#A Million Dreams (Reprise)

[dragoneyes618]

The expression "like lambs to the slaughter" is taken from a verse in Psalms (44:23; see also Isaiah 53:7) in which the psalmist describes Jews dying for God's sake, and beseeches God not to hide His face from the Jews' affliction. These very words had been cited years earlier, when poet Abba Kovner called on his fellow Vilna Jews to revolt: "We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter....Brothers! It is better to die fighting like free men than to live at the mercy of the murderers. Arise! Arise [and fight] with your last breath!" (January 1, 1942).

While a significant number of Jews did rebel, there are several reasons why the overwhelming majority did not. The most important reason is that almost no Jews had weapons, and arms and legs are of little utility against machine guns and an organized army. (Indeed, while most American Jews support gun-control laws, the few Jews I know who oppose them invariably argue that had European Jewry been armed, many more Jews might have survived.) Few people realize that because of their lack of arms, almost none of the several million prisoners taken by the Germans fought back, including several million Russian soldiers, a large percentage of whom died in Nazi camps.

There was also a moral reason for the relatively low number of revolts: The Jews knew that other Jews would be the ultimate victims of any act of rebellion, even a successful one: The Germans would murder them in retaliation. A prominent Jewish philosopher has articulated the moral dilemma that would-be resisters confronted:

"Was it morally right to kill an SS officer if, as a consequence, hundreds and even thousands of men, women, and children would perish immediately?" - Eliezer Berkovitz (1910-1993), Faith After the Holocaust, page 30

In one notable case, Jewish fighters attacked a German police detachment in the old Jewish quarter of Amsterdam; the German response was terrible:

"Four hundred and thirty Jews were arrested in reprisal and they were literally tortured to death, first in Buchenwald and then in the Austrian camp of Mauthausen. For months on end they died a thousand deaths, and every single one of them would have envied his brethren in Auschwitz, and even in Riga and Minsk. There exist many things considerably worse than death, and the SS saw to it that none of them was ever very far from their victims' minds and imagination."

- K Shabbetai, As Sheep to the Slaughter? The Myth of Cowardice. The survivors' sensitivity to charges of cowardice is underscored by the fact that Shabbetai's book was published by the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors' Association.

Yet many instances of Jewish resistance did still occur, the most famous in the Warsaw Ghetto:

"The dream of my life has become true. Jewish self-defense in the Warsaw Ghetto has become a fact. Jewish armed resistance and retaliation have become a reality. I have been witness to the magnificent heroic struggle of the Jewish fighters."

- Mordechai Anielewicz, April 23, 1943, four days after the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, in a note to Yitzchak Zuckerman, a unit commander in the revolt

Only twenty-four years old when he helped organize the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, Anielewicz realized that the Germans intended to deport and murder every remaining Jew in Warsaw. The revilt was triggered by word that yet another Nazi deportation was imminent.

The Warsaw Ghetto fighters held out for about a month, longer than the Polish army withstood the 1939 Nazi invasion.

Yitzchak Zuckerman, the heroic unit commander to whom Anielewicz addressed the above note, was among the few Warsaw Ghetto fighters who survived the war. Some forty years later, he was interviewed by Claude Lanzmann for the movie Shoah:

"I began drinking after the war. It was very difficult....You asked my impression. If you could lick my heart, it would poison you."

Despite the Warsaw Ghetto revolt and other acts of resistance, during the 1961 Eichmann trial it became fashionable among some Jews and non-Jews alike to express shock and a certain contempt for those Jews who "failed to resist." Elie Wiesel responded:

"The Talmud teaches man never to judge his friend until he has been in his place. But, for the world, the Jews are not friends. They have never been. Because they had no friends they are dead. So learn to be silent."

- Elie Wiesel, "A Plea for the Dead"

- Jewish Wisdom, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, pages 532-535

[alaskan-wallflower]

IT ISSSSS it’s a top five movie for SURE. the soundtrack is incredible i remember downloading it and just being so happy listening to it with my mom and my younger brother 😭😭

i’m sobbing i forgot how good greatest showman was

[theatre-tech-rise-up]

im sorry if this has been said a million times i haven’t seen it but the ending of falsettoland reprise is a slowed version of the piano in the song in trousers (the dream)!!

[ellsieee]

Thank you Sukfilm for giving me what I've wanted since episode 5.

Seoul Blues EP 7 Uncut

Jeongha who? as @purlpeiris so succinctly put it. This uncut was better than anything I was expecting. Even if Suk flubs the ending, at least I can rewatch this a million times.

They're not going to get soggy because they're not even opened. Those props need to be reused! Those are the same ramen bowls from Blue Boys (also unopened). 😂

🫠🫠🫠 How could anyone hate them? Actually 90% of the YT comments are hating on Dojin and Suk. A lot of the comments are about how they hate the direction the story went and how they wasted their money buying membership for this, which is why I think Suk will still go back to the Daeyoug/Jeongha pairing. Have to keep that cash rolling in lol.

But he did! I need to know why! I need Suk's next bl to star these two. They are bringing it with both cute and angst chemistry. Ideally they would reprise their roles as Daeyoung and Dojin so I can get more of their backstory. There's so much story potential, both about their past and possible future. Improbable, but a girl can dream. 🤡

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

The Greatest Show • A Million Dreams • A Million Dreams (Reprise) • Come Alive • The Other Side • Never Enough • This Is Me • Rewrite The Stars • Tightrope • Never Enough (Reprise) • From Now On

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[shivada-jade]

The Greatest Showman

an au featuring lyney! lyney x reader

“Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for.”

He smirked behind his top hat. The spotlight shone on him. With a roll of his wrist, the hat was on. It was purposely tipped to the side. He had always been the one for theatrics.

His fingers pinched together at the brim of his hat and moved until it was in front of him. He flicked his wrists and his figure was replaced with a flurry of cards.

The crowd gasped and pointed at the cards falling on the ground. Everywhere was covered in blinding, outshining, coloured lights. This was his element- taking the audience’s breaths and stealing their minds.

From everywhere and nowhere at once, his voice echoed through the audience. “Where impossible dreams come true. Intoxicating you,” he appeared sitting next to an audience member. The spotlight dashed to shine on him.

He laughed. His arm lazily reached across the person next to him and reached the popcorn. He tossed it in his mouth and winked. He was again replaced by something else- not cards, but flying doves. Feathers gently dances down on people's faces and heads, distracting them momentarily.

He lived for this. Every cheer from the audience was a breath of air. The light moved again, showing him standing on the tightrope.

“All that was real…” He tilted backwards. His arms stretched out and the people held their breath. He let himself feel gravity acting on him. He disappeared into a puff of smoke. “Is left behind.”

The mischievous magician appeared from behind the curtain and he made his entrance again, but this time his friends were walking behind him making their entrance too. Lyney gleefully walked to the centre of the ring and struck his cane into the dirt ground.

Sparks and light erupted from the edge of the ring when he did so. Reds, blues and all the colours sparked people’s eyes.

Cheers. So many cheers and it was only the introduction. He smiled as brightly as the lights on his face.

This is the greatest show.

masterlist:

01. A Million Dreams

1.5. A Million Dreams (Reprise) - Filler [WIP. Not a priority.]

02. Come Alive [WIP]

notes: my brain is rotting and my mind is opening to new horizons all because of lyney. this is a work in progress! i hope you like the little opener i have :) stay tuned!

[blueberryskiesdrawing]

Dogmanber 2024 Day 2 + Brandon’s backstory

The book where they introduced Li’l Petey and Flippy’s redemption. (I really need the second trailer…)

Click here to see my other Dogmanber posts.

Day 1

And as the results of the poll, with the additional vote to Brandon, I shall reveal his backstory.

I present to you. Brandon Ollie Paradise’s backstory! (Yes his middle name is Ollie)

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Brandon O. Paradise (A Million Dreams by The Greatest Showman + Addict Reprise by Michael Kovach)  

WARNING: Sensitive topics ahead. Self harm, overdose, etc.

Brandon was adopted when he was two, which leads up to him not remembering anything about his biological parents. He was adopted by a multi-heritage family, but was classified as French-American. 

During elementary and middle school, Brandon had only made one friend, which is Cartier, an anthropomorphic chameleon. Throughout the school years, Brandon was bullied and tormented for his white hair, being different from all the rest. He slowly fell into depression, unbeknownst to anyone except for his whole family. 

During one of the summer holidays, when he was ten years old, Brandon went on a fishing trip with his grandparents in Collardale. That was when he had caught Flippy, complimenting him for a while before releasing him back into the ocean. 

Moving up to high school, Brandon has just started his addiction of anti depressants, just before meeting Linda. Love at first sight. While he remained in contact with Cartier, he hung out with Linda, who also started high school at his time. During that time, Brandon met Merlin, two levels below him. 

During senior prom, Brandon and Linda went to each other to ask her/him to be their date. They graduated together as a couple, and moved into Collardale to start anew. 

Linda, who knew she has a short time to live due to her illness, proposed to Brandon, who tearfully accepted it. Although needing to face the fact that his wife would be dead at anytime. During the married couple’s journey, Brandon meets Sarah Hatoff, who had recently started her career as a reporter. 

After years of staying strong, Linda had sadly passed away. During her funeral, Brandon had sunk back into depression. He started back his addiction with anti depressants, despite the support from his colleagues, including Sarah. Along the way, Brandon, when heading back home from work, stumbled upon an abandoned baby bird, which had recently hatched from its egg. 

Deciding to take care of it, Brandon took it in, naming the bird after him. Brandon Jr, Junior for short. As Brandon took care of Junior, he finds himself and him becoming very attached to each other. It later reminds him of how Linda wanted a child. For her honour and his health, Brandon considers Junior as not a pet, but a son. 

However, his depression kicks back into his life, resulting in Junior becoming aware of his ‘dad’’s mental health problem. It was also during the time Brandon introduced him to Sarah. 

At his breaking point, Brandon had burnt his hands using a lighter, and had taken in an overdose of pills. Junior, upon witnessing this, immediately flew to the next door neighbour’s apartment to get help. 

Brandon was eventually sent to the hospital, and throughout the stay, he was supervised by Sarah, who was now completely protective over him. During the stay, Brandon was introduced to Cristy, who was tasked by Sarah to help look after the apartment and Junior. 

From then afterwards, Brandon became a stoic man, using gloves to hide away his burn scars, and tried his best to keep his depression down without any ‘happy pills’. 

Rest is history. 

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One backstory down, two are still up for voting. (I’ll create the new poll soon)

[angrynerdalpaca]

And then I imagined some kind of play or some kind of episode about Cody and Graham acting out Hadestown but with Graham being a version of Orpheus (in this play his name is Atlas) who wants to go down to the underworld to talk about an architectural plan that He has for Hades and thus obtain a job with him and Cody being a version of Eurydice (But his name is Orpheus) who is a musician and dedicates himself to singing to people to cheer them up in difficult times which are the merciless hell.

During the beginning of the first act, we see that Orfeo (Cody) tries to convince Graham (Atlas) that they are both artists who are dreaming something improbable but not impossible.

After Atlas arrives in Hadestown because he had a round trip ticket (which only those selected by Hades could have) the song Chant happens and Atlas realizes that Hades doesn't care about anything as long as continue expanding his empire so he takes his plans with him and leaves, but not before with a type of threat from Hades on a dying songbird, since while all that was happening, Orpheus had the bad luck to cross paths with Artemis, being mistaken for an animal by her or because she prevented him from hunting an animal by accident.

While he is dying (because Artemis shot him two arrows, one in the leg and the other between the ribs) the Fates accompany him, just like Hermes and it seems that the four of them are angry at Atlas for leaving his brother alone.

In the end Orpheus dies and arrives in Hadestown where Hermes, the Fates and Persephone herself tell him what it is like to live there (this happens in Way down Hadestown), at the end of the song Orpheus meets Hades and he recognizes him as the brother from the mortal who dared to call him “Greedy” so he thinks about using that to his advantage (also use Chant II for the way Hades offers Orpheus a deal) the workers tell Orpheus to offer Hades something that He cannot refuse but that it benefits him, but Persephone tells him to be careful with Hades and tells him a little about his story. In the end, Orpheus offers Hades (through a song unrelated to the musical) to be his company in the underworld. while Persephone is not with him and also entertain Persephone when she is there, Hades accepts and the Way down Hadestown reprise happens.

While all this was happening, Atlas finally arrives where they told him they last saw Orpheus and meets Hermes, Wait for me happens there and Atlas reaches the underworld again.

The truth is I'm not sure how it developed but Chant reprise ends up happening but this time it's Hades talking to Atlas and not Orpheus (although it seems like it is).

In the end, Hades and Persephone end up talking about Orpheus and that they should let him go, since despite everything Hades has grown fond of Orpheus seeing him as a young and hopeful version of himself, Hades agrees to let them go but in the same way that I accept that Orpheus and Eurydice left Hadestown, Orpheus is confident that his story will be different from theirs but Atlas is afraid because he has heard this story millions of times and he knows that no matter how hard Orpheus tries to change the ending, he (you and I) know how it ends.

And in fact, everything happens like in the end of the musical, but before the road to hell reprise plays, Atlas sings another song (unrelated to the musical) and after that follows Hermes and then the final song of Persephone where they talk about Orpheus and they hope that I can at least remember them when they get to the underworld too, and the end is the same.

[uhlikzsuzsanna]

The BBC and Prime Video have announced further cast joining Tom Hiddleston in The Night Manager, which was recently announced to return for two new series. Made by the award-winning London and LA-based independent studio The Ink Factory (The Pigeon Tunnel, The Little Drummer Girl) in association with Character 7, Demarest Films and 127 Wall, and in co-production with Spanish partner Nostromo Pictures, series two will star Diego Calva (Babylon, Narcos: Mexico) and Emmy Award nominee Camila Morrone (Daisy Jones & The Six) alongside Indira Varma (Obsession, Obi-Wan Kenobi), Paul Chahidi (Wicked Little Letters, The Serpent Queen), and Hayley Squires (Adult Material, Beau Is Afraid).

The new series of The Night Manager will premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, and, outside of the UK, globally on Prime Video, in a deal negotiated by FIFTH SEASON, which is handling global distribution of the series.

Inspired by the characters in John le Carré’s best-selling novel, the upcoming second series will once again be written by show creator David Farr and will be helmed by BAFTA winning director Georgi Banks-Davies (I Hate Suzie, Paper Girls). Tom Hiddleston (Loki, The Essex Serpent) reprises his celebrated role as Jonathan Pine, eight years after the explosive finale of series one.

Series two director Georgi Banks-Davies says: “I wrote my dream list of actors to join The Night Manager, and I can’t quite believe that I am now welcoming that list of talent to the show. What an incredible cast joining the brilliant Tom Hiddleston for this next chapter… I cannot wait to get them in front of the camera now and see the magic come to life.”

The acclaimed first series of The Night Manager was nominated for more than 30 awards and won multiple BAFTAs, Emmy Awards, and Golden Globes – including Best Actor for Tom Hiddleston. Commissioned by the BBC, in the UK it was watched by more than 10 million viewers, making it one of 2016’s most watched TV shows.

The Night Manager series two is created and executive produced by David Farr, based on the characters created by John le Carré. Further executive producers include lead non-writing EP Stephen Garrett for Character 7, Georgi Banks-Davies, Hugh Laurie, and Tom Hiddleston; Joe Tsai and Arthur Wang for 127 Wall; Stephen and Simon Cornwell, Michele Wolkoff, and Tessa Inkelaar for The Ink Factory; Adrián Guerra for Nostromo Pictures; William D. Johnson for Demarest Films, Nick Cornwell, Susanne Bier, Chris Rice for FIFTH SEASON and Gaynor Holmes for the BBC. The series is produced by The Ink Factory in association with Character 7, Demarest Films and 127 Wall, and in co-production with Nostromo Pictures.

The Night Manager series one is available to stream on BBC iPlayer.

[my-cabbages-gorl]

Chapter 4 of Bewitched is up!

Thanks ten million times to those of you following along with this lil story in this little angsty complex aged up post-canon Zukaang corner of the fandom, you mean everything to me!

Summary: Under the looming shadow of the news of Zuko's betrothal- the Avatar and the Firelord are forced to face themselves.

Rating: Whole fic is Explicit, this chapter is rated T.

Tags: angsty betrothal exploration, post-canon, post-war, unrequited love, Romance, Aged-Up Characters, Post-Canon, Angst, Hurt, Aang's 22 & Zuko's 26

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In the space of the next few breaths, time dragged on like a failing heart. Aang’s head rang with the unsettling hum of crossing into the spirit realm as bodies blurred around the three of them in the hall, a cursed pounding between his ears. Like a harrowing dream that smothers the will- he couldn’t shake himself into movement. The ringing cut off with a ting as Li Jun spoke again. 

“Avatar Aang, I know you’ve been reprised of the saga that has been the search for a suitable betrothal,” Li Jun basically hopped with glee as he spoke, pleased beyond measure. That made one. “You are welcome to join us if it pleases his majesty.” With a giddy smile, he turned to face Zuko, whose brow was pinched and lips parted in silent confoundment.  

Turning his head slowly with an impossible composure, Aang met Zuko’s dumb-founded look. He raised his eyebrow, inviting him to say... something. 

“If you’d like to-,” Zuko stammered, “If you want- I- ”  

“Thank you, your highness. But I should be finding my place back in the council,” resentful as he was feeling with the sting of Zuko's lips still lingering on his, he couldn’t stand to watch him flail about. “Wouldn’t want to spoil the wonderful surprise.” Turning to see Li Jun’s eager nod he added, “I’m sure the Firelord will fill me in on the details when the time is right.”  

“Very well!” Li Jun hummed before placing a hand behind Zuko’s elbow. “Firelord, the Elders are waiting for us.”  

As they turned to make their way to the small council room, Aang gathered himself with a few skittering breaths and dropped his eyes to the floor- not wanting to see whether or not Zuko looked back as he was led down the hall.  

He did.  

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[thesinglesjukebox]

JADE - "ANGEL OF MY DREAMS"

And single of ours...

[7.45]

Julian Axelrod: You never know when you'll hear the song that changes your life. It could come from a DJ, or an algorithm, or a girl group lifer who you could have sworn was the third most famous member of Fifth Harmony but was actually the first or second most notable member of Little Mix, depending on who you ask. I had no idea what Jade Thirlwall's debut single would sound like before I first pressed play, but even if you gave me 1000 guesses, I never would have landed on "Rina Sawayama doing Uffie over a Eurovision sample that curdles into the nastiest dubstep drop since the Obama administration." This isn't the first time an X Factor alum has stuffed a solo single with a million disparate elements to keep things interesting; it's not even the first time it's happened this year. But the magic of "Angel of My Dreams" is the way it extends that first-listen feeling to listens 2-500. Even though I know the song by heart, each individual section is so strong that I never expect the drop, or the rap verse, or the intro melody reprise at the end. (I didn't even notice the camera flash sound effects at the 2:07 mark until my third listen!) This could be the start of an all-time pop run, or it could be a fleeting moment of glory. I couldn't care less: When I'm listening to "Angel of My Dreams," I just want to live in each moment until it ends, then immediately live them all again. [10]

Harlan Talib Ockey: Girls Aloud doing nightcore “Bohemian Rhapsody”, except also emotionally brutal. We will watch your solo career with great interest. [7]

Dave Moore: How do you even write a pop melody like this these days? Nothing borrowed yet nothing new -- dozens of refreshes of WhoSampled yields nothing to alleviate my nagging sense that surely I've heard it before; my brain refuses to play a rousing game of earworm hunt like with Chappell Roan. It's a bit of a shame that the whole thing devolves into a K-pop-ish party-by-numbers muddle, but in the end she wins, is not in the bin, etc. [8]

Kat Stevens: If I don't win, I'm in the bin. Specifically, the bin on Deptford High Street opposite Perfect Fried Chicken. [8]

Iain Mew: Some of the joy "Angel of My Dreams" has brought is that it's 80% of the way to being a maximalist Rina Sawayama song, and yet is also a persistent enough UK hit to have re-entered the top ten in its fourth week. The range of possibilities looks newly widened. Jade brings some specific things to make it her own triumph too. It's not just leading off with something so ambitious and inventive, but that she is able to wear it so lightly and naturally, Harry Styles-style. It's even more impressive to do so with a song that appears to dig into bitter personal experience, centred around repetitions of IT'S NOT FAIR so resonant as to move from sulk to deep truth.  [9]

Nortey Dowuona: Jade Thirlwall apparently sees the chance to etch her name into stone, rather than make a safe, easy pitch that might simply be forgotten or regarded as nice. But there are many songs about the cruel and unusual punishment of daring to use one's talent and love to make random weirdos who wear unflattering V-necks a lot of money. Thus Mike Sabath, creator of the world-conquering "Escapism" (and, in a fun little twist, another Jade and Mike Joint as well as the second best Liam Payne song) starts us off with a wilting cry of desperation that has to be walloped by the heavy swing of the chorus, glittery synths sitting atop. The song zips into raspy bass and flimsy and flimsier kick/snare patterns from then on, slowly flattening you until you are nearly crushed. The heavy-handed swing of the first chorus sweeps back in to save you and bind you to it as it disappears, Jade's firm, fluttery soprano left hanging out on the ledge. It's almost as if JADE, unlike RAYE, is not begging to be set free -- she's begging to be let in. [6]

Jonathan Bradley: Cycling through three different song concepts in the first 35 seconds suggests not so much a desire to "do something crazy" as a struggle to hit on anything melodically memorable. It turns out that the slowed-down bass-heavy breakdown works, as does the twinkling fairy dance augmenting the chorus, but a lot of this mistakes attitude for tune -- the sort of B-grade effort that made Little Mix only intermittently worthwhile. See, for instance, Jade stretching out  "feels li-yi-yi-yi-yi-ke" and "spoli-yi-yi-yi-yi-ight" for no real purpose beyond filling time before the next switch up. [4]

Taylor Alatorre: The lack of concern for the cleanliness of the transitions make this feel like a promising storyboard in search of a director, or least someone to step in and say that a desire to be seen as daring and boundary-pushing does not equate to such, and can in fact expose the whole gambit. Most listeners should walk away with a favored segment to return to -- mine is the chrome-polished, push-to-start recitation of the title phrase -- but a quarterlife retrospective like this should feel more internally cohesive than a sitcom clip show. [5]

Ian Mathers: The classic "pick your battles. pick… pick fewer battles than that. put some battles back. that’s too many" tumblr post, now in song form! [7]

Mark Sinker: The idea was like a will o’the wisp or Capt.Fawcett’s Lost City of Z, a gleam, a flicker, a dangerous promise glimpsed across a clearing and through the trees -- and it was something like this (it was always hard to explain clearly). A manufactured alt-pop girlie gang, perfectly designed to win reality TV competitions because also able to fashion the drama of their rise -- and their internal ebbs and flows -- into quilted chart-prog rap-adjacent concept EPs and singles-length mini-musicals, like the Hamilton of the Sugababes. It’s there, always beckoning, just out of reach -- and the acts that pass through the glamour of it are always great, of course, very great, but they also always dissipate too fast, before they really land on the absolute thing itself. Perhaps that's the point; perhaps that's my doom.  [9]

Katherine St. Asaph: I am banned from time machines now because I abused my time-travel privileges to do frivolous shit, like posting this song to the Popjustice forums in 2007 and measuring the blast radius of Xenomaniac rapture. [9]

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[earlgreytea68]

Pete's statement about Patrick never doing things unintentionally, makes me go even more feral over the fact that the song "So Much (For) Stardust" was written before "Love From The Other Side", and that the reprise of the "You were the sunshine of my lifetime..." lyric was very much planned. Patrick took words that are filled with such deep regret and longing, then (I presume) decided to repeat them again in a much more upbeat song, with that sense of loss now softened. Maybe there's a world where our love could have lasted forever, but the moments we did have were worth the pain, so I wouldn't trade it for anything. It really is like musical kintsugi, in a way, and I'm absolutely not feeling a million different ways about it!

OMG THIS IS SUCH A GOOD POINT! Because we know that Love from the Other Side was the penultimate song they wrote, so you're absolutely right, Patrick placed the bridge from So Much (for) Stardust into LFTOS. They're no longer the sunshine of his lifetime in another life, they just flat out are the sunshine of his lifetime.

And the final song he wrote was then "Hold Me Like a Grudge," fall of the dreams still intact, full of getting older and bolder and "I love my life" and "we'll do more than just get by together," and the promise of that storm on the horizon.

[foreverchangingfandomsao3]

Song Poem Challenge

Thank you for the tag @forloveofcodywan 💜💜💜

Put your entire song collection on shuffle, then write down the first line from each of the first ten songs that pop up to create a poem. You must then dedicate the poem to the blorbo or OTP that it most reminds you of! Then tag or send asks to three others that you think might enjoy the challenge!

I think it's very Cody and Obi-Wan now I've finished it so I'm dedicating it to them!

Maybe this time, I'll be lucky // If I wanted to know who you were hanging with // Every night I lie in bed // Long distance callin' in the middle of a rainy night // We're playin' those mind games together // I don't drink coffee, I take tea, my dear // You'd think that people would've had enough of silly love songs // When the dogs of war are dancing // Hold my hand // Oh, what? These, these aren't tears

Maybe this time from Cabaret, 'tis the damn season by Taylor Swift, A Million Dreams (Reprise) from the Greatest Showman, Sailor to a Siren by Meat Loaf, Mind Games by John Lennon, Englishman In New York by Sting, Silly Love Songs by Wings, Over the Top from Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Bottom of the River by Delta Rae, Inkpot Gods by The Amazing Devil

No pressure tags: @anaclastic-azurite @ferretrade @happybean17 @tired-bshocked @kcrabb88 @ooboowoonkoonooboo @dontbelasagnax @snowywinterevenings @soap-brain @frostbitebakery and anyone else who wants to join in!

[malice-death]

After rewatching the movie, I actually came out with connections to the other songs in “The Greatest Showman” and the characters from both “Six of Crows” and “Shadow & Bone” books.

The Greatest Show: Nikolai and his crew, including Alina and her gang.

A Million Dreams: Jesper or Nikolai, w/Wylan or Zoya.

AMD Reprise: OC children or younger characters, really anything works.

Come Alive: The gathering of the “circus”, using all sorts of people from the books. Like it’s sort of limitless. This song is so good in its own way.

The Other Side: Kaz & Nikolai, because of Rule of Wolves, like come on this works so well.

Never Enough: Kuwei, because in cannon Jesper kissed him and Wylan really got upset. I mean if this was a real au, Kuwei wouldn’t be a singer, but I guess a fire magician. Still fun thought.

But in regards to the song itself, every character is open for working with this song.

This is Me: Genya and the full scar/trauma gang, cause anyone hurt or ruined, should be properly included.

Rewrite The Stars: Kanej or another ship, because listening to this, and the fact that Inej could totally do this.

Tightrope: I’ve already called this to be a Kanej song, but just thought to say it again, it was that good.

NE Reprise: Any character really or Kuwei again.

From Now On: Alina or Mal potentially

This was really just my opinions and thoughts.

Thank you for reading.