#i know I'm not the only one

[im-the-queen-of-stardust]

Inside you there are two wolves. One is saying "MAG200 was the perfect ending for the Magnus Archives. It was such a beautifully constructed and perfect tragedy. We will never know what happened to Jon and Martin and yes, that hurts but it's a bittersweet kind of hurt. Because it enables us to imagine what could've happened to them. Maybe their skeletons lie side by side on a flowery field. Or maybe they're Somewhere Else and get a chance to work through their trauma and built something beautiful together. Maybe they have a child. Maybe the horrors followed them and they have to fight all over again. We don't know. And we will never know. And that is beautiful."

And the other wolf is this image:

[darkacademiaarchivist]

where are all my fellow victims of the radio-silence-to-obsessed-with-gay-fiction-podcasts-pipeline at?

[spacemothes]

Now don't get me wrong.

I LOVE seeing people's interpretations of how Loop would look like as a human

but GHAGJYYUSHBKSNKJUBSJBU PLEASE GUYS

I CANNOT BE THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THAT ONE OF LOOP'S EYES IS A LIGHTER COLOR TO PARRELLEL SIFFRIN'S MISSING EYE PLEAAASSSEEEE

[kyokutsu-sama]

Ladys and gentlemen...

✨️MY LIFE✨️

Made by me for people who can relate the same💁‍♀️

[vinnianlovesdinosaurs]

How I look at Alicent and Rhaenyra Haters. How I look at Aegon II, Daemon, Aemond, and Viserys I apologists. How I look at people that send death threats to innocent actors because they can't separate the actor from the character. How I look at the HOTD stans on TikTok and Tumblr who tell people to kill themselves over an opinion.

[celestialkiri]

This happened to me last night 😩

[akicalaraika]

it's been a while since i did one of these

[3moghost]

everyone: yoooo tall man chilchuck is so cursed, wtf kui why did you show that to us hahaha

me: ...

me: ...i have never been more horny in my life

[orienteddreamerrr]

Just appreciating my Favorite Star Wars Boy...

Can you guess who??? Lol...

Who else wants to appreciate him??? 😊✋

[makuzume]

Someone reason w me that this is definitely NOT a good purchase.

[blvcklizard]

"You can't hear pictures" okay explain this then

[fireheartedpup]

The problem with learning psychology is that it makes it easy to feel like everything is performative. Like oooh if I say this they'll like me. Even the stuff I want to do anyway. Can that part of the brain shut up please

[lewispullmaned]

Lovely sweet child of mine

[existennialmemes]

90s Cartoons Execs: And this villain will be a reference to the devil so viewers will hate him!

90s Kids: You know, That Guy is making some excellent points, and I think I'm gonna style my whole personality after him.

[leedee013]

Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that Spy x Family is just therapy for every FMA(B) fan? Like

Finally, a big floofer who doesn't give me flashbacks but rather wholesome warm heart feelings

[hummingbee-lievable]

Song of the Day #26:

'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' by The Smiths (released 1986).

Take me out tonight

Because I want to see people

And I want to see life

Track #9 on 'The Queen is Dead'.

Fun fact: This is one of those bands, like The Commitments, that are associated with quite a bit of drama, all of which can lead you down a rabbit hole of chaos, so I'll leave that to you and Alice, and instead tell you about a little fun fact regarding another song on their album: 'Bigmouth Strikes Again':

In this song are some lovely harmonies, attributed to 'Ann Coates'. In fact, the band used Morrissey's voice, altered to a higher pitch! 'Ann Coates' is a reference to the Manchester district 'Ancoats', one of the city's 'most bustling areas during Industrial Revolution'.*

Personal blurb: My brother-in-law (ish) walked in this morning as I was on the way to work and asked the formidable question: 'Do you like The Smiths?', to which I had a very restrained and calm response.°

Their music feels somewhat intoxicating, to me; I could not tell you why, but I know I'm not the only one (hey, Sam Smith and I can both have ideas independent of each other and reach the same finish line). The song itself is actually a bit... disturbing to me, for lack of a better word. The lyrics are essentially 'take me away and make me a life because I don't have one'.

I chose the lyrics above because I love and relate to the sentiment of wanting to escape to the music, laughter, and light. I get so trapped in myself and sometimes being surrounded by humanity without having to be a part of it is just what I need to remind me of all there is and all that's possible.

There's a stanza in the song that I don't fully understand (though I have my own interpretation). How do you interpret this line?

And in the darkened underpass

I thought "Oh God, my chance has come at last"

But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask

Was it that he was facing the concept of this death he had almost been asking for? In my mind, I almost think he was going to ask this significant person to die with him. (Like the line in the Joan Baez song that she wrote about Bob Dylan: 'Speaking strictly from me, we both could have died then and there' in 'Diamonds and Rust'.) It's more likely that he was going to ask what he's been asking all throughout the song: to go for a drive, to be taken away, to be given a home. But the idea of it being under a darkened underpass lends a strange tone to the scene.

I am reminded of the movie 'Lost in Translation'. There's a scene at the end of the movie where Bill Murray whispers something into Scarlett Johansson's ear as they're parting ways, after a clear kind of love had developed between them that for many reasons, they never acted on and never would. And we never know what he says. (The movie is amazing. Little spoiler but more something to admire and note if you ever watch it: the lights are all red in the scenes in which they interact, until they finally part ways, like time was paused for them. A harbour in the midst of life.) My ex said that in his mind, the line was 'I wanted one more perfect moment with you'. At the time, I resonated with his perspective because we were parting ways not out of choice but out of circumstance, like the movie. But now? Now I imagine he whispered 'thank you for everything you are'.

Sometimes I wonder if I am screaming love with every interaction I have. It feels as though every time I say 'thank you' or give a particularly enthusiastic parting phrase or greeting (especially 'whatup, nerd!!' for some reason), the words 'I love you' or 'I think you're wonderful and you make my world better by being in it' get trapped in my throat.

Maybe we'll never know what The Smiths were trying to ask. But we make our own context, don't we? And that's all we need.

°Launching into a full-blown Ted Talk (Ralph Rant, if you will (that's my name)) and ramming my favourite songs down his throat is very restrained, right? Right??

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