Whether it's already the 1st or still the 31st for you, Happy New Year everyone!
I've updated the QSMP VOD Timestamp Archive to include a section for 2024 timestamps. It's wild to think I've done this for (nearly) a year.
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Hands down, Give is one of Sleep Token's yearn-iest songs. Ever. It's not on par with TLYW, Jaws etc. (because that's a whole different layer of Sleep Token's yearning onion), but it's got a kick to it.
When I say that song is the epitome of desperate, I mean it.
Without thinking about it too much, the first time I listened to it my first thoughts were 'ah, okay, wanting to give all for your lover and be able to trust them, got it', but then I thought about it a bit more.
Like with all Sleep Token songs, it has a bit of an eerie undertone, which borders on slightly obsessive, depending on who you're talking to, with the lyrics. We have "I picture you when you are all alone", "I am the shadow, you're a passenger", "I'll be the limit of your light again" and, of course, "give me all that you can give" with "and if you want to give me anything, then give (give in again)".
Vessel is describing himself as literal darkness; he's a shadow in the gloom and whoever this is is a star glowing in the darkness. A light he aims to dampen because he wants a taste of that light. A taste of them.
However, it's this desperation for attention that gets me. "Give me all that you can give" is an easy example; he's desperately giving all he can possibly give in hopes of getting the same, or more, back. It's repeated over and over, half begging half demanding with soft dulcet tones and promises that he'll be watching for their enemies, to let them know that they contend with him etc.
Give becomes this two-faced thing of someone giving with all their might to someone who is afraid to trust, bringing up empathy from us, and someone who will not accept anything except everything. It's this sexually charged fight between who is a victim (or if there really is one here) and who is the abuser.
Further, to "give in" is to 'cease fighting or arguing; admitting defeat.' It's something primal and angry hidden under, or rather, mixed with passion, and it's incredibly well hidden.
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me reading the 73828th Griddlehark modern AU fanfic where Harrow is at a party & gets overwhelmed with all the noise & lights & people, and Gideon helps her
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Morgana would absolutely enjoy teasing Merlin and Arthur about their feelings 😎 Especially Arthur!
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE
morgana and arthur are literally siblings so the teasing never ceases so like we KNOW she's going to be insufferable about it as soon as she finds out he likes merlin. i can see her calling out arthur's favoritism and the fact that he takes merlin literally everywhere and tells him everything. imagine merlin casually talking about something arthur told him (about himself? about his mom maybe?) thinking that it's common knowledge or that at least morgana, as his sister, knows this, then morgana just narrows her eyes like wtf arthur never told me that he never talks about this 🤨 so she never lets it go and keeps bugging arthur about it forever
AS FOR MERLIN the degree of teasing would vary depending on what kind of friendship they have like if they'd remained friends and he'd never poisoned her then i genuinely think she would've been helping him the whole time (ie; making sure he gets alone time with arthur and/or hinting to arthur that he likes him etc.)
buuuuut i feel like if we're talking later on in the show (maybe morgana gets a redemption arc and eventually goes back to living in the castle) there'd be a lot (and i mean a LOT) of tension and bad blood between her and merlin so she wouldn't talk to him about it directly but maybe in an argument or something she'd off-handedly mention to arthur that his stupid manservant is head over heels in love with him and she's sick of having to see it every day cause she hates him (and he's literally emrys, but like that's a minor thing)
SO YEAH SHE RELISHES TEASING THEM ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS AND LOVES SEEING THEIR FACES GO RED EVERY TIME SHE POINTS OUT THE OBVIOUS (maybe she and merlin have a little bad blood but that doesn't stop her from poking fun at him and arthur's ridiculous pining)
ps: keep the questions/discussions coming :))
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First it was The Razor Crest
Now it's The Marauder
iT RHyMes. Can Star Wars not Star Wars just this once, PLEASE *collapses to knees* ⚰
These are my two fave SW shows ever but they are not just rhyming at this point SDKFJSLDFJ we are approaching RECREATION!!! AND IT HURTS!!!!!!!!!
Like LOOK AT ALL THE SIMILARITIES HERE
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Harry Styles and Taylor Swift's relationship feels like a Taylor Jenkins Reed novel and yet they're real and i feel some type of way about it today I'm SORRY
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social media updates from They are like
backstage at hot mike's shindig centre
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ok so I don't know how I felt about the execution of s2ep9 (PLOTWISE! I thought it looked gorgeous) but I commend the creative effort behind it 1000% because of how scary it must have been to put it together when it's such a departure of the show
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ken is the type of boyfriend to want to surprise me with my favorite pastry (donuts) to cheer me up but doesn't know which one i'd want the most so he just gets all of them. comes home with 15 dozen boxes. we end up having to share them with the entirety of barbieland or else they'll go bad (hey, if plastic milk can expire, so can plastic donuts)!
driver brings home apple pie bc he assumes it's my favorite. it's not. well, apple is my favorite pie flavor, but pie itself is not my favorite pastry.
...but i would never tell him that, bc i love our routine of eating apple pie together at our favorite diner at two in the morning and i'd be sad if that ever stopped. sure, we could get donuts at 2am, but it wouldn't be the same. the fact that he'd go out of his way to drive us to a diner and sit us down and drape his jacket over my shoulders while sharing a slice of pie with me -- i dunno. it's nice.
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