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grabs microphone. the killers received five grammy nominations for their debut album hot fuss but didn’t get shit, even though hot fuss was probably one of the biggest albums of the early 2000s and even now 20 years later we still know all the words to these songs, even if you’ve never—hey what the fuck give me that back GIVE IT TO ME—even if you’re unfamiliar with the killers and their debut album you know mr. brightside, somebody told me, all these things that i’ve done, smile like you—SMILE LIKE YOU MEAN IT, JENNY WAS A FRIEND OF MINE—GLAMOROUS INDIE ROCK AND ROLL, YOUVE HEARD THEM YOU KNOW THEM THE KILLERS ARE CRITICALLY UNDERAPPRECIATED EVEN AFTER SHAPING AN ENTIRE DECADE OF CLUB AND ROCK MUSIC—

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THERE AIN'T NO ATLAS, KID. NEVER WAS.

if you peel him back far enough, there's nothing but a pile of theater masks

like, it's really fun how fontaine starts spiralling out the closer jack gets to him in the final arc of the game and returns to appropriating the image of family (the fake family in the beginning, the flawed father position later) to try and appeal to jack in some way but it's like. buddy. baby. you already took off your mask. anything you try and put on after this is going to come across as cheap and desperate. the magic is gone! and personally? I'm hooting and hollering

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I'm supposed to believe that Carmen Berzatto would look at a woman who has the big brown eyes of a soulful and charismatic baby seal and be like oh yeah we're 100% coworkers and nothing else?? That his soul does not sing her favorite song???? That his yearning does not grow within the safety of her garden???? That his heart does not soften in her warmth? That he does not sway in her wind or bloom under her sun?? That he does not bask in her rays and wonder how he could have ever lived without it??????????? bffr

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always fucks me up how every major male SVSSS character barring liu qingge (dead for all of PIDW) and shen yuan (literal transmigrator) have some variation of airplane bro's personality, insecurity, and shitty coping mechanisms. like.

shen jiu!qingqiu lashing out, letting people assume terrible shit about him because it's easier than trying to clarify his intentions only for his actions and words to be misinterpreted anyway?

yue qingyuan being politely vacant, aimless and self-deprecative, believing himself a failure who deserves to be hated?

og!shang qinghua being a cannon fodder "cowardly traitor", cut off from protection and money and killed by his former liege?

mobei-jun having deeper set issues with trust and loyalty, especially from family members and personal servants?

tianlang-jun's naivete and emotional attachment leading indirectly to his being sealed under a mountain miserable and alone for years?

zhuzhi-lang's excessive degree of loyalty to people who show him sincere kindness, since most people find him ugly and unapproachable?

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POMPEY & SULLA

Pompey, however, was not cowed, but bade Sulla reflect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun, intimating that his own power was on the increase, while that of Sulla was on the wane and fading away

Plutarch, Pompey

political alliances are like bets, you know. sometimes you come out winning, sometimes the guy you were grooming to be your heir has ambitions beyond you and you can’t fully get rid of him. sometimes an alliance is like sharing a pomegranate, like a bad deal. hand in hand, & you’re stuck with them till the end of the line.

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ok real talk i had to vote for Lucretia My Reflection in the overplayed goth classic poll, but. i will say this:

they should never, ever have let the goths near SPN. because right now my adhd procrastination on learning a new video editor, my very short list of other edits to do as practice, and the sheer amount of SPN to grab clips from--

are the only things standing in between this fandom and a She's In Parties vid that would hit Deangirl Tumblr like an A-bomb

(sing it with me now... 🎵 dialogue dub 💀 now here's the rub: 🎵 she's acting her reaction 🎞️🎵📽️🎤📸💥❗)

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in the spirit of the genre i'd like to hijack the current asian country music train to talk about one of my favourite historical guys shoji tabuchi: fiddler hall of famer! king of kitsch americana slay!! one of the Most Guys Ever in country music!!!!!

[OKAY this spiralled into a Whole Thing so im putting it under the cut to save your dashes. be warned this is long]

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