#thebohemianbelle

[septembersghost]

Modern Screen, Feb. 1960

[lukrecious]

Commission for @thebohemianbelle! THANK YOU 💚

[lady-ofmischief]

Thank you for the tag @thebohemianbelle 💚

Rules: pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people.

Love is a Cowboy - Kelsea Ballerini

As Long as You Love Me - BSB

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi

Only You - Yaz

Favorite Kind of High - Kelly Clarkson

My Church - Maren Morris

Into The Mystic - Van Morrison

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen

Heaven, Iowa - Fall Out Boy

I Wanna Dance with Somebody - Whitney Houston

Ends Of The Earth - Lord Huron

Foolish Games - Jewel

I think this playlist perfectly sums up what the inside of my head sounds like 😅

Tag List: @queenofnevermore @ecle-c-tic @killerqueen-ofwillowgreen @loverlyundecidedmusicalmuggle @thislookinyoureyes @whatmarisays @trinikins @freddie-moments @whyfalloutwhenyoucanpanic @ursogreat @arwione @queenies-of-the-universe @borealis-strange @theforceiswithyoualways @theinvulnerabletide

[cakeyouareoh]

tagged by @zelzahdarkcloak 💜💜💜

painting or photography // dusk or dawn // spring or autumn // movies or tv shows // chocolate or nutella // audiobooks or podcasts // card games and board games // fiction or nonfiction // cookies or brownies // dragons or unicorns // bath or shower // blue or yellow // rollercoasters or bumper cars // iced tea or hot tea //left side of bed or right side of bed or middle // zip-up hoodie or pullover hoodie // straight hair or curly hair // gummy worms and gummy bears // rain or snow // sneakers or flip-flops // bowling or mini golf // pasta or pizza

tagging @ghostrider-02, @dangerously-human, @story-courty, @elliteracy, and @thebohemianbelle if you haven’t done it already. :)

[whitequeen-ofwillowgreen]

📘- Gel Pens

hey my dear, so here's my first request: My favourite lyrics from the song Angels by Robbie Williams (1997) are:

and down the waterfall wherever it may take me I know that life won't break me

(and of course I love every single word of these song)

much love ❤️

My sweet Kathrin! This is such a beautiful song and I remember that you recommended it to me a long time ago so thank you for sharing this song:) I had a little fun with this hope you like them <3

The first 2 I was trying to make them look like they could be from the 90s and the bottom is just regular 😆

Join my 90s Celebration!!

Tag List: @queenofnevermore @ecle-c-tic @killerqueen-ofwillowgreen @loverlyundecidedmusicalmuggle @thislookinyoureyes @roger-s-maracas @whatmarisays @trinikins @whyfalloutwhenyoucanpanic @thebohemianbelle @ursogreat @arwione

[thisbravegirl]

Pinterest moodboard idea I got from @thebohemianbelle!

Look up your name+core in the search bar to make a moodboard of the pics that come up

It was kind of scary how much of it was actually stuff I like lol

[septembersghost]

@thebohemianbelle my instagram recommendations just did this:

and this:

and i am feeling #emotional in a way i think you'll specifically understand 💜

[septembersghost]

Happy birthday, sweetie! So thankful for you! 🥰 Thank you for the light you bring into the world!

this gif, pressing my hands to my heartttt!

thank you so much my lovely. you are a dear soul and friend, and a true light too, it is such a blessing knowing you!!! 💕💖

[lukrecious]

Commission for @thebohemianbelle! Thank you 💗

[septembersghost]

relief begins to creep in as my queue dissipates and i get closer to never having to be here again, but i want to say something directly to my elvis girls 💙

specifically: @joons, @thebohemianbelle, @lookingforrainbows, @ab4eva, @from-memphis-with-love, @queenncreole, @arianatheangel-girl, @headfullofpresley

i keep thinking about him writing: “If I wasn’t tough, I wouldn’t be here. If I wasn’t gentle, I wouldn’t deserve to be here.”

you are the kindest and most loving community of people, fans of anything or anyone, that i have ever interacted with, and to my mind (and heart), that speaks so directly to him. i’ve unexpectedly written so much about him now on this blog i am fleeing, and honestly it may be what i will most regret leaving behind. my spaces here are always a mishmash of fandoms, for better or worse, and with that has come joy, but also a certain amount of sadness and turmoil for various reasons. we certainly have that too, but it typically comes from the outside, whereas the core of what we have together is built on shared love and humanity. what strikes me about this is how closely it aligns to him and the things he believed and tried to enact throughout his life. if there’s a way to keep someone’s presence and spirit alive, surely it’s not only in remembering them, but in holding close to what made them vibrant and happy and faithful and beloved while they were here. walking that path a little to offer empathy and comfort, like we’ve all heard him say (paraphrasing slightly) - help each other along the way, no matter where we start.

i was lucky enough to be friends with a couple of you before he gleamed into my life more fully, while others of you he brought to me, and i've been part of this community for less time than i have many other spaces here, yet as it's played out, you're the ones who've reached out to me, you're the ones who've shown compassion, you're the ones who've treated me like a person and made me feel safe. it seems like topsy-turvy land in that the things i initially came to this blog for i cannot abide interacting with at large anymore, that things i cherished have turned to ash, but in that space of loss is something else. a voice and strength and spirit.

he gives so much light to this world, and you reflect it. he, and therefore you, have been my greatest blessings this year.

he would be so proud of all of you and would love you tremendously. as i do.

[lady-ofmischief]

Saw this on another post and thought it looked fun:)

You get to pick out a tree and then your friends can leave messages for you! No pressure to participate :)

Tag List: @queenofnevermore @ecle-c-tic @killerqueen-ofwillowgreen @loverlyundecidedmusicalmuggle @thislookinyoureyes @roger-s-maracas @whatmarisays @trinikins @freddie-moments @thebohemianbelle @ursogreat @arwione @queenies-of-the-universe @borealis-strange

[septembersghost]

Rules: pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people.

tagged by @wickedhawtwexler, thank you!!! ❤🥰 i took these from songs that were upcoming on shuffle in my playlist, which was fun!

salvation - gabrielle aplin

erase me - lizzy mcalpine

psychedelic switch - carly rae jepsen

there's a ghost - fleurie

elvis song - maisie peters

moonlight serenade - ella fitzgerald

bells in santa fe - halsey

embraceable you - frank sinatra

rhiannon - fleetwood mac

star maps - aly & aj

ghost towns - radical face

hold me like a grudge - fall out boy

outta time - orville peck

since we're alone - niall horan

try to remember - harry belafonte

no pressure tags!: @thebohemianbelle, @joons @saulwexler, @ab4eva, @jennifersbod, @freakwiththeknifecollection, @takeawaythepain, @aurastiel @maddenedbythesstars, @isitcasualnow, @the-castle-ruins, @desireearmfeldt, @kendalroys, @wildeyedsapphic, @nerdfaerie, and if anyone else would like to do this and hasn't! 😘

[septembersghost]

chronic illness flare has turned me into a soaking wet paper doll of a person, but i have tag games to catch up on and that's a fun distraction 😊💕

tagged by jenn my sweetie @castiel

show your lock screen, last celeb photo, and last song listened to

oh this is probably going to be embarrassing. okay so my most frequently used device unfortunately doesn't have a customizable lock screen. i am very lucky to have a secondary device i use quite often these days which was a gift from a friend who didn't need it anymore, and that one had a really pretty floral/lyric from the archer for ages, but now... (if i hadn't saved this picture of taylor and benji, the lock screen and photo would've been a neat display of matched insanity, could've hit a trifecta with the song too but fob swooped in at the last second.) anyway...

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tagged by (polk! salad!) dani @valkaryah: share my top 5 songs I've been listening to.

according to my current replay playlist, and without repeating artists, otherwise this would be very skewed, it's 1. any day now - elvis presley, 2. heartbreak feels so good - fall out boy, 3. all of the girls you loved before - taylor swift, 4. look at us now (honeycomb) - daisy jones and the six, 5. all my ghosts - lizzy mcalpine (the way lizzy has not left my rotation for a year!)

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tagged by darlings @thebohemianbelle and @waxandwanewitchery: when you get this, you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to

similar to the above, but different!!! if i snagged this from that weekly replay playlist, it would essentially be all of the same artists because my listening habits have been in a cycle of comfort lately, but i'll choose five that i do listen to a lot that are also in the list and weren't represented. 1. golden - harry styles, 2. say you love me - fleetwood mac, 3. just one of those things - frank sinatra, 4. supercut - lorde, 5. easy to love - ella fitzgerald

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tagged by @bloodmoonlits 😘 my top 4 current albums (the taste on yours, i love seeing recognition for holly!) mine are going to be so predictable here please send help. (i am making an executive decision to exclude taylor from this, but red tv and lover are actually battling it out for a top spot at the moment 💖)

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tagged by @headfullofpresley and @castiel: talk about 8 shows as a way to get to know me better. this is unexpectedly hard because rarely are the shows i most dearly love ones that i would openly recommend to another human being haha 😳 so let that be a disclaimer here as i wrack my brain. in no particular order:

(1). better call saul: i will never be as deranged about anything on television as i was about this show, scheming times were had, tragedies were felt, cinnamon rolls were eaten. kisses sealed at city hall, flowers blooming in the desert. my unpopular qualms with the last few episodes/ending aside, it was such a gorgeously layered, meticulously crafted show, i loved those characters so much, it was SUCH a cinematic treat visually, and nearly every step was finely tuned and written in such a thought-provoking way. every step was perfectly acted. i could still talk about it forever. kim wexler queen of my heart, you will always be famous. you don't save me. i save me. (shout-out to the magnificent, and inarguably definitive, predecessor breaking bad.)

(2). penny dreadful: this show is a glorious horror, a mess of victoriana, a fanfiction potpourri of some of the most famous characters of literature, no sane person should invest themselves in it. unfortunately, i, not sane, love it to the bone (except for the terrible ending, you'll catch a pattern here), predominantly because vanessa ives means everything to me. the flame to which all moths gather. defiant martyr of my heart. no one will ever be like her!!! she is my fierce compassionate sickgirl heroine, fighting against the shadows of her world, her soul forever unbowed and true. even when she fears that lost, she holds close her dignity, her ability to love, her perseverance. the poetry with which the show, particularly the first two seasons, was written is unmatched. it's gothic horror in a frame that no one else on television has ever attempted, and it felt made for me when i first watched it in january of 2020. for though it is macabre and gruesome and dark and steeped in grief, it's also about beauty and devotion and resilience and connection. "i see no wildflowers here."/"then you need to look closer." and the everlasting heartbeat, no matter what john logan did to her, my vanessa. something yet remains. i remain.

(3). bates motel: fun fact, i only started bates last february, i've watched S1-4 more than once, and yet still have not finished S5. i keep trying but i don't want to do it! it's a rare one where i already know the ending is fitting, i just keep pushing it off. it's a very difficult show, it deals with heavy themes, there's triggering and horrific stuff in the pilot alone that would immediately stop me from telling people to watch (or at least give me pause), yet at the same time i think it unexpectedly becomes one of the most brilliantly done pieces of television i've ever seen. they have this audacious idea - what if we made a prequel of one of the most iconic movies of all-time? - and somehow not only pull it off, but end up making that story richer and more meaningful. we KNOW we're plummeting towards inevitable tragedy and still wish it could be diverted. we are fascinated and repulsed and aching for the bonds these people share, the desperation as they try to survive. every character is flawed in ways that the story tries to claw humanity out of, and it does something distinct in never shaming or vilifying any of the protagonists for the wretched things they do, never talking down to the audience saying we should be judging them or wishing ill on them, but rather examining WHY they are this way, why they act and react as they do, how they have been bent into these strange shapes. it exhumes your empathy and refuses to let you turn away from the difficulties of their world. the house looms forever like a breathing entity in the background. we will always end up in the basement, but how it comes to happen is the more important tale. and it has the incomparable powerhouse of norma bates, wonderful, awful, extraordinary, complicated, half queen, half little girl. she was like a miracle. as with vanessa, i will never forget her. (another pattern you'll see here: WOMEN.)

(4). remington steele: this was the very first "grown up" show i was ever allowed to watch with my mom, in syndication when i was a kid, and i just love it so much. it's such a delight. 80s glamour! mysteries and hi-jinks! THEE ultimate will-they/won't they romance, and she doesn't even know his real name! try this for a deep dark secret - the great detective remington steele? he doesn't exist. i invented him. follow - i always loved excitement, so i studied, and apprenticed, and put my name on an office, but absolutely nobody knocked down my door... i can recite the whole first season intro monologue, burned into my brain from age twelve. we just finished a rewatch a few weeks ago and i miss them already. laura holt is intelligent, beautiful, romantic, indefatigable, the closest thing the small screen has had to a classic noir inspired brassy leading lady, and was FORMATIVE for me.

(5). crazy-ex girlfriend: they put a musical on television for me. immediate hit right there. many of the numbers are parodies/homage, cheeky and clever but still heartfelt. then it became one of the funniest, most poignant, most empathetic, most memorable explorations of infatuation, self-worth, and most significantly mental health that i have ever seen. there have been a couple of other musical concept shows (smash, notably), but none that achieved what cxg did. it's an extraordinary work and sometimes i can't believe it was allowed to exist, and got to flourish the way it did. rebecca bunch could so easily be called unlikable - selfish, impulsive, obsessive - and yet she is so lovable and so real through all of her flaws, how can you not root for her, laugh with her, sing with her, cry with her? how can you not want her to get better? you find, eventually, it was never even about the guys, though they're fun to explore in all their neuroses too. they're almost...irrelevant. "a diagnosis" will never not make me weep. the show is just so important. this is about the story of a woman who learns how to recover, how to build true friendships (#gurlgroup4eva), and how to embrace herself.

(6). that girl: another one my mom brought me up on, and there are other shows i could mention here (i love lucy, the dick van dyke show, the addams family) as far as prototypes of modern comedy go (there is a direct line from that girl to the mary tyler moore show to friends and new girl), but that girl is particularly dear to me because it was influential to my mom, and because ann marie is a character all her own. she's quirky, she's determined, she's got the greatest 60s fashion, she's constantly getting herself into situations, she's one of the very first sitcom heroines to be a "single girl in the city" and to directly confront sexism (in multiple ways, but especially in the workplace and in the entertainment industry), she is loved and adored by her boyfriend (one of the best and most patient of all fictional boyfriends), but she is not defined by don, they complement each other. marlo thomas, the icon that you are.

(7). pretty little liars: listen. i know. I KNOW. it's silly, it's ridiculous, it has a host of issues, but i was hooked. and the thing is, though the mysteries fizzled and the reveals didn't make sense, what mattered were those girls. female friendship was the heart of everything in that story, they stood by each other and supported each other through every danger, toil, and snare, and even when they messed up, they forgave each other and came back together as a team every time. -A hardly matters, but the liars are everything. young volcanoes. aria, hanna, emily, and spencer all mean so much to me for very different reasons, and spencer especially. my genius, tenacious, too-caring girl. down these mean streets a girl must go who is not herself mean.

(8). supernatural: sigh. would be remiss not to mention it, right? have, in fact, written what amount to personal essays and fanciful poetics on this blog explaining at length what it once meant to me, have delved into the folklore urban legend americana of it all, and while i have gained a certain distance from it since the palpable breakdown i had from its ending that we do not acknowledge, those entries would hold true. it was so formative that things which are on this list would not be here without it, and i know that. it's so inextricable that i can't tell what is a thread connected to it in my life and what isn't at times. premiered on my birthday and presented me one of the greatest loves of my life, who i will always carry with me. i would not quite be me without dean. i would not be here right now without dean, in more ways than one. and i do my best to be brave.

(honorable mentions to shows tam and jenn had on their lists: the x-files, tvd/the originals, the marvelous mrs. maisel; other honorable mentions: btvs/a:ts, bones, dexter, fleabag S2, gilmore girls, the good place, jane the virgin, nancy drew/hardy boys mysteries, orphan black, the haunting of bly manor, select episodes of doctor who, i am quite certain i'm forgetting a bunch!)

for this last one i am tagging @nerdfaerie​, @arthurwilde, @desireearmfeldt, @someoneoffthestreet, @freakwiththeknifecollection, @bcyoureallthatmakessense, @setyourfireonme, @dewintering, @joons, @thebohemianbelle, @beckybloomwood, @takeawaythepain, and @wickedhawtwexler, but also any of you who wants to do this, or any of the rest of these, please do, and then tag me!!! i love to see them! i apologize profusely for the pervasive brainrot. 💟

[whitequeen-ofwillowgreen]

🛼 What's your favourite song from Innuendo?

I always forget that album came out in 1991, my brain just can not comprehend that 😆

The Show Must Go On

Hands down my favorite on the album and possibly one of my top favorites period.

How about you?

Anyone else like to join the discussion?

@queenofnevermore @killerqueen-ofwillowgreen @loverlyundecidedmusicalmuggle @thislookinyoureyes @roger-s-maracas @whatmarisays @trinikins @freddie-moments @whyfalloutwhenyoucanpanic @thebohemianbelle @ursogreat

[lady-ofmischief]

This is a live version of one of her new songs that i absolutely love @loverlyundecidedmusicalmuggle @trinikins @thebohemianbelle

[septembersghost]

this video essay discussing Elvis, both the film and baz's vision in breaking the mold of a "biopic" and exploring a story fundamentally about the clash between the sell of consumerism and the soul of artistry, the image and the human being, and in talking about the person and his legacy and why we still long desperately to reach for the humanity of the artists who touch our lives, is brilliant, and a really great exploration and encapsulation of why the film is as affecting and masterful and ultimately beautiful, despite all its tragedy, as it is. it mentions how he continued to uplift and to love, and that even when it seems like he was out of dreams, he never entirely was, and ultimately that persists. "one thing is for certain, if Elvis' biggest fear at the end was, 'No one will ever remember me,' he could not have had less to worry about, because we will never forget..." (@joons @thebohemianbelle i feel like this will resonate with both of you particularly the way it did with me 💖)