tag meme
tagged by @mynnthia~
last song: nightlife - new low
favorite color: bluish-purple
last movie/show: went to see a play the other night actually! (not "show" as this question intended it but it fits both the word and the spirit of it lol.) a new take on the classic (that i'd read back in high school lol) A Doll's House set in three different time periods interwovenly, it was good and definitely a cool use of the abstraction allowed by the theatre medium! they had a different women playing Nora in each time period, with each of them trading off being her friend Christine for one of the other ones, but the men were all the same guys throughout as more like Constants. the 3 Noras often swapped off between scenes but there were a lot of key moments where all 3 of them were onstage at once and acted in sync or took turns interacting with the man and those moments were striking...
will say did get a little too modern-writer-saying-girl-power-y with some of the monologues at the end, pleaseee you dont need to turn to the audience and say #Feminism when the point was pretty clear in 1879, but the original story is definitely still strong, there were other things it added to differentiate the story in each time period that were good, and it was overall a cool adaptation!
edit: forgot podcasts count as shows too so lets toss friends at the table counter/weight prequel in here lol
sweet/spicy/savory: all have their place of course but lets say sweet!
relationship status: single ✌️been periodically considering getting back onto the dating app grind lately but bleh
last thing i googled: "actuary". someone was trying to remember the word for something else and i tossed that out as a suggestion so i was like wait DO i 100% sure know what This one means
current obsession(s): Acute Stages of Dungeon Meshi Brainrot
tag 5 people: (no pressure of course lol) @enjolradical @dota2apologist @chemiosmotic @leahsfiction @sauntering-vaguely-downwards anyone else if you feel like it
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i hope these are readable :0
HOOOOLY SHIT ALL OF THIS IS SO REAL IM JUST- I AM IN AWE YOU HAVE ONLY CORRECT OPINIONS HERE
literally lost my shit at that first line and as THE self appointed frankenstein guy i just have to say that your teacher is in fact WRONG henry clerval was having alllll the gay sex victor was quite literally in love with him i stg i could write an essay on thus by itself THEY WERE GAY FOR EACH OTHER ITS NOT DEBATABLE
okay fashion statement is so real i cant believe i never saw that before but GUN??? insane. world changing. life ending. theyre teaching me to kill whose teaching me to love EVERYONE AND NO ONR THE ACT OF LIVING ITSELF BRINGS ABOUT LOVE FOR THE WORLD AND ITS BEAUTY DESPITE ONLY EVER HAVING THE UGLIEST PARTS FORCED UPON YOU NO ONE TAUGHT HIM TO LOVE BECAUSE NO ONE CARED ENOUGH TO SHOW HIM HE HAD TO LEARN ON HIS OWN WATCHING FROM THE SHADOWS AND EVEN THEN WHEN HE TRIED HIS HARDEST HE STILL COULDN'T ESCAPE BEING THE MONSTER THE WIRLD SAYS HE IS. VICTOR. BITCH. GIVE HIM A HUG!!!!
i need to eat these pages tho holy shit theres soooo many good lines in here i could literally stare at this forever 😭 literally losing my mind over i never told you as a victor song like. he cant clean the blood off the sheets in his bed!!!! he cant stop endangering the people he loves because he refuses to accept the responsibility of what hes done. screaming over "victor frankenstein if the definition of a sad pathetic wet kitten of a man" I MEAN UR RIGHT BUT GDHDGSGD
and the "he fucks it all up because something something icarus" YEP LITERALLY THATS IT. TOUCHED BY ANGLES THOUGH I FALL OUT OF GRACE I AM GOING TO FUCKING SCREAM YOU DONT UNDERSTAND EHAT THIS IS DOING TO ME IM HAVING SO MANY THOUGHS RN I JUST- RAAAGSGSHSG
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hey remember when i left those tags on that post?
i still don’t want to talk about what the work of fiction is but i legit just got reminded today that while it’s been like over 15 years that i did want to check this thing, the character that “caught my interest like 7 years ago” actually caught my interest 12 years ago. As in, there was a specific moment in time when i wanted to get into it because i learnt about the character in question.
i’ve been in hysterics for the past ten minutes because i’m realizing it’s been over a decade that once in a while i had humored starting this thing, and that while it definitely started out of another place, it’s been 12 years that steadily it was because this character was standing out to me enough that i wanted to get into it, but then forgot all about it, and now i’m out there actually getting into it after a *dream that came out of nowhere about this chara popping up while i haven’t thought of them in years* and i’m just.
bestfriendo is making fun of me because “this is the most slowburn in all of history of fav characters” and i’m screaming into my hands, imagine considering getting into something for OVER A DECADE while constantly one character keeps standing out for you and eventually you just get a dream out of nowhere of this chara like a sudden “hey. I’ve been sending you messages about it for the past decade why the fuck are you leaving me on read” and now you’re not only forced to pay attention but also forced to realize YOU COULD HAVE STARTED ALL OF THAT OVER TEN YEARS AGO i’m feeling so unwell.
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a handful of chinese songs that give me big robit energy
translating cpop songs is like my second favourite hobby so it's frankly surprising I haven't made this post sooner
Him - Floruitshow (马 - 福禄寿)
I've talked about this song on here before but this is the 3.7 song for me
the second chorus is definitely MR-SN but i like to think of the first chorus (Let me take a good look at your visage as we count down the time till the curtains’ close. Forgive me for holding back my voice so soon, do you know, in your graceful escape, all I see around me is disaster?) as VR-LA during the flashback sequence
specifically 'all I see around me is disaster' because yeah not wrong
'This time I’m not here to bring you home' just kills me like the please please take care of yourself because I can't be there with you anymore of it all
'Oh spring, oh warm sun, please come sooner, grant him a smooth and safe journey' same point, just the desperate plea for the universe to protect VR-LA because he can't do it himself anymore
How can I make you stay - Floruitshow (我用什么把你留住 - 福禄寿)
(conveniently I have actually done a full translation of this song!)
definitely one of the Maxim songs of all time
"You’ve believed that you can let your life pass in numbness, but [...] why do your tears fall in the moment of letting go?' YEAH because we've seen so many times how Maxim keeps trying to convince himself that he can stop just caring but it never works
'You say don’t fall in love, yet you’re unwilling to let go' same point, this man is in such denial about how he just can't stop caring
specifically the second verse feels a lot like Maxim waiting for VR-LA to return from Tu'narath
'You stay silent, holding onto starlight as you wait through your darkest hour. Your mind is struck, when familiar murmurs pierce your ears once more' aaaAAAAHH
the bridge (?) as a conversation between VR-LA and Maxim, VR-LA inviting Maxim to see the beauty and wonders of the world ('Do you want to see the sea of flowers blooming?', very 4.5 wedding invite honestly) but Maxim's trauma just would not allow him to take that risk ('If none of them come back, then who should I live for?')
fun fact the second version of the bridge in my translation ('You must stay to see the flowers bloom' onwards) is exclusive to that live performance of the song so it's not in the spotify version i linked here. as for which version you think fits Maxim more.. well.
Borrow - Mao Buyi (借 - 毛不易)
finally banging out a translation for this song was kinda the inspiration for me to make this post actually
the tldr of this song is that it's an unnamed/unidentified speaker asking to borrow various small things for the sake of somebody else (like 'an inch of frozen sunlight' to provide warmth in a cold world) so you can probably see where i'm going with this
'A simple ‘we have plenty of time’ etched into the soul to prepare for the chance of forced separation' ouch ow okay
'Those blown apart by these winds will say that they never loved deeply' / 'There is a sincerity that cannot be blown apart by this wind' DX-TR betraying the old crew vs VR-LA fighting through so much just to get them back
'There are tears that cannot be washed away by this rain' this line just haunts me. like in general
'An acre of land for him to call home, an ordinary life for him to live' as MR-SN watching over the old crew like I can't be there for you but I hope you will find peace and a home...
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