#Song of the month is I don’t wanna be funny anymore by Lucy Dacus

[neattequila]

FEBRUARY MOODBOARD

[yetanotherramblingfangirl]

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1. Song of the year?

I feel like I’ve mentioned this song about 500,000 times in the past year, so there can be no other answer really.

2. Album of the year?

It’s a 3-way tie because my answer vacillates between these 3 depending on my mood.  Maggie Rogers’s Heard It in a Past Life, Alice Merton’s Mint, and Girlpool’s What Chaos Is Imaginary are all excellent albums that came out in 2019.

3. Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year?

Lucy Dacus.  I freaking love her and have spent about half of the past 6 months listening to “Night Shift” and “I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore” on repeat.  Highly recommend.

4. Movie of the year?

Pokemon Detective Pikachu.  It was funny, bittersweet, and had a central mystery so it was essentially tailor-made to my interests.  Plus Pikachu having Ryan Reynolds’s voice will always be hilarious to me.

[studyspiration-coffee]

March 2018

*Books

- The Alchemist (amazing, so inspiring, so many one-liners in there that made me rethink my entire life, give it a read, it’s a quick one!)

reading has been tragic this month

Songs

Gold by MOZA

Nebraska Radio Edit by Lucy rose

Many Lives by Andrew Belle

Turn by The Wombats

Got on my Skateboard by Skeggs

Dominos by Last Dinosaurs 

Get Good Remix by St South

South of the River by Tom Misch

American Money by Børns

Loving Someone by The 1975

She’s a Riot by The Jungle Giants

I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore by Lucy Dacus 

Far Too Young to Die by Panic! At the Disco

* I’m working on sharing my Spotify and turning these monthly favourites into playlists, bear with me as I attempt to shield my private life xx

Artist of the Month: Last Dinosaurs!!!!!

Fresh Artist of the Month (but not really, they released their single about a month ago): Last Thursday (newish single is Only Man, and I’ve gotta say, it’s pretty good)

Goals for Next Month:

Read four books for recreation

The Plague

On the Road

In Cold Blood

Lord of the Flies

Keep reading those books that are hellllaaa long and make a dent in them. It’s worth it I promise

Anna Karenina 

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Study hella hard and slay half yearlies

Go cruelty free

Replace your Nivea face wash with the Lush cleansing milk

Drink a litre of water every day

Buy some plants and create a little garden in your room (desert plants pls you plant murderer)

Buy yourself flowers!!!!!

Redecorate your room so it’s more of a comforting space

Have a section on your bookshelf for self care: candles, make-up you like using, a hairbrush, a few hair ties, some moisturiser, CDs, DVDs, jewellery etc

Organise your shelves so that that top 3 are for the books you read and love now

One of the little cube shelves below that can be your self care shelf, and the cube next to it can be your poetry shelf!

And the bottom shelves can be for the young adult shit that you read when you were younger that you loved then and despise now

Get back into poetry

Buy Bukowski’s poetry (The days run away like wild horses over the hills)

Buy more books once you finish your to be read list

Ham on Rye

Sylvia Plath’s journals

That’s all folks, this one’s a long one, but let’s make April a good one xx

[maddie-grove]

Bi-Monthly Reading Round-Up: March/April

Playlist

“The Ballad of Ira Hayes” by Johnny Cash (Sunrise Song)

“Little Miss Queen of Darkness” by the Kinks (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake)

“The Ghost Who Walks” by Karen Elson (The Dark Garden)

“Harper Valley PTA” by Jeannie C. Reilly (The Witches)

“Bloodletting” by Concrete Blonde (The Casquette Girls)

“I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore” by Lucy Dacus (My Friend Dahmer)

“The Road and the Miles to Dundee” by the Corries (Exit Betty)

“Ladies’ Choice” from Hairspray (In for a Penny)

“Turn Off the Light” by Nelly Furtado (Red as Blood)*

“I’ll Take Care of You” by the Dixie Chicks (Exit, Pursued by a Bear)

“You Don’t Know Me” by Cindy Walker (It Takes Two to Tangle)

“Learn to Do It” from Anastasia (Once Upon a Maiden Lane)

“Green Finch and Linnet Bird” from Sweeney Todd (What Happened at Midnight)

*Since fifth grade, I have firmly believed this song to be about werewolves. You cannot change my mind.

Best of the Bi-Month

In for a Penny by Rose Lerner (2010): Part lovely romance, part fascinating historical novel about economic conditions in Regency England, with a nice folk-horror feel.

Worst of the Bi-Month

The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden (2013): Overstuffed, confusing paranormal romance. When people make fun of YA, this is what they’re thinking of.

Rest of the Bi-Month

Red as Blood by Tanith Lee (1983): Deliciously lurid, remarkably consistent collection of fairy tale retellings. A bit dated, but charmingly so.

What Happened at Midnight by Courtney Milan (2013): An intense, substantial romance novella, great for fans of Victorian literature.

My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (2012): a graphic memoir by a dude who sometimes hung out with Jeffrey Dahmer in high school. Not very bloody; more upsetting for its exploration of suburban loneliness and callousness.

Sunrise Song by Kathleen Eagle (1996): Sweet twentieth-century historical romance, stronger on the history than the romance.

The Dark Garden by Margaret Buffie (1995): Fun, spooky YA ghost story with some interesting family dynamics.

Exit Betty by Grace Livingston Hill (1920): Enjoyable, accidentally gay melodrama from the mother of Christian romance.

Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E.K. Johnston (2016): Endearing if somewhat simplistic YA issue novel. Not a great retelling of The Winter’s Tale.

It Takes Two to Tangle by Theresa Romain (2013): Well-written Regency romance with a frustrating plot.

Once Upon a Maiden Lane by Elizabeth Hoyt (2017): Cute romance novella that could’ve been a lot more impactful.

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (2010): Good writing but the concept went nowhere.

The Witches by Stacy Schiff (2015): Rather commonplace history of the Salem Witch Trials.

[snailboywonder]

1-30 babe ❤️

i love you 

if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to? - read: pansy by andrea gibson, watch: howl’s moving castle, listen to: theme song by adult mom 

have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who? - probably andrea gibson again lol

list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with. - harry potter is the only “fandom” i’m still into and tbh i’m ron 

do you like your name?  is there another name you think would fit you better? - haha…ha 

do you think of yourself as a human being or a human doing? do you identify yourself by the things you do? - i can’t always do the things i want to do, so i try to value how i act more than what i can/can’t do 

are you religious/spiritual? - not really 

do you care about your ethnicity? - it’s complicated 

what musical artists have you most felt connected to over your lifetime? - mal blum & kimya dawson 

are you an artist? - i like to think so

do you have a creed? - do no harm, take no shit? 

describe your ideal day. - rn my ideal day would be a one where i don’t feel nauseatingly dizzy 

dog person or cat person? - cat person (but also birds)

inside or outdoors? - inside unless the weather is particularly nice

are you a musician? - nope

five most influential books over your lifetime. - 1. harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone by jk rowling 2. a monster calls by patrick ness 3. i’m just a person by tig notaro 4. aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire saenz 5. where the sidewalk ends by shel silverstein (a lot of these are from my childhood because those times were most influential) 

if you’d grown up in a different environment, do you think you’d have turned out the same? - no way 

would you say your tumblr is a fair representation of the “real you”? - eh i don’t think any social media can really represent a person. 

what’s your patronus? - cat or duck 

which Harry Potter house would you be in? or are you a muggle? - sooo a few months ago i would’ve said ravenclaw but honestly i have to face the fact that i’m a hufflepuff

would you rather be in Middle Earth, Narnia, Hogwarts, or somewhere else? - hogwarts bc of fucking course i would

do you love easily? - too easily 

list the top five things you spend the most time doing, in order. - talking too much, listening to music, watching youtube/netflix, sleeping, writing

how often would you want to see your family every year? - 3 or 4 times a year for very short spans of time. 

have you ever felt like you had a “mind-meld” with someone? - lol yeah

could you live as a hermit? - i am a hermit 

how would you describe your gender/sexuality? - non-binary/queer

do you feel like your outside appearance is a fair representation of the “real you”? - i don’t always feel able to express my gender the way i’d like to, and my aesthetic is better in my head

on a scale from 1 to 10, how hard is it for someone to get under your skin? - eh like 5 maybe 

three songs that you connect with right now. - 1. reckless behavior by SOAK 2. i don’t wanna be funny anymore by lucy dacus 3. better go by mal blum

pick one of your favorite quotes. - “If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive.” - claude cahun 

[blue-daydream]

5/9/17

Artist- song- album New release * (last 3 months)

Haybaby- New Friends- Sleepy Kids Popstrangers- Tonight- Fortuna Lucy Dacus- I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore- No Burden Laura Sauvage- Have You Heard The Good News?- Extraordinormal

Chicano Batman- Black Lipstick- single Chicano Batman- Passed You By- Freedom is Free *

Inner Wave- American Spirits- III Puzzle- Years- Laying in the Sand Enjoy- Geography- Another Word for Joy

The Channel- Luv Arcade- Channel Soaked- Backseat Heat- Don’t Wanna Wake Up Today * Cherry Glazerr- Told You I’d Be With The Guys- Apocalipstick

The Coathangers- Make It Right- Nosebleed Weekend Westpoint- Blur My Vision- Westpoint The High Curbs- Empty Bottles- single * Sandbox Fistfight- Purple- Sandbox Fistfight

Hinds- Warts- Leave Me Alone Chastity Belt- Seattle Party- No Regerts Little Big League- My Very Own You- These Are Good People

Not On Tour- SIck of this Mess- Bad Habits Westpoint- Feel October- Westpoint Title Fight- Chlorine- Hyperview La Lenguas- Love You All the Time- Tears in My Milkshake Enjoy- I’ve Wasted So Much Time- Gold

King Krule- Easy Easy- 6 Feet Beneath The Moon Corners- Caught in Frustration- Maxed Out on Distractions No vacation- dream girl- Summer Break Mixtape The Drums- I Don’t Know How to Love- Portamento The Gloomies- LSD- LSD

[corinthreean]

Playlist: A young girl's coming of age birthday party

I’m so awful at not doing memes when I’m sent them but like, months later. And this was such a good prompt, too. Here we go! Assuming this young girl is an angry little daydream like I was -

A Young Girl Comes of Age (5-Song Party Playlist)

I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore - Lucy Dacus

You Wouldn’t Like Me - Tegan and Sara

Shut Up Kiss Me - Angel Olsen

Everybody Wants to Love You - Japanese Breakfast

Your Best American Girl - Mitski