DramaQueen

Y'all remember that old SU I made about how interesting Music Theory is?

And y'all remember that even older SU I made about how we need more Sea Shanties?

For some reason it hadn't even occurred to me that there's Sea Shanty Musical Theory.

 

It seems obvious now, but the whole reason they were "written" (that is to say, invented and carried out orally) in the first place was to coordinate their work. Musical beats are pretty much the most intuitive method of keeping time without any fancy stopwatches, which means it's pretty much the best way to do it if you happened to exist in the several thousand years before we figured out how to mass-produce easily-accessible timepieces.

So what do you do when you all need to hoist at the ropes simultaneously? What's the best way to coordinate when you put a good ol' heave into the work? Music.

Rule One is that Sea Shanties are work songs: you need a clear beat to heave your ropes and row your oars to. There are a couple distinct types of shanties that you can work with:

• Long-Drag: Otherwise known as a Halyard Shanty (which is metal as hell), which have prolonged sections for - get this - when you need to be doing long pulls on the ropes. "Hangin' Johnny" is a solid example of this.
• Short-Drag: Otherwise known as a Forsheet or Mainsheet Shanty (one of which is metal as hell), which have shorter, burstier beats. "Haul Away, Joe" is a really popular example.
• There are others, but they all kinda fall under those two categories.

Rule two is that the general form of a Sea Shanty is that of the basic Call-and-Response technique, which is this case is very literal as there's often a lead who starts the line and the workers who finish it - for example:

• Lead: I thought I heard the Old Man say
• Refrain: "Leave her, Johnny, leave her"
• Lead: Tomorrow ye will get your pay
• Refrain: And it's time for us to leave her

Rule three is that your chorus has pretty much got to repeat itself, which basically means you can stack as many verses as you want and keep people in the beat so as long as they know half of it.

• Leave her, Johnny, leave her
• Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her
• For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
• And it's time for us to leave her

Past that there aren't really any rules for shanties that I can find. Common themes seem to follow an energetic yet kinda somber tone - like, you can bop to it, but it's still chill.

Did sailors invent LoFi? I think sailors invented LoFi.

 

Here's a bunch of shanties I listened to for research:

 

What about the Wellerman? Drunken Sailor?

These two are probably the most popular shanties in modern media, which is good because they're both bangers. Drunken Sailor dates back to the 1820s as the earliest, which means it was about in the same eras as all those other songs I rated pretty highly.

The Wellerman was written in 1970, which might leave a bad taste in your mouth but is actually just the byproduct of sea shanties regaining popular after the ultimately fell off in the early 1900s - it wasn't until the late 40s that they started coming back on, and thank goodness for that. I don't usually approve of TikTok trends, but thank you Nathan Evans for bringing this sudden influx in Shanty popularity.

 

So basically: if you're into writing songs, you should try your hand at Sea Shanties! They're awesome, and we deserve more of them.

Y'all remember that old SU I made about how interesting Music Theory is?

And y'all remember that even older SU I made about how we need more Sea Shanties?

For some reason it hadn't even occurred to me that there's Sea Shanty Musical Theory.

 

It seems obvious now, but the whole reason they were "written" (that is to say, invented and carried out orally) in the first place was to coordinate their work. Musical beats are pretty much the most intuitive method of keeping time without any fancy stopwatches, which means it's pretty much the best way to do it if you happened to exist in the several thousand years before we figured out how to mass-produce easily-accessible timepieces.

So what do you do when you all need to hoist at the ropes simultaneously? What's the best way to coordinate when you put a good ol' heave into the work? Music.

Rule One is that Sea Shanties are work songs: you need a clear beat to heave your ropes and row your oars to. There are a couple distinct types of shanties that you can work with:

• Long-Drag: Otherwise known as a Halyard Shanty (which is metal as hell), which have prolonged sections for - get this - when you need to be doing long pulls on the ropes. "Hangin' Johnny" is a solid example of this.
• Short-Drag: Otherwise known as a Forsheet or Mainsheet Shanty (one of which is metal as hell), which have shorter, burstier beats. "Haul Away, Joe" is a really popular example.
• There are others, but they all kinda fall under those two categories.

Rule two is that the general form of a Sea Shanty is that of the basic Call-and-Response technique, which is this case is very literal as there's often a lead who starts the line and the workers who finish it - for example:

• Lead: I thought I heard the Old Man say
• Refrain: "Leave her, Johnny, leave her"
• Lead: Tomorrow ye will get your pay
• Refrain: And it's time for us to leave her

Rule three is that your chorus has pretty much got to repeat itself, which basically means you can stack as many verses as you want and keep people in the beat so as long as they know half of it.

• Leave her, Johnny, leave her
• Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her
• For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
• And it's time for us to leave her

Past that there aren't really any rules for shanties that I can find. Common themes seem to follow an energetic yet kinda somber tone - like, you can bop to it, but it's still chill.

Did sailors invent LoFi? I think sailors invented LoFi.

 

Here's a bunch of shanties I listened to for research:

 

What about the Wellerman? Drunken Sailor?

These two are probably the most popular shanties in modern media, which is good because they're both bangers. Drunken Sailor dates back to the 1820s as the earliest, which means it was about in the same eras as all those other songs I rated pretty highly.

The Wellerman was written in 1970, which might leave a bad taste in your mouth but is actually just the byproduct of sea shanties regaining popular after the ultimately fell off in the early 1900s - it wasn't until the late 40s that they started coming back on, and thank goodness for that. I don't usually approve of TikTok trends, but thank you Nathan Evans for bringing this sudden influx in Shanty popularity.

 

So basically: if you're into writing songs, you should try your hand at Sea Shanties! They're awesome, and we deserve more of them.

Y'all remember that old SU I made about how interesting Music Theory is?

And y'all remember that even older SU I made about how we need more Sea Shanties?

For some reason it hadn't even occurred to me that there's Sea Shanty Musical Theory.

 

It seems obvious now, but the whole reason they were "written" (that is to say, invented and carried out orally) in the first place was to coordinate their work. Musical beats are pretty much the most intuitive method of keeping time without any fancy stopwatches, which means it's pretty much the best way to do it if you happened to exist in the several thousand years before we figured out how to mass-produce easily-accessible timepieces.

So what do you do when you all need to hoist at the ropes simultaneously? What's the best way to coordinate when you put a good ol' heave into the work? Music.

Rule One is that Sea Shanties are work songs: you need a clear beat to heave your ropes and row your oars to. There are a couple distinct types of shanties that you can work with:

• Long-Drag: Otherwise known as a Halyard Shanty (which is metal as hell), which have prolonged sections for - get this - when you need to be doing long pulls on the ropes. "Hangin' Johnny" is a solid example of this.
• Short-Drag: Otherwise known as a Forsheet or Mainsheet Shanty (one of which is metal as hell), which have shorter, burstier beats. "Haul Away, Joe" is a really popular example.
• There are others, but they all kinda fall under those two categories.

Rule two is that the general form of a Sea Shanty is that of the basic Call-and-Response technique, which is this case is very literal as there's often a lead who starts the line and the workers who finish it - for example:

• Lead: I thought I heard the Old Man say
• Refrain: "Leave her, Johnny, leave her"
• Lead: Tomorrow ye will get your pay
• Refrain: And it's time for us to leave her

Rule three is that your chorus has pretty much got to repeat itself, which basically means you can stack as many verses as you want and keep people in the beat so as long as they know half of it.

• Leave her, Johnny, leave her
• Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her
• For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
• And it's time for us to leave her

Past that there aren't really any rules for shanties that I can find. Common themes seem to follow an energetic yet kinda somber tone - like, you can bop to it, but it's still chill.

Did sailors invent LoFi? I think sailors invented LoFi.

 

Here's a bunch of shanties I listened to for research:

 

What about the Wellerman? Drunken Sailor?

These two are probably the most popular shanties in modern media, which is good because they're both bangers. Drunken Sailor dates back to the 1820s as the earliest, which means it was about in the same eras as all those other songs I rated pretty highly.

The Wellerman was written in 1970, which might leave a bad taste in your mouth but is actually just the byproduct of sea shanties regaining popular after the ultimately fell off in the early 1900s - it wasn't until the late 40s that they started coming back on, and thank goodness for that. I don't usually approve of TikTok trends, but thank you Nathan Evans for bringing this sudden influx in Shanty popularity.

 

So basically: if you're into writing songs, you should try your hand at Sea Shanties! They're awesome, and we deserve more of them.

Lots of complaints about how you can tell when a female character is written by a male author.

Not many for when a male character is written by a female author? There was that whole thing a little while back for someone's work seeming like it was "written by a woman," which I think is just a backwards way of looking at it.

I think the problem is that we boys just assume that we don't know jack diddly squat about our own gender and just assume that whatever's written is more accurate than whatever it is we believe. I mean, Peeta (from the Hunger Games) was pretty much as damsel-in-distress-pretty-face-love-interest as it gets, but no one craps on Suzanne Collins (that I know of). Guys are just like "yeah he's cool" and just read the story about the fun survival game.

And believe me - I have read some awful crap by women. Both of us can be god-awful at writing.

GUYS

I JUST REALIZED I MISSED MY THIRD SHARDIVERSARY

IT WAS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY

HOW DID I MISS IT?

*sadness*

BUT no use dwelling on missed opportunities and better late than never so happy late shardiversary to myself :)))

I would tag everyone but it's 2am here currently and I should be asleep, so just know that I am forever grateful to all of you for all you've done for me and the crazy influence you've had on my life. There are a ton of things I wouldn't know, both about myself and about just the world in general, if I'd never found this place, so thanks! And of course, there are a ton of friends that I wouldn't have if it weren't for the Shard. 

Thank you all, love you all, have a good life :))

GUYS

I JUST REALIZED I MISSED MY THIRD SHARDIVERSARY

IT WAS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY

HOW DID I MISS IT?

*sadness*

BUT no use dwelling on missed opportunities and better late than never so happy late shardiversary to myself :)))

I would tag everyone but it's 2am here currently and I should be asleep, so just know that I am forever grateful to all of you for all you've done for me and the crazy influence you've had on my life. There are a ton of things I wouldn't know, both about myself and about just the world in general, if I'd never found this place, so thanks! And of course, there are a ton of friends that I wouldn't have if it weren't for the Shard. 

Thank you all, love you all, have a good life :))

bruh i totally thought beth harmon was a real person

...

im so disappointed

Some scientific facts:

• Monty Python is the cinema equivalen of jazz.
• The scariness of a spider is not proportional to the size of the spider, but rather to the length of the spider's legs. Tarantulas are awesome and everyone knows it, but black widows are the freakiest and most hideous creatures known to man.
• When you're staring at the glowing red numbers on your alarm clock and all the shapes start to warp and corrupt, it is not your eyes playing tricks on you but rather your mind being suspended to the Plane of Dreams.
• Right next door to that is the Plane of the Forgotten, which is where pencils go when you drop them behind the couch and can't find them again.
• There was a little turtle tank in the nurse's office at my elementary school. This is not relevant but I just remembered that which I think is cool.
• There are three types of Ghibli fans: The normie Howl's Moving Castle enjoyers, the inexperienced Spirited Away watchers, and the chad Nausicaa stans. I've yet to meet another soul whose favorite Ghibli is Castle in the Sky yet, which means that the Truth has yet to spread to the masses
• Cool ranch doritos are meh at best and you know it.
• The masses fear the weebs, for people fear what they cannot know - that is, they do not fear true weebs, but rather the Demon Slayer junkies who haven't the spine to watch or read anything longer or more braindead than that. In fact, true weebs fear these junkies as well.
• People who ship Legolas and Gimli are stupid. People who ship Legolas and Aragorn are not. If you require an explanation for what happens with Arwen in this universe, simply leave it to Gimli to put on the charm because turns out he's really into elves.
• People who ship Frodo and Sam are stupider, and anyone who says otherwise will taste my katana.
• Before TotK came out, I considered BotW to be the best Zelda Game, and A Link to the Past to be the best Zelda Game. With this new addition to the cast, both those titles hang in the balance.
• I will not read your writing if it's in Arial font. All good prose deserves serifs.
• The Batman (2022) has no right being as good as it is.
• If you put me in the trolley problem scenaro to gather data you'd have to rule me out as an anomaly because whatever I decide to do is ultimately at odds with my innate clumsiness.
• I wonder if emptying your brain is a good way to knock yourself unconscious for the night? Or am I just forcing it to think harder about things that it really shouldn't when I'm trying to sleep?
• That last one wasn't a fact.
• It was a question.
• Tamales are either gross or made by a bona fide mexican guy and there is no in-between.
• It is impossible to make a good churro, which is the point.
• Sheev Palpatine really needs to work on his branding. The "Tragedy" of Darth Plagueis the Wise is barely a few lines of dialogue long - that isn't a tragedy, that's a synopsis. Give me a remake where the opera Anakin meets him at is a three-act musical about the rise and fall of Darth Plagueis, complete with a greek chorus and dudes wearing coconuts.
• Everyone says The Minish Cap is the most underrated Zelda game, which I think is ironic.
• By cubic meter you're actually hotter than the sun. Light also escapes you much faster than it does the core of that thing.
• I'm tired. I just yawned. What a day.
• You're yawning too now.
• Goodnight.

Some scientific facts:

• Monty Python is the cinema equivalen of jazz.
• The scariness of a spider is not proportional to the size of the spider, but rather to the length of the spider's legs. Tarantulas are awesome and everyone knows it, but black widows are the freakiest and most hideous creatures known to man.
• When you're staring at the glowing red numbers on your alarm clock and all the shapes start to warp and corrupt, it is not your eyes playing tricks on you but rather your mind being suspended to the Plane of Dreams.
• Right next door to that is the Plane of the Forgotten, which is where pencils go when you drop them behind the couch and can't find them again.
• There was a little turtle tank in the nurse's office at my elementary school. This is not relevant but I just remembered that which I think is cool.
• There are three types of Ghibli fans: The normie Howl's Moving Castle enjoyers, the inexperienced Spirited Away watchers, and the chad Nausicaa stans. I've yet to meet another soul whose favorite Ghibli is Castle in the Sky yet, which means that the Truth has yet to spread to the masses
• Cool ranch doritos are meh at best and you know it.
• The masses fear the weebs, for people fear what they cannot know - that is, they do not fear true weebs, but rather the Demon Slayer junkies who haven't the spine to watch or read anything longer or more braindead than that. In fact, true weebs fear these junkies as well.
• People who ship Legolas and Gimli are stupid. People who ship Legolas and Aragorn are not. If you require an explanation for what happens with Arwen in this universe, simply leave it to Gimli to put on the charm because turns out he's really into elves.
• People who ship Frodo and Sam are stupider, and anyone who says otherwise will taste my katana.
• Before TotK came out, I considered BotW to be the best Zelda Game, and A Link to the Past to be the best Zelda Game. With this new addition to the cast, both those titles hang in the balance.
• I will not read your writing if it's in Arial font. All good prose deserves serifs.
• The Batman (2022) has no right being as good as it is.
• If you put me in the trolley problem scenaro to gather data you'd have to rule me out as an anomaly because whatever I decide to do is ultimately at odds with my innate clumsiness.
• I wonder if emptying your brain is a good way to knock yourself unconscious for the night? Or am I just forcing it to think harder about things that it really shouldn't when I'm trying to sleep?
• That last one wasn't a fact.
• It was a question.
• Tamales are either gross or made by a bona fide mexican guy and there is no in-between.
• It is impossible to make a good churro, which is the point.
• Sheev Palpatine really needs to work on his branding. The "Tragedy" of Darth Plagueis the Wise is barely a few lines of dialogue long - that isn't a tragedy, that's a synopsis. Give me a remake where the opera Anakin meets him at is a three-act musical about the rise and fall of Darth Plagueis, complete with a greek chorus and dudes wearing coconuts.
• Everyone says The Minish Cap is the most underrated Zelda game, which I think is ironic.
• By cubic meter you're actually hotter than the sun. Light also escapes you much faster than it does the core of that thing.
• I'm tired. I just yawned. What a day.
• You're yawning too now.
• Goodnight.

Musical Theory and Classical Compositions are super interesting because I find it totally awesome whenever you can derive some kind of art from math and science.

But every time I look into it I'm constanly reminded about how impossible it is to quantify music, because all those youtube channels that break down tunes will be like "This is the chord progression, which is a common form of question and answer - a basic tenet of all musical composition," and then in the same breath will say something like, "and then they throw in this chord, which works because it sounds good" and I'm all (>._.)>

hey guys!

i'm leaving for this performing arts camp today so i'll be afk until august 6th sadly 

bye for now!!!

...Where did you get that muffin?

Muffin Button.

But I didn't install a muffin button.

...Then where did I get this muffin?

Where did you get that muffin?

Muffin Button.

 

and it continues in an infinite loop

 

(I'm eating a muffin)

Sorry for kind of vanishing, and I'll be gone for the rest of the week

 

(FSY! FSY! FSY!)

I was going to make an SU about the Pixar sequels we actually need but then checked the internet to find that Inside Out 2 is, in fact, in the works

 

so basically I have no further complaints

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD HEEEEELLLLL YEEAHHHHHHHHH

LETS GO BLOW STUFF UP

YEEEEEHAWWWWWWWWW

Okay y'all

What do I need to do to get people to sign up for Cosmere Character Roast Battles?

(Yes I know this has become basically my entire personality at this point, deal with it)

Like, genuinely, what is holding you back?

Okay y'all

What do I need to do to get people to sign up for Cosmere Character Roast Battles?

(Yes I know this has become basically my entire personality at this point, deal with it)

Like, genuinely, what is holding you back?

Okay y'all

What do I need to do to get people to sign up for Cosmere Character Roast Battles?

(Yes I know this has become basically my entire personality at this point, deal with it)

Like, genuinely, what is holding you back?

I arranged the fabric into the shape of the dress to kinda get an idea of what it'll look like and !!!!!

 

Favorite musical, go

Favorite musical, go

Alright, I need a vote.

Which one is Kaladin's Theme Song?

Song 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS0uS8Tfyt4

 

Song 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Hrq9dzNSs

I officially have all the fabric I need to get started on my Rapunzel dress!

 

I officially have all the fabric I need to get started on my Rapunzel dress!

 

I officially have all the fabric I need to get started on my Rapunzel dress!