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"ruin" + the start of NaNo
Nov. 1st, 2021 07:44 pmToday was errand-running day, but wasn't too bad. Pet store has no crickets, and Broccoli Cheddar Bomb is overdue for a feeding, but they think they'll have them tomorrow.
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I listened to "ruin" by The Amazing Devil, which was released yesterday, and definitely enjoyed it!
In order of favorites, not track list order:
Taylor and I screamed and flailed at each other over text about to what extent "The Calling" is about The Southern Reach trilogy. (It's a very great extent, according to both of us and the sections of lyrics we were frantically copying and pasting to each other.) It's my favorite track on the album, I think. Also, when the choir comes in on the second chorus I just lost it, because it hit every emotional wavelength I wanted it to. The internal rhymes and near-rhymes are fantastic, and I just really love everything about the track.
(We show our love of things by making fanmixes, so this is very much the highest compliment we can give, haha.)
"Secret Worlds" is a bop, and pleasantly feral. I very much enjoy it. It has so many of the aspects I love out of TAD songs - the lovingly antagonistic us against the world vibe, the A+ imagery, the way duets sync up.
"Blossoms" has all of the above as well, and when the "love run" bits came in in the background, Taylor again flailed at me. And I really like "the saint of never getting it right." And for lyrics I anticipate appearing as titles of fanfic and chapters thereof, but also definitely hit right for me: "And for the first time in all my life/I know I'm more than what I fear."
"The Old Witch Sleep and the Old Man Grace" has the beat drop three minutes into the song and I love both before and after. I enjoyed it quite a lot, because it has a lot of "role-reversal-bordering-on-revenge" vibes, which I LOVE. Taylor has decided it reminds them primarily of Earthsea, which I can see, from what I know of the Earthsea books. (Taylor read all of them this year. I read Wizard of Earthsea a very hot minute ago, and definitely before I really "got" it, and haven't read any of the others, though they're on the interminable TBR list.)
"Inkpot Gods" treads the line between emotionally vulnerable and energetically feral in a way I enjoy. I also enjoy songs with a hearty "fuck you" thread underneath them, and this one has a "fuck you, I'm going to be a better person than my parents were to me" thread AND a "I will fucking fight god to protect you" thread.
"Drinking Songs for the Socially Anxious" is a fun song about bonding with/falling in love with the only other introvert at a party. "If God made us in his image, then God's a fucking nerd."
"Ruin" is all right. It's the most emotional/vulnerable song on the album, and while I think that's something TAD does well, it's still generally not my preference.
"Chords" didn't do a lot for me, possibly because parenthood is something I can't personally connect with and am relatively ambivalent toward, but I still think it's expressing a feeling I get. And "our love is shown in the letting go" is good.
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NANOWRIMO
*faint screaming*
As always, it somehow snuck the fuck up on me, despite all the planning I was doing last week.
I declared my project today, and got 1904 words written.
Remembering that hey, I'm planning on getting together with Taylor next week, Thanksgiving is going to be a thing, plus how much work is making me want to die... this is going to be a hard month to keep up with.
I'll probably not spend quite as much time on DW for a while. I AM motivated by stubbornness, and two months away from the end of the year I want to keep up my daily posting. But it might just be a wordcount or a list of stuff I did. Not like my posts are exactly meaty most of the time, but... while my writing has been reasonably consistent, with a few big gaps, it feels like it's gotten slower. So 1667 words per day is outside of what I usually manage, and I know I've got to cut some social media scrolling and other time-consuming stuff.
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I am NOT delighted to report I have a vague almost sore-throat. It's not swollen-painful, but more on the scratchy/feels like I need to clear it side. I HATE sore throats more than any other type of being sick. Also, I don't want to be sick.
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It snowed today. Not a lot, just a few flurries, but... yuck. I know I should mostly just be grateful it made it all the way to November, which I am! But I still hate it.
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I listened to "ruin" by The Amazing Devil, which was released yesterday, and definitely enjoyed it!
In order of favorites, not track list order:
Taylor and I screamed and flailed at each other over text about to what extent "The Calling" is about The Southern Reach trilogy. (It's a very great extent, according to both of us and the sections of lyrics we were frantically copying and pasting to each other.) It's my favorite track on the album, I think. Also, when the choir comes in on the second chorus I just lost it, because it hit every emotional wavelength I wanted it to. The internal rhymes and near-rhymes are fantastic, and I just really love everything about the track.
(We show our love of things by making fanmixes, so this is very much the highest compliment we can give, haha.)
"Secret Worlds" is a bop, and pleasantly feral. I very much enjoy it. It has so many of the aspects I love out of TAD songs - the lovingly antagonistic us against the world vibe, the A+ imagery, the way duets sync up.
"Blossoms" has all of the above as well, and when the "love run" bits came in in the background, Taylor again flailed at me. And I really like "the saint of never getting it right." And for lyrics I anticipate appearing as titles of fanfic and chapters thereof, but also definitely hit right for me: "And for the first time in all my life/I know I'm more than what I fear."
"The Old Witch Sleep and the Old Man Grace" has the beat drop three minutes into the song and I love both before and after. I enjoyed it quite a lot, because it has a lot of "role-reversal-bordering-on-revenge" vibes, which I LOVE. Taylor has decided it reminds them primarily of Earthsea, which I can see, from what I know of the Earthsea books. (Taylor read all of them this year. I read Wizard of Earthsea a very hot minute ago, and definitely before I really "got" it, and haven't read any of the others, though they're on the interminable TBR list.)
"Inkpot Gods" treads the line between emotionally vulnerable and energetically feral in a way I enjoy. I also enjoy songs with a hearty "fuck you" thread underneath them, and this one has a "fuck you, I'm going to be a better person than my parents were to me" thread AND a "I will fucking fight god to protect you" thread.
"Drinking Songs for the Socially Anxious" is a fun song about bonding with/falling in love with the only other introvert at a party. "If God made us in his image, then God's a fucking nerd."
"Ruin" is all right. It's the most emotional/vulnerable song on the album, and while I think that's something TAD does well, it's still generally not my preference.
"Chords" didn't do a lot for me, possibly because parenthood is something I can't personally connect with and am relatively ambivalent toward, but I still think it's expressing a feeling I get. And "our love is shown in the letting go" is good.
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NANOWRIMO
*faint screaming*
As always, it somehow snuck the fuck up on me, despite all the planning I was doing last week.
I declared my project today, and got 1904 words written.
Remembering that hey, I'm planning on getting together with Taylor next week, Thanksgiving is going to be a thing, plus how much work is making me want to die... this is going to be a hard month to keep up with.
I'll probably not spend quite as much time on DW for a while. I AM motivated by stubbornness, and two months away from the end of the year I want to keep up my daily posting. But it might just be a wordcount or a list of stuff I did. Not like my posts are exactly meaty most of the time, but... while my writing has been reasonably consistent, with a few big gaps, it feels like it's gotten slower. So 1667 words per day is outside of what I usually manage, and I know I've got to cut some social media scrolling and other time-consuming stuff.
-
I am NOT delighted to report I have a vague almost sore-throat. It's not swollen-painful, but more on the scratchy/feels like I need to clear it side. I HATE sore throats more than any other type of being sick. Also, I don't want to be sick.
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It snowed today. Not a lot, just a few flurries, but... yuck. I know I should mostly just be grateful it made it all the way to November, which I am! But I still hate it.
