time sensitive question what should I get at Dairy Queen

fudge sundae always. always

just wanted to make sure sElf didnt get lost in the shuffle. i noticed its been deep in the cyan for a while, but its not showing up as in queue and it hasnt been posted

OH, i think i skipped it because at the time i couldn't find a band named sElf with that specific capitalization, but upon further inspection i think i know which one you're talking about now. will queue it ASAP 👍 --r

u should do hinata for the character list thing if u want!!!!!!

Hell yeah hell yeah let's gooo

Hi this got long im putting it under a readmore

Favorite thing about him... probably his character arc? I really enjoy seeing his journey going from someone horribly insecure with himself and full of self loathing into someone who can overcome that and look to the future... so so good I eat that shit up. Either that or his attitude. He's kinda... a bitch I suppose? He's really funny, I like that

As for least favorite... idk if I really dislike it but yk. Hes a lil dense, a lil dumb❤

Favorite line... God there's so many... umm, I guess here... all of it hope that helps 👍

HAJIME-FUYUHIKO-KAZUICHI ARE THE BROS OF ALL TIME. They're so close w eachother, they're best bros ever. Im also on my hajime-mahiru besties propaganda, they'd be so funny

Obviously, OBVIOUSLY komahina the world... really can't see either of them w anyone else. They're in love, the wedding is in a couple months they told me themselves

Notp... hinanami... they just.. I really don't like them romantically. Ive also seen a couple people ship him w mahiru which ???? Thats a lesbian also huh. Really any of his besties are a no

Random headcanon... even tho he has a talent for it post game, man can not dress. His ass wears button up shirts and formal shorts constantly. He wears ties casually. When he's working its plain but still unfitting. Its mostly bc he doesn't usually care to think about it, so he just goes with plain "nice" clothes. Nagito has to stop him from wearing long sleeves in 105° weather

Unpopular opinion.. idk if this is unpopular or not but I don't really like to think of him and izuru as separate people, or that post game izuru would like,,, manifest as a voice in his head?? Its just one guy man..

Spaceman by The Killers is a hajime song to me... ive just about got an animatic for it in my head and everything...

I can't pick a fav picture of him there's too many. I like those pictures where like,,, you can see his stomach bc his shirt is moving? Idk. But MANGA hajime is GOLD look

Dacw 'Nghariad

I shared it in the discord, but here is some Misuta/Fool from @venomous-qwille's Ghost in the Machine story.

The song this was inspired by is MEREDYDD EVANS - DACW 'NGHARIAD. Here are the lyrics translated as well to see.

Y'all are getting my combo love of folk music, sun and moon robots in love, and romance :')

A gentle breeze sighs through the greenery at the edge of the garden. The smell of a spring rain heavy in the air from a storm that had blown through last night. In the creeping early hours of the dawn the world is lush and twinkling with morning dew and lingering rainwater collected in flowers and leaves. The sky slowly illuminating the skyline in pale purples. 

With a sweeping gesture Fool drapes himself over the ledge where the garden ends. A spot he had sat in many times now. It surely had the loveliest view of the whole estate. At least when the timing was right.

Tossing back his cape to free his shoulder he lifts his guitar into position - facing his body towards the house. The third floor window open and waiting. He smiles bright to himself. A surge of fond excitement skittering through his wires at the sight. 

Softly plucking the strings he begins to play a tune that seemed to sing louder and louder through his mind these days. A lilting lullaby of a love song. 

Dacw 'nghariad i lawr yn y berllan,

Tw rym di ro rym di radl didl dal

His eyes stay steady on the open window. Voice as soft as a prayer for only his intended audience to hear. Welsh tumbling along like a babbling brook to call his beauty to sit and listen. Beckoning his sweet morning birdsong for the moon above. 

Dacw’r dderwen wych ganghennog,

Tw rym di ro rym di radl didl dal

Golwg arni sydd dra serchog.

Tw rym di ro rym di radl didl dal

Mi arhosaf yn ei chysgod

Nes daw 'nghariad i 'ngyfarfod.

From the darkness his prayer is answered by the pale glow of pink pupils. By far the loveliest shade in all the garden. The flowers can only droop in shame at the unparalleled beauty looking down. Electric blue and ocean green features more lovely than the mottled dawn. But most lovely of all is the bemused smile on Misuta’s lips. Fool would do whatever it took to see that smile the other had saved just for him. 

Dacw'r delyn, dacw'r tannau;

Tw rym di ro rym di radl didl dal

Beth wyf gwell, heb neb i'w chwarae?

Tw rym di ro rym di radl didl dal

Leaning on the windowsill, Misuta rests his chin on a hand as he listens to his Fool’s serenade. An indulgence he would gladly languish in for as long as the other would go on for. Fluttering affection coursing through him as if Fool’s fingers were plucking along in his heart. Silk ruffles of his sleeves blowing in the breeze like falling flower petals.

Dacw'r feinwen hoenus fanwl;

Beth wyf well heb gael ei meddwl?

Ffaldi radl didl dal, ffaldi radl didl dal,

Tw rym di ro rym di radl didl dal 

The final note is held out as Fool locks eyes with Misuta. A nearby leaf collapsing to cascade shimmering drops of rain down to the earth. The world silent with baited breath to see what might come next. Fool sets his guitar aside to stand. Gallantly posturing himself to reach up towards the lunar bot. As if he might just begin reciting Romeo’s lovesick words to Juliet on the balcony.

He smiles wide, eyes crescents as he tenderly calls up, “Goodmorning, Cariad.”

Rock vs. Electronic who will win?

Answer: Electronic

Reposted from my RYM profile:

For the first time in history, there were more electronic releases than rock in the year 2020 (and every year since) according to this website [rateyourmusic]. It feels like there is a cultural music shift in process that began when bedroom producers took it in their own hands to create forward-thinking music in large amounts without the limitations of being in bands, and due to this we have already seen vast changes in the electronic landscape. Rock, on the other hand, has not seen much difference in the last 20 or so years. Not saying it doesn’t have it’s place but when the newest rock scene I can think of is “incelcore” then I feel like it’s had it’s time in the sun y’know? Btw idk if this isn't an obvious thing to say but hip hop has moved significantly away from old production methods, and due to the legal troubles with sampling (fuck u disney/others) hip hop has been electronically produced for the most part for at least since the early 2010s probably earlier idk but the point is that even the most popular forms of music out there, hip hop and pop, are significantly informed by electronic more now than ever before. This sound is being taken in lots of directions we could have never expected music to sound like, due to the fact that synths can make literally any timbre any transitional effect that you can possibly dream of. I heard a friend say a long time ago that everything had been done in music, that was 2014 lmao.

how do you find so much music to listen to? i don't have any friends who like music as much as i do, so i end up getting all my recs from tumblr, but i feel like i'm perpetually lagging behind all my cool mutuals. also, i feel like it takes me a long time to listen to an album and form a conclusive opinion on it, but you seem like you can knock that shit out super fast (remembering that music rating project u did). any tips for broadening my library? thank u and have a great day

This has been in here forever but i never took the time to answer it, i'm sorry! Hopefully belated is better than not at all

Long story short, it's one of those things where the more music you listen to, the more you find to listen to, so once you get to a certain point it's a bit of a self-perpetuating thing. That said, i do have some tips, and a lot of them will be really basic but i'm writing this more as a general thing for people who want to listen to more / different music but don't know where to start:

something that really helps (and especially helped when i was first getting suuuuuper into music listening and criticism as a main hobby of mine (i used to write actual full length reviews instead of the tiny capsules i do on twitter lol)) is just lists! As bullshit as stuff like Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" or the p4k decade lists are, they're undoubtably great overviews of things from the perspective of each outlet that puts them out, and i definitely only got into certain bands or albums because they were canonized in some way or another. plus, if one outlet's lists seem to vibe with you consistently well (for example, Tiny Mix Tapes' decade and year end lists are so very much my shit that i'd listen to almost everything on them) you can follow that site and see what they're reviewing and liking now (RIP TMT for many reasons but losing this especially from them was a bummer for me)

in addition, more narrow lists are great for if you want to get into something specific but don't know where to start. a lot of times, if i want to check out a specific genre but don't know anything about it, i'll check out the RYM "top 5" of whatever that genre is (RYM has its own clear biases and limitations, but especially for smaller microgenres i find it a super helpful starting point) or i'll literally just google "best reggaton albums of all time" or something similar and check out the albums everyone is recommending. canonization is problematic, but by looking into what the majority of people have come to call the best of a certain style or genre or period of time can give you an idea of what the tropes and characteristics of something are, and you can branch out from there if you see yourself digging at least parts of it.

from there, once i have a good starting point, i will both look up smaller / more personal lists (individual people's "best of" lists are always way more interesting than ones multiple people voted on because there's nearly always a curveball or two) and dive deep on both "suggested" similar bands as well as looking into the label or people they made music with, other projects by the same creators, etc., and that can get you quickly off the mainstream road and into fun little sidestreets.

then, last but not least, i will literally just search bandcamp or a music torrent site (by which of course i mean a place where you completely legally buy music and never pirate it) for a specific tag or genre or year and download the ones with covers i like lol. this is way more likely to lead you to mediocre or bad music, but like, that fairy pop album by diana starshine i loved last year i found exactly by searching for i think "hyperpop" on bandcamp. i saw the cover, liked it, checked out a few tracks, and voila. it's shallow and doesn't pay off all the time, but honestly it's been surprisingly successful for me in the past (except when it comes to post 00's j-pop, for some reason many of the best j-pop album covers contain some of its blandest music).

idk if any of that helps but yeah

hey! how'd you get into this aesthetic? its super chill imo

sending peace and love

hii, thank you for the wishes and your question, you're too kind!!

I have a massive fascination with people and the "eras," art movements, and aesthetics that they've created throughout time. honestly just the human experience and its preservation in general is incredibly interesting. I spend a lot of my free hours digging through the bowels of the internet and finding the most unusual, intriguing (and often times lost) media and trying to give it a second life (and mashing it together as well!)

my aesthetic/style is constantly evolving and being added to, but a few influences I can think of off the top of my head are: flickr, tumblr, internet archive/wayback machine (for old domains, films, articles/books, websites, and livejournal pages), indiesleaze, vhsdvd/evcore, old youtube videos, films (old and new), rym, pinterest, so many cool instagram profiles(!!!), 90s net art, and art books! not to mention the thousands of weird sites i've never heard of before that make me fear for the safety of my computer ahahaha. (if any of you would like to see any of the aforementioned things in particular, do let me know). and finally, i know this may sound odd, but trying to visualize what songs would look like has been a *massive* influence as well.

I hope I answered your question :)

I think Princess Rym Al-Ali is the only one who supported both parties. She should have remained silent if she did not know what was happening to the Palestinian people.

Honestly as I said before I don't think she's supporting Israel. I think she was just reminding people with the law. Here's my previous answer:

It was only one tweet, the same one but in three different languages. Tbh, I think she was just talking about Israel . Maybe, because people will start saying that Hamas killed civilians first and took hostages and ... So she just wrote "Parties in conflict" she didn't even write "The two parties". She was only reminding people of the law. And in general, I feel sorry for Israeli civilians too. Nothing in comparison ofc with the injustice and the violence and brutality and what the Palestinians are going through right now! I am sure she felt sorry for the israeli civilians ( normal people would) but she's 5291018 % supporting Palestine

realising that I might actually need to make a RYM, not because I want to use it, but because I'm the kind of person who benefits from having my opinions written down so that I can actually answer remember and answer questions about them

Velocity : Design : Comfort turns 19 years old today... ...but you’d be forgiven for thinking it turned 9. Sweet Trip’s Magnum Opus was a decade ahead of its time, garnering most of it’s acclaim between 2013 and 2023. Of its 20k ratings on aggregator sites like rateyourmusic.com, only 81 ratings are from before 2010 (only one is from 2003, but RYM was an extremely small site back then). Most reviews floating around online were written within the past 10 years, coinciding with the album’s slowly growing popularity. Despite its initial reception the record proudly sits in RYM’s top 20 albums of the 2000s, holding the #1 spot for 2003. The album is a stylistic kaleidoscope, incorporating elements of 90s electronica and shoegaze into Dream Pop tapestries. This fusion is effortlessly realized by focusing on continuous melodies, allowing multiple elements of otherwise clashing ideas to compliment one another. For example, Sept opens with cascades of synthetic glitches set to a simple looping chord progression. The interplay between sounds is interesting enough, but it functions as a prelude to the looping refrain “This time maybe it’s true love” as the song starts proper. The pulse and chord progression march through the song’s melodic developments, unifying the Dream Pop vocal refrains and the staccato waves of synth fuzz. As it progresses the two styles meet in the middle, cascading into a shoegaze guitar solo. Every step of the journey is unified with what came before and after. This approach to songwriting results in some interesting theming as well. Many people have described this album as “Watching a human and a computer slowly fall in love”. While the lyrics are built around issues of love, identity, happiness and the joy of being together, there’s no binding messaging to any of it. Rather, Sweet Trip uses the lyrics to compliment the music, pointing at emotional experiences through the aesthetics of sound. It uses its vague abstractions to cover vast swaths of human experience. Listeners can project any number of evoked experiences onto the music and still find it wholly engaging. It’s one of music’s greatest strengths as a medium and I think Sweet Trip flawlessly evoke that sense of joy. The text is open to interpretation, but the album’s seamless fusion of the electronic and the human compounds with the lyric’s desire for emotional intimacy in a way few records create. I don’t think VDC has to have a unifying theme, but it’s hard to deny how compelling this one is.  

So what happened between 2003 and 2013? 

Three huge things changed between 2003 and 2013:

The rest of the music world caught up with Sweet Trip

Word of mouth found this album’s audience

It never stopped being available

For #1 the biggest change is environment. If you go and listen to this record right now it will sound like something released between 2013-2018. The sound design is immaculate front to back while the melodic sensibilities are reminiscent of indietronica from the 2010s. The 2010s were also obsessed with fusing the world of electronica with rock, which this album accomplishes effortlessly. I highly encourage you to test this yourself: Show a song to a friend and ask them when it came out. 4/5 times the answer is between 2012-2020. No one seems to believe me when I say 2003. For #2, the best advertising is the hardest to get: devoted fans. People who love your work on its own merits will share it organically to anyone who will listen (I’m doing that right now). This album slowly accumulated listeners and evangelists over 10 years whose collective recommendations snowballed into the steady, unshakable fandom it enjoys today. VDC is walking proof that works can transcend creative eras, touching the hearts and minds of generations to come. However, for any of those points to work you need availability. The third point is by far one of the most important pieces in VDC’s legacy. For people to enjoy your music they have to be able to find it. Through the low friction environment of streaming, VDC had a chance to be found. It inspired a well received reissue in 2014, 2020 and 2021, and inspired the band to reunite one more time for their last hurrah: A Tiny House, in Secret Speeches, Polar Equals. While that album is a story for another time, I’m proud to call Velocity : Design : Comfort a masterpiece, and one of the best albums of the 2000s. Maybe I Wouldn't mind To be graced by your Gentle smile

Yasuhiro in b3 maybe? (For the shirt draw meme thing :])

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Feel free to submit them again (though, if possible, please first search the suggestions spreadsheet to make sure nobody else has submitted them again already). If you're positive your submission got skipped, you can also send an off-anon ask or DM a mod, and we'll post a poll for them ASAP if the submission is valid. Accidents happen.

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ivy, nutmeg & papyrus for the ask game!!

Hi hi bestie!

So someone else already asked ivy so imma do the other 2

Nutmeg- how is your room decorated?

I have SO MUCH ART EVERYWHERE. I've got prints and pin banners and charm racks and posters on all my walls. Its all kinda a mish mash of stuff I like. Luckily most of it falls into similar colo schemes (lots of pinks and blues and pastels) so it all looks nice together imo. Ive also got my overcrowded shelves of anime figures lol. I need to re do those... basically my room is just me displaying my collections lol

Papyrus- if you put your "on repeat" playlist on shuffle, what comes up?

Just did it, it came up with Law-evading Rock by Wonderlands x Showtime lol. Half of that playlist is pop punk type stuff, the other is project sekai, so 🤷‍♂️

something super duper serious just happened to me. i want all of you to heed these words, okay? okay. i am a victim. of abuse. cyber bullying. the worst of the worst has happened to me. i am beside myself. my emotions are going wild, y'all. they're going WILD. *sheds one manly tear* y'all i got my first flame since 2017

TT.TT the nostalgia's hitting me

they're even on guest!! o happy day :D

*getting out the flame checklist*

anon- check

no constructive criticism - check

absolutely missed the mark on a fic - check

AND YOU FUCKING KNOW it's a ha*rym*rt shipper because nobody in their right mind would actually expend so much energy from the tom/abraxas side.

honestly laughed my ass off, like of all the fics you pick to comment on the fic clearly meant to be treated as crack? (it's the abraxas/tom divorce story with a dash of harry/voldemort that's CLEARLY written as crack - i mean voldemort YEEHAWs in the fic that should really tell you enough)

the characters were all oc (not even ooc? damn friend you gotta get your head in the game and leave a carefully crafted flame these days! show some artistic integrity there. it's not 2012, i don't need to wade through your typos)

a red flaming hate note? the thing you wrote or the thing i wrote, you gotta be a bit more clear here or else this foreigner will misunderstand your point :)))) hur dur my english bad. please, let's debate :D :D

BUT OKAY NO, I HEAVILY ENCOURAGE THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOUR! THIS PULLED ME OUT OF A DEPRESSIVE EPISODE. I WAS THINKING ABOUT MY DEAD BEST FRIEND, DECIDED TO ANSWER SOME REVIEWS, SCROLLED DOWN AND SAW THESE MASTERPIECES INSTEAD.

LMAOO LIKE MY DUDE HOW DID YOU KNOW THIS MONTH'S MY TENTH ANNIVERSARY SINCE I BEGAN WRITING FIC ;))) you really decided to make me feel oh so special, didn't you? THIS REALLY TRANSPORTED ME BACK TO 2012.

I'M FUCKING LAUGHING MY ASS OFF - WAIT UNTIL THEY READ THE FICS I WROTE IN MONTENEGRIN WHERE VOLDEMORT GOES ON A BALKAN RANT LIKE A TAXI DRIVER

but the thing about this whole thing that really GETS ME is that they saw this was a fic they didn't like and yet - the masochism kicked in and they HAD to go ahead and read all of it. BABY DOLL, WHO'S A GOOD LIL GUEST AND READ ALL THE WORDS? :D YOU ARE, YES YOU ARE! I'M SO PROUD OF YOU :D

hey what’s your favorite and least favorite genre of music? And could you post some pics of your favorite things plz :)

Some pics in my camera roll of all my fave stuff

I don’t discriminate music by genre personally I cannot tell you what I will and won’t like but I can tell u my most listened to genres according to RYM are hypnagogic pop, art pop, indie rock, synthpop and synth wave, dream pop, neo-psychedelia, alt rock, New Wave, abstract hip-hop, contemporary folk, African music, and post-punk. I’ve never been able to answer that question because I’m not very good at or even feel comfortable with defining music. I wouldn’t want to feel limited as a musician to being boxed into a genre. And my listening habits and taste is all over the place. Probably my least enjoyed music genres are radio pop and country (such a cop out I know but I really cannot stand a lot of it)... And Radiohead.

haiya assumption bingo:

he loves coloring books and will sob if he colors out of the line

he learned babies infact do not come from storks at the age of 12

he loves watching childrens nursery rhymes

bubble wrap maniac. will pop them until his arms need a screwdriver help from his dad

Colouring books, youre damn right my boy colours. He doesn’t really care about colouring outside of the lines, he’s not a messy colourer, he’s just having fun!

Honestly Haiya was probably very disapppinted to learn baby’s where not in fact brought to parents by storks, storks are cool XD but yeah his old parents where awkward answering the ‘where do babies come from?’ Question cuz..well they weren’t in love and the topic was weird to talk about. Then Haiya said ‘Cuz I read in a book a storm brings them to the mama and papa’ XD then they probably told him

Nursery rhymes again yes, probably any kind of song with a rym in it tbh. He and Riley for sure sing Disney songs and yes they make their dads sit through Disney movies with them. Higari and Ecto at this point know every lyric to at least 10+ Disney songs

Bubble wrap: Cannon. Yes.

Haiya sits for HOURS playing with bubble wrap, the type of kid to lay a bunch on the floor and just...roll over it giggling. Higari gives Haiya a role of bubble wrap and tells him to hold it for a second, he turns his back for all of three seconds and when he goes back to Haiya he’s somehow wrapped himself up in half of it - but he’s still giggling!