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girlfriendsofthegalaxy · 20 days

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tuesday again 4/9/2023

the best photo i took this week

listening

i have not been keeping up with either the tuesdaypost spreadsheet or the tuesdaypost playlists so there's a strong possibility i have already talked about Joywave's It's A Trip! off the 2017 album Content. spotify

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driving ten hours in one day is ideal for listening to albums and i listened to almost every joywave album on my way home from the eclipse. american indie rock band from rochester ny, i have loved them since early college. i think they were made in a lab to get to stuck in my head bc they tend toward lower register synthier tracks that deceptively amble cheerfully along and talk about dealing with fear. songs for a male protagonist to splash water on his face, look at himself in the mirror haunted by what he's seeing, linger in his children's bedroom doorways, and then drive off into the night for the finale.

i think i listened to this song for an hour on loop yesterday bc the chorus so perfectly got stuck in my brain

When you've gotten what you want (Maybe I should start over) There's nothing left to want (Up and at 'em again) You don't know what you want (Yeah, I'm thinking it over) Just tell me what to Want

they have spent a lot of time figuring out how to have longevity as a band: "The record kind of attempts to figure that out but it doesn’t end in a definitive place. For me personally, it’s just to create things that matter as long as I possibly can, and to make things that are going to outlive me that people can hang onto for at least five to six years after I’m dead." they are deeply cranky about virality/content churn, especially in this interview. i appreciate this in an artist.

could not tell you how i first found them. i think i would have to go back to the proto-tuesdayposts of 2018.

reading

when you're not sleeping well you can average a book a night!

Uprooted by Naomi Novik destroyed me. (image from here)

“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”

my best friend real-life influenced me into reading this book and i have since managed to convince four other people to read this book bc i won't shut up about it. the descriptions of the physicality of magic and how different kinds of magic and different families of spells Feel was only part of the coolest magical system ive ever read about. this is not a dark romance but it is a little brutal in a brothers grimm/this is how battles shake out sometime kind of way. i think a companion piece of media written from the Dragon's point of view would nicely parallel that post going around about how Howl's Moving Castle the movie is from Howl's point of view and Howl's Moving Castle the book is from Sophie's point of view. i would die for Agnieszka.

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (image from here)

Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders… but her father isn’t a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has loaned out most of his wife’s dowry and left the family on the edge of poverty–until Miryem steps in. Hardening her heart against her fellow villagers’ pleas, she sets out to collect what is owed–and finds herself more than up to the task. When her grandfather loans her a pouch of silver pennies, she brings it back full of gold. But having the reputation of being able to change silver to gold can be more trouble than it’s worth–especially when her fate becomes tangled with the cold creatures that haunt the wood, and whose king has learned of her reputation and wants to exploit it for reasons Miryem cannot understand.

i don't know if i've ever read a book with seven points of view before? i think it was well handled, but it required significantly more brainpower than screaming through three of kingfisher's light fantasy/romances in two days and it threw me a little. saying this book is about debts cheapens it a little, i think. it is concerned with debts but also safety, and it is very much about cost in a very fairytale way and in the horrible everyday calculus of survival way.

Swordheart, Paladin's Hope, and Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher. god these go down So smooth. kingfisher has a niche and i respect that. i am reading the Saint of Steel tetralogy out of order bc even four library systems can only do so much, and i don't think you particularly need to read them in order.

i'm a bit cranky that the terfs took feminist fantasy from me, bc when the protagonist got her period in Paladin's Strength a little alarm bell went off in my head and i had to put it down and google some stuff (the answer is no btw). there is a way to write female-focused lightly historical fantasy without being terfy and kingfisher does it, but it's so rare that i was genuinely expecting some sort of. weird agenda to be at play.

these were all fun, fast reads and i don't have much else to say about them! not that they are better or worse than novik's books but they will not live in my head quite as long. there are fewer tantalizing hints about systems of magic that make me want to graph things out u kno

watching

kanopy has Animation April as their focus this month which is how i saw The King and the Mockingbird (1980, dir. Paul Grimault) which is a longer piece adapted from something he'd been working on since the 40s.

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This animated fantasy tale follows the romance between a lovely shepherdess and a handsome chimney sweep. The land's imperious king falls for the beautiful woman and tries to thwart her relationship, but a kind mockingbird assists the lovers in evading the ruler. At the king's command, the chimney sweep and his bird friend are imprisoned, and they must escape in order to rescue the young man's true love.

GOD the animation in this. there are so many references to early animation and silent film. there are so so so many gadgets and methods of conveyance in an absolutely architecturally dizzying castle. there is a ROYAL MECH that plays its own theme music. the backgrounds have a very Chuck Jones quality in that they are exactly as detailed as they need to be for the gag to work. the castle is lush and beautiful but not dizzyingly, overwhelmingly lush. there is a clear vision to every shot and a clear path your eye is meant to travel, which i appreciate very much. i think a lot of technically impressive animation (i am specifically thinking of the Nimh movies) muddies itself by trying to jam too much on the screen. just a fucking delight of a film. a delicious confection

playing

nothing specific to say about genshin this week ur welcome

making

painted a frame (it was a dead basic michaels frame i got at a yard sale and it was giving little boy's room) and framed a thing. this is a poster that came as a freebie with a 1997 album, and i actually bought this CD case without the CD inside bc i was so delighted with the poster. scuff sanded the frame with 120 grit, i went with a matte black acrylic bc i felt that disguised how the poster did not quite fit the frame a little better? and also bc it was what i had in the house.

i did not bother with a mat, i just used the lining paper with the stock photo and painted the back of that. do not do this with particularly valuable or beloved pieces. i do not think this is necessarily acid free and there is some danger that the paint may transfer to the back of the poster over time.

#tuesday again #tuesday again no problem #Youtube

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souryogurt64 · 1 year

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sour how do you feel about fob’s music post-hiatus vs pre-hiatus? also how do you feel about the shift in their public image as well as the shift in their fan base between these time periods? i find the way they seemed to be perceived as a band and as people pre-haitus vs post-hiatus really intriguing and would love to hear your thoughts on it

interestingly i think i used to absolutely adore folie and tttyg when i was younger like i think a lot of teens do, but i feel like my taste has changed now and those albums are probably some of my least favorites (though i love all of it, lol). i will say headfirst slide is one of the greatest songs theyve ever put out and is definitely in my top 5, i think tttyg is charming and very solid but it feels a bit more repetitive now that im older. im gonna get shot for this but i think some of the musical styles on folie have become less appealing to me as i have aged

ioh and cork tree are obviously amazing, i think everyone agrees on that and i have a tough time picking between the two

personally right now i think save rock and roll is their best album, i think its one of the strongest lyrically if not the strongest. save rock and roll was also what introduced me to fall out boy so maybe im biased but at this point in my life i really think its their best album, the lyrics are absolutely incredible and i feel like the way the artist features meld with the record thematically is really impressive and the ybc thing they did was really amazing in my opinion, i feel like people dont appreciate it as much anymore because i believe its age restricted on youtube now

i think abap is one of their weaker albums in terms of lyrics to be honest, i feel like the two biggest songs were reliant on a sample and something another girl wrote/sang and the album was also short. its still very solid and very catchy but it felt a bit underwhelming because of that. it was also extremely, extremely overplayed when i was in high school, so that might be part of why i dislike it, and it is their worst album art by far.

mania i think is interesting, i didnt like it at first and i do think it has its shortcomings (its short, they did scrap and rewrite it on a short timeframe) and is definitely experimental but it has some really amazing songs-- i think last of the real ones is one of the best theyve ever put out. its by no means their worst album. i do not think young and menace should have been the lead single, i think that turned basically everyone off to the album and i remember i actually cried in the bathroom at school when it came out. i think if last of the real ones had been the lead the reception would have been very different. however, the visuals for the album on their tour as well as the cover and the merch/promo they did is some of the best ive ever seen. i also loved loved loved dear future self

i do think their public image shift is interesting--andy used to widely be considered to sleep around a lot but my generation kind of views him as a wholesome teddy bear, lol, and pete has been very successful at rehabbing his image haha. patrick and joe i think are more or less the same but when i was a teenager literally everyone acted like patrick did not know what sex was, which was a bit weird, and i think that was exclusive to like 2013-2016 bandom

BTW i think my top 5 songs ever in no particular order is just one yesterday, last of the real ones, headfirst slide, hum hallelujah, and then.... im not sure

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lolamarlowe65 · 1 year

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𝓘𝓷 𝓶𝔂 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 //James Hetfield

"The house next door was just sold, i hope the new neighbour will be nice."

part four of ? part three

disclaimers : smut, age gap (modern day James), slow burn shit, masturbation, pillow humping, slight voyeurism, slight daddy kink cursing, smoking, probably drinking, big girls stuff kids dni

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Chapter 4 - Mr. Hetfield

I was finished with the groceries but I'm sure I've forgotten so much. I couldn't stop thinking about James. I was confused about how I felt and also about how it would be to have him as my neighbour. I wonder how my grandmother is gonna react. I wanted to be home for her but I also wanted to hide somewhere far.

I was close to home. As I arrive in the driveway I see James on my front porch talking with Stacy and my grandmother. I took a deep breath and got out of the car.

"- Hey girl get your ass over here!" said Stacy, excited.

I walk up to them and ask.

"- Is everything okay grandma?"

"- Everything is fine. This nice gentleman came to introduce himself." replied my grandmother.

I heard James laugh lightly. Fuck! Could he stop confusing me like that? I couldn't even look at him, I was so afraid I would turn red just by his sight.

"- Well i gotta go, got a hot date tonight!" exclaimed Stacy.

She kissed my grandmother on the cheek and got to her car. Before going in she winked at me with a malicious smile. I say silently but enough for her only to see "fuck you".

"- I'm gonna go check on dinner in the oven. I'll let you introduce yourself to this nice gentleman." she smiled warmly before going in.

I am left alone on my porch with James. It's like the universe wants to fuck with me.

"- Nice to officially meet you Ann." James said slowly.

His sentence got me out of my thoughts. He recognised me. He remembered who I was. He was holding his hand out so I could shake it.

This hand.

I shook it. It sent shivers down my spine. I hope he didn't notice that. I don't know what it is but his hands are making me feel like jelly.

"- You recognised me from the pharmacy?" i asked like it was something he shouldn't have remembered.

Because he shouldn't. I'm just a random clumsy chick he crossed paths with in a pharmacy. Like why would you remember me? I mean I remembered him. But it's because he has this unique aura. I don't.

"- The moment I saw you with your friend on the porch yesterday I knew it was you." he smiled.

So it was why he smiled at us yesterday. He recognised the clumsy girl who almost made him fall. Fuck, what a reputation i have.

"- My name is-"

"- James. I know." i interrupted.

"- So you also recognised me huh?" he raised a brow.

"- To be honest, no. Stacy told me who you were yesterday when she saw you."

"- Good, so i don't need to tell you about the big part."

"- The fact that you are the singer of the most famous metal band of the world or the fact that YOU out of anybody decided to move here? I mean it's a very good area of L.A but real stars don't come here."

"- I had to move out. I fell in love with the house. That's all." he looked over his house.

Yeah and I fell for your hands man but whatever. He is so gorgeous. The most gorgeous man I have ever seen. His blue eyes were piercing into mine as he looked back at me.

Was I the only one feeling this obvious tension? Am I just touch depraved? Or is it real? And if yes, is it only one sided?

"- So how's your band doing? ... Metallica right?" i asked, trying to break off this tension between us.

"- We're doing good, the usual. New album's coming, new tour next year. All is good and amazing."

"- I'm sorry." i giggle. "I must seem weird. I don't know a lot about metal. Neither about Metallica. I'm not into this type of music."

"- More the Doors type of girl?" he asked looking at my shirt.

"- Haha yes. I'm sorry if i look so ignorant." i answered.

"- It's refreshing actually. I love that." he said, smiling at me sweetly.

I hope I'm not blushing hard, because I feel like I do.

"- I will listen to your new album when it comes out. I promise." i say, enjoyed.

"- I hope you will." he laughed.

This was so easy. So smooth and so unique. We were having a nice conversation. So peaceful and passionate. He was funny and smart. There was still this obvious tension. But it didn't matter, if so it made our conversation even more interesting. I don't know if it's because I haven't had a real conversation with somebody new in quite some time but I also know for sure that this is unique. I wonder if he feels it too. When my mom was ill, I had to talk to so many doctors and professionals who were just repeating the same depressing things. Or those fake hopeful corporate speeches. I haven't bothered trying to meet new people since my mom died. And I don't know if I will ever talk to James again, but this is the nicest conversation I've had with somebody in weeks.

"- I came here to apologise to your grandmother for the noise i'm causing with me moving in and all." he said.

"- You should also apologise for the noise you will make with your heavy metal stuff." i said ironically.

"- Don't worry, I play in a soundproof room. So no neighbour girl can come bother me for the sound." he answered as ironically.

We shared a laugh. It sounded like we already knew each other since ages.

"- Mmh. Fair point. Don't worry. No neighbour girl is gonna come bother you." i said, giving him a thumbs up with a big smile.

"- You wouldn't bother me anyway."

This sentence made me want to melt. My legs turned into jelly. Get together Ann! He probably said that you were welcome to him as a neighbour. That's all.

But now I want to see him play. Not only was he the singer but also the rhythm guitarist of his band. I wanted to see how he was playing, how those hands touched the guitar. I remember his singing a little bit hearing some Metallica songs here and there. But I never took the time to listen to it closely. I want to hear his voice. The way he sings and plays. I want to know how he is and every detail about his soul. The attraction I have for him is incredible. I'm so confused, but I'm gonna have to assume that I have a crush on him. Hell, no matter what Stacy said and how right she can be, I'm still paralysed about this situation. What should I do?

Stacy said. "Nothing else matters." The universe likes to play with me. That's my conclusion.

The front door opened and my grandmother's head picked out the door.

"- Hey sweetie, dinner is ready. Come whenever you want. Wanna stay for dinner?" my grandma asked James.

"- Oh no, I've got something to do. Thanks for asking." James replied.

I don't know how I could have ever been able to eat dinner with this man in front of me. All the lewd thoughts my dream induced upon me would have made me unable to eat.

"- Well, I will make you dinner one day darling. You are welcome whenever. And don't worry about the sound. Do your things." she smiles sweetly.

My grandmother calls everybody "sweetheart" or "darling". It's funny to see she never lost her mannerism.

"- Go sit down grandma, give your legs a rest. I'm coming in a minute. I'll say goodbye to James." i said.

"- You're right sweetheart. Goodbye Mr Hetfield. Have a nice evening. Come back whenever." my grandmother said to James.

"- Goodbye ma'am. It was nice meeting you." replies James.

My grandmother goes back into the house and I follow her. Before closing the door I look at James deep in the eyes.

"- Goodbye.... Mr Hetfield." i smile slowly.

"- You can call me James."

"- I like Hetfield. It sounds nice. You're lucky to have it as your last name." i answer sweetly.

James smiled. His eyes went bigger for a second. He passes his hand through his hair. God, I'm jealous of his hair. He coughs lightly.

"- Goodbye Anna."

He smiled one last time before I closed the door. Nobody called me Anna in years. There is a grandmother's day gift I made in 3rd grade for my grandma on the porch. It has a little word saying "from Anna, i love you." He must have seen it there. I'm shocked. I'm out of breath. I want him to call me that whenever he sees me. I secretly hope I will see him again. I don't know what i will do about this but i want to see him again. I want him.

"- Sweetheart, you are all red. What is wrong?" my grandmother asks.

"- No- nothing grandma, just the variation of temperatures." i said using the first thing that came to mind.

It was not even a good excuse. The temperatures were very similar between outside and inside. I was just startled by James. Him using my full name made me so weak.

"- I'll get the groceries out quickly. I'll join you for dinner right after." i say to my grandma.

"- Okay my love."

I get the groceries out of my car and put them in the kitchen where my grandmother is sitting in. I sit at the table with her and we start eating.

"- So what do you think about him darling?" my grandma asked.

"- He's pretty nice. I hope it will stay this way." i answer.

I'm sorry grandma, I couldn't tell you that my mind and body were attracted to him in the most perverted and romantic ways possible.

"- I saw him once when we were pretty young. In what? 84 something like this. He came to the store I was working in. He already was a nice young gentleman at the time. I'm glad to see he stayed the same. A strong minded rockstar but a nice gentleman." my grandma told me. "He aged pretty well." she added.

Hell yeah he did.

"- I'm glad you like our new neighbour grandma." i said happily.

I am truly glad. It's great if she feels at peace with the neighbours.

"- You should get to know him better sweetheart." she said, putting her hand on mine.

"- What do you mean?" i asked startled.

"- Nothing. But you two seemed to hit off pretty well earlier. It would be nice for you to see someone." she explained.

I don't know what she truly means. I don't know if she means I should get to know him as a friend or more and I don't want to ask. I'm afraid I'll blush too much again.

"- Maybe." i said, agreeing not knowing how else to react.

"- Your mom would say the same honey." she added.

"- I know she would."

She would.

My grandmother and I watched a movie. Later that night I helped her get to bed. And then went to my room.

I removed my shorts ready to get to bed. Before, I sat down on my bed to look up for a gift for my grandma on my laptop. Her birthday was coming up soon, I wanted to get her something nice. Hey, we don't turn 92 everyday! Maybe a picture of my mother when she was a baby. I would remaster the picture to give it better quality and frame it beautifully for her. I will also organise a little get together with some of her elderly friends and people she loves.

I stopped looking at my phone. From my bedroom window I could see one of the windows of the house next door. The house is big and has a big garden surrounding it. It's pretty private. Only a little part of the house is closer to my house. I'm sure it's the window of the master bedroom.

I get out of my bed to close the curtains of the window. I closed one side and I reached for the other side still looking at his window. "Curiosity is a nasty flaw." My grandmother told me when I was a kid. But I can't help it.

I saw him from behind. He had no shirt on and was still wearing the pants he had on earlier. I'm going fucking feral. I couldn't get my eyes off his back tattoos. They are mesmerising. His arms too, they are so tatted. I knew he was tattooed but this much I couldn't expect. It makes him even hotter. The light in his room was light so I couldn't notice them too well, but I could see enough for me to be afraid of what my dreams would be like tonight. I couldn't stop watching him. He is too mesmerising. The exposure his back had. The line of his back all the way down his jeans. I clench my thighs together a hundred percent sure I'm getting wet. He starts to undo his belt. The muscle lines of his strong arms give me too many dirty thoughts.

He suddenly stopped.

I don't know why but I didn't react. I was still peeping from my curtains. He looked over his shoulder and looked directly at me. Deep in my eyes. His piercing blue eyes staring at me. He smiled. I got scared of being caught so I let go of the curtain as quickly as I could and I stepped away from the window. I don't think he saw me. My room was dark. I'm sure he didn't. He probably smiled for something else.

I peeked back a little to see him again. But he was gone.

I went back into my bed to sleep. I couldn't. I was thinking about his body. Every inch of it. The thoughts of my nails digging on his back. Him hugging me with his strong arms. I was getting turned on. I wanted to touch myself. I can't. But I want to.

Without thinking about it my hand slid into my panties. I'm wet. Seriously? Just by the sight of his back? His sheet gripping back. I touch my clitoris lightly and I get how sensitive I am. Fuck it.

I move around to get my pillow. I need to help this ache I have between my legs. I can't stop thinking about how it would feel like to ride him. I start humping against my pillow. I remove my shirt and throw it on the ground. I caress the tip of my nipples slowly while humping more hard.

"- Uuhm James." i moan.

I bit my lip and put my hands on my thighs. My tits lightly bounce up and down with the movements of my body. I wonder how he would react to see my breasts move this way just for him. I moan more and more. I imagine his lips sucking on my tits and his hands gripping my waist while I ride him as hard as I can.

"- James, daddy." i let out a breath, shaking.

Becoming a mess wrapped around his cock. Him calling me "my girl". Being his and only his. Him grabbing me strongly like he was afraid I would break. His breath in my neck. Him getting faster in my pussy to delight himself with my deliverance.

My legs started to shake uncontrollably. I was about to come. I don't think I ever came faster. The thoughts of him making me so sensitive.

"- arrgh... fuck! James, james, james." i couldn't stop but saying.

And just like this I came. My legs couldn't stop and my back arched without control. I was out of breath. I needed that. I needed to let out everything this man makes me feel. I know it's not enough and my body will ask me more in not long but it will give me peace for the night.

Sweaty, half naked, over sensitive and tired I get under the covers. Falling asleep peacefully.

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A/N : I need to be James’s new gf. Chapter 5 is ready. Love yall darlings <3

#james hetfield #james hetfield smut #james hetfield fanfiction #metallica #metallica smut #metallica fanfiction

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dangerliesbeforeyou · 3 months

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ok so i spent yesterday looking through and collecting data from ao3's rpf (real person fanfiction) collection (for no reason other than 'i was intrigued' lol...)

and i thought i'd go through some of the interesting finds!

(this is probably interesting to nobody but me but hey when has that ever stopped me lol!)

starting with a disclaimer that this is a judgement free zone! i may make a few jokes about things from time to time on here, but i am firmly of the 'ship and let ship' mindset so no hate meant in any of this at all lol <3

first interesting fact is that kpop is the highest rpf tag (with over 650k works!!), bts are obviously the boy group with the most fics, with twice being the highest girl group!

speaking of girls... so for every category i tried to find what the top f/f ship was and for a couple of the tags (most notably actors and music), the top f/f ships were actually male characters (which confused me until i saw the additional tags were genderbend and genderswap lol)... there are also a lot of fandoms where the top characters when you take out m/m ships is actually original female characters (or reader)!

unsurprisingly, taylor swift is the solo artist with the most fics written about her (many shipping her with various celebs, both men and women), but what i found interesting is that there are 140 of her songs and albums that are featured in fics, which is more than any other musician's work (even hozier lol!)

other music tag info is one direction as the non-kpop band with the most fics, with larry stylinson being the top ship (no one is shocked at this) and the highest rating being explicit! which is a bit surprising since most of these fandoms have either general or teen and up ratings as the top one... the only other umbrella rpf fandom that has explicit as the top rating is actors... oh and porn (duh)

my chemical romance deserve a mention as the band with the most fics under the rock music tag (and in the bandom tag), with gerard as the top character (good for them!)! queen also rank pretty highly, with a lot of the fics being specifically linked to the 2018 film bohemian rhapsody rather than specifically the band themselves (so it's like... rpf of rpf lol?)

i think the beatles are the oldest band/musician to have a lot of rpf about them but it's honestly a little hard to tell so don't quote me on this... they are also at the top of the 60's music scene, where the rolling stones take 2nd lol...

the rpf section that i went into the most blind was the sports tag, since my knowledge of sports is .......... yeh that's about all i know lol

men's football and hockey have a similar number of fics each (a little over 30k), though the top character in the sports tag is max verstappen who is actually a racing driver so ??? confused noises lol

anyway idrc about the men (this is a joke ofc @ men i love you), what i DO care about is that women's football (and this is specifically the soccer kind not the american lol) has the highest femslash fics, and i looked up tobin heath (who was the top character in this section) and lemme just say that i Get it lol...

wwe and formula 1 are some other sports that have a significant number of fics in the, filled with people i've never heard of before pfft... i will say that most of the sports have general as their top rating, except for hockey which has explicit (i feel like theirs some kinda joke i could make here about playing with sticks but i'm not gonna lol... especially since most sports already play with balls so?)

anyway enough about sports lol, let's return to something i'm much more comfortable with: youtubers!

youtube is actually the 2nd most written about category (next to kpop, with nearly 280k fics) with minecraft youtubers (the top character being tommyinnit) being the most written about!

what i found most fascinating about this is that 8 out of the 10 top ships in this tag are platonic (and 1 is actually just the 'no romantic relationships' tag lol... the top ship overall is still a slash pairing, but it's still interesting that such a big fandom has mainly platonic pairings!)

also even though the phandom have nowhere near the amount of fics as minecraft youtube, i found it kinda funny that there are (as of writing this) only 95 more fics featuring dan than phil (essentially saying that literally nearly 99% of the fics feature the both of them lol... phandom really said 'co-dependency' and i respect that lol)

moving on to actors, which i expected to have a lot more fics than it does given a lot of rpf involves the actors of characters in popular fictional ships (i mean there are still a lot, over 130k lol...) and supernatural takes the crown of having the most fics of this category! j2 is the top ship, though the 3rd top ship in the actors tag is actually tom hiddleston x original female character! i think because of this british actors are the highest subsection of actors, followed by chinese actors!

i think i did expect the chinese actors to have more fics, but i'm guessing the smaller number is because of the whole xiao zhan ao3 drama from a few years ago... wang yibo x xiao zhan still make up the most popular ship, plus there are plenty of other c-dramas and other chinese shows that have a big number of fics that don't fall under the chinese actor umbrella tag (so the number probably would be a lot larger if i went through and counted them... but i'm not gonna)... similar thing with thai actors, which only has a couple thousand fics in the tag, but there are a whole lot more fics dedicated to rpf of specific actors on specific shows (from a quick glance i think tharntype and kinnporsche are a couple of the highest fandoms? but i didn't go through everything cos i'd already been doing this for a few hours and i was getting sleeeeeby lol...)

one thing that intrigued me was the british comedy category (which is the top comedy category lol! we did it lads we finally came top with something!), where would i lie to you and taskmaster were the top fandoms! david mitchell was the top character and, kinda bizarrely imo, david x charlie brooker was the top ship (i feel like i'm missing some kinda big thing in the british comedy fandom ngl lol... but like really? you ship david with charlie brooker when robert webb, his actual comedy partney, is RIGHT there? or even lee mack i'm ??? ok ok i'm getting off topic pfft...)

oh greg davies and alex horne are also a popular ship in this category ofc (though they have less than 1000 fics lol!)

the final umbrella category of rpf that i could find was historical, which is the tag with the least amount of fics (under 20k), with alexander hamilton and various other american specific historical figures making up the bulk of the popular historical fics (these are mainly tired to the musical hamilton btw)!

the top characters and ship when narrowed down to just the f/f of the historical tag is mostly original female characters btw!

there are also fics of other public figures, like politics, porn, journalists and chefs, and probably the most intriguing facts i found from this section are that hillary clinton is the most popular character in the 21st century us politics section, joe biden and donald trump are the 4th most popular ship (with the reoccurring additional tag of 'crack fic' lol), and though it isn't in the top stats, when i went into the pundit and journalist tag the first few fics to pop up were ben shapiro x matt walsh explicit stuff which was... uh... interesting lol

final thing i'll note is that i stuck mainly to ao3 for this because though i know places like wattpad have a large rpf collection too, but it's so bloody HARD to find data about fics on that site pfft... though i think one thing that would be shown by looking into wattpad's rpf community is that whereas ao3 has a lot of shipping content (obviously), wattpad has a lot more reader x celebrity (but like take this with a pinch of salt since i've not actually done the research for this part pfft...)

anyway i hope you (all 0 of you) enjoyed this rambling take on the data i found on ao3's rpf collection lol!

i know people get really weird around rpf, but i just genuinely find it SO interesting how diverse the range of stuff people write about!

#honestly idk what to tag this pfft...#statistics #rpf statistics #ao3 stats #rpf #rambling #i've not put it into like a proper data list because i just kinda wanted to ramble about it pfft #i think all the stuff around the youtube section was what surprised me the most ngl!#anyway uh yeh i spent way too long on this when i should probably be trying to do some art pfft...

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theintelligenceoflove · 10 months

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Shoutout @writingcold for tagging me to tell yall about 10 songs I'm currently obsessed with. (No particular order)

1. "Ripple" the Grateful Dead

"Let there be songs to fill the air" is so *chefs kiss* this song just fucks me up and if I were a deadhead I'd probably tattoo that on me

2. "Hot Burrito #1" The Flying Burrito Brothers

I can't stop listening to the album, I have no idea why, but damn it's so good. And this song is ALWAYS stuck in my head.

3. "American Lawn" Blake Rouse

I don't care how good Starcatcher is, this is the beat album of 2023, and this song is SO FUCKING GOOD this kid is such a good lyricist

4. "Layla" Derek and the Dominos

This song reminds me of Jake so bad, I just want him to play it for me but he's got this goofy grin and he's bobbing his head.

5. "Take it To The Limit" The Eagles

This is not my favorite Eagles song, not by a long shot. But @jake-whatthefisgoingon-kiszka literally just mentioned a friends to lovers Jake fic and this is the first song to come to mind "And when you're looking for your freedom/ and no one seems to care." and "Put me on a highway/ a show me a sign"

6. "Midnight Rider" Stephen Stills

don't @ me about this being Stephen's version and not The Allman Brothers Band version. My coworker yesterday told me "you should put on that Silver Dollar" song you're in a bad mood. And this is the version of that song I have on my work playlist.

7. "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" Sylvester

Anytime someone calls a song "a queer anthem" and it's not this song they're wrong. Sylvester queen of disco did not write this fucking amazing song for y'all to be calling things written by straight women queer anthems. I wrote a whole academic paper about the effect of AIDS on gay may sexual subcutulres for my history of pandemics class and titled it with this song.

8. "Outside" George Michael

I have an entire footnote about this song in my thesis. Because public sense deserves nuanced and historicized conversations. Particularly as applied to gay men. Moreover, I'm upset my mother didn't have me nine years before she was born so I could have had a chance with George.

9. "Bread and Roses" Judy Collins

big anarchist vibes. The socialists have taken the symbol of bread and roses. But it originated in anarchist circles in America in the early 19th century. When I was going to write about the IWW for my theis I decided when I finished, I'd get a bread and roses tattoo. I still want a bread and roses tattoo but I think I'll get something else to commemorate my MA degree.

10. "Light My Love" Greta Van Fleet.

so this is a song from this little band from Detroit. I don't know if y'all have ever heard of them, you should check them out I think you'll like them.

as always, I love being tagged but am horrible at tagging people bc it makes me anxious I'm sorry. If you want to do this say I tagged you I'm super okay with that!

#tag game #idk

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hospitalterrorizer · 7 months

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wouldn't you believe it, i have a smile on my face right now.

i'm so really for real happy right now for some reason, or for a few reasons, but i'm really happy. one reason why is today was errand day and i kept it together and it wasn't so bad and maybe they won't be that bad ever again. i don't want to jinx it but i feel very optimistic i guess. second reason why is i did 3 songs today, i thought i'd only do 2, and like yesterday i created more presets that can move between songs and will really help out in figuring out these songs. more cool guitar synth sounds, i'm really happy about them, i'm excited to put them in songs and eventually write with them. some actually kind of expand what i can do i think. or what i wanna do, at least. third reason i guess is the song i'm listening to.

youtube

their hair is so giant it's kind of hilarious. it's such a pretty song, and really sweet too. the 'funny it's me' part is seriously incredible to me. it's interesting, the daughter of the woman on the left posts under a lot of their songs, it's crazy how the past still lingers like that. i guess not, it's always super obvious ultimately, it's just shocking. the other day i was thinking about jukeboxes, and how we barely experienced them as like, anything beyond something that plays music, meaning, they used to be or could be annoyances, quotidian to the point of drawing ire and so on, and that's just beyond us, it's not shocking to know, but it's an experience we're not going to have and we're also not going to be caught up in the pushing and pulling of living amongst that technology and all the ways the bourgeois manage that annoyance by inventing ways to silence jukeboxes (the thought was spurred by how they had silent vinyl in the machines you could put money in to play). obviously we have many similar situations, technology is designed to be at least 10-20% annoying always (don't ask about my numbers) because if it agitates and there's a way to alleviate that, then you've invented an industry out of your invention, sorta. this is all like, 101 type stuff, it doesn't really need to be repeated, everybody knows, i know it, obvs.

so i'm up to 16 songs done, 9 more to go, i'm thinking with some of the new plugins today one thing i'll do on my final pass of all these, or in the returns what i'll do is an evolution of my saturator return track idea, where i use the saturn 2 and do some subtle tube distortion in the mids, to get kind of what my mic setup was doing to all the sound, and try to reign that in, so i can have the positive qualities of that in the mix. if all the guitars sound better, and that happens, and they still sound good, i feel like that might be kind of 'sick' or 'dope' or something. idk why i'm saying that, i guess to entertain myself a little.

i'm really sort of dreading going back to the first 5 songs i did in this pass, but i'm sure it won't be as bad as i think, i mean dreading listening to them even. but we'll see. i'm excited to finish up this process and get to doing vocals again, and then even just writing some stuff. who knows if it's gonna be for this album or not. if it's like a 10 second long song though yeah it'll be on the album probably. i also did get some writing out today, not music, prose, in the laundromat, ideas i had in the shower, nothing super hefty but it feels like it belongs. funfunfun.

currently still thinking about getting (you know) softube plugins to see if their distortion stuff speaks to me anymore than any others.

i did find a new saturation thingy just now. i hope it's gooder (lol) than some of the other stuff.

when i said i wrote in the laudromat that was wrong, it was on the way there. i don't know why i remembered that wrong. in the laundromat i just listened to the plot to blow up the eiffel tower's first album and stared at the spinning water and clothes. it's crazy how everything that band did after was so much better. it's not bad but they kind of just spend a lot of time goofing around with the jazz stuff, but maybe it is just beyond me. i feel like if i asked someone who knew anything about jazz they'd agree with me though. just a hunch. maybe i will ask my friend huck about that.

also thinking hard about the songs i'm gonna have to begin doing, cuz they're all older ones that are way less 'guitar' heavy, and some even have different drums which means they will take longer.

feeling the itch to go digging on flickr for random photos for collage stuff. that's fun.

one final thing i guess cuz i'm feeling out of it now, today i saw a white goth woman with dreads, really fucked up stuff, cybergoths are still out there, you'll find them working in your local smiths or vons or whatever. kroger. whatever. isn't kroger terrifying as a prospect.

byebyebye

#Youtube

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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Welcome to Throwback Thursday!

On this page, ‘Throwback Thursday’ is about memories. So, what do you remember? If I was to say the word ALCOHOL, what immediately comes to mind?

For me, the first thing that comes to mind is the last time I got really, really drunk. I’m talking about sitting on the toilet floor with my head in the bowl! I must have been about 14? Me and my mate Lewis had decided to drink Special Brew! Why? I do not know. Oh, yes, it got us drunk but, suddenly, my head was spinning and my guts did not feel good! As you sit on a toilet floor, sporadically spewing-up, you suddenly become very philosophical. Right there and then, I vowed, never again! I know my limitations. I’ll quite happily drink a cold pint of something light like Asahi, Efes or Peroni but I steer well clear of the really strong beers. If I do spirits, yes, I’ll do a double but always with a lot of ice and a mixer. I do not need Dutch courage! I’ve got all the bloody courage I need! Strangely, at The Ibiza Soul Festival, I drank brandy and chocolate milk all day every day for seven days but I never got drunk!

On this Throwback Thursday, what kind of memories does the word ALCOHOL conjure up for you?

Yesterday, in class, we were talking about innovation and all the technological advances that have actually changed the way we live in the last 20-30 years: the internet, broadband, DAWs (digital audio workstations), social media, streaming etc. And then I asked, “What has been lost along the way?” The list on my slides contained record companies, record shops, vinyl pressing plants, recording studios, newspapers, magazines etc. But one of my students said, “Hardship.” He’s only a young man, so his word really surprised me but I replied, “Yes, you are absolutely right!”

When I was growing up, I had to save my pocket money to buy singles or albums at Les Aldrich in Muswell Hill or Harum Records in Crouch End, save up my pocket money to see my favourite bands at The Rainbow in Finsbury Park, there were two radio stations worth listening to (Radio One + Radio Luxembourg), there was just two TV channels (BBC + ITV), I slept in a sleeping bag outside Earl’s Court in order to queue for Led Zeppelin tickets.

I had no real dreams of being pop star but, if I wanted to record my music, I had to save hard to book time in a recording studio. What my young student was basically saying is that young people don’t really appreciate or value music but it’s so easily accessible. Nobody ever suffers any hardship; it’s all there at the click of a button. He was basically saying that music is so easily accessible, it has lost its value. If I wanted a track on an album, and it wasn’t being released as a single, I would buy the album. Ten quid for one song! These days, kids pay £10 a month for their Spotify subscription and have access to 158 million tracks.

Apologies if you didn’t see yesterday’s status. It got posted, as usual. It contained a few controversial subjects and a few controversial words, so I think it got bumped down the rotation. The stuff I write can be found in any newspaper or any news website. It’s not really controversial, it’s just life!

Have a throbbing and thrusting Thursday (with hopefully a few thrills through your thoroughfare?) I love you all.

#mixcloud #mi soul #dj #music #new blog #lockdown #coronavirus #books #weekend #democracy #brexit #cronyism #election #radio

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katnisscarter · 1 year

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Yknow what I’m actually fucking so pissed off at you because you act like our love meant nothing. You act like five years meant nothing. You act like all those times we laughed until we cried meant nothing. You act like holding eachother crying meant nothing. You disgust me for that. It took me a year to listen to pierce the veil again, which was MY band LONG before you. I just used sugar scrub for the first time tonight since you left me because of the nights you’d rub it all over me in the bath. I haven’t watched a new scooby doo movie because you’re my partner to watch them bc no one else critiques them the same way as me. I haven’t been to plaza, MY fav home town restaurant in MY home town in over a year because of you. Because those were OUR things. Because I can’t do those things without you. And you fucking have the audacity to act like I mean nothing to you? You have the audacity to say she has to come for us to talk? After the things we’ve shared? You’re fucking disgusting for that. You’re a disgrace. You act like I’m crazy and That I’m this nuisance blocking you from living your best life with your new girlfriend? Go fucking live it you piece of shit because you don’t deserve me. You don’t deserve the depth of love I can give. You don’t deserve the thoughtfulness that I can encompass. You can act like I was the worst mistake you ever made but fuck you for that because it was you and me all those nights in bed together talking about life. It was you and me that would sit in the car and listen to albums all the way up and scream them together. It was you and me that laid on the floor that night crying in eachothers arms. It was you and me that went to that fucking wedding venue to see what it was like. And you acting like I don’t mean anything to you? That all of those years of love and happiness and real true care for eachother is nothing? Fuck you. Fuck you so badly. Because I didn’t mean nothing , I was the light of your life. I was who you wanted forever with. I was who you were proud to bring home to your parents. I was who you cried to. I was who was there for you. I was who celebrated your accomplishments. I was who was proud of you. I was the first person to ask you about you and celebrate you for being you. I was who held you and told you it was going to be okay. I saw the ugliest parts of you and I loved them too. And how do you treat me? You fucking slept with her and you left me. You don’t love me like you did yesterday. You broke who I was and you don’t get to judge me. All I did and all I’ve ever done was fucking love you unconditionally, and you shattered me. You’re the piece of shit here, I think it’s time you fucking remember that. And you know what? You know what’s fucking pathetic? Even after all of this, after all of the ways you’ve hurt me and seem to enjoy it, I still love you. I still smile when I talk about you. I still go to text you Goodmorning. I still go to buy you things I think you’ll like. I still go to ask you to go do things. I still try to understand why you did what you did and that I don’t hate you. That’s what’s fucked up. Fuck off god I’m so sick of this. I love you so much but I can’t. I want to be with you more than anything and yet I wish we never met. I can’t stop crying because of you and I want you to wipe my tears.

you’re deliberately twisting the knife in my chest and I’m telling you it’s okay you don’t mean to hurt me and wiping your tears.

#personal #rant #vent #what i wish i could say #i wish you’d call #i wish you cared at all

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hello i was given the opportunity to ramble about the amazing devil yesterday and i didn’t even know i had anything to say but i spent like 30 minutes talking about it so this is me giving you a chance to ramble about it if you would like <33 /p

i just want to start this off with: THEIR VOICES AAAAAAAA

together joey and madeleines voices just FIT, and the way they write and sing their songs is like- they've basically just perfected the art of duets. like they blend and move around each other so easily and so beautifully, even in the songs where it's mainly madeleines vocals you might get the occasional whisper or growl from joey or when it's predominantly joey you could still hear the occasional croon from madeleine and like i keep repeating: it's gorgeous and so well crafted.

separately. lord. madeleine's voice is just so pretty. it's got so much body and life to it, i love the soft growl at the edges of her words when she's singing low and then how sharp and clear it gets when she sings higher notes. she somehow sounds like woodsmoke and clear water and stars all in one.

and joey.... oof. the growl the fucking. earthiness in his low notes, sounds like digging your fingers into soft soil in the dark, and i love that you can hear his accent come through and when he gets to the higher notes it's the same as madeleine: it just gets so clear and there's so much strength behind it. i could listen to joey batey sing for hours and never get bored of it, there's just so much there to listen to

OKAY AND LIKE THE ACTUAL MUSIC???? it's just *clenches fists* the instruments could tell the stories in each song all on their own, and it just accompanies the vocals so well and it all just bleeds into one another and just creates the most beautiful imagery and really makes my synesthesia go off the rails (welly boots man. i could paint a whole series based on that song alone) i also love the little moments where you can hear them talking- like in new york torch song when you can hear the street sounds and then there's that bit where madeleine laughs at the end of her line, or at the end of the 'drinking song for the socially anxious' where joey is like ''oh i messed it up again, like three times'' and they laugh and it ends on him going ''for fucks sake'' or FUCKING UHH 'two minutes' (love that song) when it sounds like he's literally just sitting there in a crowded room playing the song and someone happened to record it it's just *shakes hands out* i adore it

ALSO THE LYRICS AND THE STORIES AND THE EMOTION JUST FUUUCCCKKKKK

i read this one post once that like. summed up the amazing devil in 2 ways and it was so true it was basically that like. the amazing devil either makes you feel like some otherworldly being, like you're capable of incredible inhuman things but then they can also make you feel so unbearably human and alive and real and it's so accurate because yeah compare a song like- uh- idk 'the horror and the wild' compared to 'fair' or 'marbles'

they encompass such different states of being or emotion and just. god. i love them i love this band i dont think i could ever get tired of listening to them

and im gonna end this weird little rant with this snippet from a review about the amazing devil's 2nd album The Horror and the Wild:

"The way the bewitching mystique lures you in with its dark tendrils. How the endearing playfulness of its droll wit warms your heart. The marvellous tales it weaves of romance and heartache. It’s a menacing snarl, a furtive whisper, a knowing smile and a joyous roar all at once."

#i have to admit i also did not know i had this much to say about them kjfhsdjkf #thank you for giving me this opportunity anon i am kissing you on the hand #the amazing devil #asks #anon

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Wed 7 Apr ‘21

Louis left Tulum and went to Mexico City, and we got airport pics from both ends: the gathered fans were told by his bodyguard that they should keep their distance but that yes, pictures would be allowed. Thank you Louis! We got to see him a little for the first time in so long, in videos of him walking by (and getting ready to walk by) and blurry pics of him with his guitar, and Oli and Charlie- I’m excited to someday see the footage of whatever they’re working on. But for now, finally some proper pictures of the long long hair, or at least the below the hat part, all flippy and like...LONG! It’s on his SHOULDERS! Early pics had some interesting shadows around an elbow, prompting a flurry of NeW TaTtoO?? excitement, but when more pics were posted we could see that no, his elbow remains the same, false alarm. Once that tattoo kerfuffle died down the interest refocused on his shirt, which featured- a whole damn pile of skulls!

Louis went through a long phase of wearing skull shirts a while back, and the fact that it was during a period of a lot of very pointed t-shirt messages (and that he kept doing it more than ever despite knowing what we were reading into it) seemed to reinforce the theory that he did in fact mean things by it, and seeing him say yes to fan photos while wearing this shirt for the occasion… well! WELCOME BACK public Louis, we MISSED YOU! Yesterday’s shirt was for the band Obituary- is the band name a nod at the fact that Syco, generally considered to be the main target of previous skull shirts, is now dead and gone (rest in pieces assholes:))? Is Louis drawing attention to the livestream that band did a few days ago for their album ‘The End Complete’, and if so, is that also about Syco or about… something else? Inconclusive, but if we were meant to find their song “End It Now”, that can truly only be about one thing!! Am I to believe that SBB himself, Mr “I like to draw the fans’ attention to the lyrics of things” just, whoopsy, missed that! I mean, you would think every band on earth has lyrics about “ending it“ with the number of times he’s made that mistake, damn… he just never learns. Poor Louis, gosh how embarrassing! Lol. Anyway, I’ve seen people wondering lately what will happen when all the fans that have joined us in this time of lockdown and of no real contact with Louis will react when their version of Louis has to compete with the real one- and him barely being back at all but immediately reminding people that he is not a dad FFS feels like an excellent beginning, this should be good! BUCKLE IN friends! The real Louis is sooo much more fun than the boring made up one, just get ready to enjoy the chaotic energy and trying to keep up with him….

Oh also Louis liked a Snuts tweet about being underdogs as they fight to get the release week UK #1 for their new album, and a charity says they reached out to Louis AND LOTTIE to play in their celeb footie match PLEASE, HOW CUTE WOULD THAT BE? Come on Tomlinsons, say yes!

Liam has a big interview in Glamour to promote his BAFTAS performance! If *I* were doing the piece I would have really gone hard on the Two Liams angle of the performance (in which Liam will be accompanied by a hologram of himself) but alas they are boring and only interviewed one of him- maybe the part where he says “you're on stage, you're a certain type of person, and at home you're a certain type of person” sort of counts? The “that's always something I've really struggled with” makes it not so fun though, but that’s a Liam interview for ya; worrisome and makes you want to hug him a lot. “I didn't actually realize this for a long time, but I often give a little bit too much away,“ he says, and today is no exception. We catch up on the time since last we heard from him, when he told us he was going to take some well-earned time off and try to focus on writing new music; he continues to have difficulty with downtime unfortunately. Oh Liam, I do wish it were easier for you to take a break! He says, “I stopped working and I had a full, proper month off [and that was] really hard. And it was all a bit dark for me for a little bit... not being able to go anywhere, not being able to do anything. It really, really hit home. And I just found myself sat in the same place day in, day out. And I was like, okay, I really do not know what to do with myself” and “for me, learning to relax has always been quite a hard thing to do because I feel like if I'm not moving forward, then I must be going backwards.” He goes on to say “so, in a way it's kind of a blessing in disguise, as this has all kind of taught me to relax a little bit more. And to not be so worried about that, like the world is not going to fall over if I don't do something today,” and I wish I believed him, but that’s Liam’s way, to be like oh I need to add something upbeat and end on a cheerful note! So IDK. He also talks about drinking too much, at the beginning of lockdown especially, and how he’s dealt with it by getting back to working out and dieting. There’s nothing there that he hasn’t talked about before (he’s publicly addressed both his struggles with alcohol dependency and has talked a lot about his disordered eating though he hasn’t himself named it that) but after publication Glamour edited the piece to omit the part about his drinking-- I’m guessing the augmented reality app people didn’t feel it fit their ideal image (sigh). What that leaves is him saying how nice it was to be able to eat what he wanted during lockdown but that having the boundaries and rules in place of restricting his food again has made him feel better about himself, which if you ask me is still plenty distressing. Oh Liam :( <I’ve never wanted to hug someone so bad/ Spongebob meme> On a slightly more cheerful note, he tells us he feels supported and heard by a manager that he’s close to, and by Louis, and that those relationships are good for him (the interviewer does ask about Bear, but financee Maya is not mentioned even once in this article). The piece ends with a startling response to a comment about his upcoming performance: “I'll see you wherever you want me in your house, I guess.”

Niall posted about his Masters (golf) fantasy league and he was seen out and about! He was photographed in London driving a car the size of a house and on the street carrying one of his dozens of different reusable water bottles, with his hair floppy and down- is it a new haircut or just unstyled??- and shorts and little roundish shades. Hello Neil! There was a rumored sighting of Harry in London as well but no pics and like we know he’s there anyway so… shrug. And iHeart award nominations are up, and they’re pitting louies against harries, ouch. Will it be nasty (well when isn’t it even without this voted category, sigh), or will the louies simply steamroller everyone as per usual? Only time will tell, but if so harries can console themselves with their likely wins in the Male Artist of the Year, Best Lyrics (Adore You), and Song of the Year (WS) categories.

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The way that you’re able to make so many post about jongin and the other members moments together but seeing how you didn’t do that for kyungsoo speaks volumes not because you don’t like him cause of course you do this is a kaisoo page but because it shows the members really have no moments with kyungsoo after like call me baby era maybe they really aren’t that close to him 🤔 I’m starting to think that it makes me kinda sad because I always thought that sehun and chanyeol were very close to him

Uuh... 🤔but I posted three massive threads about the members and Ksoo's moments?? Didn't you see them?

Is you blind? Nah really you choose to be blind.😂 not even 24hours ago, I posted three long threads/massive posts including All Kyungsoo and Exo's love for each other and how much they're whipped for one another's moments, all of them are Moments from 2018-2019-2020-2021, Let alone the years before 2018. What do u mean call me baby? Do u know how many moments you missed since call me baby in 2015? Now I know, you stopped checking Exo's news for 6 years now.

Okay here are the Massive posts I did about KsooXExo moments waaay after Call me baby Era 😂

In case you didn't see them, I only posted them yesterday ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

1)here's the 1st thread it has 10 videos and 10 gifs and photos of Exo being whipped for ksoo and the videos are recent years after call me baby Era 😂⬇️⬇️

2) Here's the 2nd massive post I made about ksoo and how much the members are whipped for him , Oh and the videos are from 2021, six years after where u got stuck in call me baby Era 😂 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

3) And here's the 3rd Massive post I did about KsooXExo moments and how whipped they are for Ksoo. And oh there also recent moments in 2018-2021 waaay after Call me baby Era 😂 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Omg you're 6 years behind!

Ok I'll give you a recap! Of the 6 years you missed, where you were in a coma or probably in Jupiter. Anyway :⬇️⬇️⬇️

So just to let you know ,after 2015, Tao left! Do u know that?

And Kaisoo got married and bought a house in pennsylvania!

And Exo had this Huge Hit Comeback called Monster! And Lotto was the repackage album in 2016 where they won most of their daesangs!

In 2017 Exo did this amazing summer Comeback called Kokobop where they sang about how high drugs could take you to another universe where everything is flying! and how delicious crack is! You should check it since I think ur on some real serious drugs, you might like the concept since you relate to it so hard. And the repackage was called Power of the music! And the Song Power was the ever first Kpop song to be put in Dubai's Worlds Biggest fountain!

In 2018 Exo had this show called Exo arcade where they went and traveled together, that when we got the best Kaisoo and ExoXksoo moments, everyone was all over Ksoo pampering him, you should go take a look! It's a fun show! In 2018 they also had this amazing Comeback Tempo and the repackage called Love shot! It became a hit! It basically has NANANANNANANA and the whole Kpop industry covered.

I forgot In May 2018 Jongin's father passed away.

And in 2019 they dropped Obsession ! It's a great song go check it! Oh wait Ksoo in not in it! So maybe u didn't check it. It's a dark concept as dark as what u see when u open ur eyes since you blind. 🦯🦮

Anyway did u know Ksoo enlisted in 2019 and didn't come can until 2021? And Ji was in depression and disappeared for almost 3 months because he was grieving coz ksoo enlisted. And lied to us saying he forgot his INSTA account password. Lol that was hilarious. 😂

Baek and Ji debuted in a band called superM. And Ji Married his Dog Monggu to Baekhyun's dog Mongryeong and they had Meokmul and Hoochu which were adopted later by Ksoo.

Ksoo and Ji got pregnant and gave birth to twins Jongsoo and Dika they're hiding them in their farm in ilsan.

Well Exo had this show called Exo arcade 2 in 2021 last April, and Ksoo was so happy with his members laughing and kidding and flirting with Jong-in non stop.

Disclaimer : Girl if you're not gonna watch the videos and read the threads and massive posts I made of Ksoo's recent moments and his strong bond with Exo don't come barking here. I did an effort to post those yesterday, if ur in denial and your dense brain can't take it watching those moment bcoz you might get a stroke and get back to your 6 years coma again! Then don't come bothering me.

Don't send an ask again until u watched the 2021 moments of Ksoo and the members. Bcoz u clearly haven't watched anything about Exo and Ksoo since 2015 call me baby Era. How do u call yourself a fan? 🤔

I won't answer any of ur asks again until you have something real to say and until you watched all the videos and pics and gifs I posted above in the long threads i made yesterday.

Oh and I'm 2021 Exo had this comeback called "Don't fight the Feeling" and here's a glimpse of the members cheering for ksoo and hyping him.. you can watch the full video on youtube.

You can clearly see in the gifs below how sad Ksoo looks around the members. 😔

@Queen_Of_Galaxies_Aurore ✨👑👸🏻👑✨

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💿Sun 13 Dec ‘20💙

Happy Birthday, Fine Line! Have a Louis show! (Seriously, why can’t I get cool shows for my birthday like that??). So today’s been a busy week, huh?

It is, of course, Fine Line’s anniversary, and the celebration kicked off last night, with a twitter emoji (it's Harrrry! Doing the FL pose so so tiny!) and the DYKWYA website changing. It’s pink and black and blue and white, and now tells us that we’re “loyal” and “marvelous” and “memorable” and “powerful” and “rare” and “real” and “staying six feet apart” (or 70 other lovely options). So either HSHQ got their thesaurus out, or they tuned into Louis’ show last night, because that’s EXACTLY how I would describe it. Anyways, the day started with a Harry sighting! Well, a video from last week that is, of him doing a MakeaWish FaceTime in a blue snapback. And then there was a Harry Lambert interview, where he directly addressed the discourse around Harry’s fashion choices, saying, “Harry will never wear something that he doesn’t want to wear...I always say, 'I‘m not doing my job if I’m making someone wear things' because I just think if someone gets comfortable in what they’re wearing, then it doesn’t matter if I think it looks good.” He went on to say, “There’s never an element of me forcing him to wear anything”. So - TAKE THAT, transphobes! We all recognize that saying “the mean gay man is making Harry look gay/genderqueer” is, uh, a REALLY bad take, right? Anyways, hopefully that’s the end of it, but we all know it won’t be. He also told us that Harry chose the (fake) pearls, asking “can I just wear these every day?” and they were only replaced with real ones after that strand broke, that he tried to get H out of the Vans for the Golden vid but he said nah, and about the Golden and WS videos “I kind of saw it as the same man just in a different place in the world” which, well- yeah? But the implication that that man was not Harry is interesting. Aside from that, we got some more terrible merch from HSHQ (including a shirt that is a glove with legs stuck on it, wtf), a few celebratory tweets from HSHQ, The Forum, Jeff Azoff (there's a theme here lol) etc, AND! A post from Harry himself: “I couldn’t be more grateful for you all continually finding new ways to change my life. Thank you for listening, and for everything else. I love you always, but especially today. H”. What? That’s his name, isn’t it?

But, of course, H wasn’t the only one celebrating online today! Louis came back and answered some of our questions about the show. The first is that he sold over - are you ready for this? - OVER 160,000 tickets for the show, making it the biggest online show of 2020 by a solo male artist, and the third largest overall of the year. Even the Sun had to admit how “exceptional” that is, describing the show as "the equivalent of eight nights at London’s O2 Arena." Doing the math, this means he raised over $3.1 million from ticket sales alone! HOLY SHIT! Hearing that, Louis came on twitter to say (in reply to a quote by his PR company lmao), “This is truly incredible. No major label, no radio, yet here we are. The feeling of support I get from you all every time I do something is unbelievable. Forever Thankful! And they never see us coming!”. Of course, this incited another round of label discourse, wondering if this means he is still an unsigned artist. Does this simply mean the livestream wasn't put on by a label, yes, does Louis absolutely know about the discourse and is he being deliberate, I would also say unmistakeably yes. Which is not to say we know ELSE it might mean -- is he signed to an indie? Still label shopping and waving how much more they need him than vice versa in the hopefuls' faces? Signed but the contract doesn't start until there's a record in play (which when you negotiate your own contract and establish artistic freedom, as we can be very sure was Louis' priority, is what labels DO - they don’t manage every aspect of an artists career)? Signed by a major label, but shading the FUCK out of Syco about radio play for Walls? What we DO know is that it wasn't a label that put the livestream on, and damn if that doesn’t make it 1000% more badass. “Memorable”, “powerful”, and “rare” indeed! He’s still early in the process of LT2, as he told us yesterday, so we might have to wait a little longer to figure out what’s happening business-wise, but he made sure to tell everyone that his fans were an integral part of his processing the most inspiring way possible: “the power and the magic comes from the people you guys,” I COULD CRY that's MY inspirational leader THANK YOU. He goes on to say “don't undermine your role in all this... together with your support we're unstoppable!” He also called us “fucking relentless” (god knows that's true) as Walls hit the charts AGAIN, and talked about how the money raised will go a long way. “WE did that!!”

And with that, let’s talk a little bit more about last night’s (“bold”, “extraordinary”) show! ‘‘Copy’ is making its rounds on the internet, but YouTube continues to take down recordings of the show, which SUCKS, because everyone should be able to see it! Maybe in a few days when some time has passed, they’ll let it go up without an issue, or maybe they'll answer our pleas (come through one more time Louis!) and put out a DVD (and live album too how about, YES? Yes.), til then there are the downloads going around tumblr! Good thing we got Louis' seal of approval or just imagine the discourse. The ‘H’ shirt Louis was wearing last night is a Reebok shirt, which was being distributed in a few different places, such one where you could get a discount if you used the code ‘HL40’ and another where it was $28, lol. Was it the loudest Louis shirt ever- I mean I would say an unqualified NO but many are voting YES and are reeling so that's really fun! Welcome to the gang guys. Not likely to win any awards for being loud with such incredible competition but still very good SBBing-- Louis was wearing a stuffed bear t shirt in rehearsal pics. When you know you know, I guess! ;) The band is also soaking in the praises (as they should!) and have been re-posting fans’ stories on Instagram all day (as did LTHQ) - cheers, boys!

Today’s Liam and Roman alarm was ALL us (well, not allll us, Roman did explain that the alarms would feature fans every Sunday, but then he handed the mic over). “Waking up to Liam and Roman is the best thing EVER! I don’t know why it gives me so much serotonin,” said one fan. I do! It’s because Liam is a real, live puppy dog and he’s so genuinely sweet to his fans. Love him lots, but I love him even MORE when he’s ON the advent alarm!

#harry styles #louis tomlinson #liam payne #wow what a day!#anyways I love these guys lots and lots and it was a gorgeous show!#and also fine line is a gorgeous album ive been streaming it today #anyways!#song of the day!#Wake Up by Julie and the Phantoms cast #let me tell you a secret: my fourth most listened to genre on my spotify wrapped #was showtunes #so what does that say about me??

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i love the way you write. can you tell me something nice to calm my nerves? my day has been awful and the way you write takes me out of it, instantly. *currently rereading everything you've written on ao3 ignore the kudos that might give this away 👀*

anonnnnnnnnn. 🤚💓

something nice: rhett and link have been together longer than i’ve been alive. (i’m more than three decades old. 😩)

and something short for you, because this made me blush:

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needs no conversation

1k - Rhett and Link duet for the first time.

songs referenced: yesterday’s wine / islands in the stream

Over a year passes after Rhett's voice dropped before he starts using it as regularly as he used to. More than once, trying to sing along to whatever's on the radio and having his voice crack and squeak has led to teasing from friends and family alike. He's gun-shy to hold a tune until he's sure the baritone that his register has changed to is permanent.

Poor Link's voice has only gotten higher, since around the same time, but the elasticity and charm of it suits his personality.

It's years into being grumpy, monosyllabic teenagers before they feel happy enough to sing aloud, let alone together.

One night, while they’re stuffed with pizza and sketching tree forts (they're sick of lugging all their things to the river, every time they swim and want a place to store belongings in the woods, closer by), Rhett finds himself singing along to Yesterday's Wine with a full-throated joy that makes Link's insides swirl. It's certainly the most he's used his voice, confidently, since it's settled on this octave.

Rhett's voice sounds good. Objectively good and better than it's maybe ever sounded.

Link, shyly, joins in because he's sure the longer he sits and listens, it'll become a problem for his head or his heart or both. It unsettles him.

He's not more than three seconds into the chorus, singing along with George Jones' section, when he notices that Rhett's set aside his writing instruments, as well, and is looking over at him.

In near the same way that Link was looking at him.

It's then, right that second, Link hears it.

The natural harmony they've stumbled across.

The song's over too soon.

With busy eyes and unsteady hands, Link scrambles over to the tape deck to switch out to another song. The next up was a solo b-side from Merle's early work that won’t showcase what he’s just heard.

He picks the first tape with a duet he can find.

Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.

It's just to prove a theory, the song choice. Selected because Link knows it has two distinct singers. Not much thought going into it beyond that.

He pops the tape into the player and hits play. He feigns looking down at his drawings for a moment, like he's merely changing the background music and returning to them.

But after a few seconds, he can't withhold his interest and looks up.

Rhett's still staring right at him.

And he doesn’t seem to have stopped this whole time.

As the music fades in softly, his eyes are soft and doe-y.

To Link’s surprise, he starts to sing, clearly begging Link, wordlessly, to do the same in the next verse.

"Baby, when I met you there was peace unknown I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb," Rhett begins.

Link stares at him, takes it in. He lets his ears adjust and come to grips with the fact that Rhett's voice really sounds that smooth and adult, overpowering Kenny's easily in the quiet room with the volume purposefully low.

They both know the lyrics.

"I was soft inside There was something going on," Rhett sings.

Link’s smile breaks wide, an outburst of shocked elation that Rhett sound only improves. He really sounds this good. Professionally good.

An idea bubbles into his mind, one he'd never dare to think if not so immersed in the candied daydream of hearing his friend's beautiful voice echo around the small bedroom for what feels like the first time. He's picturing Rhett singing this for an audience, his unused hand holding a microphone, as Link watches Rhett drum a steady one-two rhythm along with the beat into his thigh.

Link does the same and then immediately jumps in on the first harmony.

"You do something to me that I can't explain Hold me closer and I feel no pain Every beat of my heart We got something going on," they sing together.

Link's eyes dart back and forth, feeling zapped by the electricity of how their voices sound paired together.

It’s not just Rhett.

He takes in that, to his ears, his voice sounds much deeper than it has in years. When he sings with Rhett, trying to match the key change, it feels like Rhett is sharing some of his baritone. His own lifts up, as though to meet Link halfway.

Their words tumble out over each other in a kind of velvety sophistication that makes Link picture them both on a stage performing. It makes Link's heart leap, how natural it would seem, were it to be like this.

"Tender love is blind It requires a dedication," Rhett belts out, getting into it.

Link grins and nods. They could lead the choir at church.

They both sing, "All this love we feel needs no conversation We ride it together, ah ha."

Rhett wiggles back and forth to the beat, Link joins in.

"Making love with each other, ah ha," they sing, blushing.

Rhett laughs, inaudibly, in respect to the music, at how silly that line sounds, when sung by the two of them.

"Islands in the stream That is what we are No one in between How can we be wrong Sail away with me To another world And we rely on each other, ah ha From one lover to another, ah ha," they harmonize.

Link's eyes shine. They could start a band.

Link sings, "I can't live without you if the love was gone Everything is nothing if you got no one And you did walk in the night Slowly losing sight of the real thing."

Rhett's eyes are also shining back. Link is already sure that he'll agree to the idea. He hardly ever says no, in Link's experience.

They sing, "But that won't happen to us and we got no doubt Too deep in love and we got no way out And the message is clear This could be the year for the real thing."

He pictures their names on a marquee.

Link closes his eyes and sings, "No more will you cry Baby, I will hurt you never."

He imagines their album cover, posed like Lionel or Merle.

Rhett joins him, "We start and end as one In love forever We can ride it together, ah ha Making love with each other, ah ha."

Link nods along, lost in fantasy.

"Islands in the stream That is what we are No one in between How can we be wrong Sail away with me To another world And we rely on each other, ah ha From one lover to another, ah ha," they recite in tandem.

Link opens his eyes again and is struck by the fact that Rhett's eyes are also open or have still never closed.

Once again the ZING of amazement bolts through him at how strongly the affection and pride on Rhett's face beams at him.

They sing, "Sail away Oh come sail away with me."

The chorus repeats twice, both of them staring like that the whole time, and Link fights the urge to reach out and join their hands as if in prayer. He's seen duets do that before, like Sonny and Cher. He understands the impulse, now. He wants nothing more than to chase this connected, harmonious feeling, now and perhaps the rest of his life.

Entertain himself and others, alongside Rhett.

As the song finishes, they sing, "Islands in the stream That is what we are No one in between."

This is their ticket out.

A solo track ticks on next and the spell is somewhat broken.

Link leans back and laughs, covering his mouth with both palms at once.

Rhett settles, blushing, and hides his mouth with the back of his right hand. It also masks the smile growing fast at Link’s reaction.

It feels like they've just discovered a secret too great for them to know.

"That was so good," Link tells him, honest.

"I 's just thinkin' that," Rhett agrees, chuckling. "Don't think I've ever been able to hold an melody like that. You hit the high notes dead-on."

"And that was some professional-grade crooning," Link assures him.

"Oh, don't know about that," Rhett dismisses.

"No, I'm serious. We should start a band," Link says, earnestly.

Rhett watches him for a few seconds, trying to judge whether or not he's serious. When he sees no hesitation, finally, he smirks.

"Okay," Rhett agrees, looking thrilled.

Link grins back at him.

"It's like it was written about us, too. We've got an island in a stream. If you could count the river as one. How’s that for song choice?" Link asks, playfully.

Rhett frowns. "That's... not what the song - it's about - " Rhett looks at Link funny, then continues, "It's not about that. D'you even listen to the lyrics?"

"No," Link answers, easy and truthful.

"You really wanna start a band with me?” Rhett’s eyes fall and he scratches the back of his head. “If you got distracted while I was singing?"

"Rhett, I got distracted by your singing," Link explains.

Rhett looks down. "Oh."

There's a long pause.

"Well, I got distracted by you, too."

Link's eyes widen.

"By your singing," Rhett adds, hastily.

Link rolls his eyes and shakes his head. Unsure how else Rhett would've expected him to take that.

The blush that warms his chest also brings with it a smile.

He rewinds the tape so they can begin again.

#things i wrote #sharing music is intimate #i love you @anon #i have a WIP that i need to finish #and other things #but i'm in my feelings about them today #🥺️#rhink fic #fluff

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