#darkeststar310

1. I LOVE HOW UNAPOLOGETIC YOU ARE! you're not afraid to say what you think and feel and then defend those things. Its really inspiring

2. In the short time I've known you, you have been SO kind and supportive 💗. You seem to really care about people and their wellbeing

3. It was so fun to find out that you are an Avril fan!!! Its been a LONG time since I knew anyone else who liked her music

Bonus: its been fun to have someone to scream about my new found love for reylo with (I'm notoriously late to the party for everything, so it's always nice to fine people to get excited with when it's new for me 😂)

LOVE YOU EMILY!!!! 💜💜💜

1. I don’t like Reylo at all but I would fix tros and directed/given the reylo you deserve

2. YOU ARE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH!!!! YOU WOULD BE COMPETENT AT ANY JOB THROWN AT YOU!!! (I still believe this always)

3. Emily’s sense of loyalty and justice are as fierce as her fury. And I love it.

HI EMILY!!

yay thank you!! :)

I love The Man! I think it’s great! 

I have two major thoughts. 

1. It’s interesting and important that Taylor isn’t saying she wants to be able to do all the things the song mentions? I don’t think she actually WANTS to “play the field” (because she wouldn’t be Taylor without her lifelong search for romantic love that, on the whole, has been the guiding force behind her romantic decisions). She says “They’d say”. She chafes at the fact that her actions would be interpreted differently if she were a man and I believe her. I think it’s especially true in Taylor’s case, even over many other women. Because she has such a strong and, as Emma always says, un-charming personality, and those qualities are often accepted or at the very least not despised as much in men. She has a matter-of-fact approach to her business with a strong competitive edge and I’ve personally heard those very qualities derided by people who would not and do not say the same thing about men. Also. The song is a pushback against the narratives and thinkpieces and twitter hashtags directed at her, not just a plea for her to be able to behave as badly as men are frequently “allowed to”. “I’m so sick of them coming at me again” she says. And I believe that she’s tired! 

2. The song still has Taylor’s trademark vulnerability and honesty and you know how I was talking about how Taylor’s songs always have a moment where the song breathes and pauses? In the song it happens after she sings “so it’s okay that I’m mad.” The song takes a breath there because it’s the point of the song. She isn’t fighting about the right to “brag about raking in dollars and getting bitches and models” necessarily (though she wonders what it would be like) but it IS about the right for her to be mad. And I quite like the simplicity and sweetness of the way she phrases it AND sings it. It’s okay, she says. It’s okay. Just let it be. Let ME be. Let me be mad.

And tbh yeah. 

YOU ARE SO FUNNY, INTELLIGENT AND AN OVERALL AMAZING PERSON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow I do not deserve!

@darkeststar310 you are so overdue for this answer I don’t know how to apologize, like ask me anything and I will give it to you!

Thank you for asking me about RED!  I love them so much because they sing the darkest parts of the human soul and make it tangible and beautiful.  Anyway, I’m pretty sure with this ask game I was supposed to tell you my top three favorite songs from the album, but guess what?  I DO WHAT I WANT.  SO YOU GET MY TOP FOUR IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

1.  Fight Inside:  Look, there are a few songs I turn to when I am writing a story or hunting for the perfect angsty song to ascribe to my favorite characters.  One of these songs is Fight Inside.  The inner war inside the mind, the whispered “It’s nothing, it’s everything,” every single contrast…so much pain, so much broken humanity

2.  Mystery of You:  This is one of my ALL-TIME FAVORITE RED songs.  There is pain here as well, the pain of the unknown, the lost, the longing.  Like many of RED’s songs, this one breathes spiritual themes (at least in my mind) and so depending on what I am thinking about it can have so many different layers and levels.  My favorite lines (I’m lying I love every single line):   

“You touch the deepest part of meThe places I could not saveJust tell me why I’m so dark inside”

That need to be understood, to be able to understand oneself, the idea that knowing and understanding might be a step to love and peace…which it must be, because even with all our failings how can one TRULY know and understand oneself or another without loving them at least a little?

3.  Never Be the Same:  Yet another song that can be read on a spiritual or non-spiritual level.  A song about being transformed by the love of someone, and how the love for that person will never die, no matter if that person is gone or cannot be felt.  Maybe it is about two people who have loved one another and gone their separate ways, maybe it is about someone who has died, maybe it is about the relationship between God and a person…whatever it is I love it

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4.  Forever:  THIS IS MY FAVORITE RED SONG.  MAYBE.  IT IS AMAZING.  THIS IS EVERYTHING.  IT IS ABOUT LOVE AND PATIENCE AND FORGIVENESS AND AWE AT ALL OF THOSE THINGS.  IT IS REUNION OF TWO BEINGS.  IT IS THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNING TO THE FATHER.  IT IS GOD SAVING THE SINNER.  IT IS JOY AND WONDER AND DISBELIEF AND OH GOSH I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS

CAN I CHOOSE A FAVORITE LINE PROBABLY NOT 

I LOVE THE BRIDGE AND CHORUS THOUGH:

....people with excellent taste! This feels like choosing my own Fellowship of the Ring! 

I was tagged by the lovely & insightful @darkeststar310 . 

Rules: tag nine people with excellent taste

YOUR TURN! I tag anyone who wishes to play, but in particular tag: @devilsbastion , @sassyeggs74 , @westeroswolf , @drgns8er , @toxicviolet16 , @henspeak , @aegenka​ , @srwredhead and @bluelemonsforever !

QUESTIONS:

1) Colours you are wearing? 2)Last band t-shirt you bought? 3) Last band you saw live? 4) Last song you listened to? 5) Lipstick or chapstick? 6)Last movie you watched? 7) Last 3 TV Shows? 8) Last 3 characters you identified with? 9) Book you’re currently reading?

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                                           INERT PENMAID:

1) Colour(s) I’m currently wearing: A very complimentary ensemble consisting of green starry pyjama pants, unicorn socks and a stripy red crop-top. Vogue.

2) Last band t-shirt I bought: It was actually a very artistic Guns N Roses one. 

3) Last band I saw live: Catfish and the Bottlemen  at Manchester Castlefield Bowl

4) Last song I listened to: It was either:

 ‘Are You Done With Me’ by Delain, a dutch rock band I would highly reccommend for anyone into female fronted metal bands. Newer stuff is a little softer, older stuff is closer to operatic metal.

 ‘Drawing A Blank’ by the now disbanded Cherri Bomb. They were an American punk all-girl rock band aged 13-17 that looked to be promising but some unidentified conflict meant they broke up. I was so envious of how talented they were at an early age when they first came out. They were so great! I actually was really looking forward to their music maturing with them! I like giving up-and-coming bands a chance.

5) Lipstick or Chapstick: Some situations demand one or the other! Not picking sides! 

6) Last movie I watched: Star Wars: The Last Jedi. I was a little meh about the writing.

7) Last 3 TV shows I watched: The X Files (I’m a newcomer on a binge), Friends and Sherlock. 

8) Last 3 characters I identified with: 

Sylvie Palot from Ken Follett’s A Column of Fire 

Rory Gilmore of Gilmore Girls

Marnie from Sherryl Jordan’s ‘The Raging Quiet’. And I think if more fangirls knew about  Sherryl Jordan’s books there would be some serious online shipping going on.  She establishes romance flawlessly, every time, but does not make it the central attention. She is actually a wonderful person: writes novels and works with those who are deaf or have learning difficulties, aspects which she addresses in many of her books. Her novels may be small but the messages they carry are always huge and encompassing. 

9) Book I’m currently reading: I find it really hard to stay monogamous when reading so I have three on the go! 

The Name of the Wind, a fantasy by Patrick Rothfuss (would highly recommend so far, after a bit of ambivalence in the first chapter it really picked up, and his writing style is bloody beautiful). 

Surface Detail by Iain M banks (also the author of the acclaimed ‘The Wasp Factory’). This is the first science-fiction I have ever read and I must say the first chapter absolutely blew me away in the fashion that The Red Wedding for many watchers of Game of Thrones.