#favorite song at the moment

[nonexistsblog]

currently listening to:

[purple-headphoness]

the way robert smith starts screaming (or singing louder) in disintegration gives me chills everytime i hear it

[only-happily-ever-afters]

He's Crazy About You - Tauren Wells

Lyrics

"He's crazy about you

Didn't wanna live without you

He traded the stars for a chance at your heart

Just to show you it's true

He's crazy about you

Died so you didn't have to

Tore your failure apart

Now He wears your scars

That's how much He loves you

He's never been mad at you

He's only been madly in love

And it's never been about what you do

It's always been about what He's done

It's something you just can't hear enough

Oh, He's crazy about you

Didn't wanna live without you

He traded the stars for a chance at your heart

Just to show you it's true

He's crazy about you

Died so you didn't have to (yeah, yeah)

Tore your failure apart

Now He wears your scars

That's how much He loves you

He's never held your past against you

He's only held you close

He'd never give and take it back

You are the one He chose

And the more of Him you know

You'll know

He's crazy about you

Didn't wanna live without you, no

He traded the stars for a chance at your heart

Just to show you it's true, ooh, oh

He's crazy about you

Died so you didn't have to, no

Tore your failure apart

Now He wears your scars

That's how much He loves you

There's not a moment you're not on His mind

There's no second guessing His sacrifice

He has paid it all ten million times over, and over

There's not a moment you're not on His mind

There's no second guessing His sacrifice

He has paid it all ten million times over

He's crazy about you (oh oh oh)

He's crazy about you (oh oh oh)

Didn't wanna live without you (oh oh oh), oh, oh, oh (oh oh oh)

He's crazy about you (He's crazy about you)

He's crazy about you, oh (He's crazy about you)

He traded the stars for a chance at your heart

Just to show you it's true

He's crazy about you

Died so you didn't have to

Tore your failure apart

Now He wears your scars

That's how much He loves you"

[eskatologia]

Concerning the UFO sighting near Highland, Illinois / Sufjan Stevens

[ayaosguqin]

The Fate of us all

Lies deep in the dark

When time stands still at the iron hill

Fingolfin’s last stand against The Darkness

[laurrelise]

one of my favorite parts about that scene in season 3 episode 7 of the umbrella academy is right after the umbrellas and sparrows “contained” the keugelblitz and celebrate by opening several bottles of alcohol and partying, because in every single shot ben is in, he’s either trying to get himself or five as wasted as possible

[inthedreamatorium1]

When Colin and Pen shake hands at the end of ep1, is it their first time touching skin-to-skin like that? Every time they held hands prior to that, she was always wearing gloves and I can’t think of a scene where they would have touched without a barrier (her dress, her gloves, his jacket, etc).

If it is truly their first touching in that way, then my GOD it explains his face when her hand slides against his. That boy felt something.

Look at his face when they touch! He had just been vulnerable with her so his heart wasn’t surrounded by his armor. Which means that the softness and heat radiating off her skin and the electric current running through their hands went straight into his heart. He felt it.

And thus begins his spiral.

[theriverdraws]

SPOILERS FOR ALIEN STAGE FINAL (ROUND 7)

How about we rename Alien Stage to "Mizi watches everyone she cares about, quite literally everybody, DIE and the pain is neverending someone PLEASE KILL HER"

CAN'T WAIT FOR HYUNA TO KILL HERSELF TAKING DOWN LUKA WITH HER AND THEN MIZI ENDS UP ALONE IN THE END. I CANNOT WAIT.

[rjshope]

Now I’m

Walking towards that light

One foot forward

We’ll bounce back and hit another level

for @yooboobies✨

[chalamet-chalamet]

🐍🦩🐻 🐩 🎶

[dancingdaffodils08]

EVERYONE SHUT UP A NEW WIRT LAUGH JUST DROPPED

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[music-orthemisery]

End of “The Kids Aren’t Alright” ft. Pete scream

All Your Friends Fest I 8.24.24

[rin-solo]

I love. LOVE. Get In the Water

It's one of the objectively best songs in the musical; I will die on this hill.

Poseidon was always, despite being pretty much the main antagonist of EPIC, a really underdeveloped character in my opinion. He just needed a little more nuance and the fact that one (+ kind of one more) song managed to add so much to his characterization pretty much exclusively through subtext and implications is incredibly impressive writing. Because it did!

At the start he's yet again playing games with Odysseus, the way he did in Ruthlessness. In both songs he could kill him easily at any point, yet he chooses not to for the sake of playing games. In Ruthlessness, this becomes his own hubris as it leads to Odysseus escaping.

If you listen closely, at the start of GITW he already sounds slightly different. He's still trying to keep up this "God of Ruthlessness" front that he's so proud of, but he's no longer more or less carefree the way he was in Ruthlessness. He's been obsessing over this feud for ten years, and even if he would never admit it, it's actually clear just from his voice that he really is tired of it too. Not in the sense of it emotionally draining him the way it probably does Odysseus, but in the sense that it's a bother, a loose end in his life, a book that he finally wants to slam shut.

But he still has a reputation to uphold, and he still cannot close this book until Odysseus is dead, so he keeps up the game. Instead of just killing him, he's taunting him to kill himself. He might associate the idea of just striking him down with a sort of loss, like then he'd have to his hands dirty. Then he's rambling about killing his people, his family. He's provoking Odysseus on purpose, likely trying to get him to snap back, to hate him and fear him the way that Poseidon would think any mortal who has consumed this much of his time should. In his eyes, Odysseus deserves nothing less than to curse him with his last breath as his "darkest moment", the god who became the bane of his life.

And Odysseus replies, of all things, with ... sympathy.

Honestly, I don't blame Poseidon for being speechless for three full seconds. He literally just threatened to gauge Telemachus' eyes out the way Odysseus did with Polyphemus, and this absolute madlad of a man replies with an acknowledgement that he (might have) caused Poseidon pain too.

Now, I don't really think Poseidon was particularly hurt over Polyphemus' loss or hurting in any way in that moment. But just the fact that Odysseus acknowledges that he might be hurting too is probably something Poseidon hasn't heard in ... who knows how long? His family is the Olympians. I don't think I have to say more.

It's actually more of a genuine apology than Odysseus' explanation in Ruthlessness ... Now he doesn't say "sorry" because he's still not sorry for hurting Polyphemus, since he still needed to do that in order to escape. But he expresses regret over the pain he caused in a more genuine way than ever.

I am convinced that Poseidon is utterly unfamiliar with sympathy or mercy. He's lived by his "Ruthlessness is mercy" motto for centuries, and he doesn't know anything else. No one would try to teach him something different. The other gods all live by this logic, even if he's the most vocal about it considering he seems to have made it his whole personality. Mortals wouldn't dare to question Poseidon in the first place. And barely anyone would be willing to treat someone with kindness who is in turn treating everyone around them with ruthlessness.

It's very likely that Poseidon hasn't encountered anyone like this until Odysseus. Ruthlessness is simply how he treats people, and also how he expects to be treated back. The fact that Odysseus doesn't, the fact that instead of hating or fearing or cursing him he acknowledges that they have both hurt each other and that it doesn't lead anywhere to still pursue vengeance must have triggered Poseidon in an unprecedented way.

To him, this was probably the most outrageous thing Odysseus could have said in that moment. And it throws him off so much that he is genuinely speechless, and then simply replies, "I can't." ... his most genuine-sounding line in the whole musical.

I cannot stress enough how much it threw me off to hear this line; in the best way imaginable, it doesn't sound like Poseidon. It sounds almost vulnerable. Almost human. Because he is genuinely at a loss so much that he forgets to put up his "wrathful god" facade for just one second. Standing ovation to Steven Rodriguez for his whole performance, but especially this part.

And then Odysseus goes all out, to say something even more outrageous: "Maybe you could learn to forgive?"

... Which is when Poseidon snaps.

Kind of understandable, honestly. There's this mortal whom he has likely fantasized about seeing pleading, hate-filled, and terrified, cowering before him, for ten years now ... telling him that he ought to learn something. Even hijacking his own motif and his instrument in order to turn it on its head, "defile" it if you will.

This f*cking mortal pr*ck took his own "Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves" catchphrase and turned it into forgiveness ... Of course, Poseidon is no longer hesitating, of course he is no longer concerned with getting his hands dirty or not. He yells "DIE!" and unleashes his ultimate move (which is really overkill for simply killing a mortal if you think about it) ... But he does it anyway because this time he genuinely means it.

This simple exchange (my favorite moment in the whole musical, actually) tells us so much about both of these characters that it makes me want to skitter and squeal in excitement.

Here is Odysseus—the very same one whom Poseidon specifically tried to teach ruthlessness—becoming the first person in a long time to offer him sympathy despite how Poseidon himself showed him nothing but ruthlessness. And then one song later, here is Odysseus showing him the consequences of not accepting said sympathy.

Six Hundred Strike and what Odysseus does to Poseidon would've not hit the same, in my opinion, if he hadn't made this offer, if he hadn't given Poseidon this way out, even if no one watching genuinely expected it to work (probably not even Odysseus himself.)

Six Hundred Strike is not Odysseus exacting vengeance. If GITW proved anything about Odysseus it's that he does not want vengeance. He wants all of the hatred and pain to be over, to the point where he is willing to let go of, and I am inclined to say forgive, Poseidon for what he's done to him. Six Hundred Strike is simply Odysseus teaching him this lesson that Poseidon couldn't have learned in any other way, because he has proven in GITW that he genuinely does not speak any language besides that of ruthlessness.

It's just the perfect representation of how Odysseus has now finally learned the balance between mercy and ruthlessness, which seems to be the core theme of the musical: Both have their time and place, one simply has to be willing to act in both ways and know when to use either. No one extreme is the solution. I am genuinely exhilarated that Odysseus finally seemed to have figured out that it's been both all along.

[likesummerrainn]

My layers, all these sides, could you stick by for the ride?

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