#lanne13

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when el camino first premiered, i found this, and i have no idea who created/posted it (please let me know if you do!), but it's such a beautiful summation of jesse's coda and journey here - the same subject, but different every time. screaming and speeding off into the darkness met by a quiet and contemplative journey into the light.

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I think the absolute funniest thing harry could do on hs4 is title a song “answer” (he gets bonus points if he samples two ghosts)

she openly asked! it warrants an answer!!! i can imagine it in my head, but your idea of sampling two ghosts is GENIUS. we've been through a meteor strike, we've earned this happening lol 💋👀👻👻

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in michael's ama, someone asked, "what would nacho think of jesse pinkman?" and he gave this answer specifically for @lanne13 and me

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Lewis Capaldi is a menace and must be protected

"just me then, is it?" i'm telling you, he's out here living the dream 😂 he's such a riot. and there's something so carefree about him, i need some of that energy!

"you bet your---" 👀 i'm listening? and yet again:

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I just remembered that the 1975 covered wmyb a million years ago and I needed to share it with you

HELLO?! this is so pretty?!?! and vaguely heartbreaking, like it's wounding him that the subject of the song truly does not know how beautiful and loved they are to their soul. see, this is why, 1. i get almost irrationally furious when people write off or mock pop music as being frivolous or unimportant, and 2. love so much what can be brought out in the depth and layers of a song when it's rearranged. a cute bop can transform into a tragic ballad so easily in many cases because music is versatile and carries inherent power. i love this sm, thank you for sharing it with me darling! (your endeavor to get me to listen to them is working so well btw <333)

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This is slightly random but I’m listening to a podcast that made me think of you, so I wanted to share.

It’s called the “you are what you love podcast,” which is where a writer will come on and talk about the piece of media that got them into writing. The guest on this episode is one of the riverdale writers, and she’s talking about how scream, dexter, and bates motel (which i haven’t seen but i know you love), are the things that got her into writing for television. It made me think of you, and the way that such dark shows inspire such affection. I also love that she wouldn’t be writing for something as campy and wild as riverdale, without the existence of, of all things, dexter

okay so i can't respond to this without mentioning that @alaynestone and i concocted a riverdale/dexter crossover early this year while processing the revival that we shan't acknowledge, so this makes me feel we are big-brained lol. there are motifs that exist between them! she also recently said to me how it's strange that something so dark (bates motel, in this case) can be somehow comforting. certainly that varies from one person to another, and we all glean different meaning from things, but there can be an unusual solace in the dark, in seeing people navigate their tragedies, even if the outcome is predestined. something about loving them in the awfulness and horrors anyway, and seeing that beauty and humanity still exist there. it's why i particularly loved early spn (it was directly formative for me in this way), it crosses to things like btvs/a:ts and tvd/to, to brba/bcs, to the depth of the feelings around dexter, to bates. i totally get why that would inform some of riverdale, it loves its homages and horror tropes, and even though it's often camp, it likes adding those little layers to characters (betty maybe especially, but that might be bias on my part).

there's an embrace in the dark. perhaps we don't really want to live there, but it makes our own struggling and hurt, our own shadows, easier to understand and bear, and even have sympathy for, and of course because...i am who i am lol...the striving *for* light in the midst of it is so powerful and resonant. (a discussion i just had with @arthurwilde because we were talking about indelible scenes that are so humanistic and affecting, even in grim tales. "the rest is confetti" in the haunting of hill house, a letter my beloved vanessa sends in penny dreadful that i have quoted in my sidebar, dex at the end of nebraska when he says, "i wonder if darkness is defined by light. if so, darkness can't exist on its own. there must, by definition, be light somewhere, waiting to be found." dean. just dean everywhere and in all he is). they do inspire affection because there's a sense of empathy/acceptance there. everything is interconnected! one spark of inspiration can light so many others!

and, of course, "you are what you love" is everything! it's true.

thank you for thinking of me and sending me this. I just think that you are what you love! 💖💖💖

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I feel like fine line vault will have the most experimental songs. He was gravitating towards pop with adore you and WS while staying near his comfort zone that was rock. Sunflower was probably a turning point in deciding hsh sound.

sonical things aside I want to listen to his bitter songs about camille's nepo boyfriend and his art gallery lmao

there's a lot of fusion across sounds and genres that happens on fine line and i am in love with it forever. the initial high and glitter and infatuation and freedom and revelation of the first four tracks, the groovy guitar and the gospel choir, swooping down into the sweetbitter sting of cherry and its delicate acoustics and its tinged pink atmosphere (pathetic was his word, regretful is mine), and then the full scale piano soaring vocals drowning heartbreak ballad of falling (that plea: what am i now? i cannot), and then the cheeky/resentful self-deprecating ukulele match strike of to be so lonely, and then the more hs1 old-fashioned rock epic in she, and then sunflower comes in and goes, "hi, so we've been moping for a while, it's time to get psychedelic with it."

sunflower is the light switching back on (lights up and you know who you are, do you know who you are?), some recovery, some happy memories, still the yearning, but it's giving way to something else. the genius of "does he take you walkin' 'round his parents' gallery?" transforming into "i've got your face hung up high in the gallery." HELLO? nepo boyfriend can take you to SEE the art, but to harry...you ARE the art. he's still self-criticizing and reflecting, but in a less harsh way (not the wandering hands or arrogant son of a bitch, just trying hard not to act a fool). kiss in the kitchen like it's a dance floor! keep it sweet in your memory! we're finding our way through! the silly bizarre nonsense mushroom noises because his humor is sparkling back into view. and then! suddenly! bursting onto the scene in screaming bright color, guitars and dulcimer and whistling and sunshine, is canyon moon, and we're going home!!! an old lover's hippie music! you do not understand (actually you probably do), i love the storytelling that happens there SO much. i LOVE the way sunflower was a turning point in the writing and sits as a turning point on the album itself, where it's like, we've grieved, we've paced, we've been lost and questioned everything, we've felt it all, and now it's time to find the sun again. (take me back to the light...i've been thinking back to a time under the canyon moon. golden is answered in sunflower and canyon moon.) i'm going home and looking to treat people with kindness, in spite of everything. go home and take a deep breath and reflect on everything that's happened, and feel that hurt and that mysterious pull, and remember the love that was there, in six minutes and eighteen seconds of catharsis, and it's all just such a fine line. crisp trepidation (the vocal layering and harmonies there. then the horns at the end!), because the fear is crystalline, but we keep going anyway. that's what we always are, constantly walking along it. we'll be a fine line, over and over, in different ways. maybe that's okay. maybe we'll be alright.

perfect album i am so serious.

ALL that said, because it is such a perfect album and told in such a specific way and follows a story, anything extraneous or that didn't directly enrich it, or was TOO cutting or too sorrowful, he took out, which objectively i understand for the sake of the art, but subjectively and selfishly, i want to know what it was. I NEED. i'll take the even more experimental ones, the bitter and angry songs, or sad ones, or earlier adoring ones, please give them all to me immediately. the fact that this will probably never happen??? i can't think about it!

*jenny slate meme* i had to stop thinking about fine line because it made me too crazy! harry would just be like, "loving you's the antidote -> you've got my devotion, but man, i can hate you sometimes." or "i know that you're scared because i'm so open -> spreading you open is the only way of knowing you..." and i was like, "SCREAMS!!!"

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"I don’t understand why some people seem incapable of holding the thoughts “i really like this artist” and “multiple artists make good music” in their heads. So many people have put out really great albums the past few years, and I think that’s something we’re should be celebrating, rather than fighting about." just my lovely @lanne13 spitting facts in my inbox this evening :) <3