#that song is so good and magical

[soonhoonsol]

tag game: put your 'on repeat' playlist on shuffle & let your friends pick their favourite of the first five songs!

thank you my lovelies @honeydewtual 💖 @chwedout 💖 @j-eonghan 💖 @haocheeks 💖 @fairyhaos 💖 for the tag hehehe

it's been a very txt month week so yeps

gonna tag: @cherphadetseuk 💖 @yutaslaugh 💖 @choiyeonjuns 💖 @bamgeut 💖 @jinjjayo 💖 @vvstual 💖

[tothepointofinsanity]

MAGICAL DOCTOR.

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[ayilings]

M@GICAL☆CURE! LOVE 💘 SHOT!

[sickgraymeat]

she should have just let him say fuck

[pxper-cranes]

Liliana Vess

Never Love an Anchor - The Crane Wives // Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates // Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls // Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush // The Well - The Crane Wives // Love Like You - Rebecca Sugar // Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan // Fake Out - Fall Out Boy

[chewydy]

SUPER ☆ POWERFUL ! MIKU ♥ CHAN !

[cubedmango]

「30歳まで売れないとアイドルになれるらしい」 (from cherry magic volume 12 special edition) — english translation

[jennyfromthebes]

sometimes being a tmg fan is discovering a recording of a song that's been played literally one time ever and being torn between wanting to share it with everyone and wanting to keep it just for yourself for a little bit longer

[starkidsonnets]

nessun dorma

edward nashton x reader minific

| contains : mildly suggestive at like. one part, patrick parker mention!

| word count : 756

| note : lowk a song fic. i wrote this in the middle of the night after sobbing my eyes out, so. hope you enjoy ! unedited, not proofread !

under the cover of night, you await his presence. your face illuminated by the harsh light of your phone as you mindlessly scroll, laid on your stomach cuddled up against your pillow. you had been waiting hours for a visit that wasn’t even guaranteed, eyes struggling to remain open and yet you held up.

he will come. surely, he misses you as you miss him.

your room was shrouded in darkness, the thick clouds preventing even the moon from shining her silvery rays through your window. it was cool, too; the chill of november seeping in through the old, weary walls, the only warmth coming from your body, heating the one spot on the bed that you hadn’t moved from since you got out of the shower.

you have already proven yourself to him; you thought so, anyway. his mind games, his puzzles, his riddles, his little tests of loyalty… you had done it all perfectly, hadn’t you? why does he insist on—

tap tap tap

oh.

to quell your excitement, you stayed in bed, merely glancing back at the window. it was unlocked — he knew that. you supposed knocking was just a polite pleasantry, which you found mildly humorous. you waved him in, and he followed suit, allowing the biting wind to slice through the otherwise still air of your bedroom, but only for a moment.

“i didn’t think you’d be awake.” he spoke, his smooth, albeit muffled, voice was a welcomed change to the drowning silence that swallowed your whole apartment.

tu pure, o principessa, nella tua fredda stanza

“i was waiting for you.” you murmur, sitting up and tossing your phone somewhere by your pillow. he shifted uncomfortably at that.

guardi le stelle che tremano d'amore, e di speranza

you slide out of bed, falling into his arms, fitting perfectly. his jacket was cold, as was the leather of his mask as you press your lips against it, eyes fluttering shut and hands holding his face against yours. his glasses bump against the edge of your cheek.

“how about tonight, eddie?” you ask, readjusting his glasses as his hands fall to your hips; you can hear him breathing.

he tenses. he doesn’t even have to say anything before you know his answer.

“you know me, angel.” he says. he’s been saying this for weeks. ever since you first asked to see him. who he was behind his ‘true skin.’ his gloved hand rests against the side of your neck, averting his gaze to focus on playing with your hair, trying to avoid this subject altogether.

another one of his riddles, then.

“if you can tell me who i am, i’ll take it off.”

ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me; il nome mio nessun saprà

“i don’t want to play this game with you, edward. i’ll never sleep soundly again until i know. i love you.”

there was nothing that hurt him more than those three little words, you knew that. in the palm of your hand you held the Riddler’s greatest weakness, and he hated you for it.

if he didn’t love you, too, he’d have your head for all the power you dare have over him.

“i…” his eyes find yours, his stomach twisting. “if you can tell me who i am, i’ll take it off.”

il nome suo nessun saprà, e noi dovrem, ahimè, morir, morir

you wake up alone the next morning, your clothes still strewn across your bedroom floor. the spot next to you is cold; he’s been gone for a while — there was no trace of him. as if he was never here.

“morning, patrick.” you greet your neighbour as you exit your apartment. he was leaving for work; possibly the only one in your building who worked as early as you.

“m-morning.” he nods, mumbling, his glasses sliding down the curve of his nose.

he was a cute man, and perhaps if you weren’t irrevocably in love with a terrorist, you’d ask him out for coffee.

“hope you have a good day. i’ll see you this evening, yeah?” you say as your turn to leave, stopping once you catch the way he perks up, eyes shining in a way you’d never seen from your timid neighbour.

“what?”

your face heats up in embarrassment, “no, sorry— i-i meant, like— if we catch each other after work.”

“oh.” he visibly deflated. despite how nice he is, patrick parker is a strange, strange man. “yeah. i’ll see you. this evening.”

dilegua, o notte! tramontate, stelle tramontate, stelle! all'alba, vincerò!

[whaliiwatching]

CRINGE BUT FREE ERA

[hecksupremechips]

Come back home when you have some sense

You can throw your life away just not at my expense

You’re not the son I raised

[miumiumanzo]

The world too closes it eyes and conceal us

[dirtytransmasc]

I need more selkie theon (and asha. I just think that would be a vibe. fuck the greyjoy sigil being a kraken for a moment and let them be seals) content.

like the opportunity to have theon's coat taken by ned when he's made his ward is right there and it is perfect and beautiful and tragic.

and you could build on that depending on the version of the selkie myth/story you're going off of (I personally love the song of the sea version of selkies for story writing). maybe he can't talk without it, maybe he gets sick, maybe his voice has magical properties of sorts.

I have this one concept in my head that I don't have the time to write, but it goes something along the lines of theon getting sick after years away from his coat and the stark kids have to find his coat and drag his slowly dying ass to the bay of seals (cause y'know bay of seals and theon's a selkie so he'll turn into a seal... I thought it was creative).

also, in a lot of versions of selkies, when they get sick, their hair turns white, which is on brand for theon. they're also pretty, their stories are typically soaked to the bone in tragedy, they're normally held captive/tortured, amongst other things, which are also very on brand for theon.

and maybe you get some selkie to selkie telepathy of sorts, so when theon finally enter the water a seal again, asha books it to come find him, cause its been years since she's been able to feel him (I'm soft for them, I will create the most improbable and ridiculous scenario's to bring them together and for them to have soft sibling moments).

all and all, theon being a selkie is something I need more content of, please and thank you.

[prosebushpatch]

Okay so I recently, finally, watched Wish and I have some thoughts. Overall, not as bad as everyone makes it out to be, but still has a lot of fundamental story problems and I've got to get them off of my chest. I'll mostly be focused on Magnifico because I think his motivations and arc largely represent the problem with the overall theme.

Okay so my biggest problem with Magnifico is his motivation. His tragic backstory. How on earth does he go from losing his whole family to thinking, the only way he can prevent that from happening again is to grant wishes? The logic doesn't track. It almost makes sense in his creating a kingdom where he protects everyone and "doesn't even charge rent," but it does not make sense with his wish granting. Having a great need to be control to make sure he doesn't lose anyone ever again can be a compelling motivation for a villain, where we see lines crossed that don't justify the intent, but in the movie, he's too self-absorbed to seem to have any actual care for the people of Rosas.

I think if the motivation was changed to something like Magnifico had once been a bright-eyed, enthusiastic wish granter who blindly believed all wishes were good but learned the hard way that that wasn't true could have been a better fit for the overall goal of the movie. Imagine that he granted a wish for a wicked person who used that wish to hurt others, or if Magnifico granted a wish but that wish ended up ruining the person's life because what they wanted wasn't what they needed (i.e. Remember The Princess and the Frog? Dig a little deeper) and that person could have went after Magnifico and blamed him for their troubles (harkening back to We Don't Talk about Bruno). This would be an understandable tragic backstory for Magnifico, and better explain why he's so careful about the wishes he grants. And, perhaps the reason he keeps the wishes he doesn't want to grant is to keep the people in his kingdom docile. No one will be angry with him for not granting their wishes if he makes them forget them and lose that drive and motivation, which makes more sense than the unexplained hording them like he does in the movie? Why does he keep them in the movie other than admiring the wishes? It doesn't make sense to me.

This would give Asha more of a reason to oppose him, if it's shown how his desire to not get hurt or to inadvertently cause hurt turned into a paranoia where he drains people of wishes to fly or play music that inspires others. And, as a side note, we need to see more of how Rosas is a kingdom of people who lack drive and motivation, where only those younger than 18 have that special part of them that inspires them to chase after a dream (something that Astor Rhymemaster touched on). Because that's the point of wishes, right? That's the point of the entire Disney canon. A dream is a wish your heart makes. That star can only get you so far, it takes hard work and determination. It's wanting something better in life, it's dreaming of leaving behind all you know to chase after a tangible light. It's finding a new dream, it's finding a new wish as you grow and learn about yourself and the world.

I don't think the movie Wish understood what makes wishes so important in Disney stories. You know what wishes do? They ignite change. It's not about getting what you want, it's about finding the courage to chase after something better. Ariel wants to be where the people are, but really she wants to be somewhere where others are willing to understand her and in the end, she finds that and makes amends with her father, who finally is willing to see her for who she is. Rapunzel wants to see the lights, and that desire pushes her to leave a tower she's been trapped in her whole life, learning that the world is not as cruel and cold as her abusive mother told her. Cinderella wants to go to the ball, to dance with people who treat her as a person and not a servant of cinders and ash. That wish is granted by a fairy godmother and gives her a hope that is worth fighting for, a hope that helps her reclaim what is rightfully hers; a glass slipper that fits only her and the love that comes with it.

Wishes inspire change. The movie should have been about that. Magnifico could have been right, that some wishes inspire negative change that can drag down multiple people. The kingdom of Rosas could have been so placid because change is scary. Maybe Magnifico could have convinced people, after taking their wish, that it wasn't worth it. Maybe the wish ceremonies could have changed so it wasn't portrayed as some sort of lottery everyone looks forward to, but Magnifico would grant wishes on the spot if he decided they were good and worthwhile, and he would lock away the wishes that would cause trouble and tribulations. 18 year olds could be enthusiastic to give him their wishes, thinking they were surely good and worth granting, only to forget their wish and be told that their wish would have only brought about their unhappiness, this would have justified a more solemn tone in the kingdom, setting up a world where people are mostly downtrodden, thinking their wishes are bad and pointless and they're better off without them. Imagine Cinderella or Rapunzel being told their wishes weren't good, reinforcing all the things their abusive families tell them, taking away that hope and courage to find something better for themselves.

Here's where the true conflict could come in. Asha could be onto this from the beginning, and her opening song could have been about this concern that the people who didn't get their wishes granted aren't willing to try at all. (Because, after all, why doesn't Sabino play music at all? Having that taken from him would take so much joy and creative expression from his life!) But why does Asha know something is amiss?

Simon.

Imagine that Magnifico has a strict rule not to ever share your wish with another person because then it wouldn't come true. It makes sense with our own superstitions, and then makes it so that no one knows anyone else's wishes. Maybe your best friend changes so drastically after giving up their wish, but you believe, like everyone else, that their wish would have only caused suffering. What can you do about it? Well what if Simon told Asha about his wish? What if Asha knew his wish wasn't dangerous and couldn't imagine a way that it could go wrong? That would give her a reason to doubt Magnifico and put more emphasis on how Simon has lost his drive like all the other adults in the kingdom. And it can also emphasize in the end that sharing your wishes and dreams with others can be a powerful thing. Just the act of sharing your dreams can inspire others to go after their own, and they can give you the encouragement to chase your wish too. Wishes inspire change, love gives you the courage to make it happen.

Imagine if the star boy used to be a human, who wished to help others and lost his humanity to do it. Imagine his wish confirms Magnifico's belief, that wishes cause suffering because star boy lost his tether to earth and is separated from the people he loves. Imagine how he foils Asha who also wants to grant everyone's wishes. Imagine him ensuring she doesn't make the same mistake he did while she gives him a reason to change again, to anchor himself to humanity again because he loves her enough not to leave for forever.

Imagine the movie confirming that, yes, change is scary. Chasing your dreams won't always make things better. You might fail more than you succeed and some wishes cannot coincide with each other, leading to grief and strife. But some wishes are worth it. Sometimes, chasing after something better and failing is worth leaving a worse situation. Sometimes taking that chance is worth it, and, like in all fairy tales, if you are kind and generous and act with love, that will make all the difference in the end.

Also, I know everyone wished for a Magnifico and Amaya evil power couple, but imagine if Magnifico was truly in love with Amaya, as he is in the movie, but that love is eventually his undoing. Like Amaya leaps in front of Asha, and Magnifico stops or redirects his attack because she's the one thing he loves more than himself and that is the weakness that Asha and co can take advantage of. Imagine Amaya keeping Magnifico in the mirror and he gets to dote on her from his imprisonment for forever. I'm just saying. At least 30 sickos like me would be into that. Imagine the depth it would give to the themes of love and change and wishing and how acts of love make all the difference.

Alright, I'll get off my soap box. I just really wish Wish could have been stronger because these fairy tales Disney is famous for matter. They really do. But the movie feels too stale and shallow and too much of a cash grab that knows the outline of a disney musical, but is unable to understand the heart of why they work.

[7roaches]

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