#Apricot's headcanon

[the-paper-apricot]

Paul, Porter and "I love you"

The accepted explanation of the writing of the Wings hit 'Silly Love Songs', including that offered several times over the years by Paul McCartney himself, is that it was a riposte to criticism of his more sentimental love songs as light and insignificant.

I was getting slagged off for writing luv songs. You see, I’m looking at love not from the perspective of ‘boring old love’, I’m looking at it like when you get married and have a baby. That’s pretty strong: it’s something deeper.

Paul McCartney, from Club Sandwich N°47/48, Spring 1988 (cited here)

Although I've never seen this discussed anywhere, it's long seemed to me that there's another possible influence on the song. To my knowledge no one has ever asked Paul directly about this, so what follows remains just my headcanon. (If anyone knows something to the contrary, please let me know!)

Cole Porter, another preternaturally talented Gemini lefty.

While writing the songs destined for the musical Mexican Hayride (1944), Cole Porter was presented with a challenge by his close friend Monty Woolley. (Woolley was an American actor who you may remember in the delicious role of the Professor in the Christmassy classic film The Bishop's Wife.) Woolley reasoned that because Porter's songwriting mastery came in part from his unhackneyed, fresh lyrical ideas, he wouldn't be able to write a hit song with the simple, rather too obvious, repeated refrain of "I love you".

Monty Woolley with Cole Porter

It became a $25 wager, and Woolley also stipulated that his friend include reheated stale lines about spring and "birds on the wing". Porter duly wrote 'I Love You', which was the only standout in the show and in time topped the U.S. Hit Parade for several weeks, so he won his bet.

I would quite like to have been sort of a nineteen-twenties writer, 'cause I like that thing, you know. You know, up in top hat and tails and sort of coming on ... so, this kind of number, I like that thing. But, so this is just me doing it, and pretending I'm living in 1925.

Paul McCartney, talking about 'Honey Pie', interview with Radio Luxembourg, 1968

Melvyn Bragg: What's the longest you've ever worked over a song? 'Cause a lot of the lyrics, the more you read them, the more - and then they always read very straightforwardly and seamlessly, but when you read them again and again they're very complicated, and a lot of internal rhyming going on and a lot of extremely clever play. Does that - do you work on them quite hard? Do you go over them again and again? Paul: Well, you know I'm a fan of all that, the old-fashioned writing. You know, sort of Sammy Cahn's era, you know, Cole Porter, and I do like all that, when it comes off! I mean, I hate just silly rhymes, just, you know - but when it really comes off those are great little things in songwriting. So I was always aware of that from people like Cole Porter. So I'd always try and put something like that kinda thing in, sorta little internal rhymes, you were always going for that kinda thing. ... I can't explain it, you know, I've never been able to explain it, but it's like it comes in out of the blue. It sort of comes at you, you know, and - I'm sure the funnel that it's coming through's a lot to do with it, 'cause your little computer in here - my computer's sort of heard Billy Cotton Band Show going back there, you know and Cole Porter there, and this there and it's heard millions of influences through to Chuck Berry ...

from 'Paul McCartney: Songsmith' (The South Bank Show) January 1978

George Eells' book The Life That Late He Led: A Biography of Cole Porter was published in 1967 and remained the definitive life for about a decade. It mentions the 'I Love You' wager (p212), which became one of the better-known song origin anecdotes.

I have no idea if Paul McCartney knew this story. But I can imagine the professional challenge appealing to him, and perhaps especially tempting is the playful pairing of commercial reward with artistic defiance. 'Silly Love Songs', like 'I Love You' before it, was a big hit: Number 2 in the UK chart, and top of the Billboard chart in the States.

Did he dare himself to write a pop chorus that repeated the refrain "I love you", because Porter had done so? I dunno.* For what it's worth, I think the three melodic lines in the chorus of 'Silly Love Songs' exceed Porter's tune in both beauty and memorability.** (Although I do enjoy this sultry version recorded by Julie London.)

(*Just like I don't know if 'Why Don't We Do It In The Road' found any precedent in Porter's celebrated and racy-for-its-day song, 'Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love'.)

(**But I mean, you'd expect me to say that, you know I've made paper dolls of him in his little Wings outfits tbf.)

[gingergari]

i’ve been thinking about her for a while so this is the kid mario and peach would have IF peach ruled openly as a toad 🙏🏽

her name is apricot! when she gets older she also goes by the nickname albie :]

due to the circumstances regarding her existence she has quite the magical reserves and has the potential to eclipse her mom as a mage

but for now, she’s just a kid

[palin-tropos]

Harry having the apricots-Dora-peaches of immortality-Dolores Dei visceral trauma response to the cover of the inframaterialism book (even though we have also pointed out it’s abstract kimharry with the green and orange and he doesn’t react to Kim’s orangeness or apricot empire in Suzerainty)

is one of the few scraps of evidence for my fanon birth name for the apocalyptic shrike: Nils Ingerlund

[melon4brian]

Would I be wrong to think Bower Jr. and Wapeach (Apricot) would have an enemies to adopted siblings dynamic CUZ I HEADCANON IT AND I WANT MORE OF THEM

+ doodle of them drawing each other

[cat-eclipse-m]

headcanon generator lol

shoutout to the tumblr gal, the best and most unhinged stuff from this website are treasures to behold

prompts of my characters i did:

yay :)

dont mind the tags they're my ocs' names

[deepspacevivarium]

What color is your aura?

Apricot

paintbrushes, sand dunes, tights, fruit slices, holding hands, peace signs, picnic baskets. your essence is apricot: you are clever and observant, never missing what's on the wind. others know you as warm and talkative; you scratch the backs that scratch yours, and everyone has what they need. few see how fluid you are -- you build your home where the grass is greenest. you are the free. you are the hedonist. you find kinship in like-minded individuals of orange, amber, coral, and tawny, who share your drifting desires. you are also drawn to the thoughtful souls sky and sage, who will help you grow and not be so afraid to put down your roots. however, you may struggle to get along with the precise personalities of ivory and lilac who are too committed to a single perspective.

tagged by: @keykeepingbastardtm tagging: whoever wants to do it, I don't feel like tagging

[bowofbalance]

For the 50 character asks: number 1 about Thirteen and whichever otger no. you've been waiting for someone to ask :)

CANON I OUTRIGHT REJECT ABOUT THIRTEEN!!!! thank goodness someone asked about this one. I was excited to say something insane.

This will be controversial so I apologize in advance. But I don't think Thirteen is actually bi. I think she's a lesbian with a moderate case of comphet. She consistently prefers women, and also cheats on her high school boyfriend with his sister (clearly she subconsciously used him to get to her). Foreman fumbled Thirteen so so hard, but I firmly believe that she never really liked him anyway, she just thought she's supposed to like him.

And the other one I'll have some fun with. 21. Drink of choice (not just alcoholic)

The words not just alcoholic are going to be doing a lot of heavy lifting here because I once worked at Sonic. And Sonic's one redeeming quality was that the drinks are all incredibly customizable. So 13's Sonic drink of choice! (this has been discontinued but bear with me) Strawberry apricot red bull slush with strawberries and lime. My defense for this is that a) it's a good drink, b) she needs the caffeine, and c) the lime is there because she wouldn't drink something that's way too sweet.

[qwuilty]

I see other people are sharing their headcanons for postal 1 dude and i don't have the brain power rn to compile a full list again but one i have for him is that he’s pretty good at preserving and canning foods if needed, a lot of the food in his house is meant to be heavily preserved.

He doesn't want to have to repeatedly go out especially later on and he needs to make his groceries last a while so a majority of his cabinets are canned goods also due in part to the possibility of needing to hide or bunker down for a while and just generally not having the energy to cook things.

I also just kind of imagine him as being kind of a latch-key kid growing up, so i like to think of it as a comfort food to him.

[lanliingwang]

been seeing some talk about arjuna and karna's NPs and it just...indirectly brings me back to my private headcanon that I always imagined arjuna could still manifest and utilize the astras he used in life, even if they're not 'official' Noble Phantasms listed on a 'stats layout' about him

[twistedsterritorialtakeover]

Okay so like, I love thinking about AIB characters with humanizations, but I feel like due to Oodle, they’d all maintain some level of goofiness to them.

Like there would be the obvious humanization of Nabla being in a wheelchair (I do genuinely like the idea), but also other silly things. Imagine all of the armless characters being human and actually not having arms.

Bouncy ball gets springy legs from Apricot that give her that signature bounciness. Tea Bag wears a harness that connects her to a drone that allows her to fly around. Sure that drone might be comically small compared to her but Fireball is getting fire hair so we don’t follow rules here.

AIB Humanizations feel like they follow their own rules, at least in my brain. Like, Showery? You could say he’s just an armless dude or maybe he’s also in a wheelchair. No, put him in an actual controllable bathtub. Let him drive that thing around, put buttons on the interior like a car. How does safe act as a safe? I don’t know yet, and I don’t know how AIB 3 works either, but I’m gonna figure that out.

[shortcake-incorrect-quotes]

Headcanons (part 2)

Part two with my gender/sexuality headcanons for Strawberry Shortcake characters (again, if you don't like just move on, hate will be blocked, this is a chill place)

Blueberry Muffin

Aroace

Demigirl

She/They

Raspberry Torte

Aroace

Agender

They/Xe/It

Lime Light

Demi-aroace

Omni

She/Her

Lemon Meringue

Pansexual

She/Her

Dating: Plum Puddin'

Plum Puddin'

Lesbian

Transgender (MtF)

She/They

Dating: Lemon Meringue

Watermelon Kiss

Polyromantic

Aceflux

She/Her

Dating: Banana Candy

Banana Candy

Biromantic

Demisexual

Girlflux

She/They/Ze

Dating: Watermelon Kiss

Apricot

Queer

Any pronouns

[ghosts-of-gotham]

When Pinky was a young girl, we was given a pink Maltese dog for her birthday.

Her name was Apricot.

She passed ten years later when Pinky was 15.

[bolides]

some apricot prosing under the cut

my main concept i think with apricots creation is that she is at her deepest core an embodiment of self loathing, dysphoria, and the mental dread that coming to terms with your identity can cause even among the relief. apricot was created as a newly identifying trans woman's outlet, as she was always drawn to princess peach and was trying to make herself in peach's image in a way. apricot only became more twisted as her creator struggled more and more with herself, and began to take on a life of her own, becoming more of a twisted cursed modification than just a simple attempt at a reskin. with that her creator began to feel as though she was losing her mind, but continued on and on, compelled by an "unknown" force (it was apricot, sentient and demanding). eventually she forced the mod online to be done with it and get away with it, setting apricot out to unsuspecting masses to pass on her mental torment

[ma1dita]

child of dionysus headcanons

(similarly: trouble!verse character traits)

written for fun! purposed for my luke castellan x dionysus!reader blurb collection -> check out 'partners in crime' masterpost here

[demigod traits/hcs]

-addictive personality

-really good at planning events and parties

-i saw someone hc that all mr.d's kids would have good sense of direction as a blessing from ariadne and I LOVE that

-super emotional and a good actress; i would think they can cry on command and it freaks people out

-unquenchable thirst literally and figuratively (always wanting more of something)

-random spurts of mania

-dionysus originally guided the process of reincarnation, would hc that the kids can receive messages from the dead to some extent

-can induce and cure madness and anxiety

-could deduce they'd be good event planners or therapists

-kids are def LGBTQIA in some aspect

-can control vegetation & vines

[more specific to trouble!verse (& possible sneak peeks woohoo)]

-super high-strung & has manic episodes

-drink of choice is an amber (strawberry apricot) redbull. yummy

-most definitely bi or queer

-likes order and control to stabilize own emotions

-fights with a lance & thyrsus

-big writer & poet; lots of notebooks and lists

-cat person!

-can't bake because she hates trial and error

-doesn't call her dad, dad---just D

-big daddy issues because Mr.D didn't know she existed until she pulled a Maury on him

-hyper independent and doesn't trust a lot of people

-cabin is split into three rooms for her and her brothers; she has a loft

this is just for fun because i love storymapping! would love to hear yalls thoughts and feedback on how to make the story and characterization of a dionysus kid more accurate <3

[buckxtommy]

anyway hear me out bc one of my favorite artist!tommy headcanons is him buying face paint just so that he can paint around buck's birthmark. he paints a tree on his face where the birthmark becomes sakura flower petals..he paints little fruits where his birthmark becomes cherries or apricots.. he paints a butterfly where the birthmark is a perfect part of its wing pattern...and so on..

[poohsources]

🐝  *  ―  𝑪𝑶𝑳𝑶𝑼𝑹𝑭𝑼𝑳 𝑰𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑽𝑰𝑬𝑾. ( send one or more of these to get to know the person behind the blog a little better. )

[ cherry ]  what is one thing you love about yourself? [ crimson ]  what is one thing you wish you could change about yourself? [ scarlet ]  what is one thing you wish you could do? [ ruby ]  give one random fun fact about yourself. [ tangerine ]  do you speak other languages? if yes, which? [ amber ]  which is your favorite season? why? [ bronze ]  if you were stranded on a deserted island, which three things would you want to have with you? [ apricot ]  what do you think your life will be like in ten years? [ canary ]  do you have pets? if yes, how many and what? [ lemon ]  do you believe in ghosts? how about aliens? [ bumblebee ]  where have you always wanted to travel to? [ blonde ]  what is your favorite type of music? favorite artist? favorite song? [ lime ]  describe yourself as a character / mix of characters you've always related to the most. [ emerald ]  bonus round: coffee or tea? morning or night? extroverted or introverted? hot or cold? fruits or vegetables? sweet or salty?

[ mint ]  when did you start your blog? what made you start it? [ olive ]  what gives you the most inspiration for your muse(s)? [ cerulean ]  what is your favorite ( type of ) character to write? [ teal ]  which fandom has been your favorite to be a part of? which has been the least favorite? [ azure ]  is there a specific character or type of character you want to write but never have? why? [ navy ]  what do your muse(s) mean to you? [ indigo ]  when did you first start writing / roleplaying? [ denim ]  have you ever roleplayed on any other site(s) besides tumblr? [ mauve ]  give one random headcanon about your muse / one of your muses. [ lavender ]  if you could change one thing about the rpc as a whole, what would it be? [ plum ]  are you more of a dialogue or a description writer? [ mulberry ]  what tips would you give someone with writer's block? [ coral ]  give a shoutout to one of your favorite blogs. [ fuchsia ]  bonus round: angst or fluff? one-liners or paras? plotting or winging it? memes or starter calls? single muse or multimuse?