#it’s got folk music

[lurking-latinist]

now that I’ve got you all more or less used to early modern Scots via Kidnapped Weekly, is there any chance I can make anyone read Redgauntlet?

#it’s got folk music #(it’s got folk music used AS A SECRET CODE which is my favorite thing ever) #it’s got intense youthful friendship #it’s got a slightly disturbing love triangle #it’s got mysterious family secrets #it’s got an epistolary framing #it’s got an entirely unhistorical third Jacobite rising #it’s got Scots law #it’s got everything #it’s not even Sir Walter Scott’s best book #but it has everything I like #recommended for fans of gothicness and Scots law #(and folk music used as a secret code) #I’m not doing a substack though y’all have to just read it yourselves

[14dayswithyou]

💖 Help Me Decide On An Idea! 💖

It's 2024 and I no longer wish to be a one-trick game dev lmao ^^; Help me decide on what visual novel idea I should consider in the future!!

Please note: 14DWY will still remain as my main focus and priority; this will just be a casual project for me to on the side to prevent burnout and tunnel visioning <3

(I may move posts like these to my main account (@cutiesigh) in the future since it's not inherently 14DWY-related!)

#💖 — 14 days with queue. #🖤 — shut up sai. #Can you tell I played The Forest once and got inspired lmao #I'm also open to making the sapphic VN idea gender neutral; but tbh I want more wlw VNs out there #Where are da ladies at.... I wish to woo them (🧍‍♀️ <- number 1 girl kisser in the entire world) #Or perhaps it's because I got yaoi in my spotify burger and I'm HAUNTED T_T Like wtf is yaoi music...... #Anways!! I'm also open to making the hot buff guy a hot buff GIRL too! #Whateva folks prefer #Okay time to eep zzzzz

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

soundtrack soundtrack soundtrack soundtrack soundtrack

#monkie kid #LEGO monkie kid #WE GOT EXCERPTS OF THE SOUNDTRACK ON SOUNDCLOUD FOLKS I AM GRIPPING MY FIST #ROLLING AROUND ON THE FLOOR #the utter artistry in the music of this show #godspeed to all the composers y'all are the real ones #MACAQUE AND MK'S TRAINING MUSIC IS SUCH A BANGER #I AM FACE IN HANDS OVER THIS SHOW AND ITS MUSIC NOW ITS SO GOOD

[chiropteracupola]

we need to double the length of the day so that I can have a second day every day just for doing art

#news from the cupola #and THEN maybe I'd get half the stuff I want to draw done! #there are. a very many stories I want to tell or if not that then at least draw the people. #I feel like I should do more brother eoin since people seem interested (and finish designing ketill and aud so he can have some company) #but also maybe if I actually Drew saro and rose I'd have more of a chance of finishing writing their story #and then also I would like to draw cata more often. #and yann because I realized today that I have folk music evidence for there being malouins in california in the mid nineteenth century #<- catastory runs on folk music evidence anyway. It's Cool. #and Also I got to visit my friend's african clawed frogs in the bio department today so I want to draw my frog guy. #Not Enough Hours In The Day!

[ladychandraofthemoone]

Some old narrow gauge Nia doodles I’ve done over the past month, Nia’s livery was inspired by 🌺mrterrier673🌺 on Twitter

Saw some edits of Nia with glasses and I fell in love we need more engines with accessories

Some pannier shaped siblings, they met pre-msr days (they didn’t come in the same time)but were very happy to reunite with one another in the msr then in the Skarloey Railway 😊☺️

Their sibling friendship/relationship is like alastor and Rosie or Mary and jack, Nia didn’t care about Stanley’s “jinx” and defended him whenever he got bullied, she’s one of the very few folks who can make Stanley genuinely happy and do things like singing much to his colleagues surprise (also livery inspiration for one another♥️❤️🧡💜💛🖤)

#ttte #ttte stanley #rws stanley #ttte nia #msr #msr stanley #rws #railway series #the railway series #my art #my art <3 #my art stuff #doodle #sketch #my doodles #my sketches #my sketchy art #my sketchbook #Nia is a ngr class n 4-6-2t 1906 in my au inspired by others folks take but was bulit in Nairobi central workshops #wanted to do a 1920s musical song but been playing Mary popping songs on loop and that is one of their influences #the first/last nia pic r poll picsdon’t know when they started bursting into song but yeah duke may be happy that they’re reunited not happ #When they’re singing the same song every day 😅sucks that’s their is only one pic of the basis I wanna use so sorry about that also I’m on t #give engines more facial accessories and other things like whiff;s glasses and Rosie’s and Kevin’s freckles making Nia;s livery purple and #orange I need to digitally draw them I did Nia’s human form and still finishing my 4/4 but Nia and Stan have been revolving in my mind a lo #I like to think they got liveries inspired by one another like the stripes/bands on their domes and yellow for Kyle 🥲

[myrddin-wylt]

had a hetalia dream last night, and it was surprisingly coherent. it was during the start of the Great Rapprochement between the US and UK, I think specifically 1899 for some reason.

in any case, Arthur and Matthew were dead set on improving their relationship with Alfred, who wanted none of it. and in the midst of them pestering Alfred on potential Family Bonding Activities, Alfred, in an attempt to get them to go 'absolutely not' and hopefully give up, told them he was too busy and already had plans to do a cross-country cattle drive; and to make it really unappealing, the cattle trail in question was the Goodnight-Loving trail (that's what it's called!) from central Texas to Cheyenne, Wyoming. ie, this monstrosity

this is so fucking funny to me because I've done road trips through the Llano Estacado portion (Texas-New Mexico) and the entire drive just looks like hours upon hours of just

absolutely fucking nothing out there. 700 miles of dull. sometimes a plateau in the distance.

for some reason, maybe naïvety or lack of foresight, this did not dissuade Arthur and Matthew, who immediately invited themselves along. so it was the three of them, along with Ana María 🇲🇽, and, bizarrely enough, Natalya (who was like in hiding as a fugitive because she did something to piss off the Russian tsar???) and a few other cowboys. the rest of the dream was them roughing it for 700 miles as Arthur and Matthew had the time of their lives and Alfred spent the whole trip trying to not kill everyone and then himself.

#silly #there was one point in the dream where Arthur and Matthew got really into campfire songs #and this is obviously like. country-country folk music #and Alfred got so fucking mad he left camp and just like slept in the dirt with the cattle #would be a fun fanfic #hws america #hws canada #hws england #hws mexico #hws belarus

[mehoymalloy]

Challenging a Queen

#i'm back on my screenshot bullshit folks #this time with a surprisingly great run of challenging a queen i got by guessing on my first replay of the song #stray gods #persephone #stray gods the roleplaying musical #stray gods: the roleplaying musical #stray gods spoilers #calliope

[starflungwaddledee]

answering a couple of strike-outs from my top 100 music asks in a batch! i highly recommend this first one especially, but the rest will go under the cut!

55- the shade by Metric (asked by @trainerbob23) a strikeout; this is actually for one of my original projects (currently on the backburner) but i love it so i listen to it a lot

HOWEVER... that project is also a sci-fi story about escaping into space on a boat, so i could make it about magicapple or starstruck dee quite easily.

With eternal love, the stars above, all there is and ever was I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, I want it all A blade of grass, a grain of sand, the moonlit sea, I'll hold your hand I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, I want it a l l

42- phenomenon by JVNA & LICK a semi strikeout. 🕰️ while this is technically on my clockwork heart playlist, it's for the vibes only. the lyrics don't really click for me

When every hope inside me dies You take my hand, show me the light With you I feel like finally living on You're one phenomenon

84- haven by Novo Amor strikeout. just a song from Life Is Strange 3, which we played at the beginning of the year and i was very emotional about and subsequently binged the entire album a lot!

I'll be late, but I could make it all up to you I'll count down the days, don't say that you wouldn't too 'Cause I heard the rain, as I felt you coming loose And I heard my name, it broke my head in two

99- once in a while (ft. alina renae) by Corticus (asked by @pick-a-number-star) cw: some swearing in this one, couple of f-bombs strikeout. technically this is a song for me myself to relate to, so i could try to put it onto starstruck dee, but... she doesn't have the same life experiences i do in the slightest, and i really feel it's about that 😂

Don't get me wrong, yeah, my head is spinning And sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind I love my life and everyone in it But sometimes I feel like they're missing these signs And I'm done doing this shit, I'm so over it

#a lot of folks have asked for numbers in the lower half which surprised me! #i will admit that a lot of the AU heavy stuff is actually closer to the top 👍 #music #starstruck dee #my art #<- only that one picture of starstruck dee there though #only got one more of these to go (but i need to do art for it) so if anyone wants to send in a few more i'd be happy to answer!!

[bhvr]

contact sheet of phil ochs by david gahr, greenwich village 1964 (1/2) (edit: this is now scanned in higher quality here!)

#fun fact when i was cropping the original my pc saved the images to my dbd clips folder For Some Reason #i wish it was higher quality but i got this from an ebay listing... if i win it ill reupload #phil ochs #60s #folk music #folk tag #upload

[its-short-for-jackalope]

the Hatchetfield universe is so big and there are so many delightful characters & stories I wanna make art for that I usually don't do anything bc I'm paralyzed by indecision—hence my discord nickname, the indecisive sniggle 💀—but if I can tiptoe around the whole 'choosing' part that gets me stuck I think I could probably draw a little more frequently, so uh...

would y'all wanna help me test this theory?

I've never really tried taking drawing requests before so idk how this will go, but my asks are open (and anon is on for the super shy folks) so what the hell. let's give it a shot.

Some quick rules/disclaimers under the cut:

if you send a request please be patient & understand that I might not do every one

not every drawing will be completed to the same level of polish—I expect there will be a mix of doodles & sketches & a mayhaps few properly Finished ones if inspiration strikes

let's keep the requests to Hatchetfield for now... I wanna do art for other SK shows (and TCB, and Shipwrecked, and Pulp) so maybe if this goes well I'll take turns going thru requests for the others in the future, idk! we'll see!

...I meant to save this as a draft to post it at not-3-in-the-morning but tumblr was dumb. oh well. i guess if i wake up to stuff in my inbox it'll be a nice start to the day! 😂😅

#honestly dunno how many ppl might be interested 😅 #i know ive got lovely mutuals & pals from brp 👁💜 & folks who've started following me for fandom stuff so i hope ill get a few at least #but i also dont want to get my hopes up. or seem too expectant aakhwhsh. #ANYWAY. yeah. send me hatchetfield drawing requests. <3 #jack jabbers #hatchetfield #starkid #hatchetverse #hatchetfield fanart #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday musical #nmt #nightmare time #nightmare time 2 #nmt2 #npmd #nerdy prudes must die

[thedreadvampy]

btw about Neil Gaiman I periodically agree with the 'Neil Gaiman is annoying' stuff bc I feel like both he and Amanda Palmer seem like people who I would go insane stuck in a room with bc we have very different ideas about art and suchlike. and I also do think that the career trajectory he's on lately is cynically redoing his greatest hits and pretending that was the dream all along when it clearly was not. which is at best meh.

having said which

as far as I can tell by far the most common complaint about Neil Gaiman is "Snow, Glass, Apples is problematic/gross/it's got incest and rape and frames the child as the aggressor"

which strikes me as a weird complaint to pull out of a 40 year body of work tbh when that short story is pretty clearly coming from a place of 'how far can I push this'. like you don't have to like the story. I don't really like the story. but it is. a horror story.

like and this is the thing with particularly 90s alt horror right? a lot of the interest is in transgression and sitting in the worst possible perspective and seeing what happens if you pull those strings. like I really like Clive Barker for example but there's a good chunk of his short stories that I'm like I'm not picking up what you're putting down Clive this seems Kinda Off. but that willingness to write some trite or Bad Message horror fiction that doesn't land is imo a side effect of being willing to try writing uncomfortable and unpleasant fiction at all. which is what horror is for, among other things, it's for creating discomfort as a form of catharsis or engagement.

like I am not a huge fan of the type of sex-horror that pops up in a lot of Gaiman's work and other contemporary horror writers - to me I don't find it upsetting or horny it just ends up feeling kind of edgy and tryhard - but I'm also a bit like. it does seem like a lot of people's beef with Neil Gaiman is that In The 90s He Was A Horror Writer

and this approach to Problematic Horror in Snow, Glass, Apples I find kind of microcosmic of how The Discourse often approaches art in this kind of 1:1 way. if you write a story which seems to line up with rape apologia it can only be because you agree with it. if you write a story about transphobia you're a transphobe. if you write a story that makes me genuinely uncomfortable you're attacking me.

but artwork, especially art like horror that's not necessarily trying to provoke enjoyment as its main response, is necessarily hit and miss. and if what you're shooting for is discomfort then whether it works, falls flat or goes too far incredibly depends on your audience. and making good art - as in art that makes its audience think, art that opens the audience up to discomfort and catharsis and sticks with them and changes them - requires the space to experiment and tbh the space to fuck up. like they aren't all going to be winners and they certainly aren't all going to work for you as a singular audience.

personally I don't see the appeal of Snow, Glass, Apples, less cause it's nasty and more cause it's hack. ooh an edgy monstrous version of a fairy tale where there's lots of rape and cannibalism? you're soooo original Neil. but like. that's fine. I don't really vibe with like 70% of Neil Gaiman stuff I've read but I still like Neil Gaiman because the stuff that works for me really works for me.

idk I think there's a lot of folk on this website who shouldn't interact with horror cause they clearly aren't interested in being horrified. that's not everyone who dislikes Snow, Glass, Apples, but it's a real undercurrent to a lot of the criticism and tbh this kinda vibe is shit for art. making standout art What Is Good also requires being ready to make art which stands out for the wrong reasons. sometimes they'll be the same art to different people.

#red said #not to Cancel Culture this but isabelle fall springs to mind in a lot of how folks talk about stuff like this #like she wrote a transgressive piece exploring her own negative feelings about transness and her anger around a transphobic trope #and she made something which i found really resonant and interesting #and she got torn apart for it because it Might From Some Angles Agree With Transphobia #and I'm not making a direct comparison. because i think attack helicopter is a really GOOD story and i think SGA is gratuitous and hack #but that's the thing right? transgression and discomfort and speaking about unpleasant things in an openended way are KEY #to making art that engages directly with your own pains and angers and discomforts #and that's hard to mediate tbh. but it's also very necessary. #i think as well thinking about Gaiman this is also a thought I've often had about Amanda Palmer #who over the years has written a lot of songs about things i find genuinely uncomfortable or offensive. #and i can engage with 'it's fucked up to tell your ex they transed their gender At You' or 'your partner's suicide is not about you' bc yeah #but #you can't celebrate someone for making confessional music then get mad because you don't like everything they confess #if you only take about your socially acceptable thoughts it's not really confessional is it? #if you only talk about discomforting things that people are comfortable hearing about its not really discomforting #and you can only really discern what's Good Transgressive and what's Damaging Transgressive through doing i think #so if you want challenging art you are going to have to get some art which challenges you and you go hmm no i still disagree #is what i think #so yeah you can hate the artwork but when an artist is specifically setting out to make challenging art it's weird to hate them #for making 50 pieces of art you like and 1 you hate

[innytoes]

Dark fantasy AU?

-In hindsight, as he's being chased through the forest, hunted by mythical creatures is not where Reggie thought he'd end up when his folks told him they were moving to Los Angeles. Honestly, considering how he used to roam the woods and fields near his Meemaw's farm, the fact that he'd stumbled into a fairy circle near the beach was almost insulting.

-It's not even that he manages to outrun them. It's that one night (he thinks it's night, though time moves differently here and light and dark are all tangled up and is the purple haze of the sky supposed to be dusk or dawn or just a dark stop of the forest?) he'd decided to just... give up.

He couldn't remember how long he'd been running, running from the pounding of hooves and the yapping of dogs that did not look anything like what a dog should look like. He couldn't remember a time where he wasn't hungry, or thirsty, or tired, but something inside of him just kept making him run and run and run

-But he'd had enough. So he just sat down, with his back towards the noise, and hoped they'll kill him quickly. And to comfort himself, he sang the lullaby his Meemaw used to sing when he was scared of the thunder.

-That's what saved him. One of the fae, Caleb, was so charmed by the song that instead of doing whatever it is they did with their prey, he bundled Reggie up and took him to his... castle. Dwelling. Domain.

-He was dressed in finery and made to sing as Caleb and the other fae danced and ate and did things that Reggie very much had not wanted to see, thank you very much. But eventually, they slept, and Reggie met... the other humans who were trapped here.

-Luke, a young boy who had run away from home to become a musician in 1875. He was distraught to hear Reggie tell him it was the nineties now. Even more distraught when Reggie clarified it was the 1990s.

-There was Alex, who had been cast out of his village for reasons he did not want to share, but that Reggie figured out pretty quickly when he saw the way he looked at Willie. He'd fallen asleep near a fairy circle, and the promises he'd been made had been so tempting, he'd said yes before he fully understood the deal.

-And then there was Willie. The boy who had been stolen from his parents, a changeling left in his place. Who had grown up here, a part of this world yet not really. Who did not know what the other boys meant when they talked about years, or America, or really the whole concept of 'family'.

-Luke's the one who tells them of their escape plan. Alex is worried they can't trust Reggie not to rat him out to Caleb, and Reggie is like: um excuse me I was just hunted for sport for who knows how long you think I wanna help that guy?

-But before he can Willie just tilts his head and says: his heart is pure.

-Which is very sweet but also a little creepy.

-Anyway, they do manage to escape Caleb's clutches somehow, and end up back in the human world.

-Being yeeted out of a little ring of mushrooms in the soil of a plant Ray overwatered in the big plant wall of the Molina studio was not particularly pleasant, okay. Considering a real human should not be able to fit through that. But Willie explained that as soon as a fairy portal grew, it was only a manner of time that the fairies would notice it and stake it out to see what they could lure to their realm.

-Somehow, Luke and Alex get thrown clear across the room, Luke slamming against the door, Alex dropping onto the concrete floor.

-Reggie's not sure if him crashing against a pretty wooden piano is better or worse. The sound it made was definitely worse.

-Somehow, Willie ends up sitting crosslegged on the little piano bench, and he turns and quickly crushes up the mushrooms to destroy the portal.

-Julie, of course, is screaming, Alex and Luke and Reggie are screaming. Willie is trying to explain to Julie she over-watered her fern and pouts when she runs away.

-No they're not ghosts but they are changed and they all have weird powers. Luke nearly cries with joy that he can still summon his guitar. Alex is really not okay with this whole 'walking through walls' thing. Reggie is sad he cannot summon a puppy or a pizza.

-Willie can teleport short distances and is shocked to learn humans can't just do that? You have to walk everywhere? Or ride a horse. What's a car? What's roller skates? He needs to see one of these skateboad things immediately, let's summon the human girl back to ask for one. What can they trade for a skateboard?

-They're kind of freaked out at the whole 2020 thing, but hey, Reggie's like: at least it hasn't been a hundred years like when I told Luke about the 90s.

-Queue canon but it's even worse and more chaotic.

#julie and the phantoms #I wrote a thing #AUs are awesome #what do I even call this? #kidnapped by the fae au #I had such a hard time sorting out what was dark fantasy vs supernatural vs horror so... had a breakdown bon appetit #spent days going NO WE ARE NOT DOING A(NOTHER) CORALINE AU #I've only had creepy changeling willie who isn't entirely human anymore for 15 minutes #but if anything were to happen to him etc etc #alex does maybe like the whole 'being able to turn invisible' thing #except it doesn't work on Julie #for some reason #(*cough* Rose's great grandmother may have been a changeling) #Caleb of course is unseelie and rose's great great grandparents had trouble conceiving #they asked the fair folk for help and got a child... but then their child was swapped with a changeling after a few months #and they were all: um excuse we want our child back. No we're not giving this one back to you #tough shit a deal's a deal we gave you our magic music box for a kid and you gave us two no refunds because you screwed up #the story has been passed down for generations and Ray thinks it's a sweet fairytale #except there it's real and he's like: ... okay then. And then in true Molina tradition goes: *shrug* it's free children

[icantalk710]

...I didn't sleep enough for this complimentary personal trainer sesh at the gym to kick my ass some 🥲 (and maaay be investing in more now that I can lol)

#ore no kao #[also he is hot--and shares my music taste 😳 #i kinda got a good vibe from him when meeting last week-but seemed moreso today after he asked how i power-walked on a treadmill incline #so fast and i joked about 'gay speed' being a thing lol #we shall see lol] #i'm pretty sure the shoulders'll be sore tomorrow 😩 but deep under the building exhaustion i did enjoy it lmao #[i wanted to just do one arm-up photo but the non-arm-up ones came out mehhh lol] #[also hi new people/mutuals 👋🏽 bunch of new folks following whatever i'm doing here lately i havent noted lol]

[dummerjan]

i just came across ai covers on youtube and people are requesting songs in the comments instead of getting enraged and i am further losing hope in humanity and turning to misanthropy

#meins #for a minute i got really excited about henning may singing take me to church :( #i hate people #have you no appreciation for or understanding of art? clearly not. #why would you want to listen to an ai generated song? even if it sounds like your favourite singer it's not them #it has no feelings to meaning to intention. it is empty and soulless #reading the booklet for sinéad o'connor's album of traditional irish and folk songs gave me so much appreciation for her #she wrote a little bit about each song. why she chose it or what it means to her. #it has added so much to my enjoyment of those songs and i think of it whenver i listen to it #they were chosen with intention with love with a deep appreciation for the music and lyrics and there is a story behind it all #it is art and love and human #i see aboslutely no appeal in ai generated 'music' or 'art' #and i hate that i fell for it for a minute #i was sceptical because i had never heard of henning may covering hozier and since it wasn't just 20-60 sec i am certain #i would have heard about it by now #and something was just a little bit... unsatisfying? something was missing which does apply to a lot of cover songs #(i could go on hour long rants about why people fuck up danny boy (and sinéad o'connor does it best (because she actually takes her time) #or trash madonna's version of don't cry for me argentina (again a song ruined for by everybody else but sinéad - once she has sung somethin #i have a hard time enjoying it by anybody else. the parting glass is an exception. hozier's version is phenomenal)) #but! henning may not giving it his all for a cover? unlikely. very unlikely. #anyway this concludes my tuesday night rant. rather here in the tags than some poor person's inbox. #or i would have kept fuming by myself for another hour or two

[cherrygummybears]

i think the meaning of life actually is when you rediscover songs from when you were a kid that you haven’t heard in like 14 years and suddenly get hit with a suffocatingly strong wave of nostalgia and flood of warm memories

#this post is about lost in my mind by the head and the heart #because what the fuck man #i’ve gone down a hyper specific rabbit hole of 2010 era folk music and i clicked through random bands and landed on this song and #i was instantly like WAIT I FUCKING RECOGNIZE THIS HOLY SHIT #i’m in tears i just got transported back to being five years old again #what the fuck #cherry speaks #i feel a new playlist brewing

[hatchetfield-stats-project]

heyyyyy folks!! welcome to the second official stats update! we got scene two done, baby!!

the office - the guy who didnt like musicals - scene 2/20

overall:

636 total words, 6/8 actors, zero swear words, 23 total character names said

by actor:

corey dorris as bill woodward- 206 words, no swears, 5 character names said. 32.4% of words spoken in scene.

jon matteson as paul matthews- 155 words, no swears, 8 character names said. 24.4% of words spoken scene.

jaime lyn beatty as charlotte sweetly- 131 words, no swears, 6 character names said. 20.6% of words spoken in scene.

joey richter as ted spankoffski- 91 words, no swears, one character name said. 14.3% of words spoken in scene.

mariah rose faith casillas as melissa- 36 words, no swears, 2 character names said. 5.6% of words spoken in scene.

jeff blim as mr. davidson- 17 words, no swears, one character name said. 2.7% of words spoken in scene.

robert manion- no words, does not appear in scene.

- the winner of this scene based on number of words said is: corey dorris!

- jon matteson won by number of character names said.

- no swear words were said, so no winner.

#hatchetfield stats project #stats update #hatchetfield #tgwdlm #the guy who didnt like musicals #actors tags: #jaime lyn beatty #jon matteson #corey dorris #joey richter #lauren lopez #jeff blim #mariah rose faith #scene: the office #scene two #winner: corey dorris #its been a while huh #sorry folks i got Busy