#don’t forget history

[kindsoulbuddy]

I’m currently listening to the 6 part podcast series on WWI, called “Blueprint for Armageddon”. And Dan Carlin makes a great point.

Like it or not, the idiosyncrasies of our world leaders and the influential people of our time affect our history.

Like Rasputin and his hold on the Tzar’s family in WWI and everything leading up to what happened to them in 1916.

Rasputin was a peasant but he influenced royalty.

And I’m worried for our country because people like Trump and Elon Musk have affected history and culture and continue to do so, no matter how little we think of them.

[scyllasong]

To my fellow queers, in case you’ve lost sight of things a little bit like I had, I want you to watch this

This is why we create, this is why we don’t hide even in the face of great adversity. Our stories are beautiful, and moving, and remember how much it means to people. I love being queer, I love being a lesbian, I love being trans, I love us. I love our joy, our stories, our hearts. I love the way we love.

Don’t loose sight of that, in all the discourse, in all the inter community fighting, don’t loose sight of The Reason™️. Remember how far we’ve come.

Look at where we are, look at where we started. Your love, your joy, your story, your visibility MATTERS. The art you create matters.

I love us, I love our love, and nothing will ever change that

Happy 10 years Korrasami 💕🏳️‍🌈

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

As per usual, it’s DP crossover with (probably) DC, although you could probably adjust it for other fandoms

ANYWAYS

A little kid and his mother are trick or treating in another city, perhaps at some kind of event rather than knocking on doors, and the kid is dressed as Phantom. It’s very adorable, with his little ghost-shaped bucket and clearly homemade and already stained costume—listen, white only works if you can just fly over street grime or phase it out of your clothes—and his slightly I’ll fitting wig. The kid is SO happy to be out and about dressed as his favorite, and maybe even showed it off to Phantom back in Amity Park before his family left.

The hero, insert whoever you wish here, is probably in civvies and just enjoying the event. The kid, meanwhile, is so glad when people ask who he is so he can explain, and so- the hero gets to hear ALL ABOUT the local town hero who is probably pretty small time despite the kid’s clearly exaggerated stories. The hero certainly never heard of him, but the kid’s mom confirms that Phantom really was the town hero, despite some mixed reviews of the poor guy.

“Did you manage to show him your costume?” the hero asks.

“Yeah! We went down to the cemetery to leave flowers and I got to show him my costume.”

Wait. Cemetery? Maybe it was part of theme, because Phantom had to be named that for a reason, but… it sounded like…

The kid ignores the suddenly VERY still hero and instead turns to his mom. “Momma, do you think we should bring him candy? He doesn’t get to trick or treat like we do, and I can work super hard to get him a bunch!”

The kid’s mom just smiles. “We could, but maybe we should bring him something homemade. I bet he’d like something more filling, teen boys like him have a hollow leg.”

The kid wrinkles his nose. “Like Vernie with the pizza bagels?”

“Like your cousin, yes. We can make some cinnamon rolls and take them to his memorial, maybe bring some of the apples from your grandpa’s garden…”

The hero is pretty much forgotten as the two-part family wanders off, not quite intentionally forgetting the hero is there so much as the hero somewhat accidentally ended the conversation when they just froze and didn’t ask anything further.

Not that the hero didn’t want to. But they’d learn something very serious.

One—there was a small town hero they’d never heard of. Two—that hero was apparently a teen. Third—most pressingly, the teen hero was both beloved enough to have kids dressing up as him and dead enough to have a grave.

This… might require some phone calls.

[o1iveangel]

romans i would invite to the club and my reasoning

Caesar

- that would be his club by the end of the night, bright red boots

Curio

- somebody needs to keep antony from throwing up everywhere, but more importantly i just like that guy

Caelius

- best dancer in rome, self explanatory, keeping him at my side the whole night so ppl think im cool, blatantly lying to cicero abt where we were the next day

Dolabella

- he just belongs there

Antony

- usually i’m an antony hater, but he can come along bc i can count on curio taking care of him when he inevitably gets messy

Cato

- he would hate it, we’d have to kidnap him, he’d see the club lights and instantly pass out in shock, and we’re gonna have a good long talk about statesmanship and virtue and life afterword when he’s drunk and i’m high as hell (provided he doesn’t hate me)

Milo

- somebody needs to be the bodyguard of the grp, we’d get him to be the sober friend too

Pompey

- can’t be inviting all his pals and not him he’ll feel left out :( plus dw I’ll take care of him so he doesn’t get overwhelmed, crazy ass game he has the potential to throw it back like no other

Hortensius

- we’re making cicero feel jealous, also i wanna see what his little fish pond ass can do

Sulla

- he was up with all the actors and shit in his day, as long as we pat him down for weapons first we should be good

Piso

- putting in pisonem to the test, making caesar answer for his nasty little father in law after, epicurean

Metellus Pius

- Pompey’s friend :D, he has a good vibe i feel like he could be the dad of the grp, seems responsible unlike the rest of us

Catullus

- no explanation needed, someone needs to catalogue our shananigans

Atticus

- once again, he would tell cicero all the scandalous things that went on, but i’d have a little conversation with him abt not mentioning caelius being there, we’re trying to make cicero feel left out so we can convince him to willingly come to the club with us next time

Spinther

- dw we’d keep him apart from dolabella (and caesar), but i think he would give us a further air of importance and confidence

[scoringeffects]

seeing guys lay hits on their ex teammates is always so shocking like girlypop u were brothers in BATTLE together not four months ago…

[spineless-lobster]

HAPPY KENTUCKY MEAT SHOWER DAY EVERYONE!!!!!!

[musicalmoritz]

Nene’s Music Taste

I was trying to learn more about Nene’s canon taste in music, which she describes as “enka songs about cursing your ex-lover.” Most fans seem to think she’d either enjoy pop or goth music and, while she could certainly enjoy more than one genre, I wanted to figure out what songs she would realistically be listening to. Here is what I learned (Nene enjoyers, get your pens out)

Enka is a Japanese music genre that dates back to the 1950s. It somewhat existed before that in violin music and later with guitar, but the 50s was when the style really came into its own. It maintains elements from traditional Japanese music and is often used in karaoke. The themes are similar to American blues music, lots of talk about heartache and the struggles of life. Alcohol, love, death, and the weather are frequent subjects of enka songs. It declined a bit around the 90s due to younger audiences not being able to relate to the lyrics but it had a revival in the early 2000s (which is the period I suspect Nene would enjoy, as that is the music she would’ve likely heard growing up). Music artists tend to get creative with this genre, there are many enka songs that involve rap as well as elements of tango and jazz

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find many sources that gave lyrics translations for the songs recommendations I found, due to the genre not being popular in America (I hate us😒) but I did find an article that had a goldmine of song recs!! “Japan’s Top 50 Bestselling Enka Songs” by Daniel Morales, if anyone wants to check it out

I was trying to find some songs to add to my Aoinene playlist but sadly I didn’t have a lot of luck. If there happen to be any enka music fans reading this who also like Aoinene I would love your recommendations. Here’s what I did find though (all of these are from the list cited above):

“Tearful Love” by Yashiro Aki. Yes, I did mostly pick this one because of the name but it is an angsty love song, very much Nene levels of dramatics

“Crimson Karma” by Segawa Eiko. A star-crossed lovers song, Aoinene certified levels of angst

“But It Would Be Nice If You Came Near” by Toshi Itō and Happy and Blue. The singer in the song blames themself for their bad luck in love, more Nene vibes

“Solo Journey to Michinoku” by Yamamoto Jōji. A song about a person wishing they could’ve died with their deceased lover. Could be Aoinene in the Ghost Hotel au or during the Severance arc. Orrrrr by the end of the manga if Nene doesn’t survive

I would also recommend Saburo Kitajima, I can’t remember if he made it onto the article or not (I found his name through Wikipedia, along with the history and qualities of enka music I described before), but I listened to one of his songs on Spotify and ya’ll…my ears have been blessed. Will definitely be checking out more of this genre

[pinkteasets]

I SAID

Happy Black History Month!!

[ao3userforgets]

i need to mutter into the void so i’m going to post under the cut the trials and tribs of my current clegan fic writing experience so no one including (especially) me has to make eye contact with it. it’s basically a diary entry. god bless anyone that reads it lol. love and light 🫶

goddamn writing this fic is kicking my ass. it was just meant to be an angsty gale introspective. then i started another and that was meant to be them just fucking absolute nasty style. now i fear they have combined, morphed, metamorphosed, and it’s becoming a monster. goddamn. what does one do in this situation? it would be my first time posting in this fandom and my second time posting fic at all. i’m shaking in my boots about it. there is so much wonderful fic being posted for this pairing and so many approaches and styles. i would love to get mine out and see it amongst those works. i’m just not sure how to go about constructing this fic and how to post about it. i’d like to post some bits and pieces and maybe someone will see it and tell me it’s worth it to finish it but first and foremost i’m really writing this for myself, because it’s the type of fic i love to read and also i feel like i need to be writing it so my mind is creating something. and it would feel like a waste to me and a let down for myself if i never post it. also i’m projecting very hard onto it and onto gale as a character, so it feels kind of personal in some parts? which can’t totally be avoided but because of that and because the way i write is also very personal to me it’s making something that should be fun to post about feel quite daunting. but i want to push myself so badly because it’s been years since i’ve done that, maybe i’ve never done that. and Of Course it’s wwii yaoi that’s gotten me to this point.

anyway, y’all ever think about gale identifying as a more feminine being than is expected for a man like him in the time he’s in, thus manifesting itself into years of repression he’s not entirely aware of until he meets and grows closer to bucky, and how he comes to terms with being awakened in such a way that has laid dormant until he’s in the literal u.s. military, and eventually in one of the least survivable theatres of the war, and in suffocating proximity day in and day out with one john bucky egan? and how he navigates his bond with marge, now in contrast to how he feels for john? and how even his childhood and the lives of his parents is being pushed forwards in his consciousness in relation to his sense of self and his place in the lives of others? oh and also how absolutely Biblically he wants john, in the most unconventional and all encompassing ways? all while he has no context for queerness and sexuality as it relates to himself? i dunno what freak would be into writing or reading that 👀 🚬💀

[doll-elvis]

elvis’ natural golden brown eyelashes >>

[sky-is-the-limit]

My heart goes out to all the people living in Dublin. This is horrifying to watch. How easy it is for f*scists to use a horrible crime to target every single person who doesn't look like them.

People leaked messages from a group chat of white supermacists asking people to go out and physically harm anyone who looks foreign in Dublin and to disturb marches happening for Palestine.

As well as siding with Is*el as an excuse to stand for genocide.

And it's happening all over Europe. This is so fucking terrifying. Please stay safe, avoid the areas where the riots take place and don't forget to remind yourselves what our ancestors fought for in 1940. All Europeans.

I've read comments on tiktok from extremists asking for foreign children to go through the same thing. These people are clinically insane.

Fascism is taking over Europe, we don't learn from our fucking history and we're destined to relive it again.

[enrapture]

Honestly the more I think about it the more I want to say and explain and I hate that we’re not talking because all I want to do is talk about it and express myself even if it’s not the same between us anymore which is fine and well and something I’ve come to accept I just can’t help but feel like I’m being devoured by the unsaid words that all I wanna do is pour out.

[beneathashadytree]

I have a confession to make…

The best fanfic I’ve ever written—and the only multi-chapter, comprehensive one too—is a Brian May fanfic that I’ve been writing on Wattpad (yikes, but you gotta understand that Wattpad used to be all the rage) for the past nearly half a decade. To be entirely fair though, I went on hiatus for a long while (since 2018 I think!!) and only got back to writing it last summer.

Yes, this Brian May. Queen’s guitarist, funnily enough.

[problematiq]

[royaltea000]

Nobody talk to me

[mazu-art]

Thanksgiving or something

I’m of native descent so today is kinda like a big spit in the face to people like me. However, I will look past this historical fact, to say that I am thankful for my health and the people who support and love me. Fuck thanksgiving! Everyone who’s of native descent don’t forget that we exist! Our heritage is not a joke!!