#and today is my long ass day

[exitiosae-arch]

can't wait to be around tomorrow, i miss you guys. 😭 just gotta go through school first til 6 pm then i'll be around.

[toxooz]

Ponti grants Kari Scary Dog Privilege

[why-the-heck-not]

a productive all-nighter starts by making a clear to do list & getting to work spending an hour or so searching for the music that hits the vibe just right

[oifaaa]

lying in the dirt thinking about how they made jason the impulsive brash bat when thats cass.

"the bat that punch first and asks questions later" thats cass thats casssssss

Cass' way of dealing with steph for a long while was just to knock her out and run off girl just does what she wants and I love her for it

[sherrymagic]

tagged by beloveds @zhouxiangs and @sanvees 🩷🩷🩷

as usual my picks prove i have insane range, and by insane i just literally mean... insane hajdakds

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[simcardiac-arrested]

different styles

[seaofreverie]

Sparkstember Day 26: A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip (Pacific Standard Time)

My feelings about A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip are as follows: 💖💙💞💛🖤💖💙💞💕. Yeah that sums it up. But ok, for real now. I have a long and personal history with this album, which... no, I don't actually have a long history with it, so maybe that only makes its personal significance to me even more amazing in nature. Got it as a christmas gift last year, been listening to it and enjoying it and occasionally crying to it and experiencing other beautiful emotions with it ever since. It's the kind of thing where I feel like a part of my very *soul* lies there, you know, right from the start.

How do I put it without sounding too dramatic. Well, it's probably the most comforting album for me that I can think of. It's in the music, but also in how Sparks themselves have this sort of presence of a spark of light in the dark for me currently, which I'm sure is something that many other people can relate to. It reminds me of how time will pass and things will change but you can always find something beautiful in midst of it all that can be your new home. And it TRULY feels exactly like this: I can just put this album on or even just think about doing that, and I'm immediately filled with warm fuzzy feelings and everything seems not quite as dark as it just seemed moments ago.

There's something deeply personal and resonating about ASDDD that I can't find on even any other Sparks album. And a big part of it is... drumroll... the lyrics (because I suppose I don't pay QUITE as much attention to those most of the time). This has got to be my favourite Sparks album in that aspect, definitely. I love how there's lots about being an artist, about achieving something, about feelings of inadequacy, fear, and about meaning and purpose too... And maybe less "strange" subjects than usual but still, the trademark Sparks humour never leaves and the more heartfelt elements of their work can shine even more!

I also think that this album is really just fantastic in every way, and has so many instant classics that feel like they've been with us forever rather than for only about 4 years. And something else that I nearly forgot, because I think this very special and cool thing about ASDDD especially is how it mixes synths and electronic, spacey sounds with acoustic guitar, and a more earthy sound, so to speak... and it's honestly just so perfect to me, how well it works here.

Another thing that occurred to me this morning when I was listening to Hippopotamus (and trying not to cry lol, been really feeling all the feelings of appreciation and love that I have for Sparks over these past couple of days), is how there's something so special and inimitable about Sparks in this era especially. I love their 00s renaissance era for all its artistry and brilliance and how it's them reinventing themselves completely all over again... But this - these last couple of years, is where the HEART of it all really shows I think. I just get this overwhelming feeling that they're doing exactly what they want to be doing, the way they want to do it, and they're having so much fun with it too. It's so clear not just in the music itself, but their live shows, and everything else... And what can I say, thinking about it this way leaves me all :'))))

No point in counting off almost all of the songs and only leaving out a couple, when they're all so great and either among my top favourites or on their way of joining those ranks, so I'm just going to go over a few of them now... What I could call my Top 3 probably.

All That

I mean. .. This song is so cool because it has such a closer feeling (and appropriately enough that's what it's used as during live shows) but it's still an opener of the whole album and, yes, it works. I guess it really tells you all you need to know about what else is to come right away. Fun fact: this is both my parents' favourite Sparks song, and yeah I got this album as a gift from my dad actually, and he says that this song sounds like it came right from the 80s and is this whole beloved classic song. Makes sense why it'd be their favourite then! And truly speaks in favour of how Sparks are just making modern classics like it's nothing. Besides that... this songs is truly All That and more. I don't know man! I started writing about every song on this album a couple months ago and then forgot about it so it's only half finished, and All That is one of those songs that I only managed to come up with maybe one sentence for at that time. It's a lot! And it's so utterly beautiful!

Pacific Standard Time

As I've said before, I don't really like making definitive statements like these most of the time, but if I REALLY had to pick just one... Sure, this might be my #1 favourite Sparks song (and #1 favourite song overall honestly, if we follow that route??). That whole effect of "everything's ok when I listen to this" - yep, this is where it reaches its peak. Most comforting song ever, no competition (maybeeee All That could come kind of close, but that one makes me cry too much to be truly comforting actually, haha)

Self-Effacing

Love the lyrics, love the whole thing, the acoustic guitar plus the organ work so well together. This song has both the energy and the hopeful spirit that makes me very happy, and it never fully left my mind ever since I first heard it

[asterlark]

i was so so brave today and guess what. i have to keep on being so so brave tomorrow. i don't even get to have a 72 hour rest and treat time lockdown to celebrate and recover from how brave i was. being an alive human continues to test me in devious and tortuous ways the devil himself could only dream of

[sqtorux]

whew adulted a lil too much today my silly deflated and there are no pre made smau drafts. im so mad bc i wanted to put one out today smh smh

[theliterarywolf]

Bruh, it already could for so many reasons, but YouTube can doubly eat my ass right now.

What the FUCK is "Ambient Mode" and how dare YouTube automatically activate it and throttle my playback speeds?!

[1moreoffkeyanthem]

I know y’all follow me for South Park Insanity, but I have a personal PCE win to share

(Medical and ED stuff mentioned so below the cut)

I mentioned a while back that for the past few months I’ve been struggling with lack of appetite and inability to keep anything down, steadily devolving into malnutrition and being legitimately scared about it. And try as I had been, I have had no energy to make progress and have only gotten worse. Early in the morning after another sleepless night and after involuntarily throwing up the only food I’d been able to eat for a few days at 1 am, I finally dragged my broke uninsured ass to the emergency room as soon as it opened, shaking and dizzy and scared out of my mind.

Y’all. The doctors and the nurses were so helpful and patient even as I was actively panicking, listening to the root cause of it all, administering zofran and hooking me to what’s apparently called a “banana bag” with every vitamin imaginable bc IT TURNS OUT my ass is deficient in SO MUCH SHIT. I felt the best I have in months after discharge, all day. I even had the energy to spend the day on the couch with my partner instead of lying in bed PLUS THE ENERGY TO GO FOR A FUCKING WALK AFTER EATING A SOLID MEAL (and drinking a shit ton of orange juice ofc) while we waited for my scrip to be filled!!! I genuinely don’t remember the last time I was able to just leisurely enjoy the sun and grass.

And bonus: I got a prescription for an anti nausea medication and apparently a side effect is drowsiness (so I have a few days off work to adjust to that which I got mixed feelings about) so I might actually get some sleep coming up!

I’m a huge hypocrite I know, but listen to your body when you need outside help. It’s scary and hard but I feel worlds better already. 💚

[floral-hex]

woke up at 4am feeling the weight of my life crushing me, so I’ve been sitting out in my car for the last couple of hours because I just need. to. be. somewhere else.

[neverwasreddie]

Idk if anyone else heard about the massive amounts of spaghetti dropped off in the woods of a town in NJ not too too far from me, but my favorite podcast is covering it right now and turning it into a 7-minute long extended bit about the Italian version of Pennywise which 1. is amazing because I love when my two favorite things collide and also 2. fucking hilarious because can you even imagine the field day Richie Tozier would have if he stumbled across hundreds of pounds of dumped spaghetti in the woods

[stardustvanfleet]

good morning…….. i am currently sitting here sweating at the possibility of a jake tour photodump today. no im not well 😌🫶🏻❤️

[suffercerebral]

me having gone to bed at 6 am every day for the past week and generally spiraling mentally while rotting in bed waking up this morning: a 4 mile hike in the heat is a really good idea right now, and while we're at it let's start like 3 art projects

[standfucker]

not gonna lie yall, it feels like all I do is either work or recover from work and it's bumming me out big time