#2015: the host

[synthwayve]

Quick gestures that inevitably turned into micolaurence, and the songs I was listening to while completing them :D

[causticsunshine]

show me your love (grow up and see)

for @momrryficfest round II ♡

explicit | H/L | friends to lovers, fluff, mutual pining, kid fic | 22k+ | ongoing

At only thirty two years of age, Louis Tomlinson has made quite the life for himself—he has his dream job, a place all his own, a nice car, and all the people closest to him are seeing success of their own. The only big thing he's missing now is having the right partner and starting a family with them, although he figures he has plenty of time for that yet. That is, until his best mate, Harry, comes to him with a proposition. Or: what happens when you become your best friend's baby daddy.

read on ao3

[rolandkaros]

i've been ruminating a lot on it because i think i'm bad at putting my thoughts into words but i need y'all to understand that while there are absolutely a lot of Not Good Things about the finals being held in saudi arabia for three years...the way people seem to treat is as morally black and white is shortsighted and unhelpful.

realistically the players traveling there will be protected. it may be uncomfortable, it's certainly not ideal, but they will travel there for a few weeks, play their tennis, then leave. there are a lot of women, a lot of queer people who actually live in saudi arabia who cannot just leave, who are actually subjected to laws and social climates...and to me it just seems very disrespectful to that actual lived experience, for everybody to sort of turn their noses up and get on their high horses. of course, if the players wish to opt out, that is their choice, but that is their choice to make. that's their judgement. not ours.

and then, what about a tournament like miami? florida is literally experiencing one of the worst active regressions that i've seen in the us (granted i'm young). things like critical race theory and lgbtq+ ed are being removed from curriculums, rights for trans youth, trans healthcare, etc. are going backwards. abortion rights? gun violence? and yes i know that the laws and climate in saudi arabia are different gravy, i understand that, but my point is, no one would ever DREAM of arguing against hosting a tournament in miami despite all of these issues. and we can extend this to a lot of other tournaments! i mean, all the outrage about fifa hosting a world cup in qatar, but we don't have any of these sentiments about doha? i've seen other people bring up that the finals were hosted in singapore when gay marriage was still illegal there. we've already talked about italy's fascist prime minister. and i could go on and on and on about the war crimes of countries like the us or the uk - is the us not participating actively in genocide right now? where is the standard? if you argue against hosting the finals in saudi arabia for the reason of human rights, to me it seems you have to uphold that standard for the location you do land on. and i can guarantee, you will not find a single country in the world with clean hands.

i want to be clear i am not arguing that hosting the finals in saudi arabia is a good thing, especially for three years, especially because it's definitely going there because of money, and not for any of the "good" reasons i think some people want us to believe about "improving the region" (which is very weirdly white savior-esque anyway). i don't really have an official "conclusion" to this discussion.

what i am arguing is that i think a lot of the protests against saudi arabiahosting the finals are more an example of implicit anti-arab bias and islamophobia, rather than genuine discussion. key word implicit: i don't think most people are purposefully trying to be anti-arab/islamophobic. or at least, i'd like to believe nobody is. but i also think, particularly in the west, there is already so much of this xenophobic sentiment ingrained. and this is why i think it's really really REALLY important to check ourselves when we talk about it instead of just jumping straight to the human rights conversation without a second thought.

i'll say it plainly: i don't think the finals should be held in saudi arabia. but for me, it has more to do with sportswashing, with the dangers of the way money is thrown around in sports, and because i think it's more evidence that the wta doesn't care about player welfare but rather about making a profit (what else is new). human rights are absolutely a concern of mine, but how is it fair to hold saudi arabia to a standard that we don't seem to care about for literally anybody else?

literally look at the us's ugly ugly history, past and present, and tell me why we deserve to host a tennis tournament.

[briefcasejuice]

man idk if i have ever mentioned this. but back in late 2015 when i hadn't even finished reading everything and still was open to reading mcu fic, i remember going into the daredevil kink meme livejournal page, ctrl f searched for foggy fic, and after a while i saw this one mattfoggy mirror sex fic. and just by skimming through it i saw matt was straight up sighted in it. and in the replies, once people pointed that out, the author was like "oopsie i forgot, my bad". How

MY JAW DROPPED. HELP????? just the concept of mirror sex alone??? not to defend them but i feel like there are so many steps here where even if you forget at SOME point, there are so many chances for you to remember. not to mention it's your writing. you read that shit over and over and over???? jail honestly

[shironezuninja]

It took a week for me to get my new iPad’s screen protector placed on top of it. Now, I get to use it on the new keyboard, and give my old iPad a proper send off in a collage.

[scriv3lloirl]

*pulls up to your blog on a motorcycle* Hey. What is your favourite song from Little Shop of Horrors?

Hey! Nice motor! Cute design. Eye-catching. Big. Uh, n thanks for stoppin by!

I know you probably meant jus, a one song from any musicals.. but you're gettin a damn list cus my favorite song shifts dependin on which production y'ur talkin bout.

I'll do a small list for the 1982, 2003, 2015 Encore!, n 2019 productions. (Normally, I'd put down Dentist or Now (It's Just The Gas) for all of them n call it a day—but I don't wanna be bias jus cus it's me singin.)

1982: Grow For Me. I love the 82' version so much. I love how Seymour goes "ow!! damn roses🤕 damn thorns🤓 clumsy me😓..." Makes me laugh ev'ry single time. Lee Wilkof's delivery of that line is great.

2003: The Meek Shall Inherit. This one was really hard, I'll be honest. All the songs from this production are damn near perfection in my eyes so this was difficult to choose.

2015: Somewhere That's Green. Audrey deserves the damn world n for some reason, this version of the song gets me good.

2019: I hate this fuckin production so much—god um. Mushnik n Son, maybe? I really don't like this production.

Now, from the movie? Damnit. Yeah, so I'm torn between Some Fun Now n Feed Me (Git It!). Might spin a wheel n have it decide cus both songs are absolute bops. Maybe Some Fun Now with Feed Me as a very close second.

Sorry for this lengthy response, nobrain-the-silly LMFAO — I had to give some of these songs a quick listen b'fore givin a proper answer!!

[jattendschaton]

Genuinely, where are ML people congregating these days. None of the Discord servers I'm in are super active anymore and I barely see people in them posting about new episodes/specials and definitely not as they're airing. Where is the new episode camaraderie

There used to be so many active Discord servers and groups on Tumblr/Instagram who talked about where to find links for whatever was coming out and livestreamed episodes themselves and went crazy while watching them all together and I can't tell if this is something that has gone by the wayside fandom-wide or if I am a loser who just isn't invited to be part of these things

[momett]

seeing people on this website who genuinely believe that they were a victim of an antisemetic conspiracy theory, and create terms and things that only this type of traumagenic DID system can experience, and even their own special version of DID just makes me glad i'm as old as i am.

[sunburnacoustic]

Matt describing Revolt as "leading a revolution, but in the style of a Broadway musical" makes everything make sense. That explains the slight sheen on the song, vocals and guitars: there's just a bit of campness in this revolution. Of fucking course. Because it's scripted and led by Muse!

[just-just-gyllenhaal]

Southpaw Screening Hosted By The Academy(2015) pics...

[amethyinst]

american cultural phenom ill never understand is SNL. i have never seen a funny snl clip not from today not from 10, 20, 30 years ago...

[allerod]

*dies bc my tapeworm got cancer*

[acenestuff]

recently started ouran high school host club and i adore haruhi's gender apathetic swag. she's so me i am them

[mchiti]

"I hope Inchallah we win the cup"

[eunhos]

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[averbaldumpingground]

I think I used to know you in another life. It feels like that, the miles and years and distance that’s between us. Like everything I knew it’d never be.

But I still hear about you sometimes. Or I ask. Not people anymore, just Google when it’s maybe 3 a.m. Despite the fact I’d rather not be sure. Despite all of my best intentions not to.

And this is what’s become of us, old friend. What will we say, if we do meet again? When you see all the grey that’s in my hair. When I’m not sure I’d recognize your smile. Would I get lost in it this time? Or would you be a too familiar stranger? Somebody with a wedding ring, somebody with opinions I can’t stand?

Is there a way we could rewind the years? Back then, I’d thought that we were two halves of a whole. Almost, I think. Just barely.

But time erodes. And time lets forests grow where once was barren ground.

I’m not sure that I told you this. Before we met, I went to Spain once. The moorish bricks in Cordoba, the terra cotta dust, that’s almost what you were. A grand, colossal mosque. A testament to man.

But there were other things I saw: the poppies growing bright red on the road, some small, two-donkey town I bought a scarf in. And that’s a more enduring kind of beauty, that fading, human thing. The life that’s left behind when no one’s left to worship at your altars.

I think that I prefer it to our past. It’s not remarkable at all. Not like I used to think you might have been. But like I knew I was: alive despite the sprawling, barren pavement.