#10YearsOfBlindChannel

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10 years of Blind Channel -Day 3 Joonas

Speaking of me spending 200+ hours poking a screen i present the most insane one of these yet Joonas

[lnights]

@10yearsofblindchannel

Tommi day! 856 words, OT6!

Tommi was trying to sleep.

Yeah he always knew it would be hard to sleep on a moving tour bus full of people, especially full of people that were loud and all had slightly different sleep schedules, but normally he could read a bit and make himself sleepy. But it just wasn't happening tonight.

It wasn't that anyone was being particularly loud or disruptive, no more so than normal at least, but sleep just wouldn't come to him no matter what he did. He couldn't focus on his book, music wasn't helping, he couldn't exactly go for a walk, and sheer force of will wouldn't make his brain quiet down enough for sleep to come.

Tommi let out a sigh and pulled back the curtain of his bunk, squinting against the harsh light of the bus as he swung his legs out.

"Are you still awake?" Joonas asked from the couch.

"Can't sleep," Tommi grumbled.

"Want some coffee?" Joel offered, "I'll make it."

Tommi laughed, Joel was lying on the couch with his head in Joonas' lap and his hair getting played with, there was no way he'd move. "No, don't get up, you seem comfy." Tommi told him.

"I can make it." Joel mumbled, but he made no attempt to get up, his eyes closing and leaning into Joonas' hand.

"Where's everyone else?" Tommi asked.

"Olli's asleep in his bunk," Joonas told him, "and Niko and Aleksi are having some quiet time in the back."

Tommi sighed, that was three of his boyfriends he couldn't get to distract him, flopping down by Joonas and running his fingers through his curls.

"Are you two having some alone time too?" Tommi asked quietly; it could be hard for them to get any time alone with just the six of them, but it was almost impossible for them to pair up to just spend some time together. It would be better when the tour was done, and he wasn't going to intrude on anyone's time.

But Joonas shook his head, giving him a smile, "you know how this one-" he gestured down at Joel, "can't sleep if one of us isn't by him, so we're just hanging out."

Tommi nodded and started running his fingers through Joel's hair too, knowing it was the best way to lull him to sleep, and earning a small contented sigh from the singer in return.

They just stayed like that for a while, not talking but enjoying the closeness; a couple of their crew members were around but pretty much everyone was asleep at that time of night; driving overnight between cities so they could make the next gig, so they could just feel the movement of the bus and relax together.

"Why can't you sleep, nalle?" Joel muttered, sounding half asleep himself.

"Just can't," Tommi murmured back.

"So we have two insomniacs." Joonas laughed softly.

"Tonight we do." Tommi sighed.

There was a soft sliding sound and a few moments later Niko and Aleksi appeared in front of the couch, the pink imprint on Niko's cheek and slow blinking indicating he had been getting some blessed sleep in the back before something woke him up.

"I had a thought." Aleksi whispered, "I couldn't sleep-"

"Oh great," Joel groaned, "we're up to half." 

"I'm not exactly sleeping either J." Joonas muttered.

"How about we all sleep in the back tonight?" Aleksi continued with a tired smile, "we still have a few days until our next hotel stay and the two couches pull out into a big bed…"

"Yes," Tommi said instantly, it's exactly what he needed, to be surrounded by his boyfriends.

"I'm taking your bunk then," Santeri grumbled, hauling himself up from the table he had been working at and going to claim his new spot for the night.

"Fair," Tommi chuckled, standing and helping Joel to his feet, watching as he shuffled to the back with an arm around Joonas, Niko and Aleksi grabbing pillows and blankets from their bunks as they followed them.

Tommi grabbed the ones they missed and started to follow, but paused at Olli's bunk. They had a rule that if someone's curtain was closed, you don't open it, but he also knew how deep their bassist could sleep and that Olli would be so upset if he woke up and found they had all slept together without him…

So Tommi shifted the blankets to one arm and gently pulled back the curtain, smiling at Olli's peaceful face. He reached into the cramped space and carefully got his arms under him, pulling him out and carrying him to the back.

"Oh good," Joonas smiled as he walked in, "can't forget our Olli."

Tommi laid him on the pulled out bed between Niko, who had already fallen back asleep, and Joel who miraculously seemed to be falling asleep fast now.

Aleksi and Joonas got in and left an open space for him, so Tommi just turned off the light and laid down between, pulling both of them into his arms, enjoying their warmth and focusing on the sound of their breathing.

He was asleep in no time.

[blindchandelure]

BC Fan Week Moodboards, 1/10: Niko/Pre 2013

[aphfroghat]

Hello friend, from the very start you had my heart🖤❤️. Thank you for joining the Dark Side and being a part of the BC Wolfpackfamily 🐺 here on Tumblr. Please remember that even the darkest days will end and Another Sun☀️ will rise. Together we are never a Bad Idea but strong like Giants✊. #10yearsofblindchannel & many more to come!

[e-von-dahl]

Hello friend, from the very start you had my heart 🖤❤️. Thank you for joining the Dark Side and being a part of the BC Wolfpackfamily 🐺 here on Tumblr. Please remember that even the darkest days will end and Another Sun ☀️ will rise. Together we are never a Bad Idea but strong like Giants ✊️. #10yearsofblindchannel & many more to come!

❤️🖤

[there-is-just-me-myself-and-i]

Hello friend, from the very start you had my heart🖤❤️. Thank you for joining the Dark Side and being a part of the BC Wolfpackfamily 🐺 here on Tumblr. Please remember that even the darkest days will end and Another Sun☀️ will rise. Together we are never a Bad Idea but strong like Giants✊. #10yearsofblindchannel & many more to come!

Thank you so so much friend 🖤🖤🖤. And thank you to everyone in the BC Wolfpack here on tumblr for letting me be a part of the pack, and for being the most amazing, talented, beautiful, lovely and freaking nice people 🖤🖤🖤. Just a bit over a year ago I would have never thought I would feel this welcome somewhere, and that I would make so many friends from everywhere around the world. It's also so cool to now connect concerts to people, and to see and read about your adventures at BC concerts. I just wish the world was smaller, or less expensive to travel so I could meet more of you 🖤.

[jupiter-balls]

Hello friend, from the very start you had my heart 🖤❤️. Thank you for joining the Dark Side and being a part of the BC Wolfpackfamily 🐺 here on Tumblr. Please remember that even the darkest days will end and Another Sun ☀️ will rise. Together we are never a Bad Idea but strong like Giants ✊️. #10yearsofblindchannel & many more to come!

Awww I feel bad because I haven't been as into BC lately, But thank you for including me this is super sweet 🥰🥺🥺

[darkerthanblack-666]

Hello friend, from the very start you had my heart 🖤❤️. Thank you for joining the Dark Side and being a part of the BC Wolfpackfamily 🐺 here on Tumblr. Please remember that even the darkest days will end and Another Sun ☀️ will rise. Together we are never a Bad Idea but strong like Giants ✊️. #10yearsofblindchannel & many more to come!

Anon, I hate Another Sun, its "positivity" doesn't seen very realistic and listening to this song makes me depressed, because things do not get better. I have other methods for coping than such messages (but I get it they were too young to think in more complicated ways when they wrote the song 😅)

Also I might be less active than I used to be (and so is the fandom, so mainly I'm meh about posting anything anymore), but I still check their social media, just don't talk about it here. Thank you for still checking on me and what I post (even if it's mainly a different fandom nowadays) 💖

[himmelno44]

Hello friend, from the very start you had my heart 🖤❤️. Thank you for joining the Dark Side and being a part of the BC Wolfpackfamily 🐺 here on Tumblr. Please remember that even the darkest days will end and Another Sun ☀️ will rise. Together we are never a Bad Idea but strong like Giants ✊️. #10yearsofblindchannel & many more to come!

❤️❤️❤️

[ominousmotion]

10 Years of Blind Channel Day 2- Joel part 2

Aka I spent 200+ hours poking my screen and it deserves more then being barried in my blog lol

This is an updated version of the one I did last year elevating the shading a bit on his face and hands

[lnights]

@10yearsofblindchannel

Music day! 1352 words, no pairings just bros being bros

"I think it should be fears," Niko said, "or nightmares."

Tommi nodded, they had always planned to release Bad Idea as a single and they had agreed early that Niko would give the direction for the music video.

Sure, they all contributed to each song, but Bad Idea was truly Niko's, and maybe Aleksi's. Aleksi may have first written Timebomb with them, and Darkside was the first he wrote when he joined the band, but he took Niko's pain and helped him turn it into something beautiful, something none of them had been able to do.

No one had any doubt about him joining the band after that. Not that they had before, but it wasn't until their DJ had spent two weeks at Niko's working his magic that all five of them had started actively kicking around the idea of asking him to run away with their circus.

"I like that idea," Joel nodded, "I don't know about you guys but I've had some fucked up nightmares that I can use."

Joonas laughed, "of course you do! Fears and nightmares huh… what do you think, like bad versions of us?"

Niko nodded, "maybe, I think we should all give some ideas here."

The six of them were in Aleksi's little home studio, it was already so late and pizza boxes and empty beer scattered around, but Tommi recognized the look in everyone's eyes; they had an idea and no one would leave until it was fully thought out.

"Ok so I'll start," Niko said, "I'm thinking it flips back and forth between our good sides and our bad sides… I have this worry that there's just this shit side of myself you know? That I can be apathetic and depressed and… yeah."

"So it would be like a doppelganger?" Olli asked, "would we all have that?"

"We could." Niko nodded.

"I think we should each have our own thing." Aleksi piped up, "I've had this nightmare… only once but it stuck with me, where I was being chased by like an evil version of myself and it wanted to kill me and take my place."

"Oh!" Olli sat up straighter "ok I had one once where my shadow was separated from me! It waved at me and moved differently, it just seemed sinister."

Niko was writing so fast his hand seemed to fly down his notebook, "this is great, keep it coming."

"I have dreams a lot of forgetting lyrics or my pants falling off on stage," Joel offered.

"Me too." Joonas laughed.

"I think that's fairly common for people in our line of work." Tommi told them.

Joel frowned a bit, "I guess I have this fear of having so little sleep I go nuts."

Niko nodded and paused, "that could be something… how would we convey that though?"

"Shadow under the eyes?" Joonas suggested, "pale skin?"

"A mirror," Joel said quietly, "I'm looking in a mirror and it starts acting differently than me, it's not really me. But is it really happening or is it a delusion?"

"Creepy," Olli whispered.

Joel nodded and took a drink from his water, they all knew how little Joel enjoyed horror or creepy things; to be that specific, it had to have been a nightmare he had.

Tommi reached over and patted his shoulder a bit, handing him one of their stash of chocolate bars.

"I guess for me," Joonas added quietly, "it would be a fear of a stalker."

All of them went quiet at that, the atmosphere in the studio had started to change from lighthearted to more serious with Joel, but now the room felt cold. While their new popularity since Eurovision had been gratifying, there had been some less than pleasant aspects too.

"Have you been having problems with that?" Niko asked. He had somehow gotten the worse so far, some even going as far as trying to get to him through his family.

"Some people followed me around a couple stores, but no one followed me home or anything." Joonas answered, then added in a whisper, "at least that I know of."

They were silent for another moment before Niko nodded. "That's a good one Joonas, hell we could just make the whole thing about stalking if we wanted."

Joonas shook his head, "no, I like everyone else's ideas."

"Maybe you get a message and it's a picture or video of you from behind?" Aleksi suggested.

Tommi shuddered a little at that, it was certainly a creepy thought.

Joonas nodded, "yeah let's do that."

"How about you Tommi?" Olli asked, "what nightmares do you have?"

"I don't really have them," Tommi answered honestly, he had had some very strange dreams, but not anything he would consider bad or frightening, at least not recently.

"No fears or anything?" Niko clarified.

Tommi thought for a moment, it was true he didn't have a nightmare to pull out, but he did have a fear… one that had stayed in the back of his head for years and have never shared.

"I'm scared of being invisible." Tommi said.

"No one could miss you on the street," Niko laughed.

"No, I mean," Tommi sighed, "invisible as in no one cares, no one remembers I existed. I like my privacy but sometimes I worry that I'm easily replaceable and that if you guys swapped me for another drummer no one would even notice." He held up his hands as they all started to talk at once, "I have no worry you guys would actually do that, I mean more from the fans' and label's perspective."

"I think the label wouldn't care if any of us were replaced." Olli offered and handed him another beer.

"It's going to be hard to show, maybe floating drumsticks?" Joel mused.

"I'm not sure." Tommi said.

"We'll come back to it." Niko waved his hand, "let's move on."

"Maybe a few of us get trapped in an elevator to hell or something." Aleksi suggested.

Niko laughed and wrote it down.

They spent the rest of the night throwing out ideas, and by the end they were pretty happy with the vision of the music video, just still needing to figure out Tommi's part.

"I don't think any of us should drive," Olli sighed as he cleaned up the bottles.

Tommi nodded and went with Aleksi to grab spare blankets and pillows for everyone to sleep it off, almost running into Joel on the way back as he went to the bathroom.

"Hey," Joel said quietly, "you know no one is ever getting replaced in this band right? We're friends first and I would fight anyone who tries to suggest it."

Tommi smiled, remembering how loud and angry Joel had been when a label had tried to tell them to get rid of Niko. "I know J."

Joel nodded, "good." He shuddered a little "I think I just need to stay away from mirrors for a bit."

Tommi laughed and went to get Aleksi's guest bed ready; Joel, Joonas and Olli would be sharing it while he and Niko shared Aleksi's bed. It was better than sleeping on the floor and certainly not the first time they had shared a bed or couch when working late.

As everyone got settled for the night and drifted off, Tommi found himself in a bathroom; he could hear a crowd and music so it had to be at a gig.

He washed his face, he didn't know why, maybe he had been sweaty after a show? But when he looked up-

He had no reflection.

He touched the mirror, trying to figure out if it was real, and cool glass was under his fingertips.

He wasn't there.

Tommi jolted awake, breathing harder and looking around in the dark. When his eyes adjusted he could see Aleksi and Niko sleeping peacefully next to him, and he laid back.

It was just a nightmare.

And the exact right way to show his fear in the music video, resolving to tell them in the morning as he let their steady breathing lull him back to sleep.

[blindchandelure]

BC Fan Week Moodboards, 10/10: Blind Channel Day

Since today is for whatever I want lol, I decided to dedicate a moodboard to my favorite rarepair, Niko/Samy.

[mondscheinprinzessin]

Hello friend, from the very start you had my heart🖤❤️. Thank you for joining the Dark Side and being a part of the BC Wolfpackfamily 🐺 here on Tumblr. Please remember that even the darkest days will end and Another Sun☀️ will rise. Together we are never a Bad Idea but strong like Giants✊. #10yearsofblindchannel & many more to come!

Aww that is so nice of you guys. I just love this fandom🖤

It has given me so much, so many hours of happiness and support. It made me grow, improve my writing skills, made me engage with people. I found friends on here! People I could see in real life and wouldn't want to miss. Just because of some gay music show that introduced us to a (then) small finnish band.

I'm so incredibly happy how all of this worked out, and I will happily stay here for longer (and try to be more active again in the future, perhaps) and see all the art, fics, edits, gifs, and whatever you come up with.

[born-to-lose]

Hello friend, from the very start you had my heart 🖤❤️. Thank you for joining the Dark Side and being a part of the BC Wolfpackfamily 🐺 here on Tumblr. Please remember that even the darkest days will end and Another Sun ☀️ will rise. Together we are never a Bad Idea but strong like Giants ✊️. #10yearsofblindchannel & many more to come!

Awww thank you!! 🥺 maybe I should get back into Blind Channel, I miss y'all 💔

[catboyolli]

Hello friend, from the very start you had my heart 🖤❤️. Thank you for joining the Dark Side and being a part of the BC Wolfpackfamily 🐺 here on Tumblr. Please remember that even the darkest days will end and Another Sun ☀️ will rise. Together we are never a Bad Idea but strong like Giants ✊️. #10yearsofblindchannel & many more to come!

awwwwwww thank you kindly, darling!!!! this is so lovely 💘💗💕💖💗💕

I'm so glad I found this community, I've never felt so at peace in a fandom and it's all thanks to everyone here 🥰💖💕

[long-live-the-prince]

Hello friend, from the very start you had my heart🖤❤️. Thank you for joining the Dark Side and being a part of the BC Wolfpackfamily 🐺 here on Tumblr. Please remember that even the darkest days will end and Another Sun☀️ will rise. Together we are never a Bad Idea but strong like Giants✊. #10yearsofblindchannel & many more to come!

I love how fucking cheesy this is

Thanks Eurovision 2021 for showing me 6 idiots