouldn't have been my first guess.

Tbf I am not an expert on the distinction between traditional spanish folk music because its complicated and the next time someone uses the phrase Dorian Mode my eyes will bleed and I really hate having to deal with bloodstains. Suffice to say this is a much more accessable type of latin dance music. Its very much easy listening, you could definetly dance to it. But its also the type of thing I could imagine your abuela playing while she makes dinner. lowkey vibes.

I realize that I have been incredible vague about wha this song sounds like so close your eyes. Imagine your sitting with your gran-tio and peeling the paper skin away from the tomatillos that he grew in his garden. your sitting on the cool concrete of the back porch and he plays some latin music from the radio as your fingers become sticky from the sappy flesh of those purple and green fruits. It smells like chopped wood and ants. As you finish your peeling Macarena begins playing. ¡Oye!

Thats what this album sounds like.

Another interesting point is that Los Del Rio is a Spanish Band and not a Mexican Band and thats really interesting to me. right? because as an American I really don't think about Spain.

Intellestial I understand that things like Latin Dance music are a product and history of Spain, that there are a culteral export its ahrd for me as a person to seperate this type of music and language from a hispanic or latino lense. Its interesting understanding that there are divergent cultures despite sharing language and other culteral facits. I assume much in the same way that being an american that speaks english I live a very different but somewhat famalier life from an australian or brit.

Deep thoughts to be had and I really need to explore international music more.

3/5

Through the Deep Dark Valley (2012) - The Oh Hellos

Genre: Folk Rock, Indie Folk Length: 39:14 (11 Tracks)

The Oh Hellos are a Brother-Sister Folk Duo and Through the Deep Dark Valley is as they say

"The Oh Hellos' first full-length album, "Through the Deep, Dark Valley," is a self-contained concept album, and so for best results should be listened to in its entirety, in chronological order, in one sitting."

I'm not going to get to deep into said concept. Just understand that its playing with the parable of the prodigal son. Oh I'm sorry are you not religious, (by which I mean speciically mean Christian). Well that sucks for you. There album after this is named after the Screwtape Letters and if you don't know what that is well clearly your a fake jesus fan. Just saying.

I tease but it is interesting to hear how the religious imagery effects the music. A few publications discuss how there is celtic influence in there folk music which is pretty easy to identify but it should also be mentioned that there is a clear gospel sound to the work. I sent the song 'I was Wrong' to my bestie and he was like bro why are you sending me gospel worship music at three o'clock in the moring.

I want to be clear that thats not a particuler problem for me. Gospel has always had a place in folk. Thats why Amazing Grace is listed as American Traditional and also I can't take upbridge at christian imagedry in work because I would also be taking pot shots at fucking lady gage. And thats mother.

This is a really nice sounding album and it really boils down to matters of taste. Do you like the Lumineers? Mumford and Sons? Of Mice and Monsters? yeah. You like that kind of layered acoustic instrumentals and round singing that intesifies torwards the end of the song. Due you like vaguely religious lyrics. Your'll love this its great.

3.5/5

Swipe Right For Vintage (2015) - Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox

Genre: Jazz (Its Complicated and will get into it) Length: 45:20 (12 Tracks)

Ok whores I need to explain what PMJ is right?

Postmodern Jukebox is a 'retro musical collective'. What does that mean. Basically the main guy Scott Bradlee, (not to be confused with the other arranger Scott Bradley from like the 30s), arranges popular songs of the modern age into retro styles. Typical Jazz, Swing, and Big Band, but he also has done songs in traditional pop, doo-wop, and even klezmer. The term jukebox is pretty clear here the vibe of the band is very much playing around with the idea of a modern pop standard. Taking beloved pop classics from the 80s-90s and contemporary and changing them into tsome twee hipster shit and I used to be really fuckign into this.

at the time in 2015 there was a small obsession with poking fun at pop music. Parody music was huge with the likes of Bart Baker and Key of Awesome regular spoofing popular music videos at the time and there was a lot of flop eras happening. Justin Bieber, Meghan Trainer, Maroon 5. There was a lot to work with. Maybe this was just me as an asshole teen but pop music kinda felt like shit so reinterpretations of popular pop songs hit the mark in one way or another.

The selection of the songs for this album, (which mind you was one of four that PMJ produced this year), is pretty solid. You have Hailey Reinhart giving us some of her most iconic performances from PMJ. We have some really incredible torch song covers as well as a personal favorite of Radioactive sung by Blake Lewis who I was definetly gay for in high school. He does a beat-boxing solo in the middle and it definetly shouldn't work but it absolutely does.

I was original going to give this album flaq for its opener. Bad Blood sung by the lovely Aubrey Logan but on further inspection it gets a pass.

Bad Blood is an increidble bold choice to open an album on. Its one of the poorest in Taylor Swifts catologue and was aggresively panned if memory served. Bad Blood is a meme song about how Taylor Swift got beef with Katy Perry. Its very much is not a well-loved pop song in the veins of Radioactive or Habits (Stay High).

Taylor Swift is also just not an artist whose style lends itself to a jazz style and yet this song manages to pull it off. Theres some very clever rhytym to it and Logan manages to rattle off the lyrics at a breakneck speed that sounds much more like scatting then it does rap which is insane. Thats just good arrangement right there and it makes the song much more captivating then I find the original to be. So good on it.

Its hard to rate this album highly. One its a cover album but also praising an album like this for me makes me feel like I'm acting like some kind of snob who needs pop music to be 'fixed' for a more refined and classy palate. But also I just really love a good jazz number and there is a famarity already with these songs. It is simpy put accesable.

3.5/5

Anyway Whores talk to you in about a week and We'll see how much music I listen to in that time.

#diary #music #thats all #nevermind #fine line #A mi me gusta #through the deep dark valley #Swipe right for vintage

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misssolitudesmusicblog · 1 year

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My Music for January 2023

Dear Tumblr,

Happy January 2023! I hope everyone is doing well. I am happy to report that I myself is well and thriving. To my surprise, I wasn’t aware that this lunar year falls under the year of the rabbit. I happen to fall under the rabbit and I feel like the Universe has blessed me personally with the music that just got released. From Lana Del Rey, SZA and just recently Kali Uchis. The leading ladies in my music love triangle are back at it again to guide me through yet another exciting year. Aside from those goddesses I just named, I would also love to mention that I have concerts and music festivals to also look forward to this year with Coachella and Cruel World Fest returning back to me and ready to feed my soul. I also have purchased tickets to The Backseat Lovers and Citizen as well. 2023 is looking like a promising year for this rabbit here. The music in January 2023 stuck a chord in me. I felt like the Universe was speaking musically. Music is definitely a love language to me and sometimes I shuffle my music library and it plays the most perfect sequence of songs I have to believe everything will in fact be okay. So here is the link to my playlist: Top Songs for 1.2023 available on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5KzHPsDLOBUqyvJBHdPrL3?si=843f29ff28d440c8

Without further adieu coming in at …

62. 666 by Sugar Candy Mountain

61. 413 by Baryy

60. Empezar De Nuevo (Que Pena) by Nina Cobham

59. Baby Pillz by Dizzy Fae

58. Fire & Desire by Raury

57. Try Again by Oddisee

56. Let’s Make a Mistake Tonight by Tennis

55. Only over You by Fleetwood Mac

54. GOATED.by Armani White, Denzel Curry

53. Moon Jumper by Helvetia

52. White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplaine

51. I’ll Miss You by Anthony Green

50. The Art of Letting Go by gnash

49. Never 4get me by Indigo De souza, Ethan Baechtold,Owen Stone

48. Like Smoke by Amy Winehouse

47. You in January by The Wonder Years

46. There’s a New Day Coming by Menahan Street Band, Saundra Willimas

45. SLEEPWALK by MOTHICA

44. Home by Modern Baseball

43. From the Hips by Cursive

42. Trash by Fuckin Whatever

41. Pretty When You Cry Lana Del Rey

40. Comfort, Edge by Helena Deland

39. I Know The End by Phoebe Bridgers

38. Most Of The Time by Turnover

37. Silencer by mewithoutYou

36. Even When I’m Not With You by Pierce The Veil

35. Untitled by Knuckle Puck

34. Deadringer by Knocked Loose

33. Head In The Ceiling Fan by Title Fight

32. Turn Away by Skinshape

31. Vacations by BOYO

30. Milk by Kings of Leon

29. Empty Space by Juntin Clancy, Slug (of Atmosphere)

28. Stressed by Doechii

27. Doctor, My Eyes by Khamari

26. I’m It by Kota the Friend

25. Fue mejor by Kali Uchis, SZA

24. Magpie by Lava La Rue

23. In the Morning by Mac Miller, Syd, Thundercat

22. Grateful by El Michels Affair, Black Thought

21. 48bars. By StainedTapes

20. CYCLES by R.A.P.Ferreira

19. 505 by Nessa Barrett

18. Space Cowboy by flipturn

17. Prelude 3.0 by Slipknot

16. Earth by Mac Miller, Future

15. Yes To Heaven(slowed+reverb)-remix by viral audios, slowed viral audios

14. Self Control by Frank Ocean

13. When I’m Small by Phantogram

12. Lemon Grass by MF DOOM

11. Miss you so by ocean sixteen

10. We all try by ocean sixteen

9. Blue World by Mac Miller

8. Empty by Metric

7. What We Had by The Drums

6. We Are Gods by SAULT

5. Champions by SAULT

4. God Is Love by SAULT

3. Joy Ride by Dash George

2. SOS by SZA

1. I Wish you Roses by Kali Uchis

Wishing you all a Happy February and a great rest of 2023. I will continue to blog here throughout the year of all the musical experiences I encounter.

Yours truly,

Miss Solitude

#january #Spotify #music playlist #music appreciation

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agiroflee98 · 1 year

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I posted 4,639 times in 2022

That's 4,087 more posts than 2021!

46 posts created (1%)

4,593 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@humanransome-note

@ohheyitsokay

@softpedropascal

@pettyprocrastination

@wanderrghost

I tagged 2,991 of my posts in 2022

Only 36% of my posts had no tags

#pedro pascal characters - 1,647 posts

#gifs - 839 posts

#pedro pascal - 795 posts

#fanart - 744 posts

#amazing - 730 posts

#din djarin - 600 posts

#the mandalorian - 578 posts

#grogu djarin - 371 posts

#beautiful brown eyes - 287 posts

#ezra prospect - 270 posts

Longest Tag: 106 characters

#yeah sure put him with the girl who called the people in the covert that he grew up in 'religious zealots'

My Top Posts in 2022:

Day 8 - Match 👕👕

Javier Peña & Steve Murphy wearing matching shirts.

30 notes - Posted October 8, 2022

"Pedro's Picks" Playlist 💜👑🎶

Below is a list of links to all of the songs that Pedro mentioned in CJSW Radio's "Breaking Techniques" Episode from 5/22/22. (I don't have Spotify or anything like that - I just listen to music on YouTube like a weirdo). Man does Pedro have AMAZING taste in music. 🎶

Deee-Lite Theme (Deee-Lite)

Time is Tight (Booker T & the M.G.'s)

Come See About Me (The Supremes)

New York City by Day (Thomas Newman)

Puro Teatro (La Lupe)

Miss Celie's Blues (Quincy Jones)

Fight the Power (Public Enemy)

Be My Baby (The Ronettes)

Suzanne (Nina Simone)

Paloma Negra (Chavela Vargas)

The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face (Roberta Flack)

Iko Iko (The Dixie Cups)

Soul Makossa (Manu Dibango)

...and finally, for the grand finale, Pedro's #1 Favorite Song Ever...

Purple Rain (Prince) 💜🎶☔️

I'm also gonna leave a link to an NME article that talks about Pedro's "Soundtrack of My Life," where he lists songs like the first song he remembers listening to (Ring My Bell - Anita Ward), the first song that he fell in love with (White Wedding - Billy Idol), & the song that he wants to be played at his funeral (which again is Purple Rain which is no surprise at all 💜). Pedro has had a really interesting life, & I thought that it was cool to have him tell it through music. 🎶

42 notes - Posted May 22, 2022

Day 2 - Scurry 💨

Little Grogu scurrying into his Papa's arms. <3 <3

(Tbh I would do the same if I ever saw Mando reaching toward me)

54 notes - Posted October 2, 2022

whenever i'm feeling sad or whenever i'm having a bad day i will now think of pedro pascal saying the word ✨wizard ✨over & over again in a recording booth.

154 notes - Posted January 26, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

There's not really a point to this post - this is just an observation I've made regarding the Try Guys & their recent rebranding.

Before the Ned scandal, the Try Guys had a 4-color scheme & each person was associated with a specific color. Ned's color(s) was red/pink.

After Ned got kicked out, the Try Guys company/brand entered the "orange" era.

See the full post

563 notes - Posted October 10, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #man i reblogged i lot of pedro stuff huh?

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nutsonline · 2 years

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All music bob dylan discography

Why is there no mention of it here? - Any important reason why it should be listed here? There are 138 regular and 177 unofficial compilations on Discogs. LucilleBall ( talk) 15:09, (UTC) A record label (I don't know which one) - if it is a regular it must have been Columbia/Sony, as it is Dylan's label since the beginning.

Village Explainer ( talk) 15:52, 11 July 2013 (UTC) Dylan Revisited Ī record label (I don't know which one) released a 5CD box set called Dylan Revisited: All Time Best that was released in Japan only. "hard rain" is a live album not studio albumĭoes someone have this information? Shouldn't it be included in the chart?

What happened to "Hard Rain" 1976 just after Desire.? - Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.216.108.34 ( talk) 09:46, 28 January 2012 (UTC) Why no mention of Sony / Legacy Record's compilation series: "Playlist: The Very Best Of Bob Dylan 60s / 70s / 80s"? Johnwulfsohn ( talk) 18:50, (UTC)

9 Blonde on Blonde Release Date is, not 20 June 1966Ĭolumbia sweden released a special 2 disc edition when dylan got the polar prize -Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.208.215.216 ( talk) 11:15, 16 September 2010 (UTC) Playlist.

8 Dylan album and The Basement Tapes are compilations.

5 Upcoming releases in The Bootleg Series.

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León Gieco is not only an inescapable figure to think about the social influence of music but also to understand how a handful of words can pierce into the collective unconscious to transpolate the work of an individual. His words, arranged in a huge discography of 40 albums, crossed Argentine music in a definitive way, making him one of the most relevant popular singers of the last 50 years. A musician who, through his songs, shared the crudest story and with the greatest airs of justice in the country.

#All music bob dylan discography

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feelingofcontent · 3 years

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DNP Rewatch: A Day in the Life of Dan and Phil in London!

Date video was published: 08/27/2013 (X)

DNP Main Channel Rewatch: 192

The second Day in the Life video, after the original back in March of 2012!

0:00 - filming this on 8/21, so several days before it gets posted

0:15 - well I’m glad Phil still has feet, lol

0:22 - still can’t believe they just filmed out their window at the first London flat (from a privacy for themselves perspective)

0:26 - the builders and the drills had already started at this point! how did they deal with that for 3.5 more years?!

0:35 - the wirrow art is still down off the wall behind Dan’s bed from when it fell all the way back in June when he was filming Ironic Appreciation

1:00 - Dan’s little smile 😭

1:04 - the caricature from Phil & Dan in NEW YORK!

1:09 - they had just been to Summer in the City a couple weeks ahead of this

1:15 - “this is very important to my happiness” some subtle messaging there with the rainbow from Phil?

1:17 - god every Dan smile in the video when he looks at Phil. I can’t. 🥺

1:27 - I love that they’re watching Bake Off.

1:56 - Phil sticking the little cat sticker to Dan’s arm is one of my favorite moments in this video

2:25 - pretty Phil eyes

2:26 - nice transition! Also, who do they have a photo of in their bathroom window?!

2:36 - Dan’s discovery of the cat sticker on the piano! I love this clip. (There’s a Twilight sticker there too, lol.)

2:39 - Phil looks so proud of himself and I love Dan’s “It did not improve it.”

2:49 - Phil did tweet that they were filming this on that day.

3:09 - more Dan smiles and Phil’s absolute hatred of the leather shirt from the very start!

3:16 - the wardrobe contrast moment is great

4:15 - more drills!

4:24 - Dan making Phil take them to the counter and talk to people while he just randomly films in the shop 😂

4:48 - for awkward people who don’t like going outside, they seem to be surprisingly comfortable filming and talking to the camera in public spaces

4:59 - guessing that scares Dan because of his falling-up-the-escalator incident

5:12 - Dan deciding that this was definitely worth filming and then them leaving it in. Fantastic.

6:00 - I’m with Dan here...it’s just ads, lol

6:26 - going to a nerdy shop just like in the first DITL video!

6:34 - “and then we could act out one of those fan fictions I read with a tentacle. Do you reckon they sell tentacles?” DAN. 👀 (and yet Dan is the one that will end up in the schoolgirl costume...)

7:03 - I love the editing with the slow-motion of the guy in the background who noticed the camera

7:23 - Phil caught spinning on the stool is adorable

7:46 - Phil singing! His singing voice is always so much deeper than I expect.

7:56 - Phil doesn’t like the main feature of bubble tea apparently? Why would you get it if you don’t like the tapioca?

8:14 - “it’s a giant blue cock” 😂

8:30 - Dan tells Phil to stop filming children and then immediately films children, hahaha

8:39 - I love Dan just shouting encouragement at Phil during this part and the dramatic background music

9:10 - I’ve always thought Phil says “new clothes for a wedding” here, but now I think he’s actually saying “new clothes for READING” (like, for Reading Festival, which they attend to do stuff for Radio 1 just a few days after this). That makes so much more sense!

9:25 - this is hilarious; all of Phil’s clothes at this point really were from Topman, huh?

9:34 - okay, Dan looks kinda good in this hat. Fight me.

9:41 - the space coat! And of course Dan thinks Phil looks good in it. 🥺

9:52 - the completely synchronous “oh my god”

10:06 - lol, because DNP also have a giant One Direction poster...in their bathroom.

10:17 - “that’s where I try to do magic” alright, Chris is funny!

10:25 - you can tell they’re not as comfortable; they are much quieter filming in the pub then anywhere else in public that they were in this video.

10:33 - of course the raspberry beer is “so Phil”. Always with the sweet things. 😊

10:40 - I can’t believe he didn’t notice the sticker all day!

10:57 - Phil’s “did we pay you” and Chris saying “not enough” 😂

11:08 - just making up a little song together about the hallway, of course

11:22 - so many cute photos from Playlist! They had attended that all the way back in March.

12:15 - them cooking together gets me every time 😭😭

12:22 - Dan just can’t keep a straight face after Phil giggles

12:29 - Phil seal and Dan whale! They had been in their kitchen all the way back in Halloween Baking: Brownie Graveyard! (So many DNP objects around their house all the time. So many.)

12:38 - cooking together and making up little songs about it! Like, they just do that. (And I love that Phil is still wearing the sombrero.

12:51 - the whole cooking and dinner scene is probably my favorite section of this video

13:07 - this word art conversation is so random and yet I can totally see them discussing stuff like that all the time.

13:32 - this is adorable. Also, Phil fights like such a little brother.

13:45 - I really love that in the DITL we see that DNP each spend some time to themselves too. I relate so much to that and needing quiet time for just me.

13:55 - Dan piano playing, my beloved.

14:17 - got to have the joint conclusion!

I love this video. It’s so hard for me to choose my favorite DITL - they’re all great.

Like I mentioned, a few days after this was filmed but before it was published, DNP went to Reading festival for Radio 1. Dan was particularly excited because that’s the festival he attended a lot as a teenager (1, 2, 3).

#dan and phil #dnp #dnpRewatch #amazingphil #daniel howell #phil lester #danisnotonfire #amazingphil videos #A Day in the Life of Dan and Phil in London!

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sanstropfremir · 2 years

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Since you mentioned Woozi’s Ruby being too short (which I 100% agree with - I have vibed with plenty of songs with weird song structures, but if it’s too short to even appreciate the song I have a hard time getting over that particular flaw), what are your thoughts on K-pop’s latest trend toward shorter songs?

I’ve noticed a lot of songs lately under 3 minutes that are missing huge chunks of normal song structure (like a bridge, three choruses, etc) without replacing it with anything interesting. Songs that come to mind are Bambam’s Slow Mo, Enhypens Blessed-Cursed, Somi’s Dumb Dumb, etc. Some of them are better than others, and I do think you can do a good short song if done right, but they all leave me unsatisfied at the end of the day so far. The only short song I’ve loved recently was Charli XCX’s Good One’s, which obviously isn’t even kpop. I know Tik Tok and the streaming model are partially to blame, but I’m hoping the trend doesn’t continue because I just don’t think most song writers/composers/producers are able to pull it off in a satisfying way.

i hate it, bring back the five to seven minute epic, no more of this pathetic streaming optimized bullshit

ok but actually i do agree with you, my main problem with songs being under three minutes is that they usually aren't able to pull off the satisfaction that comes with a traditional song structure. i did actually go through my spotify liked songs from the last year and make a playlist to see if there were any patterns in terms of date songs were released or artist or whatever and honestly there aren't really any in the 30ish kpop songs i dumped in there. so obviously there are a fair few that i really like, notably:

changmin - chocolate (2:52)

boa - nega dola (2:56)

boa - woman (2:50)

skz - god's menu (2:48)

luna - madonna (2:51)

shinee - superstar (2:55)

shinee - closer (2:43)

nct 127 - baby don't like it (2:39)

nct 127 - sun and moon (2:39)

the rose - candy (2:45)

the rose - red (2:56)

woosung - hangover (2:27)

chungha - killing me (2:44)

kangta - maybe (2:46)

onlyoneof - gaslighting (2:49)

monsta x - one day (2:26)

monsta x - someone's someone (2:21)

kang daniel - waves (2:45)

woodz - sun or suck (2:50)

to name a few. some of these frankly it's a CRIME that they're so short (sun or suck, baby don't like it, sun and moon, candy, one day, woman, killing me), and some of them are the perfect length (waves, maybe, chocolate, closer, superstar). but even with most of these i still feel like they're too short. i often like to luxuriate in songs so i will play stuff on repeat regardless of length, but my favourite songs tend to be those in the upper three minute to four minutes long, because there's just more time for it to be. if done well obviously a short song can get there (i agree about good ones, that's a great song), but a lot of them either feel like they're rushing or like they're just empty all together. i'm not really being very sophisticated or official about my terminology here but i like a lot of space in my music? at least the stuff i listen to on a daily basis. tvxq's before u go (4:33) is probably one of my favourite songs of all time and most of my top listened of 2021 were between 3:45 and 4:30ish, with a couple five-six minute outliers.

it isn't really that hot of a take but i do think streaming has fucked up the music industry significantly. aside from the abysmally low royalties issue, the whole obsession with numbers and charts and whatever is just so so toxic and unindicative of the actual appeal of a song, especially within the kpop sphere. i also think tiktok is a fucking blight and is giving people brainrot and it's also really fucked with the whole streaming thing. i too am very much hoping the trend doesn't continue, but it could very well be an extended turn back to song lengths to pre-1970. for most of the first couple decades of recorded sound songs have been under three minutes; i distinctly remember a lot of 50s jazz standards and motown songs being two-three minutes. however, these are all still following standardized song structures and honestly, i don't have the same faith in producers nowadays as i do in jazz and motown musicians.

#kpop questions #this is more about music in general than kpop but whatever #hanya's probably going to jump in the replies of this i really don't have a lot of smart thoughts about music structure and theory #discovering chocolate was under three minutes broke my fucking BRAIN #same with maybe and nega dola i could have sworn they were all longer and that means theyre perfect length!!#i know the average song length is like 3:30 or something like that #but my brain is still stuck on the back of my 2007 2gb second gen ipod nano package that said the average song length was 4:12 #im never going to forget that as long as i fuckin live it is LODGED in my brain #also yea that was my first ipod. i still have it and it still works. its like a weird time capsule.#i used it until i got an ipod touch in like 2012 i think. which i still also have and i believe still also works #my first music player was a sony discman though. that poor boy unfortunately does not work anymore i dropped it one too many times #ok enough about me being fuckin old #now i just have my phone and a spotify account ive had since 2014 #text #answers #ok my tiktok beef is actually mostly with the whole current trend of getting information via video rather than text #im not talking like. the news. although i would rather read that anyways. but like. diy instructional/recipe/tutorial type stuff #videos are SO disruptive to work flow when you're actually doing something like cooking or working with your hands #you have so little control over how+when the info is given to you and the fact that you can't see it all at once drives me up the wall #i read very fast and sitting through a video is honest to god a waste of my time #also what the fuck is with recipe videos being asmr. fuck that i HATE asmr. why are you two things i hate the most #just type out the goddamn ingredients in a blog post like god intended

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Lean On Me | drabble

Based on this request: Hi. Can you do a Min Yoongi scenario where they’re like coworkers and they also travel to work together among their other coworkers and y/n develops a crush on him but she tries to ignore it because he’s intimidating and cold. But little does she know that he has a crush on her too. And one day she has to sit next to him in the minivan and she ends up falling off to sleep and wakes up with her head resting on his shoulder and his head resting on her head. Can you make it fluffy. I hope it wasn’t weirdly specific. ^_~

Pairing: yoongi x reader

Genre: fluff

Note: I swear, I kept on reading this request because it’s so cute aaaaaaa. Thank you for sending this request last last month, I think. Sorry for only writing it now. I've recently started my job and I had really little to no time to write. :( Shshs,, thanks for waiting for me shshs. Enjoy!! I adore y’all!!

Who knew this wedding that you and your team were assigned to handle would be a little more amazing than the previous ones?

You have been working for this catering company for 6 years now. You've organized over a hundred gatherings, birthdays, wedding receptions, debuts and more. What you've always looked forward to the most was the satisfied smiles of the celebrants; making them feel like they're in their own fantasy or fairytale. If you were happy then, you were even happier when Yoongi joined the team.

Yoongi is the sound director; he always has a playlist perfect for every event and even for the person/celebrant. He is really good at what he does, he is hardworking and someone easy to get along with. You admire him for that, because he’s kind and very soft-spoken.

Despite being the event handler, you’ve never really interacted with him personally other than the office work talk like, “what song do you think will fit the theme?”, “Yoongi-ssi, is everything set?” or like, “Nice working with you!” Other than that; practically none, both your awkward asses won’t let you interact.

Little did you know, a wedding will change that.

Today was a wedding beyond your experience; it was a beach wedding held in Busan. Since your catering company was in Seoul, you and your team had to take the company’s mini bus and endure 4.5 hours of traveling. It is kinda good tho because you get to mentally prepare yourself for any issue that may occur during the event. Fighting~ you thought as you boarded the van.

The day went by nicely and ended with smiles and cheering from the audience to the newly-wedded couple. It was fun. The family of both parties are very fun and welcoming, they even asked your catering team to eat and join the games. Have I mentioned it was fun? Because it is! You became friends with the bride and her maid of honor and talked about how the DJ guy keeps looking at you whenever he plays a song for the wedded couple.

You quickly denied because he’s probably just being a little strict or annoyed that you were not being professional or whatever. But still, the day was too great to be ruined by a stare.

As of 8:43pm, the guests have already left the venue; your team was loading the van with the equipment you used earlier. You yawned whilst checking for any left belongings; after knowing there’s none, you stretched before proceeding to board the mini bus. When you got there, the only vacant seat was beside none other than your crush, Min Yoongi. You mentally slapped yourself, this isn’t high school, Y/n. fucking snap out of it. You thought as you slowly and nervously approached the vacant seat. It seems that he didn’t notice that you have taken the seat beside him because he just kept his gaze far on his side window; that’s when you noticed he was wearing his airpods. You sighed, another chance of talking to him; wasted.

46 mins into the drive, you were already dozing off from the draining events of today. Yoongi noticed how your awkward position would cause you a stiff neck so he, being the gentleman he is, lent his immaculate broad shoulder for you to rest on. On the outside, it would look like he didn’t care at all; he is really good at keeping a poker face. But on the inside, he is so giddy; he wants to scream, kick his blanket, punch his pillow and hug it right after that. His crush, the most independent woman he knows, is practically leaning on him or like depending on him like he is some sort of her safe haven.

After 2 hrs, the mini bus made its stop because the driver needed a bathroom break. The halt made you flinch out of your dreamland and the strong but sweet scent of sunflower invaded your nose which followed your knowledge on the thing that was pressed heavily on your head; turns out, Yoongi had fallen asleep too. You were shocked at how close you two were, but you didn’t dare to move; instead, you closed your eyes and smiled, maybe he is not as cold and intimidating as he seems, you thought as you unconsciously leaned into him more for warmth.

What more could you look forward to after this?

#yoongi x reader #bts x reader #bts yoongi #bts x you #bts x y/n #yoongi x you #yoongi x y/n #bts drabble #bts fluff #yoongi drabble #yoongi edit #yoongi icons #bts x army #yoongi x army

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sherl-grey · 2 years

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I posted 1,813 times in 2021

228 posts created (13%)

1585 posts reblogged (87%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 7.0 posts.

I added 1,937 tags in 2021

#doctor who - 785 posts

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Longest Tag: 137 characters

#but obviously instead of a romance she’s just there to tell spaceman he’s a fucking dumbo and alarm the hell out of the current companion

My Top Posts in 2021

literally every night i get stressed about choosing between watching dw, reading dw fic or writing dw fic 😅 it’s possible i have a problem

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look i’m so tired i’m practically hallucinating but: alec hardy is nine in ten’s body

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me: haha this song is gonna hurt clicks “add to playlist”

me, listening to playlist and crying: okay so what the fuck did i do that for

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if you all could pick one episode (or set of episodes) and change the incarnation of the Doctor in it (companion optional too) without consequence to series overarching plot or anything, which episode and Doctor would you pick?

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Shirley G what's your favourite Eleventh Doctor episode rewrite with Rose? Can be an existing fic, or just an idea of an episode you would have loved Rose to be in from Eleven's run! ☺️

hello loup!! this is so tough oh my... once again i'm lamenting my lack of organization, haha. i need to find a better way to save fics... apologies in advance, this will probably be long!

so, i might just be blanking, but i'm not even sure how many single episode rewrites i can think of with Eleven--a lot of them are either full series rewrites OR original plot + a "Day of the Doctor" rewrite at the end (yeah... here's one called "Time Rewritten" that's also Eight/Rose where Rose wakes up in Eleven's TARDIS with no memory and then gets stuck in the Time War, and here's one called "Three Doctors and a Baby" from the fantastic Tentoo/Rose and Eleven/Rose series Consequences, and another Time War one called "Battle in the Sky" that's mostly EightRose but ends with Day of the Doctor and Time of the Doctor... it's a good trope!)

that being said! the rewrite I go to most often for pure joy is "Until The End" by mltrefry, which is part of the "Run with You" multi-series rewrite. Specifically for Eleven's chunk of the series, I love "Vincent and the Doctor" (chapters 9 and 10) as well as.... I honestly think this is either original or maybe an EU takeaway, but there's an Eight/Rose and Eleven/Rose episode called "Before the Worst" (chapters 11 and 12) that I ADORE. This series also has Eleven show up in Blink in a previous fic which is incredibly sweet.

honorable mentions that came to mind:

there is a single episode pairing rewrite of the astronaut duo by no_nutcracker that i just read! ("if i believe in One thing")

there’s also one “i’m at odds and ends but that’s me” by CupofSonic if you like OT3 (tentoo is still here)

i absolutely refuse to read this one ever again because i am emotionally traumatized but here's the god complex ("in blackwater woods")

"when the wolf runs" is fantastic angst-with-a-happy-ending that isn't necessarily a rewrite but certain episodes are addressed and redone? essentially, Rose is woven in to Eleven's overarching plot really well and it's a great fix-it for River as well

i know this fic from the series "Tyler Family Adventures" has an Eleventh Hour rewrite at the very least; it's Tentoo/Rose at first and they actually semi-raise Amy growing up, but it shifts to Eleven/Rose when... well, you can probably guess.

"Out of Order" by lastincurableromantic also pops in on some canon adventures without doing full rewrites! we get a tiny glimpse of Venice and post-The Big Bang at the Pond wedding at the very least

I'm sure I'm still missing some good ones; I know there a couple Doctor's Wife rewrites (Sonic and I and someone else? maybe multiple someone elses?) in existence and that episode is always a pleasure since Rose and the TARDIS obviously adore each other, and I really want to read a reunion that takes place during or after "Hide." The line about "it's not a ghost story, it's a love story" and yearning across time and space... that's it. That's ElevenRose. I think one might exist but I keep losing the link.... Sorry for the novel-length answer but there are just so many good fics!

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the-writers-bookshelf · 3 years

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For fab Friday! I just started a new WIP (horror/romance) and I am obsessed with the main couple. Their names are Blair and Alex, and I haven't gotten a chance to write much for them yet (I'm only on page 46) but I did get to write a few scenes of them. This is my favorite so far :)

(Sorry it's so long)

It’s two weeks before Halloween, and I’m eighteen years old, frowning at the list of colleges on my laptop. The screen is too bright in my dark room, and there’s no end to the names and choices, and I don’t know if I’m smart enough for any of this. For any of these schools.

“Knock, knock.”

My head snaps up as my laptop screen snaps down. Force of habit. I don’t want my parents to know that I’m looking into college. Not because they wouldn’t let me go, but because I’m not sure I have it in me to disappoint them when I inevitably choose not to go.

The voice came from my window, though, not my door.

When I see him, grinning at me through the glass, I hop up immediately and yank the window open – because being cool is overrated and I’m glad for the distraction. “God, it’s cold out,” I say, pulling him inside. His fingers are chilly when I grab them. They’re always chilly. He has ice water instead of blood, I always say.

“Yeah,” he puffs, sticking one frozen hand under the hem of my shirt so the cold makes me jump.

“Dick!” I laugh.

He grins. “Wasn’t this song in Twilight?”

I pretend to listen to the music coming from my phone speaker, as if I’m not sure. (I am sure.) (It is from Twilight.) Then I shrug. “It’s a good song.”

He snorts and collapses on my bed, uninvited. “Are you Team Edward or Team Jacob?” he asks, grabbing one of my pillows and stuffing it under his head.

“I’m team ‘don’t mess up my bed’, actually.”

“Ha-ha.” He looks at my laptop, then gives me an eyebrow. “What were you looking at?”

My pause is probably suspicious, but really, I’m just not sure I want to talk about college again. Not to my genius boyfriend who thinks I can do whatever I set my mind to – because I can’t. Some things just aren’t achievable, and that’s life.

Clearly, his big brain doesn’t automatically go to ‘college applications’ when he sees his boyfriend snapping his laptop shut. He bolts upright, a scandalized look on his face. “Blair Zachary David!”

“Oh, no – I wasn’t—” But before I can even finish my sentence, he’s got the laptop open. I cross my arms and wait for him to look at me. At least if I look mad, he might have the decency not to mention it.

When he does look at me, though, he takes in my frown and my folded arms, and the fact that I’m still standing here instead of crawling into the bed next to him, and he sighs.

“Can I just say one thing?” he asks, closing my computer and pushing it away.

I press my lips together but nod. “One thing.”

“If you do decide to go to college…” he says, enunciating the ‘if’ so I know he isn’t pressuring me. “It won’t change anything.”

I make a face. “Isn’t that what college is supposed to do? Change everything?”

He rolls his eyes and tugs at the bottom of my tee-shirt. “With us, I mean. It won’t change anything about us. We’ll still see each other. It won’t hurt us.”

“I never said it would.” Even as it comes out of my mouth, cold and clammed-up and far too angry, I know I’ve screwed myself. He reads me so well I might as well be one of the millions of books in his room. And that wasn’t exactly subtle.

He tilts his head down and looks at me from the tops of his eyes, like, ‘caught ya.’

“Blair.”

“What.”

“It won’t. It won’t touch us.”

“How do you know?”

He stands up and pulls my shirt again. He’s always doing that, doing these little pestering things. Pokes, and pulls, and touches. He’s all hands, I swear.

“I know,” he says seriously. “Because it’s us. You and me. And nothing touches us, Blair. We’ll be okay.”

I step around him and climb onto the bed, grabbing my phone and scrolling further down the playlist. “Anyway, that’s not why I’m not going,” I mutter. And it’s true. My fears about our relationship are only a drop in the ocean of reasons why I can’t go to school. In a way, I know he’s right about us. We’re time-tested. We’re fireproof.

“Then why not?” he asks, sitting on the floor by my legs.

“You said one thing.”

“Blair, come on…”

I shake my head and look at the ceiling, at the fake popcorn ceiling and the familiar crack that’s been there my entire life. If I look anywhere else, if I look at him, my resolve will crumble and I’ll tell him it’s because I’m not smart enough or confident enough to do this, and we’ll have to go through the whole argument again, and I don’t want to. I don’t want him to look me in the eye and say I’m smart, and talented, and amazing. And I don’t want to see how much he believes it himself.

I can’t go. And that’s that.

“I don’t want to talk about this right now,” I say. “Please.”

He exhales deeply, and then I feel him climbing into the bed and laying down beside me. “Okay,” he says, giving in. (For now.) “Okay.”

“Thanks.” I grab his hand and squeeze it gratefully. Cold fingers.

He rolls over to face me. “Oh. What happened in gym today?” he asks, like he just remembered something. “I wasn’t there, but Cath told me you almost got into a fight?”

Ah, the other thing I don’t want to talk about. It’s like he has a gift for this. “Almost being the operative word.”

“Blair!” He pokes me in the rib. I swat his hand away and rub the spot where his bony, little finger jabbed me.

“What?” I huff. “Nothing happened.”

“Luckily. We’re eighteen, you know. Adults. Fights can be serious shit now.”

“Tell that to Jamie Buck.”

“Jamie Buck?” He wrinkles his nose like he just smelled something rotten. “The homophobe?”

“Yeah, exactly.”

“Oh. What did he—”

“You don’t want to know.”

“Oh.”

We lay in silence for a while, both of us pensive and frowning at the ceiling. The song changes again. Lana Del Rey. One of her slow ones.

Out of the blue, he blurts out, “I wish I had been there when Jamie opened his dumb mouth.”

I actually laugh. It’s probably rude, but I can’t help it. “What are you going to do, five-foot-five?” I ask, still giggling. “Bite his ankle?”

His mouth falls open in offence. “Et tu, Brute?”

“What?”

“Et tu brute. Julius Caesar?”

“What?”

“Julius Caesar, the—the Roman dictator? Got stabbed like a thousand times—”

“I know who Julius Caesar is.”

“Well, when he was dying, he said ‘et tu, Brute’ to his best friend, Brutus. Who also stabbed him. It means like, ‘even you, Brutus?’ Like, I can’t believe you, of all people, would betray me.’”

“Oh.”

“Yeah.”

“How do you even know that?”

He stares at me. “It’s—I don’t know! It’s a thing! Even if it wasn’t a thing, it’s a meme. How do you not know?”

I shove him. “I’m, like, two years behind on memes. You know this about me.”

“That’s because you spend all your time in here, brooding. And anyway, Julius Caesar was stabbed to death, like, two thousand years ago. So…”

“Shut up.”

“Just saying.”

“I hate you.”

“I know.” He pauses. “Hey.”

“Yeah?” But he doesn’t say anything. Not until I turn to look at him. Our noses are almost touching. I wouldn’t even have to move to kiss him.

I’m seriously considering it when he says, “We would be okay, you know. If you decided to go.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah.” He kisses my forehead then, and his lips are warm and soft. How can his lips be so warm when his fingers are so cold? “We could be that annoying couple everyone hates but is secretly jealous of. The ones who are always on video calls, even in class, wearing headphones so the professor doesn’t notice.”

“That’ll be easier for me than it will be for you,” I point out. “I wear hoodies every day.”

“My point exactly.”

It hasn’t escaped my notice that we are, most definitely, talking about it again. But I’m looking at him now, at his shaggy hair, and his button nose, and his pink mouth, and my resolve has crumbled. As I knew it would.

“Just think about it,” he asks. “Please?”

“Yeah, yeah. Okay.”

When he smiles at me, I swear my heart is an electric thing trying to zap its way out of my chest.

HALLOWEEN???

HORROR/ROMANCE??

SIGN ME UP!!! TAKE MY FIRST BORN!!! I'M SO DOWN FOR THIS!! :D

fantastic job!!!!

#asks #fab friday writers #captain-kieren

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kuinliekkienroihu · 3 years

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I (crysuzumushi, haha) am working on answering your ask game prompts, you picked two of my very favorites, thank you! I'm gonna ask you to do Kaname too! And Byakuya.

Okay, thanks for the ask!! Sorry it took so long to answer, i wrote a novel. Also sorry for all the spelling and grammar mistakes, English isn’t my first language

Kaname:

1. Favorite thing about them

How he always seeks to act according to his sense of justice. Also he's one of the best written characters in the entire series. He's very complex, which makes him feel kinda like an actual person with understandable actions caused by his past. There are a lot more things, but i'm not good at putting things to words so yeah.

2. Least favorite thing about them

How underutilized he was as a character. I'm really glad there's more of him in cfyow, even though i've only read the first part

3. Favorite line

" I follow the path least soaked in blood. The path I walk is justice."

4. BrOTP

I have many, mostly Shuhei, Aizen, Gin and Sajin

5. OTP

6. NOTP

hmm, i don't like him and Aizen romantically at all, same goes for Sajin

7. Random headcanon

He has a plant garden in Las Noches in which he grows, among many other things, the ingredients for Aizen's tea, which is Kaname's secret special mix of herbs. Aizen really misses the tea Kaname made for him.

8. Unpopular opinion

He did nothing wrong, or rather, all he did was (more or less) justified

9. Song i associate with them

10. Favorite picture of them

This is my favorite too

Byakuya:

1. Favorite thing about them

Yes. I love every single thing about him. Even the things others would consider as flaws are perfect. I really like how calm and collected he is regardless of the situation, he's intelligent and calculating.

A very well written character with, in my opinion, the best character development. Especially his relationship with Rukia from ignoring her out of pain (since she looks almost identical to Hisana), protecting her to keep a promise, letting her be executed to keep another promise to genuinely caring about her and saving her life in many occasions, clearly regretting what he did to her and trying to compensate for his actions.

Kubo wrote his development extremely well, in the end of the series he's objectively a better person than in the beginning, but his personality didn't change much. He's still the same overly serious, stuck up asshole we know and I love him for it.

Another thing I love the most about him is the fact that he's another walking contradiction. But somehow, these contradictions make a paradox or a perfect harmony without cancelling each other. Kubo did an amazing job making him have many layers in his character. There's this line from a book (had to look it up, the book is called "the chrysanthemum and the sword") that the author used to describe Japanese people, I think I read that in someone's ig story and it got stuck in my head since it reminded me of Byakuya so much, and in my honest opinion, describes him rather thoroughly, especially second, third and fourth ones. His zanpakuto, which is one of the infinite reasons I love him, being fully portrayed by the second one "both militaristic and aesthetic" being combined into the beautiful but deadly weapon Senbonzakura is.

"both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways"

When you think about it, he has the most fitting zanpakuto for his personality compared to the other shinigami and the way he uses it is one of the tiny details which make him, him.

His spot as a captain and the head of the Kuchiki clan is in my opinion fully earned (rest of the nobles (except Yoruichi) can go fuck themselves) (sorry Tara, ignore this please lol). He is hardworking and precise, almost workaholic, has trained hard from a very young age and puts duty above everything. But he still has a hidden "work mode: off" -side which we see occasionally as cracking a dry joke or the wakame taishi fuckery in general. Latter being, in my honest thoughts, hilarious and adorable.

There is a lot more but i literally can't list everything. This is already a hell of an essay.

2. Least favorite thing about them.

My answer is probably as you can expect: none.

There is one thing i don't really like, but it's about the writing.

!!TYBW SPOILERS!!

In the beginning of the arc i think that immediately releasing bankai, especially when he knew it was gonna be sealed, was out of character and i would have been very upset if he stayed dead, since the action which resulted in that was not something he would do.

3. Favorite line

“If it’s for the sake of my pride there’s nothing I won’t destroy.”

I know it’s from a filler but this line just sums his whole character, personality and motivations up so well.

4. BrOTP

I have so many, i want him to have friends lol. But to point out the most significant ones i'd say Rukia, Renji, Kenpachi, Toshiro and Ichigo

5. OTP

The only one i really ship him with is Nanao. Hisana is kind of “it’s canon and i’m fine with it.” I haven’t seen enough of her to form an opinion about the ship, but it’s obvious how much Bya loved her and it’s so sweet.

6. NOTP

Okay, i have never mentioned this before since i know many of my followers/mutuals ship them. Renji. The only ship I. Can't. Stand.

Like, platonically? Yes, they're bros. But romantically or especially sexually? No. Fuck no.

I don't care if you ship them, good for you, but please tag the stuff so it gets filtered.

7. Random headcanon

He sleeptalks a lot. And it's not mumbling, he talks the same way as when he's awake but it's absolute nonsense.

Byakuya, asleep: Do not eat the drawer.

Hisana, awake: *watches him in utter confusion*

Byakuya, still asleep: Give him a pink tricycle.

Hisana: To whom?

Byakuya: Head captain Yamamoto

Hisana: *trying not to laugh*

Another hc that i have is that he is a closet metalhead and likes especially power- and symphonic metal (this might sound very weird if you know nothing about this kind of music lol)

8. Unpopular opinion

His actions in the soul society arc were understandable. He was put between the bark and the tree (i hope you get what i mean) and had to choose from just letting things happen and going against central 46 and all of soul society (or at least that’s what he thought). Also the line he said to Ukitake, which is still easily in top5 most asshole things he has said/done, in my opinion shows what he thought of Rukia’s execution and why he didn’t do anything to prevent it. “Once you’ve let one of your people die.. ...two or three more make no difference.” Both of his parents are dead, Hisana is dead, Ginrei is most likely dead and he thought for 100 years that Yoruichi was dead too. I think Byakuya thought losing one more person he cares about couldn’t hurt more than it already has and therefore didn’t think it was worth breaking the promise he made in his parents’ grave and trying to save her. And that fucking breaks my heart.

9. Song I associate with them

I have a 6h long playlist which I’m not gonna post. Can’t choose just one lol.

10. Favorite picture of them

*digs through nearly infinite pinterest board, tumblr and phone’s gallery*

This is (one of) my favorite manga panel(s) of him. I love how calm but powerful he looks. The lines representing the heavy spiritual pressure. Like an inescapable doom approaching (which indeed was the case). And for some reason i love it.

My favorite fanart, which i obviously can’t post since you can’t post others art so here’s the link: https://www.deviantart.com/keelerleah/art/Bleach-Byakuya-Looking-Back-127254804

and then one which I think is official art or at least an edit of it, if I’m wrong please lmk

#long post #sorry this took 2 and half eternities to complete #bleach #kaname tosen #byakuya kuchiki #ask game

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