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Christmas With Eddie

Description: you spend your first Christmas with Eddie, and manage to make him feel the magic of the holidays again.

Warnings: Nothing really, just fluff, fem! implied reader, Xmas celebrations

A/N: Just a cute little fluff piece to celebrate your first Christmas with Eddie! Merry Christmas Everybody! If you enjoy it, please comment and reblog, it'll make my day (and it would be a lovely Xmas gift!) ❤💋❤

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Eddie has always hated the holidays. It was too cold for starters. Never having much at home, he never got a proper winter coat, and the holidays just seemed that little extra bitter without one. He remembers his middle school days; dragging his feet home in his year round jacket from good will, trying to stuff his hands as deep as he could into the worn pockets, attempting to excavate long lost warmth.

The TV adverts were torture on top of the cold. There's the perfect family, they seemed to say, mom, dad, two kids and a dog. Happily ever after. There was never an advert with some poor kid with an uncle for a dad, pinching pennies in a trailer park, living off of canned goods and food stamps.

It didn't matter when he grew, when he earned money from illegitimate means for himself. The holidays always had that sour edge to them, like an unripened orange. Bitter rind soft against his impoverished tongue. They weren't meant for him.

And then there was you. Eddie knew from the moment he met you that you were too good for him; too nice, too pure. He knew that this was a temporary thing; some sort of short-term madness that he was lucky enough to be a part of.

These thoughts invaded his mind when he caught up to you. He couldn't help but chuckle in the middle of the mall, eyes sparkling like the inside of a Christmas ornament. You are giggling obscenely, turning over every single snow globe you could find. There were a lot.

"Eddie, look! There's so many!" You giggle and bounce on the spot, unable to contain yourself.

"Yeah I see baby, having fun?"

Your eyes flicker back to his, pure sugar plum fairy dreams rattling around your skull.

Eddie feels a fire reigniting in his chest; a longing he hasn't felt since his mother was alive.

Failing to notice, the whites of your eyes reflect coloured fairy lights, enchanted with magic and love.

"Look at the grotto Eddie!! Oh my God, it's perfect!" You point, magic in the air expelling through your excited fervour.

Eddie laughs, following your finger. Excited children gather at the edge of the grotto, lining up to see Santa Claus.

"Look! It's so cute!" You beam, reviewing the line of wide eyed youngsters in your wake.

"You think they'd let me in?" You tilt your head to the side, pondering.

"I think you might be a little big princess." Eddie laughs, rubbing your arm in consolation.

"Hmm. No fair. I wanna see Santa."

"Well, how's about we go home and you sit on my lap instead?" Eddie smirks, tilting your chin up to meet him. You grin right back, arms thrown around his neck, pulling him in for a sweet kiss.

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It's Christmas Eve, and Eddie's pulling up to the trailer, expecting it to be dark and cold, since Wayne liked to pull extra hours for double pay at the plant; but to his surprise there are coloured lights in the windows. Intrigued, he walks into the living room, and sees you bouncing on your heels, in a little elf dress and hat, beaming like the rays of the sun.

Eddie and Wayne had a Christmas tree, of sorts. Just some little thing sparsely covered in cheap baubles and a few homemade decorations from when Eddie was a kid. It was still up, and the wonky stars and macaroni angel were still on it, but they had been joined by some new ornaments. Plus there was tinsel. A lot of tinsel. It surrounded the TV and the door frame, as well as hanging from the ceiling. Coloured bulbs shone everywhere, refracting the glitter, making Eddie feel like he was in the inside of a disco ball.

"Princess, it looks like Christmas threw up in here." He laughs. Eddie's stunned to say the least. No ones made the trailer look like this before. No ones cared enough.

"I know right! I asked your uncle and he said 'go ham sweetheart,'" you say back at Eddie, putting on your Wayne impression, complete with gruff voice and frowny face. Eddie chuckles. It's pretty spot on.

"You didn't have to do this you know."

"Oh I know. I just, wanted you to feel special. Plus I thought we could do gifts tonight, if you're ready?"

"Yeah if you want," Eddie flushes. "They aren't very expensive or anything."

You frown at him, eyes glassy. "Baby, it doesn't matter what they cost, they're from you. I know I'll love them."

Eddie's heart swells at your words. He wonders what you see in him, how he could have possibly gotten this lucky to call you his girlfriend. It's like everything you touch is pure magic.

He leads you to his bedroom and barks out a laugh when he gets there. You had been in here too, but the fairy lights around his desk and bed were red, and you'd managed to scrounge some black tinsel from somewhere.

"Princess I love it. Fuckin metal."

"Yeah, I thought this was more you."

Reaching to the side of the bed, you pull out a gift bag.

"Here you go baby. Merry Christmas!"

Eddie rips the bag open unceremoniously, tearing at the tissue paper inside. Out flops a matt black jewellery box. He flips it open. Inside is a silver ring; a skull, but the top of the skull turns to silver flames. Eddie is shocked.

"Sweetheart, it's too much, I-"

You wave your arms, "nope, nope. You deserve it. Just accept it. I wanted to give it to you. There's something else, look in the tissue paper."

Eddie, already reeling from the gift of the ring, looks inside the wrapping to discover another paper wrapped present. He tears it open, revealing a beautiful dice set. There's a red, dragon like eye set in the middle of each one.

"I thought- well, it was kinda like the eye of Sauron, kinda fitting for a DM, you know? All seeing?" Nerves rack your voice.

"Sweetheart, they are perfect. You're perfect." He reaches out to envelop the back of your head with his large palm, pulling you in for a soft kiss.

Eddie doesn't know how to tell you you've turned his heart inside out, and teared all his barriers down as easily as confetti.

"Here's yours princess. Sorry, I'm not great at wrapping." He thrusts a lumpy parcel into your hands, hastily added bow sitting lopsided on the top.

You rip the paper carefully to reveal the perfume you and Eddie both loved that time you visited the Mall together and nearly got thrown out by security. You giggle at the memory.

Immediately opening the box, you spray the scent on and inhale deeply.

"Oh I love it Eddie, thank you!" You peck him on the lips.

"There's, a couple more." He gestures to the parcel, cheeks flushing red.

You investigate further, and discover a mix tape, as well as an envelope. Curiously, you unseal it and look inside. It's a painted picture of what looks like your D & D character. A beautiful elven ranger, all leather and fur, with a gorgeous bow, a quiver on her back and a strength in her eye.

"Oh baby, I cant even- I'm so speechless. Its incredible! Thank you!" You throw your arms nearly violently around his neck, pushing him flat on his back.

"Thank you so much Eddie." You kiss his nose, and meet his eyes.

"No, thank you." Eddie's eyes are full with love.

Eddie has always hated the holidays. He is currently struggling to remember why. Eddie loves the holidays, now that he's with you.

This is just a gift to some lovely people. I hope you enjoy it. Happy Holidays!

@eddiesprincess86 @munson-blurbs @eddiemunsonfuxks @onehotgreasymechanic @zestychili @eddiemunsons-missingnipple @indouloureux @lunatictardis @joejoequinnquinn @bowerquinn @greenishghostey

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backup-baby-backup · 6 months

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Cruel Summer: the hit that was meant to be?

Pictured: dramatic reenactment of us waiting for Cruel Summer to be a single for 4 years.

Background

This summer is the apocalypse.

-- Lover Journal entry, dated 29 August 2016

We all know about the cruel summer in question, right? To be fair, technically the cruelty of the summer stemmed from "a desperate summer love that might be doomed from the start" and "some element of desperation and pain in it, where you’re yearning for something that you don’t quite have yet", and not whatever Kim Kardashian was doing on Twitter, but given how those two events occured basically simultaneously, it's not outrageous to claim both experiences informed each other.

In 2018, Taylor went on the Reputation Stadium Tour. Between shows, Taylor started working on Lover, getting into the studio with Joel Little, Frank Dukes and our favourite producer Jack Antonoff. For Cruel Summer, however, there was something special: Annie Clark, better known as St. Vincent, was a credited writer on the track.

St. Vincent had worked with Jack for her 2017 album Masseduction, so much like how Lana ended up in the studio with Taylor, we can safely assume that Jack brought the two together. On 6 June 2018, St. Vincent mentioned that she had reworked one of her songs from Masseduction, Slow Disco, into a poppier production with Taylor's support. With this in mind, we can probably assume that she had cross passed with Taylor around this time. Taylor was papped recording at Electric Lady (Jack's stomping grounds) on 18 July 2018, which lines up with this theory. [1]

The failed single push

I’m not trying to blame the global pandemic that we had, but that is something that happened that stopped Cruel Summer from ever being a single.

-- Taylor Swift after performing Cruel Summer on tour in Pittsburgh, 17 June 2023

Cruel Summer had been a fan favourite from the get-go. When Taylor held listening parties for a select group of fans, it was the song that most people had positive feelings about. When Lover (the album) dropped in August 2019, it was the third most streamed track from the album, leapfrogging I Forgot That You Existed despite it being the second track. People started to lament the... poorly-received lead singles the album had. (I have nothing kind to say about those two tracks so I won't say anything.)

Then for a while, nothing happened. Taylor released Lover and The Man as singles to various degrees of success. The Man's disappointing (by her standards) chart run probably reignited discussion about how Cruel Summer would have smashed if it were only given a proper push and the GP had understood its talent. Then COVID came along, Lover Fest was delayed indefinitely, and it seemed that the Lover era was over, replaced by Taylor locking herself in with Joe Alwyn and drinking wine.

Then June 2020 came around, and...

Now how do we know that this is true? Apparently, Cruel Summer was added to AllAccess, a website where radio programmers download singles serviced to radio. While I can't verify this myself, I have seen numerous independent sources claim that Cruel Summer was uploaded to the site specifically on 17 June 2020. [2] Some radio website also ran with the story in early June, so I am inclined to believe this.

And it's not like there weren't any official hints...

Top to bottom: Spotify "enhanced album" promo mural, You Need To Calm Down music video, Amazon Music commercial, Lover music video [3]

The catch, however, is the Cruel Summer never got an official add date. An add date is "supposed to tell [radio] stations when to add a record to its playlist". Without an official add date, stations usually won't play your new song unless it's really hotly requested.

So the song didn't get a full label push and quickly died off, despite getting some radio play in 2020 (from anecdotal evidence), not appearing on the charts. And then in July folklore came out of the blue, and with it ended the Lover era, and seemingly all hopes for Cruel Summer world domination.

A music video?

While Taylor HQ is normally as hard to infiltrate as Fort Knox, over the years bits and pieces of information have leaked about her intentions for the rest of the Lover era. Chief among them was, apparently, to officially release Cruel Summer as a single to accompany her live shows in the summer of 2020. A music video was even filmed, before being scrapped when Taylor moved into the mythical forest of folklore.

-- Official Singles Chart (UK), 27 June 2023

Well, would Official Singles Chart lie? They do say "apparently" though, maybe to hedge their bets a little.

The problem with this claim, however, is the timeline. On 27 January 2020, Taylor released The Man as a single. She dropped the music video on Feburary 28th. Assuming a similar rollout for Cruel Summer, the music video would've come out in July. Given how the pandemic had basically put all possible filming activity to a standstill in March, it seems implausible that a music video would be filmed that early in advance, especially without knowing that the pandemic was on the horizon. Or maybe it was fully CGI and filmed in the luxury of her LA house, I don't know.

But I think there's a different catch here. Note how the above source claims that Cruel Summer would have been a single to "accompany her live shows in the summer of 2020", namely Lover Fest. According to the planned Lover Fest schedule, by the summer of 2020 she would be performing in Europe, including headlining Glastonbury.

Now consider Taylor's usual single rollout. Fearless, Sparks Fly, Red and New Romantics were all the last or second-last singles pushed from their respective albums, all of which got tour videos. [4] It seems that given how Cruel Summer would be the fifth single pushed according to the original plans, it most likely would've gotten the tour video treatment as well. Which makes sense: imagine a music video with her performing under broad daylight to huge crowds at festivals!

Cruel Summer 2: The Return of the Hit

With the advent of the pandemic something interesting happened: people started re-discovering old songs and making them into hits again. Catalogue streaming amounted to a whopping 70% of all streams in 2022. Running Up That Hill, a song from the 1980s, went viral again thanks to Stranger Things and this new ability that

Maybe it was because people wanted something familiar to go back to in a world where nothing was familiar anymore. Who knows. Many other music critics have written better articles about this phenomenon. What does matter, however, is that releasing singles from an album from years ago was now commercially viable. Sia, Lady Gaga and The Weeknd all did it to various degrees of success.

So when Cruel Summer, a song which had been among Taylor's most streamed songs for a while, acted as the tour opener on the Eras Tour [5], it would only further gain in popularity from then onwards, even re-entering the Billboard Hot 100 before it was even officially promoted to radio. And so her label moved to capitalize on this trend, and finally released Cruel Summer as a single on 20 June 2023, almost 3 years to the day after its original planned release date.

The million dollar question: would Cruel Summer have smashed if it was released as originally planned?

I'd say no. The general public had already moved on from Lover as the lacklustre The Man performance demonstrates. Besides, without the accumulation of popularity that Taylor had with folklore, evermore, the re-recordings, Midnights and the Eras Tour, who know where her career would've been?

(By the way, even if Cruel Summer had been the lead single there is absolutely no way it passes Old Town Road for #1.)

Timeline

Summer 2018: Cruel Summer is likely written around this time.

23 August 2019: Lover is released.

27 January 2020: The Man is released as a single.

27 February 2020: The Man music video is released.

5-12 March 2020: According to Steve from the IC, band rehearsals for Lover Fest took place during these days, with a whopping 32 songs.

19 March 2020: California enters lockdown due to COVID-19. Taylor was living in Los Angeles at this time.

17 April 2020: Lover Fest is officially delayed.

27 April 2020: Taylor writes cardigan, her first collaboration with Aaron Dessner and the beginning of the concept of folklore.

6 June 2020: Steve posts that cryptic message about folklore, signifying that the album was mostly complete by this time.

17 June 2020: Cruel Summer is uploaded to AllAccess, incidentally the same day as Steve teases cardigan.

20 June 2020: The European leg of Lover Fest would have begun on this day.

20 June 2023: Cruel Summer is officially released as a single.

23 October 2023: Cruel Summer hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Conclusion

Stream Cruel Summer.

[1] Cruel Summer is also the only Lover song to be registered on the US Copyright Office with a creation year of 2018, rather than 2019, suggesting that it was an early cut. (credit: @taylor-on-your-dash)

[2] Surprisingly, people have also claimed that I Did Something Bad was added to AllAccess in a similar fashion.

[3] That being said, if we take that hint in the Lover music video as hinting towards a Cruel Summer single push, this also means Afterglow was also meant to be a single...

[4] Do not quote me on this, Taylor herself didn't acknowledge that chorus of Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince either.

[5] Getaway Car should've been here...

#taylor swift #cruel summer #lover

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winters0689 · 21 days

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Stefano Valentini Headcanons!!!!

Note: The Photo refers to the photo of the soldier dying that also happened when he lost his eye.

He has always had a love for photography. When he got his first camera, he took pictures of anything that he saw. Experimenting with it and learned to become a professional at using a camera

He has always worn gloves, but after he returned from war he began wearing them because his hands were slightly scarred. He hated how people would stare at them so he began wearing them.

He cut his hair when he went to war and began to immediately grow it back when he lost his eye. He wore a patch at first because people would just stare, but once his hair grew long he stopped wearing a patch and let his hair cover the scar.

After the war, for his first weeks back he was in a depressive state. It wasn’t until he saw The Photo that his passion was reignited

He has the original printout of The Photo on him at all times. He looks at it from time to time

As much as he loves The Photo, he can’t bring himself to remember the details leading up to it. He begins to panic and his eye begins to ache more than usual.

While not an expert, he knows how to use basic firearms and how to use a first aid kit. He prefers using a knife because he loves being up and personal with his art

He and Emily were friends and just that. He didn’t have a crush on her or anything, he just considered her beautiful, which is why he became her photographer

Stefano has never dated anyone. He is passionate about his art and while he finds people beautiful, he would rather focus on his art than be in a relationship with someone

His favorite colors are red, blue, and black

He owned a fish for two years. He grew attached to it and still has a photo of his pet fish to this day (he named it ‘Fish’ because he didn’t think he would get attached to it but he did and the name stuck around)

Even though he is a murderer, he hates getting blood on him, which is why he is always clean whenever he kills. He makes sure that his clothes don’t get stained

He acts all classy and eats fancy foods, but every so often he will teleport and grab a random greasy cheeseburger

Besides Classical Music, his other music tastes are Jazz and 80s Disco

He isn’t really a people’s person. He only likes being around certain people and prefers to focus on his art instead

He suffers from horrible headaches that sometimes makes him not able to be around bright light. That’s why his domain has some dark areas, so that he can stay there until his headache ceases

When he was younger, he had wavy hair, but after cutting it one time it became straight

He was often mistaken as being emo. He told anyone who commented on his hair that he didn’t know what ‘emo’ was but he actually did research and listened to some ‘emo’ songs. He didn’t like it, but he does know some emo bands, but whenever asks he pretends like he has never heard about the bands before

His natural hair color is a light brown but he dyed it black

I have many more headcanons about him but then this post would be endless. He’s such a fascinating character.

#the evil within 2 #the evil within #stefano valentini #headcanons

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hd-wireless · 9 months

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📻🎶 H/D WIRELESS 2023 - WEEKLY WRAP-UP #4

🎤 Can you believe we’ve had four weeks already of amazing creations!! We certainly can’t! We hope you’re enjoying the music and music inspired drarry.

There’s about one and a half weeks of works left to post, so buckle up for the final countdown! 🎶

As always you can listen to the prompted songs for the works we post on two playlists:

Click here for Spotify (many thanks to @evaeleanor for helping us out there) ❤️

And here for the YouTube playlist.

Please enjoy this week’s entries below the cut:

🎶 H/D Wireless Art 🎶

📻 anywhere with you [Gen, Digital Art]

🎵 Song Prompt: Anywhere With You by Maggie Rogers 🎵 Summary: I'll go anywhere, anywhere with you.

🎶 H/D Wireless Fic 🎶

📻 Weapons of Massive Consumption [E, 38,634]

🎵 Song Prompt: The Fear by Lily Allen 🎵 Summary: Eight years after the war, Harry Potter lives a life of hedonism: raging parties, huge impulse purchases, and seemingly no worries. But it's Draco Malfoy—former Death Eater, lover of blueberry muffins, and bane of coffee shop workers—who starts to wonder if it's all a front, if something's actually terribly wrong with him. Why else would Potter ask Draco, of all fucking people, to write his biography?

📻 Bonne Foi, Draco Malfoy [E, 19,390]

🎵 Song Prompt: So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings by Squirrel Flower 🎵 Summary: Sanctimonia Vincet Semper: The Malfoy Legacy Inheritance Ritual must be undertaken by an heir pure of blood and strong of will. He will lend his body, his magic, and his mind to the Estate, and thus control the direction of the next generation of powerful Malfoy magicks. He and the Estate will both be made stronger by the ritual. -from the journals of Septimus Malfoy, 1820 At twenty-five, Draco Malfoy has to return to England to do something about the Manor, and Harry Potter won’t leave him alone. His years-old crush on Potter is reignited over repairs, mermaid lemonades, and pocket owl messages.

📻 The Wedding Shed [E, 2,057]

🎵 Song Prompt: 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' by Panic! at the Disco 🎵 Summary: One would consider the day his best friend got married to be an occasion where he did not have to show any sort of poise. But apparently, Ronald Weasley thoroughly misjudged the entire situation.

📻 LA, Who Am I To Love You? [E, 42,525]

🎵 Song Prompt: Venice Bitch by Lana del Rey 🎵 Summary: Harry’s summer in LA is not going as expected. Pansy Parkinson keeps inviting him to parties in the Hollywood Hills and harassing him to finally go to the physical therapist, Blaise Zabini keeps slipping new strains of his company’s magical weed into Harry’s pockets in hopes of an endorsement, and Draco Malfoy keeps having sex with everyone but Harry.

📻 All I Think About [T, 4,429]

🎵 Song Prompt: Heat Waves by Glass Animals 🎵 Summary: Sometimes all it takes is one perfect late summer night in June.

📻 Put It On Your Face Boy [E, 3,380]

🎵 Song Prompt: 'Daddy AF' by 'Slayyyter' 🎵 Summary: Harry watches as Draco's hips sway to the beat. He sips his muggle bourbon and imagines the noises they would make if Harry had Draco's legs draped over his shoulders. With liquid courage flowing through his veins, Harry slammed the drink down on the bar and wove his way through the crowd towards the northern star that had been calling his name for years.

📻 What We Left Behind [E, 32,815]

🎵 Song Prompt: The Day We Caught The Train by Ocean Colour Scene 🎵 Summary: Harry's recovering from an injury. Malfoy's recovering from heartbreak. Beaten down and bruised, Harry takes up Malfoy's offer to stay at his secluded seaside cottage in Dorset. It'll be good to get away from it all. It's only for a few days, and it's only so he can heal. Nothing else. Digging up past feelings will only make matters worse, and besides, Malfoy doesn't feel the same way. Does he?

📻 Nothing But You On My Mind [M, 29,404]

🎵 Song Prompt: Crazy English Summer by Faithless 🎵 Summary: Potter has been in Australia on an internship for almost a year, and Draco cannot wait for him to get back home. They'll finally have a chance to talk about their feelings for each other. What could possibly go wrong? Loads, as it turns out.

🎶 H/D Wireless Podfic 🎶

📻 [Podfic] remember me [T, 2:50:44]

🖋️ Original author: hupsoonheng 🎵 Song Prompt: Remember Me from Coco 🎵 Summary: On a chilly day in October, Draco kisses Harry goodbye before he goes on yet another dangerous, undercover mission with the Aurors. And then Harry doesn't come back. Only Draco believes that Harry isn't dead, and pours himself into finding his husband despite his friends' pleas to move on and grieve properly. What he finds at the end of that work, though, is not at all what he wanted.

#HD Wireless #hd wireless 2023 #drarry #drarry art #drarry fic #drarry podfic #weekly wrap up no 4

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drdemonprince · 1 year

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I wanted to thank you for Unmasking Autism. Beyond the content, which is both extremely relatable and extremely insightful, I am overjoyed with how much listening to it has pulled me in and kept me engaged. I have struggled with reading or even listening to audio books since my diagnosis because my ability to read and process information was the biggest casualty of the intense burnout that began when my mom died in 2020 that ultimately led to my diagnosis. Reading just broke for me, and it's been gut wrenching.

This is the first book I have attempted to read or listen to that I am devouring the way I used to devour books, and it is because so much of it is relatable and articulated in a way that resonates. The way you write about your experiences is so similar to how I describe my own, even when describing traits where I present very differently. You understand and recognize the incredible nuance and intersection of autism and other parts of identity and life experience, but you present it in a way that is understandable and relatable. The infinite complexity is acknowledged and embraced without the explanation itself being needlessly complicated.

Unlike every other audio book I have tried, I rarely find myself having to rewind to try to parse something that didn't make sense on first listen, which is filling me with such joy because I have struggled so much to recover my reading ability and while audio books have been somewhat more accessible because my visual challenges aren't an obstacle, it's still been such a source of pain to struggle to understand and process books. It felt like losing something that was a huge part of my life and a major form of emotional self care.

I plan to read the text version once I finish the audio book. The way this has woken up parts of my brain that felt locked away is giving me confidence to try to break into the rest of those walled off areas again. It might sound hyperbolic, but it feels like you fixed part of my brain that I thought might be gone for good. This is the book I needed right now to feel more like myself. It needed to be this topic, something which has been central to every aspect of my life for so long and which I am still trying to understand. It needed to be written this way, with a voice that is clear and direct. It needed to be written by someone who's understanding is personal but also communal, someone who understands the intersections of identity that lead to inequity and hostility for marginalized communities.

I really needed this right now.

Thank you so much.

This is such an immensely lovely comment to receive, I've been sitting with it the last few days not knowing what to say. I'm really glad you've found a way to enjoy and reconnect with reading and that you're feeling empowered to do more.

Over the years I've had long lulls between being able to enjoy any books, video games, or even music at times, and losing an ability to access a type of joy I once considered a big part of me is very tough and deadening. But rediscovering those passions and the ability to take them in and appreciate them is like coming back alive.

(I just had that kind of deadened lull recently with gaming-- because of the medium being associated with my ex, I havent been able to enjoy it the last couple years for myself.

but then i rediscovered the passion of being swept up with a wonderful, thought provoking game on my most recent play thru of disco elysium and fuck, the dora conversation had me really tearing up. and all the conversations about ideology in the game have me feeling passionate about political psychology, a field i studied for years and then abandoned, for the first time in a long, long while.)

Sending you well wishes and hoping that anybody else who is reading this who has been unable to enjoy their passions the past few years finds a way to reignite that spark again soon, too. I think lockdown and the breakdown of regular daily rhythms combined with increased social media usage made it very, very hard for me to gear shift into enjoying challenging art for a *while*, and from what i've seen and heard many people are reporting the same. may it all come back for us.

anyway, yeah, thank you for telling me. im glad my book was able to help get you back on the road to enjoying books. i was very intentional when i was writing it about signposting everything that i was going to say and explaining things both thoroughly and clearly, trusting that the reader could understand and find pleasure in groking all the the scientific work and sociopolitical argumentation so long as it was presented to them in sensible way. i was so fortunate that my editor allowed me to really get into the weeds and parse through the nuances of many topics while also encouraging me to put things plainly and compassionately.

i dont know if my next book is quite up to snuff in this regard yet -- it's really dense, and i seem to have lost some of the ability to slowly break down complex topics sometimes lately, so your message is a necessary reminder to put in that work. if i can't explain something simply, i dont yet understand it, and that means i have some more work to do.

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seaside-lovers · 4 months

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Fictional Crushes

fictional others

😚 Ambiguous 😚

Characters that I like more than a crush but not enough for them to become an F/O. Tagged as "ambiguous tag: [name]"

Al-An - Subnautica: Below Zero

Breakdown - Transformers: Prime

Calculester - Monster Prom

K-2SO - Star Wars: Rogue One

Knock Out - Transformers: Prime

L.O.G. - Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts

Michael Myers - Halloween

Samuel Hayden - DOOM

SCP-049 - SCP

Skeletor - He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

Slade - Teen Titans GO! to the Movies

Soundwave - The Transformers + Transformers: Cyberverse + Transformers: Earthspark

Tom Nook - Animal Crossing

Venom - Venom (2018)

😊 Crushes 😊

Characters that I simply have a crush on; I just think they're cute/attractive. Tagged as "crush tag: [name]"

Agent William Fowler - Transformers: Prime

Ares - Fortnite

Arte Fact - Webkinz

Balimund - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Bracken - Lethal Company

The Breather - Welcome to the Game

Brian - Marble Hornets

Charon - Hades

Cleatus - NFL

Clock King - Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Cobra Commander - G.I. Joe

Computer - Invader Zim

Crow - Mystery Science Theater 3000

Dave - Dayshift at Freddy’s

Dr. Football - The Amazing Digital Circus

Dragon - One Piece

Frank West - Dead Rising

Ghostface - Scream + DBD

Gyomei - Demon Slayer

January Q. Irontail - Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie

Kim Kitsuragi - Disco Elysium

K.I.T.T. - Knight Rider

Lateef - Spyro Reignited Trilogy

Lazaret (the monster thing that I don't think has a name) - Lazaret

Leshy - Inscryption

Marv - Home Alone

Mr. Kitty - Backrooms

Professor Fitz - Papa’s Gameria

The Projectionist - Bendy and the Ink Machine

Type-27/Chariot - House of the Dead

Scientist - Transformers: Cyberverse

Scorpion - Mortal Kombat

Springtrap - Five Nights at Freddy’s

Spot - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Thelonious - Shrek

Tim - Marble Hornets

Tyrannicus - Animalia

Wekapipo - JJBA

Windows - Escape the Backrooms

Withered Bonnie - Five Nights at Freddy’s

Wizard/M. Rasmodius - Stardew Valley

Wrecker - Star Wars: The Bad Batch

Z - Hot Shots Golf FORE!

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mortispoxi · 11 months

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I noticed the PMG video led to a load of people on Twitter complaining about communists. Did DE always have detractors like that?

Unfortunately, yes.

Now I have been in the DE fandom since April 2021, a month after the release of Final Cut, so I can only speak from my personal experience but from what I've noticed detractors as you've described appearing to bash everyone and everything relating to this game is nothing new. I swear any time this game has experienced even the remotest form of controversy these people will show up to argue that it's the fault of the writers for being communist that caused or exacerbated the problem.

This has always been a day one issue and I think it largely spawned from the fact that Disco Elysium has a massive Western audience who have been taught to fear and vilify all things communist and communist adjacent things so when this game made by proud Marxist-Leninist Eastern Europeans became successful I think it rattled some things for these people which is why we're seeing them so hellbent on attacking the game and its creative team every chance they get.

Chris Bratt, unfortunately, is helping feed these detractors’ opinions because of the subpar journalism seen throughout his video. Some could argue that my own opinions about the PMG video is far too generous towards Kurvitz but I would also argue back that the only reason I'm so lenient in my explanation is because Bratt never gave Kurvtiz that journalistic leniency so that different arguments can be made about who or what caused things to go south the way it did. So, because Bratt remained so unwavering in his video to point the finger at Kurvtiz and his inner circle it's essentially reignited a long standing issue within the community about how we talk about the writer's stance as communists in a capitalistic world.

#disco elyisum #people make games #thank you for the ask!#my response #mp

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denimbex1986 · 9 months

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'Before starring in Peaky Blinders and Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy was just a young theater actor in Cork, Ireland. His part in the 1996 play Disco Pigs earned him a role in its 2001 film adaptation—and Murphy's career ascended from there. Director Danny Boyle was so impressed by Disco Pigs that he gave Murphy the lead role in the post-apocalyptic thriller 28 Days Later. Murphy then appeared in The Wind That Shakes the Barley, which (at the time) became the all-time highest-grossing Irish independent film.

Later on, Murphy became one of Christopher Nolan's favorite returning actors, appearing in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Inception, Dunkirk, and now, Oppenheimer. Throughout his career, the Irish actor has stayed clear of the celebrity scene, but his few interviews have revealed a keen sense of humor. "I haven't created any controversy," he once told The Sunday Times about how he purposely lives a life that keeps him out of the tabloids. "I don't sleep around. I don't go and fall down drunk."

Although Oppenheimer is by far one of Murphy's best performances, the following roundup consists of the actor's greatest roles, including Peaky Blinders, A Quiet Place Part II, and Sunshine. If you remain shocked by Oppenheimer, or are still waiting for the Peaky Binders film, this is the list for you.

1. Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer features Cillian Murphy's best performance so far. The film may have received the Barbenheimer box-office boost, but the Christopher Nolan-directed film's critical acclaim has proved it to be s a success on its own merits. Embodying one of history's most controversial figures, Murphy was so emaciated that he reportedly ate just "an almond every day."

2. Peaky Blinders

OK, so Peaky Blinders isn't a movie—but it's about to be! Before Oppennheimer, the British period crime drama was Murphy's most-famous gig. Murphy played gang leader Tommy Shelby for six season, with a movie on the way.

3. Batman Begins

Murphy brought us the first live-action appearance of the scientist Scarecrow in Batman Begins—the first of Nolan's acclaimed Batman trilogy. Though the character returns in the much-lauded The Dark Knight, he features as the main villain in Begins.

4. 28 Days Later

Waking up to an apocalypse is never a good feeling. The Walking Dead may have done it back in 2003, but 28 Days Later had Cillian Murphy exit a coma, only to be greeted by fast-moving, homicidal infected people. The Last of Us who?

5. A Quiet Place Part II

Murphy joined A Quiet Place Part II as a survivor who lost his entire family to the creatures. At the time, he told Total Film that his character Emmett, "represents where the heart of the world lies right now," which is, "finally feeling like they've all given up."

6. Inception

Murphy plays Inception's main target, Robert Michael Fischer. Leonardo DiCaprio and his crew spend most of the entire film within Fischer's dreamscape, convincing him to destroy his father's company.

7. In Time

In Time depicts a future where time is the main currency, with people paying minutes and seconds for food, rent, and medicine. Run out of time and you die. When Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) receives an influx of cash, Timekeeper Raymond Leon (Cillian Murphy) is sent to investigate him.

8. Sunshine

Another Cillian Murphy role about a guy reckoning with the power of a massive bomb! Sunshine depicts a group of astronauts in the year 2057 who are on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying sun.

9. Disco Pigs

One of Murphy's earliest on-screen roles, Disco Pigs portrays two teenage friends who call each other "Pig" and "Runt" as they grow up together in Cork, Ireland. But everything changes when they turn 17 years old.

10. The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Another Murphy-led film about two brothers from Cork, The Wind That Shakes the Barley is an Irish Independence film that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival.

11. Red Eye

In Red Eye, Murphy plays an airline flight's worst nightmare: an international assassin who calls himself Jackson Rippner. Can't be more obvious than that!

12. Dunkirk

In Dunkirk—which marked yet another collaboration between Nolan and Murphy—the actor plays a "Shivering Soldier," as the credits reveal, who is the catalyst for the crew's tension at sea.'

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Alright so I know I'm a month late to this Art Summary thing, but I'm Vietnamese, and we don't consider the year to end until Lunar New Year (which in here we call Tết holiday). And today, is in fact, the true last day of 2022.

The pic in January feels like years ago actually. I felt like I'm a completely different person compared to back then, both in art and in life. As in, a more skilled and mature person (i hope?), but also beaten up and without all the high hopes and energy that I used to have. I guess it's a funny coincidence that I ended the year with that artwork depicting that particular scene in Truyện Kiều (The Tales of Kieu). She's beautiful, singing songs and citing poems, but in a whorehouse, trapped and melancholic. Well, I can't compare my life to hers. But I'm at that stage of life where it might seem like everything is doing ok but the ground under my feet is rumbling and cracking but no one else can see it.

I feel like "I have been getting it wrong, Father", quote Fleabag, and that probably reflected in my art a bit. At this point I'm just living for that momentary trance / manic / whatever you wanna call it that art is capable of sometimes putting you in.

I might sound all sad and shit and, well yes I am crying and basically a pink fur ball of anxiety as I write this, but I will be relatively fine. So, in order to remind myself of all the good shits that happened despite it all, I'll put a list of them under the cut. Mindful and all that shit, yeah?

No expectation or wish for the next year for me.

But Happy Lunar New Year, everyone! :)

Go by exclusively they/them now and even though I'm still navigating through this identity, I felt gender euphoria when, in eng speaking space, people start to refer to me with the right pronoun.

I still don't make much money, with only 1-2 commissions/month, and most months without any order. But all of my clients were such good people (well except for one, bitch turns out to be crazy as shit but not to me lmao, she was still fulfilling her end of the bargain), they are also good friends, and I love them dearly. They all gave me so much support and care through everything.

I tried edibles, ate a bit too much, was tripping balls so hard I had a disco dance game in my head but with 90s graphics and the characters are all of my worst anxieties. Also had that glitchy, time skipping, reality bending experience. It was all very fucking awesome. Not gonna do that again tho lmao.

Visited the MOCA in Bangkok and reignites the love I have for art.

Realized I am asexual and it was extremely freeing. I thought lewd thoughts more than I have ever been because of that ahahaha XD

Start to embrace the fact that I'm probably neurodivergent.

Got really good at making mods of the Cyberpunk 2077 game and I'm really proud of my works.

Finally got to treat one of the health problems that have been plaguing me for years.

Had some really fun hangout with my dear friend over a drink at small, low-key pubs. She used to refuse to even touch a drop of alcohol because all her experiences with it left too at an impression. Now she drinks for me if I can't finish my cocktail.

I bought 2 traditional dresses and I love them dearly.

Busted a bitch's fake ass for stealing art. That was fun because no one even realized the extend to how shameless that shithead was. But even then, I still have no hate ask, that is kinda a bummer tho lol.

I talked more to my classmates and even though I still don't really vibe with them that much, I appreciate them more now.

Starred in an indie movie. Wasn't a particularly fun thing the whole time, but it was an experience nevertheless.

Got more daring about my makeups.

#learn to be kinder to oneself please na #art summary #cryptic na posting

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mixsethaddams · 1 year

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Another tag game

Thanks to @freddykicksasses for tagging me. Same as the last one, I’m not sure who has or hasn’t done it at this stage, so to avoid me tagging people who have already taken part, consider this an open tag to anyone who wants to get involved!

What I usually wear:

Pyjamas, mostly. I work from home so I don’t often actually get dressed. When I do go out, I most often wear a long black dress with some boots. I have a big soft spot for 90s grunge fashion and romantic goths, so I think my personal style is a mish mash of those.

How tall I am:

5 foot 3 and a half babyyyyyy

My star sign. Do I know any celebrities or historical event that shares it:

I’m a March pisces, so you know, god help us all. I think Matthew Gray Gubler has the same birthday as me?

Do I go by a name or nickname:

I go by Seth online in settings like tumblr, discord, etc, where I have a more anon vibe. If someone wanted to try, they could probably string together a link between my tiktok and my tumblr, but other than that I keep my real name out of spaces where I don’t show my face. I prefer to be unhinged anonymously.

Did I grow up to be what I wanted to be as a child:

I found an old school workbook when I moved out of my family home a few years back and there was an essay in there that I wrote when I was 7, all about wanting to be a Model slash Vet slash Millionaire when I grew up. Dear reader, I am none of those things.

Something I'm good at vs Something I'm bad at:

I’m a good cook! I can follow a recipe like a motherfucker and I’ve got enough of a foundation that I can mess around with flavours successfully. My husband isn’t vegan like I am, so I had to put a lot of focus into learning how to use my sense of smell more than anything when I cook for him too. It’s fun.

I’m terrible at doing anything in half-measures. If there’s a small, medium, and large drink option, I’ll get the large. I’ll only get the most expensive and biggest thing I can, at any time. If I can’t, I’ll be sad about it. I’ll force myself to finish a full plate even if I’m stuffed. I’m very all or nothing and it definitely comes with it’s own challenges. Especially with money, because I’m not well-off by any stretch of the imagination. I read once that growing up in a poorer situation can lead to not knowing how to manage money as an adult and boy howdy, am I a great example of that.

If I draw or write, what's my favourite of anything I created this year?

2022 I’m guessing? I’m proud of how crushcrushcrush is turning out, despite everything. I’ve always struggling to write so much dialogue and I’m happy with how I’ve done it in this fic I think. When He Loved Me was a very cathartic thing to write for me as well. I spent a lot of time really thinking through how that mental state can manifest itself and how it can present in certain situations. Honestly though just for the sheer fun factor, I’d have to say Eddie/Hotdude Official Megathread! is my number one.

I’m trying to work on an original story this new year so hopefully I end up being proud of that too.

Dogs or cats:

I have three dogs and six cats so I think I have to remain neutral here.

Something I would like to make content for:

Myself! I spent years and years writing what I thought other people wanted to read and it only led to me not writing anything for a very long time. I’ve been using fanfiction to reignite my spark and so far so good!

Something I was excited about that turned out to dissappoint me:

Panic! At The Discos last two albums. They were my absolute favourites right since AFYCSO but I just couldn’t fall in love with Pray For The Wicked or Viva Las Vengeance.

Hidden talent:

I have double joined toes and can move them like fingers. I used to be able to roll my tongue into two rolls but then I got a load of tongue piercings and can’t do it anymore

#tag game

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memecatwings · 2 years

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i cant believe the gameplay in disco elysium reignited my desire to read books

#me playing disco elysium like 'wow this is Exactly like reading a book. i should do that again'

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liugeaux · 1 year

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Disco Panic! - Ranking Brendon’s Albums

With Panic! at the Disco “breaking up” this year, I think now’s a fitting time to throw out my official ranking of all P! at the D albums. I've been a fan since A Fever You Can't Sweat Out and at the time I thought, man this is a band I'm going to like for a long time. While I was right in some aspects, I was wrong to think that it would be a “band”. The hostile takeover that Brendon Urie orchestrated after their second album left me feeling uneasy, but as a music fan I was willing to give it a chance.

Prior to putting this together I was unaware that Ryan Ross was the primary songwriter on the first two albums. Given this info, Urie surrounding himself with creatives and maturing as a songwriter makes the successful transition even more impressive. I don't think it started off amazing, but the Brendon Urie Project really paid off in the long run. You'll see what I mean in the list below.

By no means do I think this breakup is permanent. I feel like Urie is content being a dad right now and has enough money to make it super comfortable. Inevitably, Panic will be back just like My Chemical Romance, just like Fall Out Boy, just like Motion City Soundtrack, just like Yellowcard ... they all come back, and until then, here is my ranking.

7. Viva Las Vengeance

Let’s start this off with a dead fish. Viva is not good. I don't know what happened after Pray For The Wicked, but something went wrong. Where the previous two albums were full of bold and big anthems that play to Urie's strengths. Vengeance strikes out every time it steps to the plate. Usually I have something good to say even about albums I don't love, but there is a very little good to say about Viva Las Vengeance. It feels like Urie wanted to write show tunes but lost the nerve at the last minute, then tried to pivot into a heartland rock album and failed at doing both. If somehow this does end up being the last Panic album, it's sad they went out on such a stinker. Just skip this one, trust me.

6. Vices & Virtues

Luckily this list gets much better, very fast. Vices & Virtues’ only sin is being rote. After the departure of Ryan Ross and John Walker, the direction Brendan took the band was decidedly backwards. It’s no secret that Pretty. Odd. was a fraction as successful as their debut. Vices & Virtues feels like a conscious choice to attempt to reignite the spark that made the first album shine so bright. Because of this, nothing on Vices & Virtues feels fresh. The songs are good and many of them even stand out in the greater Panic catalog. Even with the clear effort to sound like Fever, the quirky and unusual nature of the band is watered down, leaving only a costumed theatrical feeling. When this album came out, it felt like Brendon was fine with the band turning into the next Offspring, a band that hasn't changed their sound in 30 years. Taking into consideration that this was basically Urie’s debut album and Butch Walker was at the production reigns, it ends up being an easy album to recommend.

5. Pretty. Odd.

Thematically, Pretty. Odd. and Vices & Virtues could not be farther apart. Where Vices trades in the familiar, Odd very much lives up to its name and is quite the departure from its predecessor. As the boldest album in the catalog, I'm not sure the band realized they needed to write singles to be released to radio. It's full of '60s-esque psychedelic experiments and I've always felt this album was the band doing their very best Sergeant Pepper impression. The production is subdued, the tracks meander and Yuri's booming voice is painfully underused. Ryan Ross even does some singing, and if that doesn't scream Beatles, I don't know what does. Oddly enough, this album is the perfect sophomore effort. Its the logical next step following Fever and only expands on the band’s efforts to explore new ideas, songwriting techniques, and unexpected genre busting sounds. It’s a shame the band fundamentally changed following its release. I would have loved to hear a third album from what was essentially the original Panic.

4. Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die

After the relatively safe Vices & Virtues, and following the departure of Spencer Chamberlain, the last remaining member of the original band, the Brendon Urie Project is now in full swing. I feel like the criticisms Urie received from Vices directly led to Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die being more experimental in a lot of areas. Gone are most of the theatrics and feux-Victorian set dressing, and enter a more synthesized pop and consequently more modern album. It's dancey, and catchy and Urie finally accepts the fact that he's an amazing singer. This and the next two albums are full of big home run swings that display Urie’s intention to remain relevant. There’s an open effort to not be pigeon-holed as that sad boi who can’t grow out of his high-school drama-kid phase. Now that he was flying alone Brandon had to prove he was worth the time. Tracks like Vegas Lights, This is Gospel and Girls/Girls/Boys, set the tone for what the next 5 years of Panic at the Disco would sound like. It retained the experimental nature of the first two albums while allowing those experiments to include elements of popular music more-so than any release before it. Brendon Urie grew up, and instead of making music for his weird drama club homies, he's finally making music for the masses. It's not a perfect album, but it's the equivalent of Babe Ruth calling his shot. 5 years after the seeds were planted in Weird, that energy blooms into Panic’s biggest hit, High Hopes.

3. Pray For the Wicked

Speaking of High Hopes, Pray For the Wicked is the most confident album in Panic’s entire catalog. The production is tight, the hooks are violently catchy and Urie’s voice has never sounded better. If we're going to make a car analogy, this album is firing on all cylinders. Wicked feels like the exclamation point on a return to dominance. The break-up of the original line-up creatively set Urie back several years and it wasn’t until High Hopes hit radio, that Panic was what fans always wanted them to be, the biggest rock band in the world. It isn’t as brash as Death of a Bachelor, but it shares the sleek pop sensibilities of its predecessor. Wicked’s only crime is not being as good as #’s 1 and 2 on this list. Silver Lining, Say Amen, and Hey Look Ma are as good of a 1-2-3 punch as any band would hope to have just once in their career, but for Panic, these five-star songs aren’t even their biggest hits.

2. A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out

Fever sits as a unique jewel of an era of music that saw the excesses of its time and chose to bask is the emotions that came with it. Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, and the other poster-children of mid-2000’s “Emo” rock, shared a similar world view and lyrical tone. Where those songwriters felt like they needed music as therapy, Panic sounded like a group of theater dudes who just needed an outlet. They were more talented than they were confident and that led to them slotting easily into the “Emo” world. Acoustic riffs, electric crunch, upbeat, youth-fueled songs, and a healthy experimental kitchen-sink mentality. The journey of Fever feels like the boys in the band were let loose in the Fueled By Ramen instrument closet and after 10 minutes, in what can only be described as A.D.H.D.-voice, you hear from the back “Dude I found an accordion!” That spritely excitement is the energy the whole album carries, and its infectious. Sadly, due to the direction taken for their second album and the subsequent departure of Ryan Ross, Fever never got a “proper” follow-up. This leaves it as the biggest outlier of the genre during that era. Track by track, by the time you get to the big hit, I Write Sins, Not Tragedies, you’ve already been showered with so many Emo riches, that Sins seems like a formality.

1. Death of a Bachelor

With the departure of Ross and ascension of Urie as the sole creative voice, the transition wasn’t super smooth (see Vices and Too Weird). Death of a Bachelor was the first Urie fronted album with a voice. Urie finally had something to say. He finally understood the theatrics he’d been wearing as a costume for years and grew into what he was supposed to be. Lyrically, Death of a Bachelor lives up to its name. It serves as a bookend to Urie’s youth and celebrates the excess of adolescent freedoms and passions. It’s nostalgia in real time, a bachelor party as a new beginning and a critical look in the mirror as Urie washes off the puke stains from his big-boy pants. Too Weird, set Urie on the journey through “anything goes” production and Bachelor shows significant growth in that direction. The previous 2 albums were produced by Butch Walker and while that is always a formula for quality, Walker can be a bit hand-holdy in his direction. Bachelor eschews that by having Urie take the production reigns. Listening to the result, leaves it evident that he was ready. The song Death of a Bachelor might perfectly encapsulate Urie’s era of the band. Dynamic production, huge vocals, personal reflection, raw ambition and a learn-by-doing attitude, its wonderful.

Hopefully, time will be kind to Panic. Had Urie not stepped up and worked his ass off, they might have drifted into 00’s emo obscurity. Inevitably, when they announce a return with either new music or a tour or both, the music in this list will be gilded as a precious expression of a very specific time in pop music and more specifically Urie’s talent.

Cheers

#Panic! at the Disco

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May I have some headcanons of Harry forgetting about a partner (romantically) and it upset the partner. Harry tries to make it up to them and falls in love with them again? I thought the idea was really cute. If possible could you also mention some about the reader's freckles. Any pronouns you want

I have freckles but they're like, only there in the summer. Sucks.

Headcanons: Disco Elysium

+Forgetting your S/O

Harry du Bois:

Any partner of his would probably be well acquainted with Jean, so I imagine you’d be pacing the floor of the precinct waiting for him to get back from Martainaise. But the instant you hear that Harry was shot, you’re hauling ass there. I imagine you’d meet Harry again somewhere near the final conversation with Jean, Judit, Trant, etc.

You’d be so relieved to see Harry that you don’t even think before you throw yourself at him. He hugs you back, but then asks who you are, and you are DEVASTATED.

Jean and Kim delicately explain the situation, with Jean being hypercritical and Kim being positive and reasonable. It doesn’t matter though: the only person he remembers is his ex-something.

Harry is quick to put two-and-two together, though, and is suddenly all over the mystery of who you are to him, and why you care so much for a man who had clearly been a complete mess.

He spends the next few months off duty (for obvious reasons), focusing a lot of his time towards rediscovering that bond. And not only does he rediscover it - he reignites it with a passion and empathy that pre-mart Harry wasn’t particularly known for.

He’s permanently apologetic, almost self-flagellation, but you’re having none of that. At least his apologies have some sense of genuineness, this time.

He’s a better person since Martinsaise, but he’s still Harry, and your relationship is always going to be on the right side of chaotic. But hey, you knew that going into it. And you love it.

Unrelated: Harry’s a big fan of any markings or scars. He always finds meaning in them, literally. Encyclopedia has a story and historic connection to every single dot and pattern a person could have. Freckles? He eats that shit up.

#oz’s requests #headcanons #disco elysium headcanons #disco elysium x reader #disco elysium #harry du bois

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