#this is truly one of my all time favs

[ahollowgrave]

72 for Spotify wrapped!

Send me a number 1-100 and I’ll tell you the song it corresponds with on my top 100 playlist!

Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee

This song is such a beautiful gem. I want to chew on it, you know? It's been on my wrapped for years now I just love it so much. It is a song about putting a past self to bed.

The opening verse is one of my very very favorites:

I see you laughing but you’re laughing too loud I tried to find you, you were lost in the crowd Girl you kill me I understand don’t you see? Say goodnight, say goodnight, say goodnight Say goodnight Rhonda Lee

Ugh, what a delight to end this prompt on!

#answered #music #playlist #this is truly one of my all time favs #i just adore adore adore the vibes #talking to ones alter ego as an exasperated but loving friend

[ohgaylor]

LOVER (redesign) — inspired by Walking Like We Do (2020) by The Big Moon (front / back)

#myredesign #taylor swift #lover #tswiftedit #the big moon #besties when I tell you this is one of my all time favorite photos #I truly mean it #also love the ladies this is inspired by #my fav english indie rock band lads who just viiiibe #listen to this album!!!! #walking like we do #tsgraphics #loveredit #ohgaylor #taylorswiftedit #tswiftcreatorsnet #taylor swift redesign #taylor swift album concept #taylor swift album redesign #mine #lover redesign #my*edit #lover era #lover edit #tscreators #networkthirteen

[aprito]

"He stared at her black and blue neck, rage boiling inside him once more. How dare he… handle her like livestock. There was no respect in his attack. She was a speck to him. Even he killed Chika with some element of ceremony. And yet, Sakura… wanted Sasuke home, even after all he had done. Sasori was once again reminded of why it was so easy for her to take him under her wing last autumn… “You said that mercy is useless,” Sakura replied, catching Sasori’s attention once more. He looked back up at her, his doll eyes reflective and gentle. He did believe that… “Your mercy saved me,” he admitted, speaking slowly."

At the edge of my seat with every update of A Second Chance by @evartandadam. She just gets both the themes of the series and these two <3 Please give it a read if you haven't!

#my art #sasosaku #sakura haruno #sasori #based same age au #fic rec #evartandadam #wanted this to be my last draw of the year but i guess its the first draw of the year now #i have reread this in 200k mammoth in full like 4 times already #truly one of my fav sos portrayals #the way she handled the kage summit arc? perfection #same age au after all just hits different #praying sasori gets out of his cell soon <3 #telling my children this was the actual plot of naruto

[feuxx]

Inspired by Lovely, lonely blooms for ashamedbliss <3

I've been wanting to draw for my lovely friend bliss and I finally managed to whip up something for her florist vampire!merlin fic. Pls check it out it's sooo good 🫶 actually pls read all of bliss's fics you won't regret it at all her whole repetoire is 🫶🫶🫶 all her words make me insane 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶

#ALSO IF YOURE INTO/MILDLY INTERESTED IN A/B/O. I CANNOT RECOMMEND MORE STRONGLY HER OMEGAVERSE FIC ITS CALLED DOUBLE BIND DOUBLY BOUND #ITS ONE OF MY FAV FIC OF ALL TIME THE WHOLE THING IS A TOUR DE FORCE LIKE. ACTUALLY MAGICAL AND WONDERFUL AND WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW #Ive been following it for like. a year and half i think. truly insane about it. ive been billboarding it for the whole of 2023 actually LOL #ANYHOW unto the tags #bbc merlin #bbc merlin fanart #feuxx art #merlin emrys #merlin fanart #man he is kinda oc looking. it bothers me but what can i do it was post it as it is or yeet the whole thing my friends vetoed the yeeting :

[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.

[5hrignold]

i conquered a very deep rooted fear of mine today. making my own smiling friends fanart finally

#sf is like. i never make my own posts about it but it’s one of the FEW FEW FEWWW Wthimgs where like #it never Truly leaves my mind i never stop being obsessed with it i just stop hyperfixating #and even then on some days i just daydream about them for hours anyway even if im hyperfixated om something else #loveyu smilingfridnddddssfjoh #smiling friends #pim pimling #<- also he’s one of my fav characters of all time and nobody gets him #like i do #also im gay for him #charlie dompler #alan and glep too if you squint #odieart #charpim

[mossdogs]

good episode

#clone high #purity #mr butlertron #my art #my fav one from all the series personally #everything abt it is immaculate #TRULY one of the episodes of all time #btw i havent seen any fanart of purity?? how is that possible her design is so neat

[flashanimated]

BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE,

ALREADY KNOW THIS STORY.

#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #silver the hedgehog #explanation!! in tags. since i don't think my composition got my exact idea down #but this song is one of my fav sonic (as a character) themes. what it tells us about sonic. and this lyric especially stood out to me #we don't really know much of sonic's past (as of current game canon) or real feelings on most situations. to get them in character themes #like this is wonderful. and for so long i keep thinking about how like #i really truly think. when you really think abt it and consider them all as characters within canon #especiallyyyy the 1998-2000s games. sonic has more similarities to shadow and silver than what's been shown or what most have known #originally this was going to just have sonic and shadow but i always have to throw silver into things #but i wanted to potray a sort of sympathy from sonic as well as sense of understanding #being the hero of the whole world saving it many times and fighting insane things as a 15 year old little animal's gotta be a lot #& anyway i like to take baby game seriously just a little bit

[jd-205]

While waiting for new episode of Mary My Husband I've started with Perfect Marriage Revenge and I gotta say I love it so much. I'm at episode 6 rn.

It gives me the 90s-00s latin-american telenovela vibes in the best way possible. They embraced all the tropes and cliches of the genre and did the absolute maximum with it in the best way possible. Stuff like that are just not made these days and maybe that's the reason why I love it so much.

I've seen mentioned how low budget production it is but I gotta say that I can't really tell. And if they're able to keep up this work with low budget then the crew deserves applause because they're doing perfect job.

The cast is absolutely awesome and they all embraced their characters. Special shout-out to Lee Min-Young as the evil stepmother Lee Jung-Hye, who clearly put her everything into that role and did a great job. What a dedication! Cinderella's stepmother appears as a kind loving lady compared to her.

The main couple have great chemistry and they look great together. Plus points for Sung Hoon (as Seo Do-guk) 's sad puppy eyes whenever Jung Yoo-min (as Han Yi-joo) shut herself off when they have a moment together.

So overall I love it and I can't praise it and recommend it enough.

Only negative thing is the fashion choices of the ML. That's probably tied to the low budget, someone mentioned how they clearly used the money for the actresses' wardrobe and they had nothing left for the male counterparts. Which may be actually true.... I mean we could argue that loose and baggy clothes could be called trendy these days but it just didn't do Sung Hoon any good. The tops were alright sometimes great even but the bottoms.... Even if he wore slim fitted or at least regular trousers it would elevate the look so much. Loose top and slim fit bottom could work really well so I'm really sad for all the baggy trousers lol...

Also the first episode was dragging a bit but it was all worth it and important for the rest.

If you consider watching it I'm saying definitely go for it!!!

#truly one of my all time fav tv series not just kdrama #note to the person commenting somewhere how no way people would act this badly as yi joos family... #i can assure you that there ARE people this twisted in the world #my toxic extended family i cut contact with did so many telenovela worthy unhinged stuff #i guarantee there are people who would go all the way to act as depicted in the drama #that was just side note #overall please watch this piece #perfect marriage revenge #kdrama #kdramas #marry my husband

[dont-look-up-at-the-sky]

Something I find amusing about C.C. & Lelouch's relationship (spoiler: it's not amusing at all) As a premise, despite everything I'm going to say, CluClu is my otp and will ever be, so this is not intended as a hate shitpost, even if who doesn't like them as a couple is also absolutely welcome to give their take. Furthermore, the topic of my discourse is just their relationship regardless you see it as romantic or not.

Now, to get to the matter, let's take a look first at the other two girls. I've always felt that Lelouch relationship with Shirley and Kallen were somewhat unbalanced, since they clearly had deep, sincere feelings towards him, but as much as he reciprocated them (as friends or almost-lover it doesn't matter here), it's always been them to give the strongest evidence of these feelings. He obviously cared a lot about both, and if I'm being honest I think that Shirley could have been his first love, but he only shows how much important they are to him under dramatic circumstances or if solicited, in response to some showing of "affection" from their part.

In Shirley's case, when he kisses her back after her father's death, when he wipes off her memories, when he blushes because he was expecting her to kiss him and then, sadly, when she dies. As for Kallen, the strongest example that comes to mind to me is when he says "you have to live" after he lied so that she didn't sacrifice her life for him. (I won't take into consideration when he made a move on her, for the following reasons: because he was at his lowest point and was only looking for something to numb himself, sex was the same as drugs at that time, no less self-destructive, and definitely not an act of love; moreover, because he didn't show her any affection AT ALL—what he said to her was straight up insulting and degrading (I state this as a matter of fact, but I'm not judging him here, I could talk about this another time), not something I would proudly bring as a proof of his feelings for her. Lastly, because my point now it's not to demonstrate which girl he had ROMANTIC feelings for.)

Then we have C.C. The only one among the three whose feelings for him were ambiguous to say the least. For the most part of the story, she manipulated and used him for her purposes by encouraging him towards the path that was most convenient for her. She knew from the start the truth about his mother, she watched him struggle and never said a word because that could have made him falter in his determination. She was aware of Charles plans, which she had been complicit with in the past, and also that he had a geass, but never shared these informations with Lelouch, again because that could damage her aim. She was the person who more than anyone else saw how much he was suffering, and I believe she started to care about him even early on the story, but still this wasn't enough to stop her.

Obviously she was conflicted, she often looks torn between what she wants to gain from him and a genuine feeling that she can't allow herself to have. Also, we could argue that, had she really wanted to go all the way with her plan, she could have done so already by trying to kill him, in order to push him to accept the code as the nun did with her (we know from Charles and V.V. that's not necessary to wait for the geass to evolve in both eyes). But she never does this. Deep inside she's not as selfish as she pretends and would like to be, and at a closer look it's lecit to wonder if at some point her decision to stay at his side wasn't for her purposes anymore, even if that was what she kept telling herself—but this doesn't make her actions towards Lelouch any less wrong, any less selfish and manipulative.

As I stated before, among the three C.C. is the only one who, even if she truly had feelings for him, never prioritised them over herself. Even the scene where she comforts him after Euphemia's death is ambiguous, since those words and that gesture came from a person who was taking advantage of him all along.

What about Lelouch though? To me it's always been even shocking how open his feelings for her were (whether you intend them as romantic or not, again, it doesn't matter!). We know him as a person who always acts quite cold (even if he's not), but then we have "I don't know why snow is white, but I think it's beautiful", "If you're a witch then I shall become a warlock", "I promise you the smile you never had", even that snarky "I cannot be friends with a goddess, I've made a contract with the devil". He worries that she could get hurt or die even if he knows she's immortal. To not speak about how he allows himself to be vulnerable in front of her and just her.

So, to refer to the title, what I find "amusing" is how the girl he shows most openly his feelings for is exactly the one who apparently reciprocate less and, for a fact, the one whose reasons for being at his side have always been not totally genuine.

That could open another matter of analisys which I find interesting about Lelouch, namely how his relationship with Suzaku is an ulteriore example of how he clings the most to the people who somewhat reject him and don't give him any assurance that they won't leave him. From a psychological point of view, it seems in line with a young man who in his childhood has suffered from severe trauma bounded to loss and abandonment. It's common in these cases to have the strongest reactions to real or imaginary threats of abandonment, while unconsciously re-enacting the trauma by being emotionally driven towards those who show they could leave at any moment unless you make efforts to hold them back. But this could be the subject of another topic one day, a topic that I would probably call "why I think that Lelouch shows many symptoms of borderline personality disorder, despite the more popular fan-diagnosis that I feel are sometimes dued to a general misunderstanding of personality disorders". Well, that's it! I'm curious to read your opinions, if you like to share :)

#code geass #lelouch lamperouge #c.c. #character analysis or a bad attempt at it #just me rambling about my fav anime of all time #sorry #kallen kozuki #kallen stadtfeld #shirley fenette #special mention to #suzaku kurugi #bc you simply cannot talk about lelouch without talking about him too #we all know he's the only one who truly got to reach his heart #literally

[juniperscholar]

Today's entry really solidifies how much different Mina is from the typical horror heroine - although she doesn't immediately believe everything in Jonathan's journal, she doesn't dismiss it outright and entertains the possibility that everything he wrote was true, not just hallucinations. She even starts transcribing it in case someone else might need to read it. Just. Absolutely the most hinged person in this novel. Nobody's doing it like her.

#dracula daily #mina harker #honestly probs my fav literary character of all time #she's SO smart with just the right balance of skepticism and imagination #she cares so deeply about her loved ones #truly an inspiration

[fyorina]

YOU RUINED ME!!! I CANNOT READ ANY OTHER FANFIC BECAUSE I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOUR WRITING!!!! I CAN’T LIVE LIKE THIS

HELPPPPPP HAHAHAHH IM GIGGLING MY MOST SINCERE APOLOGIES <33333

#ᡣ𐭩 carina’s love letters #ᡣ𐭩 from user: echoslittlestars #BUT TRULY #if u like my writing #u simply must go check out rylie's fic his parliament's on fire because it's my OBSESSION #rylie is kentopedia btw #honestly everything she writes i havent had the time to read some of them but trust #that one fic is genuinely my obsession #flora is also writing a merman fyodor series that's literally insane and hits all of my fav tropes SO U MUST CHECK THAT OUT TOO #flora is fyodorloveclub btw #im so excited for updates for it

[felizusnavidad]

POPPY I JUST LISTENED TO FIRST BURN

HOLY SHIT?????

THEIR VOICES??? THE LYRICS???

"IVE SEEN HOW YOU LOOK AT MY SISTER"???? GODDAMN

THE FUCKING RAGE????

POPPY POPPY I CANT

LITERALLY YES TO ALL OF THAT!

i am just listening to it right now (i forgot how much i love it lol), the sister part is probably my favourite & i kinda wish it wasn't cut from the original version. my jaw literally dropped when i heard it for the first time omg. it's... intense.

#it's truly amazing that we have access to all those demos #some of them are literally insane #also the workshop version of hamilton is worth checking if you have like a lot of time hahaha #there are a lot of differences #for example the song “one last ride” instead of “one last time” which is probably my fav from the workshop next to the adams administration #hamilton #i saved every letter you wrote me*

[marsbotz]

this was my realest post ever but i regret posting it every single day bc it got like 1k notes (big for ninjago textposts.) and never seems to die

#i dont remember what my guys were. i think maybe vinny and gayle but they have become more prominent since #vinny got a whole fucking monsterfucker yaoi plotline. and they both got minifigs. sooooo #vinny is still my all time fav side character tho maybe #tsk… i liked him before the yaoi…. #fugidove too im also insane abt. dont think he has a minifig. YET #char…. and bentho too. one season wonders….. #that is truly the most painful thing abt ninjagos structure is that every season u get a new blorbo who will never see the light of day agai #actually i also kinda liked tbat weird shopkeeper guy in s12. he was sucky but fun to watch #oh actually my ultimate obscure blorbo is rachel sparrow. from one of the books #jays like … agent? boss? during his time on tv #oh the producer lol #but thats my sickening secret is thst i literally Kinned so hard i made her up. same first name and all #and then found out she was real. LIFE ALTERING #ohhhh u know actually tho. i shld draw my ninjago ocs. for once #i have a few half siblings for jay. could be fun. CLIFF YOU BASTARD!!!!!! #lets piss on our bio fathers grave together 💖 #anywya

[indigodawns]

also i know i ask this every so often but does anyone have any kdrama recs that are a bit more plot heavy or that have leads with great chemistry? 👀

#ive been trying to goblin/guardian but it might not be for me. DESPITE gong yoo and kim go eun truly bc i love both #and the guy who plays the grim reaper #but it's just so. slow. and kinda boring. and why is she in high school etc #anyways for the recs. my favs are tomorrow and 25 21? i #i really liked our beloved summer too though i never finished it. and also the king eternal monarch but mightve been the timing etc #business proposal i thought was okay & little women i couldn't get through either #oh the glory was sick though i did like that one #okay that's all :') #but those are my recs i guess dhhsshhd

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Hi!!! I saw you say you were almost caught up with the silt verses and I was just wondering what you thought of it so far? 👀 I was the anon that mentioned the quote so I got super excited when I saw that it got you to listen to it!!

Anon you have my undying gratitude because I actually just caught up right before you sent this message and it is unequivocally one of the most creative and unflinching narratives I have ever come across. I have the absolute HIGHEST of praises for this podcast. I’m on my second relisten of it as we speak. It’s utterly haunting and visceral. The voice acting and production is IMPECCABLE. The characters are so well created and carpenter is one of my favorite characters out of anything. Thank you SO much for the recommendation.

#the silt verses #I am so not normal about this podcast #I’m OBSESSED with carpenter she’s one of my all time favs #legitimately I cannot say enough nice things about it thank you so much #I will be So Unwell when the final season comes out #I have a more detailed review of it that I will eventually finish typing out #truly one of the Podcasts Of All Time #i’m so obsessed #thank youuuu