*evil laughter but it's filled with love!*
fuck disappearing under mysterious circumstances i want to start APPEARING under mysterious circumstances. walking through a deserted eerie forest? im there. exploring an abandoned 1930s mine that no human has set foot in for 55 years? there too. touching down on mars? guess whose annoying face you see poking out from behind a rover
info dumping and rambling about your interests is not annoying or boring !!! passion and excitement is incredibly endearing. those who told you otherwise did majorly wrong by you
oh no tumblr user gladosofficial had yet another big brain music theory revelation about the portal soundtrack i am holding it back with a clenched jaw
thinkin bout how each character in the game represents an instrument and all the symbolism behind it
these are all just. personal opinions of course but. chell’s a flute; delicate but strong and upfront. flutes also represent human nature and life/death which can also be translated as chell being the only human alive in p2 (as far as we know) and how she killed then resurrected glados.
i pin wheatley as all the electronic clashes and smashes. electronic/mechanic instruments typically symbolize rage and anger which is extremely fitting.
cave johnson is obviously the brass section lmao. brass instruments usually represent boldness and energy and nobility and excitement and to be more specific, a french horn symbolizes strength and loneliness. triumph and failure. wins and losses.
caroline and glados imo represent the acoustic guitars and harps. acoustics typically mean warmth and humility while strings can mean sorrow and deep sadness. the two go hand in hand. caroline and cave together, however, i pin as the repeated arpeggios throughout the game. “you are not a part of the control group” is a good example. caroline=the 8th note arpeggios that slowly play in the background while cave=the 32nd note arpeggios that build up on top. that’s a metaphor for something lmao
in each song that directly references caroline/glados, there are not only harps/acoustics that eventually warp and distort, there are motifs for other characters. which is funny to think about since caroline/glados both met their downfalls at the hands of someone else. in “there she is” you can clearly hear cave’s 6 note aperture motif (c-e-f-c-c#-b) as the acoustics turn into mechanics. in “you know her?” you can hear “i am not a moron” before the sharp cello (cellos also tend to equal sorrow and sadness). on the flip side,“omg, what has he done”, the song about wheatley destroying all of aperture, opens with harps and a brass section.
i really wanted to deep dive “potatos lament” but theres just nothing. empty space. i think it’s the most unique song in the game for that exact reason.
there is so much symbolism in the ost it is unreal lmao. mike moransky is a god okay thats all for now thanks for coming to my ted talk
please can someone help me find a video. it has the spiderman pizza song and the video is someone trying to reverse image search an old man photo from an ad the only thing i can think of is like “top 10 something something senior’s dont know about” seniors as in old people
people are like "if you put crabs in a bucket they can't escape because they keep pulling each other back in, this is called crab bucket mentality and describes why people don't help each other" and never acknowledge that crabs do not naturally occur in buckets, a human with more power had to put them there
Days 14-16! Mutts, Shiba inu, and Bernese mountain dog! Call your reps and write someone.
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