#AND SHE WAS REALLY SET ON THE SONG SO

[iceinherheart-kissonherlips]

you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you  🎶

#dwedit #rd edit #river song edit #eleventh doctor #river song #doctor who #is it great? no. does it make sense? no. not really.I just wanted to make it #because this quote kind of makes me go feral #because imagine river. a ghost. trying to get a closure from a man who supposedly loved her #but it seems to have forgotten all about her. put her on a shelf life a book that wasn't even that great and engaging #and so she haunts him. first trying to get a reaction and realising that he can't hear or see her #and so then she talks. about their adventures. about her love. how she misses him. how she's always missed him #she'd tell him about her solo advenures #how much fun she used to have and she'd tell him how many times she stole his TARDIS and he didn't even notice #and she'd make fun of him piloting the TARDIS ('hundreds of years and you still can't do that. you really did get that flying licence in a p #and during these rare times when he slept she'd read or tale him fairytales. because why not? what does she have to lose? #and yet. he heard her all the time. every single time. #but he never talked to her. why would he? to do that he'd have to acknowledge that he'd lost her for good. just like her parents. just like #and river - she was supposed to be different. a touchstone. someone who would be able to keep up with him. stay with him. they would always #and yet. he was left all alone. his wife gone. a ghost of her was all he could have. he should set her free but he was a selfish man. so he #is it too much? or not enough? #idk they just make me go feral tbqh. what can I say I want me faves to suffer :) #mine #long post #otp: the towers sang and you cried

[thedreadvampy]

btw about Neil Gaiman I periodically agree with the 'Neil Gaiman is annoying' stuff bc I feel like both he and Amanda Palmer seem like people who I would go insane stuck in a room with bc we have very different ideas about art and suchlike. and I also do think that the career trajectory he's on lately is cynically redoing his greatest hits and pretending that was the dream all along when it clearly was not. which is at best meh.

having said which

as far as I can tell by far the most common complaint about Neil Gaiman is "Snow, Glass, Apples is problematic/gross/it's got incest and rape and frames the child as the aggressor"

which strikes me as a weird complaint to pull out of a 40 year body of work tbh when that short story is pretty clearly coming from a place of 'how far can I push this'. like you don't have to like the story. I don't really like the story. but it is. a horror story.

like and this is the thing with particularly 90s alt horror right? a lot of the interest is in transgression and sitting in the worst possible perspective and seeing what happens if you pull those strings. like I really like Clive Barker for example but there's a good chunk of his short stories that I'm like I'm not picking up what you're putting down Clive this seems Kinda Off. but that willingness to write some trite or Bad Message horror fiction that doesn't land is imo a side effect of being willing to try writing uncomfortable and unpleasant fiction at all. which is what horror is for, among other things, it's for creating discomfort as a form of catharsis or engagement.

like I am not a huge fan of the type of sex-horror that pops up in a lot of Gaiman's work and other contemporary horror writers - to me I don't find it upsetting or horny it just ends up feeling kind of edgy and tryhard - but I'm also a bit like. it does seem like a lot of people's beef with Neil Gaiman is that In The 90s He Was A Horror Writer

and this approach to Problematic Horror in Snow, Glass, Apples I find kind of microcosmic of how The Discourse often approaches art in this kind of 1:1 way. if you write a story which seems to line up with rape apologia it can only be because you agree with it. if you write a story about transphobia you're a transphobe. if you write a story that makes me genuinely uncomfortable you're attacking me.

but artwork, especially art like horror that's not necessarily trying to provoke enjoyment as its main response, is necessarily hit and miss. and if what you're shooting for is discomfort then whether it works, falls flat or goes too far incredibly depends on your audience. and making good art - as in art that makes its audience think, art that opens the audience up to discomfort and catharsis and sticks with them and changes them - requires the space to experiment and tbh the space to fuck up. like they aren't all going to be winners and they certainly aren't all going to work for you as a singular audience.

personally I don't see the appeal of Snow, Glass, Apples, less cause it's nasty and more cause it's hack. ooh an edgy monstrous version of a fairy tale where there's lots of rape and cannibalism? you're soooo original Neil. but like. that's fine. I don't really vibe with like 70% of Neil Gaiman stuff I've read but I still like Neil Gaiman because the stuff that works for me really works for me.

idk I think there's a lot of folk on this website who shouldn't interact with horror cause they clearly aren't interested in being horrified. that's not everyone who dislikes Snow, Glass, Apples, but it's a real undercurrent to a lot of the criticism and tbh this kinda vibe is shit for art. making standout art What Is Good also requires being ready to make art which stands out for the wrong reasons. sometimes they'll be the same art to different people.

#red said #not to Cancel Culture this but isabelle fall springs to mind in a lot of how folks talk about stuff like this #like she wrote a transgressive piece exploring her own negative feelings about transness and her anger around a transphobic trope #and she made something which i found really resonant and interesting #and she got torn apart for it because it Might From Some Angles Agree With Transphobia #and I'm not making a direct comparison. because i think attack helicopter is a really GOOD story and i think SGA is gratuitous and hack #but that's the thing right? transgression and discomfort and speaking about unpleasant things in an openended way are KEY #to making art that engages directly with your own pains and angers and discomforts #and that's hard to mediate tbh. but it's also very necessary. #i think as well thinking about Gaiman this is also a thought I've often had about Amanda Palmer #who over the years has written a lot of songs about things i find genuinely uncomfortable or offensive. #and i can engage with 'it's fucked up to tell your ex they transed their gender At You' or 'your partner's suicide is not about you' bc yeah #but #you can't celebrate someone for making confessional music then get mad because you don't like everything they confess #if you only take about your socially acceptable thoughts it's not really confessional is it? #if you only talk about discomforting things that people are comfortable hearing about its not really discomforting #and you can only really discern what's Good Transgressive and what's Damaging Transgressive through doing i think #so if you want challenging art you are going to have to get some art which challenges you and you go hmm no i still disagree #is what i think #so yeah you can hate the artwork but when an artist is specifically setting out to make challenging art it's weird to hate them #for making 50 pieces of art you like and 1 you hate

[trashlie]

Nol’s Weird Reactions to Shinae’s Weird Compliments

I needed to take a small break from all the heavy discussions and decided to go round up all the little moments I could remember of Shinae paying Nol an unexpected - and often seemingly weird lol - compliment and Nol’s very puzzled reactions lmao because it always makes me laugh. There’s something about his “um what” that always makes me laugh 

Honorable mention to this scene at the black and white formal

Not a weird compliment (hence it being an honorable mention) but it still came by surprise and left them both feeling awkward

Honorable honorable mention to THIS scene, too. He seems to react more to the fact that she’s saying anything nice to him at all, hence why it’s an honorable mention, but it still fits the “reacting kinda weirdly” theme so here it is lmao 

Let me know if I’ve missed any more - I think a post of all the times Shinae has paid anyone an awkward compliment would be just the best because I still never get over “SEXY HANDS” and Dieter nearly dying in response lmaooooo She’s a unique and somewhat socially awkward one, our Shinae, and I wouldn’t want to have her any other way 

#I Love Yoo #Shinae Yoo #Nolan Oliver T. Lochlainn #that's my girl awkward but trying her best lmao #there's something about her just feeling really awkward or self conscious and blurting out whatever is on her mind that is sooo funny #like doo doo doo just casually sharing a set of earbuds listening to a nice song and getting flustered by nol's face so very close to hers #and when he catches her looking what does she say???? you smell clean by the way #afkljafkjakfjjkaf BABE. WHO DOES THAT?! i love her LMAO #also perpetually unable to get over his ??? response to her compliment at the Park's party LMAO #what's he supposed to do with her?????? lmao #'okay?' #anyway please enjoy this nice little wholesome break before i get back to discussing kousuke and his psychological baggage #sometimes we just gotta indulge in something light lmaoooooo

[vanwizard]

fhjwksjsndbsjdjjs do NOT let the media fool you. the new moulin rouge flat out sucks.

#‘omg it’s a BOLD new take’ yeah it’s bold. #musicals are like marvel movies for me at this point and this was my dr strange multiverse. #okay edit now that im sober: the rest of the show was really stunning!! costumes choreo sets performance #it was all really amazing but the songs were fucking awful it was like glee-esque shit #which to be fair. i haven’t seen the original so i can assume it was pretty much the same just with different music. #but auighfhdhhhh when she started singing katy perry firework i literally almost jumped up and RAN

[hum--hallelujah]

and if I said that Hum Hallelujah is the most p2 "love song" to me and didn't elaborate on that? what then?

#no it's because it's such an inherently vulnerable song to even write #let alone put on a record #maybe the first verse is pete and the second is patrick. I love you in the same way there's a chapel in a hospital. #the first ''I could write it better than you ever felt it'' is pete but the second repetition is patrick #because he's always scored pete's life #idk man. just. feeling really emotional about the sheer amounts of love inherent in 1) pete even sharing those lyrics #2) patrick scoring them. setting them to music. and 3) patrick SINGING THOSE WORDS #like. there is so much love present in that song just by nature of what it is and it freaking breaks me #she speaks! #fob #two halves of a whole member of fall out boy #I suppose here is when I clarify that I mean this platonically of course. like obviously. I'm very clear about that on this blog #but yeah. anyway #fall out boy #m

[oysters-aint-for-me]

my cat when i get up at 3 am to go to the bathroom and walk by his “empty” food bowl without refilling it

#the most special prince does not recognize why a citizen would do anything that is not related to His Highness #cats #also btw i say this with ZERO sarcasm 100% genuine: this song fucking slaps #that part where sharpay goes ‘something is really…’ and ryan signs ‘somethings not right!’ and sharpy interrupts and sings ‘—really wrong!’ #chefs kiss musical moment truly #like sharpay sets up the musical cue for #ryan to sing that next part - like that’s a music trope we’ve heard before #but sharpay doesn’t even acknowledge it - music-wise she blows past it #both linguistically and musically she just continues her previous melody #it’s so brilliant and it’s from high school musical which makes it even better tbh #ART IS REAL #high school musical

[byberbunk2069]

This is just how Netrunners exchange information in meatspace.

#SongV #Song So Mi #Songbird #OC: Veil #Netrunner V #the information being that they love each other #last one is a little bonus because I forget that this game is Like That sometimes #this is like set in 2080 #in my headcanon they last kissed in 2064 #there was never really the right chance to do so in 2077 but they did hug tight when she proxy’d the Blackwall for So Mi

[ohdorothea]

I think I have to engage with Taylor Swift as a performance artist rather than a person or I will break my brain trying to figure her out

#there is something about the specific ways she has said she does not want people to speculate about who her songs are about #but then… everything she does #saying question was about Matty #releasing you’re losing me during the Matty backlash #this new album title seemingly being a reference to a very publicly known group chat her ex was in #honestly I find the whole thing easier to understand if I believe Joe was a beard #it honestly makes more sense to me than being in a serious relationship for 6 years and then immediately upon breaking up #using all of your public power and money to trash him and get your fans riled up against him #not that I think he was a beard I honestly don’t really have an opinion they were so private I don’t know anything about their relationship #other than what Taylor has written about #how do you go from peace to trying to actively set your fans against him #idk ignore me I am just Thinking

[ioannemos]

reason #??? i want to live away from people: YOU STEAL THE AIR OUT OF MY LUNGS, YOU MAKE ME FEEL IT! I PRAY FOR EVERYTHING WE LOST, BUY BACK THE SECRETS! YOUR HAND FOREVER'S ALL I WANT! DON'T TAKE THE MONEY! DON'T TAKE THE MONEY! (“baby, love me! you've got me, runaway!”) YOU STEAL THE AIR OUT OF MY LUNGS, YOU MAKE ME FEEL IT! I PRAY FOR EVERYTHING WE LOST, BUY BACK THE SECRETS! YOUR HAND FOREVER'S ALL I WANT! DON'T TAKE THE MONEY! DON'T TAKE THE MONEY!

#don't take the money #bleachers #hhhhh #sometimes a song just Gets to me and it's this one today #playing this song on repeat on a little bluetooth speaker... really wanna be playing it on a whole set up. BLAST it #it's already got me on vibrate so to speak but i'd love to be feeling it REVERBERATE in my chest #i've already confused the dog by dancing and singing really loud #she's like ''?? we're excited?? okay?? shall we play about it??'' which. i mean. yeah we will obvs but also i just wanna dance sometimes #anyway #this sure was a post #sing to me #kinda #personal #abbie needs a twitter #will we FIGHT? stay up LATE? / in my DREAMS i'm to BLAME / different SIDES of the BED / roll your EYES shake my HEAD #now we're STUCK in the STORM / we were BORN to IGNORE / and all i got / is a chance / to just say #baby love me! you've got me runaway!

[meatsouuuuup]

it is yearning for tap hours

#when i was in middle school my school did mary poppins for the musical and as an ensemble girlie i got to be a tap dancing chimney sweep #and it was so fun and the teacher said i picked it up really fast and was doing pretty good for someone with no prior experience #and there were like 5 of us who got to go up onto elevated surfaces and guess which tiny eleven year old got to do that #during one of the shows the stage crew forgot to lock the set piece i was on and i nearly fell but i somehow managed to avoid a crisis??? #to this day i’m not sure how #but anyways #after that the teacher in charge always put a tiny tap section in one song of each show #one year it was like 8 people and the next it was 4 #different people each year except for me #and after i graduated middle school she stopped doing that #i still haven’t ever had any tap lessons and i haven’t done it since then at all but it was so much fun and i really miss it #would love to get lessons one day #also that teacher was so cool she was my english teacher in eighth grade and we read romeo and juliet and she taught us to stage sword fight #i also did stage crew for the middle school musical when i was in high school and she let me have cameos

[sysig]

It’s all worth it to be close ♥ (Patreon)

#Doodles #Original #The Mouse and the Mermaid #Just some sketchy sketches this time ♪ Leftover doodles from a scratch page #If you remember the set of Pop singing that one cheesy love song :3c #But there's a specific line in the song that refers to the sing-ee as ''my pet'' y'know like a pet name - dearest/darling/my love etc. #Pop would get so flustered about it and feel bad haha poor lad #Soda had a history of being a poorly-cared for pet fish before Pop sprang her ♥ She'd feel bad about potentially reminding her! #Soda wouldn't actually mind tho lol she's quite easy-breezy #Couple more Pops :D She's just so cute! #I really enjoy the featureless orb hands of like Miis and Animal Crossing humans haha #It's just such a cute and simple way of drawing them ♪ #Big eyes are fun as well hehe - they have opposite eye styles! Pop's big dark eyes and Soda's blank eyes ♪ #Silly S-shaped idea of the two of them holding hands in their respective elements :) #They both have tails even! They can be all fun and silly and sweep-curly #And finally sleeping on each other because I Must Keep My Quota Up #Unfortunately for Pop her girlfriend is exothermic lol - feels great from Soda's perspective! Not so much for the mammal of the duo #I'm sure she'd feel great in summer but then it'd just be the opposite situation! #Unless they snuggled in a pool or something haha #Cove filled with bubbles and baubles hehehe

[badolmen]

My toxic trait is unironically liking 2000s-2010s country music 😔

#ra speaks #personal #sorry I’m Nostalgic this morning like #man I remember when my sister had a plastic purple and silver radio she kept by her bed #and she’d have it set to the local country station for the night and I’d fall asleep listening to like #Kenny chesney rodney attkins Miranda lambert Carrie underwood brooks and Dunn etc etc #and off there’s some Toby Keith-esque post 9/11 crap in there but like #*lies down on the floor sobbing* if you’re going thru hell keep on going don’t back down if you’re scared don’t show it you might get out #bEFORE THE DEVIL EVEN KNOWS YOURE THEREEEEEE #and yes yes there’s a lot of oooo I love beer and girls and tractors bullshit #but there’s also really sweet songs like we danced and watching airplanes and I loved her first and it won’t be like this for long and and a #*head in hands* the genre is so varied even post 9/11 it’s not my fault post 2016 it’s all devolved into trash outside of a few independents

[potential-fate]

2020-2023 spotify wrapped artists.

Taylor plz, you sit on a throne of LIES.

I don't know how this keeps happening. I understood how in 2020 and even in 2021, but THIS YEAR???? REALLY? I don't know. I barely listen to pop at all, but I listen to Taylor. I listen to Conan Gray, and I listen to Troye Sivan. and that's IT. but SOMEHOW.

Anyways, you can tell from my music that I'm 100% mentally well.

#my posts #spotify wrapped 2023 #spotify wrapped game #I just... listen I don't have a problem with Tswift being on there #but I am confused by it regularly. #Especially this year because I REALLY haven't purposely listened to her minus a few of her songs being on char playlists #I'm also slightly surprised that Set It Off got 2nd and MiW got 3rd. I thought it would be the other way around #I remember in 2021 I was like ready to fling myself into traffic #because I actively DISLIKE Katy Perry minus like TWO songs #but those songs were on multiple character playlists so much that she got a spot I wanted to SCREAM.

[thelastattempt]

Trying to criticise Louis for a fan’s misbehaviour is low. Most fans are respectful. They touch but don’t go too far. The kind of people who sexualise barricade moments are really creepy to me. It says a lot on how they think about touch and connection. Many artists like to get close to their fans, they crowd surf, I see it fairly regularly at small gigs with alternative artists. I remember a couple of years ago, Beyoncé jumped onto her crowd and crowd surfed. It was a beautiful and iconic moment and fans were hopefully respectful and didn’t touch where they shouldn’t. It is an act of trust and when fans cross that boundary, it is not on the artist. That fan who bragged about gripping Louis’ neck and seemed to make Louis actually have to grasp for breath, that was wrong. Louis’ security got her hand away from Louis’ neck pretty quickly. The next show, Louis kept his head and neck a bit higher and security were extra vigilant about fans getting too close to Louis’ neck. So clearly that was a bit far. When a fan sexually assaulted Louis by touching his dick, that was wrong, that was crossing a boundary and he said it was too far, a bit weird as a way to address that it was too far. Louis going to barricade isn’t an invitation to assault him. As I said, most fans are respectful and Louis trusts his fans and enjoys the connection and emotion in being around people he trusts. Fans should know better and most do

‘Louis going to barricade isn’t an invitation to assault him.’ Absolutely, 100% agree.

I do think it’s also an important point to remember that a lot of artists go to barricade or have some sort of crowd interactions, you’re right anon. The Hives did it just last night.

And that ultimately, if lines are crossed then these barricade moments will simply stop. As they should in those circumstance.

#asked and answered #I do need to question tho - are you saying that the way #Louis mentioned on Zach Sang that he had a negative barricade interaction was weird? #cause like - how else did you want him to do it? #he saw a moment to mention it in an offhand non confrontational manner #point across without making a whole song and dance about it #without really addressing the seriousness of it #I’m not sure what else he could have done except ignore it or make a speech about it - both options poor #and to be really honest #Beyoncé doesn’t enter her crowd all the time and so if something did happen and she chose #not to address it that is her business #and valid #Louis returns show after show and needs #to have some mechanism in which to protect himself #if a little comment in a casual setting does that then the barricade girlies better hear him before we lose it altogether

[fluent-in-lesbianism]

Going to go ahead and get my ask ready: so how was the T Swift concert?

It was great! She played Pink Venom and Misery Business on the speakers right before her show started, so that got me through the next 3 hours *ba dum tss*

#Anonymous #I'm kidding #it was a great show #I only knew 4 of her 44 song playlist #I really liked the look what you made me do song #the stage set up was awesome so I watched that mostly #like the stage was umm like a screen?? but as the floor #I forget what that's called but it was so cool bc she had a lot of interesting visuals

[weidli]

has anyone already made an icemav vid to abba's lay all your love on me or do i have to do everything by myself around here

#like. that is icemav from ices perspective?? #i used to think i was sensible / it makes the truth even more incomprehensible #it was like shooting a sitting duck / a little small talk a smile and baby i was stuck #now everything is new and everything is you??? #i need to find myself a hd mp4 of top gun 1986 so i can make gay little vids to abba #(also one about mav and goose to cowboy junkies what i lost because i love crying) #but really it's insane how many abba songs i can make be about top gun if i put my mind to it #the first half of head over heels is about mav (her voice everywhere / taking the chair / she's a leading lady / and without a trace of #hesitation / she keeps going head over heels) (cue 4g inverted dive with a mig) #eagle? that song is about flying do i even have to elaborate #voulez-vous? a vid set to that with footage of dogfighting would fuck immensely you have to admit it. yes i will compare dogfighting to #dancing every chance i get. especially when icemav do it <3 #and does your mother know is about hangman's gay little crush on mav. tell me im wrong #top gun 1986 #top gun