God Please - Blog Posts
Random pigs giving out weapons in mazes is not a legitimate way to pick a leader
Ok yes hi, can I please request more beat-boxing turtles in the next Bay movie? Thank you, this has been a PSA 😄😄
You can go back to your lives now😅
manifesting knockout and breakdown being a) present and b) treated with respect for their characters for the Earthspark series
Okay so I saw atsv recently and while I love reading everyone’s takes on the art styles, I have to bring up the music
I’m a pretty basic music nerd with minimal theory study, but I’ve taken to just playing the soundtrack. (I’m referencing specifically the Metro soundtrack, I prefer songs with lyrics, but I’m positive this will apply to the other soundtrack too, the crew of spider verse are that amazing) And in doing so, I just need to bring up how carefully these songs are constructed??
See, backing track songs need to be subtle. That’s what (in my experience) can make them boring or difficult to compose - how do you make something interesting but able to blend in? But these people, they’ve just - pulled back layers?? And spread them out???? Rarely is there more than about 3 things happening at any one point in the songs, and it means they can pack so much into them. And more than that, it gives them room to give every song a style, a reference and a character to link them to!
Take ‘Hummingbird’, for example: it’s the song that plays when Gwen opens the portal above Miles’ bed. Then compare it to ‘Sunflower’, from the original movie. The artists are completely different, the tone of the movie has changed entirely, but the songs mirror each other!! The way the vocals have a little flick (flick? Reach??) at the end, the bass and trap in the background, heck, even the emotions they convey! Miles, in each instance, is at a turning point, whether he is aware of it or not.
But the composers haven’t just decided to mimic Miles’ song from the original song - they’ve dampened it to fit the tone of the movie. The trap beat and pulses are muted, and the vocals are slightly subdued. And of course, the lyrics are very different. They are both about love, but one is optimistic, and one is resigned. GOD these people!!
And it’s like this with basically every song I’ve come across! While a lot of the characters have less (or nothing) to compare to, the composers have put bits and pieces in to make the characterisations and emotions peak through. Just look at the percussion in ‘Link Up’ (a mixture of the clicking from ‘Self-Love, which kinda was Gwen’s theme in the album, and the percussion from ‘Silk & Cologne’, which I think is supposed to be Miles’ family and their party (?)) which I took as showing Miles’ split between Gwen and the Spiders, and his family.
Just, this soundtrack has som much care and love stuffed into it. I don’t know how much this makes sense (It’s 3 AM), but I didn’t see anyone talking about it and that is a CRIME
Well here's something that I haven't done in a while a marker and pen drawing...and well I just wanted to draw it that's all...
Keon x John exists and I absolutely despise this If I have to live with this knowledge, so do you
fic idea where mikami takes so long to arrive at the warehouse that the task force and SPK all just go out for brunch. it ends up being a strangely pleasant day together, and they part ways completely forgetting what was supposed to happen at the warehouse in the first place. title "this meeting could have been a massacre"
So the great thing about lowlight hallucinations is you shine a light on somthing it disappears....
And I have hallucinations of large spiders and sometimes bugs
All this to say i shined a likt on a spider AND IT DIDNT FUCKING DISAPPEAR!
Keep in mind i hallucinate large spiders like large large spiders like big and this Fucker Didn't DISAPPEAR!
And to top it all of you want a combination from hell add tactical hallucinations to all this...you know the one where you feel like there's bugs crawling on you
