#Swan's Seven

[houseswife]

wilson saying “I need to do this. for you.” is fucking insane actually. in the same episode where house is deciding whether or not he should commit suicide as a result of wilson’s dying. They are each other’s lines between life and death. humans have a biological instinct to preserve their survival at all costs; house has an addiction that governs his life. but they were willing to forgo all of it for one another, because they couldn’t fathom it being any other way. IM SICK

[sboochi]

Oho? It's Red Shoes' 4th anniversary? Time to bring out an over-the-top Swan Lake AU fanart, then

[weirdgirlvampire]

[taohun]

i’ve never known a man who loved me.

[sevenswansinatrenchcoat]

Haha what if you pushed a single line into my heart? And then what if you only let through a drip drip drip to flow through the glyphs and gears? And then what if through the pain I kissed you? Haha jk.....unless?

[hyacinthoideshispanica]

Me: Why am I so attracted to the Enemies to Lovers trope?

Movies I watched all the time as a young and impressionable child:

[my-gaydar-is-on-point]

My gift for @se7enofni9e for the queer coven gift exchange!! You asked for AUs for different ships, so I made them AUs of each other

You can repost them separately if you like just link to this please! Hope you like them :))

[chaotictoon]

7 Deadly Sins: Envy

[natequarter]

the doctor's final few episodes in a given incarnation are always either I Can Feel Things Coming To An End, Let Me Make One Last Kind Decision or My Wife Left Me So I Guess I'll Just Die. with no in between

[jimfromyourmothersship]

My crush in childhood. Favorite list.

The Snow Queen ("The Snow Queen", USSR, 1957)

2. The little robber ("The Snow Queen", USSR, 1957)

3. Odette ("Barbie of Swan Lake", 2003)

4. Vasilisa ("Vasilisa Mikulishna", USSR, 1975)

5. Царица Забава ("The Flying Ship", USSR, 1979)

6. Eris ("SInbad: Legend of the Seven Seas", 2003)

7. Captain Amelia ("Treasure Planet", 2002)

8. Maleficent ("Sleeping Beauty", 1959)

9. Lady Tremaine ("Cinderella", 1950)

To be continued...

[justaz]

what i find so iconic about the white violin is bro is literally his own boss music

[sevenswansinatrenchcoat]

Death to the Mechanisms is so funny cos they're like "we thought we'd tell you one of our grander tales" like babes the plot of the band over this story is that you're in prison for 60 years....

[dumbdolphin333]

[summerhighlandfalls]

i think the apple's rotten right to the core

[fuckyeahsufjanstevens]

I'm embarking on a master's thesis exploring Seven Swans and it's resonance with contemplative theology. Before I begin, I'm looking for more information on Sufjan's writing/recording process, the influence of Daniel Smith, inspiration behind the lyrics, etc.. Anything other interviews that reveal Sufjan's views on faith would also be very helpful! Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Here's a hodge-podge of things that might be interesting to you:

2004 interview with The Guardian doesn't have much but it does have this quote specific to Seven Swans: 'I can see patterns in the songs about relationships with family, lovers and friends, or a divine being, and sometimes songs confuse the two,' Stevens says. 'There's an attitude of reverence and awe and love, in terms of very corporeal love with God, as well as with people.'

2006 interview with Busted Halo talks about feelings surrounding being public about his faith

Since you mentioned Daniel Smith, I imagine you're aware of Danielson: A Family Movie? Sufjan does make some appearances in there.

Sufjan was a guest on a podcast called Don't Look Back where artists talk about songs that changed how they think about music, and that conversation touched on faith in songwriting. Our blog has some quotes from it but I don't know how easy it is to get ahold of the episode--if you have iTunes, you can try the source link on that page.

True Myth: A Conversation with Sufjan Stevens 2015 interview in Pitchfork has some more recent comments from him about his faith

This 2012 interview for PEN America is a long listen but I recall that Sufjan talks a lot about inspiration and things of that nature in here, though I don't remember if Seven Swans comes up specifically.

In 2017, Sufjan wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post: Stop repeating the heresy of declaring the United States a ‘Christian nation’

Hope that helps!

[rynrising44]

Characters I am totally normal about like totally normal with the blue coded and the red coded and the red/blue coded and the monarch/soldier romantic pairing and the emotionally repressed and the gay and the utterly awkward trainwrecks that don't know how to be loved and oh yeah, did I mention the gay-