#I'm so fucking in love with these guitars

[matchbet-allofthetime]

Was hanging out with a homie two days ago and was talking music with his dad. Happened to mention that I'm looking for a bass but am poor as shit, and I just got myself a new amp that's nice for cheap (and it works!) from my local Goodwill. Like, a damn nice amp. Also said I didn't have an aux for it, but had the power cable.

He replied he only uses Bluetooth amp shit nowadays, and he's got several extra cords. He handed me one of them and said "I've got too many, please take as many as you need"

And then promptly handed me a fucking Wash urn MB-2 bass.

And said "I got it off someone real cheap a long time ago because I thought it looked nice, but I don't play it much, and I couldn't decide between the colours on this nice Jaguar I wanted, so I bought both colours, and it's taking up a little space where it isn't used. You can borrow it as long as you'd like."

I grew up with a musician mom who used to get into shows for free because she set up shows for friends. She taught me young that most of the time, when an old musician says you can "borrow" something, you've just gotta wait and see if they actually want it back.

Because they'll hand you shit, say "you can borrow it" and they never expect it back.

I think I just got given a nice-as-fuck bass by a man I've only met twice.

And it's sitting next to my mom's acoustic she can't play anymore and my own Strat I was told during hurricane Isaac at about six years old I could "borrow".

That guitar has been mine for over a decade, and it's two years older than me.

And I'm over here like... I feel alive.

I feel so alive, having three guitars and an amp in my room, sitting in front of all my music CDs and my CD player and my books.

And I have the money to get three stands.

And I am so fucking happy I might actually cry.

There is so much love to be had in someone wanting someone younger to indulge.

I never had the chance or the means or the time to play and learn, but now I do.

And it's because twice in my life, someone say there and said "listen, you've got music in you. please learn, please play, and never stop, because there's music in you." And they gave me something to achieve that dream with.

And they asked nothing, just offered freely.

Musicians are beautiful.

And because mom can't play anymore, I will. Her guitar, my guitar, this guitar that I may have to give back, but may not.

I don't know yet.

But I am happy.

The fret markers glow in the dark 💚 and next to Cobra (the bass, which I've named temporarily) you've got my baby Stitch!

[cuoredimuschio]

okay, but where's my steddie AU where steve wants to learn to play guitar to impress a girl he's infatuated with and he remembers that munson kid was always hanging up posters for his weird band at school, so he hikes out to eddie's usual dealing spot behind the track and asks (with far less groveling than he really should have) if eddie will teach him how to play, and obviously eddie says no because why would he want to help king steve, but of course, steve offers to pay him, $20 a week, and well, that's the kind of get-the-hell-out-of-this-shithole-town cash eddie really can't afford to refuse, so fine, he'll teach steve to play and they'll spend inordinate amounts of time together tucked away in eddie's room and they'll start to see that they have more in common than they thought and that they kind of had each other all wrong, and eddie will put his hand over steve's to help him get the placement for a tricky chord and it totally won't awaken anything in either of them?? where is it??

edit: i started writing it

[mermaidsirennikita]

Gaelen Foley's Princess (which if it doesn't fuck up in the end is gonna be a favorite lol) update:

no details except of course Darius Santiago cries when deflowering this maniac of a girl

[arctixout]

the giddy guitarists

[sister-pianist-chan]

Nace, Jan, you guys are practically screaming it out in the open! This is the way they tell us that they're married to each other without them having to tell us xD They look so happy and settled in, I'm gonna fucking cry. 🥰😭

I'm really loving this domestic Jance shit. 😍

[butterflieswhisper]

hiiii ^^ beastlife fishie analysis. spoilers ahead. etc etc

okay so. the main point of this is simple. I don't think the salmon head cursed c!fishie. Explaining that is the harder part I think. also i'm going to refer to the salmon head thing in e5 as "the incident" from here on out because frankly i think it's funny

Let's start with the incident. The big day. etc. What happened? Why did it happen? Obligatory third questioning statement? Well. She was gifted the salmon head for her birthday by kiwi(or like. someone in the kiwibird system. -bird system. the birds). Immediately upon receiving it she relives parts of season one and fishie herself doesn't really acknowledge it. The other players definitely notice but im not caught up enough in any other pov yet to like have thoughts on that I'll come back to that point someday. Fishie seems shaken, sure, but she moves on so quickly, especially considering what happened just there. 37 seconds of standing frozen, unresponsive. she recovers in 5 seconds. And seeing how she reacts later on to realizing the memory situation--if she was aware that happened, she would probably be concerned by it. She puts it on for a brief second at the end of the party and takes it off immediately. She's otherwise normal -- well. as normal as she is otherwise up to that point. Because that is also how she acts with pretty much any salmon head, even just kiwi herself.

I raise: Episode one, about 8:20 in. The slow zoom on kiwi as the static overtakes every other noise. This is the *exact* same behavior displayed when fishie receives the salmon head, albeit without actual concrete old video footage style flashbacks. In episode two (28:55ish) the same thing happens when she looks at the salmon head in moch's house, but this time there is technically a flashback -- kiwis grave. Fishie moves on immediately and doesn't acknowledge her behavior at all, and, seeing as it is fishie, im inclined to believe that means she does not know she is doing it. Fishie (when alone) will discuss all of her problems in immense, and usually misguided detail (bestie i promise kiwi doesn't hate you???) to the audience and/or herself. I mean she's not alone in episode one, and it is technically presession, and i guess getting struck by lightning is a decent distraction from your problems, but in episode two? She is completely alone. There is nobody with her. She went looking for moch and moch is not there. She still doesn't acknowledge the fiveish seconds she is completely frozen. This happens again and again with kiwi and salmon heads.

And then that leads you to e5. The incident. She's. well. she's doing worse. 0:50. "This will distract me if i leave it up." This is the first mention from fishie herself about how fucking weird she's being, and even then she doesn't seem concerned. I think she does not realize she's being so so incredibly weird about it. If the static and freezing is what's referred to as "distraction" then keeping it in her inventory makes it worse actually so it wouldn't really make sense unless the way it is distracting her is NOT the. well. whatever the fuck is wrong with her (affectionate). After she puts the head on there's the static all the time but for a short brief amount of time she's like significantly more normal and i don't really know if that means anything i just think it's really funny.

And then we all know what goes on during the incident i'm not analyzing this video frame by frame. um. i could. but i am not going to right now. And then she has the conversation on the table with kiwi where she like is normal for 5 minutes. Like genuinely the most. i guess stable? fishie's thought process is is like in the moments directly after the incident. She is immediately understanding with the antikiwi situation, they come to an agreement that they're like. okay now. "thank you for everything and im so sorry i couldnt do more" / "it was short, but it was nice" "i knew what i was getting into when i married you" etc etc and then they kind of rush it at the end because people won't stop dying. But then fishie is fishie and takes it in the complete opposite extreme (from. um. whatever was wrong up until now. to "oh kiwibird must secretly hate me because" and then there's no real good reason she's just like that) and it's also an issue. And i think the season two memory thing is also a part of that but this is so long already and so i'm not going to get into it rn. So bringing all of this back to my original point: the salmon head was not the cause of the curse(?) because she's been so weird all the time forever and the salmon head thing was just like. an effect. of whatever went Wrong(tm) in the season transition. like the head was a vessel to Be Worse about it but i feel like it would have worked with any salmon head she got her hands on and that it happened to be kiwico was a coincidence and also that the head wasn't cursed at all there's just something deeply wrong with fishie s3 in general and uh yeah 👍

I'm so sorry this is so disjointed i had a thesis statement and everything. alas

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

Wes' origins with the band from the perspective of Sam, John, and others close to the band

[From the VH1 Driven Fred Durst Special]

[99probalos]

siddex throughout the ages ...

[runthepockets]

I don't want to hear "this music isn't challenging or innovative enough" from people on a website where FueledbyRamen reigns supreme, also. Like you bitches can't even make good or non contradictory excuses to be racist and set the bar higher for black people. The layers to this are crazy.

[im-goin-mad]

love isn't crushing on a hot guitarist - love is my friend and i saying the most gruesome, inappropriate, dehumanising, sexualising stuff about him

[sonofshu]

I think I may have realized something. It sounds dumb to say, but for the first time in a long long fucking time. I realized that I'm loved. I remembered that people wouldn't bother to befriend me for any other reason, it's freeing. No matter what that love may have looked like, a partner, a friend, a simple mutual or maybe even a crush. I've met lot's of people here, and I think I finally noticed that all of the love I feel for you all isn't just a one way street. I felt afraid and alone. Genuinely terrified of myself. I can be a lot more comfortable knowing that love me for exactly that, me.

I've cried a lot, I've cowered and I've buried myself in my sheets to sleep away days so I wouldn't need to be conscious in my body. I felt absolutely terrible, and because I had yet to even try to attempt to love myself, I fell into a loop of nothings and anxiety. I always felt short of breath and my limbs felt like lead. I could barely get out of bed some days, drinking my weight in coffee to compensate. It got harder and harder to hold it together on the outside when I needed to talk to people, and it might have very well been because I didn't really tie any worth to myself.

I know I'm not perfect, and I know I have a long, long road ahead of me to actually feeling comfortable as myself, but I'll give an attempt to pretty up and admire the things about me that I could. I'm just as much human as anyone reading this, and I realize I have just as much of a chance.

So, I'm sorry for worrying you all, and I'll try to put myself at least a little bit higher than serving everyone around me. I thought I was already past it, but maybe it was just because I found a way to enjoy it, even if it meant burning myself into the ground.

So from now on, I'll try my best to love myself, though some days will more than likely be better than others, I'll try to take care of the person who wanted nothing more than to see the people around it get better.

and again, Thank you so so much for loving me when I couldn't do it myself. I may have been awful to a lot of good people, but never for a second did I stop loving you all. I'm sorry for everything, but I needed a break

[takethistoyourstardust]

paces in a circle bc now i have just dance brain worms and now i'm thinking abt rasputin's map. the way it's rasputin rebuilding the venue from the bride's destruction and refusing to give her up despite everything (let's twist the knife again like we did last summer)... but still admitting that while he's not fully innocent (i like playing dumb, letting you figure me out/but i was faded in my own defense and i know i keep my feelings so tucked away/just another day spent hoping we don't fall apart) and that it's fucking HARD (i'm just trying to keep it together/but it gets a little harder when it never gets better) but he's willing to start everything over again just to be with the woman he loves (we got to throw this year away, we got to throw this year away/like a bad luck charm) IT'S ALL SO FUCKING GOOD. WHAT MORE COULD I ASK FOR!!!!

[whimsicalcotton]

i am once again afflicted by the Images

[silasbug]

i have no idea what happened or how it happened, but i can finally play bar chords!!!!!

i am so fucking excited. i know it's nothing special but this is a big deal for me because my fingers are short and that shit is painful, but i can actually sound the chords!! and i can switch to them with relative ease, too!

i'm going to be an absolute fucking menace now that half of the songs i want to play are actually playable for me, ha. hahahahahaha. AHAHAHAHAHA.

[awolfnamedluna]

mods asleep post Mick Gordon

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

I fucking love these fools so much

(edited from multiple videos from IG: (Limpbizkitjapan, Limpbizkitbrasil, Fred_Durst_Reflections)