#Our chorus is like

[profecional-dreamer]

He saw me.

#Sorry #i feel like I’m going insane i can’t stop thinking about this. #My town have an annual show and the chorus always sings some stuff #Our chorus is like #really fucking amazing fyi #And my blonde is in the chorus because he’s an incredible singer and stuff #And I was texting him after and he goes “how’d you like the show #I saw you there” #Which is like. Aw cute. But whatever right? #ACCEPT THAT I WAS SITTING IN THE BALCONY ABOUT AS FAR AWAY FROM THE STAGE AS POSSIBLE #he saw me #boyfriend saga

[an-enigmatic-mind]

HE ALSO DOES THIS THING WITH HIS CHORUSES WHERE HE SWITCHES 1 OR 2 WORDS AS AN EVOLUTION THROUGH THE SONG.

He did it in Like Real People Do with "should not- could not- will not- ask"

And on my current fixation, he says "all that we intend is scrawled on sand". that evolved to "built on sand" at the end

Also he says "should not change our plans." At the beginning, feeling like however minute there is a feeling of uncertainty; which then evolves to "will not change our plans" that feels to me a greater signifier of certainty; a decision being made to be dedicated.

And the bridge growing in repetition of "we begin again" feels like a score counter but also an affirmation of persistence. That although all things end. Inevitably. This won't be how we end.

#shouldn't that change our plans? #hozier #is my romanticism showing? #because this lad is the only fucker that puts it in words #All things end #Eat Your Young #P.S. this first chorus I keep hearing and i know it's not the lyric #but unofficially it will be for me. because i like the weight of it there

[rakiah]

I had to.

#twisted wonderland #twst spoilers #rollo flamm #twst oc #gabriel #gabriel lefeu #desirae dorm #one braincell for a twink Frollo #having a ptsd about a little brother #I feel like a blessing on our Desirae dorm LOL #like #‘yes that’s the vibe’ #[insert bells ringing and chorus]

[tvckerwash]

you know a trait I wish we would've gotten to see more of post recollection is Sneaky BastardTM wash who has a plan on top of the real plan and he doesn't tell anyone about said real plan until the last possible second, essentially forcing those around him to participate against their will in one way or another. get moved around like pawns on a chess board idiots.

#i know the sniper trail scene on chorus sort of counts towards the above but it's just not the same you know?? not enough bastard energy #also point number 1536537864 wash would've been peak felix foil. manipulative snakes they are #WHY do i sound like yoda in that last tag lmao #anyway wash and the counselor playing 5d chess AGAIN would've been so funny. one (1) man continues to be a constant thorn in price's side #actually even funnier would be wash and price playing 5d chess on the same side w/o either of them knowing #they both took one look at locus and were like 'we can use him for our plans and maybe it'll fix him as a bonus' #rvb #red vs blue #agent washington #mine #not t/oaru #sorry restoration posting is over I'm back to my regularly scheduled wash posting #edit: realized i had chest instead of chess so i fixed that lols

[notalostcausejustyet]

I’ve already attached this to a re-blog, but it feels like something that I want to post as a standalone as well. Sometimes I scream into the tumblr void about shit. Thanks to a gifted copy of The Body Keeps the Score I’m doing more DIY therapy work and processing some of my thoughts through the interwebs. So here’s a brain thing.

🎶Let’s talk about projection baby, let’s talk about you and me!!🎶 All joking aside, so many of us who deal with CPTSD use fictional works to process our trauma. We are outsourcing emotions and memories that we, for whatever reason, struggle to deal with unless there is some remove from the immediacy of them. We seek to find ourselves in characters, parallels in stories and situations for our own experiences. We live their struggles and triumphs as our own and so find catharsis within them. Aziraphale as a character is a particularly good example of this. He’s doing the thing so many of us who are trying to convince everyone else and ourselves that “we’re FINE, thank you!” do. He isn’t really processing his shit. He’s putting it on a third party to release some pressure before he completely loses it. And in so doing, us the audience, have gained a character that we both empathize and sympathize with, and in turn, use to work through much of our own trauma. I honestly think that’s why so many of us are waiting for S3 with bated breath. We need Az to figure it out. We need them both to heal. To defeat the odds. To find happiness. We’re all waiting for that because we need to believe that it’s something we can have too. If this Angel who foists 6 millennia of grief and rage and maddening questions about the “why” of everything off into an entire bookshop’s worth of stories and characters, if he can figure it out…surely we can too. Surely there is hope for us buried somewhere in the stacks. Surely there is some understanding that can be found, some catharsis or healing within the lines of these narratives. So we’re all holding our breath, our hope and our hearts, in our hands, waiting to finish the story, and in so doing, complete some part of ourselves. Finally framing those cracks where the light comes in, into something beautiful.

#good omens #aziraphale #good omens meta #DIY therapy it’s like DIY electrical you can but you’ll probably get zapped a few times #tumblr is the void into which we scream #come void scream with me we’ll be like the hallelujah chorus #but off key terribly off key it’s amazing #projection and displacement are integral parts of aziraphale's character #self projection #this is really good diy therapy though we’re all out here being diyers #doing the work #books that saved our lives #books have always saved my life #neil gaiman #Neil Gaiman we are in your walls

[campbyler]

thoughts on dress?

ALL OF THIS SILENCE 🤐 AND PATIENCE 🧎 PINING IN ANTICIPATION 😩 MY HANDS 🙌 ARE SHAKING FROM HOLDING BACK FROM YOU (AH AH AH) ALL OF THIS SILENCE 🤐 AND PATIENCE 🧎 PINING AND DESPERATELY WAITING 😫 MY HANDS ARE SHAKING FROM ALL THIS AH AH AH AAaaAaAAHHHHH SAY MY NAME 🗣️ AND EVERYTHING JUST STOPS ✋🛑 I DON’T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND 🚫👯‍♂️ ONLY BOUGHT THIS CAMP WHITEMAN POLO 👕 SO YOU COULD TAKE IT OFF 😏 TAKE IT AH AH AH OOOFFFFFFFF 😋 CARVE MY NAME INTO YOUR BED POST 🛏️ CAUSE I DON’T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND 🚫👯‍♂️ ONLY BOUGHT THIS CAMP WHITEMAN POLO SO YOU COULD TAKE IT OFF 😏 TAKE IT AH AH AH OFFFFFFFFF 😋

#asks #but rly these lyrics specifically: our secret moments in a crowded room they got no idea abt me and you #made your mark on me a golden tattoo #the pre-chorus #don’t want you like a best friend #inescapable i’m not even gonna try but if i get burned at least we were electrified #everyone thinks that they know us but they know nothing #but ESPECIALLY: EVEN IN MY WORST TIMES YOU COULD SEE THE BEST OF ME #FLASHBACKS TO MY MISTAKES!!!!!! MY REBOUNDS!!!!!! MY EARTHQUAKES!!!!! #EVEN IN MY WORST LIES YOU SAW THE TRUTH IN ME. BTW. #anyway. very positively :)

[onewolfaday]

If you’re taking the wolf requests how about a Revwolf? >:D (also keep up the good work dude!!! You’re doing real well with this lets GOOO!)

050. revwolf!!! (and thank you!! ^_^)

#for those unaware (basically everyone) this is our headcanon/au that reverend mason from undeadwood (critical role) is a werewolf #hence ''revwolf'' #but like its canon. but its not explicitly canon. but like it is. u get it. if you BELIEVE its canon. its canon to me #blood #<- ask to tag ik i dont usually post bloodies #reverend mason #undeadwood #werewolf #wolves #wolf #chorus howl

[carmineskiesandspidereyes]

one minute I’m sitting doing homework and the next I’m bolting upstairs, posessed by the need to tell my friend about how the song “Tomorrow, Wendy” by Concrete Blond would make a vashwood animatic good enough to fucking ruin me

#Just. That one part in the middle. #‘’I told the priest—don’t count on any second comings’’ #’’God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming‘’ #’’he had the balls to come the gall to die and then forgive us‘’ #‘’no I don’t wonder why—I wonder what he thought it would get us‘’ #you can’t tell me that wouldn’t absolutely FUCK if someone tied it to trigun the way I’m envisioning #never mind the chorus literally being ‘’hey hey—good try…Tomorrow Wendy is going to die.’’ #like. Wolfwood anyone #? #that’s our el woowoo if I’ve ever heard it #pookie is doomed by the narrative there’s no saving his ass #wolfwood #Nicholas d. Wolfwood #vashwood #trigun maximum #Trigun #I don’t usually tag so thoroughly #but The People Need To Know. #I can’t be delusional about this I swear #Can anybody hear me #hello #h #Carmine sighs

[numetaljackdog]

absolutely enraged to learn that a song i really liked from some shitty bandwagon midwest emo band is in fact just a cover of a semi-popular song from the 90s by a far superior artist

#i kind of hate midwest emo. like not actually bc it's really good and there's lots of good bands #but still it's sooo. like that #like ohhh look at us we covered a fucking lilith fair artist and added a little scream on the last chorus come suck our dicks #is that all it takes? can i just be a guy and cover all i wanna do and add a little yell and make a tiktok account and get a record deal? #anyway. dog rant over #*char noises*

[adastra121]

The Ones That Got Away (Touchstarved OC Rewrite)

I changed the lyrics to “The One That Got Away” by Katy Perry (I listened to this cover by Brielle Von Hugel), based on my Hound!MC Alon's backstory and their childhood friend's betrayal.

Summer in the city where we grew up. Running from our troubles and tryin’ our luck, Searching for a world that’d be big enough for two. Used to steal Headmaster’s liquor and climb to the roof. Dreamed about the future like we had a clue. Never thought that one day, I'd be losing you.

In another life, I’d still be your friend. We'd keep all those promises, be us until the end. In another life, you would make me stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away, The one that got away.

One night on that rooftop, we’d made our pact To leave these walls together, have each other’s backs. Sometimes when I miss you, I climb towards the sky. Summer kept on passing, and we grew up, Found something in the city much bigger than us. It’s time to face the music, we had long run out of luck.

But in another life, you’d be by my side. We'd keep all those promises to take charge of our lives. In another life, I would fight to stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away, The one that got away.

The one that got away.

All that money won’t buy back our time for me. Can't replace you with a million dreams. I never thought you’d turn our dream on me. So I guess this is goodbye.

But in another life, I could still believe That friends would keep their promises… In another life, we’d make our escape, And everyone who stayed would say we were the ones that got away.

The ones that got away…

In another life, I would make you stay So I don't have to say you were the one that got away. The one that got away…

#touchstarved #touchstarved game #touchstarved oc #alon the hound #erick the wolf #song parody #lyrics rewrite #the word “dream” is used a bunch because it's not just the childhood friend they lost in the betrayal it's also their shared dream. #the word “luck” is also repeated because of the childhood friend oc erick. he likes card games and gambling. #“we had long run out of luck.” referring to the heist that was the catalyst for the betrayal. #I changed the bridge lyric to “I can't replace you with a million dreams” for one of the songs I had in their playlist. “a million dreams.” #the “turn our dream on me” refers to the promise to leave the city. so alon did actually end up fulfilling that dream thanks to erick. #via exile. we love irony. #I liked playing with the phrase “the one that got away” because it can mean a lost chance #but since the hound mc is a thief it could also mean the person that escaped. like oh no the criminal got away! #with alon and erick in particular it refers to their promise to leave the walled city together once they gathered enough coin #that was also tied to finding a cure for alon's curse but the most important part of that pact was to be together no matter what happened #for the bridge after the chorus I just took out the second part of “we would keep our promises” because I thought it was more fitting #the sentence just ends because it's too painful to repeat. I also think it makes that quieter more subdued part stand out from the others. #my favourite change was the switch to plural in “everyone who stayed would say we were the ones that got away.” #it's meant to convey: “we were supposed to be the ones that made it out. we were supposed to make it out of here together.” #again it's playing with that phrase: “the one that got away.” I imagine it sung in a very raw and agonized way.

[kareenvorbarra]

Even just reordering the songs in bway hadestown so that Eurydice is on stage during Why We Build The Wall and Our Lady of the Underground would improve things so much….you have the “step into my office” bit, you have Persephone react to that, then you have the song where Eurydice meets the other workers and sees what’s actually going on, then Why We Build the Wall is her having apparently given up and lost her identity like the others…..THEN at the end of Why We Build the Wall, Hades leaves the stage and the other workers turn to Eurydice and take her by the hands and smile, and they bring her to Persephone’s bar and they’re all in the chorus for Our Lady and Eurydice realizes that the people here ARE still people and they do have somewhere to talk where Hades isn’t listening (and all the lyrics to Our Lady actually make sense again lmao, ESPECIALLY “there’s a crack in the wall”)

Also I just really want to see Persephone and Eurydice interact on stage in this context….like Eurydice is a little wary bc she’s pretty sure Persephone is jealous of her, but Persephone knows what’s up and sees the new girl that Hades tricked and discarded and picks her out of the crowd during the musical interlude, and twirls her around while the rest of the cast cheers, and gives her a drink and sends her back to her seat…Eurydice stares at her like she’s entranced…idk. Just a little something that sets up how close they are in “I Raise My Cup to Him” as well as Persephone’s sympathy for Orpheus and Eurydice specifically

#obviously the simplest changes would be like. giving everyone their concept album verses in 'way down' and 'doubt comes in' #but 'our lady' is still the thing that makes me angriest lmao #i know there needs to more more connective plot in the show and i actually LIKE some of it during this part #but in the album you can HEAR anais singing on 'why we build the wall' and 'our lady of the underground' #bc her voice is so distinctive! so you know eurydice is there! #and that's how you know she's seeing the two different worlds that exist inside hadestown. just hearing anais in the chorus #the stage show adds so much stuff and yet restricts the world of the story in a major way. ugh #(i saw the touring production and it was very beautiful! not quite as frustrating as bway because i was prepared for the changes) #(but still deeply frustrating. also the orpheus singer was WAY better than reeve but the eurydice singer was very inferior to eva) #(so i have still never seen a production where i really liked both leads. rip) #hadestown

[shredsandpatches]

One thing I hadn't quite thought about when I was accepted into a top-tier symphony chorus and had not really thought about much until this week is that when you're singing at that level, people are much happier to go on the internet, watch a one-minute video of your ensemble recorded on a cell phone at a piano rehearsal a week before orchestra rehearsals start, and pontificate about how this is well below the level of quality they would have expected of this institution and they are Surprised and Disappointed by it all.

I imagine that eventually you learn to let it roll off your back but it really does suck when you're not used to it.

(Alas, we are technically on the road until fall of 2025 while our home venue undergoes extensive renovation, and the venue for choral concerts doesn't let us do live broadcasts of Saturday concerts, so I cannot invite you to judge for yourselves. But I still think Carmina is gonna slap. I mean if nothing else we've got Ying Fang.)

#choir stuff #carmina burana #sigh #it makes me a little edgy because the one review of our cavalleria performance back in november was very negative #although the reviewer did not really blame the chorus #so i'm sort of like #did we leave everything on the stage for damnation of faust and didn't get it back when our venue closed? #did mephistopheles get us in the end? #(i mean. worth it. damnation of faust was so good)

[fruity-phrog]

No you DON'T UNDERSTAND this is IZZY. IZZY HANDS. ISRAEL HANDS. THIS IS HIM. MMMMMMM.

#okay well the first versw n the chorus is him #the second verse less so #but like HIS LOVE FOR ED #LEADING HIM TO PLACES HE WOULDN'T EXPECT #LIKE BEING EXILED FROM THE BOAT #I'M SO UNWELL ABOUT THIS #ofmd #our flag means death #israel hands #izzy hands #I'M SO UNWELLL #Spotify

[lethesbeastie]

wait so why is Appalachian folklore important to your character? are they really involved with storytelling are there appalachian monsters you want to involve or something else?

AUTISM ACTIVATION 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

Okay so basically, the entire campaign takes place within the Appalachian region, specifically a small town in West Virginia. This entire region has an incredibly complex history that is often overlooked by outsiders who set stories there. I'm a huge believer in doing research for storytelling, especially when it comes to regions/places/cultures/people that you're not familiar with. Appalachia in particular has often been the victim of what one author referred to as "cultural strip mining," where interesting aspects of the culture are isolated by outsiders who then market them without the cultural context.

When I started crafting Chorus' character, I wasn't even aware that the region they hailed from was considered part of Appalachia. It wasn't until I started doing more research for their backstory that I began to recognize the incredible cultural context they hailed from, and decided that I wanted to make that cultural heritage a more central part of their character. Storytelling and music are already central elements to Appalachian culture, so I started doing research into local folklore, folk magic, and folk music in order to give myself a better understanding of what it would've really been like to be a young queer kid growing up in such an area.

Chorus comes from a long line of Appalachian musicians and rootworkers (one of many terms for those who practice folk magic traditions of the region), and this is something that brings them both pride and shame. Pride because it offers them concrete proof of their own history. Shame because the descendants of their childhood heroes disowned their mother and want nothing to do with them. They grew up learning the oral traditions of their mother's family and the region at large, and were an apprentice to the local midwife in their hometown before they fled. Their whole life has been shaped by the culture that raised them, and it was very important for me to portray that cultural with as much accuracy and respect as I could.

#beastiebites #artists on tumblr #Monster Hunters Club Campaign #MHC: Chorus #I am Very research oriented when i write akfhskfjsljf #artists have a lot of power and with that power comes great responsibility #also fun fact i was actually born in the Appalachian region despite growing up in the american south akfhskfj #so the research was also a little like returning home for me #appalachian Monsters specifically are a whole other can of worms akfhskfjslfj #cause many of them have roots in the culture of the native tribes that populated those regions #and were sacred to those tribes #so using them in our campaign would feel disingenuous to me unless we did a lot of research and worked with the tribes themselves #there are other monsters of the region who are more modern/not tribe specific though and Those are free game #shout out to my homie mothman that was my gender awakening #mothman forever <3 #alex pls make mothman canon #dont make me fight em tho i just wanna hug mothman

[littleautumnboy]

say don't go by taylor swift is definitely baxter route coded

#LIKE THE ENTIRE SONG REMINDS ME OF BAXTER SO MUCH #ESPECIALLY THE CHORUS #our life beginnings and always #ol:ba #olba #baxter ward #jamie last #our life baxter #our life jamie

[nordicbananas]

oughogh i have death, thrice drawn stuck in my head rn..

#HOTSHOT HAVE YOU GOTTA CLUE HOW #LONG I'VE BEEN PINING FOR YOU #SPENT SO MANY SLEEPLESS NIGHTS I UNBAPTIZEDDDD DELCINEEEE #BUT IN OUR PARALLEL LINES #WE WERE JUST KILLING TIMMEEEE #TILL OUR COLLISION CATALTST. YEAH. YEAH. #ough i love so many parts of that song #that was the first verse but the chorus is also really really good #i hope you knowwwwww that you can trust me. baby it's just meee #gfxfhyxf... #ohhh the order being sleepy head -> termite king always gets me. #ending with “please don't forget that I'm your friend” #and then the first line of termite king starting with “oh no” #just fits so well I think #oh no. looks like it's come round again. your vengeful parasite rearing it's headddd #i think that song also suggests that jeanine has had at least 6 exes??? #“seems like six blissful lifetimes ago” #like. she had six relationships that went well. or maybe six years of being okay??? #and then #sylvia. oughh..... #sleepy head i love you too you are an amazing song #this got to be quite a lot. if you read all of this i love uouuuu <333