#a hard road

[jt1674]

[fm-synthesizer]

Black Sabbath: A Hard Road lyric video (unofficial)

[rastronomicals]

6:10 PM EDT September 14, 2024:

Black Sabbath - “A Hard Road” From the album Never Say Die! (September 28, 1978)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Heavy fucking metal

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[polar-jake778]

Resentment.

Within each and every one of us lives a parasite many dismiss as an emotion of irrational fear, truth, and intelligence. Resentment. But why do we remark such externally ugly sensation, with so much trust? Almost as if we respect it, more than we do ourselves. Well, I believe we hold such high regard for it, because we think it sees us for what we truly are. All those emotionally drawn assumptions about the self reflected on hatred, anger, and seen as a truth proposed by resentment.

I am no hero, no family person. Deep down, I am an outcast, as long as I see that for what it is. I can live each day waging war against such approach to ample living. That face, those stretch marks, the lack of discipline. I see an enemy. And I hate them. Resentment fuels such thoughts. Such seething hatred, frothing at the mouth as any idea of negative self worth crops up. We are a danger to ourselves, just as much as we are to others.

Many have said that it is easier to hurt another, than it is to hurt oneself. But I do not believe this. Through hurting another, one hurts themselves. Just like help. Through helping another, one helps themselves.

We are all mortals who bear the burden of resentment. More so, like a devil sat upon our shoulder whispering the words we think we think we deserve. Why we are so dumb. So rude. So evil. So worthless, in a world full of worth !

Scorn by regret, corrupted by resentment. Such putrid odour ferments. It is okay to feel down. It is okay to think your self inferior from time to time. No head should remain above the clouds for too long. But neither should they be exposed to the belly of brutality for too long.

Be kind to yourself. Remind yourself, that you bear a story so drastically different to the rest. Sure, perhaps I, and the many others, know not of such path. But knowing yourself, is enough. For the sake of the calm sea, respect what you have endured with glee. You continue to breathe. You continue to brave the days to come, even when they seem so hopeless and empty.

Thank you for reading this oddly specific tangent. I hope you, as much as I, find this helpful.

To show my appreciation, POLAR BEARS. !

I love them so much, man…

[eternal--returned]

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers ֍ Sitting in the Rain (1967)

I'm sittin' out here in the rain baby Under that old green tree I'm sittin' out here in the rain baby Wonderin' why you don't come back to me

Gonna lock you in my arms baby Before I throw away the key

[flyingbunniesart]

Had a sudden brainworm about both of them in cowboy outfits.... western AU klapollo.... hooo boi

[KOFI]

[inkskinned]

actually sometimes being neurodivergent is great bc you have a particular kind of Silly Mode that just . manifests glory. harmless fun is my precious side quest & i have a high score in whimsy. like okay if i gotta be the first dork in the dance pit it's gonna be me and this random toddler and we're gonna avril-style rock ouuuuttt

[thethunderthedragonfruit]

i was REALLY surprised i hadnt seen anyone animate over anything from the prevenge script reading yet, so i took matters into my own hands. i thought this bit was hilarious

audio from here

[peachebo]

saw a really interesting cloud on a way home..

and it said you are a superstar!

[sleepnoises]

I've started quilting my quilt and I thought it would be fun to approximately quilt in the shape of major roads (thanks yarrow for suggesting this in april) but now I want to quilt it more densely and feel locked into the road thing as 1) it is a sin to lie 2) as i am learning, Boston has an infinite number of roads

I will actually probably do leafs or vines or so on but wanted to share my road conundrum

Additional planning materials:

[jt1674]

[archer973]

One of the things I realized when I watched Fury Road directly after Furiosa:

Furiosa doesn't treat Max like she treated Jack. She treats Max like Jack treated her.

There are so many parallels - the way they meet, their conflict with each other that quickly turns to partnership, their journey to The Green Place (and how it fails)...

But where before it was Jack reaching out to her, now it's Furiosa who is asking Max his name, teaching him the kill sequence for the rig, trusting him to have her back in a fight, giving him everything he needs to leave (even when she wants him to stay).

Furiosa doesn't see Jack in Max, she sees herself. Everything from the muzzle to the nightmares to the fact that he barely speaks is a direct parallel to what she was like when she met Jack, and Furiosa knows it. And so as someone reached out to her, she reaches out to him, this feral, half-mad Wastelander. She reaches out and offers him hope, just like Jack did to her when he came back for her on the Fury Road.

And together, they find some kind of redemption

[rastronomicals]

6:45 AM EDT June 28, 2024:

Black Sabbath - "A Hard Road" From the album Never Say Die! (September 28, 1978)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Heavy fucking metal

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[elliottjpg]

"Boo."

Happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to all who observe.

Like last year, I opted to do a redraw of an old drawing from 2020; a companion piece to my previous drawing, a redraw from 2019. Night Watch is a good context to revisit the past and look at how I've evolved.

Rise up!

[thesupersuchi]

[literatureaesthetic]

📍marylebone, london — vowing that one day i'll move here, and it'll be my forever home. truly never felt so in love with a city before