The vulpine urge to wear a fox pyjamas all day

thats enoughhgn zzz z z zz

Eepy 😴

Fairly accurate rendition of me waking up in the morning

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Happy Shax Saturday - be lazy today it's ok

[ID: Reigen Arataka from Mob Psycho 100. He wears pajamas and stands inside of his apartment. He stretches his arms and yawns. A meme caption reads: "He's sleepy tired". End ID]

he's sleepy tired Saturday

After looking over UnlovelyFrankenstein's oeuvre (and adding one of the T-shirts to my cart, NGL), a thought occurred to me that I haven't really dug into before: did Arthur Stuart even listen to or know anything about Curt Wild before Brian took him under his wing and brought him into the spotlight?

Curt may have gotten off the ground a bit earlier than Brian, as we see from the T.V. Eye scene. But the fame/infamy he experienced around that time was probably mostly through a niche audience in America, especially if Iggy Pop was meant to be a blueprint for Curt's career. Not among glam rock fans like Arthur in England.

Furthermore, we don't get much from Arthur's perspective to indicate that he discovered Curt Wild's music at all until later in the movie. The record shop flashback scene centers on Brian, and it's only when we get to the climactic scene underscored by Baby's On Fire that Arthur seems to be introduced to Curt, as a few grainy black-and-white photos in a newspaper. Granted, they're photos that get Arthur hot and bothered and ultimately contribute to him leaving home for good, but they're still just images on a page.

His introduction to Curt as a musician, performer, and a person of his own really seems to take place at the Death of Glitter concert, which leads me to think that up until then, the only exposure he's had to Curt is through the filter of Brian and his musical career. Which I find kind of fitting and heartbreaking all at once. Imagine knowing Curt just as Brian's other half - "Tracy and Hepburn for the 70s" as Mandy so wryly phrases it - seeing Brian "shot" at Arthur's first and only Maxwell Demon concert, and then being hit over the head by Gimme Danger. No wonder Arthur fell for Curt.

I guess a question that still lingers for me is, did he become a fan of Curt Wild and the Rats after that night and start listening to their records? Or was he just done with the whole scene after the Brian Slade fall-out? I'm sure there's a fic out there exploring this but I haven't found it yet.