#Singers High

[spookberry]

Toradeen at Monsterfest (based off)

[radiantmists]

i didn't want to add this to the post because it would add a bit too much seriousness to a good meme, but i do think it raised an interesting point. because obviously kaladin didn't forget that racism existed in that moment, he was confronting one of his primary oppressors, the guy who betrayed him multiple times over specifically because he was darkeyed.

what kaladin does forget in that moment is the pervasiveness of racism, and the extent to which it's baked into his society's institutions. and i think it makes a lot of sense for kaladin specifically to forget that (even though he absolutely knows it intellectually)!

because kaladin has always been an 'exception'. his father was a doctor, much higher nahn than anyone else in the town. kaladin is as close to literate as an alethi man is allowed to be-- more literate than adolin, presumably than elhokar. marrying the child of the citylord and having lighteyed children-- theoretically 'escaping racism', though of course that wouldn't have worked out too well in practice-- was not only thinkable but likely, unlike the false hope of defeating a shardbearer that others cling to.

before roshone, kaladin did suffer from racism-- but less than others, and in a way where he was led to believe that it was escapable and conditional.

and many of the worst things that happened to him went against the rules of alethi society. roshone was corrupt, and should never have been promoted. kaladin was immune to the draft due to his apprenticeship, and tien was young enough that choosing him was taboo if not forbidden.

similarly, tien being sent to the front lines was the sort of tactic that 'honorable' alethi norms like the codes of war would have considered reprehensible.

and of course when he saved amaram and defeated the shardbearer, the rules of society dictated that he be rewarded; i imagine choosing to give the shard to amaram should, from an honorable man, have been rewarded with pay and retirement for his men or something similar.

kaladin's enslavement was not just dishonorable by alethi social norms, but illegal.

and the kholins, up to this point, have signaled commitment both to the law and to those alethi social honor codes. and while they (especially elhokar) have been casually prejudiced, they've also welcomed the idea of kaladin as the captain of the cobalt guard, suggesting that they aren't so racist that they can't sometimes see reason.

kaladin not realizing the boon was only for lighteyes was a little naive of him, but him expecting the legal system to work for him-- when he took the issue directly to someone who knew him, respected him, and owed him the lives of his whole family-- is very understandable in the light of his experiences.

kaladin is the kind of person from a minority who was raised genuinely thinking that if they behave well, they might experience some prejudice, but no door is truly, systemically closed to them. he's had some knocks to that belief (and is kind of a suspicious person), but in the first part of words of radiance the world seems to be trying to reassure him that not all lighteyes are (too) racist, that the system is not (inherently) unjust, that he's simply been the victim of some of the more prejudiced fringes of lighteyed society.

and then the rug gets pulled out from under him.

because no amount of familiarity or respect will make elhokar side with him over one of the good old boys, no accomplishment will allow a darkeyes to challenge a lighteyes, and no amount of good behavior or education will make kaladin white lighteyed.

but a shardblade would.

...right?

i think this and the immediate aftermath, with adolin giving kaladin a blade and him giving it to moash, could have been a really interesting examination of that idea, because i don't think that lighteyed society would have smoothly accepted either of them. even by rhythm of war, we get hints that kaladin occupies a weird social place where he technically has a lighteyed rank but he seems to have a complicated relationship with 'other' lighteyes (obviously made particularly weird by him being a radiant and because most of the lighteyes he interacts with heavily are also royalty, but he doesn't quite seem to be equals with most of them).

but i don't think sanderson quite understood the experience he was writing about with kaladin, and he set out to write a series about an apocalypse. and so kaladin's complicated-- but not unrealistic-- perspective on alethi casteism will go unexamined.

[the-greatest-magic-of-all]

Going back to the "Mazey becoming the Principle thus making her the next in line for Kipperlily to get rid off" thing, while killing her would be a quick option, I think there are other ways to get rid of her that are much more innocuous.

Mazey is a Bard and a senior. Would it really be that weird if, conveniently, she got scouted by a professional dance company or a pop star looking for backup dancers? An opportunity so good that she couldn't pass it up and would have to leave school thus making her ineligible to be president/principle?

Kipperlily already has an in with Lola Embers...

[fucciwilliams]

[eelektroenthusiast]

So I asked my irl friends to give me some outfit inspo for vocaloid designs and sorted them at random, it was pretty fun!☆

(I gave my friends lil pseudonyms since they don't really use tumblr)

+ bonus sketch of rin in one of the outfits from the reference friend S gave me by courtesy of friend A☆

[world-of-celebs]

Taylor Swift attends the 2018 American Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater on October 09, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. 

[headknight-oh]

Taylor swift (the singer) feels like an ai generated person to me. Taylor swift (the demon weeb teen) feels like a vocaloid or vtuber to me. I hate one (derogatory) and I hate the other (affectionately)

[luminarai]

I am genuinely so glad that the iwtv writers decided to age up not just Claudia, but the entire main vamp cast. Aging up Lestat, Louis and Armand to their late twenties to early thirties gives them more depth and dimension, both generally (in my experience, you experience, grow and develop so much in your twenties, even if it’s not necessarily as visible as the growth in your teens) and specifically for the individual characters (I have so many bullet points of thoughts in my notes app, I’m not even kidding).

Also, can you imagine how fucking insufferable Lestat would be about it if he had been turned before his singing voice had reached vocal maturity? He’d need an entire 600 page book to bitch about that exclusively

[trautmans-legs]

Sabrina Carpenter

[itsjaywalkers]

didn't say anything bc i was at work til 5pm and then i had to go grocery shopping + make dinner but i've been listening to short n sweet on loop all day and i'm fucking obsessed SABRINA DID IT AGAIN!!!!

[celebratingwomen]

Renee Rapp for HighSnobiety, 2023

[p-h03n1-x]

Source 星姐微博

Xiao Zhan's performance of "往事随风" The Past is Gone with the Wind was incredible, the screams were so loud!

It's been so long since we saw the lead singer, his high notes are amazing

Haha, I even saw Huang Xiaoming recording Xiao Zhan from the audience, hurry up and release the fancam!

#XiaoZhanHighNoteStage#

[von2dutch]

Maya 2002’

[moonfirebrides]

Des'Ree

[slashthrashandcrash]

Whats your voice head cannon for Danny?

Mmm, I dunno. Something mid range, a little rough from his decades of smoking, but not super deep. Would it be too on the nose for me to say close to Spencer Charnas lmao.

Edit: I take that back. My boy Spencer literally has a Ghostface song of him doing the sexy phone voice. Spencer all the way 1000000%