#and I'm doing okayish

[lil-melody-moon]

Hello dear, hope you’re doing okay❤️ I just wanted to know your opinion on the new Beatles song. I can’t stop listening to the song and I wonder how do you feel about it. Love ya 🫶🏻

Hello, hun! <3 Oh God, I didn't expect to get an ask about this song, oh Gosh, wait, I need to listen to it once more - best time of the month for me, let me gather my brain.

*4 minutes later*

Alright so how do I even start with this? It's as melancholic as it could get, I love the melody of it. Piano, drums they are good, especially the drums. Ringo did his best job again, love him for that - the guy is irreplaceable <3 Violins are making the work there too, Gosh I love this instrument so much! But the part that draws my attention the most is the bridge. The guitar even sounds sad, but I'll get to that one moment in a few, because now's the time for vocals and lyrics.

I have one problem with the vocals and it's not John. I actually like how he sounds there - I think I heard his voice breaking a few times? I'm not quite sure about that - it's soft, somehow longing, but the thing is I don't like Paul's harmony in it. As much as I like him and adore him for his music, it just doesn't fit for me in the chorus. Maybe it's his old voice that throws me off the melancholy each time I hear him, but like. The song could be good with John's voice only, maybe even better, but it was Paul's and Ringo's choice to do the song how it is now and I'm fine with that. That's only a detail that I can get used to after listening to it a few times.

Generally what image I get through this song is this: two people on each side of a barrier of some sort. Both can see one another, but they can't get any closer. One of them is alive - that's a woman for me, second is dead - that's a man for me, watching over the alive one. It's just that this one moment let them see each other for the first time this close and this visible. The woman thanks the man for care, for support, for being almost always there in various forms - let it be music, videos, photos etc - for helping her in another hard time in her life and so on and so on.

And now to the lyrics, oh God almighty.

It's one of the songs that got my attention to the lyrics almost right away, that's why I couldn't exactly say that if I like it or not after first listen - I always have it like that if this happens - but they got my attention for a reason. This song, at least for me, is about longing for the other person. Loneliness, tears and crying, this is what I get from lyrics and melody all together. I will not go through each verse because that would take forever, but like I have no other choice but to somehow go through it as a whole and get a little personal here.

With the chorus, and with the line "I miss you" the woman breaks in tears, because even if they didn't know each other she has always felt that a part of her is missing and couldn't be so easily found and yet when she does find it, it turns out that it's out of her reach. Though this moment, which should last for no longer than a few seconds is longer. The barrier disappears with the bridge, the man steps closer to the woman, embracing her, promising her that they'll get together. He can't exactly tell if in real world or in afterlife, but he can keep the promise that it'll happen. The song ends and the moment ends as well, leaving the longing feeling even stronger.

This is how the entire song feels to me and even the timing of it is like a strange coincidence because I'm going through a difficult time. It's nothing too major, but university became hard, this semester is hellish, almost nothing interests me, but I want to finish this degree so I have to go through it and yet, there's this one person who makes all of this better. His music makes it better, generally he makes it better for me - even if he's dead for so long, bringing so much joy that I can't even measure it, let alone word it and you can call me crazy, but I think I fell in love with him. In fact I spoke about soul connections with a dear friend of mine and we both came to conclusion that maybe, just maybe this is what takes place, all of the above, the story that this song caused to appear in my mind.

Could be true, could be not, could be even my chaotic, period emotions going insane over him, but in conclusion, to not make this answer even longer, that song makes me feel melancholic, it hits right where it should, I like it, besides that one detail but I can get used to that.

Thank you for asking, love you too! <3

[alblondo23]

Hi what if I cried reading Alex's statement of support just a little bit?

[arctic-hands]

Time and distance heals things I guess. My parents got into an abusive fight with me after i took markers and pens to most of my clothes in middle school to scribble doodles and social justice messages (most prominently, Save Darfur–which really needs to be a rallying cry again given that the genocide has kicked up again as the Sudanese civil war rages). They were worried I'd look "unpresentable" in my massively oversized boy graphic tees and baggy jeans held up only by the grace of God (this was all by choice btw, i had and have always despised tight clothing and by middle school I had shunned girl clothes all together). But now at 31 I make mention of writing messages in sharpie on new t-shirts and my mom thinks it's cool and my dad offered to buy me proper fabric markers (I declined bc the cheap shirts will prolly wear out before the sharpies fade anyway). Go figure

[angeat]

day 5 this may not be mspaint but by god does it have limitations. I edited a bit outside of it in post just because it was driving me insane but you can see the original below

[ginkovskij]

gin, we need your critical opinion about megalopolis. was it really that bad?

i mean.

is it unwatchable? no. but also it is not good for sure. would love for it to be a case of "so bad it circles back being somehow good", but unfortunately no, becasue in order to achieve such a thing coppola should have gone camp and embraced the style instead of taking himself too seriously.

there are. ideas. that considered by themselves sort of make sense if you are desperate to find sense in this insanity of a movie, but whether within or without context for the large part they remain disjointed. and are anyway very cringe at core. i don't know how to put it kindly but the script just sucks. and choices were made.

[tealowls]

Really hope I'm forgiven now 👁🫦👁, I'll try to be chill for you. Bc of that, hru?

(Also hi mod hope ur taking care if urself and doing well too 🫶)

- 💜

Fine. Nothing special.

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning!! <333

[asinglesock]

send help. it's supposed to be 91 degrees tomorrow. on my day off :(

[the-chickenshit-oddity]

i was on insta and u know how they keep shovin' "suggestions" into ur face like "DO YOU KNOW THIS PERSONNNN DO YOU WANNA FOLLOW THEMMMM" and i found a bunch of my cousins and like. why do i hate people knowing me so much? why do i not want to talk to them solely because i don't want to have to answer questions back and have them know things about me? why?

[beauzos]

covid is a really frightening illness honestly. both times i've gotten it i've had very mild symptoms-- i'm already getting better since yesterday but it's very frightening to have. it's why i got the test in the first place, because i got scared about having it again. like i guess it's knowing it COULD be bad that's really frightening even though i'm like. fine.

that said i did just experience some weird symptoms and that got me super nervous but whatever, it's fine

[minty-bubblegum]

I had to do the pacer test today

[aaami]

got a diagnosis for severe depression and idk it feels kinda relieving to see that, since my anxiety likes to make me think i'm just faking everything :')

[asleepinawell]

among the many reasons I suck at melee jobs is my consistent failure to limit break. this can be because:

1) I'm focused so intently on my rotation in a desperate effort to not suck at melee dps quite so much that I simply do not notice the bars are full, or

2) I'm preoccupied with my raid-long petty rant to my cat about how much I loathe positionals (which is another reason I suck at melee jobs) and simply do not notice the bars are full, or

3) I see it and think oh the melee dps will get that, completely failing to comprehend that I am, in fact, the melee dps

[lakecoded]

in a weird spot where i feel like the medic wants to clear me to go back to work and i have to be like. well i don't think that's a good idea. which sucks because like. i don't have any paid sick leave. i'm actively losing money by not going in to work. but also i'm pretty sure the 10 minute walk from my room to the office is too much for me to handle rn.

[murderous-coffeebean]

Tiny life update (also re: the Discworld requests from last fall):

I hurt my right hand some two months ago, resulting in pain when moving my thumb, which... uh. Severely restricts my use of it at the time being. I’ve picked up drawing left-handed since and am doing pretty decent for it being my non-dominant hand, but... yeah. While I’m working on something at the moment, I haven’t been able to pick up the requests I was working on before all this happened, so. While I might post some older art in the upcoming weeks/month/s, I might also not post much until I can get this fixed (hopefully soon; please cross your fingers for me, as I have a second doctor’s appointment for this issue next week).

[mean-vampyre]

Big fan of parasocial relationships when it's me tbh