#now obviously

[hellishattempt]

on the topic of epic, i can not get over the fact that if odysseus would've just killed the cyclops, NONE of this would have happened. like, especially if you consider athena's position as a goddess and it's likely that she knew polyphemus was a son of poseidon / was related in some form to poseidon. at this point in antiquity, poseidon and athena already had their athens debate, where he gave the greeks horses (or seawater depending on the author) and she gave them the olive tree and the greeks chose athena as their patron god. and it's been about a hundred and twenty years since medusa was beheaded, but the gods aren't known to be super forgiving (see literally any greek myth ever), so i doubt poseidon and athena have gotten over centuries of disagreements? fights? whatever your word choice, they don't like each other. so when athena orders odyseeus to kill the cyclops, in my head, she's almost like warning him?? in a way?? about poseidon. like she wants to protect him and get him home, while also wanting to keep her stone-hearted general. when odysseus doesn't, athena separates herself completely and almost, in a way, gives poseidon permission to have his way with odyseus because he is no longer what she wants him to be. she knows that poseidon will rage and seek justice on his son's behalf, which will reinforce what athena was trying to teach odysseus, but she also knows that poseidon won't do that as long as odysseus remains "athena's favorite". so she deserts him and poseidon kills his entire fleet (and would've killed odysseus if not for the bag of winds but that's a different subject), effectively reinstating what athena was trying to warn odysseus against by being "reckless and sentimental", bringing odysseus to the point of the entire musical about ruthlessness, and creating the general that athena wanted.

in this essay i will-

[galaxyhanart]

Nadakhan hability being used by transforming in a og Jay but little bit buff and fully human infront of the blue ninja to get him to make his wish? And the little gremling bitting his pirate arm to make him to shut the f up?

Or Telling the crew that if none of them speak to the boy he would be quiet cause after all his just a brainless npc; naive Nadakhan this just make Jay to talk to every single living thing in the ship and nobody or nothig can make his mouth close

HAHHSHAHHFDHGHGAHJDSJHFDSHJHDJSFGHJDSG WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE FUNNIER THAN ME OH MY GOD WHEEZE

jay is now a biter this is canon

although jay doesn't wanna be buff he is a Rockstar Twink

anyways yes to all of this i'm so glad you all are on board with Jay being an absolute MENACE

[sultrybaby]

It's the way everyone ik calls me pretty liek im almsot believing it yall :o

[smi1la]

when are we going to have our first kiss

[ohsalamanders]

you know, i actually don't mind the epilogue in harry potter. like obviously i understand that it gives off the "babies will fix everything" message and it's definitely not a good message. but the fact that rowling chose this route actually makes sense. rowling was at a time in her life were everything was going downhill for her. her only source of comfort was her child. it totally makes sense she gave her characters the same silver lining.

[thewardenisonthecase]

ok so IRL, white wedding dresses only became a thing after queen victoria famously wore that color for her wedding. before that, it could have been any color, and for most people, their wedding dress was usually just the nicest dress that they owned.

in DAI, if the inquisitor, or sera, get married, they wear a white dress, implying that something like that has happened in the world of thedas. now the question is, who was the trend setter for white wedding dresses in thedas

[shadow-trolls]

Its kinda soul crushing to see partners making ship art, ship aesthetic posts, ship this, ship that, with other people meanwhile I'm ignored right into the holes of this platform.

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

What is your position on playlists? I don't know if I believe the prevailing opinion that if you pay top dollar your songs are guaranteed to go on TTH, or every multimillionaire's kid trying it out in pop would end up on it. Seems that you have to meet certain stringent criteria. They don't seem to like indie music which is possibly why Louis isn't there, but many believe that Sony just didn't cough up the cash to get him on TTH. If it was just a question of money, Louis could have paid himself though?

So I think there’s a lot we don’t know about what happens behind the scenes.  I  think it’s naieve to think that there isn’t a lot of resources that goes into trying to influence playlists, but I also think it’s foolish to reduce that to money.

I think this summary of costs of a hit song before streaming does a really good job of summarising the role of money:

Every song is different. Some songs have a momentum all their own, some songs just break out out of the blue. But the record industry depends on hits for sales. Having hits is the business plan. The majority of songs that are hits — that chart high, that sell big, that blast out of cars in the summertime-- cost a million bucks to get them heard and played and bought.

Daniels breaks down the expenses roughly into thirds: a third for marketing, a third to fly the artist everywhere, and a third for radio.

"Marketing and radio are totally different," he says. "Marketing is street teams, commercials and ads."

Radio is?

"Radio you're talking about . . ." he pauses. "Treating the radio guys nice."

'Treating the radio guys nice' is a very fuzzy cost. It can mean taking the program directors of major market stations to nice dinners. It can mean flying your artist in to do a free show at a station in order to generate more spots on a radio playlist.

Former program director Paul Porter, who co-founded the media watchdog group Industry Ears, says it's not that record labels pay outright for a song. They pay to establish relationships so that when they are pushing a record, they will come first.

There are key differences in a streaming era - there is more potential for virality (although even that can be managed). But even with hits that have a viral starting point - a lot of money goes into them by the time they’re as big as they get.  

I think it’s much more a case of major labels spending money to build relationships and therefore playlisting reflecting labels’ priorities, than direct payment.

But also I think there’s an assumption in here that getting on big playlists is necessarily the best strategy, or the best use of resources for every artist.  A huge part of the question is ‘what’s the long term goal?’ What’s the model for viability? Hit singles have never been the best path for long term viability for an artist, and they still aren’t today.