It so happened that some time ago I bought some plain wood slats, thinking to use them for plant name tags in my garden. Sorting them, I became distracted by the sound they made, clacking together, because the sound reminded me of the very cool bamboo slat scroll books and this scene:
Being a huge book nerd, I got possessed by an idea: I want to try making myself one! Now, a couple of weeks, some thinking, lots of sandpapering, writing Chinese (badly), sketching and plenty of cursing later... Well, here it is.
The lyrics of Wuji, written vertically from right to left in what I think is called the small or lesser seal script. I love that script, but damn: if you want to remember what it was like learning to write as a kid, I warmly recommend this 😅. I am sure Lan Qiren would have my hide if he ever saw this. Also, I posted the original sketches for Wangxian earlier (here), as I was not sure if I could pull the drawings off... and well, let's just say I do not wish to start painting on wood slats again any time soon 😛.
Edit. If you're interested in the sound, there's a sequel post with a short video.
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I AM THE ONE WHO HELD YOU I AM THE ONE WHO CRIED I AM THE ONE WHO WATCHED WHILE YOU DIED YEAH YEAH YEAH I AM THE ONE WHO LOVED YOU I TRIED PRETENDING THAT I DON'T GIVE A DAMN but you've always known who i am
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tell me how the two music themes i chose for my limoreau rock band au have both the songs
Jordan's First Choice
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Superboy and the Invisible Girl
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Happy March 1st, happy Next To Normal day, thank you n2n for being my emotional support show for the past seven years
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“It’s so lovely that you’re sharing, no really I’m all ears. But where has all this caring been for sixteen years? For all those years I prayed that you’d go away for good, half the time afraid that you really would. When I thought you might be dying, I cried for all we’d never be but there’ll be no more crying, not for me.”
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top 10 most unhinged/chaotic hs3 lyrics
official petition to stop letting that many white men sit together in a studio by themselves
loml - the whole song is unhinged for being about ENGLAND .
“cocaine, sideboob, choke her with a seaview” - self-explanatory
“u hide the body all that yoga gave u” - little freak is just little things' sister but no one wants to admit it
“boyfriends, they think ur so easy, they take u for granted” - the call is coming from INSIDE the (harry's) house
“u pop when we get enema intimate” - if anyone other than harry styles had written/sung this song, there would’ve been an uproar
“i’ll do everything i can to help u thru” - mans wouldn’t even look his gf in the eyes while she was going thru the worst period of her life
“there’s never been someone who's so perfect for me, but i got over it” - real tbh
“do u think i’m cool too?” - do u like me? please check one: ☐ yes ☐ no ☐ maybe
“i don’t want u to go broke” - lie to me again<3
“reading ur horoscope, u were just doing cocaine” - he’s just really saying anything
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Epic Song Lyrics Round 1, Wave 2, Poll 4
“And in years to come, you'll wander to the place up on our hill / And then you'll cry to our painted sky, "I loved him then, I love him still!" / And you’ll strew some sage and lilies, / And roses where I rot / Of all the flowers you picked, / I knew you would forget / Forget-me-nots”
-Elsa’s Song, The Amazing Devil
“And you find some way to survive / And you find out you don't have to be happy at all / To be happy you're alive”
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Elsa’s Song-The Amazing Devil
Time Stamp: 1:57-2:39
Propaganda:
the flowers over the rotting corpse, beauty and love above destruction, combined with the fact that they are not the right flowers because the love is for a version of a person that exists only in the mourner's memory. being loved and remembered wrong. is this something?
I really like the emotion, additionally the way the drum in the background gets softer and slower is cool
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Time Stamp: 1:37-1:54
Propaganda:
The musical itself is about living grief and mental illness. When I was at my lowest, I'd feel frustrated at myself for not just... being happier. And despairing that perhaps the depression will never end. The musical kinda address that sometimes grief doesn't end and mental illness doesn't go away, but life is still living. "You don't have to be happy at all to be happy you're alive."
Submitted by @clockworkspider
Check out the other polls in this wave here.
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“So anyway I’m leaving; I thought you’d like to know. You’re faithful come what may, but clearly I can’t stay, we’d both go mad that way…so here I go.”
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“With you always beside me, to catch me when I fall, I’d never get to know the feel of solid ground at all.”
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“What doctors call dysfunction, we try to call romance. And true, it’s quite a trick to tell the dancers from the dance. But rather than let chance take me…I’ll take a chance.”
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