#here I go again...

[hooked-on-elvis]

"ELVIS ON TOUR" (1972)

The ending scene is so cute!

I love the screams of the fans echoing "We want Elvis" opening the scenes meant to show what was unfolding backstage, with just a portion (a meaningful one) of the hard work from the people involved in making the Elvis show possible;

I love how it shows El kissing the Sweets and Kathy 'hi' when he's arriving for the rehearsal - He treated his musicians so nicely! See the way Elvis interacts with JD Sumner? They sure had a bond, we can note how close they were. I guess El looked up at JD as a father figure or something, which is possible since they knew each other since EP was just a teenager. One thing is sure there's mutual respect there;

I also love how those scenes shows the musicians having fun during their road trip and taking a nap - everybody at the same time except Myrna Smith lol - during the plane trip;

I love how it shows the full and empty venue, like it really meant nothing without the fans there;

I specially love how it shows Ronnie Tutt and James Burton signing autographs for the fans. It's important because the fans didn't care only for Elvis (like it often happens to many Rock and Roll bands). Elvis made his musicians just as part of the show as himself - never used them as decor pieces onstage. Kathy Westmoreland talks a bit about this in her memoir book ("Elvis and Kathy") when she wrote:

"Now, here I have to explain about the class system in show business, and there really is one. A singer, or back-up singer, as well as the musicians are usually far removed from the star of the show. In fact it is more the rule than the exception that the big name on the show barely nods at the rest of us. We are regarded as necessary furniture. You can work for a year on the road with some big stars who won't even know your name and never give you a smile, let alone a word of encouragement. The only time you ever hear from the star is if you do something wrong and then it's your head on a platter. Elvis was truly a wonder in this regard. He made certain every new person was introduced to everyone around. He went out of his way to put them at ease and make them feel comfortable. And I think he got the very best out of all of us as well as a great deal of loyalty because of his attitude, which was just unheard of in this business."

That's why seeing the fans asking autographs from the TCB musicians specially touched me. Anyhow... to think this was just little bit of all the years they shared on the road! Those guys made history!

And concerning Elvis, I love seeing him and the guys having fun backstage, him checking out the gifts people sent him, reading the cards and all, and I sure find the cutest thing seeing E chewing his almost ever-present gum in one of the rehearsal scenes there. Just saying.

"Memories" was the perfect fit for the end. ♥

[kvothes]

so true

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[dovesick]

endless night

[mochasucculent]

The gang all together 👍

Sketch v final + refs below!

First pic was reffed from My Own Private Idaho, which ended up being a really bad idea because this focal length was ridiculous to try and flatten out and match with the others lol

Second pic was obvi The Pieta by Michelangelo, but shoutout to my partner for suggesting the role reversal cause I was initially gonna draw Viktor in Jayce's arms again, but having it the other way around gave me the idea for the last piece where they're mutually in each other's arms and on equal ground in the composition

Third pic was reffed from The Blossoming Of Love by Miquel Blay! Had to move Jayce's hand to Viktor's shoulder because he was too yolked for his arm to fit between them lmao

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[chiptrillino-art]

something stranger and more wonderful

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my art for @faux-fires (ao3 Link) fic "something stranger and more wonderful"

beta red by @ranilla-bean (ao3 Link) for this years @zukkabigbang2024 event. its truly a beautiful fic. Keeping you on your toes while reading. making you worry about sokka exposed to the whims of nature and zuko, all alone.

big thank you to reikah and rana for all the handholding during this project! And stoping me form overthinking details.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Dog Meshi.

[arkangelo-7]

Dick was 100% the worst kid Bruce had to deal with, but he turned out such a well adjusted adult (relatively) that no one believes Bruce when he tries to explain the absolutely unholy terror that was pre-teen Dick Grayson.

[lazylittledragon]

if i had a nickel for every au spawned from twitter that i SWORE i was going to be normal about

[kk1smet]

he looked at me, the prat—

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[amiibo-king]

it's come to my attention that a lot of people don't know about bluemaxima's flashpoint and genuinely think they'll never be able to play their favorite 00s internet games ever again so i just want to remind everyone that flashpoint is a huge internet flash game preservation project that allows you to play just about any internet flash game/animation despite the death of flash. if they've got it in their database (and they probably do) you can play it. go forth and drink in the 00s nostalgia

even if you think there's no way they'll have the game u want. they probably do anyway. when i first downloaded flashpoint i thought for sure theres no way they will have the obscure flash game i played for hours as a kid that was only even available on the internet for like 2 months in 2006. but you know what. they had it. seriously, download flashpoint

[hummise]

this came to me in a vision

[soranker]

98 lovemail doodles >_<