the great divide really is, in its entirety, about a great divide.
it’s about growing up, leaving home, building a life elsewhere, and realizing that return doesn’t restore anything—it only reveals what’s been shifted. the buildings are still there, your old haunts are still there, the people still recognizable, the past still intact in its own way, but something in the way you meet it has changed. you have changed, and in that change, no longer fit in the same way.
what the album keeps circling is not any one moment, but an accumulation: missed conversations that never fully reopen, relationships that continue but subtly drift, versions of yourself that still surface in memory but no longer really exist in the present tense. a yawning gap that forms not in rupture, but in time.
and layered underneath that is something sharper: the way separation isn’t just geographical or relational, but expressive. the voice itself changes. what you want to say doesn’t come out the same anymore—filtered through distance and everything that has happened in between. life lived apart. time that has left everything slightly out of sync with itself.
and so even the attempt to reach becomes something else: not return, but translation. not closure, but articulation across a space that no longer guarantees being heard properly—at all like before.
time doesn’t heal all. success doesn’t overwrite where you came from. leaving doesn’t undo what you still carry. it just changes what you’re able to access, and what only exists now as something you can look at but not step back into.
what emerges is separation as lived condition: the strange experience of loving what you no longer fully belong to, of still recognizing who you were without being able to become that version of yourself again—a version that once fit here, without question.
a divide between past and present; memory and lived life; who you were and who you’ve become.
ⓘ FUN FACT! assumpção was one of the biggest contributors in "vanguarda paulista”—a brazilian avant-garde scene that emerged in são paulo during the late 1970s and early 1980s, which united artists who operated involuntarily outside of the commercial music industry
12. TOUMANI DIABATÉ & BALLAKÉ SISSOKO ~ NEW ANCIENT STRINGS (1999)
happy black history month! btw I’m aware a few artists like santigold and dean blunt aren’t obscure by any means, but I still feel like they’re overlooked at least on tumblr so including them anyway
also sorry in advance if some of the descriptors are weird, I got them from RYM if that wasn’t obvious enough 😭. It’s mainly just to give ppl a rough idea of what the music sounds like
I had some English homework over the break ti write a poem inspired by our favorite poet about a celebrity so I did mine about Dan and Phil and inspired by Oscar Wilde. I fear it's amazing.
In drawing rooms of Wi-Fi glow, where modern muses come and go,
Two gentlemen of curious fame have turned the Internet into a game—For what is life, if not a stage (with comments mildly filled with rage),
And what are we, but guests who stare at fringe and quiff with vacant care?
Dan Howell appears, all gloom and grace,A tragic poet in YouTube space;
He sighs, he broods, he stares afar—Then trips on air and swears at jars.
While Phil Lester, with saintly cheer,Seems wholly unacquainted with fear;
He smiles as though the world’s a treat,Then laughs at walls and talks to feet.
Oh what a pair!
A study rare—One fights despair, one fights… a chair;
And yet between the sighs and memes,They’ve built a life from awkward dreams.
For Wilde once said (or might have done),That truth is best when dressed in fun—And here, in jump-cuts, strange and bright,We find absurdity done right.
So raise a glass (or mug of tea),To chaos masked as dignity—For if this be our culture’s plan,At least it stars these two… and a poorly timed existential rant.
One of the most important things about mcr, and what makes mcr so awesome, is that not one single member is cool. Not one of them! They are all so fucking lame and weird.
Gerard gets asked about his artistic inspirations and he goes on a rant about Joan of Arc and squid. In lotms he had a perfect replica of some Lord of the Rings sword in his room and a notebook labeled 'Star Wars Notes'. There's literally too much to list.
Mikey is a shivery chihuahua of a human being who got more ass than anyone else in the band and got his first bass by stealing it from Gerard's ex and used to tuck his hair under his glasses and stalked his favorite band up and down the east coast. After he got famous he would invite random dudes he met of WoW to his real life house. His favorite book is IT, and as someone else who's favorite book is IT, that's not a hallmark of a well adjusted human being. He got asked for a joke in an interview and the best he came up with was "a man walks into a bar... and says ouch! :)"
Frank dropped out of a psychology program at rutgers to live in a van with 2 dudes who didn't shower. He's a perpetual motion machine of a man who said in some interview that when he got bored on tour he started reading the hotel shampoo and toothpaste ingredients list for something to do. He posted his whole ass on instagram and cries after shows. He wrote a song inflammatory enough to get the secret service on his ass and his dad drummed on tour for kiss and was maybe the last person to speak to John Lennon.
People like to act like Ray's the normal, well adjusted, cool one. He carried a spider-man action figure with him for like a year. He collected Pokémon plushies well into his 20s. He went to fucking film school and got an alfred hitchcock tattoo and made a movie abt a guy who ate eggs and went insane. We all saw the mr. Pea(Nuts) thing he posted like last week. We've all seen the pictures with James Dewees.
All four of them had an interview with a porn mag and wouldnt shut up about dnd. They wouldn't write a song for twilight but they did for Yo Gabba Gabba. None of them are cool and they don't care and that's the whole fucking point.
the lord of the rings is so honest. so raw. so sincere. so unabashedly from the heart. no snide fourth wall jokes, no attempts to alleviate the heaviness. it is is wholeheartedly earnest in its dedication to portraying hope and love and faith and loyalty and courage, and that is what makes it feel like home to so many of us. it's true to itself. it doesn't pretend to be cool and care less. it cares, a lot, and that is a rare, beautiful thing. it warms our hearts to care for a piece of fiction that was made to care about and be cared about
and we know we aren't going to be punished or ridiculed by the work itself for loving it! no characters killed off cruelly, no plotlines abandoned, no shrugging of shoulders and "well real life is like that. get used to it." we have always needed escapism, and we always will. and middle earth will always be there to escape to
I really want to reblog your save Afghanistan post. How do I defend it properly?
Because for some instead of being upset about the women's rights violations, people say oh but when talking about the US gets involved again brown people get hurt so it bad no matter what. I'm tempted just to get mad at them because these are human beings being harmed but I want them to realize what is happening is horrible. I hate that damn trend of but insert *horrible thing* is part of x group's culture so we will be doing more harm then help by intervening. Especially when it comes to women's rights. Some are treating that as a don't be a white savior they'll sort it out themselves.
Please is there an way to tell them that behavior that horrible group is doing there is not normal and not part of the culture?
I posted this picture in another post, but I will post it with some others.
I’m the 1970’s, Afghanistan was well on its way to becoming a developed country with a progressive socialist government. From the pictures themselves, you wouldn’t guess that this would be Afghanistan. But I can tell you for a fact this is how my grandmother used to dress. ^^
Afghanistan has been well known for its geographical advantage, bordering six other countries including China, India, and Iran. Along with that, Afghanistan also has massive reserves of oil, minerals, and gems.
The Soviet Invasion within Afghanistan caused massive devastation to the country. And in an effort to fight off the soviets, the U.S. and Pakistan trained Afghan fighters (some of these fighters later becoming the Taliban) to fight the war.
During 9/11, the Taliban made the claims that they were harboring the leaders responsible for the tradgey (even though Bin Laden was caught in Pakistan). 2001 followed the U.S. Invasion into Afghanistan, where they spent 20 years, and billions in taxpayer money, fighting the Taliban until Biden withdrew the troops.
There is no doubt that Russia, the U.S., U.K., Pakistan, other affiliated countries, and even Afghanistan’s corrupt government contributed to the harm and deaths of Afghan people along with the destruction of their country and their culture. But even in the time that the U.S.A. was in Afghanistan, my cousins felt safe enough to never wear a burqa or even think about leaving their country in favor of a developed nation. Right now they are scrambling to apply for a Special Immigrant Visa, and currently outside of Kabul hiding for when the Taliban take control of it.
What the Taliban are doing right now represents no part of Afghan culture, and above else DOES NOT REPRESENT ISLAM.
The Taliban is able to influence so many people because they actively restrict education. They will specifically take young boys from their homes and to Pakistan or other areas where they will warp the teachings of Islam to fit their agenda until all that is left is a radical interpretation where women are turned into objects of possession within a violent patriarchy.
And know that the Taliban will keep girls and even some boys illiterate to avoid reading the Quran. To realize that what they are doing IS NOT ISLAM!!
If the Taliban really represented the culture of Afghanistan, why are 400,000 Afghan families displaced? Why are they wearing burqas and not the skirts and hairstyles they wore 50 years before? And why are they crying about their dead brothers and kidnapped sisters?
Afghanistan’s culture was taken away long ago, but the people do have remnants of what was left of it. But the Taliban will do what they can to destroy any remaining trace of Afghanistan’s recorded history and arts until they create a religious, “Islamic” state.
TL:DR — The Taliban do not represent Afghan culture and they do not represent Islam.
just to make it clear: we’re not claiming that women should show their body or not wearing hijabs, people are just trying to show how Talibans are canceling women right and are restraining human rights.
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