silentauror's Blog, page 156
April 23, 2020
YOU LIKE THE SMASHING PUMPKINS??!!!! I just hyperventilated when I saw your ask game answers! I LOOOOVE the Smashing Pumpkins, omg, my favourite fic author likes my favourite band!
Oh, goodness! Um, yes, I do! They were probably my favourite band in high school, especially grade 11! I listened to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness more times than I can even tell you! But then, you see, I went into classical music (opera) and got so heartily tired of listening to any music, ever, when my days were already so overfilled with it, that I stopped ever listening to music except for actual work, or sometimes for the background of writing papers (you can’t beat Renaissance choral music for when you really need to concentrate utterly and never be distracted by lyrics or even the over-interestingness of the music itself, lol). Back in 2002 when I first entered a fandom and had to choose a presence by which to define myself, it was the Harry Potter fandom, and my preference for utter silence while at home - which I should add, also stems from an early lifetime of constant sports-on-TV noise pollution from my father, a sound which is a constant in my parents’ house if he’s home, and which I utterly loathe - as well as my silent lurking without ever commenting (shameful admission now!) and my preference for post-series-era stories is what formed my fandom name of “SilentAuror”. After I lost interest in HP (and its fandom) and wandered off for several years while I was doing my masters and such, it was Benedict’s talent that drew me into Sherlock and suddenly my fingers were itching to write again.
That said, I still almost never listen to music for sheer pleasure. For me, listening to music is an all-or-nothing thing - it’s either the only thing I’m doing, or else it has to be the background to something else. When I left the opera field in 2012, I had to somewhat re-discover the person I was apart from my identity as a singer (and very specifically, my rank among other singers). I moved back to Montréal from Berlin in 2013 to study French in preparation for a new life in Québec City, and I spent that winter and spring allowing myself to cautiously dabble in “real people music” again. In February 2019, I very suddenly became a workout nut, and needed music with good beats to work out to, and getting increasingly bored with the same selection of Imagine Dragons songs - aka the one band I really discovered in 2013 - and finally remembered how much I’d loved the Pumpkins. It started just by needing better workout music, but now that I’m working from home instead of walking laps around museum galleries all day, I take a long walk outside every day, and developed a whole other playlist for non-working-out times. So yeah: to wrap up an extremely rambly story, I’ve essentially just rediscovered the Pumpkins after about 23 years of having ignored them completely. Still love them. :)
This post is an assault of hotness. I therefore turn the assault...
This post is an assault of hotness. I therefore turn the assault on you lot: @totallysilvergirl, @bakingsherlycakes, @ben-locked, @jolieblack, @annecumberbatch
bakingsherlycakes:I am saddened that my notifications let me down and I didn’t see this until...
I am saddened that my notifications let me down and I didn’t see this until another friend reblogged it!
Also, I’m imagining the blue throw is actually his dressing down that he can’t be bothered to wear
barbsiebabe:@silver99johnlocked, thank you for tagging me! Rules : only using song titles from one...
@silver99johnlocked, thank you for tagging me!
Rules : only using song titles from one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and tag 10 people
Artist : Dua Lipa
Gender : Be the one
How are you feeling : IDGAF
If you could go anywhere: Lost in your light
Favourite mode of transportation : Levitating
Your best friend : New love
Favourite time of day : Dreams
If your life was a TV-show: Thinking ‘bout you
Relationship status : Love again
If you want to play : @loveismyrevolution @jobooksncoffee @silentauroriamthereal @why-cant-people-just-think @all-heartsarebroken
Oh I loved doing this! Thanks for tagging me @thedragonsstudy
Rules: only using song titles from one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and tag 10 people
Artist: Lauv
Gender: Comfortable
How are you feeling: Easy Love
If you could go anywhere: Paris in the Rain
Favorite mode of transportation: Drugs & The Internet
Your best friend: Billy
Favorite time of day: For Now
If your life was a TV show: Modern Loneliness
Relationship status: Question
Tag time: @barbsiebabe @herondale-snow-carstairs @dangerouspurple @poshdetective
This sounds really fun!! Thank u @chaotic-phan for the tag
Let’s see
Artist: Green Day
Gender: She
How are you feeling: Lazy Bones
If you could go anywhere: somewhere now
Favorite mode of transportation: A Little Boy Named Train
Your best friend: Fell for you
Favorite time of the day: Stay the night
If your life was a TV: Still breathing
Relationship status: Oh love
Tagging: my personal love @angelzleadyouin, @eykonto, @silver99johnlocked, @lousyworm
Thanks @ahhhthefeels for the tag!
Let’s go
Artist: Fall Out Boy
Gender: I don’t Care
How are you feeling: Young and Menace
If you could go anywhere: Heaven’s Gate
Favourite mode of transportation: Jet Pack Blues
Your Best Friend: Wilson
Favourite time of day: 7 Minutes in Heaven
If your life was a TV show: The kids Aren’t Alright
Relationship status: Alone Together
I’m tagging @amazing-lex, @back-with-the-madness, @gay-lester, @funghovl @thewakeless, @aetheticidiot, @the-apatic-dragon-stuf and anyone who wants to do it :)
Rules: only using song titles from one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and tag 10 people
Thank you @cherub-phan for the tag!! <3
Artist: Twenty One Pilots
Gender: Semi-automatic
How are you feeling: Stressed out
If you could go anywhere: Slowtown
Favorite mode of transportation: Taxi Cab
Your best friend: Ruby
Favorite time of day: Two
If your life was a TV show: We Don’t Believe What’s On TV
Relationship status: Smithereens
Tagging @chaotic-phan @insectbah @intense-juxtaposition @dipandpipgay @dansstripedsweater @veryconfusedfan @cactilads @un-interactive-introvert
Oh, this is fun!
Rules: only using song titles from one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and tag 10 people
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Gender: XYU
How are you feeling: Here is No Why
If you could go anywhere: Galapagos
Favorite mode of transportation: Porcelina of the Vast Oceans (is she a dolphin…?)
Your best friend: Lily (My One and Only)
Favorite time of day: By Starlight
If your life was a TV show: We Only Come Out At Night
Relationship status: Where Boys Fear to Tread/An One to No One/Tales of a Scorched Earth - three-way tie, lol!
Tagging: @tragic-obsession, @justobsessedwithyou, @bakerlooandbeyond, @thewhippedcreamhand, @yaycoffee, @ben-locked, @bakingsherlycakes, @aregrettablehullabaloo, @jolieblack, and @ecuagirl21 (again, because you appeared in my recent activity! :P)
bakingsherlycakes:Thanks for the tag @loveismyrevolution ! You know I love my coffee and have...
Thanks for the tag @loveismyrevolution ! You know I love my coffee and have waayyyy too many mugs in my cabinets. Here’s today’s mug!
@happierstill @silentauroriamthereal @violetwylde @annecumberbatch @jolieblack @totallysilvergirl @conversationswithjohnlock @lawyer-margo
Awwww… mugs
April 22, 2020
teapotsubtext:
therealmartinsgrrrl:
cumbermums:
That is so...
That is so precious x
They’re so soft together
i watched this for half an hour
I miss them ❤️
Bro, go do about half of whatever work she’s currently...
Bro, go do about half of whatever work she’s currently doing. It’s not her work to be helped with, it’s your joint work. Act like a partner, not a lazy hotel guest with child slaves on hand to assist the help!
John only just now realizing that he got married without knowing...
John only just now realizing that he got married without knowing it at the time
April 21, 2020
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