The shadows on the walls don't recognize me anymore

[sovay]

All these terrible people whose weight the earth cannot afford, doing their best to take the rest of us with them to their Armageddon with the most toys, and not a one of them will ever be a tenth of a thousandth as cool as the living tradition of an epic poem performed with chugging guitar riffs: Exhibit A, Ereimang's "(Kwakta Lamjel)" (2023). All you fascists bound to be boring.

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[asakiyume]

PREACH

I love in the video when the dancer on the right, who's been doing the traditional moves with her hands, etc., has the veil over her head and is doing moves I associate with rap--I mean, maybe those are traditional too! But it looks to me like a borrowing, and I love it. Love everything about this.

[selkie]

That was oddly soothing to the rage center of my brain.

Fixler is suing the state of Texas and I have permission to make life confusing and hard for anyone that might need that treatment and be wearing a dumb uniform. Every ten minutes they spend with me they're not bothering someone else.

[sovay]

That was oddly soothing to the rage center of my brain.

I'm glad! I've been playing it on semi-repeat. (The alternation is a shoegaze band also from Manipur.)

Fixler is suing the state of Texas and I have permission to make life confusing and hard for anyone that might need that treatment and be wearing a dumb uniform. Every ten minutes they spend with me they're not bothering someone else.

Fuck 'em up, Hyme Mendel.

*hugs*

[sovay]

I love in the video when the dancer on the right, who's been doing the traditional moves with her hands, etc., has the veil over her head and is doing moves I associate with rap--I mean, maybe those are traditional too! But it looks to me like a borrowing, and I love it. Love everything about this.

Yes! You can tell the tradition is alive because it is still changing shape. And now I know a little about another epic and I can learn more. It still works to tell the story.

[selkie]

WHAT might it be like, Gentlethem, to stumble through this region unaware of history, or imagery, or any of it? What might we not DREAM if we did not have to dig our heels in at the doors of sanctuary buildings and get snappy about some stuff?

[sovay]

What might we not DREAM if we did not have to dig our heels in at the doors of sanctuary buildings and get snappy about some stuff?

I COULD FIND OUT BECAUSE I COULD SLEEP.

[selkie]

*hugs*
YOUR SLEEP IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME. PASS THE A1 SAUCE.

[asakiyume]

(Also, and unnecessarily because you clearly get what I mean but: I said "the dancer on the right," but from our perspective as viewers it was the dancer on the left. Also known as "the other right")

And amen about another epic! Brain go fizz on story.

[radiantfracture]

beautifully said

[radiantfracture]

I love this song so much now that I came over here to make another comment about it that more people might see.

[sovay]

I love this song so much now that I came over here to make another comment about it that more people might see.

I'm still listening to it on pretty much repeat.