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speaknowworldtour · 29 days

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“i tell you that i think i’m falling back in love with you” // “who’s gonna stop us from waltzing back into rekindled flames if we know the steps anyway”

“stitching ‘we were just kids, babe’. i said ‘i don’t mind it takes time’”// “and you said you’d come and get me but you were 25 and the shelf life of those fantasies has expired”

“starry eyes sparking up my darkest night” // “i thought i was better safe than starry eyed”

“your touch bought forth an incandescent glow” // “i felt aglow like this never before and never since”

“i’d die for you in the same way, if i first saw your face in the 1500s off in a foreign land… we would’ve been timeless” // “if you know it in one glimpse, it’s legendary”

“and when we go crashing down we come back every time” // “never quite buried”

“you paint me a blue sky and go back and turn it to rain” // “you lowdown boy you stand up guy”

“but it lies and it lies and it lies a million little times” // “you said i’m the love of your life about a million times”

“clear blue water high tide came and bought you in” // “who’s gonna tell me the truth when you blew in with the winds of fate”

“for a moment i was heaven-struck” // “and told me i reformed you”

“your integrity makes me seem small. you paint dreamscapes on the wall.” // “when your impressionist paintings of heaven turned out to be fakes”

“if you never looked my way i would’ve stayed on my knees and i damn sure never would’ve danced with the devil” // “well you took me to hell too”

“and all at once you are the one i have been waiting for” // “and all at once the ink bleeds”

“forever is the sweetest con” // “a conman sells a fool a get love quick scheme”

“you showed me colours you know i can’t see with anyone else” // “but i felt a hole like this never before and ever since”

“i like shiny things but i’d marry you with paper rings” // “and i wouldn’t marry me either” // “give you my wild give you a child” // “you shit talked me under the table talking rings and talking cradles”

“you would’ve been the one if you were a better man” // “i wish i could unrecall how we almost had it all”

“but if he’s a ghost then i can be a phantom” // “dancing phantoms on the terrace” // “my beloved ghost and me sitting in a tree d-y-i-n-g” // “can we watch our phantoms like watching wild horses”

“it must be counterfeit. i think there’s been a glitch” // “i can’t get out of bed cause something counterfeit’s dead”

“in my defence i have none, for digging up the grace another time” // “should’ve let it stay buried”

“the coward claimed he was a lion” // “you said i needed a brave man then proceeded to play him”

“i’m combing through the braids of lies” // “was any of it true?”

“you see me in hindsight tangled up with you all night burning it down” // “our field of dreams engulfed in fire your arsons match your somber eyes”

“and i’m never gonna love again” // “and i’ll still see it until i die you’re the loss of my life”

#so so many today #24 all together #truly this song is top 20 best songs she’s ever made #honestly maybe top 10 #top 5?#ttpdminutes #ttpd lyric parallels #ttpd lyrics #ttpd parallels #ttpd web weaving #web weaving #loml

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solvicrafts · 1 year

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You guys wanna talk about bitter pills to swallow from the Legend of Drizzt series? Because I do. I wanna talk about DININ.

I mean sure he was definitely a bloodthirsty asshole, but like, hear me out: Malice has Dinin tortured by Briza for fucking information he does not have. And given what we learned from him in Glacier’s Edge, he’s been abused in... other ways. Because that’s fucking standard in his society.

So when you’ve spent literal centuries being treated this way by *everyone you know* and this whole time you’re told that the surface elves are the reason for it all, and you get a chance to get some revenge on them, you’re gonna jump at the opportunity.

Drizzt comparatively was spared a lot of the shit Dinin went through, because he had Vierna and Zaknafein looking out for him whenever they could. That’s not to say he didn’t suffer or go through ANY of it, but he definitely got off ‘light’ in comparison.

So then Zaknafein gets sacrificed to Lolth, Drizzt deserts them, he and Briza get their asses kicked trying to find their little brother, and Malice’s attempt to kill Drizzt once and for all fails miserably and the whole house is annihilated by House Baenre no less! And Jarlaxle is there to offer him a way out.

And guys I am SO BITTER about it because I was absolutely sure Jarlaxle would be able to

a) help him heal and provide him with a better ‘family’ that wouldn’t fucking torture him

b) set him straight a little bit by also helping him maybe become a better person throughout the healing process and teach him that actually positive relationships can and do exist even among drow and it’s okay to care about other people

c) annoy the ever-loving fuck out of him for some quality content

And he got turned into a drider and killed off before ANY of that could even happen!!!!

I just really hope we get to see Dinin heal and grow in the new books. It looks like he’s starting to, but I’m afraid to get attached to him again. =/

But RAS could do so many really cool things with Dinin now. He could have him and Drizzt reunite and both absolve Drizzt of the monumental survivor’s guilt he’s had to live with and help Dinin be part of something genuinely good for him. And Jarlaxle! Jarlaxle was crushed when Dinin was turned into a drider.

Just... please. GIVE ME THIS. I need it.

#legend of drizzt #dinin do'urden #glacier's edge spoilers #the funny thing is that I'm not even especially attached to Dinin like in comparison to other drow characters I like #honestly he wouldn't make the top 5 #he'd MAYBE make the top 10... MAYBE #but there's just SO MUCH POTENTIAL for him #and there are actually elements of his personality I do like #his extreme bluntness can be genuinely hilarious sometimes #this boy is STUBBORN to the bone #and getting to see him reconnect with Jarlaxle and Drizzt is just too good to pass up

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pothospant · 3 months

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his default recall is so cool..........

#not me arts tag #ive never used his default skin so i didnt even know what it looked like until now....ough #i wish u could mix and match sounds or recalls with skins................#i honestly forget half the time hes supposed to be like. Cool and Suave and a Competent Badass #because my brain is always like. god hes so small and floppy and will die if you breathe on him wrong #also hes always crying and breathing heavily in my ear so im just like. poor guy #he should be at the bed taking a nap not fighting....... who made him fight.... stop that he doesnt belong on the battle field #he might be a badass hitman or smth but my brain is like #this is just a sad theatre kid who took gymnastics #''aphelios how is your assassin training going'' aphelios who has only been reading the acrobatics textbook: my what #is there anyone still reading these tags. hi there #i have a lot of thoughts on him. im very obsessed with his animations #like he has a laugh animation for every weapon.......#all the various weapon animations...#maybe the real reason we wont have a legendary for 10 more years is all the animating they have to do #i mean his base animations are so good id honest be like OK if they reused them #cant rly do much better than already Top Tier animations #unless we get an alune legendary.....#hope alune is super awesome and badass and all the aphelios voicelines are a really shy awkward guy or smth #like you look so cool and awesome fighting and the whole world doesnt know ur listening to a lil guy in your brain the whole game #the contrast would be very funny methinks #if anyones still reading this. yes i know riot made up some reason about budget or whatever for voices #but i choose to believe aphelios is head empty no thoughts and thats why he doesnt talk to alune #(STILL GOOFY OF A REASON... lots of VAs can do both genders of voices.... like. what about kindred and kayn....)#then again wouldnt be surprised if they were overbudget on the animations but still smh my head into oblivion #can relate to a guy who simply doesnt wanna talk #(said after 10000 tags of talking to myself)#i should really put my thoughts onto a separate post or blog or something #anyways have i mentioned i think hes really cute

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thewhizzyhead · 8 months

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before I sleep, here is my definitive ranking on all the NPMD songs and some rambles on why I placed them there - also the ranking is based on how much I vibe with them (music production and lyricism have different rankings)

1. Hatchet Town (aka the hatchetfield trilogy theme song like this tune perfectly encapsulates the chaos Hatchetfield has to go through with every Starkid project pos-2018 and I love it - kinda wish it was a number that is more integrated with the plot with the kids tho BUT I REALLY DID LIKE that this melody was quite prominent in the other songs too)

2. High School is Killing Me (I've watched many teen centered musicals and believe me when I say that this song is one of, if not, the best introduction numbers out there for this genre - also it's a really great opening hook for a show)

3. Nerdy Prudes Must Die (FUCKING AMAZING HONESTLY - amazing way to REALLY re-establish a villain back from the dead and to establish the main theme for the nerds here: "I'm Not A Loser" (tho i fucking wish that motif was used a bit more))

4. Just For Once (everyone cheer for Lauren Lopez flexing not just her high tier soprano skills, but also how amazing of a fucking actor she can be like the concept of this song is quite layered and to pull it off both comedically and emphatically takes great lyrical and acting prowess)

5. The Summoning (a well-anticipated onstage introduction to all 5 of the LiB that balances out befuddling neon-entertainment with genuine fucking menace)

7. Cool As I Think I Am Reprise (A FUCKING GENIUS REPRISE I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH HOW COOL I FIND THEM RECONTEXTUALIZING THE OG SONG AND IF I LOVED YOU TO FIT THE SITUATION AND BOTH OF THE CHARACTERS GROWTH. LIKE IN TERMS OF THEMATIC IMPLICATIONS WITH CHARQCTER DEVELOPMENT, THIS SONG AND ITS SCENE WOULD BE THE TOP)

6. If I Loved You (I think this song could be a bit more honestly like I know how much Starkid has explored Steph and Pete's relationship in their other projects and I was really hoping that they would have it more portrayed here - however the song is a bop nonetheless and it matches neatly with their themes and the harmonies are top tier. I placed this higher than the next just due to my personal bias like I really do like the song)

8. Dirty Dudes Must Die (A GREAT TWIST THAT MAKES ME WANT ANOTHER MUSICAL ABOUT GRACE CHASITY'S DERANGED SELF - also the new context of the song Grace is reprising here makes her a villain even scarier than MAX of all people but that's just me)

9. Literal Monster (A very catchy beat and well structured song that provides a good introduction to a jock-bully with the god complex. also kinda foreshadowing to nerdy prudes must die)

10. Cool As I Think I Am (the instrumentation reminded me of Dear Evan Hansen ngl fjsjd but it really does sound like an I-Want song from a teen-musical which is of course what they are going for - it sounds very nice and earnest though and I loved how it was utilised in the reprise. However I still fucking wish that the I'm Not A Loser motif was used more)

11. Dirty Girl (look I'm sorry for ranking this quite low on the list but like there is no fucking way I'm using this as bait to lure other people in like they'd be scared away I'm sorry fjdjs BUT I love how Will and Angela perform this though like top tier starkid performances ever - its not just what I would listen to on repeat personally jgjdjs)

12. Go Go Nighthawks! (This one gets plus points because of FUCK YOU CLIVESDALE GO GET FUCKED. otherwise its nice and cheery and perfectly shows how happy everyone is without Max but um I kinda wish it could be a bit more especially in terms of showing how happy the other nerds are now that Max is gone but that's just me)

13. Bully The Bully + Bury The Bully (Look I couldn't decide which was better like they both are the same melodies so like gjxjs these two are cute though and I liked seeing the 5 kids bonding in Bully The Bully since we don't get that many scenes with them)

14. The Best Of You (the pop-punk happy number is a staple of teen-centered musicals and it does really sound nice - just isn't that much of a standout compared to the others.)

#also for the best of you i have like a bone to pick with that one as much as i find it a fun song #but that is once again a rambly critique on how steph was utilized in the show sO WE'LL SAVE THAT BONE FOR ANOTHER DAY #but yea that's my NPMD ranking #the music prod here is on another level honestly #like they stepped up their game here #as for lyricism hmm given the genre it's more or less as I expected - i like it but there are some parts where i expected more #but they did a good job in having nuance in some of their songs like Nerdy Prudes Must Die and Just For Once like those r GOOD DEEP DIVES #hmmm maybe i'll do a full review soon of NPMD to just consolidate all my critiquey rambles #rn it's sittiing at a score of 8.5/10 #and is probably my top 3 fav starkid musical of all time - tgwdlm and twisted are top 2 and 1 #(i cant say much about black friday yet cause i havent watched it but um i have a feeling it could technically be a tie with npmd)#nerdy prudes must die #npmd #npmd spoilers #starkid

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bibuddie · 1 year

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okay, now that i've had some time to sit with last night's episode, i have thoughts. (apologies if this comes off a little rambly and disjointed - i didn't sleep very well last night) spoilers for 6x11

it's officially one of my favourite episodes of 911. i knew going into it that it was going to be extremely emotionally impactful, but i had no idea to what extent. i loved that the focus was on the familial ties between buck and the other characters. all along, a defining part of buck's character arc has been where he fits into his family, especially after the whole daniel reveal. buck's own subconscious finally coming to the realisation that he gets to choose his family, the one that'll love him for him without him having to change who he is is so so important for his development going forward.

now, to address the purported elephant in the room: maybe controversially, i didn't so much mind the lack of eddie in the episode. because like i said, the focus was on familial dynamics. we saw interactions between buck and his parents, maddie and buck, buck and chimney, buck and hen and buck and chris. so we got the sibling angle, the son angle, the best friend angle and the father angle. eddie doesn't fit into any of those boxes that buck has constructed for himself, and buck's subconscious has yet to process why that is. his subconscious hasn't caught up with the fact that eddie slots into the partner role yet, and i firmly believe we'll see that coming later in the season.

additionally, for what its worth, i thought the eddie content we did get was fucking spectacular. because here's a man that, a little over a year ago, was soldiering through his day. putting his mask on, strapping up his boots and doing what needed to be done. and yet, here, when his best friend (his partner in numerous senses) is critically ill in the hospital, he allows himself to be vulnerable. he allows himself to let go, in the presence of both his son and his friend and i think that's truly nothing to be sniffed at. rather that bottling all his emotions up, he allowed himself the space for that vulnerability.

also, the man did not look well! he looked worn out and pale and just all sorts of wrong. his lips were chapped, he had his black clothes on, he had bags under his eyes, like come on. it's right there.

finally, i do want to touch on chimney and buck a little because hoo boy the content we got for them in this episode was fucking incredible. because here's two grown men, who generally have a very playful relationship - they mess around and tease each-other and overall have a very banter filled exchange pretty much everytime we see them on screen. but when buck was confused, when he was a little scared about the reality that he found himself in, the first person he sought out was chimney. his subconscious inherently knew that chimney would believe him, and that he'd be able to help guide him to where he needed to go. i loved getting to see that side of their dynamic and i sincerely hope we get to see a lot more of it moving forward.

overall, i thought last night's episode was incredible, and i want to give the writers a big fat kiss on the lips.

#911 spoilers #911 on fox #evan buckley #eddie diaz #chimney han #rebecca rambles #honestly? maybe top 5 911 ep...definitely top 10

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hephaestuscrew · 2 years

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I'm in the mood to ramble about this scene from Ep14 The Kumbaya Approach:

TL;DR: This scene - in which Minkowski reveals her self-doubts and Eiffel tries to reassure her and manages to make her laugh after Hilbert's mutiny - is a really important one for the development of Minkowski and Eiffel's relationship. It's where they start to really rely on each other and to understand each other in more complex ways.

Eiffel makes himself emotionally vulnerable by asking for reassurance, first indirectly through his rambling attempts at reassuring himself (just before the beginning of the above clip, sorry I couldn't be bothered to reclip it), and then by directly telling her that's what he needs.

It's a good example of how the situation they've been put in forces them to depend on each other emotionally - I'm not convinced that Eiffel would have reached out to Minkowski for reassurance like this prior to Hilbert's mutiny. But Hera's offline and Eiffel needs someone to assuage his worries, so he asks Minkowski.

She doesn't give him that reassurance. She hears his anxieties and, instead of telling him things will be okay or even just that Cutter won't know about the alien transmissions (perhaps she's not convinced enough of these things to say them), she tells him she's sorry. She takes the responsibility for the whole awful situation.

Instead of responding to Eiffel's emotional vulnerability with strength and stoicism (which seems to be what he expects), Minkowski responds with emotional vulnerability of her own.

Eiffel's a little taken aback - he wasn't expecting or looking for an apology. I think hearing the despair in Minkowski's voice is the opposite of reassuring to him, but nonetheless the tables are turned - Eiffel, who was looking for reassurance, becomes the one trying to reassure Minkowski.

I think Minkowski has spent most of the mission wishing she had a Communications Officer who fully respected and supported her. But when Eiffel expresses unequivocal support for her in this scene (perhaps partly through platitudes, but genuine support nonetheless), she rejects and questions it. He tells her it's not her fault; she directly contradicts him. He says she'll figure something out; she asks for evidence to justify his certainty. She wants her crew members to think that she is capable of doing her job well, but the real issue is that she doesn't always fully believe this herself.

I think "it's my job to keep my crew safe" kinda sums up Minkowski's whole deal in terms of motivation. She cares deeply about other people and she cares deeply about the responsibilities of her role as Commander, and those two sides of her both feed into her determination to keep her crew safe.

(As an aside, I severely doubt that Goddard tells its Commanders that their main job is to keep their crew safe. Even under the surface-level Goddard approach to HR, I think the priority of a Commander is to ensure the completion of mission objectives. Keeping the crew safe is not Goddard's main focus, but at the end of the day, it is Minkowski's.)

It's interesting that she seems to include "Hilbert? Crazy" in her list of ways she considers herself to have failed in keeping her crew safe, as if she worries whether there was something she could have done to stop him going "crazy".

"Broken" is definitely not an adjective Hera would appreciate being used about her. It's an insensitive choice of word to use about someone who has constantly had to assert her personhood and her capabilities. But on the other hand, I think the most obvious alternative that might have occurred to Minkowski to describe Hera's condition in that moment would have been 'dead' (see Ep15, when Minkowski tells Hilbert he "murdered" Hera). Which would have sounded less dehumanising but also far more final (and therefore perhaps more painful to both Minkowski and Eiffel).

It is notable that Minkowski includes Hera as part of her crew that she wanted to protect - something which isn't a given for an AI on a Goddard mission. Minkowski expresses the conviction that Hera is a member of her crew who she wants to protect a lot throughout the show but I think this might be the first instance where she implies it.

"Me? I'd be dead if you hadn't found a way to let me back into the station" - this line suggests to me that Minkowski almost feels a sense of discomfort about the kind of dependence or weakness that having her life saved by another person (and perhaps by Eiffel in particular) might imply. This isn't really a thank you, and in fact I don't think we ever hear her properly thank him for saving her life during Hilbert's mutiny. Perhaps doing so would feel too much like an acceptance of her own weakness.She doesn't even really acknowledge it when Eiffel points out that she's saved his life plenty of times. Saving his life is kind of a given for her (see Ep4: "I am going to pretend that this line of thinking was never even insinuated" in response to Hilbert's suggestion that she shouldn't go out into a solar storm to save Eiffel).

I'd argue that the show as a whole argues that the desire for self-reliance Minkowski displays in the above line is not a good approach. (see Ep22 - HILBERT: You did not beat me. You needed help from AI, from Minkowski. / EIFFEL: Uh, yeah. It's called being a part of a crew. You ever meet anyone that could get things done all on their lonesome?")

I love that Eiffel's response to Minkowski doubting herself is "Come on, have you seen you?" Like it's so obvious to him that she ought to think she's entirely capable of coping with the situation. Like the idea that she wouldn't have faith in herself hasn't really occurred to him.

The call back to Ep4 Cataracts and Hurricanoes is nice because it shows that the times when Minkowski has saved his ass have stuck with Eiffel. But there's also something in the phrasing ("I jump out of space stations into solar storms just to save my idiot communication officer's life") that suggests Eiffel thinks that the risk Minkowski took in going out into that storm was too big for the reward of saving him. Which perhaps is partly because he's trying to emphasise that she goes above and beyond. But it is also the classic Doug Eiffel brand of self-loathing which makes me sad.

It isn't important, but I like to think Eiffel's inclusion of "I don't even mess up my hair while I'm at it" in his Minkowski impression is canonical evidence that Minkowski has Good HairTM that just naturally always looks amazing.

The fact that he makes her laugh in this scene is so important to me and (although they are perfectly expressed in Emma Sherr-Ziarko's performance) I think everyone should read the script directions for that moment: "There's a moment of stunned silence following that. And then we hear another first for the show - Minkowski LAUGHS. It's a genuine, joyful sound, as all the frustrations and the rage and the fear that have dominated their life for the past two days just all come out as a big, long laugh." I love that the script directions explicitly highlight the genuine joy of the sound, the fact that it's the first time we've heard her laugh, and the idea that it's an outlet for the negative feelings she's been dealing with.

Genuine laughter is a kind of vulnerability too, especially for someone like Minkowski who has tried so hard to project an image of herself as a serious authoritative figure.

When she calls him an idiot, there's a suggestion of affection in it that I'm sure wasn't there in the many previous times she will have called him an idiot. I think she's largely calling him an idiot because in spite of the dark situation they're in, he did a silly jokey impression of her, which displays his ability to not take things completely seriously, an ability that she really lacks. But I do think there's at least a little bit of her calling him an idiot because he sees her as a "badass space pilot" - at least a part of her thinks he's an idiot to think highly of her in that way.

Eiffel doesn't object to being called an idiot (to be fair, he's just called himself one). Instead, he chuckles like he's pleased to have made her laugh.

He says "At least I have you around to keep me out of trouble" - an expression of gratitude not just for a particular thing Minkowski has done, but for her overall presence, for the way she contrasts with him. I doubt he's ever shown her gratitude for that before, and I think it's a really valuable thing for Minkowski to hear in that moment when she's worrying that she's failed as a leader.

The reason why I think this scene is so important for the development of Minkowski & Eiffel's relationship is that it's kind of a paradigm shift for both of them. They've fallen into a pattern in which they've each tended to see the other as a two-dimensional collection of traits that they clash with, rather than as a fully rounded human being. But in this scene, those limited perceptions fall away.

There have been precursors to this scene in terms of their developing understanding of each other - e.g. Minkowski making Eiffel laugh after saving him from drowning in space, Minkowski admitting she's not okay at the end of Ep13 Gas Me Twice - and it's not as if they fully understand each other after this interaction (or ever!), but I do think it makes sense to view this scene as the beginning of them developing more nuanced perceptions of each other.

It's a moment when Eiffel sees Minkowski as not just an authoritarian leader who's always telling him off, or even just as a competent Commander who'll never take him seriously - here he gets a moment of insight into the fact that she is someone who has fears and doubts and insecurities just like he does.

I don't think Eiffel ever really made attempts to reassure Minkowski before Hilbert's mutiny. Not because he's an uncaring person, but because he's never seen her as someone in need of reassurance - and certainly not reassurance from him (see Ep7: "I’m so far beneath both of you that I shouldn’t even register on your radars").

For Minkowski's part, this is a moment in which she begins to see Eiffel as someone she can lean on. She begins to appreciate him as a valuable person to have by her side, perhaps even because of the very characteristics that have previously tended to annoy her about him.

To a lesser extent, this scene is a paradigm shift for the listener too. Minkowski is humanised to us by her self-doubt and by her laughter. Eiffel is shown to be genuinely caring and good at providing reassurance.

In this scene, rather than his more traditional attempts at reassurance, it's Eiffel’s sense of humour and ability to take things less seriously that actually get through to Minkowski and give her a moment of release in a dark time. The way in which he approaches the situation very differently to her is exactly what helps her in that moment. That's a key part of how I see their relationship; they each become a positive force in the other's life partly because they are so different in many ways, meaning that they are each able to give the other a contrasting perspective that's really valuable to them and helps them grow as people.

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