#the subways album

[mitjalovse]

Indie rock industrial complex might not be the most appropriate term for what I tried to elucidate in my posts, because the phrase seems like a weird tautology, though that's not true. The syntagm – someone more intelligent than me should write about this – suggest all the indie musicians follow a set of rules in their careers, though you can find some outliers, I am willing to admit this. However, one other thing indie rock also has is an incredible pressure being put on the players. The scene favours the bold, but some break down over this. Mind you, I'm not suggesting The Subways – you saw the link – have this issue, they still concert. Still, they haven't really done an LP of original material for a while and one asks oneself what is happening there.

[esprei]

a pop star and his plush 🕸⚡️💛

(oh the irony of a giant joltik plush)

[whiskeyswifty]

I mentioned before that the ttpd cover being on a bed is yes a bit more risqué (it’s barely that in general but for HER it is) than she’s ever been visually on an album cover. But also that tweet got me thinking about the bed as a location in her recent lyrical history. And while I’m personally not a fan of “everything is connected” swiftieism, I love the evolution of subtext it tells.

How it served as a safe harbor of sorts, with “you had turned my bed into a sacred oasis” and “we rule the kingdom inside my room” and “carve your name into my bedpost” on rep and how it’s depicted as a protected place, made that way by the person she was in the bed with. They turned the bed into an oasis, carving their name into it, staking their claim and altering it with their presence. Fortifying it. Or how sometimes, it was the only place where they could meet and come together, “head on the pillow I can feel you sneaking in” and “back and forth from New York, sneaking in your bed.” How in reality,  maybe the bed (and what can be inferred happens there) was the biggest, if not sole, pillar of their relationship at those points, or for longer perhaps. For better or worse. And then at other points, perhaps in a linear sense later down the line, it’s a place of domestic refuge, with “feels like home, stay in bed all weekend” and “leave the warmest bed I’ve ever known” and also the somewhat more tangental “now I’ve read all the books beside your bed.” The bed is more of a domestic place, where she can settle in and retire to and be at ease. The thrill may be gone, but the bed serves a new purpose that she finds equally as rewarding. It’s a place of vulnerability ultimately, away from prying eyes where things can play out that never see the light of day. Plans for the future like “drew a map on your bedroom ceiling” or heartbreak like “but now my eyes leak acid rain on the pillow where you used to lay your head.” There’s an intimacy to her room and her bed that had heretofore been too sacred to her to share, to let anyone else but them in. But the implication of the cover art, her setting this album visually in that bed, that walled off place, makes it particularly enticing. How she’s perhaps finally letting us in to that sacred place and the highs and lows of what transpired there, however lyrically.

But also with the bed as a locational and emotional focal point for a previous relationship(s?), it lends itself to that popular idiom as well. How looking back, she confronts the fact that everything that has happened since she let them into her bed were still choices she chose to make and she’s now writing this album to come to terms with how it all turned out, regrets and mistakes and would have’s and all. As if, you could say, that having made her bed all those years, she’s now ready to quite literally lie in it. 

[smashwolfen]

Mmmmyis extra buttery content for PLA plz XD

Here's the blank if someone else has any good pokemon/dumb fun meme things in general, go nuts!! XD

[subwaypupil]

[record scratch]

[freeze frame]

Yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.

Well, let's start from the beginning, here. Name's Nova Skyler, I'm a student from Blueberry Academy heading into my fourth year this coming semester. They really like to push "real world experience" there, so I figured I'd get an internship this summer to see if the guidance counselors would get off my ass. It took a bit of searching, but eventually I ended up at the Battle Subway in Nimbasa City.

What the counselors neglected to tell me was that one of the Subway Bosses had been missing for months, and what I don't think anyone could have told me is that he would make his reappearance right as I arrived at Gear Station. It's great that they're reunited and all, I'm sure having your twin missing for so long has got to be rough, but...

Well, I figured I'd go ahead and document this whole thing, if only so that I have proof I wasn't sitting on my ass all summer. Everything is pretty chaotic on the platform right now, but I'm sure someone will come and tell me what to do eventually... right?

((OOC: New ask/RP blog dropped! This is my first time doing anything like this, so please be patient as I get my bearings lol.

Asks are currently open, blog info and rules can be found here! Remember to drive safely!))

[cowwatcher]

I COULD PROBABLY SUCK A WATERMELON THROUGH A STRAW, BELIEVE ME

[goddessofwisdom18]

It's not over 'til it's over, it's never over

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The Subway by Chappell Roan

[royaletiquette]

How does your OC want to be seen by other characters? // Do you have a specific lyric or quote which you associate with your OC? for both Hibiko and Hibiya

OC questions | @lured-into-wonderland

How does your OC want to be seen by other characters? (Hibiko's answered here.) Similarly to Hibiko, Hibiya wants to be seen as an example. He doesn't want to be seen as someone who had to rescue his kingdom from his parents' mistakes, or be related to them in any way. He wants to be in his own person, but only because he wants sole responsibility and glory for when he inevitably jumpstarts Edo's glory days. Unlike Hibiko however, that's it. He wants to be seen as the perfect ruler and he owns that fact fullheartedly.

Do you have a specific lyric or quote which you associate with your OC?

There are times when all the world's asleep The questions run too deep For such a simple man Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned? I know it sounds absurd Please tell me who I am

Supertramp is one of the two bands that beautifully capture Hibiya's life struggles (and has the song our verse name is based off of). The Logical Song has Hibi all over it: losing track of who he is because he spent so many formative years learning who he was supposed to be instead. Mmm, delicious existential dread.

"The Chosen Virgin accepts her fate: without considering it,"

There's a lot in that big poem that like, ooooh it gets me. I love it. I love everything inspired by Rite of Spring, even though Hibiko would not. It would make her too uncomfortable because she hates any relatability she finds in it. But that one line I think really sums up beautiful Hibiko's issues. She knows what she has to do, and does it, without thinking much further than that until it's too late...

she knows that her Tribe,— the Earth itself,—                              are UNREMORSFUL that the price of continuance is her BLOOD:—                              she accepts their guilt,— . . . THEIR GUILT THAT THEY DO NOT KNOW EXISTS.

But honestly, this poem and this song work equally for both in different ways.

[flashcs5]

gear station jazz

[vulgarmaw]

Me whenever anyone asks why I did absolutely anything:

[esprei]

Emmet month - Day 4: Memories

though Ingo may be gone, he'll never be forgotten

[aropride]

oh my god this album is way longer than i thought i gotta go get a snack after this song

[camellia-salazar]

Hearing "Stand clear of the closing doors, please." when I was watching Annie (2014) got my AJR loving ass to get all hyped up all because I heard the same damn voice saying the same damn thing from their "Making of Bang" video.

[semusepsu]

Subway to Sally - Feuerland

A German-language song, sung from the perspective of a soul seeking vengeance on the one who banished them to the land of fire.

Du hast mir meine Welt verbrannt, Hast mich in dieses Land verbannt. An meiner Seite sollst du sein!

[mikimeiko]

Albums I listened to in 2023

Subway Gawdz - Too Many Zooz (2016)

[elektroblues]

whenever my theme got something blue in it again it's like. owh yeah it's all coming together