#Other People's Heartache

[best-bastille-song]

hey guess what

i, hayden of tumblr dot com, have decided to make a third bracket blog for funnies

we're pitting songs by british alt-rock/indie/whatever you want to call them band bastille against each other! how fun!

now it's your job to submit some songs to put in there! they have a fairly large discography, so that's why i'm not putting all of them on there haha that's too much work

some rules:

normal poll rules??? no spamming etc

to give you an idea, what i'd like is original songs or covers/remixes that bastille have done of other artists. any remixes of their songs by other people aren't allowed. (for example, the greek tragedy bastille remix is allowed, but the pompeii audien remix is not)

however, covers they've done of their own songs (eg. the bunker sessions/one eye'd jacks sessions) are fine

other people's heartache is allowed also! from any part from 1-4 (bear in mind i haven't been able to listen to 1 or 2 yet)

also!!! collaborations are great! go ahead!

speaking of pompeii, pompeii and happier are blacklisted until further notice because i know they're going to sweep

submissions are here and probably open until may 1st :)

inspo: @blue-character-brawl @obscure-song-tournament @album-cover-battle @divorced-tournament @fictional-train-fight @themecompetition and @fictional-dan-showdown!

#bastille song bracket #bastille #tournament #bad blood #wild world #doom days #give me the future #other people's heartache #yk for convenience

[bastillemxfans]

Last celebration of this week: HAPPY 10 YEARS TO THE INCREDIBLE OPH2!!! 🥳🥳

#bastille #other people's heartache #anniversary #happy anniversary #our gif

[pixiethoughtsfairyfeelings]

Hold me tight and don't let go

#babygirl #text #you have the right to lose control #now- now wait a minute- #don't let go #other people's heartache #bastille

[cbcastro]

At last! 

#youtube #music #visualiser #Bastille #Ella Eyre #No Angels #No Scrubs #TLC #Angels #the xx #mashup #cover #Other People's Heartache #Bastille X #Psycho

[porygon-v]

YOOOO bastille is finally putting old other people's heartache stuff on spotify im so excited i love their covers so much

#bastille #other people's heartache #no angels

[dollypopup]

"Colin should have grovelled more!" "Penelope folded too easily"

I think statements like this typically come from people who like Penelope. . .but don't really understand her. And don't really understand just why she cares for Colin, and just why him groveling would not in any way bring her peace.

Penelope and Colin are kindred spirits in their loneliness, in season 3 more than any others. Penelope had lost her friendship with Eloise, and Colin didn't really have a close friend circle to begin with. Except with Pen. Pen was the person he could put the mask down for, could open up to, (in particular with their 'dreams' discussion) and that's why he couldn't even entertain the idea of giving up talking to her in Season 2. She is a vital part of his life, and holds so much significance and importance to him.

I imagine that's what made their silence over his travels especially painful for him. They spent such a long time talking after Season 1, and he even informs her that her letters were so encouraging, that it helped him heal something inside of himself. That if she could see him in a gentle way. . .so could he. (And he repays this, because he is honest to god out here acting and looking at her like she hung the moon in the sky). But without her presence in his life, he spiraled. Didn't feel confident in being who he is, and thus put on his persona more firmly. We know this because he wrote in his journal that "I want to be less needy, less insecure, while still maintaining the core of my vulnerability that makes me who I am". That he misses his family, that he misses home.

And we know, from the books, that Home? Home is Penelope. Penelope is his North Star, is his guiding force, and who I argue he feels he needs. In his very first scene, he looks toward her house, tries to find her in the window. When he does not, he returns to his family. In the outdoor gathering, he looks for her and finds her, eager to talk. He states aloud that he misses her, and I imagine he wrote it, too. Not hearing back from her over the course of his travels was surely something that hurt him, but he doesn't hold any ill will toward her for it, only wants to reconnect again. In fact, the one and only time he brings up how he misses her and that she didn't respond, she makes very clear the reason why: she heard what he said and it hurt her. And he's ashamed of it.

Colin hears her call him cruel, and instead of ruffling his feathers about it, instead of getting upset, instead of having a chip on his shoulder as I feel so many men would about it. . .he understands why she does so.

Penelope is a woman who has been largely treated poorly in her society. She feels unheard, she feels undesired, and in her circumstances, and I can't help but ask myself. . .has anyone ever truly apologized to Penelope for hurting her, before? Her mother? Her sisters? Eloise, likely, but. . .anyone else? And the way Colin did? Because of all the characters in the show, Colin? Colin knows how to apologize. He has a lot of practice in it. And very importantly: Colin, a man of privilege in his society, apologizes. . .predominately to women. To Marina, to his mother, and multiple times to Penelope.

Ultimately, Penelope wants to be heard, Penelope wants to be understood, Penelope wants to feel desired.

And Colin checks every single one of those boxes. He informs he is not who he was before, and then he proves it to her. He hears that he hurt her, and he comments on it directly. An entire night apart, and he comes back to her 'Because I embarrass you' with 'I am most certainly not ashamed of you', replies to her 'I am a laughingstock' with 'you are clever, and warm, and I am proud to call you my good friend'. He hears her proclaim her own insecurities, and empathizes so deeply with her. He listens. He understands. He makes clear that he cares for her, and that she *is* desired. 'You lift my spirits' 'I seek you out at every social assembly'. That she helps him see the world in ways he loves, that he sees HER and how much she has cared for HIM, that she makes him feel appreciated, that he appreciates her, in turn.

And then? Then? He shows her. He tells her, and he shows her. His actions all throughout Season 3 reinforce this apology. He continues looking for her in every corner of every ballroom, he continues complimenting her, he laughs at her jokes and respects her boundaries, he is ever so gentle with her, he listens to her with an attentiveness that no one else has ever given her. To Lady Whistledown? Sure. But to Penelope? Who else in the entirety of that ton has listened to Penelope the way Colin has?

Absolutely no one.

Penelope Featherington ghosts Colin Bridgerton for months with no explanation, and Colin comes back wanting to reach out to her, and she finally tells him why.

And he apologizes. Because he listens. Really, truly listens. And really truly cares.

I need you to understand how rare that is, even nowadays, but especially back then. That Colin is the kind of man who can put his hurt to the side and realize he made a mistake, that he said something callous, and he adores her, and he can't lose her, and he has to see her and make it right.

Because that's why Penelope fell for Colin. Not because he's beautiful, not for his charm, not for his family. But for his heart. Because he shows her kindness in a world that so often disregards her. Because he seeks her out and tries to understand her, truly hears what she has to say and compliments her, says he's sorry and looks at things from her perspective.

Because he saw her when she was invisible.

Penelope Featherington, who grew up in a house that made cruel jabs at her, has Colin Bridgerton come to her and say he regrets what he said, and that he was wrong, and that he understands why she's mad at him. Penelope Featherington who has so rarely had much of anyone tell her that they're sorry for what they said about her, sits before Colin Bridgerton as he professes how much she means to him. That he cannot even spend a full day away from her knowing they're on bad terms with each other without making it right. That he sees how she is hurting and he has to in any way he can amend it. She is lonely, with no one really in her corner at the start of season 3, and she feels like she lost it all, and Colin comes to her and says 'no, I'm here and I appreciate you and you are special to me, please let me in and let me prove it'. Is it any wonder why after she shakes his hand, she stands in the sun, and she feels the warmth of it, she can smile? That she can breathe, again? That she can be truly content for the first time in the season?

Because Penelope Featherington does not want Colin to beg. She knows him. She knows the tender, full heart he hides behind the new cavalier persona. She knows the soft underbelly of Colin Bridgerton.

He never had to grovel. All he had to do was love her. Assuredly. Fervently. Loudly. Unapologetically.

And he does.

#polin #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #bridgerton #sorry y'all i just have a lot of feelings and i need to get them out like they invented love what am i meant to do witH THAT INFORMATION!? #they just care about each other so much and so deeply #and they see the best in each other #penelope was hurt but she never HATED him #penelope was hurt and when she said 'i never thought you of all people could be so cruel' she also knew. . .he isn't #he isn't cruel #he's a young man trying his best in the world and he wanted to fit in and that made him say something hurtful about her #but he has a history of uplifting her #and he continues to do so #not one bad word about penelope all this season #'you are penelope featherington. . .never forget that' (you deserve the world) (you are amazing) #colin bridgerton said 'i love you' over and over this season and in the seasons before but we didn't hear it because we thought #it was only professed in one language #'you really are very good you know that?' 'you only wanted to keep me from heartache' 'what could possibly measure up to all that?' #'that you would never forsake me' 'you are pen. . .you are my friend. . .you do not count' (i could never give you up) #'i will always look after you penelope' #they are friends to lovers but there is love in that friendship #a deep beautiful love they have with each other #and sorry i'm ugly crying but i just adore them

[spaceratprodigy]

*gulp* deacon/iris "please just kiss me" intimacy ask........ NYE party- (i am shot)

@oldworldwidgets — [ intimacy prompts ]

It's in the stars, it's been written in the scars on our hearts

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again

pose reference

#if u need me I'm gonna be on the floor thinking abt the doomed love of the disaster besties #aud.. aud my love my darling.. this little scene we crafted has been rotating nonstop in my brain for months #it has fundamentally ruined me #but it's so perfect it hurts so good I love seeing the lines blurring I love them not being able to get it right #struggling to communicate through the heartache *chefs kiss* #him.. him being the one to ask.. #I am unwell you are always sending me banger prompts my dear AND you always know how to help put my chaotic ramblings in the perfect words #OUGH miss aud oldworldwidgets I love you with my entire heart and soul you are such a ray of sunshine in my life #also I still have the other two intimacy prompts u sent me for them in my back pocket..... #I've had some ideas of how they can spend the night on the roof under the stars together...... #more on that later #ANYWAY #ilysm I am blowing you so many kisses rn #finally the people get to know who miss iris really kissed on new years eve on this fine day of *checks watch* valentine's day #(sorry nicky ✌😔 just bestie things u know how it is) #my art #sole survivor #fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #deacon #deacon fallout 4 #deacon fo4 #oc x canon

[uncanny-tranny]

I think the thing about the way people conceptualize empathy is... when you're interacting with other people, they are going through things that, which you may empathize with, you won't always understand, partially because you're two different people, but also because not all situations are 1:1 copy-pastes that are easy to understand.

This isn't saying that empathy is useless, but that acknowledging when you relate personally to somebody and yet also recognizing that this is their struggle is important. When people pretended to empathize with me, it made me feel like I was being placated to. I felt like people were only trying to shut me up by saying that they, personally, "get it," when I knew they didn't. I just don't want people replicating that because they genuinely do want to help the people in their lives.

#empathy #mental health #that's why i stopped talking to my dad for YEARS before he went on his own effort to learn about this sort of stuff #it just sucks to be treated as badly as you're feeling basically #and this doesn't even get into the idea that empathy isn't a requirement in human interaction for every little thing #empathy is as much a tool as any other experience can be - and like any tool you can use it in hurtful ways... #...even if you didn't mean to use that tool in that way #a friend of mine is going through Some Shit that i know from personal experience SUCKS ASS... #...but also. they're going through it in different circumstances and at a different time than me and that means it's a DIFFERENT SITUATION. #...so yes i know the heartache and the anger and the loss of will and all of that... #...but i don't know what it's like to go through it like they are and that is FINE #it's just frusterating seeing people act like empathy is going to fix the other person without any work being put into it #it's the fantasy of doing a lot with such little effort

[songswiththesamename]

Miley Cyrus;

MARINA;

Bastille(ft. Rationale + James Arthur);

#music #polls #flowers #miley cyrus #marina #bastille #other peoples heartache #submission by silvermarmoset #Youtube

[ligiawrites]

♥ I just released the artbook ♥

All you have to do is head to the game page and download it. Yay!

Here's the post on itch. I think it's easier to download it on this page, haha:

#I'm still trying to figure out a few details in all this #so pls let me know if you managed to download it!!! #and mainly if you didn't #so i can fix whatever's causing you heartache #unless your heartache is caused by other people or dangerous things like love--in which case I'm not sure I can help #but maybe Mathias can idk #love the guard be the king #artbook #ltgbtk

[futurescape]

Bastille - No Angels @ The Atlantis 9/21/2023

🎥 Me (futurescape @ tumblr, thedoomdays @ twitter, exorcisemymind @ instagram)

#bastille #dan smith #kyle simmons #chris woody wood #will farquarson #charlie barnes #no angels #other people’s heartache

[best-bastille-song]

round 1 part a

#bastille song bracket #bastille #tournament #round 1 #round 1a #other people's heartache #Spotify

[bastillemxfans]

Following up with the anniversaries this week, we celebrate today the awesome piece that is OPH4.

Happy 4 years since its release!! 🥳🥳

#bastille #happy anniversary #anniversary #our gif #other people's heartache

[basnatural]

New work inspired by a black work my mum created and also Remains by Bastille

#new art #music inspired art #Bastille #remains #skull #dan smith #Kyle Simmons #will farquarson #chris woody wood #charlie barnes #other peoples heartache

[the-poison-in-my-veins]

#the truth about change #to be honest #we couldn't keep each other #we were needed elsewhere for other people #always and never #💙❤️‍🩹 #love #heartache #happy Valentine's day old man #nellie starling #spilled ink #spilled words #spilled thoughts #spilled poetry #spilled writing

[shitboy96]

Listening to bastille bad blood bc my bf has the vinyl and god I’m so embarrassed that I was a Bastille Stan back in 2014 this shit fucking sucks. I had the lead singer on my desktop blog for ages!!

#like every song is the same and he just rhymes the same word with itself constantly #so corny #to be honest I did like those mysterious mixtapes more but they’re like impossible to find now #other people’s heartache??