#and there are mountains that sing

[koscheiisms]

went to a mountain goats concert tonight and i thought y’all would appreciate this image of john darnielle reading someone’s divorce papers that were thrown on stage before No Children

#frances rants #the mountain goats #genuinely the most amazing concert i’ve ever been to #i cried i screamed i laughed etc #it was so beautiful to get to hear the music live #and to hear so many other people singing along! #i can post the video of him reading it if y’all want

[soracities]

Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the Mountain, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Valentina Coe) [ID'd]

#lit #quotes #poetry #typography #marina tsvetaeva #poem of the mountain #id included #selected poems of marina tsvetaeva #russian lit #sing me down into the dark #reading #m #x

[ilovefredjones]

the frozen ii ending makes me soooooo angry like the whole POINT of frozen i was that elsa learned that she could rule arendelle with her powers and with anna by her side!!! literally in the bway musical she sings ‘i know i’ll never see that sunny day / when this trial is finally through / and it can just be me and you’ like. elsa WANTS to stay with anna

and they try and explain this somewhat in into the unknown, with the ‘who knows deep down i’m not where i’m meant to be’ but. WHY isn’t she where she’s meant to be. all of the first film was her learning that she belonged in arendelle and her powers/herself wasn’t something to be afraid of. why isn’t she meant to be with her family? with her sister who’s been desperate to reconnect with her? why doesn’t she belong where people readily love her and accept her and want the best for her?

and then, what about anna? there is no mention of her wanting/being ready to be queen in either two films. we don’t even see the offer on screen; we don’t get the sisters’ quiet, vulnerable conversation where elsa admits to wanting to live with the rest of the nature spirits and anna offers to take her place as queen. we don’t see anna begging elsa to stay in the forest because she can rule if elsa’s happier there. we never see their dialogue. it’s just so sudden. is anna once again just going along with what her sister wants? is elsa isolating herself all over again? we just don’t know. they both seem happy, but there’s barely any indication that it’ll lead up to that point.

it just makes no sense for either of their arcs, or their previous wants/needs. if they were meant to stay together, why separate them again? they just got each other back. and now they’re alone again.

#and yeah yeah neither of them are alone bc of kristoff/the other nature spirits etc etc but COME ONNNNNNN. #anna did not spend most of her life desperate to spend time with her sister just for elsa to fuck off to the mountains again! what was the+ #point of the first film! #like when did anna show ANY indication of being ok with being QUEEN???? does she even WANT to be??? #and yes elsa is now surrounded by people like her but. gah. idk it just feels so redundant #like why is that the only place she really belongs? #and i know they’re her people so ofc she wants to be with them bc she found where she belongs!! #i just think they could’ve balanced it a bit more so it’s not so out of nowhere #why didn’t we get to see anna and elsa talk it out???? sing a little duet????? #they don’t even HAVE a duet in this film what the hell #grrrr #anyway. normal i’m so normal about frozen #frozen #frozen ii #elsa of arendelle #anna of arendelle

[thermodynamic-comedian]

i am like one encouraging reply away from writing a crackfic where all the avatars go to a karaoke bar and each eyevatar gives a shockingly different yet cunt-serving performance.

#everybody else is placing bets on what each of them is gonna sing #all of them lose every single bet. because literally nobody knows these three fuckers as well as they think they do. #jon has to get just a little drunk to be actually convinced #but eventually he gives an emotional performance of up the wolves by the mountain goats #nobody's actually expecting gertrude to sing anything and yet #she gets up there and screams her lungs out to no lodging for the mad by the taxpayers #NOBODY is quite certain what to expect out of jonah. i mean this could go any way possible. #actually even I'M not certain. #can't pick between all i wanted by paramore and thermodynamic lawyer by will wood. #paramore would be funnier #and more honest to my own interpretation #but thermodynamic lawyer might be more accurate to the overall fanon interpretation #the magnus archives #tma #tma shitpost #jonathan sims #gertrude robinson #jonah magnus

[mariocki]

RIP Michael Gambon (19.10.1940 - 28.9.2023)

"Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?"

"Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me."

#michael gambon #rip #death ment tw #character actors #theatre #the singing detective #maigret #the borderers #fraud squad #the cook the thief his wife and her lover #softly softly: task force #nothing but the night #the beast must die #special branch #zodiac #mountain language #tales of the unexpected #absurd person singular #gosford park #doctor who #new who #the hollow crown #a genuine acting icon and a legendary screen presence. his journey to stardom and household name status was actually fairly slow but he #caught the attention of significant and influential figures within the theatre from the very beginning; Olivier was quick to see his #potential‚ he became a latterday muse of Ayckbourn and Pinter‚ and directors Peter Hall and Eric Thompson were instrumental in castings him #in big roles. i feel like his screen career never quite matched his enormous success onstage (and his later career was certainly a touch #quantity over quality in terms of projects chosen) but there were some diamonds in there; The Singing Detective high among them of course #as always a recommendation of a lesser known work: the tv broadcast of Pinter's Mountain Language‚ a short but devastating piece about #suppression via the prohibition of a native language. Gambon's sadistic soldier is very nearly a caricature of needless evil but he keeps #it just the right side of believability‚ resulting in one of the most disturbing + unsettling perfs of its type. rip to a very fine actor

[onboardsorasora]

50. Disney Princess Film AU from this prompt list

No one prompted me for this– BUT I’d been talking about this with @purplesallthewaydown and then it was there as a prompt. So El, clearly I need to unleash this into the world.

Enchanted AU lets go– please….suspend EVERY disbelief you have. This will not make sense lmao

Daniel is Giselle, he’s in Monaco from the fairy tail land of Perth. He got here because he was driving around in his truck, singing a happy song and following a horse that just wanted to run and they ended up at the airport. The birds told him that the planes make humans fly like them and he thought that was as good an idea as any.

So he’s in Monaco, he’d been walking around, bumping into things because he’s doing tourist thing where you look up instead of in front of you. He comes to the pier and he’s tired, the birds in Monaco aren’t as helpful as the birds back home and he wants to go home. He’s singing an almost sad song and bumps into Max who is doing his normal daily run. They fall to the ground, Max atop Daniel naturally.

They’re both stunned, surprised, speechless. Max scrambles up and helps Daniel to his feet.

“Are you ok? Did I hurt you?” Max is checking Daniel over, making sure his oversized sweatshirt maybe didn’t get ripped or his knees didn’t get skinned since he’s wearing tiny shorts. He clocks the bright tattoos on Daniel’s thigh, maybe they glow a little with Daniel’s inner Disney Princess happiness?

“I’m ok. I just don’t know where I am.” Daniel smiles sheepishly, embarrassed. He hadn’t been able to find many other wild animals and the birds really weren’t helpful here.

“Oh? Where are you from?” Max is now concerned, because who truly gets lost nowadays with technology where it was.

“I’m from Perth!” Daniel says proudly, a wide smile on his face. “The birds guided me.”

Did his tattoos glow a little brighter?

“That’s in Australia right?”

Daniel shrugs in a very uncaring way. What did he know about geography when he enjoyed his days basking in the sun by his family’s ranch or hiking in the mountains or by the beach swimming with the mermaids?

Max presses his tongue behind his teeth as he thinks of what to do. Daniel gets distracted by a butterfly and starts following behind it dreamily, maybe she will guide him back home. He almost bumps into another jogger when Max grabs his arm and pulls him back into his space. They both blush.

“I’m Max.”

“Daniel!”

Max takes Daniel home, because it's the only logical next step. He can maybe book him a flight back to Perth if Daniel has no family around. It's a lot in terms of being a good samaritan, but Max is loaded and single and lives alone in the city and a race car driver on time off.

So they're in Max’s flat and he pulls out a laptop to check flights maybe, and gets distracted by Daniel literally curled around Jimmy and Sassy. He was talking to them softly and they were purring up a storm. Max has never seen this happen in his life. Sassy hates people and Jimmy takes 5 business days to allow pets.

He’s floored, flabbergasted, flummoxed. Just who was this guy?

Daniel is supremely happy, Jimmy and Sassy are wonderful hosts. They’ve told him that the birds here are in fact unfriendly, and mean. They told him that Max is wonderful but he’s often not home so they sometimes get lonely, but they’re happy together. So he starts singing to them, a lovely little ditty about nutsacks and ball hair and they cuddle closer to him. His tattoos glow brighter and the ship sails move a little because that's what they do when Daniel is happy.

Max is just staring at this all happening on the floor by his patio doors– what the actual fuck is going on?

So since Daniel is distracted with the cats, Max googles about any magic in Australia. And apparently…there's a lot. It's a utopia for magical creatures and some humans that live there are gifted, it's usually a good way to tell if someone is a good person or not– how strong their aura and aptitude. Considering Daniel was glowing and talking to his fucking cats, Max thinks that an ok sign.

“Uhm, Daniel?”

“Yes Maxy?” Daniel sung back, looking up from the cats.

“How did you get here?”

“Oh! It was like the most amazing thing!” Daniel clambers up and breaks out into song about how he had been gossiping with the horses and alpacas and then they went for a ride and the birds told him about the ‘airport’ which was a very weird place with birds for people. And he got on a big bird plane and fell asleep and got snacks and slept some more.

And while this is happening, Max is sat in his couch wide eyed as this man dances around his apartment, singing. And birds started hovering on his patio, unable to do more because it's screened in. Daniel flutters to a stop on the couch beside him and hugs Max close because he’s so happy and Max has been so nice to him. And his mom said that sometimes people want to try to take advantage of him but Sassy and Jimmy promised that Max is good, and he believes them.

And Max is….poor thing. Max is completely out of his depth. He’s thunderstruck. But there's a part of his brain that wants to keep Daniel, and he doesn’t know what to do.

Part 2

#and Max maybe kinda waffles about buying daniel that ticket home and takes him hiking in the mountains #and daniel is so so happy because the birds up HERE are much nicer and the squirrels and other wildlife and he sings more #and he glows and the animals follow them and Max has to explain to people that this is...normal maybe #writing prompt #but he's SO endeared #disney enchanted au #maxiel #max/daniel

[john-gosh-darnielle]

and something

has got

to give

#cotton #we shall all be healed #personal fave #the mountain goats #tmg posting #tmg lyrics #tmg fan art #the mountain goats fan art #i wanna sing one for the cars #that are right now headed silent down the highway #and its dark and there is nobody driving #Spotify #cw: rats #tw: rats

[secretmellowblog]

YAY I love the chapter of Les Mis where Fantine rides a roller coaster!

About three o’clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible above the trees of the Champs-Élysées.

The “Russian Mountains” were an early version of roller coasters. They were (obviously) invented in Russia, and then became a Thing in France when Russia occupied the country after helping defeat Napoleon in the battle of Waterloo, which resulted in a lot of cultural exchange.

Obviously at this point roller coaster technology was in its infancy (they were basically just carts that rolled down a track.)

Here’s a longer post with more detail on the coasters!

But yeah, I wish adaptations would just let Fantine zoom around on her little roller coaster for a bit. She goes through so much later on that she deserves that. Let her have this one thing.

#let Fantine zoom…. #if the musical wasn’t cowardly Fantine would be singing I dreamed a dream while zooming along a little roller track #modern au Tholomyes abandons Fantine after taking her to six flags #Les mis #Les mis letters #lm 1.3.4 #Fantine #russian mountains #roller coasters

[moontaingoat]

the fact that john darnielle regularly speaks about how he feels like some sort of pastor on stage makes it so beautiful that his concerts feel SO spiritually impactful. i'm a proud member of the Church of the Mountain Goats

#or perhaps the Church of the Goat on the Mount #though that sounds like an abraham/isaac reference #seriously though like so many of us were put through hell in churches as children #so jd's complicated relationship with catholicism is very relatable and cathartic #i grew up baptist and their concerts feel more like the singing worship section of church than any other bands ive seen #in a good way because lets be honest that was the best part of church #tmg #the mountain goats #john darnielle

[transgothicgenre]

i had autoclave stuck in my head during the plane ride home so i just kinda rolled with it

#fun fact i have autoclave memorized. like most tmg songs i can sing it but only a full octave down from the original #also ignore that this is the basic picsart font. #the mountain goats #autoclave #tmg #there is also a bonus one i will rb shortly but i figured some might not want it in the main post

[milesasinmorales]

YOU GUYS DONT EVEN UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I LOVE THE MISTY MOUNTAINS SONG. THORINS FUCKING GENTLE ASS VOICE, LIKE HE WAS PUTTING HIS WHOLE SOUL INTO THAT. THEY ALL SOUND SO GOOD. LIKE THE FUCKING HARMONIZED HUMMING????

#I love dwarf songs #they should sing all the time #the hobbit #thorin oakenshield #thorins company #the company of thorin oakenshield #thorin and company #tolkien dwarves #Tolkien #misty mountains

[lifeless--cold]

videos of the crowd singing along.. healing to the soul

#laura jane grace #ljg #against me! #yeah this post is because i remembered that audio of the crowd singing along to that tmg song #i don't even listen to the mountain goats BUT something in me changed when i first heard that #also this is the audio i was struggling with last night

[soracities]

Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the Mountain, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Valentina Coe) [ID'd]

#lit #quotes #poetry #typography #marina tsvetaeva #id included #poem of the mountain #selected poems of marina tsvetaeva #russian lit #sing me down into the dark #reading #m #x

[darneel]

#the mountain goats #happy waluigi singing a tmg song day

[draggged-leer]

HEADCANON

When a member of cabin 7 has a boyfriend/girlfriend/partner, they write songs about them and they sing songs to them. What if that was their love language? Writing songs/singing songs to them.

#just imagine Will writing songs about Nico #and Michael singing a few lyrics from a song to Jake?? #how bout Kayla and Nyssa??? #Jake’s love language is definitely gift giving/making #Nico’s love language is probably quality time #Will would probably sing “you are my sunshine to Nico #michael yew x jake mason #jake mason x michael yew #solangelo #Nyssa Barrera x Kayla Knowles #probably “Dj got us falling in love again by usher #prob Cupid’s chokehold for Jake and Michael #or maybe that part from diet Mountain Dew from Lana Del Rey #like “Hit me and tell me you're mine I don't know why but I like it Scary? My God you're divine Gimme them gimme them dope and diamonds“

[disappointed-time-traveller]

Prequel to this post

#These songs are polar opposites mood wise #Hieroglyphs makes me want to sing on a mountain top like in the sound of music #Passirine makes me want to fall to the floor and sob #the oh hellos #The four winds #eurus #music #This is the funniest I will ever be