April birthdays for @nellgwynn

fraphne are the kind of couple who would play everytime we touch by cascada at their wedding and nobody would know if it was meant to be ironic or not. not even them

honestly i think roadhog overwatch is peak character design and it’s a shame we made junkrat the overwatch tumble sexyman

boyfriend demanded that i post this so i only semi-apologize for genshin cringe ft. co-op where i couldn’t figure out how to fit the second character in so they’re just launching their sword at him 5000 mph

have you ever cried while writting a supercorp fic? (i sure have cried reading some of yours kjsdf) and if so, which one(s)?

never cried while writing, for me knowing how the sausage gets made - nay, making the sausage myself - takes the surprise and thus immediate reaction out of it

however i have gone back to read through my own wips and gotten to the most painful parts and felt my face twist like i was sucking on a lemon, which soon gives way to a sadistic kind of glee like okay if this hurts me what the hell is it gonna do to someone else. the fics i remember this happening with most are hollow talk, rtro, a forgeone conclusion and if the lord don't forgive me

honestly, my two biggest youtube comfort series are dnp undertale and dnp sims 4

idc if it’s cringe, those gay bitches make me happy

It’s just that the songs aged with the band but the TBM albums manage to create such a coherent narrative for their lyrical ambiguity. Nothing & Nowhere/Violet/Walking With Strangers paint a world of suburban teenagers without a driver’s license, passing the time by forming cliques and gossiping as you do when you’re old enough to think you’re an adult. The lyrics speak of shallow relationships, breakups and makeups, house parties and a sense of naïveté, kids trying to be mature but just being edgy. Walking With Strangers describes a slightly older more aware version of this childhood, recognizing the institutions rather than just their effects and questioning why the characters of N&N and Violet started their petty hierarchies.

Pins and Needles takes a turn into the relationship side of things, maybe speaking of a first love or a first stray into serious commitment. Combined with the stranger danger themes of Hide and Seek, the young teenager of the first three albums is independent enough to go out alone and discovers that the in-group cruelty of school is eclipsed by greater danger. On that note—the focus of the songs in all albums vary from victim (Play Dead, The Dream, Falling Down) to aggressor (Promise Me, Video Kid) to both (Blue, Walking With Strangers). In the middle albums, the focus characters pursue their desires outside of the closed school-world and into the real-world, finding greater possibilities there too.

Where Pins and Needles/Hide and Seek show the transition out of school and the realization of worldly peril, Superstition is the turning point into adulthood as the characters in the songs revisit and reevaluate their childhood. The sound here is the biggest departure from other albums while the story is of the characters finally growing up and moving on from their shared past.

Under Your Spell and Diamonds are both albums about adult characters but are polar opposites otherwise. Under Your Spell has a similar sound to classic TBM but the lyrics are the least nostalgic, least fantastical. The album is a worldly and literal story of a main character recovering from a toxic, long-term relationship that slips into whimsy with the last few songs, showing a return to the rich world of TBM. Games, Hex, and Endless all have energy and intrigue where the rest of the songs mince no words. The characters whose lives had become stale rediscover their fascination and dive back into the inscrutable half-light.

Diamonds is both the other half of Under Your Spell and an entirely separate phase for the band. More than any album since Pins and Needles it’s Classic TBM. The lyrics draw on supernatural/fantasy concepts to take us back to the liminal reality of the classic albums, it finds its home again in a world made of metaphor. In many ways it’s a rehash of earlier material—ominous warnings, adolescent crushes, dreamlike exploration—but the sound sets it apart. The songs are serene despite their energy, if that makes any sense. Where the dominant emotion of the first three albums was teenage paranoia, Diamonds talks about mature characters who face the same challenges of their younger selves with some fatalism. Another change comes in the idea of the fantasy world—the classic albums take place inside the closed school-world, while the idea of two parallel world runs through Diamonds (Enter another would, ‘as above so below’, Mirrors, and ofc Parallel World). The classic albums are about children trying to amuse themselves in a tiny and limiting world, Diamonds is about contemplating other paths that might have been taken, other possibilities that may not be fully extinguished. In a way the second world of Diamonds is the original world of Nothing & Nowhere—the characters wonder what their old selves might have otherwise become, but to uncover those alternates they have to return to childhood.

i love telling people characters are canonically gay when they aren’t. just straight up lying about how their sexuality ive assigned them engenders some like super profound social commentary or whatever when it’s just an interpretation ive decided is Correct even if the writers have openly dismissed it

My love, there is no reason to be ashamed for your sexuality. It makes me happy being the same as you, I feel more connected with you that way!! Your cuddles are the furthest thing I'll ever desire romantically >:3 and I'm fine with that!!! No way I'd get bored of someone who never fails to make me overwhelmed with love everyday of my life :]]]

If anyone thinks it's "cringe" then we can roll around on the floor laughing about how cringe THEY look when they're horribly mutilated, disfigured and coughing up blood <333

I'd be honored with any edits you decide to make of me, hehe~ ESPECIALLY if it makes you feel validated! Then it's even better!!!! 💕

Forever yours, and cheering you on, ⚡

YYYYYYYOOMIIEEEEEEEEEEEE DARLINNGGGGGGGGGG THANK YOU I LOVE YOU COME HERE AND HUG ME PLLEASE<<<333<3<3<33<<3<3<3<333<3<<³<3<3<<³<3<3<3<33<33I LOVE UUUUUUUUUUU

tagged by @ambivartence, thanks siyuan :3 <3

Put your music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs

all human beings (voiceless mix) pt.3 - max richter, mari samuelsen, robert ziegler

why me? - yerin baek

andromeda - weyes blood

lesson one (tablo's world) - epik high

king - you'lllee

fox tracks (day 3) - ludovico einaudi

namae wo yobu yo (名前を呼ぶよ; call my name) - ラックライフ(luck life)

where the sea sleeps - day6 (even of day)

1440 - ólafur arnalds

love talk (eng ver) - wayv

tagging: @zeesqueere, @ivy-lavender, @isthisatlantis, @jazthespazz, @aquietkindofthunder, @chillycookies, @onearthasitis, @avizou, @tootiredtoosadtooangry, @myriad-of-colors

yknow sometimes i’m on the verge of mentioning klance and then i remember its been almost 3 YEARS since voltron ended. literally dont know how that happened, the passage of time continues to astound me

Not enough people are drawing fictional character Meryl Streep actually and it’s an issue. Solution: I, a jobless 17 year old subscribed to a patreon and spotify, should take this into my own hands and start commissioning motherfuckers.

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spent 2 hrs traumatizing myself by watching videos of chaos in waukesha and little elm and astroworld instead of doing hw 😇

found a technoblade playlist that included the bidding by tally hall, i’m gonna think about this for the next 3 months

I strongly dislike BLIH:I Do... I also can’t stop watching it.

Hi :)

*throws a flower at you*

Leaves

(i can't throw rocks at you because i sort of adore you so flower it is)

hiiiiiii (◍•ᴗ•◍)

*grins stupidly and tries to catch the flower*

*fails*

*picks the flower up*

*holds it with all the adoration i have*

*takes a glass and fills it with water and preserves the flower*

i'll grow this as a plant. i'll take care of it. you gave me this 😤 oh, and thanks for the flower bi the way.

(no u don't "sort of adore" me. u are obsessed with me. but im obsessed with u too ahaha. also speaking of throwing rocks, pls let's do that on feb 14th pls pls pls at stupid overly affectionate pda couples )