#theyre so summer of 2023

[orangeberrycake]

i like newjeans again

[essenceofelegance]

A Year || LN4

summary: A year can really change someone in a lot of ways.

genre: fluff

warnings: none

notes: THIS IS MY FIRST SMAU SO LMK WHAT YOU THINK! also english is literally my third language and this isn't proof read/ grammar checked so mistakes are bound to appear :(

SMAU/ Written

Summer 2023

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yourusername Ibiza!!

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user1 DJ LANDO!!

user2 y/n feeding us dj land content. she's the real queen here

user3 I thought y/n said she didn't like to go clubbing

➥ user4 maybe she's just there to be with lando

user5 bro did anyone see that video on TikTok? y/n looked so uncomfortable I feel so bad for her

➥ user6 RIGHT?

➥ user7 she's such a good girlfriend, if I were her, I would've just left lando at the club by himself lolol

user8 salivating bc Dj landooo

user9 BARK BARK BARK

➥ user10 y/n looking at this be like...

user11 does anyone know what club theyre at?!! I'm in ibiza I wanna meet them!!

➥ user12 bro leave them alone

➥ user13 @/user12 I don't see a problem 🤷

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You never liked clubbing.

After all, you were only here because of Lando.

The music was too loud, people were pushing up against you, you never really liked to drink because you had a really low alcohol tolerance, you could make an entire list of why a club was not your go-to hang out.

"Lan," you yelled, trying to speak over the music, "Yeah?" He said, taking one side of his DJ headphones off so he could speak to you.

"Can we go back?" You asked. There was nothing you wanted more than to go back to the comfort of your hotel room with your boyfriend.

"It's only midnight." Lando said, "Why would you wanna go back? Are you not having fun?" Land asks you, but you could tell he wasn't really focused on you. You could see it in his eyes.

"I don't wanna stay any longer, clubbing isn't really my thing." You said, a hint of pleading in your tone.

"Soon, baby, okay?" Lando said, not even giving you a chance to protest before turning back to his DJ set.

You sighed in defeat, before retreating to a quieter corner of the club.

It was going to be a long night, like any other you've spent in a club, with Lando.

Summer 2024

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yourusername ibizaaaa im backk

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alexandrasaintmleux miss you! ♥ by author

lilymhe ditch him for me!!! ♥ by author

➥ yourusername say less 💍

➥ landonorris ???????? @/AlexAlbon

➥ alexalbon atp im used to it

user1 both of them are so pretty its not fair

user2 no DJ Lando content?!

user3 Not even following y/n because she's lando's girlfriend, im following her bc she's Y/N

user4 that jawline

user5 why do they keep going back to Ibiza

➥ user6 litt, like, why can't they go literally ANYWHERE ELSE

user7 OMGOMGMG I WAS tHERE AND I SAW LANDO GO UP TO Y/N FROM BEHIND AND LITERALLY PULLED HER INTO HIM BY THE WAIST AHHHHHHHHHH

➥ user8 WHATTTTT

➥ user9 picture or it didn't happen

user10 dj lando...?

-

You were about to head to the bar to get another drink, seeing as Lando wouldn't want to leave anytime soon, and your best friend was probably hooking up with some hot Spanish guy, when you felt a pair of familiar arms wrap themselves around your waist, the familiar scent of Lando's cologne surrounding you, along with the smell of alcohol.

Lando nuzzled his head into your neck, mumbling something quietly, so quiet you couldn't hear him over the club music.

"What is it?" You said, raising your voice slightly, so he could hear you over the loud buzzing of the club music.

"Nothing." He mumbled, "Missed you, is all."

A small smile unwittingly showed up on your face, "Im gonna go get a drink. Go party."

But, Lando shook his head, "Can we go back to the hotel? I wanna cuddle." He said into your neck, instinctively pulling you closer.

You were shocked, to say the least. A year ago, he wouldn't leave the club no matter how hard you tried to convince him. He was a party animal, but now, he was asking if you wanted to leave.

You checked the time on your phone, it was barely midnight, Lando never left anything before midnight, let alone a club.

"Why, are you feeling sick?" You asked him, turning around to face him.

His arms wrapped themselves back around your waist, "What?" He asked, a hint of amusement in his tone. "No." He said, "just wanna cuddle with you."

"That's new." You commented as you brought your arms up to wrap around his neck.

"I always wanna cuddle." Lando said.

"Yeah, but not at the extent of leaving the club early." You said.

"Can we please go?" He mumbled again, looking at you like a puppy.

You nodded after a few seconds, "Never liked clubbing that much anyway, I only come to be with you."

As Lando and you and Lando were heading towards the exit of the club, you bumped into Max (Fewtrell). "Leaving so soon?" He asked, a hint of surprise in his voice.

"Yeah," Lando nodded, "Going back to the hotel to cuddle with my girl." He said, raising you hand and pressing a kiss to the back of it.

"You've really changed him," Max joked, "Lando being the first to leave? Never in a billion years."

You laughed, "Believe me, I don't believe it either."

"Can we go?" Lando all but whined.

You laughed again, "Okay, okay, lets go."

You waved goodbye to Max and led Lando out the club, and when Max saw his best friend look at you like you were the one who hung the stars in the sky, he knew you'd changed him for the better. And that his best mate was well and truly, in love.

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yourusername sleepy boy chronicles 🤪

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landonorris at least I look cute ♥ by author

➥ yourusername can't disagree with that

user1 how does one fall asleep in the middle of packing?

user2 hes jus like us  🥺

➥ user3 relatable king

landonorris I was only that tired because you kept me up all night doing cardio..

user4 lando and y/n are so cute tgt I cannot

user5 Im convinced Lando only made it to 24 because of Y/n

➥ yourusername I mean..

➥ landonorris hey!

user6 Lando has no bad angles

user7 I SAW THAT LANDO

➥ user8 y/n is just a girl and lando is just a boy.. they need their cardio ;) ♥ by author

➥ user8 Y/N PLS MARRY ME

landonorris ❤️

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yourusername is this what you do in your free time? take pictures of pretty girls?

➥ landonorris only of the ones that I love more than anything

➥ yourusername so you're saying there's more than one? 🤨

maxfewtrell Happy for you, mate ♥ by author

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[81folklore]

little life - SARGEANT

pairings: logan sargeant x secret!reader (fc: chazlyn yvonne)

summary: logan is spotted liking and following an anonymous instagram account, a few sweet posts follow

type: social media au (smau)

authors note: starsandsun is your username! and nala is the cat! i love this song so much and this idea has been rotting in my brain!!

authors note 2: kinda ran out of pictures but i dont want to make a part 2 (im going to try leaving this in one part) so its a bit rushed and not really how i wanted,, i hope you guys enjoy and as always my requests are open!!

masterlist

posted 15 june 2023

starsandsun

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🐈🧺☀️

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user3 my favorite account!!

posted 26 july 2023

starsandsun

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smiles from books and beaches 🌊

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user11 wheres the dress from?

starsandsun wildroseandsparrow !!

logansargeant ☀️☀️

posted 3 august 2023

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scrapbook of summer memories 🎀🧚‍♀️🩰🌷

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user05 10 10 10 across the board🌟

starsandsun 🥹🩷

(sorry for the typo in the user🫶)

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alex_albon date night??

user72 WHERE IS THIS MAN

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feeling prettier everyday🌸🍀🎀

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logansargeant i thought it said to not pick the lavender☹️

starsandsun but its pretty💜💜

logansargeant like you!! this comment has been deleted

lilymhe pretty pretty girl🌟

starsandsun ahh thank you lovely🥹💫

starsandsun

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i think i like this little life🌊🐈🌅🦌

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logansargeant my favorite lady💫🌷

starsandsun my pretty boy☀️☀️

logansargeant missing you and nala😕

starsandsun we miss you too!! we always leave a seat for you🩷🩷

user111 oh my god theyre so cute😭😭☹️☹️

user78 they fit eachother so well :’)

user40 shes so cute what☹️

lilymhe im so obsessed w you

starsandsun i love yooooouuu🌟🌟🧚‍♀️

oscarpiastri can i see the deers??

starsandsun come visit and we can all go see them☺️��️

logansargeant and we’ll take you too the beach!!!

user62 oh theyre already my faves

[puckpocketed]

hi!!!!! im maybe perhaps a little interested in following th la kings...what th vibes are who th characters are etc n was wondering if u knew of any good primers at all ? :3 !

there are no primers here please return to your seat

serious answer: i am currently occupied with another big beaugtiful baby of a primer ! but. i will commit to a short slideshow that’s funnier + with more pictures at some nebulous point in the future!! deepest apologies 😭👍 i am NOT your kings source. idk who the kings source would even be, but it aint me!!! below is a cross section of my posts so u can vibe check us - click the non-news articles for funnies :)

here’s a tiny one i did for one of our prospects . eurotrap weed dj. just a little guy

Our kids have a history of getting injured right as they’re set to make their big step up. UNLUCKIEST GIRLS IN THE WORLD. btw <3

articles + archive links: x / y - x / y - x / y - x / y

Most recently: Arthur Kaliyev - who wanted to be traded somewhere he would have more opportunities - is freshly, guess what.,... INJURED and just as he made his peace with no trade + turning a new leaf with LA !!!!

the vibes are. LA Kings Youth Movement (soon) (SOON) (<- lie!!!) (PLAY THE KIDS. PLEASE... GOD...) (take my hand. let’s slash rob blake’s tires together <3)

Two Staches

Jordan Spence and QB by @korshrimpski

^ Phillip Danault and his two sons

Raccoon Jesus who does not understand rizz + is having a brat summer !

The vibes at practice + HQ Juice unicorn pic (same day)

[ID: The 2023-24 L.A. Kings celebrating their post practice mini-scrimmage. The forwards, having just scored, celebrate in a puppy pile against the glass. To the far right, Adrian Kempe (#9) also known as Juice, skates into the scrum. He holds his stick to his forehead as though it is a unicorn horn. /. End ID]

The Ghost Of Pierre-Luc Dubois (to ME). a lot of prospects were traded away to acquire him and he um. did not do very well here.

many lak fans in other spaces have strong negative feelings towards PLD (as is their right!) but he’s my failgirlhorsewife and he’s our very best friend and he got traded for Darcy Kuemper over the summer, and i WILL be haunting the cap.s lb because of that. no one on kingstwt will shut up about him so i think they're taking the breakup well 👍

on the topic of Kuemper. sorry i keep linking my own posts but Darcy and Dave. big. natural. <3 our gonjeous double d's...!

these posts aren’t super informative and its a lot of Me... i’m so sorry </3 i just shuffled through my lak tag and tried to remember what was funniest. legitimately cannot find old Kings blogs that are still regularly Posting and Participating so theyre all very new things... we are building these train tracks as we ride HELP.... (I genuinely have no idea what happened to nuke the community on here since i just arrived myself. lak secret community if you’re out there please speak to us … god… it’s so dark in here…....)

it’s been a mini goal of mine to breathe a little life into the tag. this isn't my primary team but i am very fond of them!! i can count on my hands every kings blog ive met here, i legitimately think i know them all?? we are so small i don't even know if we can be counted as a community. but i hope to help make the tag a warm and fun place where we can yell about our failteam <3

2024-25 LAK RENAISSANCE RAAHHHHHHH

[soup-is-nice-sometimes]

intro!!!

hi i saw my friend (thanks peter) do this and it reminded me that i probably should too oops

hi you can call me soup or lib! if/when i reblog my irls stuff/they comment on my things theyll call me lib but its up 2 you! soup is more of an online name (after my username which, despite being "soup is nice sometimes" i love soup all the time and there is never a bad time for soup!!), oh and also im non binary so they/them pronouns please :3 and i am (as most emo/mcr fans are) queer as well (aroaspec yippee)

i love mcr and fall out boy and ryan!panic at the disco and i also appreciate dallon weekes and the rest of panic - however as far as im concerned doab was the last panic album and i dont particularly like brendon urie :skull:

i also like paramore and bring me the horizon, pierce the veil, sleeping with sirens etc and im always on the lookout for more music of that typa genre so if you think i might like smth PLEASE PLEASE SEND IT TO ME in an ask or in my dms i dont mind!!

dni's are basic criteria and im also firmly on palestines side so if you disagree w that then my blog is NOT!!! for u

ermm fun facts abt me

i dyed my roots teal over the summer like gerard's teal roots but unfortunately had to bleach it back to blonde due to my schools hair rules UPDATE ON THAT its all black/brown now :(((

i like banana candy whether its the squishy ones or fruit bursts or runts and i also rlly like liquorice!

i type kinda fast and dont always spellcheck on my laptop so uh ignore typos unless theyre fatal in which case tell me

i saw mcr when they performed the 1 (one) show in our country on march 11 2023 and thats what got me fully into them - i was a casual listener for a couple of years and my best friend offered me a spare ticket she had and away we went (we were on stage left so rays side)

i am learning french through school and get to go to france this year!!!

i have such a sweet tooth its so bad but im usually good at limiting my treats (unfortunately)

i play inline hockey which is basically ice hockey on rollerblades

i play genshin on the eu server if anyone wants to be my friend :3

also feel free to send me asks n stuff i love yapping

[mondaymelon]

I feel like I’m spamming your inbox 💀

But, I have a basketball game on Friday and then another one on Saturday..oof two games straight

leaving all that aside, how was your dayyyayayay

- 🥦

i feel like im setting flames onto my poor followers' dashboards... 💀

lmao its fine what else am i going to do in my inbox other than marinate ( i have not been productive at all ughjfosdklj the new year is already 4 days past and i havent even started on this fic yet... aoisdjklfm, blegh melts into an ugly puddle on the ground )

two games straight ?? thats so silly.. and also your weekend is basically gone too byebye. rowing regattas usually take up like 6+ hours so youre pretty much at the place for the entire day ... it was freezing cold this one time and it was raining and i was sick and dying and we had to wear this skimpy ass tanktops and shorts that made me look like a T W I N K while rowing and girl we were all fucking shaking. like straight on trembling LMAO that day was not a good one ... even afterwards i was shaking so hard i could barely eat (giggles)

uhhokmllfkdjf this is awkward rn its stil pretty early like 12:31 soooo... we went to go get our visas to go back to the MOTHERLAND. E E E. E throws confetti im so excited to go back to china over summer break since the last time i visitrd it was like pre-covid and its been like 5 orr 6 years ... but yea we bopped over to chinatown while we were there and got a hAUL of asian snacks and a big ass meal that made me go "is this what its like to be pregnant because im boutta p o p."

because i am in the silly mood of wanting to overshare...

so we got these lolipops and idk what theyre called but they are my entire fucking childhood, a giant pack of fruit pudding cups (which i devoured. theyre all gone), cici jelly drinks E E E E i wanted mogu mogu but my brother chcked the bottle and they were expired giggles. little does he know (he does know i told him LMAO) that the cici's were expired october of 2023... they tasted fine though so no complains here <33

uhmuhm what else did we by i fogor but we got bottles of 冰糖雪梨which is basically happiness (and sugar) in a bottle. very scrumptious. 1000/10

( qotd: guess who im stalking by looking at the image above.. stares at kio. )

[ratatatastic]

I really enjoyed your posts about Lombo's and Ekky's interviews, so thanks for that! I also listened to them, do you have other recommendations?

Thanks!

ooo! so for more shortform stuff you cant go wrong with a territory talk or a miami mic'd up since it has a homecrowd audience in mind because its our guys running it

for tt theyre nice and sweet and also pretty topical for the time (i really enjoyed when they talked to lundy, luosty, mikksy and stenny but stenny especially i think its hysterical this man went yeah id be a football player if i didnt hockey i kinda want to be one actually...) theyres also just a good backlog to get through (re: the 11 min sasha holiday special lmao)

for mmu since jeremy talks more with the fish and sports staff in general theres not a lot of cats stuff persay but he does did do media day interviews and compiled the 2324 one into 1 episode so if you wanted to get to know players coming into the season you can just watch that especially because at the end he has a superlative/which cat is... speed round and its interesting to see the trends in answers. hes done a 2223 one too but its split into parts (sasha,ekky, reino; gudas, benny, bobby; knighter, horny, swaggy) hes also done a solo sasha interview, matthew, stevie, duke, lombo

or NHLWAM if you want to see the finns in a more relaxed environment and i really liked it if not to see their dynamic with each other in the newly weds game they made them play lol (sasha, lundy; luosty mikksy) (but its only in finnish so you can only get a machine translation through the yt webplayer so take it with a grain of salt) (though users on here have been kind enough to translate some short clips like when sasha talks about mikksy)

for longer form stuff im a bit stumped

if you liked how the ekky interview was run that same podcast interviewed matthew back in 2020 (as a flame) and in 2023 (as a cat) as well as monty in 2023 before 2324 season started though i havent fully watched any of it yet just scrubbed through but from the soundbites i liked it enough to bookmark it for a rainy day

im always hesistant to rec spittin chiclets if not for the fact that i cant stand the guys running the pod and sometimes theyll make a couple of weird comments that just... anyways... as in hockey nature, players just feel more comfortable talking amongst themselves (i.e the time they had sibney on and you got some absolute gold out of him i was fucking gobsmacked) (and also why the lombo interview from the buzzpod is so good because 1. nicos an ahler and 2. theyre currently playing in the same summer league) theyve had quite the array of cats guests: okie reino matthew and benny and many more guests so like watch those ones at your own peril lmao

missin curfew has some stuff as well they had a monty interview too ive been meaning to watch

[platonicmoonwater00]

ok i just watched two movies on stan. the first one was close(2023), which i was not expecting to have such a tragic ending. i was bawling.

the second one was my first summer(2020) absolutely beautiful, i loved it. australian, queer and sapphic isnt a combination i see a lot in media and im all three so yay. also quick question, when do you guys think it was set?

edit: the reason im asking is cos the cop said shed be like an adult when she was 17. i saw his license plate and it was a victorian license plate so i was like oh maybe its different there but i looked it up and youve definitely gotta be 18. so i think its set in the past and maybe the law's changed since. it felt pretty modern but also even grace didnt have a phone and she talked about reading the newspaper which people dont usually do anymore.

ALSO do you guys have any suggestions for sapphic tv shows(that wont make me bawl my eyes out) cos all the ones ive found either have a sapphic side character and the main characters are all straight or the main characters are sapphic but theyre like 40. nothing wrong with that i just prefer like teen and coming of age shows ig. PLS HELP

[thisischeri]

i scrolled too far on your blog and it took me to posts from 2015 and i didnt realize and just went "huh theyre taking the pretending its 2015 bit a little far" 10/10 blog

the beauty about my blog is that I set it up in 2009-2010, when I was 14/15 years old.

I actively used it till 2015. I never had a big following or engagement and I did witness the ugly side of things here.

Then this year (2023) during summer I had a bigger surgery that made me bed ridden and was under a bunch of pain killers. They were a bit harsh on me and every time it faded from my body I had this rude awakening with my mental health and about my life. So I decided to claim back what I always loved so much — tech. Especially nostalgia tech because it made me so so happy as a child then as teen. It was my sweet escape.

I also just reached 3000 followers here which I have never experienced before, not even 2000 or 1000 or 500.

So thank you so much for liking my lil blog, I truly do it because I love it. Feels me with joy that you also get some happiness out of it.

— your robot girly, ch3r1

[sirotras]

2023 crochet round up!

i mentioned making a post like this a few days ago, and true to my nature, i waited until the last minute to get pictures

so here we are, in no particular order, various projects i finished in 2023

1.) this was technically crocheted last year (i think) but this year i finally assembled and lined it, making it finished! its not quite the size to be a purse, but its perfect for carrying my phone and keys while dog walking

i followed this pattern, and im really happy with the results!

2.) some little zipper bags. like the bag above, the purple one was crocheted last year, but i finally added the lining and zipper this year (i also used the same pattern as the above bag to make the purple one)

the grey one doesnt have a lining and zipper yet, but since the crochet is finished, it still makes the list

3.) little squares from this pattern, to have something to clip my stitch markers to, very helpful for travel

4.) a few of the chokers i made during the summer, there are a bunch more, but you get the idea, a couple were made based on this pattern

4.) this one was hard to get a good shot of, but it's a cat blanket i made for my sister's cats

the pattern was a free one i got from michael's in store, which doesnt seem to be on their site? however its a pretty simple pattern, im pretty sure you could find something nearly identical by searching "star baby blanket" or something like that

5.) for ages now i've been meaning to make something to keep my tablet pens in, because having them loose in my bag is begging for disaster

i actually had to make this little case twice, the first one was too long and the proportions looked weird, so it isnt pictured here

i hand finished all the seams for the lining, there was no practical need to do this

6.) pouch to carry headphones i got for my birthday

7.) pouch to carry Cool Rocks

the bottom of the bag comes from these doily patterns, and the ends of the ties are from this pattern

8.) a mini dice bag, made to hold a couple sets of mini dice my sister made for me!

9.) several cord ties made from this pattern, the flower was my own addition (only two ties are pictured because i didnt feel like tracking down the third)

10.) a flower vine to decorate my desk, no actually on my desk because i still need to sort out how i want to attach it

11.) speaking of flowers, ive probably made dozens of these little guys, they're very quick to make, and a good way to give my hands something to do while watching something

12.) little succulents from this pattern

13.) oops! another pouch to hold even more Cool Rocks

14.) while technically i still need to to line these bags, i still wanted to include them, i made them from this pattern, and im very excited for when theyre actually finished so i can use them

next we're getting into some shawls i made, and unfortunately i just dont have a good set up for getting pics of them

15.) this one was made by doing a little variation from this pattern

16.) this was made from the all shawl pattern by doris chan, its a really great pattern for beginner's, the first shawl i made was from that pattern!

17.) this was made from a variation on the same pattern i used for the cat blanket, i made a couple others from the same sort of pattern late last year, but i decided i needed one in black in october, because it looks just a bit like bat wings

18.) i made a cowl from this pattern, and i really love the texture of it! i also made one for my mom in a different color, which is not pictured here because i took these picture last minute

other things not pictured include: a dice bag for my sister, flowers for my mom, and a sack for the cats to curl up in (since they love making nests out of my projects)

[crushedsweets]

HIIII HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! hope you have a lovely 2024 keep being amazing!!!! <3

-🦈

ahh anon ANON UR SO KIND IM SO LATE BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I HOPE YOUR 2024 IS GOING BEAUTIFULLY!! This yr has been awesome so far, spending time with friends i love. i got published and formatted a textbook for my school !! i started my paid internship for my school!!! im living w my grandparents n my cats cuddle me now (theyre usually very skittish..)... had an awesome valentines with my gf. have ton of plans for summer. i got accepted into the universities i applied to. i have so much to be very grateful for and i hope that you guys all do too. 2023 was a beautiful year and im beyond excited for what the rest of 2024 has to offer

[styllexie]

Since I got into a new class I made new friends and OMFG THEYRE ALL SKINNYYYYY WHAT THE HELL

In my old friend circle I was the skinniest one (back when I was about 55 kg) but now my best friends are all smaller and skinnier than me😭😭

I think both must be around 45 kg😰

I lost 10+ kg summer of 2023 and now I’m so ready to be back

I gained all weight back so now for autumn I’m going on a strict diet again

I even lost my period last summer!! So nice not worrying about bleeding out lmao

My school also has a free gym so yk what that meannnssss

[oh-cramity-its-amity]

real! I used to love her (ts) but she feels very different than she used to. I’ve listened to phoebe bridgers a bit, she was good just not the type of music I usually listen to. Boy genius and Lucy Dacus are both amazing tho. They for sure deserved to win Aoty, or sia

sorry for how long this got??? i just started writing and oh whoops....

anyway- THATS what ive been saying about her unfortunately. its like after folklore/evermore things genuinely changed because of all the fame and popularity. people werent criticizing her anymore and instead overly praising her.

which isnt bad! i do think she deserves praise over folklore. the marketing of it being a suprise album was very clever too. but i think before those folklore there was a sense of criticism that people had with her music that kept her wanting to innovate it.

i have a strong believe that social media's algorithms are failing artists to innovate pop music in the same way than 00's pop music did just because of how much less artists have to lose now with their brandings. i once again bring up artpop by lady gaga and how much she lost for her idea???? and now??? gaga was really fucking killing it. her music had such creativity and passion put into it that you can SEE her drive in that. (also to know i didnt understand artpop as an album until MUCH later in my life)

but taylors lack of needing to innovate her sound due to her popularity and lack of criticism really has just shown how much her music has come to decline in quality. if you see the transition between fearless and speak now. those two albums. she TOOK the criticism that she "couldnt write her own songs" and literally flipped that narrative to write that entire album herself. and to me? arguably speak now is MY favorite taylor album.

and the transition between speak now to red to 1989 to reputation. theres SO much that happened in that sense of time. theres different sounds that make those albums what they are. 1989 was such a creative endeavor for her because it was her first step into pop music. i think was also her first time working with jack? now people say her decline on music is his fault as a producer but i dont believe his role had gotten bad until midnights. (i saw people discussing clairo's sling album because he produced it. but THEYRE WRONG. SLING IS GOOD AND HIS ERA OF BAD PRODUCING HAPPENED IN 2023(?) i forget when midnights came out ugh thats how many taylor albums we have gotten ffs)

but the breakaway and challenge 1989 gave really set up for reputation. she disappeared because of all the hate. and i think while I DONT SUPPORT that type of treatment because no one should go through that type of mental low... that really set her into a space to create more fluidly and with more passion?

lover- people will say was a flop.. and ill admit too... cruel summer?? shouldve never ever became a single. it was better as a hidden gem. but lover was good for the majority of songs!! there's still passion in it.

it was just that after folklore/evermore it felt very.... underwhelming and not like her at all. the quality slipped so so off the page. it just feels very recycled and unnecessary. especially like i said the fandom doesnt help with overconsumtion and she really truly should use her platform for more. the economy being in shambles and yet she wants to charge $700 for a concert ticket. (nothing bad if like someone WANTS to go but its genuinely ridiculous because inflation shouldnt BE like that).

not to even cover merch??? why is it so high?? shouldnt you want it to be accessible to your fans since you have so many?? vinyl prices are ridiculous but WHY is a hoodie almost $100. im sorry but like why 😭. cant we just charge $60 again?????

anyway all that to say that after the evermore era her music genuinely slipped off. im just thankful that the speak now rerecord didnt get BOTCHED as high hell. i have opinions about the vault tracks because the entire reason was to include tracks from that era and yet its like your smearing shit onto a perfectly wonderful painting and saying "look yall!! i added to this!!" wrong. wrong wrong wrong. idk. 1989's vault tracks just made me mad. it felt so unlike the vibe of what 1989 was???? and slut was NOT written at the time of 1989. come on.

timeless though off of the rerecord for speak now.... i will defend that one with my honor. i genuinely am glad speak now's vault tracks didnt get horrible treatment. i like that she kept the solo writing with the entire album. adding on fob and hayley's collabs as a callback because i really remember seeing videos of her singing sugar were going down and thats what you get during the speak now tour. it just felt like a full circle moment for that. fob's collab couldve been better but im glad it wasnt like... bad.

stilllll think matty's collab couldve been iconic on slut. even if i hate 1989's vault tracks as a whole... the 1975 does have good music. I KNOW. controversial yeah. anyway. hes got talent tho.

i found phoebe during 2020 when i was listening to a bunchhh of different artists (the 1975 too yeah). but punisher found me and i used to not be able to sleep due to anxiety/insomnia back then and i would listen to that album for months to just SLEEP.

i have a closeee bond with it. its like my favorite if not a close second of my favorite album of all time. its just really interesting?? also really valid that its not your type of music either. i just hold her stuff close. also did a english assignment on smoke signals' lyrics. i remember that. i got to say "fuck the cops" in the assignment and felt very proud of myself LMAO.

in terms of lucy- i for some reason never have gotten around to listening to her stuff?? even though i know i need to and should?? i just always somehow forget. many people have told me to but oh man i forget.

glad we can agree that they deserved album of the year btw.

sorry for the LENGTHY reply but yeah!! i might be forgetting to talk about something but askinf about my special interests (music) will always give you a lengthy answer.

[pawzofchaos]

TOTAL DRAMA 2023 SEASON 2 PREDICTIONS!!!!!:

// spoilers for season 1 if u haven’t seeen it yet

-since Priya won, she’s lowkey just coming back to help Damien and Millie win :]

-since Bowie was in the finals, he unfortunately can’t be in it again :(( buuuut he’d probably get super far again

-EMMA BREAKS UP WITH CHASE 4 GOOD!! God damn they need 2 actually break up, wake up to reality Emms

-ripper redemption arc?!?! Or at least smth with him— cuz like one of the producers said “we’ll see a new side of Ripped” so that’s either a redemption arc or him kissing men or smth who knows

-more zee, ripper and chase moments theyre literally my fav trio ever, esp Ripper and Zee

-AXEL MAKES IT FAR!! Cuz she got fucking voted out 15th

-Caleb DOES NOT have a villain arc,, but he does get more strict with people and makes it further

-more scary girl freaking the fuck outta Damien

-Damien x Priya relationship?? Or maybeeee Priya x Millie but I might b pushing it

-trans character?!!?!?

-everyone knows Julia is full of shit so she tries making alliances like A and WT Heather

-Nichelle trains over the summer and actually gets good at shit

-NEW LOCATION!! NEW LOCATION!! Dunno what, BUT NEW LOCATION!!!

-MORE RAJBOW!! They gotta at least be starting the relationship by now

-speaking of that, rajbow DOES NOT get ruined, they become the couple ever AND NOTHING EVER HAPPESN TO THEM!!

-also maybe drama with Bowie Raj and Wayne?? I’d hate to see it and it’d be unlikely, but there’s gotta be some kind of drama, the shows called total *drama*

-everyone keeps saying ripper will be out first, but I don’t think so!! I wanna see him more okay? He’s my bbg he can’t get out first 😦

-hmm maybe MK gets out first? Or maybe Nichelle, idk

-ripper and chase get together and kiss trust me this will happen totally

-maybe another relationship 2?? Like Juliayne or smth

-ok but Zee and Axel final 2?!? Or maybe Damien and Axel final 2?!? OR ZEE AND DAMIEN FINAL 2?!?

-maybe scary girl in final 3?

[grimmshood]

OK. my collection. putting under readmore bc its just details of what i have

61 albums, fuck ton of posters and postcards (some from albums and some are freebies from keychains i bought) , my little binder has 146 photocards (including fanmade ones), and 2 lightsticks (shinee and loona).

i have 4 out of 8 skzoo plushies (i dont really want the rest tbh, puppym and hanquokka were gifts) 2 furbies with batteries taken out (mr blue sky is fully working, msslimer has a broken voice. both of them just get too annoying when theyre on but i still love them) 2 oui ouis (tomato is not named, shitter oui is named taemin) the., oui oui tadpole thing (named yeojin) and you cannot see but bang chan is standing in front of the 6 card decks i have (all diff themes, favs are my f13, pmmm and dbd card decks) little unicorn kitty plush is named charlotte and i got her from one of my buddies :)

i will literally never use my trickster candle i just sniff it sometimes

not pictured are my loona summer pckge and skz seasons greetings bc theyre boring to look at, my poster tubes (onew dice + circle, 4 key posters, 1 xh overload and the 2023 smcu shinee) and my stack of folded posters (3 key, 2 skz, and 3 loona) and the rest of my loona seasons greetings is off somewhere bc my dumbass threw away the box when i got it. also my pinboard and figures but ive posted my figures already and my pinboard is empty except for some dbd and ososan keychains and various tiny pins i have. theres also a bunch of other plushies but i dont really count them in this and i have 2 bts cupsleeves from cupsleeve events (idgaf abt bts but. i have them) also loona fabric poster i have hanging on my lights and my trickster fan. my trickster plushy sits on my desk next to super sucklet and my wife figures.

the cd holder has all the cds from these albums (so somewhere around 61 except some albums had multiple cds and one album is a cassette tape so it doesnt really go in there)

i flipped off my skz poster bc the top corner always wants to fall off the fucking wall and i haved to put it up with duct tape bc it kept falling down.

i would put up my other posters like the key ones but my parents wont let me so the small ones in my closet and on my bookshelf are all i really have. Maybe one day like 20 years from now if im still kicking

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 17/11/2023

Beyond the Floating Isles

Season 4 Episode 2 Featured on: Summer​-​Colored Smiles ~ The SiIvaSummer All​-​Star Festival Collection

Ripped by redoxwarfare

Due to the absolute volume of rips per each album, a lot of my time listening to SiIvaGunner is done so rather passively. I'll chuckle with a joke I recognize, add tracks to "Banger" and "Vibes" playlists if I'm enjoying them, and continue with my day. Its only when I decide to just listen to those playlists in particular that my brain starts getting into gear again. Like...what *is* Beyond the Floating Isles even from? I knew it was an absolute vibe of a rip, yet knew nothing else about it. That was when my journey started - and my sudden, adoring infatuation with the band "Crying".

I only just recently turned 22 years old, and for a long part of that life, I didn't really...listen to music. I enjoyed looking up my favorite video game music, and Minecraft music videos were of course part of the collective childhood of my generation...yet the act of just listening to music for music's sake, the appeal of the creative medium, was somehow lost on me. There's likely something deep-rooted in my neurodivergent mind that explains this, but SiIvaGunner has as a result been a way for me to find bands and albums that I truly connect with - through the shared passion of video game music, I've been able to grow that emotional attachment to bands that I otherwise wholly felt like I lacked. The most prominent example of that is of course Maroon 5 thanks to channel creator Chaze the Chat's enduring passion for the band in the channel's first four Seasons: I've discussed in posts like Moves Like K.K. just how much that passion reflected back onto me, and its far from the only band I've gone through this with. It may sound silly to say, but these video game mashups and arrangements and meme edits have genuinely helped me grow attached to vocals and melodies and themes from the wider music industry that I never would've otherwise.

Which brings us to my most recent experience with this - Beyond the Floating Isles, and Patriot by Crying. After making more of an initiative for myself to listen to more non-VGM this year, and after having this rip sit in my playlists for years on end, I decided it was finally time to do my due digging. What I found was a band I'd never heard of before, with only one true album release, and a lack of any real activity over the last six years. Beyond the Fleeting Gales sits at just shy of 150 thousand views on YouTube - less than SEVERAL of the rips I've covered here on this blog, yet is one of my new all-time favorite albums yet released. Patriot may be the song covered in today's rip and the one I'm the most emotionally attached to, but the album in its entirety exudes a similar vibe that I'm absolutely enamored with - a vibe that redoxwarfare did an incredible job distilling into a rip. Float Islands was an excellent choice for a song to use for such an atmospheric, uplifting song as Patriot - the two themes have little in common in terms of joke-material, but its clear to me that Beyond the Floating Isles was not made with comedy as its main intent.

I have no connection to redoxwarfare - never spoken, not sure of which rips they've made prior, and no true image of their interests and goals as a ripper. Yet Beyond the Floating Isles speaks with so much intent and love - love for a band that feels destined to be forgotten, yet is adored by the few in the masses who have found them. And I extend my deepest, sincerest gratitude toward redoxwarfare for succesfully introducing me to Crying - even if its three years after the fact, I now finally see the Fleeting Gales, and beyond.

(no but seriously go listen to Crying i will break traditional post formatting just to give you easy access to it theyre SO GOOD)