#(which in hindsight is like boooo)

[goldensunset]

hello hiiii before I forget upon falling asleep, I just wanted to thank you for reading Steadfast 💕💕 it seriously does mean the world for old fics to get recognition and I’m just really glad you enjoyed it!! It’s fun for me to relive it through you too as a nice lil bonus (I wanna respond to all your comments…gradually hehe ;D)

yippee!!! i was worried i was being annoying (but not so worried that i was ever actually gonna shut up because i don't Do shutting up lol) so i didn't write as much as i could've but i'm glad you appreciate it yayyyyyyyyyyyy

[miquellah]

read your answer and tbh that makes sense 🤔 miquella felt built up in a way that messmer wasn't, cause people had like 2 years to lose their minds over him and also make him some pillar of good. Feel like i fell for that then felt kinda betrayed which in hindsight makes no damn sense since malenia literally told us he's the most fearsome empyrean

HAHA no i was just like that too, constantly going “boooo people are saying he’s gonna be EVIL! they’re saying he’s gonna pull a griffith!!” and like. well, i was both humbled and vindicated at the same time, turns out! ultimately he seems to be written as a very sympathetic version of griffith and his arc. without all the grosser aspects too

miquella was definitely a “pillar of good”, though, and DID do good things from the start and wanted to keep doing good. he reminds us of this himself, many times, with his own words. ultimately miquella’s fault, though, was in being unable to see people as people, and more like just concepts— of everyone else as lost victims to be saved, and himself to be martyred for them as savior. but that is not sustainable, and godhood was something that stripped away HIS humanity too, and trina herself tells us he wouldve been miserable.

he’s not evil, but he was fallible; his plan was going to fall short of his goal, and was ultimately extremely idealized rather than grounded. miquella had to be put down for his own good even more than anyone else’s, i think. but i feel like people are more than caught up in miquella having fallen short of that “perfect good” image, and it’s left the people who always expected “evil miquella” as just louder. and there’s a lot just not even considering the idea of nuance here

[itwas50yearsagotoday]

7/23/21:  It was 50 years ago today, July 23rd, 1971, the Moody Blues would release their sixth album ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Favour’.  All I can say about this record is what a HUGE disappointment it is.  Their previous two records in a row (’To Our Children’s Children’s Children’ and ‘A Question of Balance’) were both uniformly excellent... this record has TWO good songs, and that’s it... no kidding.  The Top 40 hit from this record is the hard rockin’ ‘The Story In Your Eyes’, which is a very good tune indeed.  Also, ‘After You Came’ is a bouncy song that it’s hard not to shake your shoulders to... got a great chorus too, and some excellent harmonies by the whole gang.  And I should say that the track ‘Nice to Be Here’ has moments of interest, like when the guitar pops in the middle of the track, but is otherwise just okay-ish.  In fact the problem with that song, and the rest of the album, is that the Moodies have reverted back to the sound of their first couple albums with the super-lush string arrangements and overuse of the mellotron... it feels like a serious regression, and in 1971 it is now just fucking boring and somewhat depressing.  Again following the rather diverse (for the Moodies, anyway) ‘Question’, this record is very same-sounding in its lush-iness... they should have given themselves more time to construct some interesting melodies, because dammit they ain’t here.  Six albums in less than five years is a lot and I think they just ran out of gas here and are coasting now... sad in a way because in hindsight it is obvious that the last two records were certainly the peak of this great and unique English band.  Not recommended except for the two songs mentioned.  Boooo.

[n-kpop-anon-blog]

hello it's me, everyone's mom friend.. I used to have super-high alcohol tolerance so no matter how much I drank I was only ever tipsy. Because of this I used to drink a looot and never had many ill-effects. But the last few years I had to cut down significantly due to medications etc. and now looking back I'm glad I did! Not only would I probably have caused myself liver damage eventually, but now when I do drink my tolerance is lower so I can actually get buzzed and have fun! Stay healthy x

I know, I know! I try not to drink as much as possible! But it’s really quite hard because I started working as a hairstylist when I was 18 and back then I used to end up drinking every night because networking was the only way I could make contacts and the way people in the fashion industry networked was through partying. I was also a child in an environment where the person closest to my age was 25ish, so I felt the need to drink and prove myself ya know (it was kinda dumb in hindsight) but then as I got older that image of me kinda stuck(?) and if I said no to a drink they’d be like boooo ur no fun anymore. But yeah I’ve started using the excuse that I have to drive back most nights (which is the biggest like because I can’t drive, it makes me anxious), so these days I drink only 3-4 times a week. Still trynna cut down tho because It’s such an unhealthy lifestyle. Thank god I’m still just 21 though.

But yeah I know it's not good and I know I need to bring it down more and thank you for the concern mom anon. Amom(?)