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[rabosa-al-forn]

It's fair day in the town, and some street musicians have come to liven up the atmosphere 🎵🪕

[betweenlands]

do you mind explaining what a decem motif is. for those of us unititiated

we have no joke been watching andrew cunningham's Gaster Motif video to try and prepare for this exact question (we don't exactly go to music theory often...) so. here we go.

first of all, here's the auditory tldr: merry crisis/haunted winter/100 days multiverse legundo is super ultra turbo haunted and the proof is this.

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at least, it's usually this. kind of. not really.

at 12:25 into his own video, Legundo is separated from the group for the first time, after he's just died and explained the death mechanic in voiceover. we have some very nice apprehensive bgm. around half a minute later, at 12:53 in, a leafless spruce tree seems to spook the guy -- there's a sudden sting from the music, and after a bit of silence he says "for a second, i thought that was an old frenemy."

here's the thing. uh. that background track you hear? that's not default royalty free music. that is, in fact, music composed specifically for Legundo's stuff -- in this case, 100 Days Multiverse related stuff specifically.

let's head back to 12:25. please forgive us while we flounder at describing music in basically any scholarly way whatsoever. the melody here is a somewhat dissonant, repeating, exposed one of roughly six notes. it plays with a little more instrumentation on its second repeat. you hear a couple different variants on it, it fades out, "frenemy" jumpscare is accompanied by a repeat of the first four notes of that melody instead.

we say usually six notes because, well, as you've heard, the first four are the part of the leitmotif that usually gets quoted. the full one doesn't always appear, except for when it does, and later in the video there's scoring that does the sort of hovering-finger-in-front-of-your-face-"i'm-not-touching-you!" thing with the motif where it's a little too similar for us to shrug off but a little too different for us to not think we might be overanalyzing. swagever

anyway, that's the decem leitmotif! who or what exactly decem is happens to be a whole other can of worms that we have too much schoolwork to properly explain at the current moment -- but all you should need to know going into this series is, again, this legundo is super ultra turbo haunted. by some advanced eldritch nonsense that sneaks into the soundtrack sometimes.

hope this helps👍

[millenari]

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When I first heard that they casted a male Jelly for TJB this year I thought to myself 'that's fine, Jelly will just sound different than usual' but honest to fuck Bryson Battle's Jellylorum sounds more Jellylorum than some female Jellys I've heard

[baopondering]

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Apr 7th

listen how lovely ze sounds when eating... ♥

[ivarthebadbitch]

women of vikings + water

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[jennyfromthebes]

ONE WEEK until Half-Staff Blues!!!!! That's right folks, it's already only seven days till we all get to hear Peter Hughes' first new album in a decade, ft. Pop Filter as his backing band helping to bring the whole thing to life, beautifully mixed and mastered by Snowy. I've been affectionately describing this record as "jams to outlive the USA to", and if anything is true about HSB, it's that it jams and it hates the USA. If you haven't already, you should pre-order the album so that you can join in on the bandcamp listening party on Thursday, and if you've already ordered the album but can't wait until it comes out to hear one more song off of it, then go check out the sneak preview of Gary's Song on Tired Pod. If you only know Peter as the bassist from the Mountain Goats, you are in for such a treat—his solo work is absolutely incredible, and this record is no exception!!!

[nicolagriffith]

Female bonobos (unlike chimps) gang up to fuck-up and shut down bully boys, and neolithic humans were egalitarian. Our DNA is more bonobo than chimp. Hierarchy is not inevitable. Collective action against bullies does work. We can change the world. Are we bonobos or are we chimps? Time to choose.

Fighting, bonobo style

[the-legroom]

Ladytron - Flicking Your Switch (2002)