#endless summer days

[jmadog]

Bologna and Potato Chip Sandwiches

Bologna and Potato Chip Sandwiches

Often, when I’m driving around the skirts of White City I find plenty of quality memories in my rear view mirror. Just the other day as I headed East out of town, I turned south down a gravel back road kicking up a dust trail. I’ve been down this road plenty of times but this time was different. As I looked in my rearview mirror I imagined Russ Sams’ dad Sammy driving us down to the Council Grove…

[margaretcruzemark]

Men themselves have wondered what they see in me.

[velvetsart]

flower crown acrylic painting on 10x12" canvas

[invisiblerambler]

In a twist no one asked for, I want to talk about Sydney and Carm and the star.

The fundamental problem with the star is that Sydney has put the idea in Carm's mind (based on his own shit) that a star is basically the only way he can prove himself to her, prove this was worth her time whatever.

Duh he thinks they're bullshit she doesn't ergo they are suddenly not bullshit, this is not news to anyone just a recap.

But it's about what the star represents. The star is the ultimate thing he can win, achieve whatever for her.

Carm has lived in a world his entire life where nothing he could do was ever enough, for Donna to love him, for Mikey to let him work at the restaurant and not push him away, for him to stay alive etc. Now, with the star and getting that star, this has for Carm set out a very specific and well trod path for him to be enough for Sydney. Never mind that he doesn't have to do any of it she just wants to cook good food with him, but let's be real Carm needs a lot more therapy before he'll accept that and frankly so does Syd.

MOVING ON

Before Carm was in his full trauma relapse phase in the fridge, because lets be real that started the second Sugar called him in New York, he was open to the idea that there was another path to getting a star, one set out by people like Chef Terry.

But then he dared to allow himself to have amusement and enjoyment, going so horrifically far as to remember why he loved cooking in the first place, and all of his worst fears were proven correct.

For two seasons, he tried to fight Chef's worst comments about him and in the course of one night they were all (to him proven correct). It feels important to note here too, and I've never seen anyone talk about this, Syd is the only one who doesn't talk to him through the freezer, other than Nat but she's not in a mood to talk him down that night so it's irrelevant.

Carmy is left alone with his own worst enemy for hours and the only person who knows how to counter-program that doesn't talk to him at all while he's in the worst of that.

Yes she stays and talks to him after, but she needed to hear him say the stuff about amusement and enjoyment.

Because she has a hunch about where all this is coming from, but his explicit refusal to talk about anything directly means she has to guess. He's hard to keep up with.

Their shorthand has become their downfall. The other hoping that their connection can mean that they don't have to communicate directly. There's no can I ask you this you can tell me to fuck off this season, they're not even stating the question.

He thinks she wants the star at all costs because that is his only value to her, she can't see that he is killing himself because SHE wants the star. The telepathy is deeply broken right now.

[darlingcloudie-9]

Woe; my girl Kumonoue in obligatory beach wear cause where i am its the SUMMER BABY THE SUMMMEERRRRR 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥 (little comic ft. Yui and Noue after the cut)

[danewsea]

herMagicMoment 🌿

[yeahx10]

the running idea in pure heroine of the moment spiralling out of reach even while you're still in it. "but we know it's not forever" in tennis court. teenagehood is such a fleeting moment but it is everything when you're in it. "i know we're not everlasting / we're a trainwreck waiting to happen" in a world alone. those two being the opening and closing tracks on the regular album. "there'll never be enough of us" (buzzcut season) + "that will never be enough" (ribs). you can't slow down time you can't capture it you can't go backwards and you certainly can't repeat the past. "we could talk it so good we can make it so divine we can talk it good how we wish it would be all the time" this one really has been rotating today because it really is enshrining a moment in your memory making it divine we can talk it good how we wish it would be all the time!!! it can't be like this all the time but oh we wish it would!!!! promise i can stay good...

[bearnakedbaker]

Endless Summer

[love-is-a-pearl]

Hey, my friend linked me that art you did of Ash and Dawn with their Aura Guardian & Hearthome Collection outfits and your blog is just precious!!! All the Pearlshipping art & talk is reigniting my love for them and makes me want to create for them more, again.

It's so nice to see an active and imaginative Pearlshipper still in the fandom! Thank you for sharing it.

Another Road creator??? ME?? INSPIRING THEE??

BUT HEY! YES! Awakening the pearl sleeping agents!! That's the best outcome I could ask from this silly blog 🙏

Thank you so much for the sweet words QAQ If my wip folder is anything to go by I'll keep sharing things for some years to come lmao

[loftybliss]

you'll see me in the water...

~moody river nymph (me) by Jordon💛

[arsonstick]

oc doodle dump. yrah go my guys

[margaretcruzemark]

"Break off my arms, I shall take hold of you and grasp you with my heart as with a hand". A poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.

[aretis]

Ocean magic 🌊Listen….

[faefaye]

Reviews of Alger's music:

[edge-oftheworld]

if you vote for wicked habit meet me in the carpark

[champagnemoon]

A lot of my personality was shaped by being a lonely only child with access to HBO in the early 2000s