fine line easter eggs

harry styles, professional ruiner of lives, once divulged that there are twelve easter eggs hidden on fine line. he might have been referring to the twelve songs on the album. i set out to find them anyway!

golden: the intro sounds like the bruce springsteen version of santa claus is comin’ to town in a different key. i’m not even joking.

watermelon sugar: bit meta this one, and possibly old news, but the title refers to richard brautigan’s novel in watermelon sugar, one of camille rowe’s favourite books.

adore you: y’all ever heard of eroda?

lights up: this single was released on 11th october, which is national coming out day in both the us and britain.

cherry: the echo effect on “et maintenant” in camille’s voice note highlights harry’s own uncertainty, confusion, and sense of loss. this is my opinion but also i am correct

falling: literally this article, in particular its references to the beachwood café

to be so lonely: the little match-striking sound! and then he blows it out! adorable! also jealous guy teas

she: intro borrowed from pink floyd, lyrics borrowed from every beatles song (with a hint of meandering paul simon). also “he takes a boat out, imagines just sailing away”… y’all ever heard of eroda?

sunflower, vol. 6: 1) this melody is also found in paradise by coldplay 2) note the title’s similarity to paul simon’s “crazy love, vol. ii”

canyon moon: paul simon again but this time he really means it! these are the me and julio chords, on god.

tpwk: MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE AND THE REASON I CREATED THIS LIST

fine line: sorry to be boring, but this one’s all harry - sunflower has two so fine line could stand on its own. i’m infatuated enough with this song that it would be cheapening it to pick it apart line by line. do yourself a favour and go listen to it again. i love you.

First Polls open up in 34 days for voting for our new Prime Minister, my friends!!!!

Heres the main 3 parties plans and comments on Indigenous affairs, moving forward!!

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PLEASE REBLOG THIS EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT CANADIAN!! 

This election is MASSIVELY important for Canada, for EVERY person in this country (and those planning to come here from other countries!) who is not a white, cis, hetero, able-bodied middle-aged male. 

To every person who has ever reblogged an American politics post: PLEASE reblog Canadian politics for the next month! I know it’s boring and not aesthetic but this is a big deal. 

American politics AFFECT CANADA GREATLY! We have seen a massive rise in conservative, alt-right, and islamophobic movements and political parties since 2016. We have seen a rise in violence since 2016. Quebec implemented law 21, an islamophobic law which bans religious symbols for anyone working in public office. This includes public school teachers, meaning children are exposed to a system centered around white-supremacist ideologies. This is super fucking important!

I don’t beg for reblogs, but I cannot express enough how crucial it is for us to go out and vote next month. Please follow @allthecanadianpolitics​ if you’re Canadian and figure out who you are voting for, how you’re getting there, etc. Plan ahead and GO VOTE!! 

PLEASE, Y'ALL. First Nations/Indigenous peeps are so vulnerable in our own lands, and this is a huge deal. There are FN areas that have been without safe drinking water for OVER 20 YEARS.

And remember: Canada does NOT have a 2 party system like the states. It's not a matter of splitting the vote/ choosing the lesser of two evils. Vote in solidarity with Indigenous peoples.

And even if you're not Canadian, @allthecanadianpolitics is a wonderful blog! Highly informative, and pays great attention to Native issues as well!

postcards say IM HERE. IM HERE AND I LOVE YOU. IN THIS SPACE AND TIME AND WHEREVER AND WHENEVER YOU ARE. THERE IS A SPACE BETWEEN THOSE SPACES THAT CONNECTS US AND ITS FULL OF LOVE. I’LL MEET YOU THERE.

same energy

be the surreal nonsense you wish to see in the world

Finally, some good fucking art.

This is powerful.

HR: if they work 40 hours a week u have to give them benefits

Big company: hmm okay. They shall work 39

HR: if they work 8 hours u have to give them a half hour lunch and intermittent breaks 

company: 7 hours and 50 minutes, it is 

the law: if theyre employees you have to pay for benefits

company: lets staff through a temp service and wait so long to hire them in they quit out of frustration

the law: You must pay them this and no less.

company: I shall pay them that and no more.

The law: you have to pay your employees

Company: then we’ll replace them all with interns

The law: you gotta increase wages

Company: we’ll cut hours

the law: you have to give raises

company: mayhaps they would enjoy an extra five cents

the law: employees have rights

company: around here we call them “independent contractors”

I swear EVERY SINGLE ONE of my employers has been at LEAST two of these at once.

Me, banging pots and pans together: UNIONIZE

UNITED WE BARGAIN, DIVIDED WE BEG.

CEO’s are scum.

my singing voice is good for showers and mornings in the kitchen and drunken nights and lullabies for babies who need sleep and im okay with this

i think it’s silly to be ashamed of your art because it’s not in a museum and of your voice because it’s not selling out stadiums. there will always be people who enjoy and appreciate what you can do.

Idk why but this hit me really hard and I’ve been staring at it for a couple minutes.

i hate it when men make fun of women for being vain. like you’ve structured society in such a way that we spend our entire lives chasing after the fleeting moments where we really and truly feel good about our appearances and then have the audacity to mock us for trying to “look pretty” like you’re constantly telling us to? shut the fuck up.

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.” ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

every morning i wake up & get my coffee & i recite in my head this excerpt from ‘invitation,’ by mary oliver:  “it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.” & i just say it over & over again until it sticks to my mind for the rest of the day. it is a serious thing. i am alive. i am so lucky. this fresh morning i get the chance to live again & again & again

if you’re white and you act like race issues are just “unnecessary drama” or “discourse” then sorry to tell you but you’re just…. racist

yes white people CAN and probably SHOULD reblog this just dont add on anything.

“Oh, for me?? THANK YOU!”

Christ, I fucking love dogs.

This is so pure

This is a well behaved dog.  He’s so gentle and calm about it until he puts it down and then he goes apeshit.  I love it.  Good on you, pupper.

Daddy vs baby dance-off. [source]

wholesome content

I’m going to point out some weird things about @projecttrinity‘s upcoming visual novel “Women of Xal” in relation to this site.

1) It’s an upcoming Kickstarter bound otome game that very obviously is PoC / People of Color & WoC/ Women of Color centric. We’ve got a bi female lead with several romancable women. And it’s in a harsh matriarchal society ready to give some brutal parallels to our own. Being helmed by a very capable and snarky Black writer. The two programmers are women. The artists are women. The singers are women. One of the animators is a woman. AND THERE’S TANGIBLE QUALITY TO IT! I thought we’ve been asking for more projects like this for years now. But Tumblr has been the most quiet of the four sites it’s updating on??? (Youtube, Facebook, LemmSoftForums, Tumblr) 

2) How are hateful anons finding this project before everyone else? Why are we letting Black creatives feel like the anon has a point about Tumblr not caring? Isn’t this site notorious for propping up content like this? Where are my feminists at?!

Like, I truly get it: Most of you will have only just heard of this. And Tumblr didn’t make it easy in the first place. Tags and timing are madly important. But so are reblogs and follows! You’re reading this now - there’s nothing truly stopping you from showing that anon the middle finger. For every time WE DON’T JUST ‘HEART’ A CREATIVE’S POST and reblog/follow their content, we prove hateful anons like this wrong. And every time we prove them wrong, we send an encouraging message to other minorities who want to share their passions with the world, but face that uphill battle.

And hey, the writer clearly has faith in this site still:

You can find out more about the project here.

Or, better yet, follow, and support the team here!

(Bonus Note: If you’re someone who has been reblogging a lot of content from this team as well, cheers, fellow sisters! <3)

Something unrelated, but, please help support! :) 

Tumblr’s pretty good about ignoring black creators, hell alot of black people on tumblr are pretty good about ignoring black creators. Which really goes to show you most of the folks on here are just being performative for good noodle stars and aren’t really about anything.

I went searching for this because I noticed this was already greenlit and found that this is supposed to have a late 2019 release!

john green is starstruck by dan

hey so uhhh here’s an important update on what’s apparently happening at the border, especially with the use of the old japanese internment camps

all i can say is i’m sickened by this mess, by the atrocities committed against innocent people. and now there will be no surveillance. no one will be able to see what happens to these people. the UN, the media, and any other human rights organizations cannot get into these facilities, either, in order to stop what’s happening. by the way, coast guard members were apparently aiding in this process as well. so now it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a military movement.

no one gets in. no one gets out.

so when are we going to call this what it is? it’s fascism. it’s genocide. and if we don’t stop it now, it’s going to be disastrous.

contact your senators, your representatives, anyone that’s in office that can get off their lazy ass and do something.

can y’all please reblog this i’m begging

Yeah I literally never reblog things like this, because this is a happy fun music homestuck blog. But. Fucking *seriously.*

Yo, the fuck is this?????? Why, and how did these poor refugees hurt the government. I’m not even American, I’m Canadian, but I’m simply disgusted that people have the guts to do something so inhumane

I mean the whole damn point of the Nativity story is that the supposed son of God (interpret Jesus how you fucking want, of course) was born to a couple of poor, exhausted peasants in the stable for the inn, and his first bed was a feeding trough for animals. That would nowadays be like a poor couple where the mother gives birth in a parking garage behind the motel because they couldn’t find a better place and nobody else would take them in. It’s a pretty gritty setting, and the idea is that God was reborn in some of the rock-bottom lowest circumstances. The only thing majestic was all the angels and shit, and of course motherly love

I get that a lot of the art portraying Madonna and Child as fabulously wealthy europeans in splendid robes and golden light was meant to glorify God + whichever nobility was sponsoring the artist, and while of course it’s genuinely beautiful art, it just always struck me as horribly missing the point, which is that the supposed son of God started in incredibly humble circumstances, among the kind of people that everyone else looks down on

‘Massacre des Innocents’ by Leon Cogniét, 1824. Although the Feast of the Holy Innocents is in a couple of days time, this painting is still really relevant in that it portrays Mary as how She really was: a scared refugee mum, so fearful that Her son was going to be one of the Innocents killed by King Herod.

My new favorite mordern interpretation is this work, José y Maria by Everett Patterson (http://www.everettpatterson.com)

I had to look at this like FIVE TIMES to register all the layers of symbolism going into the piece by Patterson. 

The hoodie as a veil. 

Weisman cigarettes

Each of them is haloed by an advertisement sticker. 

No Vacancy sign on the motel. 

Dove sticker over Maria’s head. 

Neon sign with a star symbol also over Maria’s head. 

The crown over the ‘Dave’s City Motel’ sign. “New Manger.”

The sign behind Jose’s elbow likely says ‘Herod.’

The wee little plant growing through the cracks at their feet. 

It’s like a New Testament ‘I Spy.’ I love it!

Ugh.

New favorite interpretation of the nativity. 

The paper at José’s feet has an advert for Shepard Watches Maria’s hoodie says Nazareth High School The sign above José’s head proclaims ‘Good News!’

This is incredible and lovely.