They’re my everything

I found you! 🍃

~sharin some toh fanart i did back then~

I think one of the best part of the Ride the Cyclone soundtrack is that if you’ve seen the show you know that Ocean gets pissed that Noel says “fuck” in the middle of his chorus and it’s like, “hahaha funny Ocean’s a square”.

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But then they literally have a clean version of Noel’s Lament at the end of the album.

About Eda's Mandolin

Despite there being foreshadowing of Raine before their official debut. Eda is never really referenced as having played music before that episode, where there's a scene of her finding her mandolin locked in a box making it clear she hasn't used it in a while.

She only found it because right before that she took the photo she had of her, Luz, and King that she had on her stand and was about to lock it away in that same box after she heard Luz and King were planning on leaving.

The next time we see Eda using it is in Raine's flashback, and in it Raine reajusts Eda's fingers on her instrument and proceed to watch her play it while having their own instrument just laying next to them. It's most likely they're teaching her how to, and were the one who taught her to play it in the first place.

All this implies Eda might have only got into playing an instrument and using bard magic because of Raine. So after they broke up she hid her mandolin as to not be reminded of them.

Man such a shame I accidentally pressed the repost button

Me when anything

IM GONNA CRY HES SO CUTE

Why “Plastic Beach” is a Masterpiece

I think something lost in a lot of music is an understanding of story. Music stemmed from the need to tell stories through verbalized communication that extended beyond speech. Morals, teachings, beliefs, were all told through stories, and then translated into song. Music is not music without the element of story. Even the simplest chord, can make one feel a thousand things.

It’s 2010 and I had recently moved into a new house. My parents played an album that I didn’t recognize while we are moving furniture into our new home. It had a very different sound from the normal Lumineers, Radiohead, Mumford and Sons, and Neil Diamond I was used to hearing played prevalently in my youth. “The revolution will be televised” ringing in my ears and I remember feeling a beat, very casual yet meaningful play that, even then, I knew was something deeper than one would think at first glance.

Even then, I knew something of a masterpiece was at work. See, what makes “Plastic Beach” by Gorillaz work is its asymmetrical narrative. The album starts with a fully orchestrated “overture” (if you will) that’s very rare in a predominately hip-hop album. This is what I liked to call “natural” music. All the notes are played like by instrumentalists through natural means. Yet, the album ends with completely electronic music. “Pirate Jet”, the finale, has very few real instruments playing in the song.

But, why is this important? Well, because “Plastic Beach” tells the story of a world where our beaches are filled with plastic, water pollution makes a man a giant, and the industry music is synthetic and fake. While a man, Russel (the drummer for the band), becoming huge cannot happen in the real world, a lot of the ideas and concepts mentioned within “Plastic Beach” are a perfect representation of the dangers of the modern day. The asymmetrical sound of this album represents the natural world (non-electronic music) and the polluted fake world (all electronic music). And slowly but surly, the entire album end’s completely electronic.

However, this is not a testament against certain genres of music. Gorillaz is very well known for a beautiful blend of electronic and traditional instruments within their music. So why choose this as an allegory? Well I liked to use my favorite song ever, that just so happens to be in this album, Melancholy Hill, to explain why.

Melancholy Hill explores the fake and synthetic world of the modern day music industry. While it’s gotten better over the last decade, when the album came out it was near impossible to do well within the industry if you weren’t conventionally attractive, used certain styles, and branded yourself a certain way. Obviously, there were outliers in this statement, however, I would argue that they had to work three times as hard to get where other big names at the time were. And many of these big names… didn’t make what Damon Albarn, co-creator of Gorillaz, saw as music. The lyrics were seen as nonsensical and two-dimensional and the music hardly used any music theory let alone skill within its works. It sounded fake. So, instead of bashing all electronic or pop music, he created a masterpiece that blended everything. Melancholy Hill uses both electronic and traditional music within the song, showing that neither music style should be ignored. A blend of both truly is perfect, in a certain way. Many of the best songs: Empire Ants, Rhinestone Eyes, Stylo, Broken, etc. on the album use this technique of mixing styles, and I think that was very intentional.

Everything above comes together to tell us this story: Technology and the modern world can be used to be create amazing and beautiful things. But, representing naturalistic ideas and our Earth which gives us life, is key to prosperity. We must protect it at all costs… and “Plastic Beach” by Gorillaz is the masterpiece that says it best.

So... why would Ganondorf write the names of his moms in Hylian and not in Gerudo?

I fixed it for you, Nintendo. You're welcome

I did colour the whole thing but it kinda looked weird

THIS BICH IS GAY

Whoever came up with the Gaster and Grillby ship

Why?

I rest my case

"Revenge"

Asgore undertale coming back to the podium 5 minutes after declaring war on humanity to say his wife has left him

Kit Connor’s button up shirt in Heartstopper deserves an Oscar for somehow managing to not pop a button because they so obviously gave Nick Nelson two shirt sizes too small on purpose.

Everyone who follows my socials: Why do you repost everything Hadestown shares?

Me: BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS TO KNOW WHY I LOVE IT

Noodle!!!