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thatdeadaquarius · 3 months

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HELP I JUST HAD A THOUGH

WHAT IF

What if....

Blunt reader became a harbinger

I have NO idea how that would go but im here for the crack lol

I BEEN WAITIN FOR THIS ONE-

(and to use this gif more importantly they're all so hot here lol)

Sun: Reader (you/they/them), Blunt Language AU :D

Orbit: Headcanons-ish, crack treated srsly (yes im using ao3 tags atp)

Stars: Harbingers!

Comets & Meteors: Content Warnings: none known & Trigger Warnings: none known.

Please comment if I missed any. /gen

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SO thought I’d update anyone missing out bc of the new year but-

I made this silly thing called Blunt Language AU, that was my 1st post for this blog/fandom actually! :D

I’ll link it here, but TLDR: it’s just our modern speech sounding “ancient” to the Teyvatians, who speak really flowery/fluffy/lots of context in comparison!

That’s all you rlly need to know to read this I think, so enjoy! :)

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u fall into Genshin Impact, and Snezhnaya is where you land first type of energy lol

weird golden star falling from the sky? that sounds like a prophecy the Tsaritsa knows abt alright

so they sent Childe, one of the friendliest (if not The Friendliest) Harbinger, to see if it was a valid claim you’d finally descended,

and ofc as soon as the redhead heard you try and talk to him, he knew the claims by the small village nearby (who had taken u in from the cold weather/taken care of you) were legit

pantalone did manage to squeeze some examples of what you’d possibly sound like into his head before he left so while Childe personally has a tough time talking to you, it doesn't mean he’s not willing to try!! >:)

he mostly just kept asking questions forever until he understood what you meant, and as soon he got u were asking abt the Tsaritsa, the other Harbingers, himself, even how to get Sneznayan-made clothes lol

he was like: 👀👀👀???!!!!

it wasn't so much recruitment at first as it was “omg the exalted one wishes to learn abt us, the Tsaritsa and her Harbingers? abt me?? well would your highness like to come to our palace perchance???!!!!”

= have u ever been seduced and worshipped by a god and her country?? would you like to- ??? ← Childe actually

and with that convinces you to come straight to the Harbingers/Tsaritsa’s very home

No, you’re not just spoiled.

No, you’re not just pampered.

You are cosseted and coveted.

The Tsaritsa makes her first in person appearance to the people in decades to personally announce your return, and to get a festival going to literally parade you into the capital lol

And tbh it was kind of shocking how quickly the people of Snezhnaya are able to whip out the party supplies, within days of traveling via horses/sleds/carriage/trains all kinds of transportation, u arrived at the capital in full swing of a parade for you

The Tsaritsa herself in what looks like a genshin-ified kokoshnik, the elaborate headress draped with a veil so thin it looks like frost covering her face,

flocked on either side by her harbingers in full (kinda goth) ceremonial outfits waiting on your arrival too

needless to say you are properly smitten intimidated

and you stay nervous around them for the first few days or so,

that is before you run into the weekly, what you would call “family dinner nights”, but they call “dinner reports”…

in which Childe, the only one you’d been comfortable enough around to be a bit more genuine to, and surprisingly the only one to quickly adapt to your speech after traveling with you for days, would translate for you what tf you were saying to them vs. what everyone at the table was saying to you/around you

you would also like to propose other titles for these weekly dinner meetings you’re invited to, aka “family feud dinner night/family fight night/harbinger on harbinger hate night/fruit on fruit crimes, if you will” 💀

the Tsaritsa is just peacefully talking to you abt any and everything, bc ofc Pierro’s on her right, and ur on her left

(she and Pierro are surprisingly soft spoken, very polite, and able to say something interesting/take an interest in whatever subject you all end up on)

u don't think you've ever been more comfortable and on such equal footing around ppl sm older than you (what are older ppl to you, but to them ur literally fucking eldritch with how ancient u are, and u can tell with how they treat u like it lmao)

hard cut back to the rest of the table:

an argument that just gets louder and louder has broken out between Childe, Dottore, La Signora, and Pantalone abt who should get free time with you first/get to do smth with you first as you get over ur adjustment period here, Childe has taken his butter knife to throw and just barely missed Dottore’s eye, and it is now embedded in the back of his fancy chair (the servants placing down dinner courses just move abt w/the most bored expressions on their faces)

(u send half the table if this group gets out of hand and u just: “Please shut the fuck up, each of ur comebacks take 30 minutes and it’s killing me” 💀 bc they're the most likely to understand u too, even Pierro/Capitano/Pulcinella chuckle a little, and u think the Tsaritsa smirked under her veil)

ur honestly too scared to see what Scarmouche, Sandrone, and Arlecchino are arguing about, because they're arguing so silently further down the table. They have murder in their eyes.

Columbina and Capitano are having a peaceful collab over weapons, armor, and clothing to offer you, Pulcinella is close enough to both participate in that convo and in you, Pierro, and the Tsaritsa’s convos too

by the 2nd week you've decided to choose chaos, and get them to play board games together sometimes (they cant all make it all the time, tbh u don't know if u can handle that either) but groups of them will play at a time

u remembered early on what a dick Dottore was, and sentenced asked if he’d like to play this new board game called “Monopoly” from ur world with Childe, Pantalone, Pierro, Arlecchino, La Signora, and Scaramouche all together :)

(so what ur trying to bring khaenri’ah part 2 down on his head as punishment?? u owe scara and collei that at least)

Columbina is more than happy to help get you Harbinger-like clothes to wear since ur so interested in the style!! (yes yesss get converted, she already has a title picked out for you)

she also giggles anytime u talk abt whether u like an outfit or not, bc u just “no thank you I’d rather wear a trash bag than that shirt, but lets try another?”

meanwhile the tailors in the background u could literally edit them to one of those videos where it just zooms in on their faces with a vine boom of shock

like Pierro, ur unranked, just above the other Harbingers really, as it wouldn't do to make you the 12th Harbinger or smth

the names they gave you being, “The Playwright” or “The Renaissance” or even “Drammaturgo”

(pls anyone who speaks Italian correct if I'm wrong ToT )

ok but the first time, unsurprisingly, one of them got snappy with you, likely Scara I would think,

Scaramouche, pissy: “And what shall we do if it appears our almighty god is perhaps a descender who is entirely human? Why I dare say you’d be transgressing on privileges that were never yours to begin with!”

Every other Harbinger, the Tsaritsa herself, the servants, the frost on the walls: 😶😦😨😶‍🌫️

You, unbothered, still eating and fully expecting this moment: “I don't want to hear it from someone who has god-mommy issues. You shouldn’t have an opinion about me, ur biased.”

yeah, so obviously, they’re emotionally all attached now whether they know it or not, and this was of course the moment they realized they're god would fit in so perfectly here

(the other nations are going to have to pry you from Snezhnaya from their cold dead hands, esp since u now have legal deniability to visit bc ur technically a Harbinger, only commanded by her majesty lol)

(Scaramouche, Arlecchino, and Sandrone were fighting about who gets the room nearest to your quarters lol)

(Capitano won, somehow??)

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sorry ive been slow lately guys, been just trying to work on alllll the fics these past weeks/days/however long its been??

anyway had the shift from hell last week so wish me luck with work this week if u see this 😭

hope u enjoyed this old ask/crack treated srsly post orah!! :D

Safe Travels,

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void-rock · 1 month

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I shahshsgs finally started actually making proper designs for the mcd characters. I wanted to do Zane first because he legit lives in my head rent free. I still haven’t worked out all the beats of his story, but think like over looked over worked little sibling driven to literal madness and losing himself in the process. Yes eventually he is redeemed, but it takes a lot of trauma and pain before that.

(More below the cut !)

Slight Tw: mention of emotional incest, and childhood neglect.

Zane is a super compelling villain (no I don’t just think that because I’ve had a crush on him since childhood shut UP). But I’ve always felt his motive was just like “Rahh I’m evil just bc.” Where as in my rewrite it is definitely a slow burn, but he really just wishes to be seen as a person, and accepted by his family, and he resents his older brothers for the childhood he never got. (He grew up in an all girls convent and was forced to watch his brothers learn how to fight and be men and loved by their father just because they were boys). He always wanted approval from his father, and literally never got it because his father died before Zane got to show him he was a person worth fighting for too, which spiraled him out of control. Which is about the time he transitioned (spite and hate definitely fuels his transition, but he still very much identifies as a man) Zianna, eager to have a boy back in her life (atp Garroth and Vlyad have both abandoned the two of them) helps him transition, she has a very… boy mom relationship with her children, and after Garte dies is definitely emotionally incest-y with Zane. Yah she’s kind of just a different evil than Garte but still an awful parent.

He works in the church to get away from his mother, and basically wipes away all the traces of his old life. So much so, that when Garroth and him reunite Garroth doesn’t even recognize him, only turns his head when his last name is brought up. Zane looks for power anywhere he can get it, and it’s all the better if it’s leverage against his brother, which is why he targets Aphmau.

Anyways I could rant about his motives all day, but I won’t! Unless u wish me too in another post! But yes this was very fun, hopefully I won’t lose motivation. Who should I do next???

#art #drawing #digital art #fanart #aphmau #aphverse #asks #zane ro'meave #aphmau minecraft diaries #zane mcd #mcd #redesign #Aphmau oc #aphblr #mcd rewrite #mcd redesign

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northmelter · 9 months

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Genuinely cannot stand the way Liu writes Northstar 99.999% of the time and it isn't even her fault. He has like.... maybe 5 good scenes in that whole run, and only 1 that I like outside of "it's funny", which I also have problems with (him calling himself "fabulous" during his serious, otherwise good speech is.... so dumb and OOC). Austen let him be an asshole, even if him being gay was too overplayed. But Liu overplayed the gay thing without knowing... anything about him. Even his name, seeing as it was written as "Jean-Claude" multiple times in the first issue he was in. Him being more sarcastic and less of an outright asshole for the whole run was more of a nail in the coffin too.

Idt she actually wanted him in her book, to be fair. I think Marvel wanted a gay marriage before DC did one (if you don't include Wildstorm's the Authority in 2001). Even tho atp Northstar and his boyfriend had barely been in anything together lmao.

More apparent when you look at the description for the issues leading up to it.

And I do like her as a writer, and I feel like Marvel just... forced him in her book, and she didn't know him at all lmao but suddenly had to include him for the sake of SOLELY igniting controversy and a news cycle. So she just kinda got a baseline and then just kinda started writing a generic gay superhero who's whole point was literally just to be gay and get gay married. Which means I can't even blame her and legit feel bad doing so. But also it's annoying and tbh it's more annoying since I normally love her stuff.

It's all so dumb and I can't stand that run because of it and it pisses me off that Marvel only lets him be the forefront of stuff literally just to piss off people who don't read comics only to throw him back into obscurity once they're done.

Anyway. She writes him so bland and inoffensive minus a few funny lines but it isn't even HER FAULT it is... so clearly Marvel's and also it sucks that his wedding had to be for controversy and not for actual character development or ANYTHING to do with the character and any relationships he could've had (Kyle was the first and only person he was actually shown with minus like... Maurice and Jaques from the 80s/90s if you wanna be subtextual. Lol.) are not nonexistent because now he's married.

His wedding wasn't about his character it was about his sexuality and gay marriage being a controversial topic and that sucksssssssss so much ass. Fuck Marvel

Midnighter and Apollo's wedding was also clearly in part for shock value, but that was 2001, so that's progressive enough shock value for it to get a pass.

Proposal was May 22nd, 2012. That story arc with that description that includes the proposal and wedding issues started March 27th, 2012. Billy and Teddy proposed March 6th, 2012. Why not go with them, the established couple who AREN'T messy and unlikable assholes like JP is if you HAVE to do it.

But him being messy and an asshole doesn't matter when the story isn't about him as a character but instead trying to make the news cycle.

Northstar's been in the real life news cycle twice but they still won't put him in anything. Awesome 👍

#JP and Kyle are cute now so I don't like want them to divorce or anything but also #I feel like showing him in past relationships is really the only way to do him justice after... that #like flashbacks and shit

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rudystree · 1 year

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season 3 was actually my favorite season! everything about it was just really good. the pogues finally getting the gold. it was so amazing.

ward and big john dying?! that was shocking, but i kinda saw it coming. when we started to hear john b's narration of the situation and the camera shows ward, dead, and he says something to the affect of the villains becoming heros. in that moment, i didn't know if i still hated ward or if i kinda liked him for sacrificing his own life for sarah.

idk how to feel about big john though. he tried getting john b to keep secrets from the pogues even though they had every right to know what was going on. that lead to sarah and john b getting into a fight, which lead to sarah kissing topper, sarah telling jb and then finally jb beating up topper and now he's getting charged w it. the charges don't matter eventually, but still. it caused sm problems within the story.

popecleo was so freaking cute. i loved it sm. i just loved their chemistry. carlacia and jd did an amazing job on portraying it. seeing cleo comfort pope when he was about to shoot rafe was just so pure!! i really cannot wait to see how their relationship is in season 4.

jiara this season!! i actually never chose sides between the jjpope/jiara war, but jiara was actually so good. seeing something develop in season 1 that was completely unintentional to season 3, the characters getting together just shows how much the fandom's voice was being heard.

i don't really know why the writers keep planning sarah to go back to topper after fights she has with john b. it's just so unnecessary and not even shocking atp. there was many more other situations they could've done instead of sarah getting w topper.

jj's storyline w luke! i hate how they just forgot about that in mid season 2 and didn't care to look back at it. it was just completely unfair how they would do that to jj. i wanted the writers to dive deeper into jj's personal life and see the root causes to all of it.

anyways, i would love to hear your thoughts about season 3!!

omg i LOVE this review!!! tysm 🫶🏻

i tried to condense all my big thoughts in an earlier post because i actually agree with legit everything you wrote here. 🌟

ward had an interesting arc this season. i liked what they did with him. in the teaser / trailer i was super pissed that they were still trusting him with stuff (and yeah…it was dumb) but he did show redeeming qualities somehow. big john actually made him look like a better father 💀 i’m glad he’s dead now and i like the way he went with a little dignity left.

i also never chose sides in the jiara / jjpope stuff. i only became a jiara shipper once i knew it would be canon for sure. and it was beautiful. i gotta say, i did miss jjpope scenes, platonically. it was sweet that they included their little talk about kie. but i needed a lot more. popecleo was so so cute and i would’ve liked a second lil bro talk about it. they also missed such a major opportunity with sarah and jj staying together — those two have so much to talk about, whether it’s kie/john b or the fact that they’re both parentless and homeless. but instead they wasted time driving her back to topper..again. it was a real shame.

every setback however was kind of redeemed by the fact that jj was looking like a whole 3 course meal ajshskshsk 😩 like …he ALWAYS looks good. but his S3 looks just had me floored the whole time. and the badass energy? that man is so damn fine. and to think ppl spent so much time worrying and complaining about his hair, body, etc during filming. if any plot line bothered me i just think about how gorgeous he is and i’m okay again lmao.

now if we didn’t know that a S4 is coming i would’ve thought for sure this was the series finale. i am NOT a fan of the time jump. but now i’m just very intrigued as to how they are gonna keep the story going. and with a bit of luck S4 will be jj-centric and feature some much needed stories on his background 🤞🏻

#i’m sorry for the late response!! i was trying to put my thoughts together hahaha #ask #obx spoilers #obx3 #obx4

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zumpietoo · 2 years

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If she upgraded why are they still stuck on Cole? They been shipping Lili with every person she interacted with and now that she has a man, the only time they speak of him is to compare him to Cole lmao.

2. They're using the "I'm glad he with that ugly b*tch" to convince us they aren't butthurt because Cole moved on. If otherwise, they wouldn't make up shit to get everybody to hate on her and spam her posts with bs.

3. Have they seen Milo?? 😭 I love pets but that is one ugly ass dog.

4. Lili looks like she could switch roles with Madchen atp.

5. How would one know this information about a celebrity who doesn't share this type of information...

6. We all know if this was the other way around (Ari dating her acquaintance's bf) it would be a weekly topic.

7. They love twisting your words

8. Not a dick print is seen on any of the photos they share of Spencer half naked.

All of her fans are jobless lunatics who spend more time on these blogs hating on him and everyone who isn't kissing Lili's ass the way they do. They swear her career is going to take off, she's in love, etc. But be more focused on what her ex is doing instead of supporting her... when Maria was here it was all about trying to get him cancelled for the abuse allegations but now they're just keeping up with his life like they're watching a reality show.

OML...hilarious.....Dylan's house is being renovated and why is it terrible that Ari's visiting her family? Just because PP has a horrible rustbelt trashfam and avoids them like the plague doesn't mean Ari does. She has a loving, classy family...and look how quickly and deeply Cole integrated...

Ummm....there are sooooo many pics proving Cole has a huge D, it's something PP herself routinely alluded to....and SHE'S the one who clearly doesn't know how to top or give a massage...

I legit hadn't bothered with any of them in quite some time and, honestly, can't say I missed it. They're sad losers inexplicably obsessed with Cole and me....

I have better things to do (and I include taking a dump as being superior to their bullshit)

Also, nothing to indicate (other than Bazzi and Damon, who both admit to their struggles, etc---so don’t be a dick) Cole’s friends are “all drug addicts”, plenty to demonstrate PP is one, tho....

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mint-sm · 7 years

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LOS CAMPESINOS! REVIEW: Hold On Now, Youngster...

It’s been around a decade now since Los Camp’s formation and the release of “Hold on Now, Youngster…”, and it’s been kinda funny seeing this as a starting point for a band that would go onto making stuff like “No Blues” or the not-quite-new-but-most-recent “Sick Scenes.” The band, especially singer/lyricist/face of the band, Gareth Campesinos! is really not fond of this “twee-style” period they ended up being pigeonholed in for a while, and they don’t seem to have many nice things to say about it aside from maybe the 3-4 songs from this record they still play in live concerts (when I saw them, I think they only played 4, 2 of them were for the encore).

The kinda depressing or funny thing (you don’t have to pick just one) is that despite their animosity towards this period and this album in particular, it evidently struck a chord with their audience, since this album did pretty damn well critically and commercially as a first outing. It’s juvenile and innocent and kinda bordering on emo music with a serious addiction to the glockenspiel, but there’s something with these releases that did have a serious appeal, and probably not just because there were a lot of emo/indie scenesters in the mid-late 2000’s.

(IT'S SAD THAT YOU THINK THAT WE'RE ALL JUST SCENESTERS / AND EVEN IF WE WERE, IT'S NOT THE SCENE YOU'RE THINKING OF)

Now I can’t really speak for other people, but as for me, the reason why I’ve become so fond of it does sort of tie back into that whole “pop-revivalist” thing, in that it just felt so damn refreshing. This was made before the term “indie” became a meaningless household buzzword that came to define anything with some slightly lo-fi guitar gunk to it, and Los Camp have a legit life and vibrancy to them, almost kinda punk-ish at times, but with just enough glockenspiel, violin and clean-ass major guitar riffs for you to want to dance more than… I dunno, probably mosh, but honestly, they’d likely still be naturally too colorful to do that (just check out their cover of a Black Flag song from this era).

It’s not the most utterly original sound -- their 80’s-90’s twee and punk inspirations pretty clear, especially from their B-Sides and bonus tracks consisting of covers of their songs (including Heavenly, Black Flag and Pavement) -- but you know what, every band is someone’s first, and damnit I immediately fell in love with “You! Me! Dancing!” the first time I heard it, and it’s still an excellent representation of this band’s era. The epic minute and a half giant wall of sound intro, the tight, loud percussion, instantly catchy guitar riff (thanks for singing Pavement’s “Box Elder” in live shows so we know where you got that from, Gareth!), and charmingly memorable chorus and spoken word outro, it all works incredibly well.

I say “this era” though, because some of what makes Los Camp even better in my eyes, namely its ability to convey such conflicting emotions with lyrics and composition, is kinda lost here, and that’s probably a reason why Gareth dislikes this album so much. It feels very more in-your-face and visceral, especially in the light of how he’s gotten much more comfortable with a wittier, more self-deprecating style, especially with newer releases like “Sick Scenes,” which I can only believe was his goal since day 1.

That’s fine, and I get his frustration about being associated with “twee” shit, but the thing is that I still heavily appreciate it, not just because I have a soft spot for this cheesy, UK-based indie music, but because on its own, it’s still really, really good. Damn good. Honestly, while I do like the slightly-more complex, bit more focused and specific Los Camp, musically, this is probably one of my favorites, and certainly its most playfully enjoyable and raw.

(IF YOU CATCH ME WITH MY HANDS IN THE TILL / I PROMISE, SUGAR, I WASN'T TRYING TO STEAL / I'M JUST SWIMMING IN COPPER / TO SMELL AND PRETEND LIKE A ROBOT!)

I’ve found in comparing lyrics from this album to other releases, even including the next one released 8 months later, “We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed,” is that they feel by far the most straightforward in their discography (aside from that “Sockets” EP). It’s not “simpler,” per se, because even back then, Gareth’s already managed to convey enjoyably-conflicting moods, such as the case with “This Is How You Spell ‘HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics’” (why yes, the entire title does appear in the lyrics!), and “We Are All Accelerated Readers,” which manage to contain kinda smarmy self-righteousness, but have an incredibly cathartic and gleeful “HAHAHA, FUCK YOU”-ness and a moody disillusionment and listlessness, respectively.

No, what I mean by “straightforward” is pretty much that Gareth doesn’t seem like so much he’s dancing around certain concepts, like it doesn’t feel like ambiguously dodging topics about death or failing relationships or the like underneath his obscure references and wordplay and stuff. Rather, here he’s preferring to confront those matters upfront and kinda shout at his targets. It gets both pretty heartbreaking but also darkly amusing in “Knee Deep at ATP,” where he recounts discovering a girl he meets at the titular festival is already in a relationship through a love letter, where his focus is “for each correctly used apostrophe / I could feel my heart sink inside my chest in front of me.”

Overly direct? Maybe, but it still paints a pretty clear image and mood, and is actually pretty charming, especially as the song starts up with its vivid energy, then trailing into an uncharacteristically (but not unappreciably) slow and melodic twing-twanginess and violin section before slowly building back up again to that energy as the band screams “‘Not what you like, but what you're like as a person’ / Well, I need new hobbies, that's one thing for certain!” There’s a reason why Los Camp still seems to like this song and play it after all these years.

Another example of that simple-but-sweet-ness is “My Year In Lists,” where we get this really punchy, playful percussion and verses with this girl, I think is Aleks Campesinos!, gleefully shouting alongside Gareth as he details his long-distance relationship through snail-mail, how “You said, ‘Send me stationary to make me horny’ / So I always write you letters in multicolours / Decorating envelopes for foreplay / Damn extended metaphors, I get carried away”. It’s ridiculously indie and twee and sardonic as hell, especially as the chorus repeatedly goes “I cherish with fondness the day (before) I met you,” but I fucking love it.

(MY YEAR IN LISTS / STOMPING ON YOUR FINGERS AS YOU'RE CLINGING ON TO THE ABYSS)

Oh yeah, other thing to mention is the occasional duet vocalist, Aleks Campesinos! (Aleksandra Berditchevskaia), who was featured very prominently in early Los Camp songs until her departure around Hello Sadness. Vocals have always been a bit of a weird thing for a long time, and up until Gareth really and suddenly got his shit together with “Sick Scenes” (really, compare any song from this album to “5 Flucloxacillin”), most of the charm with the vocals came from not being very good, but still heartfelt and poetic (which granted, he himself admitted was still technically not very good, and also a reason why he doesn’t like this album).

However, Aleks was able to consistently provide a great contrast for the many call-and-response duets in this album, such as with the AWESOME opener, “Death to Los Campesinos!” and later "...And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison,” which really take advantage of her much smoother, more melodic voice to provide the band’s massively conflicting themes, and they would continue to do that for future albums. Though at times even she can’t escape the occasional cringey off-keyness, especially with "Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s)," which considering how its themes are probably TOO basic for it to be really forgivable, is the only track I normally skip listening to this album.

(WE KNOW THAT WE COULD SELL YOUR MAGAZINES / IF ONLY YOU WOULD GIVE YOUR LIFE TO LITERATURE / JUST DON'T READ JANE EYRE)

But another thing that I really like about this album is just how it flows so damn well from song to song without any of them being too samey or too sticked-out. It’s able to sinewave really well from starting off, again, with the bombastic and catchy “Death to Los Campesinos!”, then suddenly escalating with the even-more louder, shouty "Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats" before it suddenly decrescendos and slows down to fit the mood of “Don’t Tell Me To Do the Math(s),” etc., all climaxing with “Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks,” which is frankly the band’s loudest, catchiest, most harmonious, most epic closer track in their discography (okay, technically there’s an unlisted bonus track called "2007: The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)", but I count that more as an epilogue, though it’s still awesome). There’s simply never a dull moment.

(AND IT HITS AS HARD AS A BLOW TO THE HEAD / OR A SMASH TO THE SKULL, OR A KNEE TO YOUR CHEST / AND SWEET DREAMS, SWEET CHEEKS / OH, TOMORROW, OH, TOMORROW, OH, TOMORROW)

Is it the most complex thing this band has to offer? Probably not, but it more than makes up for it in my eyes for its sheer raw energy. Gareth and the band itself might not look kindly on this because it doesn’t fit the wittier, more mature goals they’d later reach with future releases, and this is probably is something they’d rather mostly forget, but at the same time, it still accomplished something that made people want to care about this Cardiff joint.

It provided them with one hell of an avenue to speak their early concepts of brewing brilliance, and sure, audiences probably didn’t realize at the time just what they would later be capable of, but as is, it’s still a fantastic album that stands very well alone, even as an admitted black-sheep relic as it exists 10 years later.

It’s also amusingly ironic, since within this album itself, Gareth himself says in the awesome spoken-word outro to “You! Me! Dancing!” that “On the way home, it always seems like a good idea to go paddling in the fountain, and that's because it IS a good idea, and we're just like how Rousseau depicts man in the state of nature: We're undeveloped, we're ignorant, we're stupid, but we're happy.” Is it as adolescent, at-times willingly pretentious and overly saccharine as Gareth makes it out to be? Eh, maybe, but be damned if it doesn’t manage to convince us (maybe unintentionally so, but still) that the idea of jumping in that fountain is an awesome one. (4.5/5)

FAVES: “Death to Los Campesinos!,” “My Year in Lists,” “Knee Deep at ATP,” “We Are All Accelerated Readers,” “You! Me! Dancing!” “Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks,” “2007: The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)”

#los campesinos #music review #hold on now youngster

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Imagine a horribly clumsy creator in the sagau... like trips over their own feet, starts coughing due to choking on air randomly, knocking a vase off a table that was in the middle of the table somehow???? Silly goofy stuff like that (I pull these silly goofs often personally)

(obv goes w/o saying sorry for being so late to reply /gen) ;-;

clumsy reader is so me core idk why i didnt think of this lmao

(this gif is liek the modern equivalent of Charlotte posting ur embarrassing clumsy moments on insta Steambird acc lmao)

(so sometimes im lazy and dont include the ask stuff esp if its shorter like this, so here's at least the characters in this one: Fontaine ppl <3 along with a G for general audience, barring cuss words)

Navia would politely ask you to go the edge or whatever area ur in whenever she pulls out her cannons/guns LMAO

every time you and either Clorinde or Neuvillette are walking next to you, or doing rlly anything, its like night and day

ur out here finding all the cracks in the sidewalk, bumping everything that could even possibly have a liquid in it, and have constant bruises from hip checking/stubbing toes on mechas walking around

Clorinde is impressed at that point bc mechas are actively programmed to get out of your way, so how u managed to put them back into ur way rlly fascinates her 😭😭

Neuvillette would like to wrap u in fabric/bubble wrap equivalent for his old ass, in an attempt to desperately stop u from hurting urself lol

u get a new coat or new pants from him all the time, u just thought at first he was rlly into giving u Fontaine fashion until Furina pointed out that it was spring/summer and you wouldn't wear thick woolen pants and fur-lined coats everyday 💀

(poor dragon guy doesn't rlly get the practical side of clothes, he likes fashion, but he inadvertently subscribes to the "hoes don't get cold" philosophy by being an ancient dragon lord)

Wriothesley is unfortunately nice enough to constantly try and catch his poor god, which ends well for neither of you 50% of the time

its not even ur weight takes him down, he's buff as hell after all, and he's dealt with rowdy inmates, its just.. ur clumsiness spreads.

if ur tripping, and the poor Duke reaches out to catch you, ur reaching out at the same time to steady urself on a side table w/a vase full of water, which u then knock off, drenching ur back and his face at the same time LMAO

he doesn't learn, despite u literally begging him to stop trying to help u, then u try and compromise to just let u fall and help u afterward asdfghkl-

Wrio's too chivalrous tho, the most u can get him to do is always grab ur arm instead of trying to bodily catch you

if u think after the first like, ✌️ TWO times Lynette is willing to help you, u r so wrong lmao

she's seen her brothers clumsiness, she knows theres no saving u

she does comfort u after slipping (not even falling but just flailing dramatically) for the 5th time in the puddles around water fountains tho

Lyney and Freminet are lowkey legit convinced someones cursed their god atp 😰

Freminet always had bandaids for u, and Lyney keeps a supply of ur fav candy to cheer u up after embarrassing urself by falling ass backwards right into the Fountain of Lucine right in front of Opera house lmao

...

...Charlotte thinks this is all vv hilarious, no she has no respect for ur godliness, her archon was Furina like LMAO- IM SORRYYY

(she has started a small section in the steambird of a near daily- DAILY picture of u being clumsy 😭)

(u, not srsly, threaten to smite her and she just giggles)

(its ok they take it all in a cute/endearing trait type of way)

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again, sorry for lateness, when i reopen askbox (soon, FINALLY-)

ill try and stay more on top of it and try and sort whatre just chats/non-requests better too 😭😭

hope u guys are having a good week!! tysm for being patient and nice to me :')

Safe Travels Kai,

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