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me and hellbooks are doing a walrus together!

• submit songs in these categories
  
• i will listen to them and hellbooks will too
  
• we give them scores
  
• probably will be doing listening events on discord like schadd (we havent talked about this yet)
  
• that's how this works!

and these are the categorizations;









final note by TRISH: i sign onto all of the things that HELLBY: added.

appendixes: i, ii, iii, iv

In post 0, tris wrote:final note by TRISH: i sign onto all of the things that HELLBY: added.

is this your second signature?!

ego to not forget to submit

ooooo

In post 0, tris wrote:submit songs in these categories
i will listen to them and hellbooks will too

note: BOTH me and trish will be submitting songs and scoring each others. however, we will not be scoring our own songs, which means we will jsut be getting half the points that other people will be getting

In post 0, tris wrote:i don't know what hellbooks will do, but i will be trying to guess who'se was what, and if im right, you lose .05 points

i'll do this too. i'll also do the thing where i drop your lowest score

In post 0, tris wrote:you get bonus points for being in our personal top threes. you can get the bonus for both top threes if your so lucky!!

a proposed bonus score breakdown was as follows:

first place: 1 bonus point
second place for tris: 0.8 bonus points
second place for hellbooks: 0.7 bonus points
third place: 0.5 bonus points

will wait for tris's third signature on that one though

i assume we're accepting submissions (PMs are preferred) at any time and maybe in the future a deadline will be articulated. the deadline will be after schadd's walrus ends?

In post 0, tris wrote:i will be scoring with no consistency. i'll make it up as i go along. both my overall enjoyment and catfittedness will factor into it.

me too. in particular i think some catfits are more multidimensional than others so there might be multiple catfit score components depending on the cat. however, the ratio for enjoyment and catfit will be the same as schadd's for me, so 3.5 of my points will be dedicated to enjoyment and 1.5 of my points will be dedicated to catfit. that way you can still use the same general strategy you used for schadd's walrus if you are a returning submitter. i will be deducting up to 0.4 points for familiarity although you can expect me to be somewhat lenient in this regard. however if you submit a song i am exceptionally familiar with such as cocteau twins i might deduct a bit more.

in summary:
5 total points from each of us.

3.5 of my points will be enjoyment
1.5 of my points will be catfit
-0.4 penalty for songs i'm familiar with
-0.05 penalty for songs i guess are yours
bonus points for placing highly and perhaps some exceptional song achievements



: iso me in the monthly music thread or schadd's songs thread or look at my walrus submissions
: cha seungmin - what the flowers want to say, sulli - dorothy, ummm... like every fleet foxes song
: sza - garden, tris candy clause - into the deep time one sun. i would give boards of canada - diving station like a 3.3/3 catfit score
: terry allen - 30 years war waltz, weatherday - come in. i would give snail mail - pristine like a 3.2/3 catfit score
: snail's house - warp star (linked to the moment of the fake piano patch that i love) if you had a mind to submit an electronic song. any other aspects of this category should be kinda straightforward!
: bruno pernadas - galaxy, dj sab the teenage dj - next to me, dolly parton and jimmy fallon - all i want for christmas is you cover <-- this is just like a song artist and song title that would make me smile in bemusement and confusion

cat 3, paired:
brie larson - hope has wings (barbie and the magic of pegasus ost) & cocteau twins - wolf in the breast are two songs that share the same opening riff with hilariously different results which i like to imagine are in dialogue with each other. this is kind of a ridiculously specific example so i wouldn't really expect this to be of too much guidance.
big thief - shark smile & chainsmokers - closer also have elements of correspondence and tension. they're both about fleeting intersections in a general feeling of unsettledness. concretely they both anchor themselves to like, cities (closer mentions boulder and tuscon, shark smile mentions winona and des moines). there's also some obvious interesting open conflict in pairing a widely beloved indie song with a widely behated pop song because the way that the ideas of the song are both communicated and consumed are completely different.
the weeknd - until i bleed out & cocteau twins - blue bell knoll example of a great transition, both musically (very similar harmonies) and in vibes, plus it's a last track (after hours) into a first track (blue bell knoll). they're also both these songs that portray a deep lament and the instrumental choices feel like in dialogue with each other as well

at the very least i will definitely give a decent amount of points to a song that samples another song in a really cool and unexpected way or something similar to that

oh yeah. i forgot to mention some of those things, thanks for remembering for me

when's deadline btw

edit oh wait i can't read the bit where u said there's not one yet lol

yeah, that was another thing i forgot to add.

yay

Yay a second chance!!!

walrus

oh no, i procrastinated too long now i wont be the first tag team walrus

ego

I'm in. I'm going to submit something for Tris TOTALLY BLIND, in fact. I'm going to submit NOW. That's how in I am.

wow! cool!

Submission done. Don't need to know the deadline if you submit before the folks in charge manage to edit one in!

I will possibly beg to change one or two later, but I'm solid on the Tris one (even if it goes against what she says she likes afterwards! Some songs just have the "damn good music" vibe) and most of the rest. Hellbooks was harder because I'm trying to push boundaries while I got a whole massive collection of stuff I know will be an easy grand slam, and I might decide the balance struck was wrong later. And the paired category was one I might have overthought, and I might decide to go for a different pairing that's less of a risk. We'll see.

the pair category is proving very very difficult q_q

Probably not going to submit to this because I find the categories challenging but wanted to say I appreciate the avatars joke.

In post 1, SleepyKrew wrote:final note by TRISH: i sign onto all of the things that HELLBY: added.

i don't understand what you meant by this, but SURE

OH i said the word sign

In post 16, Cheetory6 wrote:the pair category is proving very very difficult q_q

i was worried about that and i guess the only thing i can say now is i feel like maybe the problem is that there are too many angles so feel free to just pick two songs that vibe well together and let our active imaginations fill in the rest? sorry!

also feel free to leave cats blank if you want (for example let one cat be dropped as your lowest score)

In post 16, Cheetory6 wrote:the pair category is proving very very difficult q_q

my plan is to instantly think of all the other categories and then stall out the deadline waiting for a brilliant insight to appear for that one

In post 21, schadd_ wrote:

In post 16, Cheetory6 wrote:the pair category is proving very very difficult q_q

my plan is to instantly think of all the other categories and then stall out the deadline waiting for a brilliant insight to appear for that one

just do one Billy Joel and one Elton John


Also I don't think i can maintain anonymity too well as I've pushed most of my fave artisist on Hellby already in the monthly music thread

also uh
does the 'paired' cat count double points or no

probably not but not sure? probably could make it do that if we all wanted that.

also: if people are struggling with the paired category how would yall feel about like a mock training event wherein you can just throw 2 any old songs at me in the thread and i will assign them a catfit score accompanied by a little writeup? would that help at all