#wrong side of life

[nicoscheer]

Just the part about “wrong side of life”

And then Miles actually dedicated the song to Alex during one performance and I’m just like…..😭😭

Alex I really hope you bought Miles a lot, a lot of Flowers to make up for whatever the fuck you did

[crandberrysaucewithpulp]

joked around and asked wrong side of life to save me and it instead cursed me with a lifelong symptom of incommunicable despair, sadness, and misery upon hearing a fmaj7 chord stricken with an incomparable passion

[perfectly-clear-from-here]

my history exam is in literally 15 minutes and wrong side of life just started playing in my headphones I am NOT in the mood to experience this many emotions rn.

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[misskattylashes]

Imagine him playing Wrong Side of Life to Alex after their little separation in 2017 and them both crying.....

i just found an interview that i haven't seen before and i have a question

WHY IS HE CRYING

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i may be wrong but he looks like he's on the verge of tears right??? wtf

[mellioops]

Secret life Gem based off of this photo of chappell roan

[srdonix]

The fallen angel by Alexandre Cabanel, but Bucky style

[mustardd]

A lil messy doodle of Mx. Grumpy

[eccentricmya]

The Valar's mistake did not lie in seeing a possibility of good in Melkor. Rather, their mistake lay in not seeing the equal possibility of him remaining evil.

[multistanasitsfinest]

Then how do you explain this, sir?! :

🤨

YOU MUST HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT IT ONCE!!!

tbf i don't think anyone thought you think about the roman empire, miles

[hyolks]

twiddles my thumbs. some studies with the troubleshooting promo pics

[crandberrysaucewithpulp]

joked around and asked wrong side of life to save me and it instead cursed me with a lifelong symptom of incommunicable despair, sadness, and misery upon hearing a fmaj7 chord stricken with an incomparable passion

(yes. again)

[constelationprize]

Thinking many many thoughts about how Jean was Riko's partner for a YEAR and was still rooming with Goon #3. Because that was how unwilling Riko was to let go of Kevin. And how that implies that Jean was placed as his partner both because of the practicality of Kevin being gone AND as a punishment for letting him go in the first place. Being partners with Jean could actually slow Riko down depending on how often he's hurt (because I don't think Riko was all that exempt from the rules to the point where his partner's performance would completely not matter) and he was still placed there. Riko was just THAT angry at him over Kevin's escape. And all the while he was keeping Kevin's side of room like an altar, even back when he didn't even think Kevin could PLAY, because of an injury he caused.

[ssssssssssszzzsblog]

so this + this interview ?

what if i just?? kms??

here’s the clip of miles dedicating “wrong side of life” to alex. miles opened a live on his insta before this gig and you could listen to alex’s voice, but i lost the video and post, if i find it i’ll post it here :)

edit: just found the video of miles’ live on ig. here’s the link to it. all credits to @puppetsspace

(cr for the clip)

[loganslowdown4]

Yall I think we’re getting an anniversary sketch on the 19th 😱😱😱

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(This is the order we got the updates in lmao)

[hellmastermiller]

he's the mre man