#song: streets of fire

[brucespringsteencomments]

[micamicster]

Bruce Springsteen's fourth album DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN as Penguin Classics (series): Andrew Wyeth / Alan Stephens Foster / John James Audubon / Edward Hopper / Cy Twombly / Robert Hodgell / Kiyoshi Asai / Adolphe Sunaert / Alexander Louis Leloir / Pablo Picasso

[befooremoonrisee]

rip stannis baratheon, you would've loved late stage capitalism

[tha-wrecka-stow]

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Catelyn IV

Visenya’s Hill was crowned by the Great Sept of Baelor with its seven crystal towers.

Across the city on the hill of Rhaenys stood the blackened walls of the Dragonpit, its huge dome collapsing into ruin, its bronze doors closed now for a century.

The Street of the Sisters ran between them, straight as an arrow. The city walls rose in the distance, high and strong.

And above it all, frowning down from Aegon’s high hill, was the Red Keep, seven huge drum-towers crowned with iron ramparts, an immense grim barbican, vaulted halls and covered bridges, barracks and dungeons and granaries, massive curtain walls studded with archer’s nests, all fashioned of pale red stone.

Aegon the Conqueror had commanded it built. His son Maegor the Cruel had seen it completed. Afterward he had taken the heads of every stonemason, woodworker, and builder who had labored on it.

Only the blood of the dragon would ever know the secrets of the fortress the Dragonlords had built, he vowed.

Yet now the banners that flew from its battlements were golden, not black, and where the three-headed dragon had once breathed fire, now pranced the crowned stag of House Baratheon.

[afterlife-2004]

Reminds me of “The World Was Wide Enough”, a song from the musical, Hamilton!

[quccninchains]

"I dost humbly beseech thee, dearest Mother, to forgive mine ill-conceived ultimatum that led thee to cast aside thy lover. Pray, do not forsake him entirely! Take him back, I beg of thee! The poor fellow doth now resemble a sack of dragon doodoo and tis most sorrowful a sight to bear witness to. but also, I shan't bear the weight of his misery 'pon mine conscience. Truly, this wretched sight plagues me more than I can endure. So mother dearest, do what makes you happy and take him off the streets."

…fine. don’t tell your brothers. helaena is fine with it.

also don’t tell your grandsire.

…wherever he may be??? 🤔

[wouldtheyfuck]

[thegayhimbo]

I didn't get to mention this earlier in my review of Flight of Icarus, but this little tidbit from the book reminds me of the song "Nowhere Fast" from the 80s movie Streets of Fire:

[lesbiandarvey]

you can listen to literally any springsteen song and think about band of brothers 2001. EXCEPT born in the usa lol

[hella1975]

assigning a character the highest honour like *adds go home by julien baker to their playlist*

[rexkoolaid]

I love music. Me and who

[favvn]

Badlands -> Streets of Fire

[alistairlowes]

So what’s the 911 tea?

they cut buck and eddie scenes they used to promo the new episode. and whatever this means <3

oliver was super excited about it and they got them drunk for real for nothing lmfao.

[foe-of-fate]

I have so many fun facts about myself that aren’t really fun. They’re just like… mediocre. So I’d never bring them up when someone asks me for a fun fact, and they are too short to really be entertaining stories, so I just have a books worth of little events in my life that are only somewhat intriguing but they compose who I am. And I think everyone is like that to a degree. We’re all little stories that we don’t think are worth telling. Not because we don’t want to, but because we don’t think don’t think they’re worthy of being heard.

[chaotic-theatrical-weaver]

On name and identity, or in which Ellie Is Normal About Names (lying through her teeth):

Tumblr textpost by eyelessfog / "My Name," The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros / "Name initials may influence grades: study," Reuters / Quora response to "What does the phrase 'nomen est omen' mean?" / "Fall Away," twenty one pilots / "Trapdoor," twenty one pilots / "Forest," twenty one pilots / "Redecorate," twenty one pilots / "The Record Player Song," Daisy the Great / screenshots from will80sbyers' gifset of Stranger Things' "The Weirdo on Maple Street," (Season 1, Episode 2) / Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng / The Crucible, Arthur Miller