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Life can't hurt you if you disassociate hard enough <3

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i will wait for you

she said

endlessly

i’ll be very honest, being loved by someone like me isn’t soft or beautiful or poetic the way people romanticize it. it’s dark. it’s obsessive. it’s a kind of hunger that doesn’t stop once it starts. and the worst part? when you live far from the person you love, the love doesn’t dissolve— it ferments. it festers. the poems stop sounding like love letters and start feeling like screams no one hears. it’s not yearning anymore, it’s erosion. a slow-burning cannibalism of your own self.

because what’s the point of loving someone you can’t touch? can’t reach? can’t whisper things to at 2 am when the world is too quiet and your brain won’t shut up? it just stays trapped. inside you. turns sour. turns sharp. turns cruel. and then it spreads. into your fists. into your teeth. into the corners of your smile. and you carry it around like a curse no one else can see.

it’s fucking miserable being loved by someone like me. because i don’t just love. i collapse. quietly. completely. endlessly.

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but I yearn only for you you will destroy me with words that you have never spoken

to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you. by A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

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::slowclap:: sonofabitch

the decline of malls is like deforestation for emo kids

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ahem. it was created by the deftones when they released digital bath in 2000...

i will be fucking dying on this hill, and won't be taking questions

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::moans::

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love your hate

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did anyone ever feel psychic when they knew the house phone was about to ring because of the way it created feedback in the speakers?

good times

you and your friend rushing to turn down the volume on these speakers in the computer room when Kelly in the “Shoes” video reached the bridge and started screaming FUCK YOU

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...consumed doesn't even fucking cover it

— David Cronenberg, Consumed

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the year is 2002. you’re on the family computer. you log into AIM. you hear the door open. your stomach flips.you check your list—they’re there. your heart races. your palms sweat. you stare at the screen. then—the door closes. they’re gone. was that a glitch? did they block you? are they coming back? you sit there, sick to your stomach. you know what you have to do: leave the most unhinged lyrics you can think of as an away message. what are you leaving? drop it below.

the truth is you could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath i'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt

internet friends

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the irony of living "one life," yet holding funerals for yourself over and over again... burning away the version of you that you loved the most, the one you swore you'd never lose. clutching it in the dark, whispering "stay" and still, you immolate in the name of something you thought was sacred, safe, worthy was it? will it ever be? timelines crashing, threads snapping, circling the grave—because sometimes the finality of it is worse than the fall. until one day you catch yourself—absentmindedly rolling wax between what's left of your charred fingers blackened bone scraping over scarred flesh, and you wonder, “maybe this time.”

there's a sickness in the cycle...

collapse inward, —CxC

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wake up, choose emo

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i could read about this shit all day, i should have taken music theory in college. hm

collapse in waves,

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A Brief Explanation of the Waves of Emo

Emo is divided up into 5 waves (or sometimes just 4, because we're still early in 5th wave and it's very difficult to draw a distinction). Here's a quick explanation of each of them:

1st wave - 1984ish-1991 - Emotional hardcore/emocore. These bands are all still hardcore punk (or sometimes just barely post-hardcore), but with more focus on melody, and lyrics that tend to be about more personal topics ("i'm depressed and my girlfriend broke up with me" as opposed to punk's typical "capitalism fucking sucks you guys"). It originated in DC during the Revolution Summer. Most of the well known bands from this era are either from there or another part of the east coast.

2nd wave - 1992-2001 - Midwest emo, skramz, and the start of emo pop. This is when we see people inspired by emocore start to get further into the melodic side of things while keeping true to the confessional lyrics, creating the subgenre of midwest emo (named for the fact that the scene started in Illinois and then spread around the midwest). We also see screamo, or skramz, develop in San Diego and later parts of the east coast, heavily inspired by emocore and hardcore. The difference is that skramz bands, you guessed it, use a vocal style referred to as screaming (because that's... basically what it is). We also see the start of emo pop, whose origins are quite messy, but are considered part of the scene due to the confessional lyric style and similar punk influences.

3rd wave - 2002-2008 - Emo pop, post-hardcore, and metalcore influences. This is the scene most people think of when they hear 'emo'. The genre became mainstream, specifically the emo pop side. It grew less confessional and more produced as bands tried to appeal to wider audiences. Post-hardcore, a more experimental form of hardcore punk, also became very closely connected with the scene due to their shared origins and sound. Because metalcore was also getting popular around the same time, you can see its influence in many 3rd wave bands. This is where you'll see probably the most debate around which bands are and aren't emo. Skramz and Midwest were also still definitely being made but they were not very popular.

4th wave - 2009-2018ish - Midwest emo revival. This is a straightforward one. Emo pop-punk fell out of mainstream and more people started to move their focus back towards midwest emo, creating a revival movement. While for the most part the sound is incredibly similar to that of 2nd wave's midwest emo, it should be noted that many of these bands had more pop than punk influences.

5th wave - 2018ish-now - all of the genres. This is a very difficult genre to define. Midwest emo is still very, very prevelant, and you can hear at least a little of it in most popular 5th wave bands. Screamo is also gaining traction again. There's a lot more external influence, as we see genres like shoegaze and bedroom pop start to get incorporated into some bands.

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guys- this is literally my wet dream

every window down, every speaker blown,every mile a fuck you to everything.

let’s build a playlist

your top emo song—the one that broke you. the one that brings you back. the one that makes you stare out the window and ache like you’re 16 again

drop it in the comments. do your worst. i'll start

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Exposed 70 miles of my state to only the choicest of emo songs today

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reposting to see if anyone knows it!

screamo moots plz help me figure out what song this is! it has zero metadata all i know is i added it to my library in december of 2022. it reminds me of mathy japanese screamo like kulara and kallaqri but it's in english, i have no idea who made it or where i got it from

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you had me at mathy and emo violence ❤️‍🔥

thank you for the new tunes 🖤

so much new music lately i forgot i was obsessed with valatie for a day!!

super super well put together post hardcore featuring micro hardcore celeb jam econo… they super rock. i feel like some post hardcore acts “try” a little too hard (if that makes any sense?) but i feel like they are able to go between a little straightaway post hardcore, more mathy stuff, maybe a little emoviolence? really good :) gonna try and see them soon !