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i’m foaming at the mouth for this kind of shit

fun little music analysis for yall but thinking about the chord in just another day where they sing "it hurts when i sayyyyyy"

so heres a bit of the official score. diana is the pink line, gabe is orange, and dan and natalie are blue

i always knew that the "say" is a dissonant chord (aka it clashes) but looking at the score it made me See some Things

diana sings a C while natalie and dan sing a D which clash with each other. they dont typically fit into a chord together

but GABE on the other hand sings an A. which fits into a chord with diana's note (a C is a third above A so naturally they fit nicely together)

so the way that diana and gabe are the only ones with a regular harmony while dan and nat create dissonance with her is a very subtle but super cool way to indicate show diana's dissonance with her family and how diana and gabe exist together separate to the rest of the family. and i just think it's pretty neat

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Something something Dianas life stopping after throwing a black coat over a blue gown and Nats life beginning after removing a black coat from over her blue gown

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my darling my darling my life and my bride

(redraw)

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“For decades, Israel’s leaders have claimed that “all Israelis want is to live in peace with their neighbors.” Yet Israel has initiated war and conflict ever since its inception, refusing to bring the conflict to a negotiated end (for example, it rejected the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002). Agreement requires honoring UN resolutions and Geneva Conventions and removing Israeli colonies (Jewish-only settlements) from the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Syria. Israel prefers the conflict with territories to a negotiated peace without them.”

— Haim Bresheeth-Zabner, An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Forces Made a Nation

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How do you think it was for me?

So fucking gifted and everyone agreed

Get him a drink at the bar, this kids gonna go far

Lighting up the sky like a shooting star

He's gonna get his PhD

From Oxford or Cambridge University

And then he'll ignite in the night

Like a light just so bright

Soon the whole world will see!!

Why did you build me up to watch me fall

You lifted me up to cut me down so small

Why didnt you help me when I was underneath it all

You just stood and stared and did nothing at all

Whenever I spoke you didn't listen

Whatever I said you didn't hear

Felt like something was missing

Never knew if you loved or you feared

Wandering out on this road

As if it somehow might fill up this hole

That you've ignored for so long

as if nothing was wrong

Now it's so strong that it's pulling you under

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“It is tempting to personalize the decay, as if ridding ourselves of Trump will return us to sanity and sobriety. But the rot and corruption has ruined all of our democratic institutions, which function in form, not in content. The consent of the governed is a cruel joke. Congress is a club on the take from billionaires and corporations. The courts are appendages of corporations and the rich. The press is an echo chamber of the elites, some of whom do not like Trump, but none of whom advocate the social and political reforms that could save us from despotism. It is about how we dress up despotism, not despotism itself.”

— Chris Hedges

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Henry literally stepping into Dan's position. Michael Longhurst when I get you...

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why does maxwell want to get rowdy with naked oiled men so bad 🤨 happy pride to him i guess

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#israeli lawlessness

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this fucking broke my heart. i’m so tired of losing my community to hate

you cannot talk about the homophobic murder of jonathan joss without including in the conversation that he is indigenous.

american indian men are at the 2nd highest risk of death by murder compared to all other ethnic groups. in their lifetimes, 82% of native men report having experienced domestic violence. yet the overwhelming majority of perpetrators are non-natives (88% of native men and 92% of native women who reported violence said their attacker was non-native). what’s more, tribal governments are often stymied in their attempts to bring justice against non-natives, meaning that many of these cases go unresolved.

this was an intersectional attack. the fact that he is indigenous matters, even if the motivation was homophobic, because it made him even more vulnerable and disposable in the eyes of his killer.

as always, look into MMIWP to learn more, and speak up for us. miigwetch, take care

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greta thunberg, liam cunningham, rima hassan, and everyone else on that ship, thank you, and i hope you succeed. i really hope you succeed. you know what you are risking, and i wish for you to come back safely, having done what you set out to do.

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as a therapist i co-sign this

I'm Alive literally being a guide on how to deal with grief 'if you won't grieve me/you won't leave me behind' directed at Diana unable to let go and 'if you try to deny me/I'll never die' directed at Dan who tries to forget but neither is healthy and both are still haunted Gabe aka grief WILL 'hurt you/I'll heal you'

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stop earning advanced degrees i need you to finish your fanfiction

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i love the weather imagery in next to normal and how gabe is the only one to really mention how beautiful the world is in the beginning to show how he's not actually alive and there. it also shows that until diana and dan acknowledge gabe and begin to really grieve him, they will never know this perfect world gabe talks about and their and natalie's (by extension) lives will forever be clouded in sadness, even during what are supposed to be happy moments

but in the closing song, everyone sings the lyrics below to show that the goodmans are finally processing gabe's death and properly grieving, which will make everyone's lives a little less cloudy and sad and will allow them to eventually reach this equilibrium with gabe's sunny world

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my girlfriend very loving just said “we are nearing the end of out loud singing time babe”

mind you, this her request to me singing the next to normal songs literally from my exact waking moment this morning to now, a whole 6 hours later

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Jack Wolfe as Gabe Next to Normal

for @alchemicalrabbit look, it's your guy!!

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reblogging this to help me remember as the adhd gf to show my autistic gf

has anyone written about autism and layers of locution meanings. like. i only have a little bit of understanding of this but i really dont think "autistic people take things literally" cuts it or is accurate a lot of the time but "autistic people tend to understand locutionary meanings rather than illocutionary meanings" seems to immediately explain a lot more