#album: chemistry

[haze-of-hyperfixations]

wait, hold on.

"i need you to always be devout, and comply with this, or we'll all die in this, okay?" was right before Eurylochus went against orders to open the bag. and Odysseus was right, people died for it.

and Eurylochus doesn't go against a direct order after that. because he's learned what happens when he does.

but then Odysseus orders him to light up six torches, and he does it without question. because why would he question it? Odysseus knows what he's doing, of course he does.

then six men die. and Eurylochus is faced with the truth that there is no way to avoid tragedy. all paths lead to the same end. rebel against your captain, your friends die because of you. follow orders, your friends die because of you. there's no escaping the death that follows them, and Eurylochus always ends up with unintentional blood on his hands. he's exhausted.

"Ody, we're never gonna get to make it home, you know it's true."

[myewt]

[kikiswords]

another random observation about get in the water: did y'all realize that the context in which polites, eurylochus and ody's mom's voices changed absolutely COMPLETELY?

like in love in paradise when their voices came it haunted odysseus in the sense that he lost all of them in his journey home, to see his wife. it was a context of sadness, of regret.

in get in the water, it's sheer TERROR. like if y'all noticed there were lil screechy sounds when he was underwater, almost like the sirens: it was almost as if the people who died are literally PULLING HIM DOWN TO THE UNDERWORLD. A PLACE HE DOESNT WANT TO GO.

even the animatic (think it was by mircsy? love mircsy!!) portrayed the illustrations of polites, eurylochus, and his mom in such a TERRIFYING way - and odysseus looked petrified because HE DOESNT WANT TO DIE

like the way the voices now haunt odysseus is so different and that's insane for jorge to use it

[omegalomania]

What are some of your favorite aro-/ace-coded fob lyrics?

oh fuck yes a little bowl of seeds just for me

boycott love from disloyal order of water buffaloes is a personal favorite of mine. its a lyric i really really want tattooed at some point. that's not the only lyric i latch onto from an aro perspective but it's probably the biggest one

basically the entirety of it's hard to say "i do" when i don't but a special mention goes to you are appealing to emotions that i simply do not have as well as the only ring i want buried with me are the ones around my eyes

it's true romance is dead / i shot it in the chest and in the head from the music or the misery is also a favorite of mine, also just that whole song in general

i thought i loved you but it was just how you looked in the light in hum hallelujah resonates with a lot of queer folks i've found, and it's no different for me

same goes for it's a strange way of saying that i know i'm supposed to love you from g.i.n.a.s.f.s.

i'm outside the door, invite me in / so we can go back and play pretend from alone together brings me back to when i was trying to perform heteronormativity/amatonormativity even if it was making me miserable

i also hold to a very similar vibe with she said "i love you 'till i don't" / i am just playing house, no idea what i'm doing now from sunshine riptide and also most of burna boy's verse, frankly. i fell in love but i didn't fall down and feel like i'm bulletproof, baby in particular

american beauty/american psycho, particularly the first verse. i think i fell in love again / maybe i just took too much cough medicine

golden is a big one for queer folks in general i've found. the chorus especially hits hard from an aro and/or ace reading. and i saw god cry in the reflection of my enemies / and all the lovers with no time for me

i've got a dark alley and a bad idea that says you should shut your mouth is a heavy song no matter how you slice it. but that chorus gets to me in particular: we can fake it for the airwaves / force our smiles, baby, half-dead / from comparing myself to everyone else around me

the kids aren't alright reads to me as one big anthem for platonic love above anything romantic, which resonates super hard with me. the second verse has a lot of good lines that i latch onto from an aroace lens too. your love is anemic and i can't believe / that you couldn't see it coming from me

pretty much the whole chorus of HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON'T does it for me, and those verses have got some good aroallo vibes too! i never really feel a thing... confidants but never friends...

the whole of fake out is a gimme. that chorus rings real true. starts with love is in the air, i just gotta find a window to break out and finishing with but it was all a fake-out

i've got all this ringing in my ears and none on my fingers is one that has another highly applicable title but the whole refrain of the truth hurts worse / than anything i could bring myself to do to you paired with the one-two punch of that second verse REALLY gets under my skin

and of course, the culminating one: you are what you love, not who loves you from save rock and roll. obviously there are a LOT of ways to read that line

there are a couple other songs i latch onto - wilson (expensive mistakes); a little less "sixteen candles", a little more "touch me"; the (after) life of the party to name a few - but the ones listed above are the big lyrics that resonate with me on a personal level

just in general i have a shitton of fob over on my aro playlist (which doubles as a general aroace/queer playlist but has a lot of emphasis on aromanticism) in case i forgot to mention anything but like i said those are the big ones

[statichvm]

something something mental stability

[sleepanonymous]

I am never forgiving Vessel for closing Sundowning with the song Blood Sport and opening This Place Will Become Your Tomb with Atlantic. Sir how could you do that to your fans? This is just too painful 😭😭

[tksubby]

Barbie Eugene

here's all of them individually cuz that eugene sticker covered a good chunk of his legs lol. i loved drawing these so much omg. the barbie movie is so good aughghfhgdghskdkfs defo one of my absolute favs. the studs on the leather jacket were so tedious to draw but it was so worth it imo. glad i got to try drawing a different pompadour style with the leather harness eugene, i wanna experiment w other styles too.

[wikiangela]

thinking about her (shannon diaz, you deserved better)

[jennyfromthebes]

I love Jenny From Thebes I wish lesbians were real

[nattaphum]

NO ONE DOES IT LIKE THEM ❤️

[thekidsarentalright]

fall out boy will really release an album that has you dancing while you cry and celebrating the beautiful chaos of life because even if the world is full of horrible, horrible pain you still have to try and you have to keep going because there are ultimately things that make the pain worth it . insane

[evichuart]

so yesterday i went out and red signal started playing

and i just find very funny that i was smiling calmly while jonny was going HAM

[dreamspring]

and don’t EVER come between me and my beautiful wife there is a hell believe me ive seen it there is a heaven let’s keep it a secret [2010] AGAIN

[13eyond13]

actually stunned by how gay The Beatles has been all this time and I just never knew

[ayra-redwood]

Hozier - 19 September 2014

Happy 10th anniversary to one of my favourite albums of all time 💕

[all-chickens-are-trans]

pride parade in my city, time to listen to some queer pride tunes *puts on bruce springsteen*