#10/27/2023

[undertale-writing-times]

Hii!! I just found your writing and I love it so much!!! Could you do Stretch / an afab nonbinary reader (who openly goes by they/them) & they wear a binder. Like they are out on a date or something and reader compains about their back and Stretch finds out they wear a binder, and reader freaks out but Stretch is like 'i don't love you any less because you bind'.

I'm just figuring out my gender, and I just got my first binder but im worried about telling people. Thank you !🌻

Sure ^3^ I hope you enjoy it!

Stretch would find out that you wear the binder, and look up a few things before telling you that he knew. Once you started to freak out, he would say "Hey, hey, it's okay! I don't love you any less because you bind. You're my datemate, and you binding isn't going to change that…" he smiles, taking your hands into his own and brings them up to press a 'kiss' to your knuckles.

He understood that humans were always uncomfortable by that sorta stuff, and that was something he didn't really understand? Monsters didn't exactly HAVE genders? Like… they did, but they also didn't. Since they were magic, they could change a bit. With skeletons their ectos could be male, female, or anything else!

Stretch is what humans call a demi-boy, if he remembers right? Uses He/him and they/them, so he understands feeling upset... but he loves you for you, and would love you no matter what you do.

[penelope-scott-news]

New Instagram Stories!

sorry for having to just screenshot them, my downloader stopped working ;(

[fiveseatisthepowerhouse]

“Here is history,” the river whispers. “Do you want to be a part of it?”

This is my third time in Philly and the sight of Boathouse Row still sends a thrill down my spine.

In college Dad Vails was our “championship.” Everything we did, we did with Philly in mind. In January, 1250 meters into a 2k erg test, coach would start describing the grandstand upstream of 3 angels. I grew up as a rower on stories of Vesper and Olympic training camps.

3 years ago I didn’t know how I was going to get myself back on the water. Philly was so impossible, it doesn’t even count as a pipe dream. Yet here I am, watching singles launch from Boathouse Row while I wait for the rest of the team to arrive. The river is calling and finally I get to answer it.

Ready. Ready. Row!

[inthiseternalmoment]

Ate kebabs and listened to 2010’s music

Also played a “get to know someone” card game that we once played in 300

10/27/2023

We’re getting real close to the end of this month and that is exciting. Time is whizzing by and I look forward to the global systems changing and the kind of world we’ll begin to live in over the next few years!

…

We ate kebabs today (I was craving them) and on the way home I was listening to my 2010’s playlist. That period of music was so great because I was so inspired to create music at the time with all the artists (both indie and mainstream) putting out such great songs.

Nowadays it’s a little difficult to get the same level of inspiration when I’m not as drawn to music as I have been in the past. I don’t listen to mainstream artists as much nowadays, and of the artists I do listen to, they’ve decreased in number.

…

We played a “get to know someone” card game Aprille got years ago and this time started with the “surface level” questions. Last time we played, I completely dismissed that deck because I thought the questions were “stupid” since we already knew all the surface level questions about one another.

Shows how much I’ve changed. I’m much more open and less dismissive of things that show up before me.

It feels lighter and relieving to be less judgmental nowadays. I get to experience more of what my reality has to offer because of it. The cards in the deck proved to be fantastic conversation starters, and I learned more about her than I would have otherwise. 😊

[ahalliance]

rapid fire french rayou strikes again (transcript below the cut)

[Video transcript:

[ENG] Etoiles: I— I’m speedrunning it [Mario Party], but it’s like—

[FR] Etoiles: The next person to bust my balls by saying, ‘he’s going to miss the Ascension [French competitive event happening this Saturday 28/10]’ even though my plane is at six PM, you bunch of morons, it’s not because ZeratoR [Ascension event organiser] said once that I’d miss my plane that I will miss my plane, because what you guys don’t understand is that a plane doesn’t get missed if you arrive three hours in advance, and the last time I missed the plane was because my corresponding flight was one hour and a half [late]!

[ENG] Etoiles: I was just saying to my chat that I love them :)

Tina: Awhhh

Foolish: See, once again I have a feeling maybe that wasn’t—

End Video Transcript.]

[pineapplefulfillseveryneed]

The Revenge Of Two Hands One Mouth - O2 Academy Bristol (November 27, 2013) by Adam Gasson

After 11 years of not finding a single photo from this show, I found these yesterday! I can not begin to express what this means to me, I nearly cried and I couldn't sleep last night. I was still a rather new fan and this was my first time going to a show in the UK, the first show I went to see with a friend, and my first time meeting that friend, too. And these above photos are SO GOOD! Not much was preserved from this show at all, there was no recording allowed (no charcoal drawings either), and to my knowledge not even the full setlist for this specific show was preserved anywhere. So better late than never, but here's what I remember (with some help from these photos!) and the things I've puzzled back together:

If there was opening music or an opening act, i don't recall, but Russell entered the stage alone. It was dramatic and impactful, and it went quiet as he gave an intense stare into the audience and did a drawn out "ahhh" into the microphone. After a little moment of quiet, it turned out the microphone had been connected to a sequencer which now started repeating "ah ah ah ah ah ah". Suspense, excitement. Russell added: "Hold, hold, hold, hold". (...I was definitely freaking out.) While that started looping on top of the ah ah ah sequence, he made stop signs with his hand as we all listened. A few repeats passed. "I'm getting mixed signals, mixed signals - mixed, mixed, mixed signals".

^ the only seconds of this show I recorded as I didn't yet know it wasn't allowed - security signed at me and I put the camera away. It was fine. (Here's a recording of it made during the US tour later that year - recording seemed to be less frowned upon at that point.)

I don't recall when Ron entered the stage at this show, whether it was during the song or after, but what a way to open! And what an amazing song choice!

The performance that left the biggest impression on me at this show though was Nicotina. It was a choice I didn't see coming, but also the way Russell sang it! Falsetto heaven. (Sadly not a single video is to be found of Nicotina from this tour. But for your falsetto heaven needs, I hope you can find a video of Here In Heaven that they also performed on this tour, because that will also kill you.)

As everyone here probably knows I am quite big on Bergman, which at the time was heavily promoted during the tours, and, the excerpts they played on this tour were different from what they played during Two Hands One Mouth! They played "I Am Ingmar Bergman", The Studio Commissary (my favourite song on Bergman), Limo Driver (but sang by Russell, and HOW!) and "Oh My God". (Here's a video of it from one of the American shows. It's extremely good. People who've been around for a while have seen me lose it over this video many times.)

The most unexpected song choice was probably Katherine Hepburn. Me and my friend had been joking for absolute months that we were going to see Sparks and they'd play Katherine Hepburn (as if that would ever happen, we were obsessed with that song though!). And here we were, and they were playing Katherine Hepburn right in front of our eyes. (What is reality.)

Falling In Love With Myself Again had me losing it over the organ sounds, always a fan of Ron on organ, and I LOVE that song. Russell sang a line in my direction (I died), and he managed to throw another line at me during Those Mysteries ...I died a few times that night. As you might expect. That was kind of the whole THOM/TROTHOM experience anyway. Lots of dying. But the variety of dying where you end up in heaven. (You're at a Sparks show after all.)

They wrote a song especially for this tour, which was not released but only ever played live: Revenge Of Two Hands One Mouth. What a thing to experience! A very dark song, but wonderful. (REVENGE! REVENGE REVENGE!)

At the end of the show Ron took a photo of Russell with the audience. I don't really remember that happening, but the photo exists and it really was not a thing they did often back then. We had been a good audience :)

Here's all the songs that were probably played that night in random order:

Your Call's Very Important To Us. Please Hold., B.C., Good Morning, Here In Heaven, Academy Award Performance, Those Mysteries, Falling In Love With Myself Again, Big Boy, Nicotina, Popularity, This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us, excerpts from The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman, Tryouts For The Human Race, Katherine Hepburn, Revenge Of Two Hands One Mouth. They likely also played The Number One Song in Heaven, When Do I Get To Sing 'My Way' and Suburban Homeboy. (I see mentions of How Are You Getting Home? and How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall? in setlists for this tour as well, which they very well might have played but I very sadly have zero memory of ever hearing those songs live.)

This tour had a real air of mystery, possibly even more so than Two Hands One Mouth, as the lack of existing footage definitely adds to it. But luckily some of it *is* out there, and I am so grateful for these photos :) On top of the songs I especially mentioned above, I would also advise people to look for recordings of Tryouts For The Human Race and Popularity from this tour, because the arrangements are probably not going to be the way you expect them to be. And as you might expect: B.C. is stunning live. (I could start a whole rant about Good Morning and Suburban Homeboy live but I think I sufficiently screamed about both in my personal notes on THOM the year prior.) Final note: I know Russell had some sort of dance move for Big Boy because me and another friend couldn't stop talking about it for months. I don't remember what he did, but both THOM and TROTHOM were wonderful for Russell dances <3

[vhscorp]

Vu tout ce que nous avons traversé ces dernières années et l’état du monde aujourd’hui, je me demande si nous parviendrons un jour à retrouver un peu de paix et de bonheur…

V. H. SCORP

[glimmerofawesome]

[zipzapi]

Woof

[ghozteevee]

Some pregame shenanigans for my Shuichi sees ghosts au. The ghost messing with him is called Hanako.

[mikeywayarchive]

Instagram story by mikeyway

[Oct 27, 2023]

[fiveseatisthepowerhouse]

We made it!

Boathouse row is as beautiful as I remember.

[loptimal]

We got like, what, a week

[xaviergalatis]

[markov--chains]

artfight bitches choose your fighter