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finchsthoughts · 1 year

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Me when Deuteronomy 2:10 by The Mountain Goats

#Deuteronomy 2:10 #Deuteronomy 2:10 The Mountain Goats #The Mountain Goats #Extinct Animals #I mourn everything we have lost and everything we are losing #I am literally in the process of applying to college for Wildife Conservation #I want to fight for these animals #like I found this song at the perfect time #This is why I love The Mountain Goats #Frambles

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imjustcryinginthecorner · 2 months

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“Arguing with the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island Baby Review”, The Mountain Goats // Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

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araekniarchive · 1 year

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Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

Richard Brautigan, Your Catfish Friend

The Mountain Goats, Hair Match

Natalie Young, Notes on Earth Life

From psychicdonuts uquiz, ‘what will you do this summer?’

JxsmineSky, Malnutrition

Disco Elysium (2019), created by Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov

Daniel Lavery, Dirtbag Catallus

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bananafire11 · 4 months

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A bunch of my dino ocs as lil icons... it's 6am but I was tempted. Gnight

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gascansposts · 8 days

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So umm…. Yeah enodi on the mind thank you @opheliajupiter99 for the brain woerms :) (Cw rot and general body horror)

And a cut for the (half finished because I gotta go to sleep) peice because rot and blood and stuff in color ✨

(Lyrics are from Werewolf Gimmick by The Mountain Goats)

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carfuckerlynch · 1 year

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every time i think about oceanographers choice i just

#i don’t know why i’m so persuaded that if i think things through long enough and hard enough i’ll somehow get to you #i don’t mean it when i tell you that i don’t love you anymore!!#what will i do when i don’t have you when i finally get what i deserve!!!!#odhran.txt #the mountain goats

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teaposing · 2 months

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i like to make fun of the mountain goats but genuinely i do think john darnielle deserves the nobel prize for literature or something

#his songs are blisteringly moving and that's why i can only talk about them flippantly #i don't think anyone really thinks i am a mountain goats hater but i do have a semi-escaped-containment post where i poke fun at them #and i need to clarify that it's out of love and admiration

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brigdh · 10 months

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Okay, everyone knows Tallahassee by the Mountain Goats is the ultimate Ed/Izzy album, but why is no one talking about how Transcendental Youth is Ed/Jack???

I mean:

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive Do every stupid thing to try to drive the dark away Let people call you crazy for the choices that you make Climb limits past the limits, jump in front of trains all day

Or:

Mistreat your altar boys long enough And this is what you get Sad and angry, can't learn how to behave Still won't know how in the darkness of the grave

Or:

Room full of ambitious young policemen Everybody trying to make his mark I was a red dot blinking on a screen up overhead. Live like an outlaw Clutching gold coins in his claw

Or:

Hear my rivals on the western wind Hard to know who might or might not be your friend Beam of the flash-light All night in the woods Hunt us like dogs And then string us up for good Lead us to the beach by our hands And bury us there in the sand Or:

So many so-called friends Working for the government (I MEAN. This song is even called ‘Counterfeit Florida Plates’!)

Or:

Something sacred, something blue Cannons in the harbor dawn I crawled down here to dig for bones One more season then I'm gone Black drapes over the crosses Call in a favor from an old friend

#okay I will also accept an argument for 'We Shall All Be Healed' but that's for another post #our flag means death #I love the mountain goats #ofmd calico jack #why is there no ship name for Ed x Jack? this seems deeply unfair

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unloneliest · 1 year

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jam i have a question. who is eliot spencer... where is he from. what makes him ur number one blorbo and what do u understand abt him that no one else does <3

partridge thank you so much for this ask i need you to know you made my entire morning. eliot spencer is. my specialest guy my blorbo of all time i love him so so so so much. he's from the tv show leverage, which aired from 2008-2012* and isn't immune to the downfalls of that era of tv in general but that. honestly does a comparatively outstanding job to ME. it holds up and also the premise is "what if these extremely competent hot thieves ruined shitty rich people's lives and helped the people who'd been victimized by the rich people and created a found family together after all having various levels of sad backstory? and there was an ot3 made as canon as the showrunners could possibly make it in 2012?" i'm getting ahead of myself though.

*there's a sequel currently airing but i have yet to watch it & there's certain aspects about it that i refuse to accept as canon (this is a part of me being the most right about eliot)

i am putting this under the cut because. well. this got long

to start with context. having my brain rewired by supernatural and captain america: the winter soldier when i was a teenager is a huge factor in like. *waves hands vaguely* everything. when it comes to how i came to love leverage and eliot specifically. i got driven away from spn because (to simplify things) the showrunners hated the fans so bad and the characters were fighting the narrative but unable to escape it, and i loved the version of the characters that was actively being opposed by the show. and that was just plain not enjoyable for me. and marvel is marvel and continuity of emotional and interpersonal arcs doesn't matter at all to them.

and the thing is i took a sociology class in 2017 and it was making me so upset learning about white collar crime. and @canis-la-trans was like. we are watching leverage now. to remedy this. and i'd tried watching it with him before but this time around it just clicked. and the biggest part of what clicked is eliot. because listen. eliot is in somewhat of the same category as my earlier favorite characters but the thing about eliot spencer is that all of his best qualities are canon, not fanon. he redefines the category. he's incomprable. to me.

the thing about eliot spencer is he's the punchboy. he's the hitter. it's his job to get in the fights and protect the team. and he does his best to come across as grumpy, as not caring about people, does his best to fly under the radar as just another unintelligent lackey with a short temper who's particularly talented at violence.

but that's a performance. canonically that's a performance. and he has the best work/life separation of the whole team. he's not his job - he's very good at his job, and it's what he does and that is a part of him, but where some of the other characters view their job as an extension of their selfhood, eliot doesn't.

he cooks. he cooks so well that he could do that professionally. he grows all his own produce (allegedly). he's one of if not the best person on the team with kids. he loves so wholly so fast. he's the first person to call the team a we. within team dynamics he & sophie, the grifter, protect the other 2 from the worst of the team leader's dysfunction.

eliot's done bad things in the past. and he views himself completely past saving. like. from commentary on the show: he knows he's going to hell. like. his self worth is completely abysmal. i know he would die for the team. in s2e2 there's an episode where the team isn't succeeding at the con, and he takes the fall on purpose. and in a conversation about that he says "i'm not diving on a grenade. i'll be all right" but he says that so readily that i Know he's thought about it. and he would. for the team he would. for parker and hardison he would. he's in love with them. and they're in love with him too and i have to cut myself off or i'll go an entire separate rant about them!!!!

he has long hair. which he straightens. and he looks great with blood on his face. he doesn't use guns. he never throws the con for personal reasons - only ever does to protect kids. he grew up in rural oklahoma and he enlisted to get the hell out of dodge and he got in such a bad argument with his dad the night before he shipped out that he got disowned. and he can't even talk about it until nearly the end of the final season of the show. he never once mentions his mom. and i just know he got disowned for coming out, intentionally or not. he's never had an environment he could be his full self in without fear until the team.

parker, the thief of the team, is intentionally written as autistic; the hacker, hardison, is so likely written to have adhd. and eliot is autistic too, to me. it makes the level of performing masculinity to closet himself so much more insane to me. bc it's also masking. and adding that context to eliot and parker's relationship makes me unWELL.

the thing is is that eliot is a character who's hiding, who's actively doing his best to be unnoticed. and so many people who watch the show fall for the act, even if they don't fall for the whole act they fall for parts of it, and like. They Are Wrong About Him. i have an entire complex backstory thought up for eliot, because i think the only thing sadder than him missing out on the kind of connection he finds with the team is him knowing what he's missing because he had a queer best friend as a kid, & the two of them were closeted together, but he lost contact with her over the years.

the thing is that eliot spencer has SO MUCH GENDER and i know if he and parker and hardison adopted a kid eliot would be ma. never dad. and i don't think he'd even be able to start exploring that for himself until the end of the series.

the thing is eliot spencer would listen to the mountain goats. and there's a couple other people out there who are right about that and it makes me so insane 100% of the time.

and i love him and this is just a list of facts about him and the most important thing about eliot spencer to me is that. he exists in motion. trying to capture a still image or static description in words never works. but he's my wife and i love him so much. and i always will. and i'm writing a fic where i'm going to blow him up. just a little bit. for his own good. this is my "eliot made himself a mountain goats mix tape about knowing he's willing to jump on a bomb for parker and hardison & never telling them that in advance" playlist from that universe.

all of leverage is availible for free streaming on imdb tv & here are thee best leverage fanvids of all time:

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& this last vid is abt the show in general, not just the ot3:

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i would add all my fave eliot pics i have screenshotted but this is already so long . i still might rb and do that anyways he is Everything to me

#jam replies #boyjoan #this is 800 years long. i love eliot spencer so bad #the thing about leverage is that without even touching on eliot. this show went 'this autistic girl's special interest is stealing #& crime. why would you ever stop her from doing the stealing and crime' and they're so right for that.#parker isn't the pov character but she's the main character to me. nate is the narrator not the hero #literally though leverage has it all. fake dating. characters handcuffed together for an episode. episodes about historical crimes where #the actors play younger versions of characters from the past. murder mystery costume party where an actual murder happens that they have to #solve. baseball episode. 2 hockey episodes. eliot spencer sings and plays guitar with jo from supernatural. hardison makes their undercover #names dr. who references. there's a reference to the mcelroys. there's two episodes that tell the story of the same night 'off' from 2 #different points of view.#eliot is a horsegirl.#i cannot put into words how amazing this show is it loves the fans so much & it's so clever and so good at like. being a story. and #character & emotional continuity is one of the things they value so much. i love this show so bad #my leverage special interest and mountain goats special interest are kissing with tongue #OH and the show also did. an 'i need you' moment. leverage grave danger job handclasp ca:tws handclasp spn goodbye stranger #not mind control though. but like.#okay i'm posting this now #leverage posting

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elericelery · 10 months

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This is a Paeden song. To me <3

#dndads #Paeden my son I miss you every day #eventually I will have to draw him. but right now I am just listening to this song and rotating him in my head #also just really love this song in general #Legend of Chavo Guerrero is possibly my favorite Mountain Goats song and that one has some dndads vibes too :)#that’s not why it’s my favorite it is also just a very good song on its own jsgdjsvsbsv #Spotify

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sl1ghtly0dd · 3 months

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my nana got us tickets to see BIlly FUCKING JOEL for our birthdays since hes gonna be in Texas in October and ive NEVER been so excited for a concert.

not even when i saw mcr

not even the cure

not even mountain goats

i have been waiting to see BILLY JOEL!!!!! since i was 10 years old I have been dying waiting for this im literally screaming.

also the timing could not be more perfect, its the weekend before nana's bday (and hers is one week before mine) and I was gonna take her to a clay thing that same weekend! We're gonna have so much fun <3

#i love the piano man with my whole lil heart <3 #if lil me know they'd probably be crying cause i never thought hed have a show near me in my lifetime #billy joel was the first musician i ever was a fan of and he will be the last person i am a fan of I will take my love for him to the grave #god damn it im going to be so annoying now cause when i start talking about billy joel i cant shut up #also not exagerating i dont love the cure or the mountain goats nearly as much as I love Billy Joel. MCR comes closer but not even #even when i list my top 5 fave bands billy joels not even on there cause hes on a whole different level in my heart #idk why im like this.

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sarahscribbles · 2 years

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Good luck with writing the non smut stuff tonight! You can do it! 💛

You’re so sweet 😭😭

I’m working this evening so I don’t know how much, if any, writing I’ll get done 😅

#don’t you just love capitalism #why couldn’t I be a mountain goat instead

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pseudonemisis · 1 year

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Should I do it? Should I drive six and a half hours to see the Welcome To Nightvale live show, Again?

#someone stop me #i think i might do it #I already saw it in boston #why not see it again in north Carolina #fuckin loved that show #i need more of it #im also gonna see the mountain goats in Tennessee!!!!!#im so exited #wish i could bring someone with me tho #someone come with me

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cosmicpines · 1 year

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39 for spotify wrapped? :]

Oh fuck THIS SONG. This song makes me feel things about being so scared

#mountain goats I love you #I never know why you don’t show up on top 5 #mary blabs #also #looks at Lauren

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epicdogymoment · 2 years

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Leo i think you would like the possibly in michigan cannibal animal song. If you dont already know about it! Dogposting and such. Here is a link https://youtu.be/N0_UVU_Ae4I i really like finding hjkta songs i requested the matd edit risuwu made :) toshiro my autism guy

my god not THE matd toshi edit........... that ive rb'd 10 times.................... <- me being so normal about my favourite normalest alivegirl. and no i havent heard of that song before but yes......... dogposting.................... speaking of hjkt songs i bet on losing dogs is really. its so....................

#leologisms #ask #sorry for the very (very very) coherent response im . im uh ..??#wfuv version of i bet on losing dogs linked by the way❗❗❗ i love it when radio sessions #<- regarding this song. uh. to quote a friend. local romantic cant see it for himself #i also have a few mountain goats songs in mind (because of course i do) but more like. uh. individual lines rather than entire songs #'work like a dog all day // born to chase cars away // die on the road someday' from southwester territory!!!!! babey!!!!!!!!!!#and also. uh. unmasked! off of the same album :)#'hey leo why do you keep picking songs off of the pro wrestling album' i dont know!!!!#anyway. the quest for more hijikatasongs!!!!!!!

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2wo-knav3s · 2 years

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there are some mountain goats songs that i generally dont listen to anymore because theyre like overplayed i guess (by me, generally, back when i was just getting into the music) but then sometimes you just have to turn off the lights and put your headphones on and listen to no children and this year and amy/sp1 and all the rest

#i even have a tattoo for amy but i dont listen to it usually anymore #i kind of squeezed all of the meaning out of it for myself by listening to it as a lifeline when i was like 20 #but its still very good. the love is still there.#and sometimes i need to be reminded to play with matches or whatever #its why i have the tattoo in the first place. still very important.#anyway all this to say i love the mountain goats i guess lol

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