#Joining the Dots

[daddy-long-legssss]

‘Joining the Dots’ has been on REPEAT while I’ve been going on my fall walks. It’s my favourite b-side from ‘Humbug’ and the acoustic version is even better than the original recording (imo). Alex’s voice is just so soft and velvety and vulnerable and devastatingly beautiful 😭 I had to share it! The entire acoustic performance he does for this WRXP Session is so so lovely.

Lyrics:

Been trying to think of something colorful for this season

Pull the wool over the gullible for no reason

You are all I have these days, shake it up and run away

With the night squabbling behind you

From the smoke in your hair to the blood in the bruise

And the bows on the shoes you kicked off

I'm joining the dots

I'm joining the dots

I thought I heard them talking in their sleep yesterday

And I tried but I just can't believe a word they say

Hurry up they'll be here soon, sleeping in the afternoon

While the rain's trying to prove a point outside

From the smoke in your hair to the blood in the bruise

And the bows on the shoes you kicked off

I'm joining the dots, I'm joining the dots

I'm joining the dots

Those people make me cough, can’t the flame

Come up to the moth for a change?

Darling if it's all the same to you, I'll have you to myself

I'm joining the dots, I'm joining the dots

#I love ‘Joining the Dots’ so much #‘can’t the flame come up to the moth for a change?’ #like COME ON #Alex performing any song on acoustic is so special to me #hearing a song completely stripped down #and focusing on the guitar and the piano and his voice #god his voice is just something else #Joining the Dots #Humbug #Arctic monkeys #Alex Turner #live performance #video #Youtube

[dailyamlyrics]

“Can’t the flame come up to the moth for a change.”

#dailyamlyrics #arctic monkeys #am #alex turner #jamie cook #matt helders #nick o'malley #lyrics #joining the dots #humbug era #my propeller #humbug #lyric quotes #lyric posting

[intj-greenwords]

15 October

I know nothing about Dracula except as I read in Dracula Daily. So I may be completely on the wrong track here. However, I’ve been connecting some dots in Jonathan’s entry today, and feeling a little concerned. Should I be worried?

Jonathan is not noticing ‘incidents’ going on around him.

Mina is getting her ‘colour’ back, and is getting stronger.

Mina sleeps ‘a great deal’ (or at least in the daytime, when Jonathan is awake).

She has agitations before sunrise and sunset, so the Dracula connection is still there.

Van Helsing’s hypnosis is getting ‘easier’ and meets less resistance from Mina; also he asks the same questions every day.

This sounds scarily like Lucy when she had turned – her cheeks and lips had better colour and she got  stronger when she was feeding. Is Mina feeding on Jonathan? Is that why she has more colour? Does Jonathan have victim-haze? Is that why he isn’t noticing what’s going on around him? Is this why Mina is sleeping in the daytime? Are Van Helsing’s ‘findings’ actually from hypnosis at all? Or is Mina just saying what she (Dracula) wants him to hear? He asks the SAME QUESTIONS every day. Mina doesn’t even need time to work out a story. She just says the same things every time.

Anyway, I’m concerned. Just sayin’

Also, no spoilers please.

#joining the dots #not sure if i should be #dracula daily #lx reads dracula

[redcasablancas]

joining the dots - arctic monkeys

#art #sketchbook #arctic monkeys #am #joining the dots #lyrics #song lyrics #typography #my propeller

[goofgoofdildo]

Looking through old pic folders and found this

So. Enjoy

#joining the dots #arctic monkeys #i need to tag this in a way that I will find it #Frank bs

[alexstorm]

isn't it about being cheated on? I'm not saying Alexa actually cheated on him but the lyrics impy more than the girl being extraverted. Maybe he was a bit paranoid because she'd become distant.//yeah, you‘re definitely right, but the two things also play into eachother: fear of being cheated on because you consider yourself inadequate/not enough/not exciting enough for your partner

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#Joining The Dots #Humbug

[stuckinapril]

I love Tumblr because nothing matters here truly. There are no influencers. Having followers doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a site where people post their sporadic thoughts and rb pretty pictures. Anyone who thinks any of this matters is woefully missing the point

#I joined tumblr for the aesthetics and now I’m here bc it’s the most low pressure social media to be on #Instagram is ppl’s highlight reel but Tumblr is where u see their pure thoughts unobstructed and I adore that #It’s very nice to have people to relate to and is def the main appeal to me but I don’t think there’s much more to it than that genuinely #Monetization on tumblr isn’t a thing and probably won’t be so it feels stupid to put more stake than necessary in it. Like you’re in the #Trenches over tumblr of all things. Embarrassing #I know chronically online people exist bc I have seen them in my or somebody else’s inbox but imagine waking up at 70 one day and the #Realization hitting u like a freight time that u wasted all ur time thinking tumblr. TUMBLR. This dying website. Has enough weight for u to #be sending anon hate or reviewing ppl’s blogs like they’re some kind of product. Brother this is licherally tumblr #I choose to laugh at this behavior than take it seriously bc absolutely no one is driving me crazy on my OWN blog. On tumblr dot com. #I refuse #I will do whatever I want forever etc

[emilys-axford]

i know i talk about it all the time bc it’s one of my favourite lines from fantasy high but sandra lynn saying to fig “everything you’re going through is something that i get i was just like you” in light of her (most likely) being groomed by bobby dawn, with figs ill-advised interactions with older men in freshman year….. ya i’m thinking about it

#siobhan was bang on when she was like it’s easier for her to give me advice bc she doesn’t see so much of herself in me #sandra lynn faeth u will always be famous i’ll kill and die for u #fantasy high #dimension 20 #everytime i could write a full essay on someone i use tumblr dot com to make a vague point + then put an elipses in so u can join the dots

[fastcardotmp3]

Eddie Munson does do the whole rock star thing, but it doesn't quite go the way it did in the daydreams of a sixteen-year-old kid trying to stay awake in school.

He leaves Hawkins after the world doesn't end, gets himself out there, takes all the hurt and fear and fucked up shit and puts it into a handful of good enough songs to get himself signed.

It's not quite the genre he grew up with, not quite something any of his idols might have played, but only because it is so entirely Eddie, so influenced by where he's been and what he's seen that it kind of doesn't fit one specific influence.

It's new and it's good, is the point. Really good. And he skyrockets fast enough to give himself the spins.

He's recognizable and then he's famous and then he's too famous and too young to know what to do with it and too far from home and everyone he loves to really cope with it and it's just.

Eddie isn't built for it. Eddie hasn't even processed the fact that he was maybe supposed to die in that place, or the fact that he did watch people better than him actually die, but he's out here shooting to the top of the charts and being called the next big thing and it's too much.

It's just enough, at the end of it all, for him to self-sabotage his way out of being more than a one-hit wonder.

One big hit, a contract broken by the guys at the top with the fancy lawyers because Eddie has become the too much thing, just like always, and it's over as quick as it started.

He disappears, becomes one of those whatever happened to him? he was supposed to be the next big thing? stories that travel by word of mouth and then fade with the shift in conversation.

So what does happen to Eddie Munson?

He falls hard, he hits rock bottom, he crawls his way home to an uncle who deserved for Eddie to really make it, make him proud, have him financially set for life and get him into a real house with two stories and a garage to park the truck in, maybe even a yard for a dog.

He spirals and isolates and falls apart and stops letting himself make music at all and makes some personal choices that will probably have lasting effects on him for the rest of his life and then somewhere along the line a girl with hair like tangerines and terrible aim manages to smack him with her cane and says if I learned to walk again, so can you, asshole.

There are people in his life again after that, a reason to get out of bed and realize that he can make Wayne proud in more ways than the one he'd already fucked straight to hell.

Eddie watches a bunch of kids graduate high school and then he packs up and chases down some people who pulled him out of hell once before up in Chicago, crashes on Steve and Robin's couch until he gets himself a job painting houses and they can afford three bedrooms instead of just the two.

He cuts his hair, not short but shorter, and he gets more tattoos and itches for the guitar that sits in a case under his bed, ignores it. Itches for the pen in his hand, ignores that too.

He's still barely past his mid-20s and he still has some fucking around left to get out of his system, some finding out to accomplish doubly so, but he learns as he goes no matter whether it's forwards or backwards.

He falls in love and falls out of it, gets fired from jobs and tracks down new ones, gets into fights with his friends because they're all a little fucked up and codependent and weird but makes up with them for the same reasons.

The thing with Steve happens slowly, going from tolerating each other for the sake of knowing they'll always be on the same team to genuinely liking each other to discovering a care between the two of them that's a bit too strong to be normal about even if it still takes them a half-dozen so-called turning points to really name it and take it and keep it.

Eddie's 33 when they buy a condo together on the outskirts of Chicago two weeks after they fall into bed with each other for the first time, and he's over a decade on from being a kid who rose to the top too fast but it doesn't feel dissimilar, that sensation of a too-good thing that's bound to go wrong.

Only this time he doesn't try to sabotage it, tries the opposite, tries to hold it tightly in ways that would probably be too tight for anyone other than Steve Harrington with all his deeply intense feelings and inability to love at anything other than an eleven.

It's in the move that Steve finds a box of notebooks, snoops because it's who he is, and finds years worth of words that never made it past the tip of a pen but did, eventually, make it that far.

And it's not an easy thing, convincing Eddie that they're words worth sharing, because Eddie doesn't want it to be an easy thing. He can't let kind words shoved into his orbit by a beautiful man be enough to make it feel worth it, can't see a world where sharing his art doesn't end in another great big self-induced mess that he can't let happen when he's finally found something good.

He doesn't want to go on tour and get screamed at on stage and, besides, he's pretty sure the rest of the world doesn't want to scream for him anymore either, but then Steve has to go and remind him--

"You don't have to be the face of it. You can just be the words; you are so fucking good at being the words, Ed."

Which still isn't quite enough to be convincing, but it's a start in a solid six months of the words coming easier now that he has someone to share them with, someone to listen as Eddie plucks away at a guitar that sits out in the open now, free of dust.

It stops feeling like something shameful to hide, his music, and the thing is? It doesn't feel how it did back then either.

It's not an escape or a purge of violent energy or a distraction from everything he didn't know how to think about. Sure, it takes all of that into consideration because it takes the whole of Eddie into consideration, but more than anything it's just fun.

Like he's thirteen and still learning how to play the guitar, like it's just a hobby that never has to go anywhere, like it's just art that maybe deserves to be heard.

Everyone pitches in on ideas when they find out he's trying to come up with a pseudonym, and it's goofy and supportive and kind of the final straw in reaching out to old, burned bridges to see about any new artists looking for equally new tunes.

The first time Eddie and Steve catch familiar lyrics being sung by a new hotshot band on the radio, Eddie cries not because he's jealous or disappointed, but because it feels right.

He doesn't like being up in front of the crowds, had only ever walked across tables and made himself big and scary and loud out of self preservation, would always rather his biggest performances be for the people he knows really care.. Besides, after everything he's survived he's learned, albeit slowly, that he really likes the freedom of the quiet.

This way he still gets to say what he has to say, gets to throw his hat into the ring of an artform that he loves without selling his soul to a machine that tried to eat him alive (trust him. he knows what that feels like.)

Of course, someone is going to put 2 and 2 together eventually, the industry isn't as big as it looks and pseudonyms only pull so much weight when you went out in such a spectacularly messy and memorable fashion, but Eddie's got his condo in Chicago.

He's got the guy he shares it with in his bed.

He's got two cats and a windowsill full of plants he's going to keep alive this time, Steve, just you watch.

He's got his uncle settled in Indy these days, a small place with a small yard.

He's got music, too. Turns out even his own tendency to self-destruct couldn't take that away, huh?

It's what got him out of hell alive, after all.

#dot post #dot fic #eddie munson #steddie #one hit wonder eddie has lived rent free in my head for too long you guys have to join me in this before I lose my mind to it #rockstar!eddie #writer!eddie

[sideblogdotjpeg]

gus crying at the end of kings tide broke me!!!! hes been through so much in just a couple of weeks!!!!! hes just a kid!!!! auuughdhhhh!!!!!

#the owl house #the owl house spoilers #toh #gus porter #hunter toh #hunter the golden guard #the golden guard #posts by me dot com #i cldnt fit in all the other characters #but u KNOW theyre all also joining in a big hug pile!!!

[warmsol]

pov, you just inherited your late grandmother’s cottage ✿

#ts4 #sims 4 #simblr #belina solis #annd we're off! solis legacy joins its sister lune legacy on warmsol dot com <3 #i'm playing her life and i'm excited to share some snapshots with you :') #solis #solis legacy

[tebaragi]

The advent of Real Heroes

#p1harmony #p1h #p1hedit #malegroupsnet #kpopccc #keeho #soul #jongseob #yoon keeho #haku shota #kim jongseob #flash tw #tw flashing #*mgif #wanted to join in the p1eceblr revival--- #ended up making the most painful for the eyes set to ever be posted on tumble dot com at an ungodly hour 💀💀💀

[biscuitboba]

Thinking about the "you are my captain luffy, and im your first mate" line and uhh, remember when luffy first asked zoro to become a part of his crew? while untying the ropes, zoro said to luffy something along the line "you can untie me, but i'm still not gonna be part of your crew", and he was all like "i mean it!", and then later luffy also asked nami to join his crew, but of course she rejected him too.

Anyway, later (after teaming up with nami first then zoro second) luffy told morgan that they are a crew (just luffy being luffy), but zoro and nami of course refuted his statement. Not just once though, after defeating morgan and the other marines, nami and zoro pulled out the "not a crew" statement simultaneously after the "im sensing a little bit of tension amongst the crew" line from luffy.

So like i cant help but think about how zoro and nami technically kinda joined at the same time? And not just that, but nami's actually the first person that luffy teamed up with! And this got me thinking, zoro what makes you think that you are luffy's first mate? I get if animanga zoro wanted to call himself luffy's first mate, but opla zoro? Like anyway all im trying to say is that opla zoro is a self proclaimed first mate, i said what i said.

Also i'd like to add something from what i've read somewhere about first mate and:

"First mate is the vice captain and is not necessarily the first person to join. A first mate is appointed after a sizeable crew is formed and the captain picks the most suitable person to lead his crew in his absence."

AND REMEMBER THE "you just got here you don't know what luffy needs" line from zoro??? luffy said that he needed zoro. Zoro heard what he said. This man is just ready to commit for life. He picked himself as the first mate like a champ, as he should.

EDIT: after rewatching opla i just realised that nami used the first mate phrase not only once but twice (when talking to/abt zoro). But i still think that zoro is a self proclaimed first mate, cuz first mate should've been chosen by the captain and they (luffy & zoro) never really talked about it so i stand by what i said:D

#Like i get that zoro naturally becomes a part of straw hat crew #like there's no official moment as clear as the one in the anime or manga when zolo agrees with luffy to join his crew #but like the lack of 'officially joining the crew' moment is what makes the “im your first mate” line from zoro CRAZIER to me #roronoa “im your first mate okay? from now till the end. get used to it.” zoro #luffy couldnt be happier though #zolu #luzo #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #one piece #one piece live action #opla #im overthinking and reaching about zolu again whats new? #pulling the shane “ive connected the two dots” madej move #or not really

[lalaballa1977]

Saw toothed lover boy

Angle grinder smile

Dracula teeth

Diamond cutter-shaped heartaches

Saber tooth multi-ball confusion

WHO ARE THEE

#i m joining the dots #alex turner #miles kane #milex

[leverage-ot3]

okay but the parallel between hardison using eliot as an example of redemption to harry in the panamanian monkey job and eliot saying he could never be redeemed (and he’s made peace with that) to sophie in the finale

#something something everyone can see how eliot has been redeemed but eliot. eliot will never believe it #something something hardison looks at the man who has stood beside him and protected him for over a decade and seeing him as redeemed #hardison watching him risk his life day after day after day month after month year after year #and knowing in his heart that this is what they stand for. this is what they strive for. to do better. to be better #and to hardison? eliot is the epitome of that #it breaks his heart that eliot can’t see that #parker wants to shake him he’s being stupid ‘ELIOT CANT YOU SEE’ ‘YOU ARE GOOD’ #hardison as he joins in shaking eliot: ‘YOU ARE A GOOD MAN PLS BELIEVE US WE ARE RIGHT UR WRONG’ #insert me with the always sunny conspiracy corkboard with red string connecting these two plot elements #i’ve connected the dots #i’ve connected them #I am Not posting this at peak time or anything I just had this thought just now and almost lost it #leverage redemption #leverage ot3 #meta #parker x hardison x eliot #eliot spencer meta #eliot spencer #leverage #parallels #the panamanian monkey job #the crowning achievement job #leverage redemption s2 #leverage redemption s1 #leverage redemption 2.13 #leverage redemption 1.02 #mine #people pls like this show me I’m not going crazy

[alexstorm]

In Joining the Dots is really telling of their dynamic as a couple: describing himself as the somewhat inadequate introvert and her the outgoing and charming extrovert. // isn't it about being cheated on? I'm not saying Alexa actually cheated on him but the lyrics impy more than the girl being extraverted. Maybe he was a bit paranoid because she'd become distant.

From the smoke in your hair to the blood in the bruise

And the bows on the shoes you kicked off

I'm joining the dots.

Yeah, I'm out when it comes to Humbug. lol

#Joining The Dots #Humbug #Arctic Monkeys