On the Up & Up

[theorganasolo]

Han and Leia throughout the original trilogy

May the Fourth be With You!

[draconym]

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

[draconym]

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

[omtai]

there is nothing lemon squeezy about any of this

[dogpuppy]

[dreamstars]

[konoko]

[thedisasterbi]

happy valentines day

[goth-queen]

[4outof20]

[babushkaat]

[fantasmalresplendent]

I can't be the first to make this connection

[fantasmalresplendent]

y'all slept on the first chart but I will make the world see my vision

[spaceshiporion]

...Can I add this

[bearwithh]

[titsay]

[iwillalwaysreassemble]

Only Living Girl in LA (2024)

Halsey

[staygold-digger]

I told my mother I would die by 27

And in a way I sort of did

I joked to my mom on my 27th birthday about joining the 27 club. Then my brother died and I’m pretty sure a significant part of me died, too. And nobody wants to talk about it but I felt heard when I heard this song in concert so I don’t have to be so alone with it

[brutalistcatcafe]

75% decrease in insect biomass within my lifetime and I'm supposed to care about cover letters

[beetlegarden]

we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

[astronomical-bagel]

This is so violently hopeful and uplifting everyone needs to see it

[astriiformes]

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act,— act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o’er life’s solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

-A Psalm of Life, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[rozieramati]