who the FUCK voted for all those boring ballads?!?!?!??
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who the FUCK voted for all those boring ballads?!?!?!??
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feelings of elation (indulging in watching the kids' movies on netflix of stories i read when i was a kid)
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feelings of awkward discomfort (realizing that indeed my needs in stories has changed, and also why is the dad vampire who's wearing a leather coat hugging his son and making horrible dad jokes kinda attractive, that's NOT what I am supposed to be focusing on 🙈)
Ideas for a more fun ESC:
- every country has to send their earliest (still living) contest participant
- every country has to send their biggest (willing) act (not sure yet on how this'll be deduced though)
- splitting the entries into ESC Fun and ESC Ballad (putting the ballads into one spot makes it easier to avoid them)
- alternative option 1: doing both ESC Fun AND ESC Ballad, every country has to perform one ballad and one bop (to show they can pull off both concepts I guess; you could still ignore the Ballad subsection if you don't wanna hear any)
- alternative option 2: normal ESC but there is only one (1) ballad entry allowed and the countries have to fight over it (suggested this one in the tags of another post already but I think it should have a place here as well)
- every country has to provide one song and one performer, the songs then will get shuffled and randomly assigned to the countries
and my personal favourite
- shuffle tier two: those songs all have to be in their countries' official language (or one of them if they have more than one) because I think it would be funny
- alternative shuffle: every country provides a song and a performer but this time it's the performers who get randomly assigned to the countries by drawing lots
do i think austria's song is good? no. do i think she sings well? also no. do i enjoy the song and dance along on my bed and think they should go on to the finale? oh hell yes <3
one of my pet peeves is when people misspell character's names in fic (not one typo bc that's just something that can happen to everyone. i mean like consistently misspelling it through the whole text and even the tags) but it can be a little funny if the misspelled version now has another meaning
which brings me to the fact that i've been seeing some Ocean's fics lately where people spelled 'Reuben' as 'Rueben' which is like. German for 'turnips' and it always makes me laugh haha
also I never understood the practice of face-claiming in fandoms (partly because a character's appearance is definitely not the most important thing about them for me, partly because pretty much every time I imagined a character a particular way everyone else seemed to have a different idea of them - in order not to be too disappointed by film adaptations and the like I pretty much gave up on painting characters' images in my head above a rudimentary sketch like. at all)
but it's been 3 weeks and counting since I watched the Mötley Crüe movie on Netflix and I still cannot stop thinking of how movie-Nikki is the Sirius from my head appearance-wise (if you give him movie-Tommy's hair and body type)
Oh, and here's the almond tart I made on Sunday to bring with me to my grandparents - my grandma wanted a picture of it so I thought I'd put it here too 🤗