#deathcab .... you get it

[snowshinobi]

HOW do ppl consume media without scooping up moments with similar beats and stringing them together in a sparkling chain of Theme??? I reflect on albums for YEARS after listening to em just to sift out even more lyrics to twist into frantic braids, look, see how it alllllll makes sense now??

#ME REALIZING PHYSICAL VS EMOTIONAL DISTANCE IS A THEME ON #TRANSATLANTICISM #BY #DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE #ALSO THIS ALBUM IS A LOOP. IF YOU PLAY ''THE NEW YEAR'' ONCE AGAIN AT THE END THERE ARE 12 TRACKS. 12 MONTHS IN A YEAR #this album is so interested in time and how it divides us across space #''wish the world was flat like the old days so i could travel just by folding the map ... there'd be no distance that could hold us back'' #OUGH THE YEARNING #deathcab .... you get it #not to say this is a perfect album bc baby it's not. the slow tracks annoy me v much #but the way each song plays w time and longing and distance is exquisite. gorgeous twinkling shards in this mosaic. #is this lit major brainrot or is this having a rich internal life? both #i wish it upon everyone (: #snowswords #analysis #death cab for cutie #dcfc #Transatlanticism

[mamawasatesttube]

I’ll Follow You Into the Dark by Deathcab For Cutie is a timkon song. In fact it’s so timkon that as soon as I realized it I burst into tears.

*pushes the amok tim wip back under my bed* WOW this is so true!!! i mean its such a classic otp song, like that song Gets It about ceaseless devotion. whoof

#answers #Anonymous

[xx-emowarz-xx]

I asked myself: do I even want to bother with another bracket since I know that My Chem is just gonna win again and then I realized it's my bracket I do what I want I'm shooting that zombie. My Chem won the first bracket they don't get to compete again. This will be more interesting and fun for me and also probably you since we no longer know the outcome.

So

#death cab for cutie #HIM #him band #falling in reverse #every avenue #simple plan #breaking benjamin

[the-ancient-fae]

"Settle down and make a life.. leavin the door wide open.. and all the times we got it riiigghht.. play it back.. slow motion.. it was talkin too sweet, we had.." "Deathcab on replay, just hopin that things stay the same. And we were, thinking of up and leaving, talking bout loving Jesus. Well I guess now I still miss the old house where everything was Eeaassyy.." "running off with the feeeelling.. I just wanna be there, don't wanna leave it, cause everything was eeeaassyy.. so easy.."

Chief's song, easy, played softly in the background, as you and your newly wed husband, Noah Sebastian, cooked dinner.

Noah softly sang along and hummed some parts as he held you close, as you stirred the broth and noodles together as you added the final vegetables to the mix.

He gently pulled you away from the stove and he slowly twirled you. He dipped you and pulled you back up, making you both quietly laugh.

His soft lips tenderly pressed to yours as he gently pressed you into his chest, and rested his chin on top of your head. "I'm so glad I get to be yours." He whispered, barely audible.

"I'm glad I get to be yours." You echo sweetly.

He smiles.

The outside world feels like a distant dream, and everything feels like heaven and bliss in your new husband's arms.

It isn't till you hear the sizzle of the bubbling over pot of soup vegetable noodle soup, that you are pulled from your Reverie. You both laugh as you turn on off the stove top, and moved the pot to the back burner.

You Ladell some soup into the two bowls you had placed out earlier, and you sit together on the island, pressed knee to knee, hip to hip, shoulder to shoulder.

You both slowly sway, quietly humming to easy, as it replays.

It was your favorite song, cause much like the lyrics, Noah, made everything easy in your life.

STOP I'M SOBBING 😭😭💖💖💖

THIS IS SO CUTE THANK YOU ANGEL 🥺💖 I LOVE WHEN YOU DO THESE DRABBLES SM, YOU'RE A BLESSING AND I ABSOLUTELY ADORE YOU MWAH MWAH

[lolohe12]

In honor of Good Omens Season 2 coming out I'm sharing my Very long and ever increasing Ineffable Husband's playlist

Somebody to Love - By Queen: "Take a look in the mirror and cry. Lord, what you're doing to me? I have spent all my years in believing you but I just can't get no relief, Lord... Can anybody find me somebody to love?"

2. (You're The) Devil in Disguise - By Elvis Presley: "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise"

3. Rewrite The Stars - From The Greatest Showman: "No one can say what we get to be. So why don't we rewrite the stars? Maybe the world could be ours tonight"

4. Old Devil Moon - By Frank Sinatra: "Just when I think, I'm free as a dove Old devil moon, deep in your eyes blinds me with love"

5. Earth Angel - By The Penguins: Earth angel, Earth angel, will you be mine? My darling dear, love you all the time. I'm just a fool, a fool in love with you"

6. From Eden - By Hozier: "Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago. Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword. Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know. I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door"

7. Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy - By Queen: "Dining at the Ritz we'll meet at nine precisely (One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine o'clock) I will pay the bill, you taste the wine. Driving back in style in my saloon will do quite nicely. Just take me back to yours that will be fine"

8. Take This Waltz - By Leonard Cohen: "And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty. My cheap violin and my cross. And you'll carry me down on your dancing to the pools that you lift on your wrist. Oh my love, oh my love take this waltz, take this waltz. It's yours now, it's all that there is"

9. A Thousand Years - By Christina Perri: "I have died everyday waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more"

10. Black Wedding - By In This Moment Ft. Rob Halford: "I would've loved you for a thousand years. I would've died for you. I would've sacrificed it all my dear. I would've bled for you 'Til death do us part. You were unholy right from the start It's a nice night for a black wedding."

11. Transatlanticism - By Deathcab for Cutie: "The Atlantic was born today, and I'll tell you how. The clouds above opened up and let it out... I need you so much closer"

12. All This and Heaven Too - By Florence and The Machine: "All this heaven never could describe such a feeling as I'm hearing. Words were never so useful so I was screaming out a language that I never knew existed before"

13. Sun and Moon - By Jon Walker: "I could have been a lot of things. I could have seen the world with broken wings. You're the only one who understands. Yeah, you're the only one who understands"

14. When The Day Met The Night - By Panic! At The Disco: "When the sun found the moon she was drinking tea in a garden, under the green umbrella trees in the middle of summer"

15. Still Into You - By Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox: "Can't count the years on one hand that we've been together. I need the other one to hold you make you feel, make you feel better"

16. Come With Me - By Chxrlotte: "And after six thousand years, if the world disappears I'd fight angels and demons to find you, my dear. I hear heavenly sounds in my head when you're near. I'm alright now you're here"

17. Halo - By Ane Brun: "It's like I've been awakened. Every rule I had you breaking, It's the risk that I'm taking I ain't never gonna shut you out"

18. Like Real People Do - By Hozier: " Iwill not ask you where you came from. I will not ask you, neither should you. Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips. We should just kiss like real people do"

19. Time After Time - By Iron & Wine: "If you're lost you can look and you will find me time after time. If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting time after time"

20. Longer - By Dan Fogelberg: "Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean, higher than any bird ever flew, longer than there've been stars up in the heavens, I've been in love with you"

21. The Book of Love - By Peter Gabriel: "The book of love is long and boring and written very long ago. It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes and things we're all too young to know"

22. Heaven in a Place on Earth - By Belinda Carlisle: "In this world, we're just beginnin' to understand the miracle of livin'.Baby, I was afraid before but I'm not afraid anymore"

23. And I Love Him - by Benjamin Gibbard: Bright are the stars that shine dark is the sky. I know this love of mine will never die. And I love him"

24. You're my Best Friend - By Queen: Oh, you're the best friend that I ever had. I've been with you such a long time. You're my sunshine and I want you to know t hat my feelings are true I really love you. Oh, you're my best friend"

25. A Nightingale Sang In Barkley Square - By Tori Amos: "There were angels dancing at the Ritz. And a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square"

#Playlist #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphel #good omens #crowley x aziraphale #aziraphale x crowley #aziracrow #aziraley #azirowley #fan playlist #anthony j crowley #aziraphale #my playlist #Spotify

[protofans]

via the gambler:

I’m actually from Nashville. I’ve grown up admiring Exit/In nearly my entire life. I was even born right down the street at what was once Baptist Hospital. As a teenager, I walked past that marque on Elliston Place and I’d tell my friends, “That’s it. That’s the goal. I want to sing at Exit/In”. When I was old enough to get into shows, I had the best time of my life finally getting to see bands like The Decemberists and Deathcab for Cutie. In those early indie rock days, bands like that hadn’t quite breached the mainstream, but to me they were EVERYTHING and the fact that they were playing Exit/In meant they were killing it. Fast forward a few years and I end up in a synth rock opera band with some college friends that just sort of grew legs and took off. Not only did we play Exit/In, we sold it out dozens of times. Exit/In became our home. They allowed us to haul in our over-the-top show every single time and embraced every idea we had: You guys wanna park your old, rusty, probably illegal-to-drive bus outside the venue and graffiti it for the….aesthetic of it? Allrighty then. You want to put on a Black Sabbath/ Queen tribute night and sneak Jack Black in through the back to sing Bohemian Rhapsody? No problem. You guys are planning to wheel a coffin onstage and have someone in a mask jump out of it? Sure thing. You wanna rig up a GIANT paper mache covid pinata ball above the stage and have fans whap it? Let’s go! My band’s name has been plastered via murals on the sides of Exit/In, lit up on the marque, and embedded into the wall of fame alongside so many great artists. We have become synonymous with this venue that I only dreamt about as a kid. A lot of artists might view success by another measure, but to me, playing this venue meant that I had done everything I’d set out to do. Up until this point, I have grumbled a bit about the changes in Nashville. I have complained about the hike in housing prices, the shitty traffic, the closure of some things. But I haven’t quite felt this kind of sadness. It’s a silly thing I guess, to get attached to a building, but man.. if these walls could talk. Thank you for everything. @exit_in

#protomen #the protomen #gambler #the gambler #exit/in

[mossmurdock]

and i'm jumping right back into your inbox with some uquizzes that i already shared with ari but i really wanna know what you get too!!

https://uquiz.com/quiz/MYLbZ3/are-you-a-soldier-a-poet-or-a-king?p=586117

https://uquiz.com/quiz/evn4G3/how-do-you-view-love?p=6133991

https://uquiz.com/quiz/tjZ8p6/what-form-of-love-do-you-embody

-@softgirlgonehaywire

hello mickey!! these were so fun to take,,so sorry it took me like two years LOL but UGH i forgot how fun uquiz was these were such a delight.

am i a soldier, poet, or king: i got the king!! which tbh was very surprising, but the description resonated with me a lot so i enjoyed the surprise tbh!

"There will come a ruler Whose brow is laid in thorn Smeared with oil like David's boy" Duty. Strength. Resignation. You were told to do things and you did them. The world is something that was put into your hands and that you must deal with - so you will. You have a rigid back and steady hands, either metaphorically or physically. Is it nature or nurture ? You don't know. You are tired of being steady. You dream of feeling alive. Not that you aren't, but, sometimes, it's hard to remember that there is a heart between your ribs. Your love is where you breathe. Come on, breathe. In. Out. It starts now. Art : St Catherine of Alexandria, Guido Reni"

how do i view love?: soft. i whooped, cheered even. this one was really nice because i feel the way i view love has changed so much throughout the years!

"love that is welcoming, one that encompasses you in its warmth. the feeling of a warm mug after a cold day. familiar huffs of laughter respond in the air as you lean on each other for balance. the feeling of falling on a soft bed of clouds on a nice sunny day. of waves lapping at sand on a beach"

what form of love do i embody?: love as devotion. yeah. i'm not sure why i didn't see that one coming LMAO (this one was esp fun,, so many choices within the questions!!)

"[ devotion: love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause ] when ruth said to naomi "where you go, i will go, and where you stay, i will stay. your people will be my people, and your God my God" and when hozier sang "i'll be the dreadful need from the devotee that drove [orpheus] underground" and when deathcab for cutie sang "if there's no one beside you when your soul embarks, i will follow you into the dark""

thank you so much for sending these they were so cool!! very curious to know what your results were btw :oo

#EEE #and i will def be looking for ari's as well #uquiz is seriously so special what a cool site #moss answers

[shegetsburned]

what form of love do your ocs/ships embody?

tagged by the amazing @inafieldofdaisies, @baldurrs, @detectivelokis, @simonxriley, @shellibisshe and @voidika to take this uquiz for my ocs. Thank you for the tag! 🧡

tagging @poisonedtruth @unpetitoiseau @unbindingkerberos @detectivelokis @socially-awkward-skeleton @jendoe @voidika @simonxriley @madparadoxum @children-of-epiales @phillipsgraves @scentedcandleibex @captastra and anyone who sees this and wants to try!

love as a choice

[ love is beautiful because it's built deliberately ] when casey mcquinston wrote "that's the choice. i love him, with all that, because of all that, on purpose. i love him on purpose" and when jenny slate tweeted "i just want someone to grab my little face and scream on purpose, on purpose i am going to care about you" and when jodi picoult wrote "after fifteen years, love isn't just a feeling. it's a choice" and when the good place said "if soulmates do exist, they're not found they're made"

i wanna say it fits them because a lot of things happened between them because they made a choice, maybe that’s why they aren’t endgame tbh

love as hunger

[ love as ravenous desire, love as something fragrant and home-built ] when florence welch said "we all have a hunger" and when jenny slate asked "who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?" and when violet trefusis wrote "I want you hungrily, frenziedly. passionately. I am starving for you..." and when anne carson asked "what are we made of but hunger and rage?"

this answer suits them so well! they’re just so hungry for each other, it’s perfect

love as devotion

[ devotion: love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause ] when ruth said to naomi "where you go, i will go, and where you stay, i will stay. your people will be my people, and your God my God" and when hozier sang "i'll be the dreadful need from the devotee that drove [orpheus] underground" and when deathcab for cutie sang "if there's no one beside you when your soul embarks, i will follow you into the dark"

wherever they are in the galaxy, they’ll always think of each other and the road they need to take to get back to the one they love. They really are devoted.

#thanks for the tag! #oc: braise #oc: lou kesyk #oc: isaak axar #tag game #uquiz #these answers are so accurate it’s scary #x: burning desire #x: silent addiction #x: it’ll always end with you

[semiotomatics]

trick or treat! I heard I'll Follow You Into the Dark on the radio the other day and thought of you :) (a Deathcab for Cutie classic for sure)

😭😭😭 i am honoured to be associated with death cab so strongly!! also that is absolutely a classic, no disagreement there. when i saw them live back in june, ben (lead singer) joked that he would only sing that song if we did the choruses for him xD and we did! poor guy must be so sick of that song, and yet he still plays it for us anyway <3

anyway!! you get!! a fun animal fact!! which is: snakes have legs!! specifically, the vestigial remains of a pelvis and femur that just sort of float within the body of snakes like boas and pythons. they're called pelvic spurs and if you've ever held a snake and felt something pointy on their lower belly, that's (probably) what it was!!

#clouds gets asks #trick or treat #clouds gets trick or treaters #this has been an original post

[softlyapocalytpic]

Embodiment of love

@pchberrytea tagged me!! And then my partner had to help me take it because I couldn't figure out how to do it well??? Its fun and cool they just do uquiz better.

I tag @maxiseden since I think this would be fun for your blorbos and @plasma-packin-mama cuz I love Delilah & Arcade and would love to see what they get!! And! Copying Tea here, if you want an excuse to be tagged for this then CONGRATS. It's you. You've been tagged. You're it.

Also, I guess some spoilers for pairings for my characters...?

💕 RULES: Take this quiz for your OC/ship.

Without further ado:

Amy/Butch

[ love is beautiful because it's built deliberately ] when casey mcquinston wrote "that's the choice. i love him, with all that, because of all that, on purpose. i love him on purpose" and when jenny slate tweeted "i just want someone to grab my little face and scream on purpose, on purpose i am going to care about you" and when jodi picoult wrote "after fifteen years, love isn't just a feeling. it's a choice" and when the good place said "if soulmates do exist, they're not found they're made"

Man this one HURTS. It hurts in the long term, and it hurts in the short term. They communicate terribly, they understand each other better than most people understand them, they argue a lot and also are the bestest friend the other has ever had. I've said this for a while, but if things had panned out differently these two would've been best friends all the way back in the vault. And this invokes all that for me, but also. In context of where they end up by the end of the story... It hurts so so so bad. They never stop choosing each other even long long after.

They're always touching each other, holding each other, putting their hands on the other. A punch, a hug, holding each other's face. Hands holding, Butch arm around Amy's shoulder, Amy always ready and willing to hold Butch when he needs it. The world is shitty, but they're together.

Sunshine/Half Pint

[ devotion: love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause ] when ruth said to naomi "where you go, i will go, and where you stay, i will stay. your people will be my people, and your God my God" and when hozier sang "i'll be the dreadful need from the devotee that drove [orpheus] underground" and when deathcab for cutie sang "if there's no one beside you when your soul embarks, i will follow you into the dark"

So if Butch/Amy hollowed me out, this one knocks me in the teeth and guts me. YES. YES. THIS IS THEM. These courier dorks will follow each other to the very ends of earth, to hell and back again, will be by each other's side till the very end and beyond. They die by each other's side. Literally. It doesn't matter what happens this two are soulmates eternally devoted to each other.

They are "I love you in this life and when I'm someone else entirely" and "I love you when you burn down the world", "I love you when you're a monster", "we're monsters together".

Leo/MacCready/Hancock

[ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ] when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too”

crying, actually crying

This is the boys. This is the boys all the way. They're all so fucked up and hurt and love each other so much, and yeah they're TENDER. When I think of Leo/Hancock it's such gentle touches and adoring looks and holding each other gently. It's softly spoken words. It's staring into each others eyes. Mac/Leo is sharing the weight of a trauma, it's defending the other to the other, it's giggles and warmth by the fire as they help the other unwind. Hancock/Mac is camaraderie. It's being debaucherous fools who wind up holding each other. It's having their arms wrapped around each other and laughing.

Hopefully there will be a pt.2 with more members of the quartet (Sunshine/Half Pint/Deacon/Danse) (ik ik ik trust me it WILL work even if I forget why sometimes) (we've gone to crackship hell and we WILL radicalize Danse). Maybe for Mae/Takeshi? Maybe for Mae and someone else? A lot maybes.

#ship tag #sunpint #butch/amy #Leo/Mac/Hancock

[blackbird-brewster]

Hi! For the asks:

31. what type of music keeps you grounded?

33. the last adventure you’ve been on?

Thanks for the ask!

31. Omg I listen to music fromt he second I wake up to the second I go to sleep! I have a different playlist for just about anything, but I think my go-to when I need to be soothed and grounded, is usually indie folk or indie emo/punk. I've always been a sucker for a band with a banjo. Some of my fave artists: Avett Brothers, Fleet Foxes, Florence and the Machine, Of Monsters and Men, Deathcab for Cutie, Something Corporate, Postal Service (and so many others)

This playlist basically: Indie Vibes For Early Mornings

33. So I have severe agoraphobia, that coupled with being immune compromised in a global pandemic has caused me to become a cryptid for the past few years. I leave the house maybe once every two weeks. BUT the past week, we decided to go out to a couple of events and it was really lovely. We went to Polyfest (a festival celebrating Polynesian cultures) this past weekend! Afterwards we had coffee with a friend and walked around some places we used to frequent nearly every weekend pre-covid. It was so magical to run into old friends while out and about (small town). The weather was stunning and it really filled my cups.

It's so hard for us to get out of the house without tons of planning (mobility aids, health stuff, covid precautions, chronic illness flares, etc, etc). But when the stars align like they did this past weekend, it's really lovely :D

#unitchiefs blackbirdphoenix #reply post #ask games #about me 2k23 #spotify playlist

[timeforsomethrillingheroicsblog]

4, 11, 13, 22 for the fic writer ask! :)

4.) How many WIPs do you have right now?

WIPs that I am actually working on? One. WIPs that are published and still incomplete? Three (oof). WIPs I have ideas for? About six.

11.) Do you have specific playlists for writing fics?

I listen to a lot of Deathcab for Cutie in the background because it's familiar and I can turn it really low and not pay attention to the lyrics.

13.) How much planning do you do before writing?

It really depends. One shots, basically none outside of having the initial idea. For longer fics, when I start I have the idea of a beginning, middle, and end but the rest is in flux. I usually do bullet points of each chapter before I start writing it, but will add or take away things as I go. I'll also occasionally write random scenes and then insert them in the chapter when I get to it.

22.) Do you know how your fic will end before you start writing?

Whoops I feel like I kind of answered this already with 13, but yes! I have an outline of how the fic will end if it's a multichapter work. One shots I just write as the mood takes me.

List of Fan Fic Writer Asks

#longer so going under a read more! #thanks for asking 💖 #epiphytecanopy #answers

[faerune]

10, 14, 15, 37, 48 + leon & cassie ❤️

Do they share any hobbies or interests? How do these things bring them together? The two of them both like the same music and I can see the pair of them going to concerts together in their free time! Honestly, one of their first dates is probably going to see a band they like. The two of them both like to read, just different things most of the time. Cassie loves history books and Leon, bless him, he tries his best but they make him fall asleep lmaooo. Leon likes to cook, Cassie likes to provide moral support to him (read: sneaking tastes and sitting on counters looking cute) while he cooks so that's another way they spend time together!

I have to mention that Leon loves working out and Cassie hates it so much they 100% have an exchange ala Chris and Anne from Parks & Rec of "You had me jogging. I was healthy but god at what cost?"

Do they enjoy PDA, or are they more private with affection? The pair of them like a little bit of moderate PDA! They like to hold hands, kiss each other on the cheeks and forehead but they keep it lowkey during the time they're working together because...that's a big nono and they'd rather no one know so it can't be held over their heads. They're big huggers too (Cassie gives the best tightest hugs) and Leon always gives her a lil lift up cause she's so short.

What songs remind you of their relationship?

Hoodie by Hey Violet is a great post break-up Leon x Cassie.

I'm still rocking your hoodie and chewing on the strings It makes me think about you, so I wear it when I sleep I kept the broken zipper and cigarette burns Still rocking your hoodie, baby, even though it hurts

I Follow You Into The Dark by Deathcab for Cutie makes me EMO

Love of mine, someday you will die But I'll be close behind, I'll follow you into the dark No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white Just our hands clasped so tight, waiting for the hint of a spark

sHe by ZAYN for a more fluffy palate cleanser

She puts her mouth round the cigarette I put it out 'cause she likes that She always dance when it's raining Hey, when's it startin', baby? She looks at me like she's waiting

Also their whole playlist can be found here :3c

Who’s more emotionally sensitive/cries more often? Cassie probably is more emotionally sensitive/cries more. She cries from anger, sadness, happiness. She's just a very passionate and emotional person. Leon slowly becomes more closed off emotionally through the years which is...sad but Cassie is such an open person (whether she wants to be or not) that it encourages him to share his feelings to her at least. Most of the time. Losing his team prior to Vendetta and then not telling Cassie because he doesn't wanna weigh her down along with their family is a big ok stupid Leon moment.

Do they talk about their future together? Why or why not? Yes! A year or two into their first go at a relationship they talk about marriage and kids. It's a no brainer for them they really adore each other but there's just never a right time. Plus, they're very young at that time! So by four years of being together, they thankfully do not have any kids when they break up.

When they get back together, Cassie bluntly is like k when are you asking me to marry you and Leon is like BET. They waste no time because they've wasted SO MUCH time.

#thank you airika!!! you the best #ship: conflict of interest #asks

[xx-emowarz-xx]

You know what. Let's make an attempt to define Emo. I think that maybe we should try to do that on this blog. TO THE DICTIONARY!

From Oxford: Noun: a style of rock music resembling punk but having more complex arrangements and lyrics that deal with more emotional subjects./Adj: denoting or relating to emo and its associated subculture.

I disagree with this definition in multiple ways but I agree with it in others personally. My own personal definition of Emo is:

The post punk subculture that defined the post punk movement in the early 2000s, heavily associated with pop punk, screamo, Crunkcore, hard rock, and nu metal music genres. (I could get more in depth but we're keeping it short and sweet)

I'm not even gonna deign to deal with the "more complex than punk" assertion from the dictionary, that's stupid, but the other way I disagree with the dictionary is that Emo as a music genre is not helpful because that's everything from Deathcab For Cutie to 3oh!3 to My Chem to Papa Roach to Pierce the Veil. Those 5 bands have genre overlap but they're not the same genre by any stretch. The adjective defining it as a post punk subculture however, we start to get somewhere.

Because history lesson, Punk arose in the 70s with bands like the Ramones, Blondie, The Sex Pistols, ect. This is when people started dying their hair black or unnatural colors, wearing safety pins as accessories rather than out of necessity, having lots of piercings and tattoos, (for better or for worse (for worse mostly)) seeing things like self harm and sticking yourself with a safety pin or whatever as hard core and cool, wearing a lot of black especially leather, putting studs and spikes on their clothing, screaming in their music, shredding on their guitars in a way we associate with punk and metal and hard rock genres, using makeup to look more unnerving rather than more conventionally attractive ect.

Then in the 80s the goth scene arose, and it had a lot of overlap with the punk scene but it had some different fashion choices and some different music. Then in the 90s the grunge scene arose and it had a lot of overlap with the previous two scenes but it had some different fashion choices (or lack there of shout out to grunge) and some different music. Then in the 2000s the Emo scene arose, and it had a lot of overlap with the previous two scenes but it had some different fashion choices and some different music. And I'm repeating myself.

I'm not proposing that it's all secretly the punk scene from the 70s, but I kind of am. Obviously they're different. The world changed so the subcultures changed too. Example, part of the reason that Emo is seen as more cringe than those previous three scenes I just listed is because Emo came up in the era of early internet cringe posting. Part of the reason that Emo is kinda defanged from punk is because radical movements have a lot of pressure on them to assimilate or die off. The reason that Emo is associated with self destruction where as punk is associated with outward destruction is because political radicalism sort of got taken off the table in some ways in the early 2000s. MCR started as a response to 9/11, for example. Punk is our fuckin grandpa, and goth is our mom, and grunge is our lay about older sibling.

And that's not to say that punk or goth or grunge is dead or even dying, I'm not saying that at all (although we're going through kind of a rough moment right now). There are Punks who do not consider themselves and who I would not consider part of any of the other subcultures mentioned, so too with goths and emos. They're different but they're connected. Your humble mod is emo by default because I was born in 2001 and therefore the emo genre is what was most relevant when I was discovering my music taste, but I consider myself something of a nondenominational goth. I'm not really into grunge, but I listen to old school punk like the ramones and the misfits and the dead kennedys, and goth rock like sisters of mercy and siouxsie and the banshees. I lean more scene queen in my hairstyles and more punk in my jacket choices and goth when I'm doing my eyeliner but those aren't hard and fast rules for me.

All of these are primarily musical subcultures, but I think they're subcultures first, which means that what is or isn't an emo anthem is whatever the emo and scene kids liked, and brother you are the emo and scene kids now and that is why you are voting in my polls to decide what the best emo anthem is.

#long post #directors commentary #general emo posting #I think we should all hold hands also with hippies and the hip hop scene and sing kumbaya #and then after we sing kumbaya we should listen to some rock rap and do drugs #scemo #emo #scene #goth #punk #grunge

[selphplusplus]

Meteor (alpha draft)

Becoming Omega

Oh I know you like that

Handsome mouth.

She loves the moving part,

Smart and full of pretty words.

Oops.

Never was one for rules

Her either

So lets break daytime covenants

She doesn’t fly too much these days.

One more time, at 9.8

We jump out, leap of faith

Deathcab hit the mark

When he wrote “I’ll follow you into the dark.

Dry those salty drops, they’re gifts from the sea

From our distant pasts, before our colors changed

Before I faded back to blue,

Before the Chameleon boy that you knew.

Danced to technicolor beats beside the sea

And thought of you.

And thought of you

Smiling nights are rare for the melancholy,

we who thrive in twilight,

we must bio-luminesce ultraviolet,

a light not warm like your sun,

But warm like your soul,

That unfroze the cold

I held tightly to, it was my comfort

Then wasn’t again.

With the northerly wind, you left me winded

At hurricane speed, rended my darkness

When the day met teh night.

you dared to melt everything solid into air.

No my nighttime twilight cloak fell from my shoulders,

The coins over my eyes, plucked away

You decided, one sidedly, I would not visit Styx today

I would not yet drink from the Lethe.

It’s dark and hell is hot, but just as holy,

And so we interlaced

IN cold fusion we vibrated

to make heat rivaling

our white hot opposites,

—they are the stuff of newly dead stars, appended

And put in glass cages, like monarch butterflies

we are the newly dead on our way to become again.

LIfe isn’t a circle, it’s a spiral, a whirlwind.

And I fell in love with….you…with your hurricane.

A taste, take a bite,

Might I be so bold,

Can I, reignite das of old

Girl of the sky

Take a bite

Take a bite

Lips like morphine

diamond teeth

Licking the blood off each other

Hot hot hot,

How it needs to be.

Sweat so salty-sweet

Her taste lingers on me

…and its been years.

So I ask again

Circumstances be damned

Can I take a bite

Of crimson wings

And fly to heights

Where you bathe in sun rays

May I meet the daytime

That gets to see the bests parts of you

“Best?” Yeah right,

he best parts ofyou

are white hot lies In the sunshine,

No no, take a bite, too,

The best parts of you

Belong to the night.

Red Rock, shadows rise

Moonlight, a meteorite

You were the falling star I wished upon

Once upon a time

Until you rocked a world

And I learned fairy tales aren’t real enough

I prefer you unfurled

Scars and all

There is no god here

And we celebrate dust to dust

The sun goes down

Let’s skip to the part where you do to

I’ll keep the light from going out

(Heavy heavy machinery

But you wear the hard hat with ease

Don’t drive me home, enjoy the scenery

I’ll hold your hand, I promised you,

Even though I always knew

You’d beat me to it,

I’ll hold your hand

until our hearts stop beating)

Angels and Devils sitting on shoulders

You’ll always be in my airwaves.

Defy the sun, but stay made of sky

On night time rides,

I’ll play your song on my radio

A thousand generations can come and go

But I won’t let go, I’ll always hold

memories made, and Momento stones

I’ll ride your waves of light.

Sin and Sine waves, too

Sit with you through your tangents low

Tonight though, we ride, into a sky made just for you

Let me be as honest as I’ve ever been

I’m saying more than I’ve ever said

They say time changes all things.

I say they are not right at all

Love is resilient

And the one we share,

Was only ever meant to grow.

It was a plant without sunlight

Got stunted a while.

But when they sun and moon collided

I lost my will to fight it

I unloaded the yoke of pride

The hurt had healed enough

The pain had finally subsided

And I gave with no expectation

Total absolution

If you ever wondered about the power of love,

There’s no better an example.

If ever you don’t believe in the power of love,

Go re-read all that again.

By Artemis providence, Arrow true

Tied up in tides in starlit skies,

with the gravity of the moon

Opened hearts, aired it out,

Silver trim and fire hair

She pulled through

And resurrected what Cupid couldn’t do.

When Cupid just wouldn’t do.

Girl of the sky, we evolved

Goddess of the hunt and moon,

By your grace I implore you

Show the girl with fire hair, so soft

As New Perspective

Teach her that our night does not belong to God

#meteor #infinite love #wistfulness #loss #poem #poetry #poets on tumblr #writing #emotional #im crying #love wins #coping #grief #acceptance #it hurts #itaikedo

[thricemarked]

what form of love do you embody?

love as devotion

[ devotion: love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause ] when ruth said to naomi "where you go, i will go, and where you stay, i will stay. your people will be my people, and your God my God" and when hozier sang "i'll be the dreadful need from the devotee that drove [orpheus] underground" and when deathcab for cutie sang "if there's no one beside you when your soul embarks, i will follow you into the dark"

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#queue - last will ] #games - turn of events ] #// oh man.... this does fit sOBS