#relationboat posting

[newtsoftheworldunite]

Glorious Partner: Mrrrrrrraaaaagggggh

Me: What is the source of your somewhat angst?

Glorious Partner: I don’t know! I’m just crabby!

Me: Ahhhhh. Hot nonbinary carcinisation summer.

[luisjuanmilton]

Alright besties some of you are already in 2022 and some of us are getting there soon so it’s time to make a sexy little post to thank all my besties for making this year so much better. I love every single one of you to bits thank you for being there through thick and thin:

@mnza @pierrelli @miaoumiaoueste @woofwoofdaniel @pierregasiy @lewierre @lescedes @jedivszombie @xndamilton @xmicrxn @mickstart @maximiliangunther @georgerussells @esteboo-ocon @ghasly @virychatillon @f1topayrespects @theyearninggay @saintlysebchal @7xwdc @ctolisso @relationboats @brawn-gp @jehandaruvalas

I also want thank everyone I missed cause I’m sure I missed some of you, I’m sorry you’re all incredible, and finally to all my followers for being the absolute best, see you on the other side besties 💜🌟

[spacelesbiann]

Jasmine @eight-hearts sparked inspiration in me when she wrote about her 10 favourite debut albums, and tagged me to do the same. My music taste tends to be deeply obsessive, flighty, and rarely contained in an album, so some of these are pretty new. In no particular order, here they are.....

Something to Feel - TEEKS (2021) Listening to this feels like summertime evenings, where there’s a fire burning in an old drum, everyone has a drink, and there’s a body of calm water nearby. The sound is so quintessentially the New Zealand music of my childhood. I tend to find that difficult to sit and intentionally listen to, but there’s something somehow different about this. Maybe it’s the themes of yearning. Anyway, I’m momentarily in love with it . Special song mentions: Remember Me; First Time

About U - MUNA (2017) This is my ‘staring out the passenger window in the rain, watching the sky turn bruise-coloured at the end of a long day’ album. I love this album with all my heart. Idk what about to say that sums it up any better. Special song mentions: Around U; Winterbreak

Surf Music - Paul Williams (2018) This is delightfully bizarre. I listened to this because James Acaster raved about it. I didn’t have high expectations. Paul Williams is a comedian who runs a basketball podcast with his more well-known brother. But it’s so good. Everything you could want in an album and more. There’s a recurring metaphor about basketball. There’s the lyric ‘I might not be the sharpest crayon, but that’s cos I’m your favourite.’ There’s a whole song about eating chips.

I love this album so much i made a uquiz about it. Oh! And - he sings with my exact accent. To the point that some parts are almost unintelligible the first time through. Special song mentions: Braces; Number One

Greetings From Ashbury Park, N.J. - Bruce Springsteen (1973) This is Bruce as I imagine him. The kinda whining timbre of his voice that makes me see him as he is today, not the skinny little thing he was in 1973. It’s fun! Opening with Blinded by the Light??? It’s a perfect encapsulation of his lyrics: some are deeply meaningful, some mean nothing!

It’s not my favourite Bruce album (honestly I get a little bored in the middle) it doesn’t even include my favourite songs. But it’s the sign of such good things to come, and that’s enough. Special song mentions: Blinded by the Light; Growin’ Up

Westlife - Westlife (1999) Westlife are the boyband of my pre-teenagehood. This album is the first time I ever heard them. I used to spend hours at my dad’s laptop copying the songs onto CDs so I could play them in my own bedroom. Except I missed several of the songs, so this album is a lot shorter in my head. Special song mentions: Flying Without Wings; Swear It Again

2 Cool 4 Skool - BTS (2013) You know me. I had to include this one. It’s such a baby album - only 7 songs. But without this I wouldn’t have my favourite albums of later years. I think about how they made this, their determination, the fact that is was critically a bit of a flop... But it’s BTS at their core.

It explains basically everything that will come. Songs fighting to uplift teenagers, encouraging people to follow their hearts and their dreams, to be themselves... I’ll stop myself, but seriously. I could write whole posts about their lyrics. If all you think BTS songs are is Butter and Dynamite, come to me and I will enlighten you. Special song mentions: Like; No More Dream

Hope World - j-hope (2018) This is just a fun album. It opens “say hello to my hope world!” and okay, yeah j-hope! Hi!! It did take me a couple of listens to fully appreciate it, but I looked up the lyrics and gave it some time, and I really do like it. It’s not for everyone but it really shows who he is as a person. It’s hopeful (heh) and it knows itself and loves itself. Special song mentions: Daydream; Airplane

PINK PLANET - Pink Sweat$ (2021) This album is what being in love sounds like. It’s playing in the background of the scene where the two love interests realise their one sided pining isn’t one sided. It sounds pink. It’s very nice. Special song mentions: 17; Honesty

Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen (1967) Okay so this. This might as well be Leonard Cohen’s Greatest Hits. This is a debut album?? What??? The songs sound like poetry and arguments and speeches and ballads and everything that is good. They’re gentle and they’re cutting and they’re about love and loss and hope and hate and pain and joy. I think there’s a lyric and a song in this for everyone . Special song mentions: Suzanne; The Stranger Song

My Head Is An Animal - Of Monsters and Men (2014) This one was hard to be honest. I nearly didn’t pick a number 10. So to be honest, I’ll keep it quick. This is just so calming. I come back to this when I need a little rest from my head, which is fitting given the title. Special Song Mentions: From Finner; Sloom

I want to tag @pauldeyoung @coelura @relationboats @neonastronaut @loveyourselff and @clytemenestras just because I’m nosey :))

[alfalfatauri]

thank you @coelura and @airiarce for the tags. you’ve both got impeccable taste!!

Post your top 9 favorite movies. (as you can see, i love Classic Cinema :| and i arranged them by colour not order)

@relationboats @pauldeyoung @dannythicc​ @thatsosbu​ @lewisscapaldi​ @mexstappen​ @giovinazzi​ sorry if you’ve already been tagged but i’m doing it again

[newtsoftheworldunite]

1, 4, and 30 for the ask game!

1. What are three things that have shaped you?

There’s a reason that in offline situations when somebody asks me about myself I’ll often start with my grandparents. I’m very much a product of the unique background of my family and their personalities and heritage and religious backgrounds and ways of living in the world very much set the stage for who I am as a person.

When I was four years old my family moved across the country for my dad’s PhD program. My parents still live near there. I’ve been back in the city of my birth for a decade now but I’m still very shaped by 14 years in that particular place and especially by the public schools there and the (mostly excellent) teachers I had.

I’ve been through some very specific tragedy and heartbreak and a few seriously disabling incidents now and those absolutely shape me as well.

4. What’s an inside joke you have with family or friends?

My younger sister once described a reference she didn’t understand as “a frisbee over the head of a muskrat” and my family used that phrase (or just the abbreviated “muskrat frisbee”) to say we’re missing context about something in a conversation.

30. What is something that never fails to make you happier?

You, my dearest love.

[newtsoftheworldunite]

Hey what if you were you and I was me and we kissed in the amorphous liminal space?

😳

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