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Catch me on Ao3 promoting unsafe sex, huge age gaps, adultery, and blasphemy.

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Hiii <3 The company im keeping is one of my all time favorite fiction. Every few months I come back and start again. Long stories that burn slowly and have characters written so beautifully are truly rare. I wanted to ask you going to write any more fictions i reallly love how you write?? Also there was another ficton I read on a3o and I think it was deleted. As a fellow arctic monkeys fan i thought maybe you would know because that was another longer slow burn fiction and maybe youve read it and remember??. I don't remember the name or author of the story, but it was an alternative universe fiction in which Alex Turner was a teacher in England and he met another teacher who came to England on an exchange program from America and they became lovers over time. He also had a bike and they drove it. one was a history and other was a english teacher. and thats all i can remember? Lots of love <33

Hi! Sorry if this is old, I don’t come on tumblr often, thank you! I actually do think I know the fic you are thinking about but the author took her fics down and I don’t know if she’s on tumblr anymore either. Putting this out there in case anyone has it downloaded for you!

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My view of Alex last night at the Oslo

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I’ve literally seen these two gifs within a second and it made me roar with laughter🌚😅

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The way you write Alex and Alex is so perfect

Thank you friend!

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Hi! I really want to tell you how much I appreciate being able to read The company I'm keeping on Ao3 cause I've binged it twice in a row and on my way for the third take. You've captured something so delicate and essential about your characters, how perfectly imperfect they are, I can't stop thinking about it. So, thank you a lot for your talent and for sharing it with us ❤

Thank you for reading! Getting feedback never gets old so your comment is much appreciated 😍

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A very Milex Christmas fic rec list!

I love reading cozy Christmas fics in December, so I've compiled a little list of lovely Milex stories set during the holidays.

(amazing graphic too, right?🎅)

Enjoy!

Wonderful Christmastime by @alex-band-gay-and-the-hurrikane

Words: 49k - Chapters: 13

Tell him what you want and baby he can find you anything you need.

Or in fact don’t bother to tell him what you want because he already knows what you need and he intends to give it to you (12 times) in the form of 12 little gifts given in the run up to Christmas Day.

The 12 days of Christmas begin — in untraditional fashion, but in earnest — on the 2nd of December one chilly Yuletide.

In other words, Miles accidentally starts something but runs with it when he realises just how happy it’s making his …. Friend :)

This is solid gold FLUFF maestro!

An Evening In London by @richiebrook

Words: 14k - Chapters: 5

It's the 23rd of December. This is Miles' evening in five acts.

This was written for the Milex Big Bang 2019.

Or: the tale of why I'm (not so) secretly in love with Miles.

This was based on one of my favourite novels, The Evenings: A Winter's Tale by Gerard Reve.

Happy Ending on Sale! by @girlinthepictureframe

Words: 16k - Chapters: 5

A gift of the very unexpected variety leads to the reawakening of Alex's sexual curiosity.

Wondrous Place by @fiireside

Words: 5k - Chapters: 1

Snow prevents Alex from making it home for Christmas, and so he finds himself spending the holiday with Miles' family instead.

Something in Your Magnetism by @elorianna

Words: 5k - Chapters: 1 - Part 2/3 of Never-Ending Spirals

On a night close to Christmas, Miles invites Alex for some innocent fun at the fairground in Hyde Park. But what begins as a trip down memory lane turns into nostalgia of a very different sort, and in the end Miles is faced with a difficult choice…

Home for Christmas❅☃ by pandreea

Words: 2k - Chapters: 1

True At First Light by @tightredpants

Words: 2k - Chapters: 1

Alex and Miles find themselves snowed in, and with the cold weather comes the ghosts of their past, and promises of the future.

Christmas Antics by charmlesstrans

Words: 611 - Chapters: 1

Holding Back by @markslittleproblems

Words: 2k - Chapters: 1

On Christmas Eve, the pressure of losing Miles over silence is too overwhelming and Alex has a confession to make to his parents.

In The Country by Alexturner_strikes_again

Words: 2k - Chapters: 1

James ford invites the last shadow puppets to stay at this cabin he has for a little touring vacation, imaging they could use some time off the road.

I will also include my own two Christmas stories:

nobody ought to be alone on christmas by alexturne

Words: 12k - Chapters: 1

"And it's not my fault he's all the way away in LA! Stupid, far away LA. London's a nice place too, you know! It's worth sticking around for, especially at Christmas!"

"What's stopping you from seeing him? You're obviously miserable without him, with nowhere to go for Christmas. Get out of your joggers. Go to LA. Go see him. Tell him you love him."

i'll be home for christmas by alexturne

Words: 13k - Chapters: 1

Alex Turner had it all.

A massively successful global tour, adoring fans everywhere he went, amazing sales figures, another number one album, a gorgeous house, a jealousy-inducing collection of vintage cars and motorbikes and the best bandmates you could ask for. 

But one fateful Christmas eve has Alex realizing that none of that truly matters. And that the one thing he could truly never live without is the one he let get away.

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the chokehold that this video continues to have on me is unreal 

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scottconcepcionn: Few scoops with monkeys n that

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Alex Turner opens up about The Car, Arctic Monkeys' 20th anniversary album

The frontman of the British band that performs at Primavera Sound, in São Paulo, invests in more abstract lyrics in new album

Published October 16 2022, by Rodrigo Salem

Alex Turner is not satisfied with the lighting in the room chosen as the setting for our interview. It's a small, cozy hipster hotel in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, one of those above a cafe with tables occupied by young people at the computer, and no lines at cash registers that don't accept cash.

The frontman of Arctic Monkeys, the biggest rock band to come out of the UK in the last 20 years, flips the switches until he finds the perfect balance of light. "Is this okay for you?" he asks, but doesn't seem to care too much about the answer.

Turner likes to have complete control over his environment. "Where do you want to sit? This will be the best place, right?" he asks, coffee in hand, already standing in front of a small beige table below the lamp that insisted on not emanating the adequate light.

Shy to the point of never completing a full sentence, as if his mouth didn't keep up with his fast brain, Turner is acutely aware of his obsession with control and attention to detail, something that has only grown bigger in the last few years at the helm of the band. But the singer, guitarist and songwriter lived something different in the creation of The Car, the group's seventh album, which will be released worldwide this week.

After composing the piano demos alone for much of the pandemic, he was reunited with the rest of the band over the summer of last year, in a secluded house that was part of a 12th-century monastery in Suffolk, on the east coast of England.

"We hadn't done that since the first album. I had extra film rolls and I took my 16mm camera to film everything and keep myself busy during the recording. At first, I just wanted to record the memory, but it seemed to help in the work environment, because I stepped out of the process a bit and gave everyone more space," he says.

"James [Ford, record producer] was delighted, because I wasn't looking over his shoulder all the time and being a twat."

The musician's hobby as a filmmaker was not the only novelty in the three weeks of work in the makeshift studio, complete with a piano borrowed from a resident there and the technological arsenal brought in from London. The period was essential for Arctic Monkeys to remember that they are still a rock group formed by friends.

"We had a lot of laughs and watched the Euro Cup together. It was important to have that band energy again," says Turner, revealing that Body Paint, The Car's latest single, only took its final form because of this camaraderie. "The distorted guitar at the end just came about because I wanted to do that solo with them. It sounds obvious, but being together changes the dynamics of how I play."

Ironically, the album's main theme seems to circle around characters that don't seem to fit the environment they're in. In Body Paint itself, which wouldn't be out of place in one of George Martin's orchestrated productions for The Beatles, Turner sings that he's "keeping on [his] costume and calling it a writing tool."

Jet Skis On The Moat, played on a sultry guitar and with a broken rhythm reminiscent of U2's The Playboy Mansion, brings a Hollywood psychedelic mood—"jet skis on the moat / they filmed everything in CinemaScope, but this is the last time you will ride them, though".

"I was imagining this perception of us living like rock stars in a fantasy castle on a mountain, riding jet skis, disconnected from everything," says Turner.

In I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am, he seems to describe a strange trip on a luxury yacht off the coast of France, a country where he usually goes with his girlfriend, French singer Louise Verneuil, since he moved back to England from Los Angeles. "I spend less time here, but I love this city. It's where I have my friends," he says.

Extremely protective of his privacy, Alex Turner does not confirm any theories that could refer to his life beyond music. However, he admits that feeling like a fish out of water is one of the themes of the record. "I've definitely written this time about someone who doesn't fit in," he says as he pulls out of his green jacket two folded sheets of paper filled with his lyrics and assorted notes.

I question the reason for keeping this material around and the singer lets his guard down. "I think that this way I can have these conversations more easily, and stay on the same level as other people. You've read the lyrics, listened to the record, and I thought I should do the same to meet you in the middle," he says, soon bringing back up his good-humored defenses. "And it also serves to intimidate people."

Not that he seems to want to intimidate anyone. Turner can barely look up, more concerned with focusing on some object and finding the right words for his answers. Keeping the lyrics in your pocket serves to rediscover the words of the songs.

One of the most brilliant songwriters of modern British rock and someone who has managed to portray the yearnings and feelings of an entire millennial generation, he says his lyrics come out of the space between the conscious and the unconscious.

In The Car, they seem even more abstract. "I love leaving space for lyrics not to be fully understood and to become more interesting as the years go by. I like to explore things that are difficult to talk about."

Does that mean that Alex Turner, who, two decades ago, rehearsed in a garage with Jamie Cook on guitar, Andy Nicholson on bass, later replaced by Nick O'Malley, and Matt Helders on drums, in Sheffield, is finally noticing the inevitable passage of time?

"Funny, it's hard to accept that it's been 20 years," he says. "But we're alive and active. That happens a lot when I'm singing the old songs now. I remember something, not necessarily the lyrics, but the environment, a person and the sensations of the past."

A rich past, we must add. Arctic Monkeys have gone through several phases in these two decades. It began with the confessional hip-hop-enamored rock of the first two albums, a formula that propelled the group into the stratosphere of fame. It gained weight with the stoner rock of Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age on 2009's Humbug and the stadium hard rock of 2013's AM. And it culminated in the journey away from Earth in 2018's jazzy Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino.

The Car continues the sonic exploration of their previous work, but brings guitars back to the songs and a Turner interested in using his voice as an instrument. "I don't know if Alex from 20 years ago would like this sound," he wonders. "Secretly, I wanted something along those lines then, but it wasn't within my reach at the time. On second thought, I think he would like it. But if he wouldn't like it, then fuck it," he jokes.

He admits that he changed his way of looking at music and even composing. On previous albums, he wrote the lyrics and then thought of the melody. The music now comes first.

"I made an effort to put the lyrics in sync with a melody that gives me permission to use certain words," says the musician. "I didn't focus on that in the past, I think it started on AM, when I started to change the lyrics as I was influenced by the sound in the studio."

Back on stage since a few weeks ago, Turner believes the pandemic has changed the relationship between band and audience. "The first time we performed was powerful," he says. "There's a new energy that encourages me. I'm trying not to behave the same way on stage. I think some of that comes from the younger crowd."

Brazil is going to feel this in a few days. Arctic Monkeys closes the first day of Primavera Sound, in São Paulo, on November 5th, already oiling the show with a new repertoire. "When we arrive in Brazil, I want to test two new songs and leave some old ones behind," says the singer, who already says that the next album may come out faster than expected after the long gestation of The Car.

Unable to play shows, the group spent a year polishing up the album in post-production. "We had more time to work on the record and I like to think that this had a positive influence on the final result, as we had more space to hone, think and fight for certain ideas", says Turner. "I love the idea of doing something different, like writing, recording and releasing in a week. Maybe it's a fun idea for the next project."

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𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 🥹

(for Sopitas interview)

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POV your family adopted Alex Turner

Alex Turner having dinner today in Lisbon (3/09/22) | @inesfbarros on twitter

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raise your hand if your camera roll is 1% friends and family and 99% Alex Turner

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oh god what a time to be alive

Alex during 505 in Romania at Summer Well Festival, 13.08.22 (source)

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So so gorgeous 😍😍😍

Arcticmonkeysturkiye on IG ♥️♥️

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hi here with my bimonthly tumblr appearance to ask if we can talk about the line “I was so severely underwhelmed I thought I might never recover” because I’m suddenly obsessed and I don’t know what to do with it