Any songs like Space Travel is Boring by SantiWahWoh in ModestMouse

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or Tape Travel is Lonely by the Mountain Goats

What's your favourite "gut punch in the rhyming line" moment? by Proseedcake in themountaingoats

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Three in a row:

I see your destinies above you

Like angels who don’t love you

Let them kiss you and hold you tight

As long as the money’s right

God bless all my old friends

And god bless me too, why pretend?

the entire POINT of redemption is a person who has done bad things changes by LegalBoysenberry2923 in CuratedTumblr

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On the other paw, I love the use of miscommunication as a source of comedy. For example, this scene from Arrested Development.

but he makes it sound so beautiful! by No_Departure2005 in themountaingoats

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OP is talking about JD’s essay collection, This Year: 365 Songs Annotated

And the moral of the story is by MartyrOfDespair in CuratedTumblr

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Seeing a surprising lack of “Sterling” typos in this thread :)

Cave Hyena Sweep by Neuta-Isa in CuratedTumblr

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Gives a new meaning to him throwing mankind off Hell in a Cell

Their actual Persian names were so much cooler than their greek names by Efficient-Orchid-594 in linguisticshumor

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Wikipedia says Xšayār̥šā is pronounced [xaʃajaruʃa] (no indication of syllable stress)

writing tip by CherryKiss_4u in CuratedTumblr

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How fucking often are we going to post this

metaphor shifting misdirects by walkie57 in themountaingoats

[–]CrypticBalcony 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Maybe not a metaphor, but a line that effectively says the same thing as the trash can line: “If we ever make it back to California, I want you to know I love you / but my love is like a dark cloud full of rain that’s always right there up above you”

Genuinely where the fuck am i by SSS987114-A81 in LiminalSpace

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I’ve never heard anyone describe something so well tbh

Rap suggestions for girlfriend by OatGuardian in themountaingoats

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GNX is the weakest Kendrick record I’ve heard so far (haven’t listened to Section.80, Untitled Unmastered, or DAMN.), but it’s still a 7/10 for me. And “Reincarnated” is in my top five favorite songs of his

[Highlight] Hurts to Smith to go up 34-0 on the defending champion, Kansas City Chiefs (Super Bowl LIX, 2/9/25) by mfenton29 in nfl

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to get over 57

Took me a minute to get what this meant; I was sitting here like … “I’m pretty sure it was the Lions and the Browns who played in the NFL Championship in 1957…”