#bcbc

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im normal abt this btw

[staticsifting]

Behold! fahbrick!

[mrstellmeafuckingsecret]

not even joking fanon sirius doesnt even make me mad anymore (that's reserved for everyone else fanon <3) but he just makes me........... so sad.......... like bro is in a straight up abusive relationship with the man he idolizes more than anything. and he is IN this abusive relationship because of his HORRIFIC home life in which his parents use illegal torture methods on him weekly/daily and he severely lacks any healthy relationships around him, he also never gets any praise (because he's stupid&horrible&bad at everything) meaning he's just going around begging for validation and love? and it's just a joke? like he is literally willing to hurt himself like omg by bby??

(that one incorrect quote where remus kisses sirius' hand because he gets a papercut and sirius asks james to punch him in the face. how is that funny. i literally was so sad. wtf guys.)

and like he gets into this rsp after going through a TON of homophobia and hes like constantly made fun of because he happens to love his bf (who HATES him). everyone (namely his brother: well talk abt him dw) is like "you can do sm better than sirius lmao" and remus is like "yeah lol" like blatantly in front of sirius and sirius is sad and its a funny haha joke like GUYS ITS HORRIBLE

and like !!!! he has no support system!!! he has no friends !!!!! no one loves him !!!!!!! fuck love no one even likes him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hes constantly patronized and talked down to by everyone. his hobbies are taken over (pranks: remus remus remus, bikes: i dont actually know but ive seen a couple "remus on sirius' bike 💞" and sirius freaking out when like bfr guys) . his best friend. his BEST FRIEND. goes BEHIND HIS BACK. TO DATE. HIS NAZI YOUNGER BROTHER.

THE NAZI YOUNGER BROTHER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOM HE WAS CONSTANTLY COMPARED TO AND DEEMED LESS WORTHY HIS ENTIRE LIFE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO HE WA SALWAS THE SECOND OPTION TO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hes their parents favored son AND his bfs favored brother and now his BEST FRIENDS favored too???????? go away. fuck you.

and like . his younger brother whom sirius CONSTANTLY TOOK BEATINGS FOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WITH NO REGARD FOR HIS OWN SAFETY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nad everyones like lmfao why is he overreacting ths is why no one loves him lets ignore him 💀💀💀

and like his brother btw tf like he s always th emartyr nd sirius is indebted to him bc its only because of regulus apparentl y that siriu s was able to escape like gsgnlksfskl

and the PRNAK!!!!!!!!!! omg sirius is like gone in ths universe ok theres no way it wasnt n accident he told snape that and then remus HATES HIM for MONTHS?????? kys he tried so hard

dont even get me on post azkaban "im sorry remus ☹️" "my brothers a hero 🥺"

ugh i cant even word thngs anymore. but like have these these made me REALLY sad.

im in tears. i cant believe you fucks took everything away from sirius and then left him w his trauma. and the fact that this isn t evn a fraction of whats going on, like ffuck you all

[yelenapines]

giggles and kicks feet i can't wait to go by she/he pronouns at camp this summer

[no-where-new-hero]

i am very much becoming the stereotype of the fanfic writer who can turn out thousands of words of their AU but can't write anything else. Like seriously, I haven't hit the writing flow on my own WIP like this in months.

i feel like a child saying this but HEY, KIDS! FANFIC IS FUN!

[another-delta-lover]

DELTA, little smoll delicate flower delta. Why out of every one you break easier than dry sand? I make one movement and you fold like card castle. You are fine comrade.

*pats your head*

Oh well u know bc....bcbc....because...because I because U know..... I .... Well... BECAUSE....BCBECAUSE....U KNOE UHHM U KNOW.... BC U.... U KNOW... BEFAUSE I....BAAIEHAONDISBDJSHSJHS JAHDJABDKAHDKABDKSBDAHDNQKDNSLNisjwlqnOWJEKSJ

U KNOW.... NO REAOSNAT ALL AONWKDHAKDH (Breakin easier than sand again btw) OSJDKAHDKAHDNAKH👉🏼👈🏼

[webism]

adsdjkeehdvjcidm alg i think i might like the idea so much i might write a drabble for it (i already started it cus yes)

it's kinda complicated cus its uhhhhh 👉👈 yandere!actor!ghostface!vampire!choso bcbc i wanna do the actor au with normal au bcbc then the bloodplay wouldn't make a lotta sense so hes neow a vampire :DDDDDDD would you like a little sample of it :3

OH YEAH im not gonna be active for a few days next week cus im out of state to do something for my job 👏 praying i get my long due promotion

UM YES SAMPLE PLEASE LIKE IM AT COSTCO ILL COME BACK IN A DISGUISE FOR TEN MORE

lets all pray for a promotion for ali YOU GOT THIS WOOOOOOOOO we will miss u dearly

[petermorwood]

Back-Carry Before Conan

Or, BCBC.

For a long time I thought “Conan The Barbarian” (1982) was the first pop-culture appearance of BC.

NB, regardless of improbable contraptions made to “prove” things, no sword carried across the back in this movie is ever drawn from that position; in fact there’s a 3-second sequence devoted entirely to showing Conan getting his sword off his back and securing it at his waist before drawing it.

See it here, starting at 2:40.

In the next section of this scene, Valeria presumably does the same thing; at 0:27 her sword’s across her back, then there’s a brief cutaway to Subotai, and when we’re back with Valeria at 0:30 she’s got the sword at her waist and is drawing it from there.

Incidentally, though there’s often a brief scraping sound as swords leave scabbards, I can’t recall any examples of the infamous exaggerated “schinngg” noise, so I guess that cliché must have developed later.

*****

Then a few days ago, while tidying bookshelves, I found my long-lost copy of Thackeray’s mock-heroic Fireside Pantomine “The Rose and the Ring” (1854). Mine is the 1967 edition, evidently acquired from somewhere at a bargain price...

...and features Thackeray's own illustrations, including this one:

This is definitely back-CARRY, because an over-the-shoulder DRAW is neither intended nor possible. Here’s why...

Notice there’s no scabbard. However, there’s presumably a matching loop or point-cover for the other end, so I can visualise making it work like this:

Grab the sword left-handed and pull the whole arrangement, strap and all, forward and round until the hilt reaches your right hand. Now support the weight of the sword to let the strap go slack, and slide the hilt-loop backwards and off. Without it, there’s no tension to hold the other loop or point-cover in place and it will fall away, leaving the sword ready for business.

I’m pretty sure Thackeray didn’t think through his illustration in that much detail, so it may (?) have been based on contemporary rifle drill; the Crimean War was under way while he was writing, so he’d probably seen troops on parade.

*****

"The Rose and the Ring” is a Satirical Romantick (don’t forget the ’k’) Phantasy, set in a period best described as “Sometime Back Then”, and the periods represented by costumes in the illustrations are... Variable.

King Padella - sorry, that should be KING PADELLA - is wearing armour from 1160-ish. However, Prince Giglio, mentioned at the bottom of the page, looks a bit different.

Here he is, looking like he’s in the American Civil War (1860-ish - which is a good trick since the book was written and illustrated several years before it)...

...while the guards look like soldiers from the Seven Years War (1760-ish) and the prisoner looks like who knows what...

However, here’s Giglio again, in Theatrical Romantick Costume of no particular date...

...and again, now looking vaguely like Charles I as painted by Van Dyke (1640-ish)...

...and finally something which leaves me at a loss about what period it represents. Maybe “When Knights Were Bowled”, if that cannon-ball means anything...

“The Rose and the Ring” is a silly, and yet (in the right mood) entertaining story, and is also a demonstration of how to make Purple Prose earn its keep, since several characters speak not unlike Minette and the other affronted-Victorian-children cats who occasionally appear on Tumblr.

Whether this is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing depends on the reader...

There are several on-line versions: Internet Archive has a well-illustrated one here.

*****

And I still wonder what he’d seen or read to make him draw the carry-strap on that sword the way he did...

[staticsifting]

doing some light freehand embroidery on my BCBC hoodie, stars and moons on the shoulders, some barbed wire around the sleeves if it comes out well.

[nightshadesmusings]

This poem is written in a variation of the ballade rhyme scheme, which goes ABABBCBC BCBC.

Thanks to @sotwk for their post about the word grace, which inspired this poem!

poem in text form under the cut

Grace

There is something that we call grace It’s of those words with more than one definition Not quite the word for when you fall flat on your face But a lovely word to describe a moving audition Or when a dance has a particularly smooth transition You can see grace in more subtle ways When someone is kind after a jarring admission Or when they’re careful to never dispraise

Anyone can show grace under any condition Their kindness feels like the sun’s bright rays It allows them to inspire wit’s ignition And sets the fires of mind's creation ablaze.

[skretri]

your glitterduo art makes me so happy as a simpbur bcbc itz me and my boyfriend :D keep drawin us teehee 💌

I'm glad that my glitterduo drawings make you guys happy!! ^_^ ☆★

[amourjins]

who in pov would this song fit more, yn or aeri?

personally i think it fits both, 'it's almost unnatural how lame i act around you' would be pov!aeri when she's being a loser with y/n and 'i see you in the water, straps on your glasses say what you mean i want to be with you' for y/n bc everytime she sees aeri with her glasses on and she just falls for her more and more, and finally 'cause darling you're the one and fuck i wnat you' for both of them when they accept their feelings and confess to each other ykwim?

i'm gonna end up sending a very long ask with songs and i'm gonna say everything in my mind about how i believe pov!aeyn connect to those songs.

OHMYFLD

after listneigm you are sososo right!! i think it would fit both as well….STOP THAT LYRIC IS LITERALLY SO AERI!!!!!!! bcbc yk she isnt the one thats viewed as ‘lame’.. and her being a loser is definitely unnatural 😭💔 YESYEYSYSSS that exact lyric w yn… we all know how much yn absolutely adores aeri with those srupid ass glasses ☹️☹️💔 YES I DO KNOW WHAT YOU EMAN.. okay bht ‘give me a chance to say what i mean’…aeri when she realizes that she actually likes yn n is in her confessing era 💔💔💔💔💔 killingmyself

[eruditetyro]

playlist shuffle tag game

tagged by @friendofcars (thanks!!)

rules: shuffle your on repeat playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people

dream yourself awake (feat. thao) - san fermin

hollow - cloudeater

karmageddon - abbe may

fickt-euch-allee - grossstadtgeflüster

house of mercy - sarah jarosz

down to the river (reimagined) - ben caplan

like you know you're alive - bcbc, harve

geyser - mitski

phenom - thao, thao & the get down stay down

devil's sweetheart - alice phoebe lou, olmo

i tag @walcutt @joculine @premiumgelato @virginwerewolff @alilbifurious if you'd like to do this, & anyone else who wants to share!

[free-to-be-impaled]

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Not gonna lie, I forgor i reblogged something and thought we were just sending stars now.

So like. You know I have the 🪱brainworms🪱 and I've been trying to make a bon cop bad cop destiel au. It plagues my mind, I'm just sitting staring at the wall problem solving and world building. Ever since I watched the opening to BCBC2, I've known that it is thee perfect place to start the fic. So then it will be the two movies in one fic, it'll alternate between the present and the past.

I just love that it gives me the opportunity to juxtapose Dean and Cas absolutely hating working together trying to solve thee stupidest case in existence, to them fondly looking at each other while being arrested under suspicion of doing a terrorism.

My main problem right now is figuring out how to deal with the fact that both Dean and Cas are cringefail fathers and husbands, whilst in BCBC only one of them is. I already know I want Dean/Lisa and Ben for the past, but I don't know if I can see Dean parenting grown up Ben in the present. I also need to figure out Sam and what that would mean to Dean.

[cloysterbell]

can you explain fringe's leitmotifs? you talk about them all the time but i never really know what you actually mean

YOU BET YOUR ASS I CAN.... okay so first off, a leitmotif is a short piece of music that's assigned to a character or theme or idea, so think the menacing DUUHH DUHHH for Jaws or the Imperial March from Star Wars. You hear those little musical stingers and you immediately know either the shark is coming or Vader's coming. Also I am the Doctor for the Eleventh Doctor's another good one.

But also what you need to know about leitmotifs is it's not always the notes themselves that make it up but way in which they're grouped. So sometimes it might be ABAB but other times it might be pitched up a step to be BCBC but as long as it's the same pattern of notes in the same arrangement, it counts.

So for Fringe, there are a few key leitmotifs that pop up constantly: Olivia's theme, Peter's theme, the Polivia love theme, and the Fringe Division theme. A few other characters like Fauxlivia and Lincoln have their own but they don't pop up nearly as much.

Olivia's leitmotif. Her theme is this 6 or 7 note scale that is roughly A B Ab A C B E, sometimes without the last note. You can hear examples here, here, here, and here and you hear this pop up probably the most out of any of the themes, usually whenever Olivia's going through character development or is having a big character moment. Think like, her "you have no idea how extraordinary you are" moment with Walter in The Last Sam Weiss or like every 30 seconds in Jacksonville but specifically when she's in the corner of the burnt out room and Peter asks if she's okay.

Peter's leitmotif. His theme is shorter, just 4 notes that are roughly E G A A. Examples are here, here, here, and here. You can hear this during Peter's big moments like the "you're my favorite thing Peter" from the finale or pretty consistently in The Bishop Revival and The Man from the Other Side. The big Peter episodes

The Polivia theme. Loosely A C B Ab A F A, another set of 7 notes that's similar to Olivia's but without the drawn out first two notes. Examples are here, here, here, and here. You hear this, natch, in the big Polivia moments like in the garden in Marionette or in the "I thought she was you" scene also in Marionette or when they kiss for the first time in the S2 finale.

The Fringe Division theme. I actually have a whole video for this one already so I'm just gonna link you to it instead because it's probably my favorite of the themes and fun fact, the only time they change the end credits music from the typical track is in the series finale when they play a slowed down version of the Fringe Division theme. Pretty fucked up but also I love Chris Tilton for it.

I don't have Fauxlivia's and Lincoln's mapped out as well as I do the others' (I do have a whole ass Google doc full of time codes), but you can hear an example of Fauxlivia's 7 note theme here and here, and Lincoln's also 7 note theme here and here.

[aziraphalesbookkeeper]

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omg YES more let's go

📄What’s a WIP you never finished that you would like to go back and revisit?

GOD OKAY. way back in ye olden days of pre-season 2B of Owl House, I started a lovely little fic called Beggars Can't be Choosers wherein Belos discovers "Rascal" but instead of destroying him, uses him to manipulate Hunter into kidnapping Luz and basically holding Rascal over Hunter's head to keep his studies on wild magic in check. Very much Mother Gothel vibes. THE PROBLEM IS, i got busy with life and by the time I was ready to work on it again, Rascal was now Flapjack and my hair-brained theory of Grimwalker Hunter got confirmed. It totally fucked with the set up I had created...not to mention I can't exactly keep calling Hunter's palisman "Rascal" when he's got an official name now.

I wish I could go back and finish this fic. I had a whole Eda + Hunter + King castle heist planned that I was working up to that I've had to trash; basically 7k of words that won't make sense anymore. I've been asked to continue it but I just can't without making it severely canon non-compliant. RIP BCBC, you were a real one 🕯️ 

🔍Give a clue (a picture, emoji, a word, etc) and let your followers guess what a WIP is about.

oh man this one is hard,,,, some of you will already know what this means (buncha heathens) but 🌱🍆