#may 30 2023

[royalarchivist]

So much is happening in this clip.

Roier lying on Vegetta's lap baby-talking to each other. Maximus and Foolish talking about important Sofia-related lore stuff in the background. Fit's ominous-ass message in chat. This really was the average QSMP experience.

[dogstomp]

Dogstomp #3072 - May 30th

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[card-of-the-day]

Today's Card Is: Breach the Multiverse

[pineapplefulfillseveryneed]

Sparks tour 2023 part 3: The Royal Albert Hall - show #2

Got to be honest: I was falling apart at this point during the tour. It had been another night of only managing to sleep about 2 hours at most and after a full week of sleeping 2 to 5 hours a night it unfortunately became clear my breaking point had now been reached: I was feeling so ill from sleep deprivation. In the morning I wasn't sure I'd be able to go to the show, but I could be upright when the time came so the show was on! 💕 ...even if perhaps I would have to stay seated the entire time, which felt like it would be somewhat acceptable because we were seated about as far from the stage as possible this night. I ended up not remaining seated though, we're talking Sparks here after all, but please keep in mind that there might have been more to the show than I can relay. (Also, once again, a big thank you to my tour buddies! :))

Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer

I'd gotten super hooked on his song Looking Forward To Leaving by now and I had sung it quite a bit back at the hotel now that I'd caught more of the lyrics so I was super stoked to hear it again this evening, regardless of how I was feeling 🌞 I also especially enjoyed his incorporated dance moves for this song, so at this night that was my recording choice when it came to his set. You can see and hear it below :) Mr.B had also incorporated a little sales pitch for The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte this evening which was beautiful. *big thumbs up*

Before Sparks came on we could spot @nocribdoll from where we were seated and said hello from a distance by means of banana dance which was both great and effective! We also spotted Edgar Wright in the audience which was cool - we're so lucky that he was the one to make the documentary, with him being such a big fan ^^

Sparks

Sparks entered the stage to another big and beautiful applause. There was a little mess up with the first line of So May We Start which was soon caught and rectified, and honestly there's something to be said about opening one's second Royal Albert Hall show with the line “they hope that it goes the way it's supposed to go”. I for one very much respect that, and the way Russell immediately switched to the right lyrics was so impressive that it made me question if what came before had happened at all. (I'm partially sorry to be highlighting a mess up, but I just really liked it and there is footage.)

The audience was so amazing yet again, and we again got to enjoy one of those especially grand applauses already when we were just two songs into the show 💖 and, there was a small change in the setlist: they played VERONICA LAKE! Russell gave the song a proper introduction (a little history lesson with Sparks, if you will👌🏻) The performance was intense and beautiful and I really loved when the instrumental part hit :) (Unfortunately it later turned out to have been instead of Escalator (nooo my beloved!!!), but getting to hear Veronica Lake live really was a treat!)

The only upside about my tiredness was that I sucked a little less with capturing parts of the show in a less bouncy manner, but it's still Sparks so... (who was I kidding with “maybe I'll stay seated”💖) I captured a little bit of Music That You Can Dance To because it's a song I'm so keen to remember at every show and then it was time to dance our asses off and bring the party to this balcony! (We may have been far away, but we were front row in our section, so we started the party here just as much as we'd have done anywhere else in the hall ✨) I did a little banana at the right point in the song too, which funnily enough @nocribdoll managed to spot me doing 😂 I captured bits of Beaver O'Lindy (something I hadn't been able to resist on any night anyway because it is so special live), Russell's introduction to It Doesn't Have To Be That Way (ever since first seeing the show it was clear that his introductions to it were amazing and a little different every night), and Toughest Girl In Town (because of it being one of the most special songs to @dinkydiamond, and it just being great in general obviously ^^) But I think most of all I was capturing a lot of applause between songs, because the sound of these large audiences really was something that set the Royal Albert Hall shows apart 💕

When Gee, That Was Fun started the sadness really hit - nearing not just the end of this show, but also our part of the UK tour and that would mean saying goodbye to friends. (I couldn't listen to the song for a while after shows because it made me miss everything too much.) Luckily that's of course not where the show ends, we still had more applauding to do and we had an encore left! I really treasure A Love Story live and I could not love the choice for it as part of the encore more. I had loved it so much every night so far but it was cool as hell to see it from this perspective, facing the stage straight on yet far away. Those light effects *really* hit in full force when you can see the whole of it. (Not over the voice Russell does in parts of that song btw. SO GOOD.)

Apart from Veronica Lake there had been no major changes to the show, but why change a winning game? Edgar Wright took the audience photo once more, and the audience once more swayed its torches for All That. My memory is terrible in remembering any jokes that may have been made at this show (hell, I can't even remember Balls, my dearly beloved 😭) but at the end Russell blew a kiss up to @nocribdoll which was beautiful and I had accidentally captured him doing so, which wins :) They had to leave the stage a bit more swiftly than the previous night because Russell said they had a thing in the morning, but the applause had been so amazing yet again 💖

…And so ended the adventure of Sparks at the Royal Albert Hall.

Outside of the venue conversations were flowing like usual but as anyone present will know: I really was too broken to partake at that point. I had half a mind to go say thank you to Mr.B but having taken two steps in the direction of the merch table I already turned around knowing very well I couldn't do it this night. Somehow I still had managed to bring sufficient enthusiasm and energy to the show though, which honestly was a relief! 😌✊🏻 I'm really glad the power of Sparks had simply been too strong for me to remain in my seat. (There even had been a random guy on Twitter who had sat behind us in the balcony who had given us a shout out and had posted a picture of us dancing! I'm very fond of that photo, thanks random guy!)

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[summerlimeismethebrony]

This is all the same man. I love him.

Bonus: shocked Phoenix

[mermaidinthecity]

May 30, 2023

[outfitsinspiration]

What: Cara Mila Zafira Lace Skirt - $230.00 (L)

Where: Instagram Pic - May 30, 2023

Worn with: Dior bag and Gianvito Rossi boots

[stacysloft]

Empress Flower

Dream Diary May 30, 2023

Had to stop coffee for a week because of my worsening weeping eczema. Noticed that dreams come vividly and more often when I don't drink coffee. Some were just usual day to day recollections mixed with fantasy and imagination. But this one was quite intriguing...

I was in a garden talking to someone. He was holding up a red flower which appeared to me as triangular or pointy. He held it up and said: Just like it is rare for an empress flower to bloom, (said something about 'star' but I forgot), it is rare for a leader to have the right amount of kindness and force (may not be exact word but it means a kind of strictness to enforce or implement).

There was also a list of other chinese words/traits which was flashed before me.

(I forgot because I wrote this entry 2 days later…)

努力 - translates to great effort

真心 - translates to sincerity

[dteam-snaps]

→ MAY 30 2023

[druggeddraccus]

made it to the beach!

waves are a little much for me they knocked me on my ass once lol

[maraczeks]

girls when i am literally just a seventeen years old teenage girl

[fishthegenderwitch]

I forgot what it was like to be a person.

Like a Full Person, with Feelings, and Likes, and Movement, and Energy. Thinking in new ways, forging new mental pathways to ideas and thoughts I've been staring at for years with no resolution.

I forgot what it was to Think. To Live!

I danced for 40 minutes today, just moving my body. I literally cannot remember the last time I did that. I feel like I'm waking up from a long long dream that hurt me.

I've been listening to the same music mostly for the past few years, but today all the lyrics said new things to me. There's hope, and sunshine, burn a blaze across the sky, be a badass. Today, I believe I can do it.

My future is bright, and I'm shedding the old to make way for the new.

DAMN I feel good today!

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[vyxart]

[mermaidinthecity]

May 30, 2023