It's Only the End if You Want it to Be

[nebulathunderwave-art]

Through the cold days together ❄🏵

For @happy-birthday-er-ge day 8: free day! (Which I chose to interprete as 100% self-indulgent aesthetics with 0% concept 😂) Some sparkly XiYao to finish this week of celebration! It was nice to create not only one but several things in honor of Xixi's birthday, thank you for this lovely event 🥰❄

[happy-birthday-er-ge]

This is so tender and heartwarming, perfect as the days get colder.

Thank you for creating so many lovely pieces for the event. :)

[astrinde]

Musical serendipity.

The Meng Shi story I posted a few days ago had a piece of original music attached.

Because I have so little training in music - and none in music composition - it takes some practicing to play the songs I 'hear' in my mind. So, when putting together Your Mothers' Lessons - a piece combining Meng Shi's lullaby and Madam Lan's river song, to represent their sons meeting and ending each other's loneliness - I recorded five different tracks: two orchestra, two flute, one electric piano. Then I chose the best "take" for each instrument, and the final recording used only those three tracks.

Yesterday I wanted to listen to the song, so I hit "playback" on my piano. But I forgot to mute the unused tracks.

And I discovered that the two flutes harmonise.

Two voices, singing together.

The song lasts 1:10; the Xiyao "duet" begins at 0:46.

Hear what made me happy, here.

[likecharity]

[widowshill]

VICTORIA WINTERS & CAROLYN STODDARD.

— Are you angry with me? — I’m angry with the world. — Including me? — No, not including you.

[agathah]

If we are to tame darkness, we must first face that it exists

Prints on my bio!

[the-scottish-costume-guy]

The rocky horror is really problematic.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is absolutely fascinating. The history surrounding it, what it was trying to do, the fact its become a cult classic. I'm honestly not sure why you sent me this. If you don't like what I reblog you do not have to follow me. I'm writing about Rocky Horror right now, specifically about how gender is performed in the movie (and how queer gender is) and the messages its conveying. Aside from anything else (such as how culturally significant that movie is, especially to the queer community) people really should remember that Rocky Horror is satire - that makes it super informative. You see the queer coded classic horror villian was prevelant, thats why Frankie is queer. The idea of frankenstien creating the monster out of some form of homosexual desire had been discussed in literature for a couple of decades. The horror movie villian as a threat to traditional heterosexual cisgender norms was also well discussed. Rocky Horror was poking fun at all of that. And boy the way they did it is so interesting, with more classic rock for the 'normative' characters and glam rock for all the queer/non-normative ones creating this dissonance between tradition and contemporary? Even the costuming taking some hints of the 50s for Brad and Janet, while being solidly 70s and very queer for Frankie? I'm enjoying writing about it and theres a lot to talk about. Sadly I wont get to talk about music in my essay but I wanted to mention it because its actually a really cool concept. So yeah thanks for giving me an excuse to ramble about how cool I think this movie is even tho you wanted the opposite.

[wujimp3s-deactivated20210707]

Thinking of lan wangji…..thinking of how the juniors adore him…thinking of how if fifteen year old lan wangji could meet his adult self….his adult self who is confident in his sexuality, is happily married to wei ying and is adored by the juniors who look at him as if he hung the moon in the sky…i think fifteen year old lan wangji would cry…just a little

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[yutaan]

Jiang Cheng doodle! Happy birthday to my favorite fictional little guy of all time! 🪷

[carlaerosie]

small cultural & Colombia/Latin related details from Encanto 🇨🇴

the flowers on Isabela’s dress and in her hair - cattleya trianae orchids (may lilies), national flowers of Colombia

Camilo snapping his fingers when he is excited

Mirabel using her lips to point

flowered balconies (like in Cartagena)

ruanas (ponchos) that Bruno and Camilo wore

Dolores’ “squeaks”

inviting the whole town/neighbourhood to a party

sombrero vueltiao - traditional Colombian hat

Isabela being covered in the colors of Colombian flag (🇨🇴) during her song

and many many more!

(this is for all the people who still say Encanto is not about Colombians ; sorry about the quality of the gifs)

[inthedarktrees]

Julie Andrews, “In My Own Little Corner,” Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, 1957

[alda-rana]

A fun fact from the Appendices that I had totally forgotten: Elanor Gamgee became one of the maids of Queen Arwen!

[what-even-is-thiss]

I just had an argument with someone who was like “why would we settle for food stamps when we could have universal basic income?”

And it’s just like. People need food right now you know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hippie church moms donating quinoa chips to my local food bank have done more for me materially than any internet idealist ever has.

[what-even-is-thiss]

People get pissed at me for being a pragmatist in my political ideals but I’ve been in the position where I was out of food right now.

And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.

And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?

Yeah, UBI is better than the quinoa chips. Sure. But right now the quinoa chips are stopping people from going hungry and if all we can do is get the food bank quinoa chips to more people, then I say so be it. That’s something. I’ll almost always take baby steps over nothing.

[hachama]

Incremental improvement is still improvement. Existing support systems are still support. If your idea of how to fix whatever problem currently exists doesn't include addressing the people currently experiencing it, then it's pseudo intellectual wankery. By all means, enjoy your armchair speculations. But please be aware that your "activism" has a much in common with action as my high school plans for world domination had with invading Poland.

[nosnexus]

We're all sinners here

[prorochestvo]

Hanna Rovina as Leah in The Dybbuk, 1922

[luanna801]

Jin Guangyao's Worst Crime (wrong answers only)

Kept LXC up past Lan-mandated bedtime

Wrong about horse facts (thinks stallions go into rut)

Failed hat etiquette by not putting up his hair

Hoarded LXC's paintings when NHS wanted one

Unflattering red robes at incest wedding

Overestimated husky intelligence when picking out Fairy

Remaining time: 14 hours 4 minutes

[alchemyfreak123]

Women of Sinners - Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler