pricklylilcactus’ Pathetic Prattling

My thoughts. I apologize.

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If someone just made the bed, DO NOT JUMP ON THE FREAKING BED. ESPECIALLY IF ITS NEW SHEETS.

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Is there a way to take of gloves that DOESNT look snobby??

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High school music wing:

There’s a clarinet, a trombone, and an electric guitar in one 6x6 practice room. They’re not friends that I am aware of. One of them isn’t even playing their instrument.

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To the girl that signed to her boyfriend in a room full of people asking if he wanted to have sex later:

I hope you realize that ASL is not a dead language and that it is fairly easy for observers to understand what you are saying

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Man Corey Cott sure is that pretty isn’t he

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I don’t understand but at the same time I understand completely

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there are only five bandstand songs on spotify and I feel personally attacked

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RIGHT

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IS BANDSTAND GETTING A NATIONAL TOUR HOW AM I JUST HEARING OF THIS

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SEP 13, 2017. WHY THOUGH. NO. I WANT IT NOW.

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Ok but seriously WHEN IS BANDSTAND ON SCREEN GONNA BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE CUZ I WILL SPEND MY LIFE SAVINGS ON IT

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I tried to unsubscribe from this book website’s email list

I thought I logged into my account to manage my email preferences

I actually created a new account

I am now receiving twice as many emails from them

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Update: I successfully unsubscribed from with BOTH accounts so the emails should stop now :D

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Update: they were still sending me emails and I clicked the unsubscribe button AGAIN and I think it stopped, but then I stop got the emails from my other account for a while before I realized I had to click unsubscribe from that one too BUT I THINK I FINALLY AM COMPLETELY UNSUBSCRIBED WITH BOTH EMAILS. I PRAY THAT THE EMAILS WILL STOP NOW.

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I’m still getting emails here. I can’t say that I understand why.

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You’re really friends with someone if you can text them without prefacing with “hey”

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I tried to unsubscribe from this book website’s email list

I thought I logged into my account to manage my email preferences

I actually created a new account

I am now receiving twice as many emails from them

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Update: I successfully unsubscribed from with BOTH accounts so the emails should stop now :D

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Update: they were still sending me emails and I clicked the unsubscribe button AGAIN and I think it stopped, but then I stop got the emails from my other account for a while before I realized I had to click unsubscribe from that one too BUT I THINK I FINALLY AM COMPLETELY UNSUBSCRIBED WITH BOTH EMAILS. I PRAY THAT THE EMAILS WILL STOP NOW.

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Question

Do Evan and Zoe have a ship name cuz I’m one of those weird people that low key ships them and I’m looking for this one post I remember seeing once about why someone shipped them but I don’t know how to find it someone please help

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I tried to unsubscribe from this book website’s email list

I thought I logged into my account to manage my email preferences

I actually created a new account

I am now receiving twice as many emails from them

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Update: I successfully unsubscribed from with BOTH accounts so the emails should stop now :D

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There’s a kid in one of my classes name Connor Murphy and when the teacher called his name for attendance I turned to my friend and literally gasped “Connor Murphy is a real person” and she died laughing

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I need to discuss the new Requiem lyrics because I have…feelings about the Murphy siblings again. 

The added verse, to me, changes Zoe’s whole tone in the song, makes it feel like Zoe holds a lot of regret, in addition to anger and bitterness. “you were the flood that swallowed us whole/refusing the love we endlessly gave you” hits me especially hard. Clearly, Zoe wanted to help her brother before he died, she wanted him to get better, to be the brother he was when they were younger, she always wanted her brother back. And that’s pretty clear in Zoe’s reaction to Evan’s story, especially in If I Could Tell Her and You Will Be Found. 

But hearing it unprompted in Zoe’s own words really drives the point home. The verse mostly focuses on the other Murphys being “swallowed whole” by Connor, of them being unable to control him (“you were fire, out of control/the blaze that couldn’t be tamed”) and that just kills me, because it implies that they were trying, that she, specifically was trying. 

It paints her anger in an entirely different light. Not only is she angry and resentful towards Connor for how he treated her, and rightfully so, I think she’s also angry at him for killing himself. It’s obvious in Larry’s verse in the original Requiem, that he’s angry at Connor for committing suicide, but it never comes through in Zoe’s lyrics. At least, until this version. Now, she’s angry at him for forcing her to “play the grieving girl,” for ending his life. 

The Zoe Murphy in this version of Requiem isn’t just angry at how her brother treated her before he died, isn’t just unsure how to go about mourning someone who made her life so difficult. The Zoe Murphy in this version of Requiem absolutely didn’t want her brother to die, is absolutely grieving him, and is absolutely furious because, from her perspective, he refused to see that they were trying to help him, that she was trying to help him, refused to reach out to her, and ultimately killed himself, because he couldn’t see that his family did, in fact, love him, and that he wasn’t alone. 

And that’s honestly even more tragic than it was before. 

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Mallory Bechtel singing Requiem :)

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anyways bandstand deserved a longer run