#like this is in no way a diss to 'the big popular artist'

[a-d-nox]

web of wyrd: how to identify fame/popularity

the top left corner of the wyrd web can tell you about some of your talents/interests, the core tells you who you truly are, and the flow/career is like the midheaven of the wyrd web realm. that being said, these are basic premises; in no way does one number mean a single thing. each number can mean different and multiple things. these are simply my observations (also observations are not destined to be true; they are simply possibilities / increased odds). if you want to learn more about the major arcana, which is the basis for the web's numbers, click here!

acting

3 (the empress): they are the real star of the show - the camera loves them

11 (justice): they can really step into a persona and become a character

artist

3 (the empress): they have an eye for detail; they are used to sitting still and observing the world. they have a creative instinct to creative because they are venus ruled

18 (the moon): they are very abstract visionaries and creators

breakdown / postmortem

13 (death): this is typically an unexpected occurrence that captures the attention of the masses

16 (the tower): famous breakdowns and even more sudden deaths

20 (judgment): they have a reawaken as to who they are that capture the world's attention

director

12 (the hanged man): the artistic eye for sure; it's because they are a neptunian that they can make their vision into a reality

fashion

11 (justice): i don't how often i can repeat this before everyone gets annoyed, but the fashion of 11 people is just iconic - they are trendsetters

infamous

16 (the tower): these people tend to be popular/famous for something morally unsavory

influencer

8 (strength): the giantess is the guiding hand that in encourages others

literally anything

10 (the wheel of fortune): these people are the type to blow up overnight and get "lucky" by becoming famous

17 (the star): they tend to have ups and downs in their time for popularity/fame but in the end they remain memorable in a lot of people's minds

21 (the world): tends to represent someone with a lot of rewards and fame after a long period of time

nepotistic

14 (temperance): the angel pours one cup into another - like a parent's talent into their child

one hit wonder

22 (the fool): these people tend to fall as soon as rise (due to being uranus ruled) - they take a single big leap then they are good

politics/legals

4 (the emperor): they can be great leaders - they use their powers for the greater good and to better the world around them

7 (the chariot): they tend to make great speeches that inspire the masses

11 (justice): they tend to be more wrapped up in the legal end of things or they are moderates in the political realm

religious leader

5 (the hierophant): they are often seen as wise and can gain a lot of worshipers/followers

research/educational

5 (the hierophant): they tend to make incredible discoveries that further the world around them

19 (the sun): they tend to make a discovery that changes the world around them

singer

3 (the empress): they have a magnetic energy that makes others want to listen to them and watch them preform their creativity

4 (the emperor): they tend to be great rappers and tend to make great diss tracks haha

6 (the lovers): these people are known for their sound and their appearance (they are considered gorgeous)

writer

6 (the lovers): this card is gemini ruled so writing is definitely their thing

9 (the hermit): these people can make their own world - they are good at illustrating their thoughts

12 (the hanged man): they are very good at multi-POV writing and making an idea very realistic

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[awildeternity]

Kendrick Lamar vs Drake, my own little rant

FIRST OFF, THIS HAS CREATED SOME OF THE MOST IMMACULATE MUSIC I'VE EVER LISTENED TO. I AM VIBRATING AND NOT MANAGING TO CALM DOWN, SO I'M GOING TO RANT ABOUT IT. There's so much background to this. Drake was the one to originally put Kendrick on the world stage. Kendrick was literally an opener for one of Drake's tours back in 2012. That was before Section.80, which was Kendrick's first real studio album, and even then it was more of a mixtape at the time. So, Drake and K-dot were always basically involved with one another. However, while I don't know all of the background to it, I'm pretty sure Drake has been taking shots at literally like half of the rap game for the past few years. Future, A$AP Rocky, Kanye, and obviously Kendrick a couple of times. Saying that his first big hit was basically because of Drake, and that he kept doing features with big artists like Rihanna (LOYALTY.) and SZA (All the Stars). This all leads to a lot of bullshit recently. I'm not EXACTLY sure on the timeline (Feel free to correct me if there is anything wrong), but there are a couple of notable events, notably Drake using a *AI VOICE OF TUPAC* in a song (which led to him getting a cease and desist and a LOT of heat because, well, obviously.) Kendrick accuses him of being a culture vulture, basically trying to appropriate the Black US culture that he did not grow up with. LET'S REMEMBER DRAKE WAS ORIGINALLY BORN IN A GATED COMMUNITY FOR WHITE PEOPLE IN TORONTO. HE HAS NEVER BEEN "HOOD", NEVER LIVED THROUGH GANG VIOLENCE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. HE STEALS ACCENTS TO SEEM LIKE HE BELONGS AND BASICALLY APPROPRIATES THE CULTURE LIKE A BITCH. I'm pretty sure J.Cole also dropped a song that called himself, Drake and Kendrick the "Big 3" of the Rap Game, to which Kendrick responded in Like That by saying "Fuck the Big 3, [] it's just big me." which obviously means that he considers himself a step above both of them. That's basically when we get to the most recent stuff, and the MEAT of the topic. Drake drops Push Ups. It is some tame shit, let's be honest with ourselves. That song calls out the fact that Drake "handed" Kendrick his first number one hit, which, yeah, he kind of did, but whatever. There's picks at Kendrick's height, his foot size, the fact that his label TOP DOG takes 50% (Hence the lyrics "drop and give me 50" and the push ups title, dropping a song and giving TPE 50% of the profits) Also calling K-dot "wiped down" by more popular artists like SZA, Travis Scott and 21 Savage. Also weirdly enough taking a shot at Metro, a producer that had worked with Kendrick on Like That, but like, why??? AND THEN. FOR A FEW WEEKS, KENDRICK SAYS NOTHING. ON TUESDAY OF THIS WEEK, THOUGH, HE DROPS THE ABSOLUTE BOMB THAT IS EUPHORIA. Euphoria is the title of Drake's show he co-produced that got a bunch of heat for having some weird sexualisation of teenage girls, which is already a pretty good hit, but the LYRICS THEMSELVES. KENDRICK LITERALLY CALLS OUT DRAKE ON SO MANY THINGS. Talking about how he's not a rap artist but a scam artist that wants to be accepted (culture vulture, again), talking about the Tupac shit with "I'd rather do that than let a Canadian [] make Pac turn in his grave", once again calling out Drake being fucking CANADIAN and trying to appropriate the culture. Also making a reference to YMW Kelly and calling Drake and J.Cole his "friends" (YMW Kelly murdered two of his friends, hence why that is a diss and not a compliment.) I have to comment on the absolute HATE FEST too. "I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress I hate the way that you sneak diss, if I catch flight, it's gon' be direct We hate the bitches you fuck 'cause they confuse themself with real women And notice, I said "we," it's not just me, I'm what the culture feelin'"

[thisselflovecamebacktome]

Thank you for being realistic abt guts!! It's like people are looking for reason to dislike Olivia i dont get it

To be honest, I kinda feel like especially within the Swift fandom fandom, people truly do want to hate Olivia. Like the way that people have gone on about a supposed feud just because Olivia (and Conan) wants to forge her own path and isn't just going to be/use the Taylor Swift fangirl for promotion for the rest of her career or because Taylor has Sabrina, someone Olivia has never said a bad word about to my knowledge (no "that blonde girl" is not an insult in context) opening for her, is so fucking weird to me lmao. Like it's once again one of those things that make me glad I'm not famous because I would have done the same and been annoyed at the rumours lmao. Like idk, it goes back to that popular post that states that a lot of the time, fans are a big reason why the people in the industry who don't like Taylor don't for as long as they do because the fans hold onto the weirdest grudges and assume that anyone who's not kissing Taylor's feet 24/7 hates her and, if they're an artist, is about to drop a diss track about her. Like that's not to say Olivia still is a fan, maybe she did grow out of Taylor's music. But like creating feud rumours which ultimately come out of circumstantial evidence and assumptions is just weird to me.

But yeah as I said, the whole Guts not being different enough aesthetically argument just feels very "I only listen to Taylor" to me because most artists, even big ones like Ed and Adele, do the same. And like it's fine if people only do listen to Taylor, that's their choice, but acting like Olivia is somehow fumbling the bag by not doing that, especially after Taylor and other singers have spoken about how exhausting having to have distinct "eras" has been on them, is again just weird to me.

[erigold13261]

📢Psychonauts NSR AU, Chapter 8: LARS Rap 2📢

After the concert. Milla and Sasha decided to get something to eat. They got their burgers. And decided to have a chat about the concert they just hijacked.

“Camilla?” Sasha asked.

“Yeah? Is everything alright?” She asked.

“I was wondering… are we taking this Revolution too far?” Sasha asked.

“I… I don’t know.” Milla responded. “But we had to do what was right, we had to take down the NSR artists. And there are still more to go.” Milla replied.

“I know, I’ve been thinking about what we did to Lili.” Sasha responded. “We broke an instrument. We broke what made her popular. Don’t you think that it’s incredibly wrong of us to do this?” Sasha explained.

“That might be. But what we’re doing is right. We want to bring back rock. And that’s that.” Milla explained. Sasha couldn’t help just rub his temple, then he heard a noise. A noise that was very familiar, a noise that made him very angry.

“Oh hell no.” Sasha spoke. He then immediately left, with Milla following behind him.

~

They arrived at the alley way and saw LARS. Sasha was incredibly annoyed to see his father.

“Ah, Sasha! Wo bist du gewesen? Gerade auf der Toilette geweint? Wie das letzte Mal, als ich versehentlich eine abgelaufene Zutat verwendet habe? Du weißt, dass ich es manchmal vergesse, richtig?” LARS asked.

“Dad, look, we must stop this.” Sasha replied. “There are bigger things we need to deal with here.” He explained.

“Like what? Versuchst du, ein anderes Mädchen zu fischen?” LARS asked. “Sind Hollis und Milla nicht genug? Sascha, so frech.” Lars asked again.

“UGH! Das ist es! I’m here trying to be civil about this and you. Your mouth keeps spewing all of kinds of garbage!” Sasha yelled.

“Sasha, calm down.” Milla replied to Sasha.

“No, Milla! This guy needs to know that it’s not my fault he became a deadbeat!” Sasha snapped back.

“Autsch, das tat ziemlich weh. Warum nimmst du nicht diese Wut und stellst dich mir in… einem Rap-Battle!” LARS explained.

“Stop it! You’re not gonna pull that stunt on me again—”

“I’ll go first!” LARS interrupted.

“God fucking dammit!” Sasha cussed, the rap battle was on.

~

LARS:

Even when you messed me up in life

 It never killed me, it gave me strife

 I stood strong and grew larger

 My vocabulary, it was extraordinary

 My roots were sewn deep from the underground

 I was centered on ground zero

 No cash, no money all around me

 Though it ruled the world all around me

 I grew big, I grew strong, my rap game was so on

 From the seed, grew an empire, my words spit fire

 Through the city, I made sure everyone knew who LARS was

 Aha aha!

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

Sasha:

Hey Lars, my father, I meant no disorder

 We got bigger issues to deal

 Than past life ordeals

 NSR the evil empire

 We gotta bring them down

 Kill ‘em with fire

 Seal them with music

 Put our differences aside

 And bring our powers together

 For a ride

 For a ride

 For a ride

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

LARS:

Easy for you to say Sasha

 You make me want to look aha

 Forget all our past

 But it has not passed / yet

 In college, you wanted to be president

 Rule all the residents

 But your heart was never noble

 You just did it to get back at me

 It stemmed from your jealousy

 Your never ending rivalry

 Well, Imma bring my cavalry

 My rhymes loaded with poetry

 My words laced with symmetry

 My rhythms pure artistry

 What you got besides

 Oh yeah, nothingry aha!

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

Sasha:

Ah Dad you only know anger and violence

 Remember when those NSR fans burned down your car

 You dissed them and hissed them

 Till they missed their own sanity

 And acted out with profanity

 To light up your car

 And see it burn

 And see it burn

 Coz you lit their desire

 Of hate towards yourself

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

LARS:

My rivalry with NSR was the tipping point

 I left Vinyl City, no one had to force me

 I gave Ford the Horn of Mending

 For if he ever wanted to reconcile

 He could blow the horn

 And I would accept his apology

 No worries, no problem, and that ain’t an analogy

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

Sasha:

Your solution to everything is just run run run

 You ran away from NSR

 You ran away from Vinyl City

 You ran away from home

 You ran away from me

 When I was more popular than you

 You couldn’t stand it through and through

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

Lars:

Hey Sasha stop blaming me all the time

 If you weren’t so jealous

 We wouldn’t be so messed up

 It’s your fault our relationship was ruined

 SASHA’S Fault

 Take responsibility for your irresponsibility

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

Sasha:

I tried my best to keep in touch with you

 But you never replied, radio silence zero decibels

 So when you say it’s my fault

 The heck I am pissed for your blame

 I ain’t taking the blame for your own thing

 In fact forget this, forget you

 You’re no father of mine

 I disown you, we ain’t related

 You’re no father

 You’re no father

 You ain’t no father of mine!

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

~

After the rap battle, LARS was shaking. Shaking by what Sasha, his own son had said.

“Sasha. I’m no father huh?” LARS chuckled. “Yeah weißt du… ich geh einfach zurück… zu mir nach Hause.” he said. “LARS out!” he cried.

“Good! You better leave!” Sasha responded. This caused Milla to look very worried.

“Sasha…” Milla responded.

“What?” Sasha asked.

“You’re no father? How can you say something like that?” Milla asked.

“I tried to be nice Milla. I’ve looked up to him all mu life and for no reason he reats me like garbage! Who do you think has been trying to reach out to him all year. ALL YEAR LONG! And now he just pops up from GOD KNOWS WHERE. And he still has the gall to say that all his is my fault?! ARGH!” Sasha explained.

“Well… he does. And if you keep this up. It will be your fault Sasha.” Milla scolded. “Now we need to go. Let’s talk to Gristol on who’ll we meet next.” She explained.

“About time.” Sasha responded as he left. Milla looked behind him and saw the tracks left by his father. And saw where LARS was. In his trailer, softly sobbing in it.

“Milla? Are we going?” Sasha called to her.

“Coming!” Milla responded as she left, if there was another rap battle between the two. She’d better get involved.

[bomnun]

(more annoying thoughts. skip this post if you don’t want to read about album sales and other statistics, which i know many of you people, who are much smarter and have much more self preservation than me, don’t)

for some reason i can’t make it unrebloggable, but please don’t reblog this nor interpret it as “hate” towards any of the other artists i mention here. success or lack thereof is never a reason i’d hate or try to diss anyone. i’m just comparing numbers.

not paying attention to numbers within kpop at all is good and healthy, and i wish i were more like that too, but i feel like when you’re going to make assumptions about groups’ success, future and levels of popularity you should at least go to wikipedia first. sorry for being like this, but i do get really annoyed when fans assume pentagon desperately need this goddamn survival show and go on about how much it helped victön and nü’est. 2022 ptg sells more albums and charts better than 2022 vïcton. nüest’s first week sales pre produce were 600 (obviously they exploded in popularity after the show, but the novelty of it and people’s trust and interest in survival shows has died off since completely; on that note ptg chart better than the previous mnet planet survival show group in korea). invite u’s first week sales were 76 996. the album sales market has changed drastically in that time, but, still, for comparison ptg’s debut album sold 3 636 in its first week, which wasn’t good then either i think???. i’m not pretending they’re mega famous or anything, and cube clearly wants an explosion in album sales from their artists, so 110k-ish, is clearly not enough to them.

the situation isn’t equivalent to clc either (helicopter 18k sales vs invite u 102k sales and a music bank win), because, elkie had already terminated her contract before gp999, they hadn’t had group activities in months, while ptg had aaa and kbs gayo daechukje during the training camp week still one of the main reasons i couldn’t believe it and are going to france performing as a group in february. if cube’s going to try to pull the plug on them it still hasn’t officially happened. based on their recent vlives kino’s trying hard to manifest a positive future (and i support him!! i’m with you) but shinwon’s trying to be as realistic as possible, and they both said they’re going to come back in 2023, even when things ar e....looking the way they are.

if people are going to make such big statements about doom or how one group’s situation is exactly like anothers without knowing...anything... please… look up basic facts first. i know everyone thinks they know pentagon because they know shine and the fact that they haven’t had a mega viral hit song Everyone knows since, but we really aren’t in 2018 anymore  the fandom has more than doubled since, and, yeah, a few left after the survival show participation announcement but it’s still much bigger than it was pre-2020.

i still think there’s no similar situation to such a publicly recognized (in korea and overseas; some japanese 48 girls are more popular, but...not already in kpop grouos nor have they made multiple hits for mnet before) person who still has an active group, a legit fanbase, and success of that scale not even in a distant past putting himself in a situation like this. i doubt we’ll be able to fullly hear his reasoning for another couple of months, but i still seriously wonder what the conditions were for him to unplannedly join within days after his military discharge, when he’d gone for two years spending as much time as possible with pentagon and only talking about the future pentagon comebacks he wanted to participate in.

[popmusicu]

The “diss track”: A short history

Music, as a form of artistic and emotional expression, has always considered the expression of both positive and negative emotions and topics. Regarding the topics it explores, music is usually associated with the exploration of both introspective thoughts from the artist and external situations, with the use of several lyrical and instrumental resources (e.g poetic resources, narration, etc.). But as the art form it is, music doesn’t shy away from being used as a blank canva for the adressment of personal conflicts between people and collectives. This is essential for understanding the logic behind a “diss” or a “diss track” in music. A diss track is a song that is primarily intended to insult or criticize someone, typically another artist or public figure, and they were popularized by hip-hop music in the 1990’s, given the open mic and freestyle culture of the genre. The conflict between the belligerent parties itself is known as “beef” or “having beef”. The last beef that shook the music world was the beef between rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake. In a feature on the song “Like That”, released on Future and Metro Boomin’s álbum “We Don´t Trust You” march 22nd, Kendrick Lamar openly criticized and insulted (from here and on “dissed”) fellow rappers Drake and J Cole, who had previously praised him as part of the “big 3” of the 2010’s rap scene on the song “First Person Shooter” off of Drake’s latest álbum, “For All The Dogs”. This resulted as the product of 10 years of sneak disses between Drake and Kendrick. This situation quickly escalated, causing the rappers to involve themselves in hugely public beef, with J Cole getting out just after responding to Kendrick, leaving him and Drake as the only ones involved. After this, several diss tracks from both rappers were released, severely accusing each other of things like pedophilia, grooming, child negligence, sex traffic, cultural appropiation, substance, gambling and physical abuse, among others. These attacks between both rappers summarize the essential dynamics of diss tracks, which is to destroy or damage as much as possible the opponent’s credibility, image and reputation. As a media-covered beef between two of hip-hop´s most succesful musicians, this beef represents the latest entry to a long list of beefs and disses throughout music history, dating before hip-hop made them popular.

The earliest known examples regard reggae legend Lee "Scratch" Perry. Two examples of this are the songs "Run for Cover" (1967), "People Funny Boy" (1968) and "Cow Thief Skank" (1973), respectively directed towards three producers he worked with, Coxsone Dodd, Joe Gibbs and Niney the Observer.

A few years later, following The Beatles´s harsh breakup, an interchange of disses between John Lennon and Paul McCartney took place in 1971, following the release of McCartney’s 1971 album “RAM”, that opened up with the song “Too Many People”, which he later admitted was about Lennon. Lennon responded with a more direct and and aggresive diss on his 1971 album “Imagine”, with the song “How Do You Sleep?”. For this song, he also recruited George Harrison to play slide guitar, who also had several problems with McCartney.

Other notable example a few years later regards Fleetwood Mac. Their 1977 record “Rumours” was composed in a turbulent time for the band, in which romances and affairs involving band members had started to cause tension between the band. This resulted in the composition of several songs for the album directed towards each other, like “Second Hand News”, “Go Your Own Way” and “You Make Loving Fun”. In an ironic twist, despite all of this, “Rumours” remains their most critically and commercially succesful album to date.

In the 80’s, hip-hop embraced disses and beefs as part its culture. The earliest known example of disses in hip-hop are the “Roxanne Wars”. The Roxanne Wars were a series of musical battles that took place in the mid-1980s, starting with the release of the song "Roxanne, Roxanne" by the group UTFO in 1984. The song tells the story of a girl named Roxanne who rejects the romantic advances of the group's members. The catalyst for the Roxanne Wars was the response track "Roxanne's Revenge," recorded by 14-year-old rapper Roxanne Shanté. Her track was a direct rebuttal to UTFO's song, and it quickly gained popularity. This sparked a wave of response tracks from various artists, each claiming to represent different perspectives of the fictional character Roxanne or offering their take on the situation.

By the end of the decade, one of the most culturally significant beefs for hip-hop took place after Ice Cube’s departure from NWA in 1989. The group´s 1990 EP “100 Miles and Runnin’” included a diss towards Cube for leaving the group. A year later, Cube responded with the track “No Vaseline” included in his 1991 album “Death Certificate”, where he dissed the entirety of NWA and their manager Jerry Heller, exposing the creative and monetary issues that lead to his departure. A few months after this, NWA officially disbanded. Beefs between individual group members followed, like the Dr. Dre – Eazy E beef.

In the mid 90’s, the most well known and influential beef of all time took place, involving rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Smalls). Being well known friends before the start of the dispute, the beef started when 2pac was shot in 1994 after leaving a studio in Manhattan. Although he survived, he accused Biggie and Bad Boy Records founder and producer P. Diddy because of their status as prominent figures in east coast hip-hop scene, of possibly knowing about he plans for his shooting and not telling him about it. 2pac dissed Biggie and Bad Boy Records several times, being the most notable the 1995 legendary diss track “Hit ‘Em Up”, which acquired this status thanks to the highly agressive and ruthless shots 2pac took against Biggie. Presumably fearing the start of a full blown east and west coast war and expecting of being eventually able to repair their broken friendship, Biggie never responded to 2pac directly, only sneak dissing him in a few songs, like “Long Kiss Goodnight” or “Brooklyn’s Finest”. The eventual murders of both rappers cemented this as the biggest, most famous and most important rivalry in hip-hop, and one of the biggest in music overall.

Some other notable beefs that came later are Jay-Z vs. Nas, LL Cool J vs Canibus, Eminem & 50 Cent vs. Ja Rule, 50 Cent vs Jadakiss, Pusha T vs. Drake and finally Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake.

- Ignacio Haro

[jackalsinthekitchen]

pop report #7

america is not bored (for a minute, anyway)

Sometimes America gets bored, and dilutes its own hit parade. Only mass disengagement – ideal in an election year – could let that sacred democratic space become occupied, sorry preoccupied, with ranking thirty-one new Taylor songs from least to most enervated. But last week’s chart reflected a striking exception, a national rubberneck. For Drake and Kendrick Lamar are, yes, quite conceivably the Mike Jack and Prince of their genre (a proposed big third has been reviewed and rejected), and no serious, high-profile hip-hop feud has yet graced the streaming era. The 5/18 Hot 100 reflects a sudden, vicious bloom of disses, each star ultimately having accused the other – with apparent sincerity – of something unforgivable. It was savage, yet it perversely brought out the best in both artists, and showed up the old-headline hits as trivialities.

Drake has no status as an innovator, though his preference for doleful singing over speaking has proven influential, helping blur the lines between popular genres. Moreover, he can but must not dance – ergo, not much of a Mike Jack. Yet his place is secure atop the album charts, no matter what he’s on about this time around, and he rivals fellow maybe-mercenary Swift for consolidating power over time. Kendrick’s prolificacy would earned him a verbal dressing-down from the spirit at Paisley Park, and his joie de vivre dwells at an opposite pole. But unlike the Dylan Nobel, that K-dot deserved his Pulitzer felt self-evident. As with Jackson and Nelson, the division of clout and cred feels clean until you stare longer – and also, the artsier one is much pricklier about being associated with the less artsy one closer to world domination.

Amid innumerable chronicles of the fracas are good articles; the beef isn't mine to condense. But the records remain the record. In a field of cherry-bomb epics, Lamar’s “Not Like Us” scorched the widest radius, and now it’s a #1 forever, just like “First Person Shooter”. After a breath of sweet soul comes that graveyard stab of strings, pilfered from a Monk Higgins cover of Ray Charles’ ominous lament “I Believe to My Soul” and sped the hell up. Lamar is hopped up on his own venom, every accusation a gouge; he means fucking business, and it’s the coldest of kills (“stab this way, stab that way”). It’s ruthless, but the smooth dexterity of his performance is riveting – whatever’s on the tip of his rapier, the music is still the point, which helps the unease go down easier.

After all, imagine what a dark landmark this would be if hip-hop’s most handsomely paid icon is, y’know, guilty of all that. “I think that Oakland show gon’ be your last stop,” Lamar spits, after raising (as opposed to prefabricating) the specter of Tupac, half of the most famous such feud – a bicoastal tempest that left two all-time luminaries dead. Without comparing each hypothetical loss to art, the threat of either principal failing to survive this spat has been too terrible to touch, the way the horrific inconvenience of a civil war maybe keeps it from manifesting in our violently polarized era. The level of discomfort this event has and could attain was built to compel morbid fascination. As Americans, we’re awfully accustomed to unimaginable outcomes – and what we move on from says strange things about our ways of processing.

But even when we can't, we often insist on stepping into a sweet denial chamber for a second. Sandwiched between two million-selling musical murders is “Million Dollar Baby”, the club-ready runaway smash from one of those sleepy-eyed white guys with a certain kind of facial hair. The now-aptly named Tommy Richman is from TikTok, and his robotic funk savvy reminds me of Peter Brown’s “Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me”, a one-man simulation of something Black that feels bloodless, but more than functional. The summer and its songs are now upon us, and one of them is that other musical murder: “Euphoria”, Kendrick’s first full-length shot across the bow. “You’re not a rap artist, you’re a scam artist” has waited behind a lot of lips since Drake’s ascendency, but nothing could sound as juicy as Kendrick just letting it slip over a dreamy Teddy Pendergrass sample. Then he erupts with molten contempt, trenchantly transforming a human mess into something profound.

“This conflict did not begin with an act of violence,” Michael Harriot reminds. “In a sense, [this] is really about Black excellence.” And although Lamar’s bars being brilliant is as foregone a conclusion as Drake’s next album going #1 – though any fallout remains to be seen – it remains the apparent responsibility of the Black musical icon to vault over established standards, to pull out every stop. No album has masterpieced harder than Cowboy Carter in a hot minute, and had it lassoed the entire top 10 like Swift’s album did, it would’ve resulted from a livelier, more rewarding mass listening project. Yet stats suggest Taylor’s unwieldy latest affair is winning the attention war – though it rarely gets more exciting than the dirgey “Fortnight”, a flagship single featuring Post Malone, the original sleepy-eyed white guy with a certain kind of facial hair.

Though the album gives up slow rewards (like “I wanna kill him”, it’s in stray lines that hit you sideways, as opposed to the inescapable hooks we rely on her for), I’m on Team Disappointed – and yeah, tTPD’s concurrence with Beyoncé’s ambitious and open-armed coup amplifies my chagrin. The theory that unprecedented validation has eroded TS’s humility and editorial sense is confused by how casual and canny Midnights was at once. Maybe after a tumultuous personal spell and a generous spectacle of a victory-lap tour, this functioning workaholic has earned a This One’s for Her. Yet the album’s overall efficacy as a sedative or a diary feels limited, especially comparing it to the sumptuous acoustic textures and painstaking craft of folklore. She’s not banal yet, but the watered-down EDM “Fortnight” revisits is beginning to wear thin.

Three places down from the archetypal club hit by the white kid is a folky country banger by Shaboozey, a Black performer, rather closer to Zach Bryan’s misty reveries than Morgan Wallen’s rap-smitten flexes. “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” stands as strong a chance of uniting and lighting up a crowded room as “Million Dollar Baby”, though the vibes are otherwise irreconcilable. Our country’s ever-unresolved racial dialogue can feel most productive, or at least most interesting, in the pop-musical realm, though it isn’t always easy to know what questions and answers the constant cross-pollinations are raising. Disheartening recent influx of male artists notwithstanding, the way the Blackest and whitest pop genres are talking to each other right now is politically exciting. It goes beyond softened borders, with Bey’s panoramic expansion of an old Ray Charles concept merely the most pointed, adventurous example. But masc vs. femme, Black vs. white, queer-coded vs. painfully straight, in the box vs. new under the sun, Champagne Papi vs. Kung Fu Kenny – our musical landscape is an ever-restless one, the central conundrums rarely under threat of resolution.

My point, such as I have one, is that if you slice off the top of the charts you always end up with an interesting double record, with even the most recent Swift swallow a more interesting double record. Cue up side 2 of whatever variant you chose of this round, and you get the casually buzzing hornet’s nest “Like That”, with Kendrick already sounding brutally peeved on his verse. The needle then hustles you into the petulant intro to Drake’s “Family Matters”, for which “Euphoria” already provided some context if you’ve been off the grid. Drake's track lands no point harder than how long this month has lasted.

Compare the normally sedate, reflective Kendrick’s palpable anger – you feel the threatening brush of the quills of his mind – to the normally sedate, unreflective Drake’s manufactured-sounding intensity. His sense of affront sounds weakened by his well-funded complacency – easy to project, like the idea that he farms out his verses. But rap is like jazz; the central instrument is too communicative to conceal much. For the former Degrassi MVP, anything like sharpness feels like an imitation. He sounds inconvenienced where his rival sounds murderous, a comprehensible tactic that as fits go earned worst-dressed on the skirmish’s fizzled-out conclusion(?), “The Heart Part 6”. “Matters” is a deft cut which admirably matches the mood-shifting “epic” vibe of “Euphoria” et al. But even with Drizzy stepping up, the contest was never exactly a close one.

The temptation down the rabbit-hole of whether Kendrick is a spousal abuser – a charge so hyped up in the drop, it has the feel of a secret a kid can’t keep in, rather than, like, a lie – isn't much match for the distracting allure of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso”, the latest surefire trifle in a neo-neo-disco wave. Dance music hasn't sounded so percolation-for-percolation sumptuous as it does on this (or, say, the casually flawless “Dance the Night”) since Nile Rodgers was still [c]hic. The song’s unhesitant strut is the kind of thing you just bow down to, pure feelin-yourself momentum from a versatile new star whose identity appears as malleable as Chappell Roan’s is uncompromising. Its phrasemaking, its effervescence, its on-vacation give a fucks – the song is like “Flowers” in full flower, being single as a garden of delights earthly and otherwise.

This top ten is rounded out by a far more gentlemanly duel, for it’s the season of not just the sticks but the Growly Boys. The unabashedly dramatic “Beautiful Things” and “Lose Control” are how-tos for those interested in self-immolation, over a cause Macklemore will swiftly remind you isn’t the end of the world (love, or pussy I suppose. or both). Benson Boone and Teddy Swims sure do have diaphragms; not a dandruff-grain of irony sullies either’s heaving shoulders. Each song has a guaranteed valentine future: karaoke challenge, front-lawn boom box staple, so forth. And both, if you listen over and over (which, why), largely validate their own abundant sincerity. Both also serve to make the “take me to church” guy sound like a paragon of smoothness and restraint, on his new one, which lands like a less self-satisfied, slightly doomier Maroon 5 hit.

Other chapters in America’s bestselling beef (“meet the grahams”, “Push Ups”) fill out the top twenty – the album this feud forms is a great, if bitter and bewildering, one – dispelling a slow-moving cloud of flukes and superstars. SZA, always a lot more subtly exhilarating than people seem willing to concede, continues to gaze out over the waves she rode last year. Ariana finds her place in the moment by encouraging single-soul vulnerability, rather than trying to lead an army of discontents to liberation. Taylor simulates the instant standards she didn’t hold herself to writing this time, dragging herself to the gym and onstage, feeble but serviceable revisitations of “Anti-Hero” self-loathing and “Bejeweled” self-puffing. Jack is still in a post-nut haze, Noah is still wistfully welling up, and Zach and Kacey are still stuck somewhere between the present and past – reminding us just how hard this moment will hang on as it fades into whatever’s next, as moments do. Whatever we don't remember, someone will.

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The thing that probably pisses me off the most when it comes to being an artist online is how "finding your art style" has become this big thing that you have to achieve in order to be "a good artist". Because that's what the big popular artist do, they have a perfectly consistent theme and you could point out their stuff from a mile away. But idk call me foolish but maybe we shouldn't let algorithms that actively hinder the vast majority of us decide what makes a good or bad artist.

[call-me-aesthetic]

If Twisted Wonderland was an American Public School

WARNING: There are some slight sensitive topics that are featured in here! Reader discretion is advised!

Part 2 can be found here

Heartslabyul

Riddle Rosehearts:

- That one preppy girl who takes all honors and AP classes 😑

- Wants everyone to know that he’s becoming a doctor one day for his strict parents or he’ll dishonor the family

- Reminds the teacher about homework, knowing well that he’ll get slander for it

- Complains about how he got a 90 on his test or a B on his report card, a try hard much?

- Wears a cardigan with thicc but cute glasses since he’s one of those people with can’t see shit on the board so he has to move to the front of the class

Ace Trappola:

- The SoundCloud rapper, that’s it

- “Wanna listen to my mixtape? It’s pretty fire, my guy.” 😩🔥

- You will not miss him BLASTING out some song on his Bluetooth speaker, that shit be echoing through the hallways

- Tells you to stop what you’re doing only for him to either sing horribly or do a backflip, thinking that he’s so cool

- Wears a Supreme jacket with AirPods and waves on his head

Deuce Spade:

- Assuming that he’s still a delinquent, he’s that kid with the most fucked up school record

- Not much of a bully but will still talk shit to your face without caring, might even throw stuff at you during a lesson and you would be the one getting in trouble instead of him 🗿

- If he ever gets mad, it would be overdramatic like kicking the desks, punching the lockers, or walking out of the classroom unannounced and everyone would look at each other wondering wtf happened

- Covers the entire desks with drawings of skulls and those “s” if you know what I mean

- Wears Champion hoodies, wants you to know that he’s broke and rich at the same time

Trey Clover:

- The guy that’s not really popular but everyone knows him since he’s in all their classes

- Most people might have a crush on him because he’s REALLY nice 😳👉👈

- Gives off “older brother” vibes based on the way he looks and acts, like offering you a ride home if you beg ask nicely

- Secretly bakes creme brulee but doesn’t want to mess with the flow so he sticks to the status quo

- Wears the school’s hoodie just because he thinks it looks good on him, and the fact that he doesn’t know what else to wear

Cater Diamond:

- Hot Cheetos girl 🥵

- Has a whole buffet of food in his backpack and will not hesitate to eat them during a lesson, no sharing either sorry

- Excuses himself to the bathroom or full on skips class just to film a Tiktok

- Has about 100 followers on Instagram Magicam and brags about how he’s famous

- Wears a Thrasher hoodie with large hoop earrings and his hair in a bun

Savanaclaw

Leona Kingscholar:

- The kid who flunked their freshman year that also sort of vibes with new classmates

- Always gets mistaken as a teacher by people since he looks and sounds old

- Knows the lessons but still fails them anyways, didn’t really give a damn either 🙄

- Captain of every sports club you can think of, never actually plays but has a lot of knowledge on them

- Wears the school’s letterman from years ago since it used to be his brother’s and that he’s too lazy to buy a new one

Ruggie Bucchi:

- That one kid who NEVER has money for the book fair or any other school event

- Always has to ask his classmates for some cash

- If he somehow does, then he’s one of those kids who buys Diary of the Wimpy Kid or the World Record books

- If he’s feeling cheap, he’ll buy the “cool stuff” like the chocolate scented calculator or fruit snacks 😭

- Wears oversized hoodies and basketball shorts that are clearly hand-me-downs

Jack Howl:

- That one athletic kid who’s both scary good and competitive when it comes to school games like football or soccer

- Literally the best player on his team and without him, they’re trash as hell 💀

- Tries his absolute best to support his teammates without yelling at them for how dumb they are

- “KICK THE FUCKING BALL! DO YOUR LEGS EVEN WORK?!”

- Wears the school’s jersey just to show off his “school spirit”

Octavinelle

Azul Ashengrotto:

- The kid who sell snacks for “charity” but everyone knows he’s keeping the money to himself

- If you don’t have cash or try to negotiate with him, the only thing he’ll do is raise the price up

- “What do you mean you don’t have ten bucks? I can see it in your pocket.”

- Just bring nothing with you, he’ll doing anything to steal your stuff 🤭

- Wears a collar shirt with a tie and khakis that have pockets to keep his glasses and money in

Jade Leech:

- The kid who puts on a goody two shoes facade but is actually a stoner

- Only does “safe” drugs like vape but occasionally smokes weed, mostly in the bathroom or behind the school 🌬

- Can play it off and hide the scent when he’s high, teachers never suspect anything from him

- No one really cares to stop him unless he gets caught or something idk

- Wears clothing that either makes him look like a businessman or a junky, there’s nothing in between

Floyd Leech:

- The kid that’s plays basketball or volleyball just because he’s hella tall, and is actually good at the sports but doesn’t put much effort into them

- Always stays behind after gym, even though the teacher tries to make him leave for his next class 😬

- “I swear after this one shot, I’ll go to class.” *He never made that shot*

- Will jump you no matter who or where you are, and will get angry if you step on his new shoes

- Wears the jersey of any famous team with the latest pair of Jordan sneakers

Scarabia

Kalim Al Asim:

- VSCO girl at best, don’t lie to me now 🤡

- The only words he knows are “And I oop– sksksk.” and “Save the turtles.”

- Walks during a track meet while everyone else is running and sweating hard, the teacher doesn’t care either

- Doesn’t really do anything in gym but talks to his classmates and stands near the water fountain to refill his Hydro flask

- Wears tie dye shirts with cute scrunchies

Jamil Viper:

- That one quiet kid who everybody thinks is a serial killer but he’s actually not, I swear

- He just wants school to be over and spend the rest of his summer relaxing 😔

- Although he shouldn’t abuse his “power,” he‘ll move his hands in his pockets or backpack to make it look like he’s about to pull a weapon out.

- “Chill, I’m just grabbing a pencil.” *Everyone in the class started crying*

- Wears dark colored hoodies that intimidates people but are actually comfy

Pomefiore

Vil Schoenheit:

- The baddie popular girl 😌💅✨

- Arrives to school late with a Starbucks in hand from his local Target

- Fixes himself every 5 seconds like reapplying his lipgloss or spraying Bath and Body Works cherry blossom perfume

- Uses acrylic nails and long hair extensions as weapons during a cat fight

- Wears a crop top with ripped jeans and those clout sunglasses

Rook Hunt:

- That creepy guy in the hallways who tries to get your attention, even if you don’t know him

- Scares people when he says, “Ayo, where my hug at?” 🥶💯

- Uses at least 10 cans of Axe body spray a week after gym class, which stinks up the locker rooms

- Waves at you if he passes your class, even walking into the room just to say hi

- Wears literally anything but always include a hat

Epel Felmier:

- The artist girl who just wants to be alone 🧑‍🎨

- Purposely draws in front of you but pretends like you’re not looking

- If you complement him, he’ll just brush it off and proceeds to diss himself

- “Thanks but I’m not THAT good at drawing, teehee.” *Insert Radio Rebel face*

- Wears a hoodie or a cardigan with big pockets to put his art supplies in

Ignihyde

Idia Shroud:

- I don’t even need to tell you who he is, y’all already know ahaha 🥴

- Sneaks a whole PlayStation in his backpack so he can play with it during lunch

- Is on his phone 24/7 even in class to the point where teachers don’t care anymore

- Tries to get people into anime but only to little success

- Wears a shirt of any anime character or that damn ahegao hoodie, girl bye

Ortho Shroud:

- The nerdy kid who’s known for destroying others at many games

- Plays classics like D&D, Yugioh, Pokémon, the whole shabang

- Daily Beyblade battles during recess with everyone surrounding him, the menacing aura radiates off of him

- Will steal your things if you lose to him but gives it back a week later cuz he’s sweet 🥰

- Wears light up Sketchers shoes and those Minecraft shirts you find at Old Navy

Diasomnia

Malleus Draconia:

- The theatre kid who also goes to band practice, change my mind 👁👄👁

- Takes his role seriously when it comes to school plays and concerts, even if he gets casted as a damn tree or doesn’t go solo

- Remembers the songs and their lyrics to any musical you name, a really good singer at that too

- Plays almost every instrument, you definitely know this since you can hear him down the hallways during a test

- Wears a white button up shirt, black pants with fancy dress shoes, and top it all off with a fricking Rolex watch

Lilia Vanrouge:

- The weird guy who pranks people and vandalizes school property in every way possible

- If you ever get a textbook with a message that tells you to go to a certain page only for you to found a picture of a dick, yeah that was him 😒

- When using a Chromebook, he’ll leave a tab open on YouTube so when the next person uses it, pray that your ears will still work by tomorrow

- During lunch, he is a literal DEMON that mixes milk with chicken nuggets together and having the audacity to eat it too

- Wears an oversized raincoat or a windbreaker but idk wtf kind of things he has hiding underneath

Silver:

- That guy in class who consumes Monster energy drinks and falls asleep 99% of the time but somehow manages to pass the class 🤷

- Whenever he’s awake, he’ll talk to the teachers since he’s basically friends with them for some reason

- Writes his name out of boredom on any desk you sit on but in different places, sometimes around the corners or the sides

- Has a sixth sense because he’ll wake up if you try to draw on his face and if you did get something on him, it’s on sight

- Wears those colorful hoodies that zips all the way up to cover his face with a matching backpack, it’s pretty cool ngl

Sebek Zigvolt:

- That kid who literally knows everything about historical wars and will show it off during class

- Also has knowledge on weaponry, which has people questioning him but he’s just very dedicated on serving his country and people

- Knows how to fight and defend himself from a bitch since he spent his summer at a military boot camp, put respect on my man’s name 😤

- Honestly a great partner for a group project, actually does the given work but not the whole thing for you

- Wears anything that has camo pattern and chunky combat boots

I only made this because me and my friends were talking about our school memories so yeah. This is based from my experience so they might not be exactly accurate. Might even be a part two if you want.

[sanstropfremir]

i love taemin and there's absolutely no way anyone could deny his impact and the level of respect people in the industry have for him unless they were straight up lying, but comparing him to beyonce? within kpop, yes he is an icon and an inspiration for many, but outside of kpop i don't really think so. idol music isn't as popular as people think it is with the general public and the songs that usually become mainstream hits are safe and catchy. beyonce is known by everybody, whether you're a pop fan or not you definitely heard about her, and that doesn't apply to taemin. i think if you asked a random korean person about him they would probably recognize him as shinee's maknae and not as a soloist and there's a chance that this person wouldn't even know who shinee are. this is not a diss at taemin by the way, i'm not trying to call him an irrelevant flop he's far from that, but his target audience is more specific and limited unlike a big pop star like beyonce, and that's completely fine, he's good at what he does and he's one of the pioneers in his field. it's the case with so many other artists like mitski for example, she's very popular, one of the most successful indie musicians of the last decade, she's critically acclaimed and so many people are following in her footsteps, but she her music isn't for wider audiences and i assume most people in the general public wouldn't recognize her if you told them her name

oh no i agree with you i wouldn't have made that comparison myself. taemin is definitely 'famous boy band member who went solo high concept indie' rather than 'famous girl group member who went solo pop and became even more famous'. 'kpop' as intl fans know it isn't actually indicative of all korean popular music, it's just a specific genre (idol music) within that wider umbrella term.

[chcrrysprite]

Fic Interview Tag

thank you @nacreousgore for the tag :)) love these 

name: emma :) fandoms i write for: teen wolf, mostly. i have thought about doing other stuff but never got around to it two-shot: i’m not sure what this question is asking, but i have one out called ‘i dream of you almost every night (hopefully i won’t wake up this time).’ it’s not finished yet, but it’s a theo/liam/hayden that i had a lot of fun writing the first half of. most popular multi-chapter: Teacher’s Salary, i think. liam as a mess of a high school history teacher, and theo as the rich successful father of one of his problem students. actual worst part of writing: getting blocked all the time if i even have the motivation to sit up and do it at all :/ it just goes so Slow!! if i could change one thing about the way i write it would be that i could do it about a million times faster and longer without having to stop and take days on one scene. how you choose your titles: song lyrics, babey :) sometimes i already have some in mind when i think of a plot to start off with, sometimes they come to me because i’m listening to a certain song a lot while i’m writing it, and sometimes i don’t think of them until the very end and have to browse my music library to find some, but any way it goes, it’s still all from songs. i have taylor swift’s ‘folklore’ to blame for that, since those lyrics are so good that i got myself hooked on stealing hers’ and other artists’ words for titles. do you outline: sometimes yes, sometimes no. multiple people would say that i am kind of ridiculous with my outlines, which is true - when i outline, i go all in or not at all. weirdly enough though, i’ve done more outlining for a lot of one-shot stories than i am for this twelve part that i’m currently working on.  ideas i probably won’t get to but it would be nice: i’m not gonna share this one because i’ve noticed there’s a little problem with Really Conveniently Similar Ideas floating around the thiam tag lately, so for now, this one stays under wraps 🤫🤫 interesting stuff tho, promise ;) best writing habits: downloading the ‘flora’ app and setting the timer to at least a half an hour every day to stay focused and off other apps. spicy opinions: hmm,,, oh! had to think about it for a second but it really irks me when authors of thiam fics for whatever reason say that hayden is straight up bad at sex for no reason 💀💀💀 it’s used as a point of comparison for liam ending up with theo and for what?? hayden could be minding her own business having Nothing To Do with the plot and then during the sex scene they have liam thinking “god, sex with theo is so much better than it was with 🤢🤢🤢 her 🤢🤢🤢” and it’s so unnecessary LMFAO. it would make more sense if it was supposed to be some big realization for liam that he doesn’t like women at all, but most of those fics characterize liam as being bisexual, so it’s not even a purposeful introspective thing, it’s just a random diss on hayden ? weird to me, idk.

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[serendipitybutterfly]

Honestly if bts win a Grammy for butter or ptd I will throw my hands in the air 😂. It would just show that the grammys gave the award to just shut people up 😂 because let's be real, even tho they have alot of issues they still give awards with for songs that are good (even tho I'm still very upset about the weeknd not being even nomined while bts got nominated for fu*king dynamite 😭) . Also it might encourage the guys to make that type of music 😭 😬 which that would be 😶. I definitely thing that the guys only care about the numbers and the coin right now. They have alot of talent yet I don't think that they would deserve even the nomination yet alone a win with these recent songs.

Anyway I hope you had a good Halloween 🎃🎃🎃😘😘😘

I think we all, including them, need to stop worrying so much about the Grammys... Those awards are not given out based on artistic excellence or even popularity... You've got to playing ball with the right people. Many amazing artists have been constantly snubbed by the Grammys while objectively worse songs have been awarded... It means nothing.

That said, if they won or even got nominated for something like PTD a part of me would almost be offended on their behalf knowing how many amazing songs they've personally played big roles in creating, along with their team... But who knows how they themselves would feel...

Right now, it seems pretty obvious to me that a new album / comeback is imminent so I'm just looking forward to that.... To songs that are actually written and produced by my favourite artists, that tell their own stories and reflect their actual artistic sensibilities and talents.

I do have faith in their taste and skills. I just hope that in the future they will play a greater role in any English language releases (or at least the big hit producers will) as well and make sure the music and lyrics feel more authentically them... It's possible. Even if you run your Korean lyrics through a translation app and then get a professional English speaking song writer to tidy them up and make them sound good... You know, like Tae seems to have done for Sweet Night, which no one could deny is definitely a 'Tae song', despite being in English.

Unlike PTD (or Dynamite... I haven't forgotten how much I dislike you either) defenders constantly claimed, for people who didn't like the song, the language was really not the problem... At least not directly. The problem was that, if you like BTS's music, PTD seemed like a complete departure from what makes them them... In pretty much every way... Sonically, lyrically... Even the choreography was cutesy and twee and I'm sorry but these grown men looked rather ridiculous doing it... To the point that I literally still can't watch a performance of it without getting second hand embarrassment... A young rookie girl group with a peppy, cute, innocent image would have been better suited to the concept perhaps and would have made it seem believable and genuine (if you can imagine a rookie version of s*nsd or t*wice totally selling a song then you know it's NOT a BTS song... This is not intended as a diss at all to those groups BTW. I'm actually a fan of those groups (T*wice's first English single is vastly superior to Dynamite imo, come at me!) because they knew / know their brand and sell it well and actually, I think, in some ways really epitomise what made Kpop so unique when I first got into it... but they had a very different style and essence which suited them but does not seem genuine when coming from BTS who are very different kinds of artists. Which makes total sense as they made completely different music...) ...

But hey, thank goodness, that era is over and we seem to headed towards a new album which, as ITS revealed, the members are definitely involved in... And that always bodes well! Let's focus on positive things! 💜

[allegra-writes]

I got so excited to hear they made an Uncharted movie and was so disappointed they casted Tom. I'm not the biggest fan of him and he surely is a good actor, but there is no way he fits the role.. they should have casted someone unknown instead of taking hollywoods most popular white 20yo

I used to be a big Tom Holland fan, everyone here knows it, just look at my masterlist, but his fandom and some of his artistic choices put me off, little by little till now, that I'm mostly indifferent. Like you, I still think he's a good actor. I still see a lot of untapped potential, but I'm waiting for him to grow.

I agree an older, more experienced actor would have made a better Nathan Drake. I'm not gonna mention Ben Barnes so no one can accuse me of being biased (tho I still think he would rock the role), but let's say a Tom Hiddleston if they wanted a big name. Or an Oliver Jackson-Cohen. Idk. I don't wanna diss on the movie before coming out but I'm just underwhelmed so far.

[allronix]

I've just scrolled through your KOTOR tag and want to drop by to say that every diss on the Alleged Canon added a year to my life! Also I'd like to ask for your opinion did BioWare and Co f*ck Revan over in TOR? Where's the sense in ditching their already established and popular hero?

I’m guessing a few factors contributed. One, it looks like Chee made the call about what the “canon” Revan should be without asking first. So there’s likely some “hey, thanks for telling us how to write our own character, jackass” in there.  

Secondly, think of a rock band that had some amazing hits with peppy pop songs and cover versions. But they grew older, and shifted to more adult contemporary and mature themed music. They look fondly back on their bubblegum pop hits and the success they had with those, but they moved on. Bioware had a few good hits with tie in games like Baldur’s Gate and KOTOR, but by about 2005, they were ready to go and make their own IPs and play their own music. (Which is part of the reason KOTOR 2 was handed to Obsidian) Their first experiment was Jade Empire, which is...it plays like something you’d see in Avatar the Last Airbender if was made for HBO and not Nickelodeon. It plays like KOTOR, uses the same engine, but it’s got a lot more gore, a lot nastier themes, far more explicit nastiness in how the villains operate, and doesn’t have to fly their same-sex romances under anyone’s radar.  

And then they got Mass Effect and Dragon Age. By the time SWTOR was on the table, Bioware were A-list stars with their own IPs and had grown out of the “cover version” days. They wanted to focus on Shepherd and Hawke, not go and revisit Revan. But cash is king and an MMO could bankroll a lot of new projects. So, they did what a lot of artists do; they accepted the paycheck and the job working on a sequel, but they could (and did) kinda phone it in. SWTOR has had a skeleton staff compared to other Bioware projects and it’s farmed out to their satellite office in Texas. Granted, Bioware phoning it in is like Liam Neeson or Meryl Streep phoning it in. Their half-assed job is better than most of their peers giving it a full ass and then some. 

So, if you want to pull a “torch the franchise and run,” one of the best ways to do it is to completely trash the central character(s). Okay, we have to play with a character we didn’t really want to have to revisit and in a build that we didn’t sign on off to begin with? Okay, we’ll write him off as a deranged idiot and unwitting dupe to the Big Bad Over Villain these MMO games always seem to have. Because THAT way, they won’t come bothering us to keep making sequels! 

A much less sympathetic answer? Drew Karpyshyn is wildly uneven as a writer. Give him a villain protagonist like Bane, and he is amazing. He retains a lead character that is definitely pants-wetting scary with a mentality that is logical to follow, but it’s completely marooned from anything resembling prosocial, much less sane. The problem is that he seems to write many of his leads this way. His Baldur’s Gate novel is just plain bizarre (granted, the previous author did a lot to make that mess), and you can kinda see that same style with SWTOR!Revan. 

[palettes-and-prompts]

Character Palette/Personality Palette

If I have seen the movie/show/or whatever this character is in I will let you know! But if I haven't I'm just gonna give my best guess to their personality or what I think they like and everything. I will make them two palettes, one based on their appearance and one based on what I think their personality is. If you'd rather not see this just block the tag "character palette and personality guess" I figure no one's tagging anything like that so it should be easy to filter out. If you genuinely like this character and I lowkey diss them I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize though, you're going to have to live with it. If you wanna send me a character for a palette and my guess at their personality/interests just drop it on anon and I'll see what I can do.

Alright so this is Nikki from the game Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen. Very long name for a game. I haven't heard of it but I think I remember seeing ads for this game a while back.

I don't think I like her. Her style is cute and everything but she's got like a bitch vibe. I don't know why. I think it's the hair. She seems like she'll figure out who you like and then spread rumors about you. I do not trust her one bit. Her outfit might be adorable but I don't fuck with her energy. It's off, I don't like it. Maybe it's her socks or something. Socks can tell you a lot about a person and based on hers I know I cannot trust her, plus her bangs are gross. Like, just embrace your big ass forehead. Maybe she reminds me of Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club. Might be the arms behind her back. Like, I can't tell if she's supposed to stand like that or if the artist can't draw hands. I COMPLETELY understand if it's the latter. Hands are hard to draw, hands and eyes. I love art but also fuck art those times I struggled to draw hands and eyes. Oh my god, I just realized something looking at her socks. The tops are like pink, but the way it's smudged on the right leg makes it look like those fugly socks are giving her a rash on her ankles. Bro, just take the socks off, what are you doing? Anyway, I don't know what her personality is like, she could be the cute girl next door who happens to be popular and everyone wants to be friends with her. Or she could be the fake nice girl who has the world thinking she's an angel while every Friday she's in the woods, sacrificing lambs to please her dark lord or some shit. I don't know what she gets up to. Probably the second one though. She looks like she'd pull off a dark robe and a creepy animal skull mask. Yeah, she could be in a cult. I can see it. Oh my god, what if she's the dark lord? What if she convinces everyone to worship her by brainwashing them into doing what she wants? It makes sense, why would she kill the animals when she could keep her hands clean and just have her followers do it? All the pieces are coming together and I'm seeing the picture. She's not a murderer, she's just a manipulator. She's not doing the killing, she's convincing people they're special, whispering in ears, she's convincing them this is their purpose. And soon she'll be able to restore the power she once has thousands of years ago and she'll reclaim her throne and unleash the darkness once sealed away back into the world. And then? No one's safe.

Anyway here's her palette based on her character design.

And here is her palette based on what I think her personality is.