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haveyouheardthisband · 6 months

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yellowflowerbub · 1 year

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bathtime (together)

♡ Feb. 10th ♡

♡ Day 1 of 5 ♡

꒷︶ ̇ ̟ ෆ ‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿ ෆ ̟ ̇ ︶꒷

summary. you decide to prepare a surprise for Aki when he comes back from work on valentines day

wordcount. 1.3k+

pairing(s). aki hayakawa x reader

tag(s). fluff, teasing, bathing together, pet names (my love, dear), gender neutral, cheesy

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Water is pushed into the tub’s side, it dramatically thrashes against itself before leveling out into miniature waves as the stray droplets that were flung into the air mush together with the rest. Bubbles begin to float over top of the water as the sweetly scented solution is progressively poured. They greedily stack upon each other, building from the water level and up, consuming the surrounding until where the bubbles began and water ended seemed nebulous. They shimmer by the reflection of soft candle light and a tablet positioned on the tub’s wide rim.

A music streaming application is open, pop-ups of different playlists invade the screen before being absentmindedly closed as your shaky fingers feverishly scour your account for the ‘Bathtime with Aki’ playlist. It seems as though it was purposefully hidden, concealed by a multitude of advertisements and song suggestions you never paid more than a second thought to.

“Dear?” You hear. The distant call is muffled by the rushing, running water and a closed bathroom door. You scramble to turn the water off so as to not alert him. He’s on time of course, but per usual you failed to be ready.

Even more anxious, your eyes can barely keep up with how quickly the many playlists whizz past. “What was that? Was the water running?”

You curse his good ears and continue to search, “Yes, I was just,” you pause, “...washing something off.”

“Alright.”

At taxing times like these you’re thankful of how much of his trust he confides in you.

You gasp as you spot his name and click it, rapidly turning up the volume while it loads. Through a small speaker on top of the bathroom counter plays the melody of the first song, the funky bass filled with emotions you’ve only touched upon with Aki echo throughout every inch of the bathroom. The sound sneaks under the crack between the bathroom’s door and the cold tile to the silence of the rest of the apartment. The hum of the first few chords of what you believe to be a piano makes a smile creep up your lips. You’re sure he’s heard the song.

By the time the artist begins singing the lyrics to the first verse a soft knock is heard on the door’s wood, you can barely hear it over how loud the speaker plays. “Yes? Who’s there?”

“Who else would it be?”

“I dunno? Maybe my boyfriend?”

“Really? And here I am thinkin’ you’re single.”

You giggle, “Wanna come in?”

As the door knob twists and the bathroom door is opened by a crack, the incoming chorus you felt approaching hit. Every little note incorporated into the production from tic to tune fuse within each other to create a symphony your ears are happy to hear. You sing under your breath and let the bubbles in the bath come over your shoulders as you melt into the almost hot water, your arms float by your sides, your feet by one another, and your back pressed to the side of your bathtub.

“Come in, don’t be shy.”

He hesitantly slides into the bathroom, the full suit he wore feeling a bit uncomfortable now that he was surrounded by a warmer air and steam with the door shut behind him.

“What’s all this?”

You smile, “Have you checked what day it is?”

His brows furrow, he actually has not. He pulls back his cuffed sleeve to reveal a chunky metal watch worn around his wrist. You’d got him that watch for his birthday the year prior as a surprise and he had put it on immediately after he tore it from its packaging. Since then, you’ve never seen him without it.

“It’s Tuesday?” Still bewildered by the scenery, he thinks to himself for a quick moment before it comes to him.

“Valentine's Day?”

“Ding ding ding!”

He swears to himself it’s from the scented candles but his face burns, “You’re so corny.”

“You love it.”

For a moment, he seems to remember how naked you were. He’s seen you naked more times than he could probably recall but it never failed to restart his heart as if it were his first moment he laid his pretty sapphire eyes on you.

“If you get in I might let you touch instead of just stare.”

“I’ll take you up on that offer.”

He wastes no time riding his suit coat from his torso, his nimble fingers spend no more than a second undoing each obsidian button. He shrugs the thing off his shoulders, half heartedly folding it to toss on the floor. His suspenders and pearl white button up are next, meeting the same fate as the overcoat.

“You think I can even fit in there with you?”

You fan him, “I’m sure you can.”

“I’m 6’2, my love.” He chuckles, you can see his bare shoulders jump when he laughs and catch a glimpse of the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes before he turns away from you to continue to strip.

“Why’re you turning around? I’ve seen everything you’ve got.”

“You whistle at me like a piece of meat when I take my pants off.”

Fair enough.

Aki, now fully naked, dips his foot into the water to test its temperature. Chills crawl up his calf from the stark difference and each hair stands on end. He shudders through his teeth as both of his legs slide on either side of your hips.

You’re faintly frightened of the bath overflowing, its edge rising as steadily as Aki let his body sink into the water. The bath looks to be on the brink of spilling over onto the tile by the time he's waist deep.

His body melts into yours just as well as the water, the damp skin over his chest molds with your back like wax on top of a burning candle seeping from its edge. He’s as warm as the water surrounding your bodies, his ribs press hard into you and his heart beats through it, it rests at the closest it can to you. The rhythm of his pumping heart beats stridently in not only his ears, but yours as well.

“Your heart’s beating really quick. You ok?” You inquire.

He’s quick to answer, “Of course I am. I’m just.. amazed on how nice this is. You did a outstanding job with all of it.”

“Thank you,” you stifle a laugh, “I didn’t get all of what I wanted in here. Like, I thought rose petals would fit the mood I’ve got going but I didn’t get the chance to place them. They're actually still in our room.”

“I love it either way.” His voice is low, whisper volume as his chin rests on your open shoulder, his nose dipped in the side of your neck. Always so thoughtful. For the most part.

You do laugh this time, “You’d say that no matter what I do.”

He felt his smile lift, “Think of this whole thing as a ballroom. You’ve prepared every piece but forgot some food courses, and some appetizers, and some chairs but there is still a dancefloor and a chandelier overhead everyone adores.”

“Your point here?”

“A hall wouldn’t be complete without its chandelier. And that’s what you are, my love. My gorgeous chandelier.” His lips come down to softly kiss your shoulder, “So no matter what you prepared for me, I will be completely overjoyed because you prepared it and you are here to do whatever it is with me.”

The song, you'd completely forgotten you turned on in the first place, comes to a slow conclusion. The symphony of instruments fade into the silence and splashes of water and the last thing heard before it completely makes it's exits is the lead singer's high note, blending with it all.

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a/n: i'm so proud of that last piece of dialogue that i’m ending the fic here the song was "out of touch" if you were wondering

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#chainsaw man x reader #aki x reader #aki x y/n #aki x you #aki x gender neutral reader #aki hayakawa x you #aki hayakawa x y/n #aki hayakawa x reader #poc friendly

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bettsfic · 6 months

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hello! here's an excerpt of the snowbaird modern AU i've been working on. it's a holiday fic, so i'd love to have it posted before christmas. in this fic, coriolanus is a server at a restaurant and lucy gray is the bartender. she's recently started asking him for rides home, so they've been getting to know one another. it's currently sitting at about 10k and i hope to god it maxes out before 25k.

With his texts still pulled up, he decided to reach out to Lucy Gray. They were friends, after all. Friends texted each other. But what to say? “How are you” was boring and banal. She might find it sweet but he knew her well enough to know that she liked getting to the root of things.

Where was that song from? The fare thee well one

She didn’t reply right away. He tried to occupy his attention with organizing his email inbox and checking his Canvas assignment calendar, but he found his eyes straying repeatedly to his phone. Twenty minutes later, he received a text back. He snatched up his phone, expecting the name of an artist and album, or a link to a YouTube video, or an inquiry as to why he didn’t just google it himself, but instead when he opened the message he found a wall of text so long that he had to scroll three times to reach the top.

HI CORIOLANUS!, it began. He thought all caps and an exclamation point was stylistically redundant but he appreciated and was relieved by her enthusiasm. Fare thee well has an interesting history dating back to 1909…

Were it not for the myriad spelling and punctuation errors, he would have thought she’d copied it from Wikipedia. From anyone else, the infodump would have bored him, but from her it only warmed him to think she’d been willing to spend so much time sharing her knowledge with him. To him, both time and attention were precious commodities.

He’d put off texting her for so long in part because he worried the conversation would become strained and awkward, but the reverse was true: texting her was so easy—and he was so eager to respond to her messages—that he did it while he drove and nearly veered into a median on the way home. He knew she was working that night and so the messages slowed down in the evening. He had to pocket his phone at the dinner table per one of the few household rules, but he could still barely pay attention to the benign chatter of Tigris and the Grandma’am about grocery store deals and soap operas.

While he did the dishes, Tigris leaned against the counter, arms across her chest, and said, “You’re in a good mood today.”

“Why wouldn’t I be?”

“Because you work sixty hours a week and don’t sleep.”

He glanced over his shoulder to find the Grandma’am had returned to her easy chair in the family room, the television blasting an obnoxious commercial jingle for a local car dealer.

“I met a girl,” he said.

Tigris’s pale eyebrows rose up to her equally pale hair. “A girl? Like, a girl girl?”

“How is a girl girl different than a girl?”

“I just mean, like, a girl?”

“I have a crush, if that’s what you’re asking.”

Tigris squealed and hugged him from the side. “Baby Coryo’s got his first crush!”

“It’s not my first—” He stopped. It was his first crush, aside from Geena Davis in A League of Their Own. His usual date for high school dances and makeout parties was Livia, who was easily the prettiest girl in his cohort just as he was the prettiest boy, although he had never been attracted to her and the feeling, or lack thereof, seemed to be mutual. But that was the Academy for you—if you looked like you should be together, then you were, by definition, together. The power of appearances.

“I guess it is,” he said to the dirty dishwater.

“Does she like you back?”

He hadn’t considered that. He’d just assumed she didn’t and never would. Everything he’d ever wanted had been out of his reach and Lucy Gray was no exception.

“I’ve been driving her home from work,” he said. “And we’ve been texting.”

He showed Tigris the text thread.

“All of this is from today?” she asked, scrolling and scrolling.

“She’s a bit verbose.”

“She uses so many emojis.”

“It’s so cute.”

“And look at all these spelling errors.”

“Also cute.”

Tigris looked up from the phone. “You’re really gone on her. I never thought you’d like a girl who messes up there, their, and they’re.”

“I’m not a pedant.”

“Pedantry is a core facet of your personality, Coryo. You started correcting my use of ‘whom’ when you were four.”

“You may have noticed I’ve changed a bit since then. If nothing else, I’m taller and slightly less obsessed with Spongebob Squarepants.”

She gave him a look.

“Okay, very slightly less,” he amended.

#free ride #writing update

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accio-victuuri · 1 year

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WYB’s 6th Single ( Analysis Post ) ☀️

a recap to start : first teaser clues, second teaser clowning, about the studio who made initial artworks and that letter z.

This will include multiple topics and it will be a mix of CPN ( heavily ) and about the track itself, lyrics, relation to yibo’s life and artwork. also my personal thoughts. If you are only here for the candies then feel free to skip to Part II and IV because I discuss it there. Thank you to Yibo for his end of year gift to all of us. 🤍

It’s a long post so get a snack or something. 🍟

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I. The Song Composition

LTS is Yibo’s 6th single and as per the notes on the track, they credited the lyrics to Tang Tian and composed and arranged by the famous Qian Lei. Tang Tian has a lot of song credits. Qian Lei is a known piano composer and you can clearly hear that in this song. An important link is that the theme song for "Yesterday's Blue Sky", which is dubbed by Wang Yibo (for Qi Jingxuan), was written, composed and arranged by the two of them.

This information was actually already “leaked” a few days before the actual song was released. Now the next and common question will be if that’s the case, does it make the song less personal? Well, songs written by an artist themselves really are as personal as you can get. It’s their own words, but sometimes they can write about someone else’s life and experience. Yibo is not the first artist in the world who have people write and compose songs for them but that doesn’t mean he did not connect to it. Yibo only releases one single to his name everyday so it’s logical to think that he will choose one that speaks to him the most. It represents his feelings for the year and what he wants to communicate to his fans/audience. Think about this year, how he was relatively quiet and working, he only became active with BAH and SDC. He almost never posts something personal. This song, so to speak, is his chance to deliver a message to his fans.

The description of the song in streaming platforms is more general and geared towards the theme of uplifting others. This will likely be the same explanation that will be given by Yibo and his team — and they are not wrong. A song can have different meanings and intention. Yibo cannot easily say that this is a love song, that it’s from his experience with a specific person in his life. I don’t doubt that Yibo meant it for people to interpret as a hopeful song to give them warmth. That has always been a part of his character, wanting to uplift other people. A message of individuals coming together and how wonderful that could be.

"Like the Sunshine" is a song about encounter and hope. About hope that ignites the light of the world. Though the winter nights are long and lonely. Let's embrace each other when we meet, we will become a fire that warms each other's hope. The sun will always come inadvertently as usual, then we will discover- It is not the sun that lights up the world, but the light that everyone gathers. the sun is not far beyond the sky, every day we light up for each other. A cluster of flames is the light that illuminates the world

The same is echoed in the weibo post of the studio, Warriors Music.

The cold winter is gone, the warm spring is coming again, and the fallen leaves are new on the branches. We must embrace life like the sun, and we must bloom life like the sun.

The studio has a really cool logo cause it has the word BRAVE that describes Yibo if i do say so myself. Also their tagline is : every author who dares to take risks, integrate, and innovate in music is a warrior! Yes. Sounds like a group of people that someone like Yibo would love to work with. This year 2022, their most notable products were songs for Eason Chan ( which Yibo is a fan of ) as well as Zhou Shen and Faye Wong. So you know that Yibo chose well.

Going back to the actual song, this single is definitely a clear departure from his previous tracks. From upbeat sounds and introspective lyrics to this. I see him trying dipping his toes in with Nian, which was a mix but in this he fully committed. You can say that he has matured and that artists really do evolve in terms of their sound and what they sing about. or if we’re talking political, he is trying to appeal to not having a problematic message to his song so censorship will not criticize him. He’s been lending his voice to a couple of “positive energy” songs this year and he can’t slip up. Now since i’m a turtle, my opinion will be the same as before, love makes you gentle. I could see at some point in 2019/2020 the frustrations Yibo had in his life as a celebrity. Although it’s still there, I wanna believe that he has a better hold of how his life should work now. He has a good support system and someone like GG to get him through. I can only imagine how isolating one’s life would be if you’re a celebrity like XZ/WYB, this is why I’m so thankful they found each other when they did. They saved each other from heartbreak by being there at the right time.

II. The Artwork

*DRUM ROLL* 🥁🥁🥁

The star of so much anticipation and speculation has finally been released. We talked about how a studio claimed ownership of the first two teasers, visualizer and stage design. However for this particular piece, they reposted YBO and their caption was more on the NYE stage which they already claimed ownership initially. If you look at their page, that seems to be their strength, integrating visual design to live performances. I am not trying to discredit this company because I honestly loved the work they do, I’m just pointing out how different this was presented. The previous 2 had their own posts, emphasizing it was creatively designed by them and this did not. I could be wrong about this but i’m adding it here.

Now let’s look at some clues:

1. The strongest one that made me weep is the accidental z. We know that this is ZZ’s recent signature for his artworks and he can’t exactly put it anywhere if he wants to stay as the mystery artist. So being placed in the visualizer in that clever way is amazing. They thought we wouldn’t notice? Lol. This is not the first time a hidden Z was spotted in something related to Yibo ( p2 and p3 ). Add the WYB and XZ reference in the writing itself. We know ZZ is a master of hiding things in calligraphy.

2. Also the similarity between GG’s previous works to this and Nian. We’ve all said this, it gives us that feeling of someone making the same thing. It’s his style. No matter how professional ZZ is and his experience in adapting to what a client wants, you will still see it. If you’ve been exposed to enough of his personal works. It’s like the soul of the artwork screams Xiao Zhan. Take a look. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Zoom in on the colors of the branch too.

3. The leaves falling remind us of one of ZZ’s photos.

4. A lot of BXGs are using previous Bazaar photos from their Thailand fanmeet and comparing it to the artwork. Black and White to Colored. It’s like when we are apart, we are B&W, but together, they become full of color. 😌

5. I am still in the headspace that GG made this, if he didn’t he gave lots of input or a draft of what it should look like. He may be the one going for the chalk-drawing design and they found a studio with the same style and had more experience in it. Some people might say, ZZ doesn’t have the time. Lol. No. Have you seen him complete artworks in between works while in his trailer? Yep. He can do it. All the more if it’s for someone important like Yibo. I don’t think Yibo necessarily demands it but more of an unspoken agreement. It’s their way of collaborating.

III. Relation to Yibo’s life

Parts of the lyrics that relate to him. I have already discussed in Part I yibo’s reason in choosing this. He had always been known as someone who is quiet and a slow starter but we have slowly seen him opening up to people. I am so happy with his message about the importance of having people around you to get through life. As much as he knows the pain of being separated from his family and friends most of the time, how it’s basically the norm in his life— he still believes that he can’t be alone. He is not Mister Lonely anymore.

How do I call you-the one in the shadows of the trees, the one who waits for the dawn, the one as silent as I am?

This is him acknowledging his trait of being silent and trying to reach out to someone like him. It doesn’t matter if he has hard time doing so, Yibo always had his own way of reaching out to people. Some may be surprised with how well he gets along with people he works with like Huang Xuan ( Luoyang ) , BAH cast and SDC when he is so aloof. However his aloofness doesn’t mean he won’t reach out, he opens himself up and when he does, he really captivates the people around him.

I have once journeyed a very long way, you dreamt a very long dream.

A line that resonated with lots of fans especially about his long journey. He started his career at a very young age, leaving his family, moving overseas and back just for his dream.

The many lonesome nights drift pass like fallen leaves, yet they will find a way to grow anew on the trees.

A very hopeful message about loneliness ending and that those nights will not last forever. I like how this is written because it does not say what’s the cause. It’s not heartbreak or anything — you are just lonely. It is something that a lot of people experience and usually feel guilty about. I think this speaks to Yibo and he wants to pass along the message that this feeling is okay and it will pass.

Dance-at every crossroad, in journeys, in the dawn, in the wind.

Dance. Very Yibo. You can probably use other words here to describe movement but they used dance because it’s very him. Dance has accompanied him in many aspects of his life, good and bad. Yibo will continue to dance through it all.

If we are together, the winter shall pass

Like birds flying through the darkest of clouds

Wherever you go, I wish you happiness

The same theme of coming together, the dark and lonely winter shall end ; It’s about holding on to the hope of better days. This year has been filled with ups and downs for Yibo and I have always loved his disposition of things getting better and having no regrets. There are incidents in year that i’m sure he felt like it’s “winter” but he hold on to the fact that better days are coming. I wish you happiness, his message to the people listening. It’s like wherever you find yourself going after all this, I hope you are happy.

When the winter is past-

Let us exchange our stories.

Finally, another message or coming together as a group. A message of Unity. I like the part of exchanging stories. Those times of “winter” and loneliness is not something to keep and be ashamed of. You can learn from it too and tell other people.

I love how open and vulnerable Yibo allows himself to be by singing these lyrics. He is not going for the “i don’t care” message anymore. He cares. He has such a big heart and wears it on his sleeve. Passer by might see him as an Ice Prince but those of use who watched him for some time know that this is not the case. He easily cries when things move him, fiercely loyal to his friends, attentive to other people and reaches out to those who need his help. That is the true Yibo and he is letting himself be seen now. 🤍

IV. Interpreting the lyrics to BJYXSZD and other clownery

Soaking in the wind of the late spring, waiting for the rains, that usher in the new grains,gazing at the stars together with the wild beasts

gazing at the stars together. Need i say more. This is not just figurative in their case, they did gaze at the stars before. Add the countless star reference between the two. Well. It screams xz and wyb. ✨

As we talk the bonfire is lit, time stealthily passes like the scattering of petals.

This is giving me the imagery of them camping, you know, the bonfire. Which the both of them have talked about enjoying recently. It can also be a figurative description of how a fire was lit when they started talking back then. Once they started, it didn’t stop. It can also be that when they talk to each other by phone or video call — the time of them being apart seem to vanish. There are lots of LRLG submissions of them communicating constantly and I think this points to that.

I have once journeyed a very long way, you dreamt a very long dream.

BITCH! This line made a lot of BXGs cry. I talked about Yibo’s journey in Part III of this post and in this case “dreamed a very long dream” is XZ. It’s not a secret that XZ had a normal life as an office worker but he couldn’t let go of his dream of being a singer so he joined an idol survival show and the rest is history. Personally, I can dismiss all the other lines because this is the most important. It’s the two of them. This tells their story in one line.

If we are true to each other, the winter shall pass

The many lonesome nights drift pass like fallen leaves,

yet they will find a way to grow anew on the trees

You and I will meet just as surely as the world spins

Meeting after the winter sounds like their long distance relationship. It’s an assurance that no matter what happens, despite the lonely night, they will might again. As surely as the world spins. It’s the most natural thing in the world for them to find their way into each other’s arms again. 😭😭😭

Flickering light cupped in my palms for you-

bits and pieces of the happinesses I've picked up along the way

How do I call you-how gentle is your name?

I pray you speak it when the dawn breaks

The most romantic thing right here everyone. Here you go. This is a love song. Come and fight me. Such sweet imagery, bottling up all the happiness and saving it for you. Calling each other’s name. I feel so soft.

Wake just like the sunlight. Dance-at every crossroad, in journeys, in the dawn, in the wind.Wake just like the sunlight.

This is them going through things together, much like dancing in the rain — this has that same meaning. They both go through lots of shit with their lives as celebrities, but they remain unbothered ( mostly ).

If we are together, the winter shall pass

These two lines also speaks of their relationship. As long as they have each other they can get through anything. We see silent ways of them supporting each other. It’s like Yibo hiding ZZ’s rehearsal under his name. Their lawyers being related in practice. Suing the same companies.

Let us exchange our stories

Their usual never ending talking to each other about anything and everything under the sun. Whether in what we’ve seen with their interactions in BTS or Untamed promos— to the LRLG submissions. They always keep in touch. They are genuinely interested in what each other is doing.

In general, it’s the story of the love being present and remaining warm despite the distance. It does not deny that their is loneliness but it shall pass because their love is stronger. This has to be the most romantic song in Yibo’s roster of singles.

V. Final thoughts

My initial exposure to Yibo’s singing was Wuji and Bu Wang so you can only guess what kind of sound I fell in love it when it comes to his voice. I have always wished for a mellow song — a love song, and I am happy that gave it now. This seems like such a perfect time for a track like this. It’s so Yibo. It’s another aspect of him — not the cool/motorcycling/skateboarding/blank faced Yibo. It’s the Yibo that is warm and wants others to feel safe and heard.

This song will be so wonderful on stage. It will definitely be a unique performance, as expected of Yibo. It’s such a good way to end the year! Truly feels like a reward. 🙏🏼

-END.

#yizhan #bjyx #there is no science here folks im just clowning like i always do #cpn thoughts

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crescentblossom66 · 1 month

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Mafia Party!

The second of the two fics that I submitted to @anachronism-ahitzine Check out the other artists and their amazing pieces.

The gentle noise of waves drifting to shore and the squawking of seagulls that were normally so prevalent among the hardly busy port of Mafia Town, were now being drowned out by the loud honking of three incoming cargo ships, a rarity, as the small port usually only await one ship per day. The Mafia aboard all looked merry, as they slowly docked the ships and unloaded their cargo, working a lot harder than they normally would. The burly men were even humming a song, which would have been ear grating to others due to them being notoriously off-key, but none of them seemed to be bothered by that as they lifted the heavy crates and brought them over to the marketplace. One Mafia Goon seemed to be confused by the word “Kidney” being on the crate that he was carrying and started to make his way toward the black market with it, only to be stopped by his fellow Mafia. “Fellow Mafia is going the wrong way, we bring crates to marketplace.”

“Label says 'Kidney', we don't need kidney at festival.” Another of the men pointed at the other side of the crate.

“Label reads 'Beans', beans need to be brought to kitchen.” With confusion, the Mafia Goon that carried the rather vexing crate turned the wooden box and held the crate with one hand, scratching his bald head with the other.

“Mafia confused. What is crate containing, bean or kidney?” A more active and impatient goon decided to enforce a simple rule that their boss made up 'When in doubt or confused, simply punch the problem', so he did just that and punched a hole into the top of the crate revealing kidney beans, which resulted in a collective “Oh!” from the confused men.

When the group reached the marketplace, the preparations were well on their way. A few Mafia were standing on very puny-looking stools to hang up garlands, others were preparing a pyramid of wooden barrels for one of the main attractions of the festival, which was adequately yet plainly named 'Mafia Arrival Day', which was held every year in commemoration of the day they overtook what was formerly known as the City of Calcite and Adventure, or simply Calcite City for short. A group of them were straining to put up the golden statue of their leader, they had tied ropes to it, and were trying to make it stand upright. Due to their high strength it was fairly easy for them...but what they had in brawn they certainly lacked in brain, as the statue was now upside down, it's feet in the air.

“What is this?! Can't you do anything right?!” The boss of the Mafia arrived to inspect the preparations and was furious to see that they had somehow flipped his statue-self. “Put it upright, now!” He stomped his foot in anger at the incompetence that he had to deal with every single day, not even the jolly atmosphere or the beautiful, sunny day, brought him into a better mood. The Mafia men hurried to fix their error, when the statue landed on its side with a loud clang, he grit his teeth and let out a screech that made the blood in the bald men's veins run cold.

“Sorry boss, Mafia couldn't read instructions because of other Mafia dropped it in water. Ink got very messy, make everything look like chicken-scratches.” One of them explained, but their boss had none of it. Even if their boss was a lot smaller than the other Mafia, he had glare that was piercing their souls. “Don't glare at Mafia, please, Mafia want to keep soul. Mafia not want to end up like victims of eerie ghost in Subcon.”

The boss of the Mafia raised an eye brow in confusion, not really sure what his subordinate was talking about, but whatever it was seemed to have greatly disturbed not only him, as he could see some of the other Mafia Goons shaking. “Pull yourselves together, men! We won't be afraid of some apparition! I- I mean, we, will soon rule the whole planet!” The smaller man flashed a smile and stood rather proudly, his cockiness almost became his downfall as he barely dodged a huge meat one a bone that came barreling down the road and nearly flattened him on its way. “Concentrate, you morons! You'll ruin the whole festival!”

As the sun started to slowly set in the horizon, the marketplace of Mafia Town was finally ready, the garlands were all in place...albeit a little crooked, the barrels were organized, more or less, some somehow ended up on the floating platforms that none of them had access to, and the statue was placed the right way up this time. The majority of the Goons had decided to relax at the beach, one of them even brought a grill to serve grilled fish and hamburgers, he even managed to only burn himself twice this time! Other Mafia have turned in for the night while others were watching their favorite shows on TV. Everyone was relaxing after the hard day of work, but their leader was still out and about, making sure that faucets were all tightly closed, preventing the lava from flowing. It was the one job that he really didn't trust anyone with but himself, given the track record of his rather intellectually challenged men, it was likely a very smart move on his part.

As soon as the sun started to rise the next day, the normally rather relaxed and more or less easy going Mafia Goons rushed to the marketplace to light the torch on the hand of the statue of the Mafia Boss, which signaled the start of the holiday. The festivities were started off with the first of the three activities, the race! The starting point and end were different each year, but this year, the race would start in the back alleys and go all the way to the beach. The Mafia that were not participating watched their boss make his way to the white line to start off the race. If asked why he never participated, it was due to the fact that he would easily win, no question, so he deemed it unfair to his fellow Mafia. (The slightly smarter members of the Mafia knew however, that it was simply because he hated losing) As there wasn't really a requirement to how the participants needed to get from point A to point B, some found rather unconventional means of transportation. One stuck to the original way, opting to simply run to the goal, while the second was using a meat on the bone that he was balancing on top of, while the finally Mafia Goon was using...a rocket.

The Mafia Boss was nearly flattened once again, when he gave the signal to start, and the meat on the bone nearly crushed him. A 'Sorry, boss!' was heard when the Mafia realized his mistake and heard the growls of frustration that came from the short, red-clothed man. The Rocket Goon apparently had trouble starting his risky vehicle and jumped off of it kicking it once and recoiling as he came to realize that kicking solid steel was quite painful. “Stupid rocket, start!” He yelled at it, to no avail. The burly man scratched his scalp, contemplating what to do, meanwhile, the running Mafia and the balancing Mafia were a quarter and half way to the finish line respectively. “Wait Mafia forgot important item Mafia need fire to start rocket.” He checked all the pockets on his person, even his breast pocket which had a pink handkerchief in it, thankfully for the Rocket Mafia, none of onlookers seemed to have noticed this rather unmanly item. In a moment of brilliance, very uncharacteristic of the bald men, the Rocket Mafia realized that he could get a fire easily from the statue! The way to and from the marketplace took the risk-taker so long, that his competitors were already close to the finish line...one at least. Despite going at a moderate 3km/h (1.86 mph), the exhausted Mafia, that was using his own two legs, was still far ahead of the other that had an issue with getting his unconventional means of transportation past a bridge, as the huge piece of meat was way too big to fit on it.

With a loud bang and a cloud of black smoke that left the audience covered in soot and ashes, the man on the rocket indeed became the fastest man alive, gaining more and more speed as he made his way to the beach. 'Mafia fastest man alive, Mafia easily win race!' were the men's thoughts as he tried to smile while trying not to fall off what was clearly the most Mafia of all vehicles! His smile, however, quickly faded when he dashed way past his goal and out to sea. It was at that moment that he realized that his plan was very flawed.

Some of the Mafia at the beach were in awe, watching the Rocket Mafia get smaller and smaller on the horizon, while some of their fellow Goons were congratulating the Walking Mafia on his victory.

Between the first and second major activity was a time to just relax and enjoy the day, enjoying the island that they had forcefully taken away from the previous inhabitants. Some Goons were relaxing by the fountain in the marketplace, chatting while looking at the sloppily placed decorations. Others took the chance to enjoy some food in form of grilled fish, hotdogs, and steaks that had the face of their beloved leader carved into it. Miraculously, not a single man died of food poisoning that day.

The second contest of the day was the barrel throw. It was held on the marketplace and used the barrels from the pyramid they had prepared the day prior. The Goons from the casino had opened a stall, where the Mafia in the audience could place bets on their favored contestant. When the first contestant grabbed a barrel and barely managed to lift it, the audience erupted in laughter. “Come on, son, make Mafia proud!” One of the men shouted from the sidelines, trying to cheer the young Mafia on, before turning his head to the person next to him. “Mafia know son is too weak to win, never strong enough to punch even old lady, but Mafia is trying to be good father. Mafia told son that he has chance to succeed, but Mafia know son never succeeds, son must learn lesson, builds character.”

The young Mafia threw the barrel as far as he could...but only managed to toss the heavy wooden object a meter. (3.3 feet) far. He sighed and hung his head as he walked off, feeling like he had failed his father. Nobody doubted for a second that the second contestant, an average looking Mafia Goon, would easily throw the barrel further. He likely would have done so...if the general clumsiness, inherent to most Mafia, hadn't caused him to trip and drop the barrel right on his foot, which resulted in everyone breaking out into hysterical laughter yet again. A very muscular Mafia Goon, with a comically large torso and in comparison very stubby legs, had easily garnered the favor of everyone present, even the Mafia Boss had placed his bet on the man. He lifted the barrel as easily as one would pick up a small pebble, and readied himself to throw it way out of bounds of the contest. Victory was far from his grasp, however, when a flock of seagulls decided that it was payback time for one of their brethren, that the muscular Mafia had punched for trying to get a fish for their kid. He flailed around as the vindictive birds swarmed him and bit him, causing him to drop the barrel behind him, netting him negative points.

Everyone was quiet for a moment, in utter disbelief of what had just happened, until one burst out in laughter and the others joined...aside from their boss, who was raging and stomped on his hat repeatedly, because he had lost the bet. To his surprise, and even more so to the surprise of his father, the young Mafia was deemed the winner.

As the sun was starting to set, the arm wrestling contest started and Mafia Boss was once again the referee, which caused a lot of nervousness for the participants who were more afraid of his sharp gaze, rather than the brute strength of their opposition. In the end, nobody won as the Mafia started to flee after seeing a slimy space alien that crashed the party.

The alien repeated “Leave the island, or I'll curse you all!” multiple times as it attacked the Mafia, jumping on their heads while snickering. The only one who seemed mostly unfazed was their leader, who chased the alien away with his daggers after scolding his goons for running away in fear from a small and wimpy-looking mud monster. After that small foe was vanquished, the festivities resumed with just a little unease still present, it was visible the most in the Mafia that were lighting the rockets for the fireworks, who burned themselves on the fuse of the rockets each time they were lighting it.

“Alright, men, listen up!” The boss of the Mafia climbed onto a crate to give a speech like every year, his voice reaching even the Goofy Mafia that had been thinking about alien conspiracies up until that point and had been stuck in his thoughts. “It marks three years now since we made this island our new home. Thanks to the continues efforts of ME...and you, we're close to finishing up the improvements necessary to bring our families over here!” The goons cheered after that message.

“Mafia finally be able to see wife again, Mafia missed being nagged at for forgetting to take out trash.” One Mafia wiped away a tear and was consoled by the one next to him, who put a hand on his shoulder.

The boss rose his fist to the air. “Let's work hard on reaching that goal, no slacking this year!” Most Mafia cheered aside from one in the back.

“Mafia wasn't slacking, Mafia was working hard on repairing building while Boss was sleeping on throne.” Thankfully for that Mafia Goon, his boss didn't hear him.

All in all the festival was a big success and once again served it's purpose, bringing the Mafia together, even if it usually resulted in monumental chaos.

#anachronism zine #ahit #ahit fanfic #ahit mafia boss #ahit mafia goons

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boydepartment · 9 months

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Enhypen as Sad Songs

MASTERLIST

a/n: as per usual the song comes with a scenario ❤️

warnings- angst

JUNGWON- all i want- kodaline

you and jungwon were best friends for years. when highschool hit and he had to go away to become an idol you knew that was pretty much it for you two. there wouldn’t be anymore late night sleepovers, no more junk food at 3am together, no giggling while sneaking out, no nothing. or at least that’s what you thought. jungwon always planning to make time for you he always thought about how he could go on more adventures with you when he debuted. jungwon would have the money to take you anywhere you’d want. you didn’t know about any of his plans, so when you cut him off with a final goodbye he’s just left in confusion as to why you left him if you loved him.

HEESEUNG- your sister was right- wilbur soot

heeseung started out as your tutor for your english 101 class. you were struggling and needed help, heeseung would help you in more ways than english. he’d take you out on dates, give you stuff, you’d practically act like you were dating. all your friends hated the fact heeseung was this close to you. he had a reputation for using people, of course, it wasn’t true in the slightest. it had just been a rumour. hearing what your friends had to say about him made him so frustrated. heeseung never did anything to hurt you, but if that’s all anyone is ever going to see him as. then fine- he’d treat you exactly like they said he would. your friends were right.

JAY- how to never stop being sad- dandelion hands

you had always struggled working on anything. it was hard to do anything at all actually. from getting up, to trying to go get coffee every morning. jay hated seeing someone he loved so much drown out every single one of their feelings. he watched someone who he loved so much break themselves down. jay was close to you a few months go, you used to order coffee from him and it sprung up a tight friendship... until now. he didn’t know how to help, and telling you he was in love with you made it worse. it made it so much worse. you shut him out completely, because you felt your life was shit and you deserved it.

JAKE- single- the neighborhood

jake was your coworker who you had to style. you were previously his makeup artist and things quickly bloomed into more. you noticed how he would look at you differently every time you had to do his lip makeup. one time he finally took his chance. your relationship together was healthy, stable, and helped you enjoy your career. hybe didn't agree with it though and so you were both forced to separate. you were lucky that they just switched you to a makeup artist for another hybe group. you both only pass each other during award shows or filming. jake doesn't think either of you should be around each other, he's still got a crush and its obvious.

SUNGHOON- i was all over her- salvia palth

heeseung was your older brother, he came home for the summer. when both your parents were out he had a party with all his old and new friends. the party was big which surprised you, what surprised you even more was the fact one of the guys at this party started chatting you up. you found out his name was park sunghoon, he didn't really bother to ask your name. sunghoon was just all over you, not in a way of physically intimacy, just talking to you and not letting you give your attention to anyone else. getting this attention from a stranger made your naïve heart full, for him though, every stranger just made him feel safer. he had no intention being close to you after this party.

SUNOO- falling behind- laufey

sunoo watched all the couples around him, even jake had someone, which shocked him. no offense but the big goofball didn't even deserve you. sunoo watched as you joked with every one of his friends. sunoo didn't understand why jake was irritating him so much, he should be happy his best friend was happy. he didn't understand the reason why he was falling behind was because he was in love with you. he held hope that maybe you would catch on to his longing looks towards you. he wanted to call you his, sunoo wanted to have your shoulder be the one he can finally cry on. it got to the point where even riki found someone, everyone was falling in love but sunoo was falling behind.

RIKI- wasted summers- juju<3

riki was completely infatuated with you, he wanted to be around you 24/7. summer was the perfect time to be around you too, he got a small break from work and you didn't have school. riki missed going to school with you, however, this was his life now. he cherished every moment with you, from watching scary movies and holding your hand even if it was just for a split second. you'd always pull your hand away quickly though, whenever riki got closer to you, you'd pull away. but then you would call him and beg him to come over when the summer thunderstorms were too loud to deal with. while you slept soundly, riki cried next to you. he knew you didn't reciprocate his feelings, he didn't have to confess to you and get rejected to know that. riki knew that once his break was over he wasted like half of his summer trying to hold on your hand.

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firjii · 6 months

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I just saw the Spotify might change their royalties model and that it would hit indie artists hardest. Are you posting your music elsewhere? I follow you on Spotify but now I'm looking into other places for music and want to continue supporting your awesome music!!

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

I love you and thanks for asking.

Except for a few covers that are limited by licensing restrictions, my stuff is on all major and some minor platforms (I do sometimes lag in putting things on Bandcamp because lazy). I'm not monetized on Soundcloud because that system is somewhat different and IIRC not as welcoming of truly small artists, so any of my tracks that you find there are either on my "just for fun" accounts or are someone's illegal reupload.

Reminder to the new folks: I'm Firjii everywhere but also started another artist pseudonym as Kathy Warnecke (which should also be on all the same platforms by now).

Tidal and Apple usually have the best royalty payout rates and Spotify is among the worst (but no platform has a guaranteed fixed rate). Youtube is all over the place but usually on the low end. Downloads always pay better than streams, but I know some people can't do this or prefer to continually support with streams over time instead of paying once.

I'm also gonna take a minute to FUCKING RANT explain things to the uninitiated since virtually all my listeners on tungles are freemium Spotify users. From what I understand, this change has been finalized and it's not speculation at this point.

The deal is they'll withhold royalties from a song in a given calendar year unless it's streamed at least 1,000 times ANNUALLY (not lifetime).

Although the change will only consider per-track stats (not social media-like numbers such as followers/listeners or a measurement of how established the artist's presence is), in practice, this will specifically demonetize small/niche artists and have little or no impact on medium and big names. It will also affect the payouts small artists get from distributors because many of those have their own minimum payout thresholds.

I need people to understand just how shitty this is.

Say you're a prolific creator or recorded some live shows from a tour and you released 150 tracks in a year. If each track only got streamed on Spotify 999 times that year, they're pretty much saying you'd get paid for.......yup, exactly zero Spotify streams, not the 149,850 you're otherwise owed. I have no idea if this will impact PRO (performance rights organization) payouts, but I refuse to believe it would be legal to also withhold that share of royalties.

In the Spotify world, 1k streams is a tiny achievement (and still translates to a very small payout, so the concern is: what's to stop them from raising that minimum even more in the future?). But especially when the hurdle is per song per year, this can be a tough goal for indie or specialty genre artists to reach or maintain, including me.

I have a long history of disliking Spotify in particular for many reasons, but I upload there because it's the only way some people will listen. I strongly encourage anyone who is able to use other platforms to explore their options.

I know a lot of folks are too broke to pay for music and Spotify is a notable example of a freemium option, but this change is so, so, SO bad for SO many artists.

#hey maybe I need to start a tag for my music industry rants lol #how about #music industry tomfuckery #yes good let's go with that #nerkierants

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ghastlybin · 1 year

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Request: DC 8th member au. It's the reader's birthday and the girls surprise the reader with like a surprise party at a fan meet. The fans and members get the reader gifts. The reader is really happy and later goes on a Vlive or Weverse live talking about how happy and thankful she is. Just a whole lot of fluff.

This is such a cute idea :,) I really hope you like it/ hope it’s what you envisioned and thank you so much for the request! <3333

Pairing: uhhh none? Unless you count ALL of Dreamcatcher lmao

Word count: 1,441

Genre/contents: Dreamcatcher’s 8th member! AU, Fluff, there was an attempt to be as wholesome as possible.

Note: Not too familiar with what all goes on at fan meets or how vlive/ weverse live works (on the artists POV) so I went on a limb and pretty much winged it but hey, happy birthday!!! Also tried my best to include all members D: if someone is under mentioned, pls know that I love them and didn’t do it on purpose!!! Also, anon, if it’s your birthday (or was), happy birthday!!! I hope you had a great one :) <3

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Couldn’t find a gif with them all facing forward(?) so fck it, I’m using this gif

You didn’t feel any different today, despite it being your birthday. Everything was normal.

Waking up felt normal, save for the messages you woke up to of your friends and family sent wishing you a happy birthday.

But other than those, you felt as if it were an average day. Your own members hadn’t wished you a happy birthday yet, although the post wishing you a happy birthday on the groups official twitter account had been posted an hour before you had actually woken up and seen it.

“Hey, sleepy head.” Siyeon greeted you, smirking as you entered the backstage area where the fan-meet was taking place.

“I’ve been awake for two hours! Why are you still teasing me?” You tried to hide your smile by forcing a pout. Siyeon grinned, indicating she had gotten the reaction she was looking for.

“Alright! Let’s stop teasing her! We have our InSomnia’s waiting for us!“ Jiu put her hands on both yours and Siyeon’s shoulder’s, ushering you two after the other girls.

You fixed your hair last minute, despite the stylist having done that for you.

Greeting the fans that had shown up to see you, you waved at them and posed for your fan-sites as they had taken pictures of you to post later.

A majority of the gathering even had banners with your name and face on them.

But neither of the signs had acknowledged your birthday. Not that you were upset about it, you just thought it would feel nice.

The fan meeting had happened as per usual; You and the girls performed a few songs, interacted with fans, and played some games that entertained the crowd.

“Our next game, we will have Y/N lead.” Jiu announced. The girls and the fans had cheered you on.

Stepping forward, slightly confused as you were only aware of the activities, you’d all be doing at the event- Which had all already passed.

As far as you were concerned, you thought the meeting was ending right about now. Not that you were complaining, though. You felt the love from the fans as they cheered you on.

“What is my objective?” You asked, putting your hands behind your back as you awaited instructions for the next game.

The girls looked at Gahyeon, who happily skipped over to you and handed you a blind fold.

“Put this on first.” She watched as you tied the blind fold over your eyes. Judging by how the blind fold had completely blocked out your vision, you assumed it was a ‘guessing’ game.

“Now what?”

“Patience!” Handong spoke with a chuckle. You felt two hands on your shoulders soon after and another hand had taken yours into theirs.

“Careful- Walk towards me.” Sua spoke, tugging your hand. You felt the person behind you softly push you ahead until They and Sua had stopped.

“Okay,” Dami shuffled in front of you, you heard a soft puff of air being blown out of someone’s mouth- You had assumed it was Dami, as she was the last to speak. “Okay, you can take it off now.”

“Ah! Let me!” Yoohyeon offered from behind you. Your hands had met hers as she had offered right as you were just about to remove the blind fold yourself.

You dropped your hands as she had untied the knot. Upon adjusting your eyes, everyone- Jiu, Sua, Siyeon, Handong, Dami, and Gahyeon had stood in front of the fans, while Yoohyeon had jogged over to join them, holding the blind fold.

You stared in awe and surprise, first noticing the signs InSomnia’s were holding had been flipped around and had read, ‘Happy Y/N day!’.

Then you noticed the tray in front of you with a medium sized cake that had a small caricature of you on top of it and also had the spelling, ‘Happy Y/N day!’. Beside the cake, was a table of gifts- All for you, that had previously been hidden behind a curtain you had thought was something else.

The candles on the cake had been lit and you noticed Dami holding a used match. You grinned widely, wrapping your arms around yourself from all the love you felt in that moment.

“Oh my…” You moved your hands to cover your face, feeling yourself tear up. The girls came up to join you, Sua and Siyeon were at your immediate left and right, their arms around you as you let a few tears of joy escape.

“Everyone! Happy birthday to you,” Jiu urged the crowd to sing with her. Soon the other girls had joined in as well as Sua and Siyeon had hugged you while you had gotten emotional.

“Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Y/N, Happy birthday to you!”

You sniffled, blowing out the candles before melted wax had dripped onto the cake itself. Everyone in the meeting had cheered for you once again and you picked the candles out, setting them to the side.

“Thank you- All of you, so much!” You spoke, gratefully after Handong had passed the mic to you.

“I am so very grateful to all of you,” You wiped the tears from your face as you continued. You turned towards the girls, a fond smile on your face, “And I’m very grateful to my members as well. I’m proud to be a part of such an amazing group.”

Soon after you had said that the girls had rushed to engulf you in a group hug. If you didn’t love them as much as you did, you’d have felt suffocated in their hold.

“I think this is officially my best birthday ever.”

Later on that evening, you had decided to go live to thank fans before heading to bed and ending the day.

You waited a moment for more people to join and almost immediately had a chat full of birthday wishes and various emojis.

You smiled, waving at the camera and covering your mouth to hide a yawn.

“Sorry- Hello everyone! Welcome in!” You read a few comments in the chat, each of them making your heart feel full.

“Thank you so much for the birthday wishes!”

You read another comment, wishing you happy birthday, but the poster had also added a small paragraph of how amazing you are and how much they love you.

“Gosh! I’m going to cry again! Why are you all so sweet?!” You laughed away the tears.

“Why did you cry?”

You read that comment out loud, raising your eyebrows as you had initially forgotten not everyone was aware of your emotional reaction earlier.

“Ah… Today I thought everyone forgotten my birthday- I admit, that was a bit dramatic of me. But during our fan meeting, my members had surprised me with a birthday party,” you paused for a second, smiling at the memory.

“I felt very… Happy… Thankful… Loved. My heart is full, and I really do love you guys. If any of my members are watching, I love you too. I don’t think I could do anything without your love and support.”

You laughed at a comment that read, ‘now you’re going to make me cry!’

“Don’t cry! Let’s be happy today before it ends.” You smiled at the camera.

Hearing a knock on your door, you jumped as you had thought everyone had been fast asleep by now. Before you could open the door, it had been opened by whomever was behind it.

“Ah! It’s just Dami.” You teased, earning a playful nudge.

“And Gahyeon!” Gahyeon had entered after Dami. Both girls sat beside you and soon Jiu, Sua, Siyeon, Handong, and Yoohyeon had entered, all sat around you as you had adjusted your webcam so that everyone had been in view.

“My second family is here, everyone say hi!” You grinned. The girls had simultaneously waved at the camera, saying ‘hello’ while the comments had been spammed with various ways of saying ‘hello’ back.

“Y/N grows up so fast, don’t you think?” Jiu spoke up, a smile on her face. You groaned, “I don’t feel any older.”

“Does anyone ever?” Jiu added. You read more comments, most of whom had agreed with Jiu.

“One more hour until your birthday is over,” Dami smirked, “should we sing to you again?”

You shrugged, “one more won’t hurt- “

“Happy birthday to you!” Gahyeon had led the song, barely letting you finish your sentence.

The other girls had joined in, “Happy birthday to you!”

You giggled at them singing to you, deciding to just go with it, waving your hands from side to side as they continued.

“Happy birthday dear Y/N, Happy birthday to you!”

#lmao does the divider fit??? i just wanted one to match the theme tbh #meh i do want cake now though lol #dreamcatcher #dreamcatcher au #dreamcatcher imagines #dreamcatcher x reader #dreamcatcher fics

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uhuhuhfizz · 14 days

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spotify has gone to shit so ive made a list tryijg to find a better one

music apps rated [WITHOUT PAYING]

may 2024

tested on

lyrics

skips

ads

playing while phone is off

locked songs

picking songs [without the shuffle, or from specific playlists]

wide selection [i looked up a few lesser known songs and if they had them they get a 10/10]

spotify

lyrics - limited ??

skips - 6 per hour

ads - one every song or two

playing while phone is off - yuh

locked songs - nuh

picking songs - no

wide selection - 7/10

notes - better on the computer usually

my rating = 4/10

youtube music

lyrics - for most songs

skips - unlimited

ads - 2 or so before videos, sometimes skippable

playing while phone is off - no

locked songs - no

picking songs - yuh

wide selection - 10/10

notes - premium goes onto normal youtube too, same with playlists

my rating = 6/10

amazon music

lyrics - yes

skips - limited

ads - yes every few songs

playing while phone is off - yes

locked songs - not that i can see

picking songs - yes

wide selection - 7/10

notes - prime connected to every amazon thing

my rating = 7/10

soundcloud

lyrics - no

skips - unlimited

ads - yes, not skippable and they dont play unless ur looking at them ?? like if ur in the app and an ad plays, if u leave it wont keep playing..

playing while phone is off - yes

locked songs - yes so many popular ones

picking songs - u can pick any

wide selection - 4/10 without premium

notes - most songs i enjoy are locked

my rating = 4/10

pandora

lyrics - no

skips - unlimited [i think)

ads - yes, very long ones

playing while phone is off - yes

locked songs - not that i can see

picking songs - yes

wide selection - 7/10

notes - it makes playlists for you immediately called 'stations', you can add artists not specific songs

my rating = 6/10

musie

lyrics - no

skips - unlimited

ads - yes

playing while phone is off - yes

locked songs - no

picking songs - yea

wide selection - 10/10 [i think they pull from youtube]

notes - the ads are like mobile game ads where they show up at weird times [like right when u open the app] but theyre skippable after like 3 seconds

my rating = 8/10

i will not be adding apple music fuck apple music

the songs i looked up[to see if they have a wide selection] were

the behind your back dance - that handsome devil

dont say no - tv girl

also most of these ive only used literally today so if its different long term tell me

#music apps #music #car seat headrest #uhm #spotify #pandora #amazon music #youtube music #fuck spotify

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Top 20 Favorite Albums Of All Time: 2024 Edition

Ranking the best albums of all time is really hard, because there are thousands of albums out there, and you maybe haven’t heard a lot of those albums you’d love. I’ve been a music fan for the last 17 years, give or take, and I’ve listened to tons of albums, but one thing I don’t usually do is make ranked best of lists of albums I personally love. I like doing yearend lists, because that’s only the single year, not of all time. I’ve only done a best of all time ranking once, and that was maybe a decade ago, but in the span of that time, my taste has changed. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at my favorite albums of all time. It took awhile, but over the last few years, my taste has changed a lot. It’s going to, as that’s how tastes work. I’ve always thought of tastes in media are fluid, and not finite, because you can have different opinions at different points in time. With that said, some albums I used to absolutely revere aren’t always I love that much anymore, so if you’re wondering where something is, it’s probably that I still really love it, but not that much. I do have a handful of honorable mentions, and some of these albums are ones that I used to really love, and while I may still love them, they didn’t make the cut. I did have one rule, however, when I made this list: only two albums per band / artist on the main list. That’s because I love multiple albums from a lot of these bands and artists, so I only limited myself to two albums from any artist, but the honorable mentions might have an album that didn’t make the cut. They aren’t in any order, either, but let’s start with the honorable mentions, starting with…

Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill

A lot of the albums on the entire list mean something to me, whether it’s the first album in a genre I discovered, or an album that I have a lot of nostalgia for, and Beastie Boys’ debut, Licensed To Ill is one of those, for sure. This is one of the first hip-hop albums I listened to, at least a few years after dipping my toes into the genre, and Beastie Boys blew my mind with their brand of hip-hop meets metal and punk, especially with Slayer’s Kerry King having a guest spot on their debut. Truthfully, their later albums are better, but I have a soft spot for their debut, because it’s so much fun and scrappy. For one of the first rap albums I ever listened to, I love it.

Childish Gambino - Because The Internet

Speaking of hip-hop, I don’t want to spoil too much of what you’ll see later, but Childish Gambino (otherwise known as Donald Glover) is the first rapper I ever listened to. I have another album of his on the list, but his sophomore album (not counting mixtapes), 2013’s Because The Internet, is a fun and experimental romp through hip-hop, R&B, pop, psychedelic, and electronic music. It’s got some of my favorite songs of his, but it’s also a really interesting and unique album that still doesn’t quite sound like anything I’ve ever heard.

Van Halen - S/T

Hard-rock band Van Halen is one of my favorite bands, and their 1978 self-titled debut is one of the best hard-rock albums ever made. This is the album that introduced people to both David Lee Roth, and Eddie Van Halen (may he rest in power). This isn’t anything necessarily unique, but it’s one hell of a record with some great riffs, solos, and hooks.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Arguably the first metal band, Black Sabbath’s debut album, 1970’s Paranoid, is also considered to be the first true heavy metal album, and it rules. It’s got a couple of their most beloved and well known songs, but it’s the album that first showcased heavy metal as its own sound, versus being bluesy hard-rock. This album was one of the first traditional heavy metal album albums that I listened to, and showed me that a lot of classic metal albums have merit to them.

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

I’ve become a jazz fan over the last few years, at least more than I used to be, and one of my favorite jazz records, as well as the first jazz record I ever listened to, is Miles Davis’ magnum opus, 1959’s Kind Of Blue. This is such a dynamic and interesting little jazz album that took the genre into new and unexplored territories, especially with Miles Davis already being an influential band leader by that point.

Dio - Holy Diver

Along with Black Sabbath’s Paranoid, Dio’s - 1983 debut album, Holy Diver, is one of my favorite traditional heavy metal albums that got me into that style. Dio, the band, is made up of the 1980 - 1982 lineup of Black Sabbath, sans Tony Iommi, but one could also argue that Holy Diver was an influence on power metal. Ronnie James Dio isn’t only one of the best and most expressive metal vocalists, his sense of lyricism was more based on Lord Of The Rings and fantasy, versus the typical cliches of rock and metal at the time. This album is really catchy, fun, anthemic, and larger than life, but that was Dio in a nutshell.

Metallica - Ride The Lightning

Ah, Metallica, you know they’d be here, but this is one of the exceptions to my “two album rule,” as I have three albums from this legendary and iconic band on the list, although only two on the actual list, so I kept one here. That album is 1984’s Ride The Lightning. This is their second album, where they honed their sound a bit, but this isn’t the first album from them I listened to, nor is it quite my favorite, although this album is legendary, and for good reason.

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

A decade ago, The Beatles were easily my favorite band. I went through a whole couple of years where they were all I listened to, and truth be told, 1967’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, is still a great album, and it’s one of my favorites, but I haven’t gone back to it as much in recent years. Maybe I’m just burnt out on them, or my taste has changed, but this isn’t quite my all time favorite. I still love this album, and it’s a wonderful rock album, being a monumental album both for the genre and for its time.

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Arguably the best pop / pop-rock album of all time, you know Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 masterpiece Rumours had to be here. This album is a lightning in a bottle kind of album that could only have been made under the right set of circumstances. If just one small thing was off, who knows what this album would have sounded like? This is the best example of a breakup album that’s written by both parties of the breakup, let alone writing songs about each other and singing on each others’ songs. Talk about awkward, but that awkwardness makes for some of the best music ever made.

Spiritbox - Eternal Blue

This is the most recent album on my list, but I’ve gone on record as saying that Spiritbox’s debut album, 2021’s Eternal Blue, is one of my new all time favorite albums. It was my favorite album of 2021, and it’s one of the best albums of the 2020s so far. This band mixes alt-metal, djent, metalcore, progressive metal, and even pop and electronic sounds to make for a very fun, catchy, accessible, and palatable sound that is only getting better, especially with their newest EP from last year.

Okay, it’s time for my top 20 favorite albums of all time, so here we go!

20: Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

One of my all time favorite solo artists is pop and R&B singer Justin Timberlake, and I’ll go into more detail later, but his 2013 comeback album, The 20/20 Experience, is one of my favorite pop and R&B albums. I’m gonna cheat and just point you to the direction of the ten-year retrospective I wrote last year, because I go into a lot more detail than I could here.

19: Paramore - Riot

A huge congratulations is needed for Paramore in their Grammy wins last week, but the first album from them I ever heard is 2007’s Riot, and it’s also one of my favorite albums from the MySpace / scene era. It’s held up surprisingly well, but it’s such a catchy, energetic, and rambunctious pop-punk album that only began to show how talented that band really was (and frankly still is).

18: Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA

You can’t have an all time favorite albums list without The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen. At least my list, anyway, because I love me some Springsteen, but my favorite Springsteen album will always be 1984’s Born In The USA. Something about his gruff vocals paired with shimmering and catchy pop-tinged instrumentation is so good, but some of these songs are among his most iconic.

17: Sam Cooke - The Best Of Sam Cooke

I’ve come to love a lot of music from the 1940s and 1950s, and Sam Cooke is my favorite singer of that era, especially with his 1962 greatest hits album. I first listened to Sam Cooke in the movie Hitch, and it took me a long time to figure out who it was, but I absolutely love his work. His voice is among the best of all time, and that greatest hits is such a short but sweet collection of the best of the best.

16: Judas Priest - Screaming For vengeance

Judas Priest is among my favorite bands, and their 1982 album, Screaming For Vengeance, is the first album I ever listened to from them back maybe a decade ago. This is where the band went from a bluesy hard-rock / metal sound to a faster and more energetic sound, more akin to speed metal from that era, but that’s not to say that their earlier material isn’t good, either. Screaming For Vengeance is one of my favorite Priest albums, and for a long, it was my favorite of their albums, at least until I heard another one (which we’ll talk about soon enough).

15: The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

Handwritten, the 2012 album from The Gaslight Anthem, is one of my favorite rock albums, but this wasn’t the first album I listened to from them. That would be 2010’s American Slang, and while I enjoyed that album a lot, their foray into classic rock with Handwritten, just resonated a lot more. Brian Fallon and company sound great on this album, and it’s still my favorite album from these guys. Despite releasing one more album in 2014 before going on hiatus until releasing a comeback album last year, which was ultimately disappointing, nothing tops this album for me.

14: U2 - The Best Of 1980 - 1990

Like with Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience, I’m going to cheat a bit by saying check out my piece on U2, and how I’ve grown to love this band, but their first greatest hits album is an utterly killer album. Out of everything here, this is the most “recent” discovery I’ve made, but I truly do love U2, and this greatest hits album.

13: Metallica - The Black Album

Oh yeah, The Black Album, now we’re talking. I absolutely love this record. Metallica’s most accessible album, and depending on who you talk to, it’s either one of their best or worst albums, but this is where the band really honed in on their penchant for good hooks. This is their catchiest album, but it’s still heavy. Some of these riffs are downright nasty, and it features some of their best solos to date.

12: Fall Out Boy - Folie A Deux

It’s no secret Fall Out Boy is my favorite band, so it would make sense that 2008’s Folie A Deux is one of my favorite albums of all time. This is their catchiest and most accessible, but like with The Black Album, it has some of their best hooks and also some of my favorite Fall Out Boy lyrics. This album deals a lot with their newfound time after their last album came out, and it’s got a lot of biting social satire and commentary, but it’s also just a damn good time.

11: Judas Priest - Painkiller

Judas Priest became a full blown speed metal / thrash metal band in 1990 with Painkiller, and this was their last album Rob Halford until the 00s, but this is a monster of a record. It’s the best Judas Priest album by far, and easily my favorite, but for good reason. Sometimes all you need is a kickass album, and that’s what this is.

10: Guns ‘N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Top ten time, and first up, is Guns ‘N Roses’ debut, 1987’s Appetite For Destruction, and this is another kickass album, but it rides the line between being hard rock and metal. You can call GNR a metal band, because this album leans very much into that territory, especially with how popular hair metal was at the time. Hair metal was at its prime in 1987, and this album is among the best of that sound, or at least, very close to it. Axl Rose and Slash are one of the best duos in hard rock and metal for good reason.

9: AC/DC - Back In Black

In the beginning of the same decade, AC/DC released the massive Back In Black, and this record is one of the first hard rock albums I ever heard, as well as “classic rock,” and this album will always have a place in my heart. I don’t listen to this album much anymore, because I’ve already played it a thousand times, but every time I dust this album off, so to speak, I think to when I was 12 or 13, listening to this album for the first time.

8: Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

You know I had to put some Iron Maiden here, and of course, I went with 1982’s The Number Of The Beast. This is the quintessential Iron Maiden album, as well as a quintessential heavy metal album (especially from the 1980s). I feel like a lot has been said about this album already, and I’ve talked about it a lot over the years, so I don’t need to say much else other than this album rules.

7: Justin Timberlake - FutureSex / LoveSounds

Justin Timberlake is back, folks, and this time with 2006’s FutureSex / LoveSounds. This was one of the first pop albums I ever listened to, especially after randomly picking it up at FYE one day back in 2012. I was wanting to get out of my comfort zone, and I had always heard great thing about this album, all of which are founded in truth. This record is one of the best pop albums I’ve ever heard, and there’s only one that surpasses it, but we’ll talk about that in a second. This is JT at the top of his game, whether it’s the production, the vocals, or even a lot of the lyrics, this is an iconic album for a reason.

6: Eagles - Their Greatest Hits / Vol 2

I’m a huge fan of the Eagles, and instead of putting their first greatest hits album from 1975, I decided to cheat and put both that and their 1980 second one. Both greatest hits albums have some of my favorite songs from them, but they feel like two halves of a whole. You can’t have one without the other, but if you want some great harmonies, lyricism, vocals, and just the whole package of a band that first started as a country / folk-rock band and turned into one of the highest selling and most influential arena-rock bands, you can’t go wrong with these albums.

5: Childish Gambino - Camp

Childish Gambino’s debut, 2011’s Camp is the first rap album I ever heard, and it’s also one of my all time favorite albums, even today. This record showed me that hip-hop could be emotional, interesting, introspective, and was more than what the mainstream perpetuated. I’ve come around on the genre tenfold, but back then, I was just getting into other styles of music, and I was a fan of Donald Glover already, thanks to Community, and this record blew my mind when I first heard it. I think it holds up quite well today, too, but I plan on writing a piece on this, so I’m gonna save a lot of my thoughts for that, but I love this record a lot.

4: Van Halen - 1984

Hell yeah, brother, 1984 by Van Halen. This is a great album, and it turns 40 this year, although I believed it just did, actually. I talked about their self-titled debut earlier, but their 1984 LP of the same name is my favorite album of theirs. Songs like “Jump, “Top Jimmy,” and “Hot For Teacher” are god tier 80s rock and metal songs. This album is also really awesome for featuring synth, especially at a time when synths were becoming more popular, but not for rock music. Van Halen made it work, and 1984 is one of the best albums of all time.

3: Metallica - Master Of Puppets

A couple of years ago, I made a list ranking the first five Metallica albums, and I put 1983’s Kill ‘Em All as my number one, but I’d like to change my ranking a bit here, and put 1986’s Master Of Puppets as my number one, although I do still love their debut, and I go back to it quite a bit, it’s not their best album, or even my personal favorite anymore, but Master Of Puppets isn’t only my favorite Metallica album, it’s also the first album from these guys I listened to. I guess you could say this was the first thrash album I listened to, but metal in general doesn’t get any better than Master Of Puppets.

2: Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High

You know, I’ve said for the longest time that my favorite album of all time is Fall Out Boy’s Infinity On High, and I suppose you can say that the final (and top) two albums are interchangeable, but I’ve been thinking about what album is truly my number one. It depends on the day which one would really be my favorite, but with that said, these final two albums are two of the most influential albums on me personally. Fall Out Boy’s Infinity On High is the first album I ever got into, back when I was a wee lad, and only discovering music for the first time, so this album has a history with me. I just wrote extensively about this album on its anniversary a few days ago, so check that out for some more context on this album.

1: Michael Jackson - Thriller

Michael Jackson’s 1982 juggernaut Thriller is a GOATed album. Let’s not mince words here. I saw a clip of Donald Glover being interviewed by his costar from Mr. And Mrs. Smith about what album is considered the GOAT and he said Thriller. I’ve been thinking about that, and the more I keep saying to myself that’s true. This album is the first pop album I ever listened to, because I wanted to get out of my comfort zone of being into rock and metalcore, like I was at the time, so I remember seeing a copy of Thriller and I decided to grab it. Little did I know that album would blow my mind to smithereens, whether it was for its production or its vocals. I had only known Michael Jackson from the tabloids, especially before he passed, and didn’t understand how important and influential his music was, but knowing that history and context, this album is the highest selling album of all time for good reason.

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2022.06.02 DIR EN GREY at KT Zepp Yokohama -a knot only-

00 new SE

01 new song-1 →Shadenfreude

02 Celebrate Empty Howls

03 Phenomenon

04 Midwife

05 落ちたことのある空・Ochita

06 new song-2 →The Perfume of Sins

07 Mazohyst of decadence

08 朧・Oboro

09 new song-3 →響・Hibiki

10 Behind a vacant Image

11 Values of Madness

12 T.D.F.F.

13 詩踏み・Utafumi

ENCORE

en14 蛍火・Hotarubi

en15 逆上堪能ケロイドミルク・Gyakujo tanno keloid milk

en16 INCREASE BLUE

en17 CLEVER SLEAZOID

en18 人間を被る・Ningen wo kaburu

How the goods queue and entering the venue was handled was very very far from the usual Zepp venues standard... that's it.

At least inside there were clear, easy to see lines creating squares on the floor, one fan per square. It didn't feel very crowded (especially after the failed entering).

As the BGM we got to listen to Dir remixes 😆

Kyo has a new stand with a gold bull's head.

They started with a new SE, the images had some ancient engraved metal disc with slowly turning parts. There was also a Buddhist looking statue, flames, setting up the ancient and magical atmosphere.

Then members started to appear in their usual order: Shinya, Die, Toshiya, Kaoru and Kyo.

Shinya wore his white outfit, it was like a long jackety thing? Die wore all black, I think basically his artist photo outfit? Toshiya had the prince type jacket from the artist photo, I think Kaoru also wore his photo outift.

Kyo wore a white tank top with a leather (not cow xp) jacket on top, black skinny jeans. As far as I could tell no or little make up. His hair was short blond.

They started with a new song, a long one (I haven't listened to the 30sec previews so either first or last song of PHALARIS). It started with a short bit of Die on the accoustic guitar (and he used it again later). It had a slower start but it changed few times, going faster, there was one heavier part, guitar solo. Kyo was singing quite high at some parts. It was a very nice song to start with.

After Celebrate Empty Howls there was a short break and then Kyo was smoking as Phenomenon started.

Midwife had Kyo on the stand shouting '重なって・kasanatte', to be honest it felt so strange without the reply from the audience😢 but it had a lot of energy.

The second new song was a heavier one, started with guitars and growling (?). There was also clean singing, quite high. The video had a cage with people?

Then after a break we heard the familar notes of Mazohyst, and it was familiar but also quite changed. It was tuned very low. Kyo changed all lyrics.

And they connected it with Oboro that followed after. Ouch.

After another short break they played the third new song. It was a slower one, with clean singing. Blue and purple lights.

Behind the Vacant Image that followed matched its energy well.

Up to this point the flow of songs was okay but the choice of songs had the audience actually stay quite passive (for dir). I was joking that I'm mainly going to listen to new songs rather than watch the concert because of my quite late number but there was a lot of 'just listening' (and my view was actually nice😆).

From Values of Madness the energy changed though and the last three songs of the main set were done in the 'いけるか？！・Are you alive over there??' spirit😂

As the main part finished we started clapping. The wait for encore wasn't very long.

They came back changed. Kaoru wore the tour long sleeve shirt, Toshiya had a sparkly black shirt over a black fitted one. Kyo had the tour jacket over the previous white tank top. Die something black/short sleeves. Shinya no idea, I couldn't see.

Hotarubi was a nice surprise!!

And then there was a lot of jumping and headbanging!😆

Somewhere during encore when members were walking around the stage Die bumped into Toshiya. And they were walking quite a lot!

Before the last song we got the whole course of 'are you alive?' 'can you keep going?' 'guys!!!' 'girls!!!' with pointing at the different areas of the audience. And 'LAAAAST'.

No surprise here - Ningen wo Kaburu.

Kyo stayed on his stand for a bit, pointing at the audience and fist hitting his heart. Then he left after giving us a small wave.

Die was actually THROWING PICKS!!! I haven't seen any picks flying since 2019😭❤️

I'm quite curious if setlists will change a lot during the next shows - I kinda expected more new songs so I hope that after the album release they will increase them!!

Next for me is Niigata.

#dir en grey #tour22 phalaris #setlist #kt zepp yokohama #attempt at live report

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- current favorite kpop songs -

Bol4 - You(=I)

May or may not have discovered this song through skz’s tik tok… heh. It’s so cute :,) Bol4 never fails to create the most unique and sweet melodies. There’s this song, Blue, Galaxy, etc. I think this will be one of those songs I will not get tired of even after a hundred listens. Pls listen you will not be disappointed!

Crush, Dynamicduo - No Break

When I was in Korea, I went to one of Crush’s wonderego concerts. He is a really, really good live performer. I definitely became more of a fan after attending, so I decided to listen to his wonderego album a few times, and this song stood out to me. It’s just so groovy! Crush’s songwriting style is unmatched.

Stray Kids - COMFLEX

😎. It’s so addicting?? It kinda reminds me of SSICK for some reason. Or maybe it’s only because both song titles are capitalized lol. This is one of those songs where when someone asks why you like it, you say “it’s just really good!!” you know? But fr muddy water line did so well here. Their parts are my fav :)

Young K - Butterfly

This song wasn’t written by Young K, which kinda surprised me. Usually he’s the one writing songs for other artists, not the other way around lol. But this doesn’t change how good of a song this is :> We already know how multifaceted Young K’s voice is, and you can really notice it through this song. Btw why are there so many kpop songs called butterfly ._.

Young K - Bungee Jumping

The best song (haha) on its album!!! And the live recordings of it from music festivals are even better. I get really happy whenever it appears on shuffle. The bridge is definitely my favorite. And the leadup to the final chorus. I feel like this song kinda embodies Young K’s personality for some reason. Not the lyrics (which are impeccable per usual), just the tune.

#bol4 #crush #stray kids #young k #day6 #kpop #q

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Saw your tags. Can't wait to see your piece when you get the chance to work on it! Also, what do you mean by "offering"?

Oh hi, yes! Hello! 🫶🏻

I'll try to carve out time as soon as i am able to beside work and all, but the last few weeks are always a bit more packed, shortening the time i can spend on stuff i enjoy.

By offering i mean i have an art challenge going on under the name: A Series of Small Offerings, which is basically a daily promptlist based on the lyrics of the 45 original songs making up the Sleep Token discography. And that takes priority over any other dabble into artistic endevours for me right now (i'm still short on a III and the Vesselettes clayfigures for my full set but that has to wait for sure).

I'm trying my best not to skip any days on the challenge. I'm doing (or trying very hard to do) a drawing per day and usually that is all i have energy for, even if they are not large or complicated pieces. One or two Tiny Token doodle is what i'm able to cram besides them but not much else most of the time.

Weekends could be more forgiving but that's not always a guarantee either, life do be lifeing sometimes. But all in all, i really love the scene you wrote down and i want to try my hand at it but i don't want to do a rush job either, exactly because i love it a lot. So there is a very real possibility that i either can only start on it next weekend or during the holidays.

I'm sorry i can't do it sooner, and i really hope there is someone out there who can also work on it. Because 1) i am not a professional artist, i just like to do stuff so my quality is quite far from the best out there, and 2) i really can't give a timeframe when i can start, other then a solid maybe in a week or two ToT

But it's coming.

I hope you have a wonderful day every day! 🫶🏻

#levynn answers #imalsoscarlet

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Jungwoo/Mark’s tweet earlier got me sooo mad I was heated again like so quick after the nj concert the very next day you’re like “back to koreaaaaa💚” like I’m upset bc i am into 2 other groups, all of which I’ve supported since their respective debuts (except for the fact that I’d been around and waited for neos since 2014 smrookies…since their fucking name sounded like a citation in a legal contract, SR14B! That’s right, all the way from Florida, I’ve been down for them since before THEY WERE EVEN “THEM”, THEIR DAMN SELVES!! I remember when Haechan spelled his birth name without a ‘c’ in it, you little muskrats, i— anyway ) but 80% of my attention time and money for the last few years has been to nct, including superm. First it was it was like 50-55%, then it progressed a couple years ago to 65-75, now here we are. To the point that I still care about my favs but all I talk about & most of I listen to & only I voted for, has been nct. On top of that, I’m Black. And was most active on Twitter. Do y’all know how hard it is to be a black ifan to these mfs for over half a decade, sometimes I wonder if im in my right mind cus part of me lookin in the mirror like “bitch u sure u good over there?🤨” 😭

The confidence…the gall, the audacity, the mf TEMERITY of these people to either not gaf enough about the majority of their fans that they’ll pussyfoot around and kiss the feet of Korean nctzens so much that they are actively disrespecting us. A few of them lurk, I know they do, esp Ty. ik cus he’s my bias & what he texts in bubble proves he knows things he wouldn’t be aware of without looking at our tweets. I am so upset with him & I have never been mad enough about anything he’s done as I am rn. If you’ve seen anything Tyongf have said, you know we are a little shocked and a lot disappointed. I’d planned to say sumn but that video showing he was insecure in his position came out so I used my allotted texts on that but the minute he sends smth (3 replies allowed per message of the artist) it’s ON, on.

I remember superhuman era quite well but what strikes me is how large the treatment gap has widened since then. There came to a time where we were lowered another peg (cus we knew we weren’t equal) to please and appease kfans. Then it’s gotten worse and worse when their fandom size jump quite a bit with Kick It but EXPONENTIALLY abroad with Sticker & favorite last year. But the acknowledgement has been less! How long does sm think we will sit & take this from them before we find another group that doesn’t mistreat their fans abroad lmao. One of those I’m into is BTS. Do you think I would’ve been calling radio stations regularly to get & then keep their songs on there, buying the albums in store to help with physicals and doing all the other projects if they treated intl army like NCT treats nctzens outside of Korea🧐?!?? Does NCT and sm think GRAMMY NOMINATIONS came to BTS twice by intl armys getting treated like second class citizens?! LMAOOO chile they have bumped their damn heads.

Atp I want Chris Lee and some other people’s heads on pikes!! Whoever make them type of decisions to shun us!! They really bending over backwards for people who tanked their entire era in anger bc American fans got fan service like taking pics with them on the street & shit?? That just shows how shallow they can be! Clown asses! Usually I’m like “Bubu don’t go on Twitter there aren’t good things there” but rn I’m sooo close to going off that it got me boutta text him to go on Twitter & exactly what to search if he wanna see whats really good in the fandom rn. I’m tired of being understanding & acting like I’m fine and is being the bigger person. I want to evoke emotions, I want them feel upset and worry and FEAR👹 It sounds unhinged and petty but I want them for even just a MINUTE, to have a bodily experience of fright and sadness and the realization that we very can leave in droves! But not boycotting an era and cursing them out, oh no, by legitimately just dropping them. That we CAN leave their asses silently and put another group on the map. We can drop not just the unit but the whole brand, ending that nct Hollywood bullshit RIGHT NOW if they don’t appreciate us being around. We don’t expect to be superior just at least toe the mf line??

It’s funny, they call us grass sometimes bc of our light sticks. I’m all about not feeling insecure or conflicted in the past but…These days? I’d thoroughly enjoy them having an “oh shit…” feeling of despair, and epiphany that if they don’t water ALL the “grass” in their yard, there WILL be noticeably large patches of nothing but dirt and dead plants.

I need you to know that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this ask. You have a way with words. I could feel the rage through my screen. I also felt like I was being scolded even though I did nothing wrong. You know how like when you're in the room and your friend is getting chewed tf out by their mom? That's how I felt for a hot minute lol

I said in an earlier ask that all this ncity discourse has me feeling like I'm on the couch with a bag of popcorn watching my bestie fight with her boyfriend. You are now that bestie and I will cheer you on while you read our men to filth. 👏 also hell yes kill nct hollywood early so we never gotta deal with that shit! hahahaha

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