#leitmotifs my beloved

[beantothemax]

STILL NOT OVER THE FACT THAT EVERY TRAVELER GETS A UNIQUE FINAL BOSS SONG FOR THEIR FINAL CHAPTER. AND THEY ALL INCORPORATE THAT TRAVELER’S “FOR ___” THEME. THIS GAME IS SO GOOD I AM VERY HAPPY.

[jukoduko]

the fucking KINITO MOTIF I MADE

[undergoing-mitosis]

what is it about video game boss themes with harpsichord always going SO HARD

no like, we have World's End Valentine, Mantis Lords, Pandora Palace (and just all of Queen's themes in general), just like arghhhhh

the harpsichord has such a unique timbre, and something about that makes it worth so well with a certain genre of character. it just feels so perfectly fitting to all these characters, making for some striking and recognisable leitmotifs, and it also has the perfect opportunity for fast runs and insane melodies when things hype up.

this is a harpsichord appreciation post. the harpsichord is not appreciated enough, especially when it's used in modern music.

here are the songs i talked about. please feel free to drop any other epic harpsichord songs (especially video game music!!) in the notes, i would love to hear em!

[justanotherfanartist]

i got the kind of autism where I make theme songs and leitmotifs for my characters that I haven’t written anything about but have a complete fuzzy image of in my head

[doctorwhoisadhd]

listening to one of the s8 soundtrack CDs in the hopes that it would help me actually get started on hw and TRACK 6 PUDDING BRAINS HAS THE DIES IRAE LEITMOTIF IN IT

[tezzaa]

minor totk spoilers

just noticed the COOLEST thing about the music

you know how the generic overworld music (the piano that played when you were on a horse) in botw was very... scattered and broken-up and would kind of fade in and out. iirc there's a dev interview out there where the intention was to make it sound like parts of the songs were damaged or missing to symbolise how hyrule itself is damaged

WELL

they've reused those horseback songs for totk but they've filled in the gaps!!!! with different instruments!!! violin i think, w the iconic zelda leitmotif. like they mended the song but had to use different materials and it's all patchwork just like how hyrule is being repaired out of cobbled-together scraps

its healing and getting better but it's never quite going to be the same but the fact that it's being restored in the first place is something to be TRIUMPHANT about and im going insane musical storytelling makes me go crazyyyyy

[eldragon-x]

If they ever remake Explorers of Sky I need them to use the Time/Darkness opening theme again. please

[puppycharmz]

oh hey man nice to see you. oh nice you got a leitmotif now. sick. anyways I gotta go advance the plot now. keep being a reoccurring theme man. yeah have fun

[bigbagofgabriel]

she playing with my leit till I motif

[echotunes]

MAN I forgot how good the dgs soundtrack is

[rockium-z]

BRAVELY DEFAULT REFERENCE???

[pharos-ryoji]

Every scrap of leak information about potential p1 and p2 remasters make me so hopeful pls atlus I need them

[opal-owl-flight]

HOLY SHIT. WHOEVER TEAM GETS THE LAST ULTRA SIGNAL OF THE TRICOLOR MATCH GETS THEIR TEAM'S MAIN LEITMOTIF DOMINATING THE REST OF THE MATCH. INCLUDING THE NOW OR NEVER THEME

MUSICAL VARIATIONS MY FUCKING BELOVED

[dragonshoardofworks]

Green with Envy 2024 (part 3)

Everlasting Trio my beloved! (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤

Lines by @things-i-cannot-do-in-amitypark, thank you so much for the good content!

This was the first coloring I had began back at the start of the event, but my indecisive ass made me drag on the publishing of it because of both real life obligations and I couldn't choose among the background options I made! (⁠ ⁠≧⁠Д⁠≦⁠)

So like I did for my previous piece, I'm uploading all of them! (⁠^⁠～⁠^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ

(The rest is under the cut.)

These two were the first tries, but they didn't satisfy me completely, so I started messing around with abstract shapes and these came out:

Then the ingenious @midnightectosnack told me that it reminded them of an arcade carpet design and so my mind went feral with that idea and made an Everlasting-Trio-themed carpet!

At first I decide to assign a shape and color to each of them, then I realized: circles -> blob ghosts!

Thus I also added an additional design/concept for every shape (I also kept the leitmotif of the matching gadget's colors):

Circles = Blobs = Danny

Mixed triangles = David's star = Sam

Quadrilaterals = Horus' eye/Hourglass = Tucker

And then boom, here it is @green-with-envy-phandom-event !

(Sorry, Tumblr hates me, I didn't finish writing all the tags and published it anyway! (⁠ ⁠≧⁠Д⁠≦⁠) )

[evie-carnahan]

#lokius leitmotif, my beloved

[therealvinelle]

You mentioned Love never dies in one of your recent podcast episodes. I would love to hear if you have any more thoughts about that you would like to share here?

Oh little do you know.

@theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin and I first watched Love Never Dies when Andrew Lloyd Webber released musicals for COVID, it was instantly the most incredible thing either of us had ever seen and we watched it again as soon as Muffin came online the next day.

We have since rented it, rewatched it before the 48 hour rent period expired, and I think watched it a fifth time somehow though I don't recall the details for it. It's... very possible we watched it thrice that rent period. One of them was broadcast to the Rank Heresy discord server, so it did have a purpose, we just... also rewatched it...

Love Never Dies is the single funniest, most delightful, most entertaining and glorious musical we have ever seen. Everything about it, from the uncomfortable incest anthem, to TEN YEARS OOOOOOOOLD, to the nonsensical "Devil takes the hindmost!" leitmotif (thought I was having an English fail, but no, Muffin had no idea what that meant either), to the Phantom's great artistic vision being a Coney Island circus extravaganza where girls sing about swimsuits, to said extravaganza hemorrhaging money so Meg has to prostitute herself to keep the lights on, to Christine dying at the end and Ralph says to the child he raised, "Aight son, hope you like phantoms because you'll be living with one from now on. Kk bye", to ALW being so mad the ugly guy he projected on lost the girl that he wrote the whole thing in the first place (um actually Christine loved the Phantom so after the ending scene where she chose Raoul she actually ran back into the opera basement, made love to the Phantom, then ran back again to Ralph. It was a night of passion and the song about it will take ten minutes. Beneath a Moonless Sky, my beloved. Also Raoul is a stupid idiot who spent all his money and Christine regrets everything).

And yes, the above list was only going to be a few lines long but I couln't stop naming beautiful things I loved.

Oh my goodness, another thing I almost forgot (which is sayign something!): the Phantom finds out Christine and Raoul have a child, his immediate response is "Ah, yes, it would be a shame if something... happened... to that child..."

Proceeds to get the child on his own while his parents are distracted, only the child starts playing the piano... my god... the child is ten years old... MY GOD...

This is where we get the incest anthem, the Phantom drops the infanticide plans and starts serenading his son about the beauty underneath, a terrible intense impulse you must follow, and desires we deny ourselves, how his son will accept and embrace it, and... the lyrics are just so bad, alright, and the acting somehow made it worse. Watch at your own peril.

Wild fucking ride.