#falling slowly

[brokenlovesong]

Posted this on tiktok but tumblr deserves it too

[slowlystupendousdelusion]

[another-middlechild]

I don't know you, but I want you

All the more for that

Words fall through me and always fool me

And I can't react

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Lucanis Dellamorte x Beatrix de Riva

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[cuartoretorno]

MARKÉTA IRGLOVÁ & GLEN HANSARD - Falling Slowly (Callendo Lentamente) | PETROF Acoustic Sessions | LIVE 2025

Once (Una Vez - 2007) es una película musical irlandesa escrita y dirigida por John Carney. Rodada en Dublín y protagonizada por Glen Hansard (de la banda The Frames) y Markéta Irglová como músicos aficionados.

Guy (Glen Hansard) es un cantautor que interpreta sus canciones por la ciudad de Dublín, mientras sigue trabajando en la tienda familiar. Durante el día, para ganar algún dinero, interpreta conocidos temas, pero por las noches, toca sus propios temas en los que habla de su desengaño amoroso. Su talento no pasa desapercibido a Girl (Marketa Irglova), una inmigrante checa vendedora ambulante de flores. Ella tampoco ha tenido suerte en el amor y, para sentirse un poco mejor, escribe canciones sobre el tema, pero, a diferencia de Glen, nunca las interpreta en público. Guy y Girl coinciden por casualidad haciendo un dueto en una tienda de música.

La película obtuvo un premio Óscar a la mejor canción original («Falling Slowly») en el 2008 Canción principal de la banda sonora de dicha Película - ONCE.

[westernlarch]

Falling Slowly: how the fic sausage is made 🌭

The idea for this post was blatantly stolen from @lilmissnatcat24! Sorry/thank you nat😄

I haven't discussed this story with anyone at all, so if you'll allow me to indulge myself a little here I'm gonna talk a bit and hopefully you won't fall asleep along the way 😅 There's a hefty note section at the end of the fic about my inspirations for the story, but to add a few more specific details....

Take this sinking boat and point it home We've still got time Raise your hopeful voice, you had a choice You've made it now Falling slowly, sing your melody I'll sing it loud

Ch 1 - The Light

I chose Illium as the location because 1) it was a plausible moment where Shepard and Garrus could have a conversation, 2) the krogan poet is a reference to the scene where Jesse and Celine meet the poet by the water in Before Sunrise.

I wanted to include something like the 'telephone' scene from Before Sunrise, but I didn't think it fit very naturally in the time allotted.

Ch 2 - Let's Walk/Say It Somehow

The whole reason I wrote this fic is because I was thinking about what went down (or didn't go down) between Shepard and Garrus between ME2 and ME3. And the scene in Before Sunset where Celine asks Jesse if he'd gone back to Vienna like they'd promised each other reminded me of that.

I also had to--had to--include "baby, you're gonna miss that plane", because that is the fucking line from Before Sunset everyone knows!

Ch 3 - Love to Me

Before Midnight is difficult film to watch because we witness some major resentments, regrets, and problems coming to a head, and a couple that was once head-over-heels in love has to find a way back to themselves again. I wanted to capture some of that feeling, as well as show what kinds of sacrifices and compromises are sometimes made for the ones we love, both good and bad. What we choose to do for love.

Garrus' line about being on a mountaintop alone is lifted directly from the song "Love to Me" from Light in the Piazza.

My version of Shepard and Garrus don't have nearly as much friction as Celine and Jesse in Before Midnight, but just like in Before Midnight, I wanted to leave the fic on a tentative but hopeful note of reconnection. I don't know if I got it right, but I hope so.

[lyricsarepoetry]

you have suffered enough

and warred with yourself

it's time that you won

[evenasmallcough]

He's become my best friend the way the others did: bit by bit, sand passing through an hourglass so slowly, it's impossible to pin down the moment it happens. When suddenly more of my heart belongs to him than doesn't, and I know I'll never get a single grain back.

Emily Henry, Happy Place (pg. 105)

[lovelyfanatical]

A little bittersweet Florge edit this week