#it strikes a chord

[plumdonutsv]

i really wanna talk with someone about webtoons i enjoy reading: covenant, the last god of spring, jackson’s diary, the croaking, sunset phoenix, it strikes a chord, suitor armor, time and time again, the blind prince, solid state

[moonysfavoritetoast]

it strikes a chord on webtoon btw

[eepybubble]

I AM OBSESSED WITH IT STRIKES A CHORD TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS???

DO YOU REALIZE HOW HAPPY THIS JUST MADE ME BRO IT'S SO FUCKING GOODDDD

i'm gonna put everything under here i'm assuming you're caught up so there's spoilers for through ep20

the last episode had me in TEARS CHARLIE'S DAD WAS HIS MENTOR???? AND HE DIED BEFORE HE WAS EVEN 50 AND STEVIE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW AUUGHHGCJGXBF i wanna know how he died because that's pretty young i'm thinking an illness or something

i'm glad that charlie and stevie are getting closer again but there's still soo much unsaid i wish they would clear the air between them

also stevie's fame is such a big source of conflict for everyone in the story he can't hang out with charlie or his family because everywhere he goes he's just bombarded and he's just constantly dealing with it it's got to have had an effect on him that's not going away anytime soon

also do we know what happened with him and his family? i can't remember but it seemed like he just ran away with his band and left his family behind without telling them and all the tension between them was just AUGH the relationships between all the characters are so GOOD

there's probably more i could go deeper into i love it smmmm

dm me if ur comfy w that we can talk about it more <3

[earth2audiee]

i love my gay band boys

[copper-ichor]

Homies ya gotta wake up a new episode of it strikes a chord just dropped

[springroove]

hi tumblr it’s been a while! here’s some new(ish) art~

[petscoboba]

*Kris, er, does this sometimes.

[serotinals]

A Long Winter | The Thirteen Letters | Not Easily Conquered

ao3: dropdeaddreams, WhatAreFears

[thestarsarecool]

“Paul said he’s going to do the Hall of Fame speech. I really think I’m doing it just to give Paul a night out. He likes to keep busy.”

— Ringo Starr, on being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone, April 15th, 2015

“I don’t know [why we’re reviving it now]. Paul must’ve had a slow day. He says, ‘You know that track we did? Do you want to work on that?’”

— Ringo Starr, on the ‘final’ Beatles track, Variety, July 7th, 2023

[zabiume]

i could talk all day about orihime's relationship with violence and still never tire of it. what do you do when you're 12 and your brother dies and he turns into a monster because you didn't grieve him right. he's not the best example for how to use violence correctly, so you look to your crush, who is kind and honorable and as touched by grief as you are, except guess what! he turns into a monster too! so the natural conclusion is that you give up on trying to fight at all because you're a pacifist and it's chill, people in real life are pacifists and it's an okay thing to be EXCEPT. you're a virgo and a perfectionist and being a perfectionist in a shonen means you've got to be Strong and you don't know how to do that because you've always been weak, your best friend and first protector is literally the strongest girl in japan, you've always been in the shadow of people who can just do things effortlessly while you've got to try and fail before you get anything right. also a part of you doesn't WANT to be strong because most displays of strength you've seen have cost the user their Heart, and you don't want to lose yours – you've been on the receiving end of that display way too much, but a part of you dies every time someone you love gets hurt, so you know your place is on the battlefield, you just don't know where. you don't know how. and you try your best to do what you can with it and you succeed because you're good, orihime, you. are. good.

[mikibagels]

Fanartist I've followed for a while: hey guys, I know you like me for this show's art but I want to pivot towards more original content. I hope that's okay.

Me: I'm going to follow you SO MUCH HARDER

[moonysfavoritetoast]

hekshdksjdksjjdks

it strikes a chord :333

[ilovedthestars]

Sometimes I think about how there are friends whose names I don’t know anymore.

I grew up with a little posse of queer kids. I haven’t talked to most of them in years. I remember them as they were in middle school, when we were still figuring ourselves out. Some of them were trans, or thought they might be trans. Some of them tried on new names.

I had a friend who told me to call her a new name, and she/they. I mostly used she, because she was only out to a small handful of people at the time. If I slipped up and used the new name around other friends, most of them didn’t know who I was talking about. That was eighth grade. We went to different high schools, and didn’t keep up.

That friend shared a handful of playlists with me, back when we knew each other. I still have them saved on my phone. The name under the playlist title has changed from either of the ones I knew her by. I looked again while writing this, and it’s changed to a new name since the last time I looked. I’m sure my friend doesn’t know that by changing their name on their own device, they’re sending out a faint signal that I’m still receiving. It feels like a strange peephole into the present of a friend I left in the past.

Their number is still in my contacts, under the name they told me to call them by. We’ve texted each other on a handful of birthdays in the last few years. Otherwise we haven’t talked. The last time I saw their face was five years ago. They called my name in public, and for a second I didn’t recognize them when I turned to look. I wonder if I’d recognize them now if I ran into them on the street. I wonder what name I’d call them by, and if they’d answer to it.

I might not think of this at all, if not for those playlists from my friend who keeps changing their name. But that makes me wonder about the other trans kids I grew up with, and if the names I learned to call them are still the right ones. We were all still figuring ourselves out, back then. I hadn’t figured myself out yet. (I still haven’t.) I wonder if any of them think of me as their straight friend. I wonder if any of the friends I never knew as trans have new names now.

I know that all the friends I left behind have changed from the goofy, awkward, messy fourteen-year-olds that are frozen in my memory. I know I’m a different person, and they might not recognize me if they saw me today. It’s just so strange to think of someone I once shared everything with and wonder if I still know their name.

[saltpepperbeard]

As much as I love to give Stede the business for having trademark Gay People Obliviousness and not even connecting his feelings towards Ed until well after their split, I’ve realized a lot of that probably has to do with his self-worth struggles.

Because like, here is this gorgeous, skilled, dangerous, legendary man, and he falls right head over heels for Stede. And I imagine Stede cannot envision a more ludicrous and outlandish concept. In his eyes, there is absolutely no way he can be loved that deeply and that quickly, especially not by someone he idolizes- someone as extraordinary as Blackbeard.

It also doesn’t help that he’s never really had true love at all, so he didn’t properly recognize it even when it held his face and looked him right in the eyes. His life has also been a deluge of mockery, bullying, and degradation, so it’s no wonder it took him a good while to catch up.

So Ed can put his life on the line for him, vocalize how happy and at ease he is with his new surroundings (as long as Stede is there with him), touch Stede tenderly, and kiss him right on the mouth, but that’s still not enough. With all Stede’s gone through, there’s still room for incredulousness.

There’s still a part of him that thinks that there’s just no possible way this is real.

[arealtrashact]

Thank you so much for drawing Arcane! Your art gives just as much visual passion as the series itself, both with flow and story. Did you like Viktor or Jayce in the show? Some of your Elvis pieces remind me of their story a tiny bit and I just wanted you to know it means a lot! I hope you enjoy the show even more when season two comes around!

Thank you for the kind words ; that is very high praise !

When it comes to Arcane, I admittedly have extreme tunnel vision for the sibling story. It resonates with me so deeply that it hurts. I remember watching the first three episodes and feeling like someone slammed my heart in a car door.

Arcane is unique in the sense that there isn't a plotline that I find uninteresting. I don't have the same investment in Jayce and Viktor's story that I do with Jinx and Vi's but I am very curious to see where it goes ! Out of the two of them I suppose I prefer Viktor ( Being a fellow chronic illness haver, I am predisposed to latching onto characters like him lol ).

Beyond excited for season two and all the pain and beauty it will bring !

[ghouljams]

being from texas your cowboy!au holds a special place in my heart. it may not be my all time favorite (thats the fae!au specifically cause of nasty ghost and his freak nasty habits) but its actually so nice and relaxing to imagine any of the tiny little towns i pass anytime im driving anywhere in the state could be housing a bunch of weird retired military hotties and their equally weird personal hotties. i see a beefy bearded man in a cowboy hat pumping gas at the QT and i thank god the windows in the car are tinted so dark. you are a talented genius and we dont deserve you

One of my favorite road trip activities(besides imagining that I'm one of the sole survivors in an apocalyptic wasteland, set out to find civilization guided only by a faint radio signal) is to imagine what goes on in the little towns I drive through. I also try to guess what crops are being grown in the fields I pass, but that's just cuz I'm in ag.

Somewhere in the panhandle there's a town of weird hotties doing their best, and I think that's beautiful.