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“It’s not from what we run that drums

But what’s to come love run”

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It's NYE, and I made it! 31 days straight of TADposting! That in itself feels worth a celebration to me, so I'm raising a virtual glass to myself and to all of you. I started this challenge expecting to drop out within the first week, so honestly this is unbelievable haha, who knew I had this many thoughts about one band? Everybody knew, lets be real I never stop thinking about them but that's beside the point.

I'm so excited for what 2024 is going to bring. There's a new album to come, with all the emotions and inevitable posting on this account that it will bring, and I'm hoping to have the Entity List™️ finished and ready to post at some point soon. I am tempted to wait for the new album though, so that I can include any new additions to the lore, but it's really going to depend on how quickly I get the current draft finished. I'm sure I'll have lots of other TAD thoughts to unload onto this website in the meantime (I've been having FEELINGS about Secret Worlds recently!)

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I'll be honest, I looked at this on the 22nd and wished I hadn't made all those posts about Battle Cries already :')

So instead I want to look ahead to the new album. So far, all 3 albums have shown a different stage in a relationship. Love Run is the beginning, finding someone and choosing to run towards their feelings embracing them and the power it grants them. THATW is the collapse of the relationship, the fire and fury and madness that tore them apart. Ruin is the aftermath, looking around once the dust has settled and finding the parts of you that are, in fact, still you.

So where will this new album take us? Will we have a new adventure, finding out new things about yourself and becoming a new person in the process? Will we go back to the start, beginning the cycle anew without learning anything? Will we find someone new, leading towards a happier ending? Will it be something altogether different? There are so many direction this album could take, and I can't wait to see where we end up.

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This might be a bit of a cop-out response to the prompt, but honestly doing TADvent has been so much fun! I've absolutely loved finding lines to analyse and having these prompts has helped focus on elements I never would have thought to consider before. It hasn't always been easy (I've been struggling to stay caught up since the 10th when I caught a sickness bug of some kind and couldn't think straight for 3 days!) But as of writing this I haven't missed a single day which feels like quite an achievement.

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“And as the stars above them hum and hear them

He’ll turn to her and say: that’s what she said. ”

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“And when you scream that it's not fair

It's like I've gone off to the coast

Left you behind, just standing there

Pretending not to see your ghost

If only you could hear my voice

But you are screaming far too loud to hear me swear

Just because I left doesn't mean that I'm not still there”

It’s always an odd feeling and after all these months I’m still not used to it nor I think I will ever be. How far and yet how close to my heart my mother’s soul feels. I miss her every day but then again I’m used to her not being here. Still it feels like she’s just gone on a trip, ‘gone off to the coast’ and I expect to see her at the door any moment now. But she hasn’t. And I know. I know it damn well but still, somewhere deep in me there’s this feeling that she’ll return in a moment. That I’ll turn around and she’s there at the door, standing, smiling, ready to have me in her arms and kiss my head and tell me about her journey.

But I won’t have that togetherness again. The family won’t be whole again. But it is what it is and it’s the law of life. People come and go. For a moment we have that warm togetherness. Then before we even know, it’s gone.

Day 25: Togetherness

"This is us, this is me, this is how we're meant to be"

- Drinking Song for the Socially Anxious

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There's something truly spectacular about the live versions on YouTube. Not Yet/Love Run is particularly wonderful. Don't get me wrong, I love the Spotify versions beyond belief, but the live versions, with the group all performing together, just them in a room with music are something else altogether. Its such a beautiful representation of the community this band has created.

Maybe this is generalizing, but on the whole I feel like Amazing Devil music is for lonely people. The magic and the fantasy appeal to people who feel alone, who want an escape from their own lives and simultaneously feel represented as Madeleine and Joey sing all the emotions that we could never hope to put into words. A community of the lonely, brought together by music so that for a brief moment, we see how we are part of something bigger. Though we might be scattered across the globe, when we hear The Amazing devil we are, briefly, together.

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I think the flowers mentioned in Elsa's Song are really interesting. You can, of course, look at the meanings they all carry (sage - health and wisdom, liles - purity, innocence and rebirth, roses - love and passion, forget-me-nots - faithfulness/fidelity, true love, and memory). In forgetting the forget-me-nots, Elsa has admitted to moving on, finding someone new and forgetting about her lost love. What's really interesting about this, though, is the type of plant each of these is.

Sage, roses and (some!) lilies are perennial. Year after year, they will come back. They might fade and wither over the colder months but as long as they are properly cared for, come spring they will return and flower again.

Forget-me-nots are considered semi-perennials, meaning they may well come back for a few years but will ultimately die. If you plant a forget-me-not in your garden, you do so knowing that in a few years you'll have to replace it. It lives on a limited timeframe, and nothing you can do will change that.

Day 23: Magic

"And I'm lifting my glass to that last Good Man Grace"

- The Old Witch Sleep and the Good Man Grace

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Chapters: 1/1    Words: 120 Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Maria Barring | Milva/Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach Additional Tags: Shakespearean Sonnets, Sonnets, Iambic Pentameter, Hot Sex, Erotic Poetry, Title from a The Amazing Devil Song, theamazingdevildiscord’s TADvent 2023 Prompt Challenge, wild, Love

Summary: Milva and Cahir are having wild, hot sex - in iambic pentameter.

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Day 22: Light

"We've left all the blinking lights and sorting behind us now and I'll stare at you"

- Two Minutes