#era: current

[acidgirl]

[valyrfia]

friendly reminder that you can still get covid in 2024, we're in the middle of a massive wave right now and covid is NOT "just a cold". take necessary precautions in crowded places, on buses, on train, or on planes. it's better enduring a few strange looks when wearing a mask than getting ill and/or (god forbid) lifelong complications from long covid!

oh also, if you've got symptoms–yes it's a pain to have to buy a test��but PLEASE test. we're still in the middle of a pandemic however much we all want to forget that fact and we can still do our bit to protect others!

[muppetebbtide]

I think often about the heavy irony of John laughing at Wake's name and mocking BOE's naming systems. BOE are trying to preserve lost Earth culture, but clueless of context, their fragmented merging of high and low culture comes across as silly to John (and us. But it's a noble attempt to preserve everything, even the stuff that wouldn't necessarily seem 'worth' saving. But what does John rename his friends? Pyrrha and Cassiopeia and Ulysses and Augustine. He also names almost everything after Earth culture, but it's literary/religious/historical 'high' culture. BOE is scrabbling to save everything possible, but John has the privilege of context and memory, and so he picks and chooses what's 'worthy' of being used or shared. Low culture is reserved for his little jokes with himself— though honestly, a lot of his references to earth culture full stop seem to be inside jokes at the expense of others. I doubt Cassiopeia knew she was named after the infamously vain ancient queen, for example. John also quotes things at people without explaining what he means, like when he quotes Shakespeare and Hans Christian Andersen at Harrow; he's not really sharing it, he's mostly using it to isolate the other person in the conversation, or make himself seem unknowable and superior. It's honestly very telling that when given the choice John will name most things biblically or classically. It does partially feel like he's desperately scraping to preserve something of his childhood and the home he destroyed (especially with the renaming of Gideon to the Māori translation Kiriona, but... well, he literally renamed her and made her into a walking corpse teenage soldier so :/), but when you look at how he deploys earth culture on the whole, it usually becomes weird and imperialistic and weaponised. He's not really preserving lost art, he's selectively using it for his own agenda, and he's often using the two biggest things that were ever co-opted by conservatives and imperialists, the classical world and biblical convention.

[icelogged]

[itsriotmotherfuckers]

Remus John Lupin is a dorky nerd in tweed and cardigans who is only strong enough to carry books around, and lets everyone walk all over him, and cries when people go on discriminatory tangents about werewolves/queer people, and makes Sirius help him study, and folds his underwear/socks, and drowns in jumpers that are too big because he’s so skinny that he has to choose between them being long enough or tight enough, and he’s always cold, and he has back joint/back pain, and has a snort-laugh, and a little overbite you can only see when he smiles, and his clothes have elbow/knee patches, and he never gets angry because he’s so scared of being a monster

[chloesimaginationthings]

AHHHHHHH I HAVE A QUESTION.. DO YOU THINK MAYBE WE COULD GET MORE PAST MICHAEL?? ISTG I LOVE THE WAY HIS DUMBASS LOOKS IN UR STYLE

TBH I’ve been meaning to draw more pre scooped and teen Michael! Think it could be fun to do more game specific comics but we’ll see!

[boyyeahright]

SILVERHAND

[strawberryblondie-locks]

While on the job / Back on earth

[secondbeatsongs]

hey, don't cry

tumblr is the new pdf! ok?

[tomatoart]

Think abt it…? well I did☝️🤓

[yohankang]

Later on, the hot topic at the office was how Manager had proposed to me that morning.

(Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen, ep. 3)

[stpansy]

average 2022-23 mcr concert outfits:

gerard: something artfully and lovingly crafted to ooze sex appeal and mystery, not quite a costume but never not camp, looking at them for too long will make you so horny you die

frank: nikes his sugar daddy bought him

ray: t-shirt a fan made him 40 years ago that frames his boobs like a painting

mikey: shirt with his own name on it

[earlycuntsets]

gerard about control

gerard: i've talked about control over the years. yknow? um. not often because I didn't- I haven't talked much in the last 7 or 8 years except for like the concerts yknow? and um. I did like an interview with aiden gallagher from umbrella. we talked about control a lot and we're talking the about the reunion show at the shrine and I was like look I just wanna get up there and make it about the songs and just have a good fucking time with my friends and. yknow? but um. yeah I examined my own versions of that and control and stuff like that and all these shows we played over the years and be like

"raise your fist and do this" fuckin control people but its really. it's really not that. I mean it is for some people. and maybe for a time it was for me. but I spoke to somebody in europe, one of the members of this tour and they were like "dude people just want to be a part of shit" yknow? you don't have to control them. because it's not about the ego- this onstage, it's not about like "look what I made those motherfuckers do" sometimes it's about that. if I make you do really fucking stupid rad shit, but. there's a lot of that. anyway, I'm talking too long but um. that's like a really delicate way of telling you:

I am going to control you right now

link

[knifeslidez]

i wonder if they knew just how far they'd go

[an-internet-introvert]

Countdown to October 19th (18/19)

Terrible Influence: The Tour

[menlove]

exciting post from james menlove ur local beatles rpf mutual but i'm sooo curious on where this tide has shifted over the last few years bc i remember 2016 when it was world-ending discourse