#all old romantic songs

[lululeighsworld]

it was literally their moment and they just let us watch

(if you need me i'll be marinating in this for the foreseeable future)

[notbecauseofvictories]

very strongly feel that moist/adora is the only actual romantic relationship terry pratchett ever wrote.

[red40exe]

Do you love him? Mr. Heere's voice rings, his tone firm but true. It makes Michael brave those first few steps in exploring what it means to love Jeremy Heere.

[fizzytoo]

"I will die a better man with you in my life / I can't wait to tell the world that you're my wife!" (♪)

[death-by-mercury]

𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘰, 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘦, 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯 ❤︎

𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯 1937

[daisyachain]

The nature of time is that (culturally) Christian Euro/Anglo colonial consumers (hereafter white ‘people’) fetishize the idea of being ‘close to nature’ or ‘primitive’ or ‘savage’ and latch on to the idea that there are groups of people in the world who are somehow bestial or who have some kind of special powers from holding animist beliefs/beliefs that acknowledge the body as opposed to the Christian belief that the body is a kind of useless appendage to a person. We see this across decades from the 19thC to today in the racist fetishization of indigenous people across the globe, particularly residents of the Americas, Australasia, and southern/eastern Africa.

White consumers use a warped conception of other cultures to live out the fantasies that the Christian soul/body stuff engenders. You keep getting told that your emotions and physical sensations are the devil’s work? You want to get in touch with those physical sensations, but you don’t want it to interfere with your worldview? Simply project them on to a convenient group of people with slightly different conventions from you. Imagine how cool it would be to be 100% physical sensation (especially those pesky violent and/or sexual urges) and no mental burden, then unleash that in a way that causes millions of deaths worldwide via the dehumanization of entire nations of people just trying to live their lives. White consumers love a Proud Warrior Race Guy.

Flash forward to the 2010s, it’s generally considered impolite to spread the same propaganda that justified the genocide and dispossession of many different groups of people. However white culture hasn’t changed that much and normal human activities still need to be explained away to maintain the veneer of white intellectualism that has been used to justify white violence for years and years. You can’t just stomp around and clap your hands and dance badly, you’ve got to project it somewhere else.

But wait! There’s a community of people considered ‘tribal’ and ‘savage’, considered violent and bestial, who were never colonized! It’s…the Norse. Fetishizing early medieval North Sea raiders can’t be cultural appropriation, see, they’re white! It’s not offensive to replace an entire culture with white (male) ideas of what’s cool if that culture is totally unassociated with colonizer stereotypes and is in fact a culture of colonizers!

And that’s my theory on why there are so many Norse-inspired folk bands/video games/tv shows/memes/literally anything in the 2010s. VSaga not counted because that manga has been running since 2003 and is actually well-researched and comes out of a culture with a similar but distinct tradition of racism. The Euro storytelling tendencies of needing some kind of violent avatar have taken on ye anciente Norseman now that people care a little bit about the gallons of blood used to sketch other ethnic stereotypes. Done and dusted. Except the other side is that the fetishization of early medieval Norse culture is literally just white supremacist 101 and a lot of artists don’t step around that nearly as carefully as they should

[vampmilf]

strangely ironic that one of my moms favourite songs is about cheating when she also still says part of the divorce was bc my dad was cheating, something that he denies to this day and that she brings up at every opportunity unprompted and will probably still make a talking point on her deathbed

[corntort]

just read viscera objectica T_T

[egginfroggin]

So like I know that きみでないのなら has romantic undertones due to the context and who it's being sung by in Itoki Hana's story (Phantom Aria), but like. I keep associating it with like. tragic siblings (especially twins separated through time/space, hm, gee, wonder why, hmmmmmmmmmmmm)

[judasofsuburbia]

eat your young song of the mf YEAR!!!! screaming about all of this so true so TRUE

[derrypubliclibrary]

is it gay if i make a playlist for her.

[tamaharu]

okay thats interesting! in the SF try-outs during the song "legally blonde" she sings about how she cant be legally blonde, while in the official version AND THE DEMO she sings about letting her be legally blonde. which means that at some point they changed the lyrics around, and then changed them back! laurence o'keefe.... nell benjamin.... what occurs in your twisted minds

[two-eyedmemoriesinmind]

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you,

Tomorrow I'll miss you;

Remember I'll always be true.

And then while I'm away,

I'll write home every day,

And I'll send all my loving to you.

[creamecream]

“You’re a loser, baby,

A loser, goddamn baby,

You’re a fucked up little whiny bitch,

(Hey!)

You’re a loser, just like me,

(Thanks, asshole)

You’re a screws loose boozer,

An only one-star reviews-er,

You’re a power-bottom at rock bottom,

But you got company,”

Nori belongs to @abyssnighthawk

[enobariasteeth]

“The Bonnie & Clyde musical is problematic!! It romanticizes criminals!!”

Okay, but have you considered Jeremy Jordan with a southern accent?

[infizero]

been rewatching a ton of spongebob recently (via reaction videos but nonetheless) and one thing thats stood out to me is how fucking aroace spongebob is. like its actually crazy.

like i cant think of a single time (in the first four seasons ive seen again at least) where he was shown or even implied to be attracted to literally anybody, even when the other people around him are. i mean like the valentines day episode shows him giving valentines to everyone and no one's (not even sandy's, The Girl's) really read as romantic. the plot of the episode literally revolves around his extravegant gift to PATRICK being delayed and how patrick gets so upset over spongebob's perceived lack of a gift that he literally goes insane.

and in any bit where spongebob's even remotely like letting out hearts or ACTING like someone in love, its always humorously towards a non-person, like the krusty krab or something. he genuinely reads as so aroace and its actually fucking awesome