All The Songs Make Sense

she/her, queer millennial, aspiring poet, hyperfixating fangirl

[persephatta-crescent]

Much Ado About Nothing - Text Posts (viii)

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[titanicnerd-blog]

10000000% all of this!

[lystful]

Chess på svenska Florence wip!

Drawing big picture for Musical ZINE!

[lystful]

Another wip because I think it’s unfair there’s so little of Helen’s Florence and I succeed to make her look like HELEN!!!!!

[alwaysbeyondhope]

THERE’S MORE??!!

You’re my hero. Please keep these coming!

[lystful]

Chess på svenska Florence wip!

Drawing big picture for Musical ZINE!

[alwaysbeyondhope]

HOLY SHIT OP THIS IS AMAZING

The best Florence. The best moment. THE BEST ACTRESS Helen Sjöholm my love I love you and woowww I love this fanart!

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[caughtthedarkness93]

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

Which song fucks you up more?

Nessun Dorma

Dust & Ashes

Voting ended on2h

Nessun Dorma (Giacomo Puccini)

None shall sleep!/None shall sleep!/Even you, oh princess/In your cold room/Watch the stars/That tremble with hope/And with love

“"THE POWER AAAHDGFJJFDKFJ. That kind of music that makes you feel like you’re being pressed down beneath it. No one does power quite like opera, man. And the sheer PIPES on whoever is performing this is just inhuman."”

Dust & Ashes (Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet of 1812)

But then why am I screaming?/Why am I shaking?/Oh god was there something that I missed!?/Did I squander my divinity?/Was perfection within my the whole time?

"This is a man who just escaped death and was ready for it…but despite everything, he still wants to live. Despite believing there’s nothing for him, he still…without realizing it…wants to live. He openly admits he’s ready to wake up."

Nessun Dorma submitted by @nudgeling

[melonishus]

You know on this most joyous of days , I know people will come with the usual “We shouldn’t celebrate someone’s death” and I say we ABSOLUTELY should

Let’s all remember that the man , and others like him wake up every day and decide they’re going to harm your friends , your family , innocents who have no way to defend themselves against the power they all wield . And they gladly do so to get a little more powerful than the day before

They don’t get to expect humanity when they’ve spent their miserable lives depriving us of our own

So by all means , be tasteless. Decide what dance to do on his grave .He may be replaced by another viper , but for now the worlds a somewhat better place for him being gone

[knitmeapony]

I danced today, not out of cruelty as they will assume, but out of sheer delighted relief that he will no longer harm me. I grieved while he was living. I have no more to give.

[alwaysbeyondhope]

I really think I might have gotten through to her. If nothing else, I was able to say what I’ve been trying to say since January. I really do think she heard me. I hope she did.

I don’t know if it will change anything with him - if she tells him what we talked about and if it does anything at all - but I think she finally sees the scope of the evidence of why I’m making the choices I am.

[alwaysbeyondhope]

So L and I are watching A Crown of Candy (me moreso, them in the background) and I’ve already seen it but this is me watching it with the Adventuring Party episodes included.

I’ve been on a big Dropout / Dimension 20 hyperfixation, as well as playing around with my own chaos magic and how that manifests, and coming to find my own sense of comfort / magic / etc in a d20.

So L brought up about potentially wanting a watercolor d20 tattoo. And I think I want something similar, but more ACOC specific.

I know the idea of a d20 with the words “in sweetness there is strength” isn’t original (I found a tattoo with that exact thing online) but I was thinking of doing that in like some blues and purples and greens - for Candia but also for the type of magic and colors that I’m drawn to.

The tattoo artist that did my Wicked Girls pomegranate tattoo does watercolor work, so I think that might be something for L and I to plan. We couldn’t get them done at the same time, since I think we’re both leaning towards the one artist in this potential scenario, but it’s definitely something I wanna look into.

I basically just want all my tattoos to emit some type of magic for me. All of them currently do, I just want more.

[seananmcguire]

I enjoyed Omens of Chaos so much I got two each of foil and non-foil secret lairs and bought the book physically and digitally.

This delights me on multiple levels at once, not least the level that says "our shot at a sequel is directly tied to book sales."

[alwaysbeyondhope]

Oohh I love this! Speaking of the Secret Lairs! My wife and I got our non-foils and I’m so excited for when the foils arrive.

What are your thoughts on signing foiled cards? I’d like to eventually get the non-foil cards signed, but is signing foil harder? Do you have a personal aversion to it, since they’re foil?

Also - a general thank you for being you, as today as been a shit day for me and seeing your posts makes me smile!

[officialfreddietrumper]

I want all of the Freddies from all of the Chesses to meet.

I think they’d all hate each other

[alwaysbeyondhope]

Svenska Freddie just fighting them all (and being tormented by it)

[broadgay-shows]

look Chess might have a book problem and a plot problem and an ending problem and a history problem

but GODDAMN that is some good Björn Ulvaeus music

[alwaysbeyondhope]

Benny snd Björn are iconic and I wish more people knew them outside of ABBA.

Like I fucking love ABBA, but Björn och Benny do so much more, create more than just the 70s disco. There’s the “ABBA” sound but there’s also Chess and Kristina and BAO.

[lesbiandartagnan]

since there are a million different recordings of Chess, i'm curious as to which one the general public (on tumblr) prefers. go forth, my poll

which recording of Chess do you prefer/listen to most?

original UK

original broadway

chess in concert

2025 revival

london theatre orchestra

vanilla extract/secret sixth thing

Voting ended onJul 7

please reblog!!!!

[alwaysbeyondhope]

Chess på svenska - no one tops Helen Sjöholm’s Florence.

[alwaysbeyondhope]

I know it’s a long shot, but does anyone know where I could find a second-hand Peppermint Preston plushie? It’s long since been sold out on the Dropout site, and I haven’t seen any come up on eBay, but I’m so desperate for a Peppermint Preston.

[alwaysbeyondhope]

What’s the best Intrepid Heroes D20 Episode / Adventuring Party pair, and why is it The Grand Tournament / Zac’s Big Day from A Crown of Candy?

Those two episodes together are Perfection. No notes. 10/10

[alwaysbeyondhope]

I literally slept all day yesterday. Like got out of bed once, to go to the bathroom and take my meds and check in with L. That’s all.

So now it’s 1:15 am and I’m awake and missing Lund something fierce. Not just Lund, but Skåne and Sweden and all the possibilities of adventures there.

I think it’s because Malmö Opera posted videos of Jenny Holmgren and Caroline Gustafsson singing It Must Have Been Love from Joyride, and it made me miss Malmö and seeing them both at the Starlight concert. And I just miss it.

I miss the buses, I miss walking around the town, I miss the food and Pocki and playing games and listening to new music and just being somewhere other than the US. Maybe that’s the core of it: I just want to be away from the US.

I know Sweden isn’t perfect. I know the far-right is rising there too, I know their immigration stance isn’t the best, that they’ve really cracked down on the immigration process and applying for citizenship. I know that there’s issues, just like there’s always issues places. But it’s not the US. It’s not so openly corrupt.

I wish I could move to Sweden. I wish it could be simple and easy and I could just be there now. I know that it can’t happen, for various reasons. But fuck I wish it was possible.

[alwaysbeyondhope]

deep down I know he’s a good person. and that’s why this all hurts so much - he should know better. but he’s blinded by his own unrealized-trauma, which turns him into the fascist-following man he’s now become.

It is emotionally damaging to have to experience the country like this. I can’t deal with being emotionally damaged by the people that I love. There’s been basically no contact since December, and absolutely no contact since March.

I don’t think my mom really understood me when I told her. I think she thought that nothing would really change. Or that I would drop it after I had “cooled off” for a bit.

Well - I just declined another family event. Truthfully for this one, there were many other reasons I didn’t want to go (other family I don’t talk to, irritating kids, etc), but knowing my dad would be there definitely heavily contributed to my decision.

I had called her earlier tonight to tell her on the phone but she was busy and then texted me late tonight, so I just texted her back letting her know about the event.

She just wrote back “Understood.”

…

I just have to remember that her feelings are valid, but I’m also not responsible for her feelings. I have nothing to apologize for.

[alwaysbeyondhope]

It’s Father’s Day today. It’s the first Father’s Day since I stopped speaking to my dad.

It’s so hard because I want a relationship with him, I want the relationship we had where we watched shows together and had dinner and talked about life. But I can’t do any of that with him. He no longer feels like a safe person.

He had all these beliefs before - I knew about some of them, I knew he was conservative and had things backwards and didn’t understand my position. But I didn’t realize the extent of it. I didn’t realize how far down he was, how unbelievably brainwashed he had become, resistant to actual facts and the thought of compassion outside of his little bubble.

And now that I know all of that, I can’t think of him the same. I can’t unlearn these things about him, or feel comfortable around him knowing what he chooses to believe, the positions he has that go against everything him and my mom taught me growing up. I don’t know who this man is anymore, but he’s not who I remember him being. I can’t trust this version of him - not with as many vulnerable people as I have in my life. He won’t be mean or cruel to them in person, but he also believes they shouldn’t have the same rights and respect that others have in this country. That’s a dissonance I can’t deal with.

So it’s Father’s Day and I’m not reaching out and he didn’t find a way to reach out for my birthday so why would I find a way to reach out to him for Father’s Day.

Fathers are complicated and I wish the world was better.