I've been listening to Tortured Poets Department nonstop - my current faves are Fortnight, My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys, Who's Afraid of Little Old Me, I Can Do It With a Broken Heart, The Alchemy, and So High School.
All incredible picks! My Boy... and Fortnight are just so catchy, they're in my head all the time! And who doesn't love bopping to I Can Do It..., the true definition of a ✨sad bop✨ 😂
I’m obsessed, loved ttpd (fav is but daddy I love him) and really understand the sensory issues and overworking. Remember to rest and take care of yourself the way you need to
A new Ellie video has made my day!! To answer your question, I think my top 4 TTPD songs right now are But Daddy I Love Him, Florida, Guilty as Sin and The Smallest Man-- but there are so many others trying to fight for top 4 too! 😂
Thank you Kristen!!! 🥺 for real, it's going to be a constant fight for the top 4 for a long time I feel lol. each time I think I've settled on a ranking I wake up with a different one in my head, or, I just find myself yelling FLORIDAAAAAAA randomly around the house 😭😂
TTPD omg where to even begin. I am OBSESSED with this album. I also keep waking up with a different song in my head everyday. Also new lines keep sticking out which just... oh my gosh. I don't even know if I can pick a top five at this point because it's a no skip album* for me. Robin being the exception because as with Never Grow Up, I cannot get through it without sobbing haha. I think The Black Dog is probably one of her best breakup songs ever -- it's an instant classic. I Look in People's Windows and The Prophecy were immediate loves for me. Also just like Fortnight all the way to I Can Fix Him is just incredible.
I also can't listen to Robin or Never Grow Up for the same reason 😅 we share a lot of the same favourite songs!! I agree that The Black Dog is just so freaking good. And I also think The Smallest Man... is just an incredible breakup song - THE BRIDGE!!
1. Strong Female Character was one of my favorite books of last year! 2. I've discovered I'm just not in my Big Books Era anymore, so I can't even bring myself to look at SJM stuff right now 3. TTPD has taken over my life, lol. Overall, I think I prefer the first half more than the second, but there's still only a few songs that I don't want to put on repeat. And right now my favorites are But Daddy I Love Him, The Bolter, Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me?, and Cassandra
I'm halfway through Strong Female Character now and I can see why it was a favourite - it's so good! Also realising I'm not, and in fact have never been, in my big books era 😭😂 I think I also prefer the first half on balance - although the second is still incredible!
I am blown away that you’re using the memo books as like inserts and I love Taylor Swift too. I usually stock up on the yellow blank notebooks from hobonichi. Now you have me thinking that I should grab a dozen of these memo for special journaling subjects. The old TR paper I don’t remember pilling and I agree with you. It’s not as good. I’m getting pilling if I go over my page with tombow 2x. I still have to listen to ALL the ttpd songs and analyze them so that I can make a review of each song like I do with my books 📚.
Ahhh I'm so glad you like the journalling approach here! Using this memo book was so fun - even though I'm now in a different journal, I've kept a memo book to use as an extra notebook on the side 😅 ooooh enjoy your full TTPD listen-through - it's such an amazing album! 🥰
errr youtube hid this from me for some reason so I'm hopping in four weeks later to say - you have excellent taste 😌😅 the black dog gets stuck in my head all the time!!!
Good for you for giving up on SJM. I wish I did long ago! (It only goes downhill from there.) As for sound sensitivities, have you tried loop earbuds? I use them sometimes when sound canceling headphones don’t make sense. You can get them with different decibel blocking levels. That’s probably the wrong way to say that, but you get the point. They help me. And then sometimes I straight up use old-fashioned earplugs when I want to try to not hear my kids at all. 😂
Thank you for validating my choice! It felt odd because so many people seem to love those books, but with the third one, I just wasn't clicking with it any more! And RE Loop: yes, I have a set of the Loop Quiet ones - they definitely do help! I'm just wary of overusing them. They do come in very handy for blocking out the world, though 😂
Yay hi!!! Too many favourites!! But guilty as sin, so long London (how can any English person not?!), the alchemy and Cassandra are my (current) favourites!!
Great video as always! I've been loving the album too with sadly no one to talk about it with. My top favs are Who's Afraid of Little Old Me, My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived and Peter (which is such an odd man out with that short title, lol).
Im so happy to see you back! Glad you're having a good time with the books, I'm still so curious to see the new one 🤭 I've been just rereading some of my favorites bc im in need of it, right now I just started the second book on the raven cycle series and having a blast
Thank you so much! 🥰 there's definitely so much comfort in rereading old favourites. I've heard such good things about the Raven Cycle, maybe need to add it to my TBR!
Hello, welcome back!! I think the new sanzen TRP is acting inconsistently or something. I have a page for test pens, and I used 4 brushes pens, 2 of which are the fudenosuke in hard and soft tip, and I haven't had any bleed through, while same ghosting as always. It's weird... But I've seen other people telling they're having smudge or bleed through issues, so... idk, maybe it's because the climate conditions? I live in a dry place.
Oh you know, calling it inconsistent is exactly right - I found it was sometimes fine and sometimes really not fine! E.g. the monthlies in the Cousin were terrible for bleeding, but the weeklies were better. Maybe it's the climate too - another reason to complain about English rain 😂
welcome back! i havent been on tumblr or i wouldve bugged you with nice messages there in the interrim haha. i need to get reading again T_T summer break is coming up but i'm taking 2 courses so i won't be fully free.. hoping to read something for fun tho! and ... can you believe i still haven't listened to TTPD?! :')
ps those specific tombow pens are amazing. i had them for art stuff but maybe i will see how i feel about writing with them 🤔🤔 also SAME w/ the birbs, i've been annoying everyone by constantly point out the new robins and bluejays all over the place lmao
Thank you so much for the kind words!!! 🥺 tbh I also haven't been on tumblr as much lately! Hope your courses go well and you can carve out some reading time 🤞🏻 HOW have you resisted TTPD for this long though!! And the tombow pens are really nice for hand lettering/calligraphy. For normal writing they do feel a bit weird lol! Man I wish we had bluejays over here, they're so pretty!
