#august rotation

[agentmmayy]

august rotation

sorry for the little delay in posting this! school started up and it’s been hectic, but here’s some of the top songs i had on repeat during the month of august and boy was it a hot month for music 

hold the girl- rina sawayama: this song makes my ears orgasm!!!!!!!!!!! the vocals!!!! the BEAT!!!!! the lyrics!!!!! teach me the words i used to know, reach inside and hold you close, i won’t leave you on your own it’s about healing now and healing your younger self and trying not just to hold onto to who you were but to comfort them and hold them close. the entire song is a love letter to your inner child. everything about it sends me through the roof but especially the absolute magical moment between 3:17-3:30 HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!??!!?!?!?!! INSANE. BITING AND RIPPING THINGS AND CRYING!!!!!!!  

it gets dark - sigrid: this song is so punchy i LOVE it. it’s about finding your own path and self and making a life and reaching those little pitfalls and stumbles but still having hope and learning lessons through them!! it’s about it getting dark so you can see the stars!!!! definitely a montage-worthy song. could definitely picture myself walking down a street or in a moving vehicle/train/bus at night listening to this 

the boys of summer - first aid kit: i love first aid kit so much and honestly? this is how this song was supposed to be sung. no i don’t take criticism. it’s achingly sweet and soft and nostalgic for that last breath of summer august chased away. 

out of my head - first aid kit: imo this is their best song to date. they just keep getting better and better. i couldn’t group it with the previous one because of that. it deserves to have its own little paragraph for me to talk about it. the instruments, the vocals, the lyrics. they know just when to pull back and push harder and it makes for suuuuuch a good listening experience. also the harmonies are *pinches earbud wire like pacha* so good. sometimes you DO have to get out of your head to truly see yourself and wonder who you are and where you’re going. stuck inside my dreaming, falling behind shook me. unrelated but i feel like this is a song i’ve heard in the background of my dreams before

shadows - bears den: @preux-chevalier put me onto this song and i haven’t stopped listening to it since. first of all the strings throughout are gorgeous. i’m always a sucker for a violin. second of all- the devotion woven into every line of this is breathtaking. it’s so earnest and loving and yeah i DO want someone who wants me and all my shadows

if it’s not god - maddie zahm: listen. i was attacked. wig? snatched. it captures that wrestling with religion and beliefs you grew up with and finding your own identity and what/how you want to believe. the line in particular what father picks a few just to leave the rest? SCALPED me. holding onto blorbo-ing this for the tags. but the cover art??????????? HELLO???

lucid dreaming - alice kristiansen: this was just rude. still haven’t recovered. never will. it has the rawness very few songs have that just guts me to the core and scrapes everything out without remorse. i had to sit quietly for a bit and just stare at the wall after my first listen. every lyric hits so fucking hard. the entire song is a repeated sucker punch to the stomach. it leaves me winded and aching. i can’t pin point a favorite lyric or else i’d be putting the entire song on this post but this one in particular made me lose my mind: are you tired? are you sleeping? cause i woke up with your ghost again. but the lyrics aren’t the only part doing the heavy lifting in the song because alice kristiansen’s voice is so delicate and the way she sings every line... literally no one else could perform this song as well as she does and that’s that. 

the watching silence - michael & michelle: this duo has the most delicious harmonies and songs that simultaneously hurt me and comfort me. the chorus is pure perfection and i’ve caught myself singing it multiple times when it’s stuck in my head

canyon moon - andrew mcmahon in the wilderness: talk about songs that make me get up and dance!!!!!!! i literally can’t help myself whenever i listen to this song and for that reason i simply cannot play it whenever i’m working or in the studio. andrew mcmahon delivers banger after banger and this is one of the best ones. i crank that shit up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dance away the pain - number one popstar: got read to filth by this. i enjoy how hopeful it is and ofc it’s an absolute bop but a very specific one. as @whatdoyoumeanif said, it has sad twerking and disco ball vibes. the type of song you hear for the last call in an empty karaoke bar 

#if it's not god went right onto the eddissy playlist just for chrissy cunningham #wheeeewee #also bestie #the only reason i haven't left a very thick and in depth review is because whenever i try to listen all the way through #i ALWAYS GET STUCK AT CANYON MOON AND PLAY IT LIKE 10 TIMES #not included was august by taylor swift bc like. hello. obviously i had that on repeat and so did you and everyone else #august rotation #monthly rotation playlist #monthly round up #ness listens to music #actually obsessed with rina sawayama thanks #i had lucid dreaming right before why should i worry from the oliver and company sound track on my playlist #and boy did i get whiplash every time

[takingthebitterpill]

Hey, are you rotating next week?

Hi Anon!

I'm not rotating as I'm still in my first year of anaesthetics and they like to keep us in the same place for a year if possible, so I'll hopefully be rotating in February.

Unfortunately it does mean that I'm working most of changeover week...

Are you?

Good luck to everyone starting a new job next week!

#august rotation #medicine #medic #training #anaesthetics #anon asks #good luck!

[solar-nightengale]

Hi, I’m new in this tag kinda and new to meta-writing overall, but not only is the August brain rot really strong but one particular part of his entire character has been on my mind for a whole weekend. Please take this as mostly an offering of very spilled thoughts cause I couldn't keep them to myself anymore, LMAO. Particularly the thing that's on my brain is his guilt

I would also like to make note of and thank @ lizardthelizard And her glorious set of tags here for setting off my spiral tonight and also when she first sent them because my goodness this is truly an eye-opener. Thank you, buddy 💖

Gosh though, August’s guilt and self-criticism of himself and his actions is something that really fascinates me personally, and just thinking of it being the cause of what turns him back to wood is both mind-blowing but it just makes so much sense. He may be real because of magic but who’s to say it’s just the magical conditions that are holding him back and not the high as heck expectations that he feels were set for him and he set up for himself.

When it feels like you can't mess up sometimes it can feel like you're stuck in place Or that your screw ups means you can't change, that you're not good, that maybe you don't deserve to be considered good and that your various flaws are all that others would see you FOR!!

Maybe it's different to anxiety but idk it’s what caught my attention about him even more than what his character already offered up in s1!

He was given this like 

Idea that he needs to be "Brave" and "Truthful" and "Selfless" all the time or else he cannot be human 

Does it work like that? no, there's no human on EARTH that's all three of those things all the time, we've all had moments of weakness and gave in 

But what does he know? Most of his life he spent on his own and as a puppet, he was expected to understand the ways of being a human and GOODNESS knows how short a time he was with his dad before he was THRUST into a world and forced once again to stand on his own two feet and expected to just, you know, know how to act once again 

He's followed by expectations that he finds himself struggling to meet because he doesn't know what the limit is or how to meet them, and sometimes if not all of the times the temptations are just better and easier 

And it's expected!!!

He stepped into TLWM as a child with no idea of what he’s getting into with no prior knowledge, no adult, no nothing.

But omg, he drags himself down so much about it because he can’t meet those expectations the way he would want to and because of that because literally who did he have to tell him that it's all okay? That you can make mistakes and move on from them? That you can make up for your mistakes and forgive yourself for them?

Did he have anyone at all? Cause The show sure didn't show him having anyone

We see one woman in Thailand but even after he discovers he's turning into wood she's no longer around, so like she's probably about as fleeting of a relationship as anything else

Imagine going 28 years at first ignoring all your problems and then the horror and thoughts that you’re not good enough catch up to you one morning and the more you see yourself a failure, the more you sink into that spiral the harder it feels to breathe.

#ouat #august booth #august meta #SORRY LIBBY I DIDN'T WANT TO BOTHER YOU WITH A TAG SO IT'S EMPTY LIKE THAT FOR NOW #BUT KNOW I'M SCREAMING MY APPRECIATION AT YOUUUU RN!! <33333 #Anyway terribly sorry for all this guys JBFKTHLRJCTRLK I've fallen deep into this hole #and I don't plan on getting out anytime soon #August is a fascinating character to me #and I'm in a constant state of rotating him in my head always and forever #He's so messy he's so pathetic but he also tries no matter how great or little #He wants to be human but god it's hard to be that when you don't even know what it means to be one #I don't anything like this ever so ahahhaaha I hope this stuff makes sense!! #See you around #Maybe LOL #sol talks

[jeanmoreaux]

tagged by @permanentreverie

let your spotify predict your 2024! shuffle your on repeat playlist, and the first twelve songs represent your 2024

tagging @brimay | @rosesau | @eeverlark | @ronandreams | @delilahsbard | @tbosas | @thestarlessea | @thesonofneptune | @ohwarnette (i saw lindsay tagged you already but 🫶)

january; clean (tv) by taylor swift

february; i know it won’t work by gracie abrams

march; starting to get to you by jensen mcrae

april; georgia by phoebe bridgers

may; can’t catch me now by olivia rodrigo

june; everywhere, everything by noah kahan

july; ceilings by lizzy mcalipne

august; passenger by noah kahan

september; the view between villages (extended) by noah kahan

october; all my love by noah kahan

november; de selby (part ii) by hozier

december; adam’s ribs by jensen mcrae

#oh boy ​a very noah second half of the year 2024 apparently. #if nora announces the tsc release date to be in august i’ll laff #really hope it’s earlier than that tho #also. in case this list is not a dead giveaway. i listen to about 5 people at a time and not much else. #maisie fell out of rotation apparently bc she’s not in this playlist???? tho i’d say two weeks and the history of man should be on there. #tag game

[tmmyhug]

this fandom is a lot to deal with im stuffed full of incredible fanfic I can’t have another bite and yet absolutely parched for any good edits or animatics. cant find them. Im so thirsty

#batstuff #idk if I just don’t know where to look #vees train of thought #not talking about the sillies there are plenty of joke animatics and stuff. where’s the serious ones. the dramatic music ones. #the ones I can rotate in my head on long car rides #sadist and late august have spoiled me rotten

[writefightandflightclub]

Would you ever write more nathan fics????

Of course! I never really took him out of rotation! 😊

#the last Nathan I posted was August and he’s featured in some WIPs since then #I know tumblr time moves fast but he ain’t gathering any dust #he’s still spinning in and out of rotation on the blorbo lazy Susan #not relegated to the shelf of blorbos past! #I promise

[lowcallyfruity]

“Nooo you can’t be obsessed with the student council NPC and ship him with Rollo!!”

Haha August art dump GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🗣️🗣️🗣️😍😍😍

#i draw him smiling a lot bc he deserves to be happy and also he has a tooth gap and I love him #😔 this was also brush and lineart practice/testing #i am obsessed with August guys please help I am not normal I am rotating him in my head #Z’s art💛?! #💛!August #💛! Bleeding Hearts #twst #twst art #twst rollo #twst oc #<-he’s like…semi oc #twst rollo flamme #twst ships

[adrialae]

you are all going to see so much of luke castellan i am so sorry (not that sorry)

#haven't rotated a character in my head this fast since astarion in august #random thoughts

[augentrust]

"whether you come as a lover or an executioner i am ready to receive you" right??????? that fits so much

essek "there's nothing worse than betraying those you've come to care about before you even came to care about them" thelyss, who stewed in isolation and likely perceived abandonment for weeks, who probably assumed the nein were teaching him a lesson if not done with him entirely, got a single message asking for help and immediately disclosed the location of a secretive dynasty outpost (that he'd all but fled to) so that they could come to him

"who would i be to deny them?" he asked in the finale, regarding his hypothetical capture and presumed execution. i don't think this was a new thought at all

#thanks for the ask! #i am constantly rotating vermus outpost overseer essek thelyss in my brain #the emotional 180 of him in ep 97 vs 124 is fascinating to me #august chats #cr2

[crest-of-gautier]

e-liter brain erosion... PART THREE!

#splatoon 3 #lizz.mp4 #silly snipes! #it's embarassing how much this weapon has singlehandedly pulled me out of my pvp slump... im enjoying pvp again!!! #still love salmon run to bits and pieces but there hasn't been a rotation that's had me in a grip yet #i only started playing this weapon at the end of last month.. what do you mean another hour or two of gameplay gets this weapon to 4 stars #i mean i technically played a bit of scoped e-liter in august but certainly not a lot... i'm a changed person... #i've still yet to get a triple with e-liter (without the assistance of wavebreaker) but!! sometime!!! #i like playing with my friends a lot they are so awesome and swag <3

[lipspressedclosetomine-trueblue]

Good morning, everyone in every other time zone I'm so fucking sorry fob is still in the MOST INCONVENIENT u.s time zone

#fob #it is 8am #i went from Eastern to Pacific last year and am going back to eastern in August ough #it actually fucking sucks though because i need to email the college I got accepted to but am to mentally ill to go to #that I'm not going but like by the time its 9 here it's already noon there!!!! #pacific time is inconvenient for literally everyone #nothing to be done about the Earth's rotation though

[normal-about-the-dca]

I found an old fic outline from 2021 that I never did anything with!! Now I'm rehyped for the idea since we've gotten much more insight into the Daycare Attendant as a character. It's a reverse-infected au where Sun ends up being Vanny's follower rather than Moon. The accompanying fic would be a short tragedy about Sun's unrequited feelings for an employee and how the virus ruins his and Moon's friendship with them.

#beetle chittering #and of course its called Icarus because i am pretentious and insufferable #but! #the story does not have a happy ending for sun/moon and its left kinda open as to what happens?? #its supposed to end a few days before the events of security breach #I kinda wanna write it out again #the document is dated december 20th 2021 #so we didnt even have the daycare attendant for a week before the brainworms struck ;-; #though that puts into perspective just how long theyve been rotating in my mind for some reason i thought it was only since august 2022

[zeebreezin]

All this talk about the neathly blunt rotation and red honey is making me think about Shaw’s main bad ending I’ve come up with… a man constantly looking for an escape from reality & to not enjoy the wonders he’s surrounded by should NOT get on the red honey

#zeeposting #the main gang’s bad endings rotate their primary colour association #ehehe #august shaw

[schmafs]

ru mitvalsha has been dead for 1978 slutty, slutty years

#original #wthi #ru #been rotating this guy in my head lately.. #this has been in my wips since august so i was really happy i got to finally finish it!! #probably gonna be drawing a fair amount of standalone images of my guys in the next few months (or try to) #just since a roommate of mine is asking me to make powerpoints explaining the entirety of wthi and well. #how could i say no.

[snarkythewoecrow]

So, I didn't write but I cleaned and kinda organized the cabinet

#starting to run out of room for jars in there #I've already mostly filled the space in the basement stairwell #and on the stove rn I have 24 more jars of potatoes I just pressure canned the other day #but we'll get through it all #it rotates fairly quick actually #but this works for us #because we don't have a lot of money #and our local food panty gives us so many wonderful things #but usually in really insane amounts #like back in august when they gave us 50lbs of green beans #some were bad but not all #so we put in the work and sorted and washed them and prepped them

[lucifer-kane]

Lloyd Allen is such a funny character like I love how he’s described as “A gentleman” by Raven but the album we hear him in before this is just him at his most angry. He was a chess master growing up just so that he could do something with his distant father. He got bored of chess and started playing pranks on his opponents. He was a top tier stage manager, he was in advertising. He was being stalked by a death cult, he made a death trap in his theater to kill them all. He died and his soul was pulled into a doll and he had to deal with another death cult and all this pissed him off so much he was the most angry motherfucker. His doll body had pop out knives. He wanted to see New Albion burn and was so happy when he finally got to see that happen. He would probably eat human meat but only if it was cooked well. He’s even canonically sexy.

#august sky playhouse lloyd: kind caring an optimist #new albion lloyd: bastard extreme (beloved) #i think about him blowing up in the last ep of the podcast and how all he wanted in the world was to get back to raven. his beloved #cult mention #im constantly rotating raven and lloyd in my brain at all times they're so fun