i know tumblr is where the niche nerds live, but is it "i have an essay in my soul about The Rite of Spring, probably the most famous ballet of the Ballets Russes, which are their own can of worms honestly but Sergei Diaghilev is my problematic fav and this ballet makes me feel viscerally emotional" where the niche nerds live?
sometimes I’ll occasionally tinker with my hacked 2ds getting new games to play later that aren’t available for purchase anymore and install new homescreen themes and figure out a new thing or two about what you can do with the console and i always end up thinking to myself that there really won’t be a console era that feels Like That anymore and it makes me sad
it’s not even nostalgia anymore like the menus and native console apps have different designs that were trendy in the 2010s but now simply aren’t used anymore. the 2ds is probably one of the best console designs in terms of accesibility if you have trouble with hand-eye coordination or just keeping your grip on certain surfaces (i don’t think i’d have enjoyed or been as good in mario kart 7 if it wasn’t for the Huge L+R buttons in the corners) (also i’ve heard people with big hands find it uncomfortable to grab which is why i don’t claim it to be fully emcompassing in its accessibility but ok). it was also way cheaper than other consoles which is why i could even get it in the first place years ago lol
idk there’s such a charm in struggling with converting audio files to play them in a custom 3ds theme or manually changing the regions of the games you download with the SD card reader on the computer because they’re not available for your console’s region —i am aware you can bypass this but i like doing it this way—. i literally had to change my internet provider settings in order to make the 2ds signal compatible with my router. absolutely no one shares this opinion but i loveeeee when tech feels like a hassle to figure out. it feels like the right way to handle tech stuff.
Idk if your familiar w them but they have a few songs that're animated!! and create a story?? So whenever I listen to the group I always listen to that set of songs. This one got stuck in my head most often, so its the highest.
56 - SHUM by Go-A
I was literally listening to this one today! Okay so Go_A makes Ukrainian electro-folk and tbh kickstarted my obssession w slavic electro-folk and chalga as a genre. I discovered them while watching eurovision performances while waiting at the DMV.
okay but what if marissa meyer stuck around long enough in life to rewrite all the fairy tales? what if she wrote a the frog prince retelling? or a sleeping beauty retelling? or beauty and the beast? or literally any fairy tale like i need all the retellings from her and her alone
the category is. alan menken deep emotional solos in disney remakes sung by the love interest who had none in the original movie but definitely deserved one cause they have their own story to tell and it really puts them on the same level as the main character