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lyss-butterscotch · 8 months

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Hey yall should listen to this song its really cool

Yes its another ultrakill reference i like it alot ok

#bullying the siblings #when i hear a sad song #ultrakill vibes but alot lighter #because of the red white difference #rain world #gijinka #my art #five pebbles #looks to the moon #rw five pebbles #rw looks to the moon #tw trypophobia #lyss art

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astearisms · 8 months

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fionna and cake drawings before and after watching the episodes so far. it’s nostalgic and somehow cathartic and poignant and relatable and—it just started

#i’m part of the demographic where i was a kid when adventure time started and now watching fionna and cake as an adult makes me emotional #because did they keep us in mind when writing fionna and her attitude towards life #the dissatisfaction #the hoping for something more #something more magical than this dreary life filled with working to live and living to work #it’s so reflective of how life feels for me and perhaps many of us #and also Simon’s episode was so sad but so well thought out #exploring his feelings after the events of the adventure time finale is something I’m glad we get to see #there were already so many layers to his character in AT but now it feels like we get to dive deeper #I also felt emotional hearing Rebecca Sugar singing and writing a song that encapsulates his feelings so well #😭 it’s been awhile seeing her work exist alongside these characters #and all of these emotions get stronger because I remember AT being the one to inspire me to be a storyboard artist #when I was younger I used to follow many of the board artists here in tumblr and would get so inspired by them #to create simple but powerful boards that can capture the feelings of characters so well #Rebecca Sugar’s songs for the AT characters inspired me so much too #I’m sorry this is long I’m just feeling so many things experiencing all of this again as an adult #my art #fanart #adventure time #fionna and cake #fionna the human #cake the cat #simon petrikov

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gwenlena · 25 days

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people who complain about people singing at concerts are so annoying if you only want to listen to the artists thats what listening at music at home is for. concerts are a social experience you go there to be with other people who like the music as much as you do, you dont get to stop them enjoying it because you dont know what a concert is

#i think people like want to pretend its just them and the artist but like thats not why you go to a concert youre missing the point #there is no greater joy than screaming song lyrics with a bunch of strangers #this seems to be more of an issue with like. those ~aesthetic~ types of people people who are into rock dont care #but like the mitski subreddit was so annoying when her tour was announced it was full of people saying to not sing along #which is just very sad u know #also because i was watching a boygenius concert video and the comments were full of people making fun of one girl in the audience #for singing loudly and not being able to carry a tune #like ok she paid a lot to be there and ur watching it for free on youtube you can keep those opinions to urself #if you dont want to hear other people judt STREAM THE SONG #anyway #im seeing mitski this month i hope everyones chill OSLSJ

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feroluce · 1 year

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When Al Haitham dreams, it's in shades of sandy blonde and red, metallic gold and feather-blue. His nightmares are colored much the same.

Kaveh leisurely strolls ahead of him, shoes leaving deep treads in the soft desert sand. He keeps a careful distance, arms length, and in return Al Haitham keeps an eye on him, the other man's back dead center in his sights.

He curses the sand in his boots and the long line of footprints he steps into, already the exact shape of the soles of his shoes.

They aren't lost. Al Haitham knows where they are. They've been here before. They are still here.

Kaveh doesn't watch their feet. His head is constantly tipped back with his eyes on the stars and their constellations (of which Al Haitham only knows two, Vultur Volans and Paradisaea). He'll walk right into a cactus like that. Al Haitham yells ahead for him to watch where he's going.

Kaveh reaches up to touch the side of his head in a strange motion, but otherwise there's no acknowledgement. They press on into the dark of night.

Something squelches beneath Al Haitham's boot.

It stops him short, pulls his attention like a magnet and as much as he wants to, he can't ignore it. He doesn't want to lose any more ground. But something won't let him move on. Al Haitham watches as red seeps into the golden sand, spills beyond the border of his bootprint until he slides his foot aside.

It's an ear.

It's a human ear, and there's a heavy earring attached, metallic gold, gems red and green, a familiar shape, a familiar shade-

Al Haitham opens his mouth to yell. Chokes. Swallows the lump in his throat as he quickly restarts his pace. Tries again.

"Hey!"

Another squelch under a hurried footstep. He doesn't stop to look. Al Haitham is pretty sure he knows what it is.

"Kaveh, hey!"

The path becomes littered, little slices and small pieces, fingertips and knuckles, Kaveh's arms once held casually behind his back now strewn along the sands. Every time Al Haitham extends his hand to him, reality warps and bends like the twisted image in a broken mirror, lines mismatched and edges jagged. Kaveh flits just beyond his grasp, fleeting fae, no longer able to hear him or to reach out to him. Al Haitham can only grit his teeth and follow.

His right foot marches forward. His left follows. His right again. His left suddenly doesn't follow, and Al Haitham is thrown off balance and pitches forward, swinging his arms outward to land on his palms and keep his face off the ground, because he's been in the desert enough times to know what a foot suddenly being stuck can mean.

Quicksand.

Al Haitham curses and swears in just about every language he knows as he tries to spread his weight as evenly as possible, stay afloat at the top of it because if he sinks, he knows he'll be done for, and shit, Kaveh.

His neck cranes uncomfortably in his search, Kaveh had only been a few feet in front of him, he can't be sunk much further, and he's in the desert much more often than Al Haitham anyway, he'll be familiar with what to do-

Kaveh stands in front of him, empty sleeves fluttering loose. Still just out of his grasp, still watching the stars. The quicksand is already up to his calves.

"Say, Al Haitham..." It's the first he's spoken this whole time. His voice resonates somewhere deeply nostalgic in Al Haitham's chest, produces a ripple that momentarily stuns his heart.

Kaveh is sinking.

Al Haitham stretches out on his belly as far as he's able, it's quickly up to his knees, Kaveh isn't even trying to redistribute his weight or pull himself out, it's at his thighs, Al Haitham sucks in a breath and yells for him, his hips, yells louder, his waist, Al Haitham's trembling fingertips can almost reach, his chest, Kaveh drops level with him, quicksand about his neck like a noose.

Kaveh's head tips back, back, impossibly far back, until it hangs, angle awkward, and he's looking right past Al Haitham with his tired smile and gouged, blinded sockets full of starlight.

"Do you believe in karma?"

The quicksand swallows him entirely and Al Haitham dives, shoves his arms deep and pushes off with the one foot he'd had left on safe ground, because he can't, he can't, it's not the same without Kaveh, not anymore, he needs him, no one else keeps him sharp, no one else challenges him like Kaveh, if he can just grab him, if he can just pull him back up-

Al Haitham thrashes, against the sands, against gravity, against the hardwood of his bedroom floor. Clumsily scrubs the back of his hand across his face to rub the grit of quicksand and sleep out of his eyes.

Sometimes he thinks he preferred it when the Akasha was still harvesting his dreams.

He pops his head out from under his weighted blanket and lays where he'd fallen out of bed for a moment, blinking blearily against the lamplight shining from his desk in the corner. Deep breaths. His consciousness shifts along the blurred line of nightmare and reality, crosses over the slow transition into wakeful awareness.

He's home, Kaveh is home. It's dark out. The house is dead silent.

He's just going to go check, he tells himself as he peels himself out of his sweat-soaked shirt and roots around for a replacement. He's already losing memories of his nightmare, the details spilling away from him like wet ink, but he knows he needs to see Kaveh. It'll feel better to do something, anything, than try to go straight back to sleep.

He's quiet when he slips out of his bedroom door, because they both keep late hours but their bedrooms are right next to each other, and Al Haitham will never hear the end of it if he wakes his roommate up.

Lights off, door shut. Nothing conclusive. He moves out to the main room.

Kaveh sits on one of those ridiculous sofas he'd ordered three of for some reason, back to him as he tucks a lock of hair behind his ear. A mostly-empty wine bottle stands tall on the table, next to the cobbled-together remains of an architectural model that's been picked and fussed over for four days straight now.

"Kaveh? What are you doing?"

This earns him an exaggerated startle, but Kaveh doesn't turn to look at him, preoccupied with whatever new sketch or blueprint he probably has in his hands. "Ohhh, nothing," he slurs cheerfully. "Just working. Just thinking."

Kaveh has always been the world's chattiest drinker. Al Haitham waits for the rest of it.

"Say, I think...I think I asked you this years ago, back then, but you never answered me." Al Haitham feels all the blood drain from his face in ominous familiarity, drip cold down the length of his spine. Kaveh sinks into the couch until he can tip his head over the back of it, looking up at him with a tired smile and exhausted eyes.

"Do you believe in karma?"

#genshin impact #haikaveh #al haitham #kaveh #kavehtham #these two have had me chewing concrete lately god #3.6 got me frothing at the mouth #something about al haitham trying to save kaveh from himself and his own guilt complex and self-sabotage wheeee my heart #and he's normally so self-assured but he fucked it up spectacularly the first go around- good job baby-#and now it's years later he's trying again but it's something he's barely chipping away at not to mention Kaveh not wanting his help lol #and so some of Al Haitham's nightmare is objective fact and some of it is his own subjective pov #Kaveh loses his arms and ears bc al haitham is frustrated that he won't hear him out or reach out for help #and he keeps his eyes up and eventually blinds himself bc al haitham thinks of him as too idealistic and blind to reality #and kaveh does all this to himself bc when you ask al haitham about his troubles he talks about people who cause trouble for themselves #kaveh pondering the concept of karma in relation to his bad luck and misery and guilt about his father's death in the quicksand *fans self*#al haitham starting to get just a little nervous that maybe he really he can't do anything about this #or that one day it'll be too little late ough. love when I can whump character by whumping the other.#two for one special buy one get one two birds stoned at once type of deal #i have a Vision about them and their stupid dumbass relationship dynamic that I need to yell about later but for now: this #written while listening to A Sadness Runs Through Him by The Hoosiers which hilariously was introduced to me as a pla Emmet song #'but here was a man mourning tomorrow; he tried to finally drown in his sorrow'#'oh he could not break surface tension; he looked in the wrong place for redemption'#'don't look at me with those eyes; I tried to unheave the ties; turn back the tide that drew him in'#'but he couldn't be saved'#'a sadness runs through him'#extremely kaveh and haikaveh song for me ough #my fics #gore #body horror #I mean it's pretty unrealistic but still just in case

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yuseirra · 3 months

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Dancing like ballerinas Under the moonlight all night long♬

#minayuka #shuyuka #persona 3 reload #p3 reload #persona #this song makes me feel so emotional...#the lyrics..are so melancholic?? and sad if you think about it??#and it's so beautiful too #doodle #persona 3 #oof forgot to mention but referenced from la la land's movie poster #whenever I hear this song I picture two people dancing under the moon and lalaland's visual's what I get in my head when I think of that

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pokimoko · 4 months

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Listening to instrumentals from the silly doo-wee-ooo show is actually something that can be so painful.

#doctor who #doctor who music #murray gold #segun akinola #musings about music #this is specifically about 10's theme in vale decem. the long song in 11's regen piece. and clara's theme in face the raven / clara's diner #i get psychic damage everytime i simply hear the use of the motifs elsewhere because of the tragic associations those sadder renditions hav #obviously these songs aren't the only examples in doctor who but they are by far the most emotionally devastating ones for me personally #and obviously it isn't just leitmotifs either. basically hearing any piece that played during a sad scene gets to me.#how are you supposed to explain to your coworkers that you're tearing up because of instrumental sound association?#'yeah sorry these violins and humming sounds summoned vivid images of my favourite character dying/leaving and it made me sad'#love that composers can just straight up pavlov bell your emotions by getting you to associate a melody with a sad scene #an addition to this is doctor who instrumentals that make me nostalgic because I associate them with my own past #like 'this is gallifrey: our childhood. our home'. that song was one of my alarms for a good long while back when i was 15ish #so it kinda transports me back to that time in my life whenever i hear it. music really is its own little kind of time travel #i am very much looking forward to the continuing psychological damage murray gold will inflict upon me in the new season #and to have previously uplifting character leitmotifs used against me and forever be contaminated with sad feelings. love to see it #(also: not a instrumental but damn 'the stowaway' has no right being as good as it is. who knew a christmas sea shanty could sound so great #apologies for this probably niche-ish post (is it niche to know ost title's by heart? asking for friend). just feeling things about music

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th3e-m4ng0 · 1 year

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suddenly he realized. and then couldn't stop realizing

#transformers #art #megatron #optimus prime #tw character death #tw blood #hey guys michael here as u can see here megatron has just killed optimus !!! [shocked emoji] [afraid emoji]#and thats how he realized that the reason he looked forward to fighting him was because he liked him !!!#[gasping emoji]#he never truly wanted to end his spark despite the threats !! but lo and behold when u have a big ass fusion canon and u aim it at ur enemy #'s chest then it turns out they DIE guys #so now he finally got what he THOUGHT he wanted after all this time !!! to kill his arch nemesis !!!#but turns out that's not what he truly wanted at all !! WHOOPS. so now he's going to be extremely SAD #can we hit 13 likes for this depressing story [sad emoji]#im sorry i was hearing a slowed + reverb version of a song and thought hey. i want to test this cool brush i got and made this

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galaxygermdraws · 10 months

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So I have. Never properly drawn Geno, so I decided to do it in honor of the remake! I needed practice drawing him anyways because I am being dragged down the Genario rabbit hole and I cannot draw it if I cannot draw them both.

Now to spend an ungodly amount of time trying to figure out how to work SMRPG into my timeline.

(reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. Thankyu)

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red-dyed-sarumane · 5 months

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do kids these days know about the 18 puzzle game and its collabs with various utaite. do they know u used to be able to whale for utaite cards in a gacha game. have they seen the collab art with sou that i miraculously still have saved. or the soramafu one. do they know there was cat boy mafu in a gacha game

#utaite #i was 16 when this happened. damn.#sadly i didnt have screen capture back then so i dont have recordings of any of the songs #i hear the soramafu ones lost media. sad #i almost got the cd with the other collab songs at one point but alas it wasnt meant to be. but it does exist

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thatsgonnaleaveamark · 2 months

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i just remembered a song that i really liked from a pretty small musician and tried to search it but it was gone :( not on spotify or bandcamp or youtube and another site said its not available, their most recent release is from almost 2 years ago so i checked instagram and the last post is also from around then, but man the song is stuck in my head now so i went to the post from like 4 years ago where they announced that one and wrote a comment asking if theres any way i could hear that song again lmao fingers crossed

#i talk #idk i post on insta maybe twice a year but do still see notifs so maybeee #maybe they had a good reason to take it down id totally respect that too but i wanna hear that song againnn ough its so sad #shoudve downloaded the damn mp3 when i still could #but for songs you dont actively listen to a lot its so hard to notice when theyre gone and then you randomly remember months or years later

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itspileofgoodthings · 7 months

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So sorry if this is bothering you but so curious as well... why do you hate Guts?

Thanks for your time ❤

you’re not bothering me!

I think the simplest way to answer this is with one of Olivia’s own lyrics from pretty isn’t pretty when she sings “none of it matters and none of it ends” because. That is kind of her whole ethos about how life works. She believes that! And so her work, to me, is profoundly cynical and self-absorbed because it can’t point to anything bigger (none of it matters) so it revolves purely around her own feelings. It won’t ever situate itself in a wider picture. And I love whining in a song tbh. I love when an artist captures those uglier emotions —the discontent, the restlessness, the irritation, the blandness and staleness of it all and the railing against it—because those are all part of the human experience. I am continually shocked—it is shoCKING—by how many negative emotions I can and do experience over and over again. But it is thankfully against the backdrop of reality. My bad moods are something that can be so unpleasant to feel and so ugly to witness—I wrestle with how ugly and small my suffering is—but there is a way in which, all discourse about the validity of any and all of my feelings accounted for, those aren’t real. Just symptoms of my suffering and sometimes my convalescence (lol, love a symptom of convalescence) but reality is still always so much realer. It’s always ready to break in a million times a day; the beauty and sturdiness of reality, the texture of existence, as Flannery O’Connor once said, is always there and with enough time (and with patience and help and love) I can get back to contact with it. Not just the state of my own mind full of bitterness and worry and pain, endlessly stewing in its own unhappiness.

I am not good at that, it takes a lot to get me there. But I guess my point is—to circle back—Olivia’s music doesn’t try and doesn’t want to. Its scope is so narrow, every song no matter how pleasing at first eventually sours (lololololol) because it’s JUST rooted in her own experience, generally her own suffering. And there’s no sharpness or cleverness in the world (she can be both sharp and clever!) that can hide that lack of range. So you hear a song once—for me, it was brutal—-and you’re like YEAH. I recognize this kind of whininess because I’ve felt it before. There is something true to it! But the more she writes the more you watch her do it over and over again (sonically, too, she loves to speak-talk and tbh they’re just sub-par remixes of brutal) the more you start to be like “oh, is that it? We’re not going anywhere with this? There’s no turn or catharsis or bridge or anything that lifts us out of this even for a second?” and it’s just —blegh.

And the thing is there doesn’t even have to be, like, some triumphant girlboss victory where she feels better. I’m not saying her songs are bad because they’re sad and depressing. It’s that they establish no outside contact with reality. They are, for all her clever little film-noir references or whatever, only ever self-referential. And that gets old so fast no matter who is talking.

#yes of course I contrast her with Taylor #Taylor can be beautifully petty and restless and sad and insecure and her songs are never just about her #They are always situated in a broader picture of reality. They go down to the roots of things. Of humanity and love and the human condition #and it’s just. It’s so much bigger. It is not stifling #and that’s the staying power and that’s the inherent hopefulness she has and that’s her desire to know the truth and speak the truth #Even when she’s getting it wrong it’s all still there #anyway it’s funny because Taylor gets accused of what Olivia actually is doing so much more than Olivia #people love to pretend that Taylor is a wallower and self-indulgent #and yes there’s a very human humanity to the expression of her emotions. There IS brattiness there is anger #but the core is so good that those things become what they are —only the endearing and funny trappings of her expression #never the heart #it’s why Taylor wears so well and also why sometimes she is jarring on first listen. You can just hear the dissonance (for me too)#But it’s like that one tweet said. Doesn’t matter if you like a taylor song on first listen. You WILL eventually #and it’s so true. And that’s the quality drawing you in #Olivia (and much of gen z tbh) is kind of the opposite: the humanity is in the trappings #She’s fairly easy to listen to and like ….. at first #the humanity and cleverness and beauty such as they are are on the surface #there’s a deceptive ease and an openness that doesn’t actually lead you anywhere #It leaves you empty because it’s just all kind of built on the fumes of a bad mood tbh #turning off reblogs lol #Anyway thank you for asking and giving me this opportunity to speak #all opinions are mine and that’s what they are. If anyone feels differently more power to you. Go forth and enjoy guts #Just putting all my caveats here

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polarsirens · 1 year

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#this is extremely dumb but i cried today listening to a song #imagining a neverafter animatic of an ending #that is yet to happen and only imagined and probably wrong #also i ahve no idea how i’ll go about making that kind of animatic i’ve got in my head but #i’m in this bad habit right now of #associating every song i like with neverafter #and i just. i can’t quite imagine a “good” way of neverafter ending without some wild sacrifices #which means i’m associating every sad song with it #and imm making myself tear up for something that won’t ever happen #anyway i’m leaving that partial lyric that really hit me here:#“just as much as I mean something #everyone’s existence means something #and I want to hear it #I want to hear it #that voice reaching out towards tomorrow #so that someday when I’m reminded of today again your smile won’t fade #so that—before I disappear—my days with you won’t fade #I’ll leave this here”

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gxlacticlove · 1 year

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tbh I think that Made In America probably goes the hardest out of all of Starkid's songs and I don't think it gets enough attention

#you opened the box a doll came out #like when they sing #oh my goddddd #i ascend to another universe every time #that song makes me want to scream cry #im so sad they didnt do it on tour #but also feast or famine goes so hard too #i cant wait to hear jeff's npmd music #im so pumped #wagon on fire goes hard too #maybe villain joey is the key #thats also written by jeff too #black friday #starkid

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sparklyseblos · 5 months

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i want to talk about the second category of nini solos in hsmtmts:

there’s the first category which are the songs written by the queen olivia rodrigo (all i want & the rose song)

and then there’s the other category which is the holy trinity of songs about nini’s future/self-discovery/dreams/idek which are out of the old, granted & you never know.

something non-negotiable for me with this category is that:

- out of the old is the curious younger sister

- granted is the underrated middle child

- you never know is the scared but brave oldest

i don’t make the rules.

#hsmtmts #nini salazar roberts #anyone else skip you never know sometimes? like i get so emotional every time it pops up that sometimes i physically cannot listen to it #i think it’s bc it was nini’s last song & it’s also probably the most relatable for me #also anyone who got to hear all i want live at sour tour is SO LUCKY (but anyone who got to hear olivia live full stop is so lucky #i’m so sad i didn’t get tickets for sour tour like what i would giveee i don’t even have guts tickets either 😭#praying i get guts tickets closer to the date or something #rant over but anyways stream granted bc i was not lying when i said it was the underrated middle child

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theflyingfeeling · 6 months

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hellooooooo 💗💖💕 I hope the reason why we're not seeing Olli's face so far is because he's been clinging to Allu like a cute sleepy koala from the very moment they saw each other again

I know it has been days since the end of the US tour, but just imagine them laying on their beds counting the days until they can be together 🥺💘💗💕💗💖 and when they're next to each other again, Allu doesn't dare to leave Olli's embrace until they have to board the plane, and Olli kisses Allu's face non stop since he's sorry because he wasn't able to celebrate Allu's birthday 😭😭

(for whatever reason, because my delulu brain likes to think that Olli didn't go back to Oulu after the US tour and stayed at Allu's place, but this is another setting so delulu thought not valid here)

meanwhile the band and crew are like......... yeah can't show this on social media without exposing your secret relationship or whatever you guys are doing 😬

anyway, I do miss Olli 😭 have a lovely weekend 💘💗💕💖💘💖

omg that must be it!! they can't post pictures together anymore because by now they're so in love it would just be painfully obvious to everyone 🫣 and funny you should say that, because just the other day I was thinking a lot about how they both (or Olli in particular) probably do a lot of spontaneous resting-their-head-on-the-other's-shoulder and stuff like that because they just want to be closer to each other 😭💕

but yeah, it would be nice to see Olli's face once more before he goes into full hibernation mode 😔

same to you, have a lovely weekend!! 💖✨

#i know nothing but i'm expecting there to be one more single (and hopefully mv) from the upcoming album before album release #i also don't know when the album will be released (and i'm wondering when they'll tell us the info other than 'in the spring' 🤨)#but i assume the album will be out before the tour that carries the album's name lol #so maybe we'll at least get some promo content for a new song during the winter at least #(perhaps even new merch since there was none for deadzone 👀)#but other than that i'm not expecting to hear from olli until album release / the tour starts in march and that makes me so sad 🤧#and no of course i don't expect him to post on his social media all the time #he doesn't owe us content and we're not entitled to anything from him etc. etc. etc.#but...just a little something every now and then would be nice? 🥺#which is why i need aleksi to start streaming again asap to offer us crumbs of olli content on the side 🤲#answered asks #ollixallu #catboyolli

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justablah56 · 6 months

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AETHER I JUST SAW YOU ADDED DO YOU WANNA BE FRIENDS TO THE TERRICK PLAYLIST HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME I'M CRYING (/lh) (the amount of skillful navigation I had to do to avoid spoilers to send this ask because it was that important)

ENXWKDMSKDKD Y E A H - I am always in so much pain about them and it's your own fault for listening to my playlist where I dump every sad angsty pining forbidden love song /lh anyways icy I need you to tell me when you start the ep bcs icy . icy I'm going insane . icy . not gonna say anything ofc bcs I don't want to spoil but *ICY*

#just blahs #terrick #theyre everything to me icy #if i get sad brainworms about them when i hear a song so do you <3 #dndads #icy asks !

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