#suzanne’s a dolly parton girl just like me

[appalamutte]

coach and suzanne had their first dance to dolly parton’s i will always love you and it’s the first song bitty learned the words to because suzanne would always play it when they baked together. it’s also the only song he’s ever heard coach sing along to, driving to florida for a family vacation in ‘06. suzanne cried. bitty promptly asked for say my name by destiny’s child as soon as the song ended

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@annieofhearts and @monstrous-femme tagged me to share 10 favorite songs with names in the title!

Thanks to you both!

This was actually so hard. I really had to trawl my Spotify and iTunes towards the end there to find 10. My picks:

Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega

Marlene on the Wall by Suzanne Vega

Olivia by Rachael Sage

Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis

betty by Taylor Swift

Jolene by Dolly Parton

Check Yes Juliet by We The Kings

Jessie's Girl, Glee Cast Version (just bc i still have it on itunes from high school)

Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners

Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne (mostly bc of the Stacy's Dad version that crosses my dash every once in a while)

I shall tag @sonseulsoleil @nbshrubberry @20genderchild @captainswan618 @sass-and-kick-ass @chase-prairie @cacophonyofabsurdities @the-freespirited-princess-trope and anyone else who feels like it! :D

[seconddoubt]

i was tagged by @rhubarb-rhubarb-rhubarb ​ (thank you so so much <333) to put my “on repeat” playlist on shuffle and list the first ten tracks, now i don’t have spotify so i can’t really do that but i’m gonna just list ten songs im obsessed with atm

It’s Ours - Kite

Gulf Winds - Joan Baez

High Water (For Charley Patton) - Bob Dylan

She’ll Be There - The Monkees (coco dolenz i am free on thursday night and would like to hang out please call me and hang out with me on thursday night when i am free)

I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night - The Electric Prunes

St. Matthew - The Monkees

Good Girls Do Bad Things - Lucia & the Best Boys

Help! - Dolly Parton (beatles cover)

Bye, Bye, Bye - Michael Nesmith and the First National Band

The Queen and the Soldier - Suzanne Vega

i am feeling too shy to tag anyone :c BUT if you want to do it you can consider yourself tagged by me, i would love to see what ya’ll are listening to! <3

[saltpepperbeard]

So I just finished the Worldbuilding/Lore Chapters™, and of COURSE I HAVE THOUGHTS/OPINIONS, SO HERE’S MY CHAOTIC TAKE-

First of all, Tigris being Snow’s cousin. Oh my LORD. Didn’t expect it, and it REALLY makes Tigris’ presence in Mockingjay hit different. AND IT ALSO MAKES ME EAGER TO SEE WHY THEY TURN AGAINST EACH OTHER.

The Snow House being poor was also something I did not expect at ALL. I was out here expecting Snow to live in a house of elite status. Which he DID SEEM TO HAVE. and then everything changed when the Fire Nation Attacked. But it was so so crazy to read. And now I know where all the DAMN CABBAGES ARE COMING FROM JDKLSJDLS.

Going off of that, the way his experiences parallel Katniss’/D12 is just...B R U H. Dying of starvation, performing illegalities to feed their families, partaking in Black Markets to attempt to make a living. I could not. I COULD. N O T.

“When Coriolanus is president” I HOLLERED???

The Reaping taking place on July 4th aka the US’ Independence Day ALSO MADE ME HOLLER. LIKE SUZANNE PLEASE WITH THAT STRONG IRONY

To quote my notes exactly, “The bitch already out here wearing roses omg.” Like I love that they’re his family’s symbol of status, particularly his Grandmother’s.

Seeing the Capitol citizens acting a little more human and not so like...COOKIE CUTTER POMPOUS HEARTLESS ROBOTS is absolutely insane. Like, to see them being IFFY with the Hunger Games/its brutality, and to see them still suffering the effects of the war? Like...they really out here SELF-MEDICATING??? But then also classism is still very much present/they all view the Districts to be scum to varying degrees. Very very interesting to see this perspective imo.

And going off of THAT...The contrast between these Games and the Games we’re familiar with had me REELING. Like they were treated like ANIMALS here, ie the boxcars, the zoo setting, etc. And so I was sitting here like damn, the Capitol really made them into celebrities/made them luxurious to make them more relatable to the Capitol Citizens and make the games more appealing. THEY WERE REALLY OUT HERE TRYING TO GET BETTER RATINGS ON THEIR PRIME TIME SHOW FJKSLDS

And finding out the Hunger Games was named for the Districts trying to starve the Capitol, only for the Capitol to retaliate with the Games. Suzanne really had me INHALING SHARPLY/GOING ON FACE JOURNEYS WITH ALL THE LORE

I went from contentedly sighing at Snow’s characterization/motives to utterly WEEPING because of how I was doubting Suzanne. Like no, Snow’s “attraction” towards Lucy stems from him wanting to exploit her rebellious, interesting nature. He views her as an OBJECT, a pawn to further his own status. AND WHY I WOULD THINK SUZANNE WOULD WRITE ANYTHING LESS IS SO JFLSKJDKSS. MOCKINGJAY MOMTHER I’M SORRY I GUESS JKR PUT A DEEP THORN IN MY SIDE

District. Twelve. Girls. Do. Not. PLAY.

I stan an LGBT Ally/Pietro from Animal Crossing/Dolly Parton tribute

suzanne i s2g if lucy’s last name is a play on “braid” i’m going to SCREAM

the district puppers wanting to attack snow on sight is a Mood and i Support Them

I know a lot of people found the first few chapters boring/slow but...IDK MAN I’M SUPER PUMPED BY ALL THE EXPLANATION/LORE/WORLDBUILDING. MY CUP OF A TEA. AS WELL AS BEING A SLUT FOR SUZANNE’S CLIFFHANGERS AT THE END OF HER CHAPTERS JFKLSJDKLS

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First of all: I took a huge sigh of relief when reading that you're actively anti-nazi, a real good quality right there. Second: I'm new here, so I may be asking questions for dumb people, but just in case you haven't already posted/shared a playlist of your prefered music I'd love to get the opportunity to listen to something you fancy. Lots of love! (ps: I'd totally ask you about scooby doo as well, but I'm ashamed to admit that I'm uncultured as far as that topic is concerned)

Hi! This is a lovely ask, thank you so much for sending it! No one’s ever asked me for a playlist or song recs before, so I’m really happy to be getting this. I have a Spotify account (twodramanerdsinaboat) with a few playlists, if you want to check those out. Here’s playlist I have saved to my computer that I listen to on loop - it’s titled ‘fuck it we’re making tacos’ (because I put it together to listen to right before I started making tacos...):

Busted from Phineas and Ferb

9 To 5 by Dolly Parton

I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Friends On The Other Side from Disney’s The Princess And The Frog

Don’t Mine At Night by Brad Knauber

Island Song from Adventure Time

Welcome To The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

We’re Gonna Find It from Barbie And The Diamond Castle

Rainbowland by Miley Cyrus

Old Town Road by Lil Was X and Billy Ray Cyrus

So Long, Mom (A Song For World War III) by Tom Lehrer

Hijabi by Mona Haydar

Boys Will Be Bugs by Cavetown

Hotel California by The Eagles

Rollercoaster by Bleachers

Happily Ever After Song from Steven Universe: The Movie

Tik Tok by Ke$ha

From Eden by Hozier

Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko

Requiem (Nausicaa Theme) from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Jolene by Dolly Parton

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It by R.E.M.

Thumbs by Sabrina Carpenter

Wouldn’t It Be Nice by The Beach Boys 

I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) by Whitney Houston 

Mysterious Force from Phineas and Ferb

Prom by SZA

Love Is A Battlefield by Pat Benatar

Purple Jaguar Eye from Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeasts

Younger Now by Miley Cyrus

(Nothing But) Flowers by The Talking Heads

I Am A Girl Like You from Barbie: The Princess And The Pauper

Where We Go by P!nk

The Warrior by Scandal

Left of Center by Suzanne Vega

I Wanna Get Better by Bleachers

Note: I just realized how many meme songs I have on this playlist and I'm sorry. If you want a different one please tell me! 

Also if you want to watch Scooby-Doo you can find What’s New, Scooby-Doo?, Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated, and Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island on Netflix! If you don’t have Netflix I'm pretty sure you can find all of the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? episodes on Youtube :D

[mhisadj]

For better or for worse, I have a job that is exempt - to a great degree - from the widespread need for isolation (in the world of news radio, the show must go on). However, I do get days off and thank goodness for that because my brain can only take so much constant pandemic talk.

So! I offer up ‘the ultimate music list’, something I started doing on YouTube last year. Maybe earlier. It’s a living list, it will never be complete. Anyway, listen to the way my music mind rambles! All songs listed on the other side of the keep reading line (not linked, you gotta do some of the work):

Seinabo Sey - I Owe You Nothing Janelle Monáe – Django Jane Janelle Monáe - PYNK Janelle Monáe – Make Me Feel Sudan Archives - Come Meh Way Sudan Archives - Come Meh Way & Wake Up | A Take Away Show St. Beauty - Not Discuss It Japanese Breakfast - Boyish St. Beauty - Caught Kali Uchis - After The Storm ft. Tyler, The Creator, Bootsy Collins Kali Uchis - Tomorrow (ft. Tame Impala) Kali Uchis - Dead To Me Kali Uchis - Body Language (Intro) Kali Uchis - Just A Stranger Kali Uchis - In My Dreams Kali Uchis - Flight 22 Sigrid - Strangers King Princess - 1950 Sigrid - Don’t Kill My Vibe Sigrid - Plot Twist Moonchild - The List Amber Mark - Way Back The Internet - Girl DeJ Loaf - Changes Erykah Badu - Window Seat Erykah Badu - Afro Blue M.I.A. - Matangi M.I.A. - Double Bubble Trouble M.I.A. - Paper Planes A Tribe Called Red - The Light II Ft. Lido Pimienta A Tribe Called Red - Sisters ft Northern Voice PRINCESS NOKIA - BRUJAS PRINCESS NOKIA - TOMBOY Solange - Cranes in the Sky Solange - Don't Touch My Hair ft. Sampha SZA - Broken Clocks SZA - Drew Barrymore SZA - Go Gina SZA - Prom SZA - Pretty Little Birds Sade - Flower of the Universe Sade - The Sweetest Taboo Sade - Paradise Sade - Turn My Back On You Sade - Smooth Operator Sade - Cherish the Day Erykah Badu - On & On Jill Scott - A Long Walk Erykah Badu - Tyrone (Live) Janelle Monáe - I Like That Christine and the Queens - Girlfriend Humble the Poet - H.A.I.R. Lush - Desire Lines Lush - Never-Never Rachel Sermanni 'Take Me Out' - Franz Ferdinand Cover Memory House - When You Sleep (Yours Truly Session) Sumner McKane - The Turncoat Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing - The Magnetic Fields (Sense8 Remix) (feat. Zoe Wise) Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2 Dua Lipa - New Rules [Initial Talk 80s Rules Remix] Lady Gaga - Venus (80s Synthwave Version) Ruelle - Take It All Kraak & Smaak Ft. Parcels - Stumble Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa - One Kiss Timecop1983 - Girl (feat. SEAWAVES) Aretha Franklin - Mary, Don't You Weep (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 14, 1972) Sarah Vaughan - Misty (Live from Sweden) Ellie Goulding - My Blood (Kastle Remix) Darksynth Paradise - A NewRetroWave Mix | 1 Hour | Retrowave/ Darkwave/ Electro | Sudan Archives - Nont For Sale Christine and the Queens - 5 dollars Christine and the Queens - Doesn’t matter Christine and the Queens - The walker Christine and the Queens - Damn (what must a woman do) Christine and the Queens - Goya soda Christine and the Queens - The stranger Lone - Poltergeist Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - I Hear Voices Lost Years - Pressure Windows 95 Start-up remix Windows 95 Startup Sound (Slowed 4000%) Seoul - Silencer Blackwater Holylight - Willow Her's - Low Beam Here We Go Magic - Alone But Moving John Maus - Bennington AC Temple - Yield Lana del Rey - Summertime Sadness (SxAde Synthwave Version) Ariana Grande - "Into You"  80′s Remix Demi Lovato - Cool for the Summer   80′s Remix Fifth Harmony - Sledgehammer   80′s Remix Lady Gaga - Perfect Illusion   80s Remix Ariana Grande - Greedy [Initial Talk "90s state of mind" Remix] Happy Hippie Presents: Miley Cyrus & Ariana Grande - Don't Dream It's Over Mariah Carey - Touch My Body [Initial Talk 90s Splash! Remix] Dua Lipa - IDGAF (Initial Talk Remix) 憂鬱 - Sun Lady Gaga - Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?) Robyn - Honey Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again Floating Points - Nuits Sonores Sade - The Big Unknown Amanda Shires - Leave It Alone Crockett - City of Ghosts [Full Album] Toni Harper - "The Velvet Hammer" (stereo), 1959 Cristina - "Things Fall Apart" Dexter Gordon - What’s New Warren Zevon - Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead - Rochester, 1994 Le1f - Wut Katie Herzig - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These) Raymond Scott - "Boy Scout In Switzerland" - Quartet San Francisco (arranged by Robert Gilmore) Jan A.P. Kaczmarek - Aimee & Jaguar Main Theme Toni Harper - "The Other Woman"  Toni Harper - The meaning of the blues Vanessa - Upside Down Anna Ternheim - Summer Rain feat. Nina Kinert, Ane Brun, First Aid Kit and Ellekari Larsson of The Tiny Ella Fitzgerald & Bill Doggett ~ Rough Ridin' Eraldo Bernocchi, Harold Budd,Robin Guthrie - South Of Heaven (Winter Garden) Slum Village - Fall in Love (Instrumental) Shonen Knife - Twist Barbie Dave Berry - This Strange Effect Sarah Harmer - Basement Apartment The Original Stroll - February 1958 Gertrude Lawrence - My Sweet Gustav HOLST: St. Paul's Suite (III. Intermezzo, IV. Finale) Rumskib - Secrets Caterina Valente - Stranger In Paradise Borodin - Prince Igor - Polovtsian Dances Darshan Ambient - Mirage Girl Crisis - Smooth Operator Girl Crisis - Paranoid Mulatu Astatke's "Mulatu" Vivien Goldman - Launderette Jonatha Brooke - West Point Lesley Gore - You Don’t Own Me Matthew Schoening - Emotional Clockwork Molly Nilsson - Hey Moon Kate Bush - Cloudbusting (The Organon Mix re-edit) Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky FIREBIRD COMPLETE The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower Grimes - Vanessa Kenneth Bager Fr. one (...and I kept hearing) Land of Talk - It’s Okay Nite Jewel - Artificial Intelligence Geneva Jacuzzi - Clothes On the Bed Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood - Karma Police | Glastonbury Festival, Pilton UK (8/9) Maps of Norway - Traffic Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions Aerosmith - Crazy Bruce Kaphan - Undeserved Ending The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - "Everything With You" Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Body Janelle Monae - "Tightrope" 5/18 Letterman Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler Ladyhawke - My Delirium Marion Cotillard & Franz Ferdinand - Eyes of Mars Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch (live) Kate Bush - Army Dreamers Tegan and Sara - Living Room Kate Bush - Cloudbusting Beatrice Eli - Girls NewRetroWave End of 2017 Mix - (The Future Beckons) - [80s/ Retrowave/ Outrun/ Retro Electro] Vaporwave / Chillwave - Ultimate Mix The Chordettes "Lollipop" & "Mr. Sandman" Sufjan Stevens - Tonya Harding Taylor Davis - Stranger Things Violin Medley STRANGER THINGS MEETS CLASSICAL GUITAR Grace Sings Sludge - Difficult To Love Satchmode - Happiness Part 1 River Whyless - Life Crisis Stefano Barone - Batman - Alexander Supertramp Bebel Gilberto - "Aganjú"(Ao Vivo) - Bebel Gilberto In Rio Katie Melua - Diamonds are Forever  Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me Beulahbelle - You Only Live Twice (Living Room Version) Grimes - We Appreciate Power Meshell Ndegeocello - Sensitivity Kodacrome - Buckets Röyksopp - Remind Me Lizzo - Juice Lizzo - Truth Hurts Lizzo - Good As Hell Electrelane - To the East Electrelane - I only always think Sean Paul - Get Busy 憂鬱 - Azure Day (Full EP) 憂鬱 - Slow Suzanne Vega - Luka | The story behind the song Seoul - Real June Broken Social Scene on House of Strombo Show Big Boi’s Favorite Verse: Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” Cherry Glazerr - Nurse Ratched  Jan A.P. Kaczmarek - Aimée & Jaguar Mister Rogers Remixed | Garden of Your Mind Grant Green - Idle Moments Hole Reunion after 15 yrs. Teeth - Care Bear ST. VINCENT covers BIG BLACK at BOWERY BALLROOM NYC May 22 2011 Broadcast - Man is not a bird (Teac A-4010 s Reel to Reel) Billy May - So Nice (Samba De Verão) Pogo - Mellow Brick Road Anna Calvi - Jezebel (Attic Sessions 5) Anna Calvi - Joan Of Arc (Attic Sessions 4) Anna Calvi - Surrender (Attic Sessions 3) Anna Calvi - Sound & Vision (Attic Sessions 1) Anna Calvi - Wolf Like Me (Attic Sessions 2) Clementine - ALL BLUES Skip James - Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues Anna Calvi - Suzanne And I Total Slacker - Thyme Traveling High School Dropout Siouxsie & The Banshees- Metal (Elizabethan Suite 1977) Second Chorus (Charlie North Remix) The Castaways - Liar Liar Alex Gaudino Feat. Christal Waters - Destination Calabria Loose Ends - Hangin’ On a String Pizzicato Five - The Audrey Hepburn Complex Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian The Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love) The Human League - Don’t You Want Me The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days PJ Harvey - Hanging in the Wire PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me PJ Harvey & Thom Yorke - This Mess We’re In PJ Harvey - We Float PJ Harvey - This Wicked Tongue PJ Harvey - A Place Called Home The Sundays - Here’s Where The Story Ends Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way Hall & Oates - Out of Touch Hall & Oates - I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) Toto - Rosanna Toto - Africa Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels Philip Bailey, Phil Collins - Easy Lover Spandau Ballet - True Tears For Fears - Shout Sigrid - Don’t Feel Like Crying Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Souvenir The Jesus and Mary Chain - April Skies The Ocean Blue - Between Something and Nothing No Joy - Hollywood Teeth Tamaryn - Last Tamaryn - Softcore Tamaryn - Cranekiss Ashrae Fax - CHKN Echo & the Bunnymen - A Promise Ashrae Fax - Intexus The Motels - Only the Lonely Other Colors - Dark Things Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything George Clanton - It Makes the Babies Want to Cry Ben Howard - Nica Libres At Dusk Elton John - Bennie and the Jets Elton John - Don't Go Breaking My Heart (with Kiki Dee) David Bowie - Life On Mars? Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight  St Vincent Breaks Down Her Most Iconic Songs Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says (instrumental) Death Valley Girls "Disaster (Is What We're After)" A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better Childish Gambino - Redbone De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays Choir! Choir! Choir! Sings David Bowie - Heroes Kishi Bashi - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) The 6ths - You You You You You Squirrel Nut Zippers "Put A Lid On It" Joni Mitchell - Help Me Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker - "Shadows And Light" Joni Mitchell - All I Want Joni Mitchell - Free Man In Paris Joni Mitchell - California Joni Mitchell - In France They Kiss On Main Street Joni Mitchell - Amelia Joni Mitchell - People’s Parties Joni Mitchell - For the Roses Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell - Black Crow Joni Mitchell - Hejira Joni Mitchell - Coyote Joni Mitchell w/Peter Gabriel - My Secret Place Joni Mitchell - Down To You Joni Mitchell - Refuge of the Roads Joni Mitchell - Slouching Towards Bethlehem  Joni Mitchell - Shades of Scarlet Conquering Joni Mitchell - Cool Water (with Willie Nelson) Joni Mitchell - The Jungle Line Joni Mitchell - Song For Sharon Joni Mitchell - Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire Joni Mitchell - Night Ride Home Joni Mitchell - Taming the Tiger Joni Mitchell - Snakes & Ladders Joni Mitchell - Raised on Robbery Joni Mitchell - Jericho Joni Mitchell - Lakota Joni Mitchell - The Beat of Black Wings Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On I’m A Radio (Live) The Delfonics - Ready or Not Here I Come Funkadelic - Maggot Brain Incredible Bongo Band - Apache The Stylistics - People Make The World Go Round Manual - Crockett’s Theme Jessica Pratt - This Time Around Jessica Pratt - Poly Blue Jessica Pratt - Baby, Back Jessica Pratt - Aeroplane Tony Allen - Stick Around Basia - Promises Basia - New Day For You Basia - Cruising For Bruising Basia - Drunk On Love Basia - Third Time Lucky America - Tin Man Weyes Blood - Andromeda Ladytron - Far From Home Ladytron - Deadzone Ladytron - The Island St. Vincent & Dua Lipa | Masseduction / One Kiss | 2019 GRAMMYs Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel (LIVE at the 61st GRAMMYs) Still Corners - The Trip Still Corners - Strange Pleasures FM-84 - Bend & Break Robyn - Send To Robin Immediately The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience - Shambush Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill Kate Bush - Hounds of Love [Full Album] Kate Bush - Babooshka Kate Bush - The Sensual World Kate Bush - Hammer Horror Kate Bush - Love and Anger Katie Lee - Stay as Sick as You Are America - You Can Do Magic Blonde Redhead - Magic Mountain Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up In These Streets Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Unificado Sneaks - Ecstasy Linear Movement - Way Out Of Living Alex Lilly - Pornographic Mind Caribou - Melody Day (Four Tet Remix feat. Luke Lalonde Adem and One Little Plane) Def Leppard - Hysteria Sigrid - Sight of You The Charlie Steinmann Orchestra And Singers - It's Such a Good Night (Scoobidoo Love) Alice Coltrane - Blue Nile Les McCann - Roberta Pharoah Sanders - Astral Travelling  Pure Bathing Culture - Scotty Jamila Woods - EARTHA Patricia Barber - Too Rich For My Blood Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long LL Cool J - Around the Way Girl Keep Shelly In Athens - Bendable Absolute Jest: I. Beginning · John Adams · San Francisco Symphony · St. Lawrence String Quartet · Michael Tilson Thomas Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule the World Futurecop! - Fade Away (feat. NINA) Steve Gunn - New Moon Moving Panoramas - ADD Heart Elizabeth Barraclough - Don’t TV Me Klymaxx - Meeting In the Ladies Room Salt Cathedral - Go and Get It feat. Big Freedia & Jarina DeMarco Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports [Full Album] Calexico and Iron & Wine - Midnight Sun Cate Le Bon - The Light Cate Le Bon - Daylight Matters Jack White at Château de Fontainebleau I A Take Away Show Tammy Wynette - Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad Stella Donnelly - Die Portishead - Sour Times Portishead at Roseland New York City Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts Warpaint - Disco//Very - Keep It Healthy  Jessica Pratt - Fare Thee Well Jessica Pratt - Here My Love Alvvays - Saved By A Waif Alvvays - Dreams Tonite Alvvays - Forget About Life Alvvays - Plimsoll Punks Tame Impala - Patience Godzilla: Old Rivals - Bear McCreary( Godzilla: King of Monsters Soundtrack) Alloy Tracks - Somewhere Over the Rainbow | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Beautiful Trailer Theme) Girl Crisis - The Sign Siouxsie and the Banshees - Captain Scarlet Boards of Canada - Macquarie Ridge Tōth - Practice Magic And Seek Professional Help When Necessary (Full Album) Wyatt - Attention Fontaines D.C. - Hurricane Laughter (Darklands Version) Matthew and the Atlas - Counting Paths Matthew and the Atlas - Old Ceremony Sufjan Stevens - Love Yourself Computer Magic - Hudson Grizzly Bear - Mourning Sound Lana Del Rey - Doin Time Chastity Belt - Trapped Kero Kero Bonito - Make Believe Eberhard Weber - T. On A White Horse Endre Hegedus - VI. Golliwogg's Cake-Walk, Debussy: Children's Corner / Suite Bergamasque LCD Soundsystem - oh baby Dominique Young Unique - Throw It Down Leikeli47 - Money Santigold - Look At These Hoes Handsome Boy Modeling School - Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II) Perfume Genius - Slip Away DJ Shadow - "Nobody Speak" feat. Run The Jewels St. Vincent - Fast Slow Disco Marion Cotillard and Metronomy - Is She Really Going Out With Him Patti Smith - Gloria King Princess - Cheap Queen Ingrid Michaelson - Best Friend Kindness - Hard To Believe Kim Petras - Clarity Kim Petras - Another One Cowboy Junkies - Dreaming My Dreams With You Rihanna - Same Ol’ Mistakes Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You Sailors of Neptune - Car Song Photay - Outré Lux (feat. Madison McFerrin) Ella Fitzgerald - I’ll Never Be The Same Timecop1983 - My First Crush (feat. Trevor Something) Toro Y Moi - Cola The Cinematic Orchestra - Wait For Now/Leave The World (feat. Tawiah) Charli XCX & Christine and the Queens - Gone Hayley Kiyoko - I Wish Jambalaya Brass Band - Tumbao Frosty and the Diamonds - Destination Mars Plumb - Blush (Only You) Evanescence - Anywhere Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener Christine and the Queens - Need You Tonight (INXS Cover) Dua Lipa - Be The One (80's Power Ballad Remix) Bomba Estéreo - Corazón Zola Jesus - Wiseblood (Johnny Jewel Remix) The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool Trills - Hush King Princess - Prophet Emily Wells - I’m No Heroine Ariel Pink - Bubblegum Dreams Missy Elliott - Throw It Back Missy Elliott Performs 'Get Ur Freak On', 'Lose Control' & More | 2019 Video Music Awards Miranda Lambert - Way Too Pretty for Prison Miranda Lambert - The House That Built Me Miranda Lambert - We Should Be Friends Miranda Lambert - Mama’s Broken Heart Maya Hawke - To Love a Boy Flowers (Eurydice's Song) - (Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown) Young Ejecta • Welcome To Love Kelis - Bossy ft. 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About: A natural woman

An article published in The Guardian in 2011., by Suzanne Moore seems more relevant as the time goes by. The article doesn’t argue the position of a wild woman who uses no make up, has hair to her knees etc., it rather questions ways to become a woman in Western society. The key thought behind the article could be best describe by one of Moore’s sentences: “To become a woman is to become a female impersonator.”

Here is the entire article with favorite parts marked in bold:

Why does nobody want to feel like a natural woman any more?

Suzanne Moore

Falsies have become my preoccupation. But clearly not just mine. I could buy a mascara called Falsies to give myself "the ultimate false lash glam look". But why do that when I could just wear enormous false eyelashes? Or, better still, spend a small fortune on lash extensions, which hopefully wouldn't fall off for a few weeks if tended lovingly. It all seems a lot of time and energy, really.

On the train or at the supermarket I see many young girls with long, spidery, glittery lashes, even when in their uniforms. I quite like this overalls-and-drag-queen look. I like the lack of pretence that this is real. But how did we get here, I wonder – to this new aesthetic of femininity where everything is meant to look as fake as possible? Hair, nails, tan, teeth, tits. Sure, I know the rules: that we are born naked, and "the rest is just drag". Sure, I get the hyper-femininity of the big queens and the game old birds such as Dolly Parton and Cher. What is strange is that a parody of femininity is now what many ordinary women are aspiring to.

There was time when falsies were the pads shoved down your bra to make your breasts seem bigger, a kind of comedy stuffing. Now the stuffing is put directly inside the flesh, in the form of silicon implants. While not as cheap as chips, false breasts are certainly becoming as common as them.

The "boob job" industry is massive. Boom boom. And everyday. Cosmetic surgery was once only the province of the rich, famous and deluded. It was surely another era when I was ferried to an American TV studio to debate with the legendary Betty Friedan and some daft woman who was claiming that her breast enlargement was a political act. A grouchy Freidan keep shouting into my ear: "So she thinks she can buy big bazookas, right?" It was a struggle to explain I was on Friedan's side, and now I wonder if anyone would even bother with this discussion. The political language of empowerment about reproductive rights and equality in the workplace has itself been given a makeover. Gok Wan makes women feel better not by giving them more actual control, but by giving them control pants.

As the inimitable satire website The Onion once wrote, women "are now empowered by everything that the typical woman does". From driving the kids to school to eating energy bars! "Owning and wearing dozens of pairs of shoes is a compelling way for a woman to announce that she is strong and independent and can shoe herself without the help of a man." This is satire? Only just, says this humourless feminist.

Buying stuff is the way our culture encourages us to believe we have some kind of power. When it all goes wrong and we have bought the wrong stuff, then we discuss the morality of it all. The woman who died recently after having industrial silicone injected into her buttocks was a sad case of someone buying the wrong stuff. The moral of this story seems to be: next time you are having buttock implants, get a reputable surgeon.

It's the same with Botox, liposuction , tummy tucks and all the rest of it. People get "work done". Most discussion centres on whether that work has been done well, not whether it should have been done at all. The kind of feminism that espoused looking "natural" has pretty much lost the argument about body image. It was hardly ever going to be a fair match: some activist women against an entire military-industrial-cosmetic complex geared up towards getting us to commodify our own bodies. That's right. I am not saying that men do not objectify the female body, but now the gaze we direct at ourselves, at each other and in the mirror is a harsh one, too. It is sexualised in that we see what the body could become, as well as what it is. It is the gaze of search and destroy, and it certainly affects the inner lives of those who are not perfect. Which is a fair few of us.

Heath, happiness and relationships are secondary to what Catherine Hakim provocatively calls "erotic capital". This is the basic "if you've got it, flaunt it" model to wave in the face of feminism. It doesn't wind me up particularly. What is key here is who defines erotic capital, and how. Today's templates of beauty for women are very samey, but they rarely occur in nature. The tall, slim-hipped figure with huge, pert breasts – basically the body of a Brazilian transsexual – was sought after for a while. Now we are told bottoms are making a comeback (where HAVE they been all these years?). These things are spoken about it in vacuum, as if we are not allowed to talk about the racial aspects of "the bootylicious".

Increasingly, surgery cuts across race, gender and age alike. The girl in Miami has a nose job just as the woman in Tehran does. Signs of ethnicity can be erased, other signifiers or "capital" can be purchased. And once you have made a purchase, you want people to see that you have. The fashion – or indeed fetish – for fakery means women are actually asking surgeons to make their implants look as fake as their tans. Certainly, the way to counter what is going on here has to be strategic.

One way is to promote a diversity of body shapes and all kinds of beauty. Susie Orbach is launching an Endangered Species International Summit. The purpose of this is to "challenge the culture that teaches girls and women to hate their own bodies". Who could argue with that? For it is the entire culture, not a male conspiracy, that is making impossible demands. Yet none of this is simple.

Artificially enhanced femininity is on display everywhere. Older women pay to look younger. Young women start altering themselves very early on. One result is a kind of glazed uniformity. You see it in porn. You see it in all those late-30s, Botoxed faces that look neither old nor young, just done.

Somehow, though, something else is going on that is blowing apart any idea of "the natural". Some women are not saying, "this is what I really look like", rather they are saying, "enjoy the performance". Just as a drag queen would. The media then scrutinises this performance of femininity entirely as a construction. This radical idea – that gender is constructed – is being acted out in all this fakery. But as an aesthetic, depoliticised "style".

Lady Gaga may sing Born This Way, while clearly demonstrating with her hard body – complete with internal shoulder pads/prosthesis/spare ectoplasm – that she wasn't, that this is all an act.

A look that has comes to us via porn, ladyboys, transsexuals, queer culture and high fashion is a look I now see on the bus. This excess of femininity may compensate for endless anxiety about appearances. There is nothing natural going on here, and some women are not hiding that fact. To become a woman is to become a female impersonator. How, in such a world, can we say to any young girl: "You are fine just as you are"?

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little light (6/8) (Trixya) - Elissa

A/N: Part six of the one where Katya is Trixie’s brother’s best friend.

(full fic is up on ao3 at yekaterinunhhhh, you can come visit me on tumblr at tempfixeliza)

Trixie does her makeup quickly and spends ages changing her outfits and scrutinizing them in the full-length mirror before she finally settles on something. The pink sundress ends mid-thigh and is gathered at the waist with a thin belt, showing off her figure.

She realizes that she had taken too long to get ready. She needs to leave now if she’s going to make it to pick Katya up on time, so she slips on a pair of sandals and rushes out the door.

“What the hell are you wearing?” Trixie’s eyes widen when she realizes how rude the question was and she tries to backpedal. “I mean - not that it’s ugly, because like, you make it work, but what the hell is it?”

Katya laughs as she pulls the passenger door shut. “What can I say? I love a problem pattern.”

“Are those… cactuses?”

“Cacti, yes. And if you look here,” she lifts her arm to show the side of the dress. “There’s a cowboy in my armpit.”

Trixie lets out a short honk of a laugh, clapping a hand over her grin as she steers the car with one hand. “Oh my God,” she murmurs from beneath her fingers, eyes flickering between the road and Katya’s dress.

Neither Adore nor Farrah bat an eyelash at Katya’s ‘problem pattern’ as they hop into the back seat, Adore dressed entirely in Farrah’s clothing.

“So you did end up staying at Farrah’s?” Trixie gazes at Adore in the rearview mirror as she makes her way through town.

“Um, yeah,” Adore nods, averting her eyes. “It was just too late for me to go home by the time we were done… rewatching that season of Real Housewives.”

Katya shifts, turning in her seat to look at Farrah and Adore for a second before flopping back into her previous position with a small smirk on her face. Trixie is about to ask what she’s smirking at when a horn blares and she has to swerve out of the way.

“The light was fucking yellow, asshole,” she swears as she corrects the position of the steering wheel.

“It was red,” Adore deadpans from the back.

“Did I ask, Suzanne?” Trixie snaps.

There’s a beat of silence before the car simultaneously bursts into laughter. Trixie turns onto the highway and Katya leans forward to fiddle with the radio.

“Did you bring your mix CD?” She wonders, shuffling through the small stack of discs sitting in the center console. All of them are free of their cases, so Katya’s especially careful not to smudge or scratch them.

“God, not you too,” Farrah groans. “She really played that for you and you liked it?”

“Dolly Parton and Melissa Etheridge are gems!” Trixie defends.

“Yeah, sure, but listening to the same two Dolly Parton and Melissa Etheridge songs with interludes of that sleepy, dramatic, slow ass stuff the rest of the CD is full of gets old really fast.”

Trixie frowns as she changes lanes to pass a minivan. “I didn’t bring it, anyway. There’s an aux cord there, I’m fine with whatever as long as it’s not that shit Daniel listens to.”

Farrah squeaks and dives for the cord, plugging her phone in and starting her playlist. Christina Aguilera blares out at them and Trixie resists an eyeroll. They’ve listened to Farrah’s “girl power” playlist almost as often as they’ve listened to Trixie’s mix, but when Farrah and Adore start singing along in the back seat it’s hard for Trixie to be mad.

“I really did like your mix,” Katya says quietly, a hand dropping to Trixie’s thigh.

Trixie feels the blush creep under her carefully applied makeup and she smiles sheepishly. “Thanks.”

The rest of the ride is full of singing, Katya joining almost immediately and Trixie eventually giving in herself and belting along when Beyoncé came over the speakers.

The parking lot radiates heat up Trixie’s legs in waves when they’ve finally made it to the mall and hopped out of the car.

“Fuck, it’s so hot,” Farrah whines. “And we had to park in a different fucking state.”

Trixie glances back at her over her shoulder. “You know, Farrah, if you stopped whining you might be able to walk faster and get to the air conditioned mall.”

Farrah sighs and picks up her speed, sandals slapping against the pavement.

The air conditioning hit Trixie in the faces when the automatic doors to the mall slide open, and she’s never been more grateful for modern technology than she is in that moment. Sweat droplets had begun to form on the back of her neck, dampening just the first thin layer of her curls and making them stick to the back of her neck. Adore and Katya are in front of her, chatting to each other happily. Katya’s honey blonde hair falls in waves against her back, and Trixie watches the way her shoulder blades shift when she grabs both of Adore’s waving hands and wheeze-laughs at something she’s said.

The girls decide to get smoothies before getting pulled into a boutique by Adore, drawn in by a rack of vintage band shirts. Katya quickly finds a display in the back piled high with unique accessories, and Trixie giggles when she holds up a necklace with tiny plastic hands attached. Her eyes are sparkling like gems and when she’s happy like this Trixie can see the beginnings of crinkles framing them.

Trixie spends most of her time in that boutique following behind Katya, laughing at Katya’s jokes, and admiring her. She can’t help it if every time Katya talks her stomach flips. She can’t help it that Katya is so funny.

Trixie can’t help it that she’s whipped.

Katya’s head is thrown back slightly in laughter as she spins in front of the mirror, the fringe on the tan jacket she’s wearing waving through the air. When she stops abruptly, the long skirt of the maxi dress paired with it swirls around her ankles before coming to a stop. She slides the faux-suede jacket off and Trixie’s eyes are instantly glued to the definition in her arms. Trixie wonders how satisfying it might be to take all of those clothes off of Katya, wonders what her body looks like in just her bra and panties, wonders what Katya would sound like when -

“Earth to Trixie,” a hand waves in front of her face and Trixie blinks, eyes focusing on Farrah.

“Huh?” Trixie shifts on her feet, tugging at the hem of the top she’s trying on.

“I was saying that I like that top, but it would be better with these jeans,” Farrah hands Trixie a folded piece of denim and Trixie takes the garment, turning to go back to the dressing room.

“Thanks.”

Once she’s pulled the thick curtain shut, she shakes her head at herself. What the fuck is wrong with her? Trixie wants Katya in ways she’s never wanted anyone, and they both know that. But Katya was wearing an ankle length dress, and they’re in public, and there’s no reason Trixie should be thinking about stripping her naked or what her ass looks like in black lace or what her moans would sound like if Trixie had two handfuls of her ass and her mouth along the prominent veins in her neck.

Trixie shimmies out of the tight black pants she’s wearing and into the light wash denim skinny jeans Farrah had handed her. She swears under her breath when her foot gets momentarily caught in the distressed hole in the knee, but is buttoning them when Farrah’s head pops through the curtain.

“Jesus Christ, you take a long time,” she whines. Trixie rolls her eyes, pushing past Farrah and padding out of the dressing room to stand in front of the mirror.

“I have a lot that I’m working with,” Trixie remarks, turning to look over her shoulder at the back of the jeans. The pockets sit perfectly on her round ass, and she nods her approval mostly to herself.

There’s a clattering from just outside the dressing rooms and Trixie’s head whips around at the sound. Katya is crouching down, red-faced, picking up the items she has dropped by the hangers, and Adore is hovering over her with a smirk plastered on her face.

“Those jeans are nice,” Adore praises from where she’s leaned up against the wall. “Aren’t they, Katya?”

“Uh, yeah,” Katya stands up and is making a concerted effort to keep her eyes glued to untangling the hangers in her hands. “They’re very nice. You should definitely get them.”

Trixie suppresses a giggle and murmurs a quick thanks before going and getting changed back into her own clothes, bringing the jeans up to the register to pay for them.

The next stop is the Sephora, where Farrah drools over the newest highlighter palette while Adore picks out a bold new shade of liquid lipstick. Trixie sticks with getting a refill of her tried-and-true, pale pink shade. Katya’s eyes widen at the price tag of a tube of mascara she picks up, and Trixie tries not to find it entirely endearing when she backs away from the display slowly.

“I just can’t wrap my head around spending a fortune on mascara,” she mutters as they’re walking away from the store. “If you’re spending more than five dollars on mascara, you probably have something to prove.”

Trixie looks over and her and gives her a guilty smile.

She gasps, a hand clutching her chest. “Barbie, say it isn’t so.”

“I’d love to, but that would be a lie,” she laughs at Katya’s dramatics.

“Yeah, same,” Farrah squeaks from the other side of Trixie.

Katya’s head turns so she can stare at Adore.

“Don’t look at me,” Adore holds up a hand in defense. “I’m on your side here.”

Katya links her arm through Adore’s and clings closer to her side. “Thank God, a beacon of sanity.”

Adore lets out a cackle and leans into Katya, who lifts her other arm so that both are hugging Adore.

Trixie tries to ignore the way her heart feels like it sinks into her toes at the sight.