#im relistening and i am going feral

[captainxandis]

Ghost wax podcast my beloved

[running-tweezers]

Ok time for the DamiHux bitch to relisten to the DamiHux Bonus Audio for the 3rd time and record her every thought

(NSFW obvs, minors DNI)

First of all I feel like the opening of this one is a great opportunity to remind everyone of this little thing I managed to write bc holy shit. Good Morning.

Huxley’s sleepy morning voice is so fucking cute 😭

The way they laugh together!!!! They’re in love!!

Damien dodging saying he’s “the handsomest” in every way possible, but Hux is NOT letting him off the hook. Huxley really said “I am going to help give this man the self-confidence he deserves, so help me god”

When they call each other baby??? My brain = 2 liter of Diet Coke, ‘Baby’ = a pack of Mentos. It happened so much in this one I thought I was gonna take off into the atmosphere.

Damien with the Uno Reverse Card Surprise. No You.

It’s their 2 year anniversary I’m gonna cry.

“I’ve been known to swallow my pride.” “You’ve been known to swallow more than that.” Ay Yo

“Dress for a hike” “Why?” “…… bc we’re going for a hike, baby.” “Oh! 😄” Huxley the man you are.

They’re both graduated!!! And they have careers!!! Damien’s working at DAMN!!! He’s trying to fix things like he’s always wanted to!!! They’ve both come so far!!!

“I’m here to help pull you back onto steady ground” What if I cried

The WAY I have wanted these two to fuck outside like that non-canon Huxley BA!!!!!! FINALLY!!!

“Come on Nature Boy. Let’s get natural” DAMIEN PLS

Damien using his powers to turn the water into a natural hot tub, I CAN’T

THAT SMACK CAUGHT ME SO OFF GUARD OH MY GOD. HUXLEY

Hux is so sweet I’m getting a cavity. I don’t care tho, rot my teeth out, big guy.

THE THROAT GOAT RETURNS -air horn noises-

I swear every time Damien engages Throat Goat mode, Huxley sounds like he’s ready to write his goddamn vows.

“Pick me up. Turn us around. Press me into this wall. And Fuck. Me.” WE LOVE A POWER BOTTOM DAMIEN MOMENT

I’d like to introduce you to my favorite thing in the world ✨Damien Whimpering✨

The IMMEDIATE concern from Huxley when he said the rock was digging into his back??? And the healing??? I don’t think we’ve ever seen Hux heal before??? HELLO?? Aftercare King?? I’ll cry??

THEY ARE SO IN LOVE IM GONNA THROW UP /POS

Also HUXLEY HAPPY TRAIL CONFIRMED LETS GO BOYS

In conclusion: this is my new favorite piece of Damien/Huxley anything he has ever made, they are disgustingly cute and in love, and I’m never gonna stop being feral and annoying about them bc they’re everything in a ship I’ve ever loved, thank you goodnight.

[thefringespod]

Happy #AudioDramaSunday wanderers! Starting off with @tellnotalespod mini ep this week which I'm very late too because I'm terrified of it. I'm actively listening right now and know I will weep. Thanks Leanne for making me cry again 💜

Up next we have @woebegonepod episode 158 which. Made me so fucking feral yall it was so good but it also hurt me incredibly bad I loved it and I will never forgive Dylan for what he's done. Season 14 is so wild already and im loving it. I'm also still relistening to woe.begone and its just as good as the first time. Mikey sounds so young and not nearly as traumatized. I missed that. He's the bear 🐻

I am still making my way through the @podcast-bookclub's Podjam shows! I've listened to 4 so far and they are all so incredible. Starting things off with @working-tidal-pod which is NOT a comedy but IS very fucking good go listen to my friends show go do it now

@thefinderskeeperpod absolutely knocked me out I love it so much already. @madd-vo and @audistorium have made one hell of a show and I cannot wait to hear more of it because gods I'm gnawing on it so much it's so so so fucking good

@spacespeckspod has made a post apocalypse story that doesn't fill me with existential dread (yet <3) I love this group of survivors so much already and want to hear all about them and gods if anything terrible happens I'll sob <3

@theichorousrotpod was the last one I've listened to (so far) and it's another one I'm gnawing on already. I love a fictional mysterious disease and I love hearing what they're doing with it so far. When more is released I WILL become feral I'm so excited

Here on the Fringes I'm getting in recordings for s3 and making my way through rerecording s1 still. I should also have some new commentaries up on patreon.com/pinetreepods for s1 comin soon!

And over on @forgedbondspod we have begun crowdfunding! Crowdfunding means shouting out my cast so if you want to meet the first 5 members of our cast you can head over to our socials now. And if you wanna support the show, you can visit our indiegogo!

That's all for this week! Things are slow and fast all at once over here but I'm excited about everything that's coming up <3

[dustydaydreamer]

okay, I'm the anon from before, but yes!!!!! circe's first lines struck me so hard, and it didn't stop!!

relistening to it, the very first song fucks SO HARD!!!! esp the part where he's trying to argue with the GOD!! and then the next song where he's singing to the infant?????? also I love the song where hes singing with athena and he calles her a badass in the arena, and also the way Athena sings a warrior of the mind!!! also polites and his song?? the cyclops part also is awesome (he just says 'hey there?????") because the cyclops was the first tbit of the odyssey that I read, and I still love it to this day.

all of the cyclops's lines are so good!!!! I love the part in 'survive' when he's killing all he men and the swoop of the music representing his club and odysseus's men are calling out to him.

also the little voices convincing the men to open the bag of winds !!!!and penelope's little musical score is so good!! i love the notes on it!!!

the last song is also so good!!! i love that he ties in lines and themes from the first song into the last one! like the parts wth penelope and telemachus!!!!

i don't know if any of this makes any sense, but i had to talk about it with some onfe :))))

*going just a little bit feral*

That first song. The Odysseus-Ares interaction is just like

Odysseus: I got this bro

Ares: I don't think so

Odysseus:...

Odysseus:??????????????

Odysseus:What the fuck that's an infant. I can't kill him

Ares: you have to(implied I told you so)

It's just so great.

"Just a Man" is the second song where he's talking to the infant, and I really want to listen to that and then immediately go into "Monster"(the last song released so far, the finale of Act 1 and the end of the Underworld Saga) I think it could be so cool and also heart wrenching cause it's his intro as a character being im literally just a guy I'm normal and I'm kinda scared if I keep doing this stuff I might be a bad person and I won't know where the line is, AND THEN him DECIDING to be a monster. To turn into a bad person. To be ruthless because ruthlessness is mercy upon the self. Seriously this whole musical so far seems to be telling a very scary message: You have to be ruthless. You can't trust people, whether they are strangers or your own crew, and especially not the gods. I think that can be such a fun message in fiction but I don't think it is a helpful message to be telling to the world right now as a piece of media that people will be consuming and processing and I can't wait and am so scared and so looking forward to the rest of it. I want to listen to act 2. I want to know if the message is going to turn around and show a recovery arc or if Odysseus is just going to be a war hardened traumatized human who believes he needs to be a monster to survive forever. Wow I did not mean to go on that rant

What I actually meant to talk about was how as a character Odysseus' vibe is so crazy cause he's so smart but he's so fucking dumb. Like he will trap the winds of the storm after they've been released to save for another day and then escape from fucking posiden in the middle of the sea but also he's gonna go tell the cyclops he just blinded where to find his family. Like what the fuck that's so stupid. Don't do that. He's just such an overconfident dudebro sometimes. I fuck with it. I would totally hate his guts in real life.

I think the first time I listened Polites was my favorite character, but Eurylochus has grown on me so much. It's also so cool how next to Polites Odysseus seems crazy cautious but next to Eurylochus he seems reckless and wild.

I'm just🫨🥰🫨🥰🫨🥰🫨 about this

[bo-katan]

I've been trying to avoid treason spoilers but whenever gffa posts novel screenshots and has long cap-sized words to spew i just need to know !!!

[clumsyclifford]

we should form a club called Ignoring Responsibilities (Especially Emails) i'm currently ignoring that i should write one to my uni as well 😅 oh well i love elton john so i might have to listen to the soundtrack then 🙈 maybe i'll do that thursday bc i'm currently planning to watch the movie that day anyway. ooh yes you should read the books!! especially pride & prejudice is such a good book (one of my fav classics and my fav by jane austen) (1/3)

(2/3) ..you might have spoken too soon about the not judging but i trust you to be kind about my insanity bc you've been nothing but a lovely accepting human being to me so: my other comfort movie is silence of the lambs. which i know sounds insane bc horror but like i know exactly what happens so i'm not scared at all anymore (& perhaps i sometimes just skip like 20 minutes at the end that i'd call scary) also clarice starling? a queen. dunno if i wanna be her or if i wanna date her

(3/3) 10/10 acting from both anthony hopkins and jodie foster which is just nice to watch. and i just really love anthony hopkins vibe as well 🙈 also yes john green does have nice plots (in the books that aren't let it snow bc that one is just not It) but you have interesting characters. so you win. (i love your plots too but i'm picking my battles here) also i was like who is this fishing person and then i realised and lost the ability to breathe bc i was laughing so much -fiancee

oh we SHOULD however you will be pleased to know that i emailed her !!! literally like an hour ago it was so stressful im so nervous BUT i did it and it’s done i will keep you posted i hope you write yours soon i am sending you good email writing vibes

that is fair enough i mean by itself the score is fun like merry christmas maggie thatcher...........they made points there. not to mention electricity

yeah they’re on my like.......DISTANT to-read list but. i haven’t really been Reading for Leisure. in awhile so who knows when thatll happen if ever lmao

i’m not judging!!! i totally get it that like watching a familiar movie is comforting plus if it doesnt scare you then you can actually enjoy it so like sure why not

JKMHLSFJGKSJKKJKJFDJ john green has interesting characters !!! and my characters aren’t even characters they are fictionalized versions of REAL PEOPLE so i’m not even that creative if you think about it ALSO DKFJDKGJLJ thats SO funny i honestly cant believe i remember john green’s tumblr name

[ruffboijuliaburnsides]

hey. how are you doing? BECAUSE RUIN SURE AS HELL RUINED ME and youre like a really cool person and i want to hear your opinion. whats your fave song? (am i being awkward?? im sorry if i am i just had to go and listen to a random tiktok song because ruin made me so emotional it physically hurt and i never will be the same person again)

YOU ARE NOT BEING AWKWARD NEVER FEAR!

Just omfg right??? I'm not as shook about it I think bc that's how i felt about The Horror and the Wild, just absolutely turned upsidedown in new way. This is still upsidedown, but I've been here before, so i can just bask XD

ANYWAY ruin is absolutely fucking amazing. I don't think I could pick a favorite SONG yet, but just. holy feral poetry, batman! Calling is currently running in my head but I'm 99% sure the only reason it's that one specifically is bc it was the last one i relistened to XD

[taylorswiftdiscographyrate]

#150-141

150. Welcome to New York (5.091) Highest score was 7.3; Lowest score was 1

This feels more like a tourism ad than a song. I’ve actually warmed up to it a bit over the years (by which I mean I gave it a 2 instead of a 1!), but that’s mostly because I’ve realised I love the emotion in Taylor’s voice when she sings “it’s a new soundtrack i could dance to this beat forevermore / the lights are so bright but they never blind me”. There’s also something to be said about how, for being a song about New York, it doesn’t really say much about New York, but as someone who neither lives there nor has visited I’m probably not the person to elaborate on that critique.

Highlighted comments: @leadinmeon: “there is a weird fucking production thing on this song and i hate it” @liabilitys: “our first proper gay rights reference” @yourivysgrows: “It feels as bright and busy as NYC”

149. Highway Don’t Care (5.122) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 1

To go from naming your debut single after a famous country singer to collabing with said famous country singer - what a glow up! And Aussie icon Keith Urban is there too! This is another song I have listened to exactly once; I appreciate it for what it is, but what it is isn’t really my thing.

Highlighted comments: @itspeterlosingwendy: “their voices are so complementary” @yourivysgrows: Just not my cup of tea”

148. The Outside (5.141) Highest score was 7; Lowest score was 2

Some of you didn’t cry your eyes out to this after your first day of high school because you had no friends, and it shows! Seriously, this song holds a little bit of a special place in my heart, and it hurts a bit to see it this low. Some of you need to go and relisten to “How can I ever try to be better? Nobody ever lets me in” and think about what you’ve done!

Highlighted comments: @onceintwentylifetimes: “bonus points for just being such a comfort so many times”

147. Speak Now (5.216) Highest score was 8; Lowest score was 2

Now here’s a take for you all: Speak Now is a better album title than Enchanted, and Taylor was right to change it, but Speak Now the song is a terrible title track. It’s cute I guess, but it’s all a bit saccharine for me and I just cannot vibe with it, sorry! Also I spent a long time convinced that this had a music video and I’m still shaken by the fact that my memory lied to me all those years.

Highlighted comments: @yourivysgrows: “We love a good storyline” @corneliaavenue: “she is cute”

146. Only the Young (5.219) Highest score was 9; Lowest score was 1

When Miss Americana (the documentary) released, my IRL Swiftie friend watched it before me and messaged me about this song, saying how amazing Taylor’s lyricism was and her ability to set a scene with her writing - and looking at the lyrics on the verses in this song, she was right! There are some great lyrical moments in this song, but there are also some... not so great lyrical moments, and the production... let’s just blame Joel Little for that one. It’s a shame, because I think this song had a lot of potential that it just never reaches.

Highlighted comments: @corneliaavenue: “the only time I liked this song was in the joe biden ad.” @onceintwentylifetimes:  “Some great lyrics in there, but feels a bit unfocused. Also that chorus could've been improved...” @treacherousdemo: [after giving it a 4] “i'm sorry.” (there’s no need to apologise to me, I gave it a 1!) 

145. Stay Beautiful (5.241) Highest score was 9; Lowest score was 1.5

What does “Corey’s eyes are like a jungle / He smiles, it’s like the radio” mean? The world may never know. Honestly, one of the most iconic parts of the Debut (and Fearless) era is that Taylor held nothing back when it came to name dropping the guys she liked, even when she had pretty much never spoken to them, as was the case with Corey in this song... girl was brave. 

Highlighted comments: @yourivysgrows: “cOrEy'S eYeS”  @corneliaavenue: “one of her worst use of metaphors”

144. Stay Stay Stay (5.322) Highest score was 8; Lowest score was 1

Okay, okay, I hear you... but as a Stay Stay Stay apologist, can we have some appreciation for “you took the time to memorise me / my fears my hopes and dreams / I just like hanging out with you all the ti-i-ime / all those times that you didn’t leave / it’s been occurring to me / I’d like to hang out with you for my whole li-i-fe”? That’s all I’m asking.

Highlighted comments: @corneliaavenue: “a toxic relationship set to Wii background music” @yourivysgrows: “Actually this is the only Taylor song I hate 👁👄👁”

143. Crazier (5.431) Highest score was 7.5; Lowest score was 3

As someone who was neither a Swiftie during the Fearless era days by virtue of me being an oblivious 9 year old nor a Hannah Montana fan, this song doesn’t really mean much to me. I don’t even really know what the context was for Taylor appearing as herself in the movie (I don’t even know what the movie is about full stop.) It’s a nice enough song though.

Highlighted comments: @treacherousdemo: “not the strongest song but a classic nonetheless” @onceintwentylifetimes: “13/14 year old Taylor wrote this and I think it deserves more praise. Lovely imagery, lovely vocal delivery...Just so nice and wistful” @yourivysgrows: “Best song on the HM movie soundtrack”

142. Gorgeous (5.484) Highest score was 9.5; Lowest score was 1

Lyrics that can cut glass, anybody? I went with my cousin to the rep tour, and when this song started playing she went absolutely feral to it, and yelled “this is my favourite song!”. I said nothing. And before all the Gorgeous stans get mad at me, I do think this song is fun. I just don’t think it’s particularly good.

Highlighted comments: @corneliaavenue: “300 people know👀” (war flashbacks!!) @liabilitys: “i prefer the acoustic version she did in the making of videos but still a bop” @onceintwentylifetimes: “There are some days where I really do vibe with this but alas…”

141. You Need to Calm Down (5.522) Highest score was 9; Lowest score was 2.1

I think every possible critique that can be made about this song has already been made, by people who are both more qualified and more eloquent than I am. So all I will say is that despite my misgivings about this song, it’s is fun to sing along to and I do now have a habit of saying “damn... it’s 7am” whenever I have to be awake at 7am.

Highlighted comments: @liabilitys: “not one of her best songs but this mini era helped me realise i was gay so it has a special place in my heart.” @tobesolonely: “im gay” @onceintwentylifetimes: “Maybe it's just the vibe, but I feel like she could've done more with this. I don't like bubblegum pop that much.”