#going on a walk while listening to music

[astraystayyh]

i literally was thinking about this yesterday before going to sleep.. small joys really go a long way. i learned this the hard way but, if you spend your entire life waiting for an epiphany where you'll finally experience this everlasting happiness then, odds are you'll never truly be happy..

#I think true peace starts with finding happiness in the things surrounding you #like watching sunsets!!! we take that for granted a lot because wdym the sky becomes like a painting everyday just for us #or having your favorite drink or eating your favorite food #buying yourself icecream #reading a good book #going on a walk while listening to music #you shouldn't wait for happiness to come you should just look for it closely all around you #so i hope u are all having a very beautiful day!!! do something you love today #even if it's silly just do it!!!! I'll go on a walk laterrr #sahar's.thoughts <3

[alice-ar-na]

UNDERWORLD SAGA- MY THOUGHTS

My goodness you guys do I have thoughts.

FIRST- the way this is such an ensemble heavy saga the 'all i hear are screams' in the first song WOW. Its because they have the whole crew back. They're singing with everyone, and I hadn't realised how much independent and almost quiet it had gotten during the circe saga, which speaks as a metaphor in itself

SECOND- Polites is back!!! Thank youuuuu actual tears were falling, the way odysseus' voice breaks when he says his name, similarly to his mother (regarding his mum, holy moly [pun intended] he didn't know she was dead- the guilt he must feel 'i took too long' broke me) polities that sweetheart, I can imagine even his ghost is so encouraging to the crew that's left on the journey, they needed that guy for morale big time.

THIRD- aight onto the prophet, anyone who read the odyssey is screaming rn, the foreshadowing is soo good but mysterious and twisted enough that it fits greek prophecies soooo well. Piggybacking off that 'palace in red' when we get to the suitors that shit is going to POP OFF damn it I cannot wait. Mentions of penelope being under pursuit. The WHO?!?!?!? Oh. My. Gods YES THAT WAS BRILLIANT. he's so angry and he loves his wife so much, I will never stop gushing over the two of them. Perfect.

FOURTH- the third song, pretty sure I screamed. The tension. The foreshadowing. The regret. The guilt. IT HAS EVERYTHING. All the references back to previous events, giving perspective from the other characters to stop portraying them like the enemies is so so important for the legacy of greek mythology. Perspective is everything. Onto THE BRIDGE!! HELLO? THIS MAN IS BOTH A GENIUS AND ACTUALLY INSANE. HE IS A MADMAN AND I LOVE IT. Drop another infant from a wall..... I actually have no words that is insanely cool. Odysseus has changed so much. Athena needs to hit him up again, now he'd kill for his people, you can see just how tired he is and how much he wants to go home. He's scared for penelope and telemachus, literally nothing else matters anymore.

Overall. 10/10 and this is only HALF WAY can it even get better than this??

#pretty sure my jaw was dropped the whole time walking to school while listening #hed better hurry up because i cannot wait for where this is going #i need to re read the odyssey now #the odyssey #epic underworld saga #epic #epic the musical #polites #odysseus x penelope #epic musical

[why-the-heck-not]

listening to hozier and forgetting to stress about the mountain of things i need to do

#hozier's music is very comforting to the level of ''wait i actually do have to do a shit load of stuff to do today i forgot'' #fuckin chilling and leisurely doing things but not really #if it wasn't raining I'd go for a nice walk (walks while listening to hozier are very very chill and good and highly recommended) #hozier #march 2023 #2023

[gods-favorite-autistic]

The different Spider-Men (mostly from Into the Spiderverse) as people at a family reunion

Original Spider-Man from Miles’s universe is the dad, Peter B Parker is the queer uncle, Spider Noir is the fresh out of jail aunt who has had like 5 glasses of wine since he got here, Penni is that one cousin who no one can say no to, Miles is the son who is just so done with everything, Spider Ham is the stray that no one really knows how it got here but hey he’s not tearing up the house so it’s fine, Gwen is the friend Miles begged to come along so that he didn’t have to do this alone, Tom Holland Spider-Man is the cousin who just spends the entire time talking to his friends/helping Penni build a Lego set, Tobey Maguire Spider-Man is the uncle who just wants to sleep, Andrew Garfield Spider-Man is the oldest cousin who spends the entire time talking shit about the adults and then goes for a walk and just doesn’t come back but nobodies worried cause he does this every year, and Ultimate Spider-Man Peter is the middle cousin trying to cause as much chaos and drama as he can without getting in trouble

#spiderman #spiderman into the spiderverse #spiderman no way home #tw cursing #cw cursing #ag’s Spider-Man just walks in roasts everybody and then leaves #kinda like roast bot in big brother #actually he insults everyone but Miles and Penni #Penni because she’s a kid and Miles because they have a lot in common #Peter ‘we don’t have a chimney’ ‘whaaaaaaat’ Parker and Miles ‘who’s Morales’ Morales #meanwhile tm and sn have a bet going to see who can drink the most wine before they pass out #og peter is just desperately trying to keep it together #while pbp is too busy trying to keep himself together #th peter is in college yet he still sits at the kids table because ‘adults are too tiring’ #miles brings his sketch pad with him and just draws the entire time while listening to music #Gwen is put on the duty of alerting him whenever his family is approaching but otherwise she just gets to sit on her phone the entire time #if on the rare occasion that ag peter stays he will be sitting at the kids table #usm Peter keeps sending Harry and MJ photos of his family doing dumb shit #MJ usually responds with ‘engage with your family Pete!’ while Harry just straight up tells him to fuck shit up #spider ham bites people

[july-19th-club]

without a doubt my very favorite artist for tolkien filk/treatments of the songs in his books is adele mcallister. no fuss no bells and whistles no overdramatization no cinema. just one acoustic guitar (sometimes used as a drum), a clear, unpretentious voice, and the most plaintive wild-soft make-you-remember-things-you-never-saw-and-places-you-never-were melodies known to mankind

#tied of course with billy boyd's version of the walking song . has to be made clear #but other than that adele is THEE peak of the form #just listened to her version of the king under the mountain and very very nearly cried real tears at work #while doing my donor spreadsheets #thats what her voice does to me #anyway go check her soundcloud out she's phenomenal #music #adele mcallister #lotr

[johnisonlysleeping]

i kind of want to go to the beatles story in liverpool this year so if you’ve been let me know if it’s good. I was dragged around it on a school trip 5 years ago but I can’t remember a thing from it.

#my birthday is coming up #I might also go to the British music museum as well #the Beatles #the Beatles story #I had the headphones on and everything I listened to alll of the podcasts they give u while ur walking around but I don’t remember ANYTHING #the only other thing I remember from Liverpool was it has a primark #thanks my poor memory #teenager me had priorities aka crying over bts concert clips

[ramenwithbroccoli]

My mom said that we can go out at midnight to marvel at the beauty of the night and look straight into starry eyes of the universe, filled with nostalgia for space voyages beyond our comprehension. If it's alright with your mom.

#DO NOT go out on a walk when it's dark while listening to space music #Else you will feel so much love for space it's impossible to hold it inside #But really. The stars. Wow #And we get this every night??? So many lights just beyond our reach??? #When the spine said I'd kick down the sun for a star valley night he was right because what the hell is this beauty right above our heads #spg #the vice quadrant #spaceposting

[herawell]

I have discovered that you can fast forward songs when listening on Apple headphones by double pressing and backtrack by triple pressing, and that if you feed the wire underneath your shirt, it eliminates 90% of wire snagging on doorknobs, and you have no idea how game-changing these hacks have been for me.

#alia talks #no more having to look at my phone while going on walks and listening to playlists and wanting to repeat a song #and I can listen to music while cleaning my bathroom w/o catching the wire on a drawer knob #no needing to shell out $$$ for AirPods #wired earphones for life babyyyyy

[banghwa]

day 3 of living alone: i need to move out i need to move out i need to move out i need to move out i need to move out

#literally i have not felt this happy in so long #its literally only been two days but i feel so like. alive. #back home i cant cook because i dont feel safe in the kitchen let alone outside of my room #i cant go on walks whenever i cant even just walk around my house without feeling like im doing something wrong #meanwhile here ive done groceries ive prepared all my lunches for the week i made myself a delicious soup for supper #and im gonna make cookies after im done and play cards while listening to music on the speaker #back home i cant do that. i cant do something that simple. im essentially bedridden most days at home bcs i have no energy #so here ive been on my feet so long that they hurt!!! but it feels so good!! i feel free!!! #but im already dreading having to go back !!!! i cant go back i think itll kill me if i do #dl

[woofety]

Poets of the Fall - Children of the sun

#music #poets of the fall #I've been dealing with anxiety for the past few days #well I deal with it on a regular basis but it's been more than the usual #even for doing the stupidest things like going out the other day #to take a stroll and go to a flower market - something that wasn't an obligation at all #that I wanted to do for fun and that I definitely should have enjoyed without any negative feeling #and yet there they were without even any specific reason nagging and messing with me (that's what it does after all) #I decided on a whim to play potf songs while walking and they accompanied me through my walk #and they helped me so freaking much to relax and truly enjoy the moment #especially this song - I've been listening to potf for a while but still haven't covered their entire discography #and that day was the first time I heard this song - and while now I have tears in my eyes listening to it again #that day it truly gave me a sense of peace and contentment #this band is really something else - something I can rarely find in music and in art in general #I couldn't even describe what it is if you asked me but it goes beyond making excellent music #maybe I can't describe it because it's more personal - some of their songs resonate deep inside me #with something that you recognize and somehow feel like they belong with you? with who you are and what you feel and want #and it took and still takes time to discover and know something new about them like I do with myself #and the best thing is that in moments like these I appreciate not only that I find something new #but the journey I am taking to discover it and it's something that doesn't happen very often with me #and it almost feels like their songs are taking me by the hand during this process #💗 #video

[nature-played-a-trick-on-me]

I'm like 2-3 disappointments away from becoming a very difficult person to deal with

#therapy please please please #please #im becoming so cynical #i have symptoms interfering with all my basic daily life things #and actual proper therapy has been non existent so far #and it's so tempting to just start acting out and tell everyone to fuck off and leave me be #just give up on everything #i cannot even go for walks to calm down because it's dark outside and i fear assault #i cannot go to the park to read bc i fear assault #i cannot calm down in my apartment because there's too much noise from outside #im terrified of therapy and it likely being another disappointment/failure and nonsensical treatment w/o treatment plan #terrified of having to bring up my worst memories to potentially no avail #and even if i end up getting effective therapy. it will not be fun #and the support i have (i have an apartment in a building w an office w '24/7' staff bc im unable to cope alone)... well.... #theyre not doing what theyre supposed to do #they have a whole file on me including a crisis(prevention)plan and they just dont. dont look at it. #even when i am obviously distressed #and then i get told to 'read a book or listen to some music' #while i am reaching out to them because i CANNOT calm down on my own #like im not reaching out unnecessarily #and then i get told to sort myself out when im alrsdy like hello i cannot help myself feel better now #it's maddening like the whole purpose of being here is the support that im NOT receiving rn. #then id be better of in a normal independent apartment in a quiet neighbourhood fr.

[1980ssunflower]

god im so deeply and truly in love

#ot3: ❤rhyme💛easy💙 #tape entry circa 1980 #min and ryan make me feel things i never would have imagined id be able to feel #our love makes me feel like how elo's music makes me feel #all sorts of insane emotions from bouncing around sm and holding my breath from how excited i am that i get a headache #or feeling like im floating in space in complete awe of the universe around practically driven to tears #i want to spend the rest of my life w them and i AM going to spend the rest of my life w them #they are and will always be my true loves and priority in life #i want to lay outside w them and look at the stars #i want to spend that moment w them both and to hear the crickets in the background the sounds of wind and the chill it leaves on your skin #or even just to look over the lake of our hometown while walking home w the way the setting sun reflects off the waters surface #filled w the most beautiful glitters you can imagine #it all only gets amplified w the presence of the ones you love the most #i just... want them to hold my hand... id really like that.. #ryan can share one half of his headphones w me so i can hear the music better! or i could just listen to it from how it blares out hfdjs #i just need to be near them... to hear their lovely beautiful voices... to lay against them or hold them in my arms #to joke and laugh and sing and dance around i just want life w them

[maryse127]

Today I wore my hair in a stupidly easy to do but very fancy looking style to ballet which really helps with the kind of fake it till you make it bluffing I need to do for correct posture. Like you have to make yourself tall and look proud and I am like "but I suck" and kinda feel like an imposter but somehow having fancy hair combats that to a certain degree

Another pro tip: dont do the pirouette part of class if your ankles are already upset with you

#i have no clue what i did but my ankle started hurting friday #like apart from walking high heels on unstable ground and doing a lot of dancing around the room while listening to music #but not like a clear moment where I twisted it #and then it was feeling pretty fine today so yeah i can go to ballet #and i was doing fine #and then we did some turns and now both my ankles hate me #also really should have skipped the jumping after the pirouettes because that definitely made things worse

[crypticalwitch]

Hey, people with ocs and charatcer like em, I've got a world request;

Tell me a weird fact about them, in the same way you'd give a headcanon about a popular character

#ocs #original character #oc content #im tired and curious #it can be about anything #their trauma #their relationships and the cute/angsty habits there in #hell i wanna hear their tastes in music #ill go first i guess #while the dead dorks appear to be very picky with their music they're acctual musical listening is a hodge podge of all their tastes #cause walking with people for 4 years straight on a quest to properly doe gets boring without some tunes #Ambrose and Trace are both into grunge and punk (thought trace prefers folk punk and country over anything else) #Oli has loved disco since they were tiny snnd watched Mama Mia with their Grandma and Nona #Benji typically oscillates between the most stereotypically cortagecore fluff and symphonic metal #it catches everyone off guard everytime even after half a decade #Lucas is a sucker for Prog rock #its become almost an inside joke how much they can quote from music they've “never even heard” #character building

[befuddled-calico-whump]

what smell makes you most nostalgic?

ooh that's a fun one

maybe the smell of those little yellow wildflowers that cover entire fields

or cut grass in humid air, but only at night

#i could go on and on and on #smell and taste are very strong memory associators for me #i link taste to music too #to the point that i deliberately created a 'calming' album for myself by drinking cinnamon coffee and going on a nature walk #while listening to it the first time #and now whenever i hear the first song i just get a little wave of calm like my shoulders just took a deep breath #funny how things work #thanks! #anon #calico is befuddled

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

mewhen i

#im feelin. so awesome #i think. its because i have not eaten since breakfast. and ive gone on two hour-long walks. #during one of which i got soaking fucking wet in the rain #idk #feelin. bad #might b going 2 the zoo with my grandma tomorrow if it doesnt rain surely that will make me feel better #<< guy who is ashamed to show their face at the zoo bc ive gotten turned down by jobs there twice now and oh god what if they recognize me #its fine. j would like 2 see the sharks. i havent seen them in like 2 years now #sigh. i would like a hug. real bad #i dont even know what it is this time im just. sigh #im tired. im exhausted. ive officially spent too much time at home #bc ive started referring to myself as a girl again both out loud and in my head out of instinct and that just does shit to the dysphoria #i knewww this was coming. the last like. 2 or 3 days ive felt ok abt where im at in life it had 2 come crashing down eventually #as in. rn #aaughghhh #i dont want 2 vent im not going 2 vent i refuse 2 vent #i will instead be screaming into a pillow and crying while i fold stupid laundry and listen to music too loud #delete later