dandelionkings

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[image ID : a photo of a dandelion, slightly squashed to the ground, growing out of the cracks in some pavement near a patch of grass. end ID.]

the dandelions are coming out !!

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there is a special feeling when you're the only sweet coffee drinker of your friend group. its like every time i even touch the creamer i feel a sense of foreboading dread and although ill still use it (bc its MY coffee lemme drink it how i like) i know that ive displeased the coffee gods in disguise that i call my friends (you cant hide from me literally no one drinks cold brew straight and/or drinks six shots if espresso straight)

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writing my first song. head legitimately empty but so full of nondescript concepts. help

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"I used to practice and practice with the door open, hoping someone would come by and discover me. I was never the practitioner in the sense of twelve hours a day, but I always thought about music. I think about music all the time."

Ahmad Jamal (1930-2023), from The New York Times

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“its been december / since before i can remember / just let me take a peek into your bed / to help me decide what to do next”

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The only thing getting lit this weekend is my scented candle.

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being in a band is late night conversations about not making the sad song you wrote about your dad homoerotic please leo this is inadvertently also about YOUR dad so like nO

(in my defence that is NOT what i meant. not my fault you misunderstood catastrophically -leo)

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it would be funny to make one of those memes in the

"person A: says something

person B: says something

and its funny" format but it's just me writing sad songs about my dad trauma and making everyone suffer because of it

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"I would gladly take all your Friday nights if you'd / let me"

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introductory post

just a trio of people who want to have fun creating music and share that with all of you!

about us

félix @thegentlemanstar (he/him | il/lui)

leonore @queerlyillogical (he/they/she | il/ael/elle)

basmati @bowtiebasmati (they/them | il/lui)

hi, we’re a group of proud queer french-canadians (québécois). we’ve been friends for a while, and while we have different areas of interest and creative focuses, we all wanted to create together. so we formed the dandelion kings and have been song-writing and recording ever since!

we’re flexible in our genre, which is why we call it “jr&r”; jazz, rigodon & rock. ask us for details or listen to our songs to see what we mean!

where you can find us

insta: dandelion.kings

spotify: coming soon!

youtube: DANDELION KINGS

tiktok: dandelion.kings

lost? here’s a post about our tagging system

image IDs:

[header ID: a picture of a dark sky with shooting stars streaking through it in a circular pattern. icon ID: a picture of a dandelion, lit from above. \end IDs.]

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our tagging system

a brief breakdown of some of our more common tags, in no particular order:

#behind the scenes : posts about our personal lives or creative process

#liner notes : posts about our music

#updates : updates about new songs, recordings, etc.

#management : posts relating to blog management (like this one!)

#loading : posts about our works in progress

#words words words : posts about lyrics, in progress or not

#head empty no thoughts : shitposts, because this is a wonderful hellsite

#thoughts? : posts for when we want your opinion and/or input

#AAAA : often vent-y posts about the difficulties of this process (you may see basmati using this more than anyone else) (MUSIC THEORY IS HARD -bas)

#from bas : a post or lyrics by basmati

#from félix : a post or lyrics by félix

#from leo : a post or lyrics by leonore

#polls and #asks will be tagged as such

we’ll do our best to tag widespread triggers (as #cw [trigger]), but please do tell us if you’d like something tagged :)