#banger as always oomfie

[circesoracle]

Consider this: you dust the dragon edition off, change the names, publish, and I immediately fork over my soul and whatever else it would cost because your writing is well worth it?

I would chime in on EE but I’m not a mutual and not a (good) author so I feel like there isn’t much I can offer. Loyal reader tho (for like 2 years now!! :) I can’t speak for others but I came for Shiara, stayed for literally everything. Usually comment on your chapters as a guest because I’m pretty shy overall. The world building is always better than any other author’s and you just have a very poetic way about your writing that is seriously inspiring. I’m just sorry it wasn’t around yet at the peak of the fandom movement for M.E., because you deserve all that hype and then some. I know you don’t want to hear “write what you like” but for what it’s worth…every chapter has been banger after banger. You could make my grocery list interesting.

well have YOU considered THIS, anon:

once the novel I’m currently writing is done I might consider looking back at the dragon version of EE ngl but the novel is taking ages (I forgot what not having feedback is like ao3 kind of spoiled me for that lmao)

and please please please chime in on ee I am begging it is so dire rn like I’m working on the next chapter while trying to plan the last sort of act and it has me unreasonably stressed !! oomfies are welcome and encouraged, definitely not just mutuals, and having someone who’s been actively reading would be such a massive help but! I get being shy and certainly can’t force you, especially not when you’re so so kind and nice and 🥺🥺🥺

[frankbedbroken]

frankcore may 2024 update!!

we're already in the middle of the month so it's a bit late for me to update this but whatever, this is first and foremost something i do for myself at the end of the day and if it just so happens that someone reads it then cool. anyway, this month's roundup is a lot heavier on the electronic and hip hop, and it's also mostly emphasizing some of the weirder, somewhat darker and hazier sides of each paradigm.

on the one hand, a lot of the electronic stuff on offer here tends to intermingle with hip hop either in terms of the usage of rhythms inspired by hip hop or by featuring actual hip hop (or adjacent) artists on the songs themselves, though there are some outliers to this along the playlist. for the former, you've got the dark yet impossibly enchanting trip hop vibes of bows, side project from long fin killie frontman luke sutherland, whose singular vocal delivery just takes the atmosphere to another level completely; there's some glitch hop / pop hybrids courtesy of baths and iglooghost, the first bringing in a very melancholic vocal performance laid over a haunting and almost oppressive instrumental and the second being a lot more ethereal and hazy in terms of its vocal delivery and synth design; later on, a Lot of sample manipulation in different veins of electronic from the fear ratio with their remix of dbridge turning an otherwise unremarkable track into a frenzied, constantly spiralling sort-of-glitch-hop "beat" with a demented sounding melody, moody good making a trip hop track with vocal samples near impossible to parse and looming, ondulating guitar lines, seekersinternational pulling audacious blends of ambient, dub, jungle and ragga that sound like you're catching pirate radio signals (could've picked a lot of tracks from that project, the group is one of my favourite recent discoveries) and carl crack delivering some of the most menacing and dizzying atmospheres through very little elements: an endlessly looping vocal line, extremely distorted boom bap drum patterns, some noise here and there, and not much else yet it manages to create an immense sense of dread (positive).

as for the actual hip hop and edm crossovers: the new machinedrum album is great, and one of my favourite tracks is this very bright and inviting glitch hop track with mick jenkins and jesse boykins iii delivering great vocal performances; hash gordon providing an immensely hard-hitting track with very aggressive and confrontational lyricism and vocal delivery over an always changing instrumental with elements of electro and breakbeat; and after a long time since it was first premiered, the skrillex, hamdi and taichu collab, which you can make the case that it's very much similar to a lot of other hamdi tracks, as it tends to be the case with a lot of his material, but hey, if it ain't broke don't fix it, the track works really well still, although i would've liked to have heard taichu having a longer verse but given that the track is mostly club oriented, so it makes sense, i suppose.

we've got a couple of outliers to these two classifications of the edm-centric tracks too: firstly, an absolute banger of a uk garage track from oomfie kelbin, wonderfully shuffling drums that just plunge you right onto the dancefloor accompanying some of the most shimmering and wavy synth lines i've ever heard put into the context of ukg; elysia crampton, sound-collage-etc extraordinaire taking an already great cut from rabit and putting a dancefloor spin on it with incesssant drum patterns and vocal samples; and miles whitaker of demdike stare alongside andy stott delivering a haunting blend of uk bass, jungle and footwork that very much lives up to its namesake.

as for the hip hop that hasn't already been mentioned: delightfully hazy abstract goodness from the ever-consistent cities aviv with his classic laidback delivery over a beat that sounds like it's playing through a vhs recording (hypnagogic pop influence, as some say); kendrick lamar perfoming an absolute evisceration of character for six minutes over one of the most drama-filled, impactful piano lines i've heard in a beat probably ever (you could argue not like us is the more defining track of the beef in the way that it manages to humiliate someone over a club jam, but man, do i love me a good callout and an amazing alchemist beat); and a really hard-hitting cut from short-lived industrial hip hop duo food for animals, essentially taking a lot of stylistic cues from dalek in terms of flow and lyricism but amping the glitchiness and aggression of the beats up to 11.

in regards to everything else on the list: different strands of r&b and soul, it's always good to have some of that on the list, starting off with a classic janet jackson joint from an absolutely essential album that i still need to get to lol, miss ravyn lenae presenting a surprisingly successful marriage of pop rock and neo-soul with expectedly wonderful vocals and hooks for days, and the second single from clara la san's debut album, with much of the same that made the last track of hers featured on one of this posts so compelling to me also present here. then, a couple of argentinian bands, with jaime sin tierra's very comforting psychedelic dream pop (i'm pretty sure that's not really the genre they're most well known for but this track fits that bill at least) and clamor's energetic and exhilarating emocore revivalism. we've also got some melancholic rock-related cuts with nicole dollanganger's crushing portrayal of her struggles with eating disorders, and dean blunt, vegyn and panda bear clashing in a longing plea for companionship. finally, some of the more edm-inspired sides of pop with always underrated fave vocalist ivy hollivana in a track that feels very in line with some of baths' work but with some modern hyperpop influence, and underscores dropping what appears to be a loosie from the wallsocket era that just absolutely rips, that bridge after the second chorus is one of my favourite moments in music so far this year.

that's it for the month!! tube it!

[mex-sickos]

Oh god oh fuck oh shit oh geez I chose a HELL of a datamine to accidentally fall asleep on “it’s a prelude I will get cosy and leave it to god” FUCK these ships are BADASS and will likely be SOME sort of META holy SHIT.

I M P E R O

For starters, she has a fighter/DB slot which means you KNOW she’s gonna have a pussy poppin skill and got DAMN she does NOT disappoint

Skill number 1- 15% self avi, free 75% chance aerial barrage every 20 sec, if she has a fighter equip cut 40% off her first launch (yucky we Stan timing) OR if she has a dive bomber equip (and the wording is a little weird on it so this is my interpretation) “damage dealt after second round of air attacks is loaded is increased by 60%” I assume this means once she gets her second airstrike she gets 60% more damage but I think you’ll be able to hold the first one and hit really fucking hard if you can fit them both in the five seconds (it’ll take some timing cause of universal reload but if the buff works like others you should be able to get them both in if you prestrike the first one) ~editors note~ the CN datamine has had some weird inconsistencies so she might not have a second hanger, which due to this skill might be intentional- I will report on this when I have her in game

Did you oomfies like that? That was skill ONE, time for

Skill number two- 15% extra damage dealt (FUCKING INSANE FLAT FUCKING DAMAGE INCREASE HOLY FUCKING SHIT) and then 10 seconds after the battle starts and every 20 seconds after, if she has the highest hp in the main fleet cut her hp by 5% and give it to the lowest in the main fleet, if she isn’t the highest take 5% from the highest and give it to herself, whoever is healed gets 15% evasion for 5 seconds, if they’re also pasta put 183 extra healing on top- main fleet healing is a little bleh and how she does it is a little meh but 15% extra damage is WHEW on top of 15% extra avi and 60% extra damage from double loading dbs she’s going to hit like a fucking FREIGHT TRAIN

P U M P Y M A G N U M

pompeo magno is looking hella fucking swaggy, they did NOT forget to give her sauce- for starters she’s got 2800 health (massive for dds btw) 113 fp (respectable) and get this- she’s got mgm+1 and the 30% extra stat buff there is not a single emoji, I do not have a reaction image, and I do NOT have the fucking WORDS in my LEXICON to convey how fucking badass this is, fpboys stay FUCKING winning, but enough of that, let’s get on to her skills

Skill number one- five seconds after the battle starts, and every 20 seconds after that, deploy “special energy weaponry: brilliance sun” reduce enemy HIT by 20% for 5 sec, brilliance sun lasts for 15 seconds, brilliance sun debuffs enemies with a special burn- where do I even start? Lore implications of “special energy weapon” aside, this is huge: 20% less hit for five seconds means less damage we take that, regardless of how good the burn is that’s free damage on the enemies with only FIVE seconds of downtime holy shit oomfies this skill hits me in all the right places I’m a HUGE fan

Skill number two- self increase fp and torp by 5% when defeating a ship (max stacks of three), when self torp hits increase damage based on how close you are capping at 15%- you know we love self buff on kill, 15% is naisu and it’s a good stat to boot, now for the elephant in the room; she doesn’t really have the torp to capitalize on this buffs second half 344 at 125 is pretty sad BUT do not lose hope oomfies because this just means she can still torp pretty well, she just has to always face torp, which means you’re gonna wanna manual while using her

El muchacho de los ojos

T R I E S T E

I’m not going to lie to you oomfies she’s bad- light armor, abnormally low health, she’s a torp CA they’ve done her exceptionally dirty which is a damn shame because she is REALLY CUTE and I am distraught that they keep giving us banger elites and then making them bad but REGARDLESS I am here to give my incredibly biased report of the news so let’s HIT IT OOMFIE

Skill one- self reduce ap damage by 20%, if she’s at the front of the vg heal self 5% on start, if she isn’t her and front take 15% less damage- not a bad skill by any means, this plus light armor means she takes like nothing from ap, and both effects of the second half are pretty naisu

Skill two- it’s flare- we love flare (if you don’t know what flare is and why we stan dm me once you get to world 14)

Last ships formi we all know and love formi which means this is the end, I know this is like 2 hours before the event is up but I still hope this helps! Have fun and good luck on your draws oomfies~