#and all for just a silly little playlist

[paradoxon-3791]

Songs for The Fears

The Buried: Buried Alive by Creature Feature

“In this oblong box I lie with the hopes I’ll be buried alive….”

The Corruption: Thermodynamic Lawyer Esq, G.F.D. by Will Wood

“Disease is her primary language, garbled and gruesome, her words so absurd….”

The Dark: Friends in the Dark by Aurelio Voltaire

“The night is falling, your faith is faltering, and you’re alone….”

The Desolation: The Day They Come from The Dolls of New Albion

“And on the day we come it’s over, and you will have your fate laid out and spun….”

The End: Elysian Fields by The Mechanisms

“I have found my heart’s last calling, Elysian Fields where I can die….”

The Extinction: Reckless Battery Burns by Ghost and Pals

“Further for thy sake, open my mouth and scream aloud with me….”

The Eye: I Need to Know from Jekyll and Hyde

“I need to know why man plays this strange double game, his hand always close to the flame….”

The Flesh: Meat by Poppy

“Cut out my tongue so that I can’t scream, there’s meat, there’s meat on me….”

The Hunt: Run Devil Run by Haunted Like Human

“And she says run devil run, towards the rising of the sun, run devil run away from me….”

The Lonely: Disappear by Karliene

“If you’re no longer here, I’m scared I’ll disappear into the land of darkness and emptiness and loneliness….”

The Slaughter: Murder, Murder by American Murder Song

“Murder be thy name, and let there be blood….”

The Spiral: The Cabaret of Dreams by Seventh Spire

“Welcome to the stage of dreams, where everything’s real as you let it be….”

The Stranger: Sister Went Missing by Caravan of Thieves

“We were all content with the sentence till we heard her footsteps, till sister came home….”

The Vast: Deadly Diminuendo by Blackbriar

“With your vertigo inducing peaks, where I can hear the echos scream as if they are still falling….”

The Web: Metaphor by The Crane Wives

“I’ve gotten good at making up metaphors, I’ve gotten good at stretching the truth out of shape….”

[huellitaa]

₊˚⊹♡ education is hot!

education is literally the most valuable thing in life. please please PLEASE take advantage of that. self concept is important, good looks are important, happiness is important, health is important, but without education we wouldn't even know what any of that even means. ♡

having knowledge makes you magnetic. when you're smart, people will look up to you. and if people look up to you, it means they think about you, they admire you, and you have an influence on them.

life is knowledge. the more you learn, the more you are. knowledge is the fundamental basics to life. nothing is the root of everything but we wouldn't even know what nothing is without education. we wouldn't have language, we wouldn't have concepts, we wouldn't have technology, we wouldn't have the screen you're reading this on. we wouldn't have tumblr 😨

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 1. noting down ur findings

the smartest people ALWAYS note down what they learn, whether it be big or small. if you have lots of knowledge and / or the memory capacity of a goldfish then naturally you may not always remember what you learn. keeping it noted down in any preferably easily accessible format of your choice is so helpful and a very smart choice if you want to be an Intellectual™. notebook, sketchbook, binder, google docs, notion pages, tumblr posts, notes app, anything you like !!!!! just keep it noted down !!!! ♡

──★ ˙ ̟🎀2. utilising ur resources!!!!

so many people i know and millions of people throughout the world suffer with a crippling addiction to their phones, but what are you actually doing on said phone? you spend ages on your phone, your tablet, your laptop, reading, writing, playing video games, and so on, but even then, are you genuinely learning? are you taking the time to absorb the knowledge placed before you or are you skimming through it all in a mindless cycle of media consumption?

think about how you can utilise the things around you to learn. for example, make all that time spent on your devices useful. research, study, learn in your free time. knowledge is abundance. you can use your local library, your local bookshops, ur school or ur college or ur workplace just to find out more about your surroundings and about the world. it is so much more valuable thank you'd think.

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 3. wisdom

wisdom is the highest form of knowledge. to learn is to live so living is the only way you're going to truly learn, if that makes sense. therefore, by using this direct method, you gain the highest manner of knowledge; wisdom. wisdom is not being book smart or knowing how to solve equations or write essays but wisdom is genuine, pure, raw, life experience and life lessons, which, surprise surprise, can only be gained through experience and living your life. go out, try things, get out of your comfort zone, get comfy being uncomfy. you got this. ♡

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 4. social interaction

"nerds dont know how to socialise!!!" okay so maybe i adhere to this stereotype sometimes but social interaction is, however unfortunate it may be, a key part of being intellectual and having genuine knowledge. going back to wisdom and learning through experience, speaking with and networking with and sparking connections with others is a vital way to be educated and informed and cultured along with enhancing your social skills, because we need to know how to interact with others, too. if we can't spread said knowledge through connections and socialising so it can be passed down for hundreds of thousands for years to come then there is no point in learning at all because it'll have no use in the long run.

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 5. media consumption

feed ur brain. i cannot stress this enough. read books, fiction or non fiction. i know you've heard this a million times but it's true. read just a random article of interest every day to get your brain working. learn a new word every day, read news reports, letters, interesting blogs, articles, websites, do puzzles, crosswords, wordsearches, memory games, listen to podcasts, audiobooks, watch documentaries, youtube videos, interviews, ted talks, video essays, EXERCISE UR BRAIN

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 6. insights, emotional intelligence and empathy

as i've said before, and i'll reiterate again, knowledge extends beyond simply having book smarts and knowing how to work with letters and numbers. the most powerful method of communication amongst humans is emotion, and being well versed in how to read, understand and communicate said language is only learnt through real life experience and observation of real life experiences where the use of emotional intelligence and empathy come into play. analyse these experiences and note down everything

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 7. question ur sources and BE BOLD

one thing i was taught ever since i was little is that when ur online you need to be veeeery careful with all the information you get fed because there are lots of people out there, esp on the internet, with lots of different intentions and lots of different facts, even if they have good intentions and don't mean to mislead you. always double check whatever ur told with someone you know or on another website or two or a physical yet reliable source if you have one to hand, and cite your own opinions too. you get to choose what does and doesn't get to enter your mind. your mind and your knowledge is yours entirely and only yours to be tampered with and adjusted in any way you'd like.

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 things 2 study and be generally educated on:

social etiquette and politeness

countries and their respective laws, cultures, landmarks etc.

history of your own family and ancestry

languages you're interested in and basic phrases in several languages

information about your dream and / or current career

finances and how to manage your money

business, networking and persuasion

pet psychology and how to take care of them

capital cities and basics about places around the world, esp if you plan on going travelling

something beautiful about knowledge is that you'll never run out of it and it can never be taken away from you. people can take anything from you, but never your intelligence. ♡

all my love! 💖✨💘💗🎀💓

[sysig]

A very normal scientist doing very normal gene splicing experiments (Patreon)

[happi-tree]

⚔️👑 shield and scepter 👑⚔️

Howdy, y'all! So my wonderful mutual @raemeh did this really cool fanart of my royalty Swiftli au (the fic for which can be found here), and I had some little design ideas about them in my wips, so I thought I'd post the two of them here! Thank you so much to everyone who's enjoyed it <333

[blujayonthewing]

trying to organize the lad's playlist and right now I've got all his 'friends with animals' songs directly after 'you can look right through me, walk right by me, and never know I'm there' and right before 'I don't want your pity, I just want somebody near me' WHICH FEELS, MEAN,,

[plushievash]

god money, ill do anything for you god money, just tell me what you want me to

[jester-fangirl]

Any and all traces of the complete dhmis TV show episodes have been wiped off of the face of YouTube and I actually don't know what to do with my life now

[deprivedmusicaljunkie]

listening to hozier on shuffle is such a baffling experience because i’ll go from “the last time i felt your weight on my chest / you said ‘we didn’t get it right but love we did our best’” so i’d have to sit with that for a couple of minutes. and then with no warning whatsoever we jump into the happiest little twirl-around-in-a-garden, splash-in-the-waves love song where this irish ass motherfucker is going on about how he’s had “no love like your love”. like FUCK

[carcarrot]

this time last year i was probably sitting in the kitchen while my dad started making an early dinner of chicken bolognese trying not to get too nervous about the concert i'd be going to in a few hours

[haharuspex]

good art this bad art that no it's listening to little dark age for three hours on repeat art

[goldensunset]

re: the music rant I tagged you in I am so sorry for tagging you in my double-dose caffeine fueled haterism explosion post. truly was off the shits and did not realize how much random garbage talking points I was ready to spill on the first person to ask

but i love haterism���..

[leothelionboy]

I kinda wish spotify had like a shuffle feature for finding playlists. Sometimes I just wanna listen to something new and spotify goes “Here! Have a song you’ve listened to for the past month.”

Like dude… I asked for new! Not my favorite song of right now. Gimme a random ass band with two monthly listeners. Not Maroon 5.

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: February 26

“Diamonds in the Mud” by Gerry Cinnamon

[bnuuys]

sorry for not posting about alkaloid as much anymore i am still rotating all of them in my mind at rapid speeds at all times <3

[thebirdandhersong]

songbird's season of general sadness/first real grief/sorrow is coming to an end: (in chronological/journeying order) songs and poetry that helped my heart a lot these past few months :)

Always Good, Andrew Peterson / Marjorie, Andrew Osenga / Ask Polly article I read on a whim: 'My Boyfriend Refuses to Change' / You're On Your Own, Kid, Taylor Swift / One Foot in Front of the Other, Griff / Heavy, Mary Oliver / Monday by @madamescarlette / The Letter, Linda Gregg / Summer's Retrospective by @madamescarlette / Ode to Some Lyric Poets, Gregory Orr

(bonus--from the scraps of writing that came out of this chapter of life, which are slowly being assembled into a more coherent story:)

[stranger-awakening]

this is actually the worst thing that has ever happened to me