cute lil "no longer you" analysis

Ok guys so like we know how the oracle works? Yeah yeah yeah, they say smth and no matter what you do, it will come true because of what you do. However, there are different pathways obvs. So tiresias is like, "Yeah theres a lot of your journeys, odysseys if you will, and there are good an bad endings. I know there is a good ending here for you, but I dont know it here, it isnt yours." HOWEVER it could change. It isnt set in stone yet. He sings the prophecy. He sings what is most likely going to happen from this moment onwards, how in the musical Eurylochus stands up and is killed 'a brothers final stand' and the 'sacrifice of man' being scylla and how odysseus didnt do anything to prevent the death of the men. I think the 'last breath' is in reference to "Get in the Water" but it could also be when he washes up on Claypsos shore, although I doubt it cause thats a stretch. Cause like... yeah no. Odysseus is like "Hold on. No thats not fair. We have been well, we have been using other means instead of violence so we can be fair, this ISNT fair! Then Tiresias goes on to recite more of this version of the prophecy, how Penelope will be reunited with a man who isnt anything like Odysseus is. NOW this is where it matters imo. This prophecy differs so heavily from the book, but in the book there is a choice. He tells the men to not eat any cattle they come across or else they will suffer from it and Odysseus will arrive home much later than what he would like. The option of choice is still there, eat the cattle or do not. Odysseus being doomed by the narrative has this choice screwed by his crew, but it was still presented to him none the less. Epic doesnt go this route on a surface listen. There is no clear choice but the indication is still there. After Tiresia has finished the current prophecy, it comes down to Odysseus to place how the story will go. He could either "greet the world with open arms" and try beg Tiresia to tell him the other worlds and other prophecy's, or he could go down the path the Gods favour of anger and suffering. Upon hearing his wife is with a man "with a trail of bodies", he screams "who" with such desperation and anger which the audience has never heard before. Without even saying so, it has implemented and foreshadowed the vengeance and anger he holds to this man who has taken his wife. This is dramatic irony to the audience who knows what will happen, how he turns into this man. He doesnt hate him, he becomes him, so that he can seek vengeance on who Tiresia described. It also can be interpreted from the lines already presented by Tiresia that the man is Odyssesy, as his crew, the 558 men who died, trail behind him as 'the past is always close behind'. A trail of bodies which he met only a song prior to "no longer you". The "Who" line which Odysseus screams cements his fate, the anger and choice of bitterness athena steered him to and Poseidon reimplemented being chosen over the advice his dead friend gave him. This is when Tiresias repeats the first verse, the repetition illustrating how that world now is this world. It cements that there is no change to be done, Odysseus path will end in a trail of bodies which is greater than the one he already bears, and the sacrifices he must make in order to reunite with his wife while becoming something akin to the Devine whilst staying mortal, a monster.

okay I don't normally do these things but was tagged by @unsavorie and already in a music music mood so here we go!!

"Shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people."

"Don't Go Insane" - DPR IAN

I was obsessed with with one recently

"Loverboy" - young friend

and this one last year

"cough drops" - almost monday

and this one, recently again

"Something Super Sweet" - Rory Webley

and this one, again last year, and also a lot. i made up a dance to it

"*Equip Sunglasses*" - Hot Mulligan

I have been, am, and will probably continue to be obsessed with this one for a long time. I love it so much.

"ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?" - Negative 25

I also liked this one quite a lot but less than every single one so far lol

"Edge of the Earth" - The Beaches

this one i only very recently discovered, like within the last week, I cannot believe it made the list because I did not think I listened to it THAT MUCH 😅

"Sleeping on the Ceiling" - Friday Pilots Club

I wasn't obsessed with this one but I like how he says one of the lyrics so I always let it play, also this band has been making their way into my playlists more and more lately

"bl00dbath" - rosecoloredworld

this band got advertised to me on instagram not that long ago and I heavily fuck with at least three of their songs

"Addiction/Prescription" - poptropicaslutz!

this one has been my listen-again when it comes on shuffle lately, it's a mid yet fun song and I fuck with it. also I could have swore I'd heard of this band before but I went through their other songs and didn't recognize or like any lmfao

I was doing this and thinking "wow these are all such good songs that I love listening to" then it occurred to me that this is my on repeat and not my general playlist. on repeat means something 🤦

and I tag:

@vanguard @striders @letsrevince @hungry-hobbits @fluffy-flock @starssystem @langleyavenue @tenttle @adhdalistair @walnutsupreme @toadcroaky @babyprime

and anyone else who wants to do it!

Absolutely fascinated and amused by the names Spotify gives my daily playlists, which apparently change depending on the time of day even if you've had the same list paused since the morning lmao. This morning it was cabaret witchy Wednesday (which was actually just me hitting play on whatever it was from yesterday which was something about bards) and now it's calling it pining soppy Wednesday afternoon xD

It's Apple Music's Spotify wrapped day

My keyboard autocorrected the capitalization, just so you know I didn't do it voluntarily. Anyways yeah my music stats because I love sharing music sorry for the long post okay less go: Top Artists: 1. Will Wood (2,451 mins) 2. Jhariah (887 mins) 3. Miracle Musical (493 mins) 4. AJR (339 mins) 5. Will Wood and the Tape Worms (194 mins)

The rest are Chonny Jash, Nathan Hanover Synthetic Orchestra, Ethan Gander, Lovejoy, The Fratellis, Corey Hawkins, The Oh Hellos, Stephanie Beatriz, Steam Powered Giraffe, and Sleeping at Last

Top Songs: 1. Marsha, Thanks You for the Dialectics, but I Need you to Leave 2. Love, Me Normally 3. BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA 4. ...Well, Better Than the Alternative 5. Momento Mori: The most important thing in the world

The rest are Outliers and Hyppocrates: A Fun Fact About Apples, Suburbia Overture, I/Me/Myself, The Mind Electric, Debt Collector, That's Enough Let's Get You Home, ENTER: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO FAKING YOUR DEATH, 2econd 2ight 2eer, Your Body My Temple, and Selfstarter A.E.

Top Albums: 1. The Normal Album 2. A Beginner's Guide To Faking Your Death 3. Hawaii: Part II 4. "In case I make it," 5. The Maybe Man The rest are The Great Tale of How I Ruined It All, Camp Here & There soundtrack, Steven Universe the Movie soundtrack, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, The Afterparty soundtrack, To Mend the Sun EP, Encanto soundtrack, In Case I Die (Live), Hamilton soundtrack, and We Need Medicine. Top Playlists: 1. Get Out of My Head (general playlist) 2. Ultimate AJR (...AJR playlist) 3. Replay 2022 (I don't have that many playlist on AM) 4. The Human Condition Soundtrack (writing playlist) 5. Guilty/Angry/Panicking (the title is self sufficient)

Ultimately 7,532 minutes of listening on this platform. Cool.

unpopular opinion but I hate michael buble's christmas album. least favorite album ever in the world that I can think of. I would prefer objectively bad music, christmas or not, and I am not kidding or exaggerating, nor was that a hard choice to make

@milfbro tagged me to name a song for every letter of my url, which sounds very fun so here we go!

Silence is golden - Trash Boat

Onbezonnen - Froukje

Figaro - Lordofon

You in everything - Gang of Youths

All gone - Mother Mother

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are fucking dead - The Rentiers

Over de muur - Klein Orkest

Smile - Jann

Title pending - issa (@blackcatarts)

Onion boy - Isaac Dunbar

Vent'anni - Måneskin

Als de zon opkomt - Prins S. en De Geit

For the people I'd like to tag: firstly Issa, whom I've already tagged, @gayfrasier @gothiclit @fifthlydoyoudream @mr-saavik and @nikolajrostovz. And @sofiarostova, I want to see what songs you come up with with almost the same url

i was tagged by @wherepoetsdie;;; misshh ily and tysm for tagging me!! ---> link (o′┏▽┓｀o)

tagging: @junghoesucc @arahir @distortedlightbeam @gryewaren @aredhels @irishforjane @gothgerry @filippa-kosta + anyone who wants to try (❁´◡`❁)

i dont use spotify but i did end up doing a new install of poweramp almost exactly a year ago because i switched phones so here's what's the top of the "most played" category. i wanna be involved too LOL

Regressor!Victor Frankenstein

interested in the small things, like plants and bugs 

enjoys tops and spinning toys, as well as the zoetrope and other optical illusions 

reads basically any books but likes reading poetry out loud 

goes and lays in the field 

catches fireflies and grasshoppers in his hands 

occasionally disrupts his own experiments because he stole a beaker while regressing so he could put a slug into it 

gets ink all over his hands when he tries to write letters 

presses flowers and then forgets where he put them 

finds shapes in the clouds 

y'know. i guess if i keep up this barely doing any art thing, my spotify wrapped may actually be accurate for once.

x

I’ve found my spotify top song of the year I think. wahoo 🥳

I wish you could block tags irl because I'm so sick of hearing about taylor swift

God I wish you could beam shit directly into people's brains

So I guess it’s time for me to advertise to the entire neighborhood how insufferably neurodivergent I am by blaring a very specific playlist on a portable speaker while I ride my bike around the neighborhood, wearing very specific clothes — holding my hands, face, and posture in a very specific way — and pray to Satan (not really… I’m agnostic just like someone else, unironically) they understand what I’m trying to tell them with the music, and make the connection between the name I’m alluding to and exactly what that name means, and put two and two together that the name will happen to them if they take any pamphlets from my father seriously and decide to convert to the path of “everlasting life on a paradise earth” ahahAhAHAHAHA I AM MAD SCIENTIST! (sunuvabitch)

rules: share your 12 favorite songs from this year (one from each month or just your favorites overall) and tag 12 people!

So @smileandasong tagged me in this quite literally 2 years ago and i never finished it but I always liked the idea (and I found the abandoned draft of it recently) so I'll do it for 2022!

january: silently screaming by bad suns

This album came out in january so it only makes sense for a song from it to be january's song! It also perfectly captures the vibe lol

february: bone bag by superet

We saw superet open for idkhow in february so I was really getting into them around this time!

march: come on home by franz ferdinand

I really don't know what I was listening to around march but I know I was listening to this band a lot more this year! And i think it started around march ? Idk this month was a blur tbh

april: american dream by weathers

I started getting into weathers around this time! (We saw them live in may!) This song is also a huge mood because I was extremely disillusioned with my job (and I'd end up finally leaving in June)

may: what a day to lose my mind by dbmk

I started getting super into dbmk again because we saw them live (and met them) in may! They also started releasing new music around this time! (Which everybody should go listen to)

june: parade by joywave

You can literally see exactly when i started going feral over joywave lol. I got obsessed with them immediately after the hellvetica tour was announced. And then, along with idkhow, they completely dominated my spotify wrapped for this year.

july: thelma + louise by bastille

I was starting to get into bastille by association with joywave lol. Plus a lot of joywave friends I had made were also into them! They're also a slightly spring/summer band to me

august: hang em high by mcr

I was getting really into mcr around this time because we saw them during this month and again in september! I almost went with a different mcr song but they played this one at my first show 🤠

september: mad iqs by idkhow

September was hellvetica month!!!!!! No thoughts only mad iqs

october: simple by de'wayne (feat. idkhow)

It's a feature so it doesn't count as a repeat artist. This song came out this month! And so did his album!

november: genius of love by tom tom club

I got really obsessed with this song for a short period of time

december: goodnight socialite by the brobecks

Because apparently almost all my other top songs were actually christmas songs?? But truly one of the Most songs of all time ever

Tagging @vanweezer @girlmikeyway @comfortingdecay @fangs-frthmmrs @goodbyetommyyy @intheblueglow @aftercoffees @cyncity2000 @softnsquishable @ofalltheginjoints @voluntaryvictim @purgatoryhips if you want! Sorry if I double tagged you!