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The boyyyysss…my sons… 🥺

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Analysis of Mitski’s Abbey

Abbey from Mitski recently became a comfort song for me so time for a analysis of it!

(TW! This entire analysis contains detailed descriptions of emotional child abuse, just giving a heads up before we continue👍🏻)

So in my personal opinion, Abbey can very much be interpreted as a song about emotional abuse.

Or more specifically, a child realizing that they are being emotionally abused.

At the beginning of the song, and this is my starting point, this short lived beginning is comprised of entirely humming. Simple, beautiful, and eerie.

And in the context of this analysis, this is the stage of normalization, where the kid thinks it’s normal to be emotionally abused.

But then, the singing starts, and now come in the verses.

For these verses specifically, the “hunger” could allude to the child feeling empty, and emptiness is a common feeling amongst emotionally abused children. The child is hungry, but they don’t know what their hungry for (they are “hungry” for love)

For these verses, the “light” could allude to fulfillment. What would happen when the love finally comes their way, and the “darkness” is the pain that comes with being abused. The other two verses allude to how the love can only be achieved in a dream.

Now HERE’S where things get a bit more interesting for me…

In the song itself, Mitski herself starts to sing these verses with more pain and emotion

So they could allude to more than one possibility:

They could reference how the kid is tired of waiting for their parent to give them love, hence the pain.

It could reference how bottling emotions can happen because of emotional abuse, and the kid being unable to handle any more of the abuse causing them to burst. Hence the emotion

The kid realized they can find fulfillment (the light) elsewhere, and their tired of waiting for it.

Unfortunately however, this song likely has a downer ending in the sense where nothing changes. The parent still abuses the kid, Mitski’s emotions return so the kid by proxy accepts that their parent will never love them, and will continue their abuse.

All because of these verses

Anyways thank you for coming to my analysis✍️🔥

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Happy Trans Visibility Day!

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Maybe this is a hot take but I feel like we got fucking robbed when they redid Rusty's model. They were soo cute when their face was smaller and more angular. Those almond eyes are pretty! That's a fucking kitty!

And then suddenly

No! NO! I'm sorry but no.

Whatever, I live with it because it's all we have now but their original model was the best. I wish the CGI had gone back to THOSE roots. But, the eyes look better at least, and the facial structure. Not what we lost, but it's an improvement in many ways.

I also have beef with the show giving them he/him pronouns but- less so. I go by she/her and they/them so yeah, still non-binary in my book. BUT I still think it would have been cool if they'd always avoided using pronouns for them at all.

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oh how about Rebecca or any of the narrow gauge engines, who’s your favorite mine’s msr/rws Stanley and Kyle Proteus 🤩😊☺️

Even though I was never really interested in the narrow gauge engines, I always had a soft spot for Peter Sam and Rusty ^^

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remember when i said i liked using rusty to express emotions that could not be expressed using words.

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theyre so small

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"Some things never leave you, and magic is one of those things."

"Because when we help each other and work together, the magic in all of us is brought to life."

"And us little engines can do big things."

Thank you, Britt Allcroft, for the memories.

(14/12/1943 - 27/12/2024)

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For the ficlet game, Gordon picks up gen alpha/z slang from some of the younger passengers, and starts using it around the engines to piss them off lol

(ask box ficlet game here!)

As Thomas backs down Tidmouth sheds for a short visit, he noticed the downright exhausted faces of his friends.

"What's wrong-?" He asked, but then was quickly cut off with Henry's panicked voice.

"Thomas, save yourself. It's not worth it to stay here anymore!"

Thomas blinked, and he couldn't help but let confusion and concern colour his tone, "Wait, what? Why?? Did something happen-?"

"What Is Up, My Dear Skibidies?" Gordon's voice boomed, as he went on the turntable.

Everyone in the sheds groaned. Thomas, meanwhile, had to bite his tongue to not burst out laughing.

"I Have Had A Sigma Day!" Gordon continued, in his normally grandiose tone, "The Passengers Were NPCs, As Usual-"

"Please, stop." James begged.

"But I Was Of Course On The Grindset And-"

Donald squeezed his eyes shut, hoping it magically made him deaf as well.

"-I Kept Being The Railway's GOAT By Keeping To Time."

Douglas actually, in his annoyance, literally growled- how about that! Then, Thomas realised he could do the funniest thing ever.

"Wow, it sounded like you really took the W today, Gordon!"

The others once more groaned, as the two blue engines grinned at each other.

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Experimenting a bit🔥🔥

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In your art with the Doey boy’s human forms, I love how each of their signatures(?) is so distinct, that’s such a cool detail and it’s so neat to see you adding it! I also think it’s interesting how they all have eyes that are a very familiar shade of blue, and Matthew having that blue hoodie as well! The details you add in your art are always so nice, I keep going back just to look at them over and over! I especially like how fluffy they all are, it brings me joy :)

Thanks so much, I appreciate your appreciation for that! Took a bit of a while to imagine them as humans, especially for Matt and Kevs.

Regarding how they write, I was inspired by something similar and wanted to continue that piece of imagining how their penmanship would look like, differing from one another; and how it could tell them apart by just the look of it in their "Conscience Version."

The blue eyes were intentional—Doey himself is now part of them, so it's sort of a reciprocation. (If the boys have themselves reflected in coats of red, orange, and yellow arms on Doey, then Doey takes his place in their eyes, hence they have eyes of blue.)

The hoodie is simply a "reminder" of sorts that they are enveloped by Doey—carrying it around wherever they go (carrying a part of Doey in a sense for that matter.)

Any one of them can wear the hoodie:

Matthew would have it tied and let it hang by his shoulders. Kevin would wear it around his waist or top. Jack would just wear it as is; a simple yet adored hoodie. (Though, he'll find it hilarious at how loose and big it is on him.)

Their designs are more of a lightly colorful and lively style and palette. I wanted them to have that life-like feeling and character as...they are, in human form, of flesh.

So, they got to have the look of "life" on them and within them. I suppose that is how I portray them as humans (whilst being Doey.)

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one is a princess whos been through so much and changed so many lives and protected her kingdom

the other is charlie moringstar

(this post isnt trying to say “hazbin hotel traced and copied mlp!1!!111!1!” i just thought the similarity was funny and wanted to make a meme)

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Chris Kluwe is righteous. 🤜🏻🤛🏻 🇵🇸

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MAGA know they are inferior.

Anyone who has to negate black achievement is a loser. Complicit white people are bigger losers.

Charles Rogers represents all America. 🇺🇸

MAGA must disrespect black people. The racism feeds the myth of white superiority.

End the racism and the myth disappears.

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There is a special place in hell for Pam Bondi.

She shields rapists and sex predators, then lets women be harassed getting health check-ups.

A sexual abuser's best friend is Pam Bondi.

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Small Au drawing thingy Soul Gems for Mario, Luigi, and Peach! More to come soon I will be adding my drawings for this AU here @theintroverse