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wander-wren · 3 months

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*holds up shield* don’t throw things at me but i have actually developed nuanced opinions on AI over the past couple of months. imagine that. but this isn’t a post about those nuanced opinions! i can get into them later

this is a post where i reluctantly went to chatgpt to perform An Experiment, because if there’s one thing i love it’s writing-related data and making fun of bad writing guilt-free. and now that i’m not ideologically opposed with every atom of my body to AI i can do that!

i chose to give ai one of my older fics (from 2022), both because it was short enough for the text box and because, given all the scraping drama, ai probably already has it anyway. i was very tempted to put in something original, but i haven’t yet.

then i asked it, first, to write something mimicking that style, to….horrible results. i also asked it to write a sequel to the fic, because i had written a sequel myself. i got….interesting results from that. i have some thoughts on how ai writes, what it could be used for, and what it should almost definitely not be used for.

let’s get into it!

so, to start off, i used my raven cycle fic hostage situation. it’s not my best, being both old and written in like an hour for whumptober, but it’s not the worst.

when i asked chatgpt to mimic the style, i expected it to create something similar (this was a kidnapping with torture h/c fic, so something like that) and to do its very best to write something that sounded like a thing i would write. you know, like the ai art that puts in specific artists’ names to get something like their style.

i did not get that. maybe i would have if i had given it a more specific prompt, like, write a story about X in the style of this story, but i didn’t and i don’t really want to go back to chatgpt again, so just…shh. this was still a useful exercise, i promise!

let’s start by looking at the openings of each piece.

first of all, it chose to change the names and some more specific details, but literally nothing else. also love how it switches from ronnie (ronan?) to theo (gansey) almost immediately and there is cassie (noah) and cassie (adam).

also they made my gay fic hetero. alright.

also, this introduces a theme that we see throughout this endeavor. the ai has little to no idea what trc is or who the characters are (actually it has no idea what anything is, i shouldn’t anthropomorphize, but it doesnt have enough data to pick up on patterns like it might with, say, MCU fic). therefore, it ruins one of my favorite things about writing fic, especially for trc, and that is making dozens of subtle references that probably most other fans would even miss.

for example, right here we have references to ronan’s never-ending battle with his phone, his father’s death, and, if you squint, that One Line that goes “jesus,” gansey said, “christ.” which i have heard talked about a few times and lives in my head rent free. i’m sure no one else thinks about it that much, but it’s a very specific inflection and i love it.

the one (1) thing i will say is that “theo’s breath catches” is totally something i would write, and the ai didn’t copy it from this fic. i mean, it’s still pretty generic, but it kinda feels house style-y to me. hm.

continuing on! let’s see what the video is

so basically it stripped out all the fun description. incredibly rude, this was my favorite part to write. again, i’m wondering if there’s something significant about changing “guy who had to be rescued” to a girl.

there’s also a lot of confusion on like, what’s happening and why on the ai’s side. it’s copying my words, but cutting a lot, so there’s no reason for, say, the villain commenting in her mental faculties—she didn’t seem disoriented before, and she hasn’t done anything now to prompt the remark. also, we “see” cassie and then the newspaper gets pulled away to “reveal” her. it’s very messy. we also don’t get cassie telling theo not to come for her, something that is pretty important in adam’s case, mr. self-sacrifice, lover of ronan.

what happens when boyfriend comes to the rescue?

sorry i’m laughing because theo is still gansey in my head and him having like, full tattoo sleeves is Sending Me.

once again, cutting out the good description and making it all generic. this part makes sense, at least, but it’s less interesting. the best parts are the dialogue and THE DIALOGUE IS MINE. verbatim.

the line “time blurs since the video, her only link to theo gone” is grammatically incorrect or at the very least clunky. idk why that got changed.

changed the lastname-firstname switch that is so very important to pynch. kay.

obviously theo isnt ronan and this technically isnt fanfic so we lose the kavinsky/matthew reference, even though that adds depth to the scene when you remember that almost exactly this thing has happened to ronan with someone he loves before, so this has to be very fraught for him.

let’s finish up with the ending!

so this part doesn’t make any sense in the EXTREMELY limited context of the ai’s story. at the very beginning, it said that one of the three has the ability to manipulate illusions (which in itself is a bit odd—shouldn’t it be create illusions? or can you only manipulate illusions that are already there? that’s not very useful), but that doesn’t have anything to do with violence. is the implication that our dear friends [checks notes] ronnie and cassie2 did this??

the implication in the original fic is that ronan used dream creatures or something similar; it’s his subconscious, not technically his own work depending on how you look at it. i don’t believe ronan would commit violence like this where adam could see (hence why he wanted adam not to look) because of adam’s history of abuse, but ronan also has a lot of anger and a lot of monsters in his head and a lot of love for adam. so.

because this is fanfic, i don’t have to spell any of that out. it just is. but in the ai’s story it doesn’t know why or how that part exists, it just copies it.

and then basic ending where the ai says the quiet/implied part out loud. boring.

it should also be noted that chatgpt generated stories only clock in at around 600 words. the three screenshots here are almost all of that generation, while my fic is almost twice as long.

so my main takeaway here, aside from “chatgpt is bad at my favorite part of fanfic” as i said, is that chatgpt can’t really effectively mimic a writing style that isn’t generic or very close to it, because of the whole “most likely word” thing. and if your style is very generic than other human people already write a lot like you and/or could mimic you very easily.

i don’t have an outside perspective on what makes my fics recognizably mine (tell me?), but i’ve had a lot of people comment on the way i describe emotions. which is cool, because i love doing that. i like implying things with body language (especially focusing on where someone is/isn’t looking) even more than directly describing what people are feeling. the ai’s style is very much about stating directly what characters feel, often to the point of redundancy, a huge pet peeve of mine.

so yeah, not uber useful for fanfic writing. tumblr photo limits prevent me from continuing with the second experiment (writing a sequel to this fic), but i’ll be back in a hot second to write that one.

#wren wrambles #gonna put all my proper tags on the reblog

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noa-ciharu · 1 year

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5, 6 and 33 with fuukam for the latest ask pls 💕

😈😿 my beloved <3 I'll go with X timeline here

5 - their love language

Obviously physical touch. Whether it's their early X relationship, late X, to help even trc to some degree - they're always touching. Fuuma sure as hell doesn't hold back when it comes to physical affection and the amount of times they've hugged and touched in vol or two prior to Fuuma's transformation - it's ridiculous. Kamui finds comfort in physical touch and Fuuma provides that. Later when their relationship took a far darker turn physical touch is still ever present, just in far, ahem, darker and hornier way.

6 - when did they realize they're in love?

Fuuma probably knew right off the bat Kamui was 'different' to him from the rest. But it likely took him some time to realize what he felt for Kamui was romantic love atop of fondness and strong emotional connection. Maybe Fuuma realized he loved Kamui in that way all along when he was between 12-17, in time he and Kamui were separated. When he saw Kamui upon returning it just reaffirmed his feelings

As for Kamui, I wouldn't say he fell in love immediately, it likely took him some time too. Kamui probably wouldn't feel the need to out label on what he feels, he just feels what he feels. Since he basically lacks any sort of normality in his life, he'd believe what he feels for Fuuma doesn't need any evaluation and second guessing; no grand revelation

Actually wait - what if they both realized they're in love during last day they spent together before Fuuma's transformation? 😭😭😭

33 - who has nightmares more often and how do they deal with them?

Now it'll be interesting to see antichrist!Fuuma having nightmares, whether during X or late X. Ofc they'd have something to do with Kamui, so Fuuma would either cuddle with him if they're sharing bed (some semi happy post X AU :'>) or he'd wander around Tokyo in the middle of the night just to make sure he's safe and sound. If Fuuma ends up having regular horror-ish nightmares he'd probs wouldn't be affected much.

Kamui however, whole different story. He has nightmares far more frequent and dreams are far more vivid; especially bc alot of them are actually memories. He'd toss and turn in bed, simultaneously wishing and dreading to go back to sleep. Perhaps if nightmares become far more frequent and traumatic and there was noone to look after Kamui he'd start avoid sleep altogether; so he'd wander around house in dead of the night.

Now, it'll be interesting to see how Fuuma would react to that, how he'd try to comfort and reassure Kamui given he's far likely to blame Kamui has those nightmares in the first place. Maybe physical touch during sleep would be more damaging in case Kamui starts dreaming about tragedies happening while he's being restrained (symbolic dreams induced by real physical sensations). Therefore Fuuma won't have 'easy temporary solution' at hand, so to speak. Hurt and comfort + angst potential through the roof

#too many fics ideas too little time #thanks for ask!#x/1999 #fuukam

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clotpolesonly · 11 months

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7 and 18 for the fanfic writer asks

7. How many ideas for fics do you have right now?

a PLETHORA. by which i mean, i've got a gdoc with little blurbs about ideas to write, and just for TRC alone it's got almost 50 entries. there are comparable lists in there for Merlin and Teen Wolf, and i know i had several Dark Rise ideas too that somehow ended up in a separate doc? instead of that master one?? probably a dozen of those. plus a smattering of random crossover ideas between a variety of fandoms, so overall we're probably looking at like 175-ish ideas. and the list is ever-growing.

18. What’s one of your favorite lines you’ve written in a fic?

an unfair thing to ask a swiss-cheese-brain person 😅 i have, like, whole scenes that i'm extremely proud of, but picking just one line is fucking hard, yo. my memory is shit and the instinct to comb back through my 206 posted fics and 31 WIPs to remind myself is so strong. but i will NOT DO THAT, esp cuz it's nearing 11pm and i should sleep at some point. soooo the first one individual line that always comes to mind is: The Hale House was equal parts menacing and pathetic, like a horror movie set where some hapless PA had turned all the lights on mid-shoot. (x)

send me fanfic writer asks!!

#and the answer is #Anonymous

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kicksaddictny · 2 years

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PUMA x MCM Slipstream Lo

Basketball isn’t just a sport – it’s a lifestyle. This season, German fashion luxury house MCM is teaming up with leading sports brand PUMA to bring a slam dunk when it comes to high-end fashion that does full justice to the all-American game. In true showboating style, the PUMA x MCM collaboration celebrates all the raucous glamour that basketball has to offer, featuring the PUMA Slipstream Lo.

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“The collaboration between MCM and PUMA tells a great story of the heritage of both brands, but also how important culture is for MCM and the connection to all relevant topics for our consumer – from sport, music, to the influence of street-culture for luxury brands.” Dirk Schönberger, MCM Global Brand Officer

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The third and final drop for the collaboration will be launched in the first half of 2023 – a luminous take on athletic classics, featuring lively ready-to-wear and a uniquely eye-catching edition of PUMA’s TRC Blaze Court Shoe that’s sure to invoke envy whether worn on the paint or in the seats. With exceptional products released over three action-packed drops, the PUMA x MCM partnership fully captures the electrifying energy and breathtaking spectacle of the basketball lifestyle.

The first drop of the PUMA x MCM Slipstream Lo will be available globally from September 8th at MCM Worldwide in-store and online and from September 10th globally in selected PUMA Stores and its Luxury Distribution partners with a retail price of 500 Euros.

#puma #mcm #kicksaddict

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bluesravens · 2 years

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the kinds of dates trc characters would take you on

warnings: spoilers for trc in noah’s part

pairings: the raven boys x reader

ronan:

takes you on rides and makes you listen to his music.

he lets you have music control every other song and finally decides to make a playlist with a mix of y’all’s music tastes. adds more of yours than his.

gas station runs during these rides. i’m talking slushees, candy, chips, monsters, etc.

sitting in his car, eating and talking for hours. he opens up a lot, but he doesn’t like talking about sad things for so long.

takes you places to explore like local haunted/abandoned buildings. he likes taking edgy pictures in them if we’re being honest. tells you scary stories while you explore and randomly yells to scare you.

he knows all the best little unknown places and takes you there.

just likes to be in your company even if it’s just the two of you being together and not talking.

he actually really likes that

takes you to a record store and then makes fun of your choices like he doesn’t just listen to techno.

a big date he takes you on would be a nice dinner somewhere quiet with reservations or an arcade date.

absolutely ass at dance dance revolution but he likes the way you almost fall over laughing. just likes seeing you smile

laser tag but on opposite teams.

does not care that you are his s/o like at all. will literally destroy you no mercy. brags about it until you ask for a rematch.

does it again

at home dates are usually just hang outs, but he loves them. he likes just being in each other’s arms after a long day but if you ever say anything about that he’s gonna deny it

he’s basically up for anything but he’s probably gonna grumble about it.

noah:

likes quiet places

will take you to a library, cafe, park, or a bookstore

he saw an idea online where a couple will buy each other a book the other one likes, read them, and then talk about them so he asks if y’all can do that

it’s very fun and he has a great taste in books. probably chooses a classic or something contemporary

he just loves being around you he feels clingy and you probably need to tell him you don’t care if he’s always around

takes you to a spot he liked to study or hang out when he used to be in school. makes you a little sad sitting there because it was a place he liked when he was alive, but he likes sharing personal things with you

listening to music with each other at places like that. you too also sit in your car and listen to music a lot.

takes you to museums

takes pictures of you instead of the displays

he brings you to a couples dance thing once because he wanted to do something romantic and you both were awful but it was fun

not really a date but he loves slow dancing with you it makes him happy. he likes at home dates as well

loves the movies!

takes you to see horror movies so he can wrap his arm around you in the scary parts to “protect you”

talks about comic related movies with you for hours after the movie ended

buys you enough snacks to last like three movies

sneaks into another showing and then can’t stop giggling because y’all broke a rule.

as long as you’re in his company he thinks it’s a perfect date <3

blue:

takes you thrifting and then brings you back to her house to do bleach or fabric paint art on some clothes

LOVES picking out outfits for you when y’all go shopping

tote bag painting date. makes you one with your zodiac constellation

takes you to a cafe to study with each other. makes you try pastries she thinks you’ll like. she says she wants to drink black coffee to look mysteriously but can’t help but get the sweetest drink on the menu

you ask her to teach you how to read tarot and she makes an afternoon out of it. does a romance reading for you and then says “damn the cards say we’re not a good match :/“

asks you to come eat with her family and then you end up eating dinner with them more often than not. maura loves you

baking dates! she takes you to the store to get ingredients and then watches videos on how to ice baked good nicely. baking competitions with each other are not out of the question

brings you to her favorite shops in town and buys you things she thinks you like and you always do

going to bookstores and being a little too loud

making terrariums!!

she likes collecting pretty rocks to put in them when you two get to hang out

takes you go karting and gets really into it

races children and will hit them

she likes arcades and laser tag and all but go karting is her favorite amusement place thing to do with you

laser tag on the same team. against those kids from go kart. again gets a little too into it.

she likes surprising you

dates with her always involve some sort of creativity

adam:

another guy who loves taking you to the movies

takes pictures with the posters and he gets so excited it’s really cute

you two sneak in candy from the dollar store but still end up getting slushees at the theater bc you can’t resist

yawns and puts his arm around your shoulder in the theater because he likes seeing your face when he does

when he takes you to dinner he makes you get dessert even if you’re full

he takes you to niche shops he finds or antique stores and loves to paddle around for hours

tried to guess what items are haunted and makes you take pictures with creepy dolls

his dates are always so creative and so fun

stay at home movie/cooking/hang out dates

puts on a movie and cuddles up with you. makes popcorn and other movie snacks and you take turns picking movies

he likes disney movies even if he says they’re cheesy

feels bad he can’t take you on the kind of date ronan or gansey could but you tell him to shut up because if you wanted to date them you would

one of his absolute favorite things to do is put on a youtube cooking video and try to cook with you

he thinks it’s so funny and he loves recording y’all’s reactions to the food. is actually pretty good most of the time

ROLLERSKATING!!!

holds your hand around the rink and requests your favorite songs to the dj

stay in dates are never at his place because of his dad, but if you got some reason are at his house you usually just lay in his room and talk

he takes you on a study date but y’all just talk the whole time

takes you on the most heartfelt dates tbh

gansey:

loves taking you shopping

not even to buy specific things he just enjoys walking around and window shopping with you, but if you say you like something it’s yours

that being said he’s always worried you think he’s snobby you don’t you think he’s very generous

he likes to stay in a bit as well. you tell him you want to have a movie date and he ends up really liking it

brings you to dinner with his family every once in a while

research datesssss

his obsession with a certain dead welsh king very quickly grows to become an obsession of yours as well

pouring over books and showing each other stuff the other has already seen

takes you ice skating and is actually so good at it

he holds your hand the whole time and when you fall he laughs for a little too long before helping you up. it’s so funny

takes videos of you skating and posts them all

wherever you go his social media is going to be just you basically

takes you art galleries, aquariums, and museums and since you both enjoy that you take your time walking around

takes you as his date to formal events he has to go to and needs you by his side almost the whole time

his composure never changed but sometimes you feel his grip on your hand tighten.

introduces you to all the people there as his lovely s/o and then proceeds to gush over you and your accomplishments

takes you dress shopping for an event and turns into a full day date of shopping and then dinner

if you like a certain kind of food he researches all the best places in the area for that and then takes you there

he just likes seeing you happy because you make him so happy

henry:

takes you on really fun dates. like so fun and so spontaneous you can’t believe it. but in reality he’s been carefully planning it for a week.

if you are going out with him expect to be posted a LOT.

everyone on his snap and insta is going to know y’all are on a date and how lovely he thinks you are.

“on a date with this hottie” “on a date kinda nervous”

has a lot of spots he likes to go to alone or with friends that he takes you to.

you are the guest of honor at any party he throws or attends.

he takes you to hills or parks with good views and then says something really cheesy about how the view is nice but you’re prettier and is being dead serious

takes you to a horror movie and then spends the rest of the night trying to scare you

believes you are like the greatest ever and if he notices that you don’t also believe that, he will do everything in his power to make you. he gets very quiet and very serious and tells you how beautiful and important you are to him.

outbursts of affection in public and in private.

will talk about whatever media you both like for hours and hours with you.

really caring and thoughtful with dates yet tries to play it cool, but if you gush about him and the date he will blush

he finds a food, drink, item, etc he wants to try online and will make a day out of getting it and trying it with you

honestly the best bf ever

#the raven boys #the raven cycle #trc #trcimagines #trchcs #trc headcanon #noah czerny #noah czerny x reader #adam parrish #adam parrish x reader #ronan lynch #ronan lynch x reader #blue sargent #blue sargent x reader #gansey #gansey x reader #henry cheng #henry cheng x reader

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paganimagevault · 2 years

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Embroidered Picture of Claudius Civilis by Louise van Ommeren 1800 Rijksmuseum

"The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam houses an embroidered picture (21.9 x 19.5 cm) with an allegorical representation of Claudius Civilis (Gaius Julius Civilis), the reputed leader of a revolt by the Batavians against the Romans in the first century AD. The Batavians were long regarded as the ancestors of the Dutch (compare the name of Batavia for the former capital of the Dutch East Indies, nowadays called Jakarta). The embroidery was made by Louise van Ommeren, née Hengevelt, sometime around 1800. The picture shows a Batavian (Batavier in Dutch) clad in fur who is being honoured by a personification of Freedom. She holds a laurel wreath with her left hand, and a lance with a 'freedom hat' with her right hand. To the left is another figure, who is positioned kneeling next to a basket full of flowers and fruit, symbolising the cornucopia. The embroidery can be placed in the context of the social and political upheavals in The Netherlands at the end of the eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, when the patriotten ('patriots') rose against the establishment led by Prince Willem V of the House of Orange. The new republic that was established in 1795, when the French had invaded and occupied the Netherlands and the patriotten for a short time gained the upper hand, was renamed De Bataafsche Republiek ('The Batavian Republic'), after the alleged ancestors of the Dutch. The new Republic lasted until 1801, when the constitution, under French pressure, was changed and the country was renamed Het Bataafsch Gemeenebest ('The Batavian Commonwealth'). In 1806 The Netherlands were made into a monarchy; the first king was Louis Napoleon, younger brother of Napoleon and the father of the future Napoleon III. The picture is accompanied by an embroidered text on a separate piece of material, applied to the embroidered picture: Hij schonk voor altoos aan ons vaderlijk gewest / Den grooten eernaam van een vrij gemeenebest ('He granted for ever to our fatherland, the grand honourable name of a free commonwealth')."

-taken from trc-leiden.nl

#the batavian revolt #dutch history #german history #embroidery #europe #european art #the netherlands #dutch #pagan #paganism #history #art #19th century art #claudius civilis #rijksmuseum

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squash1 · 2 years

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welcome to gansey & danny tanner have the same Big Dad Energy:

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sagemoderocklee · 3 years

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Reiteration ❤️ A (but not GaaLee :p) P T

A - Your current OTP(s)/OT3(s)/OTX(s)

oof. okay so aside from GaaLee:

1) ShikaTema 2) NejiTen 3) Kakagai

i think these are the only like three ships i could say i feel strongly enough about that i’d classify them as OTPs. GaaLee honestly gets its own category anyways. im not really active in any other fandoms, and the only other ship I’ve ever felt as strongly about as i have gaalee was really Harry/Draco and well... ya know. Although if i were still super active in CLAMP fandom KuroFai and DouWata would 100000% be up there. And of course the forever and unbeatable Sakura/Shaoran but specifically CCS SakuShao because I think TRC isn’t quite as good with their romance

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)

oh. that’s. okay we’re answering hard questions tonight i see.

something niche for you and me: new member of your MLM/communist/leftist reading group is Very Cute but very new to MLM/etc and needs extra help to understand the complicated history, theories, etc.

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending, about anything at all (gender identity, sexual or romantic orientation, extended family, sexual preferences like top/bottom/switch, relationship with poetry, seriously anything).

oh god. this is really opening a can of worms lmao and also.... i may have to put this under a cut because god i have so fucking many and some of them may need elaboration.

1. Gaara doesn’t ever take up sleeping/napping post Shukaku

this is something that I know a lot of ppl don’t like/want because everyone wants Gaara to be happy and like big same! but i do think that Gaara’s physiology is entirely altered from Shukaku and the lack of sleep. I feel like having it ingrained in him that he couldn’t sleep, knowing the devastation it would cause, plus all the trauma he has--he’d be plagued by nightmares first of all, and no shinobi is gonna wanna take a sleep aid or something to help them sleep more easily because that would just be a huge opening for someone to attack you. but the other thing is i think it would genuinely make him feel sick. like i know that when i get too little sleep i feel sick because my body needs a certain amount. BUT i also know that those days where im too depressed and don’t get out of bed and sleep too much i ALSO feel like shit. Gaara has lived his entire life without sleep--barring specific instances of forced sleep to release Shukaku--and his body has to have adapted to that. fifteen years of not sleeping there’s no way his body would know what to do with that. his body is so used to subsisting (and this is my own like explanation for how Gaara survived pre and post Shukaku) off of massive quantities of food and by funneling his own chakra into his brain to act as rest, healing, etc. like i think at this point it’s so unconscious that he isn’t even aware he’s doing it anymore--like breathing. His chakra--which is already another physiological system in their bodies--is just taking up the job of the rest portion of his brain.

that all being said, i do still think this will have an overall affect on his lifespan, but not necessarily his physical or mental health in the immediate sense.

2. Kankuro is straight.

this goes for like all the characters i see as straight, and like i hate like putting this in the like “die defending” category, but there’s this sort of.... sense that when you’re LGBT in fandom you’re gonna see every character as gay and you’re sus/someone’s gonna side eye you if you don’t. like i get the whole ‘well obviously everything is straight and cis IRL, and im sick of it’ reasoning behind “everyone is gay/trans” but the thing is.... I wanna see cis and straight people who support their gay/trans friends and family. I don’t need to live in a world where no one is straight and cis. I need to live in a world where people who are straight and cis actually support and love LGBT people. i personally don’t get anything out of the fantasy of no straight cis people because what does that solve? and what does that say about the homophobia and transphobia within the series? It doesn’t solve or say anything. And quite frankly a series like Naruto is inherently homophobic and transphobic (especially trans misogynistic), and i think brushing that aside with an “everyone’s gay/trans” is more insulting than helpful because it’s not addressing the issue. I’m more invested in seeing the characters who aren’t LGBT supporting and loving and working to make the world better for their LGBT friends, family, and community.

like i know not everyone is writing/reading fanfiction or art or what have you in fandom for like realism or whatever, i get the whole escapism of it all, but i approach it this way because for me I just don’t get anything out of pretending that the -isms and -phobias within the series don’t exist.

also straight trans people exist?????

i could go on about this--like some characters are just... not good and i don’t wanna claim that as LGBT because of that--but like i think this is the biggest thing for me at the end of the day: seeing ppl who aren’t LGBT supporting LGBT ppl.

3. Gaara is a polyglot. Also, he’s self-taught in just about everything. He spent most of his youth in the Suna library for obvious reasons, so reading, writing, language, poetry, history, politics, arts, etc he learned there on his own.

4. Shikamaru and Temari live in Suna 6 months out of the year, and Konoha the other 6. Temari does NOT give up her job to be a nagging wife, and Shikamaru is 100% a wife man.

5. Lee is not originally from Konoha or Fire. He doesn’t remember his parents or how he wound up at a Konoha orphanage because trauma. Also his first language isn’t Japanese.

I have more specific HCs about who Lee’s parents are, where he came from, and what happened to his parents, but that’s like spoilers for a fic.

6. Tenten is not an outright orphan. She actually comes from a clan of weapons masters and smiths.

I think it’s fairly common for ppl to assume Tenten is an orphan because we obviously never see her family--granted we just don’t see much of her to begin with--but I personally fell in love with the idea of her having a clan with the focus being weapons. Her parents are still dead, but she lives with her grandmother, who’s renowned for her weapons.

7. Lee has a HUGE amount of chakra. Like obnoxiously huge stores of it that he just doesn’t know how to manipulate--not quite Kisame levels, but definitely a LOT. He gets as far as walking on water and walls, but he absolutely has to be focused to accomplish those feats and prefers just going really fast so he doesn’t fall in/off.

8. Sage mode!Rock Lee.

I have talked about this before(x, x), but you can absolutely pry this from my cold dead hands--actually, you couldn’t. I’d still hold on to this even in death.

9. Lee has like a photographic memory which is why he always writes things down that people tell him.

10. Gaara will be the last Kazekage--whoever comes after him (and i do have a HC for that) will be Kazekage only in the sense that they’re like the figurehead maybe, but ultimately Gaara is working to completely change the shinobi way of life and the Kage system will be dismantled starting with Suna/Gaara.

11. In a modern AU context, Lee is a HUGE fan of Queen and Bruce Lee.

12. Lee definitely grows his hair out later on in life and changes up his attire and becomes his own person.

13. The Kazekage Estate is a generation home--most households in Suna are, and in fact, it’s really fucking weird for someone not to live in a generational home--so Gaara lives there with his siblings. When Temari gets married, she and Shikamaru live there, and continue to do so when they have kids. If Kankuro has a kid (and a spouse), they’ll live there too. Lee eventually moves in. The house is always filled with love. When Gai visits with Kakashi, or when Tenten and Neji visit, they stay there too.

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rkxjongsuk · 4 years

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Final Post ||

I spent most of yesterday evening and this morning just kind of mentally processing the actual closing of rookies after seven years. Seeing the amazing plans that would have come to fruition makes me a bit sad but also kind of happy that rookies ended where it ended. Thank you to the mods for prolonged effort to keep this rp running as long as it did and I am glad to have been here as long as I was.

I first joined rookies six years ago on the 15th of October, 2014. 2014 and subsequently 2015 had been a chaotic formative years for me. At the time, I was in my third year of college, constantly questioning whether or not I should be doing my degree, watching my parents get divorced in the summer of 2015 and moving out of the house where I’d lived for twelve years. Rookies (at first through Sungjong in October and then through Kevin in March (03.04.2015) and Kris in April (04.29.2015)} was a writing escape and somewhat of a comfort. Over the years at rookies, I have grown, graduated from college with a business degree and ended up completely a different person then I was five years ago.

My writing improved a lot and I can confidently say that it was mostly thanks to Rookies. I had been completely scared off writing after an English teacher bitched at me for my skills but thanks to rookies, I got more confident in my own skills. Sure, there’s been other rps before rookies and at the same time as rookies, but they had never lasted quite as long. Through the years, I have made some incredible friends through rookies and I am glad to have them in my life. You guys are genuinely the best and I’ll always love you. I have no intentions of ghosting any of you and hopefully, we’ll write again together somewhere else.

Now, onto what everyone actually wants: rkmuses future and taking in the ideas and everything set out by Bianca in account, where they would end up?

rkxjongsuk: the trc vocal king, easter bunny, princess diva of youtube fame - formerly rkkevin

I know I always used to say that I wanted him to debut the most since he’s my oldest muse, but in all honesty, he would have never fit in the idol bubble. Going off the ideas set out by Bianca, however, his future would have been pretty satisfying.

He would have ended up staying in TRC (since he had signed his contract for the second time back in may) and debuting as part of the rkmonstax group with the other trc boys in early 2021 (most likely as their main vocalist). Jongsuk would have felt pretty accomplished by this, and had been ready for the idol life. However, he was not ready for the rules and restrictions that would come into play with the group.

he’d always had a kind of laissez faire approach to everything and so the idol life is kind of shocking to him. it wasn’t what he’d fantasized it would be. so, jongsuk would probably become the first member to officially leave the group before their six-year contract would expire citing personal difficulties and mental health issues (three years and a bit after debut)

During those three years with the group, however, he’d make a name for himself as the King of OST. He would have gone on to King of Masked Singer (making it to R2 and shocking everyone with the high note octaves), gone on to be one of the trainers on the Voice of Korea partnering with Dynamic Duo, and make multiple appearances on Immortal Songs (a la Kyuhyun). Simultaneously, he’d also be collabing with idols across companies, most notably fellow former mga 3 contestant Gyeoul of And*Roma and Jiyeon of HEARTZ.

Upon his departure from the group, he moved back to San Francisco and resumed his Youtube life and career. He would still support the rest of the boys, as an international fan and would always buy up a lot of their cds to support and tell his followers to stream. However, being back in his element, Jongsuk would feel a lot more relaxed and a lot more comfortable.

A few months after his return home, he’d gain a collaboration with Smashbox or Morphe for a makeup line and he’d release an eyeshadow palette, two lipsticks and three eyeliners with the branding Smashbox x Stark: Rave on Mad (an homage to his youtube name: starkravingmad). He’d most likely send it in packages to his best friends in Korea. Jongsuk would find success in other fields outside of music and delve into what made his channel tick and what made him the happiest.

Eventually, I think, he would have found love (maybe in the form of another tall actor who was in school 2013 with him) and been a happy youtuber, taking constant new challenges all over the place and always stepping to his own beat.

As for his friends, he would have definitely gone back to Korea for Kangjoon’s eventual wedding and Jiyeon’s eventual wedding as well. The invites to visit him in San Francisco, California would have been extended to all his friends and even in his busy schedule, he’d always find time to show them all around the city that he’d been born. He’d even always be happy to see his former groupmates if they came on tour to California and would always be the first one for the backstage/VIP passes.

rkxrm: the kt chaebol, nsg’s main rapper and actor extraordinaire - formerly rkkris, rkkmh, minhyukxrk

namjoon had always been the unwilling debut, since I honestly never saw him actually debuting before jongsuk and instead, here we are. he’s the established idol.

With NSG’s debut having just happened, he would probably stick around as the rapper before KT began shoving him into acting everywhere. Most likely, would have ended up as leader of another subunit (maybe?) in the future putting that leadership expertise to the good use. After the first two successful comebacks, he would have gone into acting officially with the first main role on a web-drama as Cha Gihyun on A-TEEN.

His charisma would have definitely shined and stolen the screen time since he’s a former actor already. Following initial drama success, he would have tried his hand in modelling and endorsement, with Honda and Skool Looks. He would have gone further in modelling and acting, eventually becoming more known as the actor Kim Namjoon than the rapper of nsg.

He would have had his share of crazy fans (mostly noonas, pretty girls and drama grandmas) and even probably taken the top bias spot for quite a few people when they would have found out his past. Of course, during the course of promotions (I envision this would happen during Regular-Irregular promotions), it come to light that he’s an actual chaebol (he’s never hidden it but netizens think this is a big deal) and the heir to Kim Securities with a former Canadian award winning actress as his mother. It also comes to light the dysfunctional family dynamic that he’d always had with them.

It caused some hardship between him and his family but he had the support of nsg behind him (his ride or die brothers and family) but in the end his family did began treating him a lot better and he eventually gained their support.

He would have stayed with NSG all through their first contract, but probably wouldn’t have renewed and most likely would have either gone to acting agency where he could focus on acting or go back to that chaebol life and actually fully embrace it as a future heir.

In terms of his love life, he would have officially asked Jiyeon to date him at the Halloween party and they would starred in a few dramas side by side (Cinderella and the Four Knights being their first). They would kept secretly dating and eventually after their mutual dating ban was over, would probably reveal it in a cute couple shoot for Ceci or Dazed and Confused (like E Dawn and Hyuna). After Joon would have left NSG (post contract non renewal), he would have probably still kept acting and modelling alongside Jiyeon. NamYeon would have been a lot like the Rain/Kim Taehee acting and visual power couple.

He would have definitely still kept in close touch with the rest of nsg (since they’re like brothers) and even with all his former kt friends, loving the time that he had spent in the company.

rksxngyeol: nova’s artist, the mangaka

sungyeol had been an incredibly refreshing muse to write. he’s always been someone who actually doesn’t want to debut and he just wants to draw. i initially got him because minhyuk (joon) and jongsuk were getting really exhausting.

there’s not much to say about sungyeol’s future. his contract with nova would have expired in november and he would have left the company on his own terms with the two years behind him. he learned a lot during those two years at nova and even realized a lot about himself.

following his contract expiry, he would have asked his boyfriend (myungsoo) to move in with him over christmas with a key in a box attached to a black butler keychain. if the other said yes, then the new year would have kicked off with the duo moving and cooking together and spending time with each other.

sungyeol would have resumed drawing manhwa and mangas, combining his webtoon comic into a more professional looking five volume manga series with the same title. eventually he would have gotten an anime deal again and even a live action deal on his works (if your muse would have wanted to be in the live action of the Princess’s Sword, go for it). That would have propelled his family to actually recognize him as a talent and he would have been reinstated into the family.

This would have led to myungsoo officially meeting Sungyeol’s family. His parents would have loved him to bits and his grandparents would have been iffy on it, but his grandmother would end up dying three years after of heart attack and his grandfather would have followed her a year later of old age.

After having dated Myungsoo for about five years, Sungyeol would have proposed to him and they would have most likely gotten married on the beach while on vacation somewhere warm. (we love a happy ending ;.;) Also, he would have moved into a bigger house and brought Haebin with them so that they could be a cute happy family.

Eventually, he would have come back to work for Nova as a producer and creative direction artist under Wendy as CEO (if that would have happened), and if not, he would have taken over his family’s company despite the lack of education and simply learned on the job. (Can I say that he would have been Myungsoo’s sugar daddy at some point even though they would be married or engaged at this point???)

Thank you for reading to the very end and I love you all. Let’s stay friends and meet again in another rp.

#that was very very long

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bayrut · 4 years

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@unconventionalot4 and @bernielovesrandomshit tagged me in this game <3

Rules: Answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to get to know better or catch up with.

Three ships: hahah haven’t shipped stuff in a while but Willex from jatp since i watched it this week, Blue x Gansey from trc, Newtmas from tmr

Last song: Paper Houses by Make Out Monday (it’s really good!!)

youtube

Last movie: havent’ watched movies in a while actually... maybe legends of the fall? didn’t like it too much but my mom did

Last book: i re-read all 3 tfc books this summer! haven’t read stuff in a while oops

i tag @thechampagnelovers @berniedette @anditwentlikethis @home-compass @sunsetcurvegay @skylesbian @ziamkings @mastasof-ravenkroft and @zaynalbum but feel free to ignore <3

#tag game

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blue + adam (TRC), annie + rio, krystal + rio, beth + fitzpatrick, johnny + charlie

blue x adam: brotp, I did love their doomed romance but ultimately think they worked way better as friends (it’s been a minute since I read the series last but I feel like they made each other nervous but not in like, the right way, if that makes any sense?)

annie x rio: brotp but also i would totally get into them as brotp that casually bones when they’re bored up until rio meets annie’s hot older sister and annie’s like oh dude you’re going down hard mostly bc she thinks beth would never go for it and it’s hilarious but then when she realizes beth’s actually into him (not bc of annie’s efforts, if anything that nearly backfires), she gets kind of conflicted about it (not bc she’s jealous of rio being into beth but of rio taking up beth’s attention)

krystal x rio: notp, krystal deserves nice things not migraines

beth x fitzpatrick: notp, idek why i’m just not about it

johnny x charlie: brotp 5 evaaaaa!!!!!! (except when charlie’s being mean and taking scissors to his bounce house i’m still mad about that HE ASKS FOR SO LITTLE!!!!!!! TACOS, BOUNCE HOUSES AND FAMILY!!!!!!!! IT COSTS ZERO CENTS TO NOT BE A DICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

gimme a ship any ship and i’ll tell you otp, brotp or notp

#1. i only just realized the rio x annie is all one sentence but i can't be bothered to go back and change it so whatever #2. oh no i want to write it #what if..........annie and rio were the roommates #[softly] oh no #ask me stuff #otp brotp notp

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landlordrecords · 3 years

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Bassline (& 2020 in general): Re-e-wind

What a strange year, as everyone, everywhere has said a million times… Writing-wise, I’d been doing Record Collector magazine since 2014, and uDiscover (the Universal Records online mag) for not much less, & that all just seemed to (understandably) stop dead with the onset of the pandemic. Since then, I’ve polished off my chapter on the work of Simon Morris and the Ceramic Hobs for Palgrave, & that’s about it, so you’re more likely to find me over on Twitter at Sniffy (@philblackpool) / Twitter these days, blurting out the odd sentence. I hence thought it might be time to revisit a very old piece…

Like many, I’ve been working from home for much of the year, and although I’ve occasionally wanted to pull out my own eyeballs, it has generally been very pleasant for a voracious music-lover. I started by catching up on the vast majority of my insane, years-deep second-hand vinyl buy piles, and then chomped through a load of ‘long listen’ stuff I’d had on the backburner forever (including, astonishingly, eventually getting through something like 40 hours of Pan Sonic live sets someone had dumped online). I graded hundreds of releases for sale on Discogs, and revisited umpteen musical thangs extensively, including 90s gabba, Sun Ra, music hall, Schoenberg, dancehall reggae, the acknowledged worst albums ever, happy hardcore, Italian house, bounce and makina (I’ve lost track of how much time I’ve spent checking out youtubes to try to identify a couple of most-wanted bounce and makina tunes), Britpop (!), cosmic disco, and Belgian popcorn. It’s been an extraordinary year, packed with cultural discovery and rediscovery. In amongst this, in no way ashamed of my abject love of Discogs, and already having used and edited it for many years, I read the entire guidelines and decided to go hard on sorting out stuff I care about on there. Seeing they’d finally added various more recent ‘styles’, I’ve spent the last month and a half doing a ridiculous amount of edits on a dozen or so niche genres of importance in recent times (footwork, Jersey Club, yadda yadda). My tweakings around Bassline and UK Funky eventually drew me to the attention of UK Garage legend Karl ‘Tuff Enuff’ Brown, a fellow Discogs obsessive not so keen on the editing side of the site, who wondered if I might give him a hand sorting out the mess of his own and his label’s (2Tuf 4U) discographies. His entertaining phonecalls were enough to convince me.

I dug out all my stuff related to Karl’s label to listen to along the way, and found myself noticing how much UKG has been back in the spotlight of late (key, and brilliant, article here: RA: Like A Battle: The Push For UK Garage's Future (residentadvisor.net) ). While by no means unaware of this (I’ve had some lovely promos from Kiwi and the like of late, plus some moodier bits from various El-B worshippers), my status as a confirmed middle-aged semi-retired raver had hidden much of this from me. This leads me onto one of my big philosophical points of recent years: I listened to dance music avidly before I ever went out dancing, and listen to it now in lockdown, and in semi-retirement. There is far too much an emphasis among ever-rejuvenating dance music correspondents on ‘the club’ as the only way to enjoy dance music, but we know that OG disco fans are 60+ and unlikely to be out every weekend these days – is their experience now worthless? Online fans talk up their love of dance music for exercise soundtracks, bedtime calming soundtracks, etc: this is reality. Dance music is as valid to all these people as rock is to people who haven’t been to a gig in 40 years.

The style I felt myself most drawn back to was bassline (largely via Karl’s low-key issue of some DJ Q material). My love of UK Garage and all its offshoots largely stems from how physically removed I have been from it from virtually its entire history. Only my 2000-03 stint in Essex perfectly matched the garage waveform, and that was the 2-step era, quite the opposite of bassline. Despite being largely a northern phenomenon, Blackpool is largely untouched by bassline, being all about punk and bounce to my mind. An instant love for me circa 2007, bassline feels like one of those genres with unfinished business, but remains one I’ve rarely danced to. Cut off in its prime, it is now back, enormously popular, and rightly so, but, due to the vagaries of the digital music world, some of its key material remains tough to access in any decent form.

I originally wrote the piece I have butchered for this one in March 2008, on Myspace (remember that), in reaction to the exciting waves of bassline and UK funky then reinvigorating the world of UKG. It looks a bit embarrassing now, with more writing experience, although I continue to applaud my own willingness to be open about my innocent appreciation of things I love but am not truly part of.

The most notable misstep in my original piece was the presumption that bassline would become the latest enormous chart sensation. Like happy hardcore before it, the ball was, in reality, fumbled. Instead of hoped-for freaky innovation, the producers also opted, as many in years gone by, for smoothed-out commerciality (in unholy alliance with low-grade grime crossovers), although the main adversarial issues seem to have been police crackdowns and the London-centric ‘cool police’. Although I was long aware of such problems with Niche in Sheffield (the genre’s spiritual home), it appears that the police interference had a devastating effect across the board ( Banned From Sheffield: How Jamie Duggan fought for bassline… And won (ukf.com) ). This largely explains why many of the bassline producers gravitated towards the largely wack bass house/house & bass style so beloved of teenyboppers in recent years. Thank heavens that era is now largely over.

Niche reputedly specialised in an arguably unholy mixture of dated late 90s speed garage and ‘bassline house’ (think ‘Let Me Show You’ by Camisra, and MK’s ‘organ house’), way past their sell-by date (I still only really like a handful of Shaun Banger Scott bits in this style, one single 2009 Brummie CD EP, and one Virgo remix). Ultimately, though, this experiment unexpectedly created something magical. The crucial element here is the 4/4 beat. While undoubtedly skippy, the vast majority of the material favoured had a firm 4/4 beat, always favoured across all key scenes in the north of England from northern soul onwards. When they ran out of tunes to rinse, in time-honoured fashion, they made their own. Long, rumbling walls of bass, organs, and hoppy-skippy beats, with raggafied samples and gunshots over the top. Popular in Birmingham as well (pretty much the centre of a vinyl glut at the time, and now notable in the popularity of DJs such as Chris Lorenzo and Hannah Wants), B-side titles hinted of coke overload. Disenfranchised by London’s movement away from the holy 4/4 (despite a slight revival in the early noughties), and via messenger services and the like, northern producers began to exchange a new hybrid in the mid-00s which took these speed garage and bassline house influences and updated them with current R’n’B bootlegs, with influences from grime (regional grime producers were key here) and, most notably, with rococo basslines. Its most obvious comparison point was Sticky’s garage productions, concurrent with the early grime era. Southern producers such as Agent X, Delinquent (who featured Gemma Fox on their magical 2006 ‘Boxers’), and Dexplicit (Fox again, 2005’s ‘Might Be’) ran with that, and the north lapped it up. Key early pointers also included DJ Narrows’ superb 2001 4/4 tune ‘Saved Soul’, and early 00s DND work (Artwork, later part of dubstep supergroup Magnetic Man). A notable increase in output came in 2006, and 2007-9 were the genre’s original glory years. And the bulk of producers and up-&-comings delivering serious anthems to the scene came not from London and the south-east, but from Leeds (T2, Wittyboy, Nastee Boi), Bradford (TS7), Manchester (Murkz, Burgaboy, Subzero), Nottingham (Virgo, IllMana), Leicester (JTJ, H20, FB & Zibba), and Wolverhampton (EJ, TRC, Brett Maverick). EJ’s Ejucation mix series (all up on Soundcloud) is a good place to start, beginning as the bassline house began to be overtaken by the pure bassline numbers.

Distribution for serious UK garage music has often been woeful, with only high street compilations & the chart singles (‘Heartbroken’ by T2, ‘What’s It Gonna Be’ by H20, etc) making it all over the country, and this helped stymie the true development of bassline, although vinyl prices, dreadful video promos, and the leap to digital in some ways didn’t help. Years on, as an incorrigible vinyl fanatic, I still only have handful of bassline 12”s. Yes, you can now access this stuff the world over via Youtube etc, but decent, high-quality copies of full-length tunes (they are often hacked about to great effect, but in a way which obscures the original intentions, in the mix) are not always the easiest to come by, although the classic producers are increasingly putting out digital compilations of their original work. Material that would, for previous genres, be fiended after, is lost to being just more online links. At the time, I looked high and low for 12”s, succeeding only rarely, largely on the flip of UK Funky releases. The (mixtape) audience, going by comments online, were often extremely young, are probably now still only in their mid-twenties, and are seemingly happy enough with this chaotic model. Bassline originally, as all rave genres, largely ran off mixtape boxsets, and a 2007 ‘Pure Bass – Fantasy’ box from Stoke remains my key document of that era: seven bassline CDs, with many tracks repeated, but packed to the gills, with most tracks only lasting a minute or two in the mix. As with all rave mixes, it has taken me years to suss the majority of the track IDs. In the Resident Advisor piece linked above, DJ Q (from Huddersfield) talks about thousands of lost bassline tunes, the bad side of the digital revolution. My recent Discogs ferreting suggests more bassline tunes than one might imagine did make some sort of decent release, but too many only made white labels, promo CDs for commercial releases (before being snipped from the main release), mix CDRs, or Youtube’s grainy depths. Classics such as TS7 featuring Bianca’s ‘Seems Like’ appear to never have had any decent release whatsoever, despite TS7 going on to be a big name in bass-oriented house, and Bianca Gerald having kept at the vocal turns ever since.

T2 hit biggest, with ‘Heartbroken’, a gorgeous, smashed-vocal garage dub so popular that it even inspired a Jersey Club refix. His catalogue was immediately deep, although I get the impression he has stopped adding to it. One complaint about bassline, including some of the T2 work, regards the untutored vocals, which can sometimes be rather flat, and certainly lacking in dynamics compared to the dazzling US vocalists featured on some earlier UK garage pieces (I refer here, as always, to TJ Cases’ remarkable ‘Do It Again’). I kinda like that - it shows amateur enthusiasm not far removed from punk, and most obviously links to lover’s rock, as does the production at times: it gives a feeling of melancholy entirely suited to the vocals. Other bassline heroes include TS7, who briefly brought to the fore sassy female garage MC T Dot. His productions also include ‘Smile’, one of my very favourite bassline tracks, full of that Simon Reynolds-quoted 'weird energy’ possessed by DJ Hype & co in the early nineties. Male bassline vocalists such as Ideal also remain unfairly forgotten, although some of the female vocalists have gone on to work in related genres since bassline’s peak.

Paleface, an ex-member of London garage rap crew Stonecold GX, runs Northern Line Records (FB, TRC, Wittyboy, Nastee Boi), something of a quality mark for bassline productions, while also making highly successful UK Funky tunes as part of Crazy Cousinz, and later progressing into commercial house territory. He chronicled much of bassline’s high-water mark (including being married to Kyla, since sampled by Drake). Wolverhampton-based Northern Line signing TRC proved particularly adaptable, spewing out a legion of original tunes and remixes before retreating for a while to grime. Leeds’ Nastee Boi was a favourite of mine at the time, with his pitch-black gangsta bassline tunes, but pushed on towards a mixture of underwhelming R’n’B vocal cuts and nursery grime toons. Wittyboy started similarly punishingly but also went smoother, unbalancing the classic bassline rough and smooth combination.

Now that the dubiously poisonous rep of Niche has been dispatched, the key bassline acts have returned to their key battleground, and the genre seems in full throttle again. Much of the new material seems a little one-dimensional to me: producers invariably big up Bristol’s My Nu Leng as, I suppose, a bridge from bro-step to 4/4. Everything, as acknowledged by the DJs, is huge drops and nothing much else. It still sounds pretty hot though – not the updated lover’s rock of a decade ago, but worth supporting. Bassline is NOT finished!

#bassline #bassline house #niche #organ house #brostep #speed garage #uk garage

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