#So I switched to making yt playlists for a while because I just could not figure out the corruption glitch

[rubberduckyrye]

Getting my playlists sorted for the big Move to....... my iphone......

Ick!!!

[shrinkthisviolet]

🌵💌🧃🌿🥐🧩

🌵 ⇢ share the link to a playlist you love

Playlist made by one of my besties 💞 I trust her opinion on Maiko above pretty much anyone else's (esp since she and I align on a lot of things). She's also my only significant tether to the ATLA fandom tbh 😅 when I finish the Bumizumi AU one day, it will be because of her encouragement

💌 ⇢ how many unread emails do you have right now? 

None! I’m very on top of things like that lol unread emails drive me nuts

🧃 ⇢ share some personal lore you never posted about before

I once stole a classmate’s address book in like…4th grade because she’d been making fun of me and I wanted to get back at her. I even took a Sharpie and crossed out all her contacts in there and put mine in 😅

This would be atypical of me now, but it was even more atypical of me back then—I was painfully shy and quiet, and it totally threw my teacher for a loop, understandably

🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity

I think in general, for writer’s block, you can’t force yourself past it. Either switch to a different project, or step away from it for a little while. Read something else, watch something else—get your creative juices flowing, but in a way that doesn’t put pressure on you. I’ve often gotten my creativity jumpstarted, or gotten some small ideas here and there, because of a book I read or show I watched—trust the process!

Because really, if you really just Cannot do that project, then no amount of slamming against the wall will break it down. You gotta wait for a shovel to dig under it, or a way to go around it. You cannot brute force yourself through a wall (and by trying, you’ll just exhaust yourself more). So save yourself the effort of trying—at some point, the muse will return, and it’s okay to wait a little while until it does.

Alternatively, specific to fic-writing: if you’re stuck on a particular scene, try erasing the past few lines, or the past scene entirely (you can put it in your fic graveyard/snippets doc, which is a good thing to have for situations like this) and rewrite it. That often fixes the problem (and if so, this counts as the shovel, or the way around the wall). But if it doesn’t…see above: you’ve hit a wall, and it’s okay to take a break from the project for a while!

🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh

Anything from vine 😂 especially “fre sha voc ado” and “road work ahead? Um, yeah, I sure hope it does!” Also almost of Thomas Sanders’s old vines, they crack me up EVERY TIME (I highly recommend going on YT and looking up old compilations - there's at least a few that'll get even the most stoic person imo. Though I could be wrong)

🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

Ooh well “click away from” implies that it’s already a fic that passed the ship and tags check, so nothing about those.

A lack of paragraph breaks would do it. Or if the author throws in a ship I dislike (untagged/“minor”) or untagged and unwarranted character bashing. Things like that

writer truth or dare ask game!

[submalevolentgrace]

What do you mean YouTube download scripts?

I love saving and storing media so I'm really curious since I just download videos individually

i use this on linux although it seems multiplatform, and i am by no means any sort of superuser linux nerd but i can run command line, uhh, commands... so after googling how to make a shell script because i forgot ten years ago, i wrote a simple shell script that runs the yt-dlp command for a few unlisted playlists (that i made for myself) with my desired settings (audio only, different encoding quality for music vs postcast/sleep, setting up filenames with datestamp and original video id code, etc)

that way whenever i'm browsing youtube on even the switch app or whatever, i can add a video i wanna download to a certain playlist and later run the scripts i have to just automate the whole process for me... although youtube seems to be fighting back with throttling, and with playlists over 1000 videos it can take a while to go through all the "file with this name already exists" results if the playlists aren't ordered reliably

i'm not aware of any gui frontends that support this fork (the older youtube downloader programs seem abandoned?) and i have no idea how it works on other platforms.... but if you're like, old enough to remember computers before smartphones, i reckon you could go from zero linux knowledge to having this set up in a few afternoons (i personally recommend lubuntu out of inertia, i hear mint is good too)

if you grew up with smartphones i have no idea where to suggest you start sorry, but don't trust closed source apps, malware can be injected into mp3s these days, get off my lawn etc

[yuthoe]

ONEUS Hwanwoong x Ballroom Dancing

been a while since i made these headcanons, but after listening to Monsta X’s “Gasoline”, i can’t help but get inspired and write this shit down yo. if you haven’t listened to it, please actually give the fatal love album a listen hahaha it’s gud gud.

anyway, i was debating on where to put hwanwoong in terms of style, very tempted to say he’s a 10-dancer (bc main dancer and all, he can probably do everything lol) but ultimately went with this bc i thought it was a better fit for him.

(also this got so long, i got too carried away)

PAIRING: Hwanwoong x reader. GENRE: headcanons. WARNINGS: n/a. WORD COUNT: 1,085.

Master List

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Hwanwoong, like dancer!Kino can do virtually every dance, but ultimately, he is a Latin dancer, and just dabbles in other styles. He studied in a performing arts school and was top student of his year, every year--he’s just that good.

From when he was young he always wanted to be a dancer, and his parents supported him, enrolling him in all kinds of classes, and he took to all of them like a duck to water, but he found he enjoyed Latin so much that he decided to use his extra time on it.

Balanced school life with competitions extremely well that some people actually wondered if he even slept or took breaks because he’s always seen up and about. He was never absent for class or missed training, and he was nice, too? Damn.

He met you in college, when you were partnered up for a biology class. You had to meet for a presentation and were sorting out your schedules when you realized you had virtually the same timetables (morning conditioning until 7AM - classes until 5PM - training until 9PM on the weekdays; training 10AM to 3PM on weekends; and the rest of the time for studying). Thus began your bond over finding out the other was a ballroom dancer.

Since then, whenever one of you had a showcase for your dance studios, you’d ask the other to be the partner. At first it was just those casual, small shows, but then Hwanwoong started seriously considering joining the senior division ballroom competitions. (He’d taken a break for college and to train more before seniors.)

He was super shy talking to you about it, but when he finally asked you if you could be his permanent professional partner, you said yes right away. You know his schedule and regimen is tough as hell, but you had your eye on competitions too, and who better to perform with than Hwanwoong?

Your personal relationship progressed naturally from there. Because of all the time you spent training at his studio (you switched because Hwanwoong’s studio was closer to campus and your dorm; it was a no-brainer), you got to see all sides of him. He gets the serious things out of the way first, such as learning choreo and polishing, before goofing off and doing a freestyle or covering the latest K-Pop dance trend just for fun.

Has a hand in creating competition and showcase choreography, but it’s not often that happens since his coach/choreographer is really good. Nevertheless, he likes experimenting with different tempos or ballroom/non-ballroom fusion dances.

Absolutely detests conditioning. He argues that he already dances different styles so much that strength/core/flexibility conditioning doesn’t really matter anymore. Hwanwoong will also absolutely complain if you make him lift dumbbells, claiming you and the coach are torturing him (he’ll still finish the reps and sets tho).

Has a Twitter and IG that he posts to maybe once a week, and a YouTube channel, but that one is basically empty. He doesn’t really have the energy to edit videos and put them up on YT, so the only things public that are there are dance playlists, and his own competition performances on the Watch Later list.

Mirror selfies. Mirror selfies as far as the eye can see. He posts quite a lot on his SNS and it’s usually a selfie (alone or with your or with his friend group) with a caption that range from jokes, insightful inquiries for his followers, and even a full paragraph that one time.

Has a TikTok that he uses specifically for doing those K-Pop trends, and has a big following over there that don’t even know he’s a ballroom dancer.

He leaves any video uploading to you on your SNS accounts, but most of them are you guys playing with IG filters or short NG clips. (There was one time you were supposed to to an underarm turn, but forgot to tuck in your free arm and accidentally hit him right in the midsection. The loud song on the speakers was eclipsed by Hwanwoong’s “oof” for a second.)

Hwanwoong loves being able to play with choreography, so naturally he loves the faster dances. As such, his favorite dance when he wants to let loose is the jive. It gives his legs a good workout, and he can be as goofy and loud as he wants. The kicks and flicks are his kind of step; he isn’t even sure why, but he gets a high when he watches himself do a good, high kick in the mirror.

Another favorite is the samba. It’s a silver-level dance that takes a toll on his “old man knees”, as he calls them, but because of the constant controlled bouncing motion, it helps get his cardio exercise for the day. He likes to say it’s a club dance, since it can be on the slower side or whiplash fast. Loves making choreography to samba rhythms in particular.

Heard Monsta X’s “Gasoline” Once™ and called you in the middle of the night to ask if you want to dance to it. He called you on Thursday night and by Saturday morning he already has around 2/3 of the song choreographed.

It’s mostly basic samba steps and variations, mixed with one or two highlights, but Hwanwoong also wanted to try out a dance hall fusion, and thought it’d be the perfect experiment.

You have a habit of filming dances once the choreo is memorized and polished, so you set up the tripod and filmed it static. Your coach was super impressed and said you should perform it for a competition showcase sometime.

There is also a mutual agreement to post it on Hwanwoong’s YT channel, and within a day there were already clips of it circulating on Twitter, your fans and some Monbebe commenting that it was such a hot routine and tagging the boy group. Neither of you honestly expected the great response it got and decided to try making routines for other popular songs with the right beat.

The reaction to your “Gasoline” routine led people to look for your competition and showcase videos and suddenly people were commenting on Hwanwoong’s brilliant facial expressions. He puts emotion into every half-step and every flourish of his arm that people commented on how they just couldn’t stop looking at him.

Cue this being used by you and his other close friends to lovingly tease him with.

[unicornery]

I have Sirius XM in my car and I like it a lot. One of my favorite features is that on the weekends, you can hear classic Top 40 countdowns from the past.  70s on 7 runs complete Casey Kasem American Top 40 countdowns, and the 80s on 8 station does what they call the “VJ Big 40” with the original MTV VJs providing commentary between the songs.  For example, last weekend it was the charts from October 19, 1974 and October 21, 1989.  It’s an interesting contrast, because on the 70s station you’re getting a snapshot from that week in time, but on 8 it’s from the present-day perspective.  Casey can only tell you how a song has done so far, but Alan, Mark, and Nina often share a song’s eventual peak, or give info on what happened to the artist since the 80s.  (NB: there are similar countdowns on the 60s on 6 and 90s on 9 channels, I’m primarily into 70s/80s).  

(rest of this behind a cut)

Since it’s impractical for me to be in the car during the entire show, and I’m not interested in paying for the internet streaming option, this summer I started replicating the Top 40 countdowns on my Spotify account. It was part curiosity, part being a completist, and part wanting to discover hidden Yacht Rock gems from the 1976-1984 charts for possible http://www.yachtornyacht.com consideration. Fortunately, Billboard.com stores EVERY week’s chart, from time immemorial.  It’s a great resource (with some limitations).  At first, I was just using Spotify to listen to whatever sections of the Top 40 I had missed while not driving.  Next it became easier to grab all of 40-1 without regard to what I’d “heard already.” Then I started noticing songs I recognized at positions 41, 42, etc, and decided to go for the entire Hot 100 for the week! That’s 2.5 times the music I was listening to before :D There is....currently a backlog.  As I write this, I’m listening to the Hot 100 from Oct 13, 1984, which aired two weeks ago. 

Spotify is very good, and has an extensive music library, but there are occasionally songs I can’t find on there: either the artist isn’t on at all, or specific songs/albums aren’t available. Other times you only get a live version, or one that’s (ick) re-recorded. Theoretically for a song that I’m not already familiar with, a re-recorded version shouldn’t bother me, but even if I don’t know how, they always sound “off.” With the dance/disco stuff, sometimes there’s only unfamiliar remixes, which tend to have long running times. For all genres, I like to select the “single” or “7″ edit” whenever possible. Karaoke “in the style of” versions can be helpful for identifying the correct single length, as can Discogs. Listening to the original single version is for historical accuracy as well as being a more efficient use of my time. 

Most of the time, if Spotify doesn’t have what I would consider a suitable version of a song, I find that someone has uploaded it to YouTube and I listen there.  When I see a still image of the 45, then I know I’ve come to the right place. Since I have begun this process, only rarely have songs eluded me entirely.  The internet is pretty cool like that.  As you can imagine, the earlier years like 1970/71 will have more gaps on the Spotify side, requiring periodic visits to YT. But for the most part I can replicate the charts rather well. 

As for the listening itself, a few comments. You quickly learn that there are Top 10 hits that are not well known today, like they just didn’t become part of the canon of what we think of for “seventies songs” or “eighties songs.” Obviously well-known songs can be at any position of the chart, eventual hits can enter at a low position or make a slow climb down before falling off.  Among the stuff that is unfamiliar to me, I don’t find a lot of outright BAD songs, more bland and forgettable.  There is always more country than you expect, especially in the early 70s and again after the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy.  In the Casey Kasem broadcasts, he will often let you know a song’s relative position on the country or R&B chart as applicable, especially a #1 on those charts. 

I really like when the 80s one is from 87/88/89 because I have a decent shot of remembering more of those tunes. I started kindergarten in fall of 1986 and that school bus was my first exposure to current hit radio (Q-102FM) That’s where you have those “I haven’t heard that in FOREVER” jams. Do I occasionally worry that a forgotten 1988 tune is going to jar something unpleasant loose in my brain? Yes, but in a way that I feel comfortable joking about. The electronic dance/freestyle songs in a 1987 chart from last month recalled as well as  explained my childhood desire to get a Casio keyboard for Christmas - what 80s kid wouldn’t want to recreate those fun, danceable beats? 

In any year, it’s interesting to hear those follow-up singles that didn’t quite make it, the solo album attempts by the lead guitarist, and the wacky novelty songs. There’s way too much James Taylor, and I keep seeing the name and beard of Paul Davis. There’s plenty of big artists who had songs that never charted that high.  I’m not a big slow song guy, and as such I tend to find them overrepresented in the higher chart positions, in my mind driven by horny people from the past requesting and dedicating the sappy tunes to their sweeties. I’m not *fully* anti-slow-song; one of my favorite discoveries I’ve had so far is “Sail On” by the Commodores. It hit #4,  but I’d never heard it before I went through the Sep 15, 1979 chart.  Or maybe I’d never truly listened. Anyway, great bittersweet sort of song, and that particular 79 chart was excellent from t to b. 

Since each station has ten years to choose from, they do a pretty good job spreading it out so that you’re not listening to, say, charts from 1984 two weeks in September.  If I was slightly more dedicated to this project, I could track which songs from Jul 31, 1971 were still on the chart played this week, Oct 23, 1971, but that will be left as an exercise for no one. The only real bummer is when I research singles from my faves like Yes or Genesis, and find they didn’t chart at all here.  “Don’t Kill the Whale” was a recent example--it spent 4 weeks on the UK singles chart in September of 1978, reaching #36, but couldn’t crack the Hot 100 here. I listened to that Oct 7 1978 chart, and there’s plenty of boring tunes that “Whale” should have beat. (Plus then some enterprising country DJ sharing a building with a rock station could have started playing the B-side “Abilene” on his or her show!) 

Overall I feel like I will keep doing this until I get bored, or more likely until I let the backlog get too unmanageable like I did with some podcasts that I like but no longer subscribe to. Although once my family plan switches to unlimited next month, I’ll be able to listen to my playlist in the car as well as in the house, which should help with the backlog. 

Thank you for reading about my current weird obsessive project. 

[mcrmadness]

2 & 7

Thanks! Playlist ask game here.

I’m going to put the second one first because it was much easier to reply to, and the first one got so long that I’m going to hide it behind a read more link. (No, not because it’s about guilty pleasures lol. Okay maybe bit because of that too, so only people who are actually interested, will read it.)

7 - List all the songs you like in another language

Like... which language? I feel like this was directed at people who speak English as their first (and only?) language..? And my native language is Finnish, I speak fluent English and I have been listening to songs in other languages my whole life. So maybe I’ll drop something in several languages instead. Finnish: Se johtuu geeneistä by Tehosekoitin Extra Finnish song: Rapsutin by Sleepy Sleepers, it’s a cover of the famous song Rasputin and it’s currently my earworm lol. It’s a comedy rock band, they are singing about scratching your ass because of pubic louse because “rapsutin” means “I scratched” in Finnish. Finland Swedish: Pappas fitta by Klamydia (it’s a joke, this is a comedy punk band) Gibberish - or actually it’s Finnish but I have no clue what they are saying there, I can just hear words here and there: Kenkä by Klamydia German: Ach so gern (Pain Version) by Lindemann Turkish: Deli by Mor ve Ötesi - I heard of this band for the first time because of Eurovision 2008 and it was the best song in there but they did not win, unfortunately. I tried to listen to their music more later but somehow I never got into those songs too much but I guess I should try again.

2 - Make a 5 song playlist of guilty pleasure songs

Uh oh. I... don’t do guilty pleasures? :D Well, I kinda do but that’s more just to have some secrets with myself. Not everything needs to get out and be known, you know? I’m more of the type who doesn’t mention it but if someone asks me what I think about something, I will give my real opinion. I don’t start lying just because I “shouldn’t” like something, that’s just bullshit.

I think what I’m going to do here now is write down several songs that I got used to hearing at work or on my way to work/home and that are songs from bands I don’t like but when these songs came from the radio, I did let the radio play them anyway since it was better than what it usually was playing. And because I’m me, I need to say a little bit about each of them because, yeah, what is more important to me is to make sure no one mistakes anything (social anxiety much???), it’s just one song that I’m not ever even looking for because I am all or nothing type of person, if I like a song but nothing else from the bands sounds as good as that, then I’m out. I’m fine hearing the song somewhere and won’t turn off the radio but it doesn’t wake up any bigger feels because I know I can’t get more of that so I leave it be.

So it’s not really a list of guilty pleasure songs, just songs that have something I like in them and that I find extremely weird of me. And the list just has 5 things but not in any particular order.

1. This is not a band but a youtube video with a mix of several songs and this shit is just... this is what I actually look for some days, the song actually is good :DDDD Eagle Dance, enjoy!!!

2. To what I said in the text above the list, The Cure is a sad example of this. There’s only two songs I like: Friday I’m In Love and Caterpillar. Of course I haven’t gone through all their stuff but there was a time when I was going through their music videos (because I heard one song on radio at work) and I got just more and more disappointed the more I heard because none of the songs were on the same level as these two (and it’s not even that high level tbh). It’s also been several years since that and back then there was no Youtube Music (and I don’t use Spotify) so you couldn’t hear full albums unless someone had uploaded them to yt, and that usually means a terrible sound quality and I cannot stand hearing music in low quality, so it was not an option for me. So when I started researching any band’s music, I always went through the music videos - there was also something for me to see since I have problems focusing on audio only, and I’ve been very fond of music videos ever since my childhood. (I loved to sit in front of TV just watching the music videos there!) So I don’t know if more songs like those two exist but at least not in the music videos. Since then people have talked about the band to me and linked me music videos they like but sorry, not my cup of tea.

3. Another song to the list of songs I heard from radio while at work and I’m not exactly sure what it is with this, maybe the bass, but Born to Be Alive by Patrick Hernandez is fun. But again one of those songs that I would never choose to listen to but that I will let play if they come from the radio. Normally I keep switching the radio channels obsessively because I can’t stand 99% of the stuff that plays there, or they are full of ads. Another fun thing about this song: it was hilarious that in the die ärzte concert in Poland, they actually played a clip of this song in the middle of Blumen :D

4. I cannot STAND disco music at all and I really try my best to avoid it, for me it’s as bad as hip hop or rap, and yet I still for some reason kinda liked Bee Gee’s song Tragedy every time I heard it on the radio. I’ve tried to explain myself what it is, but maybe something to do with the bass or rhythm, but I’m not exactly sure. The main reason why I can’t stand their music is the singing, I’m very sensitive to sounds and such high voices literally hurt my ears (which is the main reason why I mainly listen to music with male singers!)

5. Damn. This last one is actually really difficult. I don’t really have more than those? I can’t think of any other songs that I would have heard from the radio and thought “hey this is kinda fun???” But I guess I could include another thing here without mentioning songs because I literally have no more songs to mention! But when I was working, I often got earworms because of the radio and when I do that, I get obsessed with the idea of getting them out of my head. So I often try to find the song name and check the song from youtube because sometimes listening to it will remove the earworm. And what is the funniest shit ever with old music videos and songs: the youtube comments! I have been laughing so much so many times after reading these comments, it’s also another thing I do alone but sometimes wish I could share it with someone else too :D