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ok I fully forgot about the extent of emma's craziness this episode. ‘hate might be the wrong word’ about s1 emma & regina is so funny like you wanted her locked up and without custody?? she wanted you dead???? girl

#ouat.txt #regina has been so sidelined this season though I love this sm... someone misses her & wants her back...#breaking glass #ouat #regina mills #emma swan

Silent Hill 2 (2024)

John Flansburgh’s Performance of “Breaking Glass” on the 2016 JoCo cruise is a perfect piece of art and I find myself thinking about it constantly because of how the choreography slots so well with the emotions rampant throughout the song.

We start with John’s name being announced, but he’s nowhere to be found. There is a pause before the backing track begins.

And he enters. Shrouded in darkness. You can’t see much, just his face and his hunched form staggering onto the stage. You wonder what could possibly be causing him such difficulty when finally, he steps into the light and you see them: a train of dancers clinging to him, clawing at him, trying to pull him back to the darkness from which he emerged. (It doesn’t help that the first recording I ever saw took a moment to pan to the side, an even more exaggerated delay in the reveal).

The weight of these bodies cause him to lose his balance at times, lending a disoriented look to his movements; the sunglasses he wears in the otherwise dark room adds to this—they’re protecting his eyes from the searing stage lights, almost as if he’d just been on a bender and is now performing while painfully hungover. The lyrics at this point paint an even darker picture. Baby, I did something terrible, and it’s going to hurt you when you see what I’ve done. I wasn’t myself, but I couldn’t stop it. It may well happen again. His voice shudders as if every word hurts, or he’s simply trembling under the weight of his guilt. Through these first verses he appears unwell.

When the chorus hits us, Flans shoots upright and we catch a glimpse of his usual bright stage presence. Even his voice returns to normal. “Such a wonderful person / But you got problems” strikes me lyrically because it almost feels like he’s shifting the blame to his lover—yeah, I fucked up, but you have problems too. You’re not perfect. But I still love you.

Finally, I find the entourage following him to be a representation of these impulsive, destructive urges within him; they are quite literally trying to bring him down to their level. He’s actively struggling against them—struggling to stand, struggling to sing with an even voice—but finds himself unable to fully let go of them. Even when they break from him to dance, he’s still holding one of their hands. They touch his face, try to interrupt him as he attempts to be candid and honest. He’s been breaking glass in your room again. He’s made his lover’s inner sanctum inhospitable, dangerous, even, but you can almost look past it. One dancer messes with hie hair and he tries to smooth it back down. Saving face. Reminding you just how charming he can be. Never mind what he did to the carpet.

#they might be giants #john flansburgh #forest/trees #breaking glass #this was a long time coming. I'm not proofreading it

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TYPE O NEGATIVE STIMBOARD (request from @spiralzzsystem) more themed around the songs you mentioned! sorry i had to remake it all over again whoops. source(s): 1 2 3 - 4 5 6 - 7 8 9