#SUFJAN STEVENS THO

[semiotomatics]

OH MY GOD SUFJAN STEVENS ON THE NATIONAL'S NEXT ALBUM I NEED IT

[dughole]

the highest honor on tumblr.com is for me to read ur post out loud to my mom .

[highspeedinterconnect]

mutuals all come over n hang out

[ariolimaxxx]

Thinking about how Vito's Ordination Song is SO trans (mostly bc Psalm 139 is very trans and it's basically just that when you think about it)

[infinityevenbeyond---3000]

"Like Hephaestion, who died

Alexander's lover"

after winning a battle in Persia, Alexander and Hephaestion visited the Persian royal family. Mistaking Hephaestion for Alexander, the Queen of Persia knelt before Hephaestion to plead for her and her families lives. When she realized her mistake she was embarrassed, but Alexander pardoned her, saying, ‘You were not mistaken, mother, for this man too is Alexander’. In this story, Alexander considers his lover to be him, literally calling him by his own name. The parallels between Elio and Oliver, and Hephaestion and Alexander are obvious

[buckthefutcher]

the emotional one two punch of ‘so you are tired’ going directly into ‘javelin’ on the most recent sufjan album is still fucking with me 5 months later

[lesbianlanval]

you and that fucking wasp huh <3

me & that fucking wasp on the length of my arm

[thestarsthatlies]

Every time I listen to sufjan stevens I feel like I'm experiencing emotions I have never felt before

[sufranstevens]

te quiero decir que amo muchisimo tu url y que cada vez que me sale una canción de sufjan digo jajajaja es el sufran stevens. muy bueno 10/10 muchas gracias

jajaja me encantaaaa que honor 🖤 Ya me va a hacer caso el muchacho y se va a cambiar el nombre legalmente hasta le prometí el url de tumblr cuando lo haga

[bitchboi63]

i love angry whiny guy music which makes you confused about if they sing about jesus or a lost love

[woodtoc]

Discovered Anahstasia 3days ago and at first i was ?? I dont seem to love her music BUT NOW I DO

Can only recommand her music i love her voice

Ive been listening to her whole (tiny for now) discography over and over since yesterday

Edit : a feat with Raveena that i like

[semiotomatics]

literally the only good christmas song

[fionnthebandersnacc]

totally forgot I made this but it still slaps🥲

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower tunnel scene but its Futile Devices from the CMBYN soundtrack instead of Heroes

[jude-apollo]

Starting to arrange Come On! Feel the Illinoise! Part 1: The World's Colombian Exposition Part 2: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream for my acapella group what have I become

[hwatermelons]

unconventional gender neutral terms of endearment ^^

(mostly made this cause my drafts always have "baby" a million times and then i replace them lol)

- pretty (as in pretty girl/boy, but without the gender word attached) - starlight/my star, sunshine - honestly if you put "my" before anything it could probably work as an endearment - animals: firefly (got the idea from sufjan stevens), bunny, dove, mouse, hamster, hummingbird, penguin, monkey 😭, kitten (this one's kinda popular) - flowers: tulip, rose, sunflower, a flower that's special between your characters - fruits/vegetables: pumpkin, bean, mango, lychee, kiwi, peach, nectarine, apricot, berry(!!), blueberry, strawberry, raspberry, cherry, etc - sweets! a special weakness of mine is sweets from the person saying the endearment's culture. like if someone who was also indian called me their kaju katli i'd melt (but probably not laddu unless it's clear they're teasing and i get back at them 💀). maybe runs the risk of being cringey tho? honestly as long as it's from the sayer's culture and suits their personality it's fine - examples of sweets that don't belong to a certain culture: cookie, brownie - nature: snowflake, raindrop?? (i guess it works if your character has something to do with water), sprout, sapling

and here's some classic gn terms of endearment if your character's more into that: - darling (i see this as a perfect alternative to princess/prince) - love/my love - lovely/beautiful - baby/babe (can be used in both cute and teasing/suggestive moods) - angel (personal favorite of mine!) - dear (it's so "grown old together" vibes, i'm in love with this one for this purpose) - honey, honey pie, sugar, sweet(ie). honestly if they're used for s/os, it feels kinda old-fashioned. but for parent figures saying it to someone much younger that they care about, children or otherwise? (i'm imagining a southern (from america) beekeeper with no children or spouse of her own who sells her famous honey to buy food for the small army of orphaned children that shows up on her front porch every morning for breakfast. and these are the kinds of things she'd call them. perfection.)

[siblingshuffle]

Day 21: Heart

TW: Death (kinda?), Robot-Gore (not graphic in the image but I do describe the damage a little more to really drive home the fear and worry.)

“Why build a robot with a heart you can break? Why build a robot that can break yours?”

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…We as a fandom really don’t talk about Dr. LaLinde enough

Like. Can you imagine just your daughter dying while you’re only a short distance away? Can you imagine not being able to stop it? Can you imagine holding her broken body in your arms, knowing that if she hadn’t been drilling there in the first place - if you hadn’t upgraded her to help you work, if you hadn’t sent a child in place of a tool - this wouldn’t have happened? Like. That’s horrifying. There’s no way that doesn’t stick to her, too.

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Lore:

Fixing Tempo took a few months. Part of her synthetic skin had been damaged (it’s only her skin; nothing too bad… a patch of synthetic skin can be replaced. Like it never happened.). Her helmet had cracked (thank goodness it hadn’t crushed her processor… a helmet can be replaced. Good as new.). One of her pauldrons was missing a chunk of it (it was replaceable. It could’ve been worse.). Her left arm was partially crushed (I can replace it. It’ll be like nothing happened). A particularly heavy rock had torn one of her legs clean off at the knee (But it did happen. She’d died. What kind of mother would allow that?). When she inspected Tempo’s processor for damage, she found nothing too serious. Still… she should examine Tempo’s IC Chip. (That can’t be replaced.)

During that time, Dr. LaLinde started getting nightmares. What if the cave-in had rendered Tempo unfixable? What would she have done then?

(Tempo isn’t replaceable.)

When it came time to reinsert Tempo’s IC chip, a thought crossed Dr. LaLinde’s mind: she was having an awful time - nightmares, numbness, anxiety, grief - and she wasn’t even the one who had died that day. How much worse would it be for Tempo?

What kind of mother would she be if she let her daughter suffer?

…it’s better this way… right?

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Notes:

I wasn’t really satisfied copying the actual panel. It communicates everything fine, but I felt like I could go a bit harder. So I messed up Tempo’s hair a bit, cracked her armor, threw a bunch of dirt on there, and then thought “eh… yeah let’s put a gash across her face as well.”

This took literal hours. I made myself cry a little bit. To be fair, that might’ve been in part due to listening to Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens on loop while drawing…

they live rent free in my brain & i’m not even mad about it. i do have to make you guys suffer for it tho. sorry.