#year in yearning

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[florine-grassenhopper]

My favorite albums of 2023

When I look back at the new music that I loved in 2023, it occurs to me that after some very low lows, and some giggly enthusiastic highs, it was a very good year in my sliver of the world.  We played many of these songs during my wedding including Decisive Pinks' "Dopamine,” Chappell Roan's "Red Wine Supernova," and "I am the river" from Lael Neale's Star Eaters Delight.

I listened to Koleżanka, after seeing them live on a rooftop in Brooklyn one starry late-summer evening with my best-friend from graduate school just before she moved away New York City and returned to Quebec.  The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We was released my second night back in my childhood hometown while my grandmother sat up in a two-to-a-room hospital ward and was diagnosed with cancer. The same as her late husband, she believed something she did that caused it. I listened to the album as I walked and marveled at the frogs and deer of suburban Iowa's wildlife. 

I listened to Bug Club's Rare Birds, An Hour of Song in the weeks after the wedding feeling absolutely enthralled by the combination of poetry of the parties of guitars. It has some of the best lyrics I have heard in years, and every few days I find myself quoting it:  "I shut my beak, just once a week, to listen to the sound. Western whispers, busy feet, spare change upon the ground. The whispers lie. The feet are mine. The change is superglued. If anything I'm lonelier in this world I never knew."  It's a grim verse, but a delightful and playful album. 

& recently, as I left my job near Herald Square for the last time, and began negotiating a particularly intimidating contract, I listened to the new Mountain Goats album. I listened to it like I did when I was teenager listening to the early Mountain Goats. I was sure of their wisdom. Content to see in their songs the low lows, "You're going to make a bargain with the bad guys. You're going to make some choices you regret," and the high highs. "You may forget the whys and wheres Of an old tattoo on your forearm there But usually, you recall the day you got one And usually, it fades in the sun But not this one."

[hinamie]

unconditionally

[taintedbiprincess]

Someone to fuck me senseless

🤝

Someone to call home and feel safe with

[daisyndahlia]

whatever i don't care

[rocker-socks]

People talking about how Telemachus is written too young and "his song is more fitted to a 13 year old than a 20 year old" is both really funny and also kinda depressing.

There’s actual reasons - in Ancient Greece 20 year old men, while certainly not considered children, also weren't thought of as adults but instead youths. Admiteddly this a more athens leaning take, but even in Sparta men weren't allowed to hold political positions until they turned 30.

In a more modern take, as a 20 year old this is exactly how my peers act and feel. The vast majority of people in their early twenties have no idea what the hell they're doing.

Obviously not so much a tumblr problem - aged demographic and all - but also both really funny and a little sad to see on tiktok. Yes 14 year old, even at 20 you will be yearning to be Great with no idea how to do so.

[fizpup]

pov: it’s the mid 2000s and you’re learning what love is

[canayams-art]

“It’s a bit big on me… don’t you think, General—?”

[dailydetectiveking]

Hm. This is indeed strange...I don't think I have come across this particular villager on town square yet. Perhaps you should try to offer her a pinecone?

[richter-kale]

dug up an old scogan doodle to celebrate the new wolverine film :}

[internetburial]

[hellfire--cult]

Look at our baby boy growin up

[sentientsky]

The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book Depiction of Gay Yearning by Neil Gaiman

[aprito]

sos month day 14: pining

nothing quite as bitter as the taste of regret

[afterglowkatie]

born to be in a cute wlw relationship…constantly attracted to emotionally unavailable women

[alfairy]

Nimona AU where Ballister and Nimona do leave the kingdom and go over the wall to find a new safe home. Years pass. The kingdom is more paranoid than ever because the queen killer and the monster were never caught and could presumably still live among them or return to cause more chaos.

The director decides one day that they need to take the fight to the monsters, strike first before they are stricken again. Knights are sent out beyond the wall to search the surrounding land and burn down the woods in order to “smoke the monsters out.” Destroying everything, trying to fight a monster that was never even there.

During one of these instances, Ambrosius and Ballister finally see each other again face to face for the first time in years since that fateful interaction at the institution. They’ve both changed, physically at least; Ambrosius’ hair is longer, Bal’s got some more grey streaks and a new arm upgrade. But underneath all of that they’re still the same, still got that lingering hurt and romantic feelings. Nimona is still the same as ever and hasn’t aged a day.

(Also idea that maybe there’s other small communities and people living outside the wall that Bal and Nimona ended up quietly settling down in. People who are far more open minded and accepting of others, and who are more concerned about the walled off kingdom with guns pointing at them than this nice guy and his cool daughter. That’s their neighbor and they’re not gonna let some knights storm in and cause trouble for him.)