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characters: Ah, I'm so glad that's all over now :). But luckily that's done and dealt with and we can all resume our normal lives now :)

fic length: Chapter 9 out of 48

Odysseus: Thank you for the concern, but brother, I can assure you Our journey is almost done.

Song 11 of 40

dimonds456

What was “A Picture Perfect Hollywood Heartbreak” Really About?

What was Zach Callison’s A Picture Perfect Hollywood Heartbreak really about?

Hey all you people out there! How are you surviving quarantine? I had a bunch of spare time, and so I decided to write an essay that focuses on Zach Callison’s album, A Picture Perfect Hollywood Heartbreak. The album has been out for a while, but most people either only know Interlude IV or are really confused about the story it tells. I think I’ve finally got an answer, and I wanted to share it with you all.

If you’re only here to better understand Interlude IV, you can skip down there if you want, but you’ll still be pretty confused. Besides, you should listen to the rest of the album. The whole thing bops.

Personal favorite song is Phantom Love, but I’m pretty sure no one cares about that.

Anyways, on to the show! One song at a time, in order.

WARNING: REALLY, REALLY LONG POST UNDER THE CUT!!

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epilepticfox

I had to blow a thick layer of dust off of my tumblr account to reply to this. I don't know if this will be relevant to anyone having discovered this so late, but I want to say I greatly appreciate this post. I have been dying to figure out what the story of this album was over the last week, and now I feel like I have a much better idea of it. I won't get crazy in depth because I would be here all day, but there are a couple of takes that I haven't seen elsewhere:

"He hasn't been himself in quite a while" This is the first line in Nightmare, notice how it's in third person. I believe this not just an artistic choice, but a storytelling one. I believe that this is our first indication that we are being told the story from more than one perspective, this one I will call shadow.

"Oh my dear sister Christie, I think his end might be nearing us" That line in particular from the same song shows that there are three perspectives. Shadow is speaking, talking about the original, primary part of him, who I think of as the kid, or innocence. Notice that we only get references to Christie being his sister from Shadow's perspective. I believe that Shadow and Christie are other perspectives inside his head, or shattered parts of his psyche. It's tempting to use the term alters in reference to Dissociative Identity Disorder(DID), but I personally don't feel like I have enough of a knowledge about it to speak on it, so I'm not going to refer to them that way. I don't think it's as simplistic as Christie is depression and Shadow is anger, they feel more like complex characters to me, and I don't have a great understanding of them yet, but I think in this context, referring to Christie as his sister makes sense, because they are both children of the kids mind.

"But gritty's kinda hard when his brain's run by committee" I think this is more evidence that he has several voices in his head.

"My shadow, he's holding the gun with the hands that I once possessed" This is from Christie only knows. Obviously, this is where I get the term shadow from. I believe there is a big difference between between this and the line it's calling back to. "Those steady hands I once possessed," to me sounds like the focus is on the word steady. HIS hands USED to be steady, but they're still his. "The hands that I once possessed" is focusing on the hands themselves, he no longer controls them, his shadow does.

I don't have a great understanding of what happens between the end of second thoughts and the beginning of showtime(and all of curtain call), but I think the end result is that the shadow killed the kid(his innocence.) I don't think there was a physical suicide attempt personally, I think it was a metaphorical killing of a kind, loving, and innocent part of himself. And the shadow has control now.

To not get to deep into the rest of it, I think that he's choosing to stop seeing Juanita as an ex who he loved, and start seeing her as an enemy, which is a relationship he believes he can handle better. I personally don't think Christie gets left behind forever at the end of showtime. I think that she and Shadow will always be part of the same person, and will learn to live together. Maybe he'll never listen to her again, or she will only ever have toxicity to offer, but maybe not. Who knows.

followbackon4sa-deactivated2025

For anyone without Snapchat, these are some screenshots from the story that the account cr1tikal linked is playing right now (⊙＿⊙) you can see for yourself, he’s big_moist.

libertarirynn-deactivated202006

It’s refreshing to see some actual intelligence on my Facebook for once.

dort-am-klavier-deactivated2018

I disagree, simply because there will always be someone willing to work 2 jobs for 5 dollars an hour and that will push the working class into poverty as employers will hire the cheapest labor and simply ignore the people that will not work for their minimum. Especially when it comes to big corporations.

libertarirynn-deactivated202006

??? No. Just no. Do you really think there are a whole lot of people who will shoot themselves in the foot by working for less than they’re worth? If anything, this gives power to the labor force to demand wages that make sense for their qualifications. And any smart employer will pay a little more for a quality worker, rather than some useless schmuck who works for $.50. Yet another classic example of thinking we need the government to babysit us because we have no sense.

wodenswolf-deactivated20160602

… there is LITERALLY a factory full of migrant Polish workers round the corner from me that employs them all illegally at half the minimum wage and makes them work illegal hours .. i know this because a friend worked along side them .. literally hundreds of them and this is just ONE small town in England ¬¬

libertarirynn-deactivated202006

Keyword: illegally. Those people aren’t going to report it because they’re already working illegally. I really have no idea what your point is bringing that up.

epilepticfox

If people can’t get a job for the price they want, then it won’t be long until they start looking for multiple jobs for less pay. Yes, people will do that if that’s what it takes to survive. Minimum wage was established so that one person could work reasonable hours in a week and live off of that. That’s what minimum wage should be, a living wage. It is not. It’s a little more than half of that.

aangtics

“airbenders are able to warm themselves with only their breathing”

ok so this explains why katara and sokka were bundled up in parkas galore while aang was just walking around in his little jump suit like it was a perfect summer evening. I’m so glad this was cleared up. I literally thought Aang’s optimistic attitude is what kept him warm, heavens.

sindri42

So you remember the firebender prison? And how Zuko kept his bending at full strength when he was put in the freezer box, which disabled anybody else put in there? That’s because Iroh taught him that airbender trick, just like later he taught him waterbending moves to deal with lightning. Iroh was secretly master of all four elements and passed it on to Zuko without him noticing.

blue-arrows-14-deactivated20150

AVATAR IROH

orangeisthenewblue

#iroh was proof that the avatar might be able to BEND all the elements but, any bender can use the techniques of the other elements to support and further their own native element, because all of nature is connected, the avatar is the truest form of that connection but the failure was in believing that, the existence of the avatar meant the other elements were considered harmonious but disparate(x)

aangtics

^^^bingo

Citizen: Socrates, you are really annoying.

Socrates: Interesting argument. Can you tell me what is 'annoying'?

Citizen: The way you ask all these stupid questions, that's annoying.

Socrates: Would you say that a fly buzzing by your ear is also annoying?

Citizen: Yes, I would say that is annoying.

Socrates: But you define annoyance as asking questions, and a fly doesn't ask questions, so do you really know what annoyance is?

Citizen: I guess I don't know how to explain it.

Socrates: If you don't know what annoyance really is well enough to explain it, how can you be certain, then, that I am annoying?

Citizen: I am going to scream

stardustschild

Apparently my director went to see a production of West Side Story a few years ago, and the guy playing Chino forgot his gun before coming out for his final scene. Once it got to the big scene where he is supposed to shoot Tony, he screeched “Poison Boots” and kicked the actor playing Tony until he went down. The girl playing Maria then had to jerk the shoe off of Chino’s foot, and had to do the gunshot scene asking “How many kicks Chino? How many kicks, and one kick left for me”.

tbbackus

There should be a blog dedicated to theatrical urban legends. Like that opening weekend of Dracula where Dracula (still hungover) vomited all over the audience during the first stage direction that everyone has a friend of a friend that worked on the show and was there.

crutchie-morris

or the one where the bridge never came out for Javert’s suicide and so he just pretended to stab himself and then lay there until the lights went out

madmagethistle

my favorite is the one where during the Crucifixion of Christ, the cross broke and Jesus just stood up and no one knew what to do so one of the Roman Soldiers just said “You win this time Jesus.”

natassjad

oh my gosh i am in tears

flames2stardust

This is everything I am… everything I need… everything I love… in one vine

anras-blog

girls-youvegotanotherone

#men comparing their problems to womens’ like

just-shower-thoughts

If you replace the “W” in Where, What, and When with a “T”, you answer the question

lost-in-hammerspace-deactivated

epilepticfox

Oh my god I read this wrong

“what is twere twat and twen?”

agrande-news

damaseas

when she vocalized get a life

menalaus

ngl I loved this

fer1972

Nature and Noise: Photography by Anna Marinenko

basementdemo

when i saw all time low in 2013 this kid threw his ipod on stage and rian picked it up and it was opened to notes and it said “can i sing dear maria with you?” and the band were pretty much like “yeah get up here” and then it turned into “WHO CAN PLAY DEAR MARIA ON DRUMS/BASS/GUITAR” and they found people who could and straight up handed them their instruments and let these four kids from the audience play dear maria on stage and it’s one of the coolest things i have ever seen

mossandfrogs

I FOUND A LINK

sp2009to2015

“i want an anime with non binary characters!!”

“i want an anime with a visibly disabled character!!!”

“no, a visibly disabled POC!!! and make them a woman!! and dealing with extreme poverty and homelessness!”

“well, what about a POC with severe mental and emotional trauma? and a narrative about the horrors of war and imperialism, and race supremacy!!”

“give me a woman who is as strong as the men in the power structure of her society!!! but don’t sexualize her!!!”

“give me an anime with a cast that’s diverse in terms of gender representation!!!!”

“show me the most successful anime of the past 30 years…that’s been written by a WOMAN!!!!”

“give me an anime with a cast of different races and religions!!! and show me a narrative that includes the way imperialistic white-dominated power structures oppress and devastate minority groups based on racism and destructive actions of war!!”

“give me an anime with character development and intense personal narratives!!”

“strong female characters and a narrative without sexism!!!”

“the best anime of the past twenty years!!!!! if not one of the top animes of all time!!!!!!”

“what should i watch next?????”

notabrobro

“Don’t you mean”

sixtharrow

Important distinction is important.

hoemami-deactivated20171229

if u don’t like girls with stretch marks think abt how many stretch marks u gave ur mother when she carried u in her womb for 9 months and how none of them were worth it cus ur a piece of shit lol

epilepticfox

Why does having a preference of what someone is attracted to make them a bad person? It’s something they have no control over.