To be found within a song

raven ♤ ace/aro nonbinary she/her ♤ welcome to my house this is just things and stuff ♤ what would you do if you did not belong in this beautiful dream ♫

[flowersbyphone]

hi, i mostly just rb/collect assorted things and stuff on here :> sometimes i just lurk or am on here sporadically - DMs welcome

music is my lifeblood pretty much - bands/musical artists i like/love include but are not limited to (in semi-chronological order): ELO, Sergei Rachmaninov, Nightwish, Queen, Smile, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Lemon Demon/Neil Cicierega, Morgan, ELP, The 5th Dimension, Yes, Eyes of Blue, Wild Turkey, The Nice, Genesis, Rush, Transatlantic, Kaipa, Roine Stolt, The Flower Kings, Spock's Beard, Dream Theater, Gentle Giant, The Neal Morse Band/NMB, Karmakanic, The Tangent

other things i like: dragons, birds, clouds, movie/album syncs, video games, doodling, space (planets, nebulae, stars, galaxies, etc.), doctor who, star trek, star wars ot, new kids on the rock/guaranteed* video and Neil, Kevin, Ryan, & friends' other stuff, album art/art in general, daydreaming, the change of the seasons, the list goes on

i play piano (and a bit of acoustic guitar) plus a tiny yamaha pss-480 (i love synths/hammond organ/mellotron too, and would totally play one if i ever end up near one)

i also love movie syncs and have tried some of my own https://www.tumblr.com/flowersbyphone/798621924838244352/list-of-some-of-my-own-movie-syncs-ive-tried-that?source=share

hoping to find a friend/a kind soul i can (platonically) live with one day...

transphobes, anti-LGBTQ, white supremacists, ableists, etc. DNI

header photo by michaelnordeman

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i made a piano sheet music chord guide thingy for The Whirlwind by Transatlantic: https://www.tumblr.com/flowersbyphone/791008293886820352/the-whirlwind-skeleton-arrchord-guidepdf?source=share and i've got some other stuff on musescore too

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

she thinks she's drinks

[aromanticsky]

[ID: a cat sitting on a cardboard takeout drink tray. /end ID]

[rogdona]

[childoftheriver]

An absolute fave

[dogpuppy]

[tofusilken]

[ID: close up photo of a gumball machine with a label taped to the glass that says “Assort gumble.”]

[depsidase]

[plainxte]

From the Queen I (2024) boxset

[a4g]

problematic plot relevance gap

[monster2003]

I’m putting in my too weak notice.

[tatooineknights]

Academy Award winner Marcia Lucas has died. While winning major awards for her work as an editor for Star Wars (alongside a team of editors, including Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew; some of her contributions outside of her work with George Lucas include Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, and New York, New York), she mostly disappeared from the public eye following her divorce and essentially retired.

While Marcia dispelled the belief that she singlehandedly saved Star Wars in the edit (and very passionately defended George's craftmanship and ideas, which she felt were undercredited, as well as the work of their team in general), there was a lot of work she specifically did and I thought it would be good to highlight just how much she did and give her credit where it is due. There is a lot that came from her that most don't know about. Most of those examples are from Howard Kazanjian's biography, A Producer's Life, published in 2021.

On some of the uncredited dialogue and story revisions for Star Wars:

On some of her work in Star Wars:

On having the iconic trench run on the Death Star as her biggest work while working on Star Wars:

On her uncredited work in The Empire Strikes Back:

On how her input changed the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

On her joining the Return of the Jedi crew, an emphasis in finding the right cut for actors, cutting together footage of Luke in ROTJ after she and George disagreed with the characterization the director had given to Mark Hamill and unable to reshoot footage:

On editing the climactic ending in the Throne Room in ROTJ:

[sancticide]

see writing is funny because sometimes you have to google things like “can the human body survive with every rib broken” and other times you have to google things like “is there an ikea in manhattan???”

[goetic-justice]

The name's Loudly. Meows Loudly. And you're not gonna believe what I have to say next.

[mjshortformcjesus]

holy shit have you evver tried this new substance called album in order

[hbystuff]

Nausicaa retro game mockup/study/fanart Pt 2

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"record store" (2008), minimalg9

[tetitasdelimon]

top 5 horror movies

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

-the concept of working my whole life

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."