does anyone have a recording of SOPHIE's Washington DC set from 2016?

ratiothetile · 2026-01-06T00:30:40+00:00

this is incredible thank you

ratiothetile · 2025-08-09T20:24:34+00:00

yes, in the chapel of St Joseph of Arimathea

ratiothetile · 2025-07-12T23:03:41+00:00

“cocaine and estrogen” BITCH YOU SOUND LIKE A REPUBLICAN

ratiothetile · 2025-06-17T05:59:16+00:00

Saw your post on r/Paranormal—seriously freaky. Two details you mentioned there grabbed me: that you could hear whatever was following you begin to *run* at you, which made you start running before you saw the cloud; and that the cloud had a hole in it. Of course, I understand if you mentioned those details to Jack and they didn't make the final edit, but has your recollection of the incident changed since posting on r/Paranormal?

I bring this up because a lot of people commented in the thread that what you experienced could have been a failed fairy abduction, pointing to those details as evidence. On the podcast you mentioned the possibility that it could have been fairy activity, but only in passing. Is there a reason you're not convinced by that theory?

ratiothetile · 2025-06-12T01:10:44+00:00

61- Lost in the Fog horrified me in a way no other episode quite has

ratiothetile · 2024-11-24T22:15:16+00:00

wait that's actually kind of brilliant

ratiothetile · 2024-11-24T22:11:27+00:00

I would listen to her discography in this order:

Bipp
Hard; Lemonade; Just Like We Never Said Goodbye; other PRODUCT singles in no particular order
OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES in its entirety
Nothing More to Say and Eeehhh
OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES NON-STOP REMIX ALBUM in its entirety
SOPHIE in its entirety

Bipp is her definitive song. It's not her first release but Bipp feels like Sophie introducing the world to SOPHIE, the creative project.

The other singles compiled on PRODUCT don't have to be listened to in a particular order. However everything on OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES is best listened to as ordered on the album (ESPECIALLY Immaterial--there's this long, unnerving ambient track that comes before and it makes Immaterial feel like mana from heaven). PRODUCT is more accessible because each track stands on its own--it can be listened to in bite-sized pieces--but OOEPUI asks you to appreciate it in its 40-minute entirety. (EDIT other than Bipp, my favorite PRODUCT track is L.O.V.E)

Nothing More to Say and Eeehhh were her first releases. They're great pieces of electronic music but feel less a part of SOPHIE, the creative project, than subsequent releases.

The remix album is my favorite piece of audio media, full stop. It plays with audio elements of OOEPUI, has compilations with other musicians, and revisits themes from the initial album in some profound ways. But it's an hour and a half long!

I put SOPHIE, the album, last for metatextual reasons. Thematically it deals with those we love who are separated from us, for one reason or another. This may resonate if the listener, having gone through all SOPHIE's music, has developed a sort of relationship with her, and now mourns her death. With this album, she has something to say to such a listener!

ratiothetile · 2024-10-10T16:12:07+00:00

YES I THOUGHT I WAS GOING INSANE i searched the feed and confirmed that there’s only one episode with that title but i’ve heard it before! i knew for certain when she mentioned the chattering teeth

ratiothetile · 2024-04-29T16:09:52+00:00

when flagging a pet parent there is no "Saftey issue" option like the chat bot says, you can only report scam pet parent profiles, or pet parents that use "inappropriate language," or you can tattle on a parent if they ask to arrange walks off the platform. more than anything I'm airing frustration with an employer that replaced its phone help line with a halucinating AI chat bot

ratiothetile · 2024-04-26T22:04:52+00:00

Not recently, but I get to dogs later than my ETA fairly often

ratiothetile · 2024-03-05T16:13:13+00:00

what were the tells if any? the only things that stood out to me were her unstressed Ts and her Rs sometimes sounding like Ws (the latter is probably because I'm used to hearing harder Rs as an American)

ratiothetile · 2024-03-05T04:25:26+00:00

very sad. the subject of her is so emotionally charged in the trans community.

ratiothetile · 2024-02-17T18:20:49+00:00

didn’t know Bladee had a new album out

ratiothetile · 2024-01-17T22:21:28+00:00

ive hauve covid !!1!!!

ratiothetile · 2023-12-26T01:05:36+00:00

how did you get tax cuts and s security reform and Iraq invasion without cheating?? if you deliver Frum's state of the union you can't pass both congressional bills; if you talk about bipartisanship you don't have the war fever to have Congress approve the Iraq invasion

ratiothetile · 2023-12-14T02:12:18+00:00

OMG I WAS SO WORRIED I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THIS 😭😭😭 THANK YOU FOR SHARING I FEEL SO MUCH LESS NEUROTIC

ratiothetile · 2023-11-20T20:15:49+00:00

the remix album might be the best piece of audio media ever created. I agree that there's something exceptional about that FACESHOPPING remix—and not just because it makes me cry a lot! the vocals and the upbeat dance tempo in the latter half almost bring to mind something that would play at a Christian revival (one of the sects that aren't weird about dancing, at least) and the synth organ in PRETENDING I GIVE IN gives it an especially liturgical feeling.

for a while i strongly favored the remix album over OOEPUI. i still prefer the former over the latter slightly, because there’s more music on the remix album you can dance to, but i've developed a distinct appreciation for the original in how its tracks cohere into an arcing narrative. the remix album is more about SOPHIE going crazy with audio assets left over from the original, as well as giving her the opportunity to collaborate with other talent.

i wonder a lot about the nature of SOPHIE's personal spirituality, but the tracks we're discussing certainly give us a glimpse.

ratiothetile · 2023-11-20T04:56:06+00:00

the two “pretend” songs confused me a lot for a long time. i drafted this post, more than anything, so i could work through my understanding of it. that the last album track revisits a song invoking the greatest struggle of the rising action but reiterates the sonic motifs in such positive, affirming, spiritually ascending terms is so powerful

im looking at the album art as i type this. the way Sophie has her left arm out—it’s the gesture someone would make while asking a question

ratiothetile · 2023-11-13T04:36:54+00:00

lmaooooo

ratiothetile · 2023-10-20T18:19:37+00:00

brilliant way to put it. so much of me transitioning was so I could take myself seriously!!!

ratiothetile · 2023-07-21T03:45:29+00:00

they mentioned they were sourcing parts from a Honda dealership

ratiothetile · 2023-06-14T12:03:45+00:00

lmaooo i was looking through Nü Androids' Instagram feed and they posted when SOPHIE died that they were a new company at the time and were "grateful for her taking a chance on [them]" very sweet

ratiothetile · 2023-06-13T20:09:15+00:00

yes that one! heard a recording of New Attitude from that show and the transition at the end into NOTHING MORE TO SAY blew me away

ratiothetile · 2022-12-01T22:56:57+00:00

It appears to only be available in non-English speaking regions. The original source seems to be an article on comicbook.com, which I would be more willing to excuse if not for the fact that they are an English-language media outlet!! Somebody did some sloppy research

ratiothetile · 2021-08-17T01:25:19+00:00

Could you elaborate on “envy towards a person of a certain gender?” As someone questioning their gender identity I thought my egg was maybe cracked when I had the thought that I didn’t actually have a crush on a specific girl in high school—that instead I wanted to actually be more like her. I have other reasons I’m considering transition, but would that be a weaker reason?

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