#goodbye $500

[totallyseiso]

In this fast-paced world of ever-evolving technology it's important to test the functions and limits of your devices, this way you'll always know just what your device is capable of.

learned today that my phone isnt amphibious

[himejoshidoll]

[fawn-tongues]

Safe Bet

[smokestarrules]

it's been literal years since either of these episodes aired so I can't possibly be the only person to notice but like. this is an intentional parallel, right. it has to be.

[2015nostalgiagirl]

Thank you to everyone who got me to 500 likes! I’m so grateful!

[every-kakashi]

[doctorweebmd]

the tumblr hot takes re: Tesla owners and saying things like ‘I spit in the door handles of every Tesla I see uwu’ are absolutely batshit lmao

because Tesla was the first all-electric vehicle highly popularized in the US. most if not all initial buyers were planet-hugging liberals who wanted to stop using fossil fuels. it started as a status symbol of ‘I could spend my money on a luxury car, BUT I care about the environment! And don’t have to give up looks or having fun driving!’

Which eventually lead to teslas being the most affordable all-electric option. For a number of years. Tesla and SpaceX, over 15 years ago, were incredibly innovative and seen as a liberation from over reliance on fossil fuels

Like. This bitch built his empire tugging on environmentalist heartstrings. The people that own teslas are not your enemy; they’re much more likely to be disgusted with Elon like the rest of us

[h-ayuchan]

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hii it's me riri if you don't know my name and i am just giving news if you care i am quiting/starting a new account over the past few weeks/months my last post was ten i think but yeah i'd rather see pppl make mbs than me make mbs one my mbs are ugly and i've lost a lot of motivation two so much events i see a new one everyday three school i put school first because no school no job i will make a new account but i am in no rush when i do make the new account please give it support like you gave this account i remember looking at mbs and thinking can i make them anyone can make mbs it's really easy and that was it but i've got tried and bored and i look at them too long and it is just ugly my mbs tho everyone has the prettiest mb ever!                                🥄  　　⁺　☒           (✿˘˘)        ⑅              500! 

thank you so much for 500 and 5,000 likes i hope i will be able to reach that again i remember having 1 follower shoutout to the fisrt person that follwed me and my ugly first mb and my first like it was so fun i was so happy and as time went same old same old i made few moots after life was good school started again how would i make mbs so i tried my best but i can't grades matter really i am good in gardes lol but i don't wanna worry about stuff like this you can find me on discord and pinterest instagram if you wanna talk i doubt bca i talk 2 no one but yygs are cool.                              ☃  　　⁺　☒           (✿˘˘)        ⑅              tags! 

thank you so much again and i'll name my favorite account in no order btw just account i reallly like also ingore my spelling mistakes @y0oni3 @y-unjins @shiolu @yeritos @baesol @trivijoy @p-oisn @i9chae @i04rei @raeceah @other moots sorry i have bad memory and cannot tag ev1 luv u tho! like and reblog if you can!

please look out for my new account and goodbye tumblr (for now)!! also stream melting point by zb1 kings tysm and sorry for all thoese ands i hope every stays safe drink lots of water and eat well and don't let bad pppl affect u ! peace out riri

[molliemoo3]

So close for josef, but so far

[worldlydesiretemple]

half life full regret is just cishet hlvrai

[smokestarrules]

funniest fanfic feeling to me by far is reading something insanely long, past 100k or 50 chapters or w/e and then just. not having any strong feelings about it when you're done. like that was nice. a little ooc. okay. and then you click away

[neonsbian]

just remembered todays the last thk day fuck my stupid baka life

[welcometoteyvat]

btw. exploding everyone with my mind who thinks neuvillette and furina are father/daughter or some other crappy stupid strict familial structure

[jils-things]

i can hear a student play pokemon masters ex. love it here so much

[girlreviews]

Review #112: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John

There are a bunch of songs on this album that we probably all know and love. If you don’t, you’ve been living under a rock or something and there’s not a lot of hope for you. They’re great. But have you ever listened to Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding? The double opener of this record. Half instrumental before leading into its vocal second half. It’s intense. Gotta wonder whose funeral this was and what their wishes were in being remembered. They weren’t messing around.

Bennie and the Jets, a damn classic, recorded in the studio but sort of made to sound as if was recorded live by adding in crowd sounds from different live shows – including that of a 1970 Jimi Hendrix show on the Isle of Wight (???). This song slaps. It’s so ridiculous. The delivery of the vocals is absurd, and it’s just really made for drunk people at a bar to shriek it over and over. I’ve lost my voice a couple of times this way.

A hit, but an underrated one (since there are so many to choose from in Elton John’s repertoire), is the album’s title track, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. I’ve always been enamored with this song and how it tells a bleak tale of someone with big dreams being faced with a harsh reality. People are all too willing to take advantage of naïve, eager, people like them. You can have everything you want – at a price. It has such stark imagery in it:

“What do you think you’ll do then?

I bet they shoot down the plane

It’ll take you a couple of vodka and tonics

To set you on your feet again

Maybe you’ll get a replacement

There’s plenty like me to be found

Mongrels, who ain’t got a penny

Sniffin’ for tidbits like you

On the ground”

It’s too short and I’m always disappointed when it’s over because I think, man, I could hear that chorus a few more times. The harmonies and production of it are just really striking and really deliver feeling like, “this life isn’t for me”. It’s not sad exactly. It’s maybe like a disappointment and acceptance. A moving on. A hard lesson learned.

What I love about this record is that it’s the original material for a 2011 album that made its way into my all-time favorites, and I felt got massively overlooked by just about everyone and that’s really just to their detriment. In 2011, Elton John and Pnau released Good Morning to the Night, which was essentially Pnau (one half of Empire of the Sun) remixing Elton’s lesser-known B-sides or album tracks into new material. A lot of them came from the album tracks of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. It. Was. Out. Standing. Pure joy to listen to. I have met approximately one other human being who gives a fuck about it. Anyway, shit was good. For example, in the title track Good Morning to the Night, they take the organ from Funeral for a Friend, and fuckin’ turn that shit into a heavenly ascent that you do not come down from. It’s no funeral. You’re alive.

My favorite track, however, is Phoenix, which lifts its lyrics exclusively from the 1973 record's Grey Seal. While the music in Phoenix is beautiful, uplifting, inspiring, and has encouraged me to run more miles than I can count – it’s the words. When I first moved to the US I spent the first few months of my time here in a very particular way. I slept a lot. A LOT. I got up every day. Made tea, in the microwave (if you know me, you know this pains me to admit), and then I ran three miles on a treadmill to get my feelings out. Then I cried. Then I watched as much Breaking Bad as one human can reasonably consume without crawling up the walls with anxiety. Rinse. Repeat. Eventually, I got a job. But this was my job for a bit while I worked out some shit in my nugget and got some rest. I had a playlist. I still have it, and I still use it when I run. It’s batshit to be honest, if anyone ever listened in on me at the gym, they’d be like what weird shit makes this girl run? Anyway. Phoenix is on there as an up-tempo feet mover, but really, as I maintain, it’s the message, which is really the verses from Grey Seal, that made me go-go-go:

“Why's it never light on my lawn

Why does it rain

And never say good-day to the new-born

On the big screen they showed us the sun

But not as bright in life as the real one

It's never quite the same as the real one

I never learned why meteors were formed

I only farmed in schools

That were so warn and torn

If anyone can cry then so can I

I read books and draw life from the eye

All my life is drawings from the eye

Your mission bells were wrought by ancient men

The roots were formed by twisted roots

Your roots were twisted then

I was re-born before all life could die

The Phoenix bird will leave this world to fly

If the Phoenix bird can fly then so can I”

This song has always made me dig deep and keep going. Whether on a stupid treadmill or in a really hard time. He asks the grey seal “How does it feel to be so wise? To see through eyes that only see what’s real?”. It makes me think of the story of The White Seal, by Rudyard Kipling. A young blue-eyed seal went against his elder's advice to seek a safe place for them all and found it, gaining a lot of wisdom on the way. Striking out on one’s own to avoid a fate that seems completely inevitable, against all the naysayers, and fucking making it happen. Anyway. One version of the song has a seal (and a phoenix) and one version of the song has a phoenix only, both versions are remarkable. Only one is on the Rolling Stones's Top 500 Albums of All Time, and that is Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

[olessan]

I love the fact that I can work as hard as I can manage with a broken tooth and a dying tooth (one on each side, I've been chewing on the cavity for a year) and I still cannot save even $10 towards getting dental treatment (2 impacted wisdom teeth, + tooth broken off under the gum, + bad cavity) because I barely make enough to cover my food and board and the insane energy bill