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theminecraftbee · 2 years

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my favorite thing about the "iskall is tubbo's dad" bit is that, as best i can tell, this is the one case of family dynamics having absolutely nothing to do with the fandom. iskall and captain sparklez and tubbo were just hanging out and they declared themselves as tubbo's dad as a joke and iskall specifically is the one who hasn't let it go. every time he catches sight of tubbo he goes "MY SON :D". tubbo shows up randomly in his singleplayer vault hunters and he's like "my beloved son". tubbo says something on twitter and iskall goes "my kid". and he's like. the ONE GUY pushing this. i have seen surprisingly little fandom content of this one. i think tubbo just nods and goes along with it. iskall though? iskall has adoption papers signed on his wall. i'm not sure tubbo even signed them. iskall may have forged that. everyone's just going with it. it's really funny to me,

#iskall85 #tubbo #I'M NOT NORMALLY INTO FAMILY DYNAMIC STUFF because i think it often reduces one cc to their relationship with another guy #and also often sort of shoves people into a weird nuclear family #however. objectively funny that iskall seemingly took one look at tubbo and went 'my child now'#and is now ABSOLUTELY REFUSING to let go

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tonysopranosfeverdreams · 5 years

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Underrated Panic! Songs about being LGBT

4. Folkin’ Around

This was one of the first Panic songs that Brendon wrote. The song follows the trajectory of someone fondly looking back on a very intense romantic relationship that seems to elude to a (former?) partner that society/close family refuses to acknowledge, on principle, despite the protagonist being entirely enamored. The protagonist, sad and sort of frustrated, talks about how the way they love or the particular kind of love they posses and express, even though it seems natural and joyful to them, causes people to hate them, purely for the way they love.

“When nothing really mattered except for me to be with you....And by the time your father’s heard of all the wrong you’ve done......if love is not enough to put my enemies to sleep... then I’m putting out the lantern, find your own way back home.”

3. Casual Affair

As someone who was obsessed with panic! in 2013, I remember when the original album was released online before it officially hit itunes and spotify, and, in the original cut of this song, there’s an intro that doesn’t appear on the album (whether due to copyright issues or just a label choice is unclear).

This original intro to the song samples a quote from “Boys Beware,” an anti-gay propaganda film from the 60s that warns boys and young men against the alleged ‘dangers’ of getting to close to other men and associating with men who are gay. (link to the original cut of the panic song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyx0W5UhJGM , and link to the Boys Beware anti-gay propaganda that the song samples from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_NAl4AkmjU)

“ Looks innocent enough doesn't it? But sometimes there are dangers involved that never meets the eye. No matter where you're meeting strangers, be careful if they are too friendly”

that’s pretty. overt. specifically considering the song is explicit about a relationship that you’re trying desperately to keep from going public/know they’ll disapprove keep casual enough that no one will find it out. The song is the expression of different sorts of shame colliding, a shame coming from the outside world about the person you’re having the relationship, and then an inner sense of shame that seems to be operating in tandem

“ Lay in the atmosphere A casual affair (Hush-hush, don't you say a word) ....

Break involuntary ties, secret so the spies never find us out....”

The thing that really gets me from this song is the party where the lyrics are just this desperate, angry, repetition of

“I did it, I did it, I did it, I did it, I did it, I did it again...”

and it’s like, for a moment, the song really becomes about self-loathing and acting on an impulse that you know you can’t resist, but know you should be ashamed of.

i’m not sure there’s much more to be said about this one. in context, It seems pretty overt in meaning.

2. Old Fashioned

This is the song reminiscing on a much earlier relationship (specifically at 17 ...obviously lmao) that the protagonist remembers as something repressed, that was viewed as a sickness or that was supposed to be stomped out at the time, but is still remembered with an amount of tenderness, fondness, and longing. The narrator pretty much explicitly referring to a situation where the protagonist and the object of their affection were young teenagers who were trying to “medicate” themselves to stay “healthy” or “normal” and avoid any sort of homosexual tendencies. It’s a very literal song about remembering being young and having feelings for someone of the same sex, and still owning and living in those feelings while acknowledging the way you shoved them down out of a sense of internalized homophobia and refusing to fully acknowledge what was actually going on.

“We were borderline kids with a book of disorders Medicating every day to keep the straightness in order Dead and gone so long, seventeen's so gone

Remember your youth, in all that you do....

they were the best of times, they were the best of times”

1. Mad As Rabbits

This is a beautiful, surrealist clusterfuck of a song with the most iconic (often unrealized) literary allusion in panic history. It’s a song about friendship and bad habits and being in love w the weird fuckin life youre living and rejecting the notions of a “traditional romance” or the nuclear family and opting for something.... different.

You know that Paul Cates Bought himself a trumpet from the Salvation Army But there ain't no sunshine in his song”

The Salvation Army is a notoriously homophobic American charity that funnels their money into anti-gay causes. It seems slightly too specific to be a coincidence, particularly considering the next lyrics, repeated again and again as the main message of the song:

“We must reinvent love, reinvent love Reinvent love”

And, fuck. This is a direct quote from French gay poet Arthur Rimbaud who wrote famously, of his sexuality, “I do not like women, love must be reinvented.”

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(It’s interesting to read up on Rimbaud’s relationship with Paul Verlaine, who was also a poet with whom he shared an incredibly tumultuous relationship that the two both wrote extensively about in their poems)

In conclusion:

These songs are all way more pertinent to and honest about the gay/lesbian/bi/pan experience than Girls/Girls Boys thank you for coming to my ted talk

#im stoned and this is all i got in me #happy pride these are all better songs than girls/girls/boys lol #panic at the disco #brendon urie

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