#the hyperfixations are colliding

[orphetoon]

screw you (turns ur italians into neopets)

[skywing206]

“HELL OR GLORY I DONT WANT ANYTHING INBETWEEN”

[softandslow]

Monster [ Jayce x Viktor | ARCANE X EPIC THE MUSICAL ANIMATIC ] by SonofanOfficial ⋆˙⟡♡

manifesting that some of the 300k+ ppl who watched this on yt are here on tumblr, if so hit my line!

[mossy-paws]

I miss clementine. I miss vinestaff's adopted creature. Could we see some new clementine. I just want to give the cuty a second hug.

(Bias towards the past? what's that :) )

funny enough! Guess what I’ve been forgetting to post for quite some time now :)

[hollcwboy]

rotwell: this is not a question of bravery 🙄

lockwood: so you’re bravely refusing to fight a swordsman half your age?

[shikisai-san]

Sooo I was watching Yuzuru Hanyu's performance at the Olympics and then my hand slipped.

Critical Role Ice skating AU anyone?

[unnamednova]

Yep it's a Steven universe x Good omens AU. I wanna give it a unique name but haven't thought of anything yet, if youve got suggestions id be delighted to read them. Scroll if you wanna read a massive info dump about this.

I made Aziraphale a Lodelite because 1) I felt like it lines up well with Aziraphale role as a guardian and 2) Lodelite is also known as Garden quartz, which I thought was too perfect. Also in this AU she only is called Lodelite, she never changes it or anything.

Right now her story goes as follows: Lodelite was one of many Quartz soldiers sent to Earth to stop the rebellion, but for one reason or another Lodelite was poofed during the Diamond attack, and so reformed on an Earth almost completely barren of other uncorrupted Gems (I beleive in SU this is what happened to Lapis).

At some point she gives away a home world issued flaming sword to some humans (?), but she can also summon a normal sword as well.

Believing that someone will come rescue her, Lodelite stands post at the now empty and destroyed ship she arrived on, sending daily messages out that she hopes will get back to home world. (They never come, of course, but it takes awhile for Lodelite to loose hope).

Eventually she decides to collect Gen artifacts from the war while she waits, mostly to give herself some sense of purpose.

Fun fact: I put Lodelite gem on her back as a little way to signify how she avoids confronting her growing disloyalty to home world. Crowley has her gem on her chest for the opposite reason (also that's just where Zircon gems have always been in SU)

Crowley (previously Zircon) is there too but I'm probably gonna info dump about her in another post.

#stevenuniverse #stevenuniverseau #goodomens #goodomensau #crowley #aziraphale #crowleyxaziraphale #aziracrow #GOxSU

[yaoiepisode]

ok so ur fiance has been missing without a trace for a month and the world is ending in 3 days on the night you were supposed to get married, wyd

[the-raindeer-king]

I forget that writing doesn't have to be some long drawn out thing. So you can all have my thoughts on how I think the 141 feels about Sleep Token, and their favorite songs.

I think Price is particular about it. Like he only really enjoys certain songs by them and there's no real rhyme or reason as to why. Like he'll listen to Gods, but skip Vore. I think his top two are Nazareth and Higher (because he's fucking insane).

Ghost is a fan but like casually. Doesn't get involved in all the puzzles and clues. Just listens to the music and vibes. He likes the anonymity because he can relate to wanting to keep your identity separate from your job. (I think he also just doesn't care about the identities of any musician he listens to. He's just here for the music.) Top songs are Jaws and Vore (he's also insane.)

Gaz and Soap are in similar boats, I think. They're both in deep, super into the puzzles and clues and figuring everything out. They have a shared google doc where they keep track of everything, trying to tie it all together. I think Soap got curious and peeked behind the veil, and Gaz chewed him out for it. Soap's top two are Take Aim and The Offering. Gaz's top two are Ascensionism and Emergence.

(And my favorite two songs are Telomeres and Damocles.)

[pixxlotl]

i don't usually talk about system stuff on main but i feel like the line between "fictive moment" and "crackfic crossover from hell" is blurring in this one

[turbulenthandholding]

What we want and what we need has been confused...

I was looking at @thoughtfulchaos773's excellent gifset this morning of times when Carmy tells Sydney "this is what you want(ed)" culminating in the moment in the 4x10 argument ("Okay, if that's what you want" / "It's what I need") and suddenly this lyric was in my head:

what we want and what we need

has been confused, been confused

Which comes from R.E.M.'s song Finest Worksong, which plays at the end of 4x3 though they skip out on playing those exact lyrics. Hmmm.

I hadn't taken the time yet to delve into why they chose Finest Worksong and why they played it when they did (even with predicting they would use it), after Carmy fights with/apologizes to Claire and then immediately calls Pete about changing the partnership agreement. The episode cuts to black and then the song starts along with the credits.

Doing line-by-line scanning or analysis of the lyrics really kind of hit the nail on the head for where Carmy is at as well as the understanding or misunderstanding between him and Syd for what the other wants or needs - which is something they've done a lot all the way back to season 1 but that feels somehow more precise and intentional in several spots in season 4, like here.

I think the lyrics of Finest Worksong are actually presented as a thesis statement of what is happening within Carmy, both in that moment in how the decision he made immediately before the song played, throughout the rest of the season:

The time to rise has been engaged

Michael Stipe likely meant this line in a political sense, as the band's possibly reluctant but growing political commentary grew sharply on Document, and Finest Worksong is its first track.

For Carmy, however, the line insinuates that he is finally ready to take some action related to addressing things in his life and figuring out his path forward. His conversation with Claire was enough of a catalyst to prompt forward action relating to Sydney and her role/partnership in the restaurant, and he calls Pete immediately after.

Your better best to rearrange

Carmy has decided to take himself out of the restaurant; he's rearranging the partnership, due to what he thinks is "best."

I'm talking here to me alone

Every "you" or "you're" in the lyrics refers back to the "I" or "me" of the song -- Michael Stipe is telling himself to act in a political sense; Carmy is telling himself it's on him to make these decisions for the benefit of the restaurant.

I listen to the finest worksong

I think "finest worksong" in this context is possibly a reference to Syd. She had smoked him in the episode before with her sub-3 minute pasta prep. I think he had already been realizing what he tells her in their fight in 4x10, that she had surpassed him in a lot of ways.

Your finest hour, your finest hour

Remembering again that the speaker is talking to themself, this is Carmy reiterating to himself that he's making the best decision for The Bear/Syd.

Another chance has been engaged

To throw Thoreau and rearrange

I've long seen two interpretations of the word "throw" here -- either to throw out (get rid of) or to quote, depending. But Michael Stipe's use of Thoreau was an accident - he had meant to refer to Walt Whitman instead.* But anyway, I think these lyrics are Carmy cementing his decision to step away.

You are following this time

I beg you not beg to rhyme

(Blow your horn) Your finest hour

(Blow your horn) Your finest hour

Carmy already noticed that Syd surpassed him in speed and I think also imploring himself not to rhyme, or not to re-make the same mistakes he's been making.

Then the song in the show cuts off here because the credits do. Interestingly, the real song has a third verse and to me it's interesting that these lyrics were held back:

take your instinct by the reigns

your better best to rearrange

what we want and what we need

has been confused, been confused

I feel like it was a deliberate choice to cut the song where they did -- there have been plenty of times when they have done some creative editing of the soundtrack to match the message they were trying to convey (the example that immediately comes to mind is "In Too Deep" by Genesis, which plays during Brigade and cuts off really abruptly in a way that makes it seem like they didn't want the next line to play - "although I need you, I'm not gonna take this" which is much more decisively negative than the lines that are audible...).

Anyway, Carmy's instinct is to run away, to avoid, because that's what he does. At this point, and throughout the rest of the season, he does not seem cognizant that his leaving The Bear is following his instinctual pattern to avoid things that are good as much as to avoid things, like Mikey's funeral, that are hard. It will take reigning in his instincts (take your instincts by the reigns), likely reorganizing his priorities or his work life again (your better best to rearrange), to come to clarity about what -- and who, exactly -- it is that he wants and needs. And I think it's left unsaid because resolving the tension between Carmy and Syd's understanding of each others' wants and needs that will be the thesis for season 5.

*"My friend Chris told me that I was our generation's Whitman, I think because I was an ecstatic, and I liked men and women, and I was a poet in his eyes, even though I hated the word poet. Anyway I meant to write Whitman into the song, but I got mixed up and wrote Thoreau in instead."

[sunlit-mess]

Hey sorry i can't guess the song from your last post but the lyrics are awfully familiar and i keep thinking about them without being able to remember: could you please tell us which song they're from? Thanks and sorry, love your art and concepts, hope you'll be doing alright!!

I figured using the lyrics bc it's fitting for him in that au ! ::]

[makeshiftdraco]

I need Silmarillion operas to exist...

So many tales from The Silmarillion would be absolutely phenomenal as an opera or better yet, a cycle of operas. If I had to choose, my two dream adaptations would be:

1. The Children of Hurin: Epic tragedy is what opera is all about! This story is so Wagnerian--doomed hero, cursed weapons, dragons, death, betrayal...(And unlike Wagner's operas, when the siblings realize they have committed incest, they are appropriately horrified.)

2. The Lay of Luthien: Again, this tragic romance would be perfect in an opera! Star crossed lovers...epic quests...magic... I mean, singing is pivotal to the plot! Sauron and Finrod literally battle by singing! Luthien uses song to cast spells numerous times, even enchanting Morgoth himself! It just makes sense, people.

If there are any opera composers out there up to the task, I would gladly offer my services as a librettist. (Manifesting my super niche dream job via Tumblr lol)

Any other opera fans out there in the Tolkien fandom?

[acatnamedvirtue]

gid and harrow in the grand necropolis... palamedes and emmrich book collection comparison... lucanis and cam comparing technique...

[gillion-fagstrider]

???????????

PILI DTOWNCAT IN MY VTUBER VIDEO????!!!!!!!!

[thesmashwaffle]

I was bored, so I decided to make Dark World forms for the Paldea trio