#Don't Wanna Break Up Again

[goldenstattoo]

— ariana grande ; gifs

[lazysublimeengineer]

If the sun refused to shine Baby, would I still be your lover? Would you want me there? If the moon went dark tonight

And if it all ended tomorrow Would I be the one on your mind? Your mind? Your mind?

And if it all ended tomorrow Would you be the one on mine?

[musicmattersmedia]

Welcome to this episode of Music Matters Media, where we dive headfirst into Ariana Grande's highly anticipated seventh studio album, 'Eternal Sunshine.' Released to a thunderous reception, the album shattered Spotify's global single-day streaming record for 2024 with an astonishing 58.1 million streams! Join us as we unpack Ariana's grand return to the music scene and her memorable Saturday Night Live performance. Listen as we give you an in-depth analysis of 'Eternal Sunshine.' We discuss the sonic landscape of the record, and we'll share the highlights, our personal favorite tracks, and where we think this album lands in her discography. Don't miss our rating of Grande's return and discover if 'Eternal Sunshine' lives up to its luminous title.

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Ariana's SNL Performances: https://youtu.be/pLBXk3nMVAQ?si=qwHkROmJ6vD_aw3u

https://youtu.be/sgw3BmOb5eI?si=GiwECdiXtfmmFzNu

[nocofamilyau]

man wtf is up with him?? (15/24)

[sergle]

I need SO BADLY to be medicated for anxiety, bro.. I should be able to do Labor without breaking a sweat over typing an email

[soup-is-here]

Mouthwashing Spoilers

TW: Addiction and Self Harm

I wanna go on about Swansea's final monologue but it's hard to put into words, but I'm gonna try anyways cause it's a short, but strong story about autonomy again. This post ended up significantly longer than I wanted though

It's the autonomy to choose the "less healthy" option because it's appealing to you. It's the moral assignment to normality and stability. An alcoholic is an alcoholic by choice, technically, but do they owe us otherwise? Is it morally reprehensible to enjoy taking LSD at a party? Should we see someone as less than because they relax with a xanax instead of a hot shower? It's not healthy. We know that. We've seen anti-drug ad after ad after ad. But is that the part that's morally wrong, in and of itself? Does enjoying the drugs and chaos make Swansea a worse person?

Like him talking about his entire life and ending it by saying between the "stable" "normal" life and him waking up every morning with a new hangover, he preferred the latter. People always talk about getting clean and fixing their lives and Swansea did it! He did the thing "good men" do! A wife and kids and a trade job and sobriety! He was doing it! He was finally "worth" something!

And he hated it! I mean I don't know if he actually hated/despised it, but he misses his previous life. He misses drugs and partying and living like you might not wake up the next day. He said the thing that changed him was seeing himself dead in a ditch under the bright beam of a streetlight. Now he's looking down the barrel of a gun. And as he looks down it, he looks back. That was his preference. It felt good to be like that. And he wouldn't be here if he stayed there

We always have a narrative about drugs or gambling or sleeping around where a person suddenly realizes that they aren't "doing anything" with their life and becomes stable and it's always played like addiction is a false pleasure. Swansea got to the stability people said would be the real pleasure of life and that just wasn't true for him. One bad paycheck could've been the difference between his stable life and falling apart anyways. His lifestyle was going to kill him someday apparently, yet he's staring down the barrel of a gun at his steady trade job to feed his wife and kids.

I don't know quite how to word it but Swansea is the poster child for rehabilitation. There's this weight to him saying his alcoholic period was the best time of his life. Like it just hits at that pang that makes people wear DARE shirts while smoking weed and post those videos of smoking 100 cigarettes at once. Anti-vaping ads tell you about the damage they do to your body but everyone knows that already. Everyone knows "this is what your brain looks like on drugs." I smoke medical marijuana and it isn't good for my lungs but it's good for my pain. Doing drugs isn't good for me and I know that and that's sorta the point sometimes.

I don't know it's just this weird pang where I know what Swansea means, just not to nearly the same extent. I don't have an addiction so I don't think I could fully understand it. Maybe a better thing I could relate it to for myself is self harm. It's not healthy sure, but who do I owe health? Myself? Other people? And what is healthy? Is it feeling better now? Is it resisting now and feeling worse for it until it stops? What if the coping skills I learn make it worse? What if they make it better? Do I want it to get better? Does Swansea want to get better? What would better feel like to either of us?

Who knows until you try. Swansea got a collared shirt, a mortgage, and a credit card. He got a job and a wife and kids. He got sober. He got healthier, depending on your definition.

But did he feel better? He's looking down a barrel of a gun and he has to decide if he feels better. It doesn't seem like he regrets his new life. He says he wants his kids to be better than him. He wants good things to happen for them. He saw himself as one bad slip away from falling again. I don't think he felt better though. I think he got healthier. He likely would've ended up in the ditch he dreamt about, but we don't know that. We also don't know if that's what he'd prefer. But, we do know he got healthier, depending on your definition.

[byanyan]

ngl i came embarrassingly close to posting the unfinished carrd as a wip bc i'm so fucking impatient. but!! i'm proud to announce that instead, i wrote another chunk of bio and made some decent progress with it!! much as i want to get it out there, i'd really prefer to publish it all nice & completed, so... i'm holding myself back.

not sure how much longer it'll take me... hopefully not too long bc i'd really like to get on my drafts here but i literally cannot get myself to focus on that until i get this stupid carrd done. thank you all for being so patient with me, i know i've been saying this a looooooot lately but it really does mean so much to me ;A;

[soulmvtes]

ari's new album is a slay actually...

[manasurge]

1/3 of the way done of this last page, then I can finally post it all o|-<

[seaweedstarshine]

—on the topic of psychotic Summers brothers, I only just caught up with six months of X-Men after stopping for six months the topic of Gabriel referring to the tags of my last X-Men post a month ago — but I was happy to see Scott's torture-induced psychosis didn't (definitively) turn out just to be that he'd calculated what others hadn't. Yes, the woman he'd accurately calculated would save him was Dr. Gregor, not Jean, but that doesn't change that he remained unsure if Jean was real (and thought she was alive) while the all-seeing Enigma knew on the contrary that Scott was delusional because Phoenix thus equally (an equivocation which casts further doubt of Scott's fiery visions ever being genuine, as Jean's dying mind had departed Scott well before Mother Righteous sacrificed Jean's dead fragmented self for Dominion, before Scott was tortured) Jean — were so utterly dead that Rachel and Hope had to cancel out death to reverse it. Yet Scott, hyper-vigilant traumatized autistic brain-damaged neurodivergent soldier that he is, seemingly accomplished all these strategic calculations while having a psychotic “break,” which is extremely in character for him—

[takami-takami]

Rules!

It's time to have a chat! I've posted about this before, but I can tell when requests are just intended to be You and not X Reader.

Ask yourself: "is y/n just Me here?" and "Am I requesting an x reader fic for me AND others to enjoy, or am I using the author for my own self fufillment fantasy?"

And if that's the case, please don't send it. I write x reader, not x You Specifically.

Like there is a world of a difference between an ask like:

"What do you think about [situation]", "here's my ideas on this", "can you write [situation]", "I can totally see him do [situation] like awww", or "omg imagine [situation] i'm simping so hard" (these are all great!)

Versus...

"Me and [character] would absolutely [situation]. I just want him to [situation] with me and I'd be so good to him and he sees that, he loves me. I'd respond this way, because i'm a very [trait] person. This is so me and him, because then I would start doing [situation]. So can you write that?" and then blink at me expecting me to write fanfiction based on that ask. That's not y/n, that's just You, and I'm not writing fanfiction of You Specifically. Also you're not talking with me, you're talking at me.

Y/N is all of us and none of us at the same time. Everyone should be able to enjoy the writing! And going forward it is canon in my fics that Keigo is weirded out by anybody who treats me like a request machine for their personal spank bank (sfw or nsfw) and not a person to bounce fun ideas WITH or request ideas from, if that's any disincentive lmao.

Especially if you're gonna word it in a "chop chop, gimme my personalized content, I don't got all day" way. Be nice.

95% of you are incredible and amazing and wonderful, and I don't like paying attention to the vocal minority, but ya know. It is making me feel a bit Dehumanized and Used here.

(This is not about any specific person, ask, comment, or tag, it's a trend. This post has been sitting in my drafts for a long while, since I started this blog actually. And I have posted about it a few months ago.)