#screwrocknroll

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screwrocknroll replied to your post:TOGETHER THEY FIGHT CRIME

"plastic goat. it works as a librarian in hell. it is a magical girl." !!!!!!

that one's totally twilight sparkle

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screwrocknroll replied to your post:i have lots of food in the house to eat but i have...

this is so real

it is now 7pm and i still haven't defrosted a chicken breast or cleaned a countertop

i keep telling myself i'll get the sheets off the bed and a load of laundry in the machine and then i'll cobble together some sustenance but i am CURRENTLY LYING ON MY BED WITH MY LAPTOP TYPING THIS ON TOP OF MY DIRTY SHEETS

ffffffffffffff

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screwrocknroll replied to your post:fengengao replied to your post:whichever asshole...

"eurocentrism of cheeses" is great A+++ v good coinage

*blush*blush*

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screwrocknroll replied to your post:twiggymcbones replied to your post:I HAVE...

It took me so long to figure out what bangs were when I got to the US, but now I love it soooooo much. It’s the most Americanest word.

you think? i think the most americanest word is "fanny pack", probably.

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screwrocknroll replied to your post:screwrocknroll replied to your post:MAYBE YOU...

“this would be good if they took out all the parts that made it qualify as metal” — as a metal skeptic (albeit hopefully a respectful one) I totes know this feeling :). brb, exploring glo-fi/spacebop

awesome awesome. yeah it's a weird genre as these things go. i think in my college years i would have called it "chill electronic"? but it's not. it's pretty wide ranging and i definitely had no idea it was a cohesive sound until that metafilter post. since then i've been like "wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" and pretended, whenever I put any on, that I was sipping a latte in a space cafe. I think they also call it nu-disco but i have trepidations about the emergent portmanteau of "nude".

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screwrocknroll replied to your post:MAYBE YOU MIGHT LIKE KORPIKLAANI they were originally a folk band from finland and now they do folk metal and it's not very metal at all it's very folky IDK maybe you might like it~~~

I liked the one Korpiklaani song I ever heard and I’m totally not a metal guy. It did sound like Cali punk though.

Someone else, and I don't remember who but I'm pretty sure it was someone I knew in person because it led to me gamely trying to like something while someone stared at me enthused, once tried to get me to like Korpiklaani. I remember thinking to myself "this would be good if they took out all the parts that made it qualify as metal" and saying to that person something like "I can see why you thought I'd like that." which is about as neutral a statement as I could make.

Admittedly my taste in music has, if anything, expanded over the past couple of years. But if I had to pick a genre of music that is my favorite? It would either be the rock, punk, and jazz of Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche and of British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, or the electronic collage that has come to be tentatively known as glo-fi/spacebop. 

I think the closest thing in my repertoire of music appreciation to metal is my love of the opera. Or maybe that weird phase in university when I liked My Bloody Valentine for a week.

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screwrocknroll replied to your post:fandom thing that drives me crazy:

1. oh i so hate the vowel-ending-neologism past tense = ‘d thing so hard. 2. BETA’D!!! seems a lot like what would happen to one of the characters on Teen Girl Squad?

Yes and the Teen Girl Squad is demeaning to women (Strong Bad doesn't think much of the ladies in general, I'm not saying entirely that his creators agree with his views and opinions considering that he was originally painted as the villain but since he's far and away the favorite original homestar character he's been given a lot more narrative validity than he really should...) and the fact that BETA'D!!! makes you think of Teen Girl Squad points out part of why it irks me so. Being a beta is my primary fandom contribution. I am proud of the work I've done with people. I think it's my niche. Fandom is valuable and meaningful and the fanfic I've helped bring out into the world is important to me in large part because I think it's important culturally. I want respect, not just for my beta work, but for the pieces that exist in the form that they do because of my assistance and the assistance of those like me. And a huge part of why fandom is derided (yet works of classical inspiration... which are just historical fanfic... are considered high literature) is because it is so strongly associated with women. I'm not looking to change the special terms we use; I'm looking to change their connotation. If you associate the 'd with a silly frivolous often insulting thing then that just tells me that every time someone uses that on the word beta someone out there is going to make that association. I'm all for fandom and fanfic being silly and frivolous. But I'm not for it being insulting.

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Poppy Pomfrey, Merthur, STAR TREK (Star Trek is a character, right?), Rarity, and um... I don't know. One of the Sailor Moons?

Is "Merthur" a single character or are you just using that as shorthand for Merlin AND Arthur?

Either way you may consider me suitably flattered.