Synaesthesia? Yes, please.

For those wondering, the dance is based on a soul-switching scene from the movie Painted Skin II: The Resurrection and the music is Su Yunying’s Moment.

*through gritted teeth* it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be-

once again thinking about Howard Ashman, a gay man, writing the lyrics to part of your world. thinking about him writing poor unfortunate souls and the idea that in order to have love you must leave your family behind and give up something of yourself. Once again thinking about Howard Ashman, a few years later while dying of aids, writing songs like human again, about literally dreaming of getting to no longer be trapped by your body. Once again thinking about Howard Ashman, a gay man dying of aids while the world demonizes it and him, writing The Mob Song featuring the line "we don't like what we dont understand and in fact it scares us and this monster is mysterious at least."

I wish there were different words for the different types of forgetting because  when I say I forgot something, I don’t mean “I forgot we had plans on Friday.” I almost always mean “I forgot today was Friday.” I know my friend’s birthday is on March 20th, but I won’t wish her happy birthday on time because I won’t know it’s March 20th on March 20th. My forgetfulness has nothing to do with not caring about/remembering events and everything to do with my inability to keep up with the passage of time.

My most common one is being 100% certain I did the thing already because the memory of doing it and the memory of intending to do it are the same mental images.

"the memory of doing it and the memory of intending to do it are the same mental images" < omg thank you for articulating this!