#i just. like music i guess

[beevean]

Honestly, while Michiru Yamane seems to be physically uncapable of composing a track that is less than great, I think I understood the reason why CoD has my favorite OST, even more than the highly popular (and also slappin’) SoTN

The tracks aren’t just well composed, and they don’t just have excellent instrumentation: I can picture perfectly Hector’s state of mind during the events.

Abandoned Castle isn’t just an “entrance” theme: usually entrance/first level themes are supposed to say “here’s your new badass protagonist, have fun!”, but this one sounds much more serious, the cold guitars and synth conveying Hector’s grief and determination to embark on his quest for revenge. The only other “character” themes that IMO convey the same level of emotions are An Empty Tome and Lament of Innocence.

Garibaldi Courtyard isn’t just a “cathedral” theme: the whole piece conveys awe at the place, but I also hear an unbearable sadness that I can’t even put into words. I can’t even connect it to the game, but it makes my heart swell and I am in love.

Forest of Jigramunt isn’t just a “forest” theme: the instruments paint a beautiful picture, of light shining through the foliage, but the intensity of the melody implies that Hector pays it no mind as he’s deadset on his vengeful mission, his anger tainting everything.

Cave of Jigramunt isn’t just a “cave” theme: while rather upbeat, the discordant chimes, deep choirs and strings manage to convey a “cursed” mood of a place you shouldn’t dwell in for too long. When you remember that this place hides a statue of the Evil God that gave Dracula his powers, it makes perfect sense.

Cordova Town isn’t just a “town” theme: the slow rhythm, the sound of the guitars, the thumping bass and the harshness of the synth (the same that plays in Abandoned Castle) don’t just fit the decrept look of the place, but also they make me imagine an exhausted Hector dragging his sword to the ground, only pushing forward because he has spotted Isaac in the distance.

Eneomaos Machine Tower isn’t just a “clock tower” theme: the piece starts with an elegant piano, but it gradually builds up to something more tense, until by the end of the loop the pressure of the journey is on Hector’s shoulders, who is literally forced to fight time. It’s also perhaps the only clock tower theme to feature a prominent clock sound, which helps the immersion. (special shout-out to the official rearrangement Narcisisstic Reflection; a better translation of the name could be “Recollection of Aestheticism”, and it fits how utterly beautiful and poignant it is)

Dracula’s Castle isn’t just a “final level” theme: after the harp intro, I keep picturing Hector throwing himself up the stairs, slashing all monsters without a second thought, heart racing because it’s all his fault, Dracula is back and it’s all his fault, Isaac played him like a fiddle, he can’t afford to make a single mistake now! (the fact that he sounds more guilt-ridden in the Japanese script makes me feel vindicated lol)

Insane Aristocracy isn’t just the theme of the fight against Isaac: it encapsulates his fury, violence and all-compassing madness, and the solo, that echoes the melody heard in the intro, barely gives more breathing room, to convey the tragedy of his situation. You could also choose to see it from Hector’s perspective, as he’s also enraged to fight his old friend, only to then realize “this is not him. This is not the Isaac that I knew. Something’s wrong. But I still must kill him”.

Legendary Belmont isn’t just the theme of the fight against Trevor: it’s the theme of Hector being petrified with fear as he realizes he’s locked in a room with the monster of a vampire hunter that slayed Lord Dracula, and wants him dead too. You can just feel the sheer panic and difference in power, thanks to the strings and the heavily distorted guitar.

Sarabande of Healing isn’t just a “shop” theme: it starts off as cozy and serene, because the place becomes like a little sanctuary for Hector, but then the celesta gives place to cellos, that you can choose to still see as cozy (I can see Hector resting in the chair as they play) or sorrowful, to paint Julia’s pain that she goes to great lengths to hide.

A Toccata in Blood Soaked Darkness isn’t just Dracula’s theme: it’s a seamless combination of Dracula’s imposing power and anger (the organs) and Hector’s determination to face him like a man this time (the drums), and the major chord midway through is a beacon of hope that Hector is now strong enough to defeat his old master. (side note, its older sibling Dark Night Toccata seems to go for the opposite approach: the organs fit Leon’s grief while the strings and drums fit Walter’s pompous, sadistic nature, and the piece is overall less hopeful. It’s interesting to compare the two, and LoI has a magnificent OST as well)

tl;dr i owe michiru yamane my whole life

#castlevania #curse of darkness #i don't know what prompted me to write this #i just. like music i guess

[kmesons]

"AREN'T YOU GOING TO TIP ME? (GET YOUR CUP OF COFFEE) LOOK AT THE FUN WE'RE HAVING ALREADY!"

#this guy again #the guy who didn't like musicals #tgwdlm #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #starkid #my art #bonus points if you can guess the music in the background (it isn't inevitable I'm afraid) #I've been seeing a lot of infected paul art lately so I suppose it's just the hive mind acting again #edit: what. are you guys doing. why on earth does this have 847 notes

[stuckinapril]

megan thee stallion is the perfect example of unbothered energy. nicki has repeatedly vagueposted about her, gone on unhinged rants about her, gone so far as to mention her dead mother (such a classless low blow), threatened her on live, and has now released the tackiest diss track in history. and what has megan done? literally nothing. she straight up ignored her, aside from that one ig story where she posted herself laughing (which was perfect btw). she is the epitome of “i will not dignify that w a response.” i love it.

#btw i was rly into megan before it became trendy now in light of her dropping hiss / the nicki debacle #nicki’s latest music has been ass anyway but it’s sad to see her behaving like this to newer rap girls #the parasocial hate is literally so intense / insane like i can’t imagine hating someone enough to be persistently harassing them like this #nicki’s a celeb so you’d think she’d know a thing or two about how dangerous it is to pit her fans on somebody else like this #unless this is all just a bid to stay relevant which i would not be surprised ab but nicki seems PRESSED. #i guess if i released something like pink friday 2 id also be feeling threatened by a new rap girl w the bars megan has #i just want her to leave my homegirl megan alone. good on megan for ignoring and living her best life. the energy i wanna emulate #i’m not usually one to play into the whole pit women against other women thing but nicki’s recent actions are so inappropriate. wild #btw megan majored in health administration in uni?? which is a major factor as to why i’m obsessed w her. anyway #text

[cowardlykrow]

yeah, and who do ya think knocked em out

#Can't think of a good caption- and i didn't wanna quote the whole thing 😔 #but also i cant leave it without a caption! or it looks naked! lOlol #I messed with the saturation on this one a bit because i'm too aware of how pale my art is once i see it on another screen OTL #so now im just hoping its not /too/ saturated #but i guess i'll just die on this hill for now #tgwdlm #the guy who didn’t like musicals #ted spankoffski #charlotte sweetly #Sam sweetly #kind of #does that tiny speck of him count? #also this is another case where i feel like i should have just left it as line art #i think my lineart always looks better then the finished thing grr #but i cannot stop myself from coloring ever #its like a curse

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

love how Solar Opposites started out as a sitcom about two aliens who can't stand each other, stuck with their teenage clones (whom they also can't stand) & a toddler antichrist (whom they view as a sort of self-sufficient free-roaming hamster?) on a stupid planet they can't stand

and 4 seasons later it's a sitcom about a family of genderqueer aliens, headed by a gay couple in a happy & horny open marriage (with a graphic off-screen sex life, despite their canonical lack of genitalia?) teaching themselves to be okay parents to their 3 kids (whose Sci-Fi Antics now slightly-less-frequently revolve around wreaking havoc on human bystanders, and slightly-more-frequently revolve around alien-clone-sibling-bonding*), to the point that the central plot point becomes "We need to provide our toddler antichrist with a stable home environment."

(also the grumpy alien husband is too busy ingratiating his family with their suburban neighbors to even remember whom or what he dislikes. what is this show)

#*there is still SIGNIFICANT wreaking-havoc-on-human-bystanders. there is still a major Body Count. it's just not the Thematic Focus ok #solar opposites #solar opposites spoilers #i guess? #i'm in the middle of season 4 if u put spoilers in the notes i will HUNT you #ANYway #and then there's the whole B Plot #which is just a casually emotionally-gripping angst-ridden character-driven action-apocalyptic dramatic tragedy #just this masterpiece of emotional turmoil and sci-fi horror that technically is a C Plot to canon #a C Plot at BEST #love this show. try to think about it as little as possible. migraine-inducing #love all these characters. want to snap their necks like a game of musical chairs

[marc--chilton]

i think hoffstrahm is like. THE funniest saw ship. one is fucking insane and the other is a serial killer

#saw #they don't infest me like the bathroom boys do but i do think of them sometimes #also all the jokes about strahm just being on coke and shit all the time like #you know the fuckass saw editing when someone's in a trap and everything is spinning and going nuts #that's what i imagine strahm's brain is like #hoffman is just elevator music that is randomly intercut with gymbro hype type beast mode shit #fuck it i guess i'll go ahead and tag them too huh why not #hoffstrahm

[mortellanarts]

You must absolutely hate me for what I did to you

#my art #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #juri arisugawa #shiori takatsuki #juriori #Guess who's been listening to Juri's songs from the utena musical way too many times lately 🧡 #I had this sketched out since the first time I watched this scene in the black rose arc all the way back like june last year #it did something to me #the strong shadows and oranges and of course the characters and conflict in on itself it clawed at me and I immediately had to draw about i #she's an orange lesbian..... just like meee... #toxic yuri #my favorite

[raiiny-bay]

alien emoji

#ts4 #simblr #ts4 edit #ts4 render #sims 4 #myedits #AUverse #bow #dhestyn #kelly #sue #gaston #good news i didn't forget how to make things #this still isn't the band edit i had planned to do but idk it's kind of fun i guess #i used the blender compositor for some of the effects :-) #looking at it now it kind of ended up being an unintentional remake of that one bandAU edit i did forever ago #i never did like that one #the lighting was. not good. #but anyway! look at me posting my other OCs for once! #stella & marky are not in the band but #stella sells merch for them at their shows & marcus very lovingly tells them how much their music sucks #btw they actually are a band in canon. they perform in their high school talent show & everything #they don't get big at all though & they kind of just... give up on it after a while #kel is the only one out of the 5 of em who actually knows anything about making music #so they were doomed from the start really #this AU is literally the exact same as canon but they get mildly famous #probably played at warped tour or something when that was still a thing lol

[locusfandomtime]

i hope you guys understand my vision

#not every hermit is on here. if they didn’t fit any of the six categories i didn’t want to force it #i guess other “genres” not included here would be: abba. childrens music (wheels on the bus etc). jazz. #locus fandom time #shitpost #hermitcraft #mcyt #hermitblr #xbcrafted #<- hes the only one im maintagging because im DESPERATE to know if the xb fans agree with me. you see where im coming from right? #“e girls are ruining my life” is That corpse song btw #if you want to hear my explanations on these. just ask. I have thought all of these through. #like some of them are just “the cc likes this music a lot” (xisuma wels doc) but most of them I have a lot of character thoughts on #hermitcraft memes

[karmesean]

SO THAT NEW SHORT HUH ..💜💚

#bro i wasn't even sure if i liked purple x green until now but i guess that's dunnit. #i love the gay grapes. #my art #ibis paint #alan becker #ava #ava fanart #avm #avm fanart #ava/m #ava green #avm green #avm purple #green x purple #do they have a ship name? #they're just Musical Grapes to me #animation vs minecraft #animation vs minecraft fanart #animator vs animation fanart #animator vs animation

[galoogamelady]

What do you imagine Buttons' voice sounding like? I can't not picture him just.. sounding like Tom Cardy, but I'm really curious if he sounds a certain way in your head!

This is a question often asked! He's actually been voiced before for our Fallout 4 mod, by @voicesbyzane ! So yknow... like that:

I keep wanting to practice 3D animation to the mod lines but I can't seem to find the time for it. :')

#I've done 2 small little Blender animations with voice but they're not good enough to showcase #maybe when I have more/better ones #Buttons #voice #video #the music videos are more like a GTA Buttons inner monologue imo #his inner voice is just Tom I guess #“Go blow up a bank you legend” <-that's how he hypes himself up before a heist

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

#like w robin hood the original here is obviously just kind of like. a loose set of myths and legends. #so you can think of that option as kind of just being “i like the general idea/mythology associated with this character” i guess #also again. there are SO many riffs on Arthurian legends. this is just a few. i may do another poll at some point with a different set #also labelling most of these as “interpretations” because even more so than the robin hood ones which thats what they are #more than they are “adaptations” exactly #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #merlin 1998 #the sword in the stone #excalibur 1981 #excalibur #john boorman #camelot #camelot musical #the once and future king #le morte d'arthur #arthurian legend #thomas malory #th white #t h white #fairy tales #legends #books #musicals #musical theater #animations #animated films #films #tv shows #king arthur

[clottedscream]

“it’s just a warmup sketch,” i say to myself. “i’m just gonna warm up on shading and coloring. i’m just warming up on anatomy.” my spine crackles from sitting in shrimp stance for 2 hours. “just to warm up.”

#dairydraws #epithet erased #molly blyndeff #prison of plastic #jelloapocalypse #epithet erased prison of plastic #eepop #digital painting #molly is really fun to practice drawing hair on but i do kinda feel like i’m fighting against the skin tone in her ref whenever i draw her #i don’t even necessarily feel like i favor warmer or more saturated tones in general but idk #something about the color in her ref doesn’t mesh right with my painting style #i should try painting her lit in cooler toned light that might help #i was drawing her crying and then changed my mind #but i forgot to erase the little snot bubble. so i guess molly has a runny nose #the reason i got so carried away is almost definitely because the cafe im in is playing such slow relaxing music #i usually listen to pretty upbeat stuff when i draw #and it motivates me to go fairly fast. but i was just kinda enjoying myself and going with the rhythm of the lowfi beatstrumentals #this is a great cafe. the masala chai here fucking shreds #it’s so cardamom heavy and baby do i love cardamom #you know a tea at a cafe is good if drinking the stuff leftover at the bottom gets a lil grit in ur mouth #molly deserves a warm cup of masala chai frankly

[swingingthehatchetnow]

Group therapy session (because they need it):

Lex: so yeah. Turns out this eldritch spider wasn’t an imaginary friend and was, in fact a horror beyond human comprehension who was very nice and tried to protect me and my sister.

Pete, under his breath: I wish the goat bastard was like that.

Therapist: Pete, care to elaborate?

Pete: It’s nothing. Just a goat monster that only my brother and I can see. He’s obsessed with Ted. Laughs too much.

Richie: My monster laughs too. But it’s less of a laugh-laugh, more of a fucked up giggle.

Therapist:

Therapist:

Therapist: okay, raise your hand if you or anyone in your family can see an ‘eldritch horror’ that nobody else can see

Lex: *raises hand*

Pete: *raises hand*

Richie: *raises hand*

Ruth: *raises hand*

Grace: *raises hand* my aunt Jeri saw him first but now I see him too

Alice: *raises hand* he never stops singing

Therapist:

Therapist: okay so let’s process that…

#to clarify I hc Girl Jeri as Grace’s aunt #and it’s Nibbly they see #bc Nibbly is played by Kim and girl Jeri is Kim yeah you get it #just a hc I have I guess #starkid #team starkid #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #starkid black friday #hatchetfield #nightmare time #pete spankoffski #lex foster #alice woodward #ruth fleming #richie lipschitz

[koddlet]

also reposting the march music zine that was dedicated to the mind electric, because i didn't do it justice either!!!! some sketches under the cut 👇

#it was my top song on spotify wrapped... who would've guessed... #i'd like to get back into mixed media collage fr because it realy is fun.... i love putting my sewing machine through it #there WAS meant to be a february zine but i literally lost the one i'd started working on #so i was like okay whatever and went straight to march #i have a september zine wip but not sure if that will ever be completed so i might just post what's done so far #zine #music zine #collage #analogue art #zinemaking #miracle musical

[legallybrunettedotcom]

you could say i'm in the business of misery I youtube link

#no plot just vibes i guess #i just really needed to make an edit to this song but it's actually so difficult to make it work #💾 #📹 #my videos #wanted it to kinda look like the original music video #mean girls #heathers #jawbreaker #jennifer's body #mine