#my lil illicit affairs anon <3

[ghost-proofbaby]

hi it's me the anon who was patiently waiting for your illicit affair inspired fic. well i have just finished it and my god it did not disappoint. not that i ever thought it would. i am quite literally composing this with tears still streaming down my face, listening to illicit affairs on loop. i am left a shell of my former self but in the best possible way. it was so heartwarming with the slow burn and positively gut wrenching by the end, I fear i will never recover. this was so worth the wait and has become my favourite fic of all time. thank you so much for giving us this gift. i am going to sharing this fic with everyone i know<3

i am so sorry for causing hurt but 😭 i am glad it didn’t disappoint!! only took me like a month to finally bite down and brave the pain that was writing that ending haha

thank you so much for also constantly sending in anons and showing me someone out there was looking forward to it 🖤

[phoebe-delia]

what are your favorite taylor swift bridges? and why?

Jet my love thank you for this.

I'm going to do something I don't always do and rank my answers. Here are my Top 10 Taylor Swift Bridges, with Brief Explanations as to Why.

"All Too Well" (10 Minute Version)

--This song. is so fucking iconic; partially because of the bridge. It was iconic before the 10 minute version, and it only became more so after this was released. Incredible lyrics. Incredible—just everything. This is my favorite Taylor song for a reason.

2. "champagne problems"

--"SHE WOULD HAVE MADE SUCH A LOVELY BRIDE WHAT A SHAME SHE'S FUCKED IN THE HEAD" and that's all I have to say about that

3. "tis the damn season"

--THIS!! SONG!! IS EXTREMELY UNDERRATED!!! (I may or may not have a WIP for this song requested by an anon). But my god, I love all of the lyrics to this song, but the bridge really shines. "I won't ask you wait if you don't ask me to stay" plus "And the heart I know I'm breaking is my own/to leave the warmest bed I've ever known." GOD that last line in particular gets me every fucking time.

4. "illicit affairs"

--The catharsis of screaming the bridge is...so much

5. "the last great american dynasty"

--this bridge is MASTERFUL and no one talks about this song enough but it's AWESOME. The bridge literally feels like a stream of consciousness/a montage to show the passage of time, and then ending with "And then it was bought by me...who knows if I never showed up what could've been?" LIKE??? LITERAL CHILLS

6. "Red"

-the DRUMS the DRAMA the LYRICS my god this bridge goes way harder than it has any right to.

7. "Out of the Woods"

--Very few things in this world make me feel as powerful as singing the bridge of this song—particularly the live version, where she basically sings it twice and has a lil growl to her voice.

8. "Death by a Thousand Cuts"

--It goes so hard that you don't realize how fucking devastating the lyrics are. I also find it a bit funny how it goes from "I'm so sad we're broken up—OUR COUNTRY SUCKS—I'm heartbroken over our breakup" 😂😂😂

9. "Cruel Summer"

--"HE LOOKS UP GRINNIN LIKE A DEVIL!!"

10. "Getaway Car"

--This song, particularly the bridge, makes me want to speed down an empty highway as I drive off into the sunset without looking back.

[corallapis]

I wanted to ask about the two classic/vintage actors you’ve been posting about recently. I’ve read the text posts and enjoyed the gif sets, but I was just wondering how you found these two and what’s particularly fascinating about them? Is there an interesting biography about them that you’re reading, or are they just two actors that you’re invested in? Just curious bc it seems they have an interesting history and I’d like to know more. :)

anon, i’m so delighted that you’re intrigued & that you’ve given me an excuse to write a lil treatise :)

put simply: dean martin & jerry lewis were a comedy duo who were partners from 1946-56. they were pretty wildly successful in their day, and they had a great relationship until they didn’t, & then they didn’t speak for 20 years* until frank sinatra surprised them w/ a reunion on live tv. 

to answer your first question, i found them circa 2008 when robbie williams went on ant & dec’s xmas show and they did a rip off/paid tribute to a martin & lewis bit, and then i watched all the clips i could find of them on youtube. my more recent spiral which you have witnessed is due to the fact that i sat down to watch a film & heard perry como’s magic moments & had visceral flashbacks to this fanvid lmao. wish i was kidding. 

like i said, they were rly successful, but it wasn’t bc their comedy was particularly groundbreaking — it’s rly just slapstick & vaudeville, all the classics — but the chemistry between them made (& still makes) them truly entertaining to watch. to paraphrase jerry himself, ppl love to watch other ppl in love, and that’s what they were.

i mean... look, i’m not one for making statements about the plausibility of real-life illicit affairs or whatever, but jerry did, y’know, spend 30 years of his life writing a memoir about their rship and called it “dean and me: a love story” so make of that what you will. personally i think it’s pretty safe to say that jerry was IN love with dean, and whether that was reciprocated or consummated or ever even articulated in a romantic way at all… who knows.

what’s particularly fascinating? oh boy. their rship dynamic which pits their obvious love for each other against their incompatible emotional issues, the questions of a rship which is also The Show — what happens when the business aspect comes to an end? what happens when the public starts to feel entitled to it, even off-stage? — the break-up (woof) and the many subsequent reunions, how no one has a straight answer about the timeline of how they met, the ‘act within an act’ of it all & how much they got away with in front of an audience of millions in the 50s, literally every contradictory word that has ever come out of jerry lewis’ mouth on the subject...

there’s not one particular biography i’m reading bc i’ve. read all of them. (except the ones i can’t get ahold of in ebook form… if you’ve got a link to arthur marx or patti lewis’ books hmu) but i’d say the one i linked above is a good place to start if you’re interested in reading about them. (just be aware that jerry… can be loose with dates & leaves things out. i suspect very intentionally.) if you wanna watch some of their stuff, i would generally avoid their movies for now & instead suggest watching clips of them hosting the colgate comedy hour. the ventriloquist is one of my faves out of their sketches. also talk of the town. also you’ll never get away. also ev’ry street’s a boulevard. i can’t start listing these bc i won’t stop... if you’re just looking for gay antics, here’s a supercut.

*this isn’t true... yes it is... no it isn’t <3

[notesonartistry]

okay so inspired by a convo with an anon but i wanted to share this with my lovelies bc i loved it <3 OKAY so speaking of like dream concerts, what would be your outfit/setlist mashup dream if taylor did a greatest hits tour post covid?? (apparently most set lists are 13 songs long, so lol)

Aw man, I’m happy you chose to send this to me ... but also full of dread, lol. It’s a great question, but how to choose 13 songs!?

I don’t have such a good grasp of the overall show and outfits so I’m just going to do the songs:

1. Style

2. Cardigan

3. Champagne Problems

4. I Did Something Bad

Then a lil acoustic set

5. Cornelia St

6. illicit affairs

7. ivy

8. Daylight/This Love mashup

9. Out of the Woods/peace mashup (on piano, with the big OOTW climax)

Then a last big blow-out

10. IKYWT

11. Getaway Car

12. Cruel Summer

13. Paper Rings

Encore: Shake it Off/WANEGBT mashup

This was torturous and I’m sad for all the songs I missed off and if you ask me this again tomorrow, I’ll probably have a different answer, but here you go!

Excellent question though

[seblore]

MY FELLOW HULKENSSUN SHIPPER!!!

WE VIBIN’ babe, WE VIBIN’

I didn’t even think about Don’t Blame Me! You 🤯🤯🤯🤯 my mind

Also Hulk with this—

Ocean blue eyes looking in mine

I feel like I might sink and drown and die

You're so gorgeous

I can't say anything to your face (to your face)

'Cause look at your face (look at your face)

And I'm so furious

At you for making me feel this way

But what can I say?

You're gorgeous

I mean that entire song is him pining after KMag—

You should think about the consequence

Of your magnetic field being a little too strong

And—

You should take it as a compliment

That I'm talking to everyone here but you (but you, but you)

And you should think about the consequence

Of you touching my hand in the darkened room (dark room, dark room)

✨✨✨flying everywhere✨✨✨

Your- Paper Rings is Sewis and Illicit Affairs is Hulkenssun Anon!

WOULD YOU BELIEVE ME IF I TOLD YOU I GOT ON TUMBLR ON 5AM TO WRITE ABOUT HOW GORGEOUS SHOULD BE NEXT IN OUR HULKENUSSEN TIMELINE? AND THEN I SEE THIS?? i am losingg my minfd shjsks woah anon we are on the same wavelength WE REALLY VIBIN VIBIN I LOVE IT HEREEE hdjs what clicked for me was the ‘you should take it as a compliment that im talking to everyone here but you’ like????? And also 👀 if we are backtracking a lil bit; i think

He got my heartbeat

Skipping down 16th Avenue

Got that, oh! I mean

Wanna see what's under that attitude

Like, I want you, bless my soul

And I ain't gotta tell him

I think he knows

I want you, bless my soul

Lyrical smile, indigo eyes, hand on my thigh

We can follow the sparks, I'll drive

this is like set right after the ‘suck my balls honey’ fallout dhsjsk nico realizes kmag ‘gets his heartbeat skipping down 16th avenue <3’ OoF nico really said @ kmag i wanna see whats under that attitude 👁👄👁♥️

OK OK OK SO ITS LIKE AN HOUR LATER AND IT JUST CAME TO ME THAT DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS??? IS LITERALLY KMAG TRYING TO COME IN TERMS WITH THEIR BREAK UP

Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts

Flashbacks waking me up

I get drunk, but it's not enough

'Cause the morning comes and you're not my baby honey

AND THE REST OF THE SONG TOO

I see you everywhere, the only thing we share

Is this small town (Aka f1)

You said it was a great love

One for the ages

But if the story's over, why am I still writing pages?

hshsjsk I MEANNNN