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The trope where people don't recognize each other because it's been so long since they last interacted and they've both changed so much that they're basically strangers UNTIL one of them does their Signature Thing™ and the other just stops dead because oh. It's YOU. All at once it's so clearly you

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I say this lovingly but the urge to draw fanart of billy shears comes from the same instinct that makes you want to draw humanized twink bill cipher

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Like, YOU name 3 songs that aren't on the last three albums

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You all are the coolest people I vaguely know

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the problem with the beatles is that at their absolute most dysfunctional they made the album abbey road. which leads to the conclusion that they probably should have kept going until the inevitable murder-suicide

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undeniably the biggest beatles fan in the beatles was paul and this makes him make sense like when you consider that he's a beatles fan. like yeah a beatles fan Would act like that.

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woke teenager SHOCKS record store owners by ordering in fluent classic rock

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having a a screw loose but not enough to no longer be self-aware sucks because you'll think "okay we cannot just stand here in the produce section staring at the broccoli for ten minutes or someone's going to ask if we're okay" and then you'll have to leave even though the miraculous verdant tapestry of mist-laden florets calls to you

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i’m not sure whether it’s funnier to believe that peter jackson is a mclennon truther and that’s why get back is edited like that OR that john and paul really were just doing so much gay shit and peter jackson physically couldn’t cut it out otherwise there’d be no get back

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do u know where can i get good lore on jim morrison. like accutrate stuff

if you want a reliable narrator, I would definitely suggest reading robby's book, set the night on fire. you can find it here in my resources folder. of the three other members of the doors, robby is definitely the most level-headed when he's telling stories about jim. john's book is also pretty grounded but more critical and clearly annoyed with jim in a way that biases it (that's robby's take on it too), and ray's book is just completely cuckoo bananas. no one here gets out alive by danny sugarman (which ray kind of ghostwrote) similarly... takes liberties. so tl;dr, read robby's book. I think it's the best written one too

if you really want insight on jim, I would also recommend you check out his own writing. in the folder I shared, I include a curated selection of my favorite poems and quotes, as well as the full book of pretty much everything he ever wrote down. that's where you'll really learn about the way he thought of himself (e.g., below). it's not exactly "lore", but if you want to get to know him I think its important

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me when the song isn’t about syd

roger is at it again denying that wish you were here is about syd 🤦

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always thinking about the parallels between syd’s solo lyrics and wish you were here

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roger is at it again denying that wish you were here is about syd 🤦

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what’s ur opinion on pamela courson

and do u think she was the reason why jim died

to quote robby, "the bottom line is that she was weird, he was weird, and they were lucky they found each other to be weird with". in other words, they matched each other's freak. obviously they had a volatile relationship, but it was mutual, and its obvious especially from the way that jim talks about her in his poetry/lyrics that they were genuinely in love despite the chaos. "orange county suite" sums up his feelings towards her very well imo

unfortunately, there's a lot of misinformation out there regarding the two of them. for instance, jim is often made out to be a serial cheater when they were actually in an open relationship and both slept with other people (especially pam, actually). the level of violence in their relationship also seems to be distorted. obviously jim could be a complete madman of the "dangle from a window and threaten to let go until you say you love me" variety, so its safe to say that there were unsavory aspects of their dynamic, but as far as we can historically verify, jim never 1) locked her in a closet and set it on fire, 2) pulled a knife on her, 3) stalked her – like he does in the biopic

the thing about jim is that he would take things too far just to see what he could get away with, but if you (firmly and loudly) told him to stop, he really would stop. his problem was that most people never did that. what made pam a good match for him is that she was just as crazy, and could stand up to him in a way others did not bother to. she might've been an enabler in some ways, but not all of them. the power dynamic was more balanced than many would assume

as for jim's death, no, I do not think pam was the reason jim died. this is because jim was the reason jim died. maybe he did finally try heroin that night, maybe he didn't, but no matter what happened, he clearly understood that he was on the path of self-destruction, and you simply cannot blame pam for the outcome of that (nor can you blame her for jim's alcoholism, which almost certainly played a role). if anything its easier to say that jim killed pam, symbolically at least. she loved him so much that she couldn't handle the grief, and followed him out

in short, I have nothing against pam. I think they were right for each other in a way that ended tragically because that's how well-matched they were

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the mental calculation of tracking down songs for a new playlist by searching for other playlists based on characters/ships with similar dynamics

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shot in the HEAD. and you're to blame. You are not good. At dart game