#Tiger Rag

[tranquilitybasehotelcasino]

I love ur music gijinkas & knowing there's someone else who loves music and albums so much too because I get rlly attached to songs. It'd be cool to see Duran Duran gijinkas in your style too if you wanted to

anything for a fan

[dms-a-jem]

Duran Duran - Union of the Snake

As The Lights Go Down

Oakland, CA - April 1984

[longsightmyth]

One of the more interesting things about reading Straight (not straight, as in books that happen to have straight characters etc etc, but Straight, like the difference between a Nice Guy and a nice guy) is reading sentences from a girl's pov like 'I thought when I found Ren, I'd never have to look at another guy again.'

Now, obviously, the context I have for this book and author means I am aware this is because of heteronormative society and feeling that she must 'belong' to a man, and therefore she thought her quest was done.

Out of context, I'm here like. Oh? Closeted or in denial queer Kelsey vested in staying in said closet????

I'm not totally sure what I'm going for here, but it's something.

[1985alive]

40 years of Duran Duran's Seven & the Ragged Tiger, released Nov. 21, 1983

[allshadowylined]

Duran Duran

San Francisco, 1982

Photographed by Chester Simpson

[bonefall]

I don’t know if the Erin’s are romanticizing abuse, don’t realize they’re writing it, or both because this is genuinely getting concerning

They’ve written how many abusive husbands and then said that those husbands are actually great people who deserve everything?

Well, let's apply Occam's Razor. Which of these makes the most sense;

The writing team has accidentally written at least 3 (more like 5) realistic depictions of domestic abuse, and just happen to be consistently more sympathetic to the men in the relationships, and find that romantic involvement makes a character humanizing in general Or

The writing team has a warped perception of what healthy love is supposed to look like, and think that the behaviors they depict are normal and just part of relationships.

I think the phrase "romanticizing abuse" is kind of unhelpful tbh, because it's not totally accurate. Most people believe they're doing the right thing. It's not likely that they KNOW what they're doing is destructive, and are secretly twirling an evil mustache as they write it into a teenage cat book series in the hopes of making more victims.

It's not entirely romanticism/glorification, it's deeper. It's the idea that these behaviors are normal, understandable, and they as writers either a total disinterest in the internal lives of the victims (Turtle, Bumble) or the desire to "explore" the relationship as if both sides are on equal footing/mutually toxic (Squilf)

And Tom... Tom's redemption ties into the narrative about blood that DOTC tells. It says that having children produces a goodness in men, and biological connection (even to people you don't know) is an intrinsic, sometimes tragic fact of life. The only time Tom ever does something that wasn't actively malicious was saving his daughter, Sparrow Fur.

For that, and that alone, he is redeemed. And thus deserves a cutesy reward in his afterlife.

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... listen to music ...

📷 mine

[duranduratulsa]

Duran Duran quote of the day: Holding your own in a battered car

All-night parties, cocktail bars and smile

When the butterfly escapes the killing jar - Secret Oktober (1983) #duranduran #secretoktober #unionofthesnake #sevenandtheraggedtiger #SimonLeBon #nickrhodes #rogertaylor #johntaylor #rogertaylorduranduran #andytaylor #80s

[raedroid]

To everyone who says that Duran Durans lyrics are gibberish

I literally just did a summary analysis of Seventh Stranger and my teacher loved it. So there is a meaning here lol

[johnschneiderblog]

Glad rags

I was culling misfits from my sock drawer (a task I undertake once every couple of decades, or so) when I came upon these glad rags - remnants of past Tigers' glory days.

They're all from former play-off games - handed out for free to patrons of the game and meant to be fluttered to celebrate big moments in the game (probably, says my cynical self, to impress the TV audience).

Only one of the flags has a date on it: 2014 - the last year, before this one, that the Tigers made the play-offs. It was the year the Tigers finished first in the AL Central, (90-72), but then got swept in the AL Division Series by the Baltimore Orioils. I still feel the sting.

The Tigers will meet the Astros in Houston this afternoon, in the first game of a best-of-three series.

What was that we said in 1984 ...? Bless you, boys.

[longliverockback]

Duran Duran Seven and the Ragged Tiger 1984 Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab ————————————————— Tracks: 1. The Reflex 2. New Moon on Monday 3. (I’m Looking for) Cracks in the Pavement 4. I Take the Dice 5. Of Crime and Passion 6. Union of the Snake 7. Shadows on Your Side 8. Tiger Tiger 9. The Seventh Stranger —————————————————

Simon Le Bon

Nick Rhodes

Andy Taylor

John Taylor

Roger Taylor

* Long Live Rock Archive

[iamindifferenttolamp]

Everyone's commenting on Matt's costume being distracting but you see he plays so many roles already that what he's wearing doesn't matter to me (and it's frankly less distracting than the Geralt contacts last Halloween) but the others... I mean Grog's out here with sunglasses lowering them down his nose to talk to Keyleth, Percy's standing around in rags - the fact that these guys only play one character and the character is practically the opposite of the costume, that's what's distracting

[acmeoop]

Crusader Rabbit Scene Cel (1971)

[longsightmyth]

Like you don't have to have a so-called 'sophisticated palate' or anything obviously, what you like is not a moral judgment, but when your lilywhite supposed savior of India hates everything Indian except the clothes she uses to be cute for her not-like-other-indians-ified boyfriend, ESPECIALLY the food, it just looks an awful lot like you the author are using bits of and pieces of a real life people and culture (that you have smashed into one homogeneous blob, as you have done with all gravies/curries, instead of bothering to learn about the MYRIAD of different cultures - okay) as an exotic set dressing that has no bearing on the actual story, because India and its people(s), to you, is merely a playground and not an actual living place.

Anyway it's racist.

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[raurquiz]

#Happybirthday @andytaylorlives #andytaylor #guitarrist @duranduran #duranduran #rio #sevenandtheraggedtiger #arena #thepowerstation #thunder #notorious #bigthing #Decade #Liberty #ThankYou #Medazzaland #PopTrash #RedCarpetMassacre #AllYouNeedIsNow #FuturePast #dancemacabre