every day after

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[kosmogrl]

everything is changing and maybe that’s okay

[kosmogrl]

as you get older you realise that anything that helps you stop feeling stuck is welcome even if it hurts at first

[achillesinhighheels]

[kosemsultanim]

Costumes

From: Bridgerton, 4.08 Character: Sophie Baek Actor: Yerin Ha Costume By: John Glaser

[mmaisonnnn]

[ivanhoe-dont-do-it]

everyday I am haunted by whispers of the chronologically impossible Chappell roan episode of glee

[ivanhoe-dont-do-it]

things I know for certain (visions which plague both me and my wife):

- puck sings casual about [girl] (Rachel/Quinn/Lauren/etc) bc she rebuffed him due to his delinquency, with “knee deep in the passenger seat and [we’re makin’ out] is it causal now” swapped in

- cheerios do hot to go perfectly + sue calls them garbage babies

- Kurt does pink pony club in a way that is both gay and homophobic, possibly to cheer up sad Rachel

-Rachel is singing good luck babe to Finn in a way that makes outright mockery of the lesbian overtones with zero self awareness

- the girls do femininomenon and the “can you play a song with a [freakin] beat?” Would be split between Mercedes and Santana due to Ryan Murphy’s incurable racism

- will schuester does something he should be fired for

things I am unsure of:

- whether Santana does super graphic ultra modern girl for the “never waste a Friday night on a first date” or naked in manhattan for “and we both have a crush on Regina George” but she does not get to do “good luck babe” even though it is thematically appropriate for her arc bc Rachel is singing that to Finn, though she might get a backup vocal in the choir room

- what Mike chang’s up to

[isaidquirky]

unfortunately now I'm cursed with the thought of Picture You (Glee Version) where Rachel is singing to Finn and the camera pans to Quinn, who is making some kind of "stop singing at my boyfriend" face, and now that's every Faberry gif set on Tumblr for a week

[sophedicts]

FREDERIC LEIGHTON — “Wedded” (1882)

“The composition features a couple standing beneath an archway, symbolizing the threshold of their new life together. The figures are depicted in a tender embrace, with the man’s protective gesture and the woman’s serene expression conveying mutual affection and commitment.” “But when do you stop to think about me?” “Every moment of every day. There is not a single moment you do not fill my mind…The thought of spending a single day without you torments my soul.”

[ps1]

Naoki Kikuchi

[angelicdewdrop]

[mikaylaabdalla]

BRIDGERTON 4.08, Dance in the Country

[green-moonie]

imagine that they are both debuting at the same time and they sneak out to the gardens to make out 🤧

[mikaylaabdalla]

BRIDGERTON 4.08, dance in the country

[baeckerei]

bridgerton is so scary. one by one the siblings are fetched away off into "their happy ending" only to turn into non-characters bearing innumerable children in the background of someone elses story. its like a zombie movie

[dimplesandfierceeyes]

That's just what a friendship group in their 20s is like

[happyheidi]

[hyacinthlbridgerton]

CINDERELLA (1950) BRIDGERTON, SEASON 4 (2026)

[cozyvu]

via cozyvu

[miyaulait]

liara - 2021

shop / twitter

[nickyandmikey]

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

[nickyandmikey]

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

[irrelevantlyvalid]

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

[chokolattejedi]

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

[executeness]

I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

[ramshacklefey]

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

[jbbartram-illu]

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3

[eregyrn-falls]

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.