i love you singers whose vocals sound desperate i love you musicians who sound like if you don’t get this song out you’re going to explode i love you songs that sound like they’re dragging the vocalist with them 80 miles per hour down the highway tied to the back of a truck i love you voice cracks in emotional songs i love you unique voices i love you music that disturbs the comfortable and comforts the disturbed

this isn't my first kiss, it's better to be LOST than LOVED, now, isn't it ?

the chorus of will wood's '...well, better than the alternative' is so kanej wesper and helnik coded all at once what the hell

I have great friends :3

Sorry, Suburbia's full name wouldn't fit.

This isnt my first anything

THIS ISNT MY FIRST ANYTHING

EVERYBODY KNWOS THAT NOBODY KNOWS THAT EEVERYBODYS IN ON EVERYBODYS BUSINESS

This isnt my first lyric, I KNOW EXACTLY HOW I SHOULD FINISH IT

BABY COULD YOU PLAY ALONG EITH ME

BABY WOULD THAT BE ALRIGHT WITH YOU

AND WHEN WE FIND OUT WHATS WRONG EITH ME

COULD YOU TELL ME HOW IM RIGHT FOR YOU

BABY COULD YOU PLAY ALONG WITH ME

BABY WOULD THAT BE ALRIGHT WITH YOU

AFTER ALL THAT HAS BEEN DONE TO ME

COULD YOU TELL ME HOW- COULD YOU TELL ME HOW- COULD YOU TELL ME-

WHATS SO WRONH ABOUT WHATS WRONG WITHH ME???

IM JUST TRYING TO DO WHATS RIGHT BY YOU

WHATS SO WRONG ABOUT WHWTS WRONG WITH ME OHH IM JUST TRYING TO DO WHATS RIGHT BY YOU

baby could you play along with me baby would that be alright with you after all that has been done with me could you tell me how could you tell me how

I cant stop making lists so now i'm making a list of my top Will Wood music videos

1. ...Well, Better Than The Alternative. I absolutely LOVE (, Me Normally) this music video. One of my favourite WW songs, and the way it cuts between real life and watercolour paint is just UGH its so good

2. 2Econd 2Ight 2Eer. I dont care that it kinda hurts my eyes, it feels like Will just told the others to do whatever they wanted in the music video and then boom, 2Econd 2Ight 2Eer. Its also my favourite song from The Normal Album

3. Love, Me Normally. Again, one of my favourite songs, the way it goes absolutely crazy halfway through is amazing and I love the sign changing to "Jesus Christ Somebody Help Me I'm Scared." The way Will's hat just flies off and the guitar has "Kill Me" on the back as a (possible) reference to Cotard's Solution is just great.

4. 6up 5oh Cop-Out. The first music video I watched. I just love how chaotic it is, and its my favourite song from Everything Is A Lot. I dont really have any other things to say about it, all around great music video.

5. White Noise. "BALD! BALD! BALD! BALD! MY EYES!" But seriously, my favourite music video from In Case I Make It, although seeing bald Will was a jumpscare and I actually said "bald" when I saw him. I love how the ukulele has random parts missing and how the other string instruments dont have cords until the end.

Honorable mention, Tomcat Disposables. I dont even have to explain, its just so good.

i might cry.

my first and only attempt, and i got the very first Will Wood song i've ever listened to.

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I seem to have a talent of always liking the less popular songs of indie artists

i feel like the reason aang isn’t as adored and beloved as he should be is because he’s the protagonist but he’s also not an archetypal western classical hero. i don’t agree with the entirety of that “avatar aang: feminist icon” essay because i think the role of patriarchy and gender in atla is more complex than what that essay posits, but he definitely complicates the masculine ideal of heroism and generally does not conform to patriarchal notions of masculinity. which is very deliberate, especially as contrasted with sokka and zuko’s explicit struggles with the imperialist/colonial standards of an aggressive, militaristic, and chauvinistic masculinity. aang is subversive because he represents an absence of war in a world ravaged by it. through his link to a (somewhat more) peaceful and harmonious past, he represents a better possible future. as katara would say, he brings people hope.

but people don’t like that he’s not visibly edgy or tormented like zuko is (even though he’s a far more tragic character than zuko is, just fyi), that he isn’t “cool” (even though he’s literally the coolest kid ever, just fyi), that he “gets the girl” (even though if anything, she gets him) despite being twelve and bald and nice (the horror!). katara is the more classical hero of the narrative, as its narrator and its catalyst, the adventurous revolutionary who gradually learns to control and use her powers and eventually becoming a force to be reckoned with. zuko is the classical anti-hero of the narrative, his “redemption arc” constantly hailed as one of the greatest character arcs in television. so people expect katara and zuko, as very obvious narrative foils who parallel each other every step of the way, to be the obvious couple, because based on every romance narrative we’ve been inundated with throughout our lives, within our patriarchal society, they “just make sense together.”

but as much as katara is a protagonist in her own right, aang is the show. the title quite literally represents the central thematic tension of the entire narrative, the colon illustrating the implicit divide between his duties to this brave new world in desperate need of justice and balance, or his duties to his extirpated culture as the last true voice among them. aang is the central figure because this tension represents the crucial ideological battle happening across the entire show. aang is the avatar because he is the only person in the entire world whose values have not been shaped by war.

people constantly laud zuko, in particular, for being the most interesting, complex character in avatar. but i personally don’t even think that’s true. which isn’t to say that zuko isn’t fascinating in his own right, of course, but rather that he’s certainly not the only complex character this show has to offer. he just happens to monologue about his anguish constantly. but aang wasn’t raised as an imperial prince, and so he approaches the world, and his own pain, in a very different manner. the reason he immediately goes to ride giant koi on kyoshi island, mailchutes in omashu, and otherwise goofs around after learning of the shocking ramifications of his people’s genocide is because that’s how he copes with his pain. unlike zuko, who never stops talking about his aches and yearnings, aang represses his trauma and hides his tears behind a mask of upbeat cheerful goofy twelve year old antics.

until he can’t anymore. until he snaps. both katara and zuko wear their hearts on their sleeves, and that includes their rage. but aang’s rage is dangerous specifically because it represents that he has been pushed past his limits, that the conditions of this world in which he is a perpetual stranger, temporally displaced and dispossessed, are intolerable. that peaceful reconciliation is impossible. and the fact that he persists beyond that breaking point, over and over again, to firmly and resoundingly establish his ideals even as they conflict with everything he has learned about this world, a world that is not his own even as he can never return to the world he once knew, is what makes him so unique, so powerful, so beautiful.

i know that aang isn’t the typical hero, neither narratively nor aesthetically, but really, that’s the entire point. the world, our world, needs something other than what we have now. we need someone who will not succumb to the ideals of domination and victory through violence to assert themselves. we need someone who stands firm in refusing to kill the firelord, even as everyone he knows tells him otherwise. we need someone who knows that darkness cannot be vanquished through more darkness, but can only truly yield to purifying light.

and sure, aang is a child, and often acts childishly. sure, he’s not conventionally handsome and alluring. but one thing i will never understand is how that somehow negates his appeal to the masses. because even if you don’t appreciate how crucial he is to the themes of this narrative you all seem to love so much, how can you not love his adorable little face? his precious little laugh, his zest for life, the infinite well of love and kindness he holds in his heart? people who hate aang are crazy to me. because you are, quite literally, hating the world’s most precious baby boy.

In the world I love

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In a different world

&& when we find out what's WRONG with me could you TELL me how && if I'm still PRETTY ??

WHAT’S SO WRONG ABOUT WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME? I’M JUST TRYING TO DO WHAT’S RIGHT BY YOU

I can make any song be about The Character

I did this because most of you Will Wood fans out there like The Normal Album :)

YOU CAN STILL REBLOG IF YOU'RE A WILL WOOD FAN!!!

( The first option's full title is "Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally"

Just wanted to say I have a massive crush on you