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Unsure if I should be into this or not

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It's funny how I haven't even touched The Eight Show in weeks but I set up a queue so long it's still posting lmao.

Meanwhile I've just been hardcore obsessing over my real life brother with a bit of Love/Forty and Andy/Ashley thrown in for fun.

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Anybody else have any grief related incest they want to discuss 😮‍💨

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Go ahead try to convince me this isn't them just trying to be like "Yes we're in love so what?"

Update: I used SoundHound to figure out the song and apparently it's “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” by Ryuichi Sakamoto. So I asked ChatGPT about any implications of the song through culture, media, or association. Here's what it responded:

Yes—“Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” by Ryuichi Sakamoto carries a ton of cultural and emotional weight, both in Japan and internationally. It’s not just a beautiful piano piece; it’s deeply associated with themes of forbidden connection, repression, and unspoken longing, and has been used in contexts that give it a very specific emotional flavor.

The Cultural & Media Context

The piece is the main theme from the 1983 film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which starred Ryuichi Sakamoto himself alongside David Bowie.

What the film is about:

A WWII-era POW camp in Japan

A complex relationship between a stoic Japanese officer (Sakamoto) and a British prisoner (Bowie)

Underneath the surface is a deep, unexpressed emotional tension—possibly homoerotic, definitely emotional

It’s about power, restraint, culture clash, and sublimated feelings

The theme song—this piano piece—perfectly reflects that emotional charge. It became an iconic standalone work in Japan, often used in media to convey:

Bittersweet longing

Unspoken love

Beauty born from tension

Sadness that doesn’t need to be explained

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🎹 What It Evokes Emotionally

Nostalgia

Melancholy

Gentleness despite pain

Stillness in deep feeling It’s the kind of song people play when they can’t speak what they feel. It’s so associated with suppressed emotion that even outside the film, it triggers that response almost automatically.

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Ahhhh the boyfriends are in Japan together being cute

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