#lyrics that resonate

[earth1ysou1ange1]

“You got bored, and I feel used, and now I’m sad about it.”

[iamnotanearthlingmotherfucker]

Hey, little boy, with those big brown eyes

You don't know what you do to me…

[lyricsthatresonate]

Right face, wrong time.

Wish you'd be mine.

...

Losing my mind.

[celticshieldmaiden]

If I abandon dignity and bend my knees, could I still die in peace?

I'm just so fucking tired

You've taken everything and still you think that you deserve our love

So ego goes

Fuck your hallelujah

[anitoshka]

Rusty Venture, the Boy Adventurer

[niko-sasaki-dbd]

Charles Rowland: Pain, Love, Desire.

"For love is no part of the dreamworld. love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel" — Death of the Endless, from The Sandman: The Doll's House.

[sources: quote by katie maria // cover for documentary film dance craze by joe massot // cover for do the dog by the specials // seasons of mists, episode 4 // vamperinee on tumblr // seasons of mists, episode 4 // dead boy detectives, episode 4 // (?) // quote by friedrich nietzsche // i would leave me if i could by halsey // dead boy detectives, episode 8 // poster for donnie darko by let's eat grandma // dead boy detectives, episode 4 // (?) // poster for do you really want to hurt me by culture club // dead boy detectives, episode 4 // poetryforall on tumblr // to the busted among us, sharks in the rivers by ada limón // a pearl by mitski // dead boy detectives, episode 1 // letter to ruth tiffanny beuscher written by sylvia plath, july, 1962 // quote by katie maria]

[pearlsdiamondsandvodka]

the sandra lynn / fig conversation is driving me Insane. fig saying that sometimes she doesn’t wanna exist as herself at all…not wanting to ask her friends how they see her (because she’s afraid to hear their response) saying that to someone she is a monster and she Cannot stop thinking about it. sandra lynn starting the conversation saying she needs to step up but is also simultaneously taken aback about what fig expresses and doesn’t know how to responds to it and suggests getting ice cream. sandra lynn saying “convincing people they deserve good things is really tough” talking about herself but how it also reflects fig. insane!!

[hikaruchen]

It won’t give up It wants me dead Goddamn this noise inside my head

— The Becoming by Nine Inch Nails

Also here comes two chibi trents

[manibows]

“i don’t care if it hurts

i wanna have control

i want a perfect body

i want a perfect soul”

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

web-weaving — eldest daughter syndrome

Repose – John Singer Sargent // Eldest Daughter – Isabel Pless // Old Soul – The Highwomen // I Miss Her and I Blame You – MALINDA // Goodbye – MARINA // Surface Pressure – Encanto

Violet Sargent – John Singer Sargent // Study for Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose – John Singer Sargent // My Ego Dies at the End – Jensen McRae // You're On Your Own, Kid – Taylor Swift // The Hardest Part – Bre Kennedy and Hadley Kennary// Older Than I Am – Lennon Stella // seven – Taylor Swift

The Black Brook – John Singer Sargent // Eldest Daughter – Isabel Pless // 26 – Carol Ades // Eldest Daughter – Isabel Pless // You're Losing Me – Taylor Swift // champagne problems – Taylor Swift

Girl with a Sickle – John Singer Sargent // The Breakfast Table – John Singer Sargent // Surface Pressure – Encanto // Older Than I Am – Lennon Stella // Control – Bre Kennedy // Surface Pressure – Encanto // Old Soul – The Highwomen

A Dinner Table at Night – John Singer Sargent // this is me trying – Taylor Swift // Let the Rain – Sara Bareilles // The Hardest Part – Bre Kennedy and Hadley Kennary // Half Truths – JOSEPH // this is me trying – Taylor Swift

[bogkeep]

it fascinates me how often a choice of first or - gasp - second person storytelling can create so much derision and discourse. having preferences is fine obviously, and as a writing choice it Does matter, because all writing choices matter. i don't really... notice?? anymore??? or like, i DO notice, but more in a "what information will the narrative give me access to" kind of way.

i know second person especially can be jarring if you're not used to it, because it's "he would not fucking say that" but for yourself. but it's also like... so many song lyrics have "you" and "i" and to me they're just. a story that exists separate from me. (to the degree lyrics exist to me at all as something other than Sounds that are part of a music piece, but that's the audio processing disorder/'did not grow up with english as a first language and never bothered to decode lyrics' of it all speaking)

i suspect a lot of derision towards first person narratives comes from a derision towards the genres in which it is a staple, rather than that it's somehow uniquely bad. there's really not much difference between a first person perspective and limited third person perspective??

[aidens-ocean-galaxy]

People say I look happy just because I got skinny

but the old me is still me and maybe the real me, and I think she’s pretty

[iamnotanearthlingmotherfucker]

Hey, little girl, with those big blue eyes

You know what you're doing…

[littlefreakjezebel2]

Oh, summer child You don't have to act like all you feel is mild

Aren't you way too busy Taking care of everybody To take care of yourself?

You're lyin', summer child

[celticshieldmaiden]

This can't be the way

This ain't a life

It's just survival

Oceans of ravenous and ruthless eyes

I'm terrified

That I'll be the catch of the night

They can't be our fates

Just take my hand

We'll stand defiant

More than the lesser thans

They've machinized

We'll unify...

*gunshot*

Boohoo, meat's back on the menu!

[nemotakeit]

i think that if we dig all the way down to the roots of tøp's musical theme, it all comes down to that constant internal conflict between desperately wanting to be seen and desperately wanting to stay hidden. we can see how they've been making gradual progress in "managing the tension" but it's still there on Clancy. dare i say it's the central theme of the lore as well.. the reason the character & the era Clancy feels so rebellious is because he's actively fighting to Be Seen. the oscillation continues, but a subversive variable has emerged.