was tagged by @slowwshoww and i want to preface this with: you wanted music recs but i am very public on this blog abt my very strangely limited music taste so this is on u and now u have to deal with it. that being said though, I’m gonna give u some reasons for each song 🙏
i was tagged to post the first 10 songs of my on repeat playlist and here they are
1. chung ha - i’m ready (club banger, like its just good gay club music, chung ha is such a fucking star its wild)
2. stray kids - stop (weird old deep cut from skz discography that sounds like if u mix minimal techno with a kpop impression of imagine dragons and weirdly goes extremely hard bc of it)
3. key - gasoline (listen like. this song is like the platonic ideal of a kpop song to me. which isnt to say it’s the best one but like its such a good illustration of what a lot of kpop sounds like today. like a little cringe on first listen, a bit of rap you dont really wanna deal with, some belting in between but after listening to it like twice it’ll be stuck in your head and the beat/background instrumental/hook is just FUN)
4. zakwe - music (Zakwe is like the godfather of south african rap from what i gather and i REALLY have to ask all of u to listen to it just ONCE if youve never heard someone rap in zulu, that shit is INSANE. This song was made in 2011 and his wikipedia says he once opened for kanye west so 2011 kanye gives you a decent idea of what this song sounds like)
5. Han from Stray Kids - RUN (i love him. its a really good song)
6. kehlani - piece of Mind (i love this fucking kehlani record sooooo much and this song is so painful imo but also very lovely in many ways)
7. bruce springsteen - tenth avenue freeze-out (listen like. I have never been able to resist some good horns OR a great saxophone and this song has both. is it a little cringe? yes. all the best bruce springsteen songs are.)
8. Stray Kids - The Tortoise and the Hare (top 3 skz songs ever made. insane experimental rap thing they made kind of mangling a korean childrens rhyme as well as the fable of the tortoise and the hare obv)
9. taemin - press your number (listen if you only ever listen to one kpop song in ur entire life make it a taemin song and dont just listen but watch the mv is my opinion. not this one tbh, it’s just the one I’m currently obsessed with)
10. stray kids - easy (also top 10 skz songs easy (lol) its just so good. the rap is there the beat is there the vibe goes hard, the choreo also slaps if ur inclined to look at the mv)
i tag @wantbytaemin @hyunpic @bourgeoix @alexenglish @biolums @geniaparadox @mybodyfails and thats everyone i can think of rn but also u guys dont have to give commentary 🙏
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OK but imagine Kipperlilly rocking up to The Last Stand like, OK. I'm gonna kill the Bad Kids by letting these monsters chew them up and then making it impossible for Buddy to Revivify them. No sweat. No more bad kids.
And then watching them WRECK SHIT. Fig does 87 points of damage. Gorgug practically solos a purple worm. NO ONE DROPS. And then they get 100% on the academic questions and woops, no more waves of monsters. Revivify who? These motherfuckers are just a little sweaty.
Imagine her frustration when she has to resign herself to, "Fine, we'll kill the proctor and fuck up their grade."
And THEN she gets made.
Imagine getting forced into Plan C by your enemies being generally unstoppable and then eating a vulture eye.
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I once heard someone say that because Arknights' disability representation is mostly tied to their fantasy turbo-cancer, then it doesn't feel like real disabled representation, and I've been unable to get it out of my head, like a piece of popcorn stuck in my teeth. So, rather than doing my homework like I'm supposed to be, I want to talk about why I disagree and why I love Arknights' approach to disability.
So, for those who are unaware, Arknights has a shockingly high amount of disabled characters, and characters who are disabled in a lot of different ways, both caused by being Infected and just being disabled in the way that normal people are. Nightingale has chronic pain, Lemuen is the best sniper in Laterano while being in a wheelchair, Akafuyu is mostly blind, Eyja has severe hearing loss, Rosmontis has severe memory loss, Amiya has very severe PTSD, I could go on and on.
And of course there'd be a lot of operators with disabilities! Rhodes Island is a medical organization dedicated towards long-term care of terminally ill patients. Of course many of them would develop disabilities, and of course Rhodes would have the resources and facilities to help them. They even make notes of how to treat them in their medical files, like how Ejyafjalla's has a little guide on how to best have a conversation with her. It makes perfect sense, but I can't say a lot of games would think about it on that level.
And that why I like this game's approach to disability so much. A lot of video games just treat disability as "someone missing an arm" or "someone in a wheelchair because of Their Injuries From Combat. It's usually treated as an individual thing, just someone who got hurt, or who maybe has a frail constitution or whatever. But in Arknights, disability isn't simply treated as a character trait for individuals, but as part of the worldbuilding itself. The world is largely defined by Oripathy, this fatal degenerative disease with no cure. And the Infected are treated as second-class citizens, considered free labor that they don't have to treat ethically because they're dying anyway. The writers realized that this would cause severe disability, both real and fantastical, and worked it into the story and world.
This runs the other way, too! Arknights' worldbuilding follows a sort of social model of disability, in a way. There's a lot of fantasy stories that treat the inability to use magic as a sort of disability, but to Arknights, it's... not. Because Arts require specialized training, and so a lot of people just don't know how to use them, and might not even know they can't use Arts. So it's not treated as such, even though it is still a physical inability to perform things other people can.
But on the other end, Laterano's culture is based around the Sankta having empathic communication between each other. Mostima, as a fallen angel, can't use this telepathy anymore, and she speaks about how othering it feels sometimes, to be physically unable to engage with an important part of her culture. While it's not explicitly stated as a disability to the Lateran culture, I certainly feel like it's treated as one to some degree. Namely that it's explicitly contrasted with Fiametta's PTSD rendering her unwilling to empathize with the people around her, as opposed to Mostima's physical inability. It's the fantasy disability treated with the same weight as real world disability, because within the world of Terra, they're the same thing.
And of course there's just some of the more fucked up fantasy stuff like "On top of her existing narcolepsy, Ptilopsis was forced to become plural after she had to have part of her brain replaced with a computer that forces her to speak and think like a computer or else it causes her severe mental stress to the point of physical pain." Which uh. I don't know where that fits in the conversation but jesus christ someone hug that owl
Of course, its representation isn't always perfect. Just off the top of my head, Nightmare is a pretty rough stereotype, with the whole "Oripathy gave her multiple personality disorder with a violent personality trying to take control of her body!!" trope. And, of course, I'm sure other people have complaints with the representation of their disability in ways that I'm not aware of because I only have the perspective I have.
But... what I remember about this game's treatment of disability isn't when it fails. What I remember is reading Glaucus' module for the first time, the story of the first time she ever put on the mechanical exo-suit legs that allowed her to walk for the first time in her life. And I started bawling my fucking eyes out. I cried because, even though I don't know the specific feeling of walking for the first time in years, I know well what she felt. That feeling of liberation from something you secretly feared was just who you are now. Even though you know it won't be a perfect solution, the physically choking emotion that you're able to get a little closer to a normalcy you've always wanted. The feeling that right now, the only thing you can do is run like the wind.
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Today in “I Wish I Had Any Artistic Talent”:
So we all love Tolkien’s visual of Faramir and Éowyn holding hands at the walls of Minas Tirith with her in the starry blue mantel and him in his uniform and their blonde and raven hair mingling together, right?
But I just recently looked again at The War of the Ring and, in an early draft, Tolkien had Éowyn cut off her hair before heading to war—he describes it as shorn upon her neck. And I think I might really need a visual in my life of that Farawyn moment exactly as Tolkien described it, except that Faramir’s hair is long and flowing and Éowyn’s is a bob or a pixie cut. I saw a lot of Farawyn art this week because of the date, but I don’t think I’ve ever come across this version?
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I’ve seen a lot of people on both sides of the fence of how people want Vash’s hair to fall (or not fall lmao) in Tristamp season two, but I think we already have a hint?
This is his corrected bounty poster from the end of episode twelve, from the official Twitter account. And while in ‘98, Vash had clearly outlined sentimental reasons for having his hair the way he does, it’s never stated that he keeps his hair Vash-style in Trimax (which Tristamp is most heavily based off of) for the same reasons. Though you could reasonably draw that line, for sure!
But Vash is and never has been the kind of person to run from his reputation. He could have, at the very least, decided to change the color or style of his coat more than he did, but he didn’t. He could have kept his hair down, but he didn’t. Even down to his boots and his gun--he is who he is, and he’s not running from that anymore, he won’t hide as Eriks. He went back to the very easily recognizable Vash the Stampede we see in the wanted posters.
So while I think that when things are tense and he’s using plant powers, his hair will be full og Vash, I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re gonna see this Vash often as well. Could be wrong though! I don’t have a horse in this race because I love them both so much I legitimately can’t decide which I’d rather have lmao
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taking a DEEP BREATH yeah but have you considered that taylor broke the cycle in the exact way than his friends did, through love, and his character development might have been more subtle yeah but it was still extremely there and taylors ending was SUCH a good addition to the message at the core of season 2 because it says "hey your parents fucked up and YOU DONT HAVE TO FORGIVE THEM"
taylors character development was realizing that his dad FUCKED UP massively. and maybe he had justified reasons for it, even. just like the other dads, he had reasons for why he did what he did. but that doesnt erase the fact that it was fucked up, and that nicky hurt taylor, and that the damage is irreversible. and taylor doesnt have to forgive that, he doesnt have to put up with it.
i think its so good and important that linc and norm for example forgave their dads and love them at the end of all of s2. they chose their fucked up dads and they broke the cycle of fucking up, but its equally as important that taylor did that too by choosing to NOT forgive his dad. and at the end of the day he broke it by choosing love, by seeing who his dad really is and choosing to love his mom who was always there for him instead of the deadbeat with good intentions
"this is as good as it gets." and for taylor, that wasnt good enough
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