oh beloved bestie you're gonna get me in hot fucking water.
the best song on the album: old college try. me voice i love you songs about inescapable narratives. especially when the characters are walking into it with their eyes open.
my favorite song on the album: international small arms traffic blues was like my third mountain goats song and i will love it forever for that reason!
my least favorite song on the album: peacocks is simultaneously the least interesting to me and also the least catchy to my ears sorry peacocks <3
the most overrated song on the album: i do not get the game shows touch our lives hype i just do not get it
most underrated: not on the album but i'm going to shout out ethiopians for being one of thee best goat album outtakes out there.
GOOD THINGS NEVER LAST! BAD THINGS NEVER DIE!
the banger of all bangers: saying anything but no children would be a lie, that's THE famous tmg banger. but that's like the collective opinion. imo the top banger off the album is see america right, it was so much fun getting to do that at karaoke last year <3
rate from 0-10: this is the part where ur ask gets me in hot water. the album is good. i can't argue with that. it's also a really interesting manifestation of themes that occur throughout the entire discography that i'm interested in. but on the other hand i do not care about the alpha couple. they're uncompelling to me. with points off for personal enjoyment of the concept and frustration over how dominant alpha couple focus is in fan spaces i'm giving tallahassee a 6.5. if i'm not being a hater it'd get like an 8 for music alone but i am being a hater so. rip tallahassee.
Stede tried not to look too taken aback. He generally wasn’t surrounded by people who used language like that. At least, not around children. And especially not about fathers. But that was the kind of thing he liked about Ed. He wasn’t like the rest of them. “I suppose he is, a bit,” he replied.
Ed nodded. “Mine is, too. Sometimes I wanna…” He reached down and pulled a clump of grass from the ground between them, looked at his clenched fist for a moment, and then released his hold and let it fall back to the ground. “I don’t know.”
Stede watched him. Most of the grass had fallen, but some was stuck to Ed’s palm, and he wanted to reach over and wipe it off. He supposed it was because he didn’t like mess. He also didn’t like the way that Ed looked right now, gazing forlornly at the ground, thinking about goodness knows what. It was all Stede’s fault. He shouldn’t have brought up fathers. Not that he’d had any way of knowing what Ed’s father was like – he had never met him. Ed had never met Stede’s father, either, and Stede planned to keep it that way. His father wouldn’t like him spending time with someone like Ed, and that was a good enough reason to keep their friendship private, meeting in places like this, where nobody would come looking for them. Besides, it felt nice, having a friend that nobody really knew about.
Even if he’d managed to make him sad, just now.
He wondered exactly what Ed had been thinking about saying, before he stopped himself. What he wanted to do. Stede knew what he wanted to do when it came to his father. Maybe it was the same thing. “Sometimes I want to run away,” he admitted, hoping this would get Ed to open up to him somehow. “If I was a character in a book, I’ve have run away by now. I’d be off having adventures.”
At that, Ed’s expression softened, as he turned his gaze towards Stede. “What kind of adventures?” he asked.
Stede smiled, not only because Ed was looking at him again, but also because he wasn’t sure anybody else would have asked him that question. Anybody else would have told him that he wasn’t in a book, he was in the real world, and he’d have to learn to deal with that. That was another way that Ed wasn’t like the rest of them. “Lots of kinds,” he said. “I could travel all around the world. I could be an explorer, or… or a pirate.”
Ed grinned. “A pirate?” he asked.
And for a horrifying moment, Stede felt like he was being laughed at. “Maybe not a pirate,” he said hurriedly, because he knew how it sounded – someone like him, living a life like that. “It’s just an idea.”
“No, it’s great,” Ed responded, his smile widening, eyes almost shining. “A pirate. You’d need a crew.”
“I could meet different people on my travels,” Stede said, his own enthusiasm growing at Ed’s reaction, “and invite them to join me on my ship. We could sail all over the world. And nobody could stop us, or tell us what to do.”
“And we could steal gold from other ships,” Ed said, “and get into swordfights, and everyone would know our names. Stede Bonnet and Edward Teach: the most feared pirates in the world.”
Stede was sure he could feel himself flush at the sound of their names together in that sentence, flowing so easily from Ed’s lips, like they belonged there. “You’d come with me?” he asked, and he knew that nobody else in his life would ever offer something like that, whether they were serious or not.
“Well, I can’t let you go off your own,” Ed said. “It’s dangerous out there.”
“And you’d protect me?”
Ed shrugged. “Somebody’s got to keep you out of trouble.”
Stede laid back in the grass, basking in the warmth of this exchange. At the thought that somebody would care enough about him to join him on this wild adventure, just to keep him safe. At the thought that Ed would. “That sounds like a good plan,” he said.
He could feel Ed lay down next to him. “Yeah. It does.”
everything everywhere all at once!! genuinely such a fantastic film and definitely made me feel very emotional
16. Post a picture from the beginning of the year
this is the first photo of me that wouldn't doxx me, but it was taken at 2am on a 3 hour walk so i look like a gremlin.
23. If you could send a message to yourself back on the first day of the year, what would it be?
so many formative things will happen this year. let january set the tone for the year and have some fun, let your confidence grow, and treasure the friendships you start to build this year. they'll be important later on.
re: ur tags on my saileena post PLEASE do write the fic i would DIE & be eternally grateful as someone whose depressión has made it impossible to write 😭😭😭 (hetheysammy)
OK IM GONNA!!! IM GONNA MF TRY. NO PROMISES THAT ITLL BE GOOD THO AHAHA
thank you!!4. an account on social media whose posts make you smilenot so much an account but i may have slipped and fallen into gay tiktok and it’s entertaining as all hell12. if you could make a candle that smelt like anything, what would you pick?
this is gonna sound really fuckin’ weird but if i could bottle whatever fragrance they use in this i would make everything smell like iti don’t knowwww it just reminds me of happy memories as a kid and it calms me down so PLEASE SOMEONE MAKE THIS
18. a book series you can always escape in
not a series but since reading Red, White & Royal Blue i tend to go back and read a bit of it whenever i’m really stressed because I NEED TO LIVE IN THIS UNIVERSE PLEASE
im gonna do just articles of clothing bc thats easier and because they never let us see their glegs (gay legs) but! for dan it’s the cute floral button up bc its got pinks and purples on it and he looks :( so cute :( in pinks and purples and im LOVE him….look…
and for phil it’s probably the red heart button up he wore in heartthrob or one of his denim jackets or bright future tshirt….i just like when they dress gay basically
☕- Phan theories that anoy you?
uh the theory that they broke up or that they’re done making videos together. sometimes people don’t use their brains and that’s really the only time theorizing on tumblr dot com annoys me
I didn’t think I was gonna get any asks about this, so thanks!
First ship has to be from Doctor Who, Doctor/Rose. Especially with Nine. I fell in love with DW hard when they were on the air, and this pairing remains very near to my heart. But also!! Thirteen/Rose. Yes. Give me some f/f loving. Is that the same ship or not? Idk.
Most underrated...have to go with Gaby/Napoleon from The Man From UNCLE. There is, like, z.e.r.o. content for those two (that’s not ot3 Illya/Napoleon/Gaby) and I cannot for the life of me understand why, because they are both great characters separately AND their chemistry is amazing.
hi piper i love u too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i miss you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love you with my entire heart and i can’t wait to get some kind of tattoo with you someday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3
