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reachexceedinggrasp · 2 years

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#Orson Welles #OWSC #the curl falling over his forehead continues to torture me #whenever there are curls I am wracked #beautiful genius boy #the top one here has remained a leading candidate for my favourite ever picture of him #I believe I took this screenshot from one of the CK special features when I was very first starting to get obsessed #my books about him now fill and overflow an entire shelf oops #this random post brought to you by me being reminded about the Vertigo Sight & Sound thing and remembering I am legit butthurt about that #it's not that I dislike Vertigo but come on #come on!#and then a video about Mank coming up in my suggestions on youtube ughjfsldjsl #all these years and people continue to slander him it's absolutely fucking ridiculous #I feel like of the icons he and Marilyn are the most brazenly and extravagantly lied about and misrepresented in pop depiction #Ed Wood remains the best ever fictionalised version of him appearing as a cameo or historical character in anything

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stuckinapril · 6 days

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Just a girl who wants to be her mother’s daughter in the ways that matter

#Such a tenacious go getter & the smartest woman ik #Has NEVER looked back at a man twice. Knows she’s beautiful & that attention is guaranteed. Never desperate for male validation ever #The best fashion sense ik. She’s the epitome of classic & vintage #Doesn’t gaf what others are doing / is always tunnel visioned on her own goals #A mega workaholic and like. Maybe I’d rather balance but still she’s still an overachiever #I feel im becoming more and more like her by the day but still I have some work to do #Need to be more focused & to stop entertaining little boys fr #I just want to move w the unshackling confidence & elegance she seems to emanate effortlessly #I swear that woman was born that way!!!! So unfair for the rest of us mortals #Why does no one talk about the psychological torture that comes w having a naturally gorgeous genius mother #I’m dying over here I just wanna be like her but im pushing that boulder up the hill all the time #Meanwhile she’s always just On #HOW #Just an eldest daughter having a crisis about her mother who is also #The eldest daughter out of her and her two brothers #I need to journal about this I need to meditate #How to manufacture the drive that your mother was simply endowed with at birth #Not even joking I just got off my internship and now im sitting on a swing under the late May sun having a crisis about this

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suaimhneas-gairid · 2 months

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Critical Role, Campaign 1 Episode 85 - A Bard's Lament

Husbands 💞

#i assume this moment has been giffed many times before #but i only saw it recently #and it was beautiful and touching #in an episode that made me feel so many things #i love this show so much #i love these boys so much #sam is a god damn genius #anyway #fr tho lemme squeeze in there #like it was a touching moment but let's not pretend we don't see the straddling #critical role #critical role husbands #sam riegel #liam o'brien #vax'ildan #scanlan shorthalt #campaign 1 #c1 spoilers #c1e85

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dr-mothman · 5 months

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Traloc's design is a hell to draw holy crap.

Anyways, Globs of Doom Syndicate be upon ye :3

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an-actual-floof · 5 months

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was streaming Disco Elysium for a friend of mine and-

#everything about this image is beautiful to me #the angle the caption #tuesday you’re a genius fr I’m still giggling abt this #disco elysium #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois disco elysium #de

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prosebushpatch · 1 month

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Okay so I recently, finally, watched Wish and I have some thoughts. Overall, not as bad as everyone makes it out to be, but still has a lot of fundamental story problems and I've got to get them off of my chest. I'll mostly be focused on Magnifico because I think his motivations and arc largely represent the problem with the overall theme.

Okay so my biggest problem with Magnifico is his motivation. His tragic backstory. How on earth does he go from losing his whole family to thinking, the only way he can prevent that from happening again is to grant wishes? The logic doesn't track. It almost makes sense in his creating a kingdom where he protects everyone and "doesn't even charge rent," but it does not make sense with his wish granting. Having a great need to be control to make sure he doesn't lose anyone ever again can be a compelling motivation for a villain, where we see lines crossed that don't justify the intent, but in the movie, he's too self-absorbed to seem to have any actual care for the people of Rosas.

I think if the motivation was changed to something like Magnifico had once been a bright-eyed, enthusiastic wish granter who blindly believed all wishes were good but learned the hard way that that wasn't true could have been a better fit for the overall goal of the movie. Imagine that he granted a wish for a wicked person who used that wish to hurt others, or if Magnifico granted a wish but that wish ended up ruining the person's life because what they wanted wasn't what they needed (i.e. Remember The Princess and the Frog? Dig a little deeper) and that person could have went after Magnifico and blamed him for their troubles (harkening back to We Don't Talk about Bruno). This would be an understandable tragic backstory for Magnifico, and better explain why he's so careful about the wishes he grants. And, perhaps the reason he keeps the wishes he doesn't want to grant is to keep the people in his kingdom docile. No one will be angry with him for not granting their wishes if he makes them forget them and lose that drive and motivation, which makes more sense than the unexplained hording them like he does in the movie? Why does he keep them in the movie other than admiring the wishes? It doesn't make sense to me.

This would give Asha more of a reason to oppose him, if it's shown how his desire to not get hurt or to inadvertently cause hurt turned into a paranoia where he drains people of wishes to fly or play music that inspires others. And, as a side note, we need to see more of how Rosas is a kingdom of people who lack drive and motivation, where only those younger than 18 have that special part of them that inspires them to chase after a dream (something that Astor Rhymemaster touched on). Because that's the point of wishes, right? That's the point of the entire Disney canon. A dream is a wish your heart makes. That star can only get you so far, it takes hard work and determination. It's wanting something better in life, it's dreaming of leaving behind all you know to chase after a tangible light. It's finding a new dream, it's finding a new wish as you grow and learn about yourself and the world.

I don't think the movie Wish understood what makes wishes so important in Disney stories. You know what wishes do? They ignite change. It's not about getting what you want, it's about finding the courage to chase after something better. Ariel wants to be where the people are, but really she wants to be somewhere where others are willing to understand her and in the end, she finds that and makes amends with her father, who finally is willing to see her for who she is. Rapunzel wants to see the lights, and that desire pushes her to leave a tower she's been trapped in her whole life, learning that the world is not as cruel and cold as her abusive mother told her. Cinderella wants to go to the ball, to dance with people who treat her as a person and not a servant of cinders and ash. That wish is granted by a fairy godmother and gives her a hope that is worth fighting for, a hope that helps her reclaim what is rightfully hers; a glass slipper that fits only her and the love that comes with it.

Wishes inspire change. The movie should have been about that. Magnifico could have been right, that some wishes inspire negative change that can drag down multiple people. The kingdom of Rosas could have been so placid because change is scary. Maybe Magnifico could have convinced people, after taking their wish, that it wasn't worth it. Maybe the wish ceremonies could have changed so it wasn't portrayed as some sort of lottery everyone looks forward to, but Magnifico would grant wishes on the spot if he decided they were good and worthwhile, and he would lock away the wishes that would cause trouble and tribulations. 18 year olds could be enthusiastic to give him their wishes, thinking they were surely good and worth granting, only to forget their wish and be told that their wish would have only brought about their unhappiness, this would have justified a more solemn tone in the kingdom, setting up a world where people are mostly downtrodden, thinking their wishes are bad and pointless and they're better off without them. Imagine Cinderella or Rapunzel being told their wishes weren't good, reinforcing all the things their abusive families tell them, taking away that hope and courage to find something better for themselves.

Here's where the true conflict could come in. Asha could be onto this from the beginning, and her opening song could have been about this concern that the people who didn't get their wishes granted aren't willing to try at all. (Because, after all, why doesn't Sabino play music at all? Having that taken from him would take so much joy and creative expression from his life!) But why does Asha know something is amiss?

Simon.

Imagine that Magnifico has a strict rule not to ever share your wish with another person because then it wouldn't come true. It makes sense with our own superstitions, and then makes it so that no one knows anyone else's wishes. Maybe your best friend changes so drastically after giving up their wish, but you believe, like everyone else, that their wish would have only caused suffering. What can you do about it? Well what if Simon told Asha about his wish? What if Asha knew his wish wasn't dangerous and couldn't imagine a way that it could go wrong? That would give her a reason to doubt Magnifico and put more emphasis on how Simon has lost his drive like all the other adults in the kingdom. And it can also emphasize in the end that sharing your wishes and dreams with others can be a powerful thing. Just the act of sharing your dreams can inspire others to go after their own, and they can give you the encouragement to chase your wish too. Wishes inspire change, love gives you the courage to make it happen.

Imagine if the star boy used to be a human, who wished to help others and lost his humanity to do it. Imagine his wish confirms Magnifico's belief, that wishes cause suffering because star boy lost his tether to earth and is separated from the people he loves. Imagine how he foils Asha who also wants to grant everyone's wishes. Imagine him ensuring she doesn't make the same mistake he did while she gives him a reason to change again, to anchor himself to humanity again because he loves her enough not to leave for forever.

Imagine the movie confirming that, yes, change is scary. Chasing your dreams won't always make things better. You might fail more than you succeed and some wishes cannot coincide with each other, leading to grief and strife. But some wishes are worth it. Sometimes, chasing after something better and failing is worth leaving a worse situation. Sometimes taking that chance is worth it, and, like in all fairy tales, if you are kind and generous and act with love, that will make all the difference in the end.

Also, I know everyone wished for a Magnifico and Amaya evil power couple, but imagine if Magnifico was truly in love with Amaya, as he is in the movie, but that love is eventually his undoing. Like Amaya leaps in front of Asha, and Magnifico stops or redirects his attack because she's the one thing he loves more than himself and that is the weakness that Asha and co can take advantage of. Imagine Amaya keeping Magnifico in the mirror and he gets to dote on her from his imprisonment for forever. I'm just saying. At least 30 sickos like me would be into that. Imagine the depth it would give to the themes of love and change and wishing and how acts of love make all the difference.

Alright, I'll get off my soap box. I just really wish Wish could have been stronger because these fairy tales Disney is famous for matter. They really do. But the movie feels too stale and shallow and too much of a cash grab that knows the outline of a disney musical, but is unable to understand the heart of why they work.

#rose and rambles #wish 2023 #disney #disney wish #if you read anything i post let it be this im shaking the bars of my cage #I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT FAIRY TALES AND DREAMS LET ME AT THE PEOPLE WHO MADE WISH SO SHALLOW #ILL MAKE THEM TEA AND GIVE THEM A GOOD SCOLDING #WHILE STEALING THEIR CLOTHES AND PUTTING ON A FAKE MUSTACHE TO TAKE OVER WHILE THEY'RE NIBBLING ON NICE COOKIES #THAT'S A TOTALLY NORMAL THING TO DO RIGHT #if you want to tell a good story you gotta tell it yourself <- my villain origin story #or at least my Sebastian kiss the girl moment. i can't believe they took out star boy. God forbid independent women have romantic interests #anyway im obsessed with how Magnifico always called Amaya “my love” and i think we can do beautiful and twisted things with that #Also i kind of hate the whole 'oh there's no saving him from this evil magic corruption' like le please that's the most stupid thing to eve #be in a fairy tale #just proves these people didn't actually read the snow queen #also also go watch Astor Rhymemaster she's a genius and explains songs IN SUCH AN IN DEPTH WAY #i haven't interacted with much other wish stuff so idk how others are rewriting it but this my ideal

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twomanyfandomshelp · 1 month

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If you haven’t listened to the Underworld Saga yet, here’s your spoiler warning.

@thekingofworems @jarondont @aaronofithaca05 @nyx-of-darkness-1620 did y’all get a chance to listen yet? I need people to talk about this with!

Apologies in advance for all the capslock you’re about to see.

Y’ALL

I CAN’T

MR. JORGE, MR. JALAPEÑO

WHY MUST YOU BREAK MY HEART LIKE THIS

THE UNDERWORLD

POLITES?!?! THE EMOTION IN ODYSSEUS’ VOICE WHEN HE HEARD POLITES?!?! QUIETLY SAYING HIS NAME AS THEY SAIL AWAY LIKE HE’S APOLOGIZING?!?!?! DJFNSISYDJSUDB

ODYSSEUS’ MOM?!?!?! I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT!!!! “Even if you’re the last thing I see I’ll be waiting” “I’m right here mom, can’t you see me?” OH MY FUCKING GOD SIR!!!! JORGE!!!! “I took too long and ventured too far” SIR MY HEART IS BREAKING!!!! “I’ll always love you, I’ll stay in your heart” SIR YOU’RE DOING THIS ON PURPOSE!!!! THE SOFT LITTLE “bye mom” AS THEY SAILED AWAY?!?! FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY BY JORGE JUST BELTING HIS HEART OUT?!?! *HIGH PITCHED SCREAMING* ALSO, THE NAMES LISTED ON THE SONG INCLUDE WANDA HERRANS, ARE YOU TELLING ME JORGE’S MOM VOICES ODYSSEUS’ MOM?!

NO LONGER YOU

MASON OLSHAVSKY’S VOICE IS SO GOOD!!THIS WHOLE SONG IS PERFECTION!! “This can’t be, we’ve suffered and sailed through the toughest of hells, now you tell us our efforts for nothing” EXCUSE ME MR. HERRANS WHAT THE HECK! “I see your palace covered in red, faces of men who had long believed you dead, I see your wife with a man who is haunting, and man with a trail of bodies” THE FORESHADOWING?! THE WAY ODYSSEUS REACTED WHEN TIRESIAS SAID HE SAW PENELOPE WITH A MAN WITH A LINE OF BODIES?! HIS OUTRAGED “WHO!!!”SIR?!?!?!?! THAT’S YOU MY GUY!!! YOU’RE THE HAUNTING GUY WITH A TRAIL OF BODIES!!!

MONSTER

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SONG SINCE I HEARD THE FIRST SNIPPET AND IT DID NOT DISAPPOINT!!! OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL I HAVE NO WORDS!!! THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE EPIC SONG!!! I kinda knew that was gonna happen but shh 🤫

I’m not gonna talk about this song because if I do it will end up being an essay. Might make a separate post about it though.

I WILL BE LISTENING TO THIS SAGA ON REPEAT ALL DAY AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME!!!

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mylovelyhyunjin · 3 months

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Hyunjin fansite celebrates Hyunjin's Birthday with HD photos

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#stray kids #straykids #hyunjin #hwang hyunjin #hwanghyunjin #hyune #kpop #skz #fashion #pretty boy swag #versace prince #visual #versace #versaceMFW #beauty #handsome #stage genius #hwang genius

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yuukimiyas · 9 months

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i’m your fool forever, you little heartbreaker ✧‧˖⁺‧₊˚

i had the absolute pleasure of getting my very first commission done by the ever so lovely @ekkurea ꒰ ˃̶̤́ ꒳ ˂̶̤̀ ꒱ she executed my vision PERFECTLY & i couldn’t be happier with the final results!! thank you SO SO SO much again!! ໒꒰ྀི∩˃ ᵕ ˂∩꒱ྀི১ i HIGHLY recommend you guys check out her other works!!

#REBLOGS ARE OKAY!!#BUT PLS DON’T SAVE OR BE WEIRD!! ૮៸៸› ‌‹៸៸ྀིა i’d v much appreciate it!!!#quote in the beginning is a line from the song ‘memorial day/derail me’ by my favorite artist/genius k.soto !!! :3 #LOOK AT HOW GORGEOUS LOVER BOY & I LOOK!!! LIKE!!!! I CANNOT GET OVER THIS!!! & I CANT BELIEVE ITS MINE!!!!! ૮꒰ྀི ∩៸៸៸∩ ‎꒱ྀིა EEEEP!!!!#I SAW THE MSG AT 6:30 THIS MORNING & PROMPTLY STARTED SOBBING BC ITS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!#WE LOOK SO REGAL!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT HOW HE’S LOOKIN AT MEEEEE ໒꒰ྀིஇ﹏இ`꒱ྀི১ #THANK YOU SO SO MUCH VALERIA!!! I AM FOREVER INDEBTED TO YOU!!!! ໒꒰ྀི◜ ཅ ◝ ꒱ྀི১◞♡#˚ʚ♡ɞ˚reo #ᕱ⑅ᕱ.* journals!

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lumiereandcogsworth · 8 months

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sorry if this isn't something you're interested in discussing/getting asks about but i just saw a poll about "most disappointing moments in disney movies" and "the super cool beast turning into a boring human" was one of the most chosen options and i just hate when people complain about the BATB ending adsjkfsg 😭 like this is a fairy tale, metaphorically it's about the transformative power of learning to selflessly love another, and literally it's about the fact that adam did not choose to become a beast, he was cursed and forcibly ostracized from society, of course he wants to be human again?? i'd get if it was just people not liking his design, as iirc even the directors of the original animated film admitted to not putting a lot of effort into it, but i never see people do redesigns of a human version they'd like better, i just see them complain and say he should've stayed a beast because he was cooler that way or whatever. and i never felt that way even as a little kid so yeah i guess i just wanted to vent about it a bit lol. anyway i love your blog!!

AMEN BROTHER!!!!!! i am always interested in discussing this. adam is my favorite character in the universe and the way people treat him drives me insane!

i FULLY agree with you and i am appalled at that poll option. genuinely how is it so hard to understand?? if y’all want a movie about a beast guy learning to love his beast self, i believe the movie you’re looking for is dreamwork’s SHREK, lmao. the point of adam’s story is that he was learning a lesson in vanity and cruelty. he was being punished. the enchantress saw how much of a monster he had become so she made him look like one and took away his beautiful appearance — the thing he prided himself on the most. it’s a PUNISHMENT! he’s in BODY JAIL! why on EARTH would he want to stay that way!!!!

i say this every time but: no matter how comfortable belle makes him feel in his own skin, that is NOT the way he wants to live the rest of his life. it’s not who he is! he was born a human and he lived a human life for a while before this curse happened! and now he’s got this second chance… he’s learning how to love… obviously he’d become even more desperate to be human again! he wants a normal life with belle now! *shaking violently* why must we strip him of his humanity!!!!!!!

#thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nice to meet a fellow Genius #my inbox and dms are always open to defending my beautiful beautiful boy 🥹#anonymous #answered #adam #batb meta

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moonchild-in-blue · 26 days

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i need to take out my brain and put it in ice

#all is well just one of those weeks were days have 3 hours only i suppose #also we're having a heat wave and i do NOT do well with hot weather. my headaches are turning into a daily thing and i'm. hm #anyways if you see me blogging at weird hours of the night don't @ me #anyways. this is your sign to listen to that game soundtrack you love #cus rn i'm listening to deltarune/undertale stuff and ohhhh boy #toby fox you beautiful genius. i wish i could bake you a cake or smth #darya talks to herself

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tortoisebore · 10 months

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ty for the tag @spookymoonie ily ily ily 🫶🫶🫶

game: post your lock screen, home screen, last listened song & last photo taken

get a load of that WEATHER 👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹 (it’s going to be 105 again in three days kill me)

tagging @parttimeromantic @arcturusnebula and @moonheavens obvi 🫶💞💕💖💫💕💗✨

#tag game!!!#cliffs of moher i miss u #the day that pic was taken it was so windy up on the cliffs we were basically walking horizontally #and then we got on a boat and almost vommed #beautiful memories #why is boygenius Boy Genius now #spotify giving u the teeniest f*ce r*veal lmfaoooo #don’t look at it

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loversgothic · 11 months

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kill the critic in ur head

(and if i cant keep my promise abt gabe inspired dress i am so sorry :( but maybe i can show u guys some of the heaven themed projects ive done in the past... and maybe draw gabe in it... so sorry..)

#doodles #silly comics #yes i am a squid #included the mention of soundwave bc. while i directed it valentine is the one who designed nearly all of the gorgeous dresses #in the heavenly side #my boy is a genius designer and i envy him and adore him #iwish he posted his designs or art on tumblr so i could make u all look at his work.. everything he makes is so beautiful #a lovely man with a brilliant mind.. valentine if you read this hi im sorry for being gay #on the heavenly side of that old collection i only designed i think 3 eheh.. sunday school. sands of time and shattered soul

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hella1975 · 2 years

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here is my fairly rushed kanut + zuko poem, i just had the line "there is something inside of you that weeps" in my head but all i could think about was how 'weep' is also used for describing some symptoms of infection so yeah

woah...

#theo this is genuinely incredibly i just. wow #like???? there's so much i want to say okay #first the fact that you made it a metaphor of healing #like it's so genius just on a very basic level bc it's what zuko and kanut have in common. they are both victims of abuse #but also kanut is a HEALER of course this is how he interprets the world #he makes sense of things by seeing them as he would a physical wound and it's just so so accurate and i love that #and the imagery of him just seeing zuko and seeing himself and knowing everything he's feeling and just. god #'boy' because he really is just a kid #SALT WATER IS GOOD FOR WOUNDS #and everything to do with starving/hunger because of zuko's relationship to food but also love #'you will have to feed yourself or learn to live hungrily' OH MY GOD????#and the animal symbolism!!! 'the cage designed to protect the fragile parts of you'!!!! tearing my hair out #'a human bite will almost certainly lead to infection if not treated with salt water' this alone i could write PARAS about #thank you so much for this genuinely #it's beautiful #ask #taob asks #taob art

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dr-mothman · 7 months

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"I support women's rights but I also support women's wrongs"

- Professor Calamitous in court justifying his daughter's crimes

#they are so fun to write abt lol #jimmy neutron #the adventures of jimmy neutron boy genius #professor calamitous #professor finbarr calamitous #beautiful gorgeous

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friendlygirlswag · 2 years

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nothing like trying to fall asleep at 1am and accidentally uncovering the amazing devil character lore. bc its more than scarlet scarlet and the blue furious boy. its scarlet scarlet and the blue furious boy, and the boy from inkpot gods falling for her over and over again. its the parents from chords and the parent from welly boots. it’s scarlet scarlets trauma in her relationships and the lyrics in all of the songs with simultaneous melodies. its these lyrics from pruning shears and its my half baked nighttime theories

#the boy from inkpots in pruning shears and fair and two minutes #the blue furious boy in secret worlds and blossoms and that unwanted animal #and each of them in so many more #and how the story is told through scarlet scarlet #joey batey. you beautiful genius.#madeleine hyland #and her fucking delivery #joey batey #the amazing devil #tad lyrics #the amazing devil lyrics #scarlet scarlet #the blue furious boy

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