#Ofc there is also the thing that Elton said where he said he did it just because he didn��t think Axl was ACTUALLY homophobic

[not-the-coffee-machine4]

“Guns N Roses shouldn’t have been at the FMTC” this and “why were Guns N Roses even invited after the homophobia blah blah”

IT WAS ON PURPOSE. THEY WERE INVITED ON PURPOSE. ROGER. DID IT. ON. PURPOSE. And put him with Elton ON PURPOSE. To bridge that gap and it WORKED.

Axl Rose and Elton John practically held hands singing Bohemian Rhapsody in front of the entire world and if you watch Roger’s face in the background you can tell he knows his mission was accomplished

[1moreoffkeyanthem]

wife wife i have no music taste, but you feel musical to me! will you drop any songs you relate to your universes stans, kyles and style in general? if not music books, other characters, pieces of media, quotes, poems? i am insatiable darling <3

YOYOYO!!!!!!

First of all hello my wife my wife the love of my life! (I did in fact ride half of my first year of college on a music scholarship)

OKAY so you know how heavily I associate Fall Out Boy with Stan in general (mostly bc I like projecting and I’m a gremlin abt fob) SPECIFICALLY Infinity On High (I know we’ve discussed this before and yes I’m still unhinged abt the 27 rm thing) AND I’ve said a LOT abt OrangeJuiceVerse Stan being musically inclined as one of his main outlets.

(I will be mainly sticking to ojv bc that do be my main focus atm)

So Stan will play literally whatever on the guitar and he can improvise SO WELL!!! Like it’s wild but he’s just like eh it’s a casual hobby but he hears a song and immediately knows the basic chord progression and bpm he’s the king of countermelodies too. Kenny will start playing something and then Stan will pop in with the most gorgeous harmonies and just…. fall in.

Stan will listen to ANYTHING he especially loves songs with a story (I’m sticking to ATLCTS for him being a Tenacious D fan bc I very much enjoy that) and Kyle, while Stan is all “LISTEN TO THAT CELLO BREAK” Kyle Is all fully into the lyricism and losing his shit about RAINDROPS ON ROSES AND GIRLS IN WHITE DRESSES AND SLEEPING WITH- (I feel like they have similar tastes but for different reasons if u get me)

My Kyle’s for sure are lyrics gremlins. Stan will be like KEY CHANGE KEY CHANGE but Kyle will be WAIT LOOK THE STORY HOLY SHIT SYMBOLISM(smh they whole ass watch musicals together and neither of them stfu) (losers)

(This is unhinged I’m eepy) so song specific idk man but I feel in my soul that Stan’s hopeless romantic ass serenades Kyle on a regular basis ESPECIALLY when he’s in an Emo Boy Mood like this man thinks he’s Orpheus or something ALSO Stan is incredibly specific about having certain playlists for every single situation and the “Super Best Spicy Time” playlist is INCREDIBLY LAME!!! (I’m talkin Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls and Mr Brightside was playing during their first time) like they are losers your honor

On FOB Stan I’m currently specifically feeling him with What A Catch, The (After) Life Of The Party, From Now On We Are Enemies, Golden, Fame< Infamy, The (Shipped) Gold Standard, She’s My Winona, Disloyal Order, A Little Less Sixteen Candles, Heavens Gate, SOPHOMORE SLUMP IS SO STYLE OMG

Sorry that was a lot I’m very passionate abt the fob Stan thing

EVERY LAME ASS SAPPY LOVE SONG IS EXTREMELY STYLE TO ME!!! If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell, I’ll Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab For Cutie, LINE WITHOUT A HOOK?!? Nothing Matters But You by The Young Veins, Northern Downpour and When The Day Met The Night by Panic, I Think I Love You by Tenacious D, All I Ask Of You from Phantom (btw I saw someone draw a style phantom of the opera au it slayed so hard), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John (there’s this scene in a fic I read where Stan plays it for Kyle on his guitar and I lost my mind), ofc Carry On Wayward Son, Accidentally In Love by the counting crows, Turn Off The Lights from the Vices and Virtues bonus tracks, As Long As You’re Mine from Wicked (I feel like Kyle fuckinh loves Wicked) All I’ve Ever Known from Hadestown.

OJV Kyle for sure listens to the acoustic versions of pop songs and is SUCH a sap (he won’t admit it as much as Stan tho) like he’ll pause a song after a particularly clever or romantic line and just be like DID YOU HEAR THAT! Stan writes songs every once in a while and whenever he writes for Ky he always tries to paint a story because that’s what Kyle likes help I love them so much

As for other media I associate w the boys, bruh lemme tell ya the sp brainrot is so real I physically cannot watch or read anything without imagining a couple as style (literally last night my partner and I were watching the picture lock of the last feature we worked on and I’m over here looking at the two main characters like hmm who is Stan who is Kyle I’m the WORST)

Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure is so Them to me holy shit like best friends getting into situations and being obsessed with each other I love that shit (u can’t tell me Bill and Ted aren’t in love)

This comes as no surprise to anyone but Lord Of The Rings for sure, especially since i decided that they speak elvish to each other on the regular

I’ve also said it before but!!! As a massive PJO/Riordanverse fan, THEY ARE SO PERCABETH CODED!!! We got Stan/Percy as the reluctant hero who everyone looks to, Kyle/Annabeth as the badass short tempered voice of reason, like DUDE.

(Also I hope you know how much your fics have influenced my mindset like I’ll drive past Taco Bell and be like o look style moment and I saw Fireball at the gas station and thought abt rm Stan)

Anyway this is long as SHIT I’m completely insane it’s fine THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASK ILY

[spaloonbabooguuscooties]

Dude i just went through the entire band au tag and I am in love!!!! Since you said it was cool to pick your brain about the au i wanted to ask about Raz. Like, we know how he ends up with the band but like, i want those juicy details. Not to mention I'd love to know more about the dynamic he has with each member of the group. Is it like the game where you've got Adam warming up to him pretty quickly while Norma doesn't really like him at first? Do things change when Frazie and Dion tag along?

OKAY this is nice cus i have a few asks wondering abt Raz's relationship with the band and this lets me answer that while going into a little more detail;

raz's relationship with music is pretty similar to his relationship with psychics in canon, where he collects magazines and records and likes learning all about the bands he admires. His room is covered in all kinds of dollar store posters and zine clippings and he has a little beat up record player Nona gave him with some old records; a lot of his music taste is Old simply because that's all his family really had access to, similar to how Frazie likes the B-52s and the Bangles. I think he'd be really big on stuff like Elton John and Hall and Oates (:

his all time favorite band CURRENTLY though is one he'd only heard by happenstance over the radio, the Techno Duo of Sasha and Milla, AKA Sunshine Sinewave. their eclectic style blew his fuckign mind the first time he heard it and he really wants to try making stuff like that himself.

HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH LIZZIES BAND IS... a bit tense at first.

readmore cus as always i rambled a bit

some of them (namely lizzie, norma & gisu because they Dont have patience for kids) kind of saw him as a nuisance when he'd first started following them around the fair grounds, asking way too many questions about their set up and what they did for a living and what having a band is like.

adam ofc didn't really mind him from the get, because he has 3 siblings himself ( & one is a sister raz's age .) So He Gets It. once raz makes it obvious he isn't screwing around adam even lets him play on his keyboard sometimes (:

but ofc the initial reverse kidnapping scenario has all of them on edge about him at first. Norma especially is ticked because she thinks hes more of an issue than he's worth and is going to get them in trouble, which. She's right in her own way LMAO . when everyone else starts getting more used to him she's a little insulted by the fact that they're more likely to follow his lead than any of her own perfectly sound advice. (one of which being they really need to bring this kid back to his mother before theyre Arrested or worse, he gets them completely Lost) and she never really eases up on this until much later.

lizzie likes to mess with raz, she tends to make up tons of stories about what being in a band is like and things shes done. 100% she is a compulsive liar and raz believes every word of it.

gisu tends to take advantage of raz's helpful nature and has him do a lot of her roadie work BUT in exchange she lets him have some of her old tape decks so its 'fair.' she also mines him for embarrassing info abt dion which is fun for both of them

him and sam get along well enough but she also lies a lot about how band stuff works simply because she has the ability to make things work for her. shes very enigmatic that way. also she thinks hes insanely good for marketing.

MORRIS doesn't get to spend a lot of time with him but he does find him funny in an Overwhelming Child kind of way. raz is the only one who will listen to him blab on about radio play and bands no ones heard of for 2 hours

i think that dion and frazie being there doesnt change the dynamic much except in regards to like, them clashing a little more with the band than raz does initially for their own reasons-

except of course in Norma's case where raz bringing frazie along is both the best and worst thing thats ever happened to her and ultimately fuels her need to rat them out to raz's mom later because shes just so so self sabotaging.

[shimmershae]

Some more random thoughts about Episode 4--

Because I couldn’t have my notebook commentary be incomplete at the end of the season just because an episode wasn’t my personal favorite.  

Okay.  I’m still a little surprised that Daryl took off running after that one Reaper dude in the dark.  Like if that had been Carol instead of Maggie getting ambushed, my man would have not hasta la vista’d outta there ‘til heknew she was safe--capable, kickass leader or not.  

Dog is so random about listening lately.  How plot point convenient, lol.  

Daryl throwing his crossbow at the Reaper had me legit LMAO.  

Hmm.  So that was Leah he unknowingly hurled his knife at, hahahaha.  

Disobedient or not?  Dog must be protected at all costs.  

For real, though.  It’s like Dog’s Carl reincarnated now.  Somewhere, Lori feels vindicated about all those times she tried to explain that Carl had a stubborn will and mind of his own.  

The hell good is the Walker guts and blood to the face in this sitch.  I’m just not getting it.  

Dog in his little vest.  I’m still loving it and wondering if it has an actual purpose beyond making us go d’aww.  

Does Lynn Collins resemble Megan Follows to anybody else or is it just me?  Love my Anne-girl.  NO comment on LC.  

Well.  That wasn’t exactly a reunion on par with Daryl’s reunion with Carol in the woods outside Terminus.  One would think the woman Daryl supposedly loves would receive a better, more heartfelt welcome.  OH.  

Leah sure loves to point a shotgun at Daryl’s face, doesn’t she?  Can you feel the love tonight.  No, Elton.  I cannot.  

Dog has a weakness for the ladies.  Whether they have homicidal tendencies or not.  

Daryl’s all “Dog, C’mon.  Let’s get TF outta here.  She’s one crazy bitch.”  Then her even crazier fam converges.  

Eleven years in and I still love TWD’s opening theme.  

Nothing says “I love you” quite like a burlap sack over the head.  

So yeah.  Anybody else detect the same hint of vulnerable uncertainty in Daryl’s voice when he tells Leah “I came back for you” as when he asked Carol “why’d you go?”  Funny how in one instance, everybody’s (well, a certain group) is like omigosh.  I think I ship them.  And the other?  They’re like “aww, his mommy hurt his feelings”?  Anyway.  Nice touch, NR.  I do not, by any stretch of the imagination, believe Daryl ever loved Leah.  But she gave him companionship when he was drowning in hopeless loneliness and he’d lost those closest to him so he convinced himself he cared and she was what and who he deserved.  

“These people are my family.  They never stopped looking for me.  When they found me, I came home.”  Interesting how Leah could give Daryl an ultimatum to sever ties with his family and home and yet when her own family returned?  Different damn story.  

Daryl’s face when he realizes how far down Leah’s priority list he is and the bullet that he dodged.  Well.  Almost.  

Daryl lying for all he’s worth.  His anything for them/us/family moment?  

Apparently, love is a chloroform rag to the face for some.  I mean.  There are kinks and there’s this bullshit.  People actually ship this toxic fuckery?  

Guess waterboarding is Leah’s love language.  You have to wonder how else she’s shown her “affection” in that time jump plot point romance.  

WTF did Maggie do to earn these Looney Tunes’ obsession?  

“Go ahead and kill me if you want.”  Oh, Baby.  Daryl, no.  

Oh look.  Daryl’s locked up in a cage again. How novel.  How original.  How very Season 7 of you, Angela.  

“Understand?  Hear me?  Got it?”  Daryl, honey.  You’re not exactly the best at this whole covert thing, are you?  Thank goodness, Frost picked up what you were throwing down.  

“I’ve never lied to you.”  Just before Daryl proceeds to do exactly that for much of the episode.  Methinks, it’s just one whopper after another with her right there because I’m not convinced Leah knows about Carol.  

Look at Leah showing more genuine emotion over her “dead brother” than her newly returned “lover.”  Something ain’t quite right.  

Leah’s cold, sure.  Not sure if I buy LC as a mercenary though.  

Listen.  Daryl telling Leah he got scared and admitting it was because he didn’t want to let go practically feels like a gimme here.  Who you afraid of letting go, Daryl?  Hmm?  Psst.  Rhymes with Carol.  

Girl, you wouldn’t have worked period but whatever.  

“Tall, skinny guy.  Never shuts up.”  Ofc, that’s Negan, lol.  

LOL at Pope’s line to Leah--”not everything is about you, Leah.”  

Him also asking her “you find what you’re looking for?”  is interesting to me and goes right along with Carol’s subconscious asking her the same question.  The parallels are everywhere with these two.  If they don’t get the chance to meet---

“I never said he loved me.”  At least she realizes that.  

Why does Daryl look like he’s wearing guy liner in that firetrap scene?  Glam rock Daryl.  

“We were the Chosen Ones.”  New season, same song, different verse.  All the diferent shades of cray-cray with this one.  

Overall impression?  Not a bad episode, but not necessarily enthralling either.  At this point, all the different villains we’ve had on this show just feel like they’re passing along a relay baton or something and picking straight up where the last one left off.  

Daryl seems to well and truly know where he belongs now, because he looked like he couldn’t be bothered to rub two fucks together where Leah was concerned.  He just wanted to get the hell outta Dodge.  

The Reapers are all pretty darn attractive.  So at least there’s some nice eye candy to admire while we’re waiting for them to vamoose. 

I just want more Carol this season. Is that too much to ask considering she’s the first billed female character and the second billed character over all?  

Next episode looks to be populated with less newbs so there’s that.  I am ready for a break from all the new people, lol.  I just want to sit with and visit some old friends for a while.  I’m certain I’m not alone.  

Okay.  That is all.  For now, lol.  

I’ll be back sometime tomorrow probably to give my impressions and commentary of Episode 5.  

G’night.  

[afrival]

Hetalia Characters and Their Music Tastes

I’ve been in the hetalia fandom for like a year now and I stg thinking abt what these bitches listen to NEVER gets old

no warnings

will feature mostly modern day music, like 1950s-2010s

I don’t know a lot of artists that don’t sing in English so there’s probably A LOT that I’m missing on here, not even including shit from like the 1800s

The Allies

Alfred:

Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood, The Chain by Fleetwood Mac, Crazy In Love by Beyoncé

- Listens to basically everything, but particular fond of like 80s rock and early 2000s shit

- Likes country music bc ofc he does, a huge fan of Carrie Underwood, Sam Hunt, and The Band Perry

- Got his love of rock from England 💀 Especially during the like the 60s-80s when Queen, The Beatles, and Elton John really popular

- They really only bond over their love for this period of music lmao like they would absolutely go ape during karaoke

- He loves more mainstream artists like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, all those iconic mfs

- Probably enjoys old wartime music just for nostalgias sake. Shit from the 40s and he listens to Civil War tunes (Union Dixie lmao)

- Definitely listens to musicals and forces Ivan to as well. His favorites are Hamilton, Hairspray, and Chess

- LOVES LOVES LOVES The Backstreet Bogs holy shit. This man had a whole phase where he dressed like they did. Don’t even dare play I Want It That Way because he WILL sing along

- Speaking of which he’s actually a really good singer, like he probably used to sing at clubs and shit back in the day

- It’s very specific but I imagine his voice to sound like Taron Egerton’s cover of “Crocodile Rock” by Elton John

Arthur:

Killer Queen by Queen, Set Fire to the Rain by Adele, Tiny Dancer by Elton John

- Old man who had a weird punk phase in the 90s. Definitely listens to The Beatles and Gorillaz

- Like I said, he and Alfred bond over Queen and Elton and Bon Jovi and FUCKING Michael Jackson

- Refuses to admit he really likes Elvis

- Oh boy. He had so much fun in like late 2000s and early 2010s— Panic at the Disco, MCR, Green Day, he absolutely got his ears pierced during this time

- Doesn’t listen to like current mainstream music that much he will sob to Adele and probably really likes the Cry Baby album by Melanie Martinez.

- Francis plays so much Lady Gaga in the car that at this point he really likes her music

- He likes Ed Sheeran I am so sorry </3 and he absolutely gets bullied for it

- He can sing too honestly? I know I just said he listens to Ed Sheeran but I honestly think he kinda sounds like him too just maybe a little deeper

- Listen to Galway Girl and you’ll get a basic idea of what I imagine he sounds like

Ivan:

Dance and Cry by Mother Mother, Baby One More Time by Britney Spears, смерти Больше нет by IC3PEAK

- THIS MANS MUSIC TASTE MAKES NO SENSE. It ranges from fucking Aerosmith to Ic3peak to Lady Gaga

- Literally has every Mother Mother album downloaded and probably on Vinyl bc he’s a fucking dweeb

- Also a huge musical stannie, loves Wicked and Hairspray

- He and Al will split the parts to sing along to in the car

- Alfred made him listen to Britney Spears ONCE in like the 90s and now he’s obsessed

- Speaking of the 90s he went absolutely fucking ape during this time. The USSR wasn’t very big on western music but when it fell there was a HUGE influx of it and suddenly like it was just his favorite thing ever

- Alfred also got him into Carrie Underwood, literally lost of his music taste comes from Alfred forcing him to listen to shit

- During the 70s/80s he got really into Fleetwood Mac and Aerosmith, maybe even a little bit of disco but not a lot

- Went to a club with Al a few times and he won’t ever forget dancing to Footloose by Kenny Loggins at like one in the morning and having the absolute time of his life, easily one of his favorite memories

- Like I get so soft thinking about him just letting loose and actually having fun, even though he was very stiff and shit during the 1900s

- He can’t sing LMAO but my friend and I said once that he could lowkey rap really well and now it’s all I think about

Francis:

From Eden by Hozier, La Vie En Rose by Edith Piaf, Primadona by Marina

- If you look up the gay agenda his playlist would just show up

- I mean seriously he has it all: Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Lorde

- HOWEVER she does really enjoy softer sounding music. Edith Piaf, Louis Armstrong, and Vera Lynn are favorites of his

- Listens to the Les Mis soundtrack like once a month

- REALLY REALLY loves Hozier, like a whole lot. He’s probably one of his favorite artists along with Sufjan Stevens

- Even more of his homo playlist includes Marina, Madonna and Troye Sivan

- Bullies Arthur for liking Ed Sheeran but he also really likes Ed Sheeran, just refuses to admit it

- Stromae ofc 🙄🤚 can’t just not include like the most popular French musician or whatever

- He can also sing but he sounds kinda raspy, it’s nice tho

Yao:

- I don’t think he listens to music LMAO, if he does it’s probably instrumental

The Axis

Ludwig:

Elastic Heart by Sia, From Now On from The Greatest Showman, Natural by Imagine Dragons

- Also doesn’t really listen to music but my friend said that when he does it ranges from classical to heavy metal

- For some reason I think he really likes Sia, he seems like a Sia kind of guy

- Doesn’t listen to Hozier but really loves Take Me to Church

- Most of his music listening comes from giving Feli the aux in the car

- The whore listens to Imagine Dragons like he fucking loves them

- When The Greatest Showman came out he had the soundtrack on repeat for a solid month, From Now Onis one of his favorite songs ever

- Cannot sing Jesus Christ do not let him near a mic

Feliciano:

Thank u, next by Ariana Grande, Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder, Bella Ciao by Manu Pillas

- Pop music! So much pop!

- Loves Ariana Grande and Conan Gray

- Probably listens to A LOT of classical because of his time with Austria

- His music taste is kinda all over the fucking place and it’s mostly happy and peppy shit

- Weirdly tho he listens to GRLwood? Like it’ll just shhow up on shuffle and suddenly he’s an entire different person

- Will listen to absolutely everything just to find something that Ludwig likes, was so proud of himself when Ludwig really ended up loving The Greatest Showman

- Doesn’t sing but plays like 5 instruments. Violin and piano are his faves

Kiku:

It’s Been So Long by The Living Tombstone, Faded by Alan Walker, Ophelia by The Lumineers

- LISTEN. LISTEN. HE LOVES VIDEO GAME MUSIC AND FUCKING THE LIVING TOMBSTONE

- The fnaf songs are his guilty fucking pleasures, he fucking loves them

- Loves loves loves the Undertake Soundtrack

- Listens to a lot of anime openings 💀 Me too tbh they’re so good at for what

- Big fan of TheFatRat

- In general he enjoys techno shit? Idk what the word is but it’s a lot of instrumental

- Listens to regular music as well (The Lumineers especially)

- Likes listening to Elvis because it makes him happy to see Alfred having fun

- Feli also introduces him to a lot of music but he can never fucking remember the names of the songs or artists

- He hums a lot rather than sings, and it’s really soft and gentle

If anybody wants any more characters lmk bc I love coming up with these, also I do have playlists for these bitches 😎✌️ Spotify is in my linktree (bio)

[golbrocklovely]

I unfollowed Corey last year because I couldn't stand how he behaved during the pandemic (I wish people would have hold him more accountable over this than about the drama rn) and overall he just got on my nerves. I was actually glad he left the traphouse and stopped filming with them, especially the haunted stuff because I thought he was slowing the team down. I mean it surprised me that he went straight to Elton to do haunted videos and actually dropped his whole "I got the chills" act, but Elton is known for faking shit on purpose so ofc it's probably less scary if you know what you're going to do. Soo I get why the fans of SnC are mad at him for choosing Elton over them and he has every right to defend himself, that doesn't mean he can ignore the things he said that are now coming up to haunt his ass (lol). I think it's funny he brings up vine all the time and how successful he was there, which is true obviously and kudos to him for getting 3mio followers however he never really made this transition to YouTube or other platforms unlike SnC. It is what it is they kept him relevant, that's why he used them in every video he did for his channel as well. So idk I wish him all the best but he should have seen this coming when he chose the person who publicly shades SnC, ofc people start to defend their favs.

omg that's so true. i completely forgot how he acted during the pandemic... wow, yeah. no one brings that up enough.

i can see what you mean by "slowing them down", which is why i also think ppl thought he didn't want to do ghost hunting anymore. he can say all he wants that he's been doing ghost hunting since before youtube and all that, but every time he has been in a video with snc ghost hunting, he doesn't seem happy at all to be there. it's one thing to be scared, but another to seem like you're being forced to be there. and that's what it always felt like to some degree. idk if he thought he had to put on a show and "be that character" for snc's videos, but he doesn't seem to do that with elton's and idk why (also i don't want elton's content so i could be wrong about that btw).

that could be it too. maybe he knows that a lot of it is faked and forced and thus knows he doesn't actually need to be scared. and that's true about vine. i was just saying in the other ask before this that regardless of how many followers he had on vine (and that's still his success no matter what) he doesn't have the same following on youtube. and that's just a fact.

and again, i do think a lot of the problems that are arise rn are literally bc of elton. corey "chose" elton by living with him and being in his content while elton continues to shade and be rude to snc. of course ppl are going to call out corey for doing that. and i've been in a situation like this where one friend is shitty towards another and you're basically forced into the middle and having to choose a side. i get that if might be easier to just not "pick a side" and let them handle it on their own, but at the same time... how do you allow one friend to be shitty constantly towards another? and for how long do you allow that without calling out the shitty one?? i think that's a bit of the problem i have with him rn.

but at the same time, i get the pressure of just wanting to stay out of it. but that's hard in this situation bc now fans feel like they need to pick a side as well. do they choose elton, who is probably the one that introduced them to snc, or do they choose snc, who seem to slowly be losing their friends?? like... this all sucks.

man, seriously... fuck elton lol

[redhowitzer]

💌 question tag meme;

hiii i was tagged by @knjz for this and im Bored so im gonna mcfreakin go for it

1. It’s your birthday! What did you ask for and did you receive it?

i never ask for anything BUT i did receive bc i bought it for myself <3 i’m very impulsive so if i really want something i just buy it

2. What was the last song or album you listened to?

last song i listened to was pinball wizard by elton john!! was having a Bit of a throwback day yesterday. last full album i listened to (though it was unintentionally) was hamiltion

3. What is your go to snack when you’re hungry or bored?

cheez doodles are my shit <3

4. What is your morning routine?

tbh i don’t really have one? i wake up and sit on my phone for 2-3 hours and then from there decide if i want to stay in bed for a bit longer or get up and do something 

5. What mythical/cryptid creature would you be?

i think. i’d be a dragon. 1. they r cool 2. they guard what they deem treasure n im kinda possessive so. i guess i kinda do the same thing

6. How do you interact with somebody that you don’t like?

if it’s irl, i don’t really treat them any differently? i don’t like bad vibes so i don’t wanna create them so i typically try to keep the peace. but online if they text/dm/etc. i just won’t answer or answer in a way that makes it clear that i don’t want to talk HDKSDJ

7. How do you define a toxic person?

mm. like hannah said, someone who picks fights over nothing, someone who doesn’t root for u, someone who is all about themselves and what’s gonna benefit them without regard for others 

8. Have you ever been to a concert or fan meet type of event? If not, would you want to?

many many Many concerts!! i’ve seen 1d just about every time they were in town (missed them when they toured w/ BTR </3), saw harry a few shows, and a bunch of 5sos shows!! i pretty much go to any concert ppl ask me to go to just bc i love the vibe

9. Do you believe in astrology? Why or why not?

i do!! but i don’t think there’s one set way to be a sign though, if that makes sense? i think there’s qualities that each sign has but for the most part everyone kind of shows those characteristics differently. 

10. If you had only one sense (hearing, touch, sight, etc.), what would you want?

i’d keep my hearing!! i love music too much! and i also love listening to people talk so yeah i wouldn’t wanna lose those

11. Who is your favourite celebrity or idol?

mr harry styles <3

12. If you could talk to your favourite celebrity(s) for a limited time, what would you tell them?

honestly idk what i’d say to harry. like i’d want to just talk about how much i love him and whatever and thank him for shit he didn’t even know he did lmao but i know he’d be like please. anything else we can talk about anytHING ELSE so. maybe i’d talk to him about concerts and his idols and such

13. I’m taking you out on a date and it’s your choice. Where are we going?

tbh just a night in? i’m very much ok with spending the day/night inside and just talking and hanging out instead of going out somewhere that i’d probably be uncomfortable at anyway

14. Do you like sweet or savory foods?

oh man i def need a balance of both

15. Do you have any band merchandise or merchandise from any of your favourite artists? If so, what?

so much merch!!!!!!! i pretty much buy a tshirt every time i go to a concert, so i have tons of those! and ofc tons of harry stuff

+ i tag whoever read this far lmao

[mwagneto]

Soo, acording to the book, John Reid never lied, in every interview he was telling the truth about they way they met and the managing thing, also the abuse, he was just a cheater, and only hit Elton once, and after that they finished the relationship. The movie is so different (I know, it's fantasy), but I feel Elton lied to us all.

now now, please remember, rocketman isn't written by Elton and he barely had any hand in it and he never ever talked about his relationship with John other than saying, at one point, that they broke up because he was "less faithful than [Elton] liked", which is precisely why I said, for months, that I will put off forming an opinion about the whole situation until Elton tells us his side, which Rocketman cannot be considered, since it's not written by him or anything.

you're right though, he wasn't abusive, as he said. hitting Elton is still shitty and I'm glad Elton immediately left him but abuse requires an imbalance of power dynamic that not only did Elton say they didn't have, he literally said he was always the more dominant one when they were dating which only shifted a while after they broke up

where's that post that's like, not everything is abusive, some people are just assholes - I'm not saying their relationship was good but as someone who's currently a victim of abuse from several people, calling that abusive is just...a stretch and really minimizes the real weight of the word. yeah it was really fucking shitty of John to hit him and Elton was right to break up with him for that, but there's also the fact that Elton punched John in the face so hard some years later that he broke his nose which Elton says more than repaid it (and this is something John never talked about, the only accounts we have were eyewitnesses and now Elton himself. According to him they later found John a few hours of drive away covered in blood crying in his car.).

I don't feel like Elton lied to us because for the past months I strictly maintained that Rocketman isn't 100% truthful and shouldn't be viewed as such and that I would wait until his biography to get his pov on things because as much as I adore Rocketman, there's literally a little card at the end basically saying "this movie is based on real events and people but is heavily dramatised", he didn't write it or really control anything, and we have statements from several people who knew him or literally appeared in the movie disputing one thing or another, none of which I mind - it's a movie! They had to dramatise/change things and characters to be enjoyable and that's perfectly fine! But we shouldn't act like it's 100% truth because it isn't.

I still can't form a solid opinion on John himself, not only because I'm only seven and a half hours into listening very intently to all 12 hours (hell I even listened to and remember the circa one hour of football talk so that's saying something) meaning I'm only at the 80s and haven't gotten to the part where they break their business relationship, but also coz he's like, a real person and I wouldn't feel comfortable talking about him as if I know him even though I've only seen snippets of his life through Elton's eyes. Even this feels like I'm invading someone's life somehow but I feel the need to clarify all this, so here.

ps it's also worth noting that Elton said they parted on good terms, so much so that, while being hit made him fall out of love with John, he said John was still in love with him for a while and Elton said he felt John would've come back if Elton asked, but he ofc didn't.

[midnightswithdearkatytspb]

Written In The Stars CH 1: Star Crossed Lovers Meet Again (B.B. x OFC!Estella)

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x OFC! Estella (Reincarnation AU) 

Rating: PG-13 (To Be Safe)

Warning: Angst, Fluff (Beta Read but not Beta Corrected) 

Word Count: 1834

Info: So excited when @marvelfulxbabes listed Reincarnation AU as one of her Writing Challenge Prompts. Loosely based off of a musical written by Tim Rice and Elton John called Aida. 

Synopsis: Bucky has lived 24 lives and this life is the longest one he's lived as well as mentally overbearing. Almost every lifetime he's found his soulmate the same one, sometimes she remembers him and sometimes she doesn't.  The last time Bucky saw her in his past life, it was a cold night, now she's learning to control her skills and aide others. 

If he closes his eyes and he thinks back hard enough about his time with Aislinn, running along the Scottish coastline, he thinks he can almost smell the ocean breeze again, as well as hear her laughter again. He can remember Aislinn carrying his baby sister Eberlyn on her back as they walked in the woods, their voices carrying in the wind. He was Eames back then, that was before Caledonia became Scotland. 

That was just one of the many lives he has lived. Now he went by Bucky, or more recently White Wolf. He remembered Hattie when he had been on the run from Steve and Hydra, when he had been at a Persian market he saw a postcard of the Eiffel Tower. Suddenly he was transferred back to 1912, loading on to the infamous what was supposed to be unsinkable Titanic with Hattie coming off their honeymoon. Young lovers, they were, going back home to the real world, where he would help manage his father's company and Hattie, she would paint, she was a wonderful artist. 

Every life he had lived he has since remembered his soulmate and every life how they would meet and fall in love. Some lifetimes she would remember, some she would remember their past together, some she would not be as lucky. When he had first seen Estella, he felt a pull to her and the many tattoos that lined her arms along with the many rings that adored her fingers, she wore eyeliner on the waterline, oversized sweaters, with her hair in a bun on top of her head. The moment though when Estella stopped a tall stack of wooden crates with a flick of her wrist, he knew it was her. 

Amaris who was a few lifetimes ago now had been born able to talk and to do magic. Estella was not only able to do magic but she had the same smile that Hattie had, along with the stride that Rune walked with. So badly he wanted to go up to her and hug her and beg her to forgive him for leaving her that cold April night. He couldn't though because he was too scared for the longest time, afraid of the rejection, the pain it may cause, but he knew deep down they belonged together. 

That’s how Bucky found himself in the middle of a soft summer night in Wakanda taking a walk out on the terrace of the palace, when he saw her back facing him, along with Wanda’s. He has stepped out to get a breath of fresh air, but he felt like he was suddenly intruding on a private moment. Wanda’s hand was placed reassuringly on Estella’s shoulder whispering to her. When Wanda had turned back to gaze at him, she gave him a smile before she left the two of them alone. 

It was almost as if time had stood still for a moment, giving the two long lost lovers a moment to reconnect. Bucky felt what he could almost feel like a magnet pulling at his chest, just pulling his soul towards the one he had longed for, for so long. Before he had a chance to speak or even move, Estella was the one to make the first one to break the stillness in the air. 

“They said I fell from the sky on a cold winter's night, hurtling into my family's arms with great unexpectedness. I did not cry and when I opened my eyes right away, it was as if I could see right away into their souls. It was as if I was born a master of telepathy, something that greatly baffled them. I was talking to them by the time I was 6 months and walking at 9 months.” Estella had yet to look at Bucky, yet she continued to speak as she leaned forward in her arms looking down at the waters below. 

“I was born to parents who were quite eccentric, who had me pretty late in life, but I was the perfect baby. I only cried when I had nightmares, sadly they came often, and it was almost like they were memories.” Her voice cracked for a second, James came forward a few steps, that magnetic feeling had him reaching out to see if she was okay, but the tone of her voice gave it away, she clearly wasn't okay. 

“The thing is that they were in different languages and I could understand what was being said. How can a 3 year old child understand, Coptic, spoken in Ancient Egypt? How does she understand Gaulish, Latin, Greek, Syriac, Hebrew, Gaelic, there’s so many languages and I can understand as well as speak it. I was always conversing with a man or boy, we were deeply in love and something tragic would happen.”  When she did finally turn around there were tears welled up in her eyes, but she still didn’t look at him.

“Tell me I’m not crazy, tell me what you know, what I'm talking about. Every time you come near me it's like my skin is buzzing and I feel so alive but I, I don't know you. How can I? I’m just a witch born in California, to a huge family, we’ve never crossed paths.” Estella looked at Bucky and it felt as if everything he had been waiting for the past 106 years, she was finally within arms reach, it was taking the breath out of his lungs. His flesh hand reached out to touch her but he pulled it back, remembering she had been avoiding his touch. 

“The first time we met, I was just a little boy and our mothers were childhood friends. Not that they had much of a choice, we lived in such a small village and our clan mostly kept to themselves. We lived such peaceful lives, our clan was peaceful. You and I, we became best friends and we fell in love.” this time it was Bucky’s turn to look away now, the stories of their lives were always filled with love but also so much pain. 

“My father was killed on a hunting trip by a neighboring clan, my mother, she died of a broken heart. It left me to raise my little sister Eberlyn alone, but you wouldn't let me. Before we knew it, we were married and we were so happy. It all changed in an instance, while we were sleeping our clan was attacked by Vikings. We didn't have a chance to fight back.” his stomach hurt it was almost as if he felt the stab wound that killed him that night. 

“It was a summer night and the stars, they were vivid, it was almost as if you could touch them. Eberlyn wanted to sleep under them, and I convinced you. Eberlyn left to sleep with my sister Narah.” Estella’s voice drew off at the end, staring off in a daze.

“You always loved naming the stars and you named the brightest one after me.” smiling at the memory, but it turned out to be too painful, it would always turn out to be too painful. 

“Eames, I named it Eames. We fell asleep after a shooting star and I said, ‘I’ll always find you no matter where we are, my love will guide us.’ and you corrected me and told me. ‘Our love will guide us to each other Aislinn always.” she was piecing it together, she wasn't insane, after all, he was fitting the puzzle pieces together. 

“We fell asleep side by side Stella, and just like that, I woke to your scream and suddenly there was pain in my stomach. A domino effect of screams came through the village, as I looked over you had been stabbed in the chest and you were staring at me crying. I just remember pulling you to me and the next thing I remember is being a little boy whose mother called him Atticus.” Bucky vividly remembered the day in his second life, that the memories of his first one came flashing before his very eyes. It haunted him for weeks, his mother worried about him when he woke himself screaming in the night. 

Estella went to grab Bucky’s hand but she wasn't sure he wanted her to touch his metal appendage, she also wasn't sure if she was ready to go there yet. Before either of them could say anything, Queen Ramonda walked out, making her presence known to them. Estella lowered her head to the right, as Bucky simply shook his head in her direction. 

“Stella, I can’t find Shuri and I have a feeling she is in her cave again if you could do me a favor, just check on her, I need to have a talk with James.” Estella smiled as the Queen gave her a smile and her hand a quick squeeze as she strolled on by. 

Bucky watched on till Queen Ramonda stood before him a smile on her face, dressed in lavish purples from head to toe, silver and gold medallions adorned her chest and neck. She gracefully reached out to him taking his hand in hers, making sure she had his attention. 

“You know they say if you pray hard enough to the stars they will listen and guide you to what you seek, I for one believe that.” The Queen pulled Bucky along towards the edge of the terrace where it was darker and the stars shined brighter than ever before. Silver illuminated them making things around them come to life like never before. The waters below them glittered as if precious jewels lay in its depths, everything just looked at peace, the world in those moments seemed to be at peace.

“James, I know you and Estella are meant to be, you have waited many lifetimes to have your forever, I cannot say if it is this one, but I ask you give her time. I know it’s a lot to ask, as it’s been awhile since you’ve held her in your arms but, I do believe for Estella it’s opening an old wound. She’ll come to you, she has before, the stars and gods have guided you together before, they’ll do it again.” Queen Ramonda placed a kiss on the crown of his forehead letting his hand go, and allowing him to let her advice to sink in. 

Once alone Bucky looked out into the stars, the sounds of the Wakanda night keeping him company, with the low murmurs of people's voices inside. Thoughts of the past took over his mind, not of Hydra but those of before this very life. Ones where he held the one who held his heart in her hands, ones where they laughed, cried and worshiped each other. Bucky found himself pleading to the stars to bring them together sooner rather than later, for he wished to fill the empty hole in his heart and hold her once again. 

[sammyspreadyourwings]

Eternity (I give to you)

It’s still the 5th. This one took me a minute to actually have time to sit down and write, but it got done. Also this doesn’t Offically take place in the Harmony AU, but. If you want it to, you can make it so. There’s a link that kind of looks like what I was picturing, without spoilers ofc.

Brian has never been good with buying gifts. He overthinks them until he ends up putting them back and buying something generic. Like the year he could have bought John a broken down bass, that they could have repaired together (he’s sure it would have sounded off but how fun it would have been) and then instead bought him a very fancy pack of the tea flavor he prefers.

Roger usually takes pity on me and tells him what he can get him. Dinner at some point during the week usually works out for them, or even lunch. They take at least one meal together in the space between their birthdays.

Then there’s Freddie, the absolute love of Brian’s life.

With the success of Queen and money no longer an issue, Freddie has taken to the mindset that if he wants it he will just buy it. Brian doesn’t mind it, however stressful it is when the purchases clutter up the walkways because they aren’t sure where to put them. It simply makes it impossible to buy Freddie a gift with any meaning attached to it.

Dinner and wine is something that they do once a week as a date night and they always got to a nice restaurant. A habit formed back in their Hot Space era and never broken.

He could buy Freddie artwork, but his taste changes with the wind and Brian doesn’t really want to start any kind of disagreement.

Freddie is touched with grand gestures, Brian bought him a star one year, but the paper is pressed between the albums in their music room.

Jewelry and clothes are always better left to Freddie himself. It saves him both the sizing headache and the lecture on combinations and styles. He likes fashion, and the grand clothes they pick for stage wear, but when it comes down to it, he can’t pick out the cuts or fabrics that would look good with each other. Freddie has Elton for that most days, either way.

Brian pauses, his pencil tapping on the list of potential gifts. The only thing he had managed to write down that hasn’t been scratched out is jewelry. Freddie wears it, certainly, but it usually is only once before he picks out a new piece. Except there’s one thing… Brian shakes his head. He couldn’t.

He reads through the list. It’s the only thing he can think of.

Except that it is so cliché that he can just imagine the ribbing he is going to get for it.

He dials the number before he can think about it.

“Hello?”

“Roger?”

“That is the number you called,” Roger replies.

“Yes.”

He pauses and stares at the list again.

“B? You call for a reason?” Roger inhales shakily, “did something happen?”

“No.”

“Okay.”

Is he really going to ask Roger? Brian sighs, it feels right, and he is running out time to get something together.

“Are you free?”

“Right now?”

“Yes.”

“I can be,” Roger replies, “I was just catching up on my reading. Why?”

“I want to,” Brian bites his lips and glances at the list again, “I want to go ring shopping.”

“Bri?”

“For Freddie.”

“Well, I assumed you weren’t going to propose to a mistress,” Roger laughs.

Brian grimaces and clears his throat.

“Anyway, ring shopping?”

“His birthday is –”

“I know when my best friend’s birthday is. Do you want to buy him a ring? Brian that means… you know what that means.” “I do.” “Oh, you’re serious. How long?”

“Thirty minutes,” he shrugs.

“You made up your mind in thirty minutes?” Roger barks, “miracles do happen – of course I’ll come with you. I’ll drive. Be over shortly.”

The line goes dead and Brian carefully rips up the list because he knows Freddie likes snooping in his paper’s. Mostly to find songs that he is hiding from him. His plans for a surprise have been ruined more than once because of this habit. It earns him a lot of soft kisses when Freddie learns.

Brian stands and decides that he should look professional. He doesn’t actually know how you’re supposed to look when buying rings. He’s deciding between jackets when Roger knocks on his door.

“Hello – and John too.”

John waves, “Roger called me.”

“Did he tell you why?”

“I assume it’s for Freddie.” Brian rolls his eyes and bites his cheek before stepping out and locking the door. Roger is dressed down, except for the dark green suit blazer he is wearing. John looks comfortable in the short sleeve band shirt from their last tour. Brian glances down and his trousers, sharply pressed.

“Come on. We’ll never leave if you start thinking about your fashion. We should get this done before Freddie comes back.”

“He’s doing his solo work, right?”

“I think it’s a meeting about the album cover,” Brian shrugs.

“Well, let’s go,” Roger bounces.

💎💎💎

Brian hasn’t been in a jewelry store since he helped Roger pick out a ring for Dom. He can tell that John remembers the same thing with a tiny grimace on his face. That hadn’t been a great time in their relationship. Even without all the details they refuse to share, Brian can guess how close they came to breaking up.

The clerk greets them with a smile before swaying her hips over. Obviously, they’ve been recognized and Brian spends about four seconds dreading the tabloids getting ahold of this. He’ll have to keep Freddie away from them for a week.

While making sure he doesn’t make it look like he’s having an affair.

“How may I help you?” The woman asks.

“I want to look at the rings?”

“Any occasion?”

Brian shrugs, he doesn’t imagine there’s that much difference between rings. The clerk nods and waves her arm in the direction of one of the display cases. Roger and John both follow him with their hands in their pockets. The rings glitter from the light in the display. There’s just so many of them.

Roger leans over and starts pointing out random rings. Usually, Brian would trust him when it comes to Freddie’s fashion sense, but they all seem wrong. It quickly becomes clear that Roger is just pointing out the most expensive ones he sees.

Not that price matters too much.

John pinches Roger on the side.

“Stop being a nuisance. We’ll let Brian pick and then give him our opinion.”

The clerk smiles setting the rings back in the case.

Brian crouches and starts looking through each ring carefully. He’s drawn to the brilliant yellow diamonds. They remind him of Freddie, and he makes sure to point to the teardrop one. Really, they’re lovely, and Freddie would adore it. Except it’s very blatant as to what it is. He walks down the case, pointing out rings occasionally.

John and Roger both watch the display case fill up. Brian thinks all of them would look lovely, but they Aren’t Perfect.

“This one is nice, Bri,” Roger says holding up a beautiful twisted band, solid gold with tiny diamonds forming leaves.

Maybe if this was Jim, Brian frowns.

Roger sets it back, “Brian, whichever one you get. It’ll be loved.”

Brian nods. He knows that. Freddie would be moved by the sentiment and wear the ring proudly. It’s just that Brian wants to be 100 percent satisfied. Which he rarely ever is. John sighs and crosses his arm as he leans against a pillar.

“Brian,” John says, “trust yourself.”

He takes a deep breath. Closing his eyes, he thinks about what Freddie would love. Something simple and elegant. Freddie might be the world’s best frontman and loves extravagance, but Brian’s always loved the way he looks on Saturday mornings when they have nowhere to be. Hair messed by sleep and eyes softened without the make-up, how the shirt hangs off of him because it’s Brian’s but it’s nothing but soft gray cotton.

Brian thinks about how Freddie’s voice sounds the best when it’s soft and the melody is simple. When the song is so beautiful that he doesn’t need vocal acrobatics to sell it.

Freddie to him is Queen’s frontman, but he’s also the man that picks up his cats swaying with them and sings good morning to them in a bathrobe with coffee filling the house in a wakeup call.

He opens his eyes again and looks back at the case. His eyes are drawn to The Ring. When the clerk grabs it and sets it in the middle of the box, both John and Roger lean forward and share secret grins with each other.

“That’s perfect, mate,” Roger says.

John nods, “see, you knew.”

💍💍💍

Brian thumbs the velvet case in his pocket. Freddie wants to stay in tonight. The Big Celebration is tomorrow when more of their guest list could make it, and Brian didn’t have to worry about a hangover on the weekend. Instead, with Phoebe’s help, he made a simple dinner. He picked out a menu that went with Freddie’s favorite wine and found their good candle holders.

“Happy birthday, my love.”

Freddie smiles before kissing him on the cheek, “this is lovely. Thank you, Brimi.”

Brian smiles and guides Freddie to the table, pulling out the chair before sitting across from them.

“You know, this reminds me of our first date,” Freddie says unfolding the napkin.

He grins. Their first date had been on the floor of Freddie’s room in the flat he shared with Roger, too scared to go out. They had pulled the card table in and used cheap scented candles to make it feel more romantic. The dishes had been take-out containers and paper plates. Brian had spilled their cheap wine on his white shirt two minutes into the meal and jumped every time Freddie so much as looked at him.

Tonight, they use fancy china and drink wine that Brian has trouble pronouncing in a mansion with velvet curtains and a central heating system that works. Unlike the Brian who had just stopped curling his hair, and still felt too nervous in his own body much less touch someone a stunning as Freddie, Brian places his hand down on the table face up. He twists their legs together with ease bought by time. Freddie clasps their hands together.

The fact that he loves Freddie Mercury has never changed between the years.

“Good. I wanted to remind you where we came from,” Brian said.

“Ah yes, I wanted to be reminded of the awkward guitarist and too shy singer.”

“Reflection is good.”

“The future is better.”

Brian grins again. The fork clinks quietly on his plate, “about that?”

“Did you finally unlock time travel, Dr. May?”

“Ah, that mystery still eludes me,” Brian laughs, “but I do know who I’d like to spend my future with.”

Freddie lifts an eyebrow.

His hand wraps around the box and pulls it out before sliding it across the table. Freddie’s eyes widen, and he drops his fork before reaching out and grabbing it. He detangles their hands to pick it up and flip open the lid.

A double-banded ring sits in soft yellow silk. He had chosen the color specifically because of how it reminds him of Freddie. One band is white enamel and the other black. They’re connected by a strip of silver where they cross each other. Freddie picks it up, as though he is afraid it will break.

“Brian?”

Brian wets his lip, his heart attempting to beat out of his chest. He doesn’t think that Freddie will reject him, but this means so much to him.

“I couldn’t think what else to give you,” Brian says quietly, “but then I thought that I could promise this forever.”

Freddie holds the ring to his face, “it’s beautiful.”

“I know I promised forever, already. Back when we were younger.”

“Under those horribly scratchy hotel sheets in Sydney, I remember.”

They both get lost in their thoughts for a moment. Brian had promised forever and then very nearly broke it a few months later when he got sick in the states.

Freddie drops the ring in his hand and then extends his fingers towards Brian.

He slips it onto the middle finger.

“Oh?”

“When we can finally get married, I’ll put a ring there.”

He smiles at Freddie’s surprised laugh. Brian squeezes his hand before dropping it. Freddie lifts the hand to his face, staring at the tangled bands, twisting it every which way.

“It feels heavy,” Freddie says after a few minutes.

“That’s because it’s a promise of forever.”

“You give me forever this year, what will you give me next year?” Freddie teases.

Brian shrugs, “I’ll promise forever then, too.”

[fandomliane]

I’m Still Standing (3/3)

The final part of my submission for @tilltheendwilliwrite​  Once again, this takes place in an Avengers AU, post Civil War, but I’ve chosen to believe that after a few years, they all forgave each other and worked together without Inifity War or Endgame happening. Still in denial.

Pairing: Steve Rogers x OFC            Word Count:1955

Warnings: Somewhat stalkerish ex-boyfriend. 

Summary: I chose Elton John’s “I’m Still Standing”. This part completes the tale of how this song brought Mia Rivers and Steve Rogers together. Bucky and Sam make an appearance. It’s fluff. 

Once I never could hope to win

You starting down the road leaving me again

The threats you made were meant to cut me down

And if our love was just a circus you'd be a clown by now

You know I'm still standing better than I ever did

Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid

I'm still standing after all this time

Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind

I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah

I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah

Elton sang in Mia’s ears as she made her way down the street with her arms full of grocery bags. Taking the bus or a cab would have been easier, but after finishing up at work early and seeing the gorgeous weather outside, she felt the need to move. She was dwelling on the revelations from Caroline’s pub party on the weekend and was trying to figure out how to talk to neighbour Steve without seeming like an ignorant hick from the North. Mia really wanted to apologize to him for her blunders but wasn’t sure if she should.  So for now, the sun was shining, the sky was blue, and she was in a fabulous mood.

Humming along to her tunes, Mia was startled when someone suddenly stepped out in front of her. She took off her sunglasses and found Colin standing there with his “I’m not impressed” look directed towards her. Sighing, she paused her playlist and mentally prepared herself to convince him once and for all, that she was done with him.

“Mia,” he began, in a demanding tone. “Where have you been? I’ve been waiting for you for almost an hour? I know you are usually home from work by 5:30, and it’s almost 6:30. I also know you left early since I called your office to see what time you left at and-”

“Stop!” Mia loudly interrupted Colin’s tirade. “You did what? You’re tracking me and my movements? Colin, that’s sounding like stalkerish behaviour, and trust me, I have no qualms about going to the cops for a restraining order if you really are keeping tabs on me. We. Are. Done.”

“I’m worried about you, Mia,” Colin tried to sound comforting as he reached out to pat her arm in a condescending manner. “You’re still so new to the city and you don’t really know anyone. I love you. We were meant to be together since school. I know I messed up with Shannon, but it was nothing. She… She came onto me and-”

“ENOUGH!” Mia shouted at him, stepping back some more and struggling with her grocery bags. “I am done, butthe-sorry, Colin! This is over. You made your decision. You and I are not going to happen. We are not ‘meant to be together’. The only thing made to be together is popcorn and butter. Maybe chocolate chips and mint ice cream too, but us? No, never, not happening. Stop pretending you’re worried about me. I’m fine. Excellent, actually. I have good friends, I’m meeting new people and-”

“What new people?” Colin demanded as he took a menacing step in Mia’s direction. “Are you dating someone already? Tell me, Mia? Who the hell is he?”

“Actually, she’s met me, and no, we’re not dating. Not yet.” a deep voice broke in. Turning around, Mia saw Steve and two other rather large men standing on the steps of the building. While the two strangers looked at Mia and Colin with concern, Steve’s expression was one of tightly controlled anger.

Colin took a step back, appeared to gather his courage and growled, “And just who the hell are you?”

Steve took a step closer to Mia, pointed to her bags questioningly and gave her a shy smile that melted her heart. She passed him some of her bags and he handed them to one of his friends. “Better?” He murmured to her. She nodded, and smiled up at him. “I’m ex-Captain Steve Rogers, and these are my friends, James Barnes and Sam Wilson. Now who the hell are you and why are you bothering Miss Rivers?”

“Miss Rivers is my girlfriend, and this is none of your business,” Colin grumbled.

Mia scoffed. “Try again, butthead. And no, I am not apologizing for it this time. I’m your ex-girlfriend.” She looked up at Steve. “This is the one, Steve. The one I told you about, the whole reason we met. Apparently he thinks checking up on me at work and waiting for me at home are normal behaviours for an ex. I was about to explain to him again that my life is none of his concern and that if he continues this behaviour, I will be slapping a restraining order on his behind.”

“Oh, I don’t think that will be necessary,” Steve’s friend James commented as he slowly descended the stairs. “If I see his face around here again, I will be more than happy to assist his ass out of here.”

“Ditto.” growled Sam, as he scowled at Colin.

“Get in line, you two,” Steve mumbled. “I get dibs.” Mia looked up at Steve again, telling her heart to stop pounding. She was still wondering if she’d heard his ‘not yet’ comment correctly.

Colin took another step away from Bucky, almost tripping into the street. “Bucky Barnes? Like The Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes? Right. I’m going. Honest, I won’t come back. I...I … I'm sorry, Mia. I won’t bug you again.” He hastily retreated down the street without looking back.

“Ha! That was fun!” Steve’s other friend laughed as he came down to slap Bucky on the back. “Steve, keep this one around! I like her. She probably would have hit that jerk with one of these bags and concussed him if you hadn’t spoken up.”

Mia blushed, suddenly feeling shy and a little overwhelmed by the three men around her. “Thank you so much for stepping in, Steve. You really didn’t need to, but it meant a lot. And you two,” she said as she turned to his friends putting her hand on her chest, “thank you as well! My heroes! Saving this slightly distressed damsel. Here, let me take those groceries back and I’ll let you get on your way. I don’t want to keep you.”

Mia went to take her bags from Sam, but he just linked arms with her and started to lead her up the stairs. “No can do, damsel. My job here isn’t done till I’ve delivered you safely to your castle.”

Mia headed up with Sam, glancing back at Steve, mouthing “help!” Steve and Bucky chuckled, following them up to their floor.

At Mia’s door, Sam stopped, handed Mia the rest of her bags, made a low bow, and whispered, “Steve’s talked about you a lot the last couple of weeks. Give him a chance. He’s the best guy.”

Mia’s heart melted a little at Sam’s words. “I may have messed up though,” she whispered.

Sam gave her a wink and a shake of his head. “Nah, he likes it that you didn’t know him. Just talk to him, Canada. Get to know him.”

Sam and Bucky headed into 408, while Steve stood behind Mia as she unlocked her door. “Do you want to come in for a minute?” She tentatively asked. Steve smiled, nodded and followed her inside.

One year later…

Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did

Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid

I'm still standing after all this time

Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind

I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah

I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah

Mia looked up at Steve as she sang along with Sir Elton John, wondering how this one song could have changed her life so much. If she hadn’t discovered her ex cheating then she wouldn’t have been singing loudly (and drunkenly) in her apartment. She wouldn’t have bothered the sweetheart across the hall, and she wouldn’t be standing here in a VIP box in Vancouver with her boyfriend of 10 months, belting out tunes at an Elton John concert.

After the incident with Colin on the street, Steve and she had spent a couple of months getting to know each other better. They went out on traditional dates and spent a lot of time at Mia’s place talking about their different pasts, their dreams, and their plans for the future. They spent time with Bucky, Sam, and Mia’s friends, Caroline and Aaron. There was lots of teasing when Mia’s mistake regarding Steve and Bucky’s living situation had come to light, and Sam had loved joking Steve about Mia not recognizing Steve. After two months of casually dating, Steve had taken her to Coney Island and asked her to be his girl. That was the first night Steve had stayed over, and it soon felt like they were living together. She had known by month four, that Steve was the guy for her. She just hoped he felt that way about her.

As a one year meeting anniversary, Steve had arranged a surprise visit home to see her family and had made sure, with help from a certain Stark, that he had tickets to the concert of her favourite singer. Caroline, Bucky, Sam and other friends of Steve’s had come along to experience Mia’s home city in its summer splendor and she was thrilled to introduce her New York family to her Vancouver family.  

Mia’s parents hadn’t believed their daughter when she first told them who she was dating, especially since they too weren’t up to date on who all the American Avengers were. Her friends had teased her mercilessly when they found out how she had met Steve, but she could just laugh it off now.

Mia smiled up at him as she danced along to the song and Steve returned her sappy smile. He reached over and wrapped his arms around her, cuddling her in close. It was Mia’s favourite place to be, tucked in with her guy, knowing that she was loved and respected. She felt Steve take a deep breath, and then release her. He took her by the shoulders and looked deeply into her eyes. “Steve?” she murmured.

Steve closed his eyes, took another deep breath, and went down on one knee. Mia took a small step back and bumped into Bucky. He nudged her forward as Steve took her left hand in his. “Mia,” he began, as he looked up at her. “I never thought I would fall in love again after Peggy. I didn’t think I would be lucky enough to meet another woman who was strong, independent and fearless. But someone up there must be looking out for me, because they sent you to me. You have my heart, you are my heart, Mia. You have given me a place where I can leave the past behind me and you’ve given me hope for a future that I’d only dreamed of. Amelia Rivers, from the wilds of Canada, will you make my dreams come true and be my wife?”

“Oh, god, Steve, yes. Yes, yes, yes!” Mia cried as she threw himself into his arms. The people around her started clapping and cheering, as Steve stood up with Mia in his arms and kissed her deeply, not caring who was watching. As Mia and Steve broke apart to hear the congratulations of their friends, she glanced down at the stage to hear Elton John finish the song with a tip of his hat in their direction.

I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah

I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah

@tilltheendwilliwrite thanks for the challenge! It was fun.