Rushes into my heart and my skull

I am aware that I am not meant to feel this way about music. I'm not meant to feel this way about anything. Once you stop being a teenager, it's considered somewhat shameful to express enthusiasm and love for something.* It's considered adolescent and self-absorbed to love things because they SPEAK TO YOUR SOUL, IT'S DEEP.

But this song. God, this song. I love it so much. I love it so much it hurts. I love it unrequitedly and without qualification. I love its words and its sound, and what its words mean, and how they mean, and what they mean to me. We are fond, we on the internet, of saying that 'this or that is love'. This song is love. Love is it. It is, literally, what love is to me. Tiësto is speaking to my soul, yeah.

It's adolescent. It isn't even the most amazing song ever, and the lyrics aren't that clever. But it is. It just gives words to something that I can't articulate properly, and for that, I love it and it is beautiful.

( Lyrics )

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* I realise I'm preaching to the converted. Most of my LJ friends are fandom people, and what is fandom if not love to the point of obsession, the very definition of enthusiasm?

Rushes into my heart and my skull

I am aware that I am not meant to feel this way about music. I'm not meant to feel this way about anything. Once you stop being a teenager, it's considered somewhat shameful to express enthusiasm and love for something.* It's considered adolescent and self-absorbed to love things because they SPEAK TO YOUR SOUL, IT'S DEEP.

But this song. God, this song. I love it so much. I love it so much it hurts. I love it unrequitedly and without qualification. I love its words and its sound, and what its words mean, and how they mean, and what they mean to me. We are fond, we on the internet, of saying that 'this or that is love'. This song is love. Love is it. It is, literally, what love is to me. Tiësto is speaking to my soul, yeah.

It's adolescent. It isn't even the most amazing song ever, and the lyrics aren't that clever. But it is. It just gives words to something that I can't articulate properly, and for that, I love it and it is beautiful.

( Lyrics )

__________________
* I realise I'm preaching to the converted. Most of my LJ friends are fandom people, and what is fandom if not love to the point of obsession, the very definition of enthusiasm?

Oh, and have some links...

catpuccino posted a link to Rachel Hills' Tumblr. It's so weird, I went to uni with Rachel, although I never knew her, and she was one of those student journalism types. I'm pleased to see that she's making a living out of writing. Her blog's pretty interesting.

If I haven't pointed you there before, you need to read Ferretbrain. I don't always agree with the conclusions they reach, but I think they're some of the best reviewers out there.

I found this post about Gen Z and homeschooling quite interesting, if only because I initially agreed with her (mainly because she made some generalisations about the different generations that really chimed with me) and then thought about it and realised how US-centric, white, and middle-class her views were. Also, what is it about the homeschooling debate that turns both sides into slavering, fear-mongering ranters? The way they tell it, homeschooled kids are unworldly and unsocialised, and school-educated kids have uncaring, cruel parents who can't wait to get them out of the house and should never have been parents in the first place. An interesting read, nonetheless.

The new and revised Rome Burning is out. You should all buy it, because it's awesome, and sophiamcdougall does cool things like draw pictures of her characters and post them on her blog. This time, it's Dama, who is totally NOT how I visualised him. For some reason, although I'm sure she described his appearance, in my head he always looked Tibetan. I have no idea why.

Oh, and have some links...

catpuccino posted a link to Rachel Hills' Tumblr. It's so weird, I went to uni with Rachel, although I never knew her, and she was one of those student journalism types. I'm pleased to see that she's making a living out of writing. Her blog's pretty interesting.

If I haven't pointed you there before, you need to read Ferretbrain. I don't always agree with the conclusions they reach, but I think they're some of the best reviewers out there.

I found this post about Gen Z and homeschooling quite interesting, if only because I initially agreed with her (mainly because she made some generalisations about the different generations that really chimed with me) and then thought about it and realised how US-centric, white, and middle-class her views were. Also, what is it about the homeschooling debate that turns both sides into slavering, fear-mongering ranters? The way they tell it, homeschooled kids are unworldly and unsocialised, and school-educated kids have uncaring, cruel parents who can't wait to get them out of the house and should never have been parents in the first place. An interesting read, nonetheless.

The new and revised Rome Burning is out. You should all buy it, because it's awesome, and sophiamcdougall does cool things like draw pictures of her characters and post them on her blog. This time, it's Dama, who is totally NOT how I visualised him. For some reason, although I'm sure she described his appearance, in my head he always looked Tibetan. I have no idea why.