#fairlies

[groovesnjams]

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"Fairlies" by Grian Chatten

MG:

In an embarrassing way that I can’t quite specify but recognize as very “me,” I don’t like really anything by the very well regarded Fontaines D.C., but I love frontman Grian Chatten’s debut solo album, which appears to be making this year end list and this year end list only. While I find Fontaines a depressing, predictable listen, “Fairlies” was an instant yes. Chatten’s voice is intoxicating – thick, heavy, and always threatening to go flat. The verses sound as if they’re being sung right into your ear from behind your shoulder, spine-tingling and vaguely threatening. The verses make a sharp aboutface, bleated and almost childish in their insistence of “no fair!” “Fairlies” rouses the spirit and the senses, it slinks into stillness and then whirls frantically out of control. I feel that Chatten would probably not be impressed with my love of just about anything with a ton of fiddle on it, and I get that impression from just how ancillary the fiddle is here. It saws around the song like a foregone conclusion but it’s never as much of an instrument as his voice is. This was a truly surprising standout record (the whole of Chaos for the Fly hangs together as a coherent project but no two songs sound alike or capture the same sentiment twice) from an unlikely source and I look very forward to the rest of what Chatten does. Hopefully I will live long enough to hear the full Gaelic folk album!

DV:

One of the biggest struggles modern parents like myself have is, how do you teach your children that fairies are not to be trusted? We're on generation four raised with cute, clumsy, disneyfied fae like those found in Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, and generation two who know Tinkerbell (one of disney's rare intentionally-problematic characters) mainly via solo movies where she's adventurous and loyal and voiced by Mae Whitman. Will our children cut down thorn trees without thinking twice? Will they see a fairy ring and assume it's somewhere to explore instead of avoid? We're very lucky that the current generation isn't already all bewitched and living under the local hills. So as someone who grew up with a healthy respect for fairies, in the sense that I read enough old stories to know I should never take them at their word or disturb their places, albeit not enough to ever stop secretly wishing I might meet one anyway, I am concerned for today's youth, including my own. Grian Chatten is not going to teach them for me, but can anyone actually counter the cultural juggernaut that is the disney industrial complex? I doubt it, which means I'm just happy to encounter the occasional pushback, however small, even if it's in a song like "Fairlies" that mostly has other things to do but takes a line or two to connect fairies to danger. The kids have to learn somehow. How else can we teach them if not with the oldest ways, with song?

[donnabisestile]

Kindness is a trick to turn you strange Until you're twisted and you're shining like a varicose vein Anger makes you weak and turns you sick And gets you in the six-feet nice and quick

No fair They can talk to me I can live alone I can live alone Happy Where I like to be I can live alone, alone, alone, alone I fought For the right to be I can live alone I can live alone

The fairies get their fingers and they spin your wheel And they make you look at sunshine that your skin will never feel Baby, do you miss the days before Hope knocked on your door?

But you went and fell in love And into you love fell And it made you feel unwell Oh, well

There's a thing 'bout people I suppose is alright It's when they smile at their pain through all the day and night The fool dies at the altar in a smile Says, "I'm moving to America You won't see me for a while" If I get the ferry over, will the fairies follow me? Will they throw me to the sea? We'll see

No fair They can follow me I can live alone I can live alone Happy Where I like to be I can live alone, alone, alone, alone I fought For the right to be I can live alone I can live alone

When the devil takes your soul, he does not care If you're shot down like a dog or expired on the stairs The boat is drifting in The weight is cast How can life go so slowly and death come so fast? Across the River Styx, I'll row along But I've got one more song More song More song More song

[charlesoberonn]

It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.

Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real

There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations

Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that

The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.

There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)

The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.

Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.

Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.

[worm-on-my-way]

hc that danny just sees wanda and cosmo's true forms

[nicktoonsunite]

shrugs

[sparklyaxolotlstudent]

So... Who had "Cosmo and Wanda are actually biblically accurate angels" on their 2024 bingo card?

[art-of-mathematics]

[talkativewreck]

Happy Family

[stringsbasement]

peri and a platypus

[pulereen]

woah guys Im so normal about them being back and better than ever haha

[legionofpotatoes]

Lead them to paradise.

[vampirejuno]

Do you ever become mutuals with someone you share an intense interest with and it becomes this limbo of "I want to be your friend SO fucking bad but I'll eat a shoe before dm-ing first"

[junotter]

just some designs mainly created because I wanted to draw hakama and then it spiral out from there

bald zuko under the cute

[batbabydamian]

*you opening the love letter* what does your damijon look like, pls pls pls pls pls pls pls, i know it would be so cute, i just know it 🙏🙏🙏

here you go! thank you for the ask, this was a lot of fun to do! they're working on a case together ^^

[jeffstormer]

Leaving my night job dancing at the Pink Pony Club in West Hollywood to go to my dayjob, also in West Hollywood, where I am part of the only news team that doesn't know WHAT'S on the teleprompter before they read it, and anyone who laughs or breaks loses points

[nicktoonsunite]

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