hi i'm g, i'm 1998, she/her, aussie, i love making playlists and i would literally die for this netflix show! willex & juke are canon and everything else is for fun: right now we are hyperfixating on touch-starved willie, obscure bobby ships, ray molina ( my beloved) and the aspen st au (ao3) (tag). my askbox/dms are always open and i'm starryfirmament#9198 on discord!! pls feel free to come yell at me :) prompts are always open but no promises about how long it takes me to work on things!!
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hopefully I will return to thoughtful analysis soon but in the meantime I'm going back to my roots with the kind of tbsposting I was doing in 2019. enjoy <3
*Chloe and Ellie are both excluded on the grounds of not being pathetic enough, in opposite directions.
i think it's really fun when a rly specific trope is super popular in one particular medium but in other ones it's just totally unheard of. it's the time knife. visual novel players are suuuuper used to death games but many others encountered them for the first time in squid games. the other day my mom showed me all excited the summary of a super original novel she found and it was about a girl who got reincarnated as the main character in her favorite fantasy book
Hello, tumblr user. Before you is a tumblr post asking you to name a female fictional character. You have unlimited time to tag a female character, NOT a male one.
finally finally finally pulled together a cohesive Sam+ Mark + Damien playlist. it's not a playlist for shipping them together as a triad so much as an attempt to capture some of the messiness of their canon dynamic and the parallels in how Sam and Damien relate to Mark. notes on each song under the cut.
Can I Leave Me Too? - The Greeting Committee: there are many many many things that tie together Sam and Damien and their relationships with Mark, but to me the strongest thread is the abandonment issues. so. “I'm scared of myself without you” and “I'll change my ways for a few days if it means you'll stay” and of course “if you leave me, can I leave me too?”
Sacrilege - Shauna Dean Cokeland: there's so much here. we have “now I'm making my way, just a lonely v8, tearing up interstate and it's thanks to you, babe” in regards to Mark and Damien’s road trip/kidnapping, Sam's trip trying to track them down, and Damien’s aborted trip back to Boston all at once. we have “I love you in a way that a rabid fuckin' dog would / Desire terrifies me, that's what got this whole thing started / You've seen me pull at myself, try to kill the impulses / To want is to live and that's not what a girl's for.” and as one final gut punch, we have “I could have spent this time changing, you can see that I'm not.” truly a rich text.
Sofia I'm Sorry - Jesse Detor: if TBS were a tv show instead of a podcast I would be paying people money to make Mark/Damien edits to this song. just mentally sub in “Samantha” for every reference to Sofia: “Tell Sofia that I'm sorry but I get what I want, ‘cause I might hate what I am, at least I don't hate what I'm not” over Mark and Damien's road trip. “You feel bad enough to try and fix it, but not bad enough to go” and “I won't be another victim of the life that you want” and “I would beg you to stay, but you've already gone” over the ep 408 Damien/Mark breakup. “I hope you're happy with Sofia, but I know that you're not” over the Sam-Damien phone call in 413. you get the vision.
Motion Sickness - Phoebe Bridgers: look I know it's a cliche I KNOW. but literally I hate you for what you did and I miss you like a little kid. I'll be glad that I made it out and sorry that it all went down like it did. AND it fits into the car motif.
Dream State… - Lucy Dacus: “without you I am surely the last of our kind” obviously connects to Mark's ability (that was Damien's Whole Thing, and Sam's never met another time traveller either) but I also like to take it from a Sam/Damien angle. they're just. so The Same.
Codependency - Orla Gartland: self explanatory. these bitches codependent as fuck.
First Love/Late Spring - Mitski: this one is here for the whole chorus (“So please, hurry, leave me, I can't breathe / Please don't say you love me / 胸がはち切れそうで/ One word from you and I would jump off of this ledge I'm on, baby / Tell me, ‘Don't’ so I can crawl back in”) and also because Sam and Damien are the tall children of all time.
My Thoughts On You - The Band CAMINO: this one hits better if you listen to it vs just reading the lyrics but. “what if you were the one for me / I hope you weren't the one for me” “I can't read it right, between the fights, I still need you” “I tried to say thank you, but I don't know if you heard me / I know it wasn't your plan to just be the one that hurt me.”
Halloween - Noah Kahan: there is something so compelling about all of them being haunted by each other forever. moving on but there's always still Something there. “the wreckage of you I no longer reside in [...] but the ghost you're dressed up as sure knows how to haunt.”
Bird Hall - The Greeting Committee: “I don't wanna be in love, all it ever got me were reasons to hate me.”
honestly it seems really unfair that if you have a shitty childhood you have to deal with all these extra problems once you’re older. i think that you should get to have some kind of beam attack and a double jump instead
Can we talk about how. The first thing Ronan does in all of The Raven Cycle is answer Gansey's phone call. And this is not remarkable in context but then we find out throughout the entire rest of the series that Ronan HATES phones and won't use them. Can we discuss.
Immediately after this he makes Adam do the talking when Declan calls him when they're on the way to get Gansey. He is reluctant to even take the phone back after. "Ronan despised all phones, including his own".
He answers Gansey's phone call, says words on the phone (even worse than being on the phone by itself, to Ronan). And then at Gansey's request brings gasoline, a burger (Gansey's burger order which they have memorized even though he did not specify anything beyond "burger"), and Adam to him.
