#through the fire and flames

[sir-buddy]

The tiny gays (and their cat) return!

#art #my art #traditional art #jedtavius #peanut #night at the museum #natm #jedediah smith #gaius octavius #jed and octavius #gay #through the fire and flames #work doodles

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 23/02/2024

Through the F​-​F​-​Fire and the F​-​F​-​Flames

Season 5 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume D

Ripped by R.L.99

In my excitement leading up to February 22nd and to finally get to write more in-depth about Kara's Flowers' meaning to the SiIvaGunner channel...it dawned on me a bit too late that I was ignoring another meaning to the very date before it. I'm still very proud of how the post on As Miku Collides connects together with Collision Clouds, but there was something far more important to remember from February 21st. The birthday of late ripper R.L.99.

R.L.99 is the second known SiIvaGunner team member to have left us in tragedy, and its always going to be a very difficult topic for someone like me, effectively an outsider, to approach. The first was Marrow, who I've written about thrice now with Telling Fish Tales, Turnabout Fishters and 8​-​bit Fish With Dreams - a true friend to the SiIvaGunner team whose contributions are too many to list, but had been present since the very early days of Season 1. I can't claim to have known the guy, nor ever claim to have felt the same grief that his friends did upon his passing - yet althesame, through how recognizable and frequent his contributions were, losing him did hurt. Yet with R.L.99, my heart sank for a somewhat different reason. I'd barely had the time to truly appreciate him before he was gone.

As a ripper, R.L.99's most defining trait lay in his ambition - he was always seeking to outdo his last work, always shooting higher, yet higher. Joining the team early into Season 5, his twenty-one contributions across the year, ambitious or not, all feel crafted to a sheen. In a Season that already had some of the strongest output in the channel's life, his rips often still managed to impress beyond those expectations. I described one instance of this occurring on my one prior post on the ripper, One Winged PSYcho - V​.​S. Sepsyrop, but it needs to be reiterated that this was effectively standard procedure for each of his big projects. But despite the reverence I hold for him now, I'd chosen the worst possible timeframe to begin distancing myself from SiIvaGunner - during Season 5, I was at my most disinterested in the channel's goings-on, and thus paid far too little mind to the incredible efforts the entire team were making during the year. I'd check in, add some rips to playlists, and check out.

When the news of R.L.99 broke early in Season 6, I didn't know what to think, because...I didn't know R.L.99. But as I looked through my own playlists, looked through his list of contributions - I realized that just about everything he had ever made had found its way into my list of all-time favorite rips. I'd loved his work without ever truly acknowledging or understanding who made it. Without ever having had the chance to truly show my appreciation, until it was too late.

Linked under his username credit at the start of this post, you'll find a Twitter thread I made two years ago now, the day the announcement was made. I wasn't able to appreciate him during his time, but on that day I wanted more than anything else for other people still like what I once was, people far too blind to the talent and care individual rippers put into their work, to know exactly what kind of legacy he left. And so, I put the thread together as one of my first-ever forms of written SiIvaGunner analysis, trying to concisely convey all the ways that R.L.99's work truly was unique - in all the ways I'd failed to pick up on before it was all too late. There was, of course, a lot missing from that thread - notably the as-of-then unreleased rips he'd made that would be uploaded the day after in his memory, culminating in the downright breathtaking Dancing Masked. Yet, I still want to dedicate todays post to a rip I'd heard from before that day, one of those rips I'd loved for so long without knowing the man behind it. A rip like Through the F​-​F​-​Fire and the F​-​F​-​Flames.

A hugely ambitious project, it feels difficult to find one rip that quite so concisely encapsulates all the qualities of R.L.99's work. A distinct love for the MOTHER series, a love for rip arrangements of popular music, a love for Rock music, and the aforementioned scope - it all culminates in a nearly 8-minute long tribute to the legendary Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce. Althewhile, it adheres incredibly well to the expected restrictions of a Game Boy Advance game, each of the shredding guitar samples used being from MOTHER 3 itself, with vocals authentically bit-crushed to match. It manages to rock out incredibly on its own, and that's without mentioning the insane details strewn throughout, such as the song's occasional bumps in tempo to match other boss music within MOTHER 3, or the other songs from MOTHER 3 that become referenced throughout the arrangement. Released on the date of MOTHER 3's birthday, much like Jesus of the Underground - it's a beyond impressive tribute, with love shown in every second of its runtime.

The fact remains, though, that I never knew R.L.99, and never knew Marrow either for that matter. There's far, far too many rippers that I've still not been able to express my full gratitude and affection toward, and many of which I'll likely never be able to reach. But that's part of why I want to run this blog in the first place - to give myself, and other SiIvaGunner fans that chance to show genuine, outspoken love for rips and the people behind them while we all can.

Rest well, R.L.99.

#todays siivagunner #season 5 #siivagunner #siiva #R.L.99 #mother 3 #mother series #earthbound #mother 2 #lucas mother 3 #ness earthbound #gba #game boy advance #dragonforce #through the fire and flames #guitar hero 3 #guitar hero #Youtube #Bandcamp

[thissoundsdifferent]

Through the Fire and Flames - Accordion Cover by Morander Brothers

Original by DragonForce (2005)

Disclaimer: I do not have any association with the cover artists nor the original artists. None of this work is my own. Please leave likes and comments on the videos and support the original creators.

#Youtube #cover #music #cool music #youtube music #music cover #music covers #cover music #song cover #song covers #cover song #cover songs #cover artist #listen to this #this sounds different #dragonforce #through the fire and flames #morander brothers #accordion cover

[a-bored-maxi]

I figured out the most dangerous drinking game

Listen to all dragonforce songs in order and take a shot every time they say fire

#dragonforce #drinking #through the fire and flames #dragonforce likes fire

[macmanx]

oh go off

#trombone champ #through the fire and flames #dragonforce #trombone #music #games

[lemonbubble]

this guy's medieval covers are always so good

#through the fire and flames #dragonforce #algal the bard #music #video #bardcore #Youtube

[lucifinaspissed]

#through the fire and flames #dragonforce #just listen #metal #guitar hero #Youtube

[linguine-fettuccine]

I know this looks like a shitpost, but I'm telling you, this is about to be the greatest thing you've ever watched.

#music #through the fire and flames #video #Youtube

[claire-de-lune-poetry]

Surmise-

You thought isolation made me weak

In turn it made me strong

I am patiently waiting for my turn my sword fully drawn

To be a warrior you must endlessly practice

Resilliance and awareness, That is if you wish to fight fair i guess

Swift with one leg sweep youll be flat upon your back

With two more motions im with a prized dagger to your neck

Faster than a cheetah more precise than an eagle

Its in this moment youll see my crown of healed & humbled regal

Seconds pass as youll look into the depths behind my eyes

What you will find inside of them will leave you to surprise

Just to know my mercy will lead to your own demise

For what they reflect back to you is your own mirror of self despise

For hurting the only thing that truly loved you

Now its my time to rise..

And youll be the one left holding on to all the abandonment and the final goodbyes.

#poem #poetry #spilled ink #dead poets society #spilled poetry #spilled in poetry #creative writing #amature writer #amatuer poet #women empowering woman #rise from the ashes #rise up #strong woman quotes #stand up #phoenix rising #phoenix #through the fire and flames #forged in fire #burn bridges #walk like thunder #strike like lightening #poetic #original poem #empoweringgirls #stand your ground #draw your sword #warrior women #warrior within #warrior witch #burn them all

[arzeron]

Behold! I have made -unpowered- metal...

#audio shitpost #dragonforce #through the fire and flames

[chimericchaos]

911 hello this is an emergancy the system has just listened to Through The Fire and Flames and now they WON'T STOP SINGING GUYS HOW LONG ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP THIS UP IT'S BEEN HOURS JESUS CHRIST WE HAVE TO GO TO SLEEP SOON AND WE CAN'T WITH CONSTANT POWER METAL GUITAR SOLOS FUCK

#osdd things #osdd 1b #osdd system #osdd fictive #osdd support #actually osdd #osdd #osdd alter #through the fire and flames #send help #good god this song is too awesome

[rabid-dog-steve-horn]

I played Through the Fire and Flames with Dragonforce!

#youtube #Dragonforce #through the fire and flames #Mia Asano #Mia Asano music #violins #music video #live performance #live music

[bangup2theelephant]

Working on a jazz cover of Through the Fire and the Flames it’s not the best but I’ll still post it when I’m done.

#through the fire and flames #dragonforce #metal #jazz #bass guitar

[momoguido]

On a dark desert highway In the time before the light

I'm not the first person to think of this joke, but after I thought of it I couldn't stop, and sometimes it just bubbles to the top of my mind. It isn't even laugh out loud funny, it's more funny-peculiar. But there's something captivating about it.

One thing I find particularly interesting about it is that the transposition doesn't work as well.

On a cold winter's morning Cool wind in my hair

This isn't what spontaneously pops into my head from time to time, and it's not as funny or as poetic. I think there are two reasons for this: the lesser is that "cold" and "cool" are too similar; the larger reason is that the tonal clash between the mundane "on a dark desert highway" and the fantastical "in the time before the light" is much more striking.

Maybe the melodic clash works better too. The slow and balladic opening that leads into the heavy metal is a jolt, whereas going from a metal song to a ballad is more of an anticlimax.

And maybe that's why the joke keeps getting re-invented, or maybe re-discovered. Two dramatically different lines with similar scansion, both from the opening verse of two wildly popular songs. They just kind of gravitate towards each other, and once they find each other they fit together so perfectly that it's easy to imagine the joke as an inevitability. Get songs stuck in your head often enough, and eventually those two lines will find each other, and never be the same again.

#rambles #the eagles #dragonforce #hotel california #through the fire and flames #jokes #bad jokes #mashup #overthinking

[crimsonattourney]

My metalhead ass watching anime be like:

#shitpost #meme #music #dragonforce #metal #anime #through the fire and flames #Youtube

[wanderingwondererofthings]

Through the Fire and Flames by DragonForce but sung like a country song on banjo

#somebody help I don't have the musical ability to make this but I can't get this out of my head #dragonforce #music #through the fire and flames