#Half of My Heart

[lightscamerabitchsmileee]

Ok here's the last one basically the rest of Taylor's songs or features that she's credited in ☺️☺️

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[magickiss]

Taylor Swift - Ours // John Mayer - Half Of My Heart

#taylor swift #taylornation #tsedit #taylorswiftedit #candy swift #lover taylor swift #swifties #my edit #lyrics parallels #songs parallels #lyric edit #lyric parallels #edit #john mayer #ours #half of my heart

[willowremixes]

I'm completely and totally obsessed with everything about this. First, more Taylor? Heck yes. Second, an official remix that I hadn't known about before? Hell yes. And third... this remix was done by OWL CITY?? The Enchanted guy?? Hell to the hell yes.

I found this on the swifties br blog. Debby hasn't updated in about 8 years but we still stan.

#half of my heart #remix #official #dance mix #pop mix #ts2 #john mayer

[alyjojo]

#Libra #Libra song #John Mayer #half of my heart #Spotify

[taylorliveperformances]

Taylor Swift performing Half of My Heart with John Mayer for KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball on December 11, 2009.

#taylor swift #half of my heart #john mayer #droplet #guest #jingle ball

[stavromulabetaaa]

this face is just too much for me to handle sometimes. why you so handsome my dude

#desmond the cat #half of my heart #masudi owns the other half

[niksixx]

I know season 5 of Stranger Things won’t be available til like 2024 but I am still not prepared for Steve Harrington’s death

#I am 100% convinced #there is no way he makes it out alive #and I will be a mess for months #because he is my favorite boy #my comfort person #the best boy #half of my heart #light of my life #I am just not ready for him to die #steve harrington

[premalovesmaples]

At some point tears stop falling down and It's just the ache that you feel right there inside your heart .

-premalovesmaples

#heartfelt #prose #writers on tumblr #spilled ink #writing #lit #half of my heart #half of me

[youngyang-world]

#Young Yang #Half Of My Heart #Taylor Swift #Cold Fusion Records® #Onom

[eljd2r2]

When John Mayer said…

Then you come on crashing in

Like the realest thing

Tried my best to understand

All that your love can bring

Half of my heart's got a grip on the situation

Half of my heart takes time

Half of my heart's got the right mind to tell you

That I can't keep loving you

With half of my heart

#half of my heart #lyrics #song lyrics #john mayer

[shadowtraveled]

"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

#dungeon meshi spoilers #mithrun #dungeon meshi #this has been rotating for a while but i wanted to check my evidence before getting into it thanks user angelspenance for posting that meme #half of this is just the text and the other half i'm sure has been said before but it's making my brain [radio static] so here this is #someone did for sure mention this but i do find it very cute that in his fucked up conjured world meant to portray his ideal reality #his teammates came to visit him. like part of the fantasy was then explicitly that they cared about him and were his friends. even though #he says he tried to see the worst in them. #hm it does feel important to note that i do also believe 100% in mithrun suicidality--his desire to be eaten does seem to focus a lot on #wanting it to be Over. wanting not to be left incomplete and empty anymore. #but that loops back around a bit to the hole in your heart that appears when you feel unloved. it's many things and the same thing at once #snakes #long post #severe problems #meshy

[erggggggggg]

#this song has been very comforting to my brain lately #what i’m listening to #half of my heart #john mayer #Spotify

[magickiss]

John Mayer - Half Of My Heart // Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble

#taylorswiftedit #taylornation #taylor swift #lyric parallels #edit #lyric edit #songs parallels #lyrics parallels #my edit #candy swift #lover taylor swift #swifties #john mayer #half of my heart #i knew you were trouble #red taylor’s version

[unsaidxthoughts]

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#half of my heart #song recs

[mayraki]

“half of my heart”

enjoy this tiny thing i wrote last night while listening to that song. a little scene that came to me and decided to write (me??? actually writing an idea??? hit me because WHAT)

I wanted to hurt him. I wanted to hurt him more than I’ve ever wanted to hurt anyone in my entire life. My sword would swing left and right, but my own strength was pulling me back. I didn’t want to admit it, no, those words, those feelings weren’t gonna grow like he weekly allowed. His eyes shine with sadness as he doesn’t move a muscle to defend himself. Hit after hit on his armer, the only sound around is my anger being thrown at him.

“Fight back.” I demand him. Another swing at his armer. “This war won’t end if neither of us dies.” My arms go weaker on me, begging for a break. But I won’t stop. No. He has to continue with this like we’ve been doing our entire lives. Fight against each other for our family’s legacy.

He steps back. “No.”

“Do It!” My sword almost flies out of my hand when I hit him again. “Pick up your sword and fight me!”

“No.” He repeats, shaking his head and taking my sword like it’s nothing for him.

“Stop me!” My throat hurts from screaming. But I don’t care, all my mind can think about is pushing my heart hurting as deep as I can.

“You know I can’t.” His voice is calmer than mine, almost as if the sadness overflows him.

“Yes, you can!” My words can be heard from the mountain across sea. “Fight me like you always did!”

“No.” He shakes his head. “I won’t.”

Another swing. This time, he does move. He kneels down in front of me, pushing his sword towards me.

“Stop!” I yell, begging. Feeling tears wanting to drop down my cheeks. My chest, my throat, my arms, my heart, all of me hurts. “Fight back!” In all of my anger, I also drop my sword to the side. My hands take all the strength my body has left to push his shoulders. “Fight back!” I repeat him. He doesn’t move. And my eyes hate the sadness in his eyes.

“I rather…” he starts, heavy breathings in both of us “I rather lose this war, lose my entire army, my family and my crown than lose you.” Finally, I can feel a tear wetting my cheek. My ears don’t want to hear his words. I push him once again. “You’re all I’ve ever wanted! You!”

“No!” I scream back. “You want to win this war! Win for your family! For your crown! They’re everything for you! That’s how it must be!”

My body, not being able to continue with this dying wish of keeping it going, it stops to look at the man that once was my enemy. The one that I swore to my father that I was gonna kill, the one that cursed my nights and robbed me from having a win in this war.

The man that I, hatefully, love.

His eyes shine over mine, almost blurred from the tears.

“You’re my everything.” He whispers, weekly yet surely of his confession. “That’s how it must be. Now, and always.”

#writing #imagine #half of my heart #Spotify

[taylor-on-your-dash]

What’s your opinion on Half Of My Heart?

I think it's an okay song but I don't know any other JM song besides this one, Paper Doll and Gravity to make a comparison.

I think it's a honest song. John is saying that he's forcing himself to love someone but he's realising that he can't do it anymore. It kinda reminds me of 13 blocks when Taylor says that she can't call it love if the other person isn't in it.

Obviously Half Of My Heart was the first step of something that escalated quickly and ended badly but I can't help but notice the similarities to I Can See You (You won't believe half the things I see inside my head / Wait 'til you see half the things that haven't happened yet) which is a clear nod to Half Of My Heart, the reason why everything started

#asks #half of my heart #i can see you