#and it was almost entirely Louie Zong anyways

[myriadeyed]

Legitimately really curious about the music question from that kin ask meme you just reblogged. I'd love an answer about any of your kintypes, but I'm especially interested to know if there's any music that you associate with/really resonates with your experience as an isopod.

THANK YOU

See, here's the thing, I never really associate music with any of my theriotypes. Animalistic species specifically. I get into an animalistic mindset by being in nature or acting out instincts, and music (or any other form of art) is going to take me out of that, especially if there's lyrics. There's no bird music to me, no bug music or mustelid music. I just don't associate it, positively or negatively. I guess no, to answer your question. To be in an isopod shift I'd rather be by the ocean or eat foods similar to what we eat in the wild (seaweed salad I guess), since that's what feels the most animalistic to me. Especially for isopod shifts, an animal that does not have a traditional chordate's sense of hearing, I'm not going to vibe with music. I'd share MyNoise generators that have those vibes for me before any songs.

Music-related shifts for me are all about the sapient kintypes, i.e. computer, Novakid, or fictotypes. But I liked this particular ask meme's music question because it differentiated songs, bands, and genres! And I love to talk genre so!

Individual songs are gonna be (Link) Blame by Air Traffic Controller, Never Existed by Keldian, Take 3 by Inner Wave, Lonesome Dreams by Lord Huron, (for Novakid) S.T.A.R. Child by The Orion Experience, Lightning Riders by AWOLNATION, Space Western by Rich Aucoin, Propane Nightmares by Pendulum, Nova by VNV Nation, (...other) Dreams by Joakim Karud (I cannot concisely explain why it puts me in a computer mindset)

Coincidentally, today (after reblogging that!) I just happened upon a song I didn't know about before, from a band with only 1 album and 10 listeners on Spotify, only available for streaming on a single website in the depths of the obscure music Internet, which catapulted me into a Novakid shift, so here's that, obviously

But I feel like I've listed those songs a million times and never mentioned that genres in general are what "computer kintype music" is for me. My computer kintype is an IBM 7090 so I heavily associate it with 1970s electronic music particularly, so that playlist is a lot of vintage electronica, Space Art, Mort Garson, moog synths, songs with Casio instruments, and recent stuff that takes inspiration from that era like Eyeliner, Jack Stauber, MNQN, and certain synthwave artists. I also associate it a lot with computer animation (pre-Disney-Pixar) so that's a lot of vaporwave and also every soundtrack album for all the Mind's Eye films (those are by James Reynolds, Jan Hammer and Thomas Dolby). I've never been able to find a really good version online of the song from Fabricated Rhythm, which I think is just called Fabricated Rhythm, but I like that too.

Post-punk reminds me of autumn/whatever my weird cryptic kintype is that's associated with the season, but maybe that's just because I'm happiest in fall and I love post-punk. However if anyone can help explain why Figure In the Background by Snake Pool gives me species euphoria lmk

[ploncc]

Music and ADHD is just like oh yeah almost a decade ago i stumbled upon Forbidden Colors with the vocals by David Sylvian played by Ryuichi Sakamoto, n' then started to listen to the 1996 piano album from Sakamoto, which for a couple years were the only two works I really knew from either of them until some hella trauma happened and I needed different music pronto and listened to Sakamoto's Thousand Knives album, suddenly learning that Sakamoto is actually a fucking synth god and holy fucking shit balls what do you mean to tell me this piano song was actually originally released as a synth bop in the 80s, which then got me very quickly into a few YMO albums, until I got started listening to Hauromi Hosono on his own (shit SLAPS MY DUDE) which eventually led me to listening to the Galactic Railroad Soundtrack and some of his disco (ish?) shit and other cool weird stuff, and then finally, at long last, I listened to some of Yukihiro Takahashi's og stuff and my face melted because it was TOO DAMN GOOD and i'm severely disappointed at how hard it's become to find his full albums online but hey, something to save up for I guess and get the CDs later, and anyways that very quickly led me into listening to Jun Fukamachi, Hiroshi Yoshimura, the Inoyama Land album, Mort Garson and other stuff he worked on, which got me also stumbling into the Adventure album from Momoko Kikuchi, some Casiopea albums, and at that point we get way off into the weeds with like Ryo Fukui and Nucleus and just jazzy, funky stuff or all the other Sylvian shit or Japan (the band) or the actual movie Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence which made me question my sexuality and gender identity and also my entire moral compass, but to bring it back into synth land and The Point, I recently got into dungeon synth specifically thanks to Louie Zong's albums (okay that last one isn't dungeon synth but shh it's good) which has led to my FAVORITE album to write to atm, which then led me down to THIS BAD BOY, THE POINT: Compendium Reliquiae by DIM, which if you listen to the second song in the album, quotes/uses similar/the same synth buzzy shit as in Hauromi Hosono's Galactic Railroad Soundtrack which almost made me fall off my chair in fucking excitement i am so fucking just holy FUCK

[corvidshipping]

modern au red/milo dump while i try to get myself together to answer asks nd work on ATJ:

(tw for alcohol mentions near the end, also this is an EXTREMELY long post, its so long that even after i split it into categorized sections each section could be its own post)

CLOTHING

milo absolutely has no sense of fashion. i feel like this is basically canon - for the styles at the time, he dresses fairly basic, mostly focused on looking put together for his job (definitely dresses aimed more towards how he would like to be treated by his peers, despite his actual position - then again our best example outside of the expedition is when he's about to deliver what he considers the most important presentation of his life, so who knows, maybe he usually dresses like a slob). aside from that his main concern seems like practicality and comfort. his wardrobe is dominated by earth tones - beiges and greens set with white and greys. all of that taken into account, i can see him dressing like this in a more modern era:

basically- a lot of cardigans, usually collared shirts or comfortable turtlenecks (since he does still occupy a research position at the smithsonian, even if only in title), big ol' coats, khakis and chinos and slightly stiff dress pants complete with ironed creases. i can see him wearing similar clothes outside work, just more comfortable - jeans and knitted shirts, henleys, more turtlenecks, and comfy cardigans over short sleeved shirts. i dont really see him wearing a lot of prints, i think he'd veer more towards solid clothes in lighter colors, but maybe he has a few. hes definitely the kind of guy to think of wearing the single graphic tee he owns as "bold and wild".

im very married to the idea of him wearing converse though. i cant explain it. milo in converse keeps me going in this world

hes kind of broke so i think maybe he got the converse secondhand maybe? or a gift of some kind. aside from the converse i can see him wearing a lot of oxfords and maybe wingtips

i want to see him in a hawaiian shirt so bad. i am losing it at this thought. he buttons it all the way up to his neck like someones awkward dad. milo wears a hawaiian shirt to "let loose". he wears it with like, khakis. or knee length jorts AHHHHDJHDSGJHDSJGh

a tie??? does he wear his hawaiian shirt with a tie???? does he think it makes it look cooler?????????? i am sobbing

red is the COMPLETE opposite. in the canon 1914 setting, red is already very rebellious for an AFAB person of their era- theyre openly a suffragette, they frequently refuse to wear skirts even in public and dress in mens clothes even before they were openly nonbinary, despite not being accepted into the male-dominated research fields and colleges they continue to educate themself with or without help, they purposely aim for an "unfeminine" silhouette when they dress, refuse to wear corsets, etc. (spoiler alert- there's a clear reason they get on so well with audrey in ATJ)

theyre also easily mistaken by people that didnt know them prior to their transition for being just a very small/young cis man- even though they canonically have a very soft "traditionally feminine" face

so basically, in any era theyre set into, red is always gonna aim to be ahead of the curve- both in their personal beliefs and practices and in their fashion. theyre also very androgynous in their clothes, although they tend to aim a bit more masculine (thats partially due to the era though, and having been forced into skirts exclusively for their entire life- i think in a modern setting where its more acceptable for AFABs to dress and act in a less hyperfeminine way, theyd be more okay with a fluidity in their gender presentation).

all that taken into account, i can see them dressing like this:

lots of baggy clothes, especially baggy jackets and shirts. they like loose fitting high waisted pants like JNCO jeans, cargo pants, etc but they arent averse to pencil legs. they rarely ever wear skinny jeans or drainpipes though. messy hair is a lifestyle for them- their haircut is definitely home-done

you know how in BICSTLY they used to have really long hair before they cut it? in a modern au i can see them impulsively doing the cut at like 3am and waking milo up at his door cause they screwed it up and he ends up having to help fix it (even though hes literally no better at cutting hair than them. worse even)

definitely have an undercut bob- bob on top, shaven on the bottom layer. they might end up growing their hair into a mullet at some point if they get bored. probably dyes their hair all the time out of boredom and then regrets it later and has to use dye remover.

lots of ripped tights and fishnets, leggings with big loose crop tops, big hoodies, safety pin jewelry and homemade jewelry. maybe some sticknpokes.

all that said, they still know how to dress in a professional situation. since its a modern au theres really nothing holding them back from the education and career they canonically want but cant get in the 1910s, so i imagine they would work at the smithsonian as well, maybe their father helped them get the job? potentially in that case they might be his assistant- after all, he trusts their opinion on artifacts more than anyone else's.

at work you can still very much see the punk/skater/grunge/goth style but its more understated- turtlenecks, high waisted and looser dress pants, lots of black, slightly unbuttoned collared shirts with a loose overcoat and no tie

since i elaborated on milos shoe taste i may as well elaborate on red's: they definitely wear converse as well, probably newer than milo's since their father is fairly wealthy and they can afford it. they also have a doc martens collection. they have a pair of demonias but they never wear them and milo is really the only person to even know they own them, let alone see them in them. they really dont like to wear heels much, but they own a few just to play around with. they have a bad habit of wearing any laced shoes untied, but they never trip over the laces. they also use lace code- their most-worn Docs have purple laces on the right foot and yellow on the left. some of their Docs have (reclaimed) pink laces.

has an extensive pin collection including feminism pins, anti-racism pins, punk-related pins, skater-related pins, and pop culture pins (80s music, modern music, old movies, etc)

MUSIC TASTE

milo's into a lot of older music- stuff from the 50s is his favorite. really into jazz and ballroom style stuff. his favorite band is queen, i think- he likes the old-fashioned sound, the jazz-chamber-ballroom influences, the diversity of their lyrics, and the complexity between the guitar riffs, the basslines, and freddie's vocal runs as well as the vocal harmonies.

sometimes he hums good old fashioned lover boy to red and they two-step in the living room in their pajamas :pleading:

also very into rush. yes, he is a rush guy :pensive:.

also listens to a surprising amount of lo-fi? he really likes stuff that remixes older music with hip hop and lofi elements, like earl grey. nearly exclusively into instrumental stuff but also very into louie zong. he listens to it while he works a lot.

knows a lotttt of foreign artists, especially niche ones. fuckin LOVES casiopea

red's spotify is a goddamn mess. everything from 2000s emo, to classic 70s punk, to post-punk and new wave, to 90s pop, to rap. they cant be easily classified at all

their favorite bands are oingo boingo, prince, queen (they listen to a lot of their harder-rock music, but milo knows theyre into the ballads too. theyll never tell anyone else though), doja cat, lil nas, fall out boy, and billie eilish.

red recites the intro monologue to lets go crazy very seriously to make milo laugh, sometimes. they get very into it with their facial expressions. sometimes it devolves into a full air guitar/keyboard/drum and wild dancing session. milo does not know how to participate in this but he loves watching them have fun with it. sometimes they pull him off the couch to make him dance with them, though

they are a huge sucker for dark pop, vaporwave, retrowave, EDM, hip hop, emo, punk... etc etc. anything that combines any two or more of those genres in an original or interesting way gets their attention right away

there's a lot of sharing between the two of them- even though their music tastes are so different, they like a lot of the others taste, and theyre always up to listen to whatever their partner is playing.

red is a huge softie, and milo has found them more than once listening to or humming something he was playing for them the other day because it reminded them of him

speaking of which- in the 1914 canon, red can play piano. i think that carries over to a modern au, where they could play piano and by extension keyboard. i like to think they experiment with a lot of instruments but i doubt they ever really mastered any others. maybe theyre okay at drums or bass?

they learned to play and sing teo torriatte for milo, as a surprise. when they first performed it for them, they had everything set up for when he got home from work- the lights were dimmed, they had candles lit around the keyboard, they draped stuff in cloth to make it look pretty, they scattered flower petals around. when milo walked in and saw it all, he almost proposed then and there- the only thing that stopped him was that he would kick himself for the rest of his life if he did that without a ring.

HOBBIES/ACTIVITIES

milo is still an avid chess player in this, but i like to think hes in some kind of groupchat or text or discord server for it. he doesnt necessarily consider any of the others in the chat close friends, but he does know them all by name

he tries to get red into chess but they never really get it

he tells them all about the stuff that goes down in the games and they just. do not understand. but they love listening to him get excited about it anyway

"red you're not gonna BELIEVE this, eddie played an italian game on star today! i thought for sure she would see through it since everyone knows it but she slipped and he beat her in like, 13 moves! i wouldnt have believed it if i hadnt been there!"

"yes sweetie please tell me more" (barely disguised pained expression)

red is a skater and a regular at the skate park by the smithsonian

most regulars there know them by name, they can spot a newbie a mile away

they have a sticker of a broken tv with a skull inside of it on the underside of their board, its become recognized as a symbol of them unofficially

since theyre so regular and have been going there a lot longer than most of the other skaters that frequent the place, a lot of what they say is kind of just accepted as the rules

they have a bad habit of lecturing new kids who show up without knee/elbow pads or helmets at the very least. all the other skaters enforce it too. kids dont end up showing up without protective gear very often after their first visit

they brought a first aid kid and left it there and everyone has kept it stocked pretty well without them having to have much input. its kind of just a communal first aid kit

they once drew the broken tv symbol on the inside of a half-pipe and everyone started calling it red's ramp after that

they also started calling the bowl at the center of the park the Soup Bowl and now thats just accepted as the name. some of the newer kids genuinely thought that it was called that by the park and were shocked when they found out it was just a random nickname red gave it one day

theyve brought milo a few times but hes extremely awkward on his feet and could never really get his balance on a skateboard, and quite frankly red is afraid of what might happen if he tried even a low ramp, so he usually just sits at the rim of the bowl while red skates around

everyone knew he was their boyfriend before they even met him. a few of the regulars called him by name right away. one of them was certain red had brought him before.

but no

they just talk so fuckin much about him that its like they already know him

aside from skateboarding, red is pretty good on rollerskates/blades

they tried to take milo to a roller rink once but it was a disaster and they ended up going home, changing into pajamas, ordering chinese food, and marathoning movies till they fell asleep on the couch together. so not a total loss

theyre both very into movies. red is deep into horror and milo likes indie/art movies and just Cannot handle horror at all, but they both agree on old movies, from the 80s and 90s to like the 30s.

red has shown milo some of the classic horror movies and the niche old ones (from like the 40s) since theyre not difficult to stomach

every so often when red brings up wanting to see a horror movie milo is like "aw babe we can watch that tonight i promise it wont be bad" and he genuinely thinks he can handle it this time

he cant

he never can

it is always a lie

red ends up holding him every time and talking him to sleep, but it thankfully never causes like a major panic attack or anything like that

they love going to museums together, of all kinds. they love art museums. they also go to aquariums and aviaries

sometimes they like to go to other history museums and criticise the veracity or accuracy of exhibits/translations, all in good fun of course. theyre never actually being mean about it

SIDENOTES/UNCATEGORIZED

they both used to work at starbucks, when they were younger and before they worked at the smithsonian. they worked at separate stores 2 blocks from each other.

milo cant stand soda or carbonated drinks, red can and will chug a java monster in order to survive a long workday if they must. milo is constantly concerned for their health and wellbeing

they r both lightweights when it comes to drinking. they can split a six pack and both be falling-over drunk by the end of the night.

given the changes in beauty standards people DEFINITELY think milo is more attractive than they would in 1914. cmon. hes a lil twinky nerd. you think people wont eat that up?

he never really catches onto the flirting much though

did u think i would forget ki/da and the others? youd be wrong.

i simultaneously like the idea of something similar to the movie happening, but also just like... ki/da just being a regular person living on the surface. in either case they r all friends still

in the case of ki/da just being a regular person on the surface- i like the idea of atl/antis just being A Place in this au, maybe its a bit of a closed off country though? like, not many foreigners live there and to get there you basically need to be there as a diplomat or a scholar

maybe ki/da visits DC as a diplomat? she is a princess, after all

red meets audrey online cause they both yell at the same misogynistic asshole on twitter

they exchange discord names in the replies of the tweet and tell the guy not to interrupt them while theyre talking in his replies

i like to think red and milo are selected to go on an academic visit to atl/antis (to learn about the culture, with permission of the king), and audrey ends up as the mechanic on the ship during the visit and theyre like (spiderman pointing meme) at each other

red and audrey have so many inside jokes that they basically speak a different language. milo gets some of the terms from context and pop culture (they use "so very" in real life- as in "wow, that shirt is so very.") but he is hopeless to learn all of it

one of their inside jokes is any variation of "milo hot girl summer" and they REFUSE to explain it to him no matter how much he begs

milo wears that iconique tank top on the ship and they say it literally any time he bends over, picks anything up, reaches for anything, moves, BREATHES. he is bewildered and at this point concerned

(in truth, the joke came from red taking a really blurry picture of him in a short sleeve shirt where he looked pretty cute and captioned it "milo's having a hot girl summer rn" and they just could not stop repeating it once audrey met him IRL)

they have a minecraft world. i do like to believe that every so often vinny finds a way in- theyre never sure how- and griefs the shit out of them by blowing up EVERY. monument.

this post is getting long bc im enraptured by the idea of an atl/antis modern au so im cutting it off here but expect WAY MORE later

[tijuanabiblestudies]

spotify on repeat playlist director’s commentary

1. insaneintherainmusic - “Pollyanna (from ‘MOTHER’)” I first got into insaneintherainmusic because they did a whole album of undertale jazz covers that i found somehow or other and fell in love with because of course I did. Now Spotify recommends jazz covers of video game music to me on the regular. Anyway this particular song is stimmy as fuck. The horns, man. THE HORNS

2. Bruce Springsteen - “Sherry Darling” As mentioned in another text post, I deeply want to play this song on bass. Also sometimes in my imagination I am playing it with MCR and I am playing the sax part on the violin.

3. Fastball - “Out Of My Head” Sometimes a song can have just one verse and the merest wisp of a bridge and achieve moderate success solely by virtue of a really fucking good chorus and you know what? That’s valid.

4. Jukebox The Ghost - “Everybody Knows” Oh my fucking god you guys. I had this song on almost constant repeat for weeks. It feels so perfectly tailored to my specific musical taste that I am almost angry about it. The guitar solo alone, I mean, jesus. also the line “i only breathe the air to keep you inside” is begging to be used as the title for an omegaverse fic sorry not sorry

5. Sponge - “Molly 86″ This is a different version of a song called “Sixteen Candles (Molly),” which I’ve loved since high school. This one is newer to me but I think I like it better? My tastes have gotten poppier in my old age.

6. MIKA - “Grace Kelly” I extremely want to do a drag routine to this song.

7. The Struts - “Could Have Been Me” This one got thrown at me by a radio station or a daily mix or something and I’unno, I’m a sucker for a grandiose chorus.

8. Jukebox The Ghost - “Everybody’s Lonely” This was the song that made me go “oh shit this band is really good actually” after having gotten “Hold It In” on one Discover Weekly playlist after another and failing to be charmed by it (you’d think I would be, what with that title, but). Stimmy guitarsssssss

9. Louie Zong ft. Brian David Gilbert - “Thumbnail” Did you know BDG has a very pretty singing voice? It’s true.

10. Steve Forbert - “Romeo’s Tune” This is a Snufkin/Moomintroll song. I am not accepting constructive criticism at this juncture

11. Toploader - “Dancing in the Moonlight” I think I actually like the cover and the King Harvest original an equal amount. Also the bit in TUA where Luther and Allison danced to this song was like 90% of the reason I was like “ok sure” about them instead of being grossed out.

12. AWOLNATION ft. Rivers Cuomo - “Pacific Coast Highway In The Movies” That entire Rivers Cuomo verse makes me think of Bertie Wooster because of reasons. Also the line “give me shiny things to stop my tears”? mmmmm. I like that line.

13. Wings - “Band On The Run” Sometimes a song gets so perniciously stuck in your head that you HAVE to listen to it in order to exorcise it. Sometimes that happens more often with a particular song than I would like. Other than that, I have no excuse for this.

14. Mondo Cozmo - “Upside Down” Another one that just got flung at me by the algorithm and stuck. I know nothing about it other than it’s catchy.

15. Bleachers - “I Wanna Get Better” Blah blah blah I’m a sad millenial

16. Colin Hay - “Now And The Evermore” One of the perks of having listened to the Scrubs soundtrack a whole bunch is that sometimes you get things like this in your Release Radar playlists. This made me cry the first time I heard it.

17. Alec Holowka - “Tick Tock” My favorite song from the Night in the Woods rhythm minigame, which I would play endlessly if only the game would let me.

18. Jukebox The Ghost - “Fred Astaire” I Associate This Song With A Ship Which I Choose Not To Name In This Particular Post Due To Reasons

19. They Might Be Giants - “Push Back The Hands” Sometimes I listen to the same handful of TMBG albums over and over and over and other times I cajole myself into listening to some of the ones I haven’t worn into the ground and that’s how I get new faves like this.

20. Miike Snow - “Genghis Khan” I’m gay

21. Say Anything - “Less Cute” Again I say: THE HOOOOOOORRRRRRRNNNNNNSSS!!!!!!! Hat tip to Meda for putting me onto this one.

22. Vampire Weekend - “Step” Good chords pretty chords. As with all Vampire Weekend songs, I feel they are singing about a reality that is completely alien to me, but it’s so pretty I do not care.

23. They Might Be Giants - “Doctor Worm” In a way I always have this song on repeat, but like. Spiritually.

24. The Night Game - “Back In The Van” Road Trip Feelings are a helluva drug.

25. Warren Zevon - “Lawyers, Guns and Money” I am having trouble coming up with anything to say about this song other than it’s good and I like it.

26. Fall Out Boy - “I Don’t Care” I have no idea why this is the only song off Folie à Deux on this playlist. It’s not my favorite on the album by a long shot (that honor belongs to “Twenty Dollar Nose Bleed”).

27. Bleachers - “Goodbye” This whole album, but especially this song in particular, makes me incredibly homesick for Ypsilanti.

28. Sweet - “Little Willy” Idk, this one’s just fun. I go feral for that disco-y guitar that comes in on the last chorus.

29. fun. - “Stitch Me Up” The way Nate Ruess’s voice goes all squeaky on that last “and DRIVE!” is one of my favorite noises in the entire world.

30. I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME - “Choke” Another algorithm fling. I don’t think I realized precisely how obnoxious that band name is until right this very moment.