#hair hopper

[bitter69uk]

In Memoriam: the truly great and berserk operatic Polska singer, actress and all-purpose diva Violetta Villas (née Czesława Maria Cieślak, 10 June 1938 - 5 December 2011) died on this day aged 73. For anyone not au fait with the wild, wild world of the tempestuous Villas, think of her as an ultra-campy, kitsch outsider artist; a wild low-budget Eastern European hybrid of Yma Sumac, Jayne Mansfield, Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita, Brigitte Bardot and Charo; a punk (her image and un-hinged performances can suggest Nina Hagen or Jayne County); and the self-parodic possessor of a drag queen sensibility (is it deliberate or naive? Certainly, her persona evokes the films of the Kuchar brothers and John Waters). Dubbed "the voice of the atomic age”, Villas was a celebrated Las Vegas headliner in the 1960s and even appeared in some Hollywood films, but her promising international career was cut short by Communism (she bounced back in the 1980s and never stopped being venerated in Europe). I revere this woman and wish she was more embraced as a queer icon in the non-Polish speaking world. I highly recommend investigating old clips of Villas on YouTube – prepare to have your mind blown!

[bitter69uk]

Grab your teasing comb and slather on the black liquid eyeliner! Sublime raspy-voiced Goddess of Country Exotica (and eternal hair hopper / false eyelash role model) Bobbie Gentry (née Roberta Lee Streeter on 27 July 1942) turns 81 today. (At least I assume she does: some sources list 1944 as her birth year). “Bobbie Gentry was never a Country artist,” Tyler Mahan Coe provocatively asserts on his astute podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones. “And I’m not doing that whole “authenticity” thing. I don’t believe she set out to make Country music. Was her music Southern? Absolutely, yes. But so was Gone with the Wind. So was everything that came out of Stax Records in Memphis … this is NOT Country music. This is pop music about Country music. But Bobbie’s music had a huge impact on Country music.” Of her later more baroque records when Gentry received more creative autonomy and bigger budgets, Coe modifies that to “more like what a Broadway musical about Country music would sound like.” Gentry is also, of course, one of the great enigmas of modern times: she withdrew from public life over four decades ago and her present-day existence is shrouded in mystery. From Wikipedia: “the last time Gentry appeared in public was when she attended the Academy of Country Music Awards on 30 April 1982. She was 39 years old. Since that time, she has not recorded, performed, or been interviewed.” My favourite Bobbie Gentry song will always be “Mississippi Delta”, followed by “Fancy” and her dreamy duets with Glen Campbell. Oh, and her cover of Burt Bacharach’s “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” is definitive!

bobbie gentry in london, 1968.

[kaiminluu]

s3 dump to get ready for SUMMAHHHH

[nehoteika]

wouldn't it be nice if they could just relax on the hill after the apocalypse is over :)

[champion-of-love]

rewatching eah and cheering whenever i see the pink squad show up together and giffing them. so far i have learned that they are the nosiest squad in ever after lol

[bitter69uk]

“Bobbie sings of the fragrance, love, sorrow and humour of the Delta country …  featuring Tears of Joy on backing vocals and dancing by Pan's People.” Public Service Announcement! I’m dutybound to ensure everyone knows that BBC Four recently dug sublime country music diva Bobbie Gentry’s 1968 variety show out of the archives and screened every episode (they are now streaming on BBC iPlayer).  So far, I’ve only watched episode one (where the musical guest is Long John Baldry) and it lulled me into a trance of total pleasure. Apparently, every episode opens with “Mississippi Delta” (Gentry’s finest moment!) and concludes with “Chickasaw County Child.” Gentry is in exquisite sultry, raspy voice and looks like a dream throughout (her teased mane of hair and thick false eyelashes make her resemble an escapee from Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls). The interpretive frolicking and cavorting of dance troupe Pan’s People contributes to the kitsch value.  For anyone outside of the UK: apologies – no idea how you’ll be able to watch this!

[formosusiniquis]

There's something about the idea that every adult that spends more than ten minutes alone with Steve Harrington is instantly enamored with him 

The King Steve era house parties don't get broken up by the cops anymore. Steve is too far from his nearest neighbors for a noise complaint and the cops who would do it like Steve. They know they don't have to worry about any underage drinking and driving incidents after a Steve Harrington party because anyone who doesn't have a DD just crashes at the Harrington place, it's not like they have to worry about getting out of there before his parents get home.

His teachers can't help but let certain things slide. Excusing a middle school Steve's tardiness, the Harrington house is such a long bike ride away from the school and the bus route doesn't reach the grounds of Loch Nora. High School Steve's grades are average at best and his attention drifts, but his questions if poorly worded are insightful at heart and if you catch him away from the friends he tries too hard to keep he's polite and willing to spend time discussing his school work. By senior year they're excusing his tardiness again, they all know he has to swing by the middle school on his way over; and his forgetfulness too, two concussions in as many years it's a wonder he's not worse.

Joyce Byers, who by all accounts should hate this boy who fought her son and belittled her family, already has a snag in her armor thinking about a little boy who used to bike to Melvalds all alone for more milk and the sugar dusted cereal his mother didn't like him to have. Has her walls damaged by Jonathan coming home with a Christmas present they both know Nancy Wheeler even in her middle class glory couldn't afford. Has the adoption papers ready to be notarized when that same little boy, just a little bit bigger, offers to cart her Will around town since he knows she and Jon are busy and he has nothing better to do; really, and Will is the only one that ever says please or thank you.

Hopper, who largely left the everyday police work to the other officers, didn't interact with Steve much until the Upside Down business started. He's ready to add Harrington to the list of kids he'd die to protect the second the bloodstained boy cracks open a bleary eye from the Byers' sofa. Concussed and happy for it since it meant the youngest ones were safe.

Claudia Henderson has decided that the law has little to do with family. She's seen too many young men in the hospital grieving loved ones they can't see while parents who don't care make decisions for the dying. Steve Harrington is hers now has been since he did her Dusty's hair. The Sinclairs only let Erica roam the mall on her own on days they know Steve is working. They know no matter what Erica and Lucas promise the two of them aren't staying together. There's something rotten in Hawkins, and the kids don't whisper as quietly as they think they do. They know there's something they are missing, but they don't need to know everything to know they can trust the boy who put himself bodily in front of their child to protect him. Karen still occasionally mourns the loss of Steve as a son-in-law but the fact that he still drives Mike around even on his surliest days, she couldn't ask for more.

Wayne Munson lasted the longest. A product of night shifts and a powerful wariness around anyone whose tax bracket exceeds his by more than one jump. But he knows the kind of skittish that Steve is, remembers an eight year old boy with eyes he hadn't grown into who used to skitter away from a sharp tongue or raised hand just the same. Even then all it takes is sitting next to Steve on a rare night off, the game fuzzing in and out on the TV, listening to him softly explain the rules of it all to his boy relating it back to the ones of that dragon game Eddie likes so much and he's gone. Steve's a hard worker, a wage slave as much as Wayne these days, seems wrong to begrudge him just cause the house he's kept at is a little bigger than theirs. There are worse boys to have as future in-laws, even if he is a Cubs fan.

The only person who doesn't seem to get the memo is Richard Harrington. So rarely around his own son he isn't swept up in the charm. Richard and Stephanie Harrington make their way back to Hawkins, unannounced on a Tuesday. The sleepy morning hours are still lingering when they make their way into the house, through the foyer, and onto the kitchen; following the sounds of crooning oldies. Richard has long thought his son a disappointment, too lazy to get into college and too spoiled to leave home, catching him dancing around the kitchen like a fairy with some trailer trash punk is really the last straw. He lets the wife he wishes he didn't have make some asinine comment to this freak that's in his kitchen, and turns to the child he never wanted to say, "I want you out, I won't have a queer living under my roof."

Stephanie and that long haired bastard both rear back like they've been slapped. While Richard is forced to watch as the son he's neglected straightens up, every ounce the man every other adult on Hawkins has watched him become, look him in the eye and say, "It's not your house, it never was. Grandpa Otis left it to me. So if you've got a problem with me or my fucking boyfriend, you can get out of my house. Looks like you're already packed."

That empty house gets emptier as Richard, alone, takes the furniture he paid for and the clothes that lingered in the closet; but it's quickly filled with the hand-me-downs of everyone who has ever fallen for that Harrington charm. They're all too happy to help Steve fill what's his.

[egophiliac]

So the final character turns out to be based on Ryugen, but it feels kinda weird how there is also one based on Zangetsu and they aren't brothers

Or what if plot reveals they are brothers and he was actually adopted or stollen

I CAN'T BELIEVE HE'S ACTUALLY RYUUGEN?! I made a joke about it when Toten got revealed but I didn't actually expect... (I'm counting it as a win though, which means I guessed three out of sixteen! ...given how wacky some of these got, I'm actually pretty proud of that.)

he seems very sweet though! I hope he and his secret hamsters are very happy together. 🐹

(also:

THIS WAS MY EXACT TRAIN OF THOUGHT TOO! either this is an incredible bit of meta foreshadowing, or an incredible bit of Takahashi trolling, and I -- I honestly don't know which is more likely)

[ashipiko]

NIKO SHENANIGANS FT @theolivetree123 ‘S HOPPER!!!!!!!!!

niko is NOT shorter than hopper he is simply being annoying and hanging on his shoulder (after getting beat up probs) <3 my squishy

SORTA A SEQUEL TO THIS DOODLE

[shantechni]

S1-3 Virtualization - Blow dryer ed.

[harringroveera]

For a girls’ day out Billy brings Max and El to the rage room and let them go batshit crazy destroying everything there

[coniangray]

In honor of one and a half year of rooting for that fic and working on it for 9 months:

Here's the fanart that inspired me to write some scenes in "a footnote will do" in July 2022- December 2023.

In order used of appearance in the fic:

From @kidovna:

Mike ending on a busy line while will was away in lenora:

Will's vision under vecna's curse:

Kidovna's flickergate:

Byler on halloween 1987:

From @taeiris :

Meeting with the party to arrange the plan for the ud entrance and their final movements:

Vined Will byers, vision of Mike:

Mike's vision of possesed/ intoxicated Will:

From @meowza315:

Mike getting cursed by Vecna:

Thats it! I was supposed to post this about half a year ago, but legit just noticed it in my drafts and found it as an opportunity to thank everyone for inspiring me to write this 121k word long fic.

It really travelled with me through hell but im fr happy to have ended it and not just abbadoned it in the middle of nowhere lol.

Hope u enjoy it if you havent read it already <33

[spectrum-spectre]

imagining a fic that takes place after El and the rest of the younger party graduate, she decides to go to Beauty School (cosmetology) then Steve realizes "holy shit, that's an option?" and signs up with her. They take turns using Eddie as their hair model, maybe the Sinclairs give them tips about working on Black Hair, just sweet fluff w/ El & Steve bonding <3

[taintedcigs]

new (old) stranger things character portraits💗

[drangues]

Ever drawn elmax?

now i have

[spookystarfishzombie]