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So this is. Unlike anything I've ever made before!!

I've been wanting to do one of those "every instance of a motif in (game)" videos, like the UTDR ones, but for Super Paper Mario. And last night I finally sat down and wrote down every motif I could find in the game while listening to the OST

This first video is only over the game's motif, which I dubbed the "Purity Motif", since it plays whenever you put a Pure Heart in a Heart Pillar, and overall just seems to permeate the entire game.

Idk where I'm gon upload this, but I guess sharing it with you guys is fair game. So. Uh. Yea that's part one! If I missed anything feel free to comment about it, I want people to talk about the OST more

EDIT: I added "Staff Roll" to the video, so reblog this version of the post, rather than the original!

EDIT 2: Realized I forgot “Soft Light” somehow. Idk when I’ll add that in but it’ll go in. I’d add Piccolo’s themes but unfortunately they’re notnin the OST itself.

MOTM Soul Eater AU!!! I'm a huge fan of the show, so of course I needed to make this au.

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the idea that only the special and smart internet nerds can understand media and the masses are all sheeple getting gruel shoveled into their faces that they can't put together half a real thought about is like. not progressive. it's the opposite of progressive. it's anti-democratic and a vision of the world that would make the necessary coalition-building and solidarity that make political movements actually effective impossible.

did that get too real too fast

I'm not going to talk about this for too long bc I would just be laundering the ideas of Lyta Gold, a writer on the beat of taste and mass/nerd culture who has really influenced my thinking on this and whose book I actually already quoted on this blog look I like what I like. but annoyingly all of her writing on this specific topic is paywalled I think. but read her book!!

from a paywalled post on her substack

in my experience, because I like to approach the world and my fellow humans with curiosity and interest, most people's taste and opinions about fiction are particular and surprising on an individual level - including and maybe even especially people who are not existing in the spaces with the same consensus opinions as you. yes, that is not true of everyone, sometimes people are just annoying, and social media algorithms and the incentive structures on like reddit make it all annoying in aggregate and interesting conversations impossible, but that doesn't mean that actually is that meaningful or important.

(caveat there are things about most of the internet being actively hostile to interesting nuanced conversation or genuine connection that are important but it's still not that we are so smart and everyone else is stupid)

this comes back to the "centering real people" thing but what is actually meaningful and important is not harassing people even if they might think a piece of fiction is going to end in a different way than you. it's not thinking you're better than people who get swept up in groupthink conspiratorial thinking because oh wait, looks like many of you did. it's realizing that "media literacy" is actually way more about having the ability to evaluate whether information is accurate from a legitimate source and not spread misinformation versus reading subtextual codes that straight white male showrunners may or may not be encoding in their mainstream tv shows.

I had to test my mic set-up, so I recorded this and liked how it sounded. UNFORTUNATELY I didn't intend to do a full on cover and didn't spend time getting used to the actual, more interesting melody.