#capable slice

[poethood]

too functional to get help. not functional enough to actually do anything

[miodiodavinci]

have you ever... Zola magical girls/people?

(grabs your shoulders)

did you mean one of my many oneshots / AUs from 2015-2019

[headphonemouse]

Nothing in my life has ever tasted as good as how I imagine cartoon meat that looks like this tastes

[fernsnailz]

Cream the Rabbit?

the emotional toll of even THINKING about fighting cream the rabbit is actually affecting me in real life so i'm just gonna say i would forfeit and take her to mcdonalds instead

[planet-poptropica]

*SLAPS A CHEESE ON MERLIN'S FOREHEAD AND RUNS*

⋆ Merlin: "It's just a slice of cheese....I'm not harmed." ^v^; ⋆

[studyinglogic]

Idiosyncratic thoughts on music III: relationships in songs and time-slices of a self

Many song lyrics are about relationships (in the widest sense of the word): romantic, platonic, friendly, familial, antagonistic; failed or successful; past or present; close or distant; ongoing or ended or future.

But however you see these, people most commonly interpret song lyrics as about relationships between two different people. But there is another possible interpretation, which I personally find almost always more interesting: these are relationships between two different time-slices of a self.

(Both interpretations are possible, of course. The point here isn't to close off one angle of interpretation and to say that only one can be right; it's to say that songs, like most other works of art, hold a multiplicity of meanings and are all the richer for their ambiguity. Keats on Shakespeare and negative capability comes to mind.)

This insight on interpreting relationships in songs isn't original to me, of course. It's a familiar one from time-slice epistemology and various YouTube comments (some quoted below at the end of the post, keeping the original spelling and syntax).

Some songs lend themselves to this interpretation rather easily; others less so. The song "Did I Make You Up?" by half·alive seems straightforwardly to be about two different people, and it might seem difficult to interpret the lyrics otherwise.

But I've found the time-slice interpretation more interesting: one can see the song as looking at your past hopes, at who you thought you would be (did I make that person up?), and realising that you're never going to become that person.

(Then again, maybe this interpretation is naïve, a product of my being lost in a daydream.)

YouTube comments

On flora cash's "You're Somebody Else":

All the comments talk about other people changing and leaving. I hear this about myself... when you've changed in ways you didn't want to, when you're someone you don't recognize, when you've become someone you hate. It hits different when you try to change to fit your ideal image of yourself but you have just got to accept that life has changed you in so many ways and you just have to move on from the past you.

this songs hits different when the person that looks different is yourself

everyone talking about how they miss someone they once loved but i’m listening to the song because i can no longer recognize myself...

On Regina Spektor's Two Birds:

The two birds represent two parts of a person. This person has gone through some really hard times and would really like to move on, one way or another. Their motivation is right there, ready to unfold its wings. But there's that part of them which doesn't wanna fly at all. The world is a bad place, and it knows it. Staying on the wire is safer than flying out, and this feeling is much stronger than motivation. The person will never move on unless the two birds find a compromise, a way to start flying together without either of them giving up right after the take off. They may never get to that point, but the two birds never fight each other, and this way the person will still live happy, though they're missing the best part of life: flying.

On the other hand:

Imagine if instead of being this deep song open to interpretation, Regina just wrote a song about two birds

[msfcatlover]

Lemme tell you, if the new show explicitly disproves any of my takes on how TMA’s world functions: No it didn’t, because I’m not going to listen to that thing until it’s over (not judgemental; just how I roll), and I don’t have to account for canon I don’t consume.

I might add/amend some of what I absorb by osmosis, if I like ‘em, but that’s a mighty big “might.”

Also, if my headcanons are cooler, I’m still sticking with them.

This is also how I’m approaching comics, for the record :P (Awful lot of osmosis, but I am moseying my way forwards.)

[kingmaximusboltagon]

TRITON CAN CREATE AIR BUBBLE HELMETS. TRITON CAN CREATE AIR BUBBLE HELMETS.

[dobbiamocapire]

literally foaming trembling i want to WRITE SOMETHING i don’t know what to write and the only characters that appear in my mind are the formulinis and the only viable language is english but at what cost……. idk idk

[occasionalsnippets]

I don't know if this has been asked before but, what will you do if you were in retrograde motion MC's place?

As the author? Die probably. Jokes aside, I wouldn't be able to say half the things MC says lol which is probably a good thing since their big mouth does get them in some bad situations

[hivepixels]

horikoshi sidelining iida and ochako for the sake of todo+baku+deku was my 13th reason, welcome to the club :')

early era was so fun

meanwhile now:

[sbnkalny]

I would get in touch with him? THIS is a hollow structure consisting of a mass of laser cannons, capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to say penis on this app

al-cray

[waywardsalt]

i love having post ph ideas and no idea where on the timeline they go

[vargamornight]

Literally every month it’s something new. Beginning of august my front door got stuck and it took an entire literal 30 day month to get it fixed. Then, beginning of September, I fucking cut part of my finger off and had to maneuver around that until it healed. Now, it is October, and the pipes in my apartment keep vomiting sewage into my tub without warning and it has been two days and the plumbers cannot figure out what the problem is and I can’t fucKING SHOWER BECAUSE THE TUB COULD SPEW OTHER PEOPLE’S LITERAL SHIT ONTO MY FEET

AND I STILL DON’T HAVE ENOUGH FUCKING MONEY TO LIVE

[godzexperiment]

the fact nix hasn't killed anybody, in most verses never hurt anybody in any possible way (in contrast with giving it no thought if its what is needed to save somebody) and that surprise highly effective in a way that's almost/somewhat horrifying

[luminiera-merge]

why have mobile phones started getting big again. i thought portability was the point of these things so WHY do i need two hands to properly use them again, and why are they all too big for the few pockets i have. tech companies i’m going to be real your 45-lens ai camera or super processing power or AEIOULED backlit screens or whatever the fuck are NOT worth the unwieldy sizes they’re causing these phones to be