#The Much Much How How and I (Deluxe Edition)

[tspstuff]

hey psst @lexumpysfunland I did something (again...)

nearly 4 hours but definitely worth it.

#Not gonna lie #I saw that post and immediately thought of the song #so I thought I wanted to practice transitions and why not edit one of my favs eh? #they make me sick/aff #Honestly if I'm not their n°1 fan then I must be dead #Arghh I could rant about how much I love them- #tsp #tspud #tsp narrator #the stanley parable #tspud narrator #stanley parable ultra deluxe #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #tsp edit #stanarrator #tsp stanarrator #tsp stanley #tsp heartache au #heartache au

[seraphicalsuccubus]

omg guys I just found my beautiful, hardcover, illustrated, deluxe 30th anniversary edition of The Princess Bride and I forgot how fucking stunning this fucking book is 😭😭😭

I thought it was so gorgeous when it was gifted to me for Christmas several years ago from my mother that I never even opened it up long enough to read any of it because I fucking cherished this copy of one of my all time favorite book and film adaptions so so so much, I didn’t want to mar the book at all by reading it because it’s just so beautiful that I packed it away, in a separate box, cushioned by my own shirts since I don’t have a bookcase anymore, and just kept it safe there and, UGH !!! it still looks pristine now that I’ve taken it back out !!! 🥺🥺🥺

but now I have the urge to actually open it and read it, because I haven’t read the book in like 20 years now and it was one of my favorites the first time my mom let me borrow her copy when I was 7-8 years old. and then when I bought my own hand me down falling apart ass paperback version I found at the library for like $2 during one of their like book sale things when I was 10, and read it over and over again until it was missing pages. like, that’s how much I love this book. I read it to DEATH. like. that book was so loved that I read it until it couldn’t be pieced back together anymore. and even though it was in rough shape when I got it, I didn’t care. I loved it because it was finally MY copy. and now I have this just absolutely gorgeous copy to replace that old falling apart book I had lost ages ago and was devastated about, and it’s one of my most prized possessions.

I’m going to be much more careful when reading this version, seeing as it is a deluxe anniversary edition that was gifted to me, and has quite a lot of beautifully illustrated pages and even some extra chapters. and because, eventually, I want to pass it down to my kids so they can read their mother’s favorite book, from her own copy of it (if I ever have any kids, that is), like my mother did by letting me read her copy and just fall in love with the story. which is a big part what instilled my love for this book/film at a very young age, that connection over it that I had with my mother, because her and I have never really connected on much so this book holds a lot of sentimental value to me. and I want to one day pass that down to my children for them to read (not keep, just read and decide if they want their own copy so I can go buy them an edition of it, like my mother did by gifting me this edition when it released even though it was years and years after I’d first read the book and fell in love with it, she just remembered how enamored I was with the story and the characters that she wanted to surprise me with a brand new, beautiful copy of my own). so I’ve def gotta keep it in really good condition. that’s my drive to not ruin this book and read it to death like my poor old paperback version I had, lol 🥺🖤

#yeah the book was only like 35-40 bucks but shut up I love this thing and I literally hold it dear to me because it is my all time favorite #she got herself and both my sisters the same edition as well in case they ever wanted to read it or showed an interest in it #I was the most excited when I opened mine lol the girls were like ‘oh a book okay’ and I was like ‘HOLD UP WAIT A FKN MINUTE’ and cried lol #because she remembered. she remembered how much I loved it enough to find wait many years until they released a deluxe anniversary copy #so she could get it for me and I could have my own beautiful copy of my favorite book #honestly one of the most thoughtful things she’s ever done bc she said ‘I could’ve got you your own ages ago but like I knew the anniversary #edition would be worth the wait and I wanted to surprise you with that. even if it was over after you first read it. because I knew you’d #genuinely appreciate it more than anything. so I really do hope you love it.’ and I fucking BAWLED #over a decade since you first read it* #full on fucking SOBBED while everyone was opening Christmas presents dude like #I can’t believe she remembered that … and it just … I felt less forgotten as a child of hers than I usually do at that Christmas at least #mine

[aceaceace144616]

started getting really into Cosmo Sheldrake and though he needed some merch as interesting as his music!

the album, The Much Much How How and I (Deluxe Edition), looks like this (fig. 2) while the merch looks like this (fig. 3)

which is all well and good and realistically feasible with screen printing and whatnot, but i have photoshop and some assignments to procrastinate so i drew these up. (fig. 4)

+ an alternative backing with the albums songs (fig. 5 and 6)

I might try my hand at Eye to the Ear after this but we'll see :P

#cosmo sheldrake #The Much Much How How and I (Deluxe Edition) #the much much how how and i #tmmhhai #merch #fan art #fanart #fashion #fashion design #photoshop #tshirt #shirt design #sorry for all the hashtags but im pretty proud of this #also you know that if this was real the material would be so soft #also i referred to two pictures with fig. stuff and felt compelled to continue it #my art

[skitskatdacat63]

I feel like at least several times a month, I have a random insane revitalization of my love for The Smiths. Not that I ever stop loving them, but I'll listen to some song and then suddenly fall into this pit of just deep, intense love for their music again where I can't stop listening to their music on repeat and watching live performances and looking at pics like AAAAAHHHHHH WHY IS THEIR MUSIC SO GOOOD?????? WHY IS IT PERFECT?????? WHY WERE THEY SO GENDER???????

(songs I am feeling intense brainrot over rn in case you're curious: "I Want The One I Can't Have(live)", "Stretch Out and Wait(live)", "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby", "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others(demo)", "What She Said", "The Boy With The Thorn in His Side(live)"(p.s. I Want The One I Can't Have is Martian-coded to me, pls listen)(also it reminds me of that movie I watched yesterday)

#i want the one i cant have is playing on repeat in my brain rn and i watched a live performance and i was tearing up. why am i like this #the live versions of their songs are just incredibly good like at an insane level to me #i know the guitar is very complicated bcs my brother is equally obsessed w the smiths and rants to me abt how hard their music is to play #so the fact that their live performances are equal if not better than their studio versions is crazy #and i love the way he sings in live versions AAAAHHHH like just so over the top and dramatic #i absolutely love singing along to music and their songs are perfect bcs i can be as dramatic and loud as i want #and that hes singing perfectly and dramatizing it so much also while dancing along to it on stage?????? #their music has an energy to it in every single aspect that no other band will ever be able to reach for me #i spent so much of today just dancing along to their music and singing over the top. i just felt so joyful 🥹🥹🥹🥹 #GAAAHHHH sorry i just am really in it rn hahaha #its just crazy to me ig that ive listened to these songs so many times and they still fill me with such emotion #my mom sings and dance along w me tho shes like 'wow youre so energetic today did you hit your head or smth' 😭😭😭 #also was losing my mind looking at their pictures today and gahhhhhhhhb such gender envy their gender is unmatched to me #but its so funny every time i get gender envy over smiths era morrissey + #because theres some pics of my dad from that same period of time when he was younger where he literally looks exactly like morrissey #SIR WHY DID I NOT INHERIT YOUR LEVEL OF GENDER???????(my dad was a icon sjdkkd we look alike tbh) #anyways: i feel very joyful and energetic about their music. they just make me so happy and i want to dance around again 🥹 #i think this recent lapse into the pit was bcs i listened to the demos/live versions on The Queen is Dead deluxe edition #and im like ....how the fuck are they this fucking good?????? #hehehe tho my passion has affected others 🤭 #my brother is learning some songs on guitar atm and waxes poetic abt their instrumentals #my dad always listens to their entire discography when he needs background music. and my mom sings and dances w me #sorry this is unhinged i just feel a lot of serotonin bcs their music and i need to infect other people LMAO #maybe i need to make another web weave #catie.rambling.txt

[kittycowboy]

HELLOOOO !!

#queued on january 20th !!! #I ACCIDENTALLY POSTED THE FIRST VERSION OF THIS RIPPP tumblrs also messing with me bcs they deketed all the other weather reports besides #the one that posted 2day :/ #n e way. How are you !! any colleges accept you yet? #im abt a third of the way through the berserk deluxe edition 4 btw. gotten any further? did u finish it? #ugghhh still so sad abt the trigun deluxe printing being postponed until april :( #what are you drawing rn? im in a total art blockkkkk I havent been able 2 draw anything for a week #the last thing I did was the hikaru ocean one. the one that every1 keeps thinking is kaworu lolz #oh !! and gave you finished learning all the hiragana yet? im on the r line so I think theres only two lines left #have* #dont have much else to talk abt :p hope ur doing well !! stay safe !!! #weather report

[inkykeiji]

squealing so loud i’m about to wake the entire house up because RENO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *。ヾ(｡>ｖ<｡)ﾉﾞ*。

#i just got to him in ff7r #which i just bought for pc because it was on sale on steam hehe~ #i have the deluxe edition for playstation tho #anyway ive had a crush on reno since i was like;;;;;;; fifteen HAHA #rly like his new va also he reminds me of chuuya so much like hOW did i not make this connection earlier LMAO #got a thing for animated redheads clearly #and white/silver hair of course #but moVING ON yes i am squealing soooooo loud oh my god it’s like my heart went !!!!!!!!!! in my chest HAHA #clari chatters

[silverselfshippingchaos]

I GOT MY COPY OF F.F16

#MUAHAHAHAHAHA DELUXE EDITION HERE I COME #I'M GONNA KISS V.IVIAN N.INETALES SO MUCH #(i do not have the console yet) #AHDKAHDKWB IM SO EXCITED #i havent opened it yet but it's sitting in my lap rn and ajshajdhwjeh #ash rambles 💚 #SUPER EXCITING!!!! #ive been the biggest f.f16 hype person for months LMAO #okay that aside. i made a really funny joke the other day but the guy i told it too didnt laugh so ill say it here #okay so im walking around with a guy. this dude and i go way back. he was in highschool orchestra and i was in choir. #he listens to symphonies and we were talking about that. but in the distance someone is blasting some cupcakke songs. so i have this huge #smirk on my face and talkinf about how shes a real good lyricist and a rap artist ive been listening to a lot. the guy laughs and goes #'is she? idk man i dont really listen to that much hiphop. you know what im into' #okay it's been like two days od this sitting in my drafts. ive opened the game now. lemme continue my story. #okay so then i look at him and i laugh #and i go 'really? i thought it was your favorite!' #AND THEN #AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN!! I deliver the punchline! #i say 'bars am i right?' #BAHAHAHAHAHA! #i crack myself up! #anyways. yeah. i got f.f16.. it's so beautiful... i hung the map up on my wall #when i get that ps5 im gonna kiss v.ivian so much-

[guideaus]

why cant dark horse do this

#personal #or ofc a fancy new deluxe edition!!! #i told myself i wont replace my old copies (and i regret replacing my paperback w the hardcover editions tbh) but if they were brand new #i think i would tbh #my 4 and 5 are rough. and i wanted 8 last so i didnt care how it looked/how much it was

[bonojour]

im thinking about the making of gladiator documentary that lasted for 3h14m and i am suddenly getting a bit emotional at the fact that they wanted maximus his driving force to be going home. surely for the viewer and maximus himself getting revenge was nice, but the true resolution lies in maximus going home and seeing his family in the afterlife. ;v; and the way the music just plays into that........ i love my spanish father

#text #maximus isnt even my favourite crowe character and i do not have a particular bond with any of his characters tbh #i prefer to pick apart the actor and hyperfocus on that rather than the characters he plays #aka falling in love with the idea of said actor i have planted in my romantic brain #BUT ANYWAY..... #gladiator is just such a perfect movie #i did not give it 5* on letterboxd but it has 5* in my heart #but yeah them working on the script as they went and adding details to it that.... shape maximus SO MUCH #especially during the battle in germania where they show how much he does Not want to be there #and they plant the idea of Elysium in there as well #sigh #i have so many little trivial things i want to swoon over now thanks to the three plus hours of infodumping that is on the deluxe edition

[actualhumansunshine]

did niall ever go in detail to why the show is 30 minutes long compared to his last 2 albums that were way longer?

idk actually? i kinda fell off as he was still in the middle of promo, so i def didn't watch or listen to or read every single thing that's come out about it. if i had to guess, i'd say it's probably down to industry-wide trends due to streaming? a shorter album / shorter songs means you can rack up streams a lot faster in the same amount of time than you could if the songs / album was longer 🤷‍♀️

but if anyone has any links where he talked about it, feel free to share a link cause i'm very interested now that it's been brought up!!

#probably also something to do with tiktok-ificiation of music #but i try not to focus on that in general cause it's depressing as hell tbh #but anyways that being said it still doesn't really explain the lack of new songs on the rerelease #cause the whole point of these deluxe edition releases is to drum up new interest and a second push of the same material #but if it's just a couple collabs and a bunch of live stuff....how much interest is that REALLY gonna draw outside of his current fanbase #i'm sure they'll push the collabs and that WILL be a boost but. still. #it could have been so much more!! and yet!! #like noah kahan releasing like 5 new songs and then doing the collabs as an extra thing on top of that!! why not something like THAT!! #wait i went to go look and it was actually SIX new songs and an extended rerelease of another #unbelievable 😭😭😭😭😭 #answered #anonymous #nh3

[biohazard-inevitable]

oh what a lovely surprise~

#I AM VIBRATING SO HARD #its got 14 hours on its download wait timer and im also using the internet to attempt to get unreal on my laptop #but OH MY GODDDDDSSSS #EXCITED EXCITED EXCITED #LOOK AT THE HOT VAMPIRE HES RIGHT THERE #i’m going to go into overdrive this weekend i just know it #WELCOME TO THE AUTISM FOLKS #AAAAAA ITS HERE ITS HERE ITS HERE #idk how *much* i’ll be able to play since it says it’ll only let me play up to a certain point #at least until the full release since this is the deluxe edition with the early access #BUT IM SO EXCITED!!! #my professors have been hyping this up cause they’ve got friends at larian #AAAAAAA VIDEO GAMES ARE MY LIFEEEEEE

[eeldritchblast]

I really love the personality descriptions on the character sheets that came with the digital deluxe edition of the game:

"Astarion drips with charm before everyone he meets. How much of it is an act, even he himself isn't sure of anymore."

"Gale uses his intelligence as a shield for navigating most areas of his life. Behind that wide vocabulary he hides a wounded heart, one more vulnerable than he cares to admit."

"Karlach is overwhelmed by her good fortune at every turn: She had given up on leaving Hell, but now finds old scars might heal after all."

"While Lae'zel is determined to solve her problems as efficiently as possible, she increasingly finds her curiosity sparked by the new world she is in."

"Personality is a luxury to Sharrans who regularly must travel clearminded without it. The odd thing slips through: [Shadowheart's] favourite animals are mice, and she finds herself humming songs that she never heard before."

"The very picture of selflessness, Wyll has never put himself before anyone in his life. Even his very pact was a personal sacrifice made to bring others out of peril."

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #gale #karlach #lae'zel #shadowheart #wyll

[robsheridan]

Hard to believe Nine Inch Nails' classic The Downward Spiral is 30 years old today! Here is some detail photography I took of the original album cover painting by Russell Mills for the 10th anniversary deluxe edition release, which I had the unique honor of designing, and somehow that is now 20 year old.

Everyone has that one album that hit at just the right moment of adolescence to change their perspective on music and get them through their teenage angst. The Downward Spiral was that album for me, released as it was in 1994, when I was a freshman in high school (and an absolute banner year for music/films/games all around). I must have stared at the artwork for hours over those years, without even much detail to draw from on its tiny 5” CD slip case. So five years later, when I found myself inexplicably working for Nine Inch Nails, it was surreal to see the actual original painting in the flesh, hanging as it was at the time in Trent Reznor’s office at Nothing Studios, New Orleans.

I was struck by how much dimension and texture there was in the artwork that never translated on that tiny slipcase printing, how much detail was happening in the physical materials of the art: Flies, moths, wires, blood… I had been staring at this “painting” for so long, yet suddenly it was like I had never seen it before. I also noticed that it had aged - the wires had wilted over the years, drooping down from their original position as captured in the original album cover (interestingly, judging by the photo posted today by NIN, the piece has since been restored); a tooth was missing from the other main piece.

That experience stuck with me and it was the first thing I thought about when the task of re-imagining the album package fell upon me in 2004. I wanted to re-photograph the artwork, subtly updating the cover to show that ten years had changed it physically, much like our perceptions of art and music and memories change over time with perspective. I also wanted to dig into the previously unseen details of the work and explore it with my macro lens, so that fans like me, old and new, could have new layers of texture to pore over for hours while listening to a legendary album.

Happy birthday, old friend.

#nine inch nails #the downward spiral #nin #trent reznor #90s nostalgia #90s music #industrial #rob sheridan #Russell mills #photography #album art #album design

[fortune-maiden]

Why.

Why would you put one of the beloved and iconic songs of FFX into a Digital Deluxe Edition that forces you to get all of the DLC.

#theatrhythm final bar line #theatrythm #i want this game so badly but the blatant greed with the digital deluxe edition makes me so mad #i do want the digital deluxe edition but i'd rather pick and choose the dlc #and it doesn't seem like you can get the exclusive songs separately since they're yaknow exclusive #i'm curious how many songs are new to this edition though #i put so many hours into curtain call (which to be fair does have a lot of the songs i'm raging at the digital deluxe edition about) #i love theatrhythm so much ;^; #but i am sad to hear that apparently quest medleys are gone? D:

[kittycowboy]

I am happy because everyone loves me ^.^

#havent done one of these since my last blog I think #Hello future me !! This was queued on nov 20 #how are you doing? I'm doing rlly well rn #im reading berserk- just got to v2 of the deluxe editions #so actually volume 4 haha #I assume youve finished v2 by now- did you decide to read it online or wait until you can buy v3? #im also woeking on the ishawuu turning animation #im debating if I should reanimate it to have smaller lines and better animation #I feel like its too fast in the turn and not visually interesting enough #idk idk have you figured it out? #but besides that im rlly happy ^.^ #some of my mutuals/friends talked to me today ^.^ both of them were ones I dont rlly talk with much #we mostly interact with likes n stuff #but they were both super nice !! im so happy to have such wonderful people around me #how have the japanese lessons been going? you should have had 8? classes by the time you read this #i jist learned za ji zu ze zo #I assume uve learned more hiranaga by now. how many? #including the ones w/ tenten I know 25 !! #ehmmmm. what else can I talk abt #I cant think of much else to sayyyy #well. I hope ur doing well !!!! have a good day ^.^ #Actuay im back like 30 minutes later lolll #I just read my old weather updates from wayyyy backon catsnraincoats #it was rlly interesting seeing what I wrote abt #I would always say the last drawing I had done bcs that was the best way of knowinf what was going on at the time #other than the ishawuu animation my last drawing was the misa comm #have you gotteb more commissions yet? #my old reports had such a strange air to them. I would always wish future me luck and safety. I wish you luck! and stay #safe** #weather report

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

Can’t wait to eventually listen to “I Heart ? (Taylor’s Version).”

#taylor swift #taylor swift tv #I Heart ? #I don’t know why I woke up with it in my head but I did so here’s this post! #I think debut may match or exceed Red TV’s number of vault tracks #like the deluxe edition has 15 tracks add on beautiful eyes and I heart ? that makes it 17 and then you’re talking vault #and there’s just so much to choose from with the vault I don’t even know how she’s going to narrow it down #there’s just so many fan favorites too