#can u tell I like showtunes

[lunarifie]

As much as I love Kai’s little sailor suit, we were robbed of him slaying

[marzowo]

I technically have been here for two years buuut i havent actually doen any kinda introductions,just said i was a twitter refugee amd left it buuut a intro would be nice so here i am :))

hi im marceline, just call me marz

Ive been on earth foor 16 years? and some months,ive got a fuckton of siblings and a crippling mentality

Im in a shittone of fandoms and i have a different fixation per day

Im easily distracted and me holding a relationship is like me holding warm butter so if u can handle distant anti socials

Hi :]]

I have a crippling Ao3 addiction and have short term memory (kinda)

I also read manhwa if ur into tht too (manhwa,manhua,manga,danmei(limited) u name it)

Unfortunately i dont really do anime anymore,like i know basic summaries but i dont watch the anime

i mostly read the manga

I am a Neptunic NB who goes be all pronouns +Star/Starself (if u couldnt tell i have a space hyperfix)

List of Fandoms im in

Percy Jackson

Welcom Home(current fixation #1)

My Mxtx Era(Mdzs[Mo dao Zu shi],Svsss[Scum Villain Savin System],tgcf[Ti/Tu guan ci fu..only srry iforgotifitstiortuguanlol)

uhhhĥhh Bungou Strsy Dogs 🐕

Spiderman (Specifically Tom Holland)

Spiderverze! (i still need to fisnih my spiderson smh)

Danny Phantom

Genshin Impact

Hannibal

YOI(Yuri [its actually yaoi smh] on ice)

Harry Potter

Very limited as im yet to read it buuut,Hunger Games

DBH(Detroit Become Human[Kara my beloved])

PJSK :D(Project Sekai)

Underworld Office (bcs Eugene)

DC(not DC comics lol,Detective Conan :))))

Assassination Classroom

Murder Drones(Fixation #3)

LMK(Lego monkie kid/king-fixation #2 lol)

Code geass(Lelouch has me by th shirt collar omfg)

Fullmetal Alchemist

Voltron(Me when they lowkey forced LancexAllura lmao)

SHE-RA(Unfortunately just the modern one,older she-rq looks badass af+he-man is a total himbo )

OrV(Omniscient Readers Viewpoint,Has me pulled away by the ankles atp. Fixation #4)

Wednesday (reluctantly atp,its probably the only series ive finsiged within the last 12 months/srs)

Hmmm maybe Demon Slayer/Kimetsu No Yaiba

Encanto,if it counts

BL(Blue lock ;])

Erased/boku dake gai inai dachi(i think thats right)

OHSHC(Ouran highschool host club)

Criminal minds ofc,but only till s3 or s5,i got too lazy to finsih it b4 it was taken off netflix

Showtunes/Musicals(Specifically the songs lol buut,Heathers,uhh Dear evan hansen,a lil Hamilton, etc...etc)

Enola Holmes

Saiki K

Umbrella Academy

SpyXFamily

Legacies

TBP(The black phone :/)

Legally Blonde 1 & 2

Oshi No Ko(my idol? i think. Manga Timeline only)

TNMNT(Specifically the 20 something one,2020?2022?

unOrdinary

Moriarty The Patriot(Its just Gay Sherlock and Jame Moriarty)

Carmen Sandiego ofc (shes a queen)

{coming to the end lol}

the Owl House

The Queens Gambit(Im gonna rewatch it agian :>)

Bridgerton(bcs dramatic Victorian ppl are really hot)

Avatar(The one from my childhood,Guess which)

Twilight (bcs i have an older sister)

TBHK(Toilet bound hanako kun)

And very reluctantly (i left 5 months ago) My..My dsmp phase

+More :D extensive list i know.

Theres more

But ill stop here bcs i dont think anyones gonna read allat

Anyway pls follow me everywhere bcs i shitpost constantly

Literally whatever is in my brain goes online

Uhh heres my alternative socials

Reditt/Reddit

Twitter

Ao3:I forgot

Special Mention:Spotify

Marz has invited you to join a Blend on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/blend/taste-match/a0d45a403ea80217?si=V1jNTL7zR2CwVmMwXvnmgw&fallback=getapp

Also i kinda do art sometimes

[jonnolovesfob]

music ask game but it came straight out of my caffeinated brain on a wednesday morning

there’s just one rule : send some into me before you reblog!!

1. what is your favorite song. right now. tell me.

2. what is your favorite album. tell me rn.

3. who is your favorite artist or band? if you’re like me, just give your top 3 or 5.

4. what band started it all for you?

5. shuffle your playlist!!! what’s the first song that plays?

6. what bands/artists do you want to see in concert?

7. what bands/artists have you seen in concert?

8. tell me about your favorite band. go on infodump for me.

9. what’s an album that JUST came out and it’s been on repeat for like 6 days +?

10. what’s a song that literally just came out and you’ve had it on repeat forever?

11. tell me about your least favorite band or artist. go on scream about why you hate them.

12. what is one song that has irreparably damaged your social skills?

13. what is one album that has irreparably damaged your social skills?

14. what is one artist that has irreparably damaged your social skills?

15. what is one band/artist you listen to and everybody knows you listen to them but no one would expect them to have THAT genre?

16. what is one band/artist you listen to that everyone knows you for?

17. what song in your playlist sounds like this 💖❤️🥰🤩💘💕 but the lyrics are 🖤🩸⛓💣🗡🪨

18. what song in your playlist sounds like this 🖤🩸⛓💣🗡🪨 but the lyrics are 💖❤️🥰🤩💘💕

19. what is your favorite album art from one of your favorite artists?

20. SHOW ME A PICTURE OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE ARTISTS. RIGHT NOW. I NEED TO SEE THEM.

21. what’s the weirdest song title you can think of right now.

22. i just saw the prettiest motorcycle on the way to school tell me one song you’d blast on a motorcycle while driving one

23. what’s a song that makes you feel like a hot badass?

24. what’s a song you cry to?

25. show me your favorite playlist!!!!! what are some songs on it?????

26. show me two songs with the same title!!! same genre?? different genre??

27. if you can play any instrument, what’s your favorite song to jam to??

28. DO YOU LIKE SHOWTUNES???(((

29. WHATS YOUR FAVORITE MUSICAL)?????

30. describe your music taste in one word

31. are you a lyric analyzer or do you just listen for fun. 🫣

32. pretty vinyls or 180 gram vinyls?

33. DO YOU COLLECT CDS????

34. DO YOU COLLECT VINYLS??(((

35. show me your prettiest vinyl🥰

36. show me your favorite cd case or booklet :)

37. DO U HAVE ANY NEAT RECORD COVERS??

38. did one of your favorite bands/artists do a cover???? tell me about it!!!

39. how much do you love music? describe to me in one image.

40. shuffle your playlist and the fifth song—describe it in one image.

[hausofmamadas]

DINARRÓN | Or should I say Dinarellaron …

✷✷✷ (For any and all Dinarrón content, refer to disclaimer in these posts) ✷✷✷

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From Narcos: Mexico, Season 2, episode 2 - Alea Iacta Est

Aka that one time all three Arellano siblings eyed Barróncito like the prime rib he is went heart eyes for Barrón.

And who can blame them? Even los Arellanos are not exempt from popping the occasional catching the occasional workplace boner crush.

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Already. I mean cmooon, given this entrance with that little shy-boy chin bop, wtf did we think was gonna happen??? They were all gonna look at him and be like, “nah?” Sksksksks no they were all fucking goners, right off the bat, like no match to the silent-but-deadly magnetism our boy is droppin here.

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Oh okay, and then this little walk he does down the stairs. Like in all seriousness (i’ve talked about this with Món/Manuel Masalva before) there’s something about his physicality, like it’s all over that legendary S3 scene at Christine too. And idk if it was the directors, or the writers, or just Bobby Soto plain being like, “So, imma walk down these steps in the sexiest way possible, hope that’s cool with you guys” no te preocupes, chulito, it’s v cool with us but like his whole physicality is just undeniably h o ttttt.

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OKAY YOU MOTHERFUCKINGXDJDKSKDJDNDNSJ GOONS. This is it. This is the first time Dina lays her gotdamn beautiful brown eyes on gotdamn beautiful Barrón. And what praytell does she look like? Tell me what she looks like????? I’ll give you a hint …….

SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE SIZING THIS BOY UP LIKE HE A SLICE OF PECAN PIE WITH A FAT SCOOP OF VANILLA ICE CREAM ON TOP. SHE SEES THAT SWEET SNACK SURPRISE AND SHE KNOWS OKAY

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And just join me, for a moment, in overanalyzing this shot bc it’s not just Dina who’s enamored. Juuuust after Barrón leans back, before Mon shakes his hand. Take in that image right there and tell me they don’t ALL look like they wanna climb him like a jungle gym. They straight look like Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed from the Lion King, bout to bust out into showtunes before making a meal of the kid sksksks. And lbr, he and Panchito were in prison for a min so his look might be “aaaah, memories.” Cuz they never really tell us like what is it that made him such a faaan of Barrón in the first place. And gorl was pushin real hard for the rest of the fam to like him, just sayin.

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There’s no logical Dinarrón reason for me to include this except that the way Ramon walks here rivals aforementioned Barrón stairwalk in terms of pure sexness sksksks like godddd he looks good🥴 OH EXCEPT, the way Barrón follows Mon to confront Chapo and Cochi. Already the work ethic. Mans means business strollin behind, already all-in with the backup even tho he just got there.

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And then we have over here Dina also surveying the scene, making sure no one pulls ANY shit, ready at a moment’s notice to fucking cut you no but like literally sksksks she will actually cut you with the champagne bottle she cracked over that putamadre’s head. SO BASICALLY, Dina and Barrón are literally doing the same damn thing, providing the saaame damn function, in case things pop off in this convo between Mon, Cochi and Chapo which I did gif and desperately wanted to include but couldnt bc of Tumblr’s stupid 10 image limit 😤😤🙄🙄

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And here, I’d like to welcome you to our next edition of Inside the Actors- no Scene overAnalysis with Your Local Space Witch, Kaybron. Wherein I will transform, before your very eyes, into the It’s Always Sunny Pepe Silva meme.

First off, Dina adorably rubbing Moncito’s head like, “yes, good job with fam protec against that scareee Chapo and scareee Cochi, big strong, prad of u.”

Second, just after the adorable sibling head rub, Barrón proceeds to PUT HIS HANDS ON PANCHITA’S SHOULDERS like a “cmon buddy it’ll be okay” gesture or “echoes of our secret prison love affair” gesture I’m not sure cause they’re bestest good frands and he don’t want his bestest good frand to be mad at his own party. SO BASICALLY Dina and Barrón YET AGAIN fulfill the same function as the resident comforting watchdogs, at the Same. Damn. Time.

And lastly, but most importantly…. And it’s crucial that you’re here with me, in this moment, because….. there is, for a millisecond …. it’s literally blink and miss it …. but there is A Look. Right after adorb sib head rub, Dina throws a look Barrón’s way and he fucking looks at her back while he’s walking by steering Panchito with adorable shoulder rub. THERES A LOOK. ITS FUCKING THERE.

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AND👏🏼FUCKING👏🏼THEN👏🏼 this pinshe tonteria.

The other Arellano sisters exiting the frame to reveal BOTH OF THEM IN THE MIDDLE mad-dogging tf out of the Sinaloa camp, THE SAME gotdamn expression on their faces, RIGHT next to each other……….

*foaming at the mouth, flips table over* LIKE ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING. IM SUPPOSED TO FUCKING THINK THEY ARENT DESTINED FOR EACH OTHER? RLY? LITERALLY SHOVING THE NARRATIVE SYMMETRY IN MY FACE BRANCATO?? AND YOU EXPECT ME TO BE REASONABLE??

Phew. *wipes sweat from forehead, gathers up red string, crumpled paper, and tacks*

And with that, your Honor, The People rest.

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[froggywritesstuff]

HEY RJ this is my request for a matchup:D

ride the cyclone please <3

can u do one romantic one platonic? if not then just romantic :D

i’m bi #eloel

i love theatre, singing, netball, dance, football, art, going out and shopping

i have two cats!!!! i’ve played six main cast roles before. my fav colour is purple, my fav musical (apart from rtc) is heathers and six!! i have brown hair and eyes ^^

thx for requesting and sorry these are so short, but I hope you like them

platonic matchup...

Noel Gruber

I headcanon him as a massive theatre kid so you two are constantly jamming out to showtunes

has a completely different energy with you, and the choir’s so confused seeing him be super nice and carefree 

✨weekly shopping trips together✨

jokes that he hangs out with you for your cats (this one’s is solely because Kholby said Noel would be a cat person but it works)

will go see every theatre production you do and he hype you up so much

romantic matchup...

Ocean O’Connell Rosenburg

(this gif of her is adorable I can’t breathe 😭)

I feel like she’d start loosening up more with you, losing the need to try and be the best when she’s with you and overall just feeling way more comfortable with you

she takes you on picnic dates, and puts so much effort into them, and everything’s so special and nice, you can tell she put in the work to make it nice, it’s so sweet

she sees every theatre production you’re in and always brings you bouquets of flowers

you introduce her to musicals and even if she doesn’t always like them, she’ll still watch them with you whenever you want to. you’ll get her to watch Six with you, and she immediately becomes obsessed with it.

you two go to your first pride parade together (you two and the rest of the choir all go to another pride parade together cause they lowkey got kinda salty when they found out you two went without them (they’re all queer, i don’t make the rules))

she doesn’t really see the appeal, but she’ll occasionally tag along with you on shopping trips

is literally so proud of every piece of art you do. doesn’t matter what it is, she'll literally brag to anyone who’ll listen to her talk about how talented her girlfriend is.

❝ constance, did i show what maddie made yesterday? ❞

❝ multiple times. ❞

❝ oh... mischa, noel, look what maddie made! ❞

[lunarfleur]

idk if ur still cleaning but heres a list of our favorite rubber ducks playing ice soccer with sticks

adam genuinely thought chigaco was a state and that boston was the capital for 4 years until dean came along

d3 luis was only acting like that because edgar, his cousin, was like “yeah bro thats how u pull bitches 😗” d3 luis is not valid but this is my attempt to make it better 😭

at some point dean and fulton get kenny into heavy metal and every practice you can just hear him muttering lyrics from war pigs

charlie cannot STAND country music 😔 everytime dwayne tries to put it on hes growlin and telling him to put on fucking cyndi lauper, the beatles, showtunes, ANYTHING but country music

modern!guy loves gilmore girls

Adam…what?

I do appreciate your attempt to make d3 Luis better because he was not it. We’re gonna pretend the girls snapped him out of it once things with that cheerleader chick didn’t work out because it was not attractive.

Charlie definitely helped, too. You’re forgetting he listens to Pantera

Me too, Charlie. Me too.

HE SO WOULD???

[forabeatofadrum]

I’d cry a river just for you (7/24)

Notes: When I started this fic, I wanted all chapters between 800 - 1K words, like Mendacious, but that’s not going to work out. This chapter is 1,2K words and I have the feeling future chapters might be even longer. This isn’t a bad thing, but if you’re wondering if there’s a certain structure when it comes to word count then, well, no, not anymore.

AO3

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RHYTHM - Heathers

2020

Bella Kim: where did u go???

Bella Kim: blaine???

Bella Kim: me and adeola are dating!!!!

Bella Kim: blaine?????

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The next day, Bella shows up on Blaine’s doorstep with a bottle of cheap AH huismerk wine and Blaine feels incredibly guilty for ghosting her for one day. You’d think that he has learned from the past, but no, Blaine’s first instinct is to shut people out, even now.

That’s how he lost Kurt.

“Do you wanna talk, vent, or ignore?” she asks. Blaine lets her inside.

“Ignore. A hundred percent ignore!” Blaine exclaims.

“Good thing it’s a Saturday,” Bella unscrews the cap of the wine bottle and Blaine comes back with two glasses. Bella sighs. “This is going to suck.”

“At least it’s not boxed wine.”

“Who do you think I am, Blaine? Now, be a dear, and put on some music.”

Blaine sets a reminder to apologise to his neighbours later. Then, he turns up the volume. Bella isn’t a big showtunes fan and she also isn’t a great singer, but they don’t care. The two of them drink and sing and dance to the rhythm.

When Seventeen from Heathers starts playing, Blaine’s voice gets louder.

People hurt us Or they vanish And you’re right that really blows But we let go, take a deep breath Then go buy some summer clothes

The music abruptly stops. Blaine opens his eyes and he sees Bella with his phone in her hand.

“Uhm, you okay there, mate?” she sounds concerned.

“Yeah,” Blaine says silently and he wipes away his tears. He doesn’t know when he started crying, but it was somewhere during his emotional performance.

Bella doesn’t look convinced and Blaine can’t blame her. He has a glass with cheap wine in his hands, he’s crying, and he’s performing a soul-crushing rendition of an admittedly mediocre song. It’s almost as good as a cry for help.

“Blaine, is this because of Yannick’s new fling?”

“How…” Blaine trails off. He’s too surprised to continue.

“Yeah. Adeola and I were looking for you and then I heard someone say your name. I didn’t know the guy, but I asked around and someone told me he’s Yannick’s possible boyfriend?”

“His name is Kurt.”

“Noted,” Bella nods, “So it does have something to do with him?”

“Ignore, we’re ignoring!” I remind her, but Bella huffs out some air in frustration and she crosses her arms.

“Look at you!” she exclaims, “You’re a mess. How can we ignore?”

Blaine looks at Bella. She looks frustrated, but also worried. They’ve only known each other for half a year, when they both moved to Rotterdam to study law here, but they immediately bonded. Blaine is like an overprotective older brother, guiding her through her new life. The moment she turned eighteen, she left Liverpool behind for Rotterdam. Meanwhile, Bella gives Blaine room to exist, which is something he needed, since he was overwhelmed by the scope of the city and it was easy to fade into oblivion here, like usual.

“Blaine…” she sits down on my couch and she pats the spot next to her. It makes Blaine laugh for a second.

And at that moment, Blaine’s just so overcome with adoration for his new friend. He sits down and he tells her everything.

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“… and I don’t think- I just-”

“There, there,” Bella pats him on the back. Blaine’s a sobbing mess.

“So all of that happened. I made the biggest mistake of my life, again, if you will. I lost Kurt, my best friend. And if that wasn’t enough, around a year after he ditched me, I realised I was in love with him.”

“That’s… wow,” Bella says. It’s incredibly ineloquent, but honestly, Blaine doesn’t know how else to describe his own queer awakening. There he was, twenty-one years old, and he was slowly realising that there was another reason that he couldn’t stop thinking about Kurt, despite the fact that he’d moved on.

Did Kurt move on, though? When Kurt talked about sending him messages, it didn’t sound like it.

Blaine changed his number a few years back. But Kurt’s probably right. Blaine never properly unblocked him.

“But yeah, I just realised one day,” Blaine tells her, “I can’t say that there was one exact moment that made me go, oh, there you are, but it just fell into place. I loved him. I loved him before I knew, but I didn’t know until I realised I’m gay. It’s not platonic to memorise every inch of his face. It’s not just bro things to feel lost in the depths of his eyes. It’s not friendly feelings that made my heart soar when he was around me. But when I realised, I was too late. We were no longer talking.”

That’s why Seventeen hit him. If only he’d known back then, when they were seventeen. What would’ve happened? Would they have become boyfriends, or would things have gone even worse?

“Wait, just to be sure,” Bella cuts in, disrupting Blaine’s thought process, “The whole in love thing isn’t the reason your friendship fell apart, right?”

“It wasn’t,” Blaine says, “I gave him so many reasons to hate him, but I don’t think he knew. Hell, I didn’t even know.”

“Right,” Bella says, “Wow, Blaine, this is a lot. Like, a lot. And now he’s in Rotterdam of all places?”

“God, I know right?” Blaine groans. He was so certain he was never going to see Kurt again, and now they live in the same city in another country.

“So, what happens now?”

Blaine shrugs. “He made clear that he doesn’t want to talk. I guess I’ll just move on and hopefully we won’t run into each other.”

“He also made clear that he’s still happy to see you,” Bella points out.

Blaine shrugs again. “Kurt Hummel is in the past. It tried to resurface, but that didn’t work out. So let’s keep it in the past.”

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University really takes Blaine’s mind off things. The workload is insane. If you fail now, you’re practically done for, since you definitely need to obtain that first-year certificate . Most people see the holidays as a final deadline to withdraw. It has something to do with the student loans. Bella and Blaine are at Sanders almost every day. It truly feels like the hottest club in town, since it’s crowded with students cramming for their exams.

It’s all so worth it when they finish their exams and the kerstvakantie starts.

“TOFFLER time!” Bella says gleefully.

TOFFLER is this underground club close to the Stadshuis. Bella insists that Blaine comes with her. Blaine doesn’t have anything else to do, and after the stress of exams and the reappearance of Kurt, he might need a day at an actual club, not Sanders.

Bella also dresses up nicely, since Adeola is coming, so Blaine puts some effort in his clothing as well. Maybe he’ll also pick someone up.

The club is filled with students celebrating their newfound freedom and the vacation period. Blaine loses Bella and Adeola pretty easily.

He decides to get something to drink and when he walks to the bar, he assumes that the universe must be pulling a terrible joke on him, because Kurt Hummel is standing there.

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End notes: Just a little reminder that there’s a playlist!

[euclydya]

i'm fine i've just been going insane /lh

had to take more hours at our second job for financial reasons + been doing almost nightly tutoring with my kid brother (the semester just ended for him). very busy but no like emotional turmoil or anything.

today's music rec theme is showtunes! i'm recommending totally fucked from spring awakening for billy, hard to be the bard from something rotten for eddie, never ever getting rid of me from waitress for steve, take it like a man from legally blonde for your jonathan, and all that's known from spring awakening for will+the party. honorary mention to tatoue-moi from mozart l'opera rock, considered recommending it to steve but idk if any of y'all're partial to french music/foreign languages.

also, dr. crane wants poe to listen to the fear song by amanda palmer

VIRTUALLY HUGS YOU !! (IF!! YOU'RE FINE WITH THAT OFC IF NOT THEN. VIRTUALLY SENDS U A HIGH-FIVE /LIGHTHEARTED)

We're!!! So glad y'all are okay jesus we were worried HFJSKDKF but we.,, worry easily. Hashtag Paranoia Things BCJDJD but anyway!! Jesus that sounds like a lot, we hope shit calms down soon!!

Great songs as usual tbh!! We aren't a Musical Fan™ but all of those songs are hella catchy I'll be damned /lighthearted -Billy

our recs:

Every Day is Exactly The Same - Nine Inch Nails (Steve's rec)

ooookay so We May Have Had Another Steve Form. Newer Steve is s1-2 era so we refer to him as Asshole Era Steve (/lighthearted) but ANYWAYS this is moreso his rec than OG!Steve's rec but they both agree that it is A Good Song and also A Relatable One as of late. Everything Always Feels The Goddamn Same All The Fuckening Time Forever! Hell On Earth!! /lh -Billy (neither of em are up front atm so I'm relaying for em)

Thermodynamic Lawyer Esq, G.F.D - Will Wood and the Tapeworms (my rec!)

ok so first off, suicide bait tw riiight at the end of the song, it's like the second to last verse gjsjdjf

Sooooo we love will wood's music but we Especially love the it when his songs are,,, Angry™ HFHSJDJFJ. WE JUST,, LIKE ANGRY MUSIC IDK WHY. Anyways top ten songs that are Full Of Emotion That We Enjoy!! NCNDJ -Billy

Acid King - Malibu Ken (Eddie's rec)

a couple tws for this one too: Major drugs tw and, if you watch the music video, uhh... emeto and body horror/General Gross Shit tws too djiakdjf. Very cool music video, it's all animated, but it's also a bit Detailed™ HFNSJDJ

The song basically goes into the story of the Acid King/"Say You Love Satan" killer, Kasso, so,,, If you already know about that then you already know what's up with the song BFNSKDKD but it is. CATCHY. We love it. Especially the outro!! Like,,, can't explain it but the outro lyrics are Important to me for some reason. -Eddie

Sweet Sweet - The Smashing Pumpkins (Jonathan's rec)

We recently sat down and did our like, Monthly Listen Of Siamese Dream™ so a lotta the album is still stuck in our head,, This song's very short and not a Favourite of ours but something about it struck a chord with me!

Honestly, we'd rec the whole album to y'all (and anyone. and Everyone tbh. it's one of our collective all time favourite albums ever) but we'll just,, do so in bits n pieces for now lmao. But if you do happen to decide to listen to it in full, please tell us what you think!! :D -Jonathan

Get The Lead Out - A Perfect Circle (Will's rec)

Now Will hasn't been fronting much recently (no particular reason, he's doing fine dw) so I'm also relaying for him rn.

I actually… Straight up lost track of where he is the past few days? The headspace is huge as hell though but we can keep in contact easily so I'm not, like. Worried, y'know. But I like mentally asked where he was and he replied with bits of this song (because communicating via music is his thing now it seems /lighthearted) -Jonathan

The Raven - Nevermore Musical (Poe's rec)

The perfect time to recommend a song from a musical it seems!! This song, or poem really, is where I got my name… And form. Well, one of them!

We had a huge Hyperfixation Moment on The Raven innnn uhhhhhh late 2019-early 2020? Twas when I was created and such! This rendition of it though is indeed a favourite of ours! Very emotional and fun to sing along to!! :} -Poe

[mdverse]

new ask!! what genres of music would the vb au listen to? :) - space

always coming in with fantastic asks aren't ya?

ok uhhh once again if this ends up becoming a furtana post it's bc i have zero self-control. seriously no thoughts only them i am a furtana stan account

also? once i've written more of the fic (manifesting that lmao) i wanna make a proper zine and i think it would be fun to include mini playlists for the main characters? like 'santana essentials,' 'finntana's soft jazz essentials,' etc. very hypothetical project but a girl can dream

finntana grew up together and therefore have similar music tastes (kinda). finn is very big on rock, especially classic rock, and made santana listen to a lot of it with him. she was never into it to the same extent as he was, but high school rolled around, dragging up a lot of insecurities and pain, and santana realised that singing along to the angriest rock songs she could find helped alleviate some of it. finn wasn't huge into alt rock but he did some digging just for her and helped her find artists like alanis morissette to listen to. he also talked to his mom about his concerns regarding santana's mental health (as if carole hadn't noticed already) and she introduced santana to soft jazz. so some days, finn and santana would go outside and blast alt rock and break stuff, but other days they would curl up in bed and fall asleep to the softest jazz (this is not a good drawing but u get the vibe). i think kurt would join in on the jazzy times - he would just sit at finn's desk and work on homework or fashion stuff, yknow? once in a while he'd look over at finntana just to check in, and he'd smile fondly when he sees that one or both of them has fallen asleep.

santana is a bit more connected to latin culture here, so i reckon she likes to sing along to spanish songs when she's doing stuff like cleaning or cooking. kurt can tell she's in a good mood when he hears it. she vibes in particular with rock artist santana, completely unrelated to the fact that his (last) name is also santana. i also think she's into r&b but i have not thought about it in detail.

kurt likes his showtunes :) i think his interest in them would've increased more in college/upon meeting blaine, bc finn and santana were never the type to listen to any of that. also? this is kinda random but kurt strikes me as the kind of person who enjoys niche/old/foreign movies, so i also have some classic french songs in my kurt playlist? stuff like la vie en rose, non je ne regrette rien, ne me quitte pas, etc. i just know that boy romanticises paris there's no way he doesn't.

quinn gives me indie vibes, which is a funny statement bc i still have not figured out what indie music really is. it feels like a very vague category bc then u have indie pop and indie rock and like,,, what does that meAN. i looked up the definition of indie and i'm still confused. anyway i have a very specific vibe in mind so i'm just gonna drop a few songs here and call it a day. carnival - natalie merchant, criminal - fiona apple, honey and smoke - case/lang/veirs, august - taylor swift, stop draggin' my heart around - stevie nicks ft tom petty. take from that what u will.

brittany listens to a lot of upbeat music. primarily 2000s- early 2010s pop and hip hop but i don't think she has much of a preference as long as it has a good dance beat. i have a solid mix of britney spears, rihanna, beyonce, kesha, and lady gaga songs (among others) in her playlist if that helps. she has the best playlists for stuff like bus rides and messing around in the gym with music playing on the speakers bc it's safe to assume everyone will enjoy all of it

tina also gives me a vibe i don't know how to describe. can u tell i have no idea what i'm doing <3 more song drops: the underground - meg myers, zombie - the cranberries, angel of the morning - juice newton, sweet dreams (are made of this) - eurythmics, ironic - alanis morissette. but i think she'd also be into pop? idk i feel like she isn't super picky about music?

have not figured out what sugar would listen to. genuinely not a clue in this head of mine i'm so sorry. i just don't have a playlist for her at all asdfskdfj i wanna say it's similar to britt's but like,, more bubbly? does that make sense? i hope it does

[neerasrealm]

I am enabling you

BAND AU BAND AU. SO GLAD I GET TO WRITE ABT THIS YEEEEEEE i kinda lost motivation towards the end but dfvsdgfhsd its fiiiiine. i got a couple more ideas for this au so...expect a couple more fics?? maybe??

Jason wasn’t sure if he could call the room a ‘practice room’. It felt more like a lounge. The walls were checkered with soundproof foam in places, as was the floor. There were also a lot of things hanging up on the walls. Posters of various rock bands and cult classic movies, all framed of course. The room was littered with instruments. Guitars, basses, a keyboard, a drumset, microphones- any instrument one could need, it was there. But there was also a lot of comfy furniture. Bean bags, a couple armchairs that had been dragged out of the trash, and of course, the old reliable sofa. It was stained and the springs were starting to break, but it was comfy, and Jason was quite happy lounging across it. He kicked his foot calmly in time to the beat of the music quietly playing from his boyfriend’s record player. He sighed and glanced over at the boyfriend in question. His name was Zalgo, and he had copper-brown skin and fluffy brown hair that was dyed red at the tips. Tattoos swirled up his arms and another stretched across his neck. He was covered in piercings too. His ears, his nose, a couple on his eyebrows, even a snakebite on his lower lip. His eyes were closed, and he was lounging in a big bean bag, a weed joint clenched between his teeth.

‘’They’re late again.’’ he murmured. 

‘’Nnh?’’ the joint flicked upward as Zalgo grunted. 

‘’The girls. We were supposed to have a practice session,’’ he looked down at the watch on his wrist. ‘’Twenty minutes ago.’’ 

‘’Mmmh…’’ Zalgo shifted in the bean bag, then abruptly jumped up in a startlingly quick movement. He stretched and groaned, then pulled the joint out of his mouth, smacking his dry lips. He looked over at Jason. He was wearing contacts again. These ones were golden and bright, and accentuated how...alluring, his gaze could be. His mouth curled up into a small grin. ‘’Just means more time for you and me.’’ he murmured as he walked slowly over to the couch where Jason sat. The redhead smirked at him as he leaned down toward him. 

‘’...You’re getting old.’’ Jason murmured before shoving Zalgo’s face away. The other man groaned and swatted at him before breaking into laughs. 

‘’I am not! I am just as cool and as sexy as senior year! Girls love me!’’

‘’You’re gay, Zalgo. And almost thirty.’’

‘’Hmph.’’ Zalgo puts his hands on his hips, pouting. Jason looked him over for a long moment. Zalgo had certainly kept his style from highschool. He wore a loose cut black tank top with a metal band’s logo on it. The neck was low, exposing his collar and the necklaces he wore around his neck. He was also wearing black ripped jeans with a studded belt with chains hanging off it. Almost every finger on his hand was decorated with a ring shiny ring. He was attractive, and carried himself with a confident flare only he could pull off. Jason could never pull that off. Showing so much skin, playing with makeup- it wasn’t his thing. He stuck with classic jeans, button-ups and ties with sneakers. Simple, yes, but it worked for him. And somehow Zalgo thought he was handsome enough to have dated him for over ten years. Jason smiled a bit and settled back in his seat.

‘’Do you...want to sit down?’’ he asked slowly. Zalgo looked down at him and grinned. He moved to lay down beside Jason, but the redhead put his hand on his chest and stopped him. ‘’...give me the joint first.’’ 

Zalgo huffed and rolled his eyes. He handed his boyfriend the joint and lay down, snuggling up against Jason as he took a drag of the joint. He sighed out, smoke blowing from his mouth. Zalgo looked up at him, watching him calmly. He reached up and caressed the other male’s jawline. ‘’...anyone ever tell you you’re fucking beautiful?’’ 

‘’No, my mother didn’t love me.’’ 

‘’PFFFFFT-’’ Zalgo wheezed loudly, bursting into loud cackles of amusement. Jason smiled and laughed gently. They were so distracted with just laughing on the couch like a couple of stupid dumb teens that they didn’t hear the front door being opened. They did however, hear it being slammed shut without warning, and it scared Zalgo so bad he fell off the couch with a yelp. The two stared at each other as they heard voices in the front hall downstairs. Zalgo grinned and rolled over onto his stomach, listening intently to the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs toward them. Zalgo skittered across the room and pressed himself against the wall beside the door. 

Jason took a drag of the joint and watched the door, which was quickly and violently kicked open.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS UP KYLE?!" 

He blew smoke out of his mouth. "Hello Natalie." He greeted calmly. Natalie was a short girl, with long caramel hair and tanned skin. Her eyes were bright and green, and she grinned wide at him. She was dressed in a denim jacket that hung off her shoulders, along with a white Guns N' Roses t-shirt and ripped navy jeans. As she waved her hands excitedly Jason could see the watch around her wrist glint in the light. A birthday gift he'd given her a few years ago.

"There you are!" Zalgo lunged out from behind the door and yanked his niece into a tight bear hug. She squealed and battered her fists against him, making the both of them giggle. Jason glanced over at the door and noticed a girl he'd never seen before, standing there looking around anxiously.

She had curly ginger hair and wore a simple green jacket with denim jeans. She was shorter than Natalie, who was short enough for a seventeen year old already. When she caught Jason's gaze she smiled nervously and waved a bit. Her smile quickly dropped however when she noticed the joint in Jason's hand. He glanced at it, then reached over and snuffed it out in the ashtray on the end table beside him. Zalgo would probably be mad about him wasting good weed later, but he didn't really care. 

"This a friend of yours, Natalie?" The redhead asked as he sat up on the couch. 

"This is Alice." Said a tall girl as she walked into the room and leaned against the doorway. Her name was Jane, and she was Natalie's girlfriend. She had dark skin, decorated with paler splotches in random places. She wore a long black dress with a leather jacket, fishnet gloves and tights, and platform boots that made a satisfying 'clunk' noise when she walked. Her hair was done up in braids, which were tied up in a pseudo ponytail. And she was also munching on a teacake that she'd definitely stolen from the kitchen. Jason glared at her.

"I told you to ask before taking those, y'know." He muttered. Jane shrugged and watched Natalie stumble out of the tight hug she'd been suffocating in. She turned to Alice with a grin and lunged over, slinging an arm over the smaller girl. 

"This is Alice!" She said again. "She's part of the drama club in school. Really good singing voice!" She turned to the ginger girl. "Right? You're an amazing singer!"

"U-Um-" Alice rubbed at her arm anxiously. "I'm not...that good…" she mumbled, her head lowering. Jason softened as he looked at the poor, nervous girl. 

"Nice to meet ya, Alice." Zalgo said gently. He walked over and crouched down, holding out his hand for her to shake. Alice stared at his arm.

"Your tattoos are so cool-" she blurted. She immediately slapped her hands over her mouth, wincing. Zalgo chuckled.

"Why thank you! I'm pretty proud of em myself." He said with a warm smile. "So you're Nat's friend?"

"I...guess," Alice rubbed at her arm again. "She uh- she said she wanted me to...join a band…? I-I dunno if I'm really cut out for that…"

Natalie shook her head and clamped her hand down on her shoulder. "Alice, I already told ya, your singing is incredible bro!" She leaned down and grinned at her. "Uncle Zalgo knows eeeverrryyythinggg about music. You just gotta impress him and you're in the band."

Alice looked at Zalgo. "You're...uncle Zalgo…?" She asked quietly, sounding even more scared. Zalgo nodded and stood up.

"Sure am." He gestured over at Jason. "That's Jason, by the way. He has a huge crush on me and sleeps in my bed. It's super embarrassing."

"Hey, you came out to me." Jason growled. Zalgo laughed. 

"It's...nice to meet you, sirs." Alice murmured. Jason looked at her and smiled gently. He sat up on the couch so the others could sit down. Zalgo obliged, flopping himself down next to him with a soft grunt. Natalie was quick to join them, sitting on Zalgo's other side while Jane occupied the arm of the chair. That left Alice...standing in front of them. Like she was being judged. It reminded her eerily of an audition.

"How old are ya?" Zalgo asked with the tilt of his head. Alice fidgeted. 

"Erm- fifteen." Zalgo looked at Natalie and arched a brow. Alice coughed. "B-But um- I've been singing since I was seven." She added. Zalgo gave a nod.

"Alright...think you can demonstrate?" He asked. Alice glanced away anxiously and he smiled a bit. "C'mon, you can't be any worse than Jason."

"Rude."

"I like Jason's voice." Jane piped up. Jason smiled.

"Thank you, Jane, you're the only person here who shows me any kindness…"

"Hey! I bring home pizza for you!" Zalgo said, pouting.

"You work at Pizza Hut, Zalgo. You get that stuff for free." Jason replied sternly. Alice laughed a little bit at the two of them. Jason turned back to her and smiled. 

‘’So what style of music do you do?’’ he asked. Alice’s eyes widened.

‘’Oh- mostly showtunes, broadway stuff.’’ she replied. Jason nodded. She felt a bit more relaxed now. It just….felt like an audition. She’d done those dozens of times before. ‘’I can sing Defying Gravity- from uh- Wicked?’’ she suggested. 

‘’Go ahead, girl.’’ Zalgo replied, leaning back on the couch again. Alice nodded and cleared her throat. 

‘’Something has changed within me...something is not the same, I’m through with playing by the rules of someone else’s game,’’ she hadn’t had a chance to warm up, and she winced at how her voice sounded. But when she looked at the others they didn’t seem to notice. ‘’Too late for second guessing, too late to go back to sleep…’’ she took a deep breath, preparing herself for the high notes coming up. ‘’It’s time to trust my instincts...close my eyes...and leap.’’ 

‘’Stop.’’ Zalgo interrupted her. She stopped and looked at him, afraid. Had she failed the high note? Did her rusty voice really sound that bad…? ‘’You’re amazing girl!’’ 

‘’Wh-wha-’’

‘’Seriously! You sound like you could be on broadway!’’ Zalgo grinned wide at her as he spoke. Jason nodded in agreement. Nat hopped up off the couch and slung her arm around Alice’s shoulder again.

‘’So is she in?’’

‘’Well of course she’s in!’’ Zalgo stood up and thrust out his hand. ‘’Welcome to the band, Alice.’’

Alice smiled sheepishly and took his hand. ‘’Thanks...what uh- what do I get for being in it?’’

‘’Free music lessons and pop tarts. Plus vibing privileges.’’ 

‘’V-Vibing privileges…?’’ 

‘’You’re allowed come over whenever.’’ Jason explained. ‘’Though you probably have better things to do than hang out with two thirty year old men who do nothing but watch Netflix all day.’’

‘’Oh.’’ 

‘’Oh c’mon, we’re cool!’’ Zalgo pouted at him. ‘’In fact, I can prove it.’’

‘’Please don’t.’’ Jason murmured. Alice watched Zalgo scamper over to the corner of the room and grab one of the instruments. He held it up proudly. It was a red guitar, with two necks and a body cut into jagged shapes. He grinned and held it down to playing height, strolling back over to Alice. 

‘’Pretty sweet, huh?’’

‘’Oh my god do you have to show that thing to every guest we get?’’ Jason called irritably. Zalgo shot him a look. 

‘’How do you even play that…?’’ Alice asked in amazement. Zalgo smiled.

‘’Lots of practice and quick timing.’’ he replied, strumming a few chords. ‘’What instruments do ya play, girl?’’

‘’Oh uh- I- don’t. I just sing.’’ Alice glanced away nervously as she spoke. Zalgo arched a brow at her, surprised.

‘’I thought she’d be good for backup!’’ Natalie chimed in.

‘’I think she’d be good for my songs,’’ Jane added. ‘’Just like with Jason.’’ Zalgo nodded and looked at the ginger girl for a moment. He turned on his heel and put his beloved guitar down, then moved over to another part of the room and rummaged through a plastic bin he had laying around. 

‘’I know just the thing for you then,’’ he murmured. Alice looked surprised, until he stood up again and held up a tambourine. ‘’This is exactly what we’ve been missing, and it’s easy to learn!’’

‘’...oh.’’ Zalgo strode over and handed the tambourine to Alice. She looked at it for a moment, then shook it halfheartedly. He grinned and clasped his hands together.

‘’Perfect!’’ 

Jason sighed quietly and climbed up off the couch. He dusted his hands off and glanced at Nat and Jane. ‘’You guys hungry?’’ he asked. Zalgo shot him a look.

‘’Wait what happened to practice?’’ he whined. Jason rolled his eyes and walked over to the door.

‘’You already showed off your guitar, Zalgy. And I’m hungry.’’ Jason muttered. ‘’And I’m sure the girls are starving too.’’ he turned and looked at his boyfriend. He knew Zalgo couldn’t say no to him, not when he pulled out that nickname. He eventually sighed.

‘’Fiiiiine.’’

[agust-dyke]

i was tagged by @di5appearer to post how bad my spotify is (thank you leah!! i love this) so here we go! below the cut bc it’s long

lol... omg.... okay wait do you really listen to turn back time by wayv? yes

like... ironically? no...

seeing a lot of k-pop...

a lot of bts... like a LOT...

dreamcatcher of course...

oh great another panic! at the disco stan...

you’ve been listening to a lot of ateez lately. u okay? not really

i’m just a neural network do what you gotta do

have you ever been to coachella? no

clearly.

your spotify was pretty good. jk. your spotify was bad.

your spotify was stop-getting-all-your-music-from-tiktok-showtunes-k-pop-aficionado bad.

thank your obsessions with ppcocaine, show tunes, and bts for that.

based on your listening habits, i can also tell you your spotify was...

>pour-over-coffee bad

>tay-tay-fangirl bad

>old-town-road-for-life bad

>real-hot-girl-shit bad

but wait, it gets worse: 

you listen to these tracks too much:

>turn back time by wayv

>thanxx by ateez

>hugh hefner by ppcocaine

>bad alive by wayv

>love talk - english version by wayv

you stan these artists to an uncomfortable extent:

>bts

>linkin park

>panic! at the disco

>one direction

>dreamcatcher

you are 30% basic. yeah, you’ve got some obscure artists like the myriad but your real top ones are ultra-mainstream like bad bunny...

you’re too trendy for your own good. you only listen to music made in the last year like moonwalk by wayv and love talk by wayv

i’m gonna tag @hosnack @minhope @daechwita @daechwitamv @knjz @2oongi @transrightsjimin @choijongho @yglesbian and anyone else who wants to do this!!

[asterlark]

i’m sorry it took me so long to answer these but hi!! i always love talking about the swv!!

primer for those who don’t know: canonically there are 3 known members of the samwell women’s volleyball team: caitlin farmer ‘18 aka farmer aka chowder’s girlfriend, march ‘16 (who dated ransom for a bit) and april ‘16 who appeared in parse part 2 and who me & amber headcanon as co-captains in their junior & senior years. the rest were made up by me & @abermb​!! they’re very gay and chaotic and i love them to death

kelsey sherman ‘17

psych major, wgss minor

from hawaii

like if shitty and holster were one person and that person was a loud, party-loving lesbian

that is, chaotic. lovable. often inebriated. 

dating fellow team member bailey thompson

used to be a dancer

owns a ridiculous amount of snapbacks

probably has a tiktok. probably also has adhd

would get along with parse

is captain after march & april graduate

bailey thompson ‘16

bio major with a focus in forensic science, criminology minor

loves true crime shows & podcasts

fat & black & fucking stunning

anxious pansexual

similar in personality to lardo (she’s quieter, observant, but genuinely v chill & funny) - her & lardo def get along

collects sunglasses

responsible & a good student but doesn’t always take care of herself when stressed/busy/anxious- kelsey & the team help :)

loves dogs so... fucking... much

sara ‘18

double major in theatre & english

tragically heterosexual, if she wasn’t she’d be dating amanda

wants to write scripts or maybe books or maybe just be on broadway. she has a lot of dreams

shortest/smallest on the team yet fightiest & so loud

yes she’s a soprano. and an only child

loves photography & is proud of having 3000 followers on her hipster photography instagram

used to do ballet

always filming things- her snapchat & insta stories are always full of her teammates being dumb

used to be a 1d blogger, still has a tumblr but it’s just memes and her friends’ selfies 

amanda ‘17

theatre major, art minor

the alto to sara’s soprano, yes they harmonize showtunes on roadies constantly, they are stereotypical annoying theatre majors dsghsjgf

very artistic, loves to draw & paint

is constantly drawing her teammates & sticking doodles in their lockers to improve morale at morning practice

human embodiment of a puppy, like at that stage where they’re tall but clumsy and excitable

trans straight girl

if she wasn’t straight she’d be dating sara

loves platonic kisses & cuddles

molly & mallory class of ????

like if ollie & wicky were also johnson

where did they come from.... when will they go......

both blonde & seemingly omniscient 

no one can tell them apart unless they’re standing right next to each other (molly is a little shorter)

are they dating & just look really similar?? or are they like?? twins???? it’s unclear

mallory’s number is #53 and molly’s is #35 and sometimes they switch jerseys just to be terrible and confuse everyone

jessie ‘19

undeclared major at first bc everything is very exciting to her & she takes all the classes (excitability levels = chowder-esque)

by the time she’s a sophomore she figures out she wants to be a zoology major and be either a vet or a zookeeper

from texas, has a strong accent

weird texas shit: is very proficient at riding a horse, knows how to shoot a gun, had her first drink at 14 and owns 3 pairs of cowboy boots in varying colors (also a cowboy hat but everyone on the team shamed her out of wearing it in public)

thought she was straight until she went to samwell, figures out she’s bi by the end of freshman year

the second shortest/smallest on the team after sara but and similarly loud, altho shier when she’s not around her friends 

when she talks fast she’s indecipherable

has bright red curly hair, freckles, huge brown cow eyes, is just generally adorable

as for how they’re doing now- i don’t think we made hc’s for the class of ‘20 or ‘21 so all these girls have graduated by now! i’ve already written a drabble about kelsey & bailey getting married lol so that’s definitely a thing (they probably had the wedding in 2019). jessie’s in vet school, sara and amanda live together in new york trying to make their broadway dreams happen, and molly & mallory? who fucking knows lmao

i always love talking about them so feel free to send me swv asks anytime!! if you’re thirsting for more here’s my tag and here’s the beautiful fanart! thank u for these asks, writing this up was a lot of fun!! 💖💖💖

[actuallyrandomperson]

My thoughts on the Sanders Sides Spotify playlists- Roman Edition!

Note: this is Purely me saying whether or not I like the songs, not theorising about any deeper meanings. I’ve done them all, so just click on the names to see my reactions to the others: Virgil, Patton, Logan, Janus

Impressions from looking through the playlist: so This One I can confidently say I know more of the songs from. At least, from the titles I do. It helps that I probably have the most personal overlap of music taste with Roman, judging by the titles I recognise sjdksk

1: ‘A Gay Disney Prince’, by Thomas Sanders, Jon Cozart. I have never heard of this song ever before, and don’t have any clue who the singers are. This song totally wasn’t on my ten hour playlist up until the moment I was playing said playlist in the kitchen while baking with my mother and it came up and I felt awkward by the innuendos at the start. And I absolutely hated it, can’t believe it was in this playlist at all. I do not know it word for word at all, and me mentioning in my schools lgbt+ club when it was released definitely didn’t result in a large majority of us bonding over our shared love of Thomas Sanders.

2: ‘Wonderboy’, by Tenacious D. I have mixed feelings on this song? Some part of me really liked it, but another really didn’t. I don’t know. I still added it to the 32 hour playlist though, as I figure I can remove it at some point in the future if that opinion eventually wins out. It was entertaining, at least!

3: ‘Disney Princess’, by Lewberger. Despite my enduring love for Keith and the rest of The Try Guys, I haven’t actually listened to that much Lewberger. This is obviously a fault that I will be remedying as soon as possible, as this song was hysterical. Obviously made it onto the 32 hour playlist, and also theres a tiny part of me getting excited over some of my faves interacting in a vague way even though I know that it’s not that unusual dhxkkdks

4: ‘Broadway, Here I Come!’, by the SMASH cast. I’ve never seen SMASH, but I liked this song! I like showtunes and songs from musicals a lot of the time, but I also only tend to listen to them when I’ve actually seen whatever they’re from, and I’m a poor 17 year old who can’t sing or act and can only slightly dance, so there’s not as many as there otherwise would be in my 32 hour playlist. This is on there now though!

5: ‘Hallelujah’, by Oh Wonder. I liked this! I expect I’ll be saying that a lot in this playlist ndjfjskdkd. I actually added it to my ten hour playlist!! Which will mean nothing to you if you haven’t read my other reactions so I recommend u go do that!! At least Patton’s/Virgil’s as they’re the ones completed at the time of writing this! Lmao

6: ‘Holding Out for a Hero’, by Bonnie Tyler. Have to say, as a gen z who grew up more with Shrek than Footloose, hearing the original version of this song was wild. I’ve heard it before, obviously, but I just. Hear this song in the fairy godmothers voice when I imagine it. This was added to the 32 hour playlist though!!

7: ‘If I Dare’, by Sara Bareilles. I’ve never seen Battle of the Sexes (unsurprisingly; I don’t watch many movies jdjdkkskw) but this song was cool! I wouldn’t purposefully seek it out in the future, but I liked it enough to put it on the 32 hour playlist so it’ll come around every now and again.

8: ‘Go the Distance’, by Roger Bart. This song highlighted the big, gaping hole in my 32 hour playlist which is the lack of music from Hercules. It’s literally my favourite Disney Renaissance film, why the fuck was the soundtrack not already in the 32 hour playlist??? It is now, don’t worry. Also, at the end of these I’m gonna be rechecking the length of both the 32 hour playlist and the 11 hour one and giving an updated total as I’ve only added 1 song so far to the 32 hour long on that wasn’t prompted by one of the songs in these playlists, and I doubt I’ll add any more, and adding all of the Hercules soundtrack + bonus tracks added another whole hour in of itself. There’s a r e a s o n this playlist has gotten so long shfjdjskxm

9: ‘Flamboyant’, by Dorian Electra. This is the first song of this playlist that I haven’t really liked, even including wonderboy. It didn’t make it onto either playlist, but I probably wouldn’t skip it if it comes up on a playlist in the future.

10: ‘Jumpstarted’, by Jukebox the Ghost. This was a bop! I often seem to like songs that jump all over the place a lil bit (see: my love of Tiny Love by MIKA and my newfound love of Be Calm by Fun.), and this one did just that! It made it to the 32 hour playlist 😄

11: ‘Brave New Girl’, Britney Spears. I mean. It’s Britney Spears. Do I need to say anything more? It’s been added to the 32 hour playlist.

12: ‘Every Boy’, by Miss Benny. If I tell y’all that ‘Boys will be Boys’ and ‘Little Game’ were the first two songs I ever added to the 32 hour playlist, I think you’ll know my feelings on this song. It’s the second first one that was already on said 32 hour playlist out of all the songs so far, and the only reason it’s not on the 10 hour one is I didn’t deem it ‘normal people music’ enough (which is the main criteria for said playlist as I play it around my fam)

13: ‘Primadonna’, by MARINA. This was a bop! I added it to the 32 hour playlist, but I don’t expect myself to specifically seek it out in the future. I did bop around to it a lil bit while lying down tho!!

14: ‘King’, by Years and Years. I didn’t recognise this song at first, but it hit the singing and I was like ‘oh!!’. It got added to the 32 hour playlist!! It’s a Bop!!!

15: ‘Cheap Queen’, by King Princess. The title and artist combination gave me a chuckle, and although I wasn’t foully sold on the song when it first started, I liked it enough by the end to add it to the 32 hour playlist. I feel like it’ll grow on me more as I hear it again in the future.

16: ‘Humility (feat. George Benson)’, by Gorillaz. My best friend was obsessed with Gorillaz when we first met, so I’ve heard a lot of their music (although this song wasn’t out back then). I liked it, and added it to the 32 hour playlist, but I probably wouldn’t seek it out specifically as I only slightly vibe with Gorillaz music

17: ‘Ain’t Got It Like That’, by Earl St Claire, PJ. I liked this, but not enough to add it to the 32 hour playlist. It was good, and I wouldn’t skip it in the future if it came up in a playlist, it just wasn’t my jam.

18: ‘Dreamer’, by LaPeer. I liked this as soon as it started, and that initial instinct proved correct! I added it to b o t h the 32 hour playlist and the ten hour one!!! I know!! It made me feel kinda soft and also the message in it is Important

19: ‘Paving the Runway (You’re Gonna Fly)’, by JJ Heller. This is another one I sensed myself liking as soon as it started, and I once again had good instincts! This one was even softer, but I liked it slightly less so it’s only on the 32 hour playlist.

20: ‘GO.’, by Keith Tutt II. This song immediately intrigued me, partially because I wasn’t initially even fully sure if it had started or if I was hearing things. I liked it, but wouldn’t specifically seek it out. It did make it into the 32 hour playlist though!!

Final Thoughts: What a shock, I liked the playlist filled with musicals and pop the most (so far)!! It’s a miracle!! It’s almost like I tend to like musicals and pop!! But yeah, I wasn’t surprised that most of this playlist fit into my music tastes. My favourite new song would probably be Dreamer, followed by Hallelujah. 18/20 got added (technically 16/20 as two were already there but u get me) to the 32 hour playlist and 2 to the 10 hour one.

@thatsthat24

[today-only-happens-once]

Acoustic

Title: Acoustic

Word count: 2129

Summary: Pop star sensation Roman Prince drops by a familiar coffee shop on amateur night, doing his best to avoid being recognized. He certainly didn’t expect the stranger in a hoodie with an acoustic guitar to capture his attention. Musician and Coffeeshop AU rolled into one. Romantic Prinxiety.

Warnings: cursing, singing, duets, crowds. Mostly its just kinda sweet/fluffy. 

A/N:  If you saw my post earlier today about writing a lot of words about a nonsense idea out of nowhere when sometimes I struggle to write 100 words of carefully planned, in-progress chapters, well. This is that nonsense idea. I wrote this in one sitting. Just kind of a fun idea that popped in my head. Hope you enjoy this quick little diddy! ^u^ 

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Roman Prince tucks his nose into his thick scarf as he ducks into the coffee shop, the small bell above the door signaling the pop star’s appearance. His white beanie is pulled low over his messy flop of brown hair, and he keeps half of his face tucked into the scarf in an attempt to avoid being recognized. In many ways, he feels like Thomas’s Coffeeshop is the last safe haven he really has in this city. He’d been coming here for years, and though he knew his manager Remy would probably ream him out for sneaking out so much… Roman wouldn’t give it up for anything. He felt like a normal person here.

The far corner of the shop already has speakers set up. Thursday nights were Roman’s favorite, because it was amateur night. People of all ages would sign up during the week to come in and perform for around 15 minutes, just to get exposure and practice. When he was in high school—before he caught his big break thanks largely to a viral video—he used to come and play once in a while.

At the moment, a guy looking around Roman’s age is sitting on a stool in front of the speakers and the piano in the corner. He’s working on tuning an acoustic guitar. The guy’s purple-plaid-patched hoodie fits with his sweep of fading purple bangs. Roman eyes him as he steps up to the counter, tugging the scarf down from his mouth.

“Hey, welcome to Thomas’s! What can I get for ya?” says a warm, familiar voice that makes Roman smile. Patton Foster looks up at him, a spark of recognition in his eyes. Patton is about a year older than Roman, and had started working at the coffeeshop as a teenager around the time Roman started performing here. Patton knows better than to say anything, but the sincerity of his grin reminds Roman why this shop always felt a little bit like coming home.

“Large mocha with an extra pump of chocolate,” Roman replies with a smile of his own as he digs his wallet out. “The usual.”

Patton shakes his head slightly. “I don’t know why I still ask,” he says, still smiling. “Logan’ll get that for ya in a minute.”

Roman pays and steps out of the way for the person behind him, sliding onto a stool by the counter. He checks his phone for the time, hearing the stranger on the stool strum a few chords before adjusting the strings again. It’s almost ten o’clock.

Roman looks at the stranger about to perform. He’s got dark eyeshadow smudged under eyes and there’s something unexpected at seeing him holding an acoustic guitar when it seems like everything about his whole aesthetic would hint at hard rock or punk music. The light brown wooden instrument softens the look slightly. Logan calls out his order and hands it to him over the glass barrier and Roman takes a sip of it. He sighs softly, relaxing a bit at the familiar taste.

“He’s good,” Patton says, startling him. The barista is wiping the counter down, and he nods in the direction of the stranger who was now adjusting the mike.

Roman hums. “Yeah?”

Patton tosses the towel onto his shoulder. “Yeah. But don’t take my word for it,” he says before the stranger speaks into the mike.

“Hey, guys,” he says. His voice is low with a little bit of gravel to it. “I’m, uh, Virgil Shea. I thought I’d do a cover or two before trying out a new song I finished Tuesday. Sound good?”

Patton cheers from behind the counter along with a few patrons. Virgil glances at Patton, the corner of his mouth quirking slightly before he ducks his head. He starts strumming, and Roman swivels around on the stool to face him, tugging the scarf back up over his nose as he watches. Virgil seems to take a deep breath as he plays the intro. It’s not until he starts to sing, his eyes drifting closed for a moment, that Roman recognizes the song.

“Some days, things just take way too much of my energy. I look up and the whole room’s spinning…”

As he sings and plays, Roman can’t help but feel entranced by him. Virgil doesn’t have a large stage presence—he stays on the stool the entire time—but his melodic voice floats through the coffeeshop and he fills the space around him anyway. Roman watches, impressed and a little moved by the way he seems to put all of himself into the song without making a show of it. There’s a vulnerability to Virgil in this moment, and Roman can’t look away.

And his riffs. Damn, Roman thinks as he listens to Virgil sing. Virgil’s gaze drifts around the room, but Roman swears it settles squarely on him as he riffs on the last note. A beautiful, crystal clear high note.

Holy shit, I think I’m in love a little bit.

The song ends and Virgil’s mouth curls up into a small smile as the coffeeshop erupts into applause and a couple of cheers. It’s a small room, but it’s certainly packed. Virgil nods his head in thanks, a faint blush dusting his cheeks.

“Thank you,” he says into the mic as he adjusts the guitar strap around his shoulders. “Next, I… well, are there any requests?”

There’s a brief moment before someone towards the back calls out, “Falling Slowly!” Roman raises his eyebrows at the suggestion, even as it’s followed with a few other people repeating it in enthusiasm.

Virgil laughs slightly and rubs the back of his neck. “You mean from Once? Isn’t that a duet? And it kind of needs piano, right?” He glances at the piano behind him, then looks back out at the crowded room. “Any of you want to join in?”

“He does,” says a familiar voice and Roman feels a hand close over his wrist and pull his hand into the air. Roman whirls with wide eyes to see Patton looking back at him. His eyes are wide with an innocence that Roman doesn’t buy for one second.

What are you doing? Roman mouths. Patton gives him an encouraging nudge and small grin. Roman looks back at Virgil, his eyes still wide. This was not what he had intended to happen.

“It’s up to you, dude,” Virgil tells him, and Roman breathes a faint breath of relief that nobody seems to have recognized him yet. Roman did tend to wear a lot of stage make-up and costumes when he performed, which made it easier to blend in when he was out and about in the general public.

And singing a duet with a voice like that…

Roman sighs a little and shrugs. “I can’t resist a good showtune,” he answers finally. A few people cheer enthusiastically. He slides off the stool and sets his mocha down on the counter behind him. He looks back at Virgil. “You sure you don’t mind?”

Virgil shrugs a shoulder and jerks his head towards the piano. “It’s chill, man.”

Roman doesn’t know for sure why he feels suddenly nervous. He’s performed in front of stadiums full of people before. He’s even sung duets before. But something about this small, enclosed space… something about Virgil… sets Roman’s heart racing like it did the first night he performed on this very make-shift stage.

Roman tries not to flush slightly as brushes past Virgil who gives him a small, encouraging smile. He takes a seat on the piano bench brushes his fingers over the keys, adjusts the mic slightly, and then looks at Virgil. For the briefest moment, when they lock eyes, Roman thinks that the entire coffeeshop melts away.

“Whenever you’re ready,” Virgil tells him, pulling his mic stand back towards the piano and slightly to the side so that they can look at one another. He adjusts the strap of his guitar.

Roman takes a breath, places his fingers on the keys, and begins to play. The careful arpeggiated chords drift softly through the coffee shop, and the few patrons who’d been chatting quietly to one another fall silent.

Virgil leans into the mic a bit. “I don’t know you, but I want you all the more for that.”

Roman finds himself smiling softly at he continues to play and joins in with the harmony. “Words fall through me and always fool me and I can’t react.”  

Roman swears he sees Virgil smile a little as he comes in with the guitar. “And games that never amount to more than they’re meant will play themselves out.”

He can feel butterflies in his stomach and he can’t help the way his lips curl up in a smile as he lets the piano swell with the guitar a bit as they both enter the chorus. “Take this sinking boat and point it home. We’ve still got time. Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice. You’ve made it now.”

As the song progresses, Roman realizes that he’s only ever looking at either his hands on the piano or at Virgil. He’s almost forgotten that they have an audience, the faces blending into the background in favor of the person with the guitar standing a few feet in front of him. His messy hair falls into his dark eyes, but every time he looks back at Roman as they sing the pop star swears there’s a spark of something in them. A curiosity, but also something else. He just can’t be sure of what.

Roman hopes Virgil doesn’t mind too much when he steals Virgil’s part and sing, “You have suffered enough and warred with yourself. It’s time that you won.” From the look in his eyes and the faint smile he offers, Roman’s pretty sure he didn’t mind.

“Falling slowly, sing your melody,” they both sing as they lock eyes and Roman swears his heart does a little flip. “I’ll sing it now.”

They layer over one another with soft melodic riffs. Roman lets his eyes drift closed for a moment as they play and improv off one another a little bit. He feels his lips tug into a smile as the song starts to slow.

Virgil counts the beats quietly into the mic as they both hold a chord. They circle back to the ways the song had begun, with the gentle arpeggiated chords. Roman holds the other musicians gaze as it slows before they hold the final chord.

Roman gives him a soft smile. Thank you, he mouths. Virgil still has that look in his eyes that is both soft and curious. The coffeehouse erupts into applause again, several cheers and a few whistles.

And then everything comes to a screeching halt as someone shouts over the cheers, “Wait, are you Roman Prince?!” Before Roman can even try to play it off, someone else chimes in, “I knew that voice sounded familiar!”

As questions and shouting rise up, Roman fishes a business card out of his pocket, grabs a pencil sitting on the piano, and scribbles down his phone number. He can hear Patton trying to shout over the crowd but he doesn’t try to follow the conversation. He needs to get out of here ASAP. He can already see people pulling up their phones. Flashes of light indicate pictures getting taken. Remy’s gonna kill him…

Roman is mentally cursing himself. Virgil probably hates him now. He hadn’t wanted to upstage him, steal his spotlight… Roman is afraid of what the expression Virgil’s face might be. In his peripheral, he can see Patton pushing out from behind the counter and making his way towards the stage, probably to use a mic.

Roman stands up and crosses over towards Virgil. His eyes are wide, but Roman can’t quite read the expression in them with all the flashing lights, movement of people pressing closer towards them, his racing heart clouding his thoughts. Roman presses the card with his cellphone number on it into Virgil’s hands.

“I’m so sorry,” Roman is telling him quickly, straining to be heard over the sudden pandemonium of people asking for selfies, autographs, taking videos… “But that—”

“Roman,” comes Logan’s urgent voice right beside him. “You gotta go.”

“I know, I know,” Roman tells him, then looks back at Virgil earnestly. “Look, Virgil, you’re—”

“Now,” Logan insists, grabbing his arm and pulling him through the crowd. The last thing Roman sees before he ducks out the door and into the cold night air is Virgil standing on the stage, glancing down at the card in his hand and meeting Roman’s eyes one last time before the door swings shut and Roman makes a run for his car.

…

[himbowelsh]

I think I'm developing an addiction to your modern AU HC, please call Gene, I might need medical care 😝 More Skip if you please? 12,13,14. Thank you ❤

times they are a-meme-ing   ( accepting! )

12.  name a few of their favourite pieces of popular culture.

Skip is definitely a fan of a lot of modern music. He probably does acoustic covers of Brendan Urie, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars...  but he can strum out a good showtune too, especially to entertain his little sister. He’s got a very wide range of musical taste, so there’s not much he really dislikes, but he loves certain songs. (Throwback to the year Uptown Funk came out, when he played it on repeat for, like...  a solid month.)

He’s not the biggest movie buff, but the new Jumanji movies are amazing, okay? He definitely loves Shazam! when it came out, and since his sister forced him to watch Riverdale he’ll non-ironically watch it just to snark on it. He loves the Mamma Mia films, Deadpool is the best...  and he was obsessed with Pokemon when he was 12 and is a little obsessed now, so Detective Pikachu was an experience for him. (Please never tell Skip that “Pokemon Go” is dead  ---  that was the best summer of his life.)

Also, vines. He can quote any and all vines offhand.

13.    show us what their last ‘sent’ text message is from five different text convos.

sent  >>  penk :   they’re not cheese fries unless they’re at least 60% cheese

sent  >>  ruth :    CALM DOWN                            WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME                            WHAT DID I DO NOW

sent  >>  malark :    aww  does someone need a hug??                                    well u better ask somebody else   😘

sent  >>   CURRAHEE!!  groupchat :     i’ve got my biting wit and i’m not afraid to use it

sent  >>   luz :    do they make chicken soup but with animals besides chicken??  maybe pigeons have been the cure to the common cold all along and we’re all just cowards

14.   favourite and least favourite thing about living on this era.

There’s so much more connection. Highkey  ---  social media might be a plague on our society, but to Skip it’s nothing but a blessing. He loves it, alright? He loves that he can talk to his friends and family whenever he wants, that they’re literally a button click away. He loves that he can keep them updated on his life, stay updated with theirs, support them in tiny ways, like a compliment on an Insta post...  Skip almost never feels lonely, because it’s so easy to connect to people. He honestly thrives in the social media generation.

Least favorite...  would definitely be how angry people are, literally all the time. Like, yeah, people were angry before...  but the world is insane now! Literally insane! We have wildfires, we have global warming, we have pandemics...   there are so many issues people should be focusing on, and instead people are up in arms against each other. Skip doesn’t hold a lot of strong political views, but he firmly believes politicians should get stuff done for the good of the people instead of being at each others’ throats all the time. It’s not just the wild state of politics...  but outrage culture, how willing people are to tear others down and “cancel” them for mistakes. Skip does not thrive in conflict; it makes him very uncomfortable to see people tearing each other apart, especially when he’s caught in the middle of it. The climate of the times, and the general lack of camaraderie, really get to him sometimes, and he gets a little disgusted with people.

[lovelyirony]

listen all i want from life is avengers being a family so here are some moments that i have thought about extensively

-natasha will steal all of the blankets because she gets cold but also likes seeing thor whine about her being a blanket thief

-bruce can cook but is mostly too lazy to so for the first few nights that he’s on rotation he makes simple sandwiches, salads, and easy foods and the team finds out that he can cook a five-course meal 

-tony is really easily flustered??? like really easily. clint compliments his sense of style bc he’s wearing a very nice tailored suit and it’s a genuine compliment so tony makes an awkward sound, says “thanks”, and runs away 

-thor loves hugs and gives the best 

-they make homemade Christmas decorations!!! none of them had a regular home life and steve wants to make potpourri or something so they do!!!

-clint blasts mariah carey on December 1st and no one can stop him

-they have slidey socks so they can dance adn slide on the floors and it’s the best thing EVER

-steve refuses to tell someone when he’s having a bad day bc he thinks that he’s fine but he’s not so the team will give him affection throughout the day and watch closely after a particularly hard mission

-they have board game nights!!! 

-watching drunk history is a common thing don’t tell me it’s not

-thor enjoys travels and so when they have a mission in a different country they make sure that thor gets to learn about it and what’s changed

-they’re no longer allowing thor to bring home friends from distant planets the grandmaster is deeply unsettling

-tony and steve are the Parents of the Family and u have to listen to them

-steve can and will sing along to songs from the Sound of Music and it’s ADORABLE

-bruce, however, knows showtunes as well and can sing “King of New York” from Newsies if u get him in a good enough Mood, This is Science

-natasha and clint have control over the TV and their netflix account so this is how the avengers all become obsessed with watching Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries 

-tony can sing quite well but hates doing it 

-they all have different taste in pizza but bruce is the worst bc he traveled to brazil and likes the pizza and...oh no

-after a rough night sometimes clint will listen to thor talk about asgard and the fun stories 

-they all cry together they’re family

-natasha and tony venture out to be stupid tourists and try everything in New York

-steve and clint try to convince tony about conspiracy theories only to find out that tony has insider knowledge about the denver airport

-natasha loves documentaries 

-thor loves ordering things online and often buys the stupidest things for bruce bc bruce only wears button-downs and sweaters and “u have nice arms, bruce, show ‘em off” 

-bruce has one (1) tanktop and it’s glorious 

-THE AVENGERS HAVE PICNICS

-i love them