#keep it together

[silverfoxlink]

What we need today:

✅ Watch Rhett’s reaction to Link and Christy’s shared Venmo account

#good golly mclaughlin #KEEP IT TOGETHER #YOU’RE SO DOWN #LITERALLY LOOK AT HIS FACE #NO WORDS I HAVE NO WORDS #rhink #gmm #rhett mclaughlin #link neal

[needles-and-witches]

Love how in S1E08 when she's told she can see Lockwood now, Lucy immediately jumps up and starts running, only to slow herself down again and walk over at a normal speed. It's like she's so relieved she wants to run and throw herself at him, but reminds herself to pace herself and act normal and cool in order to not be too obvious.

(Sorry, couldn't find a GIF/vid of it.)

#locknation #lockwood & co #lockwood and co #save lockwood & co #save lockwood and co #lockwood and co netflix #renew lockwood and co #lockwood netflix #renew lockwood & co #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #lockwood and lucy #lockwood x lucy #lucy x lockwood #locklyle #keep it together #act cool

[itsallmadonnasfault]

#Madonna #1990 #Blond Ambition #Keep It Together #Gaultier #Madonna 1990 #Queen Of Pop #Blond Ambition Tour

[raurquiz]

#otd @madonna #Madonna #keepittogether #singleremix #12remix #12mix #12extendedmix #instrumental #maxisingle @warnermusic

#otd #madonna #keep it together #singleremix #12remix #12mix #12extendedmix #maxisingle

[big-low-t]

#big low t #keep it together #use whatever #my words #my writing #writing #encouragement #survive #stay alive

[ani4detal]

ID please?

#who's mr smiley? #keep it together

[jchamphero]

One Piece x Dragonball

Shonen Jump 100th Issue

#keep it together #I’ll cherish this forever #one piece #dragon ball z #try not to cry #tears up a bit

[notkeepittogether]

Talking about Making Space

i dubbed this a concept album when i made it, but i think i misunderstood the definition at the time. i’d written a handful of songs during the year, which i had intended to release as an EP or an album, but most of the demos i had remained unfinished, even by december.

all of these songs are about my time in san francisco, over my birthday & also the christmas period in 2021. the plan was to go for my birthday, meet up with my friends, and have a silly time together. you may remember the great resurgence of covid cases that occurred in november/december of that year, which definitely plays a part in this. but keep in mind i had booked my flight in june.

admittedly, it was a stupid idea to plan a meetup with internet friends you made during lockdown, only a matter of months after said lockdown measures had been slightly relaxed. it was june and i’d figured things would be much better with the rate that things seemed to be improving and opening back up again. i had managed to avoid catching the dreaded illness up until that point, and i’d confidently gone in to take my fit-to-fly covid test two days before. but the night before my flight, my mum took a test of her own amidst coming down with what seemed to be a heavy cold, and when she called for me up the stairs with a panicked voice, i knew exactly what she was going to tell me.

i was faced with a tough decision. i hadn’t yet received the results of my fit-to-fly test but i realised i was potentially about to receive what i deemed would be earth-shattering news. i went to my dad’s place to spend the night and hopefully avoid catching the virus (if i hadn’t caught it already), mere hours before my flight. i told my friends that there was a chance i wouldn’t be able to make it, but even if my test was negative, there was still a chance that i had caught it and was still in the incubation stages.

we decided as a group that if the test was negative, it was probably better to just risk it and go anyway, rather than waste all the money i had already spent on getting there and staying there. so when the test came back negative, i went.

as you can probably guess from all this buildup, two days into the trip i developed my first covid symptom, and two days after that, i tested positive. i wasn’t the only one, though. we hadn’t thought in depth about what would happen if we weren’t able to get the negative tests we needed to get home. we had to extend the trip to accommodate for the ten day isolation period and to also let enough time pass by that we could produce negative tests again. this meant having to relocate to a smaller airbnb where we’d stay for christmas. what ensued during this period of isolation was what you might expect from four ill, stir-crazy, homesick people who had to spend christmas in a place with one bedroom in it. i won’t go into detail about what exactly happened, though - that’s what the album is for.

the album is the aftermath. the impact of this trip was still fresh in my mind and on my body as i had flown home on december 29th with seemingly worse symptoms than i’d had when i was actually sick with the virus. a delayed reaction (and probably a result of not sleeping for 36 hours on the journey home) with my lungs has flared up my asthma at the worst it had ever been. i was basically bedridden for the two weeks following my arrival home. i was feeling a lot of things, too. i had so many regrets - things i hadn’t said or done while with the people i was convinced i’d probably never see again, things i had said or done that i felt i had no control over at the time while my brain was at mercy to sickness and discomfort, making the decision to go while knowing the risks and bringing everyone down with me.

EDIT: we were also drunk for a lot of the time. i think that’s worth mentioning.

now, almost two years later, i don’t regret anything. (well, maybe some things.)

1. Making Space

this one’s very blatant in its lyricism. we, or at least i, was going completely stir crazy in this airbnb that had one bedroom in it. i was hating myself pretty intensely both during and after all of this had happened. i was rejecting the affection of all of my friends.

2. The Art of Texting

the year preceding this trip hadn’t been easy. i found myself seeking comfort in my friends who were willing to let me completely lean on them, so long as i let them do the same with me. this resulted in some unhealthy codependency that, despite the implications, i still look back on somewhat positively. how do you convey your deepest feelings to someone when all you can do is text or call them? (miscommunicate).

3. Understand (All the Best)

i came home feeling like i was broken. i had strong feelings, but they felt like the wrong feelings, and i regretted not letting myself get fully comfortable around the only people i’d ever been comfortable with.

4. Dunes

i believe it was on boxing day that i had finally had enough of being indoors. a friend and i went on a long walk down a nearby beach, at night, where we shared airpods (until they died) and listened to music out of a phone speaker (until it died) while walking up and down and climbing some of the sand dunes that had formed. it was the most peaceful i felt the entire time i was there.

the image for the album art was taken on this walk.

5. Are We Alright?

mainly focused on the aftermath of this trip - i had a lot i needed to fix once i got home. guilt was not enough. i was unthinkably cold. i had to wear gloves in my room.

6. New Year

written about the year of 2021 as a whole, and what i went through with my friends. i used this song as a general outlet for my deep desire to repair a friendship that i’d fucked up. i think it helped.

7. Bad at Talking

every single friendship i had was in a state of disrepair after this trip. i wasn’t entirely sure what everyone thought of me after meeting me in person for the first time and then immediately seeing me at my worst.

8. Late Again

i was feeling inadequate as a long distance friend, and also inadequate to fulfil life’s basic expectations of me. i wish i remembered the exact intentions i had as i was writing this. but the stuff about missing my train and being thirty minutes late to class actually happened.

9. Twin Beds

on my last night in san francisco, my friend and i shared a twin hotel room. it was the first time in a week that i had my own bed to sleep on. he floated the idea of sharing a bed and i thought it was both funny and outrageous.

i flew home the next morning, but two of my friends were hit with an endless stream of complications. one had such extreme delays due to weather that he missed his layover and had to spend an extra night away from home. the other found out that canada’s covid policies were different to that of the us and uk. they had to spend an extra two weeks(?) in san francisco, by themselves. i felt bad about how relieved i was to be at home while they still had not made it. part of me, now, wished i had stayed.

10. All the Best / Goodnight

reading these lyrics back, i’m transported back into the toxic mindset i was stuck in for a while after i returned home. i was struggling with a lot of self hatred, for a whole plethora of reasons, and i spent a lot of time wishing nobody knew me or thought of me at all now that i was painfully aware that people knew me and were thinking of me.

i still write songs about this experience today. i need to stop, but honestly it somewhat shaped me into the person i am now, unlocking desires and urges i didn’t know i had.

#talking #keep it together #making space

[life-set-to-random]

#tmnt bayverse #bayverse leo #💙🐢 #why is he so hot? #fearless #eldest son #keep it together

[skyofsilverstars]

Not me on the verge of tears thinking about Nace in a walmart parking lot

#real #what has my life come to? #keep it together #BUT THEYRE JUST SO ?!?!?! YAH KNOW #nancy drew #nancy drew cw #nace #cw nancy drew #ace [redacted] #ace x nancy #nancy and ace #ndcw #nancy x ace

[butasslyn]

#keep it together #keep it together man #sky moth #sky meme #sky memes #sky children of the light #sky cotl #sky: cotl #sky: children of the light #thatskygame #thatgamesky #thatgamecompany #asslyn meme #asslyn memes #asslyn memes cooking

[itsallmadonnasfault]

#Madonna #1989 #Prince #Love Song #Like A Prayer #Keep It Together #Act Of Contrition #Prince Rogers Nelson #Madonna 1989 #1958 #Queen Of Pop

[queenangst]

be normal about fictional characters be normal be normal be normal

#*holds myself* #keep it together

[ryoziin]

Need To Be Somewhere Else

Made in Procreate

2360 x 1640

#keep it together #kit #fanart #procreate #digital art

[dustedmagazine]

Lost Film — Keep It Together (Relief Map)

Keep It Together by Lost Film

Lost Film makes wistful lo-fi C86 pop, with lucid layers of shimmering guitar, clear, rueful vocals and just enough gumption to kick it into gear. The band, which is mostly one guy, Jimmy Hewitt, has been kicking around for most of a decade, with a slew of artful EPs and singles. Before moving to Western Mass, Hewitt recorded as Orca Orca, a slightly more antic and post-punk outfit from Boston in the early teens.

I first ran into Lost Film when Hewitt opened for Sweeping Promises this summer as a five piece band: two guitars, bass, drums and keyboards. In that configuration, you could make connections to Slumberland bands like the Pains of Being Pure at Heart (first album) and My Teenage Stride, another excellent Pioneer Valley band once covered in NZ-style fuzz, but now submerged into the Jeanines. On the record, Lost Film pogos less and swoons more. These tunes drift and swirl and get lost in their own thoughts, Hewitt’s high tenor soft and dream-dredged over translucent lines of guitar, the distant punch of drums (that’s Ben Husk, Hewitt’s longest-running collaborator and the only other musician credited here).

It's mostly a guitar-based art, but Hewitt switches to keyboards a couple of times for an intriguing change-up. “Searching” follows an eerie synth riff through cool, enveloping shades of grey. The instrumental “Devotion” explores an echoing, uncanny valley keyboard melody for about a minute; it sounds ever so slightly like the Cure.

Late in the disc, Hewitt hazards a spikier, more stinging sound in “Notion,” a hard jangle bracing surreal swells of synth and soft focus vocals. It’s a good song, maybe the best on the album, as it punches through the pretty fog like certain early Bats tunes or, again, that gorgeous first Pains of Being Pure at Heart album. I like it the best because it jitters as well as soothes, digs in as well as floats away, but you don’t have to sell me very hard on rainy Sunday afternoon pop. Lost Film is lovely whether slumped in wistful contemplation or slashing out, just a bit, in rocking agitation. Paging Slumberland, we’ve got a live one.

Jennifer Kelly

#lost film #keep it together #relief map #jennifer kelly #album review #dusted magazine #c86 #jangle pop #western mass #jimmy hewitt

[00coby]

still working on this :3 ignore that i forgot the g in strong pottery and that the last e in its 2016 somewhere is the wrong colors i have fixed it now (also theyre a lot easier to read irl and a lot of them look a lot darker in the picture for some reason)

#1 trait danger #car seat headrest #ricky montgomery #keep it together #american holly #pelican sister #naked days #the whiting brothers #bitter stemmed fork #the honeysticks #perler beads