#electra heart my beloved

[nail-bat-butch]

i’ve been listening to MARINA again after a while and oh my god. holy fucking shit.

[dilfmobius]

All I ever wanted was the world.

[mytarotcardsandme]

[eyefeelthebeat]

Lower case society Tied to no community A kingdom without a king With no sense of belonging

[2010s-nostalgia]

What are songs of the last decade that changed your brain? Like, you haven't been the same. Answers can and should be cringe. Here's some off the top of my head:

Entirety of Electra Heart, but Teen Idle if I have to choose one

Smile Song by the beloved Pinkie Pie

Pierre and Natasha from The Great Comet

Young and Beautiful (specifically in The Great Gatsby)

This is Gospel (it was 2015 you had to be there)

If I Die Young

Shut up and Dance

Back in Time (Pitbull)

[tending-the-hearth]

stex appreciation month day 1: rusty!!!!!

he's one of my favorite and most underrated theater protagonists EVER he's just a Little Guy

favorite actor/costume:

merging two prompts into one for bernie blanks and blake patrick anderson, both from the bochum production!

both versions mainly have to do with their appearances, but bernie's style just screams rusty to me, and one of my favorite parts is his curly hair. i think it's such a good juxtaposition agains greaseball's slicked back hair and electra's mohawk! POSSIBLE BROADWAY STEX REVIVAL IF YOU BRING BACK CURLY HAIR FOR RUSTY I WILL SELL YOU MY SOUL

and head in hands blake patrick anderson is the rusty ever, that photo of him just gives me the happiest feelings ever, when i picture rusty, i picture him 😭😭😭 lil floppy hat rusty my beloved

favorite song/scene

"crazy" is quite possibly my FAVORITE starlight express song, it is just pure joy, and i love the vibe of the coaches having such a fondness for rusty while still trying to get him to see reason. plus his and pearl's interactions is just adorable

also another favorite is i THINK from the vegas production, and it's when rusty saves pearl from flying off the track, and there's just one beat between the two of them before he goes skating off and i just melt into a puddle

favorite ships/friendships:

prusty will forever have my heart and soul as my favorite stex ship, however due to @goblin-iz-whack and @storyweaverofgondor, greaseball/rusty is probably my second favorite ship for rusty, they're just so silly and i'm such a sucker for friends to enemies to friends to lovers

friendships!!! favorite is rusty and dinah!!!! they're siblings your honor!!!

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i'm going to try and do as many characters as i can this month, but at the very least i had to do my favorite guy <3 beloved fr

[rapturesbest]

Fort Frolic Gang as MARINA songs because she’s my beloved

Sander Cohen: Hermit the Frog (The Family Jewels)

Martin Finnegan: Buy the Stars (Electra Heart)

Hector Rodriguez: Shampain (The Family Jewels)

Silas Cobb: Primadonna (Electra Heart)

Kyle Fitzpatrick: Teen Idle (Electra Heart)

Jasmine Jolene: Starring Role (Electra Heart)

Anna Culpepper: Man’s World (Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land)

[arovoidant]

the way the Entirety of electra heart feels like an avpd anthem

Is teen idle like, the anthem of people with AVPD or something

[ginkgo-shaw]

list 10 of your favourites albums (tagged by my beloved @arcanespillo)

(in no specific order)

1. emails i can’t send — sabrina carpenter

2. ride the lightning — metallica

3. american idiot — green day

4. back in black — AC/DC

5. most beautiful moment in life: young forever — BTS

6. mono — RM

7. 130 mood : trbl — dean

8. pablo honey — radiohead

9. happier than ever — billie eilish

10. electra heart — MARINA

tag : @wilsonthemoose @frat-ri-cide-yu-ri and whoever wants to do it (i can add you to the tags!)

[lesbianjackies]

beloved what r ur fav marina songs/albums (im listening to her n remembered ive seen u post ab her)

OMG OMG OMG OKAY SO my fav albums are def the family jewels & electra heart but all of her albums have at least five absolute bangers

as for songs i can make a playlist if you want??

[fearsomefive]

I WANNA HEAR ABOUT LEIT MOTIF THAT IS THE COOLEST FUCKING NAME EVER

^ Me rn

Well I didn’t really come up with the name, @tealottie did (hai Missy ilu), but I came up with basically everything else. Leit Motif has sound manipulation powers which I haven’t fully worked out yet.

His backstory so far is that he got a career in the music industry but ran into some conflict with his label. Motif wanted to be a full on popstar (his ideal image is inspired by the likes of artists such as Electra Heart era MARINA and Charli xcx) but the label wanted a softer image. He gave in, but the album flopped because he didn’t put much effort into it.

Eventually Motif discovered that the songs he wrote were given to another singer (who in my head is named Valerie Valentine, but she mainly exists as a concept at the moment) and by then he had developed a massive ego so he tried sabotaging her career. Valerie was beloved by the industry and the general public, so Motif became infamous even before gaining powers and becoming a super villain.

I haven’t fully worked out a lot of the story stuff, but I still rotate Motif in my head like crazy. He’s a bitch and thinks himself better than just about everyone, except the Fearsome Four (not the Five, as his ego is almost enough to rival Negaduck’s own ego and their personalities clash a ton). I originally made him for the sole purpose of shipping with Quackerjack and I LOVE their dynamic. They are peak ‘I can make him worse’. And they do make each other worse.

Can you tell from the length of this response how much brainrot I’m having over this dumbass

[mytarotcardsandme]

maybe being a girl is indulgence (buying cigarettes and toys from your childhood)

[kandi-inspo]

been a minute since I did some kandi, had to make a cuff for my beloved album Electra Heart 💖

[missingmissfisher]

Book Review: Locked in Pursuit by Ashley Weaver

Nothing could take the place of our beloved Miss Fisher, but there's still other fantastic female heroes out there that are worth getting to know.

If you haven't already discovered it, I highly recommend you dive into the wonderful world of Electra McDonnell!

I absolutely devoured 'Locked in Pursuit,' Book Four in the series by Ashley Weaver within two evenings of receiving it, and after constantly checking for updates due to the cliffhanger she left us poor readers dangling from in Electra's previous adventure. I can't wait to go back and re-read it slowly as I rushed through it, in order to savour my favourite passages.

And what a love letter indeed to Ellie/Electra's devotees with enough backstory for any reader joining midway because this latest edition doesn't disappoint!

I was super delighted that this one picked up not too far along after where things left off previously, nor that we didn't have too wait long before Ellie and Major Ramsey are back on the trail of one of the things they do best together: sniffing out enemy spy activities. I was honestly guffawing out loud at the author's deft way of portraying their 'battle-of-the wits' intermingled with their warring personal emotions towards one another, which have been one of my favourite aspects of these characters and this series. I also love the addition of meeting others from the major's world that provide more insights to Ellie's (and us readers) need to discover more about his closed-book life.

Without going into spoilers territory, I also felt Ellie's increased uncertainty and post-traumatic stress from the events of the previous book rang true, especially during war time, as she tries to cope with it on her own. Even though she was keeping things from those she normally trusted, it was good to see her continue to delve into the intel she learned about her parents' past.

On the relationship front, I was glad to see more progress with the dreaded triangle, and Ellie's attempts to muddle through this quagmire. It's good to see her budding maturity in terms of wanting to clarify things with Felix and the major, even if things take heart-beating turns with both of them.

The mystery and sleuthing plot retained more of the wonderful WWII spy caperesque pacing from the first book that I love about this series. Again, without giving too much away, I could not have predicted the ending at all.

Fellow lovers of Electra and Ashely Weaver's writing, you will absolutely LOVE this continuing tale, and new readers, I highly recommend you go back and start at the beginning to get the full meal deal.

Huge thanks to Netgalley and Ashley for providing this advance copy that has actually whetted my appetite for the next one already.

[poemoftheday]

Poem of the Day 3 January 2024

Sonnets from the Portuguese  5: I lift my heavy heart up solemnly

BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

I lift my heavy heart up solemnly, 

As once Electra her sepulchral urn, 

And, looking in thine eyes, I overturn 

The ashes at thy feet. Behold and see 

What a great heap of grief lay hid in me, 

And how the red wild sparkles dimly burn 

Through the ashen greyness. If thy foot in scorn 

Could tread them out to darkness utterly, 

It might be well perhaps. But if instead 

Thou wait beside me for the wind to blow 

The grey dust up,... those laurels on thine head, 

O My beloved, will not shield thee so, 

That none of all the fires shall scorch and shred 

The hair beneath. Stand further off then! Go.