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Hah, I technically have the first upload of this on youtube. The minute I heard this From The Top episode, I knew I had to get an mp3, and I apparently put that excerpt on Youtube 6 years ago, while this video was put up 2 years ago. Eric Fricke made this arrangement himself! In some ways, I find it superior to the origianl orchestral soundtrack recording, more lush and stronger in the bass line to underline the whole with power.

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This is a complex dynamic. I’m still trying to find the words to describe them. Like, I’m landing on something like “MaaSaku, except if Sakura was Eripon?” (Plus additional complexities introduced due to Dii being 13th gen and a longtime KSS) But yeah, MaaDii > MaaDuu that’s right I said it come at me

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Holy shit someone made a Tanaka Nao H!P playlist hell yes

This song lineup whips ass, damn (sit down Tsubaki)!

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Now that Byonz has so generously allowed us to see what it's like to have Ookubo Kaoru and Suzuki Shunsuke going head to head on funk/disco arrangements working with the same composer (Hoshibe)... Honestly, I think Ookubo got the win this time. What with Wake Up Call, I feel like Ookubo and Hoshibe have a real synergy with each other. Wake Up Call also shows that Ookubo has a knack for composition, which leads to the arrangements having a presence like being their own performer to rival the singers, if that makes sense. This isn't a new development, either, Ookubo has shown this capability with the genre all the way back in Rhythm Tengoku. It's no wonder that he's one of Tsunku's favorites, as well. Whereas Suzuki's arrangements are clearly musician-driven, and have more of the presence of being a stage for the singers. Suzuki is a groove man, someone who would love to just let the session players jam. On the other hand, there were composition differences between the two songs. Hai to Diamond is more aggressively chasing universal appeal, while Hooke's Law is obviously Hoshibe in his "Byonz are MY CUTE BABIES" mode, what with the cutesy gimmick theme. So it's not like Suzuki was in a position to whip out another Inspiration. Hooke's Law is growing on me a lot. If there was a smidge more empty space like Tanaka Nao's delicious work on Hade Ni Yacchai Na, this would have been a much harder decision.

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This is obviously a post for dunking purposes, but I'll give a sincere answer:

It's the equivalent of putting on Law & Order while you do something else like run on the treadmill, iron/fold clothes, vacuum, cook in the kitchen, etc.

You actively DON'T want stories that are engrossing and require paying attention to details and need to keep track of continuity. You want something that you can pick up without recap and put down whenever the time is up to do something else, and the long length is amenable to that because then you don't have to waste time archive-scrolling to pick something new when you could just continue with the epic.

I read short fics on my desktop because that's where I can give it my full attention and appreciation. On mobile, I go to the juggernaut fandoms and sort for word count, which I only read when in transit, or waiting in line for something, or on short breaks.

That's why there's a fairly big overlap between these giant juggernaut fandom epics and original fiction web serials (where the famous examples break 1M words), which mirror the old-school pay-writer-by-the-word/line/page serials (for the modern day, see also vertical scroll webtoons, or also airport novels), which in turn low ambition crime procedurals are descended from, bringing us full circle.

Fanfic tiktok is wild... I see so many people saying shit like "I could never read anything below 60k!!", or "What story can you even tell in under 5k words?" or "A oneshot below 10k isn't even a story!" or "I always filter completed fics by 100k< only!"

And I'm like...

A) which fandoms are you reading fics for where you have this kind of offerings on the regular?

B) have you heard of short stories? If you truly think every story NEEDS to be longform to connect with people, I sincerely feel sorry for you.

C) Average novel length is between 50k to 100k. I'm sorry, but CONSISTENTLY demanding fic writers to push out fics of that length is insane. Just think about it: YOU DEMAND AUTHORS TO PUT OUT FICS THAT COMPARE TO COMMERCIAL NOVELS IN LENGTH (AND QUALITY) AS A BASELINE.

Yall are wilding.

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For potential link rot purposes, this is the Angerme 2019 Spring merch video

and y'all complained about Cool Hello, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET Did they, like, hire the person who did the Paris design again??? The grand return of Hello!Graphic Design Is My Passion!Project, except it’s now spread to the shirts D:

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#quite surprised this kind of product wasn't available sooner #we were on the verge of reappropriating heavier duty tool belt/pouch things #but this seems like a much better lightweight solution #I hope lumica starts selling a generic version at cons soon #okay but can you fit a CD in there #looks like Ts and towels are prolly too big still

For potential link rot purposes, this is Fukuchan and Sakura shilling merch for 2019 Spring tour, specifically lightstick pouches.

lmao @kitaoji UFA answering your needs. There’s even a carabiner in the back so you don’t have to worry about jumping! Max 3 sticks seems just a tad stingy, though…

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#the sheer SPITE <3

Megu-chan is such a magnificent bitch and I love her

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I swear, every time they change the post editor it retroactively strips out the line breaks from all of my old posts. I KNOW that I put them in there with manual HTML, and yet when the reblog5yearsago rolls around they're gone. Websites' dedication to strangling HTML in favor of reinventing everything with inferior Javascript knows no bounds

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#the true power of an auteur: hiding your power level during the pitch

OH MY FUCKING

WHAT A LEGEND

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"the newbies" here is Byonz. I don't know what the missing clip is.

tfw the newbies are already more entertainment-savvy than Tsubaki…

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This is talking about the MCU's Mantis

Hold the fuck up

Akimoto Sayaka dubbed for Mantis????

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#invisible manners #continues to bring the goods #also the MV is uh pretty problematic #but otherwise the editing is really good

This is about The Diamond Four

Huh, the new Momoclo song is shamelessly ripping the Especial/Lyrical School type groups, eh Wait are those Kyary’s backdancers I support Momoclo being Godfathers

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ME:I could never

(For potential link rot purposes, this is the CM for Anju DM 21)

Oh man, “kabutomoshi!” just KILLED me

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#I eventually read the actual book and this is still one of the most important takeaways imho

“It is possible to object here; perhaps the otaku’s attitude towards a work is animalized, but aren’t otaku known to be quite social with each other? However, Azuma argues that this sociality is sustained not by necessity, but rather by desire to exchange information. Unlike modern humans, they always reserve the freedom to depart the conversation. Another way to look at it that might make Azuma’s point more clear is that communication is now governed by need. If an otaku desires to talk to someone, then he can. It’s not the complex relationship of human communication unless this complicated relationship is actually what he desires. It is mimicry of the communication by necessity that characterized modern and pre-modern humans. The substance of communication is gone, only the form remains.”

— From notes on Azuma’s “Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals”, and this post in particular, which is part 6 of 7 posts. Communication primarily as a means of exchanging information is very much in line with the modern interpretation of introversion. Small talk and chit-chat feels toxic because fails to fulfill this function. There is no benefit to it, no information learned or imparted for the energy exerted for it. (Don’t be put off by the “animalized behavior” thing. It’s not really an indictment, but just used to contrast postmodern behavior with the goals Grand-Narrative/Extroversion-driven modernity lauded.)

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I love The Machine so much, especially with how she names people. It’s like, “okay there’s Dad, new Dad, and… me with legs.”

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#motormouth sato is SAVAGE

Based on the previous post, I'm guessing that this is referring to a DM in the 118 area

I think…Sakura gets pissed that Maa called her out in an MC for…sweating on her in concerts? orz