Commingling synth-pop (“Done (Let’s Get It),” “Away x5”) with classical and jazz (“I’ll Remember for Me, I’ll Remember for You”) and exploring the outskirts of techno and ambient, Yaeji’s self-actualization comes as she tries to disentangle the inner workings of a big, freaky universe. Here, the infectious house music on which she built her career makes way for the space between the notes, and her melodic acumen is clear and often gripping. In destruction, hammers create anew, and Yaeji seeks her own kind of rebirth, venturing musically beyond the club and finding deliverance in the sound of her voice. In her own fury she locates creativity and beauty, experimentation and scrutiny, acerbity and warmth. In an accompanying 111-page booklet of her artwork, outfit photos, and song sketches, she includes an epic comic about a wizard dog that helps her unleash her anger-it emerges through her mouth in hammer form, of course-and the concept is both sweet and unexpectedly moving.
Yaeji has said that With a Hammer, her full-length debut, was created in a maelstrom: suppressed childhood memories, rolling waves of alienation, anger at increased violence against Asian Americans, revelations during the Black Lives Matter uprisings of 2020, that euphoric pique when you finally realize you’re really not as small as the world would have you believe.
She wields one on the cover of With a Hammer, thrown casually over her shoulders-the way construction dudes do in the male imagination-and glances sideways, either daring the viewer to step to her or inviting us to join in. The Korean American New Yorker fabricated two aluminum sledgehammers that she keeps nearby at home and in the studio, blunt instruments as signifiers: power, protection, comfort. ¹ Observation from my experience and from looking at questions on this site.On With a Hammer, Yaeji offers it all up: the person, her rage, and the symbol. So either way, before playing this race it is a good idea to talk to the fellow players and make sure they are comfortable with whatever solution you and your DM are ready to agree on. On the other hand, if risk of drying out will be real for you, it will inconvenience the whole party, not just you.
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So only way to make sure it won't happen, is to have a deal with DM during session 0.īy the way, if your DM will agree to it, other players may be jaded that you got some goodies for free and they didn't. It will be a problem for you to solve in-game, and you will need to change solutions once in a while. If your DM will decide that getting wet is important to balance out the goodies you got, like water breathing, skill proficiencies, save advantages etc, no matter what game mechanics you will try to use, you will have no guarantees and any DM worth his salt will find ways to make the risk real for you.
That is indeed a common approach¹, and I dare a guess that's why 5e got rid of negative racial modifiers to stats, as they were used with classes for which they didn't matter anyway. What you are trying to do, is to play a race with all its strength, but avoid its drawback instead of embracing it.
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