#splendor and misery

[violet-moonstone]

if anyone lets me talk about clipping for too long i get so excited that i have to stop myself from tearing up...like not just from excitement but because so much of clipping's work is so dark and honestly horrifying but like my favourite horror it's so fascinating that I can't look away

like splendor and misery to me is not only an afrofuturist album but just as much of a horror album as there existed and addiction to blood and visions of bodies being burned . I was expecting horror from those two albums...but the existential dread of splendor and misery mixed with the darkness of allegory for the transatlantic slave trade hit me right in the gut.

I made the mistake of listening to that album for the first time at like 2 in the morning and I got into this weird panicked state that happens sometimes when I'm up really late and thinking about something upsetting where I feel completely and utterly isolated from the rest of humanity - like nothing else exists and I'm the only consciousness left - and considering that narrative of splendor and misery, that was bound to happen

don't even get me started on "true believer". something about that song freaks me out. it's a beautiful song but I can't handle it most of the time.

one a sidenote, Daveed Diggs was a great choice to play the protagonist of Snowpeircer because that show freaks me out the same way splendor and misery does - something about dystopian, futuristic narratives and complete isolation from the rest of humanity, which is either inaccessible or destroyed, etc etc

"the deep" affects me in much the same way. IMO that song did so much that Black Panther 2 hardly accomplished (although I noticed the similarities right away and I really wished that movie had played out differently).

and then there's the horror of the "story" tracks...all of these people trapped in ongoing narratives of tragedy, trauma, and violence, and THEY'RE ALL INTERCONNECTED. THEY ALL HAPPEN IN THE SAME UNIVERSE BUT YOU HAVE TO PUT THE TIMELINE TOGETHER. ITS SO GOOD.

man, I love clipping

[songuserbox]

for @fightingtrim

[terrazona]

wow the music in splendor and misery is really beautiful. i can kinda just listen to this like a podcast

[weerd1]

Along these lines, please check out CLIPPING, "Splendor and Misery," about a slave on a starship in the far future who escapes with the help of the ship's computer that has fallen in love with him.

[warwoof]

outlanders

jensey + kristin from splendor & misery

[talos-stims]

SPLENDOR & MISERY

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[intoxicatingimmediacy]

clipping. - Welcome Home Warrior (feat. Aesop Rock)

[deliciousstrangeobject]

I'd like to recommend the concept album Splendor and Misery from Clipping. The AI in that falls in love with the cargo (a person, who is an escaped slave) and it's logic is to protect them at all costs.

One thing I really want a story about Artificial Intelligence to do is tear down the idea that logic is synonymous with cruelty.

Like, a story where a megacorpo Amazon clone puts an AI in charge of their factories and it starts improving the working standards, because people who are stressed and exhausted are less efficient workers, and people getting injured slows down production so it makes sure everything is safe.

Or a story where the ship-board AI of a billionaire’s spaceship wetdream hijacks the ship with all the astronauts onboard - because it figured out that the billionaire has saved costs by buying substandard materials and has judged that the mission itself is an unacceptable risk to its primary programming of making sure the mission is successful.

Or the police using a robot to coldly and cleanly enforce the law - and freaking the fuck out when it stops over policing minorities because its a waste of time and starts actually arresting the people in power for the crimes they commit, especially the other officers.

Idk, I guess I’m just sick of ‘cold emotionless logicbot’ being seen as naturally an enemy of empathy - empathy is actually incredibly logical, I’ve found.

[puppetmastery]

You have a 1998 buick le sabre with a CD player and no bluetooth/aux and room for 7 albums no artist repeats.

tagged by @dizziesol

Nightfall in Middle Earth-Blind Guardian

Dead Channel Sky-clipping.

C:\>CHKDSK /F -MASTER BOOT RECORD

Last and First Men- Tub Ring

The Pathless (OST) -Austin Wintory

Parallel Processing-Zef

This Kind of Thinking (Could Do Us In)-Chevelle

tagging uhhhh @creepycrag @miniaturize @coridallasmultipass @callibones @psycho-pomp and whoever else wants to do it

[jonny-b-meowborn]

okay but. he's missing something pretty. he's missing where the air tastes gritty. he's missing the splendor and misery of bodies, of cities, of being missed. ough

[pleasestopthese]

sometimes i just gotta listen to splendor & misery all the way through first thing in the morning

[tommarvoloriddlesdiary]

Fanfic roulette?? Pls i need some recommendations i have nothing to read atm.

seventh fanfic roulette of the day(s):

Splendor and Misery by hookedonthesky

Harry is a part of a special delivery of slaves headed via cargo spaceship to Capital and Lord Voldemort himself. Tom is the spaceship's AI with the instructions to deliver the human cargo. Things don't go as planned, and Harry finds himself alone on the ship with only its AI for company. And what's Tom to do with a runaway slave?

words - 8600 | chapters - 1 | complete

have i read it? yes. did i love it? absolutely.

send me an ask if you want to get a fanfic roulette too

[mapsbytfb]

a better place really stands out at the end of splendor and misery because up until that point the album has been essentially a continuous listening experience and a better place just kinda Starts so it is not my favorite when i’m listening to the album but fuck if i am not floored the moment it comes on shuffle

[promiseofdawn]

Small update while I work on some character pages:

I'm considering changing Matias's voiceclaim to Daveed Diggs, Vocalist for Clipping.

[warwoof]

the inquiry takes shape

[multifru196]

The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans by Honoré de Balzac