#also best recommendation is “i tried to make this violin sound as real as possible”

[jade-harley-yuri]

azali is the best fl-studio composer and i will NOT take any other opinions. idk what toby uses but if its fl then azali is second.

also azali was my #2 on spotify wrapped.

go listen to them.

https://youtube.com/c/azali

[littlecafe]

woosung team; ILYSB (artist: LANY) / spotify link

members in his team:

DPOLE (dj): auditioned with his own song (mix?? what do u call this askjdsf) honbando, they were curious about the playstation remote he had with him so he showed that too

mellow kitchen (saxaphone): audtitioned with way back home by shaun

kim hyungwoo (bass): auditioned with his band gift, they covered vincent by Don McLean (usually they have 3 people but i think one of them was in the military so it’s just the two of them)

kim woosung (frontman, vocal): auditioned with the rose, they covered breakeven by the script 

my episode commentary:

so jtbc has been pushing this ~bromance~ story line between woosung and his teammate from the previous round lee chansol and i just akjdsf it’s so pure but also jtbc pls

almost felt the heartbreak when woosung didn’t pick him this time and he was just talking about how woosung is a bright kid, clumsy, and likes gummies...please take care of him well (IM LOSING MY MIND ASDJFDFS)

dpole wanted to do the thing with the glasses bc he says woosung’s voice reminds him of water so he thought it would be cool to incorporate it into the performance; he briefly explained how it works since everyone was curious afterwards but i couldn’t really catch much...basically it’s sparkling water and it makes sound through transition of electricity (energy??)

kim jongwan (judge, from nell) said it’s really refreshing to hear dpole do his thing live since a lot of the teams have some type prerecorded backtrack and they play live on top of it but with dpole everything is live right there

pretty much all i have to add on about their team sakjsdfsd it’s short this time but uh am going to take a bit of time talking about woosung ofc one of my favorite vocalists in kpop ;u;

MINI SPOILER(S) tbh not really lol it’s more discussion and my inner thoughts 

wow it really took this long for me to link a woosung performance loool everyone is really good ahhh but thank you youtube recommendations for finding this show, the rose’s breakeven performance popped up and i just??? what is this?? so i searched up the show and tried to find where to watch it bc it’s totally my cup of tea

i did NOT know woosung was the only one that made it past the audition round so i had a hot two seconds of being bitter and then moved on with my life but tbh the amount of screen time he gets is...scary??? LOOL and i say this as a fan but jtbc seems to really like him, they film him a lot just reaction wise and he even has a story line now sajdsfk it almost feels like he’s a shoe in for the final group (esp since kim jongwan really, REALLY likes him and he’s loyal to his picks sajdsf thank u mr. nell)

currently stuck in this limbo of whether i want him in the end group or not since it’ll take quite a toll on him being in two groups at once, even now his schedules are quite hectic 

but also i’m not 100% sure what the final group is intended to do...i think the contract was for a year? but also i’m not sure i feel like it’s just some part of my brain that made this up but i do know it’s a temp band and they will be making music and touring together

i don’t think they have a serious lock like produce where u have to be in the temp group only but it will prob be hard to work on music in two groups at once so i wonder what it would mean for the rose if he were to make it in (do they continue with just dojoon singing? do they take a small break? will woosung just juggle two groups?) it worries me a little....and i wonder how black roses would feel if woosung won’t be able to join for promotions or if they can’t comeback for a while

these are all useless worries though since nothing is confirmed and maybe he’ll get eliminated and i’ll just be boo boo the fool worrying so early for no reason

also by “touring” i’m guessing they mean only in korea? i doubt they can go overseas since the show is not really anywhere accessible for international fans  (other than the sketchy website linked on twt from black roses asjksdf // edit: so it’s finally on ondemandkorea but the amount of ads i can’t sit through that so imma stick to my sketchy site sakjsdf but it’s on there now for anyone that wants to watch!!) and most definitely no eng subs

but they can def /try/ international IF woosung makes it, they quite obviously know he does have a fanbase and has a pull overseas bc he speaks english and the rose just had their own tour (this was mentioned on the show too at their audition i think) but i still think it’s very unlikely just due to how the show is aired

oh maybe for real a spoiler? about eliminations

it’s starting to feel like they’re getting rid of a lot of the more unusual (?) artists and keeping a lot of vocalists and i just why let them audition if you were going to make a conventional band (bass, guitar, drums, keyboard)

at the beginning i was intrigued as to how they’ll fit in and it’s definitely the frontman has to have an idea about what song he wants and a way to include the more classical instruments (violin, sax, accordion, cello, etc..) or if all else fails those people have to move to other instruments or talents to fit the team

but slowly they’re starting to get rid of them instead when they could easily eliminate vocalists since there are so many of them to begin with so i feel like they don’t really want an unconventional band 

i’m also almost 100% sure the end group has to have more than one vocal bc there’s so many left LOL (it’s fine though since quite a few can play other instruments as well) i’m really not complaining though every elimination hurts me so bad i’m so invested into this show and these people ;;o;;

this is probably the most invested i’ve been in a show like this....i now know how produce fans feel everything hurts but i still look forward to every episode askjsdfdf

OK BUT SPEAKING OF ELIMINATIONS TODAY WAS AN ELIMINATION EP AND WHAT THE HECK I WAS TOLD THEY WERE GOING TO ELIMINATE ONE FROM EACH TEAM BUT THEY DIDN’T??? i mean....they only left ONE team untouched so they really did try to eliminated one from each but instead it was one from 6 teams (there were a total of 7 up for elimination) and then 2 teams ended up losing 2 people

i guess the judges have some freedom if they feel that another team really slacked and one did too well and it would be a pity to eliminate anyone from them they can pick who they thought was worse ;;_;;

next episode teaser

so all this time the staff have been pairing up which teams go against which teams (i still have no clue how they decide btw i think they just try to find the best possible match up like rock vs rock, classics vs classics)

but next time i think the teams are going to able to pick their own opponents for the first time!! i’m so excited >*< the match ups have been painful anyways since the staff does such a good job at pitting the people i support against each other so them picking shouldn’t be much different it’ll just be more fun since they can have friendly dissing loool

[bookenders]

11/11/11 Tag Game: Round 12

This is a very popular tag game, it seems! Tagged by @ren-c-leyn! Thanks, friend! I am evidence that you can do this game thousands of times, as I have answered 12% of 1000 questions by now. 😋

🎶🎵Hit me baby one more time🎵🎶

My Questions (running out of creativity, must consume more media):

What baseball positions would your OCs be in if they all had to be on a baseball team? What’s the team name? What’s their mascot? What do the uniforms look like? (If you hate baseball or prefer a different sport, substitute said sport for baseball.)

How good are your OCs at bowling? How good are you at bowling?

Rewrite this in your style: “I picked up the book and read the back. He took it from me before I could protest. He never lets me have the cool stuff.”

What do you love about the last book you read?

What are three things you love about your writing?

What’s a word you love the sound of? What’s a word you really don’t like the sound of?

How do you like to begin your stories?

What other forms of writing have you tried other than the one you’re working with now? (i.e. playwriting, screenwriting, poetry, interactive, novels, short fiction. etc.) How do you feel about them?

What’s your favorite play/musical? Why? What’s your favorite part?

What kind of stories do you like to read? How different are they from what you write?

What’s your favorite bit of worldbuilding from a story someone else wrote?

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Answers under the cut!

1. Why did you chose to write the genre you do? If you don’t write in any particular one, why do you bounce?

I grew up writing literary fiction, the undergrad program I studied in prioritized literary fiction, and I like it best. Sometimes I get fancy and branch into fantasy. 

I do not write sci-fi because it’s too hard for me. I’ve tried, it didn’t turn out well. I also don’t usually do horror because it’s a lot of effort for me to make my brain go that kind of dark. And I tend to stay away from YA because the voice is tough for me to write in.

2. Favorite name?

Lydia! 

3. Type of music/ambiance you listen to while writing?

I make playlists and loop them or put the same song on repeat for however long the writing session lasts. Usually a cello/violin piece. Sometimes I’ll hit flow state without anything playing and come out weirded out by the silence. That’s always fun.

4. Best feeling you’ve ever had while writing? (example: filling in that one plot hole and not making another one. Or dropped a tiny detail in and it connected all of the subplots Perfectly.)

I get one in just about every story. Each one has a line/section that I wrote, stopped, and looked at it while going “yisssss” in my head. Usually it’s my last lines. That’s when I love to bring everything together. For my war story, it was finding the perfect song to include that referenced both a character and his journey (”Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” for those wondering). 

A few others: Finishing my last thesis story after having to rewrite it one day before my last draft was due to my committee because computer errors ugh (but it was way better the second time and I got some good bird imagery in there so it’s all good). Putting in a callback to a character’s old desk by using her new one. Getting the dream scene tense shift perfectly paced in the story I’m working on now. Hitting the perfect emotional beat and satisfying the whole dang emotional arc thread in my artist short story.

5. Is it easier for you to write comedic situations or serious ones?

Serious, by far. My funny doesn’t translate well to the written word. I mean, I can do both, but my serious emotionally heavy scenes are far easier for me to bust out than the funnies. 

6. Do you tend to use symbolism a lot?

Unconsciously, all the time! I think it’s almost impossible for a writer to not use symbolism. On purpose, slightly less than all the time. I prefer rhyming actions than what a lot of people think of as symbolism. I don’t do the “x person is represented by the color red and it gets more washed out as the story goes on symbolizing their internal crisis of conscience.” I’m more of a “here’s a thing they both liked and an innocuous detail about it but now that one of them is gone the detail means something different and the weight of the symbol changes.”

I like extended metaphors a whole lot.

7. Think fast: Which book inspired your writing style the most?

Uhhhhh The Things They Carried? Or Wintergirls. Or Hooked on Phonics (heh). I’ve found that Anne Valente’s style is kinda similar to mine, too. Possibly Where the Red Fern Grows. I dunno. There are so many!

8. Last book you read?

I just finished Autoboyography, it was lovely. I recommend it for anyone who wants a coming out story that helps you learn about Mormonism and the LDS church. Also the main character is a wonderful disaster.

9. Book you’re currently working on?

So many. But I just started reading Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan. It’s an odd style that I’m super not used to reading in longer fiction (it reads like a short story, which is neat) but I’m trying to get into it.

[Edit: yeah, I gave up and swapped it for Once and Future, which is good.]

10. Do you ever regret deciding you wanted to be a writer?

I have. I do sometimes. But I never really “decided,” per say. It’s just been what I’ve always done and I keep doin’ it. 🚂 That’s why I’m gonna study and have a career outside of writing. It’s the thing I love to do and I’m good at it, but I know myself, and it’d be tough for me to become a career writer. Unless some miracles happen.

11. Something besides writing or reading that you like to do for fun?

I started getting into graphic design, which is a lot harder than I thought. I like going to art installations and ren faires. I love theatre, watching and participating (I’ve written, directed, and acted before!). I like going to local art events, festivals, faires, and supporting local businesses.