#Metaphorical Train

[wickedzeevyln]

Reels from a Neon Midnight

The words that your Lola used to recreate a portrait of you in my mind is not how I picture you now. She often stutters when the thought slips by her. She used to say that getting knocked down isn’t the issue, life hands us a handful of fist, no it wasn’t that—it was your refusal to get back up that killed you. Unlike you, she stood there, she spoke as if she were a curator and her body a museum…

[catastrophe-jones]

So idk if I've talked about this at all on here and I don't generally go back through my own posts but

If you have a chance to see The Outsiders, go do it. If you don't but you can get the OG cast recordings from like, idk, Apple Music or whatever, go do it. There's a song called 'Great Expectations' and I can't explain why it's grabbed me by the throat, but whatever

Brody Grant's voice is youthful and curious and anguished

and the part where the whole ensemble comes in for the refrain is just fucking magical. Listen to it with headphones on, or in a small room -- and turn it up as loud as you can stand it.

The song starts and is going along, noodling along, a little slow, a little sad, but then from "Darrel was on his way up in the world" and then "They say there's strength in numbers" is when you can start to hear a train on the tracks, that one-two-three-one-two-three-one-two-three-one-two-three of the bass sound, idk if it's piano, cello, what, but it's the driving sound of the train, getting closer until "Beyond these city walls" it's gaining volume and momentum until the pickups "I've got--" and then it's blowing by you, when the whole company is wailing "GREAT EXPECTATIONS, GREAT EXPECTATIONS " and then Brody goes up, higher, for another round --

And then it's past -- it's gone by, like a missed opportunity. It sounds. Like. A fucking. Train. A cast of people, and it sounds like a the warning blast of a train just before it rockets through an intersection. I cannot explain in words why it moves me. I've been trying. Just go listen to it. Maybe it'll move you, too.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, 2024)

[fyllophobia]

colour warmup 230225

[the-muppet-joker]

You’re clearly just trying to bait us into asking for your pronouns so you can kick us

*Hides my kickhungry hooves in the dirt so you cannot see them* I would never do such a thing.

[whatsupspaceman]

characters who begin again in completely new worlds… or characters with memory loss being given another shot at life… and then using that desperately trying to make amends for the person they are told they used to be,, or who reinvent themselves into a new person to the betterment or detriment of themselves.. but the shadow of the old self always lingers >>>>>>>

[ningadudexx]

a little bit of help goes a long way...

[jackshiccup]

i cannot believe it’s taken my nth rewatch to notice how toothless’ wings unfurl directly behind hiccup during the new tail scene i am once again going insane

[chill4234]

Things that I know.

1. Yaoi is the opposite of yuri

2. According to tumblr, yuri seems to be just about anything, but I have most commonly seen it take the form of two inanimate objects in close proximity to one another. Eg minecraft furnace and crafting table, trains crashing into each other, etc.

Therefore, we can conclude that Yaoi is two inanimate objects that are very far apart from each other. The sun and the earth are yaoi.

[sapphikatara]

season three of infinity train goes so hard it’s a crime that you can’t watch it on max anymore. watching grace and simon go through the exact opposite storylines, becoming foils of each other in response to one another. grace losing her apex mark upon realizing that she was wrong as simon’s only got brighter. watching grace’s number go down to her hand as simon’s covers his entire body. all of these children being indoctrinated into a false religion causing them to go on a rampage while thinking they’re doing the right thing when in reality they stray further and further from the true right thing every day. grace leading them thinking she’s also doing the right thing when in reality, she’s doomed them. simon deeming tuba’s inhuman nature a valid reason to kill her, despite the fact that she was a fully sentient being who his friends loved and cared for. hazel losing the only mother she’d ever had. hazel being a denizen and not knowing it even when she was acting as one. simon not realizing hazel was supposedly one of the soulless monsters he hated so much because she didn’t look like them. hazel truly being not only so human, but such a child, begging for tuba to come back and promising to be really good. god there’s so much more i could go on about but it’s just the entire season. it’s so incredible. streaming services really just get rid of their best shows and don’t look back, huh.

[loosethreadsofyoursoul]

how did tristan’s metaphor about combining two things he loves turn into an i don’t want to share speech. babygirl you were so close

[ivorysodapop]

Lefties

[currentlyonstandbi]

i'm sure it's been said a thousand times by others already but i'm never going to not be thinking about the fact that there's been two people in alex's life who loved him (and who he loved in return) that died in order for him to be born .

[jackass-jones]

Something about Steven Universe being asked why he wasn’t Pink Diamond when he should be and him screaming “SHES GONE” in the most bone chilling way that shook the world and broke the ground beneath him

Something about Lake breaking the train’s engine room in frustration after being denied over and over again, screaming and crying right at you saying that they’re not Tulip, not a sliver, not a null, or anything else that other people have labeled them, they are a PERSON

More of that please

[sidotherobot]

WAIT GUYS I FORGOT WHAT DAY IT WASA IM SO SORRY HAVE A CYRUS FOR OCTOPATH DAY

[tero-ga]

Made a shipping drawing for YCH commission bsjsjsjsjsjsjs, they're really cute

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