Imagine being the only person alive who can say this

Asta & Harry + hugs

RESIDENT ALIEN (2021 - ) S01E09 · Welcome Aliens

Young Avengers in the MCU so far…

Kathryn Newton as Cassie Lang (Stature) in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) Jett Klyne as Tommy Maximoff (Speed) in WandaVision (2021) Julian Hilliard as Billy Maximoff (Wiccan) in WandaVision (2021) Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop (Hawkeye) in Hawkeye (2021) Elijah Richardson as Eli Bradley (Patriot) in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) Jack Veal as Loki Laufeyson (Kid Loki) in Loki (2021)  Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez (Miss America) in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

It’s here. It’s yours, it’s mine, it’s ours. It’s an album I wrote alone about the whims, fantasies, heartaches, dramas and tragedies I lived out as a young woman between 18 and 20. I remember making tracklist after tracklist, obsessing over the right way to tell the story. I had to be ruthless with my choices, and I left behind some songs I am still unfailingly proud of now. Therefore, you have 6 From The Vault tracks! I recorded this album when I was 32 (and still growing up, now) and the memories it brought back filled me with nostalgia and appreciation. For life, for you, for the fact that I get to reclaim my work. Thank you a million times, for the memories that break our fall. 💥🐉🏰  Speak Now (MY VERSION!) is out now. 

http://taylor.lnk.to/SpeakNowTaylorsVersion

PC: Beth Garrabrant 

all the glamour and the trauma and the fuckin' melodrama

13 days til we return speak now to its mother 😝

when youre a kid learning the word "penultimate" is like a drug

Day 122 - 45, inked and watered

i didn’t choose this town,

i dream of getting out,

there’s just one who could make me stay,

all my days

you’re on your own kid is so ellie chu coded

Okay, so I was completely thrown by Paul trying to kiss Ellie the first time watching The Half of It (2020). It just felt so out of left field and I was just like, “Dude! What are you doing?” He’d literally just gotten together with Aster. How did he all of a sudden like Ellie?

Even Paul asking her if there was someone else was so shocking because it’s like: “You dummy! Aster!” (And it’s funny because not only did that question apply to Ellie, it applied to him as well. The dialogue in this movie was so on point.) He and Aster were a thing now. That’s what all of this had been for. But on the second watch, I realized that Paul’s feelings for Ellie had had a natural buildup and progression.

Truthfully, he was never in love with Aster and he and Ellie both knew it. Like Ellie said, they had nothing in common and the person that Aster had been corresponding with was not Paul. He was never going to convince her otherwise because he hadn’t even been privy to half the conversations Ellie and Aster were having (nor was he really interested). He was quite literally “hid[ing] behind other people’s words.” Ellie was the one carrying that relationship.

It was only through his bonding moments with Ellie that Paul began to understand what love actually was. He had a much easier time talking to her during their ping-pong sessions; he asked her about herself and her family; he actually listened to and understood the metaphor she explained to him about Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit; he listened to her sing at night when he took out the trash. He helped her find clothes that suited her and saved her from embarrassment at the talent show, showed signs of jealousy when Trig called Ellie “hot”, and let her crash at his place when she drank too much at the senior after-party. I think the letters he found in her bag afterwards were what solidified things for him: Ellie had initially dismissed and rejected his taco sausage, but once she tried it, she started writing to all of these food critics to get his name out there. (And we know Ellie’s a fantastic writer, so she made his chances ten times better.)

Ellie had invested so much time and care coaching and training Paul to give him even an eighth of a chance with Aster, despite knowing he was “probably gonna crash and burn.”

While he did get a second date (again, because Ellie saved his butt), his in-person dynamic with Aster did not improve and Alexxis Lemire noted the disconnect in that scene where Aster gives Paul the painting after her day (read: date) with Ellie. She was looking for that pensive, insightful person from her letters and kept coming up blank.

Later, Paul was much more interested in knowing that Ellie was going to be at his football game than Aster. When Ellie said that Aster had wished him luck, the first thing he did was ask Ellie if she was coming. And though he waved at Aster in the stands, he paid way more attention to Ellie, even becoming so distracted that she had to signal for him to pay attention to the game.

Then, instead of meeting Aster afterwards like he’d promised, he went to find Ellie getting Yakult from the vending machines. He didn’t seem the least bit upset about Aster walking in on their almost-kiss because his crush on her was gone. He’d developed feelings for Ellie while Ellie had fallen for Aster.

While Paul did in fact love Ellie, I think he confused platonic love with romantic love and wrongfully assumed that Ellie felt the same way for him. Heck, even Ellie’s dad thought they were together!

But I think the sweetest thing ever was Paul admitting that he loves Ellie platonically when he accepts that she’s gay. He doesn’t say, “I never want to be the guy that stops being friends with someone for loving the way they want to love.” He says, “I never want to be the guy who stops loving someone for loving the way that they want to love.”

He accepts Ellie for who she is, accepts her feelings for Aster, and opens up the floor for their joint confession about the letters.

Good on you, Paul Munsky. Good on you.

when taylor swift said “i’ve never been a natural all i do is try, try, try” and when maisie peters said “when did i wake up and find out trying isn’t good enough?” and when 5sos said “i’m doing my best and i guess that’s the best i can do” and when anson seabra said “i’m trying my best but everyday it’s so hard” and when maren morris said “i’m on a humble quest and damn i do my best” and when luke hemmings said “i’m sorry that i let you down” and when kelsea ballerini said “if i said i had it all together i’d be lying but i’ll die trying” and when ruel said “i try to be happy but it’s hard sometimes” and when sasha sloan said “i don’t even try ‘cause i’m scared to fuck up” and when gracie abrams said “i’m doing too much” and when jeremy zucker said “often i get exhausted trying regardless to be enough” and when when jp saxe said “i let myself try”

and when taylor swift said “this is me trying”

I should hate you, Gracie Abrams

Good Riddance is the debut studio album by GRACIE ABRAMS Released February 24th, 2023

@creatorsofcolornet event eleven ★ romance

THE HALF OF IT Written by Alice Wu