#Songs that I think are awesome

[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.

[quirkle2]

it's nice to feel childlike wonder again

[egoarc4de]

if it stops i'm having an unshakable nightmare

[horrorknife]

babe, this wouldn't be the first time it will not be the last time there's no parasol that could shelter this weather

[shartfinz]

She said, "Come on, come on, kiss my battery/Come on, come on, I'll be your android girl."

[m-for-now]

Headcanon that Leo has the song "Honey, i'm good" in his distraction working playlist and whenever it comes on, he refers to Festus as the "somebody at home" when that line comes on and him and Festus just have a nice little time enjoying a silly little song

[oldbutchdaniel]

listen here!

[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

[darlingcloudie-9]

miscellaneous doodles ft. the duo of all time

[sleepynegress]

Just Watched The Pilot of Blue-Eye Samurai

What a fantastic animated show...

It's an old trope with a few twists. A lone skilled warrior honed by factors seen as hindrances is on a vengeance quest. It's also a change to see a common tropey element (blue eyes on an East Asian ethnicity) not fetishized, as it so often is by western writers. *cough* Memoirs of a Geisha*cough* There is a great song that honestly feels out of place in a needle drop in this, but otherwise...I'm digging it so far.

It's a decent watch. I've been burned recently by giving that #thisisarec before finishing the media (pacing and lackluster ending for FNAF) but the pilot is good.

And it's free on youtube, for now...

[anotherworldash]

Heaven, when I held you again How could we ever just be friends? I would rather die than let you go Juliet to your Romeo How I heard you say...

"I would never fall in love again, until I found her” I said, “I would never fall, unless it’s you I fall into” I was lost within the darkness, but then I found her I found you

[idkwhatimdoingbutslay]

The more I listen to Oil and Water by PVRIS, the more I think Ms Lynn Gunn needs to get into writing fanfiction

[lilacthebooklover]

grace chasity really said alto rights, huh?

[eatspiderss]

Anotha Spot post because I'm actually here to spread Nelward propaganda go listen to Eat Your Dreams by Nelward or anything by Nelward (also this song fits him very well maybe I'll post my lyric breakdown)

[gummypaint]

happy birthday you three

[masterfuldoodler]

If half alive has 1000 fans I am one of them. If half alive has 1 fan, I am that fan