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“you’re quiet” yes I’m trying to gauge how weird I can be in this new social situation

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For my next post: the progress of Edward Teach’s leathers.

I don’t have pictures of the jacket; this was an off the rack item my Edward purchased that I made modifications to. Pictures of it will happen when they’ve completed their work on it.

But I do have photos of the leather trousers I made, from scratch, for them. I had to draft my own pattern for these; nothing commercially available satisfied me. They’re a garment grade cowhide leather and screen accurate buttons! Some inaccuracies exist because of technical limitations of my machine, and my Edward is not Taika-sized.

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People should use this text embellishment more

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mountain goats lyrics all exist on the axes of ridiculous sounding/serious sounding and actually unserious/serious

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fang from a scientist au that's never going anywhere but i love to think about :) will post some thoughts on the au eventually.

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professors who have only interacted with other academics for years: “what do you MEAN you don’t know multi-variable calculus yet??”

professors with small kids: “thank you for not putting the lab equipment in your mouths when I turn my back”

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tmg song asks! :)

Spent Gladiator 2, Dance Music, and Done Bleeding

Spent Gladiator 2 – I haven't sat down with this song until now, so I'm happy your ask is helping me expand my discography knowledge. I really like the determined, gritty optimism of this song. The juxtaposition of both these images in this verse feels compelling to me

Like the mice in the forgotten grain Way up on the top shelf Like someone who's found a small town to escape to Keeps one eye on his abandoned, former self

Dance Music – using music as a comfort/escape -- big mood, JD, big mood

Lean in close to my little record player on the floor So this is what the volume knob's for

Done Bleeding – I haven't listened to this one extensively either. (In general i gravitate less towards In League with Dragons compared to JD's other albums. And i tend to just make big playlists of songs i like, so it means my overall album knowledge can be spotty. Been trying to spend time with individual albums per friend recommendations.) After listening it definitely fits in the genre of "songs about sitting alone in a room waiting for something to happen" -- and then eventually finding the exit. This verse struck me in particular

Take a picture or two Just to remember the view Leave a mark on the door As an empty warning sign from one who's gone before But isn't here anymore

Something something every place i've ever lived is full of ghosts / moving beyond selves or places you outgrow / imperfection of memory.

send me a Mountain Goats song title and I'll tell you my favorite line(s)

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I don't actually know tmg that well so i only know a few songs but how 'bout that Best Ever Death Metal Band Out Of Denton?

This whole song is great to belt in the car while driving, but the gut punch part of the song for me has to be

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream Don't expect him to thank or forgive you

send me a Mountain Goats song title and I'll tell you my favorite line(s)

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i got tagged by @mxmollusca to show what my blog would look like if it was a person

no pressure tagging: @flamingostalker @zstraps @ramsaybaggins @thegreatzeldini @chaotic-neutral-knitter

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the crew’s been trying to get their attention for the past 20 minutes

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ough…

(inspired by this post by @piratecaptainscaptainpirates)

[ID: A digital drawing made to look like a selfie of Ed and Stede at pride. Stede’s smiling in a smoldery way, wearing rainbow aviator sunglasses and an unbuttoned teal shirt with rainbow stripes. Ed is smiling widely, eyes crinkled, wearing a purple tshirt and a trans flag tied around his shoulders like a cape. Ed has on rainbow eyeliner, small pink, blue, and purple heart stickers on his right cheek, and a trans flag in facepaint on his left cheek. Stede has a matching trans flag on his right cheek. Behind them is a blurred background of buildings, blue sky, and various rainbow flag decorations. There’s an overlay on the image to give it a rainbow light leak effect at the left and right edges.]

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Melt

Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

Dirt

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tall tales about sea monsters and vengeful killers

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just a concept I wanted to get down. always remember there are treatments for this stuff and you can change

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TMG song asks: up the wolves, steal smoked fish, ultimate jedi who wastes all the other jedi and eats their bones, and heretic pride <3

Up The Wolves – this was one of the songs i listened to a lot when i first got into TMG during (guess what) a time when i was Going Through It. Different parts of the song have all slammed me with the steel chair depending on the context, but the lines that hit these days are

There's gonna come a day when you feel better You'll rise up free and easy on that day And float from branch to branch Lighter than the air

it feels adjacent to "this too shall pass" in a holding out for ease kind of way

Steal Smoked Fish - i see you friendo with this specific song ask because we've talked about it with respect to grief and working in health professions. the lyric that's just seared into my brain is

I see your destinies above you Like angels who don't love you

The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones – i've only heard this one a handful of times because it's not on the platform i use to make playlists but the absurdism gets me every time. In particular, this line –

Specifically just their bones, all the soft parts you can keep It’s the bones that have the calcium, so he says

Heretic Pride – this one gives me great big trans feelings and while it'd be easy to pick "i feel so proud to be alive," this line packs so much into it

Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last And I will burn hotter than the sun

send me a Mountain Goats song title and I'll tell you my favorite line(s)