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[silverstellatus]

Working on sketching out some side character designs for spectrecide using my own personal base... they're all bound to be altered and they obv still need actual reference drawings that werent made w a base but. happy to just get something down for them ajkldfhls!

Featuring: emo grocery store employee, "will frame you for murder" detective, and detective who was not emotionally prepared to deal with a serial killer

[deadcactuswalking]

REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 06/01/2024 (Sabrina Carpenter, Saltburn)

Content warning: Discussion of the Astroworld Festival crowd crush and brief sex references

It’s that time of year again, where all the Christmas songs flush out - no, I’m not going to list all of them as dropouts - and we get a rush of songs gaining or returning with extraordinarily high peaks at extraordinarily high rates because hey, that’s just how the chart is on the first week of January. It’s usually one of my most work-heavy episodes, but also because of the incredibly low barrier for entry on a first-week-of-January chart, it ends up pretty fun and kind of goofy sometimes, so this is actually a pretty exciting week for me, even if this episode will be lengthy to write. Regardless, Noah Kahan gets his first ever week at #1 with “Stick Season”, and welcome back to 2024’s REVIEWING THE CHARTS!

Rundown

Now, it would be really easy - and also really tedious of me - to just list all of the songs in the UK Top 75, which is what I cover, and you know, I considered doing that, but I think I’m going to be quite subjective and selective here, especially given there are less debuts this week than I expected. Just know that the vast majority of Christmas songs are no longer charting and have been replaced with, for the most part, songs that were charting in the last couple weeks. I will not be listing every return, but I will list songs that have returned to new peaks or songs that I just think are interesting or strange, including songs that haven’t charted in a while or have fascinating stories, or are just goofy little novelties of the January week, and we actually start dead-on at #75 with those.

“Take on Me” by a-ha is back. The Swedish band peaked at #2 with this track, blocked off the top by “The Power of Love” by Jennifer Rush, in 1985, and a largely inferior boy band cover by A1 spent a week at #1 in 2000 because the world isn’t fair. We actually see another #2-peaking classic pop song return to the charts this week… at #8. So - spoiler alert, even though I haven’t seen it either - the film Saltburn which was widely released a few weeks ago ends with “Murder on the Dancefloor” by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and naturally TikTokers have Kate Bushed it to streaming success. Now you may be interested in how this song debuted at #2 in 2001 and spent two weeks there behind “Gotta Get Thru This” by Daniel Bedingfield (hot take: better song), or that this is Ellis-Bextor’s first time charting since 2014 - “Young Blood” peaked at #34 - but I’m personally more inclined to welcome the return of the man, the myth, the legend Gregg Alexander, who co-wrote and produced the song, to the top 10. Welcome back, king. Also, “Baby Shark” is at #47.

Then we just have the re-entries that reached new peaks, which is a few: “Evergreen” by Richy Mitch & the Coal Miners at #50, “FTCU” and “Pink Friday Girls” by Nicki Minaj at #41 and #30, as well as “Everybody” featuring Lil Uzi Vert at #26, “Body Moving” by Eliza Rose and Calvin Harris at #38 - still really disappointed by that one, “Surround Sound” by JID featuring 21 Savage and Baby Tate at #35, “Runaway” by Ye featuring Pusha T at #23, “One of the Girls” by The Weeknd, JENNIE and Lily-Rose Depp at #21, and of course, the GOAT, Paul Russell back at #20 with “Lil Boo Thang”, then “I Remember Everything” by Zach Bryan featuring Kacey Musgraves at #16, “On My Love” by Zara Larsson and David Guetta at #15 and “Lose Control” by Teddy Swims at #14.

As for our gains, I’m also just going to list the new peaks, as we have “Entrapreneur” by Central Cee at #36, “leavemalone” by Fred again.. and Baby Keem at #11, “Rich Baby Daddy” by Drake featuring SZA and Sexyy Red at #10 (Sexyy’s first top 10… maybe I should just call her Red), and, to my pleasant surprise, “DNA (Loving You)” by Billy Gillies featuirng Hannah Boleyn at #9. When you factor in that “Water” and “Houdini” are also here, this latter half of the top 10 is fantastic.

Then finally, in our top five, which isn’t nearly as good, we have almost a status quo ante bellum, with “Cruel Summer” by Taylor Swift at #5, “greedy” by Tate McRae at #4, “Prada” by casso, RAYE and D-Block Europe at #3, “Lovin’ on Me” by Jack Harlow at #2 and of course, “Stick Season” at #1. Now we have a smaller than expected but still… curious batch of new entries, so let’s run through whatever we have here.

New Arrivals

#71 - “MY EYES” - Travis Scott

Produced by Travis Scott, Wheezy, WondaGurl, Vegyn, Buddy Ross and Justin Vernon

I’m gently surprised UTOPIA has had this much longevity, especially considering that the album didn’t really have bonafide “hits” on it, and especially not this one: two very different ideas spliced together with possibly Travis’ most introspective bars on the record… all of those being in the second half, because in the first, he wastes our time with such inward-looking gems as “Rollie-Pollie on my wrist” and “I need no beef, no cheese, even when I eat, they cheat”. These are elementary bars. Yeah, I hated this song on release and I hate it still now. The first half is a slog, filtering a perfectly fine The Japanese House sample to compressed nothingness, as Justin Venron of Bon Iver croons incoherently with no leading melody or really any lyrics worth caring about. It perfectly embodies uncertainty, which could perhaps be intriguing if Travis hadn’t confused being abstract for being interesting so you have these arbitrary vocal effects attempting to make up for lack of substance over this drone for as long as he can stall before Sampha comes in for nine seconds more soulful than the other four minutes and change combined… seriously, what a terrible use of your Sampha. It’s not like the flashy synthscape eschewing anything memorable for “vibes” and a stagnant trap skitter after the beat switch … and amidst all the meaningless flexing, comical controlling of women, it gets kind of ugly.

Travis throws out possibly his one explicit line about the Astroworld festival disaster on the album: “I replay them nights and right by my side, all I see is a city of people that ride with me… if they just knew what Scotty would do to jump off a stage and save him a child”… and yeah, I don’t want to start this year off on such a negative note but - go to Hell. The explicitly self-centred nature of these lines and those surrounding it show a complete misunderstanding of the festival’s failures to keep people safe, with Travis wanting to be seen as the “hero”, complete his rags-to-riches story, swoop in and “save him a child” as if he’s Superman, whilst pointing fingers at the unknown “they”, which if it refers to critics is sad and if it refers to those who were at that crowd crush, is utterly despicable. Just after disgracing his critics for not looking at themselves in the mirror, he brags about how he stands on the stage and he gives them “the rage” and there’s “no turning it down”, you “can’t tame it”. But it’s not like it matters to the main character of our story, Travis Scott, because his life is just a movie, and if you lived it, you can’t blink because everything just goes crazy fast. I mean, life would go pretty fast and easy without consequences, wouldn’t it? If we’re looking forward to 2024 in popular music this week, I’m pretty confident that I want to leave this mess, and honestly, Travis Scott as a whole, far in the past.

#65 - “You’re Gonna Go Far” - Noah Kahan

Produced by Noah Kahan and Gabe Simon

Sadly not an Offspring cover, but anyway, I promise the rest of this episode won’t be as… controversial. At least Noah Kahan won’t be, right? Another track from his deluxe reissue of Stick Season, Kahan sings about knowing that letting this person leave is for the best, and they’ll go far without him and his sticks tying them down. It’s pretty self-loathing in its acoustic frolick, so I completely understand why this would turn people off... but I’m starting to grow fond of Kahan’s voice, and even through his somewhat bitter chorus and seemingly non-sequitur observations in the verses, I still quite like this. What can I say? I’m a human, I find this reassuring, especially with Kahan digging into his falsetto range surprisingly well, including on that mantra of a post-chorus. It’s almost weird how little I have to say for a song nearing five minutes, but it does feel pretty self-explanatory and the folk-rock stammer of the instrumental feels genuinely home-grown, fitting with how the narrative is strung and the connotations of them moving far away from Kahan’s more hapless rural area. At its heart, it’s a “life goes on” song, but one knowledgeable of his own fate that he sets out for himself here, one that by the outro, he seems weary of, or at least convincing himself maybe he should do the same as this person. Though left seemingly vague in terms of what the exact relation is, given some of the verses I can imagine this is about a sibling or, looking into the future, a child leaving the house for education, and it would definitely work out with the context we’re given, but I’m sure there are many interpretations of this. Mine is that the song is great regardless of them. Man, this guy is really uneven, isn’t he?

#63 - “Never Lose Me” - Flo Milli

Produced by gerreaux

So it’s about damn time Flo Milli charted. Even if I’m not a big fan of all of what the Alabama rapper puts out, she’s got a particularly vibrant personality that becomes increasingly obvious when her overdue breakout hit is essentially a remix of Babyface Ray’s “Ron Artest” with 42 Dugg which is still a pretty good song given the incessant yet timeless-sounding vintage soul loop under a trap groove sounding like it splits time between 2000s Dirty South classics and modern plugg bangers. It’s just that when you hear Babyface Ray go on for one exceedingly long verse followed by an… oddly solemn and badly-mixed 42 Dugg performance, you kind of wish Flo Milli was on the beat instead. So she just is, and it works out brilliantly. Sure, Milli isn’t saying much of interest and you could definitely see that chorus as tedious, but she’s just so much more dynamic with her flows and encompasses the mix much more effortlessly than those it was first made for. It’s mostly just about being in love with this street guy, and honestly, I’m probably overrating it when I look at it outside of its context… but man, there’s just something hypnotic about this beat. Now there are two separate remixes that helped this chart, for a little remixception, those being from Bryson Tiller, who I couldn’t imagine on this at all, but delivers very explicit sex bars with a verse that slides much more effectively than I expected… and Lil Yachty, who is such a perfect fit for this beat that I swear I see him on the original intro anyway. In fact, the Lil Yachty version was released on the same day as the original. He says “I’ma snack on your booty like Scooby”, so I think we’ve found a definitive version of “Ron Artest”.

#46 - “Toxic” - Songer

Produced by Songer (supposedly)

When I typed this into Spotify and saw the Britney Spears song of the same name, I had a sinking feeling… and sure enough, my suspicions were proved correct the moment I pressed play on the song and swiftly paused it in disappointment. This is a white guy rapping over the “Toxic” instrumental with flows and bars that sound like a pastiche of drill freestyles, as if he spent a couple weeks researching them and thinks he can do it better. The original “Toxic” spent one week at #1 in 2004 and I am not giving this dignified character-actor  any time of day. Let’s just hope this doesn’t get any higher.

#40 - “Perfect (Exceeder)” - Mason and Princess Superstar

Produced by Mason

Ah, it’s been a while since I’ve been able to say this: who the Hell are these people? And in addition, why does this song have enough versions on Spotify to reach nearly 52 minutes? Also, why is this song from 2007 charting and once again, who the Hell are these people? Okay, so one at a time: this song from 2007 is charting because it was in Saltburn. Also, it technically already charted but we’ll get to that. Secondly, it’s an electro house song, of course it has that many versions. Thirdly, and this will take the longest, Mason is a Dutch DJ active since the 90s who released an instrumental jam “Exceeder” in 2006 and yes, suddenly I know this song all too well, just never by name - I always heard it as background music in ads or on the radio, but never actively listened to it. It’s fun, growling, fidgety fun with a lot of slick edges and refrains, from before electro house got too festival-ready, so it’s still a little dirty. Now here’s where it gets weird - according to the Official Charts Company’s website’s archive, this is the version that charted, peaking at #3 in 2007, behind MIKA’s “Grace Kelly” at #1 - “Starz in Their Eyes” was at #2 by the way, that’s a… trio and a half. Despite this, the article OCC wrote about the song says that this is a re-entry of “Perfect (Exceeder)”, which makes more sense to me since that version was released on Ministry of Sound and is the cover art for the song on the OCC archives, so this probably isn’t a new entry at all. If this song’s story wasn’t so weird, I’d chalk this up as an error and briefly touch upon it in the rundown, but technically, this isn’t a remix, it’s a mashup, and one from 2007, far before I started reviewing, and it was only the 44th biggest song of the UK in 2007 so it’s not like it would have returned naturally so either way you slice it, it FEELS like a new song - stretching the definition of new here - is charting here.

So who’s Princess Superstar? Well, she’s “Pennsylvania’s top female Jewish rapper”. O…kay, so her song “Perfect” from 2005 failed to chart, and it also may be one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard but hey maybe we wouldn’t have… Kreayshawn without this, so maybe I should be grateful. To be fair, she did chart in Australia, so Iggy Azalea can probably attest to being influenced by this. Therefore, I’m not grateful whatsoever. She had a minor chart hit with “Bad Babysitter” in 2002, which is somehow even worse, but someone somewhere decided to mash her failed single “Perfect” with the club jam “Exceeder” and create the malformed “Perfect (Exceeder)”, which is… a song I’ve never heard before. I have only ever heard this instrumental version, and the addition of the Princess Superstar just makes the song genuinely insufferable, at least there was a goofy novelty to the original “Perfect”, this feels like it’s taking itself half-seriously… when nobody should be taking Princess Superstar all too seriously. I don’t know, if this was the original “Exceeder”, I’d probably give it Best of the Week in all honesty, but this weird remix oddity… yeah, keep it in 2007, guys, it even has the gymnastics in the video like “Call on Me”. I don’t think we need to start with a 2024 revival of… whatever this is.

#24 - “Feather” - Sabrina Carpenter

Produced by John Ryan

Well, we started with controversy and we may end with controversy as the scandal surrounding the music video erupted… I’m going to stop pretending like I care. Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” did all this and then some decades ago, let’s just talk about the music which is… utterly serviceable. It’s a good kind of serviceable, it’s not slop, just a Dua Lipa rip-off that doesn’t like filling up space in the mix, or at least isn’t very good at it, and it leads me to like it, bizarrely enough. Despite how breezy she is, she’s desperate to fill up space with riffs and stray melodies filtered with reverb and echo over this vague funk-pop that doesn’t even have the guts to go full disco. I may have more to say about this song as the year goes on? I don’t know, I’m kind of fascinated by how I just… feel sorry for this pathetic little dance-pop song. Weird note to end on, but I mean, she’s hitting all kinds of weird notes so…

Conclusion

Strange week, as is to be expected, with a lot of interesting stories, for the better and for the worse. Okay, mostly for the worse, and Travis Scott nabs Worst of the Week pretty easily for “MY EYES” - sorry, Sampha - and that Songer doofus can get the Dishonourable Mention for his “Toxic” freestyle, I guess, but let’s just ignore that exists. As for the best, it is actually pretty difficult but I think Noah Kahan eases it out here for “You’re Gonna Go Far”, with Flo Milli - and realistically, Lil Yachty - pretty close behind with the Honourable Mention. As for what’s on the horizon… God knows. Welcome to 2024 in pop music, I’m pretty sure anything can happen. Thank you for reading and I’ll see you next week!

[chaotic-theatrical-weaver]

“Easy,” Demi Lovato with Noah Cyrus / “exile,” Taylor Swift, feat. Bon Iver

[pcetstcrtured]

Ellie knew she deserved the face Grace was making at her. Yeah, this really hadn’t been one of her most well thought out choices, but Leigh Anne had been insistent and Ellie had thought maybe she had the whole older and wiser thing going on so maybe she should at least give it a shot. She definitely thought wrong. “Yeah, apparently she is. But she’s also the only one who can get all the kids to go down at nap time, so I thought maybe she was some kind of genius.” She let out a deep sigh. “When will men ever stop being … men?” A slight smile crossed her face though, at the compliment to her daughter. “Yeah, I know. She really is, hopefully someday I’ll find someone who sees that.”

The second she said Tinder, Grace was making a face at her. Could she really judge? She met her man when he drunkenly knocked on her door looking for a guy he knew, then she let him in to use her phone. "Your co-worker is nuts." She shook her head. "They all say they like kids, it's a lie or they just want to make their own with you." She rolled her eyes. "They're missing out, Mads is the cutest."

[legendofmorons]

Songs that I associate with the chain (Angst edition)

Four

The world is ugly (My chemical romance)

Nobody's home (ground score)

Welcome to my life (simple plan)

Hyrule

Twin size mattress (the front bottoms)

Through glass (stone sour)

Silence (Marshmello, Kahlid)

Legend

Wonderland (Taylor swift)

If the world was ending (Hannah ellis)

Be nice to me (the front bottoms)

Sky

Praying (kesha)

Car radio (twenty one pilots)

Bottom of the river (Delta rae)

I'll be good (James young)

Time

Vienna (Matt Schuler cover)

I will survive (Gloroa gaynor)

Youth (bon iver)

Twilight

Something in the orange (Zach Bryan)

Fast car (Tracy Chapman not the other versions)

Train wreck (James arthur)

Warriors

My R (Lolita) - Cw/TW suicide

Migraine (Twenty one pilots)

How to save a life (Cold play) -TW suicide

Wild

Everybody wants to rule the world (lorde version)

Renegades (X ambassadors)

Numb little bug (em behold)

Sweet hibiscus tea (Penelope Scott)

Wind

Could have been me (the struts.)

How far we've come (matchbox twenty)

Karma (AJR)

Fake happy (Paramore)

[mcknotanniegrey]

my hyperfixation rundown of 2023, in order of appearance:

All Souls series by Deborah Harkness and A Discovery of Witches (TV) soon followed, of course

Good Omens

Interview with the Vampire (AMC)

rediscovering tumblr

Radclyffe Hall

Succession (HBO)

Izzy Hands from Our Flag Means Death

Lucifer (TV)

Paradise Lost by John Milton for like the 5th year in a row, let's be real

Jim Jarmusch's filmography

The West Wing (TV) particularly, the first 3 Sorkin seasons

Lucifer (TV) and more Lucifer (TV) yet more Lucifer (TV)

Michael Demiurgos from Lucifer (TV)

"Exile" ft. Bon Iver (Taylor Swift) exclusively listened to while writing Lucifer fanfiction

Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" as covered by Tom Ellis and Brianna Hildebrand in Lucifer (TV)

Tom Ellis in general? but in particular in Lucifer

shout out to @ohsoldier for politely listening to me connect every possible conversation topic to Lucifer over the last 7 months

[tgyverse]

Para fomentar la realización de tramas y facilitar el desarrollo de personajes, estaremos realizando la segunda parte de una dinámica para crear nuevas conexiones y tramas entre personajes. Ésta se encuentra dirigida a cualquier personaje presente en el verse. A continuación nos extenderemos en los detalles respectivos.

― 𝐄𝐍 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋.

Para esta dinámica estaremos formando parejas al azar. Cada pareja recibirá una oración/prompt de la cual partirán para abrir un thread.

Si alguna pareja ya posee alguna relación o trama entre sí, por favor comuníquenlo en la brevedad posible al Main. Deseamos que se realice entre personajes que tienen poca o nula comunicación entre sí.

Las oraciones/prompts se escogieron al azar mediante el Spotify de nuestra admin principal, Moony, y se adaptaron para la dinámica.

Pueden modificar la oración escogida y utilizar alguna de la canción de la cual proviene. Así mismo, si les es muy complicado originar una conversación alrededor de la misma, pueden pedir otra canción sin problema.

Queda en ustedes cómo se relacionarán los personajes en el thread, así mismo quien inicia con la frase de la oración. Les pedimos que busquen situaciones que puedan alargar los threads y se consiga que los personajes interactuen durante el mismo.

Existen dos tríos dado que la cantidad de personajes en el verse no es par. En ésta situación, deben interactuar entre los tres personajes.

Si algún personaje llegase a faltar en la dinámica, por favor avísenos de inmediato.

Cualquier duda nos encontramos a un mensaje de distancia, ¡diviértanse!

― 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐃𝐎 𝐃𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐉𝐀𝐒.

Aether y Miriam : "You feel no pain, that's okay. I got plenty left, stored up in my chest." Fool of me de Say Lou Lou, Nick Murphy y Chet Faker.

Alecto y Amelia : "I know you'll understand." Keep an eye on me de Frida Sundemo.

Glenda e Isolde : "She smelled of daisies." Big jet plane de Angus and Julia Stone.

Amycus y Xenophilius : "Roll up to the party, roll up, roll up." Sticker de NCT 127.

Arthur y Lenore : "Keep a light on those you love. They will be there when you die." The weight of the world de Editors.

Baptiste y Phoebe : "Spend all the evenings you can with the people who raised you 'cause all the times they will change." Stoned at the nail salon de Lorde.

Barty y Agatha : "I think I've seen this film before and I didn't like the ending." Exile de Taylor Swift con Bon Iver.

Bellatrix y Stubby : "And for this gift I feel blessed." Smells like teen spirit de Nirvana.

Bertie y Danny : "I would like to leave this city, this old town don't smell too pretty." Half the world away de Aurora.

Bertram y Ted : "They're playing a decent song at last." I'll have to dance with Cassie de God Help The Girl.

Betty y Sturgis : "The way he makes me feel that love isn't real." Cupid de Fifty Fifty con Sabrina Carpenter.

Dane y Rita : "But what about your quiet treason?" Fortnight de Taylor Swift con Post Malone.

Daisy y Lily : "But I am learning to let go of everything I tried to hold." Roman Candles de Death Cab for Cutie.

Darcy y Fabian : "Don't blame me, love made me crazy." Don't Blame me de Taylor Swift.

Dorcas y Gladys : "Forgetting is easier." She went quietly de Charlie Winston.

Edric y Alyssa : "Everything I do, it just comes undone." The hardest part de Coldplay.

Ellie y Jason : "And I'm tired of being all alone." Your call de Secondhand Serenade.

Emma y Olivia : "If you like to do the things you know that we shouldn't do." Perfect de One Direction.

Frank y Jane : "Memories sure have a deadly trigger." Out of the dark de Dia Frampton.

Gideon y Bertha : "I broke my toes 'cause when I'm sad I get as clumsy as a stupid clown." For Marlon de Soko.

Grant y Andromeda : "You don't have to say nothing." Adore you de Harry Styles.

Gwenog y Pandora : "I'm so happy that I'm alive." Higher Power de Coldplay.

Hestia y Victoria : "I have to leave somehow." Scar de Lucy Rose.

Ivan y Remus : "I was good at feeling nothing." Halley's Comet de Billie Eilish.

Jacob y Nicholas : "Really believe you can beat me?" The Girls de Blackpink.

James y Greta : "We're all built for something." Lost in the wild de Walk the moon.

Jonathan y Amos : "And that's how it works, that's how you get the girl." How you get the girl de Taylor Swift.

Lorcan, Finnick y Doris : "Who'd you rather be? The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?" Gimme sympathy de Metric.

Ludo y Alastor : "Were you right? Was I wrong?" Chemicals React de Aly & AJ.

Mary y Augustus : "So let me see you do your thang." 90's Love de NCT U.

Maximilian y Aurora : "Well this side of, mortality is scaring, me, to death." Soldier On de The Temper Trap.

Melissa y Wendy : "These days I'm restless, work days are endless." Message in a bottle de Taylor Swift.

Michael y Charity : "This time turning white and senses dying." Into the fire de Thirteen Senses.

Mina y Katherine : "How do I trust, how do I trust again?" Dancing with your ghost de Sasha Alex Sloan.

Minerva y Andrea : "I know that no one survives." Displaced de Azure Ray.

Molly y Rabastan : "This is the part, you've got to say all that you're feeling." Runaway with me de Carly Rae Jepsen.

Ollie y Severus : "We're all gonna die." Fourth of July de Sufjan Stevens.

Peter y Dawn : "But I'm sorry, look, I'm busy, I ain't trying to offend." Rodeo de Wayv.

Rosalind y Lucinda : "There are those who think that I'm strange." Anchor de Mindy Gledhill.

Scarlett y Emmeline : "Turn off my mind, I beg you. It's buzzing like the Devil's bow." Claude's Girl de Marika Hackman.

Zoe y Sirius : "Just like yesterday I told you I would stay." Two Weeks de Grizzly Bear.

Dedalus y Alfie : "I tend to cancel all the plans." Solar Power de Lorde.

Adora y Sorcha : "Are you gonna watch me pick up the pieces?" From me, the moon de Lav.

Keira y Maria : "We'll take it slow." The 7th Sense de NCT U.

Lorenzo, Yvette y Jihae : "I could be your friend." Waking up slow de Gabrielle Aplin.

[typewriter83]

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(this is so big I won't mind if you take too damn long to respond❤️ I understand you)

KDJDKSKKD WHAT? THAT'S SUCH A GOOD FUCKING PLOT OMG. I WOULD READ THAT EVEN WITH ORIGINAL CHARACTERS.

(but fuck yeah I agree, ellie would be such a good punk singer. Kind of emo girlie even. Have you checked maggie linderman? Her song"different" would kind of be something ellie would totally sing if she was a singer).

and omg I can see the vibes of the concept you're cooking in here. I can totally see both of them as "singers that got bad reputation for something" (🗣️I don't know what ellie did but I'm on her side🗣️), specially joel. On this, I can totally imagine that things to joel could have started to get bad in his life after he lost sarah in this universe too. And honestly sometimes paparazzi and interviewers can be so insensitive that it would be so joel to get his bad reputation also after fighting with so many of these people in the past if they asked about his past. Also, I would die to find what would their dynamic would be as singers if that story happened. Maybe when they start working together, their personalities can crush a bit because joel he was always used to being the lead singer in his band, giving orders and deciding things, but when he tries that with ellie thinking she would just listen, he soon finds out she has strong personality, doesn't really like to obbey and has a sense of criticism and leadership as much as him. Or maybe Joel has this boomer thought where he thinks this new generation of musicians are all amateurs and not good enough, and ellie is determined to make him realize he's wrong. But I can also see their personalities bonding so much when they really start to work on their album.

Omg have you listened to "exile" by taylor swift and Bon Iver? That would be so them coded wtf, I could totally picture them singing it wtfffffff (and bon iver's voice is so sexy and deep it reminds me of joel's👹)

So many things is reminding me of this concept you came up with actually. On the slutty side for example, there's this the weeknd song where he sings "we had sex on the studio" and well..👹that would be a scene worth reading sjjsjsj. On the soft side, there was this video on ig where a girl from a band was playing guitar and singing but her guitar's strap fell and she had to hold it, but her drummer came to rescue, fixed for her and he stroked her hair before going back and everyone in the audience was like "awww" and I WISH I COULD FIND THIS VIDEO AGAIN because that would be so them. Imagine if joel did this on a tour, but instead of stroking her hair he kisses her forehead😭 imagine if they also sing some songs looking at eachother like they're talking in form of music, like it's just them on the stage, OR OR if ellie convinces joel to be more in touch with being online, and his first few posts on social media is hanging out with her or posting a picture of her being distracted, and ellie gets all soft because how can she explain to this old man he's basically being her fan account😭? And oh my god Joel is a guardog in every fic, imagine if a paparazzi crosses some boundery with ellie and joel does something about it, but she contains him from doing more because he could get in trouble with media for it. Urgh I can totally see the controversy they would be, though. A lot of people would ship them but it could also get a bad reputation for joel for other reasons.

Hello nonnie cub - is this Miss Undercover or do we have another cub in our den who loves analyzing our fandom. Either way, I’m here for it!

First of all, thank you. I’m rather fond of that story - it’s about 35-40k in length right now. I have lots of ideas for it, but pulling it together has proven difficult when there are two stubborn fictional characters constantly screaming for attention - they know who they are and they need to sit down. 😏

If I were to write this in the TLOU universe, Joel would be on the far side of middle age, approaching or over 50, with a drinking problem, but trying to get sober. He’s been known to get aggressive with paparazzi. Ellie would be a punk rock princess with a serious attitude problem - the label won’t drop her because she’s so fucking talented, writes her own music, has been plucking guitars since she was a child - but she goes through producers like tissues and she’s had more lawsuits filed against her for assaulting paparazzi than the studio cares to acknowledge.

Their dynamic would be volatile at first - he can’t stand her music, thinks she’s too loud and chaotic. He’s more laidback, classic rock style, and Ellie calls him an old man - while she follows him around like a lost puppy. He’s gruff and mean, but he gives it to her straight, he doesn’t push her away like everyone else does - she sticks like glue.

I think Ellie would torment him with social media - especially old school instagram, trying to make photos artistic and flattering. She takes lots of photos of him hidden in shadows, dramatic and striking and he grumbles a lot but doesn’t ask for her to take them down. She starts taking selfies of them together - which of course ignites all sorts of speculation and paparazzi problems. Imagine Joel pushing them aside while they get in Ellie’s face. Ellie’s got fists swinging and eventually Joel grabs her and pops her feisty ass over his shoulder - lots of photos of her screaming as he carries her off.

Haha, stop. I have 3 stories going at once. I don’t know if or when I’ll ever sit down and revisit this original story. But this was fun

🫶🏻

[nightguide]

NEW AMERICAN DUBAI NIGHTLIFE PLAYLOST: UNIVERSITY

TOP 200

ANSON SEABRA FT. RIZZLE KICKS: RHODE ISLAND

LINNA RIAZ: ENEMY

NEJ: PARO

DONNA SUMMER: BAD GIRLS (GIGAMESH REMIX)

DEMI LOVATO: GIVE IT TO ME

LINNA RIAZ: HEYELLO

PERRIE EDWARDS: YOU GO YOUR WAY

MCFLY: FIVE COLOURS IN HER HAIR

KATY PERRY (LINNA RIAZ REMIX): WITNESS

MIKEY WAX: BOTTLE OF JACK (ACHTABAHN REMIX)

LINNA RIAZ FT. PICTURE THIS: INTO THE AM

JEFF BUCKLEY: PETRICHOR

ANSON SEABRA: LAST MAN

HAILEE STEINFELD: SUNKISSING

LINNA RIAZ: EXTRAORDINARY

MAROON 5: ONE MORE NIGHT

DEMI LOVATO FT. LINNA RIAZ: LIKE I NEVER NEEDED ANYONE

ANSON SEABRA: NEW EDEN

TAYLOR SWIFT: I KNOW PLACES

LINNA RIAZ: CAIRO

LAWSON: JULIET

TRAIN: THRACE

SMALLPOOLS: DREAMING

JEFF BUCKLEY: YEH JO HALKA HALKA SUROOR HAE

TINIE TEMPAH FT. ELLIE GOULDING: WONDERMAN

LINNA RIAZ: PLUTO

GOTYE: SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW

BEYONCE: RISE

KATY PERRY: TEENAGE DREAM

PARAMPARA TANDON: CHHOR DENGE

TARAN: CIGARETTE MAN

JESSIE J: DO IT LIKE A DUDE

ELIZA DOOLITTLE: ROLLERBLADES

CALVIN HARRIS FT. ELLIE GOULDING: OUTSIDE

TAYLOR SWIFT: SEVEN

FUN: CARRY ON

LILY ALLEN: SMILE

RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS: BY THE WAY

BILLIE EILLISH FT. LINNA RIAZ: LONELY THE BROKEN

SABRINA CARPENTER: ESPRESSO

ALICIA KEYS: NO ONE

MITSKI: ME AND MY HUSBAND

JORDIN SPARKS: BATTLEFIELD

LITTLE MIX: DNA

DEMI LOVATO: UNBROKEN

JONAH KAGEN: MONSOON

LINNA RIAZ: IF HE LOVED ME

TRAIN: DRIVE BY

DEMI LOVATO: ASHES ON MY WAY TOMORROW

DEMI LOVATO: GIVE YOUR HEART A BREAK

DEAN LEWIS: EMPIRES

DEAN LEWIS: MADE

LITTLE MIX (LINNA RIAZ REMIX): SEXY DIRTY LOVE FT. DEMI LOVATO

SELENA GOMEZ: SLOW DOWN

TAYLOR SWIFT: IN BRUGES FT. THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT

RITA ORA: I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN

COLDPLAY: A SKY FULL OF STARS

MOLLY: CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERSE

ANSON SEABRA: I CAN LOVE ANYONE (AS LONG AS IT'S YOU)

DEMI LOVATO: TOO MUCH LOVE

RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS: SCAR TISSUE

JONAH KAGEN FT. LILY MEOLA: MADE UP MY MIND

DEMI LOVATO: EITHER WAY

NATASHA BEDINGFIELD: THESE WORDS

DEMI LOVATO: 29

KATY PERRY: WIDE AWAKE

TRAIN FT. CAM, TRAVIE MCCOY: CALL ME SIR

SIA: ELASTIC HEART

KATY PERRY: INTERNATIONAL LOVERS

DEMI LOVATO: EAT ME

JORDIN SPARKS FT. CHRIS BROWN: NO AIR

DEAN LEWIS (SCARES ME REQUIEM FT. LINNA RIAZ OFFICIAL NIGHTGUIDEBLOG: HARPER ST. JAMES): WE'LL BE

TRAIN: DROPS OF JUPITER

DEMI LOVATO: MR. HUGHES

FLAGSHIP: ARE YOU CALLING

DEMI LOVATO: WILDFIRE

JASON DERULO: WHAT IF

ONE DIRECTION: WHERE WE ARE

LP: LOST ON YOU

PICTURE THIS FT. DEAN LEWIS: MIDDLE OF LOVE

LP: OTHER PEOPLE

JEFF BUCKLEY: YEH JO HALKA HALKA SAROOR HAE

JASON DERULO: SAVAGE LOVE

JEFF BUCKLEY: SO REAL

LINNA RIAZ: FIRST GLANCE

FIONA APPLE: CRIMINAL

JEFF BUCKLEY: LOVER, YOU SHOULD'VE COME OVER

LINNA RIAZ: ONE MAN

TAYLOR ACORN: FAMOUS LAST WORDS

ALEC BENJAMIN: ZARA ZARA x LET ME DOWN SLOWLY

NICKELBACK: SHE KEEPS ME UP

ANASTACIA: HEAVY ON MY HEART

SIA: FIRE MEETS GASOLINE

DEMI LOVATO: I LOVE ME

KEANE: SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW

CHARLI XCX: GIRL SO CONFUSING

GLASS ANIMALS: HEAT WAVES

LINNA RIAZ: SPECTRUM

DEMI LOVATO: HOLY FVCK

BRIDGIT MENDLER: ALL I SEE IS GOLD

SABRINA CARPENTER: EMAILS I CAN'T SEND

JOHN MAYER: FREE FALLIN

LILY ALLEN: THE FEAR

DEMI LOVATO: HEART ATTACK

LAWSON FT. BOB: BROKENHEARTED

MCFLY: ALL ABOUT YOU

DEAN LEWIS: GRAVEYARDS IN TOKYO

LORDE: THE LOVE CLUB

ROBBIE WILLIAMS: FEEL

THE WANTED: ALL TIME LOW

COVER DRIVE: TWILIGHT

WILEY FT. MS D: HEATWAVE

NELLY FURTADO: BIG HOOPS

LET IT SHINE: GUARDIAN ANGEL

TAYLOR SWIFT FT. BON IVER: EXILE

HALSEY: LONELY IS THE MUSE

LITTLE MIX: TOWERS

TAYLOR ACORN: PSYCHO

BRIDGIT MENDLER: TOP OF THE WORLD

HAILEE STEINFELD: YOU'RE SUCH A

CLEAN BANDIT FT. MABEL, 24K GOLDN

SZA: NOBODY GETS ME

ALAN WALKER FT. INA WROLDSEN: STRONGEST

ALEXANDRA BURKE: BROKEN HEELS

OWL CITY FT. CARLY RAE JEPSEN: GOOD TIME

FEFE DOBSON: STUTTERING

JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER LET YOU GO

AGNES: RELEASE ME

ANSON SEABRA: WELCOME TO WONDERLAND

MADONNA: HUNG UP

KELLY CLARKSON: STRONGER (WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU)

JOJO: LEAVE (GET OUT)

HAYD: NO NOTHING

GLEE CAST: ONE OF US

SELENA GOMEZ: STARS DANCE

DEMI LOVATO: YES I AM

TRAIN: HEY, SOUL SISTER

DEAN LEWIS: LOOKS LIKE ME

SHAWN MENDES: WONDER

EMPIRE OF THE SUN: WE ARE THE PEOPLE

JENNIFER LOPEZ FT. PITBULL: ON THE FLOOR

DEMI LOVATO: AFTERSHOCK

TAYLOR ACORN: FIRST DATE

ONE DIRECTION: THATS WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL

WEEKND: BLINDING LIGHTS

MITSKI: STRAWBERRY BLONDE

AGNES OBEL: FAMILLIAR

POST MALONE FT. MORGAN WALLEN: I HAD SOME HELP

HARRY STYLES: WATERMELON

JEFF BUCKLEY: NORMAN F ROCKWELL (AI)

CHRIS MEDINA: CUT ME

TAYLOR ACORN: BRICK BY BORING BRICK

ARIANA GRANDE: INTO YOU

THE SCRIPT: BREAKEVEN

MILEY CYRUS: PARTY IN THE USA

EMELI SANDE: HEAVEN

RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS: CALIFORNICATION

GLEE CAST: THE ONLY EXCEPTION

KATY PERRY: THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY

NICK JONAS: JEALOUS

TAKE THAT: THE FLOOD

BIRDY: SKINNY LOVE

JOJI: DAYLIGHT

FIFTH HARMONY: THATS MY GIRL

NICOLE SCHERZINGER: POISON

LEMONADE MOUTH: DETERMINATE

ANSON SEABRA: ROBIN HOOD

DEAN LEWIS: WAVES

JONAH KAGEN: DROWNING

DEAN LEWIS: HALF A MAN

SONNY WITH A CHANCE: ME, MYSELF AND TIME

SARA BEREILLES: NO VACANCY

VICTORIA JUSTICE: RAW

SARA BEREILLES: SHE USED TO BE MINE

DEMI LOVATO: MADE IN THE USA (DEMO)

FIJI BLUE: I SHOULD'VE TOLD YOU

DIZZEE RASCAL: LOVE THIS TOWN

ARIANA GRANDE FT. KATY PERRY: GREEDY (AI)

COLDPLAY: VIVA LA VIDA

DEMI LOVATO: UNBROKEN (MALE VERSION)

KATY PERRY FT. KANYE WEST: E.T.

BRIDGIT MENDLER: CITY LIGHTS

SARA KAYS: BACKSEAT RIDER

LANA DEL REY: NATIONAL ANTHEM

MIKE TOMPKINS: ALL NIGHT LONG

FUSE ODG: ANTENNA

SARA KAYS: RICH BOY

LOUISA JOHNSON: BEST BEHAVIOUR

CHER LLOYD FT. BECKY G: OATH

PIXIE LOTT: MAMA DO (UH OH UH OH)

ADELE: SOMEONE LIKE YOU

JEFF BUCKLEY: UNCHAINED MELODY (AI)

DEMI LOVATO: HERE WE GO AGAIN

EXAMPLE: MIDNIGHT RUN

KELLY CLARKSON: INVINCIBLE

FAWLIN: FOLLOW YOU ANYWHERE

DOJA CAT: SAY SO

LAUREN DAIGLE: YOU SAY

TIM BUCKLEY: SONG OF THE SIREN

JESSIE J: DOMINO

REGULARLY UPDATED

[lovebirdgames]

BCB Character Playlists ~ Clark

I seemed to favor angsty duets for Clark, which makes sense since he has the loneliest route.

Clarity - Zedd (Charlie Puth Cover)

Say Something I’m Giving Up On You - A Great Big World ft. Christina Aguilera

Still Falling For You - Ellie Goulding

Confident - Demi Lovato (loved listening to this song while writing the drum major face-off!)

Wrecking Ball - Miley Cyrus

Set Me on Fire - Thousand Foot Crutch

Close - Nick Jonas ft. Tove Lo

Why - Sabrina Carpenter

Call It What You Want - Taylor Swift

Symphony - Clean Bandit ft. Zara Larsson

The Last Time - Taylor Swift ft. Gary Lightbody

exile - Taylor Swift ft. Bon Iver

Skin - Sabrina Carpenter (A Clark song but for Peter’s route) Mercury - Sleeping At Last

Lend Me Your Voice - Belle

I Hear a Symphony - Cody Fry

[elliebarker]

settling this once and for all.

ellie listens to bon iver and the national

dealer!ellie listens to frank ocean and the weeknd

modern!ellie listens to boygenius and hoizer

lifeguard!ellie listens to mitski and suki waterhouse

guitarist!ellie listens to metric and fleetwood mac

music major!ellie listens to mazzy star and weyes blood

abby listens to like the lumineers or something (whoever it is cannon abby has shit music taste)

modern!abby listens to deftones and hole

roommate!abby listens to billy joel (fight me on this) and like…the beatles

basketball!abby listens to lana del fucking rey

drummer!abby listens to foo fighters and radiohead

environmental science major!ellie listens to big thief and hozier

[insecretgardens]

ThoMinho Playlist

Eyes Open (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

Enchanted - Taylor Swift

ceilings - Lizzy McAlpine

Back To December - Taylor Swift

Rome - Dermot Kennedy

The blue - Gracie Abrams

Message In A Bottle (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

Feels Like - Gracie Abrams

ivy - Taylor Swift

LIGHT SHOWER - Melanie Martinez

Treacherous (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

Blossom - Dermot Kennedy

Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince - Taylor Swift

Falling Skies - YUNGBLUD, Charlotte Lawrence

I Know Places - Taylor Swift

Dusk Till Dawn - ZAYN, Sia

TRUSTFALL - P!nk

Beating Heart - Ellie Goulding

Safe & Sound (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

Afterglow - Taylor Swift

The Great War - Taylor Swift

evermore - Taylor Swift, Bon Iver

willow - Taylor Swift

[weirdtinkerbellversion]

url song game

so the rules of the game are to write one song for every letter in your url, and then tag as many people as there are letters in your url. okay? okay.

Oh god @star4daisy thanks for the tag but have you seen how long my url is?? we're gonna be here a while lol

work song - Hozier

elli fat mat - ghazall

i can't carry this anymore - Anson Seabra

repeat until death - novo amor

djin - mashrou' leila

the man who sold the world - Nirvana

ignorance - paramore

nobody - mitski

killer queen - Queen

emmenez moi - Charles Aznavour

roslyn - on iver & st. vincent

blossom - dermot kennedy

everlong - foo fighters

let me down - jorja smith ft. stormzy

landfill - daughter

vienna - billy joel

everybody - mac miller

remember me - umi

stubborn love - the lumineers

i wanna be yours - Arctic Monkeys

on n'oublie pas - Slimane

no complaints - noah kahan

no pressure tags @thebibutterflyao3 @lulublack90 @thedvilsinthedetails

[ultrone]

I know I don’t go anon but atp I’m feeling left out lmaooo, I’m claiming this one for the hell of it🧯

:)

How’s your day going? Was wondering who some of your favorite artists are :) and you ofc don’t have to do this if it doesn’t interest you but who do you think the girl’s favorite artist(s)/band(s) would be if they were teens now. I’m dying on the hill that Jackie would love Taylor Swift and Lana and Shauna would love Hozier, Noah Kahan or Lord Huron

ofcc u can claim it 😼🫶🏼 it’s all urs now. . and some of my fav artists are lana del rey, radiohead, deftones, soda stereo, zoé, danny ocean, ethel cain, feid, strangehuman, coldplay, frank ocean, jeff buckley, the smiths, queen, luis miguel, etc. i have too many lmaoooo, wbu?

some artists i think the yjs would like

— prolly super inaccurate cuz it’s my first time thinking abt this 😭

SHAUNA : coldplay, steve lacy, hozier, mitski, sufjan stevens, the fray, the neighbourhood, rex orange county, mika, wallows, m83, mormor, harry styles, $uicideboy$, inhaler, one direction, kanye

JACKIE : taylor swift, coldplay, glee cast, the neighbourhood, childish gambino, tove lo, birdy, joji, rihanna, pinkpantheress, kali uchis, doja cat, one direction, 5sos

LOTTIE : brent faiyaz, dominic fike, phoebe bridgers, bon iver, cigarettes after sex, ellie goulding, faye webster, grimes, the 1975, aquilo, olivia rodrigo, arctic monkeys, declan mckenna, lorde, frank ocean, miguel, tame impala

NAT : loathe, alex g, salvia path, superheaven, basement, lil peep, grimes, the 1975, arctic monkeys, tame impala

TAI : brent faiyaz, daniel caesar, mac demarco, mormor, mac miller, kid cudi

VAN : girl in red, linkin park, eminem, tv girl, declan mckenna, the kooks

[cold-earth-connection]

Just me, the dog, the moon & a Bon Iver record, in a mountain house in Sweden. Ellie (wife❤️) gets home soon. Bliss. #boniver #sweden #sverige #berg #mountains #jämtland #wolf #gsd #malamute #home

[insanely13swiftie]

ThoMinho Playlist

Eyes Open (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

Feels Like - Gracie Abrams

ivy - Taylor Swift

Treacherous (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

I Know Places - Taylor Swift

Beating Heart - Ellie Goulding

Dusk Till Dawn - ZAYN, Sia

The Great War - Taylor Swift

evermore - Taylor Swift, Bon Iver