#for the people who hadn't seen it

[inkskinned]

i. about 2 weeks ago, i was told there's a good chance that in 5 or so years, i'll need a wheelchair.

ii. okay. i loved harry potter as a kid. i have a hypothesis about this to be honest - why people still kind of like it. it's that she got very lucky. she managed to make a cross-generational hit. it was something shared for both parents and kids. it was right at the start of a huge cultural shift from pre to post-internet. i genuinely think many people were just seeking community; not her writing. it was a nice shorthand to create connection. which is a long way of saying - she didn't build this legacy, we built it for her. she got lucky, just once. that's all.

iii. to be real with you, i still struggle with identifying as someone with a disability, which is wild, especially given the ways my life has changed. i always come up against internalized ableism and shame - convinced even right now that i'm faking it for attention. i passed out in a grocery store recently. i hit my head on the shelves while i went down.

iv. he raises his eyebrows while he sends me a look. her most recent new book has POTS featured in it. okay, i say. i already don't like where this is going. we both take another bite of ramen. it is a trait of the villain, he says. we both roll our eyes about it.

v. so one of the things about being nonbinary but previously super into harry potter is that i super hate jk rowling. but it is also not good for my mental health to regret any form of joy i engaged with as a kid. i can't punish my young self for being so into the books - it was a passion, and it was how i made most of my friends. everyone knew about it. i felt like everyone had my same joy, my same fixation. as a "weird kid", this sense of belonging resonated with me so loudly that i would have done anything to protect it.

vi. as a present, my parents once took me out of school to go see the second movie. it is an incredibly precious memory: my mom straight-up lying about a dentist appointment. us snickering and sneaking into the weekday matinee. within seven years of this experience, the internet would be a necessity to get my homework finished. the world had permanently changed. harry potter was a relic, a way any of us could hold onto something of the analog.

vii. by sheer luck, the year that i started figuring out the whole gender fluid thing was also the first year people started to point out that she might have some internalized biases. i remember tumblr before that; how often her name was treated as godhood. how harry potter was kind of a word synonymous for "nerdy but cool." i would walk out of that year tasting he/him and they/them; she would walk out snarling and snapping about it.

viii. when i teach older kids creative writing, i usually tell them - so, she did change the face of young adult fiction, there's no denying that. she had a lot more opportunities than many of us will - there were more publishing houses, less push for "virally" popular content creators. but beyond reading another book, we need to write more books. we need to uplift the voices of those who remain unrepresented. we need to push for an exposure to the bigotry baked into the publishing system. and i promise you: you can write better than she ever did. nothing she did was what was magical - it was the way that the community responded to it.

ix. i get home from ramen. three other people have screenshotted the POTS thing and sent it to me. can you fucking believe we're still hearing this shit from her when it's almost twenty-fucking-twenty-three. the villain is notably also popular on tumblr. i just think that's funny. this woman is a billionaire and she's mad that she can't control the opinions of some people on a dying blue site that makes no money. lady, and i mean this - get a fucking life.

x. i am sorry to the kid i was. maybe the kid you were too. none of us deserved to see something like this ruined. that thing used to be precious to me. and now - all those good times; measured into dust.

/// 9.6.2022 // FUCKING AGAIN, JK? Are you fucking kidding me?

#witches and wizards #kids need to be able to play games without knowing the extended universe #playing was easy #i knew i wasn't gonna be able to explain chronicles of christomancy #but we could pick up a stick and run around #nd say we were magic that would be enough backstory #and i think the last time i felt that sense of community #was the summer of pokemon go #it's about cross-generational connectivity bro #yes there are insular communtities but EVERYONE had fucking read harry potter #which is me saying - i think maybe people don't miss HER or the ACTUAL BOOK tbh #they miss... feeling connected #think about how so many people felt so weirdly ashamed and lost after Game of Thrones ended - #they did SUCH a bad job that the entire community just... vanished. #where beforehand people would have GoT weddings #we are just animals who love stories and love feeling like we speak the same language #btw i am not on twitter so i hadn't seen some of the shit she was doing #and then when i was 19 she published the ''american school'' hogwarts stuff #and was reading it casually bc again a huge nerd #and in it shes like ''the british taught the natives their more civilized magics'' #and that was like..................... oh okay. okay. so.....

[carlyraejepsans]

i don't think I've ever enjoyed a birthday party with friends as much as today i am genuinely getting a bit teary eyed

#initially i wasn't planning to do anything but then i thought what the hell what if we go out to drink something #except it was all very up in the air so a good deal of folks couldn't come (which is fine that one's on me) #but the two who COULD make it are genuinely some of the funniest motherfuckers I've ever met and one of them brought his gf along #and we hit it off IMMEDIATELY and THEN we ran into another pal I hadn't seen in a while and hadn't had the chance to invite in person #who also joined in after he finished hanging out with other people and they got me a present????? 😭 #i haven't had a birthday with friends in fucking . 3 years between covid and everyone i knew moving away #I'm so happy i think my heart is going to explode #which ik. hey isn't that a very boring and simple hangout YES but also not to me baby i have been in a depression isolation all my teens #i started to genuinely enjoy my day to day life like. 4 months ago ever since starting uni #it feels like turning a new leaf yknow? like. i made it. i made it out. god i could cry #sorry I'm a little drunk

[corvid-language-library]

This week I got to educate my Japanese colleagues about pancake day and also introduce them to toblerones and I think I blew their minds

#jackdaw in japan #they gave me chocolate on valentine's day bc apparently you do that with your friends here #and i was like ffff i have no chocolate #so the next day i brought in the giant bag of toblerone pieces i got from duty free in london #idk why but it didn't occur to me there are ppl who've never had toblerone #but like ofc they hadn't! why would they have even seen a toblerone before?! #anyway they were delighted #and then i told them about pancake day and they had so many questions and were fascinated by the concept! #having the opportunity to share my culture with people who are actually interested is so cool honestly!

[likefolksongs]

fall out boy on absolute radio listening party 3.26.23

[link]

the host asks about the parentheses around for in the album title - pete says it's "a double or triple entendre, everyone's trying to be someone and have their moment but that doesn't fill you up" but "there's something to be said about so much stardust." talks about how we're all just carbon, stardust and still can't get it together. he also just love parentheses!

talking about the album as an art form - patrick says they absolutely consider that and sequencing is important. there are a "few songs" which only made the record because of how well they told the story of the album. also love from the other side was conceptualized as an album opener because patrick felt none of the other songs felt like an opener!

the intro to lftos is patrick playing the same piano part at four different speeds, starting in sync and then falling out of sync as it continues - he says it feels representative of the whole album for him

with hold me like a grudge, pete says when patrick first played it for him the verses sounded like 2000s alternative radio hits but the chorus sounded "distinctly patrick" which was an "interesting blend." patrick: hm. thank you. i think. pete: yeah that was a compliment!

hold me like a grudge was the last song they wrote for the record! pete was second guessing other lyrics and sent patrick new lyrics to possibly replace the ones he was feeling unsure about. patrick read them before driving to the studio and by the time he got there the song was basically written in full.

pete makes a comment about how that's at least two songs "that people really like" that patrick's written in the car (referencing lotro); patrick says he's written a lot of songs in the car and pete jokes they should just toss him the keys

pete says it's the worst when you think of something in the car and are sure you'll remember it but you don't. says now when he thinks of something in the car when he's with bronx he'll tell him to write down words to trigger the whole phrase "but they don't make any sense together. i'll be like write this down and he'll be like '...okay." andy: like dad shut up [giggles]

fake out didn't come together until joe heard it! patrick had most of the lead guitar down but none of the rhythm guitar but "joe came in, gave it one listen, and picked up this acoustic. none of us had really thought about acoustic, he just went into the booth and we pressed record and he did it in one take... that became kinda the whole song."

patrick talks about soul punk briefly, says the most surprising thing about making it was that it was very unsurprising, because all the ideas were already in his head. part of why he enjoys working with the band so much is that they have ideas he never would've thought of.

they discuss changing sound - pete says the first time he had that feeling of like "oh i don't know if this is too different" he was scared of it but he's learned that it's a good thing and that there's always going to be so much of the band's dna on it that it Will sound like a fall out boy song

andy: i think a band can not just be a city it can be a continent. writing these different things is building the map to what the bigger picture is

they bring up queen and bowie as examples of artists that kept changing but now when you hear their songs you just think "oh that's queen" or "oh that's bowie." the host mentions he used to hide liking queen from his friends and patrick says he had to hide liking ska from the band. andy says he's had a really big reggae and ska phase recently and loves being able to talk to patrick about it because "he's a fountain of knowledge."

heaven, iowa is one of andy's favorite on the record and he loved it from the start! patrick reiterates a comment from another interview about how he didn't like it that much at first but knew everyone else did, kept asking joe for any and all ideas because he didn't like how much "space" there was and how naked his vocals felt. andy says he thinks space in music can be magical.

they talk about track sequencing again - patrick says he and pete moved "the meat of the album" around many, many times.

pete talks about the pink seashell interlude and being obsessed with mortality. patrick talks about the process of scoring it and how joe added guitar to the string lines which he thinks brought it all together.

they didn't start out thinking they necessarily had a record - patrick says "we went in with neal for a week to see if we had something and by the end of the week we had half the record.”

patrick's been asking people to tell him fan reactions to the record since he doesn't have social media 🥺 "i know i've been driving everyone nuts... i've been asking everyone 'do people like it? what do people think?'" reiterates the dinner for your family line to explain why this record means so much to him.

pete says making an album is kind of like being a climber standing at the bottom of a rock face trying to find a route up; when you get up the route might seem like it was obvious the whole time but it wasn't. patrick chimes in to agree and add that it feels like the song that was the centerpoint of the album shifted many times.

the host mentions that he really likes and relates to the title of "i am my own muse." pete talks about looking at his four year old and thinking about how "at that age, you Are your own muse. you're like 'i just color, i do what i want, i'm not trying to conform to your idea of my creativity' and welcoming some of that back into your life as an adult or an artist is great.'"

the host mentions that his nine year old son's favorite song ever is "centuries" and the band are appropriately flattered (though patrick does say sorry when the host says he's probably heard it more than any other song ever ajfioenaj).

going back to the discussion of different songs being the centerpoint of the album, patrick says flu game was "one of the first songs to have that spot."

patrick talks about not being the most confident guy but that he's learned to share all of his demos; he thinks he might not have played flu game in the past. pete chimes in to say in the past patrick has tried to throw out some of his best ideas.

patrick says flu game "kind of started the record" because it was the favorite out of the first five songs they made with neal. "this was the one that convinced neal i think." pete notes "this would've been an insane record if [flu game] was the lynchpin."

flu game was originally the lead single! pete: you know how we always talk about how if we were gonna fly in a helicopter that i would have to knock you out like b.a. baracus? patrick, instantly: yes. pete: if we had made this the first single you guys would've had to b.a. baracus me. patrick, protesting: that wasn't my choice!

pete says baby annihilation felt like an authentic way to pay homage to his past spoken word bits and he trusted neal to be able to make it work.

they have a discussion about the distinctions between emo/pop punk/straightedge hardcore and pete talks about how arbitrary the labels that are assigned to musicians often are. pete talks about how fall out boy started as kind of a break from the more hardcore stuff for him that he was doing for fun which allowed it to be more freeing. patrick agrees, talks about how andy and pete were in "real bands" so no one was taking fall out boy completely seriously which allowed them to be looser.

kintsugi kid was one of the songs patrick was mentioning earlier that was almost cut from the record but made it because of the track sequencing. patrick says he always felt very strongly about it and believed in it so was very glad when it made its way back on to the record. pete calls it the little song that could.

the host asks about their songwriting process and pete talks about how the best songs are the ones where he and patrick "clash" just the right amount; songs where one of them dominates over the other don't connect as well.

they discuss the different producers they've worked with; pete says every producer they've worked with has felt like the right person for the job. patrick talks about how working with so many different producers is part of why he wanted to go back to neal.

patrick talks about how important it was for this album to be a single producer album; with mania they had so many different producers and he wanted to get back to just being in a routine with the same person. andy: it's the difference between microwaving and actually cooking. patrick: yeah, i agree with that! andy, jokingly: thanks, i'm gonna leave.

patrick calls what a time to be alive his baby. says every time he played it for someone they would say "really?" pete: patrick was really determined to get this song on the record. i felt like gamora like "is it done? what did it cost you?" pete and patrick in unison: everything [laughter]

patrick says he and pete struck a bargain (pete: i don't remember this). patrick didn't want so good right now to be on the record (he wasn't going to name the song but pete told him to go for it) but pete was really advocating for it. patrick said that if pete let him have what a time to be alive he would green light so good right now.

pete talks about how art only really becomes art when it connects with its audience which is part of why they wanted to do those small shows and host listening parties, to see how people reacted

the host asks how their relationship with fame has changed; pete says they had a year or two where they were super famous "and it was not a great life;" talks about how he looks at kpop groups and boy bands and thinks "god bless that it wasn't that long for us." he says he made a point to rearrange his life to be less famous and prioritize his family and the band. also pete makes a star wars reference and patrick does a yoda impression 😭

the hour wraps up with pete asking the host if he still wants a video for his son and they do a quick video for him 🥺

#fall out boy #pete wentz #patrick stump #andy hurley #fob #sorry this is so long they truly talked about So Much #i wasn't gonna do a write up and i doubt anyone will actually see this bc i am not a Big Blog tm #but they just kept saying things i wanted to remember without having to relisten to the whole thing #and i hadn't seen people talk about this interview besides patrick's yoda impression lol #anyways hope anyone who stumbles upon this enjoys!

[anouchan-jpg]

"i should pull out my sunscreen lmao"

i didn't

i didn't pull out no sunscreen i soaked in the mfin sun😤👌🏼

#mine #me #anouchan #🥊🤬 #gg #lmao saw the uncle come in the video and freaked out a lil😭 #for people who say they haven't seen my face #my face #🤨 #i hadn't slept the whole night so that smile is lowkey forced😓 #scheduled post #xD

[photochoco]

Thinking about how Noriko's desire for Koichi to live is the catalyst for literally everything else

And if she hadn't done that, everyone would have died

Koichi would not have volunteered to fly

He wouldn't have flown his plane into Godzilla's mouth at the critical moment

He wouldn't have been the key to the mission having NO HUMAN CASUALTIES

Noriko's desire for Koichi to live saved not only him, but everyone in the volunteer force, possibly everyone in Japan.

#noriko is the only one who moved after Godzilla fired his heat ray #no one else but Koichi had seen anything like it before. so everyone is frozen in awe and terror #even she hadn't seen it. but she heard about it from him #and that was enough to ALLOW HER TO MOVE AND PUSH HIM INTO AN ALLEY #her love for him saved so many people #Erika blabs #Godzilla #Godzilla Minus One #godzilla minus one

[unloneliest]

the problem of the matter is i did internalize so much of what ex friend believed about me. even though i knew he was wrong and knew what was happening and tried to stop it and if i took more action to stop it would have been abusing power i held in a way i couldn't live with myself for.

#A BAD PERSON TRYING TO RUIN YOUR LIFE WOULD'VE GOTTEN YOU FIRED AND EVICTED IN WINTER IN ALASKA YOU MOTHERFUCKER. WHICH I DID NOT DO #he was renting a room from my dad. for cheaper than he wouldve been able to find anywhere else. his brother was too #his brother didn't pay rent for over 6 months and my dad just forgave him the debt because my dad knew how much of a difference it wouldve #made when he was that age. and i had told him ex friend was family to me & my dad applied that to the brother too. bc he is a good person. #and one of the strongest parts of my support system. and i didn't say a word to him about what was happening until i knew he already had a #plan for when he would be ending ex friend's lease. so there would be no subconscious impact on ex friend's housing either #mgmt at work straight up asked me if i thought ex friend should be fired immediately multiple times and i'm in retrospect livid they put me #in that position but told them to go by the strike system in the employee handbook and to follow policy that ex friend knew perfectly. that #it couldn't be on me as acting assistant manager to choose #and after 10 months of workplace harassment i got a different job to save my life. ex friend didn't get fired. #he did saw trap shit to my brain!!!!!! jesus christ #he moved cross country to live with his long time gf he called his wife despite never having met irl. to a way more conservative state. #despite being gay. and she left him this summer lol #hadn't checked his twitter in over a year when it got pulled up frm an old link and i saw that. and when he was already at a low point too #me voice. oh no who could've seen this coming. from how you behave in every relationship in your life #may delete this in the morning. but i have to talk about it sometimes #i'm never reaching out for closure both bc he wouldn't give me any and because i know it would trigger him and i don't intentionally trigge #people. unlike him :) #vampire pit #like. i have to talk about it sometimes. i have to talk about it. #jam posts

[the-everqueen]

aous was...fine, imho, it was fine, but it was fundamentally white, middle-class british and i could accept that but i couldn't forgive it

#aous #aous spoilers #namely...paul mezcal being terrified at having seen a ghost #people treating ghosts as unnatural or weird or wrong was bizarre to me #latinos built different! #also visually the film felt Too Polished #it should've been grainier; the past and the sex all felt too clean #but mostly i can't get over the ghosts part...i.e. why would you be afraid #there's something...comforting about them being able to linger and then choose to leave #anyways things i did not like about it included seeing andrew scott in pjs. the ways money didn't seem to figure into anything. #(he's a writer but he lives in these high end flats but he spends all his time visiting his childhood home which is empty but not??) #(paul mezcal is an alcoholic who lives alone and seems to live at andrew scott's beck and call - WHAT DOES HE DO FOR WORK) #the whole sheen of ''we don't need to think about the material conditions here'' really bothered me actually #it felt necessary to engage with if we're also doing the magical realism #anyways when we left the theater this gaggle of young 20-something women were also exiting #and one of them said ''okay i think that movie forced me to process a bunch of shit i hadn't wanted to think about'' #and i laughed bc i'm glad it reached out and touched her

[pokestine]

I'm 4 episodes into Ultraman Z and Juggler finally did one of his grins.

Good to know my favourite unwell man is still in there. He's playing human so well I was worried for a bit there.

#Ultraman Z #Jugglus Juggler #This must have been so confusing for people who hadn't seen Orb first

[maddy-ferguson]

i feel like the fact that barely anyone who watches the show thinks of will as the main character might be indicative of the fact that he isn't

#and like i say: brf slt #just realized i said the fact twice. this was worded differently at first #i'm very sorry #(not about the the fact thing about the will mc thing) #if you ask anyone who the main character is after seasons 3 and 4 they'll say el #it's not the el show and will is just as if not more important to the supernatural plotline like obviously nothing would've happened if he #hadn't gone missing and he has a connection to vecna no one else has and #everyone's love for him is basically what makes all of s1 happen #but he's literally not there. i've seen people watch the show for the first time recently and guess who was the main character to them #while they were watching the first two seasons? mike! literally elliott in E.T and the YA protagonist in the middle of a love triangle why #does everyone take his main boy status away from him...we first meet the characters at HIS house in HIS basement we see HIS family first #it's HIM we follow all throughout season 1 in the kids part of the show basically like idk #yes he's not el and he's not will in terms of connection to the supernatural but like #in seasons 3 and especially in season 4 you don't really think of him as the main character anymore but literally no one but bylers think #of will as the main character like i'm just saying. i don't think trying to pick a definite main character makes sense anyway because #there's kind of a shift around season 3 where it becomes...the el show. even if it doesn't not really. but it's not like people are crazy #and Media Illiterate for thinking that the biggest character on the posters whose actress is the biggest star and who gets paid the most is #the main character. don't people complain 24/7 about how little screentime will got in seasons 3 and 4 like obviously that would lead to #people...not seeing him as the main character #anyway. to me in seasons 1 and 2 it's between mike and el honestly and if you add seasons 3 and 4 then el #even though will is just as important like i said. it's just very different #but honestly in season 1 it's totally mike to me it's only in season 2 that i would start to hesitate #there's also joyce but i don't think anyone's saying joyce is the main character but yk i don't know if you know this but it's an ensemble #show... #it's definitely the willel show in a sense but... #mike is the protagonistest protagonist in season 1 how do people forget that #having to fight for your life to convince people that will is the main character kind of proves that he isn't😭 #and i still think he's the most important which doesn't make sense i know but idk it makes sense to me

[lonelier-version-of-you]

One of the very best things about having Donna on Casualty is getting to see all these Casualty-only viewers realising how awesome she is. Those of us who knew her from Holby are excited that she’s back and getting screentime and storylines, people who weren’t familiar with her are seeing how great she is, it’s a win for everyone! 😁

#BBC Casualty #Donna Jackson #it's just so nice seeing people who hadn't seen donna before say how much they like her

[onepiece-polls]

i actually agree with the other asker about the english speaker rule

it's not like this is any sort of official casting process so what if an actor doesn't speak english? it literally doesn't matter so what is this rule trying to achieve other than putting english on some pedestal just because it's the language the internet uses?

in the end it's your blog and nobody can force you to change anything but i find it strange to exclude actors who don't speak english, especially in a fandom for media that is first and foremost not english

The reason why I put up that rule was actually because the media in question (the live action netflix show) IS English. To make it a little more realistic they could in theory be cast. That's all. Not at all because it's the language the internet uses, just because it's the language the live action uses. I mean, if the live action was made in Japanese, it would probably have been Japanese that the actors should be able to speak.

But then again, I said from the beginning that I'm probably not gonna do some deep research after if all actors can speak English, so... 🤷‍♀️ I like to believe most people (especially in the acting world) would be able to speak some English. (But this might be my biased view, since I'm Dutch and most people in the Netherlands speak at least some English and quite a few Dutch actors have made it to big, English spoken shows and movies).

What I want to say is... this is not an extremely 'set in stone' kinda rule. Someone just added (paraphrased by me) "according to imdb, they did something at the Brittish embassey, so they probably speak English" to the propaganda, and you know what? That's good enough for me.

Also, I think about half of the actors submitted (or near half at least), have a non-native-english speaking background. (Just wanted to let you know)

#ask #anon #I honestly hadn't even thought about this before someone asked about it #but I mainly just want you all to submit people who you think could actually play the role really well and not just look the part #and if they want to play the role I think they should be able to speak English at least at a basic level #doesn't have to be fluent #I'm not 100% fluent either #I'm sure you've seen me make mistakes before #(I mean some are typos but some very much are just me not being perfect at English 😅)

[daenerys-targaryen]

me every time i see my mutuals talking about some dumb shit other people are saying: wow i must follow the right people cause i don't see any of that

#leah rambles #i didn't see ANY the 1 hate #but it's so funny like #everyone i follow will be talking about others garbage opinions #and i'm like where. #i replied to someone i forget who #who was saying something like i'm sick of seeing people complain about xyz #and i was like i don't see that #and i didn't mean it like. condescendingly or as if i didn't believe them #i just literally HADN'T seen it lasdkfj #anyways #shoutout to those who i follow who are the absolute best

[b-rainlet]

Me, going through my blog and seeing I left 'He's so Buffy to me' as a tag under a pic of Scott McCall: I simultaneously understand nothing and everything

#I hadn't seen Buffy at that point but I think I was specifically referring to the S1 scene #Where Buffy goes 'I'm 16 I don't wanna die' #There are a lot of teenage protagonists who go through hell and face more trauma than they should #But Buffy and Scott have similar flavours I guess? #There's a half-formed thought there about taking on responsibility #Not only for the newfound power you have (being a slayer/being a werewolf) #But also for 'civilians' getting in the way #And even your friend group #Even though they are also affected by the supernatural #But somehow you are still the one who has to carry ALL of the responsibility #Even if there are adults involved #It's such a jarring discrepancy and idk if it's down as obv in other shows? #Like in The 100 for example you still have the adults very much acting on their own and even dismissing the kids you know? #Also I'm not sure how many other shows have been as heavy about their protagonist dying (like. Actually being dead) for others #To protect people who don't even know them #They're both martyrs but they're also both 16 and it's very fucked up #Teen Wolf #btvs

[blubberprincess]

I don't know why in my head I never thought of being heavy enough to break a chair while stuffing something that would happen but 🥵 looks like I've gotten my husband fat enough that we've had to replace the dining room chairs that are a bit more sturdy 💖

#It's not the first time we've had to replace furniture for him #he needed a wider desk chair already #and a better sofa #fuck he's gotten so fat 💖💖💖 #I don't even think I'd recognize him if I hadn't watched him gain #I know a few people who hadn't seen him in awhile haven't... #💖💖

[dyke-ulaura]

I wanted to share some points from my music theory assignment analysis of I Feel Him Slipping Away because it scored well and I'm proud :3. I bolded the the parts that analyse the meaning if people want to skip the more theory heavy (unbolded) parts.

Written in cut common, simple duple time which changes to 4/4 in the last few bars. Shifts frequently between A major and C#minor.

There are two rhythmic features that I want to talk about here. Here, in the bass clef, a dotted crotchet and crotchet rhythm is copied in the percussion to give a contrasting, uneven 3/4 feel. This is a shift from the relatively straight-foward rhythm of the previous verse. The triplet in the fourth bar here is also interesting as you’d expect it the previous line. In breaking that rhythm, it emphasises the phrase die in my arms which makes it feel more jarring, expressing Trina's anguish

This segment is taken from the first and second chorus. The second chorus vocals, cut off the #g early and echoes what was already being played in the piano line, repeating the word no in triplets. This has a compound duple feel and echoes how a person, out of frustration, may cut themselves off. This is something I've noticed Trina actually does often (both in In Trousers and Falsettos) that other characters don't really do (marvin does it in i've got a family but this is more about denial). She has a much greater tendency to either cut herself off or correct herself, reflecting her insecurities and self doubt.

At this point accidentals are also used to create an ascending c#major scale from c#minor, this creates further contrast and effectively shifts tone from the previous line of remorse to one of anger and vindication. It's further enforced by the fact that all three women are singing now in unison.

The opening has an A major chord in the piano piano which is reflected in the vocal melody: CCCAE. We start off very stable on the tonic. The rest of the chord progression goes Ab augmented, which resolves to Ab major, then F#minor (first inversion, so A is still the bass) back to A major (the return to a major occurs on the words "were fine". A quick return to the tonic to show how "fine" things are) back to Ab augmented again. This constant shift between stable and unstable chords, represents the contrast between the parts of the marriage that were "fine" and the parts that were "not" (echoing the lyrics). In the last two bars the melody of the vocals is mirrored on the piano until the last note where there is a dissonant minor second between a natural on the piano and g# on the vocals. This represents the clash between husband and wife and the "dissonance" of their marriage.

Only one part of this song really feels like a finished cadence. The end of the first two choruses goes from a suspended chord on the fifth note (g#) into the tonic c# minor. It feels like an ending, but she starts singing abruptly partway through the next bar, continuing on the same thought, but also contradicting it going from favourable descriptions to more negative thinking. This is another example of Trina's specific mannerisms that I mentioned earlier and to me is very similar to "I only want to love a man who can love me or like me or hold me or touch me or stand me" ("... or help me" in falsettos)

The last chord is an F# suspended 4th chord rather than the tonic, giving an abrupt, unsatisfying end as the conflict of the character is not resolved, this is further enforced as the song ends not on the chord, but on the noteless exclamation of the word "Liar"

#unfortunatelybecause the target audience was people who hadn't seen in trousers most of the original analysis had to focus on the song alone #i've added a couple bits here about the greater context within the show though. #i have some points for other songs that I might share too #one day I will do this for the entirety of the marvin trilogy >:) #falsettos #in trousers #long post sorry