#girlbossing out to a real bop too

[asleepinawell]

erich: wait does this mean my mother was actually a good person and just corrupted by an evil crystal?

women's wrongs supporters: *loud booing*

laha: no she's always been crazy and evil

athena: correct

everyone: *wild cheering*

[hezekiahwakely]

After spending literally multiple days and nights listening to hours of new music, here are my thoughts on what the Protocol playlists might tell us about the characters. I'm gonna break it down by large themes and I'm putting it under a read more bc I don't know how to not ramble about this. its SO MUCH

Gwendolyn Bouchard 👁️

Hers is the most self-explanatory. Girlboss is girlbossing and paying for it. But I did pick up several nuances.

Gwen is: Cold, power-hungry, and ambitious (you should see me in a crown, Are You Satisfied?, Severance theme). Suffering from her own hubris (Oh No!, Gasoline). Resentful and envious, especially about family, wealth, and power (Family Jewels, 24 hours, Warriors). Touching the dark and being supernaturally influenced (Mr. Bonzo theme, Evil Eye, We Don't Talk About Bruno, Making Love to the Dead).

Special mention to the 'daddy's money' reference in 24 hours.

Samama Khalid 😶‍🌫️

Sam makes ridiculously long playlists, like me, so this entry is gonna be long, but the emotional vibes were pretty easy to pick out once I got through it.

Sam is: Straight chillin' to some lo-fi beats, desi hip hop, and melodic bops (literally too many to list but, Remind Me, Forgive the Mess, 93 'Til Infinity, Magpie, Fire Sale, Iniesta Flow, I Guess, Prarthana, Hai Hai, etc., etc.). Rebellious (The Adults Are Talking, Reptilia). Bonded with someone (Halo Flip, soulboy). Yearning, romantic, and playful (Girl Like You, Mr. Sandman, New House, Meteor, You Only Live Once, Be Your Girl, Dear Jean, Say The Word, My Girl/Hey Girl, Smiley, The Real Sugar). Reminiscing about a break-up (Oui, Afterparty Lover, Last Nite, Stick Season, Turn off the Lights, Jessie (i miss you), WONDERING, Afterthought, I Love You, I'm Trying). Full of regrets, pain, and melancholy bitterness (Seasons, Can't Call It, Let It Go, nightmares, Pretty Insane, different tomorrow..., Cigarette Daydreams, CABIN FEVER, Self destruct, Go Back, Stuck Here With Me, Bliss City). Alienated, yet wanting to be alone (uh-oh) (Creep, Alone, Stone cold., Paint it, Black).

Special shout-out to all the implications about the old Sam/Alice relationship. And I'm especially worried by the potential meanings of Downside Up, Let It Go, Go Back, and Stuck Here With Me.

Also, interesting that there's a lyric-free track just called 'drained' at the end of his playlist. I'm sure that's fine.

Alice Dyer 🌀

Oh my girl. What is going on with you. She has impeccable and predictable taste, at least. But... then there's the Ominous Implications again...

Alice is: Rebellious, anarchic, and irreverent (Underclass Hero, Toxicity, Tribute, Buddy Holly, Dragostea din tei, Feel Good Inc., Piss Off, Rebel Rebel, Ghost Town, Brimful of Asha, Surrender, Uncle Walter, United States of Whatever). Blasting high-confidence power anthems (Material Girl, Therefore I Am, Jump, Bad Reputation, The Middle). Depressed behind a mask of high energy and false cheeriness (SugarCrash!, Mad World, Bathroom Floor). Yearning after someone's love (A.M. 180, Zombie Love Song, Nearer Than Heaven, Save Tonight, Ms. California, Because I Love You, Fell In Love With A Girl, Take Me Out). Reminiscing about a break-up (Ciao!, Built This Way, Kidz 'N' Stuff, FRIENDS, Free Fallin', Not In Love, Who Knew, Song for the Dumped, When It All Falls Apart, Laid, Complicated). Feeling crazy and overwhelmed (uh-oh) (Basket Case, In Too Deep, Bonkers, I'm A Robot, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, 19-2000, Wonderland, High, Undone, Cosmic Castaway). Creeped out and brushing up against the supernatural (Walking On Air, The Blue Wrath, Pet Sematary).

Oooh. Oh, the implications. The Sam/Alice break-up. The potential for feelings that remain. I HAVE to know what happened between them.

Also, here are some select lines from five Alice songs presented without comment: "Yeah, I'm a zombie, baby," "I'm a robot, I'm a robot/I don't have any feeling in my heart," "I don't wanna be buried in a Pet Sematary/I don't want to live my life again," "Take me down, six underground/The ground beneath your feet," "Walking like a zombie, like a zombie."

I'm sure that's all fine.

Celia Ripley 🕸️

The most mysterious new member of the OIAR, her music choices are appropriately enigmatic. The Vibes make me excited to see what she's hiding under the surface.

Celia is: Raring for a fight (Seven Nation Army, Rumble, know your place, Run from Me). Fed up with the system (Blood//Water, Run You). Bold, sexy, headstrong, and self-confident (Creature, Took A Trip, River, Do It For Me, Aerials, Uber). Struggling against supernatural influence, feeling trapped and helpless (Mama! There's a Spider in My Room, Where Is My Mind?, I Feel Like I'm Drowning, Closer, Space Dementia, Rain)

So we've all but confirmed the theory that she's from the OG Archives timeline and that she has continuing ties to the Web from passing through Hill Top Road. I think we have hints here that she's manipulating the others, but I also think there are signs that she's fighting her own battle against an evil trying to take her. There also seems to be an overarching theme of water in many of her songs for some reason 🤔

I can't wait to get more of Celia. Even if she is lying, I'm rooting for her (<hoping this doesn't come back to bite me in the ass)

In conclusion, I love them all already your honor, and I want to thank the cast for putting such loving care into crafting these for us. Thank you for such great food to feed our wild theorizing.

[delcakoo]

KOOKIE I HAD THE BEST DAY TODSY WTF?!

OK FIRST I HAD MY FIRST FULL PERIOD WITH MY SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER

OMG HE’S SO GIRLBOSS 😤😤😤😤😤 HES A FEMINIST, ANTI RACIST, ANTI SEXIST, ANTI HOMOHOBIC, ANTI MISOGYNY 🤧🤧🤧🤧 NOT TO MENTION HE HAS A PRIDE FLAG WITH ALL THE COLORS AND A BADASS SNAKE TAT 🤭🤭 🫶🏽

He’s Asian American, or half Filipino and half American. AND HE DOESNT SUGARCOAT HOW BAD AMERICA IS LIKE TWO MINUTES AFTER WE WALKED IN HE STRAIGJT UP SAID “WE STOLE THIS LAND FROM NATIVE AMERICANS AND I WILL NEVER FORGIVE AMERICA FOR THAT.” LIKE HELLO?! YES STAN!!!

He’s so SOCIALLY AWARE about cultural incompetence and appropriation!!! He appreciates black brown and Asian communities so fucking much and it’s like, yes!! FINALLY!! He also has so many Roe v Wade posters BECAUSE HE BELIEVES ABORTION IS A HUMAN FUCKING RIGHT‼️‼️‼️‼️ he talked about how rock and roll is literally from Black women, a church sister moved really fast on her guitar and BAM ROCK AND ROLL and he outright admitted that white people appropriated the heck out of it and made it a “white thing” 😨

Since he’s half Filipino, he has this fish hook (?) necklace and tattoo because it honors his leadership. And he said when people ask him “omg u have a Maui necklace” he feels bad because his culture is reduced to a cartoon character!!! And I made so many connections with him in terms of cultural disrespect. I said that it’s sort of like jasmine bc I said “when I complain that there’s no south Asian representation in media someone and their mother has to tell me ‘what about jasmine/Aladdin’ these media are never culturally accurate. Bc aladddin is literally made of Turk, Desi, and Arabic culture mixed in to one to give white people “ a taste of south Asians 😜😍” and I said that and he was like “RIGHT, ITS SO FRUSTRATING BEING REDUCED TO SOMETHING THATS NOT CULTURALLY ACCURATE.” AND I WAS LIKE?! HELLO HE’S SO AWARE ABOUT CURRENT MEDIA LIKE MY OLD HISTORY TEACHER COULD NEVER 😩

NEXT WE WERE READING THESE POEMS AND THE TOPIC KF MISOGNy and you wanna know what he told the boys?!

“All you little boys here, if you wanna be a REAL man in the future then being a REAL man is not putting down women. Women have to right to speak up and put you in your place if you’re being rude, which men have a long history of doing. If you ever disrespect a woman gouge your eyes out and be ashamed. I don’t wanna see that Andrew Tate behavior in my classroom. I also don’t thing your mothers will be happy you spend your life on sexism and misogyny, so If you don’t wanna explain your actions to your own mother, i demand you change your mentality if you haven’t already.”

LIKE HELLO?! HE KNOWS ABOUT ANDREW TATE?! I JUST KNOW HE WOULD EAT UP THAT H0E IN SECONDS

He’s my new fav teacher no questions asked.

Also my playlist KEPT PLAYING MY FAVORITE SONGS?! Like it must be that I followed you and realized that your so amazing that I got all this good karma 🥵🥵🥵

ANYWAYS ILYSM KOOTI FRUITY 😍😍😍😍🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽 HOW WAS UR DAY?!

KUMA. IM GOING TO SNEAK INTO YOUR FUCKING SOCIALS CLASS. IM ON THE WAY RN BROOO UR TEACHER SOUNDS AMAZING AGHHHH HE SOUNDS SO COOL ???? LIKE ITS SO RARE TO MEET AN ADULT LIKE THAT IN GENERAL AGH IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU IM JEALOUSSSSS 😭😭

bro just the name andrew tate makes me furious i’ve only seen a few clips of him because i genuinely cannot listen to the shit rhat comes out of his mouth 💀 so happy he got his platform taken away BUT AGHH UR TEACHER SAID NOTHING BUT FACTS. SO TRUE BRO ESPECIALLY ABORTION. ANYONE WHO THINKS ABORTION SHOULD BE ILLEGAL NEEDS TO GET TF AWAY FROM ME LIKE ABSOLUTELY NOT 🥰🥰 as he should he would be my favorite too ☝️💯

OMG YES WHATRE SOME OF UR FAVORITE SONGS I’D LOVE TO LISTEN TO THEM 🫶🫶 and yeah that was actually me i personally told ur playlist to play the bops!! 💯🥰 ur welcome!!

ILYT KUMIE WUMIE 💖💯🫶 MY DAY WAS GREAT IT WAS SI NICE AND SUNNY AND AND IM SO EXCITED CUZ SPLATOON 3 CAME OUT WHICH IVE BEEN WAITING FOR FOR OVER A YEAR. IM GONNA PLAY IT ALL DAY MWAHHAHA

[cyclone-rachel]

Thoughts on The Boys

season 3, episode 1

LET’S GO

oh this is definitely the movie

I can’t believe charlize theron gets to be in two superhero productions in a cameo capacity within about a month

she couldn’t have less of an accent if she tried

god, Homelander

this ear-ringing shows up a few times in these episodes and it’s interesting

Adam Bourke doesn’t really have a Zack Snyder vibe to me

I’m glad Hughie and Starlight can be together in public now

oh boy

gosh, this must be so awkward for both of them

Oh dear

perfect response

It really does

so they’re calling themselves that now?

I can’t believe they’re advertising Amazon in an Amazon show

Karen my love

Is this her real singing voice?

so is this man meant to be a version of the atom, or scott lang ant-man

this would almost be nice if it was a different show

jesus christ

YIKES

ew. ew. ew.

no thank you

also these fucking madlads really did the “Thanus” move, didn’t they

this is kind of a bop

Simon Pegg is back!

Mean Girls “how do I describe Regina George” vibes

I can’t believe she’s the future Vic the Veep

Not gonna be in peacetime for long

mood, Ryan

it’s weird to hear swear words coming from a small child

this is nice

accurate

oh good for him

ah yeah, this guy

so is the cult supposed to be like that one we can’t talk about, or NXIVM?

oh he knew alright

sure you are, buddy

awwww

that’s a lot of money

aha, Dakota Bob!

he’s not wrong

I’m sure it won’t take that long, aren’t there only supposed to be 5 seasons

Bob isn’t wrong either

I recognize those names

Maybe you’re winning, but Butcher isn’t

Outgunned, outmanned, outnumbered, outplanned…

Don’t talk to Kimiko like that

awww

He has the footage too?

YES, MY GIRL

of course they did

Homelander wouldn’t accept Maeve as co-captain

It’s a tempting offer

is that not the American Ninja Warrior logo but with different words

ANNIE

Hughie…

Starlight in her girlboss era

oh that’s just rude

love that comic art in the background

yikes

oh fuck that

of course they found each other on 4chan

can’t believe she’s still alive

homelander like “I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at being a literal fucking nazi”

Maeve looks so good

The Maeve-Butcher dynamic is fascinating

Soldier Boy’s name is still silly

There probably isn’t actually a weapon

So Gunpowder is his Bucky?

I was wondering if Scarlet Witch and Captain America ever hooked up, and it turns out yes?

(credit to my friend @hanabi-09​ for finding that)

She has a point

is that a Terror cookie jar

this creepy motherfucker

this dynamic is also interesting

I have a feeling that’s how the series is going to end, like between the two of them they’re gonna destroy almost everything

oof, he has the newspaper article about Robin dying

Red River, huh?

oh no

Ew

It’s raining blood and guts

Who’s she calling?

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

Nabucco (Verona, 2017): Reactions, Part I

Y’all, I haven’t seen this opera in like three years and also apparently this production is metatheatrical??? I LIVE for that sort of thing.

other things I love: Risorgimento-era-set productions of Verdian political dramas

the detail and scope is just so great (I mean, Arena di Verona) and also this overture BOPS (even though, as I can tell you from experience, is VERY HARD)

we got a barricade!

horsies!!!

battle time!!!

these choruses are so pretty

I think Zaccaria is supposed to be like the mayor or leader or whatever idk

Fenena is So Done also she and that outfit are very pretty

“oh fucking great not the fireballs again”

“let’s go defeat some TYRANNY with our BOPTASTIC CHORUSES”

forbidden love!

“no I don’t want you to betray your cause just for little old me” aww Fenena

lads, the living embodiment of “gaslight gatekeep girlboss”

tfw you and your “sister” (pay attention to the air-quotes) are in love with the same tenor

for once, Area Verdi Tenor Is Completely Uninterested In The Soprano [Fenena is a mezzo, for those of you who have not seen this opera]

uh-oh the Habsburgs are here

now that is how to make an entrance in style

Zaccaria NO

Nabucco NO

Fenena: can everyone PLEASE just calm down for five seconds so we don’t all murder each other

THANK YOU ISMAELE

as for you, you really suck

wait did Zaccaria just get shot

edit: okay I don’t think that was Zaccaria but SOMEONE got shot

they’re burning the Italian flags

“well that went well” said no one ever

and the set turns!

this is SO pretty

well this is one hell of an awkward way to find out you’re adopted

Area Soprano Is VERY Pissed Off

hey the living embodiment of gaslight gatekeep girlboss has feelings too

(to be fair, she cannot catch a break here because not only did she just find out she isn’t actually of royal blood but also her younger sister is dating the guy she likes, which is AWKWARD)

well good on Fenena for setting the prisoners free

let’s have a COUP

this role is absolutely BRUTAL to sing and she’s holding up admirably well

and this is a lovely aria

hey stop it please be nice to Ismaele he is a Good Tenor

@simone-boccanegra​ was honestly right when she said that all Early Verdi Male Choruses sound almost exactly the same

Area Mezzo Switches Sides (also that outfit is GORG)

oh man now Fenena has a gun

oh no she misfired and accidentally grazed Ismaele

Rumors of Area Baritone’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

the obligatory boptastic “oh boy shit’s happening it’s about to get REAL” ensemble

Area Baritone Now Declares That He Is God

she’s a badass I love her

oh that’s a clever move: instead of having supernatural lightning strike Nabucco, he gets shot by a bunch of the rebels

they deserve better

oh dang that is a LOT of blood

meanwhile, Abigaille is just calmly drinking

“he had it comin’, he had it comin’, he only had himself to blame; if you’d’a been there, if you’d’a seen it, I betcha you woulda done the same”

“didn’t do that but this plays PERFECTLY into my plans”