#Inside Your Glow

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[regicidal-defenestration]

This isn’t normal. This isn’t how life is supposed to feel. There is still time. It's scary but that's the point. Anyone else feeling decidedly abnormal here

[karmelarts]

i saw the tv glow being such a powerful work of existential horror that even trans people who havent seen it yet are fearful to watch it

[faaun]

procrastination is starting to have its consequences finally

[smtown-tourist]

Ever since Taemin came out with his own lightstick, I’ve been fantasizing about what the other SHINee members’ lightsticks would look like 🤔💎

[widowshill]

roger collins looking at falling in love with victoria winters.

[pisshandkerchief]

fucking hate when I have a drawing concept stuck in my head that I simply can not do justice with my mediocre artistic "talent"

[omegalomania]

heaven, iowa is..........t4t coded

[saccharii]

My Opinions on Dream’s Canon Romantic Relationships:

(Spoilers) (Don’t take this too seriously)

Nada - A dumpster fire that lasted like, what, a day? Two days? Nada lost her whole damn kingdom, fucking died, and got sent to hell for 10,000 years when Dream went full Nice Guy and couldn’t accept her rejection. Basically a woman gets punished for a man’s shitty behavior. I’m glad she slapped him. At least the sex was good? 😐

Calliope - Seemed to be a decent but not great marriage for most of it. Ended messily. Fortunately it was the normal kind of messy divorce and not, you know, being thrown in hell. She’s the mother of what seems to be Dream’s only child, and disagreed with his parenting. Probably for good reason. No idea how a Muse/Endless union produced a mortal.

Killalla of the Glow - Dream’s oldest known relationship. They seemed to be pretty happy together, though Dream was waaaay more into her than she was into him. Shockingly, Dream wasn’t responsible for this relationship ending. In contrast to Dream’s other exes, her life after Dream was pretty good.

Alianora - While we don’t actually see why they broke up, I’m gonna go ahead and believe both Alianora and Desire when they say that it’s Dream’s fault. This woman was literally hand picked by Desire for Dream and saved Dream and the Dreaming, only for Dream to be a shitty boyfriend (husband?). At least she got a skerry and a dreamstone out of it. That’s kind of like alimony, right?

“That female on—what’s that pretty plane with all the twinkly lights? You know where I mean.” - Never shows up in the comics, but Desire says “what [Dream] put her through wasn’t pretty at all” and, yeah, that tracks.

Thessaly - Thank fucking god we didn’t have to see this relationship on page. Thessaly is a fascinating character but an awful person. They were apparently sickeningly in love, but Thessaly was smart enough to realize that the relationship was Definitely Hurtling Towards Something and bounced. The real victims here are the residents of the Dreaming. They had to put up with post break up Dream.

HONORABLE MENTION:

Nuala - Girl, you are so lucky Dream never returned your feelings. You dodged a bullet. There is no way that relationship would have ended in anything but disaster.

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Llongyfarchiadau Latfia! Congratulations Latvia!

Congratulations to the winners of the Tmblrvision Song Contest 2023: Latvia and Bermudu Divstūris & Auļi with the song "Līgava"! Congratulations for winning both the jury and the audience vote!

Also, congratulations to this year's winning Head of Delegation, @itscrazy-itsparty!

Let's welcome back to the stage Bermudu Divstūris & Auļi to perform their winner's reprise!

(The audio for this particular performance isn't great, so if you're more interested in the audio, then you can view the original music video instead.)

Here's a video recap of this year's overall Top Ten!

A huge THANK YOU to @strawbanya for providing the recap, as well as to @escape-radio for all the jury postcard graphics as well as the templates for the winner and split-screen graphics!

Here’s the full final scoreboard, including the jury and audience vote split for each entry:

Here's the jury scoreboard:

And here's the audience scoreboard:

Thank you and congratulations to all 32 Heads of Delegation who participated this year! It was yet another strong edition of the Tmblrvision Song Contest! Hope to see you next year!

Before we go, here's some footage from the celebrations in Latvia for their victory!

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR IN LATVIA FOR TMBLRVISION 2024!

[daeluin]

not insane as in every song is about patrick truther but insane as in every song in mania is ultimately about patrick truther

[andoutofharm]

tell me when the party ends will you still love who i am

[chibi-taylormoon]

Yugo is so happy with this big comfy bed :D, he looks so teeny

[thekidsarentalright]

i will never ask you for anything except to dream sweet of me

[metacove]

Jacehawk is something that can be so personal. You have the world's most boring self-righteous rigid wanna-be supersoldier paired up with the most evil fucked up pathetic crybaby irredeemable anti-hero

And you find out through the eyes of one another the former is the strongest, most respectable formidable hero who is literally made of light and love and the latter is the sweetest most understanding (poor little meow meow) of a powerful wizard who was brought up in unfortunate circumstances

[millsimagination]

My daily relistening of smfs today and all I can think about is the line from “Heaven, Iowa”

I closed my eyes inside of your darkness, and found your glow.

Like man. That’s beautiful. That’s knowing someone’s deepest, weirdest bits and still finding hope inside there. That’s what I want, maybe that’s what we all want.

And musically, it fits so well because most of the instrumental just cuts out as if you really are in that dark void. Inside of that darkness.

And then there’s the glow.