#Forever a goated episode 🔥

[citruscloudsandmoon]

We watched boiling rock episode. My elder sister is watching the series for the first time.

By the end of the episode, she's already a Mai Stan...as she should be 🤭🌝

[theha1r]

I WANNA PLAY 🔥 🔥 🔥

( send the fire emoji for an unpopular opinion )

1 - i do not give a fuck how long someone's like a celebrity/show/fandom/whatever. i do not care if someone is 'brand new' & 'hasn't been there since day one'. i don't care how long they've been there to support, as long as they're supporting now & i generally don't understand why others do. the only thing i might feel is SAD they didn't come in sooner bc they missed out on certain jokes/memes/things & the like (as someone who's missed out on some myself). & i also don't care if someone is a 'local' & has only listened to a few songs or watched a few episodes or whatever. like idk it's just simply never that serious ... (UNLESS - they were a hater ofc. then yes, pls get out of my house)

2 - random af but our/my generation truly had the golden age of children's/teen's media. like sorry but what we had was goated & nothing that comes out now can possibly live up to it. i get it might be because i don't understand current generation's humor & such - but idc. what we had was the best & there's gonna be nothing like it ever again & i'll forever be incredibly nostalgic over it

3 - i don't think there's anything wrong with saying 'unalived', or using 'censored' words or whatever. like, i really don't. it's not that cringe-y to me & i've actually used some myself. even when it wasn't to get past censors, words are literally just words who cares what people use. especially if it makes them more comfortable? i dunno - i literally don't care if someone chooses to use those over the 'real words', as long as i know what they mean, i'm good

[last-flight-of-dickarus]

(Apologies @ryfkah if it's weird to see someone geeking out about a story you wrote years ago, but hopefully you like or at least don't mind playlists based on your characters)

This story has settled firmly in my brain and cemented itself as a new sandbox for my silly daydreams, so I made a playlist (right before I learned there's another wonderful Suradanna playlist out there that even shares a couple of songs with this one). I've built up this world and these characters in my head so much that half the songs I associate with them wouldn't make sense to anyone else, but I tried to keep the playlist rooted in canon.

Song list and a little about why I chose each one below the cut because I'm incapable of posting anything without commentary but it got like... really long.

Hyperfixating on a short, standalone story is the book equivalent of falling in love with a side character who only appears in one episode. Something something you fill in the rest with your heart. Anyway.

Hozier - It Will Come Back: This one was irresistible. It's the longing. It's the "please don't offer what I can't accept". It's Bog Man, Honorary Lesbian Icon.

Florence + The Machine - Never Let Me Go: I mean come on. "The crashes are heaven for a sinner like me/But the arms of the ocean delivered me"? It's the imagery. It's a person as a constant and an anchor and the sea all at once. It's, again, the honorary lesbian icon.

Arctic Monkeys - Love is a Laserquest: It's the whole vibe tbh. It's that sweet sweet distant longing for something you're trying not to want. "Do you still feel younger than you thought you would by now/Or darling have you started feeling old yet?/Don't worry I'm sure that you're still breaking hearts/With the efficiency/That only youth can harness"

Arctic Monkeys - Only Ones Who Know: It's the secret shared with only one other soul in the universe with the constant awareness that that soul is far away in every sense of the phrase. "And even if somehow we could have/Shown you the place you wanted/Well, I'm sure you could've/Made it that bit better on your own"

Sea Wolf - Dear Fellow Traveller: It's the sea imagery as always. It's the shared journey of immortal wanderers. There are so many lyrics that fit them so well but I've always loved "You spoke my language and touched my limbs/It wasn't difficult to pull me from myself again/And in our travels, we found our roads/You held it like a mirror, showing me the life I chose"

Alana Henderson & Joshua Burnside - On Board: This song. The perfect sailor's love song. I've loved it forever and it's perfect for them. Every line, the way the lines are shared between both singers, the entire theme. It's just. Yes. Even just the chorus: "You should get on board/With someone whose course is steadier than mine./You should get on board/With someone whose eyes are on the horizon, and not on the skies/On board with someone/Whose anchor is heavier than mine"

The Staves - Dead & Born & Grown: It's the tragedy of immortality, this time from an old immortal to a young immortal. "I'll stay the same and stand here on my own/'Til everything is dead and born and grown/Just go at your own pace/As you slip and tumble down from grace"

The Mountain Goats - Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise: It's "I needed you for years." It's the missing what was never yours and what you don't even really want to find again. "I'm under no illusion/As to what I meant to you/But you made an impression/And sometimes I still feel the bruise"

Lord Huron - I Will Be Back One Day: Again, it's the restless traveler who never stays long enough to get attached. Again, it's the 'I would stop running for the first time in my life. I would try to stay still long enough for you to understand me. I would do it for you.' I don't even know which one of them this song is about but it's sure as hell Them. "I remember the fateful day when I ran away/And you told me I couldn't return/You made me swear I'd never forget/I made a vow I'd see you again"

Gregory Alan Isakov - If I Go, I'm Goin: Again again, it's the wanderer who keeps a bag packed, always ready to run for fear of getting attached, but who deep down really really wants to get attached. "I got my change behind the bed/In a coffee can I throw my nickels in/Just in case I have to leave./And I will go if you ask me to/I will stay if you dare/And if I go/I'm goin' shameless"

Jason Isbell - Traveling Alone: Ok obvs I'm a sucker for this whole theme. Song does exactly what it says on the tin. "I know every town worth passing through/But what good does knowing do/With no one to show it to?/I've grown tired of travelling alone/Tired of travelling alone/I've grown tired of travelling alone/Won't you ride with me?"

Gregory Alan Isakov - That Sea, The Gambler: I'll admit, the lyrics to this one don't fit quite as well as the others, but there's something about it that perfectly hits both the restless traveler and the sea-as-a-person-and-home-and-freedom-and-fear vibes at the same time. "Cursed your captain and stow me below/Hold me amongst all your cards/Oh, we were sea bound and aimless at best/Clutching to the wheel and those charts/That sea was just a gambler at heart"

Billie Eilish - ocean eyes: Yes it's basic. No I'm not sorry. It's the longing for the gray-eyed mystery you don't want to want because they piss you off endlessly but you feel lost at sea and so so safe in those eyes every time. Also just "Careful creature made friends with time/[S]he left her lonely with a diamond mind/And those ocean eyes/No fair"

Boygenius - Cool About It: Again, basic and not sorry in the least. It's the running into your ex who you genuinely thought you were over and realizing that you still hope they think about you all the time, becuase they may not have been in a relationship but they were definitely exes lmao. "I'm trying to forget about it/Feelin' like I'm breaking a sweat about it/Wishin' you would kindly get out of my head about it/Tellin' myself one day I'll forget about it/Knowin' that it probably isn't true"

Lord Huron - At Sea: If the captain had a guitar, this is what I could see her playing. Just plucking away at the strings on a quiet night, lost in thought. "Lonely/All on my own just like I wanted to be/Lost out at sea/I might stay on my island for a couple of years/See how it feels"

Seafret - Oceans: God I've loved Seafret since their first release and look at them now, killin it. Anyway. Again with the ocean imagery and the longing. "It feels like there's oceans/Between me and you once again/We hide our emotions/Under the surface and try to pretend/But it feels like there's oceans/Between you and me"

Dar Williams - The Light And The Sea: Another based as much on vibes as lyrics, but once again it's the sea as home and the only eternal constant. "There is a light/There will always be the light and the sea/The rolling sea/The light and me/And it all comes down/Down to me/To feel the presence of my soul/Amid the torrents and the cold/Of the sea"

Seafret - To the Sea: Again again with the sea imagery and the longing. The lyrics don't exactly "fit", but I couldn't not include "Do you think of me/When you look to the sea?/I know it's hard to grow/When you're pushed to your knees"

Lord Huron - Frozen Pines: Another song for a restless, lonely wanderer who would stay if they only knew how. Also another one that could really be either of them. "I look up to the sky/And I know you're still alive/But I wonder where you are/I call your name into the dark/I wake up in the morning, oh/And I don't know where I've been/All alone on a mountainside/And I'm huddled in the wind/And it feels like I've been away for an era/But nothing has changed at all"

Mitski - Francis Forever: This one is lowkey so Suradanna. Again, it's thinking you're over your ex and then realizing that you've been hoping they've seen everything you've done. "I don't need the world to see/That I've been the best I can be/But I don't think I could stand to be/Where you don't see me"

Jack Johnson - Only The Ocean: Another one purely for the sea imagery and the captain. "After all of this time/After all of these seasons/After your one decision/To go to the water for reason/It's only the ocean and you" and like... all of the other lyrics too, tbh.

Boygenius - Not Strong Enough: Just like the first song, it's the 'please don't offer what I can't accept; I'm sorry I can't be what you need.' "I don't know why I am/The way I am/Not strong enough to be your man/I lied, I am/Just lowering your expectations/Half a mind that keeps the other second guessing"

Keaton Henson - Late To You: I fucking love Keaton Henson and so many of his songs could fit on this playlist. I didn't let myself overthink the order of the songs as much as I wanted to, but this one had to go last because it's just so perfect for that last scene on the balcony. It's the 'It took a lifetime, but I'm here now if you'll have me.' from both of them. "All these years parading/Parading my flaws/I've been slowly deflating/But baby, now I'm yours/Oh, I left it late to love you/And what is left ain't much/It took too long to trust you/I fear I'll crumble at your touch"

A novella featuring trade routes, magical fertilizer, and one girl’s centuries-long effort to impress a woman who is already in a committed relationship with a boat.