#AND I HADNT WATCHED THIS MASTERPIECE

[emderperq]

i realized i hadnt drawn these two silly lovers yet and I think thats a crime

if anyone hasnt watched Nerdy Prudes Must Die I very much recommend it!! It’s a musical posted on youtube by Starkid and its apart of the Hatchetfield trilogy (aka a masterpiece of musicals)

[philtstone]

you’re actually making me want to watch psych…any tips/anything I should know going in?

another fallen soldier...

ok i will take this ask actually seriously

things 2 know:

it's early 2000s sherlock holmes, so it has cop stuff. shawn and gus are not cops but everyone else is. if u cant watch that without getting upset or frustrated then its not for you.

of its time (2006) so some of the jokes are outdated. its main characters are men & the other characters function as extensions and foils for their adventures, so while juliet is an amazing character and i absolutely love her, she is not a main character. most of her plots are experienced thru shawn's pov, because he is the main character. if you go in expecting differently, you will be disappointed

imo psychs most genuine L is its mental health language. again, if u take that to heart/will be upset by certain outdated terms, not for u

psych is a story about an honest liar. its easy to forget this, bc its a silly goofy show and shawn has very good intentions, but psych is all about duality and grey areas. going into it assuming that your main characters are morally pure, emotionally mature people will end in disappointment and frustration

while it is technically a dramedy, it is UNSERIOUS. really and truly. shawn basically has superpowers. he is not a real boy. many forget this.

its obviously made with so so much love. for this reason i tend to forgive it almost everything

tips for watching!

psych is long. i dont think i have ever watched it start to finish in full chronological order. because it has so many filler eps (murder mystery of the week basically!), you can skip around if you dont have patience for 8 full seasons of network tv. if you are worried about time sink or getting bored, i would start with the pilot, watch spellingg bee, then start skipping fillers and only watch the best episodes in your first watch. heres me and my brother's tier list for best episodes (to be clear, tier C is like. average good psych episode. everything above tier C ranges from very fun to iconic masterpiece):

hopefully thats legible and not totally useless lol. its also a subjective list, so others may not agree! id also definitely bring "forget me not", "poker? i barely know her!", "the greatest adventure in the history of basic cable", "daredevils", and "gus's dad may have killed an old guy" up into tier B ... i hadnt rewatched them properly when we made this list lol. all excellent eps.

anyway .... did i take this ask way too seriously? yes. dont ask me how i got here. i dont care to unpack it all

enjoy!

[102ki]

fes×rec:live

the first years wanted to preserve the 103 fes×lives and so they decided to turn it into an event with a mix of newly recorded song and mc footage and fes×live archive footage

the senpai waved at the kouhai while they were filming them hoping they'd respond automatically but ginko put her hand over kosuzu's mouth to stop her

mix shake, knot, and dododo were the newly recorded songs. theyve changed how they sing over time and wanted to see how theyd do them now

kozue brings up how much fun kaho looked like she was having when they were watching the fes×live archives and megumi says she was talking the whole time and ruri says she was full of energy. kaho says watching the videos made all the memories come back and sayaka says kaho could remember everything about the songs, outfits, staging... kaho adds the practice, outfit making, and even the snacks!

on the day of the october fes×live they had halloween candy. kaho had white chocolate manjuu that her parents had sent her, and kozue had wafuu sweet potato

tsuzuri asks what she (tsuzuri) had on the day of the august fes×live and kaho correctly answers two chocolate ice creams! tsuzuri says she was going to have a third but saya stopped her. she remembers saya's bentou too! she will never forget how delicious it was!

their second to last song was also newly recorded. kozue lets tsuzuri introduce it, who says its a very important song to them. if they hadnt sung it on that day, she doesn't think they'd be where they are today. deepness

in the mirapa solo mc they talk about the circumstances of their formation over one year ago, and how one year later ruri feels so happy! but megumi says that's not enough! they're not aiming for happy, they're aiming for the *happiest*!

they talk about how dododo was a song megumi wrote as a first year, and they sang it at their first fes×live in august last year. since then their feelings have become much stronger and deeper, so they decided to record a new performance with all their feelings from 103

they talk about how troublesome writing nonfiction hero show was for love live. they were so motivated to make a masterpiece but they had so much they wanted to do it was hard packing it all in. but they made it through the qualifiers so they're satisfied!

kokon touzai and hakuchuu à la mode were prepared for the august fes×live, their first after reforming mirapa. ruri says megu-chan was so impressive at the time, she was super in the zone! megumi says it was a very important fes×live after all~

in the full club mc kaho asks what megumi's favourite fes×live was as an audience member and she says they were all good! kaho-chan and sayaka-chan's debut live was really cute, and deepness was cool... but her favourite has to be july! because it was ruri-chan's first!

megumi asks each unit which fes×live was the most interesting. not just the performance itself, but the leadup to and their thoughts afterwards too. ceribou say december, due to not only the data limit but also the projection mapping and the quick change. but despite the difficulties, it was a lot of fun, and thats why they love december's fes×live!

dollche choose may. sayaka says may was when she was getting used to being a school idol, and tsuzuri says she was really hapy eating saya's bentou every day. the bentou she made was extra special the day of the fes×live. fried shrimp tails! sayaka explains that earlier tsuzuri had told her not to worry, her dance is like fried shrimp tails, and she was so happy to hear that! so that's why the may fes×live was the most interesting to them

mirapa choose september! last year they helped out at yunokuni tenshou-san, and they took their jobs very seriously! but once they got back to school and practised for their fes×live, megu-chan was so used to greeting guests, she said "hello and welcome. how may i help you today?" instead of "hellomegu!" sayaka says rurino-san started laughing, and then megumi-senpai, and they couldn't stop

mirapa pass the torch to dollche for the next show

the next show was dollche's focus. in their mc sayaka says tsuzuri made knot for love live, and tsuzuri says she remembers well how difficult it was, though this is the first time sayaka's hearing about this. tsuzuri says she didn't tell her since sayaka was very worried at the time and she didn't want to burden her. but seeing sayaka work so hard helped her come up with the lyrics and so she successfully managed to finish knot. she's really happy everyone loves it so much because she worked hard making it. sayaka says they should do it with kosuzu-san next time!

sayaka moves on to talking about take it over in the september fes×live but tsuzuri interrupts to say she has something she has to apologise for... odango... she realised when she was looking back at their otsukimi photos and fes×live footage, but she ate three extra otsukimi dango that saya made... sayaka insists she doesn't have to apologise, those were all for tsuzuri-senpai! she had more ingredients leftover than she thought she would and so was able to make extra dango! tsuzuri is glad for that, and is looking forward to otsukimi dango this year too!

sayaka says the tragic drops outfits are very memorable to her. she and tsuzuri-senpai made them together and she realised how much fun she has making things. when she started high school she had so many worries, but once she started activities as a school idol, she was able to overcome her doubts. making those outfits was so much fun! tsuzuri tells her something kozu says is "outfits are the form you want to show of yourself," and saya was able to find that form

dollche reflect on how lost they were in april last year and how far they came in 103 since thanks to their friends in the club and everyone supporting them, and tells everyone to look forward to their progress in 104 too!

in the full club mc ruri asks tsuzu-paisen what her most important memory from april of the start of 103 is and she immediately says obentou! april was when she first ate saya's bentou! she has a lot of other important memories too, like meeting saya and kaho. saya was amazing back then, she was really sparkling at their first live. mirapa point out she had experience from figure skating, though sayaka says she hadn't sung before and was really nervous, but managed to keep it up until the end thanks to everyone's support

after talking about how difficult december was without being able to keep in touch with everyone kaho asks about other times they struggled. ruri says she had loads, like using up all her strength while running, tsuzuri says when she was hungry when saya wasnt there, and megumi says tests...

sayaka asks each unit for fes×lives they struggled with. ceribou says july, which has ruri worrying if its to do with her, but kaho says she really had difficulty with singing while doing genyou yakou's choreography!!! (and sings a capella to demonstrate) tsuzuri compliments the move, which kaho appreciates since she loves it too, but complains its so hard!!!!

mirapa's fes×live problem is of course february! after some discussion over whether they can say this, they announce their issue was with ruri-chan's outfit! its embarrassing but... oosawa rurino's waist in february was a little... ruri-chan ate too much valentine's chocolate! tsuzuri says they ate a lot of chocolate together and ruri complains tsuzu-paisen didn't gain weight! (kozue: tsuzuri has that kind of body...) but anyway, ruri's outfit wouldn't fit and they were in a lot of trouble so she ended up having to diet!

lastly, dollche says august. megumi guesses its to do with the location, and she's correct. tsuzuri says on the practice day they got lost and ended up on the wrong beach... kozue asks how that happened and tsuzuri says she had a lot of things in her head... and sayaka gives megumi's return as an example which megumi is very pleased with. the others are surprised they didn't know about this, and they say they ran as fast as they could to get to the right place. tsuzuri thinks that summer was the fastest she's ever gone

finally, ceribou's focus show. in their mc they talk about how mix shake was newly recorded for the fes×rec:live as they have never performed it at a fes×live before. kaho quizzes everyone on why they chose mix shake, and the answer is because they wanted to get excited with everyone! dollchestra chose knot, and mirakura park chose dododo, so they wanted something similar. kaho loves both of those songs and kozue is honestly a little envious of the other units for their exciting songs. she thought about what songs they had that were similar, and so decided upon mix shake

the following three songs, senpen banka, genyou yakou, and holiday∞holiday were decided due to kaho strongly requesting them

kaho has something very important to say to everyone: "even though its the same song, its not the same!" kozue is a little confused, so kaho explains that for example, the them of july sang genyou yakou differently to how the them of august sang it, or something... and kozue manages to word it much more elegantly

kaho continues talking about how the songs change as they change, from the her that had only just become a school idol in april to the her that was being supported by everyone in december, and kozue agrees that she herself has changed a lot too. even though she's the same person, her feelings singing mix shake are completely different before and after meeting kaho. so even though its the same song, its not the same!

in the last full club mc kozue asks which fes×live was the most memorable for each unit. ceribou say january. kozue says holding a live in the ishikawa public library made many memories they won't forget, and kaho says singing special thanks in the library felt like saying thank you to all the books! the words she uses and the feelings in her dreams were all taught to her by so many books! kozue says thats a very kaho answer. kaho wants to do another live there one day!

the most memorable fes×live for dollche was october! tsuzuri says the halloween outfits and trick&cute were nice, but theyre not the real reason. sayaka takes over to talk about her solo, runway, that was performed at the october fes×live. tsuzuri also talks about the love live qualifiers and knot, which as she said in the last show, was completed thanks to seeing saya work so hard

tsuzuri passes the baton to megumi, and mirapa answer august! obviously! it was megu-chan's comeback and mirakura park's first appearance, and they performed three songs!

kozue says she'd like to choose one more fes×live. a fes×live of the 103rd year that is full of memories to kozue is... june. the stage where she was able to sing a song she thought she'd never be able to sing again, with yuugiri tsuzuri, and with hinoshita kaho and murano sayaka by her side. tsuzuri adds that that stage moved them all greatly, and kozue continues that that summer, oosawa rurino joined them in july, and fujishima megumi returned in august, and so the school idol club became six

finally, megumi calls them all to sing as the 103rd year's club's final form, as six, with six member deepness!

[voyagerprobe]

I am asking you about the film Night is Short, Walk on Girl cause it’s the last movie I watched

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite| masterpiece

oooo i hadnt heard of this before but it looks interesting

[uncooldotcom]

oh, to be in a castle in the middle of the night seduced by a mad alien scientist dressed in drag

[hoeofthestars]

i watched fallen angels yesterday, gave it all my time, focused on micro details and let me tell you, that movie is a masterpiece.

it feels like watching a collection of montages that focus on expression and emotion more than dialogue and conversations. the vibes are immaculate and so is the playlist. you will watch it for the aesthetic but the characters are what will draw you in, you will stay for them, you will love them, you will wish you were them: living in a world so similar but distant, so lonely; a world with an endless night.

you will want to tattoo ‘the night is full of weirdos’ onto your skin and you will wish you could be a part of something so beautiful.

you will wonder how He is so coercively humorous, and will laugh at the irony itself. you will wonder about the assistant’s personality because it seems she was the most vague out of them all, you will get bi panic when you watch her smoke; which is always. you will want to be the killer, love the killer, know the killer. simply, you will want to exist in the world that the movie creates. it is our world but it seems a different dimension; it seems like a murakami book, where the ordinary is the extraordinary.

you will love it.

this movie made me feel like a fool because why hadnt i ever watched wkw movies before? sheesh.

also i dont want to smoke again but oh my gawd i physically felt my lungs crave the nicotine as i watched this art.

[annebonnydyke]

I've recently rewatched rise of the guardians, megamind, kung fu panda, and monsters vs aliens (most of my comfort movies are dreamworks 😅) and would love to hear your thoughts on them ☺️

ok im gonna be completly honest i havent seen most of these in years so my opinion on them is mostly based on hazy childhood memory and what my friends tell me

rise of the guardians

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

havent seen this one in years tbh and dont really remember it that well? it seems perfectly fine i just dont think it was my thing, it maybe should be higher but ive been on tumblr too long and i remember the dark days

megamind

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

the only one ive watched relativly recently! i still really enjoy megamind a lot and think its super fun! megamind is a style icon and u know im rewatching it when the queen finally bites it

kung fu panda

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

again havent seen kung fu panda in years but i do remember liking it quite a bit and hey i mean its got jack black in it and that counts for a lot in my book, maybe one day ill rewatch it after i get through my to be watched movie list

monsters vs aliens

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

never seen this and tbh didnt know it existed before today seems perfectly fine but maybe not something id usually go for

i dont wanna make it seem like im a dreamworks hater ( im really not its my favorite animation studio) but i usually prefer 2D animation and these just happened to be a lot of movie i hadnt seen in a while but i might check some of them out again :)

ask me about a film! 

[carrion-aac]

Color Theory: Green

CW: a line or 2 of that exile abuse shit

They drag him, bound in chains to a cell. He thrashes, kicking and screaming the whole way. Tommy was never one to lay down and die.

“You’re an animal Tommy!”

“You’re a danger to the server!”

“All you do is fuck shit up!”

The chains, cold metal, are tight against his wrists, practically tearing the skin every time he pulls against them.

His eyes widen when he sees the cell, lifetimes worth of memories flooding him.

Green. A verdant cell is what he’s being placed in. It’s lined in greens dark as a lush forest, shades of sage, greens light as mint. The whole damn thing is green, there’s no escape from it. He roars, determined more than ever to escape their grasp. He won’t, he can’t be around green again.

Green could be so kind, warm eyes of an angel, that of death, giving him life anew. Green could be an emerald sleeve pointing him to the depths of hell, casting him out. Green could he the lime sleeve of a man, lighting TNT and leaving him with ashes. Green could be a line clothed hand leaving him with bruises for disobedience. Green could be the hands that stayed at their sides, refusing to touch him, refusing to hurt him.

“I won’t lay a hand on you Tommy.”

He hadn’t lied. His hands weren’t the ones shoving Tommy into this god forsaken cell.

“It’s for your own good, Tommy.” Icy blue eyes stare him down, words colder than the climate of snowchester.

“Get in the cell and stop fighting you animal.”

He’s not sure who spits those venom filled words at him, all he knows is that the cell door slams shut, loudly, and he’s left alone. Alone again with-

Green.

He stands, knees wobbling and balance unsteady from the heavy chains around his ankles, as his eyes frantically search the cell. It’s all verdant, violent memories that come back to him at the sight of the verdant insides of the cell. He knows he should remember the grassy field of warmth, home and family. He knows he should try to remember the eyes that were once so kind to him, the emerald striped hat. He knows he should remember the times the emerald sleeves wrapped around him in a hug, rather than directing him to banishment.

Yet, all he remembers is pain.

The memories that would calm him don’t come, and all he can remember is panic, forbidden goods hidden underground. All he can remember is numb despair, fire turning hard work to ash. All he can remember is pain, purple bruises underneath his shirt. All he can remember is the soul shattering grief, green eyes staring into brown as life drained from the oak eyed man.

Panic bubbles underneath his skin, being quickly replaced by rage, lava filling his blood. He isn’t sure why, he just knows that he has to scream, shout, wreck something, do something- because his breath is quickening and it’s so hard to breath and this cell is so small and green, and his chest feels so tight and WONT SOMEONE LET HIM OUT?

Please?

He screams, one of fear replaced by anger. He tears at the walls, paint and dry wall coming off in chunks, sage and mint walls dented. Green sheets are torn apart, olive headboard reduced to nothing but splinters. His food bowl richoets off the wall, leaving pieces of meat strewn about. The small bucket in the corner is kicked until the chains cut into his ankles so harshly that they bleed. The bucket is nothing but dented scrap metal. His blood coats the floor.

“You wanna act like an animal? Then we’ll treat you like one.”

Footsteps, slow and slightly afraid, approach the cell.

“Greens supposed to be calming, y’know?”

Tubbo.

Fucking Tubbo.

He turns, ocean eyes churning with rage, a storm brewing in them, and meets stoic icy ones.

“Yeah? Well I think that’s a load of shit,” he spits back.

All he gets is a cruel laugh in return.

A smirk plays upon the other boys lips, as he watching Tommy, stance akin to that of a predator.

“Look at this mess you’ve made. You’re acting like an animal.”

A growl escapes Tommy’s throat.

“You compared me to an animal, yet we’re surprised when I attacked. Did you forget beasts have claws and teeth?”

WOAH HOHOHOHO

WHEN I SAID THINK ABOUT GREEN I HADNT EXPECTED A MASTERPIECE TO AWAKEN TO

ok but that last line is raw as fuck like okay, go off lite

also dream's lingering grasp on everyone? as noted by the dehumanization tommy faced? immaculate. fucking immaculate

[dowoonscookies]

please listen to this whole thing if you haven’t yet

[roughentumble]

Pacific Rim, Fight Club, and Gunpowder Milkshake

PACIFIC RIM

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

very good film, extremely enjoyable, i loved a lot of it. i hesitate to call it a "favorite" just because it's not one im inclined to rewatch all that often, but "drift compatible" was literally genius. reminds me of hellboy(the good one, ron perlman) for some reason i cant put my finger on(though i do prefer hellboy. sorry pacrim, he's my big red baby)

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FIGHT CLUB

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

listen i know what dudebros have done to the reputation of this movie but its genuinely just extremely well-crafted, with a lot of tight performances, based off a book with a lot of really stunning social commentary written by a gay man, and brad pitt wears the hustler fishnet shirt, what do you WANT from me. good film great film fav film!!!! i give it kisses!!! mwah mwah. like im sorry that a lot of dumb boys fell for all the lines from the fake cult leader but that's literally not fight club's fault, guys are just like that.

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GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

honestly hadnt even heard of it until i saw you mention it on your blog, but its been swimming around in the back of my mind as a Potential Movie To Watch One Of These Days ever since.

[juanitasupreme]

It would nice to see sexy concepts again for girl groups (obviously with grown women who are comfortable with the concept and not barely 18 year old teenagers). I miss sistar, after school, beg, secret (my faves), miss a, etc. What are your favorite mature concept songs from girl groups?

What’s crazy about the sexy concept trends is that we are aware everyone don’t want to do it (like I don’t watch stellar mvs) but sexiness is also something not everyone can do iykwim.

Here are some of my fave songs with a sexy concept:

Joker by Dalshabet. Now cmon I am aware that they are talking about dick and the choreo as been censored (and to me if the choreo hadnt been censored it ain’t a bop, a censored song is a masterpiece periodt!). Also if I remember the genius that Subin is participated in the album.

Miniskirt by Aoa. Sexy secretary who looks good in stockings! This song changed me as a human being.

Hush by Miss A. It’s not sexy per say it’s the fact that they are grown women owning it make it sexy. Their attitude put the sexiness into it and it’s I never seen anyone covering right (expect sistar) giving it justice (I forgot the expression).

Give your Love by Spica. S. Now cmon vocal and a subunit because a member didn’t want so sexy.

Cha cha by Rainbow blaxx. First of all it was a critic of idols in the kpop industry. Second of all the couch part.

Something by Girls Day. How can I not speak about this song uh.

Paradise Lost by Gain. She needs to come back to us 😭

Flashback by Afterschool. Afterschool could do Victoria’s Secret but Victoria’s secret’s model wouldn’t be able to do Flashback!

One More by Fiestar. I just love a song about threesome. And that shit looked cheap as fuck 😭. BUT it’s a bop.

A.D.T.O.Y by 2PM. Only men who deserve to be on this list. Like this is sexy men, real men. Boy groups think that thrusting the air, humping a ghost or grabbing their crotch is sexiness, well they need to know it’s not and it’s actually DISGUSTING. Anyway only 2pm can do songs addressing to pussies directly. LETS GET MOOOOIIISSSTT

I could talk about sexy concept for days because it’s probably my fave concept (I’m watching respectfully). But what I find sexy is the representative of the attitude wich is executed. Groups like EXID, 9muses, Afterschool and more are mature because it was grown woman projecting their sexiness through many factors: dance move, stage presence, details, voice, etc (I think I’m getting lost lol). Like we have to understand for when hani said to the girls “we are going to eat and did wi arae wi wi area” she put the puss on the line and did her thing. You see a hundred of people doing this dance move they will never be on Hani’s level! It’s not given to everyone to be sexy.

[aliceu]

will o the wisp sent shivers down my spine upon reading it. it is one of the most beautiful literary pieces that i have read here in tumblr. how you described each scene is so remarkably specific, it felt as if i was seeing the story physically right in front of my eyes. hyunjin was right though, he never mentioned about bringing the reader home. he only told of showing them the way. as a reader, that vagueness in his words already posed as a red flag. but the persona in the story is desperate after all; they clung on the hope that he means no harm and only wants to lend a helping hand out of kindness even if a thousand signs are already pointing towards their death. you were able to express the readers distress so perfectly. if i hadnt known better, i wouldve thought that you experienced it firsthand. thats how amazing you are at writing. if im not mistaken, other than it being defined as a ghost light, will o the wisp signifies a dream that is impossible to achieve. a dream of wanting to feel the warmth of home again that the reader did not obtain. all because of a certain hwang hyunjin.

your metaphors in moonflower got my eyes and mind widening in amazement! seriously, this deserves more attention. "Gnarly stems telling tales of centuries full of persevering against storm, ice and drought were writhing high into the sky with an almost odd gracefulness, sturdy branches appearing like inky brushstrokes against the midnight glow." how can you write a simple sentence but put so much emotions and creativity in it? remember, thats just the start of the story. i dont think i have to point out every single word you wrote just to show how much i really really love it. that got me thinking, is reader some sort of important person for time travelers to cross paths with? or is it just luck? reading this work of yours got me curious as well as to what is the relation of moonflowers and time travelling, if there is any. after all, you would have never emphasized the blossom if not for its relevance in the whole story. it would me bring much joy if you enlighten me more about it. if you dont mind, that is.

i honestly wouldnt be surprised if you publish a book soon. set the sails (and watch out for lullabies) is truly a masterpiece. i cant imagine how much research youve done just to compose a ready-to-be-directed-as-a-movie story as this one. the amount of knowledge of medicine and the 18 hundreds dialogues incorporated here in your work is extremely impressive. all of them were so realistic and as i said, it felt like i was a watching a movie. at first, i didnt expect the revelation of jisung being a merman. i thought that the readers attraction towards him on their first meeting was the cliche love at first sight. and as you can see, i am undoubtedly mistaken. i underestimated your god of a brain; a plot as simple as that wouldnt have been a doing by you after all. how calm he seemed even after realizing he is rather, in the presence of infamous pirates (given that jisung was previously aboard on a mere merchant ship) and the way you described his eyes to hold history should have been enough for me to deem him as suspicious. also, huge respect for the readers bravery. it doesnt matter if she did it for, i quote, " the peace of your mind", since the reason behind all of her actions are still because of her huge love and care for her hometown. by the way, another thing i would like to clarify. jisung stated that the goddess calypso does not turn her back against those who seek her help, right? if you dont mind (again), it would satiate the curiosity ive been feeling while writing this ask down if you were to confirm if the same thing applies to jisung. why did he kiss and comfort her if not for the reason that reader needs help? is it all an act? or is it driven purely by his true feelings?

i have another favour, im really sorry for having so many questions and for being presumptuous but i really would like to hear this specifically from you. does the poetic mind of yours have any experiences in writing non-fictitious literature, specifically auto-biographies? if so, it would help me so much if you were to list any tips as writing one is crucial for my academic life. a lot has said to list down the achievements ive attained, situations that bloomed my maturity and the like. but, what is necessary for it become interesting and memorable? ive thought about focusing it towards my love for music and how it helped me along the way but researching online made it seem wrong (?) my plan is to make it seem like a story but still about me, hopefully you understand my scramble of words. is it fine if i do it in a 3rd person perspective or a narrative-like way? in some way, i dont want to focus mainly on my awards but on the various things that helped me grow. i find it the easiest to do that after all.

lastly, your works deserves so much more love. im wishing you all the best! thank you for making my day through your writing, i really appreciate it. they were all an enjoyable read. im looking forward to your future works, alice <3

Hello dear anon !! 💗💗💗

First of all, I'm so sorry this took so much longer than intended TT what with uni starting again and all. BUT, here we go >:D ✨✨

(cut for a LOT of text hahaha)

will o the wisp sent shivers down my spine upon reading it. it is one of the most beautiful literary pieces that i have read here in tumblr. how you described each scene is so remarkably specific, it felt as if i was seeing the story physically right in front of my eyes.

THIS!! This right here went straight to my heart!! It's exactly that weird combination of spooky and beautiful that i wanted to achieve, so this made me very very happy!! 💗

you were able to express the readers distress so perfectly. if i hadnt known better, i wouldve thought that you experienced it firsthand.

Crycrycry this is such a big compliment, seriously. Luckily, something like this hasn't happened to me haha but i'm so so glad that the emotions could be conveyed this strongly (despite the small word count) 😭💗

will o the wisp signifies a dream that is impossible to achieve. a dream of wanting to feel the warmth of home again that the reader did not obtain. all because of a certain hwang hyunjin.

YES !! A dream, a goal (or maybe a hope), that will guide you so to say, but which you can never achieve !! There are various symbolisms connected to will o the wisps (e.g. that they're in fact lost souls who're looking for the way home themselves etc.), which is very facinating ✨✨ also, i LOVE that you recognised this. KISSES 🤩🤩

how can you write a simple sentence but put so much emotions and creativity in it?

Thank you!! Really, thank you so much for your kind words !! 😭💗���� But to answer your question,, hmm i tend to think in impressions! So when i imagine a scene, it has a certain feeling to it? A certain vibe and/or atmosphere that i would like to convey on paper! Does this even make sense hahaha??? Therefore the many metaphors 😂😂😂

that got me thinking, is reader some sort of important person for time travelers to cross paths with? or is it just luck? reading this work of yours got me curious as well as to what is the relation of moonflowers and time travelling, if there is any.

set the sails (and watch out for lullabies) is truly a masterpiece. i cant imagine how much research youve done just to compose a ready-to-be-directed-as-a-movie story as this one. the amount of knowledge of medicine and the 18 hundreds dialogues incorporated here in your work is extremely impressive.

Hmm i'd say it's more luck tbh, though we can certainly not deny any directing of fate. As you might've noticed reader is very in tune with energies and the supernatural in general, which of course makes her the perfect person for a time traveller to meet.

There's less of a direct relation between the flowers and time travelling, it's more the result of the same cause. In the story i kinda described it as the time in which the moon leaves the sky and visits earth. It's a strange time, the energies work differently, everything is much more infused with the moon's power (the reason why moonflowers only bloom at that specific time,, they basically are the moon's power). A strange time that might make time travelling much easier for certain people :D

No because this gives me so much joy 😭💗💗💗💗 set the sails was truly very fun to write (it was originally intended to be like 6k words lmao but then the story wouldn't end), but also quite exhausting 😂 i did ... a LOT of research. Historical context, pirate speech, different kinds of ships and their (dis)advantages, drowning, "simple" stuff like antispetics and anaesthetics which was surprisingly hard to find reliable sources for, fashion, the floor material of houses at that time, how long it would take to cover the distance to the horizon with so and so many knots..... 😭 But it was very fascinating !! 😂✨✨✨

at first, i didnt expect the revelation of jisung being a merman

Hehehe i tried giving many hints without really giving anything away >:D his talent for singing, his silver tongue, that he basically cannot handle human work at all 😂😂 so i'm very glad that it came as a surprise 🤩✨✨ as a lovely person here on tumblr once said, Jisung is fishy~ I'm also very very happy that you enjoyed readers personality as she is a character who's very near and dear to my heart 💗

jisung stated that the goddess calypso does not turn her back against those who seek her help, right? if you dont mind (again), it would satiate the curiosity ive been feeling while writing this ask down if you were to confirm if the same thing applies to jisung. why did he kiss and comfort her if not for the reason that reader needs help? is it all an act? or is it driven purely by his true feelings?

does the poetic mind of yours have any experiences in writing non-fictitious literature, specifically auto-biographies?

Ohhh right into the juicy questions 👀✨ tbh when writing set the sails i had a bit of a dilemma. My hopeless romantic heart wanted a happy ending with true feelings etc. The way i set the story up, however, made that nearly impossible. Reader has trust issues and her relationship with jisung is based on one big lie: that he is, in fact, not human. Would it make sense for her to trust him (with her whole heart) even after finding out the truth? Especially since sirens are infamous for their luring nature and sweet talk. On the other hand, Jisung is who knows how many years old. Can he even properly fall in love with a human? Or is the most he'd be capable of curiosity, fascination and affection? Questions like that made me go for an open ending. We know as little as reader does. After all, sometimes only time will tell. And Jisung himself doesn't know tbh. He just did.

He is definitely on the reader's side, however. For now.

Sadly, i don't have any experiences with non-fictitious literature (well apart from essays for school or university lmao 😅). I'd really like to help but i'm afraid i can't do more than look things up on the internet--which you already did. Should i find someone who knows more about that topic, I'll definitely try to ping you on my blog though !! GOOD LUCK WITH WRITING IT ✨✨💗✨💗✨✨💗💗✨💗 Sending good energy your way, that I can do :D

lastly, your works deserves so much more love. im wishing you all the best! thank you for making my day through your writing, i really appreciate it. they were all an enjoyable read. im looking forward to your future works, alice <3

Thank YOU for not only reading and enjoying my stories, but for being such a wonderful reader, too !! Thank you for giving me feedback, for asking me questions (because that's simply delightful), for your many many kind words !! 💗💗💗 I may be a writer but i'm afraid i struggle with expressing just how thankful i am 😂

Have the best day/night, dear anon. And thank you again for this ask, mwah mwah

[cyberbullyinc]

so yesterday i said i was watching something embarrassing idk why im gonna show u tho lmao like just thinking about it is so funny to me cuz i was so interested watching i hadnt seen something so captivating lmfaooooooooo

https://youtu.be/sYQpFjdaqek

like this is literally so funny and it WILL become my new hyper fixation for when im high like the way he keeps calling it a sausage the lighter the toilet……. the way theyre trying to dissect it……. truly a masterpiece

[voyagerprobe]

long days journey into night? watched it in my film class hehe it has an unbroken hour-long single shot at the end (!!) -- or vagabond by Agnes varda?

long days journey into night:

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite| masterpiece

theres like 5 versions of this, im not sure which you mjean but i havent seen any of them

vagabond:

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite| masterpiece

i hadnt heard of this one before

[mariska]

so as some of u have almost certainly seen me post about on here before i am a very big fan of netflix's Castled Vania anime adaptation as well as two of my best buddies, we all like to watch it together when we watch it and we hadnt seen the most recent season yet so we watched i think 6 episodes out of 10 last night and folks..........it licherally breaks my heart to type this but i really am not feelin it this season i gotta say. i think a big part of it is i just LOVE the sypha/alucard/trevor trio dynamic soooo much and having them apart really brings the whole mood down for me.....but also i just really am not vibing with the plot so far.........and after we logged off for the night my friends looked up spoilers for the rest of the season because they do not mind being spoiled on stuff and told me they r done watching it after reading what they saw and advised me against watching the rest because they think i will be very angry and bothered by it and they know me v well so i trust that they are correct but im gonna try to watch the rest of the season at some point soon anyways just to see how the plot resolves cus like........ughhhh im so sad! idk. seasons 1 + 2 of that show are a literal masterpiece in my mind so to hear that my friends were so upset by the plot resolution that they've decided thats enough of the show for them has me so bummed. we all have extremely similar tastes so i know im probably going to end up feeling the same way abt it........ :(

[vinylexams]

Heavy Heavy Low Low - Courtside Seats to the Greatest Fuck of All Time⁠

⁠ @heavyheavylowlow38 #heavyheavylowlow #hhll #deathwish @deathwishinc⁠ ⁠ I’ve been lucky as hell recently to snag insider info on some killer reissues and this one is no exception. You all already know how much I love HHLL, especially Turtle Nipple…, and through serendipity I got connected with Robbie from the band a few months back. I got to hear about how they are coming back to life after some years focusing on other projects, growing up and growing out, and evolving as musicians and artists in the process. They’ve worked with Twelve Gauge Records to put Courtside Seats on vinyl for the very first time and after they announced it on their platforms and immediately sold it out, they’re pressing another batch that you and the HHLL lovers in your life can and should snag before that pressing sells out, too!⁠ ⁠ What’s even more exciting is that I got to pick Robbie’s brain in typical VE fashion and he’s indulged me with all sorts of info about what they’re up to, whether or not we can expect new music, and some feel-good stories about huffing air duster and ripping shit up in an old warehouse on the California coast. Here it is in its unedited glory, but first…head to the website to pre-order your copy and then head to Robbie’s Indiegogo campaign to learn more about his upcoming short firm that’s scored by Nick from Tera Melos! ⁠https://deathwishinc.com/products/heavy-heavy-low-low-courtside-seats https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/morning-deliveries-short-film#/

INTERVIEW

First and foremost, it’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Heavy Heavy Low Low and then out of nowhere you sprang back to life in 2019. What motivated you all to pick up this project again? I’m not sure what motivated it. We had always been trying to jumpstart the whole thing again for some time and I think that it might have been a case of everyone’s lives slowing down and examining that time with a weird reverence. I can only speak for myself. The boys are all in school or doing their own thing.

I imagine you’ve all been working on different projects since HHLL went on hiatus. Do you have anything that you or the rest of the band have worked on that you’d love us to know about? Danny has gotten pretty popular in the Kendama world. Chris is studying various forms of martial arts. Roo is endlessly going to school and currently scoring independent films. Chip is heavily involved in competitive fishing. I’ve been making short films when the situation and my wallet allow it. We’re all crazy excited about finally owning Courtside Seats on vinyl for the first time. Aside from bringing that album onto the vinyl medium, the pre-order page notes that there’s new artwork, too. What can we expect from that? When we made the CD we weren’t expecting to sell any really.. I did the art and Matthew printed them all at his job. Him and I folded every crease, glued the o-cards and vacuum sealed them all. I think it sold out almost completely at the record release show. We made the same amount of records as we did the original cd (500). The artwork for the original CD pressing was done on sketch paper without any comprehension of what could be done with drawn art and a scanner. Matthew was the computer wizard and back then, young and silly, it was all done on the cuff. The new art is a bit more modern and plays with mortality. Court-side Seats to The Greatest Fuck of All Time being a front seat view of a an ordinary, bumpy ride through life. I’m proud of it. What’s it like to bring back an album from the earliest parts of the band’s career? Do you still identify with the music? It is odd. It was a truly surreal time and place. We were out of our fucking minds. We recorded it in Mountain View, Ca in this giant warehouse that tapered into gutted office spaces. It was a weird white collar tomb on the outskirts of Silicon Valley right before the real tech boom. In the big part of the warehouse where we’d enter there were giant mounds of clothes meant to be donated to some third world country. We’d burrow tunnels in them and do huge dramatic flips from pike to pile. There was an aisle of outdated medical equipment waiting to be sent that we’d stalk through in the dark. It was a strangely magic place. Once you got through the warehouse you’d get to these office stations that had been fashioned into recording studios and that’s where we birthed this thing. We were so misguided. The amount of compressed air that we inhaled should have killed us. I contribute a significant drop in IQ to that shit. Smoking copious amounts of weed from gravity bongs. Recording with a hip hop producer, Deegan. Never a disagreement. It still feels like it was some strange purgatory of youth. I don’t miss it, but it was beautiful. Does this mean there’s hope of having Everything’s Watched, Everyone’s Watching on vinyl sometime, too? So, there was a guy who was very adamant about putting that record out on vinyl. We had a dialogue going for the better part of a year and apparently he had been in contact with Rhino Music and Warner, the two companies that hold the licensing to that album. He had received word that it’d cost an impressive amount of money, but he still wanted to shoulder it. Mind you, this dude didn’t have a label, he just wanted to put this thing out and apparently hadnt thought that all out. Time goes by, I’m waiting, not worrying one way or the other. One day I get a link from a friend, a Christian college website detailing that dude had been arrested for kidnapping and assault. Very sad situation. Dude seemed semi normal. Anyway, that was the last effort I’d seen put into that. I’d love to contribute new art to that release if any go-getter wants to try their luck. I’ve loved everything HHLL put out, but Turtle Nipple is in my top 10 list of favorite albums of all time. What was the writing the recording process for it like and how did the band feel about the new creative directions on it? EWEW was half previously recorded material re-recorded and half material written a year prior, kind of forced into a studio with producers we had no previous rapport with. Those producers/engineers were incredible human beings (RIP Tom Pfaffle! See you in the mindfog) but we were very young punk kids thrown into a foreign land where we had our agents visiting and there were platinum records on the wall and it was a total barrage of privilege and excess. It was beautiful, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t feel soul in that record. Turtle Nipple is a dense trip through time and the record I’m most proud of in our discography. I don’t remember how long we had to record it, I do remember that it was the only time we’d been given to experiment and layer our sensibilities in an environment that catered to them. Sam (Pura) was a perfect conduit to that vibe and time and space and it really came out just how it should have. I think about that album as a 70s exploitation directors filmography.. it veers violently from genre to genre and while most of the stories are fiction and far from personal testimony, theirs a peek into some shared insanity contained throughout. George Cosmatos wandering through a punk club on an edible. I think that that album is our bands true personality. Sam is a member of our band whether he’s playing with us or engineering for us. He gets us. I love the idea of an alternate reality where we had lasted a bit longer and did an album with Steve Albini. He’d probably hate us, but I love those ‘What If?’ Scenarios. I’ll ask the question EVERYONE has been asking so it’s on the record somewhere: Does this mean we can expect new material or a new album soon? Maybe even a tour? We have a new EP in the works. We have some of it recorded with Sam. We’ve posted a couple clips on Instagram. We’re incredibly busy and spread out in our personal lives. Chip in TX, Dan in FL, Roo in OR, Rob and Chris in CA. Adulthood is a bitter, pulpy drink! We are going to be playing again. We won’t be leaving the West Coast. We had our fill of middle America and the travel involved. We have talked to some of our buds from our early days of touring about playing alongside (opening for) them for a limited run in 2020. I think that qualifies as a tour. Also, if anyone wants to fly us to Europe to play a festival in 2020, we’d like that. It’ll be an interesting year. How does it feel to be welcomed back by so many adoring fans who still love your music and are hoping for more after a long hiatus? It’s incredibly humbling. I have heard from people throughout the years about how we had affected them and it was always just strange to me. I’m pretty self deprecating, so I just don’t understand how some shit I wrote could mean much to anyone. My mind is just a shotgun blast of panic. I guess all of ours are? I love my band mates and their talents, though. So I understand the sorta sirens draw to the greater extent. I think they only got to show themselves slightly, too. Weird existence. Give us a piece of band trivia you’ve never shared in an interview before! Gees. There is a step-in part to most 15 passenger vans. It is a black, hard plastic. It meets with where you close the sliding door. When we had no bottles to pee in, we would just piss in ‘the step’. This thing was a den of germicidal activity. Trash and piss I don’t think we ever truly cleaned that thing. What’s odd is that we so rarely got ill on tour. The Step kept us healthy on a steady diet of trash and piss and general scum. Finally, this isn’t a question but the hidden track on Turtle Nipple is a fucking masterpiece and I wanted you to know. Thank you! I think that may have been my idea to add some weird 70s funk into an old track of ours. I think it turned out cool, but I think it betrays our vibe on that album! I wish it’d have devolved into some weird, primitive Altered States shit.