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I LOVE when children who juuuust barely understand ten percent of something find somebody (a toy or a smaller child, usually) who understands zero percent and they’re like “come hither and I shall take you under my wing and teach you my instant wisdom.”

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practicing or experiencing the Horrors. only two options, no in-between.

band kids scare me like what are you guys DOING in your little instrument rooms

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everytime i hear someone call depression and anxiety ‘destigmatized mental illnesses’ i wonder how they react when they find out someone has spent weeks or months in bed or struggles to shower or eat

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is anyone else constantly afraid they’ll be “caught” doing stuff they’re obviously allowed or even supposed to do

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all i’m saying is atsushi has the opportunity to do the funniest thing now

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“don🦍t believe anything your brain tells you after 9 pm” wrong. the prime time for decision making is when you🦍re sleep deprived

^example of what life would be like if we used gorillas instead of apostrophes

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“Open your heart, ꨄ︎

Like the gates of hell.”

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Mitski’s Laurel Hell is often a criticized and undervalued project, but one of its most enticing and talked about features is its menacing lyrics that paired with enthusiastic, 80s pop-like production.

One of the best examples of this is the masterpiece’s 3rd track, “Stay Soft”, with its catchy chorus and poetic lyrics. While its true meaning is debated upon, it’s obvious its themes are both emotional and sexual.

On my first few listens of the song, it seemed surface level. Mitski’s presumed “lover” was hard-headed and cruel, and took out their anger on her. She displays this through metaphors, going as far to compare them to a knife, and even hell itself.

“Like a knife, ‎ It glints in your eye.”

I worked out that Mitski found the need to have their approval, and was fine with being their punching bag. It also seemed as though her lover used to be innocent, but that vulnerability caused them to “toughen up”.

With a now more closer observation of the lyrics, there’s a lot more to it. I still find my original meaning somewhat right, but there’s a deeper complexity to it and some evidence I underlooked. One of the main components of the song was the implication of sexual actions in the lyrics. A couple of the lines go,

“I am face down on my bed, ‎ Still not quite awake yet. ‎ Thinking of you, ‎ I tuck my hand under my weight.”

This looks like it’s referring to masturbation, or is at least intimate in some way, especially when compared to the rest of the lyrics. Even the chorus can be interpreted as erotic,

“You stay soft, get beaten. Only natural to harden up.”

With all this in my mind, we can dive a bit deeper into what Mitski is portraying here. Like said earlier, interpretations vary between person, but what I think is that Mitski is destroying herself here. She is staying with someone who is not in tune with their emotions, and who uses her as an outlet for them. Mitski displays a sexual need where she sacrifices herself and becomes sort of a succbus to this person. She’s a reliever, letting them take out their thoughts and feeling onto her, opening themselves up and dumping out their contents onto her. She is their savior, someone to leech off of. Mitski desires this person as well, wanting them to open up to her and see her as worthy to them, but they can’t due to their unavailability.

Because of this abuse, Mitski ends up killing her own emotions. She gets “beaten up”, letting herself become vulnerable to this person and paying the consequences for it.

I saw this while researching for this, but multiple people talked about Mitski’s ethnicity playing a role as well. Asian women are often seen as “innocent” and “protecting”, as a mother-like figure for white men. Mitski is being taken advantage of and fetishized, but at the same time doesn’t have the value that a white woman would, which is why she can’t seem to find an actual connection in this relationship.

You can also find evidence for this in the music video, where the creatures that drag Mitski away seem to depict white women, with their pale skin and straight, platinum hair. The music video also helps with the interpreting as well. I suggest to go check it out, it’s one of the best I’ve ever seen.

Stay Soft is very clearly not an innocent song. It’s packed with deep and shocking meanings, despite its pop sound. It’s one of Mitski’s best, in my opinion, and really shines the meaning of Laurel Hell thoroughly.

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what if instead of ezra you were ezzy and instead of being ezzy you were glezzy like a glizzy

💕💕 :3

my band section leader did not approve of this

anddd he just said "no i do not" as i was typing this

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is this crayonsz

if yes hi bestie I'm going to urgent care because of my sickness if you haven't seen the post 😼

so preppy 💕💕

WHAT

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"What if instead of marching band it was freaky band and instead of hitting our instruments we hit each other."

-Submitted by @shrubseph

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The flip side of “cleanse diets don’t do anything” is that if you tried a cleanse diet and you did experience a notable reduction in fatigue, joint pain, and general blarginess, you need to talk to an allergy specialist, because there’s nearly a 100% chance that means you have an undiagnosed allergy to some component of your customary diet.

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cuz everytime we touch i get this feeling