Tagged by the ever lovely @pearlcaddy so thank you!!

1) Let Me Down Easy by Daisy Jones and the Six (though honestly the whole album)

2) Six of Crows by Gio Navas

3) Chronically Cautious by Braden Bales

4) Hope by NF

5) Can't Leave the Night by BADBADNOTGOOD (Intro song to lockwood and co and it slaps)

1.) Sweet Nothing by Taylor Swift

2.) Call It What You Want by Taylor Swift

3.) Celestial by Ed Sheeran

4.) Special by Lizzo

5.) Remember This by The Jonas Brothers

(There are a lot more Taylor Swift songs I’ve been listening to but I narrowed it down to only two, which was hard fyi)

Okay, I have a horrible memory so bear with me:

Telephone by Lady Gaga

Poker Face by Lady Gaga

Just Dance by Lady Gaga

Shameless by Camila Cabello

Mother by Meghan Trainor

Lol these r all gonna be lowk underground but here ya go i guess

1. City Kids by Liam Rockwell

2. Mercury by Liam Rockwell

3. Hurting In Love by Vortxz

4. Somehow by Pretend

5. I Can't Live Here Anymore by Daughter

1. breakthrough from the lemonade mouth soundtrack (but also all of the lemonade mouth songs)

2. how I survived bobby mackey’s personal hell by lincoln

3. bite the hand by boygenius

4. the exit by conan gray

5. starlight by dreamcatcher

one step forward, three steps back by Olivia Rodrigo. not sure why, but i’ve been humming it all week

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Bauhaus. It’s in the Lockwood and Co soundtrack and it’s one of my new favorite songs.

A New Horizon by…um…the starry cast?? idk i just listened to it bc losticaruss rec’d it to me and i absolutely love it

Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses. I first heard it in Dash & Lily, and it’s delightful.

Porcelain by Helen Jane Long. One of my favorite songs.

anyways songs uhh

1- burn butcher burn from netflix's the witcher

2- snakes by PVRIS & MIYAVI because sad-ist made an incredible animatic to it a little bit ago

3- how far we've come by matchbox 20

4- joy division by the wombats

5- don't worry, you will by lovelytheband

1 - Pull the cord by The Score

2 - Are you satisfied? By Marina and the Diamonds

3 - Family Line by Conan Gray

4 - The Wrecked and the Worried by Natewantstobattle

5 - Nightmares never end by JT Music

Lately I’ve been listening to:

1. We’ll Play for Rent by Stabbing Joy

2. Keep in Touch by Two Thumbs Down

3. Presumably Dead Arm (617 sessions) by Sidney Gish

4. The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades by Sufjan Stevens

5. A Cold Night Close To The End by Said The Whale

these are all from my emilia (as in othello) playlist bc i wrote my shakespeare final last week

1. boys like you - dodie 2. bedroom hymns - florence and the machine 3. please don’t be - hazlett 4. halloween - noah kahan 5. nothing to lose - saint nomad

1. Like Lightning - Lucero

2. Talk it Up - Sammy Rae and the Friends

3. 5 out of 6 - Dessa

4. Wait for Me - D’lourdes

5. I’m Trying (Not Friends) - Maisie Peters

Damage (Caleb Hearn)

Make a Move (Lawrence)

Lovebug (Jonas Brothers, because we love a good classic)

Like Real People Do (Hozier)

Feel It Still (Portugal. The Man)

Art of Darkness (The Stupendium)

Wait for Me (Hadestown Musical Original Broadway Cast)

Hungry for Another One (JT Music)

Tune into the Madness (The Stupendium)

Six's Theme: Part II (Little Nightmares Soundtrack, Tobias Lilja)

townie (mitski)

2. clean (taylor swift)

3. for her (fiona apple)

4. mr perfectly fine (taylor swift)

5. soldier poet king (the oh hellos)

Tudor Barbie (Princess and the Pauper)

If you think this is ending with “Nina did you actually try to interview the KKK,” you are…wrong.

It is ending with “Nina DID interview the KKK.” It’s ending with “some KKK secretary or whatever saw an earnest, gullible teenager say ‘my mom says I should present both sides so I thought I’d ask if I can talk to someone’ AND HAD THE GRAND FUCKING DRAGON ANSWER ME.”

It is ending with “when I was thirteen I came dangerously, BLISTERINGLY close to being recruited by the KKK.” Because let me tell you about this Grand Dragon. He was nice. He was kind, and patient. He answered all of my questions about his chapter’s history and what various KKK symbols meant. He sent me supplemental links on various bits of Klan history (Google didn’t exist yet, so this was both a treasure trove and, you can imagine, a way to tip the scales in the KKK’s favor). He encouraged me to let him know how my presentation went and praised me for doing in-depth research. Most of the adults in my life thought my research rabbitholes were weird or even dangerous, so “good job looking for your own answers instead of stopping at your first three sources” was a really big deal. “I’m so glad you reached out, what questions do you have?” was a really big deal.

What stopped me from falling all the way down that rabbit hole?

I was deeply Christian at the time and uncomfortable with the idea of burning (or, as they call it, “lighting”) crosses.

That’s it. That’s all that stood between me and “yes, I would like to talk to a local leader, I had no idea how much I knew about the Klan was wrong.”