was working with a cart of nonfiction books that had a few unhinged manifestos by conservatives on it and I always find it fascinating (if horrifying) to flip through them and I can't get over the author who said that he's a practical guy so he knows this will never happen but ideally he would like to see every college razed to the ground and replaced with "an animatronic of Joseph McCarthy clapping his hands" and seemed to be dead serious
Yardbirds
Birdland
2003 Favored Nations
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Tracks:
01. I’m Not Talking
02. Crying out for Love
03. The Nazz Are Blue with Jeff Baxter
04. For Your Love with Johnny Rzeznik
05. Please Don’t Tell Me ‘bout the News
06. Train Kept A-Rollin’ with Joe Satriani
07. Mr. Saboteur
08. Shapes of Things with Steve Vai
09. My Blind Life with Jeff Beck
10. Over, under, Sideways, Down with Slash
11. You’re a Better Man than I with Brian May
12. Mystery of Being
13. Dream within a Dream
14. Happenings Ten Years Time Ago with Steve Lukather
15. An Original Man (a Song for Keith)
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omg I am in LOVEE with frat!miguel and cheerleader reader 🙏💕 I was picturing reader somehow getting injured at one of Miguel’s games (maybe a player slams into her or she hits her head), and him literally RUSHING off of the field to help her and people are shocked to see him getting so soft!!!! Ofc, this could be the other way around too, but soft!miguel would be such a shock, especially considering his reputation, and so cute to see 🥲🤲 Xoxo
“y/n watch out!”
your cheer mate scream at you with eyes wide, and before you could turn around, someone else’s bigger physique crashes into you. causing your body to fall and your head lands into the ground with a loud thud,
the audience let out a collective of gasps and surprised, worrying about the small girl getting concussed by the large linebacker who hurriedly get on his feet before spitting countless of apologies,
but nothing compares to how miguel reacts when he sees his girl falls,
his blood runs cold, aggressively taking off his helmet and let it fall into the grass before sprinting towards you in full speed,
“muñeca !!” he screams, voice filled with worried while ignoring the coach calling out his last name. as the rest of the team begins to exchange glances, wondering what the fuck happened to miguel.
because he’s never been the one to leave his position in any circumstances. football means a lot to him, he lives and breathe football.
so to see him completely dismissing the game is a shock to the rest,
“f-fuck i’m so sorry, i didn’t—“
“what the actual fuck was that?!” miguel roars once he gets to see you close, but his angry eyes move towards the guy who just crashed into you. his big hands violently shove the man out of your sight,
“didn’t you fucking hear the rules?! this area is off limits! there’s a line drawn here el hijo de puta!!”
“the fuck?! the ball was—“
“i don’t give a fuck if the ball went through here!! you leave it as it is!! someone could get seriously injured! you want someone to fucking die or something?!”
the team has never seen miguel so angry and red, it’s almost like miguel could actually snap that man’s neck in half. his eyes are filled with vengeance as he continues to call the guy names for hurting you,
beck’s face goes pale. “oh fuck” he mutters, jogging towards miguel and hurriedly put a space in between them. “okay okay, man! easy, easy! don’t start a fight, need me to remind you what happened to chuck last year?!”
beck searches for any significant changes on miguel’s face. heavy breathing combines with a deadly look on his expression before he shakes his head,
“okay good. let me take care of this and go to your girl. she’s still hurt” he pats on miguel’s shoulder pad before he walks off,
miguel is still burning with anger but that soon subsides when he hears you call out his name,
“miggy?”
he never turns around so quickly, bending down to your level as his arms begin to cradle your fragile body before pulling you close. “you good, baby?” his voice is now gentle and soft. “let me see”
his fingers move underneath your chin, gently tilting it back and winces when he sees a small scar across your forehead.
“dizzy?” he asks, you nod in response, hand holding your head. he then looks up to one of your cheer mates,
“get a medic, now!” he yells out, putting your head against his chest so you can rest comfortably,
“o’hara! get back here, game isn’t over!” his coach yells angrily
“i’m not moving until my girl is taken care of! go get someone off the bench to replace me if you have to!” he responds by looking over his shoulder for a moment
the coach’s shoulders slump, brows dipping into a frown as he shakes his head. “the fuck? this kid—“ he grumbles before turning around,
glen nudges beck’s side with his elbow, looking as confused as the rest.
“I don’t get it. he never asks someone to replace him. not even when his knee was busted.”
beck looks over at the two of you, watching how miguel intently taking care of your injured self.
“yeah, I don’t get it, either” beck mutters but with a small smile. seeing how his best friend completely fallen for you was definitely not on his bingo card. it’s a good change, he supposed,
he’s never been this in love with his previous girlfriends. not dana nor xina. you’re pretty much the first. he guesses, you must be the one for him,
Glen Powell in that gray sweater is totally giving me Dad!Jake vibes. He's so cute🥹
yes yes it does.
it gives Dad!Jake takes you out for dinner after leaving the kids with the babysitter (rooster) he takes you somewhere casual yet dressy cause he knows on the nights without the kids you want to put on something a little nicer. he also knows how absolutely feral you get for him in a sweater with his chain and his expensive dress watch.
he might be a loving, devoted husband who will be at your every beck and call… but he’s also a dude
While taking a look at right wing social media spaces, as I often do to keep an eye on what the chuds are up to (and because I am a digital masochist I guess), I came across this video: "Mr. Rogers on Gender Orientation."
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first of all what is "gender orientation" even supposed to be gender is not sexuality you numblings
The clip is from a 1980 interview with Fred Rogers on The Tonight Show, where Rogers talks about his song, "Everybody's Fancy," which includes the lyrics "Boys are boys from the beginning / Girls are girls right from the start." Rogers says these lyrics are about addressing small children's fears that they might change into the opposite gender.
The clip's title frames this moment as an example of Fred Rogers being "anti-woke" and speaking "the truth" that gender and sex are binary and fixed. Indeed, the comments on this and similar videos have a lot of people saying things like "Was he trying to warn us???" and "This was once common sense!"
This isn't the only video like this. A glance at YouTube revealed that clips of Mr. Rogers singing this song has been making the rounds among right wing pundits like Glen Beck, Ben Shapiro and even the God-Forsaken Atlas Society.
After Glen Beck and his co-host make some hi-lar-i-ous comments about how Mr. Rogers should be dug up and beaten by the left wing mob, they mention how "I think everyone still knows this, but they're afraid to say it."
These clips stuck out to me because of how strangely they try to bring nostalgia into today's culture war on trans and queer people.
I noticed first of all that, even though all of these commentators are shouting about how Mr. Rogers would be absolutely canceled by the woke mob if he were around today, there is in fact no one in the queer community I can find who is actually denouncing Rogers as a transphobe.
No, Mr. Rogers still remains beloved as the quintessential wholesome media figure 20 years after his death in 2003. Which is precisely why right-wing bigots are holding this particular song up now - to say, "You woke moralists are so sick, you'd even hate Mr. Rogers!" They aren't defending Fred Rogers from anything; in fact they would love for people to get mad over these clips.
But of course, there are actually some people getting mad over this, and it's these pundits' audiences. By holding up this media from the past, the commentators and their audience get to lament to each other about the way things used to be, before "gender ideology," when people knew the truth about the world. It's one of the reactionaries' favourite pastimes.
What makes the use of these clips particularly insidious is precisely the fact that they are old media and Fred Rogers is not available to respond to or clarify them. Any objection that someone could make about Rogers' intentions or attitude can be dismissed immediately as second-hand interpretations.
But am I denying that what Fred Rogers said would be called problematic today? Well, no. The original words to that song don't align with modern understandings of gender identity, and the verse that follows about how "only girls can be the mommies" has some sexist undertones about gender norms. If these words were written today, they would indeed be called capital-P Problematic.
So why has the cancellation not commenced? Why no digital woke mob? As hard as this may be for the right to understand, queer people and their allies can understand context clues. While these comments were very much Not Good, most people are aware that Fred Rogers said these things from the social perspective of the 1970s and 80s, with an intended audience of very young children who were learning about their bodies. It's clear from how he says these things that he was not speaking from the perspective of an anti-trans moral panic. It seems likely that Rogers wrote these lyrics the way he did because, like most people at that time, he simply was not aware of the trans experience.
Another major context clue that Rogers was well-intentioned is that
This is FRED WON'T-YOU-BE-MY-NEIGHBOUR ROGERS
The thing that transphobic, homophobic pundits leave out of this discourse, which most other observers already understand, is that Fred Rogers was one of the most understanding and radically compassionate people anyone can think of.
Fred Rogers dedicated his TV show and much of his life's work to showing children - and in fact people of all ages - that they are valuable just the way they are. He featured people of all abilities, races, genders and backgrounds in positive roles on the show.
Most famously, this included dipping his feet in a pool along with a black man at a time when white segregationists were organizing against letting black people share swimming pools with white people.
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Mr. Rogers was not afraid to make political statements with his programming, and importantly, he was also not afraid to learn and change.
Glen Beck and company chose to highlight an early recording of the "Everybody's Fancy" song, but what they won't tell you is how that song gradually evolved over the years that Mr. Rogers was on the air. As Rogers spoke to more people with feminist perspectives, he saw some of the issues with the strict gender norms of his original words and began to change them.
Later on, he began to sing a version with these words...
I am not saying that Fred Rogers was perfect. He was a human being and a product of his own time and environment, and he has likely said or done other things that did not age well. He is not immune to criticism or reconsideration.
What I am saying is that Fred Rogers was certainly not acting from the place of sneering, culture war bigotry from which these right wing pundits are acting.
Commenters such as Beck, Shapiro, and the chuds at the Atlas Society have none of the compassion and radical inclusion that made Mr. Rogers a cultural icon. This makes it all the more profane when they take selective clips of his work and use them for purposes that are opposed to Fred Rogers' stated intentions.
And it's no secret that the right is opposed to Mr. Rogers' intentions. In 2007, Fox and Friends aired their notorious segment about how Mr. Roger's message on the value of every child was EVIL.
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So, don't let the right try to claim Mr. Rogers or other dead celebrities for their own bigotry. They resented what he said while he was alive on Earth; they don't get to repackage his words now that he is not available to address them.
The right has tried to do similar things with other late celebrities whose views actually opposed their own - people ranging all the way from George Carlin to Martin Luther King, Jr. Thankfully, there are many people who have resisted these appropriations, but it's important to keep pushing back for the people who may not be aware, especially now that conservatives are pushing hard against trans and non-binary people, and the LGBTQ+ community in general.
The right wing wants their transphobic, queerphobic ideas to be more popular than they really are. They want to make trans people and drag queens into boogeymen so that you will vote for right wing candidates and let them gut labour protections and social safety nets. All of this is ultimately in service to capitalist owners who are concerned about keeping their control over an unsteady, changing workforce. Don't let them do it.
If you've read this far, you probably already know that LGBTQ+ people are not your enemy. This pride month especially, it's time to stand in solidarity with queer people, immigrants, the unhoused, sex workers, people of colour, and all marginalized people to make a more equitable and loving world together.
On that note, I'll end with some of Mr. Rogers' real messages to children everywhere...
nancy drew - trail of the twister inspired playlist
LINK TO YOUTUBE PLAYLIST
SORRY WE MISSED YOU — WE`RE OUT CHASING: songs to drive at full speed in a small town, deal with miserable people, run errands in the country fields and survive natural disasters
ruby haunt - destroyer
nancy drew: trail of the twister - lonely night
beck - paper tiger
nancy drew: trail of the twister - country
tyler childers & the foodstamps - rustin’ in the rain
creed - rain
nancy drew: trail of the twister - danger song 2
red hot chili peppers - scar tissue
nancy drew: trail of the twister - dance
bob dylan - a hard rain's a-gonna fall
nancy drew: trail of the twister - prairie
missy elliott - the rain (supa dupa fly
nancy drew: trail of the twister - danger song 1
creedence clearwater revival - who'll stop the rain
+ are there any underused/lesser known FCs that you would like to see? 👀
alan ritchson, alejandro speitzer, alexander ludwig, alvaro rico, andrew garfield, andrew matarazzo, austin butler, brant daugherty, brenton thwaites, carlos cuevas, charles melton, charlie carver, danny griffin, darren barnet, derek theler, diego tinoco, drew ray tanner, drew starkey, dylan o'brien, emilio sakraya, florian munteanu, freddie stroma, froy gutierrez, glen powell, henry zaga, isaac cole powell, itzan escamilla, jay lycurgo, jeremy allen white, johnny sibilly, josh macqueen, justice smith, keith powers, lucien laviscount, mason dye, max carver, max thieriot, matthew noszka, miguel bernardeau, miguel herran, miles teller, nick jonas, nick robinson, nico tortorella, noah beck, noah centineo, nolan gerard funk, omar ayuso, rafael de la fuente, ronen rubinstein, ryan kelley, ryan kwanten, scott eastwood, shawn mendes, suraj sharma, tenoch huerta, travis kelce, trevor donovan, tyler hynes, tyler posey, will poulter, wolfgang novogratz, & yoshi sudarso
frat mig finds out ur ex wants u back and is ready to throw handssss
“he WHAT?!”
miguel is upset. no. furious, even.
you had previously mentioned your ex to miguel before the two of you started dating, it was a heart to heart moment and you casually just slipped it in because you thought it was no big deal.
but miguel was far from being okay with what that motherfucker did to you. not to mention, that he never actually like that guy. seeing him around during his parties and casually flexing his wealth and shit almost made him lose his cool.
so from that moment on, miguel had sworn to protect you from him, to make a promise that he wouldn’t turn out like him. and to make sure that any guy on campus knows that you are off limits.
yet it seems that your ex didn’t get the hint,
‘okay, see? this is why I didn’t tell you! i said to leave it, miguel!’
“no” he disagrees, head shaking as he looks at you with hands on hips. “give me his number”
“what? no!”
“fine. his dorm room, then’ he shrugs,
‘again. no’
‘why can’t you just let me kick his ass?!’ he crosses his arms. ‘i’m your boyfriend! I’m allowed to kick a guy’s ass if they tried to do something to you!’
‘because knowing you, you’ll do much more than kicking his ass, miguel. you’d put him in the hospital’ you point out, and he’s no one to deny it. ‘and he does. i know he does, he’s seen me with you around couple times’ you try to tell him but miguel doesn’t seem to budge. his eyes are elsewhere, eyebrows curve into a concentrated frown,
oh, you know exactly what he’s thinking about,
‘miguel, no, no,no! stop! stop that!’ you get up from the couch, hand out as a gesture for him to take it easy. ‘i know what you’re thinking and i do not like it’
‘I don’t know what you’re talking about’ he shrugs innocently. ‘because i am definitely not thinking about killing him’
‘who are we killing?’
his best friend, glen emerges from upstairs and start walking down. you and miguel throw a glance at his direction,
‘miguel is trying to beat the living shit out of todd simply because he was trying to win me back’ you tell him as glen moves towards the kitchen. ‘tell him he’s overreacting, glen! go on!’
glen raises an eyebrow, cracking a beer can open. ‘oh todd? your ex? fuck. i never liked that dude. i’m with miguel on this one. count me in’
‘HA! i told you, muñeca’ miguel beams, ‘what time should we do it?’
‘give me fifteen minutes then we can go pay him a visit. i’ll bring beck’ glen answers,