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Sinking Into the Deep Blue Aftermath - Weekly Playlist - April 3, 2023
Another Monday. Another weekday. Another April. The rain wakes me up in the morning, the sun kisses my afternoon skin, and at night, as the dark pervades, the wind whips around in spirals and spins. So many pieces inside me hurt. So many parts of me needing to heal. Music helps. Turn it up.
Sinking Into the Deep Blue AftermathWeekly Playlist – April 3, 2023
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I loove the android robin au it's really one of the most interesting au I have seen in a while.
I am always happy to see new post abt it
Also making my favourite characters go through hell and then receiving comfort from their people is like the best thing ever for me so every time I see a whump!Robin post I like automatically
People loving android!Robin makes me so happy anansnssndsnsns she's curious and excitable and full of wonder and the world keeps punishing her for simply being alive. Sometimes it's too painful even for me, big whump lover 😭😭 though seriously, there is not enough Robin whump, and while all the characters in the show are very whumpeable, hurting my little blorbo Robin feels special because... she's just so deeply lonely. She's lonely and she thinks she deserves to be because of something wrong with her (pulling this interpretation from Surviving Hawkins lore which is canon to me 😭). That was a big idea I had when I first came up with android!Robin... that there is something wrong with her. Broken. In this AU she's literally broken in a lot of way (battery and memory problems, weak joints in her lower half, etc), but that's all within the range of normal robot problems. The real issue with her is that she's sentient. It terrifies people because it really brings out the existencial horror of... well, existing. It terrifies Robin most of all. She is the problem. She is what's wrong with her. She shouldn't exist.
But at the same time, she loves being alive so much! She doesn't understand it and doesn't know how it happened, but it happened, and now she's real and wants to experience life and the world and know people like human beings do. So it's her constant battle to become human despite humans having hurt her so much in the past... only for Nancy to already see her as human. Just one made of metal and plastic, but human nonetheless. She's the first person to see her that way and maybe everyone else thinks she's crazy, but Nancy is used to that. She's so sure of this, though, of Robin's self-awareness. She trusts her so blindly. She doesn't even need proof. And not only does she believe her, but she defends her humanity in front of her friends and family so ardently, fighting so hard for Robin to be aknowledged by everyone else as human. Fighting so hard to give her a home and family for the first time in her life.
Nancy has it bad for Robin, really. She's just so in love, even if everyone else thinks she's crazy for falling in love with a machine (no one thinks she is, though, because they all know Robin, and once you know Robin, it's impossible not to love her).
B-SIDE: A collection of songs that I listened to while at work. Genres vary from classical to metal. Alternates updates with A-Side. Updated every other Friday.
Apologies for the genre whiplash you may experience :)
week started off strong with a few Formula One adjacent songs in celebration of Lando Norris’ First Win! WHOOO!!!!!
Then we got some Kendrick/Drake beef, and Euphoria was def giving me echolalia so i had to add it towards the end of the week or else it would’ve been so much worse 😂😂 (What is it THE BRAIDS?). I’ve been inspired to be a bigger hater than I already am
THEN WE GOT ABSOLUTION LIVE VERSION?! Mmmm ✋🏼✋🏼 oh lord. i preordered a vinyl of RHRN and i can’t wait to play it, lay on the floor, and cry. I attended both LA Rituals so it’s definitely gonna be one of those albums that hold so much emotion. I actually cried for like an hour last night thinking about the Ghovie and how this one part (if it’s shown) is going to break my soul into a billion little pieces
Ten Seconds Before Sunrise by Tiësto, so beautiful. It’s my default song to feel something beautiful. Just like lay down and play it, soak it in, meditate, relax, idk. but it’s something.
Why is Will Byers playlist full of songs about waiting for someone to reciprocate his love back, why is Mike Wheeler playlist not only starting with a queer anthem but also has a bunch of songs about not fitting in and wanting to run away, why is Eleven Playlist full of songs about getting ride of toxic relationships/break up songs, why-
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Thanks to @gyokujyn and @mandyyvibes for the tag! Sorry it took me a while to get to it but I'm truly living for these games, they're so fun :)
The rules are shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people. But since most of my spotify on repeat playlist is just songs that loop endlessly while I sleep or random shit I listened to twice two years ago (all that money going into algorithms and this is what we get), I'm gonna go the same route as @gyokujyn and post a shuffled song each from my most recently listened to playlists.
Okay, this gave me whiplash but definitely not as much as it could've? And it didn't earn the "do you think a depressed person could make this?" meme, which is something. I'm improving!
*claps hands together* Open no-pressure invite to @booksandabeer, @vostok3-ka, @village-skeptic, @buckrogers, @dharmasharks (for some reason it won't let me tag more than five people? anybody know the fix for tags that just show up as plain text?)
I think the frustrating thing about Spotify recommendations is sometimes it really does introduce me to lots of cool Indie Bands that I really vibe with and allow me to try some new stuff and sometimes it keeps telling me that I need to Listen to Mother Mother (I have not listened to Mother Mother ever and at this point I never will because it is a pride thing.)
Or a random unfunny tiktok joke song from 3 years ago/ a viral YouTube song from over a decade ago.
Hi! A relatively slower week this week, but it's gonna be hard to compare to what a perfect storm last week was. Still, the important thing is that there's plenty of bangers for us fans to enjoy, and that the holomembers deserve all the love in the world.
i have a question for other people out there who may be like me and have a taste in music that is confusing, weirdly specific, random, inconsistent, and really hard to explain to other people; HOW do you go about finding new music? do you have a method that's successful most of the time? or do you, like me, just keep desperately listening to playlist after playlist and album after album and hoping to get lucky by finding a song or two?
when people try to give me recs they ask me what genres i like and i just say "nothings off limits" but it's not in a "i'll listen to anything" kinda way, it's that there's just something about certain songs that makes my brain go "YES" and every genre has the potential to have some songs that scratch that itch. pretty sure genre actually has little to no bearing on what i like.
there's a few specific genres i end up listening to quite a bit more than other genres but i don't think that's cause there's actually anything "special" about them for me, i think it's just kinda incidental and a result of how spotify will be like "oh you liked a few songs from this one specific genre?? so it's your favorite genre???? you want to hear nothing but songs from this genre for the rest of time????" and so the vast majority of my recs on spotify are just from these few genres and i've just fallen into a loop of them. i don't even end up liking the vast majority of songs that get recommended to me anyway, and whenever i go to ANY genre-specific playlist i only end up liking a couple, if even that many. so yeah it doesn’t seem like genre matters at all.
i think it's more about the rhythm/melody/vibe of a song (and maybe it could have something to do with the bpm of a song but idk) but there still doesn't appear to be much consistency for me. like spotify has the playlists that are like "chill mix"/"energetic mix"/"moody mix"/etc. and it's the same as when i listen to a genre mix. i CAN find songs i like in any mix but i'll still maybe only like 1 song for every 25 i listen to. and it's also the same with artists and albums in general.
like basically i think the problem boils down to how there's no way to label my taste. like there's no key words or phrases for me to use to tell people or search engines what i'm looking for.
my best bet is just showing people the songs i like, and seeing if they can hear some kind of pattern, and can give me recs based on that. this is what i do with my sister, cause she's also kinda the same, having an inconsistent and indefinable taste in music, and the things we like overlap a little so i tend to get good recs from her, but that's obviously also dependent on her being able to find new songs, which doesn't happen a lot.
i don't usually have the ability to just ask someone who kinda understands my taste to give me recs, and when i do there's no guarantee they'll even have any, and i wanna find a way to be able to search for new music on my own.
B-SIDE: A collection of songs that I listened to while at work. Genres vary from classical to metal. Alternate updates with A-Side. Updated every other Friday.