#and i'm sure i'm blocked by most of the fandom anyway because of salt reasons

[lovecolibri]

SaL anon here wishing us a happy 60th SaL song! In honor of our 2 months of flailing let's have some feelings and talk about Earth. So this is one of my favs, as usual Ryan's singing and the music are intense, but it's the lyrics that really do it for me, they are exquisite and so very Malex. The first line is Michael after Rosa and all it changed, the second Alex after the shed leaving to protect Michael. God the chorus, hiding their feelings until "the siren sounds" (Caulfield, kidnapping) 😭

I'm sorry, did you just say SIXTY?! How is that even REAL?! Also how are there still so many songs I know we haven't talked about?! Thanks for taking me up on that offer two months ago to flail about Sleeping at Last and for brining utter joy to my inbox on the daily. *socially distanced hug*

Also it's kind of hilarious that you picked Earth to talk about today because something in one of the last couple asks made me think of that song and I was looking at the lyrics and almost put in something about it, but didn't. And then you picked it to talk about anyway! We are on the same wavelength it seems, bestie!

So this song is also one of my faves, it's so interesting and a bit of a contrast to the other songs in this series (aside from Mars with it's war theme) and I always interpreted it as like, the greed of man, carelessly harvesting from the earth without regard for it's health, but also about a person's personal life, their whole "world", and how it can implode because of lies and secrets, but also how sometimes when the whole world feels like it's crashing, it's just building something new. Which is gonna bring us back around to looking at this through a Malex lens!

i dig ’til my shovel tells a secret, swear to the earth that i will keep it, brush off the dirt and let my change of heart occur.

sold soon after the appraisal, the hammer struck the auction table louder than anything i’ve ever heard.

You're right, naturally any secret thing is going to make me think of Michael keeping what happened with Rosa a secret from Isobel and Alex, plus the alien secret as well. I'm also thinking about Michael and Alex changing and hardening after That Night and oof if the hammer striking in finality doesn't hurt right in the Teen Malex feels. 😭 (Also, not to get too outside Malex, but finding a secret you promised to keep and immediately selling out? I'm mostly thinking of Jesse Manes and how Tripp hinted at bringing him into things but all we know now is Jesse went the "actually, I'd like to commit genocidal crimes please" route (which we'll probably never find out more about because they killed him off too soon 🤬) but also catch me side-eyeing Liz for pretty much immediately telling Kyle after being sworn to secrecy🙄 but I digress.)

fault lines tremble underneath my glass house. but I put it out of my mind long enough to call it courage to live without a lifeline. i bend the definition of faith to exonerate my blind eye. “’til the sirens sound, i’m safe.”

Oh man, I love this chorus so much. This makes me think of Michael and Alex trying to bury their trauma rather than deal with it, both being a little reckless with their lives due to self-worth issues, and choosing not to look to closely at things because that would mean actually addressing their issues. Luckily it looks like that trend is fading out and I'm excited for season 3 to give us some good talks that push them forward, even if they're hard conversations. Enough with the miscommunication!

meanwhile, my family’s taking shelter. the sparks send the fire down the wire, a countdown begins, until the dynamite gives in.

the echo, as wide as the equator, travels through a world of built up anger- too late to pull itself together now.

Oof oof oof, all this explosion imagery is getting me in my Caulfield feels. 😭 But this speaks again to Malex and their miscommunication, and this world full of anger they have built up around themselves (especially Michael) and how by refusing to address it, it's seeped into everything until something sets it off, and everything comes crashing down. (Definitely thinking about lost decade and 1x01-1x03 Alex, and season 2 Michael)

fault lines tremble underneath our glass house. but i put it out of my mind long enough to call it courage to live without a lifeline. i bend the definition of faith to exonerate my blind eye. “’til the sirens sound, i’m safe.”

there was an earthquake. there was an avalanche of change. we were so afraid, we cried ourselves a hurricane. there were floods, tidal waves over us, so we folded our hands and prayed. like a domino, these wildfires grow and grow until a brand new world takes shape.

And here is our hope moment for this song! The imagery of natural disasters, things that are unavoidable, devastating, life changing, and things that literally change the shape of the planet we live on as metaphor for big, unexpected life changes that feel like the end of the world but are building something new? Brilliant. And so perfect for Malex and all that they have gone through both physically and emotionally and I am just WAITING for season 3 to have that brand new world start taking shape!

fault lines tremble underneath our glass house. but i put it out of my mind long enough to call it courage to live without a lifeline. i bend the definition of faith to exonerate my blind eye. “’til the sirens sound, i’m safe.”

So now that we did the Malex of it all, I just gotta say, the power of this chorus is *chef's kiss* Starting with the idea of a glass house, which is often used to point out people being hypocritical? Ignoring clear danger just to get points for being brave? Twisting the idea of faith in the "unseen" to justify turning a blind eye and not seeing things that need to be addressed? The attitude that until something happens to me it doesn't need to be addressed? Like, Ryan is not fucking around with these lyrics and as a known person of apparently Christianity-leaning faith, these words are very telling and is one of the reasons I love this song so much.

Here's to another 60 songs, nonnie! It may just be the two of us shouting into the void, but it's always nice to know you're not alone!

[asknightqueendany]

Dear queen of salt, I'm curious. What happened to the nonsas, you know the really crazy ones most of us have blocked? That were absolutely convinced their their half baked ravings were true? I'm curious, and I can't be arsed to go and look. I'm interested in how different parts of this half dead fandom are dealing. We're all just surviving on spite at this point. Us and the freefolk, I don't associate with other parts.

Dear Queen of Smut,

They’re a jumbled mess from the little I’ve seen. It’s comical.

Some of them now hate Jon for loving Dany until the end, especially that line in the 8x06 script that Jon’s got nothing left to live for after he kills Dany.

Some think Jon is no longer good enough for Sansa and now ship her with characters like Theon or Margaery. (Then again, many of them debated about this anyway after Jon slept with Dany and believed he needed to redeem himself to Sansa in some way for getting his dick wet with the Dragon Queen even if they also simultaneously believed Jon was “forced” to do it, etc....gods I just can’t with the hypocrisy it’s so fucking funny, do they not hear themselves??)

Some of them hate each other for hating Jon and not thinking he’s good enough for Sansa. Which again, also was a pre-Season 8 phenomenon. 

Some of their blogs have just turned into the random usual crap, reblogging cat videos and politics and other fandoms.

Some have turned to fanfiction writing because they have nothing else.

Some of them endlessly gif that last scene of Jon and Sansa parting on the dock in 8x06.

Most of them still regularly post/reblog Daenerys hate, calling her all the names they called her before: slaver, narcissist, bad ruler, clueless, white savior, etc.

One of them...I’ll let you guess who but the answer won’t surprise you and will make you laugh, has not been active in months and it’s obvious why because they got nearly everything 100% wrong. 

I haven’t seen much Emilia hate lately. Perhaps some of them finally thankfully started puberty. 

Most of the salty ones still lurk in the Jonerys/Daenerys tag just so they can make fun of us.

I have to say, I agree with them about the Jonerys/Dany stan Kit hate. I’m so fucking sick of it. Not sure how you feel about it but it’s been bothering me. 

I think the most uniting factor amongst them right now is that they all hate the ending but they also simultaneously hate everyone else hating on the ending because people don’t hate the ending for the same reasons that they do. 

It’s like, they want to say the writing of the season was bad because they didn’t get their ship. But they can’t call the writing of the season bad because they got “Mad Dany” and “QITN Sansa.” Like they got two of their main three desired outcomes, but they can’t be happy about it because still, they were largely wrong about all the details. 

And I think that’s why they are still obsessed with Dany, as many of us have been talking about lately. They just can’t leave her alone. It was the one thing they were “right” about so they cling to that because obviously, canon supported them in that regard. 

They try to act happy whenever an actor gives an interview or something saying that Dany was always “bad” or whatever, but it’s not true happiness. They’re empty inside because their ship didn’t work out and they know NOW that it won’t happen in the books either, but Jonerys likely will and may even have a better conclusion - though they deny it. 

Not that I feel bad for them though. They fucking deserved this disappointment for being so smug and salty.