#A Haunted Tongue

[ragesingoddess]

haha hahaha yeah I enjoyed the new hozier album ig

[senorboombastic]

Release Rundown - Algernon Cornelius, Big Break and Colossal Squid

Words: Ben Forrester Algernon Cornelius – SEGUNDO(Self Released) It’s been great to see Manchester based artist Algernon Cornelius travel around the UK with his explosive one man show over the last few years. Mostly in support of his debut rap record, ’The Miraculous Weapons of Clarkus_Dark’, which was a deeply encompassing and effecting record that encapsulated the mind of its creator…

[antiphan]

The fact they didn't kiss and instead showed tongues inch away from eachothers while pretending to not want to is more telling than if they did a real peck on the lips

[purplespacekitty]

I've gotten good at leaning on metaphors I've gotten good at living on someone else's page

I cut my teeth on secondhand sentiments You can't trust a single thing I say

The crows in the garden are laughing at my expense Drowning out all the lies that I might have told instead

I keep my closet free of skeletons 'Cause I'm much better at digging graves

But I always dig up bones in your sympathy I can't trust a single thing you say

I light torches in my sleep I have gasoline in my veins I am always burning, burning, burning

And I know that you mean so well But I am not a vessel for your good intent

I've grown a mouth so sharp and cruel It's all that I can give to you, my dear

Don't look too hard, 'cause you won't like the scars he left in me

I'm afraid Is this a bunker or a shallow grave?

Send me anywhere, take me out I'm the well they're gonna drag you down

I am a falling axe I am a sharpened knife I am a poison asp I am a risk to your life I am a swinging bat Tumbling dynamite I am the beast at your back You better run for your life

I will only break your pretty things I will only wring you dry of everything

You gotta know that this won't last Desperation will erase the fact I'm keeping all Of the answers in my cigarette box

I've gotten good at making up metaphors I've gotten good at stretching the truth out of shape And all these words are sweet and meaningless

My darling, the devil knows my name

But if you're fine with that You can be mine like that

"Metaphor", “Tongues and Teeth", “The Garden”, “The Wolf", “Hollow Moon” and “The Well” by The Crane Wives

Sometimes I wonder if The Crane Wives have watched Deep Space Nine...

[elen-benfelen]

I don’t think I’ve ever been so comforted and haunted by a song as I have with Butchered Tongue by Hozier. It’s so incredibly, terribly beautiful. It took me a while to be able to listen to it without instantly sobbing my eyes out. Took me even longer to put words to my feelings towards it. The grief it portrays, of losing one’s culture and language. Yet also the comfort of finding others in common. The horror yet unity of realising that the scar of colonisation wraps around such a large chunk of the world.

It’s the cruelty of punishing those who dare to speak their own language, dare to dress and dance in the ways of their people.

To me, this song is hiraeth.

It’s grief and love and longing and hope all in one. There is no English word equivalent. Hiraeth can be used to describe that feeling when you can’t speak your grandparent’s language. When you no longer know the steps to a dance once performed often. That feeling of longing when you’re far from home. When you can’t return home. In this case, home can be a country, or it could be your old home or someone you once had in your life. Yet it can also be the hope that you might have those things again one day. That you might find someone to teach you the steps your body calls for or the words missing from your tongue. To me, Butchered Tongue encapsulates every corner of hiraeth. Both the hopeful and the hopeless kind. Because not every language has someone left who knows how to speak it, how to teach it. Yet there are those who do and still they must fight their rights and for respect from uncaring people. There’s a love in this song for minority and indigenous languages across the world. I listen to this song and I ache, not just for my own ancestors, but for those across the world whose fight is much harder than ours is. Whose governments still refuse to acknowledge them as human beings.

People need to stop viewing colonising languages as some kind of main character languages that are better and more intelligent than every other language. Fed up of folks mocking minoritised languages and calling them worthless.

Tell me again how funny you think my language is. Please. I might just laugh this time.

[bite-your-tongue-out]

oh so thats why I like it when beefy men beg and explain simple things to me kindly but condescendingly

[rusted-pipe-of-wisdom]

eldritch blake. yes i will elaborate

[thelivingautomaton]

(Or: Mary gets sick. James disappears. Three years later, Mary gets a letter.)

ME AGAIN, howdy, in the spirit of self-promotion my SH2/R roleswap fanfic now has a banner. also: two new chapters. enjoy, stay frosty, etc

chapter 12: our favorite patient display of patience

"And the strangest thing was, it really did feel almost like she was coming home." In which: our heroine experiences a homecoming, of a sorts; a number of truisms regarding life in a hospital are revealed; the riddle of the Sphinx receives more than one answer; and a very reluctant game of hide-and-go-seek commences.

chapter 13: in the dark, a withering vein

"In retrospect, it should have been obvious which way she would jump." In which: the lights come back on; a nurse arrives to give Mary some medicine; an IV/transfusion stand is applied in highly irregular clinical contexts; our heroine and her erstwhile companion part ways; and the storm breaks.

[ratatatastic]

happy first ekky goal of the 2425 season AND its unassisted as the double whammy!!! and how due is ekky for a goal?

VERY. VERY VERY DUE. ITS INSANE CONSIDERING HE HAS 12 ASSISTS ON THE SEASON.

wall of love and yearning gus and ekky love IS so real and so true catmin <3

carolina hurricanes @ florida panthers | 11.30.24 (x)(x)(x)(x)

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I always have ideas for multi-chapter fics but I know better than to start them anymore because I never seem to finish them. Oneshots are hard enough, apparently

[finisnihil]

*Being physically restrained* NO I HAVE TO PUT NEVER LOVE AN ANCHOR BY BELOVED FAVORITE BAND THE CRANE WIVES IN MY JINGLIU PLAYLIST IT'S SO JINGLIU AND JING YUAN'S RELATIONSHIP PLEASE-

[bearitual]

OH MY GOD SHIPS THAT ARE NOT CANON ARE THE FUNNIEST THING EVER. QINTER IS SO ENTERTAINING TO ME .

[dorakonia]

@jinanreona replied: what if he gives Malleus a kiss then?~ uwu

Colour him intrigued...

[antiphan]

I mean Dan and Phil french kiss by licking eachothers faces i'm convinced and they can't prove me wrong

[majestativa]

Years later.

Flowers in the Attic: The Origin (S1E1/4), dir. Declan O'Dwyer & Robin Sheppard, (2022)

[toh-tagteam-au]

I know how it isn't the point of belos character but I would love to have a episode about him, caleb and evelyn.

I'm assuming you mean in the context of the Tag Team AU? That's how I'm going to be answering this question, but apologies if you were referring to canon!

I understand where you're coming from. I've been seeing some people get upset about how the legacy trio didn't have any screentime in WaD, and for all intents and purposes an AU has the ability to explore things that weren't focused on fully in canon. I just... don't really know how I can expand on the story more than it already has been told. The AU doesn't affect their story very much, and I think the show has done a really good job at elaborating what happened without drawing attention away from Luz, Eda, and King.

I'm in the camp of believing the legacy trio aren't... super important. Their actions definitely apply to Belos's character and backstory, but that's about it. It especially rings true with the way the Tag Team AU is panning out – Belos is straight up abandoning his obsession with "saving" Caleb's soul in favor of "saving" Luz's.

That being said, I have some concepts about Elsewhere Elsewhen involving Evelyn that I'm throwing around in my mind, and any conflict involving Belos in season 2 and 3 is going to involve some deeper feelings considering both protags were pretty much raised by him. Caleb will just have to keep haunting the narrative for now.