I think being shy is nothing to be ashamed of, and in many ways, the shy people you get to know can end up some of the sweetest and bravest. When a shy person offers to wave a waiter over because I’m having a shy day myself, I can sense how much they care for me, and I appreciate it greatly.
Also, shy little kids are the cutest! The ones who hide and peer out from behind their parents’ legs? I love them! Getting them to accept me as a cool friend feels like a blessing. When someone goes, “Oh, they’re usually so shy, but they must like you!” as their child and or cat sit in my lap or bring me a toy, I feel like I’ve been given a great and delicate treasure.
clouds: list your top 5 songs at the moment and how they make you feel
I am very glad that this says ‘at the moment’ because my favorite songs change from moment to moment, a lot. This extends the answer a lot though, so more below the cut:
“Atlas Hands” by Benjamin Francis Leftwich is one of those songs that match your mood for you. When I listen to it in a happier time, it’s a calming song that reminds of me a misty breeze at an ocean cliffside, or 4 o’clock sunlight streaming in through a south-facing window as you write in a journal. When I’m feeling down, it’s a wistful song, something that helps soothe peaks of emotion until it’s more of a current, and you can drift along ariver until you’re at peace again. I love it.
“Getting High on Humans” by Oh Wonder is a song that I enjoy, not for its music, but what it represents. I understand that feeling of ‘getting high on humans’. I’ve traveled quite a bit for my age, not to resorts or overseas, but just long bus rides, tiring flights. When I listen to this song, I know the writers intended it to represent that little rush you can get when you talk to a stranger, and this song’s existence helps me to remember everyone I’ve met - the homeless young woman whom I gave a homemade hamburger, the deaf couple that let me practice ASL with them en route from Toronto to Philadelphia, the girl who smuggled a pitbull puppy from Philadelphia to Boston.
“Personal” by Stars is the first song that made me realize that music was its own medium of storytelling, with its own techniques. I mean, I’ve always been a showtune fan, so I knew that music could be part of a story, but this is a slow, melancholy song that tells a full story in how sparse it is. The lyrics are simple, showing a correspondence between a man and a woman on an online dating site. What gives the story depth and layer, however, is the rhythm, the pacing of the lyrics, the repetition, and everything left unsaid. It’s a song brimming with a full story, and it’s lovely in how it manages not to overflow.
“LOVE” by PSY released its music video two weeks ago, and I really like it. It’s a feelgood song, and what I particularly like is that it’s PSY trying to break away from the success of “Gangnam Style”. It doesn’t follow the same formula, and something about PSY’s songs that I love is that the English translations aren’t literal. The Korean lyrics are clever and fun, and whoever the translator is, they find equivalent idioms and retain that feeling even in the English, and it fits to the beat too, last time I checked. A peaceful, bouncy, hopeful song.
“It Ain’t Me” by Kygo and Selena Gomez is a song I didn’t expect to enjoy, but I do. I find that I like most of Kygo’s stuff, actually, and something you might notice is that none of the songs that I listed are songs about being in love, necessarily. I like the message in this song - it’s one of a breakup, the end of a romantic relationship, but it doesn’t have to be interpreted that way. It can be a close friendship, which is something I can relate to. I like the passive vengeance in it, too. The narrator doesn’t take revenge in any sort of way, but the other party’s unhealthy behavior and their dependence on the narrator brings its own consequence. “All this time, I’ve been putting up with you, taking care of you. Who will do it now that I’m gone? Good luck.” That sort of feeling. I love it.
🎤 I don’t actually have favorite bands since I mainly decide on a song-by-song basis, but here are some I listen to more than one song of, in no order:
Imagine Dragons
BABYMETAL
Sound Horizon
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Of Monsters and Men
🎶 I get asked my five favorite songs a lot, but the answer changes depending on what story I’m writing at the time. Since I’ve been writing the same stories for a while now, the answer never changes:
“Bright Lights and Cityscapes” by Sara Bareilles
“Westfall” by Okkervil River.
“The Greatest” by Sia
“Little Talks” by Of Monsters and Men.
“Give Love” by Akdong Musicians
📚 A career goal that I want? That’s easy: to publish at least two stories per storytelling medium. At least two books, two plays, two screenplays, two video games, two comics, etc. I suppose that means I have to get off Tumblr and get back to work, ahaha.
🐙: What do you suggest to beginner artists in terms of work ethic?(I hope this is the emoji you sent. Now that i’m home my laptop doesn’t wanna show the emojis so i had to go based off of my phone and a different browser type lol but it looked like an octopus?)Anyways, if that is the question you meant to ask my answer is this:Figure out a sort of flexible schedule for yourself. Try doing a drawing a day. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy. Gesture sketches are fine! And if you’re in the mood for it try something neat and experimental! Just practice drawing a lot and have fun doing it. That’s what counts.Artist Ask Meme
garbiji replied to your post “I was going to be so proud of myself, LOOK WHAT I GOT ONETAB DOWN TO:...”
How do you even manage to get up to that many tabs? 8 tabs feel like too many to me. I'm amazed yet kind of horrified lol
Well, keep in mind that it’s an extension that saves your tabs for you, I don’t have literally 1,600+ tabs open in my browser! XD (OneTab is super useful!) And the majority of it is tumblr posts (since I only use Chrome for tumblr, which is where I have it installed) that I want to reblog someday, but I don’t want to drop literally 50+ Disney posts or Voltron posts onto the blog at once.
Every so often, I’ll go through a tag and wind up with about two dozen posts I want to reblog, so I just open the reblogs into new tabs, then “Send all tabs on the right to OneTab --> Named Tab Groups --> Queue: Disney tumblr posts”. After awhile, when I’ve done this for a dozen different canons, they start to add up!
It makes it a lot easier when the queue runs down and I want to drop a bunch of stuff into it, though! And I don’t have to worry about overwhelming any one thing at a time, but I can still save all those posts. It works GREAT for me. ♥
(You can just use bookmarks, but I find the ability to send a dozen tabs at once to a particular group to be really useful, especially since they’re not meant to be permanent, just stored there because I don’t want 100+ tabs open in my browser at once!)
