#lots of songs about summer

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Track list for Fig and the Cig Figs independently published Junior Year album (officially named “Infaethable”)

Teenage Rebellion

Night Yorb (a heavy metal banger)

Summer Scaries

Devils Nectar

Time Quangle (a love song about Ayda)

Multiclass (Gorgug sings on this!)

The Ballad Of Lucy Frostblade (Kristen was the one who convinced Fig to write this)

So Late, So Tactical

Do You Have A Fucking Warrant

Cassandra (Can You Hear Me)

Hall Of Mirrors

President Applebees (written entirely in the night after Kristen gets elected by a drunk Fig with extremely drunk notes by Kristen)

Raging For Love (inspired by Gorgug, of course)

The Elven Oracle (Has A Day Job) (So Stop Bothering Her)

Maximum Legend

Fury Of The Ball

Cursed

Infaethable

The Bad Kids

#i neeeeed fig to go indie it’s her destiny #she promises each of them that she’ll dedicate at least one song to them and then dedicates a track to each of them individually #sklondas seething a tiny bit that she called riz the ball but he won’t stop playing it so it keeps getting stuck in her head #adaine summons mephits to help with her track #you can hear her in the background near the end yelling ‘yeah!’ and ‘fuck off!’ #fabian wanted his to sound like a shanty but fig said it wouldn’t go with the vibe of the album #they eventually compromised by having the noise of waves and seagulls subtly in the background throughout #kristen actually cried the first time fig played the ballad of lucy frostblade for them #summer scaries sounds like an olivia rodrigo song #gorgug gets a sick drum solo in raging for love #time quangle opens with fire crackling and a bird cawing and a quiet clip of ayda saying ‘I love you’ before the instrumental starts #fig stuck a quiet sound clip of gilear saying ‘oh fuck’ and then a louder sound clip of her saying ‘oh fuck!’ in cursed #devils nectar is one of the slower tracks on the album #hall of mirrors is heavily inspired by the events at evil mordred and baron so you can hear a lot of influences from baronesian music in it #fig has a fucking sick as hell guitar solo and a couple of samples from just the bottomless pit in general in infaethable #Gorthalax also gets some lyrical input on it #fig manages to get a clip of riz saying ‘the ball bitch!’ to kalvaxus in freshman year to put in fury of the ball #is this too long for an album? maybe but who cares I love this #a good portion of the profits made from the album goes towards college for the party #having thoughts about fig and the cig fig’s Junior year album #autism (mads) speaks #fantasy high #fhjy #fig faeth #fantasy high junior year #dimesnion 20 #d20 fantasy high #fig and the cig figs

[sunbloomdew]

i can't stop thinking about the constant mentions of fall and summer in regard to baxter and mc, in the dlc.

i find the emphasis put on the seasons very interesting. unlike other potential love interests - cove and derek - baxter is not from the sunny state of california, but a town in oregon, surrounded by forests and mountains. in fact, baxter is the only character from the cast of olba that is not associated with summer, but with autumn instead, so it makes perfect sense to draw attention to that dissimilarity.

following that fact, just by acknowledging it we can see how different baxter is from other characters from sunset bird at his core. and since most of his time is spent with mc, that means the focus will be drawn to how different are these two specifically.

on a side note, this might be a complete overreach, but i consider it interesting how baxter uses the phrase 'suitor for a season' to describe himself in step 3. the use of the word 'season' in my opinion drives home the idea that their time together will inevitably come to an end, just like summer will end eventually, and there is simply no other outcome for this relationship.

when we consider the seasons theme even more, a thing that stood out to me is that summer and fall aren't opposites, like i'd say summer and winter are. they are next to each other (like california and oregon) and in some ways they intertwine. still they are different enough, to be regarded as separate seasons.

just like baxter and mc, no matter how alike, feel so different from each other, and they are aware of that.

i really love the monologue in the sightseeing moment, that mc has about them and baxter being different in that way.

"More and more, you felt as though Sunset Bird formed a vital part of your emotional core. Happiness to you was the sound of waves on the shore, the feeling of warm sand between your toes. [...] Maybe you'd forever be seeing the world through sea glass. But Baxter was another person entirely. For him, perhaps the world was monochrome, or maybe it was golden, but with color of leaves instead of sand. Talking with him made it impossible to ignore just how different your lives had been up until now. How separate your worlds were. All up until that moment, when he showed up on your street. Now your lives were intertwined, however briefly, the forests and the seafoam commingling. Though you knew his love was in the trees and the fall air, you couldn't help but feel happy that he'd wandered his way down to the shore. To you."

i find it so beautiful. everytime i read it i get a little choked up, you know? in my opinion, the summer/fall parallel is the perfect way to portray their relationship. the brainrot gets so intense every time i remember about this,,,

the same seasons theme returns in step 4 when the two reunite. to be precise, it comes back during mc's internal monologue preceding a confession. i was unable to recall if it appears somewhere else in the dialogue as well, but if you happen to find some more, feel free to reblog with this post!

"He tore himself away from you like an autumn storm bringing down a sapling/He fell away from you as naturally as a leaf fluttered off its branch in the fall. There was no holding on to your suitor for a season. Yet the affection you'd nurtured never died out. It had gone dormant for a long winter, ready to burst back to life if the cold passed. Seasons were meant to come and go, but there was no guarantee summer would come again for you and him."

(i'm pretty sure the dialogue here changes based on how you decided the break up went, cause i found two versions of the same confession monologue. still, both of them have a comparison to autumn!)

seasons can be used in art with a lot of different symbolism and meanings behind them. the cycle of the seasons is usually used to portray the passage of time, how the nature but also people change.

in this part of the monologue we see the usage of changing of the seasons to show how despite the time that passed ('winter'), mc still had feelings for baxter, that were ready to return ('spring'). the words "seasons were meant to come and go" bring our attention to how wrong things were between the two, to have something inevitable like the seasons cycle stop.

each season on its own also has its own meanings, and can be used to enhance certain themes or emotions in the text.

in case of baxter and mc, summer is the season in which they met time and time again. not only did their relationship start during summer but it developed in that season as well. as such, for them summer is inextricably a time of growth for their relationship.

outside of their relationship, individually their characters' are connected to summer and fall respectively. as mc referred to it, their emotional cores were influenced by their hometowns - one a summer tourist spot and the other a picturesque autumn town.

to bring back one more thing from mc's monologue in step 3, they wonder if baxter sees the world in gold, but in the colour of the leaves and not sand. well, i noticed, how when they make up after the wedding, the whole place is bathed in gold. you could view it as the summer gold and autumn gold merging together, as those two finally reconcile. or you could see it as a summer gold, as this season is important for their relationship. i like both options.

aside from that monologue, there are several instances of baxter's appearance being compared to things associated with autumn or nature, like descriptions of his eyes as "brown rich like the earth" (i love this one sm it lives in my head rent free) and "oak brown eyes". i think it's a great characterization to have baxter be a 'woodsy person', despite most of us (me for sure) thinking he would be a 'city boy' kind of character at first glance.

i think the reason there is such strong focus on the fact that mc and baxter embody different seasons, is to make the differences between them even more pronounced. when they ultimately reunite and overcome their struggles to mend their bonds, it's even more impressive to witness.

either way, i cannot stop thinking of summer/fall parallel and how genius i think it is. the vibes! the emotional turmoil!! the art potential!!! it's incredible. especially if you try to implement it more into your mc, which is what i'm trying to do.

i'll leave you with this screenshot, that is kinda making my stomach go funny, because of the whole summer/fall parring thing,, i am so unwell in the best of ways

because like if you think about it way too deeply which i of course had, he's saying that summer/fall combination is beautiful, like he's not saying anything besides that BUT when you remember that mc is summer and baxter is fall, then you know?????

i hope you had fun reading this spontanous post! i've been thinking about the summer/fall thing since my first playthrough, so i'm happy to finally gush about it <3

i should not be here, it's 4am and i'm leaving in three hours,,, my time management skills never fail me. toodle-oo~

#zzzzzzz mimimimimimi zzzzzzzzzz mimimimimi #i've been thinking about it for AGES #anyway idk why i wrote it right now #just kinda felt like it #but yeah summer fall parallels! #there is a song called “changing of the seasons” by two door cinema club that i think about a lot in the context of mc/baxter #i like it but it's a bit too angsty for my mc and baxter.... #it's more a song for people who didn't like baxter that much or want a more painful relationship with him lol #baxter ward #olba baxter #olba #our life beginnings & always #our life beginnings and always #sunbloom talks #gamer hours

[applecoreart]

It's springtime now 🌸

#really excited about this spring & summer #warmer weather windows open the smell of flowers on the cool breeze #the sound of frog song at night and thunder storms and that je ne sais quoi in the air that just feels like an adventure story #((and the hope of lots and lots of painting & animating))

[edge-oftheworld]

maybe hot take but I actually think close my eyes is sadder than wfttwtaf as a whole. like wfttwtaf as an album could be reflecting on a moment of crisis, spiralling from the shock of getting back from holiday and realising you feel so behind in everything youre trying to do that you don’t ever know if it’ll be okay and it just reminds you of everything else that’s going on—ending with a song about how you can face it, how you’ve been doing the same thing again and again but expecting different outcomes your whole life but now you’re aware of it (with the implications that maybe you’ll try things different now). even diamonds is a testament of survival; I’m so much older than I ever though I would be; of your worries coming to nothing, it was always going to be fine in the end. even mum is the victory of actually reaching out to someone who can genuinely help for the first time, letting them in, not worrying anymore about making them worry for you but deciding that doing what it takes to survive is better and to stick around for them you’ve gotta let them help. but close my eyes is just ‘I regret my entire life’ and I genuinely don’t know how to put a positive spin on it

#it’s like efyts grew up and the moments of breathing between gasping were forgotten like a dream #they locked all the doors and hid all the keys for so long that when the doors eventually rotted away you were so conditioned to never leav #that you never did. and you think this is what life is; you’re used to it now; until the distractions are over and you can’t hide from the #truth when you’re trying to relax for sleep #I genuinely don’t know what to say about this song. I love it of course. but I would pay a lot for it to never have existed to begin with #to never need to exist. for anyone. like this is why I campaign for the right to autonomy for all; all of my life #the amount of respect I have for Luke and everyone around him is insane. but the amount I want to scream you don’t have to live like this #close my eyes #boy ep #wfttwtaf #luke hemmings #5sos #5 seconds of summer

[x-phonehome-x]

somethings off to me about mcr fans who don’t like fob much but are SUPER into petekey

#i think it’s why a lot of fob mains get resentful of petekey jokes real quickly #of course you think every songs about your bassist you only listen to 4 fall out boy songs #but also it leads them to ignore the actually really funny parts of the lore #like all of the stuff that has to do with waterparks (band) is much funnier than anything from the summer itself #(the amazing nm sunset post is rumoured to be the origin of waterparks band name and mikey was at r&l 2016 bc he was filling in for geoff) #but yeah. it’s. a thing i’m not fond of #fall out boy #my chemical romance #petekey

[homosandhomies]

idk if this is controversial or not, but you can interpret queer subtext in songs/shows/films without speculating about the creator’s sexuality. there isn’t ONE single way to interpret a piece of media. they’re made for people to enjoy and relate to

#for example: as a queer person i relate a lot to lacy by olivia rodrigo #but that doesn’t mean i think olivia rodrigo is or isn’t queer #i just think you can have a queer interpretation of the song #this also applies to a lot of taylor swift songs #i do not associate myself with ‘gaylors’ bc it’s fucked up to speculate about someone’s identity #that being said: when i listen to dress i picture it being about a queer couple #that doesn’t mean it was taylor’s intention #but i can listen to a song and feel however the fuck i want #olivia rodrigo #taylor swift #summer says stuff #queue wanna be a loser like me

[katydoodles]

Bluey, season 2 episode 9, Sleepytime

It’s my favorite episode now.

I watched it today for the first time this morning and it uses my favorite song. I will never forget this feeling. I wish I can re-experience this feeling again.

My mind was blown when I heard the score. I wish everyone knew this feeling. The story and the song together it’s just healing my soul. I think I’m gonna go cry now

#Bluey #sleepytime #Jupiter #the bringer of jollity #I heard this song the first time at 5am when the sun was rising over the Great Plains riding the train home #50 hour riding a train from California to Nebraska in the summer #hearing it again with a wonderful story and a heartwarming story was just to much for me this morning #idk if you guys realize I’m watching Bluey a lot atm #I spend 56 hour on a train in the summer #it was delayed a lot because of the heat restriction/warnings #it was one of the best experiences of my life #having this feeling brought up again in a kids show I had no idea about till last month is just crazy #core memory has been made. #Spotify

[josephtrohman]

im having a moment rn a lot about fourth of july sorry for a personal ish post but they really wrote that song for my relationship with my ex best friend fr

#im just kidding but the lyrics do hit close to home i think of her a lot when i listen #less often these days but still #our whirlwind weird friendship was really like fireworks that went off too soon and that first summer we hung out every single day #and also i remember singing that song with her and stuff #and every time ive come in contact since we dont really talk the torture of small talk with someone you used to love is so real #i also think of her when i listen to favorite record too a little bit #abap the longing summer-themed album that u are :( <3 #sorry for rambling im ok im mostly over it ive just been thinking about it a lot #i think i was always a little bit in love with her too

[whenyoulovesomebody]

This one goes out to my closest friends The ones who make me feel less alien I do not think I would be here if not for them

#5sos #luke hemmings #calum hood #ashton irwin #michael clifford #moodboard #5sos moodboard #this one has been on my mind for a while now i love another night on mars a lot and it's a song about friendship #i had to skip a few years but there were few photos of all 4 of them from 2017 and 2021 so it worked out #song: another night on mars by the maine #i hope this posts alright i made all photos 1080x1080 and idk if i should have made them smaller #5 seconds of summer #my edit #e*

[daesungindistress]

GD's thoughts on Still Life's lack of promotions in 2022

#🥺😔 #so he (and possibly the rest of bb) wanted to do more with the song after all #probably yg held them back and down as usual #bigbang #gdragon #gd #still life #spring summer fall winter #the four seasons #gdivision #when all of bb renewed their contracts with yg in 2020 I was happy about the news #yet I remember a lot of vips being upset #not because they wanted bb to come to an end but because they didn't believe yg would give them the opportunity and attention they deserved #especially in the wake of burning sun #I think at the time I didn't fully realize just how stifling the agency could be toward their artists #now though... nearly 3 years later... that's changed #and I'm very excited to see what the guys will do for themselves now that they've broken away from yg #(still waiting on gd's contract news though... that's three down one to go)

[faithfromanewperspective]

what if the city with the brightest lights was Sydney australia after all. what if the carousel spinning around that is your life took you back to your home city. after all where else is the sunrise burning for days? huh? what then?

#easy for you to say #carousel #5sos5 #yeah I’ve got those two songs buzzing around in here #and a whole lot of facts from #urban design #about sydney #because literally same #5 seconds of summer

[braceletofteeth]

tag someone you want to know and/or some of your besties.

I was tagged by @fourth-quartet 😊 Thank you!!

favourite colour: Gray but I'm currently in a brown phase

last song: I've got recently reacquainted with Beginner by AKB48 😄

last series: The Kidnapping Day. It was a lot more wholesome than the name suggests.

last movie: Saw X (surprisingly also a lot more wholesome than you'd expect????)

sweet/savoury/spicy: Sweet :3

currently watching:

Koisenu Futari

Chains of Heart

The Golden Girls (season 1)

Love in the Air (2nd rewatch)

other stuff I watched this year: Not listing all of it here (I've never watched so much stuff as I did in 2023), but I'll mention the ones that I enjoyed watching the most from each month so far (*not including rewatches):

JAN: Wednesday

FEB: GAP

MAR: Not Me

APR: Tick, Tick... Boom!

MAY: Utsukushii Kare

JUN: Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938

JUL: Takin' Over The Asylum

AUG: Marry My Dead Body

SEP: Utsukushii Kare: Eternal

OCT: The Sandman

shows I dropped this year/didn't finish: I barely remember the ones I watched till the very end 🤡 But ok, let me see...

Eve (dropped after one episode; Rich People and their Rich People Problems™, I think was the reason)

A few straight GMMTV shows that I didn't really catch the name (I. Well. I just. I just couldn't make myself give a fuck, ok 😔)

+ Currently deliberating whether or not I should drop Chains of Heart. All the subtitles I've found are lacking in terms of coherence, and the story itself is already not the most straightforward, so I can only hope I'm understanding what's going on at all? 😀 And I'm also not feeling the main couple from either the present nor the past (? I suspect they are the same (but I may never know))... HOWEVER, I like the acting of the main, and the Thai scenario that is not Bangkok for once. That's always refreshing. And sometimes the cinematography is pretty too... Decisions, decisions...

currently listening to: Back for More by TXT & Anitta (I went after the link for it and distractedly searched for "banger" instead of the title 😆)

currently reading: Codename Villanelle (it's a small book but I'm. ..struggle)

current obsession: I'm not obsessing over anything at the moment 😟☹😫 Have been too busy with mundane adult life problems (therefore, as you can imagine, I'm just about going up the walls here :))

tagging: @eatprayworm @thisautistic @hyp-no-tic @visualtaehyun hi 👋

#tag game #it's one of those weeks when I feel like my old acquaintances might be sick of me already #SO I tagged some people I think might be really cool but haven't directly approached yet #you know. for maximum anxiety #I've lost many songs over the years (it's never safe to have only one copy of them; thankfully I can afford more now) #the first time I found Beginner (as a pre-teen) I just downloaded it randomly listened to it and liked it so much I decided to keep it?? #oh to be young and not care about stuff like viruses or managing your time #at some point while writing this post I finished watching Ko¡senu Fut@ri #10/10 no notes #(lies. there are notes. dozens and dozens of reblogs just waiting for me to spread them all over your dashboards in the near future) #tick tick boom was quite nice... for a musical #(not a fan of musicals so to have one on my list is. wild) #already four months since the Lee brothers left me 😪 #and I haven't heard a word about LDW's new drama in MONTHS. actively gnawing the bars of my cage rn #OH OH WAIT I ALMOST FORGOT #SPECIAL MENTION TO <SUMMER STRIKE> IN MAY #if my other option wasn't Utsukush¡i fricking K@re I wouldn't even hesitate. but. it was #and everyone knows I'm not normal about this one 😀🙂 #if anyone wants to advocate in favor of Ch@ins of Heart. please. I'm all ears. is it worth it? #uhh. I'm not gonna disclose much but it's true I'm under a lot of stress lately. there is a lot going on right now. #I might not be able to watch new shows/be around tumblr while I (try to) sort my shit out #just a quick heads up 👍

[averagemrfox]

My singular prediction I’m willing to make for the rwby finale is that Ruby gets a new emblem. Something moon related specifically

#rwby #ruby rose #aside from all the moon imagery that’s been more low key but still there for Ruby #a lot of it being present in songs like Rising #something about it being damaged… by the brothers specifically… but still there and shining despite despite despite #plus the way that it’s shattered is very reminiscent of her rose petals #a sorta abstracted moon thats shattering into rose petals would look rad af #also something something thus kindly I scatter. the shattered moon still pays tribute a bit to summer #honestly I have a lot of theories but this is the one I want to be right about the most lmao

[britneyshakespeare]

here are my thoughts on the new exo music video for ‘let me in’ (2023)

i liked the part where jongin hugged the dog

#reminded me of hugging sandy #who died almost a year ago exactly....... oh GOD do i miss my baby girl #she would be fifteen now #my baby sister nine years younger than me :((( best hugger #kim jongin #kai #exo #text post #also i genuinely laughed at that part where he was walking away from that car he was looking wistful on top of the whole video #and then it gets hit by a METEOR #I WAS LIKE KKKKKKKBABHAHAHAHAHAHA #sm when they try to be dramatic are so unsubtle about it lmao #it was in a sense a very classic exo video w lots of space and universe bullshit #listen. i have never been invested in this group for a storyline. i'm here for the beautiful men who sing like angels #it's a good song but that's not the title track right? right? #i am NOT in the mood for a sad era right now i have enough sadness in my life #exo i am depending on you to deliver me some funky jams on that album next month or my summer is ruined #but also maybe not bc i don't imagine they'll be performing on tv a lot?? so what's the point of something that'd involve #like a fun choreo like usual #idk this is kinda the problem i had w don't fight the feeling too. in that it felt like a very non-comeback comeback #i can't wait till they're all done w the military #TWO MORE YEARS #sehun has to enlist one of these days too right.......

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

this is perhaps uncouth but give you my wild give you a child still makes me feral btw

#yes i am a peace stan #i could write a whole essay about that song lmao #(wait i think i did write a post about it last summer) #it's just... a lot #and said a lot #which is why it makes me side eye when people are like 'we don't know what she really wants' like #shit may have happened in the interim but her music and her actions spelled it out lol #but even removing taylor from the lyrics #it's just such an intimate song #and that line in particular #imagine just confessing all of your vulnerabilities and hopes and dreams like that in one song aaaaaaaaaaah

[skateironicallycantskate]

every so often I get the urge to read frankenstein specifically just so I can make an accurate danganronpa frankenstiein au

#I’ve been listening to a lot of frankenstein songs if you can’t tell #I REALLY WANNA READ IT BUT I GOTTA WAIT TILL SUMMER #the most I know about the story is overly sarcastic production’s summary on youtube (and also the frankenstein as vines video) #text post #danganronpa #frankenstein #I love mixing classical literature with my hyperfixations