#I have a song I want you to hear

[chesdg]

Mikami Ai as  Nakao Aya in  あなたに聴かせたい歌があるんだ  (I have a song I want you to hear / a song for aliens) | 2022

[smmramour]

[embraceweird]

Imagine being at a Fig and the Cig Figs concert. They just finished an epic rendition of "Burn Towns Get Money". After a beat Fig walks up to the mic. You start to notice stage hands wheeling an excessive number of cymbals onto the stage. You're buzzing, you know what's coming next.

You hear Fig's voice call out "For this next song we're going to need some help." And stepping out from back stage is a SECOND Gorgug! The crowd goes wild. This is the moment everyone has been waiting for!!

The first Gorgug proceeds to double in size while the second Gorgug shrinks. The massive Gorgug then places the small Gorgug into a baby carrier strapped to his chest and they both take their seat behind the drums.

What follows is the most hard core, rebellion and rage fueled performance you have ever seen. You have just been blessed (by what? Who's to say) to have been able to witness the masterpiece that is "Dawn of Justice" live!

[scribefindegil]

As much as I adore conlangs, I really like how the Imperial Radch books handle language. The book is entirely in English but you're constantly aware that you're reading a "translation," both of the Radchaai language Breq speaks as default, and also the various other languages she encounters. We don't hear the words but we hear her fretting about terms of address (the beloathed gendering on Nilt) and concepts that do or don't translate (Awn switching out of Radchaai when she needs a language where "citizen," "civilized," and "Radchaai person" aren't all the same word) and noting people's registers and accents. The snatches of lyrics we hear don't scan or rhyme--even, and this is what sells it to me, the real-world songs with English lyrics, which get the same "literal translation" style as everything else--because we aren't hearing the actual words, we're hearing Breq's understanding of what they mean. I think it's a cool way to acknowledge linguistic complexity and some of the difficulties of multilingual/multicultural communication, which of course becomes a larger theme when we get to the plot with the Presgar Translators.

[randomidiocyncrazies]

Anata ni Kikasetai Uta ga Arunda (A Song for Aliens / I Have a Song I Want You to Hear) is a Spring 2022 J-Drama that revolves around dreams and regrets... and music.

When we were 17, we looked at our substitute teacher with cold arrogance and judgmental curiosity as she stood, with her lip trembling, next to the evidence of her past in the adult industry. “You will all be 27 years-old in ten years, the same age as I am now...   by the time you get to my age, I sincerely hope you have less regrets than I do” she said, before playing a song for us and leaving in silence. And now, before we knew it, we are 27 too. The song she played back then—in what ways did it speak to me, I wonder?

If you like bittersweet short stories about reckoning with growing up and growing out of or clinging to your dreams and grappling with regrets, all served up with immaculate vibes, then this show is for you.

The sound design and visual storytelling in this show is carefully considered—there are no wasted shots, and the music never feels intrusive or incongruous for the situation. Rather, the visual and audio experience elevates the short, 20-something minute episodes from what could easily turn into maudlin melodrama into tasteful explorations about the ennui of existence and dealing with loss. On the note of music, Aliens by Kirinji—with its melancholic, mellow vibe—suits the story as the centerpiece of the show (go give it a listen!)

As for the visual aspect, there’s always at least one “wow” moment in each of the 4 episodes so far where i rewind the ep just to appreciate the shot again. I feel like the cinematographer and I share the same tastes in effective visual storytelling lol

as for triggers, ep 1 depicts sexual harassment (the students have unearthed a pic of the teacher in an adult magazine and harasses her about it) and workplace harassment (boss casually insults underling etc)

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Track list for Fig and the Cig Figs independently published Junior Year album (officially named “Infaethable”)

Teenage Rebellion

Night Yorb (a heavy metal banger)

Summer Scaries

Devils Nectar

Time Quangle (a love song about Ayda)

Multiclass (Gorgug sings on this!)

The Ballad Of Lucy Frostblade (Kristen was the one who convinced Fig to write this)

So Late, So Tactical

Do You Have A Fucking Warrant

Cassandra (Can You Hear Me)

Hall Of Mirrors

President Applebees (written entirely in the night after Kristen gets elected by a drunk Fig with extremely drunk notes by Kristen)

Raging For Love (inspired by Gorgug, of course)

The Elven Oracle (Has A Day Job) (So Stop Bothering Her)

Maximum Legend

Fury Of The Ball

Cursed

Infaethable

The Bad Kids

[divorcedfiddleford]

and you may say to yourself: "my god! what have i done?" and you may tell yourself: "this is not my beautiful wife!" and you may tell yourself: "this is not my beautiful house!" and you may ask yourself: "well, how did i get here?"

time isn't holding up, time isn't after us, time is a pony ride! (images described in alt text)

[locusfandomtime]

i hope you guys understand my vision

[iero]

Does anyone else remember the Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland video game soundtrack with the emo band covers of classic punk rock songs or was that a fever dream?

[itsalwaysforyou]

there’s blood in the water, there’s blood in the water

kenny ortega, descendants / the crane wives, the crooked, the cradle

[hecksupremechips]

Come back home when you have some sense

You can throw your life away just not at my expense

You’re not the son I raised

[chesdg]

“you know, i've always admired you, now and forever. i thought you were the other me, chasing after my dreams.”

あなたに聴かせたい歌があるんだ  (I have a song I want you to hear) | 2022

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Do you listen to music? And if you do what artists/genres/songs do you like? ^w^

music! yeah! that sure is a thing i listen to! um. i like a lot of it <3

[tricoufamily]

genotypes, phenotypes

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[deus-ex-mona]

sorry, chizuutan, may you have better luck with your next oshi </3

[good-beansdraws]

Finally finishing my Lukas-Fuuta swap art -- I was really happy with the original armor switch and thought some alternate outfits could be fun to go full-out with :3 I was so tired of drawing the uniforms so just have my sketch for that and the resplendent alt 😅