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tbh I can only ship them if I think about them in s2

Thank you, my dear! It was a lovely day. :)

8. Song that reminds you of a wonderful memory

Secret Worlds reminds me of several wonderful memories. The song is thrumming with the urgency to drink deeply of the moment because "in years to come we both know we won't be the same." That feeling is something I recognize in myself whenever I'm truly happy. Like a part of me is partaking in the experience, but another part is busily encoding as many details as possible in my brain so that I can remember them forever. If I could carve happiness in the bark of a tree, I would.

10. Song that makes you angry

Little Miss Why So. That song twists me up every which way but this bit: "Can't you see that I'm enough for you? But you don't want me to be, 'cause that means you'll actually have to be content." Arrghhhhh fuck offfffffff fuck right OFF. I need to go bite something now because unfortunately I can't kick the ass of a character in a song.

New Nimaling! Everyone meet...

#045: Dandelight!

In the darkest nights, you can find these little suns floating and lighting up their surroundings with their colorful seeds! Once a year, thousands of them congregate high in the sky! This event is known as the Colorfest Night

SONG ASK

7. BLOSSOMS: What other TAD songs do you associate with this song?

Many! Farewell Wanderlust for the same sort of deep pain and betrayal coalescing into incandescent, defiant rage. Battle Cries for the contrast of the quietly resigned "I'm doing fine" and the screaming fury of Blossoms' "You do not get to hurt me just because I asked you once if you were alright!" Elsa's Song for the war imagery. There are others.

But mostly, really, it's The Calling. They're almost twins in my mind.

I both associate them with seasons of change: autumn for The Calling ("there's more than water in these autumn hands") and springtime for Blossoms (the symbol of blossoms that have waited to rise, only to quickly fall, much like apple and cherry trees wait for spring to bloom, then they drop their petals after a very short flowering flush)

The Calling is a baptism in water, Blossoms is a baptism of fire

In The Calling, she gets her dress wet in the river. In Blossoms, it bursts into flames.

In The Calling, she lets the rain come down. In Blossoms, he sets the world on fire.

Both songs have a mysterious entity accompanying the singer in their journey of transformation: the fox in The Calling, the Saint of Never Getting It Right in Blossoms.

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. There are SO MANY contrasts and parallels.

I have been trying for a year to write a meta post about those two songs, but a lot of it feels very gender-y to me? And I never feel qualified enough to talk about that. Maybe I'll just begin the post and let everyone else add their insights, idk.

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8. What lyrics are still unclear to you?

Answered elsewhere. But also in the literal sense of being unclear: those fragments of conversations and arguments in The Calling. Okay, yes, I know they're not meant to be deciphered, but I am endlessly curious and I wanna know.

14. If you could talk to Joey and Madeleine about one (and only one!) ruin song, what would it be?

Answered elsewhere, but this is a different ask and a whole new world, so I'm gonna say that I also wanna talk to Joey Batey and tell him, hey Joey? TREES ARE PERFECTLY VALID CONVERSATIONAL PARTERS OKAY, LET ME LIVE. And I'm pretty sure Madeleine will agree with me. So Secret Worlds. :)

The ruin song ask game is here. 🌿

Yay, thank you for giving me two fantastic songs to blab about!

8. Do you visualize any colors, images, or scenes when listening to this song?

The Horror and the Wild: Hmm, absolutely. The art from Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's book The Wolves in the Walls, Stonehenge under a meteor shower, an old wooden chest full of vintage clothes and costumes in an attic, wings and woodlands and wilderness. It's a very evocative song full of vivid imagery. And of course, who can forget The Amazing Devil filling the forest with their feral music in the Beechmast video? Legendary.

10. When recommending this song to other people, how would you describe it?

Wild Blue Yonder: the funniest and most affectionate hooking up as exes song you'll ever hear. A post break-up song with banter, bathroom sex, and robot vampires. A goddamn sneak attack because it's an absolute bop but it's really about letting go of someone who's still your favorite person despite it all.

Thank you again for playing, and sorry this took so long!

Never ever be sorry for coming along on this ride with me. Also yeah, I've been having a blast finding these posts from before I even had a tumblr. I can just imagine being the OP and having your fanart from 2020 suddenly getting notes out of nowhere. >.< I do hope I'm not breaching hellsite etiquette (and if I am, please let me know).