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to answer the question, i would choose fishing bc hell yeah fih

Where did BO post her?

Does this mean Matt isn’t there?

Good question… (hee) this is probably (definitely) gonna be a much longer answer than you were looking for anon but I have a lot of thoughts!!!!

So I do think for me the song reads as queer without relating it to Taylor at all!

The first lyrics that point me towards a queer reading of the song are:

“I swear that it was something

'Cause I don't remember who I was before you

Painted all my nights

A color I've searched for since”

All of these lines for me read very much about a queer relationship!

‘I swear that is was something’ makes me think of a relationship that either wasn’t seen a ‘really something’ to outsiders (I think this interpretation is backed up in later lyrics!) or that had to be kept secret and so now the narrator has to affirm to themselves that this was something important and real!

Then the narrator goes on to say ‘cause I don’t remember who I was before you painted all my nights a color I’ve searched for since’.

The narrator was transformed so much by this relationship that they don’t remember who they were before they met this person and had this relationship! This to me reads as a first queer relationship or the relationship that cemented queerness in the identity of the narrator. They can’t go back to who they were before!

‘you painted all my nights a color I’ve searched for since’ could be my favourite lyric from the whole song because I think it says so much and paints such an evocative imagery. There is a lot going on in this one line! The first thing that jumps out to me is ‘nights’ rather than days, again to me that paints the picture of a relationship that had to be kept quite literally in the dark.

And then the imagery of those nights being painted this specific colour that the narrator has been searching for since. To me this evokes imagery of films like Wizard of Oz where the film transitions from black and white to colour. The narrators world was in black and white/monotone grey and then this relationship came along and painted their world technicolour and now the narrator is desperately searching for anything to make their world technicolour again!!!

Moving on to the chorus, the first thing about the chorus that reads queer to me is the chorus being based around the word question. This evokes the idea of questioning both the subject of the song but also underneath it all the narrator is questioning themselves, questioning if their memory of how this relationship unfolded is in line with reality.

“Can I ask you a question?

Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room

And every single one of your friends was

Making fun of you

But 15 seconds later they were clapping too?

Then what did you do?”

The imagery this part of the chorus creates honestly feels so close to the bone for me as a queer person. ‘Can I ask you a question’ is such a loaded phrase anyway right? But within the context of all that comes before the chorus I can’t help but think of those conversations you have as a young queer person, where you are trying to figure out if the person in front of you (that you’re maybe crushing on) is accepting of your queerness or maybe even queer like you??

And on the flip side the stomach drop when you are closeted and someone drops their voice in a private conversation and says ‘can I ask you a question’ and you have to decide where to trust this person with something so delicate and new within yourself and you have to calculate your own safety all at the same time!

“Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room”

So this line is telling us that it was the narrator that kissed the subject of the song in a crowded room right? It paints the narrator as perhaps the more confident or the one more willing to risk it all for the feeling of kissing their love in a crowded room? And why is that a big deal?

“And every single one of your friends was / Making fun of you”

Which the narrator answers in the following line! The subject’s friends response to the two kissing is to make fun of the subject! I imagine two people kissing and the crowd around them laughing and pointing. The imagery is hidden within a very upbeat chorus but it’s devastating! And unfortunately I think a lot of queer people can relate to this experience, of their love being a joke to outsiders (perhaps especially queer women?)

“But 15 seconds later they were clapping too?“

I think there are two ways to interpret this line. The first being the literal, that 15 seconds after the kiss began the crowd switched from making fun of the subject to clapping and cheering them on. If you actually think of what it would be like to be kissing in a crowded room being laughed at for 15 seconds that 15 seconds becomes an excruciatingly long time.

So if we take the line less literally, I think the idea being put forward is that when this couple first got together the subjects friends made fun of the relationship, and then after a long time they came around and were supportive. But it seems like the damage was done, to both the subject and the relationship.

“Then what did you do? / Did you leave her house in the middle of the night?” In the aftermath of the kiss in the crowded room (either metaphorical or literal) the subject leaves the narrator, in the dark, the place where they once shared, alone. But then we learn more about the split in the next line…

“Did you wish you'd put up more of a fight? / When she said it was too much?” So this implies the narrator said ‘it was too much’ and the subject didn’t fight her on it and then left. I personally interpret this to mean the narrator in the fallout of the kiss in a crowded room felt like the negative attention and mocking was too much to move past even if this people then came around. But really she wanted the subject to push back against that, and say it was worth the fight.

“Do you wish you could still touch ...her? / It's just a question” For me regardless of the rest of the reading I’ve always heard these lines as flirting, then trying to cover it up with the deflection of ‘it’s just a question.’

But I also interpret the pause between ‘touch’ and ‘her’ as both signalling queerness and like the narrator is almost about to say ‘me’ rather than ‘her’, but then stops herself, like she needs to keep the distance from the narrative by using she and her rather me I or me. Like she’s still not sure she’s ready to claim this story as something that happened to her.

Ok so this is already so long I’m just skip the next verse and go into the bridge, but let it be known I also have thoughts about the second verse!!!!

“Does it feel like everything's just like second-best after that / Meteor strike?” For me this is the narrator asking the subject if this relationship meant as much to them as it did to her. But she is also upping the stakes of the previous metaphor in the first verse.

In the verse all her nights were painted a colour she has searched for since, but here she is comparing the relationship to a meteor strike, something destructive and dangerous that literally changes the landscape around it. For me reading this as a queer song this feels like a metaphor for coming out.

“And what's that, that I heard, that you're still with her / That's nice, I'm sure that's what's suitable / And right”

What’s ‘suitable’ and ‘right’ feels very much like a way to say straight to me in like a kind of bitchy way (which I love)

“But tonight... Can I ask you a question?”

And then it comes right back to the question, the questioning!!!! Even after re-hashing the whole story the narrator still keeps coming back the moment everything fell apart.

What are blintzes, gefilte fish, kneidlach, and rugelach?

- ❔

they're all jewish foods (I think Ashkenazi?) , I'll try to explain them, if anyone wants to add something you're welcome!

blintzes are similar to crepes but are like rolls with fillings in them, typically sweet cheese I think

gefilte fish is I think minced (?) fish, it's usually served with chazeret (chrain)

kneidlach (sometimes known as matzo balls) are like balls made of matzah flour, typically eaten in soup in Passover (usually chicken soup in my experience)

rugelach are a sweet pastry made of rolled yeast dough, typically filled with chocolate I think

-question anon

I apologize if this is all over the place, sometimes my brain seems to stop working properly when I'm sick. Hope you enjoy the blurb anyways! :)

Gorou + “wedding”

It was a beautiful day on Watatsumi Island. A soft breeze brushed over your face as you stood in the doorway of your house, waiting for your friends to pick you up to meet your soon-to-be husband and Kokomi at the Sangonomiya Shrine. At first, it had seemed weird to get married at the place that had once been the base for the resistance army, but since Kokomi had reassured you countless times that it would be a wonderful opportunity to show once and for all that the war was over, you had agreed. 

Because in the end, she was right. Brighter days were waiting for everyone in Inazuma, and there was no point in dwelling on the past. And – what was probably even more important to you – the Shrine had been the place where you had first met your fiancé. It only seemed fitting to get married there, too.

On your way to the Shrine, in between compliments and reassurances from your friends, you allowed yourself to dwell on your memories for a while. Your first meeting, your first kiss, your first big fight. All of these things were connected to Watatsumi Island and the places you passed. And you were even more sure that you wanted to marry the love of your life here.

Gorou’s face lit up as soon as he spotted you among your friends, making your way towards him. Even with tears blurring his vision, he could tell that you looked stunning, even more so than usual, and when you smiled back at him, he felt his heart skip a beat. Now he understood why everyone insisted that the wedding day would be one of the most wonderful memories he could create with you. 

Hey there again, question anon!! 👋🏻☺️ I’m sorry I didn’t respond to this one when I answered the first…work got busy and I couldn’t sit down again until now.

This is a good question…..

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~ question anon

...remembering him comes in flashbacks and echos, I tell myself it's time now gotta let go but moving on from him is impossible when I still see it all in my head... in burning

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