#*fire

[villain-offical]

drew the silly bc i think him character design is cool

anyways sorry its a bit scuffed okies bye loll -roombamod

You certainly captured my impeccable beauty... You will be spared

[salt-and-bramble]

this got me through Hell Week last time so trying to see if it works on, like, baseline bad times. ya know, queer joy and all that shit

they have the same multichromatic shift!! it’s distracting enough to look at, much less try to contort my hbd for a decent photogtaph. i give up!!! i’m on a real blueberry kick, enough that i might actually follow through on a coworkers rec and sally forth into a dunkin for a blueberry coffee. hyperfixation whomst

for once the minutiae aren’t getting between me and inordinate pleasure with my pairing for redemption arc: rotten bananas becoming bread. i actually wore a little each of both night flyer (yes in public) and chiropterophilia. others so far have preferred the former but i can’t smell the pretty thing they all seem to, all i get is mineralic dankness (and ??something?? that makes me think of mica-flecked streambeds specifically). the latter is all floral and a bit of fruity; it would be toooo much on its own but together? ~a vibe~ yes i am drawing nepenthes hemsleyana why do you ask

all fired up is a black/blanc (<33) thermal and my initial ‘oh i’ve got this’ turned into dismay at how many fragrances are annoyingly nonspecific about which pine they are evoking[1]. anyway this is supposed to smell like hemlock (i presume t. canadensis my beloved) and black spruce (semiserotinous? i’ll take it)

ok i judged my weird lil man harshly for not being the grimy aquatic[2] of my dreams, and also for not being grimy at all, but he does smell very pretty and somehow my lil sample is halfway gone?!? [2] one of my other disappointments has gotten at least a lil funky now that it’s settled, so i may have a layering solution

also i found this duck on the couch?? possibly it was inside one of the boxes?? or not??? either way i guess i have a lil pink duck now?? ah, fatherhood 🥲

[taylortruther]

I’ve personally always taken the fire vs water imagery from Eras tour as sort of Taylor being like ‘everything burned down around me, I burned some of it down myself, the waters of grief nearly drowned me, the waters of that grief cleansed me as well, and in the chaos of it all, here I am, celebrating everything I lost and everything I gained, etc’ The eras tour is very obviously a celebration of creation (Taylor’s vast catalogue, her relationship with her audience, etc) but it’s also an acknowledgment of the destruction that has gone hand in hand with the creation for pretty much her entire career.

Also, i know that we all complain about swifties lacking nuance on the internet, but it truly does do such a disservice to the artistry of the live performances to try to narrow everything down to one meaning (I mean this generally, I do not think you are guilty of this fyi!!). Like the fire burning behind her, the water raging around her, it’s both something she caused and something that was done to her by others. It’s simultaneously about destroying and grieving and suffering and also about celebrating and rebuilding and succeeding, etc. She primarily choose Fire and Water for the tour visuals at emotional heights of the concert. Fire destroys but it also creates room for new, stronger growth. Water cleanses/nourishes/gives life but it also destroys.

I haven’t fully articulated my thoughts on all of the tour imagery (particularly the visuals based around natural extremes) so this is the most I can spit out right now, but I do think the natural extremes (fire and water) shes chooses are very intentional and that they really lean into feelings associated with the high and lows of her music and career overall.

no you're so right and she's used fire and water to indicate both of those things - rage, death, rebirth - throughout her career! (it's also an extremely common metaphor in general.)

when i was drowning that's when i could finally breathe ... i am finally clean -> drowning but finding herself by the ocean in the ootw mv.

cardigan's mv, where she uses music to literally stay afloat in her despair, and she's a different person when she returns to her cabin.

i'm a fire and i'll keep your brittle heart warm, i am ash from your fire, i'm getting tired even for a phoenix, etc.

also, fire and water are unstoppable forces, stronger than her. she's carried away by water, unable to stop it - fire consumes and takes over things quickly.

she's been burned but she's also a protective fire. she's drowned and been unmoored, but she can also take down ships and find herself below the current.

and these symbols in particular - fire and water - are so common and pervasive in myths, stories, the shared human consciousness, that they always have various meanings. so to your point: yes, they have multiple meanings!

[evadingreallife]

[lynne-monstr]

episode 6 | blue rain

“Captain, why did you call me here so late? What’s the matter, I was sleeping.”

“Let me show you a video. Blue River just sent it. A recording of a mission in the Tenth Server.”

[esspurrr]

[iwillbecomealawyer]

some people are not allowed to watch succession idk