a revolution calling

hello, hello! i'm leap, who screams too much about rock operas and probably needs to stop caring so much about fictional characters. care to hear about our lord and savior mindcrime?

[kushblazer666]

araki in nebraska: fuuuuck dude what if there was an enemy

[pharaohleap]

MINDCRIME SONG RANKING

OPERATION: MINDCRIME RANKING EVERY MINDCRIME SONG IN ORDER OF RELEASE DATE TAKE THIS POWERPOINT AND WELCOME TO . . .

OPERATION: MINDCRIME SONG RANKING

A silly presentation I made to torture my roommates for my birthday ranking every Mindcrime song (including the two very questionable sequels) based on scores for musicality, lyricism, and narrative. This is peer-reviewed science right here. A definitive numerical value for how good each song is objectively. Definitely.

Lemme know where you agree or disagree with how I've scored things, and how you'd rank these songs yourself! I'd love to hear fellow breakdowns of the music. And if a hundred-slide presentation full of yapping is (understandably) too long, I've got a quick reference for the final rankings down below, compared to what I'd rank them personally based on how much I like 'em overall.

Red for Mindcrime I, blue for Mindcrime II, and green for Mindcrime III. My personal biased rankings are on the left versus the final presentation scores (the black numbers, scored out of 30) on the right, underlined when the song scored the same on both sides. If you skipped the presentation, I saved one 10-out-of-10 for the song I felt was the best in each particular category, with musicality going to Eyes of a Stranger; lyricism going to Hostage, of all songs; and narrative going to Suite Sister Mary!

For personal rankings, I'd say 1 - 17 are songs I wholeheartedly enjoy, even with whatever flaws the non-OG tracks have; 18 - 25 have merit with some hang-ups holding them back, or are guilty pleasures I can't in good conscience say are good songs however much I like them; 26 - 33 are boring or would-be good songs burdened by extremely questionable musical decisions; and 34 and below are just awful. Don't hit me with bricks for the top 14 not all being Mindcrime I, please, I'm biased toward songs I can sing along to -

[bellabs-dream-lab]

Just remembered I had this screenshot on my phone somewhere and had to post it here because it really speaks to me

[kananoa]

Babs

[ot3]

they're letting ave mujica open for evanesence ? what a beautiful world we live in

[ot3]

i keep laughing at this. complete bandori cultural victory i guess.

[tainbocuailnge]

"we're all faggots in the eyes of the state" okay but the state recognises different category of "faggot" where one is "idiot womanchildren with delusions of grandeur" and another is "subhuman predators that must be excised from society posthaste" like neither are a great way to treat another human being but can we pleeeeeeease acknowledge the difference here

[tainbocuailnge]

"stop queer infighting we're all-" okay so is this actually queer infighting or did a trans woman describe her lived experience in a way you didn't like

[senao-manythanks]

chongyue

[getmoneyghoul]

Never going to find the original tweet this is from but this is the best fsn post

[innerchildabortionclinic]

interesting kink assortment on the dash

[velinxi]

My Dungeon Crawler Carl tribute art!

[Prints here]

[tainbocuailnge]

doctor who has built 20 operators: if i don't roll and build wang im functionally bricking my account

doctor who has built 200 operators: hop on Aroma

[skittay]

at work: i will start every project and clean my room and learn a new language and read a book and exercise

at home: 20 more rounds of MOVES LIKE GASTER || Deltarune Parody of "Moves Like Jagger" please

[littlemut]

me: “sorry ): can’t come!! got so much to do at home”

me as soon as im home:

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[irishironclad]

So actually if you really wanted to use your analysis skills you'd realize that what people are annoyed about is the implication that there's never a story or creative work they can create that can escape people like you attempting to assign political meaning to it when they just don't want that. That in fact people's presumptions about life are not, in fact, political (at best they are cultural, which is not an inherently facet of politics). And that by you people arrogantly pushing this idea you are intruding on the fact that a lot of people use fiction as escapism from politics and insisting that "urm no actually your favourite cartoon actually has politics cause no human being is 100% unbiased" is in fact, supremely fucking annoying

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Stop having fun wrong, it ruins my fun when you have fun wrong, it's not enough for me to just scroll past the analysis I don't like, if anyone anywhere is saying that the cartoon exists in a political context that's undermining my enjoyment of it!"

That's you. That's what you sound like.

[kittenwriter]

In my experience people who talk about analysis the way you're talking about it are the ones who move on to harassing the creator off the internet for clout, but go off, I guess.

[tpwrtrmnky]

That's teenagers who hate the concept of shows having main characters, actually.

[sublimated-mother]

[phyriaxi]

89/100

Sakiko, Mutsumi

[caffichai]

Only thing I know about Sakiko Arknights Mujica is her mission failure voice line and it's so real