Im Gonna Go Nuts I Swear To God!! Louis!!!

My hair is having a #💙💚 moment and I love it!!!

Ok but the real question here is when the fuck is Louis gonna give me the green eyes lyrics 🤨 SIR YOUR MAN HAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GREEN EYES

if he ever does this i will literally never shut up about it till the end of time..... and i can just see it now antis will say elk has been wearing brown contacts since 2011 and actually has green eyes djdjsjs

“Getting over it doesn’t mean forgetting it. It just means reducing the pain to a tolerable level, a level that doesn’t destroy you.”

— Kevin Brooks

how to never forget what you've studied ⌛

how to never forget what you've studied 🐊 i never thought i would be able to write a post like this but i guess if my revision tips are helping me solidify my memory, it should help you all as well!

honestly, i don't study much before tests. if my overall revision is super good and i could write paragraphs on any given topic, I'm good to go. for example, i have this chapter that i haven't revised in a month but i would dive right into it if i was asked to give a surprise test because i remember each and every line out there.

to reach this long term memory stage, here are a few tips i follow everyday before a test so that you can get those marks too!!

- organize, organize, organize 📚 and by that, i just don't mean your study routines and plans. organize your desk, organize your books, organize your mind! you can't study on a messed up table with no space to lay open one book without having it on top of others. you can't study with a mind full of thoughts either.

solution : get a journal and write down all your thoughts. the tiny dots, the bigger bubbles of thoughts, everything. clean your desk every single time you're done studying for the day. i do that the night before so that i can wake up to a tidy desk.

- be extra with everything 🛸 got a test you wanna smash? hi, revision is the key!!

solution : revise more often than necessary. recall words in the shower. recall dates while eating alone at a table. relate current events and dates with your studying. this proves really effective coz you're keeping in touch with the information you want your brain to digest 🧠

- plan your hours 📖 got a huge load of studying to do but you feel like twenty-four hours is not enough?

solution : divide your hours. i break my hours into a daily test, anki revision, going through mind maps, writing notes if i got any that day and previewing before classes and believe me, all these take me five to six hours and I'm already halfway done for the day.

- write and rewrite 😤 reading and rereading a paragraph but can't seem to memorize it?

solution : write and rewrite and do it all over again until you know it by heart. writing tricks your brain to focus on what you're doing physically than just having to go through what you're reading.

- list of doubtful concepts 📃 nagging doubts keep bothering you when you're revising or studying for a test?

solution : keep a list when you're studying. scribble any unknown or weak concepts that you wouldn't want to go to the examination hall without studying. it's just that when you're studying and you come across a weak concept, it would take you a lot of time to get it over with. however, by writing down the weak concept, you move on with the studying and come back to that concept later on so you're not wasting a great deal of time

🔥 pro tip for distractions : the above method can also be used for distractions that bug you when you're studying. write down your distractions on a piece of paper whenever you feel like your brain has wandered off. by doing this, you're putting your distracting thoughts on hold and not just diving straight into it while pretending to study 😩✏️

there you go, guys, 5 tips to never forget what you study! follow me to stay updated on my next post :

🔜 steps to prioritizing your self-growth 🌿

I hate homophobes.

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SHE // BREATHE : THE LITTLE BOOK OF CALM

Literally nothing to do with RBB/SBB, sorry to disappoint already. I just thought the lil wordplay was relevant.

This post is dedicated to She and gender. She is a song that I think really stands out from the rest of the album in many ways. While the song is a big part of Harry’s "self discovery journey", the sound really takes us back to good ole psychedelic rock, very… Pink Floyd.

‼️DISCLAIMER‼️ This analysis deals with gender and identity crisis. When I use the term "queer" in this, I think it’s important to acknowledge its semantic: to be different, weird by society standards. I don’t think there is anything to TW but please tell me if you think there should be !

BREATHE

A lot of people pointed it out: the beginning of She is extremely similar to Breathe. The first 20sec of both songs give it away.

Breathe is the opening song of The Dark Side of the Moon, another concept album by Pink Floyd. The album left such a mark it became their visual brand (that gay prism triangle thingy). Harry even got it tattooed on his sleeve.

This album deals with themes such as money, dehumanization, insanity and the passing of time. All in all, if you combine those themes, you get a blatant criticism of capitalism and… society… the one we live in… damn Murray. There will be a lot of "society" thrown around in this post askdeojdosd

Here’s the tracklist of the album. The songs I’ve highlighted are the ones I’m gonna talk about in this post.

SO before the album dives into total conceptual madness (as usual with PF), Breathe is like a disclaimer, a warning about what life is about:

Breathe.

Don’t be afraid to care.

Leave, but don't leave me,

Look around, choose your own ground.

Inhale, exhale. Take some time to think about the person you are, break from society if you must, so you stay in touch with the real you and the people you love. Because soon enough, you'll be caught up in a restless life, having to work all the time until you're in the grave. Fun, fun, fun.

So what about She and Breathe ? With that similar riff between them both, is it Harry saying "figuring out who you are is exhausting so take a step back and breathe" ? Yeah seems good, but there’s ALWAYS more. Because referencing the opening song of an album is an invitation to listen to the rest of it.

Later in The Dark Side of the Moon, we get the track Time. It is directly related to Breathe in different ways:

Time is what Breathe summarized. You’re chilling, doing nothing, feeling like wasting time and that’s when it dawns on you: time’s ticking for real. So you panic and try to keep up and life goes faster and you get old and… time’s up. FUN FUN FUN.

At the end of Time, there is a reprise of Breathe. Meaning the She-esque riff comes back.

Let’s go for some Time and She parallels:

Nine in the morning, the man drops his kids off at school / Sends his assistant for coffee in the afternoon, around 1:32, She

Ticking away the moments that make a dull day, fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way, Time

The man in She has a routine: first dropping the kids off (getting rid of them for the day so he can work), ticked. Then sending someone for coffee (he doesn’t have the time to do it himself, he has to work), ticked. You can even picture the scene, him waving his assistant off. In an offhand way. And that’s it, morning and afternoon, all in a day work. Work work work.

And not telling his mates, he wouldn't know what to say

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way

There is this idea of a "phantom menace" (pewpew nerd) in both songs: something that isn't tangible, but there is no escaping it. Rather than adressing it, they stick with their routine and suffer in silence, stuck in their own "preset" character (the English man).

HARRY SAID WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY

The man has a very different life from Harry the popstar. The man is your average dude succeeding in life as we know it: he has kids, a job where he gets to order people around, so probably good money. He can easily lead a comfortable and secure life for the rest of his days. However, the man isn’t comfortable with himself, he doesn’t feel secure at all: he dreams of her, the man is queer. He knows it deep down but can’t quite accept it. He doesn’t know how to come to term with this idea of being different from the societal norm, so he separates this part from himself, from the man that society raised. She is seen as a stranger. Maybe in another life, one where he wouldn’t have to work and please everyone around him, a life where he could breathe, he could sort out who (s)he is. But he can’t, so he simply dreams of sailing away, to get away from here.

This struggle to know who you are and the idea of having to separate yourself in different parts can also be found in the song Brain Damage. The track exposes the consequences of society forcing people into one path and keeping them from straying away. In this song, the speaker who starts by identifying themselves as the "lunatic" is completely lost: who’s the real them ? The inadequate person that should not exist by society standards or the tamed, socially acceptable version of them, that is deemed to be good but was molded by the world they live in ? Eventually the speaker says that the real them, the lunatic, was forcefully locked away and the person they present as in order to please society isn’t genuine. Keeping that in mind:

A woman who’s just in his head, She

The lunatic is in my head, Brain Damage

Oh and really quick, if you think Only Angel could be about gender you’re gonna like this one:

End up meeting in the hallway every single time

The lunatic is in the hall

Broke a finger knocking on your bedroom door

You lock the door and throw away the key

Wanna die, wanna die, wanna die tonight [scream]

You shout and no one seems to hear

^This one is the exact opposite of what happened with She and Time (suffering in silence, pretending). Here the speakers are being loud, but it doesn’t change anything: the issue is that people don’t care or don’t want to understand. You’re on your own with this one. So no use in telling your mates.

With Harry, it’s always about the speaker (the man) and a woman whose only attributes are… being a she (or presenting a femininity which is disapproved by society, like a skirt too short or a high sex drive associated to the literal devil). That woman is unreachable but always there, looming in the hallway or occupying his bed, so close yet so far. In Brain Damage, the lunatic may be locked away but is never gone for good: the speaker became pliant with time under society’s pressure, but remembers fondly being themselves before, the lunatic. Lives for the memory.

What is also really… poetic with this comparison is the term lunatic itself: its latin etymology is luna, related to the moon. One was called a lunatic because we used to think the moon changes could affect one’s behavior. The moon is also commonly associated with femininity. She affects him and together, they’re the lunatic.

BONUS REACHING FEST!!!

One thing I’ve always wondered listening to Fine Line and its carefully crafted storyline is: what’s the transition between the deeply introspective She and the lovey dovey Sunflower vol 6 and Canyon Moon ? How can Harry go from "society kills who I really am in favor of a facade" to "domestic sappy love songs" ?

Well remember when I said Time ended with a Breathe reprise ? Same riff that She begins and ends with ? Here are the lyrics to said reprise:

HARRY GET THE FUCK OUT WTF THAT’S IT I’VE HAD IT

So basically. Those lyrics are the continuation of the track "On the Run" where the speaker rushes at the airport because they travel so much all the time (fast life work modern society capitalism you get the idea). Also it’s a little bit funny because the plane they have to take goes to Rome. But eventually they get back home for a break, and at last they breathe.

And then you have Harry writing a song about counting the days until he can come home from work and constant travel (Canyon Moon) and a song where Harry wants to take the time to really know the person who’s like home to him (Sunflower vol 6). And in order to do that he has to… breathe. Take a step back from everything that has caused the flowers to die in the past. [insert inhaling sound effect]

It baffles me how it always comes back to this. Harry is always coming home. Where he feels safe, loved, where he gets to explore and be who he is. It’s a place where time doesn’t apply. He gets to feel like a kid again. It’s a rainbow paradise, it’s a light for when he feels lost. Send in Sunflower vol 6 and Canyon Moon I’m gonna lose it-

For your anon who was concerned Harry coming out would somehow undermine the work he has put in for gender fluidity, trust me it won’t. An out gay man being a beloved, accepted, influential figure in pop culture has more power than a possibly cishet man embracing things that are considered “gay”. The reason is that much of the stigma against men in dresses comes from homophobia. The rhetoric needs to be “it’s okay if people think you might be gay” and not “you don’t have to be gay to wear a dress” because the later doesn’t dismantle the underlying homophobia. When he comes out, Harry will be gay, wearing dresses, and still considered incredibly attractive by cishet women. That sets the example to cishet men that they do not need to rigidly conform to gender roles to be attractive. And even if Harry was no longer considered attractive by his het fanbase, his choice to assert that a mainstream pop star can wear dresses at the height of his career if he wants to is still impactful for queer rights and the future of pop culture. He is different from his predecessors because of how mainstream he is. Coming out wont undermine the impact he has already had. It only opens up new doors for the future.

The rhetoric needs to be “it’s okay if people think you might be gay” and not “you don’t have to be gay to wear a dress” because the later doesn’t dismantle the underlying homophobia.

This is so important, beautifully said <3 Thank you!!

Personal attack right there 😂

Are you taken?

as a fucking joke, absolutely