#i didn't know the murphys im related to but ive known a lot of murphys im not related to... nearly anyway

[britneyshakespeare]

you know i wish i could talk about my familial names online wo it being a personal safety issue but i dont mind sharing that i have a great-grandmother who was a murphy bc basically every irish-american has a great-grandmother somewhere in the tree named murphy. it's far enough back that i don't even think of myself as "a murphy" like in a sense i almost feel more of a kinship w some of my other family member's married names, that i am not blood-related to. like my great aunt's married name is really sick and i do think of that name as "my family" (but im also very close to her and her daughters are my and my sister's godmothers). like if you were to point me out and say i have murphy heritage i wouldn't think of it.

[libraryfag]

2,8,12,13,17 for the long answer asks :)

2. what are your top 5 songs at the moment and why?

(in no particular order)

1. Triple Dog Dare by Lucy Dacus. because im obsessed with her new album Home Video and its such an amazing end to an amazing album (i would say its the I Know The End of the album) I love long songs and the way she uses words is brilliant

2. Please Stay (also by Lucy Dacus ). i could put the whole of home video in this answer but sadly im going to have to do songs by other people :( but this song is so beautiful though i can't listen to it without crying.

3. Sophie by The Altogether. Ive only listened to Look Up (the EP it's in) once or twice but i love it so much, this song especially is so sweet. I cannot listen to it without thinking about Howl's moving castle though

4. Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I'm obsessed with this song because its a rock song, a disco song and a villan song all at the same time and those are some of my favourite genres of music ever

5. A Little Bit Alexis by Annie Murphy. this song started as a joke song from Schitt's Creek (one of my favourite shows) and i only just found out it was defictionalised and made in to a real song which absolutely slaps

8. Talk about a band you loved as a teenager

Technically i didn't listen to them as a teen, but i loved They Might Be Giants as a kid, and i think that says a lot about me. If you didn't know, a lot of their music is kinda weird. And by kinda, i mean their music is absolutely insane and absolutely genius at the same time. I've actually just been getting back into them due to listening to the umbrella academy soundtrack. I would recommend listening to Flood first which is what i did.

12. What's your favourite season and why?

Autumn, and the real question is why not? I hate all the other seasons because summer is too hot, winter is too cold and i get really bad hayfever in spring. Besides, i love stereotypical autumn weather and leaves and basically everything about it lol

13. Write a review of the last book you read

I reread/caught up with Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (@/chronicintrovert ) and i have to say its still one of my favourite books (and definitely my favourite comic book) of all time. The characters are so relatable and are so real its amazing and it deals with serious topics really well while managing to stay upbeat and positive. I haven't even mentioned the phenomenonal art!! i would rate it 10/10

17. What's your favourite city and why?

I don't really have one to be honest. I'm personally not a big fan of big citys like New York or Paris or Tokyo because they seem a bit intimidating and touristy (?), so i definitely prefer smaller, less known about ones.

thanks for the ask :)