#a bygone era

[s-lycopersicum]

#brought to you from the bygone era of 2008 #lucky star #hiiragi kagami #izumi konata #gif

[violentdevotion]

i don't wanna use dating apps. i want to meet someone on the train and have one incredible night walking through the city together. we don't exchange numbers but promise to meet in the same spot in exactly a year. we do.

#ameera speaks #before sunrise #its such a beautiful film and 70% of that is because it simultaneously feels so familiar and like a bygone era

[vox-anglosphere]

A Welsh lady invites you inside her lovely thatched cottage in 1905

#Wales #stone cottage #thatched roof #monochrome #nostalgia #vintage photo #rural britain #Welsh countryside #rustic #UK #simpler times #yesteryear #architecture #bygone era #1905

[lotrmusical]

tell you what. i love being older than i used to be. and more transgender also

#side effect of having had the same blog for over a decade is sometimes someone likes a post you made in 2015 and provides a quick method of #time travel back to a bygone era of excruciating personal posts. and let me tell you #i am by no means the pinnacle of mental health and emotional stability. but at least it isn't 2015 anymore. #being alive! growing! making better friends with my selves past present and future! #idk i just live here but like i'm very glad i still do. #yknow. #gay belligerence

[danidoesathing]

Strange Trails + Titles Cards

#ok but I ADORE the title cards they use for their music videos #its such a little detail but it gives the songs/videos so much personality #plus I love the recurring themes of film/tv of a bygone era #the Hindi in the second gif is dead man's hand btw #lord huron #lord huron gif #lord huron gifs #lord huron strange trails #strange trails #the world ender #the night we met #fool for love #dead man's hand #dani speaks

[relatablepicturesoffinnmertens]

#adventure time #atimers #finn mertens #her parents #season 2 #also jake #ive had this one in my drafts since 2020 and i'd tagged it “finn pog” #relic of a bygone era

[quietwingsinthesky]

the doctor is making the saddest most pathetic eyes at jack like noooo. she can change. she can become a better person. please, she’s my oldest friend. and jack has to go along with this because he’s a simp. meanwhile, missy starts fondly reminiscing about their torture sessions together whenever he tries to talk to her.

#he’s trying so fucking hard aksjfkfksjdk bless #is missy being awful or is she being genuinely sentimental of a bygone era of her life. who can say. both probably.

[c6jpg]

#genshin spoilers #music #sea of bygone eras #GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD #(this is just from a screen recording but i need it on my blog right now) #0.txt #also idk if this plays in other areas this is just specifically where i heard it

[rthko]

I think one reason of many that things are Bad lately is that gay marriage did not temper gay male promiscuity like many "activists" promised it would. This is not to say it's gay men's fault for being promiscuous--it is primarily the fault of bigots themselves, but it also didn't help that said "activists" made such a claim.

#many will consider cruising a tragic relic of a bygone era #but now that homosexuality is decriminalized and legal marriage is an option cruisers have gone back to being perverts and sex criminals #resentment of gay male promiscuity feels so much worse now that we 'dont have an excuse'

[a-s-levynn]

So i had a dream last night which wasn't a nightmare and i even remember most of it! which is super exciting. I barely ever remember dreams that are just simply that so this is a fairly rare occasion for me.

It was weird tho

But it was.. i don't even know what it was so let me ramble about it in the tags a bit

#there was this bioluminescent and also biotoxic creature in a city at night #it was bipedal sort of humanoid shaped but with definitive deep sea features #it had that transparent skin and flesh and body with bioluminescing highlights #which i have no idea how it worked because the entire dream took place in a city enviroment on very much dry land but it's a dream innit #the face was definitely not human more a jumble of fishy features #it was gorgeous btw in a humanoid monster sort of fascinating way #it had this weird feel to it that it's something very old that should not be here now.. some sort of reminiscence of a bygone era #i might try to draw it but i don't know how successful i'd be to be honest #anyway so i was part of a group (don't know what kind exactly) and i never seen any of them i just knew they existed #and there was this innate knowledge that the creature was kind of hunting or more like luring us but we also were hunting it #i don't know if it did something to us before or we just had this unexplainable pull towards it but we definitely were fixated on it #and it was supposed to be a big threat even just by existing and walking around but also would have been bad if it was dead #but i don't know why was it so bad because the “toxicity” of the creature wasn't lethal it just made you stuck in a blissful delirious stat #just by being too close to it and which in most cases would fade when it moved away so the other alternative felt way worse #cuz if it would die something else would have gotten loose which would have been worse than the delirium #it was some sort of unstoppable deadly madness i think.. at least that was what i felt the dream eluded to #and i think we wanted to neutralize it somehow but we had no idea how to avoid disaster that surely would come if it dies #but it would have also revitalize nature on a basically divine scale by giving it's body back to it so there was this dilemma the whole tim #but none of us would have any answers so we just followed this inner draw regardless of the uncertainty #and the entire dream was basically us lureing the creature somewhere but simultaniously it was somehow luring us in as wel #to the same spot #it was a vast moonlit fieald outside of city bounds surrounded with tall dark trees and the sky was littered with stars #and a sharp cliff to one side #so we arrived there and we were standing on opposite sides and look towards each other #but looking into the creatures eyes literally woke me up #there was a noise it made and i know i understood it as words inside the dream but i can't remember what it was after waking just the noise #and that was it #it wasn't long i think tho it felt that way

[straycalamities]

I hope this is okay to ask but are you still pals with other mods ever since or just with some? Or just still mutuals but don’t talk much? You don’t have to answer if you’re not comfortable with it!

well, it's been over a decade and relationships ebb and flow all the time and people change, or situations change. and you can't keep the exact same relationship with someone for that long i don't think. at least not in my experience.

so yeah i've had my positives and negatives with fellow mods. they've come and gone. some of them have stuck around, and others have moved on. it's just how it goes.

some of them i'm still on good terms with, we just don't keep up. others we're comfy-but-quiet mutuals. and others i'd say we're still friends, even good friends. and then there are the ones where it happened to go real sour, unfortunately. it's just a lot of different folks from a lot of different strokes of life and a bunch of things have happened. i feel like it's to be expected.

#asks #Anonymous #and this is true for the entire fandom no matter the length of time the persons been in it #or fandoms in general #or life in general #so yeah ive had to get used to seeing a lot of ghosts constantly when new ppl get into the old archives each year #and it's very strange and sometimes bittersweet and sometimes it's really tough and hard #but i don't wanna leave so i endure and i try to let it roll off my shoulders #but that's why everyone should be respectful of what they're getting into when they kick up the dust of the old bygone eras #there's a deep deep well of history there you can't even begin to know

[solradguy]

Do you play Smash Bros, and if so, who do you main? My money's on Roy, for obvious reasons.

100% dead serious answer is that I was a Kirby main in 1999 before I knew anything else, and then I was a Marth/Samus main in Melee sometime later, and now I flip between Ike, Ganondorf, and Terry but it's been a long while since I played Smash... It's like riding a bike though. My Terry's gonna be cracked after how much GG I've played lmao

But in my heart I'll always be a Kirby main

la bestia

#asks #In a bygone era I liked them [platonic] pretty and blue #Hence the Marth... #Sol Radguy dark lore... #Roy is a REALLLLLYYY good guess though

[acespaceacepilot]

i'd bleed for anything if it held me the right way 🩸🗡️💥 a wyll/astarion playlist on spotify

(song list + lyrics that made me chose them below the cut)

man or a monster (feat. zayde wølf) - sam tinnesz

it's so hard to tell which side you're on / one day is hell, the next day is the dawn / the lines are blurred, you keep rubbing your eyes / the tables turn, now it's time to survive

eat your young - hozier

i'm starving, darling / let me put my lips to something / let me wrap my teeth around the world / start carving, darling

until it doesn’t hurt - mother mother

i wanna fight, i wanna bite / i wanna swallow all the light / but i'ma stay right here / i'ma stay inside / i'ma just sit tight for another night / if i can't make it right / then i won't make it worse / i'ma just sit tight until it doesn't hurt

biting down - lorde

skip a hit, don't make a sound / (it feels better biting down) / breathed so deep i thought i'd drown / (it feels better biting down) / listen to the beats resound / (it feels better biting down)

furthest star - dirt poor robins

behold the day she found me here / so near the end of love's career / i feared every flower that appeared / had been uprooted by my peers / but then my autumn prayers were heard / just before the frost emerged / and i'll have my just deserts / when, once again, i'm next to her

flesh and bone - black math

break the truth inside of me / climbed down to hell on the devil's tree / i clutched a branch of soot and flame / the thought that rose, to scorch my feet

de selby (part 2) - hozier

what you're given, what you live in / darlin', it finds a way to live in you / and your heart, love, has such darkness / i feel it in the corners of the room

my body is a cage - arcade fire

my body is a cage / that keeps me from dancing with the one i love / but my mind holds the key / you're standing next to me / my mind holds the key / i'm living in an age / that calls darkness light / though my language is dead / still the shapes fill my head

gilded lily - slowed + reverb - cults

now it's been long enough to talk about it / i've started not to doubt it, just wrap my head around it / i remember when you told me it's an everyday decision / but with my double vision, how was i supposed to see the way? / haven't i given enough, given enough? (x4) / always the fool with the slowest heart

dispense with sentiment - we are scientists

i've been turning this over in my head / but i've been trying not to pick it apart / it's an overture to something, i guess / but i'll be goddamned if i can say to what / it's like i'm winding up to speak / for the first time in weeks / i'm trying to make sense / can we start again / and drop our defenses? / it might just be best / if we start dispensing with sentiment

graveyard whistling - nothing but thieves

all that afterlife / i don't hold with it / all your gods are false / just get used to it / let's go out tonight / kill some stubborn myths / set those ghosts alight, get into it. // ok, i admit / i'm not innocent / i did everything and i would again

crying wolf - julien baker

'cause i'm not crying wolf / i'm out here / looking for them / in the morning when i wake up / naked in their den / i'll swear off all the things i thought / that got me here / in the evening / i'll come back again

blood bank - bon iver

that secret that we know / that we don't know how to tell / i'm in love with your honor / i'm in love with your cheeks / what's that noise up the stairs babe? / is that christmas morning creaks?

bite the hand - boygenius

who do you think you are? / who do you think i am? / what do you wanna say? / what do you think will change? / maybe i'm afraid of you (x2) / i'll bite the hand that feeds me (x2) / bite the hand (x2) / bite the hand that needs me (x2)

metaphor - the crane wives

don't look too hard 'cause you won't like the scars he left in me / i've gotten good at making up metaphors / i've gotten good at stretching the truth out of shape / and all these words are sweet and meaningless / you can't trust a single thing i say

various storms & saints - florence + the machine

i'm in the throes of it / somewhere in the belly of the beast / but you took your toll on me / so i gave myself over willingly / oh, you got a hold on me / i don't know how i don't just stand outside and scream / i am teaching myself how to be free

savior complex - phoebe bridgers

baby, you're a vampire / you want blood and i promised / i'm a bad liar / with a savior complex / all the skeletons you hide / show me yours, and i'll show you mine

see the day - the altogether

the sleeping slip has begun to fray / i never thought i'd see the day / the pious hunter stops stalking prey / i never thought i'd see the day

myth - beach house

if you built yourself a myth / you'd know just what to give / what comes after this / momentary bliss? / the consequence / of what you do to me / help me to name it

posthumous forgiveness - tame impala

ever since i was a small boy / no one else compared to you, no way / i always thought heroes stayed close / whenever troubled times arose / i didn't know, ain't always how it goes / every single word you told me / i believed without a question, always / to save all of us / you told us both to trust / but now i know you only saved yourself

slowing down - the backseat lovers

whisper in my ear / that you need me / but if you saw it clearly / would you leave me? / i'm honest to you / but i'm lying to myself / and i don't wanna hear it / it has something to do / with the balance of my blood / and when i'll have to spill it

only - ry x

coming from the cold / buried under heat / lay you on the floor / i was only falling in love / cut me like a rose / turn me like a beast / hold you to the floor / i was only falling in love

daylight - david kushner

tellin' myself it's the last time / can you spare any mercy that you might find / if i'm down on my knees again? / deep down, way down, lord, i try / try to follow your light, but it's night time / please, don't leave me in the end

touch - sleeping at last

i know, i know the sirens sound / just before the walls come down / pain's a well-intentioned weatherman / predicting god as best he can / but god, i wanna feel again

will anybody ever love me? - sufjan stevens

will anybody ever love me? / for good reasons / without grievance, not for sport / will anybody ever love me? / in every season / pledge allegiance to my heart / pledge allegiance to my burning heart

holy lover - keaton henson

i think i love you / baby, please, don't be afraid of me / i think i love you / and oh, holy lover / i'll be the colors i can't see / and i will try harder / avail my father, live every need / and i've been so lonely / oh, please, just hold me so i can sleep

true love will find you in the end - someone, benjamin longman

but how can it recognize you / if you don't step out into the light, the light / don't be sad i know you will / don't give up until / true love will find you in the end

the moon doesn’t mind - lord huron

the sky doesn't care what my poor heart wants / and the desert can't hear my cries / the moon doesn't mind that i'm left all alone / and she's gone, gone

my love mine all mine - mitski

'cause my love is mine, all mine / i love, my, my, mine / nothing in the world belongs to me / but my love, mine, all mine

to build a home - the cinematic orchestra, patrick watson

this is a place where i don't feel alone / this is a place where i feel at home / 'cause, i built a home / for you / for me / until it disappeared / from me / from you

#wyllstarion #bloodpact #bg3 #my 8tracks #(a tag from a bygone era lmaoooo it’s just where all the playlists i made are now) #repeated themes on this playlist: light/darkness and blood/vampire/biting #oh also being a monster/monstrous #also in my mind this playlist goes from act 1 to act 2 and then act 3

[year2000electronics]

since we're talking about it, here's the stupidest hill i'm willing to die on: there hasn't been an actual new tumblr sexyman since like 2017, it was a specific phenomenon in time that's over and now people just pick any popular character and try and say that's onceler 2. tumblr sexymen are guys who are shipped en masse with themselves, get wildly mischaracterized to the point of being unrecognizable, are oddly isolated from the narrative, completely inescapably eclipse other stuff in the tag, and have thirst posts etc that wildly break containment. until we get swarms of unironic final boss benrey/chill benrey before he got caught in the door that one time on ao3, i'm putting the term up on a shelf. thank u very much for ur time and i hope you have a pleasant day

every day i talk about sexology i only descend more into the insanity. this phrase is literally undefinable. it has a definition in the same way religion has a definition. because every time you try to define a religion, you turn your back and realize "oh shit! the way ive defined it has left out this crucial big religion!" and so you fix your definition until its a rambling of nothing thats vague enough to encompass anything and yet means precious little. there is no hope for any of this anymore. nobody even knows what we're trying to say anymore.

#mothra answers #i do agree its a bygone era though just bc it refers to a specific grip tumblr had over the internet #which it just doesnt have anymore #its ok. we can let go of the term. we can send it to hell now #we dont need to 'reclaim' it. we dont need to 'destroy cringe culture' it. #we dont need to make fanart of all of them standing together. #you can have a conversation about the unfair content bias in fandom #or about the rampant sexualization of character content that people get unwillingly exposed to #without using that word. its ok. #lets all take a breath.

[brucespringsteendotcom]

Wait actually. Incoming transmission from my thoughts. I think I'm amending my supernatural reboot stance slightly on the grounds that I am self-aware enough to admit. That if I had lived jensen ackles' life I too would keep trying to elongate my 2005

#and me i also long for bygone eras of my life that i cannot return to but i keep trying anyway

[wastehound-voof]

Fallout is dead. It was on life support for a while, but now it is officially dead. Congratulations.

#I accepted this nearly 20 years ago #new Vegas was nice but it was the last breaths of a bygone era #the games ended when the 20th century ended #fallout #fallout 2 #rip #im sorry to those who still cared #truly #we’ll always have the original games