Musings of a Musicphile

Stephanie. Dallas. 35. I share new and old artists, songs, and videos I love with the world. she/her

[electricpurple89]

Well it's that time of year again, my favorite albums of 2024. I originally planned to do 10, but two more i really loved so 12 it is. Love all these bands and their new albums were all so good.

In alphabetical order:

1. The Future is Our Way Out by Brigitte Calls Me Baby

2. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan

3. $10 Cowboy by Charlie Crockett

4. Dr. Dog by Dr. Dog

5. Romance by Fontaines DC

6. Woodland by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

7. One of a Kind by The Heavy Heavy

8. The Past is Still Alive by Hooray for the Riff Raff

9. Nite Owls by JD McPherson

10. Wild Spirit by The National Parks

11. Stampede by Orville Peck

12. Daniel by Real Estate

[kneedeepinthecoffin]

[bisexualityjunkie]

season three leaked scene

[atlantisview]

Tyler James Williams 2024 Emmys

[xiranjayzhao]

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[thetursithan]

The same....

[katiecomma]

I JUST learned that this shirt cost them $10,000 to put into this movie… but they refused to compromise because they were like: he’s the hugest Golden Girls fan… this has to make the movie… so they paid $10,000 to use Bea Arthur’s likeness on this shirt…  Ryan Reynolds, you’re doing Deadpool so right.

[whole-grain-wheat-thicks]

They traded all the guns in the final climactic showdown for Bea Arthur’s face. Worth it.

[frontier001]

Reynolds paid it himself, out of pocket. It didn’t come from the budget. He talked with Bea’s sons and they agreed to it for a donation to Bea’s favorite charity. ☺️

[katiecomma]

I did not know that. That’s so much better than I could have imagined.

[wadey-wilson]

It’s important to note that the aforementioned charity is a charity that offers housing to homeless LGBTQ youth

[yakichoufd]

[artyphex]

“And I would like to spend-“ (eternity with you) (eternity with you) (eternity with YOU) (ETERNITY WITH YOU)

[im-a-ramblr]

For ASAW, me and some friends on Discord made a list of (mostly Disney) Characters who are Arospec

I’m posting it here so y’all can add on

Mulan, her marriage to Shang is political. There were some butterflies at first, but they didn’t last long. Shang view on it is “this woman can and will destroy an man if she wants, I’m not going to find anyone cooler than that” 

King Triton, specifically AroAllo

Charlotte ‘Lottie’ La Bouff, specifically Cupioromantic. In a QPR with Tianna. Tianna is also arospec, but I’ll do a full post on that later this week. 

Sully is in a QPR with Mike, as are Hook and Smee

Edna Mode, an elder Aro queen 

Elsa, Merida, and Moana are all AroAce

Lilo is Aro, NB, Autistic

Merryweather was said and agreed on immediately 

Kronk is a demiro himbo, who we love

Moses and Tzipporah from Prince of Egytpt - Aro power couple 

Jack and Sally are Demi and Cupio respectively 

This one was inspired by Tumblr’s take on Cinderella, but Cinderella and her prince? Not romantic. He was drawn to her because she didn’t know he was the prince and treated him like a normal person and the fact that he searched for her wasn’t because he was it was because she said some stuff that clued him into her being in an incredibly bad situation and he wanted to help her get out

Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Gonzo are Aro. Piggy and Kermit are together because “If I marry my bestie Kermie than I won’t have to deal with men”

Milo and Kida are Aro and t4t

Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan

Basil, from Reducers Down Under, Basil from the Great Mouse Detective, Silver, from Treasure planets, Kuzco, Scott Summer, Wolverine, and Data were also all said and agreed on.

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

You know what I've decided that Lucius was dirt fucking poor like the rest of them and then he became a marginally successful hooker and used that money to pay for a tutor or go to a university or whatever. It gives his little "Do we look like prostitutes" "Not terribly successful ones" line new depth, it explains why he's working for Stede (he ran out of money but now he has qualifications to dabble in other occupations, ones that might allow him to travel), and it explains why his go to ways to get out of any given problem are sex and blackmail. I'll bet it's why he's so good at relationships. We like to project relationship councilor onto him, but a relationship councilor would never yell at a client like that. But you know who does yell at clients like that. Prostitutes dealing with entitled Johns. Also that boy has saved multiple Johns' failing marriages through pillow talk. When somebody is paying you to fuck them and then you finish fucking early but he's still got 30 minutes, you might get a guy's life story and he might ask you for some advice, just saying.

He's hooker coded you guys. My third eye just opened. Like he can't be rich because he was "a bit of a pickpocket back in the day" i.e. stealing for an occupation, but he had to get his hands on books somehow to learn to read and that's how. Lucius isn't middle class he's a prostitute. I'm betting that the progression of Lucius's life goes like this:

under 18 - pickpocket street urchin

18- 29 - hooker

29+ - pirate but in a way where he doesn't have to get his hands too dirty.

Also hot take but it might explain why he's not intimidated by Ed. Like the culture of piracy is to respect the captain or get hit, and to look up to these very successful pirates, but that's definitely not the culture of sex work. There was that high profile madam bust in hollywood where Charlie Sheen testified and I can't remember exactly what it was he said but basically it boiled down to "I'm famous. I'm not paying the girls to have sex with me I'm paying them to leave me alone after we have sex." And Ed is rock star coded. What I'm saying is that if Lucius was hooking in the Caribbean he knows at least somebody who has fucked a very famous pirate captain and he knows exactly what embarrassing shit that famous pirate captain asked them to do. He knows about Calico Jack's piss kink and he knows that Charles Vane has a foot fetish, and he has it on very good authority that Captain Kidd likes getting pegged. Blackbeard wouldn't come off so hot if you had all that information in your back pocket is what I'm saying. Like the other guys are looking at Ed like "Oh wow it's pirate Beyonce. he's like a god he's the top of his game he's everything I could ever hope to be." and Lucius is looking at him like "I bet your into pain play, aren't you" And he's right.

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

#also when stede bought the treasure map#lucius said he gave the seller “more money than i've seen in my entire life”#and he didn't know what a vacation was either#he's not from a wealthy background (@thetardigrape)

#The only tidbit I want to add into this is that his mom thought he liked girls#Which to me points to maybe late teens runaway? (@epersonae)

Important additions from my mutuals. I kinda want to talk about the mom thing tho. Having a mom does not necessarily a late teens runaway make, or rule out my pickpocket street urchin hypothesis. I know generally street urchins don't have parents but if you've got a single mom that's working all the time and isn't actually pulling in that much money you might not have that much supervision and decide to make your life a little easier by getting sticky fingered with it. Mom's not getting paid till the end of the month and you're already trying to make the last dubloons streatch and she asked you not to do anything dangerous but you're also aware of the financial situation and that guy in the fancy suit is just walking down the street with his pockets hanging open isn't he. Wonder how much bread you could trade that watch in for. Like he might have been a runaway all things are possible.

[hummingirls]

the fact that the house speaker election hasn’t been this bad since the civil war and the guy is named fucking mccarthy and it’s jan 6 … this has to be a tv show cause how do you so perfectly reference three major events of extreme internal division in the US by pure coincidence

[electricpurple89]

Watch "The National (feat. Bon Iver) - Weird Goodbyes [Official Lyric Video]" on YouTube

Really enjoying this new song from them. Really been a fan of The National for a long while.

[electricpurple89]

Watch "Charley Crockett - "Midnight Run" (Official Video)" on YouTube

Love Charley so much! This song is so good!

[electricpurple89]

Watch "Charley Crockett - "Midnight Run" (Official Video)" on YouTube

Love Charley so much! This song is so good!

[electricpurple89]

Watch "Charley Crockett - "Midnight Run" (Official Video)" on YouTube

Love Charley so much! This song is so good!

[electricpurple89]

It's that time of year again! I didnt listen to too much new music this year and just stuck to comfort favorites, but of the new music I did listen to, these are my favorites.

1. Bury the Moon by Ásgeir

2. On the Other Side by Blanco White

3. Everything Else Has Gone Wrong by Bombay Bicycle Club

4. Dedicated Side B by Carly Rae Jepsen

5. Fetch the Boltcutters by Fiona Apple

6. Migration Stories by M. Ward

7. Rearrange Us by Mt. Joy

8. Recover by The Naked and Famous

9. Cannot Be, Whatsoever by Novo Amor

10. Show Pony by Orville Peck

11. Set Fire to my Heart Immediately by Perfume Genius

12. Ceremony by Phantogram

13. The Main Thing by Real Estate

14. Ascension by Sufjan Stevens

15. The Slow Rush by Tame Impala