#I bet on loosing dogs

[lehnsherrrr]

Mitski + Cherik

I have a playlist of every single Mitski song ever made playing constantly 24 hours of my day for the past 2 years, I also went to see her live. I’ll be damned if I don’t make this post. (Also this has been in the drafts for like 3 weeks now)

So, at first, I was listening to Mitski and was like whoah the song “old friend” is perfect for cherik. And then the song “Eric” came on and I was dumbfounded, so here’s an explanation of lyrics and how they apply to Cherik.

Also I suck at making edits so this is technically the same thing but using your imagination instead.

“We nearly drowned for such a silly thing”

Charles diving into the ocean to save Erik. But this could also mean drowning in their decisions, they almost lost each other because of their beliefs. Such a silly thing to loose each other over.

“Someone who loves me now better than you”

This line makes me believe this song is from Erik’s perspective, either talking about Charles, or Magda. However I like the idea that it’s Charles he talks about since it’s the very start of the song. It might even be implied that “better than you” is implying Shaw.

“And that pretty friend is finally yours”

100% talking about Moira, boy is bitter. All of this so far is talking from the future looking on the past, so that previous line may be talking about Magda after all.

“I’ll be around on Sunday, if you’ll meet me at the blue diner, I’ll take coffee and talk about nothing baby”

Erik meeting Charles at the end of Dark Pheonix. Isn’t it nice to talk about nothing for once, instead of arguing about mutant rights or trying to save the world. They can finally relax together and just be people.

“At the blue diner, I’ll take anything you wanna give me, baby”

Switch to Charles perspective. Agreeing to stay with Erik.

This song is short but wonderful, I’ve only focused on the first half of the song because it fits far too well. The other part fits too but this was too specific.

The way it starts with how they met, then when they left eachother for other people, and then ending with them rejoining. Perfect few lyrics almost like they were made just for them.

And to top it all off, it’s called Old Friend. Thats CRAZY.

“Sorry I can’t take your touch”

Erik leaving at the end of pretty much every movie, the touch being Charles love and want for him to stay with the xmen, with him.

“It’s just that I fell in love with a war”

Erik’s constant belief that there’s a war coming and he needs to fight it first. He chooses this again and again over Charles, one could say he loves it more than he loves Charles.

“Nobody told me it ended”

Still fighting for the war he believes in, even though Charles has been working so hard for mutant rights and has done a lot of good work.

“And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night, just to watch it glow. Every night baby that’s where I go.”

That anger and sadness that stays within him, stuck in his brain, part of him. Memories of Charles, hating him, loving him. He sits with it every night, going over everything again and again. Also visual of Erik floating them little metal balls.

Beautiful song, good lord. This is all about Erik choosing the war over Charles, there’s also something about the imagery of sitting with a ‘pearl’ in his mind is so very Erik.

“But how long, how long can we play this way?”

Playing as in going back and forth, fighting, making up, fighting again. This is definitely from Charles perspective.

“I’m tired, I’m tired of not loving you”

Charles is tired of not being able to show Erik how much he loves him, he just wants him home.

“My heart, my heart wants to hold you”

All he wants to do it is be with Erik, he wants to comfort him again and show him he’s not evil, that there’s good in there too.

“But I know, I know, I know the rules”

But he knows the rules of this game, he knows they couldn’t ever be together. Be it their opposing beliefs, homophobia, or just the way they are. Perhaps also the rules as in the movie won’t allow it, their writing won’t allow it.

Painful. Other lyrics in the song are more sexual, which also fits if you’d like it to. First line of the song is “you like control, well I do to” and that would be a killer title for a dark cherik fic. They both control their environment in different ways.

“One word from you and I would jump off of this ledge I’m on, baby”

Charles telepathy, could be from any of the students, especially those from the first movie who later died. However it’s painful to think that it’s Erik saying “You’re a telepath Charles, you can convince me of anything.”

Also on that note, the ledge could also refer to delving deeper into his dark side, it would take one mean word from Charles and he’d get so much worse.

Or perhaps he means the ledge in which he’s raised himself to as a super villain, and he knows Charles could bring him down from it.

“Tell me don’t so I can crawl back in”

See my other post about Erik subtly begging Charles to control him. He knows he’ll always pick his cause over staying with Charles, he wants Charles to force him to stay. Get rid of his option to choose so he can crawl back to comfort. Be gone with his righteousness, and just be simple and safe with him.

The title of the song being First Love/Late Spring hurts me. Was mitski an xmen fan or what Jesus.

Left this one until last cause I don’t want to teach a grandma to suck eggs here, I’m sure you already know what’s about to go down. Nonetheless, it would be criminal for me to leave it out. Ready for some Charles angst? Too bad!

“Baby, my baby,”

Raven, Angel, Darwin, Banshee, Havok, adopted into the xmen with nowhere else to go but return to their unfortunate lives.

“Tell your baby that I’m your baby”

The first xmen looking on to the current, looking at who Charles ‘replaced’ them with.

“I bet on loosing dogs”

Charles putting his trust into those first kids, knowing they were young, but it was the last hope. He better is all on them.

“I know they’re loosing and pay for my place by the ring”

He knows they couldn’t stand a chance, but there was that hope. Perhaps if he trained them, gave them the right motivation, they could survive.

“Where I’ll be looking in their eyes when they’re down”

He’s with them the whole way, in their minds, in their spirits. These kids had fight in them, but they were still kids.

“I’ll be there on their side, I’m loosing by their side.”

When they loose, he looses with them. The xmens fate stands on the strength of those kids. Charles grief over loosing these kids makes him catatonic, wishing he had died instead. He was with them all the way, and yet he still hears “Where were you Charles” “You abandoned all of us”

[katiekatdragon27]

CHAT I AM ON 🔥🔥🔥🔥RN!!!! (LITERALLY)

I've been listening to three songs super frequently this week it's brain rotting me so bad. "Fangs", "Dead Inside", "I Bet on Loosing Dogs" are the culprits.

I'm starting to alter a ton of stuff regarding my take on Flatland bc of this. Still keeping some stuff from all my imprints, but I am altering a lot of motivations and personalities (mostly Abel cuz I need an outlet somehow-). I'm kinda making him more, sympathetic??? I have no idea how to explain it but he's just a rich coddled kid turned adult with limited social skills, given a super powerful position at a "dangerously" young age, and a strong fascination with Flatland. He never really had any friends and only really had his research for support, and he ended up being exiled because of it. "He'll be there on their side" if you will.

He's lowkey struggling(kinda like me) but that's just the nature of characters I like. If you end up on my favs, you get to suffer.

More progress photos below cut:

I was also kinda struggling with what colors to use for the piece, so i went on one of those ai pallet things and just used the results for the prompts. The second pallet is called "Someone to watch me die".

Have a good one buds :))

[little-doggy-girl-kisser]

songs with dog motifs save me, save me songs with dog motifs <3

[la-femme-en-rouge]

[yourpookiejaxx]

Just me, my precious books with Mitski and Taytay lyrics bombarding my brain while I cry myself to sleep because life sucks.😘🎀💅🏻

[rib-attack-dog]

IIIIIIII WANNA FEEEEEEEELLLLL ITTTTTTTTY

[cas-backwards-tie]

I definitely want to do this! So I'm just tagging on, hope you don't mind 🥰🙈💕

~ Be My Lover by La Bouche

Because every time I hear it now all I can think of is this deleted (I saved it on my phone before they deleted it, hehe 😈🙈 ) Vladimir Makarov/Vladimir Suvorov edit

~ Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Ray

Omg I saw an insta post awhile ago talking about how tumblr would freak out if they ever heard this heavenly version of this song... so naturally I had to go take a look. It's true. It utterly rocked my world.

~ I Bet On Loosing Dogs by Mitski

Trending tiktok audio that after I heard it a few times, listened to the whole song and was obsessed. Sort of inspired The Long Road, so... yup.

~ ilomilo by Billie Eilish

Always collecting edit audios for the day I (eventually) get AE back up to start editing again, and with this one being so soft and sad... oof. It hit home.

~ Chemtrails Over the Country Club by Lana Del Ray

Stumbled upon this audio by accident but I love this song. Underrated for sure.

tagging: @penelopepine , @lovebugcody , @miss-rori , @guac-the-joaqu , @yesimwriting , @purplebtsmagic , @allegras-sunflower , @indigosunsetao3

ughhhh I have so many other songs I've been obsessing over lately, but these are just the five that are really the most recently saved in my soundcloud likes, so I definitely have been listening to them a bunch!

five songs i’ve been obsessed with lately <3

tagged by @syoddeye thank you so much <33

- espresso by sabrina carpenter

- white mustang by lana del rey

- please please please by sabrina carpenter

- champagne coast by blood orange

- magic johnson by ian

tagging anyone who wants to do this <33

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

Brienne is so I bet on loosing dogs coded

[al-norton]

Desperately trying to create a visual for my current dnd character that is less girlypop, but he’s literally an elf….

[problemduetest4life]

Jean Moreau 🤝 “Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away from here” 🤝 Elodie Moreau

[mrsgaryrennell]

Gary Rennell: Chatham’s smooth crane operator.

DOB: 9th of January, 1996

[sidereus-stars]

I haven't given you what you needed you wanted me but couldn't reach meeee I'm sorry it should've been meeee

[beanielesbian]

My baybay my baybay your my baybay say it to me baybay my baybay tell your baybay that I’m your baybay

[tubssir]

Feeling sad.... I love the idea of time somehow failing to protect his protégé, i want to see the old man cry and loose it, I have seen a lot of wild getting hurt and twilight loosing it but like twilight is also Time's pup you know

[yeetus-feetus]

wait i have something even angsty-er for Jason and losing dogs!!

god if only i could draw i'd make an animatic istg. Anyways, here's "i bet on losing dogs" for jason angst and a bit of jaytim:

My baby, my baby (Ooh-oh)

“You're my baby”, say it to me (Ooh-oh, ooh-oh)

Young Jason looking after his mum, pulling a blanket over her as she sleeps on the couch.

Running his hands through her hair, the camera moves to show Jason frowning.

Baby, my baby (Ooh, ooh-oh)

Tell your baby that I'm your baby (Ooh-oh, ooh-oh)

There are half-empty pill packets and needles and other rubbish littering the coffee table and Jason swipes it all off into a garbage bag. Camera angle shifts to show a portrait in a frame, showing his mother smiling and holding a much smaller Jason who’s also smiling.

I bet on losing dogs

Fade out to a small robin laying on the ground, feathers ruffled, wing very clearly broken. Small hands come into frame to gently cup the bird and lift it off the ground.

I know they're losing and I pay for my place by the ring

Jason is shown feeding it water through a measuring syringe and offering it seed from his palm for it to peck at.

Where I'll be looking in their eyes when they're down

Frame of just the small bird’s eye.

I'll be there on their side 

Frame of just Jason’s eye, sudden flash to Jason’s eye wet with tears under a broken domino mask.

I'm losing by their side

A fresh, teeny-tiny grave in a garden is in frame, a makeshift little stick cross standing in the dirt above it. Flickers to the glass tube in which Jason’s robin costume is kept, clearly labeled ‘Robin’.

Aah, aah-ah, aah-ah

Aah, aah, aah-ah, aah-ah

Montage of Jason helping people in his Red Hood gear. 

Starting with a flashbang, blood seeping into the concrete of an alleyway, a knife lying by a man's lower legs, as two small children cling to Jason; who tosses his gun and gets down on a knee to make sure they’re okay. 

2nd is Jason with only his domino mask on, bringing food to a homeless woman despite being clearly injured himself, holding his side and smiling at her. 

3rd is Jason talking with BIzzaro in that one comic, assuring him that Jason is his friend.

4th is Jason pulling a blanket around Roy, who’s fallen asleep sitting up with a bottle in his hand, Jason has a sad look on his face as he glances down at the coffee table -which flickers to his mothers table and back again- and moves to swipe the empty bottles littering it into a garbage bag.

Will you let me, baby, lose on losing dogs?

Fade out. A cigarette is pulled from a half-empty box.

I know they're losing and I pay for my place by the ring

The same cigarette is lit between freshly split lips. Zoom out to see Jason sitting on the edge of a roof as smoke floats around him. We see someone's silhouette standing on the edge of a slightly higher building across the way and a few buildings over.

Where I'll be looking in their eyes when they're down

Zooms in just enough to show Red Robin, dropping something over the edge and watching it, then moving to touch at his domino mask

I wanna feel it

Red Robin drops. Just falls over the edge like water over a waterfall.

I bet on losing dogs

Tim is smiling, a large scarred hand holding cupping one side of his face

I always want you when I'm finally fine

The camera shifts to show Jason with an even wider, truly happy smile as they draw closer and their lips meet.

How you'd be over me looking in my eyes when I cum

Hands are holding Jason’s on either side of his head as tears spill down his cheeks, one of the hands coming up to hold Jason’s face before we shift to see Tim smiling down at him softly.

Someone to watch me die 

A television screen where whatever's happening is blurred out except the headline “Jason Todd, ward of Bruce Wayne, dies at 15 in a…”

Someone to watch me die

Bloody and limp, Red Robin is being cradled in strong arms with a speech bubble exclaiming “TIM!”

Jason has thrown his helmet off and tears are spilling out of him like rain over Tim’s pale cheeks. The blood is pooling further out around them and seeping into Jason's suit. Another speech bubble, frantic “No! No, Tim!”

I bet on losing dogs

Close up of Jason’s wet, desperate face with the speech bubble “...Tim... please don’t leave me...”

Fade out to the small grave in the garden for the robin Jason buried as a kid.

Then fade to black.

[gingerwerk]

Elora leaving for college in the truck her dad offered to sell to her :’)