#It's a true reflection of you

[dontcallpanic]

and here i am asking you the same question as the curious bird i am

What are your top 5 favourite love songs, and why?

Thank you so much @gege-wondering-around I'm sorry it's taken so long... I found this REALLY hard to answer, but in a good way! I got stuck on the same thing as last time in that I would say I don't like love songs and yet... Here we go again! I continue to be a massive liar!

The first one is easy. I wanted to leave it till the end but instead I'm going to have to use it to get me going.

Okay look. I wasn't really someone who wanted to get married. I didn't play that game as a kid, I didn't imagine dresses or colour schemes and stuff like that but the moment I heard this song I knew it would be the song played at my wedding. I was actually going through a bonkers breakup at the time... But anyway fast forward 8 years later and it was the first dance song at my wedding. To me, this is exactly what love is. That nothing has changed in the world but because someone special is by your side the world is entirely different. It's full of magic. And you make the magic, together you work with what you've got. Even if it's the moon in the sky and the city sirens. The street becomes your stage, the sirens are violins and the moon is your mirrorball. Also the line: "now I know what every step was for, to being me to your door." It just encapsulates everything, the shit that you have to deal with in life and the sudden happenstance of winding up in the right place at the right time to find someone who fits into your life like they were always there.

Oh that takes me to this one! I hate game playing. Especially in romantic relationships. So I love this song. I feel like its romantic and pretty but keeps it real. Love (to me) is in the fact that someone respects me enough to not play games, to work things out to a mutual agreement, it's in the things that go unsaid or the little gestures that say I love you because I care, because I know you, because I took the time to pay attention. I don't actually trust easily at all. It took me a long time to trust the phrase I love you. "Three little words, over time, overheard and over used. Telling everything but the truth." "It's what you don't do... It's what you don't say." That's where I found love. It's where I still find love actually - platonic, familial and romantic!

I really love this song. It's heartbreaking and beautiful and so full of hope. It's so easy to give up on love in a way. It's safe, especially when love and heartbreak can be so utterly raw and painful. Especially in the aftermath of a breakup. It's safer not to try. Especially because love takes work on yourself as well as together to make it long-term. I love that this song is about finding that one person who is worth the risk. The only exception. That one person worth your time and your work. I love that this song keeps it real too because you don't know the future, you can't ever say how things will work out down the line... And yet this person is still the exception to all of those protective rules. And despite the pain of the past there is still hope of beautiful things to be seen and to be found! People are magic! "I'm on my way to believing."

I love this song and it will always hold a really special place in my heart. It was one of the first albums I brought (I got this one in a 3 for 2 bundle. The other CDs where S-Club 7 and the magic of Irish Riverdance) and this was the song I played over and over. It was an anthem. I sung it with my first real boyfriend, I sang it through the horrendous breakup. I didn't really understand it until I had the kiddo though. Because this is a parent singing to a child and the love you have for your kid and how wonderful and terrifying it is. It encapsulates the whole parental journey, the love, the beauty, the memories... And at the end you're left going... Where the hell do we go from here? And I still sing it now!

I love both versions of this song! I like how the song is about love... it's pretty much what my brain hits on whenever I'm asked about love. Uhhhh "it's a doing word..." but then I think about it and I can begin to articulate it a bit better. I love how even though these versions are SO different they still encapsulate the hope and magic of love (all kinds of love!)... and it's kind of, strange enigmatic beauty. Massive attack have basically gotten out what love feels like to me and then Newton Faulkner's version is me trying to explain it to people! Yes... let's go with that!

[aluminumneedles]

I'm knitting in the corner at a party

and guys my age stop by to tell me I remind them of their aunt, of their grandmother. This is a compliment and I take it as such. They confess to having tried crochet once, and I smile. They get back in line for the bathroom.

I'm knitting in the corner at a party and a queer woman sits on the floor next to me, arranges her skirt, and smiles up at me. (I try not to blush.) She asks me all the questions on her mind about my craft and I answer them, hands still moving. We swap yarn sources. She doesn't stay, but she knows where to find me.

I'm knitting in the corner at a party and everyone knows where to find me when they need a minute, when socializing is too much and the music is too loud and they need to catch their breath. They pretend to be checking in on me, which is sweet, but I can see the relief in their eyes the moment they stop performing for a house full of people. They sit down and tell me things and all the while they never take their eyes off my hands.

The party has wound down and I'm still knitting and the hosts, two guys in their twenties, thank me for "helping to curate the vibe." I had no idea that's what I was doing. I leave the party having forgotten to drink anything and without that woman's number but with many rows added to my top-down raglan sweater. I call it a night, and a good one.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Get Their Ass.

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[whateverisbeautiful]

The

Only

Time

I

Feel

Safe

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When

I’m

With

You

[egregiousmeme-art]

Oh to be a digital Siffrin keychain spinning endlessly in space for my amusement

[artflameball]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO MICHAEL AFTON DRAGGING HIS FATHER TO HELL TO TORTURE HIM FOR ETERNITY 🎉🎉🎉🎉HERE'S A BUNCH OF VENGEFUL SPIRIT MICHAEL ART IN CELEBRATION + WILLY BOY GENERALLY GETTING TORTURED

[Commissions for Palestine are open! Check my pinned for details!]

[zhongli-lover-69]

[millidew]

i fw this heavily

[puppyeared]

learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way

[selfhealingmoments]

[girlishwhimsies]

i think the thing about daryl!dally that gets me so bad is he just reminds you of that one kid you all know who was an absolute asshole sometimes but you knew his life sucked and you knew he didn’t have a way out and you knew that if something bad was going on, he was probably the safest person to be around. idk maybe i just went to a shitty poor school but i saw so many dallas winston’s pass through that place and daryl just captures that essence perfectly

[aroanthy]

kiryuu sibling stasis post-32 is so interesting to me. nanami tries to leave and is (temporarily but also, crucially, violently) prevented from doing so by touga and akio. after this experience she puts distance between herself and them: she leaves touga’s phone in the car, she resigns from the student council (though she dons her old uniform still), she repeatedly dismisses and undermines the authority of the rose code, of end of the world, of akio, of touga. but she’s still in ohtori, isn’t she? uncomfortable with the idea of leaving, uncertain if it’s really possible. she tried before, and it hurt her. deeply. it’s so interesting to me, nanami’s agency and how she limits her exertion of it after 32, when she realises it for what it is. contrast that with touga, who accepts this weird stalemate between them, who is, really, uninterested in having any relationship of any kind with nanami if he can’t gain something from her. he’s very passive with her after 32, compared to the passivity he’d always feigned towards her before in order to stoke reactions from her and then exploit them. i was thinking about how touga has always been able to sever his relationship with nanami, but chosen not to; first out of a sense of obligation (‘we should live to help each other’) then a realisation of how that could be exploited. i was thinking about how nanami has never realised her ability to leave, in part because it is limited by touga and the harm he does her. i was thinking about the desperation and confusion akio calls out to anthy with as she leaves. i was thinking about how different that is to the kiryuus’ strange semi-breakdown; touga doesn’t want or need nanami, and nanami might love her brother but she cannot trust him or feel safe around him, doesn’t want to see him anymore; she’s itching to leave, and just a little scared (you know, because last time she tried that her brother assaulted her), and he’s not doing anything because ignoring her means he doesn’t have to deal with the emotions of her leaving or staying. something something gendered power dynamics something something tragic siblings

[myiayse]

YURI WEEK

[wild-at-mind]

I would honestly call the left's inability to accomodate people with morality-based OCD compulsions an accessibility issue at this point.

[metanarrates]

ive always had sort of a weird researcher studying a bug fascination with romance fiction. absolutely alien world to me. kind of a scary place. mostly this has manifested in me reading a lot of bodice rippers and m/m fanfiction on the downlow but for about two years now it's resulted in me reading a rather absurd amount of otome isekai. i feel like half the time the popular sentiment online w/ arospecs having this approach to romance fiction is like "well i don't understand this fantasy but it's nice that people are having fun and i like rotating it in my head 🥰" but I'm not like that at all. there's a lot of totally unexamined reproduction & upholding of nasty societal stuff in romantic fantasies and that's why I feel compelled to examine them from the outside. i want to dissect it

[blorbocedes]

I’ve been a (silent) Lando disliker for a hot minute now, however after the news of this morning (Damon Hill GONE!!!🎉🍾🎊) I’ve been reflecting, and I’ve realised I actually have no ill will towards Lando, my true beef is with SkySports and their framing of this years title fight. Since I can’t formally apologise to Lando I’m apologising to you instead.

agsjfjjsjenf why are you apologising to ME 😭😭😭