#memories from autumn

[thestuffedalligator]

As we enter Over the Garden Wall season, remember: Friends don't let friends pigeonhole Over the Garden Wall as being about death and the afterlife and Dante's Inferno.

[ladydevena]

Can I just say, the fact that the high lords don’t all wear generic crowns in their colors, but it actually ties to their courts makes me happy?and they probably all have quite a few different themed ones?

Tamlin with his burnished gold laurel leaf crown at the wedding that was a courtly version of the calanmai crown he probably dawns each year? And his tithe crown is so suited to more strict moments with its representation of wealth and stability?

Tarquin with his silver cresting waves and blue gemstones for a casual night out on the town? As asymmetrically stunning as the very waters he connects his court to, the blues of the stones glinting with white and green and the depths of the very ocean hidden by the brash, crashing beauty created by the surface?

Helions spiked gold crown as vicious and pointed yet beautiful and picturesque as the suns rays? As warm in color as his skin yet simple and statement making in it power just like helion himself- not needing much adornment to radiate the strength, beauty and deadly power and wicked intelligence he holds?

Rhys has a raven feather crown which makes me wonder if previous highlords of night weren’t just serpentile like the creatures of the hewn city but dark winged and raven featured in some way? (And Feyres crown - complimentary to Rhys isn’t just a newly made item, it existed in tandem with his for previous ladies of night I’m assuming so it ties to the court that way as well?)

Autumn court with its mixture of Medieval English and conqueror era Spanish style in my head? With traditional red and green stones highlighted the most and silver and gold alike, crosses and points to their headwear? Very formal and structured, not just to denote their position, but to reinforce tradition, wealth, class structures, very inline with what I’d assume of the autumn courts viciousness mentioned in the books? Beautiful but vicious.

Winter court with near white shining metals, carved glass and crystal bases for ice diamonds; blue, gray, & frosty fogged stones? Dark blues and wicked gnarled features representing barren branches and shards of ice????

Dawn court with its sweeping elegance and love of beautiful embellishments and pension for color? The people are noted to be largely from Xian as noted by SJM and I always imagine dawn court to be a beautiful mix of Indian and Chinese culture, and the jewelry reflects it, beautifully Intrically carved warm toned metals that depict stories or symbolism entertwined with the culture? Stoned used abundantly yet they’re never garish? They only enhance and bring out the beauty of the crowns and reflect the cultures within the court itself?

(Like I’d love to dive deeper into it and maybe make or paint the crowns one day but that’s a different story)

That’s it that’s the post grammar be darned.

[kyngsnake]

sometimes the hottest thing a man can do is have absolutely no game

[schalotte]

cannot cope with the reality of people leaving my life for good . might start sending some borderline desperate letters

[crucifiedlovers]

How heavy my mind is, filled with the past. Is there enough room for the world to penetrate? It must go somewhere, it cannot simply sit on the surface—

Louise Glück, “Autumn” from Winter Recipes from the Collective

[littlegalerion]

Not me being mad that Moon can't assist Gale in becoming a god and overtaking Mystra- becoming a god as well like Gale promises, thus becoming some sort of mind flayer divine that can now guide and lead other independent mind flayers, perhaps even evolve them.

"The lesson is mortals shouldn't be after godhood-" MYSTRA WAS MORTAL BEFORE SHE BECAME A GOD! SHE HAS NO RIGHT TO TALK!

Also, my BG 1 and 2 boy is giving you MAD JUDGEMENT because he canonnly became a divine and is doing fabulous as the first non-evil god of death.

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: February 26

“Diamonds in the Mud” by Gerry Cinnamon

[queerofthedagger]

Late Autumn Graveyard

[whaliiwatching]

greg. please don’t name the frog ‘poor little meow-meow’

[megacarapa]

i love autumn🫶🍂 would love to experience it

[skater110599]

thinking of that one sappy post that i love about how people from your past affect you through your whole life bc every time i watch star wars i read the opening scrawl aloud bc that's what we did the first time i ever watched the movies at age ten when my best friend invited me over for a marathon bc they were so appalled that i had never seen them before

[a-moth-to-the-light]

Fall Playlist Drop!!

these aren't all songs that were released during the fall, but they're songs that just sound the most right between september and december, i think :)

for when the tides of nostalgia start to rise:

no cambies tu andar -- Alba Reche

los cuerpos -- Alba Reche

Materia Viva -- Andrea Santiago (best experienced when it is 6pm and the sun has already set)

I Wanna Get Better -- Bleachers

No Face -- Hayley Heyndrickx

Love Is -- Itzy

Replay (PM 01:27) -- NCT 127 (an absolute classic by this point.)

pporappippam -- Sunmi

Wonderland -- Taylor Swift

Say It -- Tkay Maidza ("dog days over / man i cried for weeks")

for crunchy leaves and chilly breezes:

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! -- ABBA (thanks to embrose for--indirectly--introducing me to this song! i'm obsessed!!)

Thirsty -- Aespa (I GET IT NOW !!!)

Hate That You Know Me -- Bleachers

You're Still A Mystery -- Bleachers

Dracula -- f(x)

Sunlight -- Hozier

BBIBBI -- IU

What You Waiting For -- Jeon Somi

I Wish you Roses -- Kali Uchis

Air Force One -- Odd Eye Circle

Esfera de amor -- Simona (so cronch.)

Big Things -- Tkay Maidza

Growing Up -- Tkay Maidza (this whole album is just prime autumn music, okay??)

for a 9am cup of coffee and the click of heels:

Telepathy -- BTS

Intro: Persona -- BTS

When I'm Alone -- f(x)

Cause I’m God Girl -- HyunA, Il Hoon Jung

Hypnosis -- IVE

XOXO -- Jeon Somi (i really thought this one would have gotten old by now, but somi's songs always surprise me with their shelf lives! i still love that chorus just as much as i did two years ago)

RUN2U -- StayC

Blame It On Me -- Twice

I Can't Stop Me -- Twice (main character song !!)

for the back-to-school sitcom, some theme songs:

Something -- Dayglow (yes i do sing along to both the lyrics and the instrumental of this song i like dayglow a very normal amount)

Monday Morning -- Fleetwood Mac

None of My Business -- Itzy

Lemon Black Tea -- Jo Yuri

Falling For Boys -- Julia Michaels (i've GOTTA do this at karaoke one day)

Fucked Up, Kinda -- Julia Michaels, ROLE MODEL

Handle With Care -- The Traveling Wilburys

for nighttime walks where you can't look away from the moon:

Do I Wanna Know? -- Arctic Monkeys (THANKS FOR THE ARG MONGEES @sincerelywebsy)

One For The Road -- Arctic Monkeys

You're So Dark -- Arctic Monkeys

(Don’t Fear) The Reaper — Blue Öyster Cult

Atlantic City - Live at the Point Theatre, Dublin -- Bruce Springsteen (the superior "atlantic city")

Youngstown -- Bruce Springsteen

Butterfly -- f(x) (oh my GOD its so good)

Liar -- G-IDLE (can't believe i missed this one last year ??)

Ciudad -- Nina Suárez

Into You -- Yuri

[autistic-autumn]

6 (A song that makes you want to dance)?

Probably Phantasm Machine ~ Phantom Factory from the touhou album Changability of Strange dream. The piece has a strong percussive nature to it and a faster pace that I find tends to give it a dance rhythm. The piece was originally written for the game Seihou Shuusou Gyoku as a piece for the pc98, one of the last games zun would write for. I think is is also one of the last remakes of a pc 98 song to end up on any cd or in any game which is neat. In the commentary in Seihou Zun even commented he was going for a more percussive song.

The version on CoSD has a lot more textural sounds you can't get on a pc98 but still follows the same general structure. The melody itself is fairly simple and the piece is mostly in an ABABA sort of structure, with a coda that just repeats the A section with what sounds like melody harmonizing a 6th up. B section is a bit more harmonically complex and modulates to the subdominant (4th).

CoSD version:

Seihou version:

[beautyinthediss0nance]

Driving home and confronted with songs from my emo youth (I still love me some From Autumn to Ashes but they do not get regular play anymore, occasional nostalgic play)

[puppyeared]

How about 9 and/or 24 :)

9: tell a story from your childhood

In fourth grade I remember my class got to go on a field trip to a conservation area for our science class I think? It was winter and because I was the smallest the snow was up to my hips. But we were playing this game called Food Chain, all of us were assigned different animals and we had to hide from predators and catch other animals and get food and water stamps from these posts on the trees. I remember feeling really powerful because I got the wolf, all the way at the top of the food chain behind natural disasters, and it was really cool cause I’m the smallest and shyest in my class and they did not expect me to go nuts catching everybody lmao

24: what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

Ummm trying harder these days!! It’s kind of a meh answer, but I’m happy with where I am right now doing a different program and with my job ^^ I’ve been trying this thing recently where you count down from 5 to 0 really quickly before your brain hesitates, so basically taking advantage of my impulsiveness, and it’s worked really well getting me out of bed every day and doing stuff

[stardustthroughthecracks]

Somehow the memory of laughing

With vaguely known classmates,

While we are acting out a modern-day take

On some Shakespeare play

As an assignment for language arts,

Feels the same to me

As the first notes of the Harry Potter soundtrack

And the crunch of crisp autumn leaves.

Safe.