#dissonants

[s0uless-b0nes]

A certain screencap from MC12 gave me neuron activation, so I prettied these guys uP!

[o-kaythislooksbad]

grey havens

dissonants [11/12]

[tomsmusictaste]

Hands Like Houses // Division Symbols

[theeemeraldstar]

There's a feeling overwhelming

This is where I belong

This melody inseparable

From singing this song

I'm floating on the ceiling

Skip beats and I'm forgetting the in-between

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

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Macklemore cancels his show in Dubai to boycott the UAE in solidarity with the people of Sudan:

“At the end of the day I have to ask myself what is my intention as an artist? […] Although dismantling systemic oppression might not fully happen during my lifetime, our collective analysis is evolving. That is where it starts. When we realize our individual liberation IS Palestinian liberation. Is Sudanese liberation. Is Congolese liberation.”

He also writes:

“The last 10 months l've been learning what factors/motivators feed genocide and global systemic oppression. I keep getting led back to self interest over collective interest at the root. Capitalism is the glue that holds this ideology together. And if I take the money, while knowing it doesn't sit right with my spirit, how am I any different than the politicians l've been actively protesting against?”

[thisaintascenereviews]

Hands Like Houses - Tropo - EP

Hands Like Houses used to be one of my favorite bands, especially when I was still heavily into post-hardcore and metalcore, and when their debut album came out in 2012, they had a lot of potential. They released a few solid albums, but starting with 2018’s Anon (which was their last album), they started to go downhill. Not at a dramatic speed, mind you, but the quality has dipped. These guys began as a progressive-ish post-hardcore band, existing in the same space as Circa Survive, Saosin, I The Mighty, Hail The Sun, and plenty of other acts that were big in the early to mid-2010s that had that style. With Anon, they switched labels and went for a more hard-rock and alt-rock sound, and it was fine. I didn’t like the album at the time, but I’ve gone back to it since and have softened on it. It’s nothing spectacular, but I enjoy it.

They released a self-titled EP a couple of years back, which would eventually prove to be former vocalist Trenton Woodley’s last with the band, but that EP was… Interesting. It was a weird pivot into indie-rock, and it was fine, but it was bland beyond belief. Losing Woodley (which seems like it wasn’t his decision to leave, by the way) proved to be a big mistake for these guys, partially because his voice is one of the best in the metalcore scene, and a really solid lyricist (well, on their few albums). They got a new vocalist, whose name is Josh Raven according to Wikipedia, and after hearing his debut single with the band, “Heaven,” I was not impressed. The song is fine, but in a “this is a song you can listen to” kind of way. That song sounds like every other hard rock band you’ve ever heard, and it’s not offensive, but it isn’t anything special.

They just dropped an EP, entitled Tropo, and I thought I’d listen to it, just to see what they’re doing now. What’s weird is that this thing is four songs long, and there are guest features on three of them. Why? Are they not confident enough in their new vocalist? I sort of think that, because this EP isn’t that good. It’s not the worst thing ever, but this is so bland, it hurts. I wish I liked this more, because a couple of the riffs are cool, but that’s it. Their new vocalist sounds the same on each song, and while he can sing rather well, his lyrics are forgettable and he isn’t anything special. Woodley was a wonderful vocalist, and this guy is honestly a downgrade. The guest features are okay, too; the only one of note is Underoath’s Aaron Gillespie featuring on a song, and he doesn’t really do anything, but the other guests don’t, either.

Thankfully this EP is short, because it kind of goes in one and out the other. If you offered me a million dollars to tell you a single thing about this EP, I couldn’t do it, other than Aaron Gillespie is on it for some reason. I couldn’t tell you a thing about the music itself, especially when each song sounds the same and they’re already forgettable. The vocals, the lyrics, and even the instrumentation, it’s all stuff I’ve heard before. What a boring EP. I might be too harsh on this EP, but when you were as unique as they once were, this is such a step down, both musically and vocally. If you told me between 2012 and 2016 that these guys would become a butt-rock band, I wouldn’t believe you, but here we are, I guess.

[prokopetz]

I love it when farm animals in strategy games have their own little pockets of visibility in the fog of war, because the fog of war is ostensibly a visual abstraction of military intelligence-gathering, which implies that the goat is submitting intel reports.

[letras2wi]

Dissonants - "Fading" Lyrics

Dissonants – “Fading” ( Lyrics ) | BVTV Letra Letra BVTV Letra Dissonants – “Fading” ( Lyrics ) | BVTV Letra Hollow Dark and deformed A shapeless shadow Wanders alone SLEEP AN INKBLOT IN A JOURNAL OF HATE PRAY YOU’LL REMEMBER THE STRENGTH OF THE FLAME Fading away (Beyond your memory) Obscurity Feels like home to me FEELS LIKE HOME TO ME This void That I’ve been living in Seems so empty and…

[bixels]

Scary Sunset.

I'm concepting things way outta order in this story, but I'm sure you can piece things together. Context is for a storybeat where, after defeating and capturing Adagio (thus having all three sirens in her possession), Sunset enacts her revenge plot to release the sirens on Canterlot as Thea discovers she's been manipulated. In a confrontation, the two scuffle and fight over the siren orbs while Sunset struggles with her conflicting wants and emotions.

[stuckinapril]

I genuinely think that any change in behavior starts w telling yourself that your worst days, worst performances, just worst moments in general aren’t who you “truly are.” It’s all about unlearning any thought process that essentially chalks up traits you aren’t proud of to “this is who I really am” “in reality I’m lazy” “in reality I’m just a bad person” bc not only is that never true, but it impedes your efforts to try to do better as well. Anything we struggle with has roots in things like childhood trauma, thoughts you’ve been fed before, your upbringing…. but never that you’re inherently a bad person. What I’m learning this year is that a lot of us doing better & being better & improving really comes down to self-talk—to disavowing the very notion that deep down we’re simply bad.

[o-kaythislooksbad]

colourblind dissonants [3/12]

[tomsmusictaste]

Hands Like Houses // Division Symbols

[electricboogaloosstuff]

I am fascinated by how, in the Bridgerton Extanded Universe, everyone is in a period drama EXCEPT the Bridgerton family, who is in a romantic comedy.

[isawthismeme]

REBLOG THIS!!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

[sillycatenthusiast]

Some of my favorite songs from gaming