someone tell me why and how is it november already???? anyway i feel like i haven’t written in ages and jake’s bday is coming up,,, thinking rn if i should impulsively start a last minute long story for his bday again-
i have serious reasoning for iwasuga but the fun reasoning is. they both have Complexes about their height and express affection towards their friends via violence. soulmates.
Okay, see, the thing about your story ending on a negative/dystopian/'despite everything that's happened nothing has changed in society' note and doing so successfully? It needs to have been set up for that in the first place, and it needs to be done in an intentional manner.
I have nothing against works that reinforce how cruel/meaningless/pointless/etc. the world is -- I enjoy a fair few! -- but the works themselves need to be some sort of commentary about it; the plot might be demonstrative of the futility of everything, but the story never should. It should take that and build on it and use it to make a statement, underscore a point, etc. to its readers. Having everything carry on business-as-usual without acknowledging it, especially in a genre that's generally meant to conclude on optimistic, uplifting, and hopeful notes, comes off as callous and in direct opposition with the values it extols.
Plus, the story itself should never be futile because, then, well, it never mattered as a work and it makes no difference if you've read it or not. Which... that's just a badly written story lmao.
it's interesting how both work remixes highlight how bare and short the original song is. in the don diablo remix, jongho's high note gets extended, and in the edenary remix, the first chorus gets re-edited as a prechorus leading into an instrumental chorus, and then they add a ~3 seconds long transition into hongjoong's verse. all those changes sound better than the original, because you need breathing space and pacing for a song to sound good.
i'm still wondering whether they'll return to Good Musicmaking with the next comeback, or keep on doing those atz-flavoured chill vibes over and over because it's what's currently popular :']
Irodori festival “sequel” event where it’s Ayaka, Kazuha, and Ayato trying to help Heizou figure out a “cold case with little to no clues” (that case being the Tatarasuna incident that recently got altered by Irminsul). Traveler is present during the entire thing but obviously can’t tell them that their memories got altered and solid material mentioning anything related to the eccentric wanderer explicitly got altered as well. However, Wanderer did request of the traveler that if they ever come face to face with any of the descendants that he messed with that he would like for them to know it was him that made them deal with the negative ripple effects of his actions. It’s a matter of Traveler trying to figure out how to tell them without going into details about Irminsul.
thank you beloved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can't wait to broadcast some opinions <;3
[ if i stan ]
now stan is a strong word but i'm more than familiar with them, and i feel like it's only a matter of time before i'm a little more crazy stupid about them, so that's where we are with that, at least.
favorite member / bias line
hongjoong is my bias and yeosang is my wrecker but also consider that jongho is very important <3 and seonghwa is very brother.
which member I’d fight (& why)
seonghwa because of his brother vibes 🔪🔪🔪 my brothers have moved out and so i've been lacking that sweet, sweet dynamic of "we hate crime each other and then one of us apologizes but the other just laughs it off and we're stronger for it, actually, now when are you going to drive me to get mediocre fast food, i'm hungry."
favorite song(s)
halazia; deja vu; say my name (the silly choreography is IMPORTANT); illusion; if without you; django; answer; guerilla; the real
favorite thing about the group
their concepts are so!!!!!!!!! cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i also think their music is batshit insane and i love that for them. guerilla goes so hard and for what???? my slow descent into insanity???? and the MV for the real?????? i've never recovered.
something i’d like to see from them
selfish but i want hongjoong's cover of lemon tree of spotify 🔪🔪🔪 i will not rest until i can play that on repeat and have it skew my spotify wrapped in a very aggressive way. also i would love a django MV.
@kalaharidown tagged me to list my favorite first listens of 2022, thank you ricsi <33
i looked through my monthly playlists and didn't find that many albums that i liked more than 5 songs from and really continued listening to, idk maybe i just don't listen to enough albums to comfortably choose favorites so it's 9 instead of 6 here cause these are the albums that i liked.. didn't feel right, taking 3 of them out... 😳 (i mean, i listened to most of the nin discography this year and some fiona albums too and loooved them but i'm not putting multiple by the same artist so. yeah whatever 9 albums be upon ye)
fiona apple - when the pawn... / nine inch nails - with teeth / iamx - kiss + swallow / analog balaton - lent / glass animals - dreamland / foster the people - supermodel / mitski - laurel hell / el vy - return to the moon / cleopatrick - bummer
feel free to continue this with 6 albums or 9 or however many or none<3 @prettyhatmachine @twinprime @homosexula @karabekian @fridaythe13thpartviii @catboychuuuya @heliotrapic @woundthatswallows @girlphilipaugustus @iceyblues @cannibalwomen @feralgecko @lesben
Redoing basically my whole room and replacing like 5/8 pieces of furniture over this weekend makes me realize that I’m gonna have to take a whole ass week off whenever I move. Because I’ve been cleaning all day and am so exhausted lmao