#also if i post this now

[colorisbyshe]

I’m posting this early because Apple Replay doesn’t end when Spotify wrapped does and I don’t want a machine doing math telling me waht my fave music is... I want to tell you that on my own.

And I want to beat everyone else to doing this

My top ten favorite albums released in 2022, in alphabetical order lol:

American Gurl by Kilo Kish

Bad Mode by Utada Hikaru

Crash by Charli XCX

Gasoline by Key

The Loneliest Time by Carly Rae Jepsen

Multitude by Stromae

Raw Data Feel by Everything Everything

Renaissance by Beyonce

Reminders by Le Youth

Thank you EP by Brave Girls

Honorary Mentions: Bib10 by Bibio, Bloom by Red Velvet, Chordata Bytes 1 by Imogen Heap, Iota by Lous and the Yakuza, Las Ruinas by Rico Nasty, Kaizin by Eve, Plasma by Perfume, Reborn by Kavinsky.

My top ten favorite songs released in 2022 NOT FROM THOSE ALBUMS cause obviously... I like the songs on my fave albums

A Disappearing Act by Coheed and Cambria

All Comes Crashing by Metric

Chikichikibanban by QUEENDOM

Copycat by Chobom (Apink subunit)

Deep Down by Alok

Heart Burn by Sunmi

Let’s Get it Right by Royksopp (or Unity by Royksopp, they’re tied)

Love you Back by Madeon

Naturally by Tinashe

Somebody like You (Orchestra Version) by Bree Runway

I can’t take any song off but I MUST mention Super Yuppers by WJSN Chocome

Honorary Mentions: Be With You by Mystery Skulls, Disco Revenge by De De Mouse, Fly Away by Cookiee Kawaii, Futurez by Toconoma (Quest4 is ALSO amazing by Toconoma, has the energy of an upbeat song from the sims),  Gift by Minmi, Gauva by Naika, Hold me Closer by Britney Spears & Elton John, Losing Game by Leo, Pose by Loona, New Gold by Gorillaz, Patbingsu by Billlie, Savage by Tiesto, Scent by Yukika, Starlight by Dreamcatcher, Stay Soft by Mitski, Stressed by Doechii, Summertime by Flo, Talk that Talk by Twice, Te Felicito by Shakira, This is Why by Paramore,  The Whistle by Steve Aoki (ignore... the whistle bits), Zero kara Ichi he by Kat-tun, and เพียงไว้ใจ by Slot Machine (I did not finish Kinnporsche but I DID listen to that song a daily basis for a month)

This year was the return of dance music for me!!!

Also, if this seems like a lot of songs... I added almost 500 new songs in 2022. Well, I added 1000 new songs to my phone in 2022 but 500 were released this year.

Anyways everyone should feel free to rec me music based on this knowledge

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[rivetgoth]

It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

[qrowpilled]

hate when you find a character whose so infuriatingly Your Type that its embarrassing like yeahg no one is gonna be surprised when i announce this is my new Guy Of The Month

[atalana]

the curse of adhd:

i will remember with absolute clarity, when the thought strikes me that i have a text to send someone, that this is the fourth time in three days i've attempted to send this specific text

i will forget, in the time it takes me to pick up my phone, that i picked it up intending to send a text

[beebfreeb]

[minjimunji]

bi 4 bi percabeth,,,,, 👉👈

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

[bisclavaret]

a day late to my 6 years on t anniversary ✨🏳️‍⚧️ a short comic about looking back

[clumxy]

PINES. PINES. PINES. PINES.

[Image description: art of Mabel and Dipper from Gravity Falls. They're grinning, and they each have one eye glowing yellow. They have their arms around each other, and they make a triangle symbol together with their fingers.

[kkshowtunes]

google citing ao3 as a source is so unhinged

[christadeguchi]

"we know how to move our bodies, but i didn't know how to manage my heart, so you need help for this"

hi we need to talk more about judo gold medallist christa deguchi.

[ruushes]

i'm sure there's a canon timeline but dao is a springtime game to me

[grantwilson]

we are discussing our childhood passions on the dash tonight

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking