Can we imagine for a moment: early 2000s muggleborns at hogwarts? Do you remember when grippies for pencils basically had a chokehold on us for so long? I like to think they put them for their wands and stuff like that. OMG or use glitter balls for divination class??? Can you imagine reading your future in a goddam rubber ball filled with glitter like a teacup. Or hex their silly bands to act like the object they’re shaped like? Feather extensions but with pheonix feathers? The possibilities…..

Alex and Matt at Pula Arena in Croatia, 16.08.22 (source)

ARCTIC MONKEYS: GLITTERBALL EDITION by skivral on instagram

update from the universe where max and daniel are on strictly come dancing... it's the grand final baybee

They don’t win.

Daniel just has time to wrap Max in a quick hug and say in his ear, “It’s okay, it’s okay,” before they get hustled over to talk to the presenters.

He manages to get off a line or two, standing with his arm around Max’s waist, trying to psychically dissuade him from kicking off –

“It’s like Swayze said, y’know, I’ve had the time of my life dancing with this fella –”

Max is upset, he can tell, but he behaves, just says, “It is of course a shame not to win for Daniel,” before he congratulates Ellen and Kai.

And then there’s the glitterball, and the music, and the dozen other couples descending on the dancefloor, and he loses track of Max in the crowd, the blur of colour and costumes.

It seems like forever until Daniel catches him again but it can only be a few moments. Max still looks mad, eyes bright, cheeks hectic red.

“I think it’s not right,” Max says, voice raised loud enough for Daniel to hear him over the racket. “You deserved to win.”

Daniel looks at him, this man who has trusted him completely for the past four months, and it’s like his whole brain is running a highlight reel of Max: Max shaking his hand the first time they met, so uptight; Max lifting his eyes to Daniel’s in the mirror in the rehearsal studio, nodding determinedly; Max crying laughing in the spray tan booth with his little goggles on, saying, “Okay, one more time,” past midnight in the studio, taking Daniel’s weight, kissing Daniel after their rumba with the kind of desperation Daniel had never felt, making Daniel want him more than he’s ever wanted anybody.

“Max,” he says. “I did win.”

“What?” Max says, gesturing. It’s so fucking loud in here.

“I won,” Daniel repeats, and it must be written all over his face, because Max says, hopeful, wary, “Daniel, you said. Not while we’re on the show.”

Daniel grins at him, leans in and cups Max’s cheek in his hand. “Show’s over, baby.”

He kisses him, sweeter than victory, and when he pulls away to breathe Max lets out this little disbelieving noise that squeezes in Daniel’s chest. He presses his mouth to Daniel’s cheek and says, “Technically I think the cameras are still rolling,” and Daniel says, “I’m good.”

A cheer goes up as Max hoists him into the air, just the way Daniel taught him, and he kisses him, kisses him, laughing against Max’s mouth as the confetti comes down around them.

The elusive AM7

From benchappell's IG story [posted 30th August 2022]

Arctic Monkeys @ Falls Festival 31 Dec. 2022, By pat_the_depressedsoul

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FC KAHUNA | GLITTERBALL [MV, 2002]

Just caught up with Strictly & omfg everyone was so good last night!!!

From now on, I shall only obey the orders of Glitterball. I choose to make it my source of wisdom and happiness, I shall sacrifice everything in the name of the mighty Glitterball.

May its mirrors reflect my soul.

May its rotation get my propeller to spin again.

May its lights guide my heart back home. 

AM7.

ARCTIC MONKEYS (and special guests): GLITTERBALL EDITION by skivral on instagram

Christopher is just jealous. Diego is handsome, has a girlfriend, awesome hair, great knife skills while Christopher is just a cube and a discoball on occations 😄😄

On the contrary: the disco ball came purely from Diego’s imagination. Maybe Christopher could see the whole footloose dream sequence in his brain and took personal offence.

🌈  ||  𝕣𝕦𝕖 + 𝕞𝕒𝕖𝕧𝕖  (𝕔𝕙𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕤 + 𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕤)

          𝑔𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇   𝒷𝒶𝓁𝓁   𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃𝓉   𝓈𝓊𝓂𝓂𝒶𝓇𝓎.

rue   had   spent   the   better   part   of   the   glitter   and   glam   and   shablam!   filled   night   bouncing   between   mahalia,   whom   she   styled   and   pried   out   of   her   apartment   in   a   gold   little   number,   lux   who   had   helped   rue   slather   her   in   glitter   &   vice   versa,   and   also   alex   when   he   WASN’T   TRYING   to   set   the   place   on   fire.            &   then   she   ended   up   on   the   dancefloor.   with   maeve.   close   and   intimate   and   blurring   that   damn   line   again.                  but   after   a   few   cocktails   and   shots,   slipping   their   arms   around   each   other   was   like   second   nature   all   over   again.            maeve   had   always   been   so   beautiful,   it   had   always   been   easy   and   beyond   chemical   between   the   two...   they   shouldn’t   have.   but   they   did.         and   come   the   end   of   the   night,   they   were   back   at   rue’s   place   tangled   up   in   her   pastel   sheets   and   each   other.         AGAIN.         she’d   regret   it   in   the   morning,   rue   told   herself   as   their   clothes   hit   the   floor.      and   she   did.

rue   AWOKE   the   next   morning,   hungover   and   filled   with   flashes   of   memories   as   she   rubbed   her   thumping   head...   the   scent   of   scrambled   eggs   and   bacon   was   in   the   air.      &   pancakes?         she   pulled   on   a   large,   faded   floral   t-shirt   and   panties   and   made   her   way   out.         rue   cursed   aloud   for   tricking   herself   into   thinking   she’s   be   there,   cooking   her   favourite   break-fast   for   her   like   she   once   would...   but   break-fast   was   cooked   and   maeve...   well,   maeve   was   gone.         AGAIN.    and   the   sight   of   the   cooked   meal   without   her   once-girlfriend   there?      rue   suddenly   didn’t   have   an   appetite   anymore.

        summary   of:   @nocovenants​   &   @flcwerblessed​         brief   mentioning:  @psychcpomp​,   @ascreamingecho​   &   @ofprcphecy​

The Glitterball with MONKEYS on it in full glory.

R U Mine @ Lowlands Festival 20 Aug. 2022, By egelistens