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redfurrycat · 9 months

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Tagged by @callsign-crow, @itshoneywhatever, @mafiatsunafish, @merryandrewsworld, @perishablealex, @renai-chan in different versions of the tag game, so I just took all the questions and answered them all in one post, if ya don't mind, you lovely souls! 💕

Name? Starts with a P. It's a pretty common name where I’m from. (But you can call me Red here 😉)

Were you named after anyone? Nope.

Pronouns? She/her.

Where do you call home? Belgium.

Sign? Aries.

Time? 11h49 (I’m HUNGRY.) (Update. I ate and it was fries and homemade burger).

Fav band/artist? Hans Zimmer (composer). But I love many other composers! I don’t exactly have a fav band or artist as it’s not the kind of music I listen to (OST-Forever-Girl).

Do you have kids? No. I don’t want kids right now, I’ll wonder about that muuuuuch later. (Although I’m a cat mom at the moment.)

Use sarcasm a lot? I do sarcastic quips all the time… xD

First thing you notice 'bout people? Their smile. :)

Eye color? Hazel Eyes.

Scary movies or happy ending? Happy Ending FOREVER.

Special talent? *blank* (Too hungry to think of one... xD)

Your hobbies? To talk about something NOT related to fandom, I like Sudoku and Word scrambled games.

Any pets? It may be shocking to all of you, but I have a she-cat. A red she-cat. *grinning*

First pet? Twas a hamster….:D

Favorite animal? I love felines and birds of prey VERY MUCH.

Cereal of choice? As a kiddo it was Miel Pops, now I do the healthier version of honey cereals when I do eat cereals. And I occasionally eat oatmeal as well.

Are you visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learner? All three of them, depends on what is it I’m learning.

Playing any sport? Used to be tennis. Now I do walking and running, and I’d love to swim again!!!

How tall..? Small bean of 1m58.

Favourite subject in school? Latin in secondary school, and my American and British Literature at Uni, as well as all my Law and Judiciary classes. Instructive, especially because I now understand the related news.

Dream job? I don’t even know anymore… I’m completely lost. ☹

Favorite scent? honey and lavender, and strawberry.

Do you believe in astrology? Absolutely not. "Not in any god, not in myths and legends." (Although it’s pretty cool to read about myths and legends! :D *mythology nerd*)

How many playlists do you have on spotify/apple music? 0 because I refuse to use spotify or apple music. :D

Sharpies or highlighters? Both are good!

Song that makes you cry? Songs don’t usually make me cry. However, OSTs do. I’m HIGHLY sensitive to Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron/The Last Samurai/LOTR OSTs.

Last song? Dela by Johnny Clegg (That’s right baby, GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE SONG! :D)

Last series? still ER! (I mean there are 15 seasons or so, and I’m watching season 5)

Last movie? I was in the middle of ‘While you were sleeping’ but couldn’t finish due to stellar internet connection. :(

Song that makes you happy? Ain’t Worried by OneRepublic, Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins, and the Rickrolling Song! xD

Do you write/draw/create? Don’t EVER ask me to draw. I’ve started to write, which I’m still surprised about, I guess you could say I create some Top Gun content as well? Like silly posts about my fav pilots! :D

Currently working on? My Cheerleading Top Gun Sideblog. I’m still in the building process but it’s been fun so far! I discovered or rediscovered REALLY amazing content!!! :O <3 Writing-related? Dr. Goose Bradshaw Series. YUP. THAT’S RIGHT. 😉

When did I create this blog? Dunno…2013/14?

What I post? I reblog A LOT. And I LOVE adding to posts when inspiration strikes! xD Right now? I’ve posted several Top Gun Recs Lists. (Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick have bewitched me body and soul!)

Other blogs? The Sideblog I was previously talking about can be found at @timetobuzzthefandomtower.

Do I get asks? Very occasionally 😊 (Though I don’t check it very often, so very sorry to anyone who might have sent something, I promise I’ll get back to you!!! <3)

Followers? 246?! (Holy Shit. When did that happen??????? I’ve never checked before! :O)

Average hours of sleep? 8 hours is the best for me, but I sleep less than that I’m sure.

Instruments? Fuck that. I hated the music class during HS. :O

What I'm wearing rn? Short & T-Shirt. All comfy clothes.

Dream trip? New Zealand. Seems very far away, almost unachievable! xD And, the Vikings Lands. I. WANT. TO. GO. THERE. <3

Favourite song at the moment? Fake ID from Footloose :D

NO PRESSURE TAGS!!!

@auprintempss, @bradleybonkbradshaw, @captainclaudeandthehiddenlogs, @hardballoonlove, @missathlete31, @nanny-sc, @scottishaccentsareawesome, @skiddit, @the-ace-with-spades.

I know there are A LOT of questions, feel the heck free to choose which ones you want to answer, IF you want to of course! Have the sweetest of days! <3

#tag game #get to know your lovely tumblr people tag game #🐈red🐈furry🐈cat🐈tag🐈

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canadian-riddler · 6 years

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I don’t think I told the story of how I even started listening to EDM so here it is to the best of my recollection (it’s a long post so if you start it make sure you have time lol):

It must’ve been in 2008 or 2009 that I learned it even existed. Around that time was my first Batman obsession and this was a time before the Internet was really a significant part of my life. Because that was the year I saw The Dark Knight and I started listening to Hans Zimmer OSTs, which I had to get on CD from the library and sometimes force my old failing CD player to read because if the disc was damaged it just skipped forever. And this was a time when I had to record CDs down to cassette tapes (all of which I still have) because after two weeks CDs had to be returned to the library.

The first EDM song I probably ever heard - or at least the first one I remember liking - was ‘He’s a Pirate’, the Jack Sparrow remix by Tiesto because it was included as the final track on the Curse of the Black Pearl CD. And this was before the Internet was available to me, remember, so I had no idea what the song was or if it had a genre or any of that. And I didn’t have any way of looking for more of it. I had maybe a couple of cassettes gotten as a book reading prize from a library discard pile, very old MC Mario compilations, but those tapes were more house/underground mixes and the song the cassette was on when I tried to listen to it was, I believe, ‘Higher State of Consciousness‘ by Josh Wink and I was not ready for it yet. So my only option was to try and find a radio station that played this dance music. This was before David Guetta brought it into the mainstream, so it was rare to find one. But I did: Z 103.5 out of Toronto (I lived in Hamilton at the time), which just came in if I positioned the radio dial just so, and on that station I heard Adagio for Strings by Tiesto and Axel F by Street Frog, but that wasn’t even the most important part. The most important part was that this radio station had a professional DJ who did live mixes every day at five pm. This DJ, DJ Danny D, would mix two compilation CDs every year for the radio station. And the library had them. The first one I listened to was Summer Rush 2005, which I borrowed because it had both Adagio for Strings and Axel F on it. After that was MC Mario.com Version 2.0 with Benni Benassi’s Satisfaction and California Dreamin’ by DJ Sammy and MC Mario Mixdown 2005 with Sound of San Francisco by Global Deejays and Call on Me by Eric Prydz, and then just any other mix CD the library had that I could borrow (but those two were my favourite ones).

When I was sent off to high school in about 2011 I discovered the Internet, in the days of BeeMP3 and having to find remixes on forums, but I wasn’t ready for real DJs. No, I was looking for Sonic the Hedgehog remixes. I was obsessed with them. I was burning them on CD to play in my SUV. I am not kidding. YouTube downloading wasn’t a thing yet, or at least I barely knew of YouTube’s existence. There was someone on the Internet called ImmortalImage who had folders of HUNDREDS of dance music songs, which they would post on YouTube in the interest of preservation (though they removed the channel after they posted one thousand songs or something like that) and I downloaded those folders without knowing a single artist in them. They were called ‘Greatest Electronic Music of All Time’ and some of it truly is the greatest music ever made.

Now, Indy, you might be wondering, where does ARMIN come into all this? The answer is: eventually.

I didn’t have a phone that could get on the Internet using wifi, not that it was widely available. I was at Tim Hortons when they first introduced wifi freely available at all their locations, but the only device I had was my PSP and it got stuck on the landing page and never got me through to the Internet. I got a laptop shortly after, but what really took me to the next step was when I bought an iPod Touch after I accidentally left my iPod Nano on a bus somewhere in Kanata. iPods had podcasts, and there was a DJ with a podcast by the name of Hardwell who was becoming very popular. He had a couple friends, Dannic and Dyro, who I liked by association, and I was at work with my laptop when I watched the stream where Hardwell was crowned no.1 DJ in the world during the DJ Mag Top 100. Hardwell did a mix after the show and this led me to the discovery of EDM festivals.

The first year I heard about Escapade here in Ottawa, it was still in a parking lot and Tiesto was playing but he was the only DJ I knew so I didn’t want to go just for one guy. The next year, though, Dannic was playing and I only lasted about three hours before going home very tired and very sunburned. It was an experience I wasn’t sure I wanted to repeat. But then I ended up on YouTube, on ASOT 600 in Miami. It was the BEST thing I had EVER heard in my entire life. Everything else just SUCKED compared to that set. And the festival was magic. You could just see that it was magic by watching it. I didn’t listen to ASOT, not yet; it was only on Spotify and Spotify wasn’t available in Canada, and even when it was I wasn’t inclined to use a website just for one thing. But the sets on YouTube? Magic.

And the next Escapade, in 2015, which I had bought a presale ticket for, sent out an email and IIRC it was right around Christmas. And I was upstairs at work and I was about to go home and when I read it I gasped out loud and sat down on the floor. Because Armin was headlining the festival, and so was Knife Party, and I had never ever in a million years thought Armin would come to Ottawa because the clubs in Toronto and Montreal were so much better.

The weather was lousy, as it tends to be for Escapade, but it was my mission in life to be in the front row for the entire festival, not so I would be in the pictures (which I was) but so I could see the stage. The first day I was off to the left side somewhere, but the SECOND day. The SECOND day I was right in the corner of the L-shaped gate, front and centre and nobody could push me out of the row no matter how hard they tried, and I was there for the entire twelve hours of the festival and it rained half the day and some drunk French guy dumped his beer on my head and tried to blame it on me but when W&W came on it didn’t MATTER. And when they were finished Armin came on, and it was actually a RELIEF because there had been a rumour that he wasn’t going to show up because it was raining and he KNEW about it and he made fun of it, and you know what they had on the second day? They had LASERS! Even though we were near to the airport they had horizontal green lasers and even the security guards were trying to touch them and they looked like they were glittering because of the misty rain.

He played for two of the best hours of my life. He has a song he made with a Canadian singer and when he played that song he held up the Canadian flag for us and that’s how I knew we really MEANT something to him. And this was one of the last festivals he wore the Myo armbands for and he was directing the spotlights during Adagio for Strings and he asked if we wanted to hear the story of how he fell in love with trance and it was like everything I had ever wanted had happened all in one hundred twenty minutes and if I had had to lay down my life afterward as payment I would have done so happily. And when I got home I knew I needed to go to an American festival. Tomorrowland was too far so it had to be American. It was between Ultra Miami and EDC Las Vegas and EDC won out because there was just something about a festival that existed only to light up the night and then fade when the sun rose that was magical. And my first EDC, it was magic. Everything was perfect. I got on the livestream for Gaia during my favourite song, how can I EVER top that? I can’t! It was the most beautiful place on earth and in some ways, it always will be. Even last year, which was by all accounts a horrible disaster, I still came away from it with a kandi bracelet and the memory of a time when people were willing to help me when I was completely unable to help myself.

And this year I have EDC in two months and Armin is returning to Ottawa, and I don’t know what they’ll bring. But it will be something special. It always is. I just have to let it happen.

#I just learned right now MC Mario is Canadian #how about that #Indy and EDM #so says Indy #EDM makes my life worth living

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takeseffort-a · 6 years

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Muns i’d like to get to know better! Repost don’t reblog.

TAGGED BY: stolen from @leuthros but also apparently tagged by @khruseos even though I just got the notification LOL. TAGGING: are you reading this? do the thing.

1 ( NAME / ALIAS ): monroe 2 ( BIRTHDAY ): april 10th. 4 ( HEIGHT ): 5′4″, allegedly. 5 ( HOBBIES ): writing, reading, following political trends & reading far too many political journals. 6 ( FAVOURITE COLOUR(S) ): ocean tones. 7 ( FAVOURITE BOOKS ): the jill kismet series by lilith saintcrow, anything at all by ellen kushner but especially swordspoint (I’ve had to replace my copy so many times. also, I’m friends with her on FB + have a box of books she sent me when I moved & lost a large chunk of my library due to water damage. suffice to say, she has my loyalty forever.) 8 ( LAST SONG LISTENED TO ): extraction point - hans zimmer (cod: modern warfare 2 ost) 9 ( LAST FILM WATCHED ): the conjuring. I was trying to get in the mood for a horror thread. 10 ( INSPIRATION FOR MUSE ): there is a whole huge story here for why I created Alec in the first place, but that story is going to stay off tumblr because y’all don’t need to see that nonsense 😂. but on a less vague note, Alec has always been a character I adore from the moment I first encountered him in the books right up to watching the show. I know there’s a sharp divide in the fandom on book vs. show, but I adore BOTH of his canons, so for me, blending everything enables me to craft something even greater than what CC or Freeform could deliver on their own. in watching the show & seeing the divergence from his source material (as well as the shallow world building they touch on as opposed to the rich source material), I felt like I needed to sink my claws into this tree of a boy & yank him into existence in my own way. and here we fucking are 😂. 11 ( DREAM JOB ): political officer/DOS. 12 ( MEANING BEHIND YOUR URL ): it’s from his line to Magnus after their first date, “I know relationships, they take effort.” but also because Alec himself takes effort. both writing him, & interacting with him. he has a temper, he functions largely on logic & protocol but then he’ll take a hard left as his emotions flare unexpectedly. I figured it was only fitting.

#✧ ❛ it’s too early to be this gay ❜ || mun

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