#in the dark times there will be singing

[soracities]

Joe Bolton, from "The Light We Dance Through" [ID in ALT]

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #joe bolton #the light we dance through #in the dark times there will be singing #m #x

[jorts-nv]

in the dark times there will be singing

#mine #i mean kind of i stole it from #soracities #in the dark times there will be singing

[ytilaremehpe-sselhtaed]

Humanity's Imprint; The Quest To Be Remembered Credit to: @mag200 (x), @janemorris (x), @zegalba (x)

#web weave #artificial intelligence #prehistoric art #humanity #🗝: in the dark times will there be singing #ytilaremehpe-sselhtaed #🎨: cave art

[catofoldstones]

Sansa didn’t feel horrified at Joffrey’s death and Arya didn’t in her grief still say that a dead Joffrey won’t bring her brother Robb back for y’all to revel in violence and miss the point of the books that badly.

#I get why he is the most hated character ever #but should we celebrate death? #grrm in his most recent interview also touched upon this point #he said (paraphrasing here) that sure Joffrey is a son a of a bitch but surely a son dying horrifically in front of his mother’s eyes calls #for sympathy #grrm really said look inwards and it was lost on even the people who present at the interview #gah #asoiaf #joffrey baratheon #arya stark #sansa stark #robb stark #game of thrones #will there be singing in the dark times?

[jewishcissiekj]

Assorted Star Wars characters + assorted headlines I found

#this is so all over the place lmao #sw #star wars #star wars meme #star wars memes #kit fisto #clone wars 2003 #quinlan vos #obi-wan kenobi #star wars comics #star wars republic #quinobi #dass jennir #star wars dark times #aurra sing #nan #into the dark #the high repblic #thr #star wars the high republic #sw thr #cohmac vitus #asajj ventress #dooku #count dooku #can you tell i just finished reading into the dark #great book i loved it

[elinordash]

? 10TH ANNIVERSARY

So if heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied Illuminate the ‘no’s on their vacancy signs If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks I will follow you into the dark

#george blagden #les mis #lesmisedit #les miserables #enjoltaire #minee #? #i will follow you into the dark #enjolras #grantaire #musicaledit #userabs #usershale #tuserheidi #userhannah #remember that other time he went to the real-life location of the barricade and recorded himself singing 'drink with me' #what a gift he has been to us #so have this grainy gifset on this anniversary

[humunanunga]

How you turned my world, you precious thing...

#yugioh #yugioh duel monsters #mutou yugi #this idea got better after reading what takahashi wanted for memory world if it weren't for his health and energy at the time #apparently the pharaoh was supposed to be running around independently of dark yugi #(probably showcasing what he was like as a ruler vs how he'd grown since waking up a dangerously protective ghost) #(and how his moral competence also grew since then) #and there was gonna be a showdown between them leading up to the showdown against akhnadin and priest set #anyway i remembered that and now i'm thinking about pharaoh atemu singing the lyrics while yugi looks for puzzle atemu #fanart #within you #hall of fame

[fisheito]

I know I've made my stance on the issue qUITE apparent. But just to reiterate

#yakumo is The Issue. in all aspects of my life and so on #he had a pullable cleavage window. you can't tell me eiden resisted that the entire time #he had little arm straps!! he had a series of collars all over his body and we didn't yank them ONCE? #not A SINGLE ONE? not one cheeky reach n snap????? #not even a light banjo twang. wasted potential. eiden pls play him like an acoustic guitar #look. dark nova had that choker in r2. and here we got an entire string instrument. #i just. I JUST NEED TO PULL HIM AROUND. I NEED TO EXERT SOME SORT OF FORCE ON HIM #i am CLENCHING AND UNCLENCHING MY FISTS IN CONFUSED FRUSTRATION #i need an outlet and i m gonna make yakumo sing in D minor #yakumo

[swordheld]

hi! your blog is one of my favourites and i absolutely adore reading your thoughts. my grandfather recently passed away and it feels like i lost myself with him. how do i continue living after this? there is this constant weight on my chest and it feels like an emptiness has made a home inside of me. how do i go on when it feels like the world crashed on my shoulders?

hello, love! this is so very sweet and kind of you, and i hope you're treating yourself gently and kindly right now - there aren't words for a loss like this. that heaviness is difficult, and hard, and painful. it's okay if things don't feel okay, right now, or even soon - i think that's something that a lot of the people i know that have gone through similar grief feel: like they should be able to get back to a relative 'normal' in a [insert far too short period of time].

but it's okay if it hurts. that's where i'd like to start. you're allowed to feel that emptiness, that world-crashed feeling that goes beyond words, beyond time. don't feel like you have to rush this to feel some sort of better. things get easier with time, i promise you this, but sometimes painful feelings are important to feel, too. cry, scream, feel your emotions. they're a part of you. grieve.

it's perhaps a little silly, but when i think about death i always think about a couple of space songs: mainly drops of jupiter by train and saturn by sleeping at last. there are perhaps others that speak to the emotions better, but these two have always hit something a little deeper for me, and are popular for a wide-reaching reason.

and while personally i don't know much about grief like this, i do know a lot about love; and i think they're a lot of the same thing.

the people we love are a part of us, and this is why it takes from us so deeply when we lose them, because it does feel like we've lost a part of ourselves in the wake of it. but it's because they were so central to our experiences of living - our lives, that the separation introduces a hollowness - a place where they used to be. a home that now goes unlived in.

an emptiness, like you said.

but just because they're not here physically, doesn't mean he's not still there, in your heart, in your life, your memory. you can hold him close in smaller ways, as well: steal a sweater, or cologne/scent for something a little more physical and long lasting for remembering. hold onto the memories you cherish, the things that made you laugh, the ease of slow mornings and gentle nights. write them all down, slide a few photographs in there, go through it and add more when you miss him. keep them all close, keep them in your heart.

you're not alone, in this. he's still there, with you, it's just - in the little things.

he's with you in the way you see and go about your daily life, in doing what he liked to do, in the ways he interacted with the world that you shared with him. the memories you recall fondly when the night is late or the moment is right and something calls it into you like a melody, an old bell, laughter you'd recognize anywhere.

but i think, perhaps most importantly above all others - talk about him. with your family, your friends, his friends, strangers; stories are how we keep the people we love alive. the connections they've made, the legacies and experiences they've left behind, and so, so many stories.

how lucky, we are - to love so much it takes a piece of us when they go. grief is the other side of the coin, but it does not mean our love goes away. it lives in you. it lives in everyone who knew him, in the smallest pieces of our lives.

the people we love never really leave us, like this: they're in how we cook and the way we fold our newspapers, our laundry, in the radio stations we tune in to and the way we decorate our walls, our photo albums. they're in the way we store our mail, organize our closets, the scribbled notes in the indexes of our books. the meals we love and the drinks we mix, the way we spend time with one another. they've been passed down for generations, for longer than history - and we are all the luckier for it.

think about what you shared with him, and do it intentionally. bring him into your life, like this, again. whether it's crosswords or poetry or sports or anything else. if one doesn't help, try another. something might click.

i hope things feel a little easier for you, as they tend to do only with time. i hope you find joy in your grief, even if it is small and hard to grasp at first. know that your hurt stems from so much love that there isn't a place to put it properly, and that it is something so meaningful and hurting poets and storytellers have been struggling to put it into words and sounds that feel like the fit right for eons, and that it is also just simply yours. sometimes things don't have to make sense. sometimes they just are - unable to be put into words or neat little sentiments, as unfair and tragic as they come.

but i promise it will not feel like this forever. your love is real. and perhaps, on where to begin on from here - i think it's less on finding where to begin and just beginning. and you've already started. you've taken the most important and crucial step: the first one. wherever you go, after that, from here? you'll figure it out. you always have, and you always do. it'll come, as things always do. love leads us, as does light - and you're never alone in your hurt. in your grief, your missing something dear to you. i think if you talk about it with others, you'll find they have ways of helping you cope as well - and they have so much love of their own to spare, too.

as an aside, here is the song (northern star by dom fera) i was listening to when i wrote this, for no other reason more than it makes me think of connections, and love, and how we hold onto the people we love and how they change us, wonderfully and intrinsically. it's a little more joyous than the others i've mentioned, and plays like a story, and it made me think of what is at the core of this, love and stories and i am here with you, and maybe it'll bring you some joy, if you'd like it. wishing you all my love and ease 💛

#q&a. #birdsong. #wishing u gentle ease; the death of a loved one is near inexplicable to put into words and i hope you take care of yourself gently <3 #i hope this will make u laugh: when i was a tiny child in middle school there were times i would go outside in my tiny suburban cul de sac- #in the rain and sing along to my lil ipod nano and i only remember doing this to drops of jupiter. can you imagine going out to get the mai #after a long day of work and you just hear this kid singing train in the streets. in the RAIN.... it makes me laugh like i really. #i really thought i was so cool and deep and emotional ghjkd but i find it v funny that i only remember it w/ that one train track. #and saturn just. it's my fav s.a.l. song for a reason. that slow violin opening? the piano coming in gentle and easy? #it feels like light. like hope. like something new - a dawn after the long dark. that beautiful things can begin again even where #it hurts. and there is nothing more human than a sentiment like that. #how rare and beautiful it is to truly exist. what it is to be alive and get to be here and live with other people. with those we love. #i think your grandfather was so lucky to be able to know you. to have you in his life for the time you had together. #i'm no spiritual person; but i like to believe when you're thinking about him? he's thinking about you too. #the second law of thermodynamics (physics nerd mode) is that no energy has ever been created/destroyed since the beginning of the universe. #so it has to go somewhere - it's that carl sagan quote of 'we're all made of stardust'. because we are. we used to be stars; planets; etc. #i think it's why i think of these space songs - because they're a part of everything; once more; when they go. us and everything else.

[tinyclowndancer]

pspspsps porretta besties from the dark place who refused to bring this song to its end here's a little something for you. 🎙️

#it'll take a while until I finish the extended mix but of course I had to start from this part #you can tell the man have been practicing - Dynamite was amazing and so fun but sounded like he didn't sing for a while #and out of sudden had to film his performance in a rush because it was pretty chaotic back then - or maybe just wasn't for his range #now it's clear that he had time to work on his singing voice and feel more comfortable with the songs #plus it sounds like he had fun recording them - at least I hope so since everyone seemed genuinely happy to be back after 13 years #and istfg I can hear him singing the final chorus as well (liiiiight / niiiight / to the suuurfaaace) but I couldn't find the files #but I didn't find Door and OGOA vocals for it either so it's all probably mixed in a single file which is the one we heard in the cutscene #love him love his voice and I'm happy to have experienced this level (the entire game actually) blind #his performance was spectacular (the drowning video is still in my mind since my first playthrough but hey that's for another post) #anyway #someone give this man a Pixar villain to VO PLEASE #and that fucking bass btw I love it #Matthew Porretta #Old Gods of Asgard #Herald of Darkness #Alan Wake 2 #Remedy Entertainment #🎮 #tinyclowntent #audio

[luthienne]

Ada Limón, from The Hurting Kind; "Banished Wonders"

[Text ID: What is the world like out there? Are you singing in the tunnels?]

#ada limón #the hurting kind #banished wonders #words #poetry #typography #all that is musical in us is memory #to be human #in the dark times there will be singing

[soracities]

Theodore Roethke, from "In a Dark Time", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #typography #id included #theodore roethke #in a dark time #collected poems of theodore roethke #sing me down into the dark #reading #m #x

[mintjeru]

if i don't hear myla's singing voice again by the end of this game istg i'm gonna have A Talk with team cherry (no spoilers please, i'm playing hollow knight blind!!)

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#hollow knight #fanart #myart #comic #i noticed smth was wrong when i was exploring for map completion and the preacher/audience bugs near greenpath were infected #and then i went to crossroads. weird orange haze from the well. it was infected. #so after making sure everyone in dirtmouth was ok i made a mad dash to myla bc last i checked she was singing about darkness #i genuinely cannot even begin to explain how distressed i was when she raised her weapon against me #the last time i was this distressed about a video game was like. probably the t.surumi island quest #you simply had to be in call w/ me bc i was literally wailing over myla #i didn't kill her. i'm still holding onto hope that when i unlock the seal and we fix whatever's going on that she will be cured #we aren't giving up until this game is over

[abandoned-quiche]

I don't think enough people talk about YOU TWO. People are always attributing various things to gaster, but there were two other people in the room with him when it happened. They could be the ones doing these things. I always felt like a lot of the things attributed to him seem to contradict each other personality-wise. Maybe one of them is going around giving random short guys new, never-before-seen complexes while the other is handing out eggs, or making fountains.

On deltarune.com/chair there's dialogue that appears in the tab name: "But what if it could get... ...darker than dark?" This seems like it was said surrounding one of Gaster's dark experiments, but notably, it is not in all capital letters, like Gaster always speaks in. This was someone else talking. They use capitalization the normal way, just like the voice that discards the vessel, so they could be the same person. I know just about everyone uses capitalization the normal way, the connecting thread here is both being in relation to Gaster, the capitalization just means that them being the same person is allowed.

#what if W D and Gaster are all separate people #Ok now my personal headcanon: #the one who connects you to DELTARUNE at the beginning of the game is gaster (obviously). the one handing out eggs is also gaster. #since he's shattered across time and space. that's why his existence is so... debatable lol. #+ you can find him in the light world which would seem to imply he's a lightner. but when you seal the fountain there isn't someone extra #in the room with you. #no matter what you do in the dark world #he isn't there by the time you seal the fountain #if you take the egg he isn't yhere #if you don't take the egg he was not there #if you don't enter that room. he exists in a state of superposition. and when you turn on the lights (observe him) he collapses into #nonexistence. #does that make sense? #anyway. second headcanon: #the guy who fucked up jevil and spamton #is also the one who discarded the vessel #and is one of 'you two'. #and the other person.. no clue #and alphys is the knight and dess sings don't forget which is the song from the water #deltarune #deltarune lore #deltarune theory

[chirpsythismorning]

I See the Light (Mike’s Version)

#byler #stranger things #mike wheeler #will byers #st4 dna board #visual parallel being the shot of ryder to the right while staring longingly at rapunzel as she talks looking off into the distance #then we have the very technical artificial lighting which is what I think drives this parallel home for me #in this scene in rapaunzel they’re singing about being in the dark for a long time and NOW ‘seeing the light’ #and so the choice to illuminate will with light in 87% of the shots from mike’s pov here… is quite the choice #you’ll notice mike is not lighten up at all to this extent from will’s pov #this is bc mike is not will’s light! he is his heart (duh he just gave a whole speech about it) #for mike tho. will is his light!! #and so the implications that come with this song and the lyrics you just heard from ryder’s pov specifically #the character mike is being paralleled to here #are quite staggering #bc this choice could have the potential to add even more layers to what we are seeing here #this scene started with mike looking pretty depressed and hopeless as he has been looking for most of the season #this scene then ends with mike looking mesmerized. in awe and maybe the happiest we’ve ever seen him after hearing will’s words #and so what does this all mean? #was mike in the dark but now he’s starting to see the light? #at the end when the light is shining on will in the cabin and mike ends the scene resting his hand on will’s shoulder #is that to signify that mike is now in the process of stepping into the light with him? #the duffers saying in their emmy consideration that the show will end with the characters coming out of the darkness and into the light… #was that just a coincidence? #not at all related whatsoever to the culmination of two main characters taking 5 seasons to confront their feelings for each other? #after a season that made a point of focusing on their dynamic with light… #or is it really just that simple bc tangled is written and crossed off the st4 dna board? #like this is literally just one of several scenes that connects byler to romantic pairings from movies on the st4 dna board #basically #byler endgame

[sage-green-kitchen]

Nothing is better than watching old movies by yourself at night, wearing your favorite pajamas, softest socks, with the best blanket and a warm bowl of popcorn.

#movie night #wizard of oz #breakfast at tiffany's #chitty chitty bang bang #roman holiday #singing in the rain #classic hollywood #dead poets society #light academia #chaotic academia #aesthetic #life #dark academia #popcorn #night time #introvert