#sunday afternoon thoughts

[masterwords]

[neonstardustart]

Is it too much to ask for a hot alien to abduct me, and keep me as their pet?

[persephoneflouwers]

Listen I don’t know how to articulate this in an eloquent way but remember that part in sunflower vol. 6 “I dont want to make you feel bad, but I've been trying hard not to talk to you”? It’s like he’s saying I’m trying to protect your solitude but it’s hard, first of all because it’s not something you just know. You have to learn how to create a space where two people in a relationship still feel like they’re their own person, if that makes any sense.

Secondly, because it is a contradiction, if you think about it. Being a couple, being in a couple automatically deletes your solitude state, unless you seek for it, unless you ask for it.

Third, it creates uncertainty when you’re young and in love and you have all these feelings inside your chest they might as well just explode out of your lungs, you want them, you want to be with them (let me inside, wish I could get to know you) and it doesn’t matter how many years have passed since you first got together. There will always be this perpetual urge of belonging to someone that pushes you to just be around each other all the time, to know what’s happening, to worry about them and to take care of them. It makes you paranoid and insecure to know they asked you to wait for when they’re ready to not be alone anymore. It takes a lot of patience and growth and trust to just let them be and live on their own, you know? It’s probably the most selfless act of them all, even when that’s not what you would want (my eyes want you more than a melody, I couldn’t want you any more/I don’t want to be alone in golden).

And I could go on and on and on about how well this concept fits his entire discography.

I could mention Satellite’s «You got a new life, Am I bothering you? Do you wanna talk? Spinning out, waiting for ya to pull me in. I can see you're lonely down there. Don't you know that I am right here?».

Or Daylight’s «you got me cursing the daylight»

Or Canyon Moon’s «I’ll be gone too long from you»

Do I have to mention Adore you? ALL OF IT? Alright, I will: «You don't have to say you love me. You don't have to say nothing You don't have to say you're mine, honey. I'd walk through fire for you, Just let me adore you»

In conclusion, loving him is the antidote, solitude included.

[Such a huge development from Sweet creature’s «I always think about you and how we don't speak enough» by the way]

[to-the-fishies]

All our seating has been getting more and more ragged from our felonious felines, so I took a while this weekend to apply some patches to one of the chairs. Kudos to this tutorial, my brother's staple gun, a combination of needles (upholstery, smaller upholstery, leather, and straight-up), and the local creative resale shop for what I needed to give the chair a bit more longevity!

[insummerigrieve]

Don’t underestimate your room for growth. Happy Sunday ⋅˚₊‧ ୨୧ ‧₊˚ ⋅

[greenqueenhightower]

This is Alicent teaching Aemond how to waltz:

“And one-two-three, one-two-three, that’s good—Aemond! You’re stepping on me again.”

“Sorry, mother, it’s just—it’s more difficult than sparring with Criston!”

“Come on, you can’t fly a dragon, and not know how to waltz!”

[bisexualvampires]

one thing about endverse cas is that he talks so much like dean. all no dice and i went mortal and god damn i can’t believe we were once again robbed of cas learning how to be human through dean

[dionysus-complex]

beyond the shame I also just didn't have the best childhood in a very mundane kind of way and I think that reinforced the feeling of being powerless and lonely that followed me throughout my elementary and middle school years. we moved a lot, I changed schools several times, my dad's parents both died relatively suddenly when I was 7 and my dad spent the next several years grieving, we lived in a condo complex on a busy street with limited access to outdoor space, and I had difficulty maintaining friendships given all of the above and the one that did find me turned out to be exploitative and abusive. found most of my solace online in virtual worlds and RPGs and later (after age 12 or so) in music

[misskaboom]

[misspanicdead]

Thinking about how step 9 is making amends to those you've harmed and Bobby's spent years thinking about those 148 people who died but not about the people who got left behind. Thinking about how bobby is also one of those people who was left behind, but he doesn't think of himself that way, doesn't think of himself as one of the people he hurt in that fire, doesn't realize that he's one of the people he needs to make amends to.

[try-set-me-on-fire]

Tagged by @alyxmastershipper @devirnis and @rewritetheending for sevenish sentence Sunday. Now just don’t worry about what this is from. Canon typical violence warning!

Eddie, limb not moving too well, reaches to grab Bobby's forearm. He tries not to think about how weak the grip is. Eddie has to swallow several times before he can speak again. "I didn’t- I didn’t- I never-“ his face goes terrifyingly slack for a moment. Bobby might be able to hear faint digging sounds but it also might be wishful thinking because he’s frightened. He’s been frightened for a while now, but he’d been handling it because he’s also a professional, a firefighter for more than 20 years, he knows how to feel fear and work past it. “I- I- He-“ But the thing is there’s not work to do, he’s useless, absolutely helpless trapped down here. He has been a firefighter for 20 years, and he knows what a man sounds like when he’s dying.

Tagging @bigfootsmom @shitouttabuck @shortsighted-owl @watchyourbuck @forthewolves @lover-of-mine

[dindjarindiaries]

I know a lot of people were disappointed we didn't get more moments of emotional processing this season in the aftermath of Din earning his redemption and adopting his son, but honestly, The Mandalorian has never had moments like that, and there's a reason for it.

In season 1, we don't get to see how Din processed his near-death experience or the grief of losing Kuiil, IG-11, and much of his covert all in one day. In season 2, we don't get to see how Din processed the identity crisis he surely felt when he first met Bo-Katan or the loss of Grogu and the Razor Crest all in one go. In season 2.5, we don't get to see how Din processed his shunning from the tribe or the way he had to walk away from Grogu on Ossus.

I'm sure he was forced to deal with all of this in some way on his own, but it was off the screen. He's never been the kind of character that will show us how he processes trauma that serious and that's the point. He quite literally hides himself within a suit of impenetrable armor, and despite what he goes through, he keeps on pushing ahead.

While I would also love to see how Din processes moments like these, it's not for us to see. Grogu is the only one who gets to see within the cracks of Din's armor, not the audience, because Grogu is the physical representation of Din's heart. That's why the biggest emotional moment we've ever gotten from Din, the only time we've really seen him process something, is when he said goodbye to Grogu in the season 2 finale.

We may get glimpses of Din's emotions, but the rest is saved for Grogu, and that's something really beautiful to me.

[riacte]

ren trading his golden crown for a minister hat and now his crown hangs on a armour stand in his base... something something about him desperately clinging to the old days of leadership and glory until he found a new way to establish that with the hats....

[the-travelling-witch]

How would Scaramouche behave with his children (possibly his son) :)

like a good dad :)

sorry, i already said it but children aren’t exactly my favourite topic and as a man in his early twenties (to me), scara just isn’t the ultimate dad; i tried my best to indulge the other asks but i don’t really want to turn this into a thing

[teamkrissy]

I watched a video recently where this Persian ethnomusicologist was making a case against (alongside?) orientalist music, but part of his complaint was that orientalist music is always in a double major harmonic when there are so many types of modes (think scales) in Persian music. But like most of them use microtonal notes and I don't think he understands just how foreign the concept of microtonal notes are to the western ear. Yes, it is beautiful, but I think the majority of western people (at least the non tonedeaf- no offense) will think that the instruments are just out of tune. I'm very open minded, musically, but even I cringe when I hear an F half sharp sometimes. Idk been thinking about it. I would probably grow to appreciate it with more exposure though, I'm willing to try it.

[irritablepoe]

let them snap at each other!!!!

..... Hold on, I can make them snap at each other :0